Latitude 38 August 1990 by Latitude 38 Media, LLC

VOLUME 158,

oeowviNuojiivo OOSIONVUd NVS '08

aivd 9^01.#

BEST BUYS • tt D'ANHA Call (415) 451-7000

•

1-800-262-5959

DOES YOUR EAMIEY DESERVE A NEW CS 34? The Yacht of the '90's HAS ARRIVED!

Comfort For The Family

SPECIAL

Fast For Dad • • • • • • • •

Two Private Staterooms Two Separate Ice Boxes Seperate Shower Easy Engine Access Comfortable Cockpit Rack and Pinion Steering Gorgeous Teak Interior Fast Tony Castro Hull

FIVE YEAR WARRANTY!!

Cruise or Race Equipped

$87,500 Of\^ ONLYJHREfAVAILABLE AT THIS PRICE! THEMWCSM

SEE HER AT OUR DdCIfS NOW!

You Owe Yourself A Look!!

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’S BEST BROKERAGE WANT TO SELL YOUR BOAT? CALL US NOW!

HAVE BUYERS NEED LISTINGS GARDEfT^Sr^orgeoutyStnilC^ condition. Huge main salon & 2 state¬ rooms, fireplace. $149,500.

f' |118' SCHOONER. Rebuilt 1980. Gor[: geous, extensive equipment for 80 per[ ;sons. Charter ready. $345,000.

^ I Si J

BROKERAGE SPECIALS SAILBOATS 22' GTAUNA, ONE LEFT.3,000 23'. ERICSON, REDUCED.5,500 24' S-2'87,UKENEW.OFFERS 25' SANTANA,'77.8,000 27' CAL2-27'75,Shorp.18,500 28' ERICSON+,'82 .29,000 28' SAN JUAN.17,000 29' C8C.32,500 29' FARAIiON, loaded, fiteploce.. 19,500

CS 27. New hull point, spinnaker, diesel engine, teak cabin sole. Reduced to 17,5001

CS 36 -1983. Go cruise! A/P, autoheat,

sails, cutter rig, radar, dodger, rebIt engine. 75,00012 others from 69,500.

O'DAY 37. Gorgeous!! Cruise ready,—

WESTSAIL 43. Beautiful, cruise ready,

loaded! At our docks. Two private staterooms $48,000.

47* S&S. Extensive gear, new paint, two

bristol cond. Want offers now! Asking

private staterooms. Owner transferred. Priced to sell $96,500.

SAILBOATS-CONJINUTD 29' >29, UKE NEW, l/B,LVBD... 33,000 30' NEWPORT.27,500 30' CAPE DORY,'87 .77,500 30' 5-2, oft cobin.42,900 30' ISIANDER.22,000 33' RANGER.27,500 35' ttbUKENEW.55,000 35' SANTANA.ASKING 49,000 35' COLUMBIA.44,000 36' COLUMBIA, CLEAN.35,000

SALES &

$120,000.

SAILBOATS-COHTMIFD

CAL 35 Absolutely bristol. Autopilot, furl¬ ing, diesel, wheel, TV. Must sell. $55,000.

36' 36' 36' 38' 39' 43' 44' 45' 46' 50'

LAPWORTH..14,000 CS..(3) FROM 75,000 ISLNDR FREEPORT ....ASKING 79,000 MORGAN, '79..61,000 LANDFALL, '79 .75,000 WESTSAIL, LOADED 120,000 PETERSON ..120000 HANS CHRISTIAN, '76.137^500 GARDEN KETCH..,.REDUCED 149,500 CS, '88. REDUCED 295,000

SAmATS-comiiFn 58' CSTMSTFFIM/S 125000 118' SCHOONER....’. .345^000 psm 25' CARVER,'88. .43,000 30' WILLARD VEGA,'74 .42,500 32' BAYLINER,UKENEW. .44,000 7? ann 34' SILVERTON, BRISTOL 35' GOLDEN GATE,'79. .59'500 HUMORBDS Of OTFHOt BOATS AVAIIABIEIUT US KIP YOUl

RENTALS WORLDWIDE Call Us -You'll Be Glad You Did!

(415) 451-7000 • 1-800-262-5959 YACHT CENTER, INC.

] ] Embarcodero West #100, Oakland, CA 94607 page 2

Photo; Latitude 38

ALL HEART

“Heart of Gold,” Jim and Sue Corenman’s new Schumacher designed “rocket ship,” arrived in May and has already given a stellar performance, placing first in division in OYRA’s Lightship Race and first to the weather mark, first to finish and first in division in Stockton Sailing Club’s 140-mile South Tower Race. The Corenmans plan to race the boat with a full crew, and to cruise and race the boat double-handed. They ordered their racing sails from Pineapple Sails to regularly leave the competition behind and their cruising sails, also from Pineapple, to confidently leave us all behind. In this age of specialization. Pineapple Sails has just one specialty: quality sails, designed and built to do the job. Give us a call or stop by the loft to talk about your sailing needs.

•HEART OF GOLD

DEALER FOR: Henri-Lloyd Foul Weather Gear • Headfoil 2 Sails in need of repair may be dropped off at: Svendsen’s in Alameda •West Marine Products in Oakland

PINEAPPLE SAILS

•Powered by Pineapples

(415) 444-4321 123 SECOND STREET, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94607

pages

The Best Boats Experience Can Bexv USED BOATS

BUYERS

Buy any boat during August and receive one month's free berthing and an equipment discount buying card.

LISTERS \ Islander Bahama 30 $29,900

List your boat during August and receive a commission break if sold during first 120 days!

NEW BOATS

SAIL BROKERAGE CflL 2-27 .

45f5 Just Arrived BE

NETEAU

21,000

BENETEAU 285 '88 .39,900 ISLANDER DIESEL .28,000 PEARSON ...:...31,500 CATALINA, '85, DSL (2).33,000 U.S.19,500 ISLANDER BAHAMA.29,900 PEARSON .(2) 20,800 S2, center cockpit .27,900

1985 Passport 37 $129,900

ISLANDER.33,000 ARIES (2 from).

First 41 s5 35s5 & 32s5 At Our Docks

39,000

RANGER, HARKEN.34,500 DEHLER ..65,000 APHRODITE .27,950 PEARSON .68,000 PANDA.96,500 WYLIE.

39,900

PETERSON .44,900 BENETEAU.58,000 NIAGRA ..77,900 ERICSON ..37,500 SANTANA.54,950 PEARSON .97,500 ISLANDER.49,000 HUNTER CUTTER RIG .63,000

Catalina 30 $30,000

PEARSON .65,000

Oceanis 390 & 350 At Our Docks

PASSPORT. 129,000 BENETEAU 375.77,000 ENDEAVOR .64,500

ISLAND PACKET

SWAN .149,000 EXPRESS .99,000 BENETEAU, '84.95,000 MORGAN.61,000 HICKLEY.88,000 PETERSON Brown Sugar.39,900 FARALLONE CLIPPER .35,000 C&C LANDFALL.

69,000

LIDGARD.

64,500

WOOD YAWL, '80 .45,000 OLSON .

129,000

BENETEAU (One Tom.115,000

Islander 36 2 from

$49,000

BENETEAU 405 '86 .(2)119,000

Island Packet 35 & 38 At Our Docks

NELSON MAREK .99,000 CSC.

130,000

BENETEAU.118,000 MASON CUTTER.115,900 PETERSON center cockpit .110,000 ALDEN CUTTER.295,000 NORSEMAN tenter cockpit. 199,000 CORONADO PASSPORT.220,000 PASSPORT, center cockpit.

279,000

1988 Beneteau 285 $39,900

Mason 44 At Our Docks

Passage^achts INC

1220 Brickyard Cove Rd., Pt. Richmond, CA 94801

1984 Panda 34 $96,500

(415)236-2633 FAX (415) 234-0118

Pearson 37 & 31 At Our Docks page 4

CONTENTS

($)

Island Packet Yachts subscriptions calendar letters loose lips sightings pacific cup Catalina race sake run V choosing crew the boats of summer solo transpac max ebb: tea for two world of chartering the racing sheet changes in latitudes classy classifieds brokerage advertiser's index

7 23 35 79 86 100 112 116 118 120 124 130 136 144 154 168 179 182

COVER PHOTO: Latitude/Richard Lookin' good, by •Godfrey".

Modem Yachts in theFinestTradition

Island Packet 38 & 35. At Our Docks

Beautiful, But How Do They Sail? There were 51 yachts in this year's Bermuda Ocean Race, a 750 mile race from Annapolis to St. Georges, Bermuda, in which three Island Packets raced. The race was characterized by light and variable wind conditions, not an ideal "cruising boats" race. The Island Packets finished 1st. 2nd and 3rd in division. An Island Packet 35 finished 2nd OVERALL over the entire fleet in corrected time. The only boat to finish above the Island Packet on corrected time was a custom 40' lOR design sailed by its full time racing crew! So, how do they sail? Fantastic! Come in and check out these exceptionally com¬ fortable, fast, quality cruising yachts. Both the Island Packet 38 & 35 are proudly on display at our docks now.

Passage^achts 1220 Brickyard Cove Rd., Pt. Richmond, CA 94801.

Graphic Design: Suzanne Tumicki

(415) 236-2633 • FAX (415) 234-0118

ISLAND PACKET p>GQe 5 /

•

35 •

•

SUBSCRIPTIONS O Enclosed is $45.00 for one year First Class Postage (Delivery Time 2 to 3 days) (Canada: First Class on/j^

□ First Class Renewal

D Enclosed is $20.00 for one year Third Class Postage (Delivery Time 2 to 3 weeks)

Thanks from Jerry, Rich and Mark. The threeofushavebeenworkingmthO'Heill Yachts for over ten years. It's been a pkasuresem'ngHorthemCalifornbboaters and we look forward to assisting you in the years ahead. i

O Third Class Renewal □ Gift Subscription

Gift Card to read from:

CATALINA 28

W?.regret that we cannot accept foreign subscriptions. Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery of first is^fsus.

SAIL

Name Address City

State

Zip

Moore 24 SC.$14,500 Ericson 25, like new, full boat cvr. $11,000

Yorktown35...$27,500 Cal 39,'82.$79,500

Cal 2-25, '80, Inboard diesel.$16,500 Olson 25, Santa Cruz built.$16,900

Cheoy Lee 48, '82, great buy I.$129,500

Ultralight "Srd Reef".$16,995 Moore 30, with trailer.$32,500

ROWER

Bayliner 21, with trailer.$9,500

Catalina 30, '80, diesel.$27,500

Wellcraft 25, '87, twin sea drives+ $34,750

(

Cal 33, sailed twice.$79,500 Cal 34, tabernacle, wheel, diesel ..$29,900

Monterey Bay 30, '88, balsa core . $59,500 Bayliner 32, '88, twin dsls/80 hrs .. $75,000 Seahorse 36, '85, diesel.$87,500

|| |

Coronado 35, great liveaboard.$27,500

SAIL

DISTRIBUTION — Northern California

□ We have a distribution point in Northern California which will distribute copies of Latitude 38. Enclosed is our name and street address. Copies will be sent via UPS at no cost to the distributor. □ Please send me further information for distribution outside Northern California. Name

CATALINA 30, '80. This sought after used "30* is impeccable & even carries a warranty. Dsl engine, tabernacle mast, hot & cold pres¬ sure water and electronics & more. $27,500.

CAL 39, '82. Considered to be one of the finest 39-ft sailing vessels ever. Excellently main¬ tained andincludes: rollerfurting system, spinn. equip., electronics and more. $79,500.

CHEOY LEE 48. '82. This'Perry designed ketch is a cruisers delight. Balanced, solid & a real performer/equipped foroffshore $129,500.

MOORE 30. Full sail inventory: Kevlar main, 4 headsails and two chutes. Go fast... just for fun. $32,000 complete.

Address City

State

Zip

Phone Number

POWER

"we go where the wind blows" Publisher & Executive Editor.Richard Spindler Co-Publisher.Kathleen McCarthy Managing Editor.....John Riise Associate Editor...Rob Moore Advertising.John Arndt Advertising.Mitch Perkins Production Manager.Colleen Levine Production. Suzanne Tumicki Production / Classy Classifieds.Christine Weaver Bookkeeping.Kay Rudiger

i BAYUNER 32, '88. A rare findl Only 80 hrs on twin turbo dsis. Well equipped with radar, 2 VHF radios, 2 OS's, much morel $75,000.

O'Neill Yachts

SEAHORSE 36. "Pristine" trawler. Radar, Loran, DS, full galley w/refrig, h&c water, •'propane, aft stateroom, turbo dsl. $87,500.

Providing Consistent Quality Boat Dealership for Monterey Bay

O’NEILL YACHTS

Printed on Recycled Paper

P. O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966 (415)383-8200 FAX; (415) 383-5816 page?

2222 EAST CLIFF DRIVE • SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062

(408) 476-5202

yachtmatch

"Building On A Better Idea"

Six Answers You Can Only Get When You List Your Boat With Us. 1. Yes. We prepare a full market analysis at time of listing. 2. Yes. Our computers will give you comparative pricing. 3. Yes. Each of our central listing customers receives a monthly activity report. 4. Yes. We'll show your boat more frequently. 5. Yes. We have the best display facility. 6. Of course. We are a YACHTMATCH Affiliate. %'4

fi'■

Siam •

And Now A Specicd August Bonus

THE 1st ANNUAL GRAND MARINA OPEN HOUSE AND BOAT SHOW. WHEN: Saturday and Sunday • August 18 & 19 10am to 6pm WHERE: Grand Marina, 2099 Grand St., Alameda, CA WHY: Because it will be the best time to buy or sell a quality boat in August. Plus, it should be a lot of fun! COST: Nothing but your time and gas to get there. SO: Give us a call for details, or stop by our office at Grand Marina CRUISING WORLD PACIFIC 2099 Grand Street Alameda, CA 94501 PHONE: (415) 521-1929 FAX: (415) 522-6198

CRUISING WORLD PACIFIC 1071 Shafter Street San Diego, CA 92106 PHONE: (619) 224-3277 FAX: (619) 224-9225

■snoBamBm paged

H 'f y

TRADEWINDS 43 Pilothouse .... $139,500.

YOUNG SUN Offshore 43.$89,500.

Beautiful biuewater cruiser with all the toys. Needs new owner to continue her voyage.

Roomy cruiser with separate workshop. Priced to sell quickly.

WESTSAIL 43,.119^00

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40.52,000

DOWNEAST38.59,950

Tahiti Ready

Price Reduced

Cruiser/Liveaboard

BENFORD 30 .49^50

O’DAY 30.29,950

33’PEARSON lOM...39,500

Pocket Cruiser

Bristol

Racer/Cruiser

LUHRS 290 .49,000

20'FUCKA.-......18,900 27' HORSEA. 35,000 27'CALT-2..16,900 28’MORGAN 01_22,000 29' aiTE.....34,900 30' O'DAY__ .....29,950 30' BENFORD.. 49,950 30'CAPE DORY_44,900 30' FREEDOM,'86, fore find —69,500 30'G...-.65,000 3rPAaFicsaa(An,'88 — 89,500 32' FREEDOM___ 2 from 74,500

33'CUSTOM 5IEEL__64,000 34' C&C.. 45,000 34'SHOCK, '89_ 88,500 35'ERiaON_2 from 37,500 35' ttC '84_T5,000 35' US PILOTHOUSE-64,950 36' HUNTER *29,950 36'C&C,'79. 49,900 36'CATALINA....2 from 49,950 36'HERRESH0FFketch,'81 ..59,000 36'FREEDOM_2 from 99,500 36'CfC34+,"Fflntaslic"_NEW

FREEDOM 38,1989.119,500 Great Savings

Reduced PARTIAL SAIL LISTINGS 37' O'DAY,'83, oft cobin_59,500 37' SWAN/NORBELLE cruise equipt 69,500 37'TAYANA, '78, loaded.72,000 38' DOWNEAST.59,500 38' PRIMROSE yowl, "English".39,000 38' CATALINA, '78, looded.49,900 38'C&C..2 from 59,000 38' CHEOY LEE,'85.105,000 38'FREEDOM, '89. 119,500 40'SPRAY.. ..45,000 40'VAUANTP/H.140,000 40'MARINER ketch.59,950

2099 GRAND STREET • ALAMEDA, CA 94501 paQe9

29,950

HUNTER 36,1980.

New Boat - Used Price

40' C&C, race/cruise — .2 from 92,000 40' CHEOY LEE 0/S.... _52,000''' 41'a... .49,950 41'YANKEE OIPftR_ _59,500 41'MORGAN OUTISLAND _68,000 41'ISLANDER FREEPORT....89,500 «' wraSAii _109,900 AVYnilNnSIIH .89,500 43'TRADEWINDS P/H.......139,500 43'COLUMBIA, looded".._69,000 43'MASON, "Hawaii vef.....125,000 43'WGTSAIL._119,900

Fax 4155226198

44'NORSEMAN 447_199,000 44'HYIAS__ 179,000 44'GY.. 87,500 45' NEGON/MAREK, "race winner'85,000 45' HANS CHRISTIAN_137,500 46'CALMKIIi_85,000 46'ISLAND TRADER-129,000 47' KAUFMAN/IADO, '85,3 strms119,500 48'S&S.. 109,500 50' KETTENBURG, "cruise equip!". 94,500 54'S&S. ......250,000

Voice (415) 521-1929

-I

CABLE-MOORE / FAMET MARINE 1425 5th Street • Oakland, CA 94607 (415)272-0218 Fax (415) 272-0829

HOURS: M-F 8-6: SAT8-4

• • • « • • •

MEXICO BOUND ?? We Have the Lifelines, Halyards and Ground Tackle you Need for a Safe Trip at Tremendous Savings. Extend Your Cruising Budget and Save Now at Cable Moore.

LIFELINES HALYARDS HARNESSES SHEETS ANCHORS CHAIN MAST/BOOM parts, repair & replacement

BIG BOAT SERIES RACERS Play ^’t Safe: Replace Worn Sheets and Halyards BEFORE they break !!

Anchor Windlass Anchoring Will Be a Pleasure

Be Secure

VISIT OUR new LOCATION

Anchors

Easy access by the Oakland West Bart Station. 1/4 mile from the intersection of 580 and 980 in Oakland.'

Pow

Terminals

Av«

Danforth STAYS

SHROUDS

UFEUNES

•

HALYARDS

•

3/16" forks eyes studs 1/4" forks eyes stud (1/2 thread) 5/16" forks eyes stud (5/8 thread) 3/8" eyes foda .

YACHT BRAIDS

•

HARDWARE

COLLISION Cl^NTER

Cal Coast's Collision Center can fix any early season problems you may have run into. We build boats and fix boats - We'll return them to their original strength, integrity and beauty.

310 West Cutting Boulevard Richmond, CA 94804

(415) 234-7960 page 11

(415) 332-SAIl»(415) 332-7245 FAX 4153324580

IRWIN 52 Loflded - Interior spaciousness beyond belief. 3 stolerooms, 2 heads, both tub, dinette, sleeps 10. AC, SSB, radar, Loran, 7 kw generator, all sails new. Mexico vet. Deduced to $129,000.

MORGAN 38, '79. Dodger, refrig, CNG, skegged udder. Great cruising yacht. $66,000.

W5' MULL, '81. Teak decks, high performance IB & 0 instruments, roller furling, refrig., rich leak jinlerior. Only $149,000.

jHYlAS 44, '84. Just returned from Tahiti. High iperformance G. Frers design, hand rubbed varnishd ileak interior, gen, refrig, Loran, radar, AP, SatNov, SSB, :i<Manitor vane. Elegance, performance, loaded. $179,000.

37' NORDIC ESPIRIT. Performance and comfort for extended cruising or boy sailing. $105,000.

SAIL SWEDE. 1977. ,..89,000 CUPPER SCHOONER... 170,000 MORGAN, 1978 . 160,000 AUX. CUTTER, 1913. ..45,000 COLUMBIA, 1966. ..75,000 HANS CHRISTIAN, 1986 305,000 S&S/HUGHES, 1972. 109.500 EXPLORER, 1979. 100,000 HUNTER, 1987. 139,000 HANS CHRISTIAN, 1976 137.500 HARDIN, 1979. 111,000 PETERSON, 2 from 110,000 CSY. 110,000 HANS CHRISTIAN, 1977 125,000 C&C. ..75,000 CHEOY LEE, 1971 . .. 80,000 COOPER, 1981 . 119,000 FORMOSA, 1972. ..71,000 RHODES, 1966 . ..60,000 FREEPORT, 2 FROM. CHALLENGER, 1974 . SLOCUM, 1980 . VALIANT. 1978. CAL, 2 FROM. FREYA, 2 FROM. LANDFALL. 1978. CATALINA, 1983. MORGAN. 1979. FARR. 1978. KETTENBURG, 1957. FARALLON, 1962. HUNTER, 1984. ISLANDER. ISLANDER PHSE, 1970.. CS, 1981. FORMOSA, 1980. HUNTER, 1981. ISLANDER... 2 from. J. 1981, 2 FROM. PEARSON, 1985. S-2 Center cockpit, 1987 .. SANTANA, 1980. HUNTER, 1983. HUNTER, 1979.

COtUMBIA 50. "Simoon". New dsl, dodger, roller furling, rewired, radar, liferaft, Borient 32 ST winches, AP, Loran, completely rebuilt - reody to decorate. $75,000.

GULF. 1982 . .56,000 PEARSON, 1982. ,46,000 TRAVELER. 1978. 49,500 WESTSAIL.2from. 49,500 CHEOY LEE, t969. 29,000 VINDO, 1974 . 41,000 ERICSON, 1986 . 45,000 ISUNDER... 2 from. MORGAN, 1970. PALMER-JOHNSON, 1972 J, 1982. PEARSON, 1984. SOVEREIGN. 1984 . CAL, 1972. POWER_ CHRIS CRAFT.2fr KHASHING, 1987. BLUEWATER, 1980 . BLUEWATER, 1984 . DUTCH CANAL BARGE MONK GALLART, 1986 ^.210,000 CALIFORNIAN, 1984.185,000 TROJAN. 1986 .310,000 CALIFORNIAN, 1980.125,000 GRAND BANKS, 1981.175,000 BLUEWATER-TAIWAN, 1977 86,000 CRUISE,AHOME, 1975.55,000 SILVERTON. 1984 .119,500 HERSHINE. 1979.69,750 C&L TRAWLER, 1979.79,950 TROJAN, 1975 .49,500 CHRIS CRAFT.35,000 GRAND BANKS.79,000 SEA RAY, 1979.66,900 MODERN. 1983.77,000 GRAND BANKS. 1974.79,950 GOLDEN GATE, 1979.67,500 CALIFORNIA, 1979 .69,500 CARVER, 1988.94,000 UNIFLITE.57,500 WILLARD.40,000 TOLLY.24,000

37'HERSHINE,'79. Great liveoboaid diesel cruiser, with queen berthofi cobin. 3 from $61,000.

I C41 39, '79. One of Lapworths finest designs. I AP, roller furling, windlass propane. Easy to ho^le I] fofracing,cruisingoflivingohoard.2from$59,000.

CUIFORNIA 42, '80.16 knot top sped w/ twin 200 hp turbo dieseb, 7.5 kw Onan, windlass, freezer, mkrawave, radar. $125,000.

M C M 0 f n

m (NDEAVOR 43 Center cockpit ketch. Benmar, AP, [omhi, 2 heads, refrigeration, LPG stove. $I 29,000.

p||

’SHWJSi

WESTSAIL 32 Loaded. 1972 w/AP, radar, B&G depth, ktioq log, wdpt, w^, ST winches, wimlkm & many spars. 3 from M9,500-

page 12

The Perfect Combination gutter sails &

DJD

Built to perform, dependable, rugged, high quality, excellence in design and finish — all describe Sutter Sails and the ProFurl reefing furling system. Why settle for less? Give us a call or come by our loft and then sail with confidence! V V V V

dhiiising and Racing Sails Recuts and Repairs Bi-Radial Roller Furling Headsails Full Batten Mains V Used Sails (Largest Selection in Northern California) V Experienced and Helpful Staff

Sutter sails HARBOR DRIVE, P.O. BOX 927, SAUSALITO, CA 94965

(415) 332-2510

The

RIGGING company I

SUPS AVAILABLE COVERED TO 60’ OPEN TO 90’ The finest facility on the Delta with 2 restaurants, cocktail lounge, fuel dock, guest dock yacht sales and service. Located one mile off 1-5 in Stockton.

VILLAGE WEST MARINA 6649 Embarcadero Drive, Stockton, CA 95209

(209) 951-1551 Managed page 13

Pegasus Group

FALL CLEARANCE SALE FLYER Announcing our end of season inventory clearance sale flyer (September 15th thru November 15th, 1990). .^Up to 70% discount on wire rope, cordage, shackles, blocks, tools and much more. To make sure you receive a copy, phone or mail in your name and ad¬ dress mentioning "clearance sale" to qualify.

Dept. LAT890, 1 Maritime Drive, Portsmouth, Rl 02781 800 322 1525 (In Rl 683 1525)

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A WARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

GREATEST QUALITY, SELECTION and DISCOUNTS FREEDOM ♦ YACHTS *

HHti^Jeanneau V

Experience the FREEDOM. Fast, Comfortable and Easy to Sail. Only One New 38 and 45 Available for 1990.

ERICSON AUCTION

NOR*CAL SAiLBoan

NEW JEANNEAUS IN STOCK ^ • Sundance 36 • Voyage 11.20 • Voyage 12.50 •>Sun Magic 44

SAVE

SERVING CALIFORNIA ■ FOR 29

AUGUST 15. 1990 Last 3 Bricsons

' ^Corporation * ^

INCRJOUARTYACimNC CtNTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A

V?'v K

28 #686 Minimum Bid $36,500 Retail $51,359 34 #281 Minimum Bid $66,500 Retail $92,496 34 #284 Minimum Bid $66,500 Retail $92,456 Boats sold as-ls where-ls. No wuiTanty jjiven or Implied. Cashiers check for 10% with offer. Financing can be arranged, please contact us prior to auction.

Excellence begins with design. See why Fortune Magazine rates Pacific Seacraft the best cruising boat 37' and under built in America!.

New FLICKA Just Arrived. CREALOCK 37 Arriving Soon

YACHT BROKERAGE LISTINGS PAimAL mVENTOKT SZ 20' 24' 27' 28' 28* 29' 29'

MAKE.YR rUCKA.2 From DANA.'85 ORION.'81 ISUNDER.'77 ERIOON28+ '77 ERIGON.(2) COLUMBIA 8.7'78

PRICE 25,000 58,500 41,950 22,950 17,950 19,950 19,950

30' ISLANDER... ..'77 30' ERIGON. ..'83 30' ERIGON 30+ '84 30' CORONADO ..'73 31' PEARSON. .'79 32' WESTSAIL.... ..'75 32' ERIGON. ..(3)

19,950 42,000 39,950 17,500 32,000 68,500 76,950

32' 32' 32' 34' 35' 35'

WEATHERLY ..'83 ERICSON. ..'74 FREEDOM... _'87 ERICSON. ..’88 C&CIANDFALL'82 FANTASIA.... ..{2)

64,500 29,500 77,950 77,777 75,000 65,000

36' 36' 36’ 36' 36' 37’

ROBERTS.... ...’80 FREEDOM... ...(2) HUNTER. ...'80 MORGAN.... ...'74 LANCER. ...'84 CREALOCK.. ...12)

29,500 109*500 44,750 49*495 49,950 145^500

i:-

50'SANTA CRUZ ..'82

• ERICSON • OLSON •JEANNEAU • PACIFIC SEACRAPT • FREEDOM

ICE 1966

• • • • •

YACHTS

2415 Mariner Square • Alameda, CA 94501

•

165,000

■t

dOnzi RADON CRAFT INNOVATOR FOUNl'AIN LUHRS

(415) 523-8773

^'NTER a mariner square YACHTING center A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER ►

L' 1

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

Caia/ina^.Yachts DAY" OPEN HOUSE

AUGUST 25 & 26 • 11:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Farallone Yacht Sales and Catalina Yachts invite you to join us for two days of sailing demonstrations. All stock (new & used) Catalinas will be open for your inspection. Most new models will be rigged and ready for sailing.

CATALINA 42

CATALINA 36

CATALINA 34

CATALINA 22. .$ 16,500 CAPRI 26. .$ 22,000 CATALINA 28. .$ 40,000 CATALINA 30. .$ 50,000 CATALINA 34. .$ 74,500 CATALINA 36. .$ 82,000 CATALINA 42. .$116,000 CATALINA 30

Reserve either Saturday, August 25th or Sunday, August 26th (or both) and plan to join us at Farallone Yacht Sales, Mariner Square, Alameda from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. No appointment necessary. CATALINA 28

Sure, Catalina Yachts have wonderful interiors, spa¬ cious galleys, showers and all that stuff... But what this sport is about is sailing! Come and see arid sail on all of our stock models and find out why over 35.000 Catalina Yachts are now sailing in U.S. waters.

Come on Down! Leave your checkbook & pink slip at home! No deposit, no return! No sa!esman wiii visit your home! This is your chance to sail on a new boat without the usual hassle of makinq an offer to buy - No obligation... Just fun sailing! We would like you to know the quality in the experience of sailing on a Catalina Yacht.

Information § literature about all Capri, Catalina & Morgan Yachts will be on hand ... Coming this fall, the new Catalina 50 and new Morgan 45. Call or stop by for updated information.

FARALLONE YACHT SALES, 2415 Mariner Sq. Dr., Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 523-6730 •

Dealer for: Catalina Yachts, Capri Sailboats, Morgan Marine, Nonsuch •

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER page 15

A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

Come and see why Catalina Yachts are the most popular boats in North America...

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

iWER SQUARE YACHTING CtNTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A

"SAIL

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

MARINERSQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTIjl A MARINEIt SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER :a

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

CRUISING MYTHS: Mvth#1 : Slow is safe. The slower your boat the harder it is to get out of the way of ships, storms and other obstacles. The slower it is to get to a port of refuge. Myth #2: There have been no advances in cruis¬ ing designs in 100 years! Todays cars are better, jets are better. Why cruise in a boat whose design was developed 100 years ago. Myth #3: Slow Is fun. Heavy full keeled boats are slow and heavy on the helm. A lighter, faster boat is simply more fun to sail. If you plan to cruise and want to enjoy if^ contact J-Boats. We have a full package of information comparing our performance cruising boats to their boats. After all, if you plan to sail in the 21 st century, why not sail a boat designed for it? 35c

j I •*

“

i i 1 i z

The I Nation's I Leading j Boat i Financing I Source i ■St

YEGEN Marine J/Boats West

(415)

522-0545

Don Trc Trask Dave Willke John Niesley Note Knowles Kimo Worthington

• A DIVISION OF YEGEN ASSOCIATES, INC. • ' BRINGING BORROWERS AND LENDERS TOGETHER SINCE 1935

ASK FOR JOAN BURLEIGH POWERBOATS.VALUE 16' liEINEll.'86.3,000 16' G1ASTR0N,'85 .3,000 28' BAYUNER,'87 ..30,000 36' STEVENS,'62_35,000

17,000

39' SEARAY,'89 .130,000 50' STEPHENS,'62 90,000 SAILBOATS 27' LANCER SLOOP,'62 18,000

BROKERAGE SPECIALS SAIL 29' Ronger, '73..17,500 16' HobieCof... 1,400 30' O'Doy,'81. .35,000 J-24 (4). ....from 10,500 30' Coronodo, '70. .20,000 24' Coptivo, /86,.12,000 >35(2). ..from 68,500 25’ SonMno, '81..8,500 35' Cnmnniln . .35,000 26'Ranger,'73....9,000 36' Islonder, '76.... .59,000 26' Ranger, '71....11,950 37'0'OaY,'80. .55,000 27' Cetniino (2).. 42' Benefeou, '84. .140,000 27' Eticsan, '74....J5,900 46'Formoso,'80... .110,000 J-29'83-’84. .3 from 27,500 50' Force, '74 (2). .109,500

(415) 523-7301 (415) 523-7389 EAX (800)972-6517 (IN CALIFORNIA ONLY) 2402 MARINER SQUARE, SUITE 2A ALAMEDA, CA 94501

(415) 523-8500

MARlNgt SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER ►

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

THE MOUNT TAM WHAM-BAM The F-27 Adventure Continues Styled after the famous Eniish event The Three Peaks Race", the Mount Tam Wham Bam features a mix of 60 miles of sailing, 16 miles of endurance running and lots of fun. Like the Three Peaks Race, the Mt. Tam Wham Bam is a perfect contest for small multihulls to show their form. 3 F-27's contested this years race, fighting for points at each mark. 18 knot reaches and 10 knots to weather The Fleet

made for exciting one-design racing.

The Winners

Congratulations to organizer Dave Fairless of the Encinal Yacht Club for bringing this type of event to San Francisco.

performance. Asking $27,000.

NEWPORT 30 MK II Super clean! A very well cared for well equipped Newport w/dsi and wheel. Asking $34,000

TASWELL 43 Tha Shing quality performance bluewater cruiser. This boat shows like new. A must see for those individuals looking to buy a luxury cruising yacht. $214,000 - Owner vrill consider terms, charter option to purchase. NORSEMARL 400 One of the best. American buih and equipped

BROKERAGE USTINGS 30’PEARSON_ 17' UGHTTNING classic woody ..J,500 21' FREB)0Mw/trlr.„Takeoverpayments • 30' TARTAN_ 30' IONA Perry. 21’ FREEDOM_.Take over poyments 31' PAOHCSEACRAFT.. 24' CAl, '69. 5,400 31' PEARSON'78._ 25' USw/trailer_S01D...7,999 32' FREEDOM ... 27’C&CMKIV_ ...-.29,000 32’ ERIOON...-.. 27’ H-BOAT.6,900 32' GULF PILOTHOUSE. 27'CAL 2-27.- _9,500 35’ SANTANA.... • 28' AIBIN..Take over payments • 29' CASCADE'65 ..12,900 • 36' ALBERG_ 39' FAIRWEAIHER, '88. 30' HUNTER, sharp!.27,950 39’ FREYA, '78_ 30' ISIANDER__22,500,, • • • • • •

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

page 17

,..-29,500 ....27,000 ,....19,900 .62,500 .29,500 -77,000 .34,000 -56,000 ....45,000 -39,900 ..130,000 ....79,500

right. Try $179,000

■ 40’ NORSEMAN..179,000 ■ 40’ PEARSON_SOLD.69,m '41'FREEPORT.. ......99,000 42' PEARSON,'82.125,000 43’ TASWELL.222,000 44' PEIERSON aft cabin.110,000 48’MAPLEIEAF.SOLD.... 98,000/80 63' CUSTOM RETCH,'79.195,000 60' -ANA MARIA’.95,000 104'SCHOONER RV.1,200,000

Wl'USmrOUKUSTIHG'

• ATOURDOaCS

Cruising Center

(415) 865-2511 2415 Mariner Square Dr., Alameda, CA 94501

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

AIBIN 28 Clean, fun, family weekender with smoath, lively

ACHTINGCENTER ▲ M A RIN ER SOU AR E Y ACHTING CENTER A

MARjWER^UARt YACHTING <£NTER A MARINER SOUAHE YftCHTlNC CENTER A

WARIUER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

mariner SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CEN7E« A

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

^ MARINER BOAT YARD "Where Service Has Meaning"

For All Your Boating Needs! •

Our High Standards, Quality and Workmanship Make Your Boat Safe and Fun To Use.

Bottom Painting

• Fiberglass/Gelcoat • Electronic Installation • Entertainment Center • Engine Service

Call Now! (415) 521-6100

jlJtrSQjURnfAOmNC CINTER A MARINER SQUARt YACHTING CENTER A

• LPU Mast & Hull • Guaranteed Blister Repair • Webasto Heaters • Lewmar Hydraulics • You Name It!

Pete Van Inwegen Owner/Manager

GOME SEE US! 2415 Mariner Square Drive, Alameda, CA 94501 (Near the Rusty Pelican Restaurant)

g MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTIN'GTrNTE^^WARINEnQlJARnAfH??lJ^'?|f^

page 18

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER 5

A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

f//\ 1 /

WEST BAY 475 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito (415) 332-1707

A M ^

TWO 1 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS I

EAST BAY Mariner Square (415) 865-1777

Exclusive Bay Area Dealer for Newport and Gulf American Built at Affordable Discounted Prices

SEE THESE PILOT HOUSE YACHTS AT OUR ALAMEDA DOCK

Gulf 29

Gulf 32

44' PETERSON CUTTER, '75. Aft cabin, 33' DUTCH ALUMINUM SLOOP, '68. comfortable liveaboard and well Maintained with pride of ownership; equipped cruiser. Asking $109,000. ocean cruiser/racer. Asking $48,000.

55' SWEDE, 1977. Sleek beauty! FiUly founded Transpac winner. Asking

45' HANS CHRISTIAN1976. Ketch rigged, ocean cruiser. Asking $137,000.

$89,500.

THESE 1989 SHOW MODELS MUST GO COME IN & DEAL!! New boat warranties begin the day of purchase.

I' CHEOY LEE Ketch, 1981. Outde: groomed teak; inside: lovely 'arm panelling. Asking $100,000.

65' MacGREGOR 1987. Long and sexy racing "motha". Asking $139,000. (Sistership)

HUNTER 3r Cutter, 1984. Cruise or liveaboard. Very clean, comfort¬ able & loaded. Asking $63,000.

45' LAPWORTH SLOOP, 1956. Tradi¬ tional wood, diesel power, classic lines. Asking $39,000.

SELECTED SAILBOAT BROKERAGE EXPRESS,’86.23,000 ISLANDER,'82.25,900 NEWPORT n, '81.21,900 GULF P/H, (2) from.33,000 NEWPORT-n, '79.21,000 OLSON sloop, '81. 16,500 PEARSON, '73, new engine... 22,000 PAC SEACRAFT ORION, '80 41,000 ■VINDO, (Finnish), '74.41,000 DUFOUR,’79.39,500 WESTSAIL.57,000 GULFP.H.,'82.54,900 BENETEAU, "81.39,900 PEARSON 323, '78, dsl.39,900 PEARSON VANGUARD.23,900 RANGER,'76.28,000 HUNTER, (2) from.36,000 MORGAN M.S., '82 . 49,000

HUNTER,'83.49,000 ISLANDER, '79, dsl.49,000 CHEOY LEE clipper, 70.47,000 ERICSON,’86.107,000 EASTERLY sip, 1978.64,000 NEW ZEALAND sip, '82.69,000 BRISTOL yawl, '69 . 45,000 CHEOY LEE yawl, '67.70,000 STEEL cutter, '87.135,000 GARDEN ketch, '77.134,000 PERRY Norseman ctr,'81 ....175,000 CSY cutter,'78. 110,000 EXPLORER cutter, '79.105,000 PERRY cutter,'81 .124,000 ROBERTS STEEL ktch, '80 ... 159,000 STEEL (German) cutter, '88 .189,000 GAFF cutter, 1911 .95,000 BALT. CLIPPER schr, 74.170,000

A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

37' SWEDISH STEEL KETCH, 45’ ENDEAVOR KETCH, 1979. 1968. Proven ocean cruiser! 'Comfortable cruiser, shows pride Unique lapstrake construction, of ownership. Asking $129,000. tough & seaworthy. Warm interior,hullprotectedby cathodic system. Asking $59,900.

42' CHEOY LEE CLIPPER, 1971. Classic 62' STEEL KETCH 1979. Spacious, lines of beautiful glass & teak in an ocean¬ ready-to-cruise, recently refitted. Ask¬ ing $198,000. worthy ketch-cutter. Asking $89,000.

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

Our Sailaway Package Includes: North Sails w/Hood furling system. Dual helms, Signet speed/depth, VHF, HIC xuater, propane cooking, self-tailing winches, complete safety package, ground tackle, custom Lewmar hatches, and many additional options.

M AR IN E R SQ U AR E Y ACHTING C E NTE R A

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A

KENSINGTON YACHT & SHIP BROKERS

HER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A

"Everyone Needs a Bigger Boat”

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING (ENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER ►

IMARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACTiTING CENTER

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

Brookes Si Gatehouse Ltd,, is pleased to announce the appointment of Star Marine Electronics as an authorized dealer for its -

Mm&G! INTRODUCTORT SALE

• B&G Instruments For Sailboats • B&G Instruments For Power Boats ^ B&G FOCUS SPEED SOUNDER

$495.00 List $695.00

• Focus Sail & Power Instruments • Hydra 330 Sail Instruments • Hercules 690 Sail Instruments • Helmstar 740 Sail Autopilots • HS921 Power Instruments • Helmstar 721 Power Autopilots

Hydra 330 B&G FOCUS WIND WATCH ^ STARTER PACK

$795.00

$1,595.00

List $1,100.00

5T(=IR MftRinE

List $1,995.00

ELECTROniCS

MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTIN

2415 Mariner Square Drive, Alameda, CA 94501 • (415) 769-STAR MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER A MARINER SQUARE YACHTING CENTER

TEAK & HOLLY PLYWOOD IN STOCK

• 193 Berths ranging in size from 22-40' plus end ties. • Competitive Berthing Rates • Free Public Laimch Ramp

•

Instruments, Electrical,

•

Custom Woodworking

•

Stainless & Aluminum

Machine & Pump Repair

Fabrication & Welding •

• Great Access from San Pablo Bay, Located on Scenic Petaluma River • 1-1/2 Miles Downriver from Petaluma River Turning Basin in Historic Downtown

PETALUMA MARINA BUSTNESS CENTU AND PETALUMA MARINA 7** BAYWOOD DRIVE (7«>m.H00

Used Sails & Consignment Merchandise

CITY OF PETALUMA

•

Teak & Mahogany Lumber

•

Marine Plywood

Baywood Dr. at Lakeville (Hwy 116 Offramp / Hwy 101)

•

CNG Exchange

Petaluma, CA 94954

(707) 778-4489 page 20

SUNSET YACHTS

Sunset Yachts

HWY 17

3310 Powell St. Emeryville (415) 654-9185

HWY 580

URGEST SELECTION OF USED SAIL ON THE WEST COAST

4rJEANNEAU French flair, very clean. Owner must sell, Asking $150,000

4r KINGS LEGEND Beautiful teak exterior, lovely interior. As new. Try $73,000

35' S2 1987 - $20,000 savings. Shows as new. Try $85,000

36* CATAUNA 1989. $20,000 in options & extras Better than new. Try $74,0001! ,

32' ERICSON (2) Both very nice. From Low 20's.

30' CATAUNA 1986. Diesel, wheel, Try $31,000

32' COLUMBIA Motivated seller. Asking $26,000

30' ISLANDER 1980 diesel, wheel. Worth $30,000, Seller wants Offers!!

30' SANTANA Performance cruiser. Excellent condition. Good gear. Asking $30,000

29' ERICSON Two from $15/100

45' JEANNEAU Fully equipped for world cruising. Very clean. Unbelievable! Try $135,000

36' SWIFT Ctr cockpit, very high auailiity. offshore AAA cruiser/iiveabcord. Askin

cloon

— USED BOAT SHOW — KND OP SPniMnR List Your Boat Today - We Always Fill To Capacity See 150 Boats Open For Your Inspection :

y '

ALWAYS 200 BOATS AT OUR OFFICE page 21

‘

' '

.V'-'

idsco’s®®'"'’®

415-543-7333

l-f^

r F

TTbit

dentals *

Lessons Homeo iXhe

ilofiaation laMPW*

J "'^‘'sT^

■'■'sou*r^^^ theSanTrancisc . 500'Guest ©O': ' The Embarcadero at Pier 40, San Francisco, CA 94107 Harbor Master: (415) 495-4911

CALENDAR Nonrace August 4 — Tradewinds Sailing Center Open House. Come help celebrate the opening of Tradewinds’ new facilities (which they share with the Jim DeWitt Art Gallery). Hors d'oeuvres and wine; 2 to 6 p.m.; 1230A Brickyard Cove Road, Point Richmond (underneath Sobstad Sails). Kristin Taylor, 232-7999. August 6 — Full moon — what better excuse for an evening sail? August 10 — Open House at Bill Lee Yachts (Soquel). Tour the world’s most famous chicken coop; check out the boats in progress; party with the SC 27 National participants; order that sled you always wanted. RSVP, (408) 475-9627. August 11 — Coastal Awareness Day at the Bay Model (Sausalito). An "action oriented" environmental program co¬ sponsored by the Nautical Heritage Society, California Coast Commission and Senator Milton Marks. For details, call 332-3871. August 11 — 18th Annual Concours d’Elegance on Lake Tahoe. Over 100 classic woodics will be exhibited at the Tahoe Boat Company in Tahoe City. Also on display will be antique cars and antique outboard engines. Info, (916) 581-4700 or (916) 329-9084. August 12 — San Francisco Ziploc Ultimate on WTBS: an hour long TV show on the recent Crissy Field dash for cash. Scheduled for 8:30 p.m. August 15, 1914 — The Panama Canal opened, knocking 7,800 miles off the New York-San Franciscorun. The passenger/cargo ship S.S. Ancon made the first complete trip through the 50.72 mile ditch, making the canal’s slogan a reality: "The Land Divided, the World United". August 18 — Petaluma River Festival. From 7 a.m. to midnight at the Petaluma River Turning Basin. Steamboat rides, raft and canoe races, tours of the 1891 scow schooner Alma, three entertainment stages and a hundred food/arts/crafts booths. $2 for adults; kids free. (707) 762-5331. August 18-19 — Metal Boat Society’s Third Annual Festival in Oak Harbor, Washington. Tanya Braumiller, (206) 597-6545. August 23-October 26 — "Seamanship Under Sail", sponsored by the recently formed Ti'aditional Seamanship Trust. A series of 68 hour seminars for ages 14 on up emphasizing non race techniques aboard good-sized woodics (sail-handling, helmsmanship, line handling, etc.). $30 per session; all proceeds benefit programs of traditional boatbuilding, stewardship and handling. Times and place to be announced. (707) 823-9059. August 25-26 — Sail a Catalina Yachts Day/Open House at Farallone Yacht Sales in Alameda (Mariner Square). All models of Catalinas will be open for inspection; most will be rigged and ready to take you sailing. 11:30 to 5:00 p.m.; Farallone Yacht Sales, 5236730. „ ^ September 5 — "IntroducUon to Coastal Navigation , a free seminar by Dick Winter. Stockdale Marine Theatre (Sacramento); 7 p.m.; (916) 332-0775. September 6 — "Introduction to Celestial Navigation , another free seminar at the Stockdale Marine Theatre. This one’s taught by Gale Stockdale himself. See above for details. September 9 — Sailing Network: an informative and informal gathering for the purpose of making sailing connections. At Vallejo YC; 4-7 p.m.; $8.50 at the door; RSVP, Lynne Orloff-Jones, (707) 557-4648. Racing August 3 — Santa Barbara to King Harbor Race. An 81-^lc downwind jaunt between two fun places. Co-sponsored by SBYC (805-965-8112) and King Harbor YC (213-376-2459). ^ August 4-5 — Bonita Endnal Race: "the second season opener . If you liked the Vallejo Race, you’re going to love this Brmg your swim suit. Hosted by Encinal YC; call the YRA fun line (771-9o00) for page 23

Quality Sailing Products at a Discount Bay Riggers has oiic of Ihc best selections of sailboat hardware in the country. Just a few of our lines include:

HARKEN - Ikill hearing blocks, travelers YALE Racing ropes & (lacrons HALL SPARS - Quik Vangs SCHAEFER ^ Blocks & furling systems MUS TO - Racing apparel minless wire NA VTEC - Rod & hydraulics NORSEMAN - Mechanical terminals BARIENT - Winches dh shackles LEWMAR - Winches & blocks Moii-Kri 9-5 Sat 10-4

SPARS Masts, Booms Spinnaker Poles Regardless of the make of your boat, give us a I call for a new mast, boom or spinnaker pole. Our spar services include:

MAST SURVEYS, rNSPECTIONS CUSTOM SPARS MAST REFURBISHING & REPAIRS KIT MASTS, CIASS SPARS, PARTS MAST painting & ANODIZING SOLID VANGS INSURANCE REPAIRS (415)332 5757 2346 Marinship Way, Sausalito, CA

The Ultimate Offshore Performance

EXCLUSIVE

REPRESENTATIVE

BACK/CHARTER

ROBERT PERRY DESIGN SPECIAL USED VALUBS!

37' TAYANA,

1988 Pilothouse Cutter. Custom inte¬ rior, seporote shower, 55 hp Yonmor, rodor, AP, Loron, s/s radio plus more, like new. $127,500.

Sr CRUISING Steel Yawl, 1986. Center cock¬ pit, full batten moin & fore soil. Custom built. Calvin design. All the right equipment, like new! Only $135,000.

30' CATALINA 1980 Sloop .Three soils, wheel steer¬ ing, engine over hauled, dodger, plus. Very cleon. $27,500.

38' CATALINAr 1983 Sloop. S&S design ,3 sails plus spinnaker, diesel aux., electronics. Clean! Try $45,000.

NEIL

37' HUNTER 1983 Cutter, Aft Cabin, diesel auxiliary, dadger, refrigerator, electronics. Show as new! This is a dynamite value! See this ene! $53,500.

38 C&C LANDFALL,

1979. Four sails including

spinnaker, diesel auxiliary, rod rigging, good electronics. Clean ond ^ Try $64,500.

PACIFIC YACHT IMPORTS

WEINBERG

11 Embarcadbro Cove Oakland, CA 94606

JONES

Importer

(415) 533-4244

Yacht Broker

HUGH

FAX (415) 533-6619 page 24

CALENDAR

details. August 5-10 — El Toro Nationals on Howard Prairie Reservoir, Oregon. August 6-10 —- Santana 20 Nationals at the Channel Islands YC. San Diego’s Beirt Hackworth will be there to defend his Tiny Tuna title. Gene Proffitt, (805) 488-4658. August 6j-10 — O’Day Trophy (USYRU Singlehanded Cham¬ pionship) at San Diego YC. USYRU, (401) 849-5200. August 8-11 — Santa Cruz 27 Nationals in Santa Cruz. Fast is fun! Gary Evems, (415) 659-1700 (days). August 10-12 — Saint Francis YC IMS Invitational. StFYC, 5636363. August 10-12 •— Flight of the Swans Regatta. Over 20 Swans will flock to Balboa Yacht Club (Newport) for this classy event. Nautor’s Swan Pacific is the host; George Steinemann, (714) 645-4600. August 11 — Horace’s Revenge, aka the Oceein VaUejo Race. A quick lap outside the Gate, followed by a run up to host Vallejo YC. YRA, 771-9500. August 10-12 — Hawkfe^ Nationals: five races in the South Bay. Encinal YC; Shirley Temming, 521-0966. August 11-12 — Franks Tract Regatta. Andreas Cove YC’s popular regatta/dance party out of Boyd’s Harbor (Bethel Island) — proof that you can race keel boats in the Delta. Joe Gluvers, (916) 991-0396. August 18 — Leon’s Hot Links Slugfest: two Tayana 37s will take on two Hans Christian 38s to determine once and for all who’s the faster design. Rescheduled from last month, this long awaited showdown is sponsored by Leon’s Barbecue Sauces and Hot Link Sausages. May the top 'dog' win! Brooks Townes, 331-5916. August 18-19 — Northern California Youth Sailing Association (NCYSA) Symposium/Regatta at Encinal YC. Dave Vickland, 5236730. , August 18-25 — USYRU Junior Championship Finals (Sears Cup, Smythe, Bemis) at Newport Harbor YC. Jesse Goff, Matt McQueen and John Mosely will defend Area G’s honor. August 19 —■ Day on Monterey Bay Regatta. A now-traditional benefit race for the United Way of Santa Cruz County. (408) 6882082.

(

hood; SAILMAKERS HOOD TECHNOLOGY AND PEOPLE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. Put Hood's Services To Work For You. Custom Cruising and Racing Sails • Repairs and Recuts • Roller Furling Systems Sales; Installation And Service Roller Reefing Sail Conversions • Stoboom: Tames Your Mainsail • Full Batten Mains, Lazy Jack And Dutchman™ Systems •

Dealers for: Harken, Profurl and Hood Furling Systems

HOOD SAILMAKERS ‘Leon Russeir in a four wheel drift. Remember: always buckle up for safety.

August 19 — Fourth Annual Sunkist American Cancer Society Yachting Cup in San Diego. Another regatta for a good cause. ACS, (619)299-4200. ^ ^ August 22-26 — Edgartown (Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.) World Cup Regatta for lOR 50 footer^: the hottest grand prix venue in the world? xu August 22-26 — Second Annual Myer s Rum Cup, aka the 1

page 25

466 Coloma St., Sausalito, CA 94965 (415) 332-4104

861 West 18th St., Costa Mesa, CA 92627 (714) 548-3464

99 Weekly & Bi-Weekly

Per/Foot

WASHDOWN

Includes: Shampoo of Topsides & Hull Wipcdown: Stainless • Wood 'Windows Remove Hull Scuff Marks Customer Service Report

Programs

Westwind PRECISION BOAT DETAILS still the best investment on the water

Highest Quality Repairs Of All Kinds

Fiberglass □ Wood □ Steel □ Aluminum □ Mechanical 9 Chandlery □ Electrical □ Detailing 60 Ton Capacity Travel Lift

U / l\ 1\ \ [—\H4

San Leandro Marine Center Mon-Sat 8-5 80 San Leandro Marina

•fj'

„ooW S.F. OFHCE (415) 661-2205 lAUSALITO OFFICE: (415) 331-4432

Bay

y - ^ —v

(415) 351-8800

Anywhere in the Bay Area

OYSTER POINT MARINA PENINSULk

NEWL Y EXPANDED, IDEALL Y LOCATED

OINl^S You know that we build a great dodger, now we’ll GUARANTEE it Contact us about our NEW 3 year or 30,000 nautical mile dodger warranty 629 Bair Island Rd., Redwood City, CA 94063

PENINSULA MARINE SERVICES 639 Bair island Road #8 •> Redwood City, CA 94063

C415) 366-3636 • F«x: 360-1938 Factory Authorized Dealers For:

tmmt Velvet Drive" GENERATORS

BaS&BB

fwy WESTERBEKE

aquadrive

cvaunit

Berthing: 600 beitlis from 26-ft to 60-ft, special trimaran berths. Geest Dodi and Berthing available at 30 cents a foot per night. Park/Open Spare Approximately 33 acres of pork and open space with trails and promenades. Swimaiaitt Bench: 2.5 acres of sandy beach. Fishing Pier: A 300' concrete fishing pier. Lauaih Ranp: Twoiane concrete ramp with padcing for 70 boot trailers and cars. Restrooms and Hot Showers: Public restrooms and private restrooms with showers. 24'Hottr Seairity. Pmo-Ont FadUty is located on the fuel dock. Fuel Dodr: Both rcguloi nnd diesel; operated by Summit Marine, coll (415) 952-3372 for operating hours. Dry-Storage: Operated by Summit Marine. Yacht Cfij6; Oystert Pt. Yacht Club has a beautiful new facility, serving on active, congenial group of hooters, both power and soil. Restaurant: Coming soon at the Oyster Point Village commericol center. H^^!/§0jep^: Facilities are under construction for a full service boat yard.

OR CALL (415) 952-0808 page 26

San Diego

CRUISER’S SPECIAL Plan your stay in San Diego at the beautiful first class facilities of the CHULA VISTA MARINA. It's peaceful here, no traffic jams, free parking, pool, spa, security, deli, marine hardware, restaurant, and free boater education classes. Conveniently located for easy access to all of San Diego's attractions. VISA

miSiml RATES:

Less than 40' 40' Plus Key Deposit Electric Deposit

$250 Flat Fee + Elec. $300 Flat Fee + Elec. $ 20 $ 20

CHULA VISTA

MARINA (619) 691-1860

Cruiser Special limited to 30 days' stay. We.invite you to stay longer on our normal slip rental.

Rogers Electronic Services TransPak GPS Hand-held GPS Receiver

19 tRIMBLE i.3921NM BRG

53*

• Compact, portable 3-channel receiver •®5-inch LCD display with 3-D diagraming •Internal or external batteries •99 waypoints •Tracks up to 7 satellites •4-line, 20 character display •Size:6.5'Wx7.0';Dx2.0"H

List $3995.00

Trimble Navigation

Call For Price

The Lowest Bid is seldom the least expensive. Let us show you why quality equipment and installations cost a little more initially-But cost you less in the long run. Call us for the finest equipment and the highest quality installations available anywhere.

Marine Electronics and Electrical

SALES*SERVIGE • INSTALLATION

■5366

page 27

^mo

Uianks for the (qnd

ivorcCs, QCad zue couCd heCp,

If You Want

SAN FRANCISCO BOAT WORKS

the Same Kind of "Beyond the Call of Duty" Service for Your Boat, Call Us.

835

CHINA BASIN ST FOOT OF MARIPOSA SAN FRANCISCO

(415)626-3275 page 28

CALENDAR national production boardsailing championship. Some of the best stand-up sailors in the country will perform off Crissy Field. Beware of Sharkbites (Myers’s Dark Rum, OJ and a splash of grenadine)! Events West, 383-9378. August 25 — 5th Annual Hans Christian Regatta. Aleko Hinton, 652-7578 or Jim Scala, 283-0398. August 25-26 — Mercury Nationals. StFYC, 563-6363. August 25-26 — Stockton Youth Regatta. John Notman, (916) 957-4035.

•

m A', i

TAHOE YACHT CLUB

Sailing on the Bay: the only way to fly! August 25-26 — Drake’s Bay Race, sponsored by Sausalito YC. A beat up on Saturday; a run home on Sunday. Last of tlje manly ocean races. YRA, 771-9500. August 26 — South Bay YRA race #6 (of 8). San Leandro YC, 351-9666. August 26 — Return of the Hog Island El Toro Marathon! Why not? Inverness YC, 669-9980. August 30-Sept. 2 — Ziploc Ultimate Yacht Race season finale in Milwaukee. Can John and Kimo meJte it three in a row? August 31-Sept.2 — Catalina30 Nationals. Classes for standard rigs, tall rigs and cruisers. Oakland YC, 522-6868. August 31 — Windjammers Race to Santa Cruz. The poor man’s Catedina Race, hopefully with more wind. YRA, 771-9500. August 31-September 3—Audi/Sai/ing IVor/dNOOD Regatta. A five race series out of Sednt Francis YC for Express 27 and 37s, J/24 and 35s, Hawkfarms, Islander 36s, Newport 30s, Olson 30s and Santana 35s. Nood HQ, (401) 847-1588. September 1 — Second Annual Jazz Cup Race from near Treeisure Island to the Benicia Jazz Festivd, co-sponsored by South Beach and Benicia YCs. A 10:30 start should get most of the expected 100 boats in six divisions (2 IMS, 4 PHRF) down the 24.8 mile course before the afternoon ebb kicks up. Elise Martinez, 285-8558. September 8-9 — Swan Invitational. StFYC, 563-6363. September 8-9 — Plaza Cup, co-sponsored by the Monterey Peninsula YC and the Monterey Plaza Hotel. Twenty or so Olson 30s are expected to attend; designer George Olson has been invited as the guest of honor. Judy Whitmarsh, (408) 624-3956. September 14-16 — Santana 35 Nationals, sponsored by San Francisco YC in sunny Belvedere. After posting the worst participation (8 boats) in the prestigious Volvo Regatta, will this class make a come back or fade away? "Use it or lose it," warns Santana 35 Commodore Jim Graham, 865-3870. September 15 — BOC Challenge starts from Newport, RI. Thirty-two skippers from 10 countries are entered in this macho four legged singlehanded round-the-world race. September 17-21 — Soling North Americans, hosted by Corinthian YC. Clint Johnson, 465-7100. September 27-30 — Big ^at Series: new format, new classes, a new lease on life? Saint Francis YC, 563-6363. October 6-7 — All Islander Regatta/Party. Tiburon YC; Ed p>age29

CHARTSIOF^THEAVORLP

charts are our business ... So our large inventory covers most of the world. We carry National Ocean Survey, National Oceanographic and British Admiralty Charts. We also stock all the publications and navigation books that you need and Pilot Charts, Loran, Omega and plotting charts are on hand. And we sell sextants, chart tools, compasses, clocks, barometers, chronometer^ computers, logs and binoculars. p/ease ca// us for your requirements. We are at your service.

TRADEWIND INSTRUMENTS LTD. MARINE NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

2540 BLANDING AVENUE ALAMEDA, CA 94501

(415) 523-5726

the Iasi Ibiug yoK need to uvny ahout. is your marUic iusiirauce. Boettcher & Murray (k eim \hiniic liisiirdiicc /{roh-iri^iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The Right Coverage for the Right Premium. Buzz Boettcher/Phil Murray 1-800-343-4292 I I

2025 CLEMENT AVENUE ALAMEDA, CA 94501

(415)

W 521-1829

Creative, unique custom dodgers designed to fit your every need. Special features such as super sturdy frames, grab rails and removable panels make Pacific Coast Canvas dodgers the best value today Call us for a quote or to discuss any of your canvas and fabric needs. page 30

CALENDAR Perkins, 285-2404 (w) or 389-1715 (h). 10 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94213

Beer Can Series BENICIA YC — Thursday Night Series. Through September; starts at 1800 neeur marina entrance. Linda York, (707) 745-2744. CORINTHIAN YC — 16th Annued Friday Night Series. Every Friday through 9/7.1800 start. Fred Borgman, 435-2777. COYOTE POINT YC — Beer Can Races: every Wednesday night until 9/26. Rabbit starts at 1900. Ruth Lee, 342-1571. ENCINAL YC — Summer Series: 8/10, 8/24, 9/14, 9/28. Alternates with lYC’s Friday nighters; 1830 start in the l^tuary. A1 Burrow, 522-6462. GOLDEN GATE YC — Series 11:8/3,8/17,8/31,9/14. Starts at 1830. GGYC, 346-BOAT. ISLAND YC — Summer Series: 8/3, 8/17, 9/7, 9/21, 10/5. Alternates every Friday with Encinal YC’s series; 1830 in the Estuary. Larry Arnold, 895-5192. OYSTER COVE — 25 Tuesday night races through 9/4. Starts at 1800; open to zdl. Dick Timothy, 952-5540. RICHMOND YC — Wednesday Night Beer Can Series. Second Half: 8/1,8/15,9/5,9/19. All boats invited (PHRF, woodies, dinghies, etc.); 1750 start outside RYC breakwater. RYC, 237-2821, or Harris Lavine, 237-6180. SIERRA POINT YC — Friday Night Beer Can Series: 8/3, 9/7, 10/5. Starts at 6:30 p.m. off the yacht club. Steve Sears, (408) 7251866. SOUTH BEACH YC — Second half: 8/3,8/17. Starts at 7 p.m. off South Beach Marina. Scott Selover, 369-0851. SAUSALITO CRUISING CLUB—Late Series: 8/3,8/10,8/17, 8/24, 8/31. StEurts off Sausalito Channel Buoy #2. Robert Kowolik, 459-4807. SAUSALITO YC — Summer Series: 8/14, 8/28, 9/11, 9/25. Warning signal at 1820 off Little Harding Buoy. Penny Dudley, 3327400. STOCKTON SAILING CLUB — Sunset Series: Wednesday nights through August 29. Everyone welcome. Pat Brown, (209) 8383285. Please send your calendar items by the 10th of the month to Latitude 38, P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966. Or, if the U.S. postal service is too slow for you, FAX it to us at (415) 383-5816. Send early, send often, but only one announcement per page and please, no phone-ins. Calendar listings are for marine-related events that are either free or don’t cost much to attend. The Calendar is not meant to support commercial enterprises.

(415)567-8880 • FAX 415-567-6725 SAILBOATS 65'SWAN 651 .$ 1,250,000 ..595,000 53' NORSEMAN 535 4r 8&S CUSTOM SLOOP_ ...59,500 47« variARAMn 99,950 AT OLYMPIC ..199^000 ...179,000 44' NORSEMAN 447 44> ...129,000 45' HANS CHRISTIAN ...110,000 44' PETERSON 44'NORDIC-2 from.. ...119,000 ...149.000 41* OfliC, 7^nno 41' NEWPORT, 2 from 149.900 in* NORDIO ' . 40' CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 38* FARALLONE Clipper, 2 frm... _34,950 ^4* Ri ftno _69,500 iqI AUnCB 49,000 36' PEARSON 36' LANCER _29,000 35' PETERSON 1 Ton 35' SANTANA PRFTr>niPM 79,900 %A* ALDEM _29,500 „.... 26,500 30' NEWTORT PHASE II _40.000 M* ERICSON, 9K nnn M' FARR ... .*79* , . 26,000 9*5* NORTHftTAR M. 15,000

44' LAFITTE 1981. Casual racer or senous cruiser, rnme oan rituiw&uw

berth. $i55,ooo.

UMALLtiNUitM^U. MBliCUiuusuwnui.

Large cockpit and spacious interior. $84,500

PQWfcH ....169,000 *;7* OHRIR CRAFT ....165,000 49'ALBIN TRAWLER 43' ALBIN TRAWLER- ....115,000 ....150,000 43'PRESIDENT SF AV HATTPBAR 180,000 ..„ 178,000 42' UNIFUTE, 42' SUNDECK MY--.. __89,000 40' BLUEWATER SEDAM 39'SEA RAY.* ....149,000 38* MATHEWS CLASSIC MY... * .....1251000 44' CSY CUTTER, 1978. Original !W RAYIINER 1 ^7* HATTPRAR .159,000 owner. Ready and capable cruiser. 1 35' GOLDEN GATE TRAWLER _. ..59,500 1 PI VRRinCP RFDAN .66,000 $110,000. Sistership. _115,000 35' BERTRAM 32’CARVER — ,.65,000 26' BERTRAM. .28,000 25'SKIPJACK. •SAN FRANCISCO BERTH INCLUDED

List Your Boat With, City Yachts We Get Results!

39' CAVALIER, 1980. Excellent repu¬ tation as a capable cruiser. $115,000.

August Weekend Currents date/day 8/04/Sat 8/05/Sun

slack 1347 0042 1420

8/11/Sat 8/12/Sun

1116 0022 1157

8/18/Sat 8/19/Sun

1313 0025 1352

8/25/Sat 8/26/Sun

page 31

1119 0017 1156

max 0321/4.3E 1603/1.8E 0402/4.6E 1635/2.2E 0217/3.0F 1427/3 IF 0315/2.8F 1512/2.7F ' 0255/4.9 1543/2'.3E 0346/5.1 E 1625/2.8E 0212/2.8F 1414/2.4F 0304/2.4F 1453/2.0F

slack 0728 1907 0802 1946 0521 1727 0629 1809 0653 1844 0738 1934 0525 1712 0623 1750

’ , ,, "

max 1038/3.4F 2157/2.5F 1107/3.6F 2234/2.7F 0808/3.3E 2040/4.1 E 0903/2.6E 2131/4.2E 1004/4.0F 2137/3.1 F 1045/4.2F 2230/3.4F 0755/2.6E 2017/3.6E 0840/2.0E 2104/3.4E

NORDIC 45. Robert Perry designed. Raised salon. Call for brochure.

VALIANT 47,1982. $230,000.

J^REEPORT 36, 1980. Accommodations for 5. Pathfinder diesei. $64,900.

EXPRESS371986 "Any Sunday". Sobstad & Pineapple sails, Barient winches, support vehicle extra. $98,000.

Donate your boat to the Sea Explorers

BOM

24 HOU« aBEE

. bEE'E*^®

gc-*’sta

PSTAUlEfitKl^^ . bese.n wae*^ (415) 236'1013 1340 Marina Way So. Richmond, California 94804 Richmond Marina Bay Harbormaster

Power or Sail • Your donation is tax-deductible. Let us show you the attractive value and speedy transfer that we can arrange. • Elinunate broker fees, advertising and berthing. • Help instill the love of the sea and boating int youth who participate in sea exploring. Sea Explorers are looking for any craft, power or sail, in serviceable condition.

Contact; Dave Dunakin (415) 638-3600 Sea Scout Division San Frandsco Bay Area Council

page 32

See Over 160 Big Boats In-The-Water Trailerable boats and accessories under the world’s largest big top tent Over 50 big sailboats! Over 100 big power boats! Sport fishing boats

SHOW HOURS:

15 23.1990

Weekdays - 2pm to 8pm

Saturdays -

10am to 8pm

WIN a Summit Marine 1990 Bayliner

Sundays — 10am to 6pm

2000 Capri Bowrider. Pick up entry forms and half price discount tickets at Fry’s Food Stores.

ADMISSION:

YACHT HARBOR

Adults — $5.00

For more information call

Children to age 12 FREE

Northern California Marine Association

when accompanied .by an adult.

415 521-2646

ARE YOU UNHAPPY WITH BOAT INSURANCE RATES? We'll Protect Your Boat from Almost Anything that Comes Up. At Great Rates. Call Us and Compare. We Service the Bay Area. Ask for Alan Quan Home Appointments Available ,

The electronic instruments you need. At the prices you’ve been iooking for. Autopilots LORANS VHF Radios Call S171 00 ALPHA S329 00 Apelco VXL5120 Apelco DXL6300 S344 00 285 00 Autohelm 800 540 00 Apelco VXL 7100 Apeico OXL6500 434 00 339 00 Aulohelm 1000 876 00 Apelco VXL 9100 Apelco DXL6800 621 00 362 00 Autohelm 2000 Apelco Chart Cart 59 00 Furuno FM-2510 529 00 365 00 Autohelm 3000 665 00 Icom M56 Data Dari 2550. 715 00 565 00 Aulohelm 4000 Data Capree Scout 508.00 Icom Ml 20 Autohelm Wmdvane 168 00 749 00 Icom M500 111500 Furuno LC-90 MKII 309 00 Aulohelm H/H Remote 87 00 395 00 King 7001 Interphase Locator Navico TP-1800 315 00 240 00 680 00 RayNav 33 King 8002 403 00 276 00 Navico TP'5000 598.00 RayNav 80 Micrologic Explorer Navico TP-5500 517 00 236 00 Sitex Compact 55 895 00 Micrologic ML8000S 693 00 21800 Navico WP-5000 435 00 Standard Eclipse Micrologic Voyager 269 00 Navico WV3 Wmdvane 139 00 Nofthstar 800 1365 00 Standard Galaxy 329 00 Navico HP 5000 Prgr 222 00 1595 00 Standard Titan* Northslar 800X Call 341 00 Vigil RT-80 Red line 476 00 Robertson RayNav 520 640 00 RayNav 570 SSB Transceivers 690 00 VHF Handhelds RayNav 580 S1950 00 S155 00 Hull 230 161900 Apelco VXL-357 RayNav 750 Mkli 710 00 280 00 1340 00 Furuno FM-55 RayNav'780 „ 172000 Icom M700 319 00 icom M2 585 00 Ross Nav 200 . 719.00 ICom AT-120 Icom M5 36900 986 00 VigtiCIOORedline 1910 00 Icom M7 336.00 SGC 1700/SG230 1490 00 RDF. ADF. FAX & ALERT Icom Mil 395 00 Stevens Sea 222 2222 00 193 00 Stevens Sea 322 S339 00 Sitex HH150 Locaior LK-7 248 00 268 00 Sitex HH300 Watchman Alert 374 00 Barient Winches 774 00 Standard H'P 6 Alflen FaxMate U8P Standard t695 00 Furuno FAX 208A Stereos U10P IMI Combi 1002 w/spk 119 00 Instruments U10 S353 00 tMl Combi 1003 w/spk 169 00 Aulohelm Depth U12 199 00 347 00 IMI Combi 2003 Aulohelm Speed U17 Two Speed 628 00 IMI Combi 2003/3530E 283 00 Aulohelm Wind U18 186 00 479 00 Jensen MJS-6400 AutohelmTndata U21 339 00 Dalamanne SIOOKL U22 Speakers 339 00 Dalamarine S2000L U24 IMI Combi 3520E S89 00pr 790 00 Dalamanne LX360 U25 IMI Combi 3648 89 00gr 1527 00 Oatamanne Cns U27 IMI Combi 3650E 39 OOw Can Dalamanne Link U0S21ST Sell Tailing Jensen 1500 39 00ea 385 00 Navico DL200 . UOS22ST Jensen 1510 40 OOea 385 00 Navico 0S200 UOS24ST Sitex MSP-88 82 OOpr 689 0# Navico WD200 UOS27ST Navico S200C Crs Pkg1376 00 Radars IJ17ST Grand Pnx Standard DS-10 228 00 Furuno Ralheon Vigil U21ST Grand Pnx Standard SL-10 228 00 U22ST 2 Speed Standard WS/WP 636 00 Kenyon Alternator U24ST Standard SP1 Sail Pkg 985 00 KenyonPower KP130S S295 00 U27ST Signet SL60 704 00 Adpt 8rks 34.00 ALSO AVAILABLE: RECOVERY ENGINEERING WATERMAKERS. PROFURL, PREVAILEH BATTERIES - . AND MORE!

OOOo^

FAX: 1-203-698-0861

Allstate Insurance Compdny

page 33

'*'x

Satellite Navigators Magellan GPS S2560 00 Magnavox 4102 2105 00 Magnavox 4102 Auto 2705.00 Raystar 920 GPS 3750 00 Shipmate RS5300GPS4675 00 Sitex A-310 1090 00 Trimble Transpac CPS 2985 00 Refrigeration Adler-BarbOur SFV-1 S558 00 AQler-Barbour SFH-' 558 00 Adler-Batbour LFV-i 647 00 Adler-BarbOur LFH-1 647 00 Alum. S60 00 74 00 106 00 164 00 201 00 244 00 290 00 356 00 425 00 520 00 747 00 354 00 459 00 619 00 781 00 263 00 409 00 492 00 671 00 867 00

Chrome S60 00 74 00 116 00 168 00 213 00 . 254 00 303 00 372 00 442 00 549 00 778 00 406 00 476 00 642 00 851 00 275 00 426 00 504 00 693 00 900 00

Prices subject to change without notice due lo fluctuations m exchange rate

FOR AflCO SOUR PANELS. EPIRBS OR imWIN6 YOU OON T SEE, CMl US.

(800) 922-4872

/IllState'’ (415) 498-5900

Compasses Aulohelm P'C S11900 KVH Saitcomp PCI 03 605 00 KVH Sailcomp 200 363 00 KVH Azimuth 314 533 00 545 00 Ritchie 0-515EP 283 00 Ritchie SP-5 163 00 Ritchie ONP-200 120 00 Ritchie FN-201 128 00 Ritchie 8N-202

I I

Canada : (800) 328-4425 ; MastvrCoRl I Connecticut : 1-203-637-3144 l-—)

continental marine P.O. Box 330, Little Cove Lane

Old Greenwich, CT 06870

Another Child " - Another Winner!! Another Child ", a Hunter 35.5 from Seattle won the dou¬ blehanded division of the just completed West Marine Pacific Cup. Congratulations to captain and crew. Come see the new Hunters - Built strong, built fast and de¬ signed for comfort. Winning Hunters on display at Brickyard Cove.

HUNTER! Open House August 4th Come meet the crew and see our new facility. Enter a drawing for an original Jim de Witt water color of your boat! Come see all the New Hunters. Last Chance To Buy New 1990 Hunters at Incredible Savings One Left SAVE $11,000!!

One Left SAVE $13,000!!

One Left SAVE $8,000!!

Clearance Boats Include the Full Warranty of Hunter's Customer "Bill of Rights"

Selected Brokerage 22' 25’ 26' 27' 27' 28' 32'

Catalina (2) from.. 4,995 Catalina (3).8,500 Excaliber, '66 .8,995 Lancer,'83.27,500 Newport.10,000 Islander, '78 .22,495 Ericson,'69.25,995

One Left SAVE $4,500!! 32’ Hunter,'89.62,500 34' Hunter,'83 . 44,995 36’ Catalina,'86.57,500

One Left SAVE $6,000!!

One Left SAVE $3,500!! 36' CS,'84 . 83,495 37' Hunter.59,900 45' Coronado,'75 . 79,995

^&C€uLeiVutfls Sailing Center

(415) 232-7999 NEW LOCATION

Buy Now and Save!

SERVING SAILORS FOR

28 YEARS

BRICKYARD COVE • PT. RICHMOND

One Left SAVE $2,500!! Trade-Ins 22’ 22' 23' 23' 30'

Catalina,'70 .3,495 O'Day,'86 . 8,995 O'Day Tempest.1,595 Hunter, '89 Demo 13,295 Catalina,'78.18,995

THESE BOATS MUST GO!

CALL 1-8G0-321-TWSC NEW LOCATION page 34

LETTERS COULD IT BE THE OLD GREEN-EYED MONSTER? Our charter sailing yacht, Sinbadsan, was one of those mentioned in the March issue’s World of Chartering section. How sad that your otherwise admirable publication should print such a derogatory report on luxury charter yachts — a section of the yachting industry which serves — and pleases — so many. Your oft repeated sarcasm concerning prices for luxury charters is not appropriate, as there is a huge market of people who do not think such rates are excessive at all. The price quoted for Sinbadsan, for instance, works out at $220 per person, per day. I would hazard to guess that a great many of your readers have enjoyed vacations in Europe and elsewhere at similar rates. Let them be the judge of how the prices compare with alternative vacations. As charter yacht operators for a quarter of a century, I can answer your question: "Who the devil would spend all that money for a sailing charter?" Often they ate people who have their own boats at home. Always they are people who want to enjoy the thrill of sailing in faraway places without having the hassle of navigating to and in unfamiliar waters; without wanting the chores of washing the salt off the decks in the afternoon and the grease off the dinner plates in the evening; and, who can enjoy sleeping through the night without having to worry about the possibility of dragging anchor. On a crewed charter yacht professionals take care of all the chores, allowing the guests to participate in the sailing of the yacht when and to what extent they wish. Between sails guests are free to swim, explore, ski, windsurf or just relax in the lovely secluded bays and picturesque anchorages. Are you quite sure that nobody you know would like such a vacation? Believe me, there are hundreds of tliousands who would; and esteemed companies like Camper & Nicholsons having been catering to them for more than 30 years. Your comments on large, expensive motor yachts shows lack of insight. Certainly those who crew on them are often wealthy. They are usually people who also have high public profiles. Will you not consider that they may not be "prisoners of their wealth" but rather folks taking a vacation that enables them to escape the public eye. After all, pulling up anchor enables them to escape being gawked at by dozens of bareboaters and quayside rubberneckers. (One has to wonder if it is mere coincidence that your reporter has been anchored right next to Lady Ghislaine on a number of occasions)! Your remarks concerning Claire Francis are just plain bad taste. The lady doesn’t have to demonstrate her sailing abilities by going gung-ho on a 32-footer. Traversing huge odeans of the world singlehanded has probably given her more sailing kicks than your entire editorial staff put together will ever "enjoy". If Miss Francis and others like her wish, at other times, to enjoy fine sailing on fast yachts in luxurious comfort and with a highly professional crew to take care of the more mundane aspects of sailing, why do you feel it necessary to knock it? It couldn’t be a touch of the old green-eyed monster ~ could it? Mary Burgess Yacht Sinbadsan Larnaca, Cyprus jVfary -- We think you perceived far more sarcasm in our piece than reallp existed. The underlying assumption throughout your letter is that we have something against crewed charters. This is ridiculous, the proof being that we’ve been operating a 71-foot crewed charterboat in the Caribbean for the last three years. Sinbadsan’s rate of $220 per person, per day, Is not excessive compared to alternate luxury vacations or shoreside vacations m the Caribbean. But rememb^, she was also the second lowest priced boat we mentionea. Are there really "hundreds of thousands" of people willing to spend $6,000 to $10,000 a week page 35

RECUTS AND REMIRS Don't have your sails repaired by just anyone with a pair of scissors. Instead, bring your sails to the experts at Marion. The right recut or repair can give your sails new life. From minor stitching to batten conversions and roller furling, we have the materials, equipment, and experience to assure you of prompt and professional service. For a free quote and fast turn around, just call Bill Colombo.

(415) 523-94)1

MAPION

SAILS BY MARION: Sails, Recuts, Repairs Loft Alameda Marina, 2035 Clement Avenue, Alameda CA 94501 Mail: PO. Box 4014-281. Alameda, CA 94501

SOLAR BATTERY CHARGERS Lightweight, Unbreakable, Dependable IDEAL FOR MARINE USE Beautiful Blue Crystalline Cells, No Glass Mega Lite 5, 10, 18, and 30 watt Panels Twice as Efficient as the “Flexible” Panels (Half the size for the same power output)

at 2/3 the Price and Without the Power Loss that occurs in "Flexible” Panels

BEST PRICES ANYWHERE Speedy UPS Delivery. Visa/Mastercard OK

ENERGY DEPOT f Authorized Distributor for

SOLAREX

61 Paul Dr., San Rafael, CA 94903 (415) 499-1333 7991 Folsom BIvcL, Sacramento, CA 95826 (916) 381-0235

Call Toll-Free 800-822-4041

SCHOONMAKER PoiNT MaRINA Sausalito Marina Facilites 160 Berths Visitor Berths Guest Moorage to 200' Storage: Inside/Outside Three-ton Hoist Parking DeU Public Beach Rowing Windsurfing Kayaking Sailing Instruction

NOW LEASING: BERTHS • WATERFRONT OFFICES AND SHOPS • DRY STORAGE 85 LIBERTY SHIP WAY, #205, SAUSALITO, CA 94965

(415) 331-5550 page 36

LETTERS per person? If there are, it’s the divine right of those 'less fortunate' — such as ourselves — to have a little fun at their expense. God knows it will be the onip time. As for Claire Francis sounding as though she’d had a lobotomy, don’t blame us, blame whoever it was who penned the rubbish attributed to her. Come on, Mary, that blurb celebrated "expensive forays to bars and boutiques" (as if inexpensive ones just wouldn’t do), weeks of habitual laziness, rotting in harbors and other pitiful activities. From the depths of our hearts we believe that crewed charters are great for the mind and soul — but what was described in that copy is something else again.

BAYTRONICS IS STOCKED WITH THE ELECTRONICS YOU’LL NEED TO ENJOY THE SOUTH IN SAFETY AND COMFORT

UttTHESE PEOPLE APPRECIATE THE FINER POINTS OF YACHT CHARTERING I have recently been sent a copy of the World of Chartering section from the March edition of Latitude 38. Unfortunately, 1 did not see the magazine itself. I would like to add my comments to those of Mary Burgess of Sinbadsan and say that I am sorry to see that our charter brochure Yachting '90, which weis obviously used edmost exclusively as a reference piece by your writer, was so sadly misused and misquoted. Some of the facits set out in his article are totally incorrect. As a company we do, of course, welcome publicity; but not when the whole tone of the article where our name (again, misspelled), our product and our services are mentioned in such derisive terms. Had we been consulted in connection with the writing of this zurticle, we would have been delighted to make sure that the facts were correct and to assure your writer that there are a very great number of serious charterers in the United States, as well as elsewhere. These people appreciate the finer points of yacht chartering, do not feel that they are being overcharged and, indeed, come back year after year to repeat the experience. We are the biggest and oldest established charter company in the world with a very large client base, and happily do not have to concern ourselves greatly with such blatant misrepresentation. However, it would be nice to think that some of your large readership might be enticed into this exciting and not necessarily financially crippling world of yacht cheurter, rather than dismiss it after reading your disappointingly disparaging piece. 1 hope the next time 1 read about yacht chartering in your generally admirable publication, the eirticle will be expressed in more favorable terms. Jennifer Brewis Charter Broker, Camper & Nicholsons London, England Jennifer — We’re sorry to have disappointed you, but like Mary, we think you’re making a mountain out of a molehill. Having read the piece over, we don’t understand what you found to be so derisive and disparaging. Oh sure, we had a little bit of fun with those who can afford $60,000/week for a charter, but it wasn’t

BAYTRONICS (415) CORPORATION 533-5300

ASC WATERMAKERS The New Atlantis Series ASC'S ATLANTIS is the most compact AC-powered desalinator on the market thanks to its modular construction and direct coupled pump/ motor unit. The attractive electronic control module nrourits wherever you like for convenient fingertip operation while the mechanical components tuck out of the way in the engine room, lazarette or under a berth. ASC's engineering leadership has pro¬ duced d fully automatic system that is con¬ trolled by just one switch - pressure setting, sequential pump starting, product water monitoring and tank level control functions are all done for you. Automatic shut-down protects the Atlantis from abnormal conditions while a series of LED's show at a glance the system status. By combining advanced auto¬ mation technology with innovative packaging. A^ has created a revolutionary desalinator, reconfirming their position as the industry's lader.

V?, BAYTRONICS CaRPORATION

mean-spirited. And Jennifer, nowhere did we even begin to suggest that customers of such boats are being overcharged. Indeed, we know all too well how much it costs to keep a large charterboat in good operating condition — and how few such operations come anywhere close to making a profit. As for factual errors, we wish you could have been more specific; we’re always eager to be corrected. Nonetheless, we’ll try to be a little bit more sensitive in the future — and at any rate promise to always remember the s at the end of Nicholsons. . For you readers who might be interested in such a charter, call 01 491 2950 or Fax 01 629 2068 for a fabulous, fat four-color

2228 Livingston • Oakland, CA 94606

(415) 533-5300 SALES • SERVICE • INSTALLATION Authorized Dealers For:

Rayllieon

Autohelm

?COM

Apelco

Before you choose you may want to think about some of the following questions; 1. ) Does your sailmaker have over 25 years in sail design and construction? 2. ) Do they have a worldwide network of lofts? 3. ) Can they claim winners in all classes from dinghies to maxi's? 4. ) Back up sales talk with on the water results? 5. ) Is your sailmaker availÂŹ able to sail with you and evaluate sails before you purchase? 6. ) Can they sell and professionally install the furling system to fit your needs.

m â&#x20AC;˘,w>

234-4334 '*'*4-8192 RD COVE RD PT RICHMOND, CA 94801

page 38

LETTERS THE BEST IN CAMERAS AND BINOCULARS

brochure that’s every bit as good as the boats Camper & Nicholsons represents.

^ItDOES ANY OF THIS STUFF MAKE SENSE? Some time ago you ran a letter from someone who suggested that the lead keel of a sailboat could be used as part of a giant battery to provide power for the boat. As I recall, you didn’t think much of the idea — which disappointed me since I had exactly the same idea myself. I have since thought of a number of other slightly far out ideas which might be very useful if properly applied. 1. How about a plexiglass window in the hull of a boat directly over the propeller so that the prop can be inspected for damage, fouling, barnacles eind even cavitation or vibration under load? The window should be easy to instcill emd anyone who has dived on their prop during unfavorable conditions — or who desperately needed to dive on the prop but was unable — would certainly appreciate the benefits of it. 2. How about an engine cooling system which would work reasonably well even if the water pump were destroyed? If you’ve ever had your impeller burn up you know how nice this would be. A simple way to do this would be to run a pipe from the cooling water discharge through the hull to just in front of the prop. Enough suction could be generated to adequately cool the engine while the prop is turning. 3. Wouldn’t liferafts be a lot more likely to be sighted if they carried either balloons or kites made of a light and radar reflective material? Even relatively smedl balloons made of nonreflective material are visible for many miles on a clear day. 4. I saved a really wild idea for last and hope I can describe it well. It would probably be the fastest non-powered craft capable of travelling long distances — and still be practical for a journey across oceans. Imagine a fairly large helium bcilloon with airfoils and hydrofoils attached by steel cable. By using the hydrofoils to steer, it should be possible to exactly control the direction when headed downwind, and to even head very slightly upwind at times. The loads which could be carried would be relatively light, but some cargo could be carried in the hydrofoil bodies. And consider the speeds that would be possible . . . you could go just as fast as the wind. I suppose some might not consider it a real sailboat, but why quibble? So, how about it Latitude, does any of this stuff make sense? How about some reader reaction? And how about having a regular column devoted to innovation? I know a lot of us would enjoy it. People in sailing tend to look backward at the glorious past, of wooden ships and iron men. A few are interested in any kind of radical design which will give them more speed. Finally, there are folks like me who admire craft most for their utilitarian, yet beautiful, rational design. Can you do something for us? P.S. Please include my phone number, (415) 649-7784, for anyone who wants to call and discuss innovations. Steve White Rational Design Berkeley Steve — Since we’re of the 'count the smiles not the miles' frame of mind and think sailing is much more about people than inanimate things such as winches or hull shape, we’re unlikely to become Innovation Central. Nonetheless, we always enjoy hearing new ideas. Here’s what we think of your four: 1. The 'windows' in the bottom of the hull idea is so good that it’s been around for quite a few years. Virtually all recent lOR boa^ have them for the purpose of making sure their folding props are in the folded position while facing. Semi-fanatics in Southern California, where kelp frequently catches on the front of the keel, have a little window in front of the keel. Genuine fanatics have a

NEW!

msreiNER ^OMHUIL 7x50 Admiral Gold Steiner’s Brightest Binocular The 7x50 Admiral Gold features Steiner’s new CAT (Color Adjusted Transmission) lenses for the highest possible light transmission. Waterproof and available with or without integral compass.

7x50 IF RC Seasider These waterproof and fogproof binoculars are designed to with¬ stand the hazards of the great outdoors. Their rugged all metal construction, rubber armor O-Ring seals and nitro¬ gen gas filling makes them perfect for boatA | 4% ing, climbing and ^ IU wildlife observations.

AI #•

NikonosV The Diver’s Camera • Waterproof to 160 ft. • Aperture priority and manual exposure control • TTL flash

Body Only

Action»Touch Perfect for Snorkeling • Auto focus • Auto-load • Auto-advance and rewind • Wate rproof

Nikon USA Limited Warranty Included

BERKELEY

SAN FRANCISCO

SAN RAFAEL

2990 7th Street 84S-J000

401 Bayshore Blvd. 28S-S244

86J E. Francisco Blvd. 4S9-J5J3

CONCORD

SAN MATEO

Willows Shopping Center 686-2270

Fashion Island Shopping Center 578-9200

^^PERFORMANCE

KENWOOD MARINE COMMUNICATIONS TKM 707

$2195 ¥fiffh Auto lUner CList $29951

The TKM 707 is a high performance SSB system designed for the marine environment. Recently approved by the FCC, the TKtA 707 features include: • Full 150 watt output power • Easy manual frequency selection plus 198 memorys • 3 frequency and channel scanners • Built in 2182 emergency alarm • Rust-proof aluminum and stainless construction • Compact - only 10''x10”x4”

KENWOOD’S SUPERIOR VHF TKM 507

(UsI $9981

This new VHF has proven itself in the rugged commercial market. It has a truely exceptional receiver that is both sensitive and highly selective. The long list of standard features include: • Highly water resistant • Dual watch and 3 scan modes • Built-in 10 watt hailer and 2-way intercom. OF SAUSALITO 300 Harbor Drive 94965 iA i cz\ ooo cnoc loj wv5b*oUou

1 weI

Maritime Electronics

OF SAN JOSE 1539 S. Winchester

"We Make Boat Calls"

Boulevard 95128 (408) 378-0400

/A‘1C\

OOO

rax (415) 332-6344

pug© 40

POWER HEART INVERTERS DELIVER • • • •

More AC Power Per Dollar Fully Automatic Operation Excellent Voltage and Frequency Stability Everything but the Noise, the Mess and the Maintenance of a Generator!

O.P.T. REMOTE CONTROL PANEL

MODEL HD-1800-12

$115.00

$1149

SAIL ROBERTSONS AP 200 SAIL PILOT Linear Drive or Hydrauih

NMEA Award Winner Best Sailboat Autopilot on Market OF SAUSALITO 300 Harbor

Maritime Electronics

Drive 94965 (415) 332-5086

"We Make Boat Calls"

page 41

Fax (415) 332-6344

OF SAN JOSE 1539 S. Winchester Boulevard 95128 (408) 378-0400

'tC

5\«f////

MARINA VILLAGE THE HOME OF THE PACIFIC CUP WINNERS Can your marina help you go faster? We're not sure, but look at the Pacific Cup results!!

Home Of:

Arena Yacht Sales

The following boats berth at Marina Village or chose to stay here as they prepped for the race:

Dealer for MacGregor Yachts (415) 523-9292

See ad page 49

Bill

qORMAN %J YACHTS

Featuring the best maintained used cruising boats

PACIFIC OCEAN YACHTS (415) 769-6700 See ad page 180

(415) 8S5-6151 See ad page 179 «TO SAN FRANCISCO

Kathmandhu Oaxaca Heart of Gold Glory Days Saraband Another Child

1st to Finish 1st Overall 2nd Overall 1st Class B 1st Class A 1st Doublehanded

OAKLAND

Coincidence?- Come find out at Marina Village yacht harbor. WORLD YACHT CENTER (415) 521-5636 See ad page 43 CONSTiTuIiOnV WAY OVERPASSW

V RaCiFic marina

Sailing Lessons & Charters

HORIZONS I Charter & Yachting Assocation

eUCNA VISTA AVENUE

ALAMEDA (415) 521-5370

Harbormaster 1050 Marina ViUajtt Perkway

MARINA VILLAGE Now Renting Premier Deep Water Slips In All Sizes

Call Harbormaster's Oftice

(415) 521-0905 page 42

LETTERS special thru-hull in which a 360° rotating endoscope can be inserted to check for snagged kelp, an unfolded prop or a wiggling keel. It’s rumored that there will be some such footage in the i;et-tobe released movie Roy Disney is doing on the 1989 TransPac. Some cruising boats also have little windows on the bottom just so they can see what’s on the bottom, be it fish or coral heads mucking up an anchorage. If we remember correctly, Peter Sutter’s Wild Spirit is one such boat. 2. An alternative way of cooling the engine sounds like fine idea — but wouldn’t it be a lot simpler and less experisive to carry a spare water pump? 3. Quite a few people have recently written in suggesting liferafts be equipped with kites or balloons to assist in their being spotted. Talk about the "glorious past"! For one thing, they’d only be useful during daylight hours, and kites only when a sufficient wind was blowing. Even in ideal conditions, we think you’d be surprised at how hard they’d be to see from even a mile or two. More important, why would anyone want to be drifting around in the ocean on a liferaft waiting for someone to stumble across their kite or balloon? If you ever find yourself in a liferaft, there is one and only one thing you want: to be plucked out absolutely as soon as possible. Fortunately, there is now a terrific new product designed for just that purpose: a '406 EPIRB'. Save the balloons and kites for what they were designed to do; celebrate life once you’ve been rescued with the assist of a 406. 4. If your goal is to cross oceans quickly, there is no substitute in either price or comfort for a jet. Cruising across oceans is an entirely different activity. Before you get discouraged, remember that Thomas Edison didn’t score on anywhere near 25% of his inventions. Remember, too, you probably would have had a much more warmer reception from a forward-thinking person such as Max Ebb.

UHWHEN YOU SEE THE DAMAGE YOU BEGIN TO WONDER WHY The 1990 YRA Vallejo Race is history, and I would like to report on how this year’s race affected the host Vallejo YC. Over the years we have developed a format for the race and party eifterward. There is music, dancing and drinks on the south deck from the finish of the race until about 8 p.m. Meanwhile, dinner has started in the clubhouse about 6 p.m. and runs until the danceband takes over about 9 p.m. At 2:00 a.m. everything shuts down until morning when breakfast begins being served at 7:00 a.m. The last racers leave the dock about noon, at which time we start putting the club back together. This year there was very little interest on the part of racers for the south dock activities and the dinner wasn’t well attended. It costs the Vallejo YC about $6,000 to put the race on, including the cost of bands, tents, garbage bins, portable toilets, security and so forth. We try to recoup this money through the sale of drinks, dinner, t-shirts and breakfasts. This year we had sponsorship from the Coors Brewing Company and The Moorings, which helped defray club expenses. This year was the first year in a long time when we had damage to the clubhouse. A portion of the handrail was pulled down and pennants on the wall were knocked down and taken. There was other vandalism in the form of Coors Beer banners being torn off the outside clubhouse walls. It takes about 150 volunteers to put on the race and party. When you start seeing damage to your club, you begin to wonder why you host the race. If anyone knows who damaged the handrail, please call the Vallejo YC office at (707) 648-9409. It would also be appreciated if th9Se with the missing pennants would return them to the club. It is our intention to put on a race and party that will be enjoyable for all who participate. If anyone has amy suggestions for page 43

BE SAFE - GO DIESEL Yanmar introduces diesel outboards, portable diesel generators and its reliable compact diesel auxilaries. MARINE ENGINE PROPOL&ON FROM . . . 9.5 hp 1 cyl. to 170 hp 4 cyl. turbo inter-cooled after-cooled with standard equipment including: transmission, motor mounts, shaft coupling, instrument painel, exhaust elbow.

YAimAR ALSO HAS PORTABLE DIESEL GENERATORS 2 kw 3 kw 3.8 kw 4.5 kw

YDG 2000 E

D27: 27 hp at 4500 RPM 3 cyl., electric start, set up for remote control, weighs 192 lbs.

Distributed by HAWTHORNE POWER SYSTEMS

-CONTACT THE DEALER NEAREST YOU: Rkhmoad Boot Works - Richmond (415) 232-5800 Marine Engine - Santa Cruz (408) 475-4220 Voyager Marine - Alviso (408) 263-7633 Tom Han & Assoc - Sausalito (415) 332-2788.

Goideii State Diesel - Oakland (415) 465-1093 Mariner Boatyard - Alameda (415) 521-6100 JSiH Marine - Stockton (209) 951 -0283 Bil's Boot Repofaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; - Discovery Bay (415) 634-4711

Peidnsula Mmino Service ' Redwood Qty (415) 366-2636 Monterey Bay Boatworks Monterey (408) 373-7857 page 44

LETTERS improving the event, please call me at the yacht club. Dennis Scherzinger Vice Commodore, Vallejo YC

Jil^THE HECK WITH MY VIRGINITY, I WANT MY SHOES BACK It was a woman’s scream at 0300 that woke me up while berthed at the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor transient dock. 1 popped my head out the hatch over my berth and found myself with a 'foot of the bed' view of an unbelievable love scene. Just 15 feet away a woman lay with her back across the top of a dock box. Her legs, spread to form a 'v', pointed toward the stars and the bottom of her swimsuit weis hula-hooped eiround her left ankle. A fellow who appeared to be a Waikiki Beach Boy was standing between her legs, focusing his activities at the apex of her 'victory sign'. Both his emkles were hobbled by his swim trunks. The wailing — when the cobwebs of sleep cleeired from my head — was an exact replica of the classic cafeteria 'passion scene' from the recent When Harry Met Sally movie. Only louder. The trilling moments for the woman at the Ala Wai, however, were fleeting. A few minutes later she was stomping down the dock, cussing and swinging fists at her treuling Lothario. It seems her shoes got knocked in the water during the tempestuous engagement and were lost. The next morning, as my mate and I held hands while strolling past a bachelor neighbor’s boat, he cast a knowing smile of congratulations my way. Even if I had wanted to, I couldn’t in good conscience take credit for his mistaken admiration of my romantic skills. Nonetheless, the inaccurate tale spread up and down the dock like wildfire. As a result, television cameras are now at the ready along the Ala Wai Transient Dock — and in other undisclosed locations — in anticipation of future episodes. As for myself, I will never again look at a dock box and just see a mere overstuffed obstruction to dodge on the way to and from my boat. My own hemdy video camera did pay off a few days later. A fishing boat went onto the reef a couple of hundred feet offshore at 0400 and I got night shots of a Coast Gueird helicopter hoisting fishermen from the stricken vessel. A local TV station bought the footage. Chuck the sextant, a video camera would now seem to be a more essentied tool on a proper cruising yacht. What better a instrument to help pad the cruising kitty? And if the footage doesn’t sell, just imagine the cockpit parties reviewing the nocturnal activities of mammals on the VCR — another must on the proper cruising yacht. I’d most like to watch such home videos wearing an extra large Latitude t-shirt if this example of a 'cruising experience' qualifies me for one. Tom Beard Port Angeles, WA Readers — We briefly met Tom at our office when he dropped off this letter. He says he and his wife started cruising as a result of trying to figure out how to make their boat payments; we don’t understand it either, but are investigating. In any event, the Beards have now been 'out there' on their Tayana 37 for six years and are currently in Japan. "The longer we’ve been out, the more we seek out the less travelled places," says Tom. "We also dread the day when we have to give up this wonderful style of life."

You Can

SAIL All These Boats

For

$188/mo HOW? Join our sailing club and sail any of the above 31-ft and under yachts as juuch as i/oii'd like for only $188lmo. COMPARE TO OWNERSHIP • 1 Purchase 30-ft^ailboatTB 1 Tradevvinds Sailing Down payment $7,000 Dovm payment Tax $2,000 Tax Monthly dues* $ 350 Monthly mortgage Slip@$5/ft. $ 150 SUp@$5/ft. Insurance $ 12 Insurance Maintenance $ 50 Maintenance 7 Your Time Your Time

Cl ub 1 0 $ 0 $ $ 188 0 $ 0 $ 0 $ 0

*On a 12-month contract •SAIL FOR FREE if you buy a boat Dues can be appli^ to purchase.

• Conservatively low estimated costs

Call about full club membership & benefits.

UnWHEN THE RULES KEPT CHANGING It is with bitter disappointment that I learned the ARC (Atlantic Redly for Cruisers) finish line has been moved from Barbados to St. Lucia. The people of Bar^dos, and especially its sailing community, deserve to have the event finish on their island as each year they have proved to be most cordied hosts. I first learned of the ARC as I approached Gibraltar in the page 45

Sailing Club SERVING SAILORS FOR

28 YEARS 1-800-321-TWSC

Another Page in the Stone Boat Yard Scrapbook...

iuic5-,Stat Saturday.

Alameda^

r^ltfotnla

-.v

•4 jIMSTEVENS-Suff

"—'XJdTows art of shlpmakirvg Hummmgbira snu 3g?^€ l?Si£=S2£

liss^f

Sf—

nC—'' -

aossr^sssss forapilot^«“^^^„a^igaungthroughtheshaUo tankers and fte g . !.,„

Bay Area a

^^^Estu^.fyou don t build boa

put them to woik.

money. "Boffle i.'s olamorous. Its

Stone ®^ uimed the company

m4ms= thesideoftan^^feyr'XtetowinsacUvities.an^

(A15) 523-30y, ^ Permission to reprint by Tom Pebble 7/17/90

page 46

LETTERS autumn of 1985. It was then advertised as a race for cruising boats from the Canary Islands to Barbados, with no handicap and cletsses for every five feet of boat length. Trophies were to be awarded for each class, with a trophy for first-to-finish and first-couple-to-finish. Those who entered prior to May of 1986 could sign up for free; ckfter that entries would pay a nominal fee of 25 poun^ sterling. This weis to be a race for the cruising community of couples and families who would normally be crossing the Atlantic at that time of yeeur anyhow. Since there weis also to be a cleiss for multihulls, I promptly registered eis a free entry. In September of 1985, two months prior to the start, the rules for the race were changed. An undisclosed handicap system was instituted — even though over 200 boats had already entered under the previous conditions. Upon arrival in Lzis Palmzis, the rules for what at that time was still being billed as the Atlemtic Race for Cruising Boats, were still in disarray. There was controversy about the use of engines, measurements and handicaps. At the skipper's meeting it was announced that the handicap system would obviously not work for multihulls; as such, we would have to compete sep^u^ately from the monohulls. While multihulls would be eligible for the fleet’s first-to-finish emd first-couple-to-finish trophies, we would not be eligible for trophies betsed on handicaps. This was fine. I had already advised Mr. Cornell, who runs ARC, that there is no handicap system that could fzurly compeure the diverse fleet of monohulls, much less incorporate multihulls. He assured me that his 'secret formula' produced useable numbers for monohulls, but admitted that it yielded numbers that were useless for multihulls. Thus Barbara, my crew, and I started the very first ARC with the goal of being the first-couple-to-finish. We figured our prime competition would be Manfred and Vera, a German couple on the Swan 65 Albatross. As the sun set behind Gran Canaria on the first evening of ihe race, we were side by side with Albatross in light air when they gibed their giant spinnaker and began to walk away from us to the southeast. Near midnight we passed a boat with all her deck lights on. After the finish of the race we learned it had been Manfred and Vera, who had the misfortune of catching their spinnaker in the self-steering during a nighttime spinnaker drop. I probably wouldn’t be writing this letter had their best downwind sail not been ruined. We saw no more boats on our passage to Barbados. The now famed 'Rawhide Net', however, kept us informed as to the positions of those boats with ham radios. As we approached Barbados, the net reported that Michael Glucks’ Deerfoot 62, skippered by Whitbread sailor Phillip Wade, would finish on the 13th of December at about 2 o’clock. We knew our arrival at Barbados would be about sunrise; since no one had stated whether the Deerfoot would finish at 2 a.m. or 2 p.m., we figured we had a 50/50 chance of not only being the first-couple-to-finish, but also the first-boat-to-finish. We contacted the Barbados port authorities as the sun was rising, asking directions to the finish line — only to learn that one did not yet exist. We were met by a small tug and Tony Hoad, the official time-keeper. Tony took us under his wing immediately after helping us get tied up and whisked us off to his home for breakfast and showers. Clearance formalities were waived and we were prepared for an official reception at 10:30 p.m. at the careenage in the middle of Bridgetown. There we were honored by Bradford Tmtt, the Minister of Tourism, Harbour Captain Van Sluytman, and representatives of the Barbados \^chting Association and Mount Gay Rum, the primary sponsor of the event. Our welcome was wonderful — l)ut it was only the beginning. For the next month the Bajan community continued to receive the remainder of the fleet with steel bands, rum punch and large doses of help and hospitality. There were even Christmas parties, complete with presents, held for cruisers travelling with young ones. All this was paid for and provided by the Bajan people, the page 47

Head of heavy 125% Genoa for Ranger 33.

Clew for Now'West 33 main.

Hand Sewn Rings: They are lighter for the same strength; Repairable at sea without a hydraulic press and beautiful. Just one of the many details that make Hogin Sails the prertiier cruising sails.

HOGIN SAILS In the Alameda Marina at 1801-D Clement Ave.» Alameda, CA 94501

(415) 523-4388 Mon-Fri 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Sat 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

40' Fiberglass lOR Racer

65' Wooden Motor Yacht

22 ft Fiberglass Santana

LPU PAINT JOBS from the professionals at Richmond Boat Works If you're tired of the dull finish on your yacht, bring it to the paint crew that knows how. We have the most experienced paint crew in Northern California as our many satisfield customers will attest.

mchapnd

Call for Estimate • References Available 10% OFF with this ad for all jobs done in j August and September, 1990. Please don’t show us the ad until you get your bill.' ^

We'll put you in touch with your nearest dealer. Write or call

SallspSeoDQg RO. Box 1218 Marblehead, MA 01945 Telephone (617) 639-0440

(415) 232-5800

urvival of the Fittest.

In a big blow it's the best Exacting Swedish engineers have patented a bearing system to make headsail reefing and furling easier when you need it most. Everything is included for complete installation—from stanchion blocks to split drum—and our worldwide dealer network backs up our five year guarantee.

616 Cutting Blvd. Richmond, CA 94804

FOR RACERS AND CRUISERS 20' TO.70'

Satisfy yovir own safety requirements ... as well as those of the government. E5ver3rthlng you'll ever need can be fovmd in the all new 1990 Ufe Raft & Survival Equipment Catalog. It's loaded with products and info absolutely essential to siorvlval at sea. Included is a whole section on Signalling Devices, featuring the newest, the best and the most technologicallyadvanced EPIRB's. Call for your FREE LRSE Catalog.

LIFE RAFT AND SURVIVAL Egun»MBNT me. PORTSMOUTH • RHODE ISLAND • 0287!

1 800 451-2127 -

page 48

LETTERS Port Authority and Mount Gay Rum. Two weeks after our arrival, we learned that the rules of the race were again to be changed. It seems Jimmy Cornell was less them happy with the prospect of having to award Barbara and I three of the most coveted trophies. So the first-couple-to-finish trophy was changed to first-couple-to-finish-under-his-handicap-system. Cornell also devised a handicap system for multihulls after the race was over. Barbara and I were not only disappointed but angry as hell about this turn of events. So we decided to protest to the Bajan sponsors of the race. The Racing Guide issued to all participants in Las Palmeis named three Bajans and the editor of England’s Yachting World as the Race Committee; so we appeeded to them for redress. I hand delivered protest letters to each, explaining our grievances. All three were shocked to learn of Jimmy Cornell’s plans to chemge the rules; they were also surprised to learn that the Racing Guide had named them as members of the protest committee! Meetings were held with Jimmy Cornell to redress the problem. The result was that Mr. Cornell threatened to take the ARC finish froiii Betrbados to St. Lucia if they did not let him have his way. Each member of the protest committee contacted us personally emd explained the dilemma they were in; how it would be a great embarrassment to them and for the Prime Minister if we proceeded with court action — as was our right under the Bajan constitution. The awards ceremony could have been delayed until such a hearing weis held. The Bajan community had by this time treated Barbara and I — and Eill the rest of the ARC participants — so well that we didn’t want to do anything that would destroy the event or embarreiss those people who had done so much for the smlors. Promises were made to try to correct some of the problems Jimmy Cornell had caused and was still causing. We were also content in the knowledge that nobody could dispute the fact that Barbara and I had beaten 209 other boats across the Atlantic in a 1972 Dick Flint multihull design. The first ARC was a great success in bringing together, in two fine ports that were delighted to have them, the families, couples and individuals who had made cruising their lifestyle. The people of Las Palmas and Barbados made up for the problems of the event itself with their help and friendliness. I later learned more about the inner workings of ARC while racing on Bajan boats at both Martinique and Barbados. The Barbados Port Authority and Mount Gay Rum, I was told, each paid Jimmy Cornell $30,000 after he assured each one that no one else was giving him money for the ARC, and that funds from the entry fees had been exhausted. El Corte English in Spain also provided support, but refused to give more funds during the pre¬ race festivities — and were severely denounced by Mr. Cornell in a public speech in Las Phlmas. Mount Gay was continually called on to provide libations and snacks for events that Cornell had set up without consulting them, and Mr. Cornell’s room and transportation were provided for him. All the activities personnel, hosts and timekeepers were volunteers who had taken time from their Christmas activities to make the first ARC the special event that it was. The ARC was really the brainchild of the Bajans. They proposed the idea to Cornell when he was there doing interviews for his cruising survey book in 1984. His knowledge of Spanish and contacts with Yachting World magazine were the keys that opened the door to what could have become the cruising communities' premiere event. The Bajans were happy to host all the participants and their friends. And with over 800 sailors in town for the event, the only problem the Bajan coifimunity had was when Mr. Cornell had to be physically evicted from a bar for improper attire. He’d snuck in over the back wall. page 49

^ /TS: ^ NAVIGATION ^Vi^'^'CENTER • •

• • • • • • • • • • • •

475 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, Ca 94965 (415) 331-6513 BINOCULARS ASTRA IIIB METAL SEXTANT $425 BOOKS SEXTANTS COMPASSES SHIPS CLOCKS ALMANACS COAST PILOTS aLCULATORS BAROMETERS TIDE LOGS LIGHT LISTS COMPUTERS NAUTICAL ANTIQUES YACHT DEtIVERY COMPASS SWINGING AND REPAIR

* CHARTS IN STOCK * San Juans to Panama - Wash. - Oregon - So. California Hawaii - Mexico - Costa Rica <- South Pacific

A(I charts sold with latest corrections at no charge

CHARTLITE • Dimmer control - from ’off" position to fully bright • Focus control - "flood" to "spot" • Red or white light lever control • Fully adjustable • Unsnaps from base for hand held use • 5 foot retractable coiled cord • Can be mounted vertically, horizontally or inverted (extra bases available). • Made from light weight, corrosion resistant die<ast aluminum alloy

Bill's Inflated Price - $100 Buy them while he's In Hawaii

CLOCKS & BAROMETERS

OHIY 199

50%

OFf

NAVIGATION COURSES REFRESHER COURSES — INDIVIDUAL TUTORING COASTAL PILOTING COURSE — $99 CELESTIAL NAVIGATION — $99 OFFSHORE CELESTIAL NAVIGATION - $199

Our Courser Are Fast, Easy and Guaranteed! Call For Details

~D)fr0 ^NAVIGATION _d)v!^'^'CENTER 475 GATE FIVE ROAD SAUSALITO, CA 94965

(415) 331-6513

ONE-STOP SAIL SERVICE • CLEANING • REPAIRING • MODIFYING

! HIGH QUALITY I CANVAS PRODUCTS MADE YOUR WAYII

6NE north AMPHLEn SAN MATEO, CA 94401

(415) 342-5625 CUSTOM BOAT CURTAINS

viVNvn %

Get In On Our MidSeason Clearance On Honda Quality.

OUTBOARDS 2-15 HP

BF2 BF5 BF8 BF9.9 BF15

Sa¥0 $100 Sw0 $125 Stn0$175 Sa¥0$235 Sm$259

. Marine Insurance EXTENDED NAVIGATION SPECIALIST • CAbo • Acupulco • Costa RIca AncI LocaI CruIsInq

DUBLIN POWiR IQUIPMEHT 6843 DUBLIN BLVD. DUBLIN, CA

(415) 829-3733 SALES • PARTS • SERVICE For opilmum performance and safety, vve recommend that you read the owner's manual before operating your Hondo Power EquifOTenl. Connection of generators to house power requires tronsfer device to ovoid possible injury to power company personnel. Consult a qualified electrician.

NBOA MARINE INSURANCE SERVICES

1-800-283-5646 page 60

LETTERS We have followed the ARC eis it has changed from a race to a rally, emd watched the entry fees rise to levels that most of the participants in the first ARC could never afford. We know of Cornell’s dememds that the Bajan hosts would have to do more now that he’s supposedly bringing them "a better cleiss of people", and of his continued threats to take the race away. I’m sure we will soon learn the reed circumstances behind his moving the finish line from Barbados to St. Lucia. I doubt very much that it weis due to the lack of construction of a new harbor, which the Bajans themselves would very much like to have. I would encourage anyone crossing the Atlantic to experience the hospitedity of Barbados, but consider carefully whether they wish to be peirt of Emy event controlled by Jimmy Cornell. Larry Polluck Reno, Nevada Readers — We attempted to telephone and fax Mr. Cornell for comment. We were unable to reach him by phone or fax at any of the numbers listed for his organization and events.

liUlT IS POSSIBLE TO WORK WITH CUSTOMS TO GET VATS REFUNDED I have some information I’d liked to sheure on the subject of VAT (Value Added Tax) in Europe — the subject having been brought up by a reader a few months back. You have to pay VAT when you buy something in Europe, but you can get a redemption slip to turn in for a refund when you leave the country by air, ferry or whatever. The amount refunded is most likely less than the full tax because of the commission charged by the company that handles the paperwork. In general, whatever was bought has to be sealed at the store and not opened — or there is no refund. In certain countries it is possible to work with customs yourself to get VAT refunded, but in cases like that it is up to the store to follow up on the refund. They don’t always do it. Not all stores, incidentally, belong to the 'tax free' system. If the store doesn’t belong to the system, you’ll pay the tax just like everyone else and have no recourse. In ceises of bigger items — such as boats — VAT is most likely collected up front and later refunded when the boat leaves the country. But be sure that customs is on top of every deal made when it involves tax to be paid. As far as the unification of countries in Europe, there has been a lot of discussion about VAT. Not all countries are satisfied with what the 'EC would have to offer them. Every country is unique and wants their particular needs taken care of. All the countries that join 'EC will supposedly have the same money and trade regulations. . . u • For anyone thinking of living in Europe, my advice is to bnng lots of money; with or without VAT refunds, it s expensive over there. * . Kent Amberson La Paz, Baja California Sur

(UTALL IN ALL, VERY HIGH-HANDED Like many Bay Area yachtpersons, 1 was recently surprised to receive a $35 bill from the Federal Communications Commission for my vessel radio license renewal. For many years there was no charge for renewals; prior to that I think it was $5 or $7. The real kicker — and purpose of this letter — is to warn fellow yachties (1 hate that word!), that if your renewal does not conform exactly to Section 1.958 of the FCCs rules, you wiU have to resubmit your application — with a second check for $351 You sec, the original $35 check you seht is forfeited because you were a dumb s-t and were not conversant with Section 1.958! All in all very high-handed and not something that makes me feel warm and page 51

cRuisat/imMOMm HANS CHRiSTiAN 45

1150 BALLENA BOULEVARD ALAMEDA. CALIFORNIA 94501

4TH MONTH! CALL FOR DETAILS! Prime Bay access Free pump out Deli Restaurants Showers Laundry Room

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FOLLOWING /,!: â&#x2013; VUI-WVIIVU fl/i Ol

l-UI

',>J

' Limited number of 24 foot slips @ $4.75/foot ' Choice end ties on marina entrance @ $5.75/foot ' Special Discounts at our Cabo San Lucas Marina ' FREE reciprocal privileges at our other 4 marinas along the California coast ' Launch ramp adjacent to the marina

BALLENA ISLE HE BAY MARINA ON fTHE B

AN ALMAR MARINA

page 52

LETTERS

New Way To

dose to our government. My sin, apparently, wcis my atrodous handwriting — not uncommon with 70-year-olds. Because my hemdwriting is so bad I used a rubber stamp to imprint my neime and address on the renewzd application. So for dl intents and purposes, I had to pay a $35 fine for not signing my name in ink. Readers should also be advised that photocopies of your signature on such a form are also subject to a '$35 fine'. Bob O’Leary Merlin Hayward

OWN!

Own a share in these 3 boats 108 Days Usage For

ONLY $250

a Month!

Bob — You bet the new fee is a surprise to a lot of folks. Radio retailers, too! See this month's Sightings. As for your having to pay twice, we gave the FCC in Washington, D.C. a call. The first person we spoke with sounded like he was on such heavy drugs that we tried their Consumer Affairs department. The pleasant woman who answered (202) 6327000 said you can apply for a refund; at $35 it’s worth the trouble.

UtlANOTHER SWAN ISLAND EXPERIENCE

MEDITERRANEAN 38, 1990 - $305,000

Although I personEilly haven’t visited Swan Island (which has been discussed in Letters for the last four months), I read about one boat’s experience there in the Passagemaking Handbook by John Rains and Patricia Miller (Seven Seas Press / International Marine Publishing Company, 1989, $27.50)Rains and Miller were delivering a large powerboat from Florida to California when they planned to spend a night anchored off Swan Island. While checking for coral heads several hundred yards offshore, they heard equally spaced gunshots, which they took as a distress signed. Since one of their crew was a paramedic, they headed toward shore to help. Within 100 yards of the crude quay, they saw men, some in combat fatigues, some with M-16s and one with a M-60 machine gun, run in edl directions. Not liking the look of things. Rains turned the boat in an attempt to leave. Three bullets then whizzed by his and MiUer’s heads. Rains figured that those shooting weren’t trying to kill them because "I knew we were both dead if the rifleman wanted us that way". He stopped the boat where she was. Two armed men then approached in a launch and ordered them to the quay where they would be searched by the Honduran Navy. Prior to this. Rains had assumed the men were either pirates or revolutionaries. While on the way to the pier, th6 two armed men from the launch swarmed through the boat counting occupants and looking for weapons. Meanwhile, Miller raised the ham maritime mobile net and was immediately patched through to the Coast juard in Mieimi. , r .i • i.„j With a squad of infantry spread around and a freshly painted Armada de Honduras" sign behind him, the man who had done he shooting asked who was on the boat and what they were doing. \n angry Rains asked who he was, why he fired and if he was in he military why wasn’t he in uniform. The latter question seemed o hit a nerve, and the man backed off a little. , , , , . ... For the next few minutes the Hondurans searched the boat, with jne gun always pointing at Miller, who continued to speak with the Zoast Guard. Finally Miller gave the mike to another member of he crew and opened up a six-pak of Coca-Cola for the guests rhat combined with the fact the boat wasn t loaded wift drugs and arms changed the whole situation. The man who had just before shot at them was now asking if they wanted to see the island and ^ow long they would like to stay. By this time Rams decided he didn’t want to see Swan Island at all. much preferring to leave nght then. Which is what they did^ No date was given for the experience.

^ Sacramento

page 53

Power twin - 375 cats. Speed - 38 knots.

J-36, 1981 - $78,000

New rig & sails. Like new inside and out.

18-FT ARC, 1989 - $19,500

Trailer, 70 hp Evinrude, hard bottom, life boat, VHP, fish finder, unsinkable. Total package value: $402,500

100% mi MAimiNAHCE, INSURANCE & DOCK FEES Initial deposit required

Call for more information

BOB MALOY & ASSOCIATES 100 Northhill Drive, #10 Brisbane, CA 94005

(415) 467-5800

Class of the Month '•

■» r

—

,* .

'* t

The Day Sailer was i and the legendary Uffa Fox. Create family daysailer, the class has grown to be one of tH most active in North America. Since initial production began in 1958, well over 14,000 Day Sailers have been built. Some of the most active fleets are based right here in Northern California. Palo Alto, Fresno, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa are all hotbeds of Day Sailer activity. An excellent performer on Northern Californian lakes or on the Bay, the Day Sailer combines exciting, planing performance, yet offers dry, comfortable sailing with the stability of larger keel boats. Fleet rules are designed to encourage family racing. A full array of family events are also offered to Day Sailer owners. Harken's association with the Day Sailer is long. The large main is controlled with dinghy blocks, led to a 019 Little Hexarachet mounted on a 205 swivel base. Jib sheets lead to 2.25" blocks and bullet and micro blocks are used extensively for control lines. 150 and 200 Cam-Matic cleats secure sheets and controls. For family fun and excitment, you can't beat Harken and the Day Sailer.

#019 Utile Hexarachet® mounted on a i205 ball bearing swivel base.

1251 E. Wisconsin Ave., Pewaukee, Wl 53072 (414)691-3320* FAX (414) 691-3008 Day Sailer Northerr) California/Nevada. BillFiock, 40150DavisSL Fremont, CA 94538(415) 651-1630 SBRA - Scott Rovanpera, P.O. Bob 3973, Walnut CreeK CA 94598 (415)939-4069 BUILDER-McLaughlin Boat Works, 4737Adams Rd, Hixson, TN 37343 (615)875-4040 1989 North American Champion - Len Fiock, Santa Cniz Fleet m page 54

LETTERS Peter — That’s a good story about Swan Island, only partly because it features San Diego’s Ptit Miller, an old friend of Latitude’s. Anybody else with a Swan Island tale?

UtTHIS LITTLE GUY IS LIKE MY BABY I am writing to you hoping that this letter will gener^e some information and helpful hints from your readers regarding cruising with a pet. Specificzdly, a cockatoo! I have seen many articles which mention cruising with cats and dogs, but none about cruising with birds. Alright, I admit that I have rocks in my head to even entertain such an idea, but this little guy is like my baby. I’ve hand-fed him since he was a pup! I cannot bear the thought of leaving him behind while I go cruising for a couple of years. Our plan is the same that many have: cruise down the coast of California, Mexico and Central America, through the Canal and up the Caribbean, across the Atlantic and explore the Med. You know the drill. I need to know where birds cem travel legally without being subjected to quarantine — or worse yet, being seized by the authorities. By the way, how do you stow a cockatoo anyway — in a gimMedcage? ' SemtaCruz Debbie — If Long John Silver marauded with a parrot on his shoulder, we see no reason you shouldn’t be able to cruise with a cockatoo. Actually, such birds are among the best boat pets. While we believe authorities are much more understanding with caged birds — which after all, have little contact with native animals — perhaps some of our readers have factual firsthand information.

UttPUSH IT OVER THE LIMIT AND YOU CAPSIZE Thank you for taking the time in your July issue to explain why one of my F-27 designs, Wingit, flipped on San Francisco Bay. However, part of your analysis of the flip is a little off, ^d perhaps you might have checked with me about design theory. You stated that "in theory the bow is supposed to bury in such conditions, but instead the hull lifted". This is incorrect, as I designed the F-27 float bows to lift, not bury. If overcanv^ed the center hull will lift — which is exactly what happened. Dnve a 60 mph through a curve designed for 25 mph and you can mp. Restrict the car to 20 mph with a ton of lead and you eliminate the risk — but nobody does as most have sense enough not to take such risks. . ... 1 <7__ j Wingit is the first Farrier design to be capsized m 17 ywrs and millions of mUes, including Atlantic and Pacific crossing^, pe boat on San Francisco Bay capsized simply because the mainsheet was tiqht on the centerline and because no crewmember was watching the spinnaker sheet in 35 knot winds. If you want to go ^mg wiA a full chute and mainsail in such winds and nobody on me spinnaker sheet, then the F-27 is not for you- The 27 Whirlwind wiped out trying something simUar and ended up on me bottom of the Bay - which is even more inconvenient ^d much riskier. It’s still down there while the F-27, being unsmkable, is back As*Ray Wells, owner of Wingit, reported, the built-in nghting system helped to recover the boat, but not as easUy as anticipated This system was first tested and developed seven years ago with one of my earUer designs being roUed over twi^. We P^ved possible to right with such a system, without outside asswtance, by Ling a buUt-in folding system. Since that time we have been unable to test the procedure further, due to lack of capsizes. W page 55

NOT FOR PANTY WAISTS! This is a learning experience for serious sailors who someday want to cruise, and want to find out what it’s like NOW! Aboard our ocean rigged yachts you’ll learn coastal navigation skills by hands-on practical use with the necessary aids and procedures for safe coastal navigation. AND WITH SUMPTUOUS ACCOMMODATIONS & PROVISIONS • 3 separate staterooms with stereo • 2 heads/showers with hot water • Hearty breakfasts and lunches • Wine with dinner and aperitif

for Brochure, Sailing Schedule, and What-to-Bring List

CALL NOW (415) 331-6689 COASTAU CRUISING SCHOOL P.O. Box <>78. Tiburon. CA 94920

SAILING OUT OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY

BROOKES A OATEHOUSE FOCUS TWIN mCK The same B&G quality found in high-tech racers and cruisers is r^pw available in the affordable Focus Twin Pack. The Twin Pack offers ease of use, versatility, B&G's famous 2-year warranty, and much, much more! Why settle for less when you can have Brookes & Gatehouse?

• Depth

SALE

• Sea Temp • Remote Capability

• Speed

• Perm Log

• Shallow Alarm

• Average Speed

• Trip Log

• Anchor Alarm

ALAMEDA 2317 BLANDING AVE (415) 865-3777

$1,349

• True and apparent wind speed • Remote Capability • True and apparent wind angle

• VMG

• Countdown timer

• Volts

JOHNSON HICKS Marine Electronics

SANTA CRUZ 333 "C" LAKE AVE. (408) 475-3383

MONTEREY BAir FIBERGLASS ‘ITCHING FOR FUN”

Wholesale

Retail no minimum order

Complete line of reinforced plastic materials Resin Epoxy's Mat. Roving. Cloth

Distributor for "Clark" surfboard blanks and sheet foam. Experienced consulting in all phases of reinforced plastics.

SERVING ALL YOUR NEEDS FROM OUR NEW EXPANDED FACILITIES: 1071 G 17th Avenue 314 West Depot Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Bingen, WA 98605 (408) 476-7464 (509) 493-3464

Gateway to the Golden Gate Location • Location • Location Some choice berths are available - Check With Us First Full Service Marina

•

Full Facilities

Berkeley Marina 201 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94710 (415) 644-6376 page 56

LETTERS

miEimMiNESiirFiTci! **

pm CART’S MEMBERSHIPi ** with $100.00 order

thus lacked some knowledge on how it would work on a bigger design like the F-27. Wells, however, was kind enough to provide the opportunity by flipping Wingtt. ftom what wits leeurned, some changes have been made to the righting system procedure, which should make any future recoveries much eeisier. Incidentally, Corsair Marine is also in the process of developing an anti-capsize system for the F-27, which will virtually eliminate the risk of capsize and the need for a righting system. Modern technology has made great advances in the last few years and such a system is now possible. Preliminary tests have shown it to be workable, and it will be offered eis an option in the future. Most sailors won’t readly have a need for it, but it will protect those who need to be protected. Multihulls are different from traditional monohulls in that their performance is not restricted, but they do require that crews use them sensibly. Call it freedom of choice. Some think this is a dangerous idea, but. as we edl know, lack of choice can lead to mediocre performance. Those who have no safety sense should stick with monohulls, as they will generally look after an even very foolish senior in most conditions. There is no perfect solution, of course, as monohull major wipeouts, though infrequent, can be much more dangerous. I prefer to have fun sealing myself, and am confident in my own judgement when it comes to safety. I’d rather rely on my judgement them being tied to a rather heavy lead block with no choice. Right now we seem to be selling more F-27s than we can make, so it looks like there are many seiilors who eure tired of going slow in the same old thing and agree with me. 1 guess they also feel confident enough in themselves to decide whether or not to reduce sail. Ian Farrier Ian Farrier Trimaran Designs Chula Vista Ian — The theory of burying bows, like Wingit, is the property of Ray Wells. We were just reporting what he told us. But what we’d really like to know is when multihull sailors are going to be content enough in their boats that they don’t need to resort to denigrating comments about folks who are satisfied with monohulls? Your F-27 is a hot seller, people are sailing them and racing them all over, the guy who dumped one is as much in love with his as ever—so take it easy. After all, it can easily be argued that speed is anything but the essence of any type of sailing and that multihulls, being more than 100 years old, are nearly as much the "same old thing” as monohulls. The way we see it, there are all kinds of great boats, be they ferro, wood, steel, aluminum, glass, composite, short, long, expensive, cheap, multihull, monohull, ketch, sloop, schooner, yawl, sloop, ugly, sweet, traditional, modem . . . you get the picture. If somebody’s delighted with a schooner-rigged ferro catamaran, who are we to tell them they

limbeHand ^

shoes

40% Off LIST eiosE-oun

All Models-QUANTITIESLIMITED

Voyager. LORAN List Price $725

I Your Best Loron f Value Anywhere! More Features, Higher Quality

ONLY 4 urr AY THIS PRICK

FOUL WEATHER GEAR

LIGHTWEIGHT POLAR-FLEECE JACKET

Close-Otffl

$39.95 BOAT CUSHION

SF6000

QUANTITIES LIMITED

RITCHIE A A A A A A aJS B-51 COMPASS

RltersL Elements

Only

$9.95

LIFEJACKET Only $5m9S

should really be unhappy?

UtlWHAT A FEW HOURS WITH ERNIE CAN LEAD TO We;’d like to tell your readers that we think Ernie Rideout is one heck of a sailing instructor. We took sailing lessons from Ernie at O’Neill’s in Santa Cruz 10 years ago. He not only taught us to sail but encouraged us to buy a boat. He suggested a 1965 Columbia 29- which he then suggested we race (there was a one-design class back then). With Ernie as captain, yie did race and had a great time _not to mention learning a lot about Bay conditions and how to sail in them. Besides, with the help of Ernie and one or two of his experienced crew friends, we won or tied both years we Since then we have bought a bigger boat, a Crealock 37. We sailed that to Cabo in 1985-'§6 and then back to Moss Landing. Now we sail her around Monterey Bay and to Monterey and Santa Cruz. We also joined some friends to help them bring their boat page 57

FROM OAKLAND TAKE HARBOR WAY SOUTH EXIT, TURN LEFT ON CUTTING

FROM MARIN TAKE CASTRO EXIT TO TEWKSBURY.

nimmiiuMsnci! POINT RICHMOND 64 RAILROAD AVENUE

(415) 233-1988 NEW HOURS: MON.-SAT. 9 AM-5 PM • WED. 9 AM-8 PM SUN. 10 AM-4 PM ♦ CLOSED THURS.

Protecting boats for more than 20 years

To meet the needs of Bo^t and Marina owners, we offer a complete line of Fenders, Bumpers and Dock Wheels that give lasting servic6v,AII products are thoroughly inspected to meet our high standard of quality, and are sold with our complete guarantee.

Yacht Insurance SAIL AND POWER Mexico Cruising To TransPac Racing Serving Sailors From All Over Northern California Since 1970. Call Bob Berry For Competitive Rates

Martinez Marine Hardware Your Contra Costa and Delta Source For: Larsen Sails Marine Videos for Sale & Rent, Books Stainless Steel & Silicon Bronze Fasteners & Fittings NOAA Charts Scotty Downriggers Perko Products West System Fiberglass Repj Jabsco Impellers First Mate Interlux Paints Z-Spar Finishes Sta-Lube Marine Oil Produc Taylor Made Fenders Interstate Batteries NSA Water Filtering Systems

Call Arlene and Greg Davidson at:

MARKS-CLARK Insurance Associates, Inc.

(415) 372-7579 3811 Alhambra Ave. Martinez, CA _

500 Seabright Avenue, #D Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (408) 458-9833 page 68

LETTERS

DEEP WATER • CRANES • MARINA

QUIT’S A CRIME! Here’s an update from San Diego that proves it’s getting harder to continue enjoying the wonderful sport of sealing. About a year ago, I moved my boat from Huntington Heurbor to San Diego. The first thing I thought was unusual was that the marina wanted the boatowners to vacuum their boat decks so as not to pollute the bay with sanding dust. When a mooring became available, I thought I’d try 'life on a can' to save a few — actueilly a lot — of bucks. The moorings were new, so when I asked about a plaice to leoid my dinghy, the Port District didn’t seem too sure, but gave me permission to use the boat ramp dock the first day — so I coudd check things out. There were two Izurge docks at the public ramp where I launched my dink. I locked my dink under the gangway so it would not take up any space. The dock was marked for parking, but with a 10 minute time limit. When I returned from securing my boat to the mooring, 20 or so minutes had peissed. You know how such things always take longer them you think. Well, when I got back my dink was gone. I ruled out theft for two reeisons; 1. I had locked the dink, emd 2. I’d bought the dink for just $20 to mEike sure nobody would want to steal it. The Harbor Patrol — sorry, it’s now the Harbor Police — must know something, I figured. Approaching the Police Dock, I spotted my dink in the back of one of the patrol boats. No problem, I thought, figuring I’d just explain my boat was on one of the new moorings. At worst I’d get an overtime parking ticket; it’s okay to dock there, I just had overstayed tire limit by 10 minutes. When I went to the desk to retrieve my dink, I was told I had to talk with the arresting officer. What’s this, they 'arrested' my dink? The officer asked if I could identity my dink. "Sure, this key fits the lock you just cut off," I responded. When he started writing out a ticket, I tried to explain that I had gotten permission from the Port District. The hammer reedly fell when he explained he was not writing a ticket but a crime report! Parking your dink for too long in San Diego is a punishable-by-time-in-the-county-jail type misdemeanor, a must-appear-in-court crime. Yes, I had to go to court to pay the bail and appear in front of a judge. But that’s another story. I think it’s time to sell the boat! P.S. It’s all true.

Mark Emfinger Southern California

60 TONS • BLISTER GUARANTEE

Do-it-yourself welcome to a clean, paved space. Material purchase not required. NOW: weekend HAULOUTS Open 7 Days a Week 24-Hour Emergency Service

fiOR SAfci] We have recently finished a complete professional restoration of two 37 foot Chris Craft Connies 60's vintage, and they arSfor sale. These^are fast beauties. -

Mark — In this ever-changing world it’s nice to know there remain a few constants. For as long as we’ve published this magazine the San Diego Harbor Patrol/Police has been in the undisputed leader in what would seem to be mindless law enforcement along the coast No other agency has even come close to pissing off so many mariners uiith so little reason. The seeming zealots-by-the-sea’s specialty would appear to be trying to see how difficult they can make life for those they are supposed to serve. We’ve never been able to understand their attitude problem. There was a time when the United States might have been the home of the free”, but it now dems to have become ”the land of the misplaced priorities”. If our government had been as vigilant page 69 /

SANFORD-WOOD BOAT YARD 530 West Cutting Blvd. "RT 580" Ft. Richmond, CA 94804

(415) 236-6633

SANFORD • WOOD

across the Atlantic from the Can2uries to Antigua. We’ve also cheurtered a couple of times; a few months ago a report on our Greek charter appeeured in Latitude. All this is just to show what spending a few hours with Ernie Rideout can lead to! Besides, he and his wife Betty are now our good friends. Glenn & Jeme Goldsmith Content Moss Landing and Gilroy

No hidden charges Our jobs and rates are guaranteed. Five acres of paved yard, 19,000 sq. ft. of shop space, a staff with many years of new construction and repair experience.

Positive Protection Against Fouling ...

“THE PROTECTOR”—B-90/B-91 BOTTOM PAINT "The Protector" is a hard, non-vinyl q^pper bottom paint that gives time-tested protection against fouling. Durable and dependable, "The Protector" is readily compatible with vinyl and other non-viriyl bottom paints. When used over Z-Spar P-646 Epoxy Primer or Poxitar, it helps create a water impermeable barrier against Boat Pox. "The Protector" is easy to apply. Available in red, blue and black. "The Protector" contains the highest percentage of copper (up to 75%!!) in any Z-Spar bottom paint. B-90 is the premium quality bottom paint Northern California boaters demand.

Z*SPAK Jhe Protector” TF Hard Type Antitouling P®''’

B.90 red

ZSPAR

** *

H*W*'U*-

8 Liters

The Boat Coat People

Available at Chandleries Everywhere. For More Information, Call Western Marine Marketing (415) 459-4222.

HEY

MEXICO CRUISERS !! CUSTOM BOW ROLLERS An easier way to hoist an anchor.

CUSTOM DtNGHY DAVITS An easier way to bring the dinghy. il/larin6 m$tal worknot part of our business-^. It's our only business." • Custom Fabrication • Automated plasma • Exhaust Systems • Polishing in Stainless cutting • Metal shearing '» Electro-polishing and Aluminum • Radar Mounts • Heli-arc welding • Dock space at • Davits • Machining our doorstep « Bow Rollers • Pipe bending • We sell raw materials

SmtAETAL. HMAGIC CmIwm MwIm

• SlM»u • iJvMbiM

333 Kennedy Street Oakland, CA 94606

(415)436-5134 page 60

LETTERS

ARMCHAIR SAIIOR'S BOOK Of m MONTH

overseeing the savings & loan industry as they are checking for dinks parked overtime and harassing environmentally conscious liveaboards, this country would be hundreds of billions less in debt. And if they showed as much compassion for the perpetrators of insignificant victimless crimes as they do cold-blooded killers, they wouldn’t be the object of such widespread contempt. Incidentally, Mark, you’ve got quite a name. What is it? French, German, Serbian-Croatian — or maybe Just plain fictitious?

"Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual" . by Nigel Colder

"This book should come os sfondord equipment with every boot."

$37.95

SoilMogazine

Thousands of Titles, New S Used. Imported and Out-of-Print Books.

^ITBALBOAS on the bay — AUGUST 25 & 26 Thanks to your wonderful magazine, the Balboas On The Bay get-together is off and running. Although we have fewer than 10 entries to date, they come from Eureka, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Eairheld, Sausalito emd Vallejo. Some folks can only make one of the days, others will be here for the whole show. This very informed get-together will take place in Vallejo on the last weekend in August (25-26). We’ll sail a couple of races on easy courses around the Carquinez Streuts and party the rest of the time. Of course there will be fun, games emd prizes for edl. For further info, call me at (707) 255-8023(h), or (707) 255-7666(w). Best of all, we’ve heeurd from lots of Balboa owners from around the country, who have provided information, support emd some great stories. Ed Letterman of Yakima Bay, Oregon, for example, writes that he caught 17 cojo sedmon while sealing last year! Did you know that the Bedboa 20 is actuedly the cruising version of the Ensenada 20? It is — same hull and sail plan but with a different deck emd interior. So maybe we’ll have to change the name of our get-together — but not until we hear from some Ensenada 20 owners. I’ve also included the first issue of the Bedboa 20 newsletter — it’s full of fun and a few tips on how to get more from the Balboa 20 — all gleaned from the Bedboa correspondence. The next issue will include a full story on Bedboeis on the Bay! Paul Wagner Luna Napa

Worldwide Charts and Cruising Guides. Free Cruise-Planning Checklists. Imported Yachting Magazines. Ship Models and Half-Hull Models. Over 180 Marine Videos To Rent or Buy.

Mail 6 Phone Order Service

WE SHIP ANYWHERE!

(415) 332-7505

Caledonia bt. ■ Sausalita CA 94965 MON-SAT 9-6

SUN 12-5

Cuisinarts'

litlSUCH A SUCCESS WE DECIDED TO REPEAT IN THE FALL We’d like to themk Latitude for the comments regarding the advantages of our forming a Reifiki Association. Severed owners responded to our letter about it in the May issue. As a result, a group of Rafiki owners got together at Angel Island’s Ayala Cove one beautiful afternoon in June for a barbecue. We had a terrific time getting acquainted. Sea stories were swapped, cruising experiences and plans were sheared, ideas were exchanged, yacht tours were conducted and the cruising chefs outdid themselves with goodies galore! The Rafiki Cruise-In was such a success that we all decided to repeat it with another one this fall. Any Rafiki owners out there who missed the last bash can contact us at 865-8302 for details about the September event. Joem & Doug Rumrill Alameda

NESTED CRUISING COOKWARE Stows in one cubic foot oj space. Set includes 5 3/4quart stockpotwithsteame’r/colanderinsert and 11/2-qt, 2-qt and 3-flt saucepans/mixing bowls. Multi-size lid fits saucepans. A large 91/2-inch saute pan also serves as the stock pot lid. Two positive locking handles with quick release trigger. Heavy stainless steel with copper sand¬ wich bottom. CUISINART® ‘ List price $420 SAVE NOW — Send $329 Please include $9 shipping & handling. CRUISING EQUIPMENT CO. 6315 Seaview Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107 (206) 782-8100. WA residents add 8.1 % sales tax. Money back guarantee.

UDno way do women make out like bandits I rezdiy enjoy your magazine, but a July Loose Lips made me write this, my first letter to the editor. The 'divorce settlement' was not described in the usual Latitude style. I think there must be more td the women’s side of the story regarding the boat. The California Family Law Act provides for "no fault" divorce and an equitable division of the community property assets and debts. Statistics have shown that after a divorce the husband regains his previous solvency in an average of four years; the wife only rarely. You perpetuate the idea that women make out like bandits page 61

YACHT SALES NETWORK*

Member BUC Yacht Soles Network Tliefost,convenieittway to buy or sell your yacht.

of the mmm executfofl of 0 clossk

PETERSOM 44,1975 Center cockpit cutter. Well mointolned. perfect .bcrubing and liveoboord. Ford 80 hp diesel, radar* Complete galley* $120,000;

; mointoined. Chorter income. Offers. 90’ 44’ 42’ 38’ 38’ 34' 36’

yi,® 79.500 39.500 :S^500 29.500 27,000 57,000

HERRESHOEF, 1974 _650,000 FEraS0N,1975_120,000 {HE0YtHCUPfER,1971»_- 88,000 CATAUNA, 1983 45,000 HAN5CHRI5IIAN,1980.i_. 104,000 MORGAN, 1974_ 44,900 CATAUNA,1983__ 57,000

BAULENA ISLE MARINA

"TRemm

SELF STEERING

CATAUNA 30,1987

MURAGE 3700, 1980

ilote model, beautiful cwiditioa VHF, electronics, stereo. Equipped h)rcnjising.Ro!l«fuifeg,vang,genoo,Holonextirpi^^

30‘ 30' 30' 3(r 30' 29* ^ 29*

27* aiCS0H 1979_ 27’ HUKIH(,1980_ 26*'C0ltlMBIA,m5_. 26’ MRA6E2700,1900 26' RANGER,1903_ 25 O’DAY, 1980_ 23’ PEA8S0H1983__

BA8A,J983.„—L_ CATAUHA,1984 CORONADO, 1970 Maim)l(TMARXin',1977 f«llSOH,19«5__ (&C,19t6ERICSOK,1971_

1150 BALLENA BOULEVARD, ALAMEDA

GLOBAL SERIES NOW AVAILABLE !N_THE.U.SJL

3 models ovoibble for boots up fo 70ft. Buib entirely in marine grode 316 stainless steel comprising cost 316 and 17-4ph. components. GlOBAt 40; Weighing 42 lbs., this vane offers unbeatable weight ta strength rotios for smaller vessels without the use of plastks, aluminum or prehibncation. Suitable for boots up to 40ft. or 20,000 lbs. GlOMl 50; This vane was used with great success by Koy Cottee during her solo ciaumnovigotion. GIOBAL 60; Designed for vessels up to 70ft. Twenty yeo5 of "honds-on' e^rience designing and ocean testing self-steenna is represented in the Shboi Series. These mnes ore designed for racers and cruisers aiiiw i cony 0 2 year warranty with service ovailobie wodcfwide. 2302 Shelter Islond Drive • P.O. Box 60500-8500, Son Diego, California 92106 USA (619) 222-9124 • Toll Free: 1-800-638-7138 • Fox (619) 222-9234

Yonmor, sun log, VHF, bran, autopilot, 6 sails, beautiful ' mohogany interior. Super pocket cruiser-Must See!

•

(415) 865''8601

Your Solution Center. • Paints • Hardware • Electrical • • Experience • Knowledge • • Solutions •

Proper-Tighe Marine 2427 Clement Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501 Mon-Fri 8-5; Sat 8:30-4

(415) 523-3143 page 62

LETTERS in divorce settlements. No way. Peggy Shainberg Mariposa Peggy — With all due respect, you missed the entire point of that item — which was irony. A guy works for seven years to build a boat, but the strains caused by building the boat are so great that they result in him having to sell her as soon as she was completed. Get it? That's all there was to it. We made no comment whatsoever about the fairness of the divorce settlement because we have no idea what it was. We're so open-minded we can even entertain the possibility that the man had to sell the boat and the woman still got the short end of the settlement stick.

JiltDON'T SUBJECT YOUR YOUR RETRO TASTES

ENTIRE

Going Out of Business After 15 Years!

LARGE INVENTORY OF CRUISING GEAR!

AUDIENCE TO

Hey guys, why not leave Playboy bunnies (June '90, page 90), their body measurements ("35-24-35") and their ^ntasy dates out of what is after all a sailing magazine? The pretense of connectedness — that the Playmate would just love to seal to a remote beach house for hanky-panky — seems too thin to justify tEiking 3/4 of a page of supposed sailing lore we paid good money for. Is it your notion that your readership is exclusively male? That they’re the sort of male who will welcome your advice to "fall in love ogling all the photos"? Did you consider the 'mates' of your readers? You droolingly assure readers, "if you can’t find a copy of the magazine (implying we ought to — the publicist reeiUy got you going) take my word for it, Bonnie is in good shape (snigger)." What, did you get a year’s subscription for plugging pornography in Latitude 38? If you wish to privately use pictures of women’s bodies and even personally recommend them to your friends, fine, but don’t subject your entire reading audience to your retro tastes. It’s 1990, dudes. Try to remember that women who don’t get paid $50,000 to be sex objects generally don’t want that damaging, constricting myth perpetuated. Leslie Vestrich Los Gatos

All Items to be Sold at or BELOW Cost! Tell your friends. Anchors, Autopilots, Blocks, Cabin Heaters, Com¬ passes, Furling Systems, Hatches, Inflatables, Knotometers, Lights, Outboards, Port Lights, Paints, Rigging, Winches, VHFs, Building Materials and Much More. t

Leslie — You may think that the 'pretense of connectedness' was too thin, but as veteran editors we knew it was plenty thick. Sure, we probably offended three or four people with the item, but by not publishing it we would have offended the many thousands of our readers who actually have senses of humor. Furthermore, if you'd pour yourself a drink and reread the item in a more relaxed frame of mind, we suspect you'll realize that it was men, certainly not Bonnie or women, who were being made fun of To double-check our bearings on this matter, we asked a couple of women who sailed in the Pacific Cup if they were offended by the item. One of them rolled her eyes in disbelief, the other burst out laughing. But if you're serious about changing the image of women perpetuated in the media, we'd suggest you convince other women not to buy the highest circulation 'ladies' magazines', which last month featured such insulting and denigrating articles as: "15 Ways To Get Noticed At A Meeting", "How Sexy Are You?", "Heat Up Your Summer Romance With Steaming Sensuality", "My Husband Keeps Calling Those Sex Hotlines", "Middle Age Runaways", "Use Color To Get What You Want", "What Men Fear Most: Girl Talk", "Men Are Still Rats" (right above an article by Jacklyn Smith titled "I"m Still the Marrying Kind"), "10 Ways To Find A Man", "Lose Fat While You Shop", "Cute And Ldnely Guys (Out Looking For You)". These articles didn’t appear in the cheap supermarket mags tabloids either, but the slick paper publications purchased by the page 63

ALL SALES FINAL - Cash Only, No Credit Cards.

Voyager Marine 1296 State St. P.O. Box 246, Alviso, CA 95002-0246 (408) 263-7633 Closed Sundays and Mondays

page 64

LETTERS

Yacht Insurance most upscale, educated and sophisticated women in the country.

Iltrru. TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE I’d like to respond to the concerns Grey McGown expressed about F-27 trimeuans in the July issue of Latitude. My wife, Karen, and I own F-27 hull #97, Afterburner, so named because the boat’s acceleration reminded me of lighting the burners on the jets I used to fly for the Navy. My boys, 8 and 6, love the boat; I love the boat; but, most signiflcantly Karen loves the boat. Before we started sailing the F-27, she didn’t enjoy sealing. Now she doesn’t even care if it’s raining; she wemts to go. The reason she didn’t like sailing before weis that monohulls heeled over, which made her nervous, uncomfortable and prone to seeisickness. After we sailed the F-27 for the first time — a wet, drippy, light air January day during the '89 Moscone Boat Show — she told me it was the first time she’s ever been sorry the sail came to an end. When we demo’d the boat again that June to see how it would do in heavy edr and chop, she actually laughed edoud when the spray doused her. After that, neither the kids, who spend most of their time tackling each other in the nets, Karen, nor I were much interested in sedling anything else. With regard to stability, Rhy Wells demonstrated that when you beam reach with a spinnaker in 35 knots of wind, you can set yourself up for a capsize. Which is also what the manual says. It’s true, that zrfter sailing an F-27 in 20+ knots of wind you can begin to believe it’s invulnerable and become complacent. But allow me to put this in perspective. There ate times when you just don’t need to carry spinnakers on the F-27. A number of times, for exeimple, we’ve had sustained speeds of 24 knots under jib and reefed main. On Opening Day, for exEimple, when the airport was reporting 45 knot gusts, we were sedling off Oyster Point with full szdl. Despite the flying spray and ski-boat wake, the F-27 remained stable and controllable — even Keuren drove some of the time. Nonetheless, we reefed prior to coming about for the beat back to South Beach Marina. It we»s fun for £ill of us, including the kids, who were agmn jumping around in the nets. Something else: After Wells flipped his F-27, we heard from a great many people who seemed to be glad they could finally find something concrete to criticize about the boat. However when the Express 27 Whirlwind broached eind sank — it might have even been the same day — nobody seemed to notice. When the 31-foot monohull Great Expectations went down off Australia with the loss of six lives, it wzis tragic but not particularly noteworthy. But when a multihull tips over and her crew stands around on her waiting to be towed ashore, the boats are labeled inherently 'unsafe'. Well’s boat Wingit was sailing around the Bay a few weeks after he tried to turn it into an aquarium. All right, so we’ve proven that Ian Feurrier knew what he was talking about when he wrote the F-27 manual. If you get nervous or your mood becomes mellow, you can always 'wimp out' and back off to 15 knots or so. I’ve even done it myself. life could be worse. I hope that this 2mswers any doubts Grey McGown or anybody else might have. If any doubters are passing the South Beach YC during the weekend, ask how you can get in touch with me; I’ll be glad to take you sailing. James Hayman San Francisco

UIITHE ONE BRIGHT SPOT I don’t know if you got our letter about the unfortunate collision that occurred when a Navy boat came alongside for a Coast Guard inspection off the coast of^exico. [Editor’s note: That letter appeared on page 55 of the June issue.] In any event, it’s been a terrible bummer trying to get the three page 65

Sail & Power Boats 26-ft and Up ★ Private Pleasure Yachts ★ ★ Skippered Charters ★ ★High Value Yacht Specialists ★ ★World Wide Coverages ★ ★ Direct with Lloyds ★ ★ Ocean Crossings ★ ★ Mexican Yacht Insurance ★ Agent for the CLASSIC YACHT ASSOCIATION and for the MASTER MARINERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

Capital Workshop INSURANCE AGENCY ^

PEGGIE FOSTER GRACE LOONAM 456 Montgomery Street Suite #1000 San F]^ncisco, CA 94104

(415) 981-8200

TIBURON LAND COMPANY PROUDLY PRESENTS WATERFRONT COMPOUND - SAN RAFAEL

Enter through the automatic security gates to a lovely San Rafael waterfront compound and discover a . stunning contemporary home with formal living room, dining room, video (media) room and a dreamy â&#x20AC;˘ professional chefs kitchen with breakfast room. Upstairs in the main house is a large master suite ; boasting spacious his and hers walk-in closets, marble bath, fireplace and private deck. A separate guest suite occupies the other side of the upper floor, along with 2 more bedrooms and 1 bath. Set above the separate 3 car garage that also houses the climate controlled wine cellar is a large 1 bedroom, 1 bath guest house with living room. Currently used,as an office, the guest house is a legal rental unit, if desired, and the lot is zoned R-2. In addition, there are 4 deep-water yacht slips with access to San Francisco Bay, the Delta and the Pacific Ocean. The professionally'landscaped grounds are lush with greenery. The compound has lovely views of Mt. Tamalpais and several yacht clubs. There is a large swimming pool, surrounded by brick and decking, ' which looks out over the active waterway. Ideal for year-round entertaining. This exclusive waterfront listing is being offered for the first time ever. $1,350,000.

TIBURON LAND COMPANY David C. Gilbert Attorney/Broker Office (415)43S-3752 FAX (415)435-5183

LETTERS estimates that the government forms require. Things like that just aren’t easy in Mexico. The one bright spot has been our insurance guy, Jim McGinnis in Sausalito. When we were just about at the end of our tethers, we called him and away he went. He called the Coetst Gueird in Alameda; no satisfaction; he called the Navy in Aletmeda; no satisfaction. So he got a number in Washington, D.C. to help cut through the red tape. Lo and behold, am emswer! Give credit where credit is due. 1 don’t know anyone who likes to pay insurance premiums, but McGinnis gave us a good rates, and his service has been nothing short of above and beyond. Thanks, Jim. 1 realize this must sound corny, but every single word is true. Gordon & Nancy Henderson Hurulu ni La Paz, B.C.S.

12 VDC watermaker for workboats, powerboats and cruising yachts

IIUHE GOT THE WRONG IMPRESSION Gordon and Nancy Henderson got a little bit of a wrong impression about the help I received horn the Coast Guard and Navy regarding the collision with his boat. A Lt. Allen at Coast Guard Alameda was very helpful and called me back within 10 minutes to give me the appropriate number to call at the Navy Department in Washington and the name of a woman he had alerted to expect my call. I called the number in Washington and was put through to a Lt. Commander Walli, who was most helpful regeu'ding cutting the red tape. She agreed that the requirement of three estimates for repairs was not practicd in Mexico emd said that lots of photos would suffice. She started an investigation firom her end. After several cedis and many faxes, the Hendersons have decided to continue their trip into the Sea of Cortez. When they return to the States they will repair the boat and process the cledm here. If anyone has any questions or wants more information regarding trying to settle claims in Mexico, I’d be happy to help them as much as 1 can. Jim McGinnis McGinnis Insuremce Services Sauscdito Readers — To refresh memories, the Henderson’s Islander 36 was smashed by a steel Navy launch at 0700 on April 9 while retrieving a Coast Guard 'inspection' team. They were 400 miles south of the U.S. border at the time, the wind was blowing 15 to 18 knots and the seas were confused. The concerned skipper of LST 1191 suggested they return to San Diego for an inspection and repairs. The Hendersons decided to continue downwind to Cabo San Lucas, not wanting to risk 400 potentially hard miles to weather with a boat suffering from undetermined damage. After a month of frustrating attempts to get damage and repair estimates in La Paz, the Hendersons flew a local marine surveyor down to do the work. The surveyor told Latitude that several bulkheads and the inner liner had broken away, and that it was impossible to assess the total damage until the boat had been dug into a little. He did say, however, that the damage may come close to or exceed the value of the boat. In other words, the Navy might have totalled Hurulu III. We’ll try to keep you informed,on how situation is resolved.

IHTANYBODY seen 'MISTRAL ROB’? My friend Deb Batson of Australia, whom I met two years ago while sailing across the Teisman Sea, has eisked me to help her locate a yachtie she met receptly. His name is Rob. Originally from South Carolina, he’s been living in San Francisco. He was recently part of the delivery crew of page 67

NAU»T«KOL Marine is Proud to Announce the Arrival of the PowerSurvivor-80 by Recovery En¬ gineering. These Watermakers are for Immediate Delivery to Enhance the 1990 Cruising Season. Northern California Sailors Can Now Provide Their Crew With Pure, Virus-Free Water From Our Trouble-Free Watermakers.

>45 >1 Special Introduction to OurNewModel,

We Will Supply You With an Extended Cruising Kds EREE With the Purchase of a PowerSurvlvor-80. A $150,00 Value Good The Month of August 1990 Only. Contact NAU*T^KOL Marine for Complete Details.

NAU*T*KOL (415)235-4411 320 A West Cutting Blvd., Richmond, CA • Marine Watermakers • Marine Refrigeration • Marine Air Conditioning

SALES • SERVICE • INSTALLATION 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE

I K D DC* *

>i<i i:: • ^ c

Now In Stock

BERTH YOUR BOAT IN

"Classic Sailing Ships"

SAUSALIXg MODERN FACILITIES IN A WELL PROTECTED HARBOR

Concrete Dock System Well Maintained Facilities

• DEEP WATER BERTHS: BASIN AND CHANNEL DREDGED TO -9.5 MLLW • CARD KEY SECURITY SYSTEM • DOCK CARTS • PUMP OUT STATION • AMPLE PARKING • CLEAN SHOWER AND

] THE

MARITIME STORE

TOILET FACmnES

Beautiful Surroundings

• WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE: MARKET/DELI LAUNDROMAT • RESTAURANT • AT EACH BERTH: LARGE STORAGE BOX METERED ELECTRICITY PHONE HOOK-UPS • WATER

Kappas Marina 100 Gate Six Road Sausalito, CA 94965 (415) 332-5510

by Kenneth Giggal with paintings by Cornells de Vries

;i ]

^ The most comprehensive selection of malritime books and gifts in San Francisco. Located with the Collection of Historic Ships at Hyde Street Pier Across from the Cannery

(415) 775-BOOK

10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. daily

COLD stop lugging ice down the dock and give Scan Marine a call. We have the refrigeration system to fit your boat. Check out these advantages: Unique holding plates for maximum efficiency, low battery drain design, easy instal¬ lation kits, and low prices. So let Scan Marine help keep

Leading edge /ail/ FINEST IN CUSTOM RACING AND CRUISING SAILS 1125 north amphlett san mateo ca 94401 (Across

you COOL! • Watercooled • Danfoss Compressor • Stainless Steel Holding Plates • Pre-Filled with Freon • Quick Couplings • Noiseless Waterpump & Compressor

12V air-cooled or engine-driven systems aiso available.

101 from Coyote Point)

(206)285-3675

^15 347 0795

j/olhCflll 5000

FAX: (206) 285-9532

SCAN MARINE FDI IIP^/IFMT

2144 WESTLAKE AVE. N., SUITE D Seattle, wa sam

page 68

LETTERS Mistral, a Beneteau, to Australia. Deb and Rob met July 4 on Hamilton Island, Queensland and had planned to meet again the next day. Unfortunately, the weather changed for the better and Mistral had to leave before the two could exchange last names or phone numbers. Deb did remember that Rob was planning on sealing in a yacht race off Honolulu at the end of July. I’m hoping you’ll publish this in the event that Rob or one of his friends might read it. If anyone knows Rob, please have him call me at (415) 563-3036 so I can give him Deb’s address and phone number in Brisbane. Alexemdra Dbcon San Fremcisco Alexandra — Willing to do just about anything toward the furthering of unusual relationships, we’re happy to comply with your request. If Rob was to be racing in Hawaii in late July, he was no doubt going to compete in the Kenwood Cup, which runs from August 3-16. We’ll have plenty of Latitudes there by then.

(IDWE’RE PRETTY JAZZED WINTER IN MEXICO

ABOUT

SPENDING

Could you or any of yoiir readers help us with a decision we need to make within the next few months regarding insurance for our boat while cruising in Mexico? 1. Is American insuremce — assuming you obtain a rider with a company that includes Mexican waters — recognized by the Mexiccin government in the event there is some problem? 2. Do you have any experience with the reliability of Mexican insurance companies paying off claims by American cruising boats? We’re pretty jazzed about our plans to spend six months in the Sea of Cortez this winter. Our boat, a Tartan 37 originally from San Francisco, is sound. We’ll have good crew, which will include sailing friends from Northern California during different legs of the trip. And, we want to be as prepared ?is possible for the trip; insurance is an important part of that. We hope to see some of you folks from Latitude down here so we cem tell you in person how much we in San Diego enjoy the magazine. Karen & Jeff Brown San Diego Karen & Jeff — Boat insurance for Mexico is a little complicated. Even though your American insurance company might ultimately pay off a liability claim against you, you’ll be in the slammer until they do. The Mexican government requires immediate proof of liability insurance, but they only recognize that of Mexican companies. As such, you could be in deep poop if you don’t carry Mexican liability insurance but decide to ram and sink a Mexican shrimper. In actual fact, most cruisers do not carry Mexican liability insurance because they feel it’s unlikely their boat will be doing damage to anyone or anything. It is, however, conceivable that some such thing might happen. Thus if you want to be completely covered, you need Mexican liability insurance as well as hull insurance. Mexican liability insurance is sold on a day by day basis and is available through most agents that sell hull insurance for Mexican waters. The only big claim we know that’s been made against a Mexican company for hull damage was wfien the Pearson ketch Perkee Two caught fire and sank off La Paz. Don Perkins and his wife had to do quite a bit of waiting and harassing before their claim was paid, but it was paid in total within about six months. If anyone else has had e^erience with Mexican or American insurance claims in Mexican waters, we — as well as the Browns and the rest of our readers — would love to hear about it. page 69

EDgewater 2-2509 300 INDUSTRIAL CENTER BLDG., HARBOR DR., SAUSALITO, CA 94965 OUR WORKDAYS BEGIN AT 7 A.M. • OPEN SAT. 9 A.M. TO 12 P.M.

H E W E T T

USCG APPROVED TESTING FACILITY

SALES • SERVICE REPAIRS • RENTAL • REPACKING OF USCG, SOLAS, COMMERCIAL, YACHT AND FISHERMAN

INFLATABLE LIFERAFTS INFLATABLE BOATS

MARINE COMPANY

555 SELBY STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94124 (415)826-4433 TELEX I.T.T. 4971778 FAX 415-826-1122

S4.00 Per Linear Foot Slip Rental Rate... Lowest Rate in Marin and Sonoma Counties! \

\ Dry Boat Storage Rental Rates

Slip Rental Rates Security Deposit

Length

Monthly Rental

Security Deposit

O'to 19'

$ 35.00

$ 55.00

$100.00

$120.00

Over 19'

$ 45.00

$ 65.00

30'

$120.00

$140.00

Empty Trailer

$ 35.00

$ 55.00

35'

$140.00

$160.00

40'

$160.00

50'

$200.00

$180.00 $220.00

Length

Monthly Rental

25'

($4.00 per lin. ft.)

February 1, 1990

^ FebruarV 1, 1990

c Port Sonoma ^ ]y[ann Bayfront Yacht Harbor Marina Berths ChandleiAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boat Storage Yard Yacht Sales Guest Dock Yacht Brokerage tuel Dock Bait Shop Marine Repair Fast of Novato on Highwav 37 (415) 892-0923 or (707) 778-8055 Mail: HO. Box 686 Novato, CA 94948

65 On display

CRUISING CONFIGURATION 5769.000 FOB FACTORY Quality built to exceed both

M-65

Tape Available

the American Bureau of Shipping and Lloyds

ORDERS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE ALL-NEW

1990 M-65-SC

fiberglass construction requirements.

SUPER CRUISER Still the Fastest... Easier to Sail... Improved Versatility ... Added Cruising Equipment... New Interior... Elegant Styling ... Comfort Galore ...

NEW 1990 MODEL U.S. #1 Trailerable Sailboat $10,990 Complete With Trailer • • • • • • •

call Tor inTormaiion on our Free Video and Sailing Programs

• • •

Lowest trailering weight 2200 lbs, including trailer Water ballast system Lowest cost Easiest to sail No need for expensive moorings Can be launched and rigged in less than 15 minutes Outstanding performance under power or sail Sleeps 6 6'2" headroom 6'x7' queen sized berth»

Enclosed head Complete galley Abundant storage space Positive foam flotation, unsinkable Self righting and stable Sails in 15” of water Kickup rudder Hand laid fiberglass construction System for effortless mast raising Self-bailing cockpit Built-in outboard motor well Lowest maintenance Highest quality construction Two-year warranty

"Number 1" MacGregor Dealer, Worldwide

ARENA YACHT SALES MARINA VILLAGE HARBOR* * 1070 MARINA VILLAGE PKWY, #103 • ALAMEDA, CA 94501

(415)523-9292 page??

Dealers In Your Area:

PENETRATING LIGHT POWER and a Compass as steady as a Rock Identifying rocks in low light or pointing out an exciting object often needs the brightest optics and the steadiest compass. There is no other binocular with this perfect combination of penetrating lightpower, waterproof ruggedness, long-lasting precision and the steadiest, most well illuminated compass: Steiner-Germany. World’s No. 1 Military-Marine Binocu¬ lar. Send $1.00 for our new Marine binocular catalog and buying guide.

Steiner, The right gear for the right man.

STEINER

t.[ K^^A^Y k_L

Pioneer Marketing & Research U.S. Marketing Office for Steiner, W. Germany, 216 Haddon Ave., Westmont, NJ 08108, (609) 854-2424 • (800) 257-7742

in Canada: Steiner Optik Canada, inc. 500 Ouellette Ave., Windsor, Ont., N9A 1B3, (519) 258-7263

ooonnr.

The new Commander RS2000.

Reach for SSR...

LQNGBEACUl

ALAMEDA: Johnson-Hicks Svendsen's AftTESIA: Cerritos Armoury BERKELEY: Whole Earth Access Recreational Equipment CARSON: South Bay Armoury Recreational Equipment CLAREMONT: Claremont Camera CONCORD: Whole Earth Access COSTA MESA: North American Specialties DANA POINT: Kettenburg Marine West Marine Products FAIRFIELD: Marin Outdoors FREMONT: Tri-City Sporting Goods Fremont Discount Guns FRESNO: Boot's Camera & Video Herb Bauer's Sporting Goods HERMOSA BEACH: 'Geach Cities Armoury HUNTINGTON BEACH: Ajax Marine Sport Chalet LA CANADA: Sport Chalet

Shoreline Marine Chandlery West Marine Products

MARINA DEL REIL Ships Store, Inc. West Marine Products

NEWPQRTBEASOi Kettenburg Marine Oceanview Instruments West Marine Products NORTHRIDGE: Sherwood International OAKLAND: West Marine Products ORANGE: Adray's Reaeational Equipment

smm^ Reaeational Equipment SANFRANaSCOi Camera World West Marine Products Whole Earth Access

SANJQSEi Big Horn Gun Shop tWhole Earth Access

SANMARGi^ Duncan's Gun Works SANMATEO: Whole Earth Access SANPEDRO: Mike’s Marine Port Marine West Marine Products

SANRAFAEL

Marin Outdoors Whole Earth Access Coast Chandlery PALOALTO: SANTA BARBARA; California Mountain Co. West Marine Products Coast Chandlery PASADEHA; Douglas Telescopies Ford Enterprises SANTA CRUZ: Sports Optics Johnson-Hicks EELAUmi West Marine Products Marin Outdoors SANTA ROSA: SACRAMENTO: Big R Country West Sports Beeman Precision Arms Marin Outdoors SANCLEMENTE: SAUSAUTO: Phantom Marine BC Navigation SANDIEGO: West Marine Products Cousins Warehouse Kettenberg Marine SIMI VALLEY Scope City Pacific Marine Supply C Crest Arms San Diego Marine STOCKTON: Exchange West Marine Products Southern California Gun VENTURA: West Marine Products Coast Chandlery

OmBBl

LAMMl Bob Davis Camera Shop

CAPITOLA BAY MARINA

to Solve the Tough Ciean-up Problems

MOORINGS AVAILABLE ... for an afternoon ($5), overnight ($10), a week ($50), a month ($175) or all season ($800).

SIka’s NEW SSR, the ONLY biodegradable, allnatural, nonabrasive cleaner... safely and easily removes semi-cured SEALANTS, RESINS, EPOXIES, PAINTS, etc. from skin and all other surfaces.

Dealers

See Your Local Marine Dealer or Call Your Local Representative

Nestled in the heart of Monterey Boy, Capitola Boy Marina sits adjacent to the Capitola Wharf. A favorite spot of cruisers and local boaters alike, Capitola offers a variety of shops and restaurants, beaches and an annual Begonia Festival and Art & Wine Festival. On the wharf, Capitola Boat & Bait offers beer and wine, soft drinks, ke, gifts, bMch sundries, food, bait, tackle and fishing boat rentals. /

FLOATING DOCK DAILY SHORMBOAT SfRVICI

James Boyd Co.

(MAY 1-SEPT. 30)

at (415) 671-9356

FOR RESERVATIONS/INFORMATION

For more information, or the name of the closest dealer, call Sika Corp. at 1-800-323-5926.

(408) 462-2208 CapHolo-by-the-Sea — your new sailing destination!

page 72

LETTERS

Does Your Boat Cost Money, or Make Money?

P.S. If we may be so bold, we’d like to suggest that you reconsider spending 'six winter months in the Sea of Cortez'. That region is cold — often very cold — between mid-November and late March. If swimming and warm weather sailing are two of the things you’re looking forward to, consider Joining the seasonal exodus from the Sea of Cortez to mainland M^co. UtTGIVE US A BREAK! We couldn’t believe it! My lady and I were anchored comfortably in Treasure Island Cove on July 3 when to our surprise and dismay, we noticed this asshole pissing off the stem of his 25foot boat. YukI This kind of crude and Inconsiderate behavior has no place in crowded anchorages. There were 30 to 40 other boats in the cove at the time. Perhaps some legal action against such jerks might discourage them. In the meantime you guys, give us a break. If you have to take a leak, go below like decent people do — and use the holding tank. A Typically Decent Senior Sacramento A.T.D.S. — We agree with you, anchorages can be very public places and sailors should behave accordingly. UHWE HOPE SOMEONE ELSE WILL FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT HER THAT WE DO It’s tough to do, but as the enclosed Classy Classified indicates, we have decided to sell our beautiful 41-foot Wayland-designed Typhoon. She’s taken us many miles and we’ve enjoyed every minute of owning her — well, let’s be honest and say almost every minute. We’ve cruised the 1938 classic for nearly half of the eight years we’ve owned her. When we left San Francisco, we were both 28years old. Now we’re nearly 33 and have a two-year old child. If anyone had predicted all we’ve experienced — including the addition of our son — when we sailed out the Gate in '86, we would have laughed in disbelief. What memories! Well, I’d better stop daydreaming or I’ll never get the ad in. I rather hate doing it, but I truly hope that someone else wiU buy Typhoon and feel the same way about her that we did. Karen & Paul Prioleau Southern California JlftlN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, THE ULTIMATE 30S WILL GO AWAY The hype and 'PR.' surrounding June’s Ultimate 30 Reptta would lead one to believe that these boats and their professional crews are the answer to all that currently ails the sport of yacht racing. "Come down and see the 30s race and see the future", they said. If that’s the future, we’re really in a lot of trouble. The Ultimate 30 boats are just plain no good. We have been conditioned to think that they are technological miracles or break¬ throughs. They are not. They do one and only one thing weU; reach with a 1920-style ballooner flying from the bowsprit. They do not sail downwind at all, and they go upwind about as weU as a 50foot centerboard gaff-rigged schooner. Whether they come out of a jibe right side up is anybody’s guess. Other than that, they are fine

This boat is paying its way. Does yours? How would you like to own a new boat and have it help pay for itself with charters to qualified skippers when you’re not aboard? Sound interesting? Here are just a few of the benefits of owning a Club Nautique charter boat: - Income from charters - Tax savings - Professional management - Preventative maintenance program - FREE training - FREE membership Pay your boat off in three years! That's right. By char¬ tering your boat with Club Nautique, you can pay for it in as little as 3 years versus the normal 15 years. Wouldn't you like to go cruising with no payments? Positive cash flow! A properly selected and equipped Club Nautique yacht can generate positive cash flow. Instead of paying out hvmdreds or thousands of dol¬ lars each month, you'll be pocketing money. We have openings in our fleet NOW for selected boats. For more information call us today at

1 (800) 343-SAIL

Of course, they need eight or nine people to act as human ballast — certainly not to sail the boat. The only re^on one can imagine eight or nine belonging on a 30-foot boat is after a Titanictype accident. . ^ . There was much made about the importance of the tactician on the Ultimate 30s. The only necessary tactical decisions are how to keep the boats from flipping over so they can complete the race. page 73

Nautique Alameda

Fiji

Sausalito

LATITUDE

372

Emery Cove Iffarina The Perfect Location!

50' 20'N

LONGITUDE 122® 18' 30' W

• Convenient to San Francisco and the East Bay. • 30 to 60' double¬ fingered berths. • On-site security and card key system. • Showers, toilets, washer and dryers. • Water, telephone and 30 or 50 amp electricity each berth. • Dock boxes. • Pump-out stations. • Rate: $4.50/ft downwind, $5.00 upwind

For more information on the Bay's finest Marina, call (415) 428-0505. Or, write for more information: 3300 Powell St., Emeryville, CA. 94608.

How made me hate my phone* All I did was list my 27-ft boat for sale in their 'Classy Classifieds'. Little did I expect 50 phone calls! They came from everywhere - Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, Hawaii, plus dozens of calls from all over the Bay Area. Of course, I sold the boat. So if you're ready for action, check out the 'Classy Classifieds' at the back of the magazine. But take my advice, hiro a secretary.

page 74

LETTERS

Q V^URUNO is

The races themselves were very short, about 25 minutes, zmd there was only one a day. That’s all the boats cem stand. In not one of the five races were all the boats able to finish. The advertising on the boats is the heart of the matter. Commercial sponsors that have some product or service to offer advertise on the 30s and consequently hope to sell more of their service or product. The regatta sponsor, Ziploc, is going to sell more of their product. They make a good cigarette lighter and have for years. The flame isn’t supposed to blow out in the wind, but who would have time to smoke on an Ultimate 30 anyway? The advertising on the boats is supposed to show well, but it doesn’t. It’s hard to read the names on the sails and you can’t read the names on the hulls. Of course, they really stand out well on a television screen — if anybody would want to watch such an act on television. Rest assured that in each sponsoring corporation there is a watchdog that is looking out for Ae stockholders. He wants to know if spending money to sponsor a yacht race is selling any more of the company’s product. When he turns in his report you can rest assured fiiat the corporation is going to be out of the yacht racing business. The only exciting part of any of the Ultimate 30 races was when one of the boats turned over. Usually there was a yell of crowd reaction and the focus of the audience left the active racers and focused on the upside down boat until it was righted. Most hoped the turtled boat would sink. Hopefully, the crew would be saved. How many people watch, automobile racing for the same reason and effect? If I were an advertising type, I might inquire how much it would cost to put the name of my client on the bottom of an Ultimate 30. Fortunately, I didn’t stay for the Ultimate 30 prize-giving. I did, however, see pictures of the winners receiving their checks. It was a real riqgg act all by itself. I always like to see a recipient with a cardboard check about four feet long being held by the smiling crew. They all must get some share of the money, but if I were one of them I would be thinking about a new line of endeavor as Ae Ultimate 30 circuit has all the appearances of joining the roller The money question is itself interesting. To my way of thinking, every saUor onboard those boats that got paid is a professional. No longer an amateur, he is consequently not eligible to sail in regular yacht club sponsored events. I’m not even sure they are eligible for membership or continued membership in a yacht dub. It would seem to be a black and white case, but no, the United States Yacht Racing Union, our sports highest governing body, would not face the issue squarely and hcis come down with a ruling that is all things for all men. According to the USYRU, professionals are amateurs or can be under certain conditions. This was the most important question that the USYRU has had to come to grips with in its long history, and they failed. , , . i All is not lost, though, as the problem of professional yacht racing is going away all by itself. The fact of the matter is that yacht racing is not appreciated by the general television audience, which is not going to watch yacht racing on a consistent basis If they don’t watch, they won’t respond to the advertising, and the sponsorship will dry up. Then the Ultimate 30s will go away. Their departure wUl be a great loss to the sport, but on the other hand their many true fans wiU be able to pick one up at a greatly reduced R.C. Keefe Staff Commodore, St. Francis YC, 1975 f? C - Sponsorship after your letter is really going to be tough o come by; it’s Zippo, not Ziploc. that makes cigarette lighters. Ziploc makes resealable plastfc bags. You make some good points about the nature of t Je U/timate 30 ■aces. They are very short (ideal for television), are MTV-style fastpage 75

HOT!

Dont be out iri the cold when choosing a new LORAN SOUNDER RADAR WX FAX or other electronics. We will help. We will put together a sizzling price on the sensa¬ tional new FURUNO equip¬ ment. And of course, we're there to back it up — like we have been since 1952. WE PLEDGE TO BACK EVERY PRODUCT WE SELL WITH PERSONAL. INHOUSE TECHNICAL SERVICE. RICH WILDE'S

CAL-MARINE

SALES’ SERVICE* INSTALLATION*

ELECTRONICS CORPORATION PIER 19, THE EMBARCADERO SAN FRANCISCO. CA 94111

1415) 391-7550

YACHT INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS

CUSTOM DESIGNS by SHELLEY S. SHOEMAKER

432 North Canal Suite 20 So. San Franctscoj

415/ 952-4722 Free Written 90-day Quotations

COCKPIT CUSHIONS, SAILCOVERS/BAGS SAIL REPAIR

ENCLOSURES BIMINIS DODGERS

FRAMES AND HARDWARE INTERIOR CUSHIONS AND CURTAINS

COMPETITIVE PRICES

Quality is my best advertisement TUES-SAT 0:30 - 5:00

Why Pay More??

Check Our Rates!

^___

I BRITISH \

Haul Spray Wash Bottom Prep

/mARII^

Paint (your paint or ours) Launch Call for Firm Quote

The Bottom Line is ... • Our Service isAl • Our Quality is Unmatched • Our Rates Are The Best

Perkins

BEST DEAL! New & Rebuilt Perkins

Authorized Dealer • Sales & Service

Engine Exchange Program

Dockside Service for Entire Bay & Delta

4-107, 4-108 - Guaranteed

^-BRITISH riMABINE A Full Service Uoatyard

#9 Embarcadero Cove Oakland, CA 94606

(415) 534-2757 2 blocks from West Marine - Stop by!

HAVE YOU SEEN THE CURRENT LIGHTWEIGHT ENGINES FROM Perkins These m just a few: ^

M20 - 18 HP, 244 lbs. 25.5" Long, 19.8’ high,

55A alternator. M30 - 29 HP, 293 lbs., 26.4" long, 21.5" high, • 55A aiternitor M6a- 59 HP, 501 lbs., 34.6" long, 26.4" high, | _70A olterndtor_ Perkins Engines Have Long Been Recognized Worldwide For Their Reliability, Ease Of Service and Parts Availability. Stop^ one of the Boy Areo Authorixed ggPerkins Morine Dealers US FOR AN ESTIMATE OR A BROCHURE.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A222Vt Glencoe. Marina del Rey CA 90292 (213)306-3155 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 647 Pacific Avenue, Alameda CA 94501 (415)523-9011

Sierra Detroit Diesel Allison

British Marine

List Morine

Berkeley

Oakland

Sausalito

(415) 526D521

(415) 534-2757

(415) 332-5478

Richmond Boat Works

. Shoreline Diesel

Richmond

So. San Froncisco

(415) 232-5800

(415) 588-5642 page 76

LETTERS paced (ideal for television) and feature lots of breakdowns (ideal for television). It would be hand to dispute the contention that Ultimate 30 racing is another made-for-television sport. Whether that’s good or bad — and whether there is the interest to sustain it — are entirely different questions. We do think you’re right on, however, with the observation that the audience has a greater interest in spectacular capsizes than who wins or loses. As for professional racing, it seems to us ft’s been around for years in the form of paid skippers and crew — and isn’t about to go away. We can live with it.

iltriF I DIDN’T SUBSCRIBE TO LATITUDE, BEAUTY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SLIPPED BY

THIS

Thanks for running the article on Yankee 30s a while back. I’d never heard of them before, but after reading your article I decided to see if there were any to check out in Puget Sound. It turned out that four were on the market. I can’t figure out why I hadn’t looked at them before. I fell in love with the very first Yankee 30 I looked at. She had sexy lines, an Awlgrip paint job and teak decks — wow! She was smaller than I wcis used to, but what the hell. I’m divorced now and don’t need so much room. Anyway, a month later I bought her. I’ve been having a grand time sailing her around the Sound ever since. I’ve been very happy with Manana; if I didn’t get Latitude the beauty probably would have slipped by. Jim Knapp Seattle

Place your 28'-60' sail or power boat with an active charter membership club in Alameda's beautiful Marina Village Harbor. Under Club Sail's expert management, you enjoy priority use, while your boat earns you money and provides significant tax advantages.

Call today for information.

Ctu6 SciiC (415) 522-7423 Limited Offer

Signing Bonus

1.5 times regular <ommissions for first two months when you enroll by October 1,1990.

JilTSAME RIG, DIFFERENT RING Your July cover photo, titled 'the ultimate 30', is half right. The photo was actually of a reefed down Nonsuch 26 rather than a Nonsuch 30. Nonsuch makes 26, 30, 33 and 36-foot models. All are identical in design and rig; the difference is the layout below. In any event, I will have to concede that the photographer was snapping a photo of the ultimate in comfortable, safe, very fast cruising cat rigs, one you don’t have to be ashamed to take anywhere. Your articles on California coastal cruising are very much appreciated by this reader. As such, I thought you might be interested in the accompanying photograph that was taken of Ring

Temporary

PRICE REDUCTIONS SPD4FL Length -10'2'’ Capacity-1012 ibs. Max. HP - 8 hp Tatal weight - 85 Ibs

LS-4

$999

PRICE INCLUDES IWO SEATS AND BOW DODGER

Length - 8'6" Capacity - 860 Ibs Max HP-6hp Total weight - 67 ibs

$899

$1089 $2088

$849 $ 1748

ADD A NISSAN 8 -

ADD A NISSAN 5 >

Package Price -

5 YEAR WARRANTY ON MATERIAL AND SEAM STRUCTURE Before Paradise; Ring Point in the late '30s.

IdCST COAST Point in the late '30s. Ring Point is now the Paradise Cay yacht harbor and home to the Tiburon YC. Those damn bulldozers can get pretty mean. ^ Graham Gettemy Corte Madera page 77

Znliotabies

(707) 429-3995 4227 B Lozano Lane Suisun, CA 94585

(408) 436-0318 1780 H Old Bayshore Hwy. San Jose, CA 95112

TRADITIONAL SMALL BOATS

CRUISERS!! Over 5500 items in stock Spares • Used Gear New Gear The equipment you need!

rpTyrTi

A mtL/

BOATERS

FRIEND/^

In stock and looking greatl 10' Traditional lapstrake - Cedar on oak copper riveted rowing dinghy

. $1,500

12' Pelican; Biggest 12' boot you'll ever see - Cheap! $1,450 15'Sailing Shorpie

$2,900

12'Rowing Shell

$ 895

805 UhiTersity Aye. , ^ (Next to Spenger's In Berkeley)

(415) 848-4024 Mon.-Sal. 9-5

High quality Tight knit wool sweaters made in Canada.

Frl. U1 6

Shell jackets • Foulies • Life Vests • Shoes & More

RUBY for Charter

Parties, L(jnch Call 861-2165

| 1 ^

At China Basin USCG Certified for 30 Persons

2603 UNION ST. OAKLAND, CA 94607 (415) 893-WIRE Mon-Fri 8-5 Sat 9-1 pm (Except holiday weekdays) (9473) GOODS AND SERVICES □ANCHORS □CHAIN □CUSTOMFABRICATION □HYDRAULIC PRESSING □NICROPRESS □RUNNING RIGGING □TURNBUCKLES

□ BLOCKS □CHAIN & CABLE CUTTERS QHANDSPLICING QINSULATORS □PUSH-PULL CONTROL □ SHACKLES qWINCHES (HAND & 12V)

DCABLE □CORDAGE (ROPE) □HARDWARESFITTINGS □ LIFELINE ASSEMBLIES □ROTARY SWAGING □ STANDING RIGGING qWIRE TO ROPE SPLICING

R E P A I

R S

REPAIRS REPAIRS

HAYNES SAILS *

A full service sail loft 70-U Woodland Avenue San Rafael CA 94901 (415)459-2666 page 78

LOOSE LIPS TransPac trivia. What boat holds the record for completing the most TransPacs? Sorry, but if you said Montgomery Street (Jim Denning’s Cal 40, which has 10 to her credit), you’re wrong. The correct answer is Mauna Kai, a 20-year-old Oakland-based Matson conteiiner ship. In June, according to third engineer "Jimbo" Dukat (John’s brother), the Mauna Kai completed her 500th Transpac crossing. Okay, it was a trick question. But seriously, can anyone top Mauna Kai’s record?

For Canvas With Imagination Any Combination:

Dodger Bimini Enclosure

Attention, Eirmchedr sciilors. Got a little time on your hands? Looking for a quick stroll down memory lane? If so, why not volunteer to help out the YRA office sort out its old records. "We just shipped 55 boxes of old race results zind other information dating back to 1950 up to the J. Porter Shaw Library (also in Building E at Fort Mason Center)," says Lauren Carlisle. "We’re looking for a few people to help us make sense of it all." If you can help out, call Lauren at 771-9500. A lot of Hart. We’re sorry to report that we never had the pleasure of meeting Marion Rice Hart; doubly so since she passed away just last month. From a chance reading of her obituary, she sounds like quite a woman. Among the many accomplishments in her 98 yeeirs were: first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from MIT; learning to fly at age 54 and making six solo flights across the Atlantic before hanging up her wings at age 87; and most intriguing to us — in the mid 30s, she skippered a 72-ft ketch on a three year circumnavigation. Anyone out there know anything more about that boat or trip? That’s a bit before our time. Ask Ma. Pacific Bell has gotten into the weather business. Among 900 information numbers you cun call to get everything from Golf, Fishing, Diving and Surf forecasts for Northern California, is (408) 976-GALE (4253), the "SailingAVindsurfing Line." It ain’t exactly the National Weather Service, but "Gail" (har har har) will give you wind direction and strength, temperature and barometric pressure for three or four Northern California areas, including the Delta. Each call is 95

Custom Designs For Your Needs

(415) 233-7683 California Custom Canvas 1228 Brickyard Cove Road Point Richmond, CA 94801 At Brickyard Cove Marina -u

ULTIMATE RIG CONTROL

cents. Don’t mess with Tiny. The fall from power of Australian millionaire Alan Bond, whose bold winged-keel 12-Meter broke the 132-year American stranglehold on the America’s Cup in 1983, has been documented in a new biography czilled, appropriately. The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond. According to author Paul Barry, the straw that broke Bond’s financial back may have come from a deal-gone-sour with London financier R.W. 'Tiny' Rowland. And the reason? Rowland is quoted in the book as saying he decided to destroy Bond after Bond tried to take his yacht’s parking place on the French Riviera. And speaking of former millionaires... Well it may be a bit premature to label Donald Trump as a 'former'’millionaire, but just to add fuel to the reports of his other financial woes, he recently told his Dutch shipyard to halt construction of his new yacht. You may or may not recall that The Donald didn’t simply contract for the Amels Holland BV yard to build his 420-ft, $210 million mega-yacht — he bought the whole bloody yard for $5 million and turned ’em to. No one will say for sure if the stoppage is related to Trump’s recent financial problems. We say if it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and swims like a duck.... Meanwhile, his 'old' Trump Princess, a mere 282-footer, has reportedly been sold to a Japanese buyer for $110 million. page 79

The SaHtec Integral Hyd raut ic Ad juster gives' you the best controT^

Better Engineered to insure no seal leakage, an easier bleed, and more accurate tuning.

5AILTEC®

(414) 233-4242

SAILTEC INCORPOFWED 1712 Graber Street Oshkosh. Wl 54901

♦ McGinnis insurance ♦ THE EXPERT THE EXPERTS CHOOSE "The Marine Specialists Since 1972" N

EXTENSIVE YACHT PROGRAM • Claim settlement is what counts! • Outstanding program for high value yachts, power and sail. • Specialists in worldwide cruising.

If You Don^t Know Boat Insurance Make Sure You Have An Agent Who Does “ ■

■

... —

.. ..r-

(415) 332-0500 McGinnis Insurance Services, inc. • 10 Liberty Ship Way, #4103 • Sausalito, CA 94965

VBA

Marina. U. Berthing at Oyster Cove Marina makes boating easier, more convenient and more enjoyable • Berths 30-ft to 60-ft • Water, Electricity and Telephone • Heated Dressing Rooms and Showers • 7 Day HarborMaster Office

Double Finger Concrete Slips 24 Hour Security Patrol Laundry Room Complimentary Ice Magnetic Card Entry

LIVEABOARD BERTHS AVAILABLE (Limited Number)

385 OYSTER POINT BOULEVARD SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO

All Kinds Of Boat Stuff! (and also RV Accessories)

Used Gear On Consignment! NOVATO’S Foremost BOAT & RV Accessory Store

898-0727 6100 Redwood Blvd. (1 Block Off Rowland)

(415) 952-5540 page 80

LOOSE LIPS Blowing their cover. We were happy to note that over the past few months, the excellent Sailing World mageizine is featuring ever more west coast events between their covers. And speaking of covers, their August one features most of the crew of Allen Bray’s J/35 Current Affair, in action during last spring’s Volvo Regatta. Visible are co-owner Seilly Bray, driver Howie Marion, Eric Tjensvold on mmnsheet, Peter Cameron trimming spinneiker and big Bob Daniels on Barient detail. Changes in latitude. Franz zmd Mary Klitza, two of Northern California’s diehard midget ocean racers, recently retired cind migrated north to Port Townsend, Washington. Natureilly, they took their trusty Santa Cruz 27 Bloody Mary along. "We’re looking forwcurd to racing and cruising on Puget Sound," says Franz. Lest emyone forget, the Klitzas probably hold the record for Sciiling the most MORA t;aces ever (with Bloody Mary and, prior to that, a Samurai 23 called Si Bon). They won a lot of them, too. Franz also gave a lot back to the sport over the years eis commodore of MORA, OYRA and the Richmond YC. Latitude wishes Fremz and Mary a long and happy retirement — and don’t forget to write! Learning the ropes and tying the knot. Catherine P&uling got a lot more than she bargained for when she bought the Golden Gate Vireo last fall. For one, she got more help from the fleet than she ever imagined, including plenty of volunteer labor and expertise to help whip the boat back into racing trim. A key figure in Vireo's rejuvenation weis class president Bob Counts, who among other accomplishinents sealed his Golden Gate Sanderling to a first overall in the 1982 Singlehanded TransP&c. He soon became a key figure in Catherine’s life too and, almost exactly one year from the day she bought Vireo, they plan to be married. Our congratulations. Anyone else had boating-sparked romances worth noting? Time for a change. Randy Repass, who built an early ’70s P&lo Alto garage marine store into the $62 million/year West Marine Products, has kicked himself upstairs. Crawford Cole, formerly senior vice-president of the 875-store Northern Automotive Corporation in Phoenbc, replaces Repass as president of West Marine and heads up day-today operations. In his new role of chairman and chief executive officer. Repass will be responsible for business strategy — and perhaps even more important — will be the "keeper of the vision". Some guys make it big and become unbearable. From our experience, Randy’s not like that at all. He’s the same casual guy now that he was back in the early ’70s when we sold boats and placed a big order with West Coast Rope for a Freeport 41 buyer.

YOUR FULL SERVICE BOATYARD

MARIN COUNTY BOAT WORKS PREMIUM PAINTING CLASSIC WOODWORK • RIGGING WORK FIBERGLASS REPAIR • INSTALLATIONS ELECTRICAL • BLISTER REPAIR PICKUP & DELIVERY SERVICE

60 TON/65 FT. MARINE ELEVATOR

(415) 456-3154 AL BLAIR, OWNER On the Canal in San Rafael 60 Bay Street • San Rafael, CA 94901

IWE SPECIALIZE IN SHF-STEERING | SCANMAR manuhcturers three vanes, each using a different principle and suitable for different boats and steering systems: The X^ONITOn All stainless steel servo-pendulum gear. Outstanding in last BOC.

The

auto-helm

Auxiliary rudder with a trim tab

The Saye’s Rig £ Trimtab on the main rudder

Randy Repass (on right): "keeper of the vision" at Hula Night

Yeah, Randy might have made it big, but as you can see from the accompanying photo, he’s still not afraid to get out in front of an audience and — like everyone else — make a fool of himself trying to do the hula. / Repass’ secret for success: "Give the customers what they want." Damn, why didn’t we think of that? page 81

In addition, we sell the French NAVIK, which is a double setvo-pendulum gear. Our files contain thousands of installation drawings, photos and I back from 20 years experience. Our advice is the Of package that I does not have a pric« tag and it may be the most valuable part. If you cannot I visit us, you should write, call or fax information on your boat and your I cruising plans. We might have photos and installation drawings fronn a sistership. Our free 22-page "crash course" on self-steering will help you understand this part of sailing that is so confusing to manysailoi^

SCANMAR MARINE PRODUCTS 298 Harbor Drive, Sausalito, CA 94965 PHONE: (415) 332-3233 FAX (415) 332-0957

DONATE YOUR BOAT TO THE SCOUTS

GLOSS FOR SALE

Power or Sail • Your donation is tax-deductible. Let us show you the attractive value and speedy transfer that we can arrange. • Eliminate broker fees, advertising and berthing. • Help instill the love of the sea and boating in the youth who participate in scouting. The Scouts are looking for any craft, power or sail, in serviceable condif'ori.

CALL US TODAY.

STANFORD AREA COUNCIL

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Ask for Bob Dillard

(415) 327-5900 POLYURETHANE COATINGS

An investment in excellence. A promise of quality. Unmistakable STERLING gloss. Demand STERLING—Call us collect today ^

sally

(

lindsay's

SPINNAKER SHOP palo

alto

Box 1246 • Newport Beach CA 92663 • (714) 631-8480

itISBANi MARINA WITH EASY ACCESS TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY ♦ Deep well marked entrant*^ ♦ Private . ♦ All conen^e construction

^caMf

PRECISION SAILS full service loft ^ New Mains and Jibs built with Uncompromised Quality ^ Trophy winning Spinnakers ^ Complete Canvas Work from sail covers to complete boat covers ^ Repairs and recuts on cruising, racing and sailboard sails ^ World Acclaimed Trapeze Harnesses

PROTECTED WATERS COME IN AND INSPECT OUR MODERN FACILITIES. SLIPS ARE AVAILABLE TO 66FT.

921 E. Charleston Road • Palo Alto CA 94303 • (415) 858-1544

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL OUR HARBORMASTER’S OFFICE AT (415) 583-6975

From No. or So. on Hwy 101 take the Sierra Pt. Pkwy Marina Blvd. exit.

poge 82

^ West Marine

,^means

West Marine INFLATABLE

ALLHOmE

BQATO

BLOCKS

The best inflatable boat value on the market!

SPORTBOATS SB 8.6 SB 10

SB 12

4 person, 8 HP max.

4-5 person, 9-9 HP max.

4-5 person, 25 HP max.

Model 242297

Model 242305

Model 275354

DF8.4

Normal discount 8 • 15%

3 person, 3.5 HP max. Model 242271

STA-SET X DACRON BRAID It

.20% OFF li LIST! A

tow stretch line for all your running rigging

50% OFF LIST!

LEWMAR inW

wiSgnorfioat /%

WINCH HANDLES

ALL

30% OFF LIST!

FENDERS H

RRpinc.

NORFLOAT^

OUR REGULAR DISCOUNT PRICE!

Normal discount 18%

SEAPOWER

^ West Marine

ICEBAG TOTES SMALL -18"

Reg. $7,95

12”

| ~1

y59

FIBERGLASS CLEANER/ WAX

Seapower

Quart LARGE24” X 16”

Model 190447 Reg. $8.95 X

fS West Marine 12 VOLT i ECONOMY ^ FAN M Osciliates 90°. Draws 1 A.

SEA BANDS Ease discomfort caused by motion.

Model 360388 Reg. $12.95/pr.

Model 173104 Reg. $35.95

Reg. $10.95

995

SS West Marine Product Quality Boating Gear and Apparel

TOLL FREE PHONE ORDERING- Calitornia-800-283-6070

page 83

Palo Alto

Santa Cruz

850 San Antonio Rd. (just off Hwy.101)

2450 17th Ave, (at frontage road)

(415) 494-6660

(408) 476-1800

.Outside California -800-538-0775

Visa & Mastercard honored

West Marine Products

IGOM Marine

We stock an outstanding selection of Icom’s superbly engineered VHP radios

IC-M7

IC-Mll

Sale 379^^ IC-IVI56 ALL CHANNEL VHP

Don't let the tiny size of this radio fool you! It packs a full 4 watts of transmit power and all channel capability Into its splashproof case. Dual watch function lets you monitor Ch. 16 and one other channel.

This topof-the line handheld VHF offers a full 6 watts of transmit power. Splashproof construction and Icom's flat rate repair plan ensure that your M-U will serve you well for many years to come. Features include: • All US and IntnI. channels • Dual/Tri watch • 7 Scanning functions • 24 memory channels • LCD channel readout

Worthy successor to the popular MSS, the M56 is a splash resistant radio that's ideal for mounting locations where spray is a factor. Features inciude: Ali channei capability, 20 memory channeis, Bright LCD display, Multiple scanning modes. Dual watch function. Power overide button on mike. The radio is backed by a one year warranty and Icom’s flat rate repair plan.

Model 407650

Model 352963 Reg. $399.00

BLACK - Model 387605 WHITE - Model 425355

34900

389*®

Sale

Reg. $389.00

West Marine Product Sale prices expire August 26,1990

Quality BoBting Gear and Apparel

Sausalito

S. San Francisco

Oakland

Stockton

Palo Alto

295 Harbor Dr. (near Gate 5 Rd.)

608 Dubuque (Oyster Pt. Blvd.)

2200 Livingston (23rd. Ave. offramp)

(415) 332-0202

(415) 873-4044

1810 Field Ave. (just off Hwy. 5)

(415) 532-5230

850 San Antonio Rd. . (just off Hwy. 101)

(209) 464-2922

(415) 494-6660

Santa Cruz 2450 17th Ave. (at frontage road)

(408) 476-1800

15 STORES TO SERVE YOU! OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK. TOi±FREE^ONE ORDERING- California-800-263-6070...Outside California -800-538-0775

Visa & Mastercard honored'

page 84

Boat Will with Vents from VENTS

3" deckplate, 4 3/4” high. White PVC. Model 120808 Reg. $39.95

Sale 33^^

Get constant ventilation of your cabin without using ship’s power! Nicro Solar Vents are efficient, rugged, and low in profile. Interchangable blades allow intake or exhaust. The best way we know of to solve your ventilation problems!

ECONOMY LO-PRO Model

PRICE BREAKTHROUGH!

SOLAR VENTS

147801

PVC COWL VENTS

Fan works whenever the sun shines! 2 (nterchangable blades provided for

NICRO COAT

Includes deck ring and cap.

White ABS

429415

3”

58®®

- 9” high - Model

Restores the good looks of PVC vents. White.

212480

Reg. $53.95

Model 147900

9 1/2" high •

Model 212498

NOW AVAILABLE

DAY/NIGHT 24 HOUR SOLAR VENTS

IN 3” SIZE!

3” EXHAUST

A nkcad battery powers the vent at night, a solar cell takes over during the day. Intake and exhaust blades provided. size

Finish

Model

3”

Stainless

429373

LO-VENTS wind driven, waterproof ventilator to fit 3” ring. Model

BLACK

White

168054

2095

429381 185603

4”

Brass

429423

4”

Stainless

386193

STAINLESS

171322

ag West Marine Product te prices

Quality Boating Gear and Apparel

expire August 26,1990

Sausalito

S. San Francisco

295 Harbor Dr. (near Gate 5 Rd.)

608 Dubuque

(415) 332-0202

(415) 873-4044

„

Oakland

Stockton

2200 Livingston (23rd. Ave. offramp)

1810 Field Ave. (just off Hwy. 5)

(415) 532-5230

(209) 464-2922

Palo Alto

Santa Cruz

850 San Antonio Rd. (just off Hwy.101)

2450 17th Ave. (at frontage road)

(415) 494-6660

(408) 476-1800

15 STORES TO SERVE YOU! OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK. TOLL FREE PHONE ORDERING-

page 85

California-800-283-6070...0utside California -800-538-0775

SIGHTINGS kenwood cup preview Forty-five boats — including 19 Farr designs — are poised to race in the "winds of paradise" on August 3-16. That’s when the Royed Hawaiian Ocean Racing Club will host the seventh biennied Hawaii Internationed Ocean Racing Series, better known as the Kenwood Cup or as far as we’re concerned — the premier ocean racing series of the Western Hemisphere. The racing will consist of four 27-mile ocean triangles off Waikiki, the 150-mile Molokai Race (the overnight "dôlition derby" from Oahu to Maui and back) and a new 390-mile distance race from Honolulu to Kaula Island (30 miles southwest of Niihau) and return. TTie latter lOft A —• BrtmMMta. Farr 65, Aus.; event replaces the classic Around-the-State iktmbeat, Pedrlck 82, Aus.; Sorcery, Mui! Race, a grueling marathon that most sedlors 82, Maftna del Rey. (3 boats) were glad to see fade away. lOR 8 — UmtsMBHK H/M 68, Japan; As usual, three-boat tecims will represent HmZoi^mamturat, Davidson 55, NZ; Mvarious countries for the big prize, the f, Ross 45, NZ (charter from Hawah); Kenwood Cup itself. Looking particularly SMWiI Express. Davidson 56. NZ, Wild strong this year are the Japanese, who have Thing, ULDB 50. Aus (5 boats) fielded an unprecedented 18 boats, followed by the U.S. with 13 Bind Australia and New lOR C — Cyclone, Frors 50. Aus.. ZeedBind with 6 each. The Japeinese cdl-Farr Heaven Can mn, Farr 50. Aus. Uaunl big-boat Blue Team of Bengal, Swing bui4 L^l flash. Peterson 48. Hawaii, Hger. IVt/l should be in the overall hunt, wMth Farr 90. Japan; Ttdaume, Takai 46, Japan; competition primarily from defending mu. Farr 50. Japan (6 boats) champion Australia, which is also sporting a . lOR D — AtUnlral Nevelskoy, Hclfman trio of big boats — Cyclone, Drumbeat and 49t'USSR; Camouttage. Frers 45. Long Heaven Can Wait. However, if the distance Gerantms, Farr 42. Hawaii, Kaitaro, events turn into "small boat" races, look for Ftk 43. Japan; UUnI, Farr 43 Japan; Ninja, the Japanese Green Team of three Hut 40s 44, Japan; Star 3 Star. Davidson — Arecan Bay, Boy, and Blue Note — to ; SivAigL Farr 44, Japan. (8 boats) win. And if it’s a "medium boat" series, their Yellow Team of Kaitaro, Liberte Express and lOR H — An, Parr 40. Japan; Arecan Tobiume could take it all. Bay, -Farr 40. Japan! Boy, Farr 40. Japem; "They’ve bracketed the fleet with three fiiua Hots. Farr 40, Japan; Bravura, Farr different size teams," explained race director 40, San Francisco, Cam Fite, Andrews 39. Ken Morrison. "They’re pretty serious about Hawaii; Ubene Express, Farr 40. Japan, winning, but then so are the Australians." Med Max, Davidson 40. Canada, Certainly, the Japanese boats and sciilors — w. Yokoyama 40. NZ (charter fiom which include a liberal sprinkling of Kiwis — paf$; Pnûânda, Farr 40;;. Japan; are better than ever before. , Farr 40. Japan, UlUmate ataHenge, Ironically, the Kiwi team itself can’t l 40. Aus. Will, Jr., Farr 40. Jau2n really be expected to do much, given the ultralight orientation of their team: Emotional Rescue, Matenrow and Starlight Express. Nor 6 I — Be One (ex-Zbro), Frers 52. is much expected from our U.S. team of . Peacertakar, Elliott 39. NZ. Power Bravura, Camouflage and Sorcery. As the Play, Davidson 44. Hawaii; Prime Time, only boats to come over from the mBiinland, on 40. Hawaii; TJare, Farr 45. NZ they should find themselves sorely outgunned alter from Hawaii). (5 boats) despite a lot of individual talent on each boat. "Given the range of the boats on our IMS 11 — High BokH', Holland 42. team, we’re guaranteed to finish no higher Hawaii; Ice Breaker, J(35. Hawaii/8an than the middle," figured Steve Taft, who’ll Ffflncisco; Out ’n About, Farr 40. Hawaii; tan Na Mate, Farr 42, Hawaii; Urban be on Camouflage. "We don’t have any illusions about winning — but if no one on Retmui, 4(35, Hawaii ($ boats) our team breaks down, and if we sail well in i the distance races, we could do respectably." Sailing with Taft on A1 Schultz and Vicki Lawrence’s newly revamped Frers 45 will be primary helmsman Mike Elias, Whitbread veteran John Jourdanc, and seven other Long Beach sailors. Irv Loube’s Bravura, which was the top individual boat at the ’88 Kenwood Cup, will sport its usu^ high octane crew; including driver Robbie Haines, Skip Allan, Ed Baird and Scott Easom. No one seemed to know much about Sorcery’s crew, though the rumor mill has Steve Grillon driving. For the first time, the series will feature two classes of IMS racing as well. Look for Peacemaker, a high rating Kiwi rocketship, to win IMS-A, and for a

sometimes you gotta True or false: The United States Coast Guard has the power to stop and board foreign vessels in international waters to search for drugs, emd to seize such vessels if drugs cue found. If you said true, chances are you’re familiar with the May 21 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the matter. Here’s the story: On June 15, 1987 the Coast Guard

K-CUP LINEUP

'Quintessence' and 'Ninja' race the winds of paradise at the '88 Kenwood Cup. it just doesn't get any better than this.

■

cont'd next sightings page

SIGHTINGS break the rules cutter Cap6 Romain encountered the 58-foot British-registered ketch Myth of Ecurie 35 miles southwest of Point Reyes. The Coast Guard requested permission to board, but Peter Davis, the captain of Myth, denied the request, cleuming the U.S. Coast Guard has no authority over British boats in international waters. Having departed from Hong Kong, he stated he intended to change cont'd center of next sightings page

kenwood cup — cont^d pair of J/35s, Ice Breaker and Urban Renewal, to destroy IMS B. A familiar entry in IMS is the Olson 40 Prime Time, formerly of San Francisco Bay and now owned by Hawaiian resident Alan Chatham. But perhaps the most unusual entry is a Russian boat, the 45-foot sloop Admiral Nevelskoy. The Admiral was en route from Vladivostok as we go to press, scheduled to arrive in Hawaii on July 31. Apparently, the Leningrad ORC tried to put together an eleventh hour charter of two Hawaiian boats in order to qualify a USSR team, but that effort fell through. Regardless, it should be an interesting — and very international — series. Look for a full report on the Kenwood Cup in our next issue.

SIGHTINGS break the rules

two killed in horrible boating accident Yaaaahhhh — just kidding. But we sure scared the hell out of you, didn’t we? Columbia, the Columbia 29.9 in this photo, is not within microseconds of being ground into confetti, but is actually safely out of harm’s way several boatlengths to starboard of the big ship. (Other competitors in the Silver Eagle race, through which this freighter sailed, vi>^re a lot closer.) The apparent danger is simply an optical illusion played by me telephoto lens. So much for "the camera never lies". But it sure makes the toes curl, doesn’t it? And it more than sets the stage for the account that follows.

cont'd next sightings page

course to the Caribbean by way of Mexico. The next day, the Coast Guard boarded Myth and busted Davis, his crew and the boat for having 7,000 pounds of pot aboard. A British citizen, Davis filed a motion to dismiss his case, and suppress the evidence obtained, for lack of jurisdiction. The district Court denied both motions. His appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, perhaps the most liberal in the nation, weis ruled eis follows:

N MM

'■

■

iSf. -

■

jf«

f'M

page 88

SIGHTINGS — cont’d "We find that Gsngress had the authority to enact the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act emd that it is constitutionally applied to defendant Furthermore, because the Fourth Amendment does not extend to die search of non-resident aliens on the high seas, no Riurdi Amendment violation occurred in the search of the Mi>th. Davis' convictions are affirmed." cont'd center of next sightings page

a night to remember Signed up to do the Pacific Cup Race, Peter Lange emd his crew aboard the Buchan 37 Pleiades were ready for a bit of mid-summer adventure. And adventure is what they got — though it was not remotely of the type or character they bargained for. A week before the race, 2is they were delivering the boat from its Seattle homeport to the Bay, Pleiades was hit and sunk by a commercial ship off Pt. Reyes. The accident w£is the first shipA>oat collision in that zurea since the ill-fated fishing boat Jack Jr. was run down in 1986 with the loss of all three crewmen. We’re happy to report that all five of Pleiades' crew survived to tell about their ordeal. Unfortunately, the only ones they did tell were the Coast GuEurd investigators. At this writing, until the officii investigation is over, both Lange and the Coasties have declined comment on anything further than the bare facts. The beure facts are: The collision occurred 10 miles northwest of Pt. Reyes at 1:20 a.m. Monday morning in clear weather emd moderate conditions. Pleiades was proceeding toweurd the Bay under sedls alone. Reportedly, the sedlboat "had two radeur contacts" (whatever that meems) with the ship, but it’s not known whether there was any attempt by either vessel to contact the other by radio or any other method. Apparently, two people were on watch. Lange and the remaining two crew were sleeping below as the two vessels converged. By the time they were awakened, collision was imminent and unavoidable. Pleiades was reportedly hit and lifted by the ship’s bow, then bounced along its side as the big vessel went by. The Coasties credit Lange’s actions from that point with the survival of his crew. A sailor of 30 years (and Pleiades’ builder), Lange first tried to save the badly leaking boat by starting the engine emd the pumps. When the futility of that quickly becemie obvious, the crew — Lange, Mike Winn, Craig Sorenson, Joanne Dennis and Carol Kaas — inflated their canister liferaft and abemdoned the boat. Flares from the raft were spotted by the northbound tanker Mobil Arctic just before 2 a.m. The ship notified the Coast Guard, and its skipper manuevered so that the shipwrecked mariners were in the protected lee of Artie’s 900-ft bulk. A Coast Guard 44-ft lifeboat out of Bodega Bay picked up Lange and his crew at 3:30 a.m. Though cold, they were unhurt in the incident. Two ships are suspect in the collision. A 350-ft southbound freighter named Ice Bird or Arctic Bird (depending on which report you read); and the Mobil Arctic herself. The Coast Guard recalled both ships into the Bay for two days of inspection emd questioning. At this writing, Lange emd his crew have returned to Seattle and the two ships have gone their separate ways'. We can’t imagine what else there is to investigate, but the Coasties say the official word on what happened in the early hours of July 2 off Pt. Reyes won’t be out until around September. When that’s made public, Lemge has promised to write us a detailed, firsthand account of the incident.

scrutiny of the bounty Hollywood and the world would be a blander place if William Bligh had been a nice guy. Fortunately, he was something of a tyrant, and his infamous altercation with Fletcher Christiem will likely intrigue seaman and landlubber alike for centuries to come. After all, with the 200th''annivcrsary of the famous mutiny celebrated just last April, interest seems higher than it’s ever been. A little of that history visited the Bay Area at the beginning of July, as the oldest and leurgest surviving Bounty docked at Pier 45 for a week of open house, goodwill and fund-raising for the Bay-based Rednforest Action Network. Unfortunately, we received notice of the visit too late to tell you about it last month. The good news is, you’ll have another chance to see the ship when it returns in October. ^ That 'oldest and largest' business needs some explaining. This Bounty, the first full-size ship ever constructed for the movies, was built in Nova Scotia in 1960 for the 1962 Marlon Brando/Trevor Howard version of Mutiny on the cont'd next sightings page page 89

SIGHTINGS bounty — cont'd Bounty. The original Clark Gable/Charles Laughton epic of 1935 (which won a best-movie Osceur) used am existing square-rigger with Bounty nameplates. There is atlso a third Bounty in existence, a steel-hulled replica built for the Mel Gibson/Anthony Hopkins version of the movie released in 1984. Accuracy-wise, we’re told the 'Gibson' Bounty is the most fedthful to the lines of the original, which you’ll doubtless lecall was seized and burned at

break the rules Put that one in your waterpipe amd smoke it! As most readers know, we’re hardasses on the smuggling of even pot because it wrecks anchorages, endangers innocent mariners and further worsens the balance of trade. Even so, we’re shocked at the Ninth

cont'd next sightings pge

paQe90

SIGHTINGS — cont’d

bounty — cont’d Pitcairn Island by Christian and his fellow mutineers in 1789. The one that visited the Bay is larger (278 tons vs. 215 for the real Bounty) and longer (120 ft vs. 91 ft) — made so to accommodate actors, scenes and movie-making gear during the eight months of filming in Tahiti. 'The origined Bounty was also pretty ugly," says Elaine Powell, the ship’s current project director. Part of the leng^ening process of this biggest Bounty included making it more graceful. In 1965, after a world tour, this ship became part of a static display in St. Petersburg, Florida. Built of spruce, fir and other soft woods (longevity weisn’t a priority at the time of building), she fell into serious decline. In our boat delivery days, we made friends with one of the Bounty’s riggers during a stopover in St. Pete in the mid ’70s. He said, "Watch this", and bent over where he stood to pull a deckspike but — with his fingers! Bounty’s fortunes changed when Ted Turner bought MGM Entertainment Co., in 1986. Never one to miss an opportunity for positive press. Turner had the ship hauled in Savannah for a complete restoration. Before long, she was back on the silver screen, making such movies as Cheech and Chong’s Yellowbeard, and the recent Charleton Heston remake of Treasure Island. In 1989, the ship toured the East Coast and Great Lakes ports raising more than $80,000 for the National Literacy Foundation. This year. Bounty is touring the West Coast as "Flagship of Bountiful Earth". Each of her stops will be held in conjunction with, and focused on, the work of a local environmental group. "It’s kind of karmic in a way," says Powell. "The original ship’s mission was to export natural resources; this Bounty is working to help preserve them." Part of the on-board program at each port are crewmen dressed in period garb, demonstrating customs, music and other facets of 18th century sailing life. By far the most fascinating character aboard, however — and well worth the nominal admission fee ($4 for adults) — is 'Bligh' himself. More than just an actor, this guy’s real name is William Bly (the Americanized version of 'Bligh'), and he’s almost a dead ringer for the paintings of his famous predecessor. (There may even'be direct family ties; his family is researching that aspect.) Coincidentally, Bly is even married to a womein named Elizabeth, as was Bligh. Suffice it to say, on this HMS Bounty, this guy is Captain Bligh. Dressed in uniform, he can discourse at length upon any aspect of the mutiny and "that scoundrel Christian". He was even able to expleiin in detail how he... er, Bligh... navigated that 23-ft open boat with 19 men 3,618 miles to safety after Christian set them adrift. Great stuff. The ship will be back in Sausalito October 5. It will also make stops in Vallejo and Oakland before heading down to Morro Bay. We’ll let you know exactly when and where as the tim^ draws near.

Court’s ruling. The court’s reasoning is pretty complicated, and if we find some space in the next issue, we might be able to discuss it a littie. In any event, thanks to Adam Glass of New York’s Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe for passing the information along.

the

Q D H Z'

1990 mexico-only crew list

Before you read this, look outside. Go outside. Isn’t summer wonderful? Now imagine a remake of The Endless Summer, only it’s about sailors (rather than surfers) chasing summer around the world. In that cult flick of the 60s, Cape St. Francis in South Africa was the ultimate 'spot'. In our version, the endless summer spot would be just about edl of coastal Mexico. Which brings us, once again, to our annual Mexico Only Crew List. Having taken our own advice in the first paragraph — a dangerous precedent — we’ll be the first to admit it’s not easy to 'think Mexico' in the middle of July. Heck, we’re barely h^ay through the summer sailing season up here — and Mexico is well into the 'broil' cycle. But deadlines and leadtimes being what they are, you gotta start planning now if you want to take part in the Crew List later. To continue our audio-visual theme, take a minute now to look over the Crew List forms on the next two pages. It’s taken us nine or ten years, but we now believe these to be the most up-to-date, refined and absolutely, perfectly foolproof forms we’ve ever published. Of course, we’ve thought that every year and every year you guys write in with dozens of improvements for us to incorporate next time. But hey, we’re getting there. The idea of the forms, for those of you new to the Crew List, is to get the cont'd next sightings page

page 91

SIGHTINGS mexico crew list — cont’d

the incredible

all-important symbiosis going between the two groups of Mexico-bound seiilors who, like the birds, start migrating south come fall. These groups are the boat owners who need crew to make the trip; and crew looking for boats on which to make the trip. If you fit into either of these categories, you’ve come to the right place. What could be simpler? Fill out the forms-,as completely zmd honestly as you cem, send them in with the small 'cover ch^e', and in our October issue, we’ll print your name, skills, desires, phone number (or address) emd other pertinent information in our Mexico Only Crew List — atlong with the nennes emd similar information from hundreds of other skippers and/or crew. Then it’s simply a matter of letting your fingers do the walking through the list and calling the people who sound the most compatible. Before you get all hyped up like some sort of nautical "Wheel of Fortune" contestant, though, we need to remind you of the 'fine prinf. We’re awaure of only one distasteful incident arising out of participation in a Crew List. The woman in question reported being drugged and possibly molested. She was okay, but it woke us up to the fact that even in a pastime as fun and fulhlling eis sailing, there are weirdos. Ever since, we’ve required that before any potential Crew Listees put pen to paper, you read and acknowledge the following disclciimer: The Latitude 38 Crew List is an advertising supplement intended for informationeil purposes only. Latitude 38 does not make or imply any guarantee, wctrranty or recommendation in regard to the character of the

WANT TO CREW IN MEXICO SEX: PHONE/ADDRESS:_

1. For the trip down. ■ 2. While in Mexico. . .. u x ’ 3. Sea of Cortez Sail Week (Baja Ha-Ha). ' 4. Return trip up Baja. my experience IS; 1. Little or none. ’ 2. Bay. 3. Ocean. 4. Foreign cruising. I CAN OFFER: 1. Few skills, 1 am a novice sailor. 2. Skills of a normal hand; standing watch, 3 Sktn'ed and experienced sailor. 1 can navigate, sSnaker, steer and handle basic mechanical problems 4. 'Local knowledge: (a) 1 have cruised Mexico before, (b) speak Spanish. _5. Companionship. -

individueds who peirticipate in the Crew List, or the condition of their boats or equipment. You must judge those things for yourself. One addendum to the above: We suggest strongly that women Crew Listees cont'd next sightings page

After five years of planning and thousands of hours cutting, sanding and glassing, ftie first Newland 368 touched water on July 6. "Words czuinot describe how hapj:^ I was," says Dan Newland of Alameda, the two-time Singlehanded TransRac winner who dreamed up the idea for an ultra ultralight sloop, built of the latest in advemced composite materials. His partner, Frank Dinsmoie, who hails firom the Sacramento area, was equally pleased. Frank is also a past winner of the Singlehanded TransRac, taking first to finish and first in division in the 1984 race aboard his Olson 30 Francis Who? Hence the name of the new yacht, Francis Who tt. Here are some basic numbers on file boat: 36.8 feet overall; 10-ft beam; 5.9-ft draft. The boat carries 500 square feet of working sail, an 830-square-foot masthead chute, and a 664-square-foot fractional chute. Displacement — get this — is 6,250 pounds for the cruising version (!) and 5,650 pounds (!!!) for the radng version. "Everything but the lengfti is proportioned like a light to medium-weight 30 footer," says Dan. "Downwind, however, she moves like a 50 footer." The 368 existed as a notion in Dan’s head until 1986 when he won his second solo TransRac in Ironk’s Francis Who? Sitting on the beach near the spot where, according to Frank, Milzi Gaynor sang "I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair" in South Pacific, the two decided it was time to fish or cut bait Flitting Dan’s expertise as a boaftruilder and setilmaker together with Frank’s financial' resources, they started Ffegasus Marine. (Dan built the Wy^e 34 Pegasus in the early '80s and won fire ’82 qage92

SIGHTINGS lightness of being solo TransPac with it.) Dan completed the design in 1986 and started building on Jemuary 1, 1987. This first completed one is Frank's, a cruising version with such amenities as pressurized water, watermaker, enclosed head, heavyduty alternators and otiier goodies. Dan’s now building his stripped-out radng version, which will hopefully be completed by next year. He’s timing its completion with wife Linda’s graduation from Tukme Law School in New Orieans, where she’s working on a masters in maritime law. (Linda’s no slouch in the seuling dep>artment herself. Altiiough law school has kept her out of the spotlight recently, she’s alro a two-time Singlehanded TransPac participant and, as Linda Weber-Rettie, was the only woman to complete the 1981 singlehanded race from San Bancisco to Japan.) The key to the Newland 368’s light weight is the use of carbon fiber, S-glass, Kevlar and other space age laminates that Dan works with at his job for Orcon Corporation in the Eeist Bay. He got some help from a laminate analysis computer program written by another Bay Area sailor, naval architect Jim Antrim (aka "the wizard of El Sobrante"). The collaboration has resulted in a hull that combines tiie best of both worlds, lightness and strength. Though it weighs in at only 650 pounds — 150 pounds lighter than an Olson 30 — Newland has engineered it to double American Bureau of Shipping strength requirements! As you might expect, ’cheap' was not an oft-heard word during the building of Francis Who? 11. Hank estimates there’s $150,000 in the boat, not including carbon fiber or labor. The amount of time is a little harder to ballpark. From what we gather, the partners spent at least 6,000 hours putting the boat together. That translates to 125 days of around-the-clock work — each! Frank plans to axiise his 368, and dabble in local races. Maybe he’ll do the Singlehanded TransPtic in 1992. Dan wants to break the singlehanded TransPac record (11 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes for monohulls), which he thinks is totally within reach. Further down the road, he wants to build a 60-ft version of the 368 to race in the BOC Singlehanded Around the World Race. Oh yeah, Linda wants one to do the same race. So far, the 368 has lived up to expectations. Using a shy kite, Francis Who? II covered the distance from the Golden Gate Bridge to Ballena Bay in 50 minutes. Dam says they’ve gotten up to 13 knots with tire spinnaker pole against the headstay, and the helm stays neutral up to 50 degrees of heel. shimon van collie page 93

mexico crew list — cont’d go by first neime only; and that for a contact, they use either em answering service or post office box. Quite honestly, aside from that one incident, etll other feedback we’ve had from Crew Usts has been positive — even that from a Listee who was shipwrecked on an atoll hundreds of miles from civilization last yeeir. In frict, memy Crew List associations have blossomed into full-blown world cruises, careers in the boating field and/or personal romemces. You need to be aware of a few guidelines for the Mexico Only Crew List. First, the Mexico cruising season runs from November to May. Those dates are dictated not by the tourist board, but by hurricane season, which runs the rest of the year. In other words, unless you’ve made other plans, expect your Mexico cruise to be arranged within this six-month window. Other guidelines; One form per person, pleeise. If you need more, make copies or send us a buck and a self-addressed, stamped envelope and we’ll m^ you extras. Also, you need to enclose an advertising fee for each Crew List form you send in: $5 for crew looking for boats; $1 for boat owners. (The discrepancy is because we figure boat owners are spending enough dough to go already.)

I NEED CREW FOR MEXICO SEX: PHONE/ADDRESS:

BOAT TYPE/SIZE

-1. For the trip down. --While in Mexico. ■-4’ -4. Return trip up Baja.

(Baja Ha-Ha) ^

my experience IS; __ 1. Bay. __2. Ocean. --3. Foreign cruising. I AM LOOKING FOR: -2 T is not important. -2. Moderately experienced sailor to share normal crew responsibilities.

— ■

SpaTr

-4. Companionship: (a) Female; (b) Male; (c) either ~ 6‘ - •

back up the c^ast help me trailer a boat up/dLn the coast.

Which brings us back to the deadline thing. We need to have all crew list forms in our hot little hands no later than September 15. That gives you a whole month. Mail all completed forms and fees to Mexico Only Crew List, cont'd next sightings page

SIGHTINGS mexico crew list — cont’d Latitude 38, RO. Box 1678, Sauscdito, CA 94966. To make sure as many people as possible get a chance at the Crew List, we’ll be running these forms again next month. At that time, we’ll delve more into such fringe benefits eis the Crew List Party. As the season gets nearer, we’ll zdso have another in our immortal series of "Mexico Primers", and all the developing news about the ’90-’91 'Some Like It Hot' Mexico Cruiser’s Rally, and Baja Sail Week. Until then, hasta lumbag^.

tamarac il comes home The best advice that Stockton’s Jack zmd Lura Fremcis cam give amyone thinking about sailing around the world is: Go do it! Don’t wait until you’re too old. When you’re young, it’s a big adventure. When you get into your 60s, it can be haurd work. After almost six years at sea, the Francises just returned from their adventure of a lifetime — and not a minute too late to beat that sexagenarian deadline. Now Jack, 60, amd Lura, 59, have moved from their Westsail 32 Tamarac II to Tamarac I, their Beaur Valley retreat. Though they don’t plamf to do any more sailing for a while, they aure only too happy to share stories about their travels. Among those tales is the day they were sitting at the dock in Tonga one day, when seemingly everyone in the village started running down to the dsnck to meet a nondescript 3,000-ton coastal freighter. They watched in aimazement as a shoreside derrick reached down into the hold amd brought up a bright yellow Rolls Royce. The top was down and seated in the back was the 6’9", 390-pound king of the South Pacific island nation. "It was fascinating!" says Jack. Once atshore, the king’s driver tooled off at a royal 2 mph in order to taike the king to an agricultural fair, where he served as a judge. Afterwards, he returned to the dock and the derrick deposited him back into the ship. Sort of the ultimate in U-Park garages. There cure hundreds of other vignettes still fresh in the Francis’ minds. On Sunday, July 22, they officially returned to their dock at the Stockton Sailing Club to a gathering of friends and family after 5 years, 9 months, 18 hours and 35 minutes at sea. Jack, a retired school superintendant, and Lura, a retired teacher, followed the sun on their trip. They headed south to Puerto Vallarta before taking off for the Marqueszis. Using only their sextants (each took their own sights and then compared notes), the couple reached Hiva Oa 27 days later and right on schedule. After a year in French Polynesia, they made their way through the South Pacific to New Zealand, through the Torres Straits and into the Indian Ocean. Their favorite atoll turned out to be Saloman Island in the Chagos Archipelago, 1,000 miles south of India and 1,000 miles east of Africa. Located near the U.S. Navy base at Diego Garcia, the island native population hzis been relocated, leaving only unspoiled beaches and bountiful sea zmd plant life. Lura even got to practice her watercolor painting, an avocation at which she excels. The Francises spent almost two years in the Mediterranean. It’s a great place to sightsee, they say, but a lousy place to sail. "There’s either no wind, or too much from the wrong direction," says Jack. "No one goes there to sail. They go to see the antiquities." Jack and Lura also spent 'quality' time in Larnaca, Cyprus (a great wintering-over harbor, says Jack), Turkey, Bulgaria, Venice, Yugoslavia, Corsica, Minorca, Mallorca and a great harbor on Spain’s Costa Del Sol called Fengirola. Inadvertently, the pair found themselves experiencing firsthand what the rest of us saw or read about in the news. They were in Fiji when the natives pulled off a coup d’etat ageiinst the ruling-cUiss Indians. In Romemia, they witnessed the waning phase of Nicolets Ceausescu’s tyrannic reign, where ubiquitous signage declared the virtues of communism emd prtesed the dictator. In Fanctma, they defied waurnings about traveling in the aftermath of the Americem invasion and Noriega’s capture. "Noriega had let all his buddies out of prison before he was captured," says Lura. 'They were armed and would attack anyone. We had a police escort cont'd next sightings page

the royal The following is not the first glowing account of sailing in Scotland we’ve ever heard, but it certainly features one of the best endings. The occasion was the 1990 International One Design Worlds held in tiie firth (Scottish for 'moutii') of the Clyde River June 18 through 22. The Bay Area lOD fleet ^ was ably represented by three-time local diamp Henry Mettier and his crew: Ben Ballard, Rich Pearce, Ron Young and Glasgow local Gavin Ramsey. The battle for top honors in tiie 12boat fleet turned out to be a two-boat duel between our local boys emd nine-time worid champion Bill \Afidnall of Marblehead. In conditions that varied from 5 to 20 knots (though mosfly 8 to 12 through the series) witii a day or two of rain thrown in, tactidan

SIGHTINGS treatment

tamarac II — cont’d wherever we went." Finally, Tamarac II, which they built from a bare hull and deck in 1975, headed home. She’s now for sale. Unfortunately, we don’t have the space to do their voyage the justice it deserves. So we’ll end it as we began, with a few parting tips and hints. • At the top of their list for veiluable equipment were their sextants and their HAM radio. Lura wcis the registered HAM (her call sign is KB6KEK). Hearing other human voices out on the open ocean can be a real comfort, she says; and it’s easy to keep in touch with old and new friends. Also highly valued was their copy of Ocean Passages of the World, a joint publication of the U.S. and Great Briteiin. The book charts periods of storms and good weather for all the great ocean routes over the last 100 years. "It never failed us," says Lura. • When you get to the Caribbean islands, don’t start at Grenada and work your way north. It’s a beat all the way. Better to start at St. Lucia and go south. • The saying about "If you can seiil San Francisco Bay and the local ocean.

Ron Young describes the series as "One of the best nm in one of the prettiest places I’ve ever sailed." The racing area, located about 15 miles north of Glasgow, was about twice as wide as San Francisco Bay, but tire surrounding hills are greener, much taller "and very beautiful," says Ron, "with each view more striking tiian the last" The American team posted a 3-2-1-23 (tiieir throwout had the distinction of lowest throwout in the fleet) for a respectable second to Widnall’s lOtti world champiorjship. Sailing World editor John Bumheim was third. But as Ron writes, "The sailing was almost incidental to the awards ceremony." "I’d heeird that the royal family had presided over past prize-givings, and the

cont'd next sightings page

'Tamarac ouitakes: clockwise from left. Jack and Lura at a Sew Year's Eve pig roast in Larnaca, Cyprus; 'Tamarac IV anchored at Hiva Oa in the Marquesas; in costume for the ^ opening parade of the '09 ARC, Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

PHOrOS COURTESY J\CI'.AM1LU1\FR\NCIS

SIGHTINGS tamarac II — cont’d you can sail anywhere in the world" is true. They never found rougher conditions them locally, despite weathering 60 knot winds and six knockdowns off Mexico on the return leg. "It wasn’t all peaches and cream," concludes Lura. "But Jack always says that you need some grit and grime to mhke a real adventure. All in edl, it was wonderful." ^ ^ — shimon van collie

talk ain’t cheap Did you know getting or renewing a boat radio license from the FCC is no longer free? If you were unaware, don’t feel bad. We’d heard nothing about it — nor had 60% of the Northern California radio retailers we spoke with. Of the two that had, neither one of them had received emy notification from the FCC. One company had been told by a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary; emother retailer thinks he leeurned by coincidence during a conversation with the FCC on emother matter. We called the Federal Communications Commission in Weishington to find out if indeed any notice had been given. "No," we were told. "Why not?" we asked. "We were unable to because of budgetary restreiints," the woman ^ responded. That and monumental stupidity. How much would ithave cost f6r ^ the FCC to write 20 letters to the major boating magazines in the United States — which in turn would have gotten the message out to most boat owners? About $10 in stamps and stationary. Imagine if you will, the most inefficient and perhaps expensive way to get the word out; specifically, waiting until renewals eure sent in, then writing back and informing the applicants that a fee had been instituted. Yep, that’s the method the geniuses in Washington have selected. If you’re the United States Congress and want to etssess a fee for a service that had been free since the 1970s, what do you think would be a reasonable charge? Rve bucks? Ten bucks? Our Congress — perhaps having gotten used to big numbers through the unbelievable savings and loan debacle that is costing each of us $5,000 — set the license and renewed fee at $35 per application! Thirty-five dollars — small wonder they didn’t want to publicize it: People would have raised hell. Let’s see, even lowballing a figure of 500,000 boats equipped with radios in the United States means the FCC would reike in about $17.5 million a year. At that rate, next year’s renewal notices ought to come out on glossy stock with four-color photos. Just for the record, the fee went into effect May 21,1990. One application includes license for VHF, SSB, radar and other goodies.on your boat. If you have more them one boat, you can get a fleet license. What can you do if you’re mad as hell and won’t take it any more? One sailor we know swears he’s so mad at the underhanded tactics of the Congress and FCC that he just won’t renew his license. Says he, "If they don’t have the money to send out notices, they sure don’t have the money to monitor the airwaves to make sure my license is up to date."

royal program did say that Her Royed Highness Princess Anne of Great Britain was coming, but please, pinch me. However, the day before her eurival, we were told where we would go, what we would do emd how to addre^ her Highness. We were advised of such protocol as 'Don’t store cigarettes in the s^breast pocket of your jacket — and wherever you store them, don’t go for them as you walk up to the PrincessP We were also reminded that the Royal family’s secret service 'doesn’t use rubber bullets'. "The next day, first, second and third place crews were placed on one side of a long red carpet leading to a stage and throne at the head of the room. The procession into the dub was led by the commodore of the RNCYC, followed by none other than San firandsco’s own Tom

short sightings THE DELTA — Gauging the 'health' of the Delta by monitoring the striped betss population seems to us a little like gauging who’s winning the Indy 500 by monitoring how much gas the cars are using. However, the 'striper index' has been used for many years and, we’re told, is a pretty accurate barometer of water quality in the North Bay wetlands. And for the last year or so, declining numbers of stripers has had experts foreboding zill sorts of doomsday scenarios for the Delta. Recently, though. Fish and Game wardens uncovered a huge striper poaching ring "that is playing a significant role in decimating what’s left of the striped bass fishery" says em acepunt from United Anglers of California. Although 10 people have been formally charged with the illegal taking and selling of the popular geunefish, John Beuttler, executive director of UAC says, "This appears to be the tip of the iceberg." No response yet from the environmental sector on whether the estimated 2,000 to 5,000 tons of poached stripers a year would skew their prognostications. cont'd next sightings page page 96

SIGHTINGS — cont’d Allen, who as World Class President of the lODs weis escorting Princess Anne to the cer¬ emony. As Resident of the Royal Yachting Association, she has seen and participated in many regatteis. She congratulated the fleet for a hard-fou^t competition and lauded the absence of protests. Then the crews were introduced in ascending order. "When it was our turn, skipper Henry lead the way. While Princess Aine is the picture of poise, she didn’t want to be perfunctory. She weinted to have a few words with each of us. After Henry weis introduced, he stepped to her side and presented his crew: "May I introduce my tactician, Ron Young...' "The Princess smiled graciously and held out her hand. 'Oh, so you’re the smart one',

short sightings — cont’d NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — In other poaching news, 12 people were arrested in five counties for abedone poaching after a two-year State Fish and Game investigation. The commerciad ftshing of abs — slow growers which bring up to $40 a pound — is illegzd north of Point Lobos. Elsewhere, sport fishermen are allowed only four a day. Officials estimate that 110,000 abs are illegally harvested each year, often by divers posing as urchin fisherman. Hang ’em high, we say. Two of those arrested, 64-year old John Corgiat and his 56-year old wife, Patricia, allegedly also tried to sell agents black rhinoceros horns, vcdued at cont'd next sightings page

cont'd center of next sightings page

COURTESY RON YOUNG

Never let 'em see you sweat: Ron Young, Henry Mettier and Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne.

page 97

SIGHTINGS royal

short sightings — cont’d $30,000 each because of their supposedly aphrodisiacal properties. Use heavy-duty rope, we say.

KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII — After all these years, a member of .Congress has finally acted on an impulse other than self-interest. While participating in a fishing tournament during a \)i^cation with his two sons, 37year old Representative Joe Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and boatmates jumped into shark-infested waters to help rescue a couple whose boat had overturned while battling a 450-pound marlin. All the more amazing, the rescued couple weren’t even constituents. RIO VISTA — Gridlock comes to the Delta! The Coast Guard reports the Rio Vista Bridge is experiencing serious traffic backups these balmy days of summer. Gee, don’t these people know the Delta’s much better by boat cont'd next sightings page

it.,-

she chuckled, miqudging me by my position. I shook her hand, we chatted briefly, and 1 took my place to the right of Henry. Ben stepped forward, holding back his aforepledged intention to outright flirt with her, and graciously accepted her congratulations. Rich also reneged on the 'high five' he X promised. Gavin, a native of Glasgow, wore a full-dress kilt for the occasion. She acknowledged each of us with well-chosen words that made us feel like knights of the realm. We’ve slain all the dragons but one, your Highness, and they’re next up. "After the awards ceremony, she met

SIGHTINGS — cont’d

short sightings — cont’d

witii the local lOD owners who had graciously loaned us their boats for the regatta, and later spent about 10 minutes with the five of us. The way she discussed tile regatta — currents, tactics and so on — it We>S obvious she knew sailing I \ji/QS impressed. As she met with the other crews, I wondered if she could be this well briefed about every group she meets with. "And just like that, she was gone. We had anotiier awards presentation that night, and reveled early into the next morning in the afterglow of an incredible event. What a grand topping to put on a grand regatta."

instead of RV? Anyway, etjthough bridge openings have not been blamed for the problem, the Coasties are asking that boaters minimize requests for openings Friday evenings 5 to 9 pm; Saturdays 10 am to 2 pm; and Sundays from 11 am to 6 pm — in other words, pretty much just when you’d want to transit the area.

DUMPING OF GARBAGE WHILE ABOARD THIS VESSEL IS STRICTLY

W ACCORDANCE WiTH rEOERAL REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS • THE DISCHARGE OF PLASTIC OR GARBAGE MIXED WITH PLASDC INTO ANY WATERS IS PROHIBITED. • THE DISCHARGE OF ALL GARBAGE IS PROHIBITED IN THE NAVIGABLE WA~ TERSOFTHE UNITED STATESANO IN ALL OTHER WATERS WITHIN THREE NAUOC AL MILES OF THE NEAREST UNO. •THEDrSCHARGE0F0UNNACE,UNING AND PACKING MATERIALS THAT FLOATiSPROHIBITCO WITHIN 25NAUTICAL MILES OF THE NEAREST LAND. • OTHER UNGROUNO GARBAGE MAY BE DISCHARGED BEYOND 12 NAUTICAL MILES FROM THE NEAREST UND.

rJ smokin’ on the water What’s larger than a breadbox, bums more calories than einy of Jane Fonda’s workouts, is faster than a speeding bullet (well, almost), and more thrilling than any ride at Great America? Boardsailing, of course. Compared to 'tegular' Settling, it’s also cheaper and more portable. (Then again, most windsurfers sleep only one I — uncomfortably — eind aie the pits for entertaining below.) You don’t even have to boardsettl to enjoy the sport, especially when you come across hotshots like titts unidentified wave-shredder off Crissy Reid. Then just kick back and enjoy the I show. Lookin’ good!

-f*

>•'

‘

-.j

This plocvd rriMls AS OH I51S9 requirements

•OTHER GARBAGE GROUND TO LESS THAN ONE INCH MAY BE DISCHARGED BEYOND THREE NAUTICAL MiLESOF THE NEAREST LAND. • A PERSON WHO VIOLATES THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS IS UABLE FOR A CIVIL PENALTY OF UP T0$25.000. A FINE OF UP TO $50,000, AIO IMPRISONMENT FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS FOR EACH VIOLATION. • REGIONAU STATE AND,LOCAL RESTRICTIONS ON GARBAGE OSCHARGCS ALSO MAY APPLY.

SeaSchool nt ^ S>Mi or '44 UaTSU'DlEI 1430-8746U

ALL MARPOL INTERNATIONAL TREATY COUNTRIES (Yeah, the U.S. is one of them) — In case you missed it, zis of July 31 all boats over 26 feet must post placards like the one shown here. The purpose is to discourage pollution of our waterways. The placards must be at least 9 by 4 inches and made of 'durable material'. In other words, posting a cutout of tiiis page won’^ quite cut it But you can pick up the things at most marine chandleries for between $2 and $6. (If you gotta have this one, it’s $2 from Sea School, 10812 Gandy Blvd., St. Petersburg, FL 33702.) In addition to the new garbage placards, oil discharge placards have long been required on vessels. OFF CALIFORNIA — How to please some of the people none of the time: declare a 10-year moratorium on oil drilling off the California coast. Offhand, we’d think that announcement by President Bush in late June would have tickled pink everybody but the drillers themselves, but noooooo. The Democrats say it’s "not enough"; the environmentalists say it’s politiczilly motivated (aimed at helping Pete Wilson in the governor’s race); the American Petroleum Institute says it’ll mean fewer jobs and more tanker traffic; cmd just about everybody is upset about whatBarbara Boxer calls the "giant loophole": a provision to throw the whole plan out the window — oh, excuse us, reevaluate the plan — in case national energy supplies are ever disrupted. But Bush is happy: by the time this can of worms reopens in the year 2000, some other president will have to worry about it.

ANYWHERE BUT ALASKA — If you’re off cruising the ezistern Mediterranean in the next few years and cross tacks with a tanker named Exxon Mediterranean, be aware you’re looking at a famous ship. Or should we say infamous. Up until a few months ago, her name was Exxon Valdez, and whatever the name, she holds the distinction of creating the largest and most damaging oil spill in U.S. history. With $30 million in repairs completed last spring (which for that price should have included at lecist a triple bottom, but didn’t), Exxon officials decided it would be best to give the ship a new route and identity. *

'iry

„■

■I

PIER 39-BENICIA-PIER 39 — Sun King, a Columbia 45, went AWOL the week of July 15. Reported stolen from its Pier 39 slip on Sunday, it was recovered in Benicia on Thursday and returned to its slip apparently none the worse for wear. We did about as well cts Ozzie Cemseco running down any further information than that, striking out with, among others, the Pier 39 heurbormetster, the Coast Guard, the SFPD emd DMV’s Vessel Theft Unit. We did manage to find out that so few this year (through June), some 34 boats have been reported stolen in San Francisco, Contra Costa and Alameda counties; 25 of which were later recovered.

w" V

page 99 /

PACIFIC CUP: "F 1 ast

is fun!" But for percentage of the sailing population?

what

There are two very different races from California to Hawcui these days: the 'classic' TremsPhc from Los Angeles to Honolulu, which has been held every oddnumbered non-war year since 1906; and,

Above, overall winners Jim and Grant )iyley; below, 'Rocinante' reaches for the finish.

on even-numbered years since 1980, the ftidfic Cup from San Frandsco to Kaneohe Bay, Oahu (and previously, Kauai). The frVo races are as different as Liz Taylor and Madonna. In the early yeeurs of wooden boats, the TransPac was a great adventure for anyone who entered. Wiffi the advent of ^•flbeiglass boats in the early '60s — and particularly the Cal 40 in the mid '60s — it became a popular event with middle class Emilies and college-age kids who realized they could win one of sailing’s grand events with a bunch of ffieir buddies. Bill Lee established the elapsed-time record with the revolutionary ultra-light surBng maxi Merlin in 1977, and the "Fast is Fiui" philosophy gained a foothold. The TransPac reached its zenith of popularity in 1979 with a huge 80-boat contingent that was a mixture of the burgeoning fleet of hard-driven sleds and 'this-will-be-our-lastTransF^ac' family racer/cruisers. By the mid '80s, the TiansF^ic had become a grand prix, winning-is-the-main-thing event, dominated by 'damn the budgef maxi sleds and highly-talented racing crews. The quality of the fleet was as superb as the quantity was anemic. The 48 entries in 1989 — including an IMS division ~ represented a 40% decrease from 1979 and was the smallest fleet since the 32-boat

^ -|'

RUNNETH OVER WITH FUN ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE 38 EXCEPT AS NOTED woodie fleet of 1963. The Pacific Cup, sterted in 1980 by Alameda’s modest Ballena Bay YC, was an iffy proposition from the git-go. Sheer enthusictsm attracted a good-sized initial fleet of 34 boats in 1980, but from then on the event battled to stay alive. Wth the f^cific Cup about to succumb eifter the 1986 race, some new leadership stepped in to form the sponsoring ftidfic Cup YC and West Marine Products beccune the primeiry backer. Together they re-invented the race to fit the changing times. Christened the 'fun race to Hawaii', Pacific Cup 'fun' meant racing in whatever boat you happened to own with family and ftiends — not someone else’s sled with hired guns. With little time to establish the new identity, the West Marine Pacific Cup nonetheless drew a respectable 27 boats in 1988. Redoubling tiieir efforts in pushing the 'family cmd fnends fim' concept, last month’s 1990 Pacific Cup had a very healthy 45 starters — just three less than the 1989 Transftic. ftirticipation was spurred, perhaps, by the fact that a Westsail 32, often perceived as a humble ocezm racer, had taken overall honors in the previous race. The TransPac and ftidfic Cup fleets are very different Of the 45 boats in this year’s Pacific Cup, less than half met the

TransPac’s size or rating requirements. In actual fact, probably only four or five would be Eisked to join the by-invitationonly TransPhc. Whereas the rla<vsic race is dominated by Santa Cruz-built sleds, nearly half of the this year’s Pacific Cup fleet consisted of boats not normally raced: for example, two Hans Christian 33s, a Roughwater 45, a Yamaha 29, a Peterson 44, a Coronado 34 and Else, a 37-year old engineless wood boat that took third in her Master Mariners division earlier in the year. But the fedfic Cup participants we spoke with — many of whose boats, skippers emd crews where ocean-crossing virgins, felt no shame. "I wouldn’t even consider the other Treinsftic," said Tom Tatum, owner of the Cal 35 Shearwater, "because I’m not interested in a balls-to-the wall race. We’d take the chute down at sunset — just before wine — and our goal was to have it up agctin before noon the next day." And despite finishing last in class and 35th in fleet, he was ecstatic: "Fantastic is the only //ay to describe the e/qjerience; it was a dream come tme sailing across with my Kona buddies of 20 years ago. I definitely want to do it again." "It was a great experience I wouldn’t have missed for the world," said Fred Weibel of the MacGregor 65 North Star.

Above, the pause that refreshes. Inset, 'Another Child' points to a doublehanded victory. "But for us the racing was incidental. I’d never been in a seulboat race before; in fact, only two of our crew had." Indeed, the Pacific Cup had a rallyish, safe^in-numbers mood that seemed to have a great appeal for many of this year’s participants. At the conclusion of most TransRics, many bumed-out sailors erqjress reservations about ever doing the race again. But a startling number of less stressed ftidfic Cup seiilors responded "definitely", "absolutely", or "yes" to ttie same question. Ptospects for tire future? The Transftic, somewhat a prisoner of its grand prix image — which results in few winners and many losers — will always be the classic. But unless there is a dramatic resurgence in highly competitive ocean radng or the Transftic format, the number of entries is likely to remain flat But for the lower-key West Marine Pacific Cup, in which just about everyone who finuhed considered themselves a winner as well eis part of a magnificent adventure, the future looks bright. The only question would seem to be whether the Kaneohe YC could handle tire size fleet tiiat might want to come in 1992.

I^cords fell right and left during this year’s race: Most consistent gentie winds. Warmest weather — starting right fix)in the Golden Gate. Leeist dbmage to boats and bodies. Most prizes — over $30,000 worth. Best ever seafood buffet Most setilors hit by flying fish. Best radio personality. Happiest campers. It’s a long list If you’ve always wanted to do a swift

A couple of big boat sailors fire up some maxi stogies at the Kaneohe YC.

but pleasant race from California to Hawaii, take a minute to give yourself a swift kick in the tear, because this was the year to do it; "It wcis an absolute, total cream puff crossing." (Bmce Hedrick, sailing master aboard Kathmandu.) "It was the most beautiful sail ever, there was no bad part" (Seth Bailey, Glory Days.) "Nobody on our crew wanted the race to end." (Alex Malaccorto, owner, Beneteau 42 Rodnante.) [Editor's note: This wasn’t completely true. Crewmember Leann Bryant said she would have wanted to make a quick stop in Hawaii to briefly resume "normal relations" with her husband/crewmate Richard Bryant.]

^Sensational weather was a big factor in the ftidfic Cup being such a joyride for all the participants. Hours — even days — of white knuckles and semi-terror are p>ar for the course in a normal transpacific race. Those who did the last I^dfic Cup remember getting hammered by cold, hard winds for the first four days. But not this time. Those who had done the 1988 or 1989 Catalina races, for exeimple, said both of those had been far more difficult and territying. The crew of the Santa Cruz 50 Oaxaca reported the winds and seas in the Radfic Cup were less than on an average SCORE race on Monterey Bay, and claimed not to have teiken a drop of water on deck during the entire aossing. There were no seas to speak of, much to the dismay of the light boats. Given the tremendous diversity of entries — they ranged from a centercockpit Yamciha 29 to a Santa Cruz 70 — the four divisions left the St. Ftcmds YC starting line on four consecutive days. The idea — and it worked very well — was that by having the smaller, slower boats start first, everybody would smve in Oahu

at pretty much the same time. The luck of the draw did not favor the smaller and doublehanded boats, as each of tire first three starts encountered uncharacteristic conditions for the California coast; light air on tire nose. Division C boats, for example, got exactly what they didn’t want — excellent views of the Fourth of July fireworks, be they off the Sein Francisco Cityfront or Half Moon Bay. By the time the July 5th start for the five light, long boats rolled around, normal conditions had returned and they quickly began to catch their earlier-steirting rivals. But once all the boats had gotten SVz days off the coast, it wEis darn sweet smooth sailing all the way to Oahu. Few boats ever saw more them 25 knots of wind — even in squalls. More importanffy, all but the tail-enders never saw much less than 12 or 13 knots. There’s nothing worse than being stuck in ffie middle of the I^cific becalmed — especially when on heavier boats such as cire common in the F^cific Cup.

^^ecause the conditions were so benevolent, fear was a commodity in short supply. After a lot of hard digging, however, we meinaged to find a few examples. Topping the list was Oaxaca’s Steve Leddy. Numerous times the Santa Cruz rigger awoke in a cold sweat from nightmares that featured different members of the aew. "The worst one was when Skip Allan and I were driving a vegetable truck through Watsonville. We got out at a 7/11 store to eisk for directions, but a big black dog chased me out onto a dirt field and tried to attack me. Fortunately Skip came along and saved me by playing matador, using a cheese grater as a cape. Whew!" And they say airline pilots should be tested for drugs! The next night Leddy dreamed that he and Larsen Sail’s Bob White were stuck on a dusty island. Leddy was chased by some

alien-looking creatures in old jeeps while White was being pursued by a pack of angry goats. "Doctor Freud, Doctor Freud, please report to the Kaneohe Bay YC." V . In all fairness to Leddy, wild dreams and hallucinations are common to long distance seulors. When Ursa Major had a round-down, sleeping crewmembers Carlton Eschelmein and Matt Merrill woke up thinking it was another Loma Priela earthquake. Two racers who got a long dose of real-life fear were doublehanders Stan Honey and Sally Lindsay aboard the Cal 40 Illusion. One night at 0200 — when else? — the duo, who had gone further south than any ofter boat looking for more wind, noticed a "face of God squall" approaching from behind. In a tight race with the Hunter 35.5 Another Child, the two quickly doused their normal 1.5 ounce chute in favor of a reinforced 1.5 oz. chute. They soon wished they hadn’t. 'With the heavy kite up we plunged into a 50-knot squall. There was nothing I could do but keep driving £ind pray the chute would rip. If we crashed or tried to take the chute down, we almost certainly would have had damage zmd perhaps lost the mast. During the worst moments Sally kept saying "Exit Holodeck", an expression from the Star Trek, The New Generation series which meeins 'get me out of this simulator, I can’t take it any more'. But the chute didn’t blow and the boat handled For 73-year-old 'sensationaF.

Fred

Weibel,

slow

was

RUNNETH OVER WITH FUN }

of die most sought-after navigators for maxi sleds in die TiansRac and Lindsay builds spinnakers; diey are frequent 505 sailors.) When the wind finally dropped to a mere 25 knots after two hours, Honey and Lindsay were so exhausted that they replaced die spinnaker with a white seiil and, completely exhausted, fell asleep for die next four hours. It would be the only four hours during the last nine days of the race that they didn’t cany a chute.

Leann and Richard Bryant — he wanted to keep going; she wanted to make a brief stop in Hawaii.

beautifully for the duration of the two-hour squall. We were going so fest that the bow wave was shooting all the way back to the cockpit; the stem was squatting so low that die surface of the ocean was two feet higher than the top of die pulpit. We were doing 25 knots; it was one of the scariest times I’ve ever had on a boat." Twenty-five knots in a Cal 40? "I wouldn’t believe anybody who claimed that except Stan Honey," said several veteian ocean racers. (Honey is one

^5o much for history, dreams emd tenor. 1990 Pacific Cup first-to-finish honors went to Gene Twiner of Seattle, who chartered the Santa Cruz 70 Kathmandu. Actually Robbie Haines, an Olympic sailing medalist, was most respor^ible for Twiner’s win — and he didn’t even go on the race. Bruce Hedrick remembers diey were all sailing off Seatde on Twiner’s new C&C 37 when Twiner told H£unes he was going to race the boat in the Pacific Cup. "Geez, it’s too small to setil to Hawciii!" said Haines. "Bruce, get back here!" Twiner shouted to Hedrick, who was on die foredeck. The three men huddled in die cockpit to discuss what was the 'right* boat for the race. A Seinta Cruz 70 was suggested. When Twiner found out that it would cost just $5,000 more to charter Kathmandu than ^e $35,000 it would cost to proper^ outfit his brctnd new C&C, the decision was made right then. When diey arrived in Oahu after 8 days, 15 hours, all were ecstatic about die

Jim and Sue Corenman — bridesmaids again, this time with a 'Heart of Cold'.

boat and sang the praises of her designer/builder. Bill Lee. "I can’t say enough about die boat," reported an enthusiastic Hedrick. "Nobody on the crew had ever sailed on one before, but it’s such a great design everyone came up to speed really fast The only problem we had was with our rookie 'speed merchants'. It’s so much fiui to dive off in the littie holes and surf that they couldn’t resist" Had tiiey been able to resist might have set a new Pacific Cup record. They missed Merlin’s nuirk (set on tiie 56-niile longer Kauai course) by less than half an hour. Indicative of die consistent winds, Kathmandu’s top noon-to-noon run was 282 miles; her worst 24 hour run w^ 254 miles. Charterer Twiner was the speed king, hitting 20.6 knots during a 28-knot squall. That’s slow for 70s, which can hit 25 knots and do 350 miles a day, but again, it’s consistent speed, not sporadic bursts diat make for fast, fiui sails. And like the huge majority of boats in die ftidfic Cup, Kathmandu was mostly out for a go<^ time. 'We trimmed for each wave," says crewman Greg Allan, "but we went for fun rather than a record. Our number one goal was for no one to get hurt" Kathmandu’s only competition for line honors came fifom Meridian, an unusual 70-foot ultralight racer/cruiser that was a collaboration between Seatde Naval

Architect Robert Perry and the boat’s owner, retired Seattle architect Chuck Schiff. She’s also unusual in that skipper Tun Clark heads up ein 11-man syndicate that has chartered the boat for the last five years in return for maintaining her. Having done all the Pacific Northwest inshore races, the charter group got Schiff to let them take it on the Pacific Cup. Five minutes into the race. Meridian ripped her five-year old main cmd had to resort to her dacron, cruising main. By 8:00 p.m. she was so far behind her class that she couldn’t even pick up the other boats on radar. Staying northwest of Kathmandu, which had gone south in search of better wind, the fast reaching Meridian caught up to the Santa Cruz 70 in tiie sense that at one point they were the seime distance from Oahu. But Kathmandu had a hotter angle to the island, and with the kites up quickly demonstrated she could sail faster further off the wind them Meridian. The Perry-Schiff design finished 7 hours behind tUithmandu, correcting out two hours behind the Santa Cruz 70. Mike Banks, part of the charter syndicate, isn’t sure what they’ll do next time. They’ve all come to love Meridian, but realize she probably needs a new keel and a repositioned mast to be competitive. The group, which won a \fictoria-to-Maui Race with a Santa Cruz 50, might do the next F^dfic Cup in a Santa Cruz 70.

i^^tiiough finishing one-two on elapsed time, Kathmandu and Meridian were sixth and ninth in fleet respectively on corrected time. Top honors in class cmd fleet went to two other Class D boats. (In all other races. Class A boats are the biggest and fastest; in the Pacific Cup, Class A boats are the first-starting slowest and smallest boats). Regardless of Leddy’s fitful dreams.

Pacific Cup shocker; the Radio Doctor, aka Chuck Hawley, is a family man! \ ^ v

Jim Ryley’s Santa Cruz 50 Oaxaca was able to correct out first overall in a 45-boat fleet, which included seven doublehanded entries. Despite a year-long immaculate preparation job by SWp Allan that included a new rudder, a rebuilt mast and new seals, Ryley’s top priority was strictly Ffacific Cup: Have fun. M ex-Porsche racer, Ryley feels that he get5 all the serious competition he needs in lut: running his Cupertino Hectric company. Despite the 'fun is first' priority, Oaxaca's 9 day, 11 hour run was the fastest California to Hawaii crossing ever by a Santa Cruz 50. Given all the 50s that have been brutally driven aaoss the Pacific, that’s quite an accomplishment. (The Transffac course is 155 miles longer.

but doesn’t require seiiling as feur south to get good wind). The record run was realized through a combination of luck and skill. The luck consisted of exceptionally good weather. Oaxaca was in the only start '^■of ■ four that sailed out the Gate in ideal conditions. Not only did they immediately begin to reach off under double headsails At ten knots, but it was so warm they only needed Levis and light jackets rather than the usual polypro undies and multiple layers of clones. "It was ridiculously consistent," remembers Bob White. 'You went off watch and the boat would be doing ten knots. You’d come back on watch and the boat would be doing ten knots. You’d got off watch three days later eind she’d still be doing 10 knots. It seemed like tire knotmeter was stuck on 10 knots all the way across." Top speed was a relatively pedestriem 15.8 knots; peak wind was 27 knots. The skill part of 9.5-day crossing was the vigilance of the crew and the navigation of Skip Allan. Every watch changed the position of the spinnaker halyard to decrease wear, and every two days — between wild dreams — Reddy would go aloft to change the shackle that holds the spinnaker halyard block to the mast. Then there was 20-crossing veterem AUcin’s navigation. "He wars just perfect," remembers one of the crew. "Rrom 300 The King and his Westsail 32 'Sewabantt — he stunned the fleet again.

. | \ i \ • ; « * I * ' j ^

■. ;

RUNNETH OVER WITH FUN

Which one did the Pacific Cupi Hint: she's the one with the broken foot.

miles out he put us on a hot jibe angle for Molokai, and then caromed us off the isleind right towcurd the ffnish line." The Oaxaca crew had a lot of fun going over. "There wasn’t a harsh word among the crew the entire nine days," said one. They even flew kites from behind the boat. White started and nurtured a rumor tfiat he’d seen a cockroach on the boat. A couple of days later a jalapeno pepper was slipped into one of Rape Parson’s socks. When Pepe put his foot in and felt something funny, he let out a holler and tossed the sock overboard. Second in Class D — and second overcdl for the second F^icific Cup in a row — were Sue (skipper) cind Jim (navigator) Corenman aboard their sleek new Schumacher-designed 50-foot Heart of Gold. Described as a cruising boat and having been built by the Concordia (Mass.) compeuiy that did all those lovely yawls.

she’s nonetheless a very racy machine. She does have a gorgeous ash interior, for example, but all the drawers are made of honeycomb to save weight. Despite having done the last four Pacific Cups, the Corenmans had wanted a boat they could race competitively to Hawaii and Mexico with a full crew, but could also cruise by themselves afterwards. 'There was nothing out there 1 liked," said Corenman, who just cashed in some chips from a founding interest in a medical company, "because 1 wanted something displacing 22,000-pounds — not 30,000 — that could sail to weather better them an ultralight." They’ve yet to make the all-around boat that can go downwind with an ultralight, and that’s what left the Corenmans to be bridesmaids again. We held our own with Oaxaca during the first half while reaching," seiid Jim, "but as the wind got lighter and the course got mnnier, they just piled on the miles." It was a Kathmandu / Meridian scenario all over again, with the heavier, more northerly boat unable to keep up. Heart’s very swift "ten minutes less them 10 days" crossing/left them eight hours behind Oaxaca on corrected time.

IRletuming to the 1990 Pacific Cup to defend his 1988 corrected-time victory was 41-year old Dave King, a Portlandbased "boat bum" and delivery skipper, with his Westsail 32 Saraband. King spent a few days in Alameda prior to the start of this years race and was heartened by the ' "dozens" of people who came by to say •how happy they were he’d won the previous I^cific Cup. "It really felt good; it was like my 1988 victory had vindicated all the owners of 'everyman' boats like Cals, Ericsons, Hans Christians and so forth." Duplicating his 1988 victory would be no small task. The ftrcific Cup races under PHRF handicaps that are modified two ways in deference to the nature of the course. Since the F^cific Cup is virtually all downwind, boats that are abnormcdly light for their length are assessed a penalty of ^ up to 15 seconds per mile. The other modification, new this year, is a penalty against boats — like Westsails, Hans Christians, Crealock 37s zmd Peterson 44s — that have low PHRF ratings for their length. The concept is that their low ratings are a function of poor performemce to weather, and thus with cui unmodified rating they would have an unftiir advantage in a reaching and downwind race. Unlike the penalty for light displacement, there is

Why is Frank Delfer smiling? It wasn't the broken mast; it M'as his good seamanship.

no 15 sec/mile maximum on long waterline boats. Saraband’s rating thus went down 32 seconds/mile from the last Pacific Cup, meaning she had to sail 18.4 hours fcister to have the same corrected time. A determined King and his four-person crew — like all the other boats in the first three starts — ran into trouble early. For the first three to four days, they didn’t get the powerful reaching conditions that Ccin usually be expected, but had to beat into light air and sloppy seas. They not only didn’t make much ground, but the wind direction didn’t allow them to sail in the direction they wanted. The result was they ended up sailing 200 additional miles. Four days into the race, however, they had perfect conditions — as did everyone else. Days 4 through 11 they covered 1150 miles, with a best noon-to-noon run of 187 miles. According to some members of the race. Saraband’s daily mns were the talk of the fleet’s 'Children’s Hour'. This weis understandable, since they sailing away from Barry Sevan’s Ericson 35 Good Times II, a previous Catalina Race winner. Did ffiis surprise King? "No, it didn’t surprise me at all. Once we cracked off a bit, we also pulled away from Oregon Native, a Crealodi 37. I’ve always maintained that a Westsail 32, if properly equipped and sailed, will compete equally with any 32 foot ocean¬ going boat, except for ultralights. The problem is that most Westsciils aren’t equipped or sciiled aggressively; it’s a reflection of the owners, most of whom are cruisers." Unlike ultralights. King expletined that

PACIFIC CUP:

next also next you,

best boat in Class A finished 24th. He corrected out 28 hours ahead of the l^t in his class. Don’t let King fool hes got to be a damn fine sailor. The modifications in the PHRF ratings for the F^cific Cup were actually vindicated quite well by the overall results. The top five included two ultralights that admittedly benefitted from particularly advantageous weather during their start, a heavy displacement double-ender that most people believed couldn’t sail out of her own way, a middle-of-the road racer/cruiser, and a relatively heavy modem cruising boat Each of the four classes was represented in the top five overall; you just can’t get much better than that.

Fred Weibel: he didn't get to do it with an all-women crew, hut he ivas still smiling at the finish line.

aggressively sailing a Westsail doesn’t mean carrying a chute no matter how hcird the wind blows. "A Westsail has a good grip on the water and never lets go, so it’s not necessary to overcarry seiil as with ultralights. A couple of times the wind came up eind we decided to drop the spinnaker, but it didn’t make cmy difference in our speed because the Westsail will only go so fast. She’ll do 7.5 knots easily and handle well. It’s hard getting another half knot, however, and if you do the helm becomes heavy." After sailing a week at hull speed. Saraband ran into 8 to 10 knots of zrir the last three days, which really slowed her down. Nonetheless, King finished in 14 days, 7 hours, correcting out just half an hour behind his old adverseiries, the Coienmcins on Heart of Gold. While not complaining. King thought his chemces this year were hurt by the staggered start and that the rating adjustment on his Westsail and similar boats "was a little too severe". Nonetheless, his first and third overall finishes in the two Pacific Cups are powerful arguments that the derisive Wetsnail' moniker is not deserved. Consider, if you will, some of the other boats King’s Westsciil beat boat-forboat: Ericson 35 (13 hours), Coronado 34 (35 hours), Yamaha 29 (39 hours), Hans Christian 41 (43 hours). Such time differences ate hard to ignore. Anybody for a Westsedl 32 one-design clctss to Catalina next year? King is always quick to attribute Saraband’s success to the Westsciil 32 design rather than himself, but we’re not buying it. He finished third in fleet; the

' ' N V.^apturing 4th overall emd first in Class B was Andy Rothman’s Pretorian 35 Glory Days. This despite having to beat on a port tack — almost unheard of when leaving San Francisco for Hawcui — for the first three days and having most of their instruments crap out. Upon fiieir arrival at Oahu, Rothman and crew were enthusiastic about the race eind their fine finish. 'We were relentless," said Rothman, "right from the beginning when we port tacked the fleet in front of the St. Hai^cis YC. Then we always carried the biggest seril we could. Sometimes we had a bow wave cis high cis the lifelines and a rooster tail a boatlength behind the boat. Even so, it was a lot easier than the last two Catalina Races, when we tore every sail we set." Glory Days had a crew of six, five of

Standing, sitting or lying down, Pac Cuppers loved to ‘reach out and touch someone'.

whom have been racing HDA-J on the Bay for the last two years cmd could drive in heavy air. Would Rothman do the race again? "Oh yes! In fact, my alternate crew already has tiheir bags packed." Indeed, the only glum person in tire Glory Days entourage was bowperson Jane Ellen Freed, who had to come by 747. "I was all set to do fiiis race, but I broke my leg while doing a sail change during the Vallejo Race." Indeed she had; her foot was still in a cast. Unusual for a race like this was the fact that none of the classes had reed tight corrected-time battles for the top three spots. The margins were always arl hour or more — cind fiequently meiny hours. There was in Class B, however, a great elapsed time battle between Ernie Jones’s San Brancisco-based Spectre Lapuwale, which

iSi'* V

RUNNETH OVER WITH FUN

beat Phil Jones’ Scin Frandsco-based Nordic 40 Escape by foior seconds! Fifth over^ eind first in Class C was Ned Flohr’s Barnett 46, Tin Man, which had ftnished 9th overall and 4tii in rla«^c! jn tile last Pacific Cup. The 33,500-pound condo-like New Zeeiland-built boat surprisingly had more difficulty onboard them in holding off her ultralight class competition. Just a couple of days into the race, a short left tiiem unable to start the engine. In the 'old days', such an occurrence was no big deal; but increasingly, long distance racers have come to rely on freezers for their food and watermakers for their liquids. With just sue gallons of water onboard at tiie time of the short, and that needed for cooking, the crew was forced to go through caffeine and water withdrawal. But with a two fruit drinks and one beer ration of liquids at the worst point, and a fantastic job by cook Jack Curtis "who saved the day", they ended up having a thoroughly enjos/able crossing. In frict, tiiey were all talking about doing it again. Class C also had the biggest group of semi-bummed out sailors. Consisting of mostly mid-sized light boats that love to surf like the Humboldt 30 H-Bee, the Luffe 44 Ursa Major, the Ftur 36 ^tard, the Santa Cruz 40 Promotion, the Eiqjiess 37 Nimh and the two-time TransPac winning Lee 36 Chutzpah, tiiey just didn’t get quite enough wind to do tiie surfing tiiat makes 'Spinnaker Sail/ drives the doublehanded Cal 40 'Illusion' beneath the Golden Cate.

those boats so much fun and so competitive in a downwind race. It was all tiie more frustrating because they often had just enough wind for littie "mini surfs" but with too small waves to help. Witii lighter or heavier wind tiiey kill tiie heavier Tin Man; with a consistent 15 knots, she waterlines tiiem.

T X he

seven-boat doublehanded division quickly developed into a duel between a boat dealer’s brand new production boat and a expert navigator on a beloved classic fiberglass sloop. Two years ago Stan Honey, who had navigated sleds "to Molokcii first in tiiree of the last five TransPacs", emd Sally Lindsay found a '67 Cal 40 in dreadful condition on 'Moore’s Reef in Santa Cruz. A cruiser had. left her there six years before, i^ocked, with a damaged hull and no engine, to take up farming in Kansas. Having grown up sailing Cal 40s at the Los Angeles YC with many of today’s best racers. Honey and Lindsay figured the 55 Chevy of sailboats' would make a great cruising boat. "When first introduced tiie Cal 40 was considered radical," says Honey, 'but by today’s standards she’s moderate in all respects — displacement, waterline length, be^, rig, stability. She’s also very responsive, well-mannered and has a soUd laminate hull, all of which make her a great cruising boat" Despite aiming at the Fbdfic Cup from almost the day they bought Illusion, Honey and Lindsay only managed three short sails on the boat prior to tiie race. Peurt of the problem was the major restoration — called the 'best I’ve seen" by one sailor — done with the help of Ron Moore and others. Then there was Honey’s business responsibilities; founder and for mziny years

The 13-day crossing was 'Glory Days' for Andy Rothman and crew.

Chief Technician of the Peninsula’s 300employee ETAK coiporation. Honey was kicked upstairs to president when Rupert Murdoch bought it. Then, too. Honey and Lindsay are entiiusiastic 505 sailors. While the lack of experience on Illusion didn’t hurt the couple, the safety-conscious Honey definitely doesn’t recommend it for others. A day into the race. Honey — who says it’s more exhausting to be a navigator on a maxi sled because there’s no end to the information you can process — had determined that Jim Bankson’s Hunter 35.5 Another Child was faster through the water and thus their main competition. Checking the boat specs tiiat showed the Hunter had ' the same waterline, displaced 3,000 less

Hawaiian nights were warm; the Kaneohe YC pool was cool.

and had more sail area, he wasn’t surprised she could pull on one of the great radng designs in history. Despite

PACIFIC CUP:

For Tom Tatum, the Pacific Cup was a magnificent reunion with a group of his Kona buddies from the late '60s.

having a slower boat, the difference in assigned handicaps meant he and Lindsay had to make Oahu nine hours ahead of Another Child to correct out. The only way to do that would be to outsmart them. He was given a chance. Having tracked the surfftce winds in the Pacific for the prior month, Another Child’s Bankson figured that a rhumb line course would be about as good as any. A master navigator and weather analyst. Honey knew better. When most navigators \ were asked to expi2iin why this was definitely a year to go south rambled on with explanations. Honey had it down to eleven words: "the Pacific High was weak and had eui east-west orientation." Seeing their chcince. Honey and Lindsay took Illusion the furthest south of the 45 boats in tiie race. A friendly sort, Bankson nonetheless made no bones about the fact that he and crewmember Gary Beiillargeon had been out to win: "If you cruise, do it in a 747." Naturally the two of them kept a close eye on Illusion. Close to the overcdl leaders of the entire race during the early going, fatigue begcin to overtake them. At times Jim suffered from vertigo, feeling as though he was flying an airplane straight at the ground. Another time one got all dressed to come up on watch to find he hadn’t been called. "You got tired like a zombie," said Baillargeon, "but you didn’t realize you hadn’t slept or eaten. And while you could see it in the other guy, you didn’t realize you were the scime way." He lost 15 pounds on trip; skipper Bankson lost 10 in addition to emother 40 shed through dieting the six months before.

Because they had a good lead and were so tired, they began taking down the chute\|it night emd reaching up a litde to maintain the same boatspeed. It was about this time that Honey’s southern strategy began to pay off with better wind and boatspeed. Another Child’s crew began to notice Illusion was creeping up at the 0800 roll calls, particulcirly the morning after the night they blasted along on the heels of that 50-knot squall. Shocked at iheir diminishing lead, their chute would have to stay up day and night no matter how tired tiiey got. ' Having saved three hours by taking the southern course, and despite carrying a spinnaker for all but four hours. Illusion corrected out five hours l^lnd the victorious Hunter 35.5. Bankson, who is the world’s largest Hunter dealer, was not surprised the smellier new boat could outsail the classic Cal 40. "During the delivery down we learned she was a very fast boat in both light and heavy winds." Despite the exhaustion and the fact he got a little bored the last couple of days, Bankson thinks he’ll do the race again next time. "Hopefully in a new 50-footer Hunter is planning." He also got tremendous satisfaction frorh "having proved one of our Seattle sailing rags wrong". It had predicted that Bankson and Baillargeon had 'no chcince' to win. While Honey didn’t get the top pickle dish, the veteran of many Transftics thought the Ftedfic Cup wtis a terrific event that really fills a need. "It’s just like the TransPbc used to be in the good old days of the late 60s and 70s. And the doublehanding was great. With just two people you can’t do anything eis well as it should be done, so the challenge is to figure out the best compromises. As for the TransPac, I’ll always navigate a maxi sled if I’m invited, but the parties, the atmosphete — this Pacific Cup’s been really great."

^^ome veteran sailors’ one concern with the F^dfic Cup regards the safety of the less experienced sailors and less professionally prepared boats. "One of the great traditions of the Trcinsftic," saiid one, "is that it’s been a showcase of small boat seamEinship. If you started a TransPac, you finished on your own no matter what it took. Those who didn’t weren’t invited back." While specifically not wanting to criticize, the old hands hope that seamanship will become as much a trademark of the Pacific Cup. Demonstrating fine seamanship and self-suffidency was the crew of ffie

"He wanted me to stay on course," said 'Juanita's' Bonnie Row in disbelief.

Crealock 37 Oregon Native. After running with leaders for nearly half the race, Sacramento owner Rank Delfer was called on deck by the helmsmem who kept repeating "S-tl S-t! S-t! S-t! S~tl" for about a minute before he pointed to the mzist, which had gone over the side. It’s hard to believe that a heavy extrusion on the relatively low-aspect Qecdock would fail, but something gave during a round-up where the spinnaker pole attached to the mast. Cutting away the rigging ("Forget the hacksaws, you have to have wire cutters," says Delfer) they memaged to salvage tire main boom to construct one of the finest jury-rigs we’ve seen. They had halyards, topping lifts, outhauls, could set two sails and could jibe anytime they wanted. Hitting a top speed of foirr knots, they made Honolulu under their own power. "What are you going to do now, sell

RUNNETH OVER WITH FUN

the boat?" asked one bystander at Keehi Marine. "Hell no," growled Delfer in a tone ttiat made you not want to doubt him. "We’ll put a new stick in and do die race again next time." In other mishaps, three days out the Hams Christian 44 'Wedding Cake' Our Destiny experienced a "total electrical feulure", leaving them witii no engine and just the juice in dieir batteries. A day later their "new concept furling main" wouldn’t stay in die mast track euiymore. With no engine and unable to carry any sail but a gennaker and jib, the crew on the heavy displacement pilothouse boat decided to hang in there. With a top speed of 5 knots and more than one day. spent becalmed, it took diem 21 days to reach Oahu — but they did it on dieir own. Also arriving after die race deadline — but two hours before die awards dinner — were Team Borai doublehanders Rank Ansak and John Manthorpe. Somehow it took them three weeks to cross in a Moore 24 — including the time lost having to return to San Rrancisco to find a spinnaker pole to replace the one diey dropped overboard. Navigation was apparentiy a big problem for tiiem; appropriately, they were awarded a Magellan GPS, one of ^e top prizes, at the ceremony. Dropping out early widi alternator problems were doublehanders Nanc^ Daniels and Judith Edwards of the fuchsia C&C 38 PeregaiL They’d given their back¬ up to Bob Cramner-Brown on Etosha in With this year's mild Pac Cup weather, 'Goldie's' Scott Owens and Kame Richards had it made in the shade.

"It's a very small penis," explained the Radio Doctor, answering the question that puzzled the fleet across tAe Pacific.

the Singlehanded TransRic; it crapped out on him and he briefly returned to San Rrancisco, too. 'We rrussed the ^b," said John and Bonnie Row of Juanita. 'We’d been hoping to exchemge some sourdough and enchiladas with them." As for themselves, John and Bonnie had very happy, leisurely crossing tiiat typified much of Ihe Fbcific Cup fleet ^d Bonnie, "Some boats were gung-ho and took out floorboards and cushions and put all their food on the starboard side. Our priorities were having ice cubes and carrying enough shower water for the whole crossing. , Getting away, not getting there fast was the important thing. Staying on course can be • so boring!" Outstanding humor of the trip w£»s provided by "the Radio Doctor" aboard Promotion. The Radio Doctor got hb start helping competitors get tiieir SaiNavs flying again, but as always happens on ocean races, the humor got sharper and more ribald. Soon the Radio Doctor and a "tightlipped" 'Nurse Judith' were discussing various 'cures' for 'DSB', otherwise known to the fleet as Dangerous Sperm Buildup. "He was so quick-witted"; "The guy was * * so fast cind so hysterical"; "I’ve never heard anyone so funny", were some of the reviews. Naturally, sponsor West Marine Produds was the butt of endless mid-ocean jokes. "I bought a Cem of West Mctrine Cloud Disperser and it doesn’t work," one entry complcdned to the Radio Doctor. "Of course it doesn’t work, you idiot," replied tire Radio Doctor, "we only sell Crowd Disperser, which b why you’re so far

behind." As the race went on, competitors jokingly asked each other if ainybody had any West Marine Producb merchandise onboard that still worked. It finally got down to one guy who said hb West Marine sponge still worked. "Oops," he said during a call the next day, "the sponge broke." Nobody got any respect during Children’s Hour. Winning the respect of everyone was host Kaneohe Bay YC. Not only do these folks have the finest place in Hawaii to end a race, what with the beautiful open-eiir dub and facilities 100 feet firom the docked boate, but they knocked themselves out with hospitality. It’s obligatory to say stuff like thb, but this was a case where it was really true. They had free shuttle service to Honolulu, free diving, free deep-sea fishing, enthusiastic middle-of-the night greetings and an all-around terrific attitude. Give ’em a 10! And, a spedal Latitude 38 theinks to our photoboat men, Mike Johnson and 'Ski' of Kai Puka.

Pacific Cup Tidbits: — The most common malady — about 15 victims — was getting hdt by flying fish. Some victims were grazed, those hit in the head were stunned or saw steurs. John Fiess reports, one almost got stuck in hb ear. — Best upon-arrival comment from a waiting woman: "Oh shit, he grew a beard!!!!!" Jane Ellen Reed about Andy Rothman. Said Rothman, 'You know me Jane, I normally even shave at sea." Jane Ellen: "That’s why it’s so dbgusting." — Was it lucky to be the only woman on a boat? "I took one look at my four

PACIFIC CUP crewmates emd said, TU sleep up forward by myself." ckiims Robin of Elsa. The 'token' woman and worrier, she was nonetheless the only one who didn’t wrap the chute. — Nobody could have had more fun than this group: The crowd on Bruce Fowler’s 1953 wood Elsa couldn’t seem to find anything not to laugh about. With engine problems just before the stcurt, the useless iron was replaced with cases of beer. — Most enthusiastic group of gals waiting to greet their guys: The "Hot Women" from Cool Change. — Lecist Enthusiastic Group of Arriving Guys: The crew of Cool Change. Next time cut down on the saltpeter. — Secret of Mrnh’s Kent & Jzine Greenough celebrated their 19th einniversary at the 1,000-mile mark. — For Nimh’s Tim Deschamps, it was his second Pacific Cup, but the first on a boat where he could use the head. He went aboard the C&C 41 Gate Crasher in 1988, but one of the conditions set by skipper Linda Rettie was that nobody use the toilet. — There’s never been a deeper love, but they knew it couldn’t last. The most unforgettable women of the trip, according to the "juvenile watch" aboard Nimh, were Terri, Jacki, Tina, Action Jackson and Animal Lady. "All five fold-outs were ceremoniously buried as we approached land and morality," confessed one of the juveniles. ^ — For those who hadn’t done a Mexican or Transftic Race, the morning roll call, in which everybody’s position was given, was a surprising highlight. Said several racers, "In something like the Catalina Race you have no idea how you’re doing. This made it so much more fun." — The pre-race seminars got excellent reviews. "In addition to stuff about the wind and weather they answered a lot of 'nut and bolts' questions — such as needing to have a roll of paper towels and toilet paper for each day you’re out on the ocean. How else would you know about that?" asked Tom Tatum. — Dciily progress reports were aveulable from the Berkeley YC. Since they couldn’t get cinother line in, the calls went to a cellular phone. Bobbi Tosse reports there were so many calls from 1 to 4 p.m. that the phone literally got hot. They also learned that when six or more ccdls were backed up, callers were incorrectly told the "phone is out of service". — Some of the navigators were pretty raw. When asked for their 0800 roll call position one morning, one navigator

West Marine Pacific Cup Resuits Place Div. Fit D-HANDED 1 2f 2 29 3 4 36 5 38 8 46 8 46 DIVISION A 1 3 24 2 3 26 4 31 5 33 34 6 7 35 8 37 9 39 13 46 13 46 13 46 DIVISIONS 1 4 2 10 12 3 4 14 5 20 6 23 7 25 27 8 9 30 10 32 DIVISION C 1 5 2 7 3 8 4 11 5 13 6 15 7 16 8 18 9 19 10 22 12 46 DIVISIONS 1 1 2 2 3 6 4 9 5 28

, Yacht

Typo

Coir,Tlim

Owner/Charterer

Home Port

D H MS

Bankson/Baillargeon Honey/Lindsay Magri/Magn

10:0620:58 10:1122:14 11:10:00:30. 12:00:5221 12:20:31:13 ' DNF ' DNF .

Hunter Lgd 35.5 Cal 40 J-33 Custom 38 ; Ericson 46 Moore 24 C&C 35

Haire/Lerner Ansak/Manthorpe Danicis/Edwards

Seattle Palo Alto San Jose Mt View Alta Loma Sausalito Sunnyvale

Saraband Good Times II No Drama Bare Assets Else Sabrina Erin Ta Mana Fete Accomplle Sail a Vie Our Destiny Oregon Native

Westsail 32 Encson 35 Yamaha 29 HC33 Pacific 40 Coronado 34 HC33 Tiisbal36 Roughwater 45 Tanton 35 H(\^44^ Crealock 37

David King Barry Bevan Colin Taylor Jerry Kunze Bruce Fowler Thomas Hoynes Jim Sully H. Bernard Quanta Eugene Eisenberg Conrad Gac T/Villiam Brill Franklin Delfer

Portland Sacramento Bellevue Reno Alameda Alameda Huntington Richmond Napa Ventura Richmond ; Loomis

: '9:13:24:29 10:17:5523 1020:19:00'; 11:10:5420 ' ,11:14:14:09 ' 11:15:12:49 ' 11:15:14:17 '12:05:45:33 ' 13:08:48:06 DNF ' DNF : ' DNF, ' ' '

Glory Days Lapuwale Escape Ghost TropIcBIrd Quixote Mary II Cool Change Allegro Shearwater

Pretorian 35 Andy Rothman Septre 41 Ernie Jordan Nordic 40 Phii Jones Morgan 38 Lou Ickter Peterson 44 Randy Palling . Hunter Ldg 35.5 Charles Farrell Fairweather 38 s Russ Dennis Passport 40 Philip Stolp C&C 37 Robert Smalley Cal 35 Tom Tatum

Palo Alto Belmont i Kentfield San Francisco ; Richmond Sacramento : Los Angeles Kenwood Chula Vista s Santa Rosa

9:18:34:56 ' 10:01:52:58 10:02:27:32 .10:02:59:10, , 10:10:10:59 10:16:40:59 1020:1025 11:01:18:00 11:10:3328 '' 11:13:49:09

Tin Man H-Bee Ursa Major Petard Rocinante Pro Motion Secret of Nimh Chutzpah Westcoast Eagle Dandy Beach Party

Barnett 47 Humboldt 3(^ Luffe44 Farr 36 Beneteau 42 Santa Cruz 40 Express 37 Lee 35 Norsemann 447 Baltic 42 Farr 46

Ned Flohr Leo Fredrickson Brent Crawford Keith Buck Alex Malaccorto Geoff Eisenberg , Kent Greenough Roth/Doyle Mark Miiler Stef Clarke John & Pat Sprouse

Oaxaca Heart of Gold Kathmandu Meridian North Star

Santa Cruz 50 Schumacher 50 Santa Cruz 70 Custom 70 MacGregor 65

Jim Ryley Jim & Sue Corenman Gene Twiner Tim Clark Fred Weibel

Another Child Illusion Lobo Juanita Beyond Team Boral Perigall

responded: "What if we didn’t have a satellite at 0800?" Asked if he wemted to backtrack to calculate a 0800 position, the response was: 'No." -7- The oldest skipper was 73-year old Fred Weibel of Weibel Winery and the MacGregor 65 North Star. "I’ve been thinking of doing a TransPlac for 30 years," Sciid Weibel. "About 20 years ago 1 was training an all-girl crew to do it in my Magellan 36, but I couldn’t find a girl who knew how to navigate. I met my wife while going to navigation school, cmd that was the end of my all-girl Transire plans." Weibel, who practiced for the race by sailing up to Oregon, was ably assisted by a spry fella by the name of Milton Fbwell, who himself hadn’t done a race "since I

Rbw/Row

Seattle Eureka : Vallejo Alamo San Jose ■Watsonville Alameda Tiburon Bainbridge Tacoma Portland Saratoga Oakland Seattle Seattle Fremont

'9:19:1420 9:23:28:01 ~ 10:01:25:35' 10:01:56:22 10:02:47:51 10:03:01:25' 10:05:45:03 10:06:53:27 10:09:53:18 10:15:29:44 DNF 9:04:27:57 9:12:54:09 9:22:14:08 10:01:47:47 11:01:55:05

was a 16-year old kid in 1934 chasing girls." •— Many of the Pacific Cup entries come from the Pacific Northwest. Each one who spoke to claimed that the once-proud Vic-Maui Race, which had 12 entries this year, "is dead". "They don’t want us in their race," said one, "and the Pacific Cup loves to have us!" Look for strong Pacific Cup support from the Northwest in the future. — Last but not least, congratulations to Mary Lovely, Commodore of the Pacific Cup Yacht Club, for heading up an event about which we heard not a single discouraging word.

— latitude 38 page 110

SVENDSEN

SPAR AND RIGGING SHOP

CRUISING

RACING

KIT MASTS AND BOOMS

CUSTOM RACING^SPARS

PROFESSIONAL PAINTING

ROD-RIGGING SYSTEMS

EXPERIENCED ELECTRICAL work"

STAINLESS AND 'ALUMINUM FABRICATION

HARKEN FURLING SYSTEMS

HYDRAULICS INSTALLATIONS

FREE RIGGING INSPECTION

HIGH PERFORMANCE RIG TUNING

STANDING RIGGING AND LIFELINES

3,000 LB MAST HOIST CUSTOM & KIT HALYARDS

FULL SERVICE BOATYARD SVENDSEN'S THE BOATERS SUPERMARKET OPEN M-F 8-5:30, SAT 8-5, SUN 9-6 page 111

COMPLETE CHANDLERY 1851 CLEMENT AVENUE ALAMEDA, CA 94501

(415) 521-8454

CATALINA RACE '90: Lasts and spinnaker poles snapped Me like twigs. Hardware ripped off decks. Seiils were shredded. Blood was spilled; mangled crewmembers were airlifted off boats and rushed to hospitals. Speedos were pegged for hours as boats surfed madly down 15 foot ocean swells. Elapsed time records were smeished into oblivion. "It was terrifying," admitted one exhausted but happy crew¬ member. But that was last year’s Catalina Race, and for that matter tfie year before it, too. This year, unfortunately, the Big Guy Upstairs pulled the plug on the wind machine. "It was a real dud; the slowest one yet," said Jim Forrest, a crewmember on Zeus, who has done all but one of the 12 Metropolitan VC sponsored races. In fact, fae race was so slow that only 59 out of 113 sfarters finished before the mandatory cut¬ off time, which has got to be some sort of record for a West Coast distance race. "Everyone was bummed out because the race wasn’t what they figured on," claimed Evolu^on’s Tom Leweck. "The 'travel brochure' billed it as an 'E Ticket' sleigh ride — a 395-mile drag race." Indeed^ expectations for MYCO’s 12th annual downwind run to "The Isle of Romcmce" rein high: though slightly smaller them 1988’s record-high armada of 127 boats, this was easily the highest octane fleet ever cissembled for this coastal classic. There were fewer non-spinnaker boats (16) them usual, emd — because this is a non-TransRac

year — a plethora of glamorous boats and rockstars, all drooling over a shot at W'mterhawk’s 1989 record of 35 hours, 11 minutes and 40 seconds. On paper, the showdown looked great: the last three elapsed time record holders

were entered (Zeus, Bhndie and Winterhawk); a dozen ULDB 70s were treating the race as one df their five championship events; nine mini-sleds (the so-called "Fabulous Fifties") were entered; as were four Big Macs, eight Express 37s and assoried other hotrods. The Bay Area buzzed with activity as boats were readied; sailmakers and riggers worked overtime to outfit the

The winning crew of 'Special Edition' — Eric Sultan, Ian Klitza, Dave Hodges and Mike Bruzzone.

fleet; and crewmembere began flying in from as far away as New Zealand (Kotuku) and the East Coast (Chance). Excitement

The sleds were out in force, but were denied the expected sleigh ride. Maybe next year?

mounted as the staggered start (July 7 for non-spinnaker boats; July 8 for everyone else) approached.

ilnd then, pfffffffft. Uke a bull fight without bulls, the race turned out to be a lot of pomp and circumstance, but no action. "It never got off the launching pad," said Chance’s "Afixr-marine engineer" (this year’s term for BMWs), Dave Culver. "It was an ugly deal right from the start" An uninvited guest, tropical storm Ifausto to the south, threw a damper on the party from the beginning, as frustratingly light headwinds and grey overcerst skies plagued the fleet for the first few days. About half of the 54 DNFs threw in the towel on the northern end of the course, turning left into Santa Cruz, Monterey and Monro Bay. "Gentlemen don’t sail to weather, especially in a Santa Cruz 501" laughed Peter Gibson, part of a charter group on Ralphie that pulled the plug after twirling around for 24 hours. "We chose to spend our vacation in Avalon instead of drifting around out in the ocean." (Ralphie motored down to Catalina, claiming "fiik to finish" honors among the DNFs.) "I had to hide the engine keys fixjm my crew," joked Thomas Friel, owner of Peg 'O My Heart, the bbat which had the dubious distinction of spending the longest time on the race course (98 hours, 8 seconds). The Peg people whiled away the hours with a page 112

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

continuous hearts marathon; the Hcma Ho crew had nightiy bridge games with their cocktails; and several boats even played dominoes in the millpond conditions. Rollcall accounts such as the one about "bow waves up to our first spreaders" were wishful

accounted for most of the damage. However, one kite was ripped when Lykken, a Beneteau 40, did an emergency broach to miss a tanker off San Miguel Island. "It was 3 a.m. at night and really foggy," related Tim Russell. "We lit up our S2uls, and tried to call the tanker on tiie radio. It came less than a 100 yards from us, and 1 don’t think they ever knew we were fiiere." Ofirer damage in the predominantly light air contest included two injuries to crewmembers: a guy on Roller Coaster hurt his thumb, while another on Destiny cut his cheek. "We figure both acddents involved beer cans," quipped race committee cocheiirwoman Lynn Sparks. Destruction to the boats was simply minimal: "About the only things broken this year were a bunch of business appointments," said the everquotable Leweck. The one exception seemed to be Melange, which managed to break a headstay fitting at the start. They returned to Sausalito YC to fix it and quickly re-entered the race, actually catching up with all the other Express 37s before withdrawing. Then there was the case of another Express 37, Momingstar. 'We had some serious carnage on our boat," deadpcinned Marc M^tenberger, 'We lost a pop rivet out of tire boom."

Ways to kill time during a slow race: 'Peg 'O My Heart had a four-day hearts marathon.

Sleeping — both on and off watch — was a popular activity.

thinking, to say the least Finally, the wind picked up, but only marginally. For some boats, there was enough wind — reportedly up td 30 knots — in the Santa Barbara Channel to rip the random spinnaker, though "operator failure" pag© 113

lEven though the race was a yawner, it did involve some interesting tactical decisions — or so say the winners. "Everyone got dealt CEuds firom the SEune

deck," insisted overall PHRF winner Eric Sultan, owner of the Wilderness 30 Special Edition. 'You’ve got to learn to play your cards right. Light air races may not be as exciting physically, but they’re much more challenging mentally." Sultan — sailing with aces Dave Hodges, Ian Klitza and Mike Bruzzone — played his hand perfectly, choosing an inside course and finishing boat-for-boat near Santa Cruz 50s and other much bigger boats. 'We flossed often, and even backed down a few times," said the "Sultem of Sail", who a monfir earlier also won the revived Santa Cruz to Seuita Barbara Race. However the Special Edition crew did it, they clobbered the entire PHRF fleet, correcting out an hour ahead of the Mac 65 Fastrack and five hours ahead of the third place boat, the Hobie 33 Breakout. They were followed by Legs, Wall Street Duck, North Mist, Gypsy Warrior, Hana Ho, First Class and Route Du Vent. Interestingly, Eill classes but PHRF-V were represented in the top ten. In the sled class, a pair of newer SC 70s, Chance and Evolution, went right down the coctst, never getting more thsin 25 miles off the beach. They were nipped at the finish line by Hal Ward’s N/M 68 Cheval coming in from the outside to finish first in 50 hours, 44 minutes. Cheval, wifii designer Bmce Nelson aboard, had been as far as 80 miles

Dolphins, whales and other marine life did their best to break the monotony.

off the coast and 40 off San Miguel Island — so much for any logic about fire best course in this year’s race. Only 12 minutes separated the trio of sled front-runners; Cheval won the boat-for-boat ULDB 70 class first place trophy, while fire Dennis Durgan-

CATALINA RACE '90: driven Chance corrected out under lOR to take first on that basis. Had ChevaPs keel not skewered a six-foot sunfish near the end of the race — causing them ultimately to go head to wind and back down — they might have won on lOR time, too. Similarly, in the non-spinnaker class, winner Wind Porsche, Ed Laemen’s Cateilina 38, went over 60 miles offshore seerrching for wind. They finished in 81 hours, 53 minutes — just 28 minutes behind Regardless and 3 minutes behind Kristine, both of which went straight down the rhumb line. "There was no 'golden path' this year, though on the whole I think the inside was favored," clciimed Special Edition’s Dave Hodges. While tire winners — such cis the Big Mac Fastrack, which finished 10 hours ahead of the rest of its class (easily overcoming an hour penalfy for being over early at the start) — got most of the glory, we couldn’t help but feel sorry for a trio of boats who stuck it out to the bitter end, only to miss the 10 a.m., Thursday July 12, cut-off time by nine minutes. All three — Top Sort, Pik Off and Dalkai — were withing spitting distance of the finish when time expired. In fact, the later two boats had been battling each other all the way down ("They doubled-mooned us some 60 miles offshore as they went past," related Dalkai’s John Larson. "It motivated us to beat them!") A handful of other boats cilso raced to the very end and these TTFs — 'Tried To Fmish(ers)", as opposed to the earlier DNFs — were later awarded packs of playing cards for their efforts.

Terrors of the mini-golf course.

crew firustrated. Surfing 12 hours ago at 13 knots. Now making 2.5 knots. Corjtents of bottle consumed for attitude ^^dju^ent DNFed with honor. Possibly first DNF in PHRF V." The message ended with a request to notify Latitude if and when the bottle was ever found. The whole bottle arrived at our office a week later — inexplicably, it was mailed to us from Fort Collins, Colorado.

1 he post race festivities seemed — to us at least — as lackluster as the race itself. Because so many boats didn’t make it — and because most of the big boats (and, all of the Soutiiem California boats) headed for the mainland immediately — Avalon weisn’t as crowded with post-race revellers cis in yeeirs past. Many sailors

m Q D

One of the TTFs — Dennis Albright’s first 345 Numerator — dropped a message in a green Graham’s Six Grapes Fbrto bottle which read: "Released at sea 10 miles from the finish line of the MYCO Oakland Catalina Race, July 12, 9:45. Winds light.

Unsung heroes: the nee committee.

Mound to get back to work, and some boats likewise did a quick U-tum to start the trip north while the mellow weather window prevailed.

Still, those who stuck around enjoyed themselves. In addition to the usual Avalon diversions, MYCO hosted a golf tournament (won by a team fi-om Titan, with the Jackrabbit "grunts" in second ahead of the Jackrabbit afterguard), a pool tournament (Bruce Molnar of Relentless had the hot stick) emd a mini-golf contest (Lynn Sparks had the highest score; no one remembers who had the lowest). I-ess energetic racers idled away the hours in bars such as the popular El Galleon, where for kicks one lazy ^emoon some sailors superglued a few quarters to the street in fipont of their table. They 'chummed' the 'waters' around their trap with 'baif (loose pennies and the occasional nickel), and then wanted for their unsuspecting quarry. Sure enough, some poor tourist would soon bend over to retrieve the windfall, only to realize — simultaneously with the hooting and laughter of the spectators — that the loot was hopelessly stuck to the street. This somewhat feeble pastime — like Candid Camera without a caniera — provided an ever-growing crowd with hours of entertainment. Like we said, it was a slow year. The week wheezed to a halt with the too-brief ftiday night dinner and awards ceremony, followed by co-host Navy YC Iu3ng Beach’s Homeward Bound Race on Saturday. Winners of that 28-boat light air contest were Resolute, Zeus and Shaman in Class A; while Freewind, Sirena and a nonCatalina Race boat, the Ranger 33 Class Action, topped Class B. In keeping witir the theme of this year’s Catalina Race, only half the Homeward Bounders meinaged to finish. By now, who would have expected otherwise?

fiiend of ours, noting that Friday the 13th fell during the week, figured the 1990 Catalina Race was jinxed from the "Look at -it this way," she intoned. Catalina s got a casino with no gambling; a bird sanctuary- with no birds; a bobmical garden with no plants (just cactus); a golf page 1 ?4

GREAT EXPECTATIONS MYCO Oakland-Catalina Race Yacht

Type

PHRFI 1. Fastrack 2. Gotcha 3. Jazz 4. Pythagoras 5. Zeus 7. Ocean Star 8 Shaman 9. Pendragon 10. Wave Runner

Ariel Resolute Titan PHRF II 1. Hana Ho 2. Bombay Blaster t 3. Climax

Acey Deucy Blacksllver Ralphle Rollercoaster Samurai PHRFIH 1. First Class 2. Spindrift V 3. Momingstar 4. Blitz 5. Maluhia

PikOff Frequent Flyer Melange Pazzo Express PHRFIV 1. Special Edition** 2. Breakout 3. Wall Street Duck

RouteDe Vent

5. Lykken 6. SIrena 7. Novia 8/ Kotuku

Legendary Monarch Sligo II PHRFV 1. MIchegaas 2. Aniara 3. Destiny

Dalkal Elan Antara Bella Donna Jaku Opus Peaches Salty Hotel Take Five EdBEJSa 1. Gypsy Warrior 2. Vandal Mega Numerator Top Sort Wind Walker Blue Fox Intrepid

Owner/Charterer

MacGregor 65 J/44 Beneteau 40 Olson 40 MacGregor 65 Frers46 SC 40 Davidson 44 Luffe48 Tradewinds40 MacGregor 65 MacGregor 65

Mike Paselk Amberg/Learned Rod Park Bob WInson Hal Nelson Lindsay Walker Keith Carlson David Gray Lon Price Hugh McIntyre Tom Bodkins John Cooper

64:22:47 68:12:09 71:21:57 73:22:28 74.58:10 75:16:33 76:13:15 79:13:53 81:37:50 DNF DNF DNF

SC 50 SC 50 Barnett 52 SC 50 Steiner 55 SC 50 SC 50 SC 50

Rolfe Croker Dan Howlan Mike Campbell , M. Taylor/J. QuancI S. Stelner/A. Adams Greg Ley/P. Gibson Bumap/Fraser Warren Rosendale

69:30:54 72:11.58 73:05:27 DNF DNF DNF DNF DNS

Express 37 Express 37 Express 37 Express 37 Beneteau 42 C&C 40 Express 37 Express 37 Express 37

William Stauch Larry & Lynn Wright Larry Ooane George Neill David Sallows John Jansheski Tod Hall S. Chamberlin Cliff Wilson

69:51:02 72:52:45 73:41:57 73:52:31 84:09:52 TTF* DNF DNF DNF

Wilderness 30 Hobie 33 Schum. 38 CheoyLee43 Beneteau 40 Cardinal 46 Cal 39 Farr 12.20 Jeanneau 41 Hobie 33 Beneteau37.5

Eric Sultan Joe Martin Paul Rosenthal Peter Wolcott Steen Moller Ed & David Quesada John Webb David Thomson Douglas Teakel Dan Thompson Thomas Fleming

62:27:52 67:49:20 68:57:26 70:11:00 74:46:25 74:57:01 75:39:26 83:10:33 DNF DNF DNF

Soverel30 Swan 38 C&C 38 Chance 37 Yankee 38 Cal 40 Burns 27 Swan 40 Express 27 Express 27 Express 27 Santana 35

Joseph Greenblatt EricSchou Peter Bennett John Larson John Donovan Arent Schuyler Jerry Mashburn E. Alain Levi Josh Lindsay Tom Martin Mark Halman Doster/Sinz

71:08:39 71:51:03 72:28:15 TTF DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF

Freya39 Santa Cruz 27 C&C 30 Fast 345 B-25 Islander 36 Hunter 37 Freedom 36 ,

RIckGio : Conrad Banks Robert Hickey Dennis Albright Matt Russert Greg Gilliam et al Jim & Sue Hanck George McKay

. Tried To Finish (TTF)

course with virtually no grass; a mausoleum with no body in it (the Wrigley-Memorial); a post office that doesn’t deliver the mail; and a beach with no sand (it’s imported from page 115

Cor. Time

69:28:33 70:21:13 TTF TTF TTF TTF DNF DNF

Type

Owner/Charterer

Cor. Time

Moore 24 Catalina 30 Orion 35 Cal 34 Custom 35 Newport 33 Islander 30 Cal 9.2 Morgan 382 Excallbur26

Lester Robertson Jim Aton Jim Dupuis Dick Horn Albert Gearing Richard Tyhurst Bowen/Manuele Don & Betty Lessley John Jonas J. Nehms/D Sargent

68:26:09 69:00:54 TTF TTF TTF TTF DNF DNF DNF DNF

N/M68 SC 70 SC 70 SC 70 SC 70 SC 70 SC 70 SC70 N/M 70 Lee 67 R/P 68 SC 70

Hal Ward Bob McNulty Bob Doughty Paul Sithonsen Antonio Elias Ed McDowell Peter Tong Davis Pillsbury Roy Disney Campion/Hall Mitch Rouse Don Ayres, Jr

21:57:42 21:50:01 21:58:41 22:35:08 23:51:14 23:58:52 24:11:13 25:18:55 25:50:29 DNF DNF DNS

Choate 56 Choate 48 Farr 68 Schum. 38 Beneteau 40 Choate 44 S&S 54 Wylie 34

Robert Lane Mel & Bud Richley Hal Day Paul Rosenthal Rod Park David Fell St^en Popovich ; Joe Starritt

26:47:04 29:52:52 30:06:33 34:01:59 35:32:27 35:32:58 45:31:25 TTF

Andrews 53 J/44 Andrews 44 SC 50 Beneteau 40 Farr 36 Express 37 C&C 30 Cal 39 Farr 12.20 Swan 38 < Beneteau 42 J-35 Express 37 Peterson 40 Express 37 : ;

Brook Gifford Amberg/Learned Dennis Howarth RolfeCroker Rod Park Ed Lawrence Larry Doane Greg Cody John Webb David Thomson Pam & Jim Starr Marty Christensen Ran^ Paul Ted Hall David Liggett Cliff Wilson

15:09.56 20:41:01 22:38:54 24:37:34 25:39:37 27:51:54 28:02:57 29:13:40 29:38:46 38:04:33 TTF TTF DNF DNF DNF DNF

Catalina 38 Aloha 10.4 Tartan 41 Olson 34 Islander 36 Pearson 42 ■ Catalina 36 Morgan 382 Newport 30 Sabre 42 Nord Canbe 37 Hunter 54 Catalina 36 Isl Freeport Hunter 31 Cal 34

Ed Laemen Mai^ Richardson Herman Trutner Sherwin Harris Ed Henry Michael Jordan John Frisbe Thomas Friel Patrick Broderick Alex Finlay Bill Russell Pat Hodges Pete Rummei Griffith Evans Mark Rommeil Gordon Jamieson

68:53:16 69:08:47 70:05:27 70:10:45 72:2126 77:05:38 80:46:57 81:00:08 DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF DNS

Yacht PHRF VII 1. Legs 2. North Mist

Nicole Pussy Foodn Torch WanderTy Current Asset Freewind Meridian Petezoso JOEzA 1. Cheval 2. Chance*** 3. Evolution 4. Mongoose 5. Ole' 6. Grand Illusion 7. Blondle 8. Holua 9. Pyewacket Merlin Taxi Dancer Drumbeat lOR-.B ■{. Medicine Man 2. Amante 3. Winterhawk 4. Wall Street Duck 5. Jazz 6. Illusion 7. Charisma Leading Edge IMS 1. Cantata II 2. Gotcha 3. Foxfire

A. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Hana Jo Jazz Bandido Momingstar Sorcerer Novia Kotuku Truant "C’RoMar Equanimity Frequent Flyer Jackrabbit Pazzo Express

NON-SPINNAKER 1. WIndPorsche

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Cutty Sark Regardless Kristine In Conference Rhumb Runner Manana PegO'My Heart Amanda Finale II Ginny's Too <» Pegasus Relentless Sonhp Bahia Wave Rider Flower of Scotland

. First Overall PHRF

Huntington Beach). What’s so unusual about a race with no wind?" "At least it was mostly sunny," said Blitz's Charlie McKenzie. "We spent three days in

■ First Overall lOR

shorts and T-shirts, and only one in foul weather gear. Usually it’s Ae other way around." — latitude/rlcm

SAKE RUN, PART V: pacific island better exemplifies the conflict of a traditional island culture colliding with the 20th century than Guam. Shaped like a footprint, the largest and most populous islemd in the Mariana chain has truly become a slice of America — due in large part to the dominating presence of the U.S. military. Except for 1941 to 1944, when occupied by the Japanese, our Armed Rjrces have maiivtaincd Guam as a stronghold since 1889. Few locals seem to mind that development continues to pave over one historical spot after another as banks, office buildings and hotels shoot up. Guam is enjoying — or suffering, it depends on your perspective — from a fullemployment, big-bucks boom. The primary recison for the financial good times is the 'reinvasion' of the Japanese, both business¬ men and tourists. Of Guam’s 600,000 tourists in 1988, 90% were Japanese. All this is great news for American cruisers. It mecins you’ll find lots of conveniences, terrific shopping and as many job opportunities as you wish. If it’s time to replenish the cruising kitty, this is the place to do it. Americans need only show their passports to enter and there is no limit on how long you can stay. They do make it tough for foreigners to work — despite the low unemployment — but then the U.S. long ago stopped providing immigrants with easy-to-get working visas.

Author Robert Hodierne: “It's a good thing we left Guam when we did.“ Most cruisers just take advcintage of the Ace Hardwares, Safeways cind Ben Franklin department stores. Guam is a great place to stock up on just about

everything from teak oil to tonic water. You also find diesel mechanics, have your Wirter motor rebuilt and make full size photocopies of charts. While on Guam you eilso get to enjoy the benefits of the U.S. RDstal System. We mailed home hundreds of dollars worth of packages that would have cost three times as much to mail from Japan. Better yet, Guam is a reliable place for a mail drop. You can either use General Delivery or the Marianas Yacht Club. By the time we and Yankee Ladi> reached Guam, we hadn’t had meul for months. We were so desperate to hear from family and friends that we even entered Apra Harbor at night so w,e could get our mail first thing the next rrtomiilg. We don’t usually enter strange harbors at night, but Apra Harbor is one of the easiest in the South F^cific. Besides being wide-open, the range lights are easily distinguishable. In many other South fticific ports the beacons and/or range lights are lost in the canopy of city lights. Arriving at 11:00 p.m., we asked the Harbormaster on channel 16 for permission to proceed to the Marianas YC and deal with officialdom in the morning. According to Lt. Rick Bias of customs, it’s perfectly legal. We weren’t so lucky, however. The Hzirbormaster ignored our request eind on his own initiative called Customs and instructed an agent to get down to the yacht club at midnight. For this inconvenience Customs demanded $50.95 for overtime. We balked at the charge. Had we known it was to be assessed, we would have hove-to outside the harbor. It took weeks to get it straightened out.

TPhere are several places to anchor in Guam, none of them peirticulariy convenient. In July of 1989, the Marianas YC moved from its relatively good location on the peninsula north of Polaris Point to 'out in the sticks'. The yacht club welcomes visitors, but the new site doesn’t have much in the way of facilities. Members are working on improving it. The first 14 days are free to members of other yacht clubs; after that there is a weekly charge. The price will probably increase £is mote amenities become available. A second possibility is to motor up the Rti Channel into the bowels of the harbor, where a good marina was built as a hurricane hole. It’s called the Harbor of Safe Refuge. You tie to moorings cind there is a fee. (The safest months in Guam generally January through June. From then

on, typhoons are always a possibility. Usually, however, typhoons are bom near Guam cind then spin north or west.) There is a military meirina, where current and retired military can keep their boats. There are also other places on the Rti Channel where yachts Ccin tie up or anchor; you just have to nose around back there to find them. One drawback of Guam is that it gets fiercely hot during the summer cind the water in the Rti Chcinnel is as warm as a bathtub. That eind the fact that there’s no wind means it can be very uncomfortable. Once you’ve found a home in Guam, the next problem to solve is ground frcinsportation. Aside from the department stores, another dead giveaway that Gueim is an American Territory is its lack of public transportation. During our travels through the South Pacific, we rarely rented a car. There was no need because the bus service was so good. Not in Guam. You have to rent a car to get around on this 30-mile long island. Cruisers intending to stay for awhile usually purchase a 'Guam Bomb', which is a rustipg hulk that agrees with cruising pocketbooks. For such a small island, there Eire lots of cars on Guam. Atkins Kroll, the Toyota page 116

GUAM

Pt-

-Senile^0 iwvies N U S

The prosperity of Guam has allowed it to convert itself into a replica of Souffiem California. Just like Southern California, Guam has rush-hour traffic, six-lane roads, ffiree Wmchell Donuts, two McDonalds, two Taco Bells, a Burger Kng, a Sizzler Steak House, a Kentucky Hied Chicken as well as strip joints to cater to the after-hour needs of the military and Japanese tourists. If these are a measure of prosperity, Guam reeks of it Not to mention that unlike so many Hicffic islands, no one on Guam lives in thatched huts. Everyone on Guam has running water and electricity as well as refrigerators and telephones. Adopting the great American Dream, unfortunately, has its nightmarish consequences. With all the conveniences has come a rising number of rapes, murders and molestations. These are daily front-page stories in a newspaper that titillates its readers witii headlines such as "Detectives Search For Pubic Hair". One yachtie visiting Guam had the windshield of his car smashed by some local guys with baseball bats for no explicable resison. The yachtie and^ his girlfriend had just been ^ving down tire main drag. Maybe the locals didn’t like the color of his car. It’s like that on Guam. You have to be czureful. The availabilify of cheap alcohol is responsible for much of the crime. Sadly, too, some say alcohol is contributing to the demise of the once strong Chamorro family. It used to be that the elders, particularly the men, were revered and considered to be imbued with wisdom.

The Apra Harbor hurricane hole. .

■

- ... .

dealer, sells 400 cars a montii! And he’s just the Toyota dealer. The roads of Guam are clogged with traffic. We were only on Guam for six weeks, but during that time Euiother traffic signal went up in downtown Agana.

Now elderly abuse plagues the island. That’s the bad part of Guam. There are good parts. When you get away from the downtown areas, you find tiiat Guam has beautiful beaches, good snorkeling, windsurfing and many village festivals on the weekends. There are also caves to explore, waterffills to swim under and bomb holes to scuba or snorkel on. Driving around the island, which can easily done in one afternoon, is a must.

luam, we must conclude, is not a great place to hang out without a good reason. Work is one such good reason; getting your boat ready for sale in Japan is another. We managed to peiint the interior of Yankee Lady, reupholster the cushions, paint the deck, strip cind oil all the interior wood, paint the dinghy and oars, install new rigging, get the muffler fixed properly and have the boat’s name repainted. Oh yes, and we completed all the paperwork necessary for the visa for the last stop on the Sake Run, Japan. The visa is free and can be obtained in just two days. Getting a visa in Guam makes it easier to get extensions in Japan. We also had 'For Sale' brochures printed and name cards made to hand out, following the Japanese custom. By the time we sailed from Guam, we had taxed our charge cards to the limit. It wjisn’t until a month later in Japan when we got the statement that we reaflized what serious damage we had done to our bemk account. It’s a good thing we left Guam when we did. — alicia shepard and robert hodierae

TIPS ON GETTING THE MOST FROM GUAM •f Micronesian Brokers is the only place tihiat stocks Anchor powdered full cream milk and canned butter, if you’ve been cruising for a while, you know what a find this is. Ibe milk and butter are only sold by the case. •h You can’t buy charts of Japan in Guam, although we don’t know why. But in Maps of Guam, we found something better; they have a copy machine that for $2 a shot makes exceptional reproductions of someone else’s Japan charts. There were enough yachts around ffiat we were able to borrow a complete set for one day to make copies. It saved us over $100. + If you spend a couple of hundred dollars provisioning at the Pbyless store In downtown Agana, you can ^et a 10% ^IbctHint wiffi die store manage id. Safeway won’t. page 117

+ If you’re looking for good deals on Pacific. cases of canned fiuit, coconut milk, peanut . + Guam has one of the rare USDs butter, etc., check with the wholesalers In that is open to the public. It’s a good place for cheap cheeseburgers and thick the telephone book. You can often get milkshakes. You can also make bng good deals. ■ distance phone calls and on weekends + If you want to use the Marianas YC attend the 'Boonie Stomps'. On Saturdays as a mail drop, the address is RO. Box they have hikes to Guam’s more scenic 2297, Agana, Guam 96910. You can also spots; the charge is $1. use General Delivery, Agana, Guam 96910. « + If you intend, as do we, to sell -h Guam is not the best place for your yacht in Japan (Tolq/o and Osaka are marine supplies, but it does have Coral the b^ places), it’s smart to buy your air Reef Marine in lamuning. Some cruisers tickets home in Guam. For reasons known refer to it as "Coral Thief, but Tim, the airline pricers, a Guam-Tol^S^ manager, is a good-natured guy who will ti<^ is one-Md try to get wheri you need. If you have Handsco fidret plenty of time, it’s probably best to order from companies you’ve worked wdth before 4- One of file charms of $ouflli in Northern C^fornia. Occasionally the if is tiiat there is no fij^ringC to <kiam» U.S. Postal System is wonderful; that’s ^ more often true in the middle of tile.;* 'g; you tip.; Need we say m^? ;

GETTING A CLUE "N 1 lo worries, she’ll be right," were Stu’s words after nearly three weeks of being battered and bashed in 30 to 50 knot winds off the west coast of Australia aboard our Lapworth 48, Na/u IV. Broken rigging, tom sails and regular swampings by huge Indiem Ocean waves were common occurrences. Remaining positive emd cheerful proved impossible for everyone

except Stuart. We took Stu on as crew in Darwin — as a result of a 'crew wanted' note we posted in a sailing dub — to make the passage to Perth. Despite being sick with the flu and diarrhea, and often being able to stomach little more than crackers and water, he stood all his watches except one. Stu was pick-up crew at it’s very best Fortunately for us, he was typical of the wonderful preople who have served as crew during our round the world voyage. Rck-up crew is a necessity on our 48footer, p^y because of insurance requirements emd partly because we’re stidders about getting the maximum performemce from our boat. So erfter leaving Mexico emd running out of longtime friends as crew, the question beceime: How do you find good pick-up crew? Having taken on more than 19 people from 10 different countries, we’ve begun to develop a profile that suits our particular needs. Compatibility is the ultimate criteria for crew selection, compatibility with both us and our kind of sailing. Jim, the skipper, usually does the initial interview and looks for spedfic information on sailing experience. A candidate wdth lots of miles on a big yacht with self-steering, autopilot, roller furling, videos and otiier goodies is unlikely to cut it aboard our boat. On the other hand, a candidate with no bluewater experience but lots of hours dinghy racing is going to be at the top of our list. That’s because our boat, a former ocean racer, is hand-steered all the time because we enjoy performance cruising. We also frequently change sails and use the spinnaker whenever the wind permits, sometiring that

folks accustomed to usually can’t relate to.

big

luxury

yachts

for the question of compatibility with us, after some trial emd one serious error, we’ve formulated some specific parameters. "Vegetarians don’t eat differently than

anyone else, they just don’t eat meat," said our &st vegetariem crewmember. That statem^t would fetum to haunt eJl who shared the boat widi him. The vegetarian in question not only didn’t eat meat, he didn’t eat cheese, eggs or anything cooked with meat flavorings. Furthermore, he

refused to wash tire dishes on which meat had been served or perns in which it had been cooked. The final straw was the fact tiiat he’d eat ice cream and waffles — both of which I prepared with eggs. He did, however, memage to eat nearly two pmunds of peanut butter in two weeks. \ We no longer take vegetarians as crew. We are not vegetarians emd we provision and eat to suit our tastes. Even when a well-intentioned vegetarian has told us that he can manage, we’ve found that it doesn’t work out well. Food is probably the most important morale booster on the boat. It’s also the topic of onboard discussion, be it the selection, preparation, consumption or digestion, lire sailing environment is demanding enough that people need to eat what they are accustomed to eatipg; severely chemging dietary habits is unrealistic. As the major provisioner and cook, only once have I found my skipper/husbemd unhappy about his food. It was when I had been absent for three weeks and he was left to eat what four young, health-oriented non-Yemks prepared. "Give me grease," were his first words upon my return. A second rule, again based on experience, is not to take on South African aew. More specifically, we won’t sign on someone who carries a South Afiiczm passport. As everyone knows, there are strong feelings about tlie political system in South Africa, and even otiierwise quiet countries are finding ways of showing th^ir displeasure about apartheid. In Indonesia, an Eil^h yacht with a South African

skipper was faced with returning to their last p>ort of call. And ihis after the sWpper had his passport confiscated and was confined to the boat the entire time they were in port. We have met a number of South African sailors we liked and believed would have made excellent crew, but for our own peace of mind and to avoid potential hostility in unknown ports, we don’t take the risk.

e also won’t accept pick-up crew who either rannot or will not put $6 ^U.Syday into tiie kitty for food. This small arriount of money does not cover the cost of food, but mal^ the crew a contributing member of the boat This presets a certain attitude and makes it clear that we expect people to feel responsible for the boat. Although we’ve sometimes had crew who could converse in several different lemguages, we insist English be spoken while on watch. In the case of one of our couples, the male continually translated terminology for the womEuri, and consequently she had trouble functioning when on watch with someone who didn’t speak her language. It was interesting tiiat he insisted on speaking Bench even sifter we pointed out the problem of her not being able to respond, particularly in emergency situations. This same couple also proved to be difficult in terms of meals and general compatibility; they got off at the next major port. Our parting wasn’t as bad as it might have been because we brought the differences out in tiie open and talked about them. The assumption on taking on new pick-up crew is that they will work out. At the same time, we try to plan at least one stop in the middle of the passage where incompatible crew can be replaced without undo hardship on them or us. Our boat is our home and our dinghy is our car; we try emd make this very clear to everyone. The skipper smokes a pipe, so we permit smoking on board. However, we do expect smokers to pick up after themselves. In fact, we expect everyone to be as tidy about tiieir possessions as possible. Vifiiile the main cabin must, of necessity, sometimes be used as sleeping quarters for some of tiie crew, the forward cabin is the crew’s place for personal items. Clothes, shoes and towels that continually end up in the main cabin summarily get dumped in the forward cabin for the crew to sort. Likewise, the crew shares the forward head, which they are expected to keep clean. We find that gener^y crew

members work out amongst themselves who does what, where and when without much guidance from us. If we have to get involved, some of that crew probably shouldn’t be on the boat. Everyone on board is in the same watch system and has the same number of hours on deck and off. As owners, we do not stand watch together, trying to make page 118

ON CHOOSING A CREW 4

sure that a legally responsible party is always on watch. The newest or least esqjerienced crew usually starts out with tiie skipper as watch partner. Couples are always split up as watch partners as we want 100% attention to tiie job at hand. On long passages or in remote parts of tire world, we expect crew to put up with saltwater baths and no laundry — just as we tire owners do. We try to provision as generously as possible so there is always beer at lunch, cocktails before dinner, ceuidy, snacks, and special goodies to break ^e routine. Unfortunately, there are some unpleasantries the crew has to accept; the skipper’s terrible jokes and gross sense of humor, and my hot flashes and penchant for Broadway musicals.

If you want me to change course, then write it in the log book." Those were the words of one of our crew — one who proved to be not a particularly good choice owing to his lack of skill, sense of humor and evangelical vegetarianism. He was told by the skipper that he would probably do better on a boat that could continue on the same course regardless of wind direction. That kind of boat has been invented, he was told: it’s called a steamship. We also look for a good sense of humor emd a willingness to lezim. At our stage in life, we don’t think we are very flexible, so we expect the crew to be able to flex with us. Some may think that’s hard-nosed or heirsh, but our boat is not a democracy; it’s our boat During our first two years of cruising our pick-up crew consisted of 15 men and four women. The women were ftom France, Irelzmd, Switzerland and Germany. All of them were in their late 20’s and had completed some advanced education. Two of the women, the finench and' the Swiss, were part of couples we took on as crew. The other two were travelling page 119

Is everybody happy! Jim and Diana Jessie (in dark shirts) with two of their favorite crew. independently and came ^long as 'singles'. The 14 men who joined parts of our voyage represent a much broader age range. The youngest turned 21 the day before joining us; the oldest was in his late 40’s. Nonetheless, tire average age was late 20s. The country most represented was Australia, with a total of five Aussies having sailed on Na/u. All of them get good marks for compatibility and good to excellent marks for sailing ability. The second biggest group of pick-up crew, four, were Americans we found jon the beach in various peurts of the world. The Americans were fair in compatibility and average to excellent sailors. Of the nine Aussies and Americans, a good number have already rejoined Natu on other peurts of the voyage. We’d been happy with tiiem and encouraged tiiem to return whenever they ' were able. Of tile remaining male crewmembers, our Kiwi was terrific, our Basque very hardworking and dependable, our Bel^an good, our English split, one being good and the other bad, and our Swiss a disaster. While the above is a catalog of our experiences, the sample is obviously far too smaD to draw many generalities. We are about to set out again with four crew; three of whom are pick-ups and one a returning pick-up.

available' notice. Youth hostels have also proved to be good places to look. We post our notice in English, specify that we’re looking for someone with sailing experience, quote a cost of $6 per day, and offer just one opening. The 'one opening' comment is to protect us from having to take a good crew and their 'friends'. 'A friend' who is useless 'takes up space. More importantly, taking people aboard who have a prior relationship often creates a problem in expectations and loyalties. Opposite sex couples have usually worked out well if both were sailors and both wanted to be sailing. Illegal substances including mEurijucina are not permitted on board Na/u IV at any time. We recognize that many people use pot and are quite casual about it However, an illegal substance can cost us our boat — and in some places the life of the person in possession of it — so it’s essential that our crew abide by this rule. Often times it seems as though life would be much simpler if our boat was smaller and we didn’t Irave to worry about crew. On the other hand, the 19 strangers who have crewed witli us have added a very special dimension to our voyage. We have learned much about other nationalities euid other ways of life. We have also come to have a much greater appreciation of the basic similarities in human beings. And now we have a diverse, extended network of friends around the world with whom we’ve shared a gremd experience. The families of our various crew have taken us in and made us welcome without any more introduction than "we’re the people your son/daughter sailed with". Those families have given us meals, places to stay, showers, taken us sightseeing and done innumerable things to make us feel very much at home with them.

hile our system of selecting pick¬ up crew might not work for everyone, it’s Worked well for us. And apparently our crew, ers more and more of them are coming back for more. We keep in touch with them** by way of o\u iiewsletter

WKa. has worked for us may not necessarily work for other boats, but we’ll nonetheless risk a few suggestions to cruisers in need of crew. Local yacht clubs which have marina space for transient yachts usually have a bulletin boaurd for notices. Several times we’ve found good crew through such bulletin boards. Sometimes by posting a 'crew wanted' notice, sometimes by responding to a 'crew /

and personal notes. When we get together, even for a quick beer or long distance phone call, fte feelings are deep and affectionate. Perhaps what we need — instead of a boat for two or even six — is to have a boat for 20 — allowing us to have the worid’s longest running, most travelled party. — dlana green Jessie

page 121

SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC 1990

Lappy hour, washing the boat down, oiling the teak, exercising, showering, a good night’s sleep — ah, the life of a... racer? the well-named Olson 30 Intense. His was a story of minimum sleep and maximum push, flyii^the chute and hand steering 15 hours

Alan Brutger.

During a race? We thought we’d heard everything, but that’s just how it was for Alan Brutger aboard his Freedom 44 Polecat on the way to Hawaii last month. And it wasn’t like the crew was doing all the work; Alan was alone, competing against 16 other solo skippers and boats that started the 1990 Singlehanded TransF^c in front of Corinthiem YC on June 30. Oh yeah,' and he won, too, correcting out for overall honors 12 hours ahead of the nearest competitor. It was Just one of those years. "I got more sleep during this trip than I ever do at home," says Alan, whose autopilot hcindled steering duties aboard Polecat. To say the Monteina rcincher arrived relaxed and refreshed in Kauai’s Hanalei Bay just before dawn on Monday, July 16, is an understatement — compared to the race committee, who’d been finishing boats all night long, he looked downright invigorated. In the past, it’s not been unusual for some solo Treinsftic’ers to be so wiped out, about all they could do was throw out an einchor, drop the sails in a heap and go ashore to collapse. Alan stayed aboard to put the boat away properly and watch the sunrise with wife Mary. Polecat’s unorthodox victory was one of many contrasts between this year’s frustratingly light-air race cind the 1988 honker. (Since the inaugural event in 1978, the SHTP heis been raced in even-numbered years.) Back then, Seattle’s Wild Bill' Stange smashed the lO-year-old monohull record in a dramatic 11-day, 15-hour marathon aboard

fleet, dipping day’s run figures into the double digits and boatspeeds in to the low single digits. When it became apparent a week into the race that no records would feJI this year, most skippers eased up on the ironman routine a bit. If the 1990 solo TransF^c doesn’t go down in the history books as a fast race, it will certciinly be remembered as a relaxing and even fun one. At least by most competitors. For one, the conditions were so frustrating, he bagged it. "I was all hyped and ready for some heavy-air sailing," says Peter Anderson. "I wasn’t mentally prepared at all to deal with the exact opposite." You can probably guess that Peter's Olson 29 High Flight encount¬ ered 50-knot winds off Santa Barbara on the way home. And that he found out later (he flew over to Kauai to greet competitors as they cetme in) that when he dropped out — he was leading the monohull fleet!

The relentless 'Polecat. a day, everyday. Intense averaged 8 knots — better than hull speed — for the ^tire 2,120-mile course.

1 o be sure, there were a good halfdozen boats in this year’s prerace lineup gunning explicitly for Stemge’s record, wi^ skippers committed to even less sleep and more push, if that’s possible. Who knows, with the right conditions perhaps they’d even have threatened the multihull record — 10

days, 10 hours, set in 1986 by the 40-ft Australian trimaran Bullfrog Alas, though, it was not to be. About the time us mainlanders were shooting off our illegal Fourth of July pyrotechnics, the Pacific High had consumed the singlehanded

Lt certainly looked like the 'ride of a lifetime' was in the ofhng at the June 30 start, as most of the fleet hunkered down under blades emd reefed mains for a wet beat out the Gate. In a healthy 20 knots of breeze and growing ebb, boats like Peter Hogg’s powerful 40-ft trimaran Aotea virtually flew out toward Seal Rocks at speeds that left our photoboat puffing and wheezing to keep up. One rig even crumpled in front of God and everybody, sending Barry Ruff’s Catalina 28 Marlin back to the pits for a three-day delay while a new one was rigged. Well, better in here than out there. The breeze, was shortlived. By the time

Les King rail-down on 'Frequent Flyer'.

Ray Jason, sailing his pristine Fiarallon 29 Aventura, reached Seal Rocks, the wind had. dropped to a. whisper and the current was sweeping him toward shore. Prudence became the better part of valor, and Ray started his motor to save the boat. He page 124

LIGHT, BREEZY AND OVER EASY marks. He wasn’t about to take any chances for a repeat performance.) Etosha started for the third and final time on July 4, ironically

Buz Sanders. enjbying much better wind conditions for a good run aaoss the ftidfic.

'*-1

4f",

* IL

Above, Jerry Huffman seconds away from finishing. Inset, Jerry and the ‘reaf Cynthia, his wife. proceeded back in, had his shaft resealed by the race committee and restarted later that afternoon. Two restarts were already a^footnote in Singlehanded TransPac history. But like they say, 's^t happens' in threes. Sure enough. page 125

■ 7

'** *T » ^ -h

before the first sunset. Bob Cranmer-Brown was also back at the dock with generator problems aboard the race’s biggest entry, the 60-ft Etosha. He’d start again, only to experience mote generating problems and return a second time. (Generator problems in the '88 race forced Bob to hove the boat to several times so he could rest, thereby ruining his chances at any elapsed time

' There was irony in the ranks of the successful June 30 starters, too: Polecat was one of the first to park — big time — falling into the infamous Montara hole. "There were a group of three or four of us," says Bob Dixon, who put in a fine performance (2nd to finish, 1st in Division I, 2nd overall) aboeurd the F-27 trimeffan Super fox. "The wind had been going light all afternoon, and in those conditions, a lot of us were just kind of slopping around. But ' Polecat loves that stuff, so here he came, blowing by us all like we were einchored. "But at Hdgeon Point, we all saw him stop and start going around in circles. And it was like, whoooaaa (eyebrows raise)... Wthin about two seconds, Ae rest of us had all tacked out." The 'fix' was temporary. In the next two to three days, the breeze would go fluky and light for everybody else, too. Aotea, capable of 300 mile days in good conditions, made less than half that. Buz Sanders on the Sonoma 30^ Red Stripe had a couple of 60 to 70-mile days. Mike Evcins on the 40-ft ultralight Samatas (which he both designed and built himself) was caught a little longer than most, making only 540 miles that whole first week. As mentioned — eind as always — tire lack of wind was due to the capridousness of an unusually lai^e and 'flabby' Padfic High which covered virtually the whole ocezin from California to Kauai. In normal conditions, the high is more compact, welldefined and centered further north, kept

SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC 1990 there by — among other things — a low southeast of Hawaii. In an ideal TransPhc scenario, the best wind can be found along the pressure line six millibars from the center of the high — the magic 1020 mb line — and the best course looks like a lazy 'S' that skirts the bottom of the Pacific High eind the top of the Hawaiian low. This year, the middle of the high was at 1032 mbs, the 1020 mb line was down about the latitude of ftmama, and the Hawaiicm low was nowhere to be seen. If there was any wind out there, nobody foimd it. Peter Hogg, making his fourth solo TransPac crossing, went farther south them ever looking, adding some 200 extra miles to his trek. Except for one or two other boats that cJso went south — and one that went great circle (slightly north of rhumb) — everybody else rolled the dice emd went ihumbline. Historically, it was the best gamble. For one reason or emother, rhumbline has always ended up being the favored course for this race.

1 never got over 12 knots the whole way," says Peter, who nevertheless was first across the finish line at sunset on July 12. "I couldn’t believe it: the squalls didn’t even have any wind in them!" The sleek Jim

Bob Dixon.

Valley software developer. ^ ^^ In the water only two months, the boat did suffer a few teething problems on its first ocean crossing: a failed spinnaker halyard block and a rip in a lower pemel of the main. The breaks necessitated an odd 'lowering' of the sail plan the last week. Aotea finished in light breeze under doublereefed main and an asymmetrical spinnaker quite a bit more fractional than it was supposed to be.

'Etosha's start

—

the first of three.

Antrim trimaran, successor to Hogg’s 40-ft cat Tainui (which was destroyed when it hit a whale two years ago), acquitted itself well, though, espedcJly in the acceleration department. "When the gusts do hit, it knocks you off your feet," says the Mill

Xllthough several other sculs, mainly spinnakers, tore during the race, the worst dcimage occurred aboard George Sakata’s Olson 30 Leiko 2. The squalls George hit did have wind, and a little before mid-race he hit so many he nicknamed the cirea "squall alley". One night, George had just dropped the chute, poled out a jib, set the autopilot and went below for some rest, "when 1 heard a noise and looked up to see this 'L' where the boom was supposed to be." The fix consisted of splinting fte broken spar with his extra spinnaker pole, which held the rest of the way. But the 'curse of the Olson 30s' wasn’t quite through with Leiko 2. The fastest and most often-raced production boats of the Singlehanded TransF^c, Olson 30s have also proven one of the most Jekyll-and-Hydeish. For example, the one that won in 1986 almost lost its rig when a lower shroud broke. Two of three in the 1988 race also broke their booms. One of those {Intense) went on to break the record. The other missed the finish line and sailed halfway around Kauai before realizing his mistake. And Leiko 2 followed in the latter’s footsteps. With his electronics (including VHF) completely kaput and his handheld GPS unable to find a third satellite for a fix for several hours, George sailed the bright red Leiko 2 right past HcuicJei Bay as the

Peter Hogg.

race committee watched helplessly. George didn’t rezilize his mistake until he was off the Baridng Sands missile range, miles west of Hanalei. "I knew something was wrong when I could see the next island," says the Vancouver dentist. The wet, breezy pound back to weather cost him half a day — though, oddly, had no effect on his thirdplace steinding in Division II.

Anc

lother contrast of the 1990 event to past races was that, with a few exceptions, nobody knew where anyone else was — including the race committee. There is no

LIGHT BREEZY AND OVER EASY

ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE 38/JR daily roll call in Ihe solo TransPac, and it’s customary for about half the fleet to go on 'radio silence' for the crossing. This time, however, only three boats were in regular radio communication witii shore stations via SSB — Etosha, Aotea cmd Red Joyce’s Express 37 Logical Switch. Etosha, Logical Switch, Super Fox and Red Stripe all carried Argos units, as well, but only the former two gave reliable readings. That made it a real waiting game for the race committee. Kind of like those war movies where the ground crews hang around the eurfield gazing heavenward for some sign of their returning squadrons of bombers. The singlehander’s 'ground crew' had the ideal vantage spot, diough: Dumne Reinstein’s well-appointed condo in tfie Puu P&u resort, which they’d rented (through an agent) for two weeks. Located on the point of the same name, the place features'spectacular views of die Bay and much of Kauai’s north shore. Aotea, the hrst few boats to trickle in were Super Fox on July 14 and the first monohull, Jerry Huffman’s Wilderness 40 Cpnthia on the 15th. The 'gush' — 9 boats in just under 36 hours — took place July 16 and 17. Then it went back to a trickle, with Les King’s Frequent Flyer and Jeff Amst’s Duval coming in on the 19th, Barry Ruff’s 'Save me a cold one!" Bob Dixon told Peter Crane on 'Possible Dream' before the start. 2,120 miles later, Peter tosses it over.

EXCEPT AS NOTED

re-masted and restarted Marlin on the 20th, and finally, the also restarted Ray Jason sailing Aventura across the line on July 21. Frustratingly, Jason missed a personal goal of breaking Aventura’s record. As Luana M, the boat did the 1980 race in 20 days.

Denny Quirk steps ashore off the 'royal' Hobie. 'Super Fo3^ put some pretty foxy moves on the competition.

4 hours. Ray missed beating it by only eight hours. On the other hand, he was awarded the 'Perseverance' award. This mounted glass float, last-place perpetual is considered one of the most beautiful of the many Singlehanded TransRic awards. And we mean many. This is one race where everybody wins in an existential sense — emd most of them take home something to show for it.

TPhe closest boat-for-boat duel in the race was between the heavy-duty Polecat and Buz Sanders’ ULDB Red Stripe. "This guy made me work harder than I ever have in my life!" laughed Sanders, a regular Bay Area singlehander and three¬ time solo TransRic’er. "We were within sight of each other the last three days of the race. So whenever I’d want to ease up. I’d start thinking 'this boat could beat me in'. I’d say to myself. We can’t have that!' — and I’d keep going." Brutger, who relived the homestretch run with Buz at a post-race breakfast, picks up the story. "Buz was faster fliein me with the spinnaker up. So he’d pass me easily during the day. But once I got my sail pkin working (like-sized mziin and mizzen wing and wing, with a $150 'garage szile' mizzen staysail flying between them), I never touched it So when Buz would take the chute down at night. I’d start catching up." "That’s right," says Buz. "I could make 10 or 12 knots with fte chute up and using the swells, but Polecat did 9s and 10s all the time. That boat is just relentless! The last day, we sailed side by side about 50 feet apart for three hours. 1 think we bofli took about a whole roll of film of each other." In his determination to beat tiie bigger boat. Buz didn’t strike the spinnaker at sunset that Izist night Instead, he carried it to within sight of the finish line. His undoing was that after almost 24 straight hours on the helm, he couldn’t distinguish tire green flash of the buoy off Hanalei from all tiie other lights. "I was beginning to see tilings

SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC 1990 that weren’t there, you know? Other lights, other structures. Hallucinating can be enjoyable if you’re 1,000 miles from anything, but here 1 wc»s trying to pick the frnishing buoy out and I had to really concentrate to decide what was real and what wasn’t" (In feumess to Buz and all the racers, the finish buoy remains a bone of contention eit this writing. Rather than the orange inflatable that regularly broke free in years past — Peter Hogg actually had to chase it one year to finish — this year the race¬ sponsoring Singlehanded Sailing Society got the Coast Guard to set a big lighted, steel buoy. Green was the color picked, as a red flashing light might be confused with automobile taillights on shore. As it turned out, however, green porchlights (!) down the Napali coast made for some confusion at rric^t; and during tire day the lush tropical background of Kauai rendered the buoy virtually invisible from seaward. Live and lecim.) By fire time Buz realized his mistake and changed course, tire unthinkable had happened — Polecat had passed. Alan finished 17 minutes cthead of Red Stripe.

T X he closest corrected time miss went to Denny Quirk, sailing the J/27 Lunasea. He finished shortly after detrk on July 16, missing tiiird in Division III by only 1 minute, 15 seconds to Hans Vielhauer’s Cal 40, Chaparral. ("If I’d have only kept the chute up for another two minutes!", he groaned when informed.) Les King on the Wilderness 21 Frequent Flyer, the smallest and highestrating (PHRF 222) boat in the race, wreaked unwitting revenge for Denny: finishing three days later, he corrected out an also-scant

two hours ahead of Chaparral to assume tiiird in Division ID. Dermy certainly won "best reception,"

champagne in one hand and a Mai Tzd in tile other, didn’t even get his feet wet

That masked man is Ray Jason — juggler, sailor, arsonist. Here, he performs the deathdefying ‘flaming winch handle' trick.

though. A bunch of his friends came over to share his adventure, and as he weis corping in to anchor, "I heard this weird splashing, rattling sound coming at me in the deirk." It turned out to be four buddies who had 'borrowed' a Hobie Cat off the beach and hand-paddled it out to meet Denny. (The rattling was the loose halyeird banging the mast.) He came ashore like some latter-day Hawaiian royalty, standing on the trampoline

while his 'manservants' muscled the little cat through small waves and onto the beach. Denny, who stepped ashore with a bottle of

X^mong numbers crunched out by tiie Singlehanded TransPac’s exhaustively com¬ plete software was the fact that the 'old guns' of the race really showed the youngsters how it was done Ais year. Red Stripe’s Buz Sanders, at 62, took home awards for first ULDB and first in Division II; 55-year-old Jerry Huffman on Cynthia seemed barely to break a sweat taking first monohull ctnd second in Division II; and 61-yecur-old Hans \fielhauer aboard Chaparral took that squeaker fourth in Division III and beat at le^ one of his two previous solo Transftic aossings by three days. Sarnatas’ Mike Evans was quick to observe that all three were also returning veterems of previous'Ginglehanded TransRics. He then offered tiie following observation: "When you know what to expect, I think you can do at least 20 percent better than your first time. For example, I didn’t know that much about sailing in squalls, so every time one would come. I’d drop -the spinnaker. It took a few tirties before I realized that the wind doesn’t increase that much. But it cost me a lot of time to learn. If I did this race again, I know I could do it faster." Beyond that, and simply the satisfaction of crossing an ocean alone under sail, tiiere were no great revelations or metaphysical landmarks among racers this year — A rogues' gallery of the start: (I to r) ‘Leiko 2', ‘Aotea’, ‘Red Stripe' and ‘Sarnatas’.

undoubtedly Mbther corollary of the light conditions. In past races, lack of sleep and the physical strain heis been known to open page 128

LIGHT, BREEZY AND OVER EASY

1990 Singlehanded TransPac Results Yacht

Type

' Homeport

Skipper

Elapsed

Overall

DIVISION I-MULTIHULLS 1. Super Fox F-27(Tri) : Bob Dixon 2. Aotea Antrim 40 (Tri) Peter Hogg

San Diego Mill Valley

13d/12h/ii6m 2 12d/10h/!)m ipiiiii / / >

DIVISION II - PHRF115 & UNDER i. Red Stripe Sonoma 30 2. Cynthia Wilderness 40 2.Leiko2 Olson 30 4. Samatas Evans 40 S. Logical Switch Express 37 ^.Etosha Adler 60 7. High Flight Olson 29

Buz Sanders Jerry Huffman George Sakata Mike Evans Fred Joyce B. Cranmbr-Brown Peter Anderson

Alameda Los Angeles Vancouver Vancouver San Francisco Los Altos Laguna Beach

15d/l'9h/24m t5d/2h/30m 16d/12h/36m 15d/15h/31m 16d/23h/28m 16d/8h/3m DNF

DIVISION III - PBBFJlgAMEB •{.Polecat Freedom 44 2. Possible Dream Santana 37 3. Frequent Flyer Wilderness 21 4. Chaparral Cal 40 5. Lunasea J-27 Hunter 30 6. Duval 7. Marlin Catalina 28 8. Aventura Farallon29

Alan Brutger Peter Crane Leslie King Hans Vielhauer Denny Quirk Jeff Arnst Barry Ruff Ray Jason

''r

4 '

a whole new plane of consciousness for some racers. This year, sailors who needed it got their 8 or 10 or 12 hours of sleep a night, punctuated only by alarms to wake them every so often for a seem of the horizon. Among tiiose who slept the least — and who therefore theoretically could have made the faster passages — were Bob CranmerBrown, George Sakata and Bob Dixon. "CB" as Creinmer-Brown was nicknamed, seems to have prerfected the technique he tried on the ’88 crossing: accumulating enough sleep by getting short 15 to 20-minute "bites' through¬ out the day and night. Sakata says he never sleeps more than four hours a night anyway.

Bozeman, MT Santa Barbara ' Santa Fe, NM Vallejo ; Friday Hbr., WA Miami, FL Vancouver San Francisco

6 ; ./ 9'': 13 , , 16

1Sd/19h/11m ~ ' 1'3' ' ■' 16d/3h/32m 18d/16h/47m 16d/6h/14m 8 16d/11h/33m - i 8' . ' , 18d/23h/5m 10 ,1.. 19d/18h/28m 12 20d/13h/15m Msiiili

cuiother 2-hour nap sometime in the afternoon. Sleep, of course, is the big curse of the singlehanded racer. With no crew to hand die tiller over to, solo sailors must ttW a windvane or autopilot to steer when they don’t. Windvanes work wonderfully when beating or reaching, but are oftentimes

Longtime Mends and competitors Mike Evans and George Sakata of Vancouver.

but for this trip reduced it to pnly two or three. Bob Dixon found his most comfortable routine was to sleep from 2 to 6 a.m., with page 129

unusable when running downwind, as there’s not enough apparent wind flowing over the "paddle'. And autopilots, which once agedn ^d most of the non-human steering during this solo TransRic, have a long way to go before they can steer, surf and anticipate wave patterns as well eis people. (The one exception to ftis was Hogg’s Navico system, whidi in this race’s conditions /

steered Aotea "as good or better than I did.") Another trouble with autopilots is that, on most monohulls, a spinnaker can easily overpower one in anything over about 8 to 10 knots of breeze. So the routine is for monohull sailors to drop their kites at night and pole out a jib, which of course costs tiiem several miles for every hour they’re below. In the morning, as a past competitor so sucdnctly put it, "You eat breakfast, take a ftx, pack a bag lunch, get the spinnaker ready and "it’s showtime, folks!'" Interestingly, both of tire trimarans were able to Ceinty their asymmetrical chutes while under autopilot, although Super Fox took a couple of heartstopping roundups that "I wouldn’t want to make a habit of," says Dixon.

In their "oft" time, racers listened to music, read a lot, and ate a lot I^ue ranged from Spam, freeze-dried. Top Shelf and Dinty Moore, to (for the IucIq; ones) fresh fruit and pre-prepared meals from home. Several racers, like Bed Joyce aboard Logical Switch, had packets labeled by tire day and meal to open. Inside, in addition to food, he found tapes, notes of encourageent and other surprises from wife I^un. Bob Dixon opened his "halfway box' ftom his wife to find a bottie of wine and a plaque that read, "The thrill is not just in the winning.

but in the courage to join tiie race." "That made my day," he says. But like we say, nobody had a race quite like Alan Bru^. At 6 every evening, he’d whip up some fresh popcorn, pop open a beer and kick back to tire tunes of Bruce Springsteen on the stereo. He stud( to his regular regimen of exercise, and he reeJly did oil the teak codqrit table the day before he ftnished. It was just that kind of a year.

— latitude/jr

MAX EBB "W.

e’U have to meet for lunch sometime," I had suggested several months ago when Lee Helm told me that she would be working full time at a design office in the dty for the summer. This phrase, of course, is well known as one of the three most

into hailing distance. "Almost didn’t recognize you ^ your work clothes — you look great!"

fip

commonly used lies of modern life, and I never really imagined that either of us would actually follow it up. Lee has a very full schedule as a naval architecture graduate student, even without a summer job. And I have enough difficulty scheduling lunch dates even with my own business contacts. But as a result of a little {lersistence (on Lee’s part), we finally located corresponding vacancies on our calendars. We made a date to meet at a comer in the middle of the financial district, roughly midway between our two offices. I etlmost didn’t recognize her in the lunch-hour aowd, especially so far out of contesct. My eye probably would not have been caught by yet another attractive young woman in a typically up-scale business outfit crossing Market Street as I walked towards the intersection a few minutes behind schedule. The inceindescent pink running shoes gave her away, though. That and the fact that she was crossing the street at much

Vi./lient design review this morning," V she explctined almost apologetically. "I mean, the boss seems to think that I’m like, better equipped to hcmdle the more difficult technical questions." I surveyed her ouffit again and suppressed a response based on the obvious doubh entendre. "They must have been putty in your hands," I said. "They were," she said factually, with a slight shrug. "Where should we have lunch?" "Your choice," I s€ud, emd rem^ded her that since she was still a graduatte stU(|ent I would insist on picking up the tab. "Sounds good. But Uke, I’m totally out of it for choosing good restaurants in the Rneincial District. These are your stomping grounds. Max." I had to agree, so 1 selected a very nice (and somewhat pricey) place a few blocks away. When we got there, however, we were faced with a 20 minute wait. "I’m only supposed to take a half-hour lunch," Lee informed me. * \ Obviously she hadn’t been in the corporate world very long, I thought to myself. But 1 couldn’t come up with a decent lunch idea that would get us in and out on cafeteria. Lee’s schedule. "I’m here a few times a week," she said "Okay, my turn," she said. "1 know a as she hemded me a tray and took one for good place that’s fast, but we can still sit herself. down and talk." The place looked pleasant enough, but She led me aaoss the street and over it definitely had the look of an "employees two blocks, cind into the lobby of a big only" in-house food service. Lee poured modem office building. herself a bowl of soup, then made a big "Is there really a restaurant in here?" salad consisting mostly of sprouts, garbcinzos, "For sure," she said as she pressed the mushrooms, cucumber slices, and cantaloupe. elevator button. I opted for the chicken entre, with some mixed vegetables. Lee added some yogurt and a cup of hot water to her tray and we both got in line at the cash register. That was when I observed that the ratiier surly-looking cashier was 2isking everyone in line to show their company l.D. — the one that verified that they were employees of the beink that owned fire building. How wcis Lee going to pull this off?

'i'll bet you don't know why the tea leaves settle in the middle of the cup, Max."

faster ffisui average speed. 1 still wasn’t certain — even a modest amount of hair styling was out of character for Lee — but hnally she spotted me emd altered course in my direction. "Hello Lee," I greeted her as she hove

We went up to the hfth floor, where after walking down a long heillway and around a comer we entered a small

"A /Ire

you a bank employee?" the cashier asked me impatiently when it was my turn. "Uh . . . weU . . . " "No, we sneak in," Lee interrupted. "Oh, you again," the cashier mumbled as she weighed Lee’s salad and rang up our page 130

TEA FOR TWO

tea. But instead of using the tea bags, she tore them open and dumped the contents directly into the two cups. 'Not strong enough for the bags to work," she explained, and stirred in the fragments of tea leaves. I did the same, and watched the water darken as the tea peirticles swirled in the cup.

tabs. Lee had the timing of this place down, and had the money in the cashier’s hand before I had a chance to pay. "No way I’m letting you off buying me a lunch this cheap!" she said. "This is extremely reasonable," I said as we selected a table. "And it looks like very decent food, too. How did you ever discover it?" "I noticed the tables outside on the balcony over there from my office window a block away. So I went exploring, and found that it’s open to anyone who walks in. It’s even cheaper for beink employees. I mean, the city is full of company-subsidized lunch rooms like this. And what I like most about it is that it’s quiet and not very crowded, even at 12:15." "Good find, Lee. Where is the coffee? Can I get you a cup?" "I use my own herb tea in hot water," she said. "Want some?" "Sure, I’ll try a cup," I said, thinking I might make some progress in my losing battle to reduce my coffee consumption. Lee fetched me another axp of hot water, and then took out two OTiall bags of some exotic new-age homeopathic herbal page 131

watch the tea settle on the bottom of the cup again, noting that in fact the grounds do move to tile center. "Well that’s an easy one," I said after taking another bite. "The centrifugal force of the rotating water pushes the water to the outside of the cup, so the tea floats in to the center of the cup." "If the pieces of tea leaves are lighter than water," she pointed out, "how come they don’t float to the top? They’re heavier than water, so they sink. Shouldn’t centrifugal force move tiiem to tiie outside, to the edge of tiie bottom of the cup?" I ate some more chicken thoughtfully, then stirred my tea again. Same result, of course. I sipped some of the tea — still too hot to drink — then stirred it again. "Lee, is this something I really need to know?" 1 finally said. "For sure. Max. Like, how else could you explain where the deep water is and where tiie shallow water is in a fast-running tidal channel or river bend?" » "Well," I said, "the deep water is normally around the outside of the turn because the water runs faster there." "Why?" I started to say "because it’s on the outside of the turn," but realized tiiat this made no sense at ail. "There’s no reason why the water on the outside of the turn should go any faster than the water on the inside," said Lee, reading my mind. 1 stirred my tea again, ate some more chicken, and cheinged the subject. We talked about the fall racing schedule, the latest in windsurfing rigs, and why an Aussie 18 is faster them si\ Ultimate 30. But every time I sipped my tee^ L.ee eeked if I had figured out her puzzle.

"Lee, is this something 1 really need to know?"...

"By the way," she said after she had had a few bites of salad, "I’ll bet you don’t know why the tea leaves settle in the middle of the cup." I was gnawing at my chicken wing, but I took a second to stir the cup again and

^^oon it was time for Lee to head back to her office. "All right, Ms. Helm. Are you going to make me worry about this all week? "It’s really very simple. Max. Centrifugal force does make the water push out away from the center of the teacup, so tiie pressure is greater towards the walls. 1 mean.

MAX EBB — TEA FOR TWO

Pressure Distribution

♦ ▼ ▼ y. T ▼

Centrifugal force on the liquid balances the pressure gradient

■

The water along the bottom is pushed toward the center by the pressure imbalance, and the resulting ci'rulation causes heavy particles to collect in the centc.

you can see this in the way the surface is depressed in the middle and rises at the edges." "I figured that part out myself," I sedd. "Good. Now, if you look at a little piece of liquid, there’s a 'body force' caused by the rotation that balances this pressure differences, so the piece of water is in equilibrium." By now she had a post-it note out of her purse, and was diagramming the forces eis she spoke.

from high pressure to low, towards the center. A circulation pattern develops, like a tiny thunderstorm even, and the particles of tea leaves cmd stuff get carried into the middle of the bottom, but not up the center core of rising fluid because they’re too heavy." 1 gazed into my half-empty teacup again.

bottom, then nothing would happen. But friction between the fluid and the bottom slows down the rotational flow of liquid along the bottom of the cup, so the centrifugal body force is less than the pressure gradient." "Uh huh." "So what happens?" "Well, that would make the water move into -the center of the cup, but it doesn’t explain the tea grounds." "Sure it does. I mean, the high pressure

ff'P

'How else could you explain where the deep water and shallow water are in a fast-running tidal channel?"

"What happens near the bottom?" "Same thing, I would guess," 1 said, but 1 knew I had to be wrong. "If the fluid was frictionless, or if the entire teacup was rotating with the tea inside so there was no fiiction against the walls and

near the wall is balcinced by centrifugal force everywhere, except near the bottom of file cup. So right at the bottom, water moves

X he important concept here," Lee continued, "is how friction really works between a fluid and a solid surface. The fluid doesn’t actually move along the surface at all — actueJly the fluid immediately next to the surface is stuck to it with zero relative velocity. The speed rapidly increases with distance away from the surface, but there is always a layer of very much reduced relative velocity near the solid surface." 'You got it! But I’m out of here before I’m late." "Remember I owe you one. We’ll have to do lunch sometime!" She scooped up her tray cind was out of the cafeteria, while I finished my vegetables. Another one of life’s mysteries shattered. — max ebb page 132

Edson

Makes It Easy To Enjoy Wheel Steering Now’s the time to start enjoying the benefits of Wheel Steering.. .ease of handling, convenience, safety and added value. Edson has engi¬ neered Wheel Steering for over 2200 different sailboat designs. Every boat from 22 footers with transom hung rudders to maxi ocean racers. And, each Edson Steering System is available as a Conversion Kit. They’re easy to install and economical to purchase. On most boats it only takes about one day. To make installing an Edson Steering Conversion Kit even easier, Edson has Authorized a worldwide network of Dealer & Service Center “Authorized Dealers and Service Centers”. These knowl¬ edgeable professionals are ready to convert your boat to Wheel Steering TODAY! So don’t fight that tiller anymore. Prices for basic Edson Steering Conversion Kits start as low as $900. For complete details on convert¬ ing your boat to Wheel Steering, a FREE catalog showing all the op¬ tions you can add and the name of your “Authorized Edson Dealer arid Service Center”, call our Sudden

Edson Steering Takes Less Room. Even with a complete command center like this your crew has room to work lines or just relax without jumping out-of-the-way.

Edsm\

Service Hotline 508-995-9711 or FAX 508-995-5021. We’ll get you

Edson Custom Teak Accessories.

Edson Basic Steering Conversion Kits.

With an Edson Pedestal you can add more enjoyment to your sailing with options like the Folding Teak Tables and Mug Holders.

Each basic kit comes complete with everything you need. Now you can select from our FREE Catalog the optional accessories to customize your system.

started today. It’s that Easy!

Photo shows typical kit. Components may vary. Ask for a complete Data Sheet for your boat and model.

Free Catalog New F6r 1990 Complete Details of All Edson Products. Easy to Use Selection Guide.

/ Factory Orders Aecsptod; VISA and MaatorCard Walcomo

□ Yes. I want Wheel steering for rayModel___Length□ Please Send New K-22 Catalog

Name_—

Address-City_State_Zip

Eds^m 475 Industrial Park Road INTERNATIONAL New Bedford, MA 02745

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

DUTCHMAN^ SAIL FLAKING SYSTEM

WHICH SAILOR OWNS A DUTCHMAN BOOM BRAKE? It's no joke. An accidental jibe can cause severe injury or rig damage. The revolutionary Dutchman Boom Brake eliminates accidental jibes. No wonder most of the BOG racers, including past winner Phillipe Jeantot, use the Boom Brake. Shouldn't you? Contact us for a free brochure. VMS video available - send $15 deposit and $5 for shipping.

Dutchman/Martinus Van Breams, Inc. 571 Riverside Avenue Westport, CT 06880 (203) 454-0222 Fax (203) 454-1445

The no-hassle sailhandling system, proven on over 6,000 boats with conventional and full batten mains. With a Dutchman, one person can quickly and easily flake the main. Unlike lazy jacks, which just collect the sail into a pile, the Dutchman control lines also organize the main onto alternate sides of the boom. Spend a few seconds straightening and you've got a perfectly flaked tnaln. If s inconspicu¬ ous, fast'and easy with no chafe or performance loss. No wonder so many sailor^ and major builders like Hunter and Beneteau have selected the Dutchman. It simply works better. Call or write to find out more. To get a copy of our VHS video tape, send $15 ($10 refundable deposit and $5 for shipping).

Dutchman/Martinus Van Breams, Inc. 571, Riverside Avenue Westport, CT 06880 (203) 454-0222 Fax (203)454-1445_

HEAVY DUTY DEEP CYCLE MARINE BAUERIES Available at the following local marine chandleries and service distributors: Landfall Marine, Sausalitp Mariner Boat Works, Alameda Neville Marine Electric, Alameda Stone Boat Yard, Alameda Svendsen's Chandlery, Alameda Proper-Tighe Marine, Alameda Star Marine, Alameda Golden State Diesel Marine. Oakland Berkeley Marine Center, Berkeley Boater’s Friend, Berkeley Scandinavian Marine, Berkeley Bay Yacht Service, Alameda

AMERICAN BATTERY Hayward, CA (415) 881-5122

^MmarineElectrics Electronic and Electrical Sales and Installatiions Custom Electrical Panels • Ample Power Dealer Apollo Diesel Generators • Solar Panels Alpenglow Lights and Much More! Mailing Address: 3020 Bridgeway #443 Sausalito, CA 94965

Located in Sausalito in the Schoonmaker Building, #160 (415)332-6726

PBC MK III RADAR FLAG

RADAR FLAG CO. P.O. Box 662, Dania, FL 33004 Tel: (305) 962-7595 Outside FL: (800) 458-9579

Incredible radar reflectivity packed into a highly durable American flag. The sophisti¬ cated silver lining makes wood and fiberglass boats radar vis¬ ible over 4 miles. Custom and other popular ensigns avail¬ able in standard sizes. The RADAR FLAG, sewn and embroidered, lasts twice as long as standard flags. Meets Coast Guard require¬ ments under SOLAS.

NAVIGATION PLOTTER and video “Makes cockpit navigation a reality.” PETER ISLER, Navigator, Stars & Stripes

■ Eliminates variation, parallel rules, protractors, triangles ■ Plot courses and bearings on an erasable surface ■ Used by the UNITED STATES SPECIAL FORCES PBC MK til Navigation Plotter with video, $99.95 plus $4.50 shipping & handling

KANE MARINE

Calif, residents add 7.25% sales tax.

P.O. Box 5421 ■ San Mateo, CA 94402 ■ 415/349-1341 page 134

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

ANNOUNCING CATALOGUE No. 11 Durable new tape seals out water and air Weather resistant white MARINER'S CHOICE rigging tape bonds without adhesive when stretched onto itself, forming a solid piece of rubber that seals out moister and air. It resists ultra-violet rays in sunlight, is not affected by salt water, performs in hot or cold conditions, and conforms to various shapes. MARINER'S CHOICE rigging tape has a host of uses, such as chafing protection, whipping, protective seal, electrical insulation, or safety grip. Many temporary uses for this tape have been found afloat and ashore. If you can wrap it on itself, it might help get you out of a tight spot. Available at your marine dealer. Represented in California by:

Newcomb & Brown

Offered by CRAWFORDS NAUTICAL BOOKS Purveyors of Fine Nautical Literature

• Tales of Discovery • • True Adventure • • Endurance • Unique titles, carefully chosen All boote NEW, at reasonable prices For catalog, send $1.00 to:

CRAWFORDS NAUTICAL BOOKS Dept. LT 5520 N. 16th St. Arlington, Virginia 22205

(714) 645-8944

REMOVING WATER FROM FUEL TANK

RIGGING company

Marine engine fuel tanks are frequentiycontaminated with water during cruises in humid, regions, during winter storage, or from a contaminated source. Water in fuel leads to start¬ ing problems, rough running and damage to the engine. Proven in the tough trucking indus¬ try, The Water Elimator removes the water directly fom the fuel tank simply. Manufactured in the Bay Area, this product is of disposable nylon cartridge containing a waterspecific crystaline material formu¬ lated to attract and hold several hundred times it's bulk in water, while rejecting diesel fue], gasoline or other hydrocarbon liquids. The Water Eliminator can remain active for a year or longer, until full. The cartridge is then discarded and replaced with another.The two-pack shown costs $19.95 plus tax and $1.00 for shipping. Call or send check to:

Dept L38,1 Maritime prive, Portsmouth, R1 02871 Call 800-322-1525 (In Rl 683-1525) Fax: 401-683-5442

1796 Beachwood Way Pleasanton, CA 94566 (415) 846-0904

HYDRAULIC WIRE CUTTERS These portable, lightweight hand held cutters are designed to cut 3/4" wire rope, or 5/8" bolts which means you get BOTH a bolt cutter and a wire cutter. They cut with amazing speed and are ideal in close quarters, trenches, underwater, or where acetylene torches, electric cutters and larger tools can not be used. Engineered to last 15 to 20 years these cutters are the moderh, safe way to cut wire rope. Severed cables are cleanly cut with minimal distortion - suitable for sleeving, invaluable for anyone who cruises long distances. Replacement blades are available.

$495

The

NANJO Sales

page 135

Cockpit Accessories YTCO non-skid dinnerware, flatware, insulated drinkware, 12 volt galley items, etc. Cockpit tables and other hardware for |he finer boat. Send for your free 16-page catalogue.

YACHTING TABLEWARE COMPANY Dept. 9 P.O. Box 546 Wilmington, DE 19801 Fax: (302) 655-2177

WORLD OF .rV'V 'K i \ V

V.:

r-'5

f 'y^ \•;

!;>

!5Q^d

)X ■A tv.

.Ji

s t With report^ this on chairing in -1^0) Caribbean’s Leeward Islands; a pHbto spread ofddli^tful St. Mtirtiti; news of Barbara Marrett and John NedVs n^t) 'sail-training'^j^itions' aboard their 'Mithind Tiare'; and, of 0odrse, charter nqtes.i ..

( :■ (/

Chartering the Leewards In May of this year, four friends and I took a one week charter in the Leewcirds' of the Caribbean. Alida at WindwardLeeward Charters in San Freindsco provided her usual excellent advice and follow-through in handling the arrcingements for our Jeanneau 44 from the La Vida base at Oyster Pond, St. Martin. In spite of airline delays — Americein Airlines did their best at making things right — everT/thing went smoothly from the moment we arrived in St Martin. Our boat was in bristol condition, the staff was very accommodating and the provisions — more about them later — were all ready to be stowed. Because of our late arrival, we elected to spend the first night at the dock

Where you find French — such as St. Martin

— you find fine food.

at Oyster Bond, enjoying a nice dinner at Capfeun Olivers. After filling the freezer the next morning, we headed out the tight channel from Oyster Pond. Because of the unblocked easterly exposure, the shelving at

' <-/

St. Martin, and the luck of the draw with the wind, tiiree of my four crew were chumming fish off the lee rail within the first 10 minutes of our voyage — not a very auspicious start I was later told that the 6 to 7 foot seas we encountered were not common. By the time we had reached De Porsche, a small uninhabited islahdv about 15 miles upwind, the crew was fueling better and we were happy to anchor in the lee for some snorkeling and rest. Later we made tire very short run over to the Anse du Columbier anchorage at St Barts to anchor for the night It was here I had my first experience with an electric windlass. Despite the relatively shallow emchorages in file area, it made file 45-lb CQR and all that chain a pleasure to handle. That night our dinner consisted of barbecue kabobs. We were also treated to a 30-minute bagpipe concert from a fellow in kilts^on the foredeck of a neighboring boat It was a short sail the next day to Gustavia Harbor and exploring St Barts. The island has a lot of charm and didn’t seem to be as 'snooty' or as expensive as I had heeird. The beach at Anse du Gouvenuer is one of the best that I’ve ever seen for playing in the surf. Upon our return to the boat, we were again treated to a serenade by the bagpiper. Unfortunately, our dinner at Eddy’s Ghetto was disturbed by the excessively rowdy behavior of the crew from the bagpiper’s boat. Our next stop was 24 miles back downwind at Long Beach on the southwest end of St. Martin — a very pleasant anchorage. Later we dropped the hook at Marigot Harbor for the night and tried to call La \fida to report a balky water pump. The VHP signal couldn’t get over the mountain, however. This is when we found out that you can’t make a phone call on Hench islands without a miao-chip imbedded phone card, a phone card that’s only available at the Post Office. Naturally it was Saturday afternoon and the Post Office was closed. But thcinks to an elderly French couple who refused compensation, we were given a card with enough credit to make the call.

We had a wonderful dinner at Cas 'Anny and a bit of wine. A local bzind had just completed making a record and there was a parade consisting of one police car, one l^e flatbed truck loaded with speakers and the band, zind another truck selling beer to the enthusiastic aowd that followed. The parade continued in the streets from 9:00 p.m. until 2:30 a.m., and was quite audible far out in the harbor. page 136

CHARTERING C, vita

’t

SI-"' T.% 1

'■'i'

'*iw3i**

^•"” -,

'**

U &■ "

^ Jf, . ^ >ta.

•**■ - «^»**.**,

'\S' '

V ,

;

While La \^da replaced the pump the next morning, we went ashore to have breakfast at a boulangerie: strong, coffee and fresh pastries. What a way to live! We then raised 2uichor and sailed to Road Bay, Anguilla. Since it was Sunday, we deeued Anguillan Immigration and Customs at the police station. But we coul4n’t get a cruising permit, currently $38 l).S. a day, which is required of all boats anchored page 137

St Martin Sarhpler (clockwise from below): The Custavia Port Captain is as helpful as they get; what happens to a brand new Beneteau SI when the chArterier isn't careful entering Orient Bay; body-surfing in the warm, clear waters of Grand Saline; sampling the potent 'punches' in Dutch Phillipsburg; the fropular anchorage at Marigot Bay; soft sunset at Anguilla's Road Bay; and RdadBay's besit dive sight, a short swim from the anchored boats. (All photos/Latitude 38).

anywhere but Road Bay. This fee represents a substantial increase from previous fees and the local charter companies were in the process of trying to negotiate with the authorities when we left We listened to the only steel band of our trip at Johnnos that evening while enjoying a lobster dinner. The replacement water pump also died, but La Vida came over from St

Martin the next morning witir another replacement After getting our cruising permit from customs, we sailed over to East Prickly Pear Island for the best snorkeling of the trip. Prickly Pear offers a good zmchorage in the marked areas and it’s only a short walk or dinghy ride to the best snorkeling on the north shore. Since the permit expired that night at midnight and we

WORLD OF didn’t want to pay another $38 for the privilege of a different anchorage, we returned to 'free' Road Bay. We dined aboard using the excellent provisions supplied by La \^da. Our next stop was Grand Case on St Martin. Baie Greind Case is a beautiful anchorage, but each boat must have plenty of room to swing as there are strong, gusty winds. The town, however, is heaven for 'foodies' as there are lots of good restaurants. We met Captain Stuart on the beach as he was wa^g with his red Macaw and decided to try his restaurant We were rewarded with one of the best meals we’ve had in a long time. His endiusiasm for food and its preparation is reflected by tiie entire stsiff. The French onion soup was to die for*. If the cook book he claims to be in the process of publishing ever sees print k would be well wortii owning. On our last day we sailed around the nordi end of St Martin to Orient Bay for a last bit of snoikeling at He Pinel, where we encountered strong currents and a bit more swell than was comfortable. Mariners must be careful to follow the instructions for entry to Orient Bay and the bay near He Pinel — the entire area is quite shallow. Upon returning to Caster Pond, we took rooms at La Veda’s very comfortable fririlitips and enjoyed the $1 happy hour drinks at Captain Olivers before dinner at die Dawn Beach Hotel. While 1 feel that the \^rgins has better snorkeling, the Leewards offers better sailing (we had 15 to 25 knot winds each day with small seas) and superior food. I’d charter again from La \^da and recommend them highly. The boat and equipment were excellent, ttiey were very responsive to problems and the provisioning was first class. Throughout the course of the trip we were amazed at the wonderful snacte and meals that were provided; it was a bit decadent, but we loved it — John bria son carlos John — Since we've spent quite a bit of time in these waters, we hope you don’t mind if we make a few comments regarding the relative merits of chartering in the Virgins versus the St Martin / St Barts area. By and large, there's not a lot of difference in the average wind speed between the two places; 12 to 20 is pretty much the norm. The big difference is in the sea conditions. Since most of the cruising waters of the Virgins are protected by strings of islands, you rarely get anything worse than San Frandsco-style chop and

the anchorages are about as smooth as you’re going to find anywhere. In this sense, it’s the ideal place for first-time, novice or weak-stomached charterers. On the other hand, almost all the anchorages of St. Martin, St. Barts and Anguilla are occasionally subject to moderate rolling, and the waters between the islands are open ocean. As such, while novice sailors might tend to get queasy, experienced sailors enjoy the slightly more challenging conditions. While the St. Martin area — and especially Anguilla — has outstanding snorkeling, there are calmer, easier to reach, excellent snorkeling spots in the Virgins. The St Martin area, however, certainly gets the nod for ambience and variety. In a 30-mile span you get to experience four very different cultures, ranging from rather basic to ties chic. There are deserted mile-long beaches and mobbed duty free shopping zones. And then, especially on St Barts, there is food that is beyond belief (e.g., the baby mussels

The first 'Mahina Tiare' trans-ocearr sailing expedition was no pleasure cruise. at La Marine, anything at the Restaurant Au Port and a dozen other superb, mostly French restaurants). If you’re on the cheaps, there is no better bargain than Le Select Bar and a 'cheeseburger in paradise'. Mahlna Itare Sailing Training The difference between typical sailing charters and a trans-ocecm sailing expedition is that with the former, odds are you’D have decent weather, while with the latter, you get whatever Ma Nature dishes out. Just ask the folks who did John Neal and Barbara Marrett’s first-ever sail training expedition aboard their Hallberg Rassy 42, Mahina Tiare. Departing rainy Victoria, British Columbia on June 1 for Hilo, Hawaii, they had almost a week of 30 to 40 knot headwinds that left two of the three charter guests feeding the fish and ttie boat not 70 miles off the coast of San firancisco. Once the Pacific High finally decided to abandon its unusual position off page 138

CHARTERING

Los Angeles, Ihey had two weeks of "mellow" sailing to Hilo, with the wind rarely blowing over 15 knots. While the charter guests, who averaged 45 years of age, may not have wanted to be seasick, êy did want to experience realistic crossing conditions to see if that’s what tiiey wanted to do in their own boats or boats they would buy. According to Neal, as a result of the trip two of the three decided that they indeed will want to go cruising. The third, who was sick most of the trip, thctnked John emd Barbara for saving him the money he’d have spent on a boat. He’s going to buy a Winnebago and Izind cruise instead. This wcis John and Barbara’s hist oceein crossing in the 42-ketch that replaced the Hallberg Rassy 31 sloop tiiey’d sailed all over the Fâcific. Pteviously Neal hadn’t particularly cared for the ketch rig, but having had the experience of reducing sail by dropping ê main completely, he reports he’s quickly becoming a convert. Originally equipped with a Harken roller furling system, Neal page 139

removed it since the whole focus of the expeditions is sail treiining, not resort-style charter comfort. Guests become fully integrated members of the crew on these expeditions. In addition to being taught coastal, celestial and electronic navigation, sail handling and boat handling, guests are expected to steer, stand watches, assist in seiil changes, help provision, cook, clean and do ongoing maintenance. The cost for such expeditions — emd having 24-hour/day onboard mentors — is $l,000/person. Rve more guests, all from Southern California, signed up for tire two week inter-islcuid expedition between Kona, Hawaii and Honolulu. While the snorkeling was good, particularly off uncharted anchorages of Lanai, Neal reports the group was more interested in learning than leisure. Group dyneimics is importcuit to zuiy group sail, and one of the guests, a former member of the German Navy, had everyone singing all the time. We visited with John and Barb£u:a in the Ala Wai before their third expedition, tiiis one a four-week trip to Kauai and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and they were in great spirits. The only damage they’d suffered to date was when the rad^ dome tumbled down during the ocean crossing; the whole unit was replaced. There are still openings ^r the September and eariy October expeditions from Alaska back down to Biday Harbor, Washington. The entire circuit will be repeated in the summer of 1991, while John and Barbara will be offering expedition legs all the way to New Zealand in the summer and fall of 1992. When not' conducting sailing training expeditions at sea, John and Barbara spend their winters ^ving Offshore Cruising Seminars. For further information, write Box 1596, Biday Harbor, Washington 98250. — latitude 38 Charter Notes Rainbow Charters of New Zealand reports that as a result of several months of intense lobbying, the 300-mile coastline between the Bay of Islands and Auckland has been opened to bareboat chartering. Previously, charterers were restricted to the two maritime parks. Rainbow’s managing director, Roger Miles, said "This is a vacation to meet the New Zealanders, the friendly fishermen ctnd oyster farmers, the pub owners, storekeepers emd local inhabitants. We’ve found these are the most welcoming people in the world, and the lengtii emd fieedom of this coastal cruise means vacationers can take the time to indulge in local hospitality." Boats available etre eitiier Farr designs or

Beneteaus from 35 to 43 feet. Such cruises take about 21 days, and should be scheduled from Octo^r to May when the North Island weather is the warmest. For details, call (714) 675-5283. We didn’t have space to mention it in a more timely fashion, but Dave Garrett Sailing of Redwood City and Sausalito, em ASA certified sculing school and local charter company, formed Ocean Adven¬ tures several months ago as a result of merging with Windward Leeward Yacht Charters of Sem Francisco. Since 1978 Windward Leewcird had been booking charters on bare and crewed boats of 40 to 200 feet in length. Ocean Adventures is now taking bookings for a group charter to Turkey in late September, one to Thaifand in late November and the St. Martin / St. Barts area in February. Call 331-3364 for details. For tire ladies, Merlyn Storm has put together two more women-only five-day adventure trips on the 101-foot schooner Adventuress. Pbr more information on fae September trips, call (209) 748-2158. Looking for the ultimate in economical Caribbean charters? August, September and October is the lowest of the low season, and you cein get

Guests on the 'Mahina Tiare' participate in every aspect of the expedition, including navigation. some great deals. Call any of the Caribbean advertisers in these pages. As for winter charters, high season starts on December 15. It’s time to formeilize those plans to be sure to get the boat, area and plane tickets you need.

RACE A WINNER! CHARTER THE SANTA CRUZ-50

Ralphie You Name The Race.Date_Miles_$$$$$$ PHRF Championships.Aug 10-12......_-____$ 2,500 Windjammer.Aug 31.•_$ 3,000 Long Beach to Dana Point.Sept 1....;.40.$ 1,300 Dana Point-Oceanside.Sept 29..75.$ 1,500 San Diego-Ensenada (More Hussongs)_Oct 5.75.$ 2,500 LA-Cabo San Lucas.Nov 9 . 950.$10,000 Marina del Rey-Puerto Vallarta(Fab50cias5)Feb 1.1,100.$10,000 Transpac (Hawaii).July.2100 miles.$25,000

Ralphie is the finest Santa Cruz 50 on the maritet. She's won atropny in every mapr race emereo since being totally refitted in 1989 and is now available for all offshore races as a bareboat charter. Fully equipped including 27 bags, Sat Nav, Loran, SSB, Ham, Datamarine Chartlink Navigation system, refrigeration, Hercules 360 Instrumentswith Mast Readouts, B&G with computer interface capabilites, polars, etc. New state-of-the-art elliptical rudder and much more. We have a crew available to deliver and clean her up after the race.

PERFORMANCE CHARTERS HAWAII

INFO? Call Bill Boyd 213/434-7723 or 714/883-1717

tiN’A TROPHY

BE IN THE FAST LANE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SC50: Emily Carr Several 55: Shadow That's right, win. place or show while chartering from us and earn a 50% rebate on the bare boat charter fee. This is the best way I can think of to be your4)a>tner in the race without being with you on the race course. So... If you're^onfident in your crew and inclined to "Go for the Gold”

CALL LANl SPUND OR JUNE LUNDSTROM FOR COMPLETE DETAILS SOUTH: 818/353-6689-NORTH: 408/354-8515

FOOLPROOF MARINE -16197 Maya Way, Los Gatos, CA 95032

Photo By: HippophotG. Beauvais

A RARE OPPORTUNITY THIS SUMMER, WHY NOT CRUISE ONE OF THE FINEST CRUISING WATERS IN THE WORLD,

38' BAYLINER August 18-August24

Call u$ for a fantastic dealll

We currently have openings for six boats in our charter fleet in the 35' to 45' range. Beneteaus, Jeanneaus, C&Cs and Other Quality Boats that are New or in Like new Condition HAVE YOUR BOAT START PAYING FOR ITSELF! Dave Garrett • Windward Leeward

SKYLINE YACHT CHARTERS FLOUNDER BAY ANACORTES, WA 98221

(206) 293-5134

SausaUto (415)331-3364

FAX 206-293-9458

Lessons • Charters • Sailing Club page 140

VIRGIN ISLANDS ♦ GRENADINES ST. MAARTEN

Sail Two Weeks For The Price Of One August 17 - October 8

2 For I Our famous 1 for I is back Two fabulous weeks on a lavishly equipped Bimitri yaefit, lor the price of one. Two weeks for as little as $879 a per¬ son including airfare, provisions (1st week), liquor and a luxuriously eciuipped 36' - 47' yacht for two unforgettable weeks in the sun.

One Week Saving Spectacular If you just have one week to sail we have an unbelievable, unadvertised bargain for you, Irtiagine, an all inclusive sailing vacation (including airfare and meals) for less than the price you'd expect to pay for a hotel room! Call us and ask for details. .

YACHTING HOLIDAYS, INC

Bimini Guarantees the Weather The weather is great in the fall. High 80's during the day. low 70 s at night, sunny skies, steady trade winds and uncrowded anchorages. In the unlikely event tfiat you are called to port due to a tropical disturb¬ ance we will give you full credit for the value of your lost time. We are coni idem you will have the best vacation you've ever had.

page 141

From U.S. and Canada (813)799-3996 Fax (813) 799-0668

Go GREECE — and the Mediterranean

with GPSC CHARTERS, LTD. — the largest U.S. retail charter company for Europe For: • Bareboat Charters • Crewed \hcht Charters

• Sched^ted Monthly Flotillas

• Custom Flotillas lor y^ur club

• Air and Land Arrangements

For the most complete information package and charter arrangements, please contact; GPSC Charters, Ltd. 600 R St. Andrews Road, Phila., PA 19118 Tel: 215-247-3903 Tlx: 5101009781 GPSC CHTR PA and l-800-S-E-A-’N-S-U-N or 1-800-732-6786 Fax:215-247-1505 Available: GPSC Complete Charter Guide GPSC video on yachting in Greece

□

'siP. 1

YOUR BEST MARINA CHOICE IN THE SEA OF CORTEZ

nmunY

LSANINGAaO-

Welcome to Baja l^OUMnNl

A^AHKALU.

SAIL SAN DIEGO Beautiful Weather, Sunny Skies, Gentle Breezes. Sailboats 30 Feet and Up. Sail to Mexican Islands, Catalina, or in Our 13 Mile Bay.

800-456-0222 si Yacht Charters

VtOA DRUtCUTESf. OilOAO

(iwsmnoNN vlAMZN WW* ^ \wiA

Located in Marina Cortez 1880 HARBOR ISLAND DRIVE SAN DIEGO, CA 92101

CHARTER BY THE DAY-WEEK-MONTH, ASK ABOUT OUR QUALIFY TO CHARTER PROGRAM

Towr\

/SAMJOK

oaotto

(AWSANUKAS

MARINA PALMIRA is located in a unique waterfront setting. The master plan of this bayside retreat offers you the best of the "La Paz-Marina Style" in a new and fast-growing residential and boating community.

MARINA SERVICES Electricity, 30-50 Amps, Water, Security, Fax, VHF, Public Telephone, Laundry, Showers, Ice, Sodas, Concrete Launch Ramp, Diesel Fuel, Parking, Dry Storage, Anchorage, Repairs, Maintenance, all Legal Documents with Mexican Officials. CHARTER DIVISION (Sail/Power, Bareboat/Crewed, Fishing) Restaurant and Bar. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR RESERATIONS, CALL OR WRITE TO:

CLUB DE YATES PALMIRE, S.A. DE C.V. KM2.5CARRETERA PICHILINGUE LA PAZ, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MEXICO TEL: (682) 539-59 FAX 562-42 APARTADO POSTAL 34

m<K

IfUMN

Quality Bareboats: GREECE, TURKEY, YUGOSLAVIA, CARIBBEAN Weekly Flotilla: ATHENS Sail Luxury Cruises / Instruction; ATHENS Crewed Yachts: WEST & EAST MEDITERRANEAN, CARIBBEAN

Albatross Private Yacht Chartering Club

1-800-922-4864 • 1-516-867-1957 FAX 1-516-867-7292 page 142

You’d like to own the state-of-theart in a large, elegant and luxurious cruising yacht. And we’d like to charter that same yacht when you aren’t sailing her. That’s the simple reason why our Yacht Ownership Program works so well. This year, we’re celebrating our 20th Anniversary. One of the presents is a special program for buyers of our Moorings 50 and Moorings 500 yachts. Normally, we pay our owners 25% of the charter rev¬ enue. That’s a great deal more than their mortgage cost. For buyers of our 50-footers who act before October 31, we’ll double your revenue for the first Winter season. (You still receive the 25% share for the rem.aining contract period). Even at the most conservative level of usage, your net income is significant. At our current level of operation, it’s a bonanza. But, what makes this the right program for you goes beyond the cash. It’s obvious^e moment you step behind

the wheel of your own 50-foot Moorings yacht. Either model is the yacht you’d choose, even if no program was offered. , We base your lx)at in paradise, give you the time you want, and let you sail sisterships when you want to try other locations (15 choices — from Ae Sea of Cortez, to the South Pacific, Caribbean and Mediterranean). If you’re ready to step up to one of these 50-footers, delay just throws away half your income. So, ask for information soon: The Moorings, Suite 402, 1305 U.S. 19 South, Clearwater, FL 34624 USA.

(3wner NowDoi

page 143

?!lThe Moorings ToU-Free 1-800-521-1126 (In Honda 813/530-5651) British Virgin Islands • St. Martin • Guadeloupe • St. Lucia • Grenada Sea of Cortez • Tahiti • Tonga • Greece • Turkey • Yugoslavia • Spain

THE RACING

With reports this month on the latest skirMlsh in the Ultimate Yacht Race; a slow Boreas Race; the Trans-Tahoe Race; the windp Laser Nationals; a quick profile of professional sailor David Scully; a winning brother/sister act in the Marul/O’Neill Classic; an enjoyable Silver Eagle Race; a massacre in the San Francisco Perpetual Challenge Cup; the 505 North Americans; the Simpson Regatta for Etchells; the Fleet 17 Championship for JI24s; and a ridiculous amount of race notes.

Ziploc Ultimate, Round III For the wild-looking Ultimate 30s, the latest Ziploc Ultimate Yacht Race, held at Corpus Christ! on July 4-8, was a near replay of June’s Crissy Field "star wars". Once again, John MacLaurin and Wmo Worthington won the event with their gaily colored Spot Sport (formerly MacLaurin Technoyachts), though they didn’t dominate the festivities as thoroughly as they did in San fiancisco. And, as before, Ziti and Chew provided the most competition. Coming on strong in the preliminaries was Russ Silvestri’s now-debugged Team

^ S D ^ Cam "Mr. Vacation" Lewis: the first sailor to pull off a 'double' in the Ultimate Yacht Race.

Hexcel, which won two of the three $5,0(X) heats (Spot Sport won the third). A bad start in the $56,250 final race doomed the

"Pepto-Bismol Rnk" skiff to a fburth place finish. Spot Sport, with its crew of seven (Worthington, MadLaurin, Jim Barton, Tom Ducharme, Bill George, Dave Gruver, Cam Lewis and Hart Jordan), onc^ v again exhibited superior windward ability to ^laim its second title in a row, this time by a comfortable 1:13 margin. "Our top end may not be as high as the others, but we can jibe and tack at will," clciimed Spot Sport crewmember Dave Gruver. 'We also seem to go around the comers better." The 7-mile final showdown, held in a warm 20 knot breeze, took its toll on the back of the pack. Russell Long’s Duraflame, which has been prone to breakdowns and capsizes this year, broke its meist on ffie second lap. (The Texas road trip must have been cm expensive one for Long — the week before he blew up his fragile "trifoiler" going for the world speed seiiling record.) Already knocked out of the finals was a bizarre-looking newcomer. Team Sarasota, which damaged its exotic rig in the pielimincuries. "That boat was a real 'mad scientisf type of project," said Gmver. "It looked like a Klingon battleship! It never really got going, but if that thing’s right — well, there were seven boats in Corpus Christi that were all wrong..." The funniest/scariest/most exciting moment of the finals was provided by Point Richmond Racing, skippered in Texas by Australian skiff star Michael Walsh. While teaching down the seawall and struggling to get their kite under control, Pt. Richmond broached into the audience, sending dozens of spectators flying. "It was hileurious, like an old Godzilla or King Kong movie," laughed on-the-water memager Jim Taylor. "People were scattering in every direction!" His assistant, Patrick Andreasen, likened the accident to em Indy car blowing a tire emd hurtling into the stands. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and Pt. Richmond was able to limp back into the fiay. Meanwhile, a dozen One Design 14s put on quite a respectable side show. High Seas, sculed by Stu Johnstone and Cam

Lewis, ran away with the $6,500 first place check. Lewis, one of tlie most sought after crewmen in the country, pulled off the circuit’s first "double" by crewing on winning boats in each division. (He cilso appeeued to enjoy himself off the course — nicknamed "Mr. Vacation" by his Spot Sport mates, Lewis took flying lessons before the racing, and went windsurfing or mountain biking afterwards.) Behind High Seas, only 13 seconds separated the second place boat from the fourth. The fourth and final leg of the ’90 Ziploc Ultimate tour is slated for Milwaukee on August 30-September 2. Already, details for next year’s Ultimate Yacht Race circuit are being negotiated. Apparently, owners in botii classes have formed associations as an "escape hatch" m case they don’t like the rules/dues/prize money that the Ultimate orgemizers, Glenn and Toby Dcurden, decide upon for next year. "Hopefully, things will page 144

SHEET

I I I

__ 0 g

finish line at 10 o’clock on Sunday morning, July 1 — half an hour before the time limit expired. For his persistence, Jones took home four trophies: 1st multihull (actually. Raja 11 was the onip multihull), 1st Elkhom YC boat {Raja II was the only EYC boat to finish), last boat to finish (ev'eryone behind Jones was DNFied) euid oldest boat to finish. Not bad for a night’s work! Twenty-eight boats started the Elkhom and Ocikland YC co-sponsored 83-mile downwind race off Saint Francis YC at 8:30 on Saturday, June 30. Unfortunately, only 15 finished, as most of the cruising division was gobbled up by the Montara Hole. First to finish the light air contest was Steve Harkes’ SC 40 Revelry at 8:30 that night; however; Ikying Circus, Gene Ftyley’s Express 27, corrected out as the Division I and overall winner Rodney Pimentel’s Sunshine *36 Ositu won the trophy for best finish by an Oakland YC boat "Next year, we’re going to experiment with time-on-time hemdicapping," said Young. "The way the system woria now, the cruising class gets clobbered by the racers. We’re looking at incentives to get more cruisers to come out and join us." DIV. I (Ultralights) — 1) Flying Circus, Express 27. Gene Ryley; 2) Revelry, SC 40. Steve Harkes; 3) Presto, Moore 24, Marc Hersch. (14 boats) DIV. II — 1) Adlos, Cal 9.2, Mike Martorana. (14 boats; 13 DNF)

Deep in the heart of Texas; John MacLaurin's 'Spot Sport made it two in a row.

work out so that everyone — the sponsors, the players and the Dardens — can make money," seiid Taylor. ULTIMATE 30s; 1) Spot Sport;

MacLaurinAVorthington;

Los

Angeles; 52:00 (time); $56,000 (regatta earnings); $160,000 (circuit earnings to date). 2) Team Ziti; Peter Gilmour; Sydney, Australia;

53:13; $31,250; $109,500. 3) Chattanooga Chew Chew; Bill Ziegler; Darien, Conn; 53:41; $18,750; $62,?00. 4) Team Hexcel, Russ Silvestri; Sah Francisco; 54:16; $8,750; $27,500. 5) Maryland Flyer, Mike Hobson; Annapolis: 54:54; $6,250; $22,750.

6) Point Richmond Racing, Michel Walsh; Sydney, Australia; 55:21; $3,750; $10,0d0. DNF — Duraflame, Russell Long, San Francisco: $-: $5,000. page 145

I , Trans-Tahoe Race g After a two hour, forty-five minute g postponement, 56 boats twirled off the startiijg line at 3:45 p.m. on July 7 to begin DNS — Team Sarasota, Chris Keitel; Sarasota. Tahoe YC’s 29 mile Trans-Tahoe Place. "The FL; (8 boats) lake was like glass when we started," said Sparky skipper Bill McCluen. "Our boat and Hobie Wan Kenobie reached the wind line ONE DESIGN 14s: first and took off, basically putting away tiie 1) High Seas/High Sierra; Stu Johnstone/Cam test of the fleet right after Ae start. We got Lewis: Newport, Rl; 34:06; $6,500; $8,000. the Hobie near the end, and were able to 2) Big Dog Sportswear; Ed Baird/Kevin pass the tequila bottle up and down the rail Burnham; St. Petersburg, FI; 35:20; $3,250; $4,750. on the last jeg. The sun dipped below the 3) Team Zipioc; Peter Johnstone/Devon mountains just as we finished — it was really Goughian; Newport, Rl; 35:29; $1,560; $3,060. beautiful!" 4) Club Sportswear; Jonathan & Charlie McKee; The victory was particularly satistying for Seattle; 35:33; $1,040; $20,540. McCluen, who moved up to Incline Village 5) Challenge America; Chris Larson/Steve from the Bay Area a few yeaurs ago. 'We’ve Rosenberg; Clearwater, FL; 36:34; $650; $1,650. put new sails and a new keel on Sparky; it’s 6) Tom Wondolleck Racing, Tom Wondolleck/Bill nice to see her get up and go." Sailing with Fields: Alameda; 37:05; $--; $--. (12 boats) Bill were Dee Smith, Gary King, Tom ImsBoreas Race toe, Karen Anderson and Bill Whidden. Rgure this out: the big winner of this Placing second overall in the shifty race year’s 39th annual Boreas Race actually was the J/24 Another White Boat, piloted by hnished last. Raja U, Howard Jones’ Brown Sam Anselmo’s George Peck along with 37 multihull, drifted across the Moss Landing Steve Stroub, Bill Schwarz and Rick

THE RACING

Scarborough. For their efforts, McCluen and Peck — as well eis three other skippers — were awarded Pusser’s Rum watches. Pusser’s, it seems, was a most generous sponsor: "They just kept pouring the rum at Sunday’s awards ceremony," related McCluen. "Half the crowd was completely lit up before noon!" Winners of Tahoe Sail Week, a lowkey collection of races leading up to the Trans-Tahoe finale, included Russ Johnson and Ronn Lowenthal, who raced the Express 27 Leon Russell to victory in the Gcimbler’s Regatta; the J/24 Icebreaker iced the Intergalactic Beer Can Race; and Corsair, an Olson 30 sailed by Peggy Carter, won the Ladies Evening Races. ORANGE DIVISION — 1) Sparky, Mull 30, Bill McCluen; 2) Hobie Wan Kenoble, Hoble 33, Mike Catherwood; 3) Rock & Roll, Olson 29, Michael Strauss. PURPLE DIVISION — 1) Hyperspace, Impulse 26, John Hartman; 2) Meeta, Express 27, Dan King; 3) Outrageous, SC 27, Frank Roberts. BLUE DIVISION — 1) Telesls, J/22, Mike George; 2) Big Chief, Ranger 28, J.C. Krise; 3) Not To Worry, Ranger 26, Harvey Perlman. WHITE DIVISION — 1) Leta B, Catalina 30, Jerry Lucas; 2) One Step Beyond, Hot Foot 20, Thawley/Dair; 3) High Frequency, Wavelength 24, Roger Merle/C. Bell. GREEN DIVISION — 1) Mac-A-Tac, MacGregor 26, Ken Stuber; 2) Madman Across the Water, Santana 20, Steve Katzman; 3) (No Name), Catalina 27, Charles Prevel. GOLD DIVISION — 1) Irish Eyes, Capri 26, Duke Lambert; 2) Sharon Won, Ranger 29, Mike Hillerby; 3) Lady Zephyr, Merit 25, Mark Daniel. J/24— 1) Another White Boat, George Peck; 2) J-Walker, Phil Perkins/Don Nazzal; 3) Ice Breaker, Bob Richards. OVERALL — 1) Sparky; 2) AWB; 3) Telesls; 4) Leta B; 5) Hobie Wan Kenoble; 6) J-Walker; 7) Ice Breaker; 8) Rock & Roll; 9) Hyperspace; 10) One Step Beyond. (56 boats)

Laser Nationals Both the Laser and Laser Radial National Championships, hosted by Rich¬ mond YC on July 19-22, turned into battles for second place. Seattle’s Mark Brink, 32, completely dominated the 69-boat Laser fleet, while in the Laser Radials (Lasers with smaller rigs, designed for sdllors under 145 pounds), 19-year-old pre-race favorite Morgan Larson of Capitola proved virtually untouchable. In the Laser competition, Samuel Kemer of Honolulu got the best of a pair of determined Kiwis — Rohem Lord and

Rodney Dawson — by virtue of winning the last race (which overall winner Brink had the luxury of sitting out). Rnishing fifth — the highest finish by a Bay Area resident — was 27 year-old East Coeist transplant Martin Hartmanis, now of Palo Alto. Winning tiie battle for second in the Laser Radial class was San Rafael’s I^ul Kemer, who came from behind to beat Floridian Brett Davis, in the final two races. Radial winner Larson emd runner-up Kemer’s 1-2 finish may have been more than a coincidence — the duo has teamed up and begun training for the 1992 Olympic 470 berth. The racing, held off the Berkeley Circle, was physically demanding. "It wasn’t a major brainfest," conceded Patrick Andreasen. "It was a boatspeed contest to bang the right hand corner as hard as you could. Every day it blew 15 in the morning and 25 in the afternoon. The winners tended to be the big, strong guys." Laser winner Brink, despite claiming to be out of shape and distacted by the imminent arriv^ of his first child, put together a brilliant 3,1,1,1,2,1 series. Though happy to have won, Brink expressed disappointment with the lack of local Laser veterans in attendance. (At one point, it was

Laser show: traffic at the weather mark in the heavy air Laser Nationals.

rumored that John Kostedd, Kimo Worthington, Craig Healy and other late ’70s Laser alumuni were going to "reunite" at the regatta.) In addition to putting on another dazzling sailing performance (five firsts and two seconds), Morgan Larson also displayed a high order of seamanship and sports¬ manship in the first race. Seeing a rapsiTpd competitor — which turned out to be Kiysia Pohl — in trouble, he wididrew from the race to assist her. Morgan pulled the exhausted Krysia aboztrd his Las^ until the crash boat came to retrieve her, erfter which he jumped back into the race. He finished 8th, but after redress was reinstated to second, where he hekl been before dropping out. "Morgan’s a pretty cool character," said St. Francis YC’ Matt Jones, who was on hand to help out Richmond YC’s race committee ("We owed then firom the 1-14 Worids"). "He sees the big picture, and is always making sure everyone around him is okay. Morgan’s out there to have fun, not just to win. How many other guys do you see chasing tiieir competitors who have page 146

*''

"^ ^^

'' ^ ^ ^' '

*^'* * ♦

N V*

^ ' *

^fA‘''.S«'V' S" H

. -^ 1t

s’n'*

^*i

^^v'/'.ti" -

AV-

f *

« A*'

^ tyj?** f

, -' * ■' " * «^ .^-».-•• :n.' •

•' >-^'

'" -

,- * -••!

: -

f3fj*i

»^

,.„

■*

'..

SHEET

'■'•^ ■ '

David Scully: Life in the Fast Lane We caught up with occasional Sausalito resident David S^y last month, but only barely. Returning from his record breaking Two-Handed TransAthntic Race with Mark Rudiger, the 33-yeeir-old professional sailor was back on his houseboat briefly, just long to check his mail, return his phone calls, and punch out an article on his TwoStar trip for the English-based Seahorse magazine, a publication he contributes to frequently. Seveial hours after we talked with him, Scully was on a phne to Porto Cervo, Italy, to crew in the Rolex Swan World Cup. "It’s not a bad life," admits the softspoken 33-year-old jet-setter. The Englishborn Sculor only took up sailing ten years ago, but in that time he’s compiled an enviable record; among his regular rides are tile Ultimate 30 Maryland Flyer, the ProSail 40 Timberland and the 50-footer Insatiable. He’s done Kenwood Cups, Admirals Cups and America’s Cups trials (as one of Buddy Melges’ bowmen on Heart of America).

with Nathanael Herreshoff, who claimed, The amount of fiin you have seiiling is directly proportional to how fast you go'," scud Scully. "I’m also drawn towards shorthemding and sailing in the ocecin." All of which explains his latest adventure, when he and Rudiger ("He was great to seiil with!") blasted 3,000 miles from Plymouth, England, to Newport, Rhode Island, in just 15 days, 16 hours and 46 minutes abocurd Scully’s cheirtered Nic Bciiley^ designed 40-foot trimaran American Challenge. As well as crossing the line fifth in tiie 37-boat fleet, the duo knocked two days off the previous record for 40-footers (first to finish honors went to Jean Maurel’s 60-foot tri Elf Aquitane, which eilso took two days off the unlimited TwoStar record). Despite the record-breaking crossing, conditions were far from optimal. "The wind

■’“-I-' *-

'' strayed from the line to advise tiiem how much time they have until the start?"

=»9ki

LASERS — 1) Mark Brink, Seattle, 8 points; 2) Samuel Kemer, Honolulu, 13.5; 3) Rohan Lord, New Zealand, 18.75; 4) Rodney Dawson, New Zealand, 19; 5) Martin Hartmanis, Palo Alto, 33; 6) Marcus Maher, La Porte, Texas, 34; 7) Allan Clark, Vancouver, BC, 40; 8) David Shelton, Morgan Hill, 43; 9) Geoff Senior, New Zeaiand, 44; 10) Kim Zetterberg, Rancho Cordova, 54. Other local finishers: 14) Jeff Wallace; 21) Patrick Andreasen; 30) Forrest Fennell; 31) Michael Ratiani; 35) Wayne Stranton; 36) Jason Fain; 39) Paul Oietrich; 41) Mike Jankowski; 47) Tony Fisher; 49) lin Woolward; 54) Chris Sloane; 59) Simon Bell; 60) Vaughn Sellers; 65) Doug Hansen; 68) Chad Grenier; 69) Aaron Bartling. (69 boats)

'American Challenge', Scully's TwoStar recordbreaker.

d> LASER RADIALS — 1) Morgan Larson, Capitola, 5.75 points; 2) Paul Kerner, San Rafael, 15.75; 3) Brett Davis, Largo, Florida, 16.75; 4) Scott Chemey, Austin, Texas, 19; 5) Brandon Paine, Moraga, ^5; 6) Mike Hare, Houston, 35; 7) Blake Middleton, Menlo Park, 56; 8) Erick Rodriguez, Texas. 60; 9) Jesse Goff, Santa Cruz. 61; 10) Evangeline Callahan, La Porte, Texas, 62. Other local finishers: 13) Rebecca Harfis; 14) Matt McQueen: 18) Geoffrey Bishop; 20) Kurt Lahr; 24) Dave Crowe; 25) Krysia Pohl. (26 boats) page 147

David Scully, man on the move.

Scully’s also a champion catamaran sailor (fifth in the ’89 Worrell 1000) and windsurfer (top ten in the U.S. in Mistrals for the last three years). Which kind of sailing does this versatile sciilor enjoy most? "Lately, I tend to agree

nose," explained Dave. "It was rough enough that one boat sank, another was 'de-ama’d' and we actually spent a lot of time trying to slow down." Their best day’s run was 380 miles; top speed was thought to be about 18 knots ("Our instruments malfunctioned right at the start — Mark and I had a lot of fiin arguing about how feist we were going.") What’s next for the, former business-

THE RACING

metn? (Scully, anned with ein MBA, owned a grain-trading concern in Chicago before cashing out to pursue sailing full-time.) In addition to some quick regattets in New Eng^d, the Great Lakes and Tahiti in the next few months, Dave is busy lining up a boat and sponsorship for November’s singlehanded Route du Rhum Race (a "sleigh ride" from Bance to Gaudaloupe). Scully’s also smitten with the idea of putting together a heavy-duty shorthanded ocean racing campaign for 1992-1994: "The four biggest races in the world will occur then — the OSTAR (’92), the Globe Challenge (’92), the Whiti^read (’93) emd-the BCKJ (’94). I think it’s possible to do all four in the same boat — a 60-footer with inter¬ changeable rigs, water ballast and the works." Having sealed in most of tfie glamour spots around the world, we figured Dave could tell us how Sem Hreindsco Bay stacked up: 'If s a great place to sail, but I’m hardly ever home," lamented Scully. 'To be honest, except for a few Big Boat Series, some windsurfing at Crissy Held and a bit of sailing wifii Irv Loube this spring. I’ve hardly ever been sailing on the Bay." Marui/O’Njelll Classic The boys and girls of file world windsurfing tour were back in town at the end of June for file annual Marui/O’Neill Sem Francisco Classic. The brother/sister team of Bjorn and Britt Dunkerbeck fiom the Spemish Canary Islands stole the show. They not only won the Sem Hancisco course racing event, which earned Bjorn $8,400 and Britt $4,800, they also won the thre >stop Marui/O’Neill World Tour, worf an extra

$20,000. While those finm around the world walked away with the big prizes, our local sailors hung in there. Top fey Area toisher in file course racing was Orinda’s Drew Feurrior, who placed 15th in the men’s field of 64. Santa Cruz’s Trevor feylis< ended up 21st and Stanford’s Ted Huang placed 25th. "It’s really intense racing," said Huang, who was competing in his first World Cup event after a decade of one design and Olympic windsurfing. "The coiuses were short and you’re going very fast. Division II racing (i.e., Olympic class racing) is much more tactical." The ancient mariner of the group was Steve Sylvester of El Cerrito, who ended up 36fh. He was also the third best local (and sbdh to finish) in the 22 mile long distance race from Crissy Held to Berkeley. Steve, who does cancer research when he’s not on file water, is old enough to be the father of

most of the rest of the fleet. "It took two days to figure out how to tune my sail and drive my board up^nd against these guys," he claimed. "I was really pleased to get a 15th in one race, and at file end I was looking forward to some more. Ifs great to test yourself against these guys. I also heard from Robby Naish (who ended up 6th) that some of the Europeems were asldng him, 'Who is this old guy thafs going so fast?'." Sylvester added that ifs becoming clear that the perfect windsurfing physique these days measures about 6’3" t^ and weighs about 190 pounds. The long arms and legs help the sailors leverage their bodies to weather emd get the most drive from their sails. "When the top guys got up on stage to get their trophies," said Sylvester, "They looked like a basketball team!" I ^ — shimon van collie Silver Eagle Race The 15th annual Silver Eagle started with a bang for Mike Lingsch and the crew of his \%lie 36 Alert. "Actually, it was about a $3,000 bcmg," claimed Mike of his collision with the Nonsuch 30 Manx. Apparently, Manx didn’t see Alert as they jibed on the sfarting line before the start of Divisiori C, and raked tiieir long boom down the length of A/erfs deck. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, but Alert's bow and stem pulpits were "pretzelized" and her lifeline

The third 'start of the Silver Eagle Race: a massive hole at Red Rock brought the fleet together again halfway through Oie race.

® ll ^

stanchions were ripped out by their roots. Though shaken. Alert went on to finish second in class. However, firat sfanding is being protested as we go to press: "Manx did their 720°," explained Mike. "However, Wild .Cat, an Islander 36, is protesting us for not tossing a flag until a few minutes after the accident. What a bulls-t protest!" Except for that starting line fenderbender, Island Yacht Club’s 75-mile distance race was one of the most pleasant in history. Sixty-six boats — up from 36 last year — participated in the July 21 sprint, which this year was sailed entirely inside the fey. "Due to a 4.5 knot flood, we made Blackaller Buoy the windward marii bstead of Bonita. It seemed to have been a popufar decision," claimed race chairman Ray Osborn. Because the course (St. Francis, Blackaller, Harding, Blossom, buoy #8 by the San Mateo Bridge, the ship’s pier at Vallejo, Blossom, finish) involved so much reaching — and because the currents were favorable — one of the smallest boats, Michael Sheats’ red Thunderbird Ouzel, won overall. Sheats cmd crew (tactician John Orfali, Jim Glosli, Earl Merieweafiier and Steven Rule) .finished at 12:22 Sunday morning, nipping Summertime Dream by 22 seconds on corrected time. "Little boats got all the breaks this year," setid Sheats. "Because of wind holes, the race

page 148

; <

SHEET

Lopsided SF Challenge Cup The 84th San Francisco Perpetual Challenge Cup, held in 6-Meters on the Cityfront on Sunday, July 1, turned out Xo be a laugher, as ’89 World 6-Meter Chcimpion John Kostecki and crew (bowmein Jim Barton, Billy George, Ken Keefe and Hartwell Jordan) sailed St. Francis IX to a convincing win over California YC’s The Bear. On paper, the match-up looked promising; The Bear is a newer (1989 vs. 1985) sistership of the aging St. Brands IX

In reality, the race was a mcissacre. "We knew we’d win when our team was out practicing the day before, and they were still working on their boat," claimed Saint Francis syndicate manager Jim Taylor. Indeed, Kostecki nciiled The Bear at Ae start, emd then blithely sailed away, going so much higher and faster that it seemed more like a handicap race them a level event St Francis IX pulled away on every leg of the windy 14-mile triple windward/leeward course, ultimately finishing 6 minutes and 11 seconds ahead of the beleaguered Bear. This was the first year that the Challenge Cup — the oldest match racing event on the West Coast — has been con¬ tested in one-designs. Most of the recent Challenge Cups have been in lOR boats, such as the 1989 match-up of Saint Rrands YC’s Wall Street Duck zind Bedboa YC’s National Biscuit. Ironically, almost all of these handicap races were a lot closer and more exciting fiian this year’s Cup. For the Saint Francis team, the Perpetual Challenge Cup served as an easy tune-up for the European Championship in Sardinia in late August. As a fundiaiser to send the tecim to that event (and the 1991 Worlds, which will probably be in England despite Saint ftands YC’s efforts to get it here), the Szdnt Hands 6-Meter Syndicate is still raffling off a Cadillac (or a T-bird, or $15,000). Tickets will be sold up until the

The 'Saint Francis iX gang of five: (I to r) Ken Keefe, Jim Barton, John Kostecki, Hart Jordan and Bill George.

drawing on August 31. Call Jim Taylor at 924-7311 if you’re interested in supporting home team.

Friday, Express 27, John Liebenberg; 3) Surefire, Frers 36, Jon & Matt Carter; 4) Jalapeno, Express 27, Stewart/Beal; 5) Light ’n Up, Express 27, Michael Henry. (12 boats) DIV. C (141-180) — 1) Fast Lucy. Nonsuch 30. Michael Katz; 2) Alert, Wylie 36. Mike Lingsch; 3) Tom Cat. Islander 36, Schuman/Sebastiani; 4) lone, J/30. Nicholas Molner; 5) Esprit, C&C 29, Tim Russell. (21 boats) DIV. D — 1) Ouzel, Thunderbird, Michael Sheets; 2) Summertime Dream, Schumacher 26, Rob Moore; 3) Dulcinea, Killerwhale, Mathiasen/Pritchard; 4) Toots, Thunderbird, Curtis King; 5) Grenadier, Contessa 32, Paul Osborn. (11 boats) BAMA — 1) Pegasus, F-27, Pitcairn/Helms; 2) Defiance, Cross 46, Bill Maudru. (6 boats; 4 DNF) OVERALL — 1) Ouzel; 2) Summertime Dream; 3) Dulcinea; 4) Fast Lucy; 5) Alert; 6) Mr.

McGregor; 7) Wild Cat; 8) Toots; 9) lone; 10) Esprit. (66 starters; 57 finishers)

essentially started over twice — once in the South Bay and then up by Red Rock on the way to Vallejo." Ouzel, named after "a little bird that lives behind waterfalls in the Sierras and is always wet", was also pushed hard: "We treated it like an ocean race, changing drivers each hour to keep everybody fresh." Ouzel, which is currently leading the Thunderbird ODCA class, was also the oldestboat (25 years old) in this year’s Silver Eagle. First to finish was the SC 50 Acey Deucy, which came in at 9:09 on Saturday evening, a full hour and 20 minutes before the ne3ct boat. However, elapsed time honors went to Bill Maudru’s brand new Cross 46 trimaran Defiance, which came in just five and a hcilf minutes later (but started 20 minutes after Acey Duecy). We’ll have a report on Madru’s new machine in our next issue. No records fell in this year’s Silver Eagle, other than one for peirticipation: Mike Mathiasen and Bill Pritcheird sailed their 13th Silver Eagle in a row with their 25-foot Killerwhale Duldnea. "I love this race!" stated Pritcheurd. DIV. A (PHRF 0-96) — 1) Acey Deucy. SC 50. Richard Leute; 2) Current Affair. J/35. Bray/Marion; 3) Impulse. Oison 30. Barry Danieii; 4) Think Fasti. Olson 30. Albert Holt; 5) Danville ExprpSs. Express 37. Andy Hall. (16 boats) DIV. B (97-140) — 1) Sewlously Dewanged (aka Mr. McGregor), Wylie Wabbit. Kim Desenberg; 2)

and her crew appeared equally talented (driver Bengt Hellsten, \fince Brun, Benny Mitchell, Bill Stump and Bryan Hutchinson).

505 North Americans Former 505 boatbuilder Howard Hamlin

THE RACING

of Los Angeles emd crew Steve Rosenberg of Long Beach put together a consistent 2,3,2,1,7 series to win the Saint Francis YC hosted 505 North Americans on June 27July 1. Defending champions Ethan Bixby and Cam Lewis, both from New England, came in a close second. Local dinghy stars Jeff Miller and Bruce Heckman were right behind them in third. A good turnout (31 boats) and good breezes made this six race, one throwout Cityfront regatta one of the finer 505 gatherings in recent memory. "Some of the best 505 sailors in the world were here," claimed fleet stalwart Jonathan Livingston. Teaming up with Bruce Edwards aboard his Punishment fbny (the boat, we’re told, is neuned after a porno movie), Livingston was the early regatta leader before friding to sixth overall "This is such a tough fleet, we’re happy just to have finished where we did!" claimed Jonaftian. When pressed for more insights into the 505 NAs, Livingston observed, "These guys know how to do two things — make boats go fast and make babies. There must have been 15 new babies at ftiis regatta. I guess we’re all getting older!" 1) Wowie, Howard Hamlin/Steve Rosenberg. 24.7 points; 2) Complex Chemicals, Ethan Bixby/Cam Lewis, 29.4; 3) TWo Live Crew, Jeff Miller/Bruce Heckman, 31; 4) #8013, Mike Punnett/Scott Ikle, 35.1; 5) #8017, Tom Poore/Stuart Park, 49.4; 6) Punish¬ ment Pony, Bruce Edwards/Jonathan Livingston, 55; 7) Foul Balls, Jim Wondolleck/Jay KuncI, 55.7; 8) Spaceman Spiff, Pat Andreasen/David Shelton, 60; 9) #8084, Jim Maloney/Bob Sutton, 60.7; 10) Gotta Wear Shades, Gary Bodie/Kevin Eley, 64; 11) Mssr. Hulot Holiday, Dain Halsa/Charlie McKee, 87; 12) Victoria, John Gllmour/Pat Vincent, 87; 13) Crunchy Vegetables, Bill Jager/Robert Park, 87.7; 14) Blue Meanie, Carol & Carl Buchan, 91; 15) #8191, Macy Nelson/John Fry. (31 boats)

Etchells & J/24s The Albert T. Simpson Memorieil Regatta for Etchells 22s and the J/24 Fleet 17 Championship occurred concurrently on July 21-22. Sponsored by Seiint Francis YC on the Cityfront, the regatta consisted of tiiree races Saturday in 22-24 knots of breeze, followed by two races Sunday in IS¬ IS knots. Iramiliar feces populated the winner’s circle: tfie only real surprise was how thoroughly Don Jesberg and Dave Hodges dominated the Etchells and J/24 fleets, respectively. Ultraviolet, skippered by Jesberg and crewed by Ken Keefe and Jim Barton, finished the five race, one throwout race with

a perfect score. Meanwhile, Hodges and partner Scott Walecka (with crew Ian Klitza, Doug Hodges cind Bengie Canepa) put togetiier a near-perfect 1,1,5,1 series in their J/24 How Rude. Hodges tossed a DNF in the first race, the result of a 'melt-down' at the leeward mark. "Illusion caught us with our pants down," said Dave. "They luffed us above the mark, and we got all screwed up. We mcinaged to wrap our spinnaker euround our keel, and shredded it." Thinking quickly, the Rude crew bailed out of the race, sprinted to their car for a spare spinnaker, and rejoined the regatta for the second race. Two incidents marred the otherwise fun weekend: On Saturday, Hank Easom’s Etchells 600 was dismasted in a-^tarting line accident (600, steered by Hank’s crew in his absence, was on starboard). The other downer occurred a minute and a half before the start of Sunday’s last Etchells race, when a human corpse bobbed through the starting line at about four knots on the flood tide. 'That was a first for me," admitted race manager Matt Jones, who claims he’d never seen the Coast Guard react so fast. We’ll spare you the rest of the gory details. ETCHELLS — 1) Ultraviolet, Don Jesberg, 3 points; 2) Satisfaction, Jeff Madrigali, 7.75; 3) Mr. Natural, Bill Barton; 4) The Bear, Vito Bialla, 17; 5) Puff, Jim Coggan, 20. (19 boats) J/24-- 1) How Rude, Dave Hodges, 7.25 points; 2) J-Walker, Phil Perkins. 11; 3) Rhythm Method, Dave Willke, 15; 4) Electra, Rich Maistro, 16.5; 5) Jump Start, Ken Kieding, 18. (26 boats)

Race Notes Old ocean news: the first half of the ocean racing schedule wheezed to a halt on

‘Peer Gynt //', 'Satisfaction' and 'SabiP crawling up the Cityfront in the Simpson Regatta.

June 23, when only 17 boats sailed in Corinthian YC’s 57-mile Buckner Race. Winners of the mostly mellow and pleasant race follow: MORA — 1) Fridai), Express 27, John Liebenberg; 2) Desperado, Express 27, Mike Bruzzone; 3) Freewind, (3al 9.2, Don Lessley. (6 boats); SSS — ij Haley’s Comet, Olson 30, James Simon (1 boat); IMS — No starters; PHRO — 1) Elusive, Express 37, Dick Demcirais; 2) Blitz, Express 37, George Neill; 3) Camille, Stewart 42, Bill Permeur. (10 boats) Sled sched; with three of five races over in the 1990 ULDB 70 Association Season Championship, the leaders are as follows: 1) Cheval, 33 points; 2) Evolution, 31; 3) Grand Illusion, 28; 4)(tie) Taxi Dancer, Chance, Holua; 26; 7) (tie) Blondie, Ole, 16; 9) Pyewacket, 15; 10) Mongoose, 11. The scores are computed on a best two of three basis; the remaining two races are the LAYC Watts Trophy Series (Oct, 13-14) and the LAYC Cabo via Guadalupe Race (Nov. 10). Our crystal ball predicts that Evolution will win the season — Bob Doughty’s the best of the owner/drivers (the Watts Trophy is a mandatory owner/driver series), and his boat sails well off the breeze in light air (read: the fall Cabo Race). Rumor central: dockside scuttlebutt is that Santa Cruz 70 #17 hcis been ordered and will be delivered prior to the ’91 TransPac. The boat is being built for a current sled owner, one whose off-the-pace boat sports hvo b'attleflags - one of a cat and one of a mouse. Enough hints! More new boats: the San Diego design team of John Reichel and Jim Pugh has page 150

SHEET

§ 1 2 been busy lately. F^ftmo, their latest lOR 50 footer, is en route for the East Coast from Australia and will debut at the Newport 50-footer Regatta. Among the star-studded cast assembled to sail on Jerry Schostak’s Great Lakes-based 50 are driver Kimo Worthington, tactician Jim Pugh and sail trimmer Mark Wilson. If anyone can beat R/P’s first 50, the red-hot Abracadabra, it should be this group. Another R/P 50 was recently ordered by Japanese businessmem Mcuk Morita, who previously owned a pair of Nelson/Marek-designed 50-footers named Chmapoaa. Reichel reports that the duo is also hard at work on a 42-ft production racer/cruiser, as well as collaborating with former boss E)oug Peterson on the Beach Boys Syndicate’s America’s Cup boat. USYRU eliminations; Seadon VAjsen, a Cal Berkeley collegiate sailing star who’s currently teaching sailing at San Francisco YC, earned the right to represent Area G in the Mallory Cup (Sept. 19-22; King Harbor YC; Martin 242s) when he won the qualifier on July 14-15. Hosted by SFYC and sailed in Ranger 23s, the two day, five race regatta was essentially over the first day when Wijsen fired off three bullets. Ch/erall results were: 1) Seadon Wijsen, SFYC, 7.25 points; 2) Gary Kneeland, SYC, 11.5; 3) Don WieneVe, SYC, 14; 4) Jason Fain, RYC, 20; 5) Wayne Kipp, RYC, 28. Meanwhile, to no one’s surprise, Susie Madrigali triple-bulleted a small fleet in the Adauis Cup eliminations. Also sponsored by Sf^C, this was a one-day event on July 14 sailed in Santana 22s to determine who will represent Northern Ccilifomia at the USYRU Women’s Championship (Sept<" 18-22; Houston YC; J/22s). Overall results: 1) Susie Madrigali, SFYC, 2.25 points; 2) Katiierine page 151

IQpp, RYC, 6; 3) Marcia Peck Mahoney, CYC, 11. Trips to ffie USYRU Junior Cham¬ pionships at Newport Harbor YC on August 18-24 were at s^e on July 7-8, when Richmond YC hosted tire Area G qualifying regatta. For some reason, not many juniors were interested this year, as the doublehanded berth went uncontested and the other two events (singlehanded and three-mem) saw only two contestants in each category. Jesse Goff of Santa Cruz YC won tire Smythe qualifier in Lasers; RYC’s Matt McQueen and crew Jennifer Hsher did a sail-over to win the Bemis qualifier in FJs; emd Seunt Francis YC’s John Mosely, sailing with Josh Hardesty emd Patrick Whitmarsh, won the Sears Cup qualifier in Etchells 22s. The finals will also be held in Lasers, FJs and Etchells. fior once, San Francisco YC’s emnual Midnight Moonlight Maritime Marathon — held tills year on July 7-8 — actually featured a full moon. Unfavorable tides turned the contest into a 'big boat" race.

Chris Nash; 5) Impulse, Olson 30, Barry Danieli; 6) Eolation, J/29, Noel Rhodes; 7) ESC, J/29, Mark Roos; 8) Farmers, Cal 20, R. Von Ehrenkrook; 9) Abba Zaba, Tartan Ten, Matt Copenhaver; 10) Moonshadow, VS^lie 31, Wayne Behrens. (18 boats) Mississippi burning: the hottest juniors (19 and under) in the country got together in Gulfjxirt, M^issippi on June 22-29 for the USYRU/Nautica Youtih Sailing Championship. Area G — that’s us! — weis represented by 7 juniors in the prestigious invitation-only regatta. Faring best was Morgan Larson and crew Ibrest Fermell, who placed third in the 45 boat Laser II fleet Haley King and crew Rusfy Lhamon placed 13th in the Laser 11 comp^tion. In ^e 55boat Laser class, Brandon Inline came in 16th; Bryan Myers was 22nd; and Jesse Goff was 24th. All of the juniors raced for the Saint Hands YC except Goff, who represented Santa Cruz YC. A pair of Texans won the regatta: Jetson Rucker (Lasers) rmd Peter Catcha (Laser Us). On a roll: Speaking of Morgan Larson,

HALFTIME SCOREBOARD KNARR — 1} Hyperactive, Hans WUliams, 66.5 points; 2) Huttelu, George Rygg, 87; 3} Allea, Bruce Bradfute. 116.5; 4) Lykkan, Sob Fisher, 120,5; S) Bedlam U, Larry Drew, i61.5. (26 boats; 19 races)

OCEAN SERIES UORA — 1) Friday, Express 27, John Llebervbsrg. 4.5 points; 2) DMpefado, Express 27. Miks Bruzzone, 7.7S; 3) Freewlnd, Cal 9.2, Don Lossioy. 11. (21 boats; best 3 of 4 races} SSS -1) Ctwloma, Yankee 30, Ed Ruszel, 105 points; ^ Haiey^ Comat, Otson 30, James Sknon, 6.5. (7 boats; 6 races) PHRO— 1) Camilla, Stewart 42, Sil! Permar, 19 points, 2) Aeey Deucy, SC SO, Richard Leute. 20,3) Razzmataa, Swan 42, Denn's Robbins, 24. (26 boate; 4 races) WOODIES Bird — 1) Oriole, Doug Hamilton, 12.25 points; 2} Kiillwake. Lowdsn Jessup. 16.25; 3) Kookaburra. Jim van Dyke. 23. (6 boats; 6 races) BE4R — 1} Trigger, Scott Cauchois. 15 points; 2) Chance. Glenn Treser, 19.5; 3) Little Dipper. Joe Bambara, 35. (12 boats; 10 races) FOU<80AT — 1) Volkar If. Jerry Lan^tamtnerer, 56 points; Tiwa, Ibm Reed. 58.25; 3) Gatente, Otto Schreier, 81.75. (14 boats; 16 races) lOD — 1) Prom. Henry Mettier. 1575 points; 2) Undine. Don Payan. 27.5; 3] Bolero. George Oognan, 31 (9 boats. 12 races) --

which may have accounted for the low turnout (18 boats).' The top ten finishers were: 1) Danville Express, Erqitess 37, Andy Hall; 2) Coyote, Beneteau One Ton, Pbt Ciganer; 3) Abigail Morgan, Express 27, Ron Kell; 4) El GavUan, Hawkfarm,

HANDICAP DIVISIONS HDA-H — 1) Contasaa II, Cenhirion 42, Gordon Ojx, 10.5 points; 2) Mesmerize, C&C 35 Mk ill, Todd * tee; 3) Destiny, C&C 38, Pater Bennett. (12 boate) HDA-J — 1} Glory Days, Pretortan 35, Andy Rothman. 11 75 points, 2} QE3. Tartan Ten, Douglas Baird, 13.3} Finest Hour, Tartan Ten. Lambert Thom. 13.75. (11 boats) HDA-K —> 1) Quessant Farailone CUpper. Fntnk Buck, 6.25 pdnts; 2) Sonata, Lapworth 39, Don Weaver, 8.5; 3) lilovin On, Jeanneau 32, Befy Neel. 9.5. (11 boats) HOA-L — 1) Esprit, C&C 29, Charles Kuhn/Tim Russali, 3 points; 2) (tie) Fraawlnd, Cel 9JZ, 0k>n Lssstey and Wking, Santana 525. Matt Soderer, 13. (14 boats) HOA-M — 1) Summertime Draem, Schumacher 26, Rd> Moore, 4.25 points; 2) DMkdriea, Kiiler Whale, Mike Mattiiasen/Bilt Pritdiard, 7.5; 3) NdUlna, Cd 28, Neil Mosher, 12. (11 boats) j (HDA scores figured on best 5 out Of 6 races)

■

......; the Capitola-based All-American collegiate sailor won the Laser Pacific Coast Cham¬ pionship on July 7-8. Hosted by Alamitos Bay YC (Long Beach), the light and shifty regatta attracted 45 sailors. Ibur otiier Bay Area s2ulors finished ffur behind Larson in the

THE RACING

PCCs — Vaughan Seifers (13), A1 Setrgent (14), Rob Leach (22) and Tony Rsher (25). Improving witii age: the sixth annual Audi/North Race Week (shouldn’t it be 'weekend?) held in Long Beach on June 2224 was another unabashed success. This "gtBnd prix PHRP regatta — which actually isn’t as much of a contradiction in terms as it sounds — was blessed this year with strong winds (up to 20 knots) and strong participation (123 boats). ”VJe had real 'Chamber of Commerce weather*," claimed race organizer Bruce Golison. "It was a great time botii on and off the water." The only bummer, according to Bruce, was that no Northern California boats trekked down to join the fun. Maybe next year? Top finishers in the A/NRW follow: Class A — Outta Bounds, Andrews 50, Chuck Cook (15 boats); Class B (J/35s) — Rival, Dick Veltiioen (15 boats); Class C (Schock 35) — Hombre, Bill & Judy Hasiett

'Lone', the Bruce Farr-designed 3/4 Ton World Champion.

(22 boats); Class D — Islero, Swan 46, Tony Reyes (13 boats); Class E — Salsa, Frers 36, Leonard & Leta Nadler (19 boats); Class F — Speculator, Santana 35, Ken Wakefield (20 boats); Cl^ G — Ravage, Newpxjrt 33, Pete Ives (19 boats); Top yacht club team — Long Beach YC {Camouflage, Hombre, Ravage); Audi Quattro Trophy (winner of most competitive class) — Ravage; Top

Scoring Swan — Islero (which also gets LatitiK(e’s vote for the best name of the regatta: Islero was the bull that killed Manolete, the greatest bull fighter of all time, on the eve of his retirement in 1947). It’s Lone-ly at ffie top: convincing winner of the 1990 Three Quarter Ton Worids — held July 4-14 at Flensburg, Germany — was Lone, a new Rut design owned by Jem Bonde Nielsen of London. Lone exhibited the design touch for all-around performemce, finishing 1,1,1,1,2 against a 26boat fleet in a variety of conditions. Flat water racing: only 10 J/24s showed up on July 14-15 for this year’s J/Fest West, a low-key emd fun event co-spon¬ sored by Diablo SC and J/Boats,,WlBst. Held out of Encinal YC, the event featured ^$600 worth of prizes (the majority of which were contributed by North Sails) and 9 races held in perfect conditions. Bght of ffie races occurred on the Estuary; the nintii race, which also counted, was an inner tube relay race held in the EYC pool! "We invited the J/29s, J/30s an J/35s, but none of them showed up — too bad for them!" said race chciirman John Gulliford. Top finishers were as follows: 1) J-Walker, Phil Perkins, 16.75 points; 2) Downtown Uproar, Wayne Clough, 25.75; 3) Rat on Cheese (aka Phantom), Sean Tucker, 31.5; 4) Casual Contact, Don Oliver, 35; 5) Varuna, F^addy Bishop, 35.75. Passport to fun: 13 Passport yachts sailed in ffie windy Sixth Annu^ Passport Regatta and Rendezvous on July 14. 'We moved the regatta from October to July this year," explained Debbie Reynolds of host Passage Yachts. 'We got plenty of wind, but only got about half our usual turnout Everyone must be off cruising!" Held on an 11.5-mile course off the Berkeley Circle, the non-spinnciker race was followed by a party at Passage Yachts (Brickyard Cove) on Saturday night and seminars on Sunday. Winners of the I^ssport 42 Division: 1) El Tiburori, Jere & Dee Patterson; 2) Peregrine, Jean Nicca (4 boats). In the Rissport 40 Division: 1) Linda Rae, Dick & Linda Fish; 2) Blithe Spirit, Tom & Joyce Wilson; 3) Drambouy, Rick Cooley (9 boats). Repeat winners: class president Mark Folkman and his partner Tom Collier rode their Moustache to a second Olson 30 National Championship in a row on July 17-21 at King Harbor YC. Sailing for the host yacht club, Folkman cmd Collier won the moderate air regatta with 12.75 points. They were followed by Shooter (Oay Schmock, Anacapa YC, 15.75) emd Aliens Ate My Buick (Jim Morris, SBYRC, 17.5). Northern California boats tiiat raced in the 15-boat fleet were Excitable Boy (8), Kabala

(9), Bullet (13) and Corsair (14). Next year’s nationals will be held in July out of Semta Cruz. Thank you ma’am: The Mt. Tam Wham Bam finzdly came off on June 2324, a yecur late cmd not quite exactly as planned. Sponsored by Encinal YC and Helms Cruising Center, the event involved a 38-mile race around the Central Bay, a 16mile hike/run to the top of Mt. Tam on Sunday morning, followed immediately by a 25-mile race from Sausalito back to EYC. Three F-27 Corsairs competed: Gary Helms won overall with Pegasus (crewmember John Neel won the mountain segment); Rob Watson’s Three Play was second; Ray Wells’ Wingit was third. "The Wham Bam is loosely patterned eifter the Three Peaks race in England," explained race organizer 'Uncle Dave' Eairless. "As far as I know this is the first sailing/running race in the country. We’re trendsetters!" Highs and lows of ocean racing: like most ocecm races this summer, last month’s 2,308-mile Vic-Maul Race was a slow one. After battling through a low off the coast of Oregon that produced 30-40 knot head¬ winds, the 12-boat fleet stalled out in the following high for a few days. "Fortunately, there were some good days at the end of the race," claimed race spokesmem Tony page 152

?■ f ? | f f. f |; '

SHEET

'Argyle Diamonds', the prototype IFOC boat. Will professional sailing finally catch onl

Liebert First to finish, in 12 days and 21 minutes (two days off Merlin’s record pace), was Les Crouch’s big red aluminum sled Maverick. However, a pair of Davidson 40s corrected out comfortably ahead of Maverick, with the older Knight-rider nipping Mad Max by a sczmt six minutes (see box of race results). "In 1992, we hope to have classes for lOR, IMS and PHRF," said Uebert. "We’re already working on reviving this great race." If it’s July, it must be time for the Ridfic Interdub Yacht Assodation’s annual challenge races! The first one, the Chispa Regatta (Lasers), was held on July 14 off Richmond YC in conjunction with the Youth Sailing Regatta (El Toros). Rohan Lord, a 28-year-old two-time New Zealzmd national Lciser champion, won all three Chispa (aces, only to be disqualified on a technicality (he didn’t belong to a local yacht dub before the filing deadline). The other PICYA cham¬ pionships — the Lipton, Little Lipton and Larry I^ight — were decided as w^ went to press on July 28-29. Here’s what happened at the ChispaAbuth regatta: page 153

CHISPA — 1) David Shelton, SCYC, 2.25 pointe; 2) Patrick Andreasen, StFYC, 7; 3) F^t Vincent, RYC, 10; 4) Chris Sloane, BYC, 11; 5) Priul Dietrich, FLYC, 13; 6) Roclqi Hearn, SFYC, 19; 7) John Walsh, TYC, 21; 8) Charles Heimler, HMBYC, 22. (8 boats; 3 races) PICYA YOUTH "A" — 1) Joe Menis, RYC, 1.5 points; 2) Kehinde Jackson, SFYC,

Big boats, big bucks: The first of ten 52-foot International Fonnula One Class boats debuted at Kiel, Germany last month. Designed by Tony Castro and Bruce Nelson, tile 12,500 pound flyer is capable of speeds in excess of 20 knots. The other nine boats are currently being built in Fremantle, Australia, for a proposed 5-legged 1991 circuit which will t^e the fleet (which will be trcinsported by a roll-on, roll-off mother ship) from Europe to the U.S., Japan and Australia. Called the IFOC World Yachting Grand Prix, the circuit will supposedly offer level fleet racing with $1.2 U.S. million of prize money at stake. Promoter Noel Robins of Australia credits the "outstanding fleet racing at the 1986 12-Meter Worlds in Fremantle" with inspiring his new enterprise. Potter yachters: winners of the West Wight Potter National Regatta held on July 7-8 at Encinal YC were: Potter Mk I & II — 1) Todd Barrilleaux; 2) Don Bergst; 3) Mike Beirtunek; Potter 19 — 1) Richard McDevitt; Gunter Rig — 1) David Hogan; Potter Puff — 1) Gwen Singh. Interest in the North Bay Series appears to be waning as the season wears on, as only 10 boats showed up for their sixth race (out of eight) on July 21. This one, a 15-miler in perfed conditions, was hosted by Vallejo YC. Winners follow: Division A — Invictus, C&C 40, John Webb, BenYC (5 boats); Div. B — Sleeper, O’Day 27, Gary Cicerello, VYC (3 boats); Div. C — Escape Hatch, O’Day 27, Richard Jaenson (2 •boats). Hogan’s Heroes: winner of last month’s 1990 Etchells 22 California State Championship was Tim Hogan of the host

Vic-Maui Race Results 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Yacht Knightrlder Mad Max Maverick Foxfire Carissa Omega Thomasine li HMCS Oriole Indulgence EarlofMar Panache Dream Machine

Type Davidson 40 Davidson 40 N/M68 Kaufman 44 Peterson 43 Fraser 41 C&C 41 Owens 102 Mapieieaf 45 SC 50 Centurion 47 Jones 44

Division 3 3 1 2 2 3 2 1 PH 1 PH PH

4; 3) Phul Saitta, SeqYC, 6. (3 boats; 2 races) PICYA YOUTH "B" — 1) Matt McQueen, RYC, 2.75 points; 2) John Walsh, Jr., TYC, 6; 3) Kurt Lahr, StFYC, 11; 4) James Grey, SeqYC, 12. (4 boats; 3 races) ✓

Owner/Charterer Yacht Club Lomox Bay SC Sid Halls Royal Van. YC Wink Vogel Lahaina YC Les Crouch W.S. Corinthian Mike Storie Lahaina YC Jake Jakubik ...Van. Rowing Club Arle de Kleer ’ Royal Victoria YC ' Peter Sou Can. Forces SA K, Brown Pt RobeilsYC Dave Heaps W.S. Corinthian Dick Roberts Helmut Hahn .. Crescent Bch YC Crescent Bch YC Jeff Archer

Corrected 11:00 55 28 11:01:0210 11:17.26 58 11:21:27:03 11:22:42-25 12 01 27 42 121621:11 13 14 29.02 14:16:17:52 14:17:35:08 15:01:22:42 15:10.03 16

dub, Newport Harbor YC. Otiier top finishers were 2) Scott Mason; 3) Colin Bate; 4) Robbie Haines; 5) Bill Menninger. Thirty boats competed, induding 3 from San Firemdsco Bay ("We didn’t exactiy distinguish ourselves," admitted John Ravizza).

CHANGES IN With reports this month from expensive Papeete; a San Francisco to Hilo crossing in a Westsail 32; the maiden voyage of the 'Peregrina'; tales of the South Pacific from 'Midnight Sun'; a s—t happens saga from the Pacific Northwest; a winter cruise through Mexico; the return of the 'Tamarac IT from a six year circumnavigation; an account of refueling off the Big Sur coastline; catching up with the Doug and Jamie Owen ('Teal'); Carol Post's usual Hawaiian Eye column; another reportjrom the Northwest, including a picture of the latest in foulie fashion — the^o-called 'total environment suit'; information on ports beyond Acapulco; and the usual profusion of cruise notes.

Pegasus — DownEast 45 Ed & Cathy Longwell Papeete, Tahiti (San Francisco) After visiting the Marquesas and Tuamotus for two months, we are now enjoying the city life of Tahiti. Our passage from Puerto Vallarta to the Marquesas look 24 days. We can remember only two days of trades during our March crossing and had to motor the last three days. After 22 days at sea we came upon Loretta and Charlie of the San Diego-based Fuji 32, Wizard. Having spent 30 days in light air trying to make the crossing, Loretta said they either needed 10 knots of wind or 10 gallons of diesel — neither of which was eiround to be had. We ran a buoyed line back to Wizard and tossed some jugs of diesel along it. Charlie had no trouble picking them up. Our landfall at Atuona, Hiva Oa allowed us to broad reach to most of the other islands. (Boats arriving in Nuku Hiva normally have to beat to get to the other popular Marquesan ^ islands.) Two

Passing the diesel in mid-Pacific.

anchorages we found to be special were Hana Moe Noa on the island of Tahuata, where the water is particularly clear; and.

Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva, where you can buy locally grown fresh vegetables. Once in the Tuamotus, we spent two weeks in Manihi and two weeks in Ahe — and wished we’d spent all our time at Ahe. The people there made us feel so welcome, lavishing us with gifts, going spearfishing with us, and playing^ music at the 'yacht club'. The latter is a'placfe^^where boaters meet for campfires and potluck dinners. Arriving in F^ipeete, we found that you can get anything you want — if you’re willing to pay the price. The two least expensive stores are Cash & Carry by the ciirport and Euromarche by Maeva Beach. But French Polynesia is indeed as expensive as everyone says it is. We recommend carrying as much liquor, beer, food and film as your boat can carry. Two good buys in Tahiti are leg of kimb, $14, and French bread, 50 cents or le^ a baguette. Eating out at the food trucks along the quay is a bargain. Steak & fries, $7; chow mein with shrimp, pork and chicken, $7^50; large pizza with meat and cheese, $14. Given the prices of raw ingredients in the stores, it was cheaper to eat from the trucks. We also recommend that cruisers coming this way bring a box full of cassette tapes for trading or gifts. AmericcUi cassettes are $20 to $30 U.S. here, emd everyone has tape players. We will be in the Society Islands until mid-August after which we will continue the Milk Run to New Zealand for the cyclone season. — ed & cathy 6116190 Three-Legged Dog — Westsail 32 Mike Hruby California To Hawaii (San Francisco) We just sailed this Westsciil 32, formerly R Seas, firom San Francisco to Hilo in exactly 16 days. The Westseiil is a great ocean boat Sure, she’s heavy; but she has a big, strong rig and can carry sail for a long time. We never reefed the main and flew the full sail all but two days. Our best noon to noon run was 172 nautical

miles! We did break one spinnaker pole. There are lots of fish in the middle of the ocean. You need a beefy pole, reel, 100/lb line and steel leaders because you usually Ccin’t stop or even slow down when you get a strike; you have to reel the fish in. We caught two skipjack, five mahi mahi and a 26-Ib wahoo. We’re now hopping through the islcinds. Our plan is to leave Hanalei Bay, Kauai on July 25 for San Francisco. The captain — as well as the crew of Matt Walker, Rachel Robbins and Roger Smith — is considerably stoked. — mike 6111190 Peregrina — Tayana 47 Edward & Sandra Martinez Taiwan & Hong Kong (U^ndsor, CA) After 15 years of reading about it, my wife emd I have fin£Jly started mstking our own 'changes in latitudes'. We purchased a new Tayema 47 last feiU emd spent Jemueiiy and February of this year in Kaoshing, Taiwan supervising the last two months of construction. This heis been a big project for us, eis it included selling our house emd making other major business decisions to page 154

LATITUDES

in Hong Kong was that we worked on the boat so much we hardly had the opportunity to sail it. The last week we were there I, with the help of another person, was able to balance the rig. As it turns out, the boat sails pretty well close winded. She’s comfortable and we’re enjoying her. On April 25, with the boat more or less ready, we made a 5-day, 650 mile sail to Manila. From the capital of the Philippines, we took a month to sail south through the island country to get near Cebu and check out to Phlau. We stopped in 10 ports and a few resorts such as Puerto Galera and Borocay. While diving we saw some of the most beautiful coral formations you could find anywhere. There are a number of cmisers in the Phillipines and nobody seems too concerns about pirates. In fact, many sailors come from Hong Kong to do a month or two of cruising. It’s the southern Sulu Sea that’s said to be the most dangerous. The

Poor Ed and Cathy — they could be stuck in commuter traffic on 101.

get ready for what we anticipate to be a five or more year trip. We used many local businesses such a West Marine, EMS, Scanmar and Tradewind Instruments to buy equipment to outfit the boat These 15 boxes — along with our personal things such cis scuba, pots, bedding and so forth — got there. However, not all things were released by customs even though we had gone through a whole paper chase procedure to declare everything. Anyway, most of the boat gear was released and put on the boat, Even though there were some logistical errors, we’re glad we did it this way. The last few weeks of constmction were very hectic in the yard as we were putting a lot of pressure on them to finish the boat. They, were, however, excellent hosts, taking us on sightseeing trips to countless Chinese beinquets where we became accomplished at eating — as well as toasting and 'bottoms up'. These banquets were pretty hard on us^hen we had to go to the yard the next day to work. page 165

The folks at Tayana allowed us to work on the boat, which was extremely helpful as we were able to install a lot of gear, get all our rigging together and do a thousand other little jobs. It also enabled us to watch the day to day constmction and to. catch errors and make suggestions for improvements as the job went along. Our first large boat, we leeimed much fiom the experience. On March 10, the all polished Peregrjna was launched into the harbor. In a matter of ten minutes, the topsides were being blackened by the bunker fuel slop polluted waters so common to Taiwan. We had a week to get the boat ready, then made the 2.5 day sail to Hong Kong. We were delighted to be in Hong Kong, partly because the people speak English and it’s so much easier to communicate. We remained in Aberdeen for six weeks working like mad on the boat. Generally the boat was fine, but there were 1000 things to fix, adjust or install. A couple of things had to be redone as the original work had not been correct. We worked ten hours a day on the boat and I lost two inches off my waist in six weeks. The only thing bad about our stay /

The Martinez's Tayana 47 poised for splash¬ down in Kaoshing, Taiwan.

Philippines are very inexpensive; a litre of fresh shrimp is $1.25; a case of beer is $4.50. From Cebu we sailed to ftilau, which involved 135 miles of inland passage and a 527 mile ocean crossing. Except for the fact that we had to motor two days

CHANGES IN

because of no wind, it was a good trip. Our plan is to cruise the Carolines for the next two months, then Yap, Truk eind Phonope until August. Then it will be on to the Solomons, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and New Zealand by year end. We’ll fly back to San Rrandsco in January, then return to the boat for a trip to Tcihiti and then a passage to Austrcilia. The following years should see us go to the Med via the Red Sea and then on to South America. We hope it all works out! RS. Our ham radio and licenses have proved very valuable. Both the Southeast Asia net and Rowdy’s Net provide weather and passage information daily. — ed & sandra 6114190 Midnight Sun — Morgan 38 Jay Myers & Hjordis Panunestad Tuamotus & Marquesas (Half Moon Bay & Sausalito YCs) It was just another dinghy ride from shore at Teiahaku Bay in the Marquesas when my new neighbor from Switzerland suggested I talk to a fellow American who he said was "in serious difficulty". I found Erik laying down on the starboard deck of Moon Wind. He was exhausted, red-eyed and covered with fatigue lines that belied his youth. "When you’re rested, let’s get together before you talk to the gendarmes," I cautioned. Erik took my advice and later came aboard Midnight Sun to tell Hjordis cmd me his tale. An adventure to La Paz, Baja brought the slender, fair-haired Erik to the bulletin board. He answered the ubiquitous ad for "crew". After an interview, in which his total lack of experience caused no concern, he and a fellow by the name of Heinz set sail for Cabo San Lucas. During that short sail, Erik had his moments of trepidation about Moon Wind’s condition, about Heinz’s bit of drinking . . . but when you’re only 20, what Ihe heck! So it was the two left Cabo and headed for the Marquesas. After a few days they started to have the normal problems; the Satt'Iav went out and the self-steering followed. Soon Heinz began to spend more and more time in bed. While -lying down he spoke drecimily of similar themes: "I’m em old man", 'Nobody lives forever", "Germany was a different world during the war", and, "Come here and I’ll show you how to use the sextant — just in case." And so the story developed, the story

of the magnificent passing of an old soldier who had lived a frill and rewarding life. Of how in his Izrst days he gave the young boy sailor enough information so that if he paid attention he could survive and conquer his fears. Someday I’d love to read of the young journalist’s transition into manhood. I long to read of what he felt, when all alone he respectfully committed his captain’s body to 'the deep'. And how, with fear as his constant companion, he continued on agciinst the od^ to find Taahaku and the gendarmerie. I’m sure Heinz is smiling. On another subject, it seems that at every happy hour a new tale is told about 'Zero X Intelligence' or 'Zero Tolerzince', whatever, during which our tax dollars paid for some rude or crude boarding. But from Nuku Hiva comes a different kinds of tale. On June 27, Raul and Gwen Stokes were sailing their 50-foot home-built sloop Upyurs on their second circumnavigation. (According to them, it’s pronounced U’py’ers, after a Phoeniciem goddess.) Anyway, 16 days out of Ecuador, Raid developed ein upper respiratory difficulty. Not to worry, Gwen is a nurse. She promptly pumped Priul full of goodies from

Victoria's Empress Hotel: one of the great berthing backdrops in the Pacific Northwest.

the medicine chest. Nonetheless, he slowly continued to get worse. At one point he was having to rest for 20 minutes cifter crawling five feet. Eventually his macho gave up and Gwen got on the SSB. Bed KH6UY, out of Oahu, patched her through to Tripler Army Hospited emd she talked to an Army doctor. He concurred that old ftiul was dangerously close to the Pearly Gates. Meantime, Bed and fiiends on the Maritime Net (14.315) were talking to the Coast Guard, but no ships were close enough to Uppurs’s to divert. So it was that Military Airlift Squadron #52, motto "So Others Can Live", loaded up 16 people and some drugs into a C-i41 trzuisport eind headed for the stricken ftiul. Thirty-six hours later. Captain Phillips and Lt. Kenemuth honed in on Upyurs EPIRB and dropped "the drugs" from an altitude of 100 feet. Suited up and ready to jump if thev were needed to sciil the boat to the Marquesas if Priul didn’t respond were David Vogele, S.Sgt.; Ernie Evans, T. Sgt; Robert Semrau. S.R.A. and page 156

LATITUDES

At Pbtu Hiva, Kayo from Tylersburg, Pennsylvania. At Ua Pu, Pelican, with Tom emd Debbie Riddle from Long Beach; and. Gull, with Norm and Betty from San Hrcmcisco and Monro Bay. At Nuku Hiva, Symphony, Elly & ftrul Burke’s Hans Christian 38 from Los Angeles; Ebb Tide, Nancy Rohl and Charley Kanieski’s boat from Qeveland and California; Ren<dssance, Rick & Janette Heimill’s NoriWest 33 from Santa Cruz, and Pharaon, Dick & Bobbie Joyce’s 51-foot custom Carter design from Fort Lauderdale and California. For ftiose looking to send mail to boats in ftiis area, lots gets thru to Keikahanui Inn, BP-21, Taiohae, Nuku Hiva, Marquises, c/o Hank Corser. When happy hour comes to the Inn you have to pound on the door, but the ambience, view and ice cold drinks are worth ft. What a place to read your mail. — jay & hjordis 6110190

Sgt. Robert Vaughn. Doc Sims was also there to consult on Paul’s condition. After half an hour of circling, Riul began to come eiroimd. All was well except for the minor fact that the C-141 now didn’t have enough fuel to make it back. Thus an 'airborne gas station' was dispatched to remedy the problem. As Fbul told me the tale while drinking beer on the steps of Maurice’s in Taiohae Bay, it occurred to me that it might be nice to live in a country where the life of a citizen is valued that much. Especially if that citizen is an irreverent tattooed old Harley rider / circumnavigator. Thanks guys and gaLs of the 14th emd 52nd Military Air Support Groups, the Mariner’s Net and the many others who helped. From all of us out here cruising, we feel lots safer because you’re there! Boats we’ve seen in the Marquesas: At Hiva Oa, Kathmandu, a 50-foot ketch that was stolen from the Virgin Islands. She was stripped, but four were apprehended. Also Kolorit, Bendt and Eteubara’s steel 39-footer. They eue wellknown yachtie socialites from Holland. And, Shinalee, Tom cind Barbara from Sydney, another couple of "we’re do well" cruisers. page 167

Fellowship — Yamaha 33 Sally & Foster Goodfellow Cruising To Alaska (San Jose) Greetings from sunny Seattle where we’ve learned that ftie 'law of the sea' — "shit happens" — is as true at latitude 48 as it is at latitude 38. Before we shipped our boat norfti to begin our cruise to Alaska, we thought we had anything everything under control. CXir Elliot liferaft arrived on schedule and fit perfectly into its designated spot. Our new Ratcliffe Wmdvane, which was inejqrensive and well made, installed easily because it had been custom made to ftt the contour of our stem. The goodbye parties were fun and our car even sold immediately. That left just two projects; replacing the ports on the starboard side and installing our fancy Mcurtec feathering prop. Despite a little rain, we finished the ports and decided to leave the prop installation until the boat had been trucked to Seattle. By so doing, we’d left the biggest problem for the leist. We had ordered the Martec prop from West Marine sometime in 1988 by having a diver remove our prop and sending it to Martec. Well, Martec told us we’ve have to wait until they had epough orders for lefthanded props before they could tool up. Dght months later, we got our prop. In May of 1989 we hauled our boat /

at Fbrtman Marina to order to install the new prop and found that the taper was off and the nut didn’t fit The inst^tion was aborted. We sent everything back to Martec and in short order got the supposedly correct prop back. A year later, this April, we hauled the boat and trucked it north. While it was still out of the water, we put the new prop on. It wasn’t too h^, although we did have to shorten fire shaft. We were happy to see it finally get in tire water. But you can imagine our surprise when Foster put the boat in reverse — and the boat surged forward! If he put the transmission in reverse, the boat went forward. So we called one more time. Somewhere along the line someone got confused, because it turns out we had a right-handed prop all along. No special tooling was ever need. "So sorry," said Martec, "we goofed." We’re due to get tire new prop red label on Friday and hopefully that will bring our prop saga to a

Flash! The prop is on, and the Coodfellows are having a good time en route to Alaska.

theinkful conclusion. Seaview West, the yard where we dropped the boat in, has an unusual and

CHANGES IN

beautiful setting. To the west, across Puget Sound, are the absolutely gorgeous, majestic, snow-covered Olympic Mountains. To the north there is a big park. The yard is kept exceptionally clean — in fact, you are charged for clean-up if you don’t keep your area clean. They haul 35-foot and smaller boats for $4/foot, allow you to do your own work, supply your own paint — and they even lend tools!. Randy cind his helpful crew have even devised a clever method to deal with the occasional rain that falls up here. They make 'tape gutters' that allow them to work on bottoms rain or shine. Because of the prop saga, 1 passed right over having the boat trucked to Seattle. We worried about our boat the whole time, thinking of all the bad things that jould happen to a boat on an ISwheeler: mismarked bridges, horrible potholes, sharp turns, negligent drivers and diesel soot. We did learn that you can’t assume the guy trucking your boat is an expert at it. "Geez, 1 almost lost it coming around one bend in the mountains," said our driver. That wasn’t all: "It’s a pretty streamlined load, 1 was able to make 70 to 80 miles ein hour most of the way!" Our driver neglected to support our 50-foot mast in the middle and didn’t notice that it shifted to a 45° angle. As a result, the mast bounced wildly all the way to Seattle. The joint wiggled so much that several screws came loose and the threads ripped from several of them. So we’re waiting here at the yard for both pop-rivets and the Martec prop. When we hauled Fellowship at Svendsens for the trip up, she weighed 14,000 pounds; when she got to Seattle she weighed 16,500 pounds. The only possible explanation is that she stopped at too many truck stops along the way. But are we having fun yet? You betcha! CXir first night in the yard we experienced the aftershocks of a 5.1 earthquake. In Seattle. This morning we had to track down a dentist to re-glue a cap for Foster. Yeah, we’re having fun. Ya sure, ya betcha. We visited the Red Hook Brewery, home of 'Ya Sure, Ya Betcha" brand beer. It was a great experience. We also shopped at the Rke Place Market in downtown Seattle. Groceries, veggies in particular, seemed much more expensive. The only

The lower third of beautiful Baja; from )\qua Verde to the Cape.

exceptions were mushrooms and a.sparagus, which we all know grow well in dark, damp climates. In all honesty, there has been a lot of sunshine and the days are long. Believe it or not, one day I had to keep the reefer turned on so we wouldn’t overcharge the batteries with our solar panels! After Alaska we’ll sail down the cOast and leave for Hawaii in September. — sally 8t foster Boundless — Celestial 48 Bob Mocata Winter Cruise In Mexico (Northern California) Looking back on my checkout cruise from San Francisco down to Cabo, it was like the cruise of the Phoenix; everything had to rise from the dead. In hindsight I’m not sure what I could have done to prevent the problems; where stuff breciks, it breaks. And all of it was new stuff installed by experts. My new weatherfax packed it up as soon as it saw the Bay Bridge. My new Northern IJghts generator blew a hose before I got to San Diego. My new anchor windlass quit after San Diego. My new

watermaker went belly-up before I reached Cabo San Lucas. And my new SatNav antenna fell off the mizzen and into the ocean on tiie crossing to Mazatlan. With eiU the s-t hitting the fan, I started smoking again. But I was able to quit again. (Whew! It’s tough each time!) Other ftian the big stuff mentioned above, the boat has been fine. And fortunately, 1 got a lot of help and support with the above problems. A replacement weatherfax was shipped to me in San Diego at no charge. Then Ian of Star Marine Electronics rushed to the plane in his super sports car to get a new SatNav antenna to me in Mazatlan. An electronic ace in Mazatlan by the name of Bard Larsen (telephone 678 2-69-25) from Electromar was a great help on the other end. He spent two days clearing up the red tape with customs, then he closed his shop and drove me to the airport with the customs official (this is necessary) to pick up the package. Then back to the customs office with multiple forms and multiple people to take care of. Bard’s fluent Speinish smoothed the way for things. His fee? A thank you! I took this great guy and his lovely wife out for dinner. Frank Ziegal, one of my crew, then spent five hours up the mizzen putting the SatNav antenna right. 1 should look as good as he when I’m 70 years old! Everything else was repaired and is now afraid to break again. Gus cind Lydia made our stay in Mazatlan most pleasant. Our entire crew was invited over to Lydia’s parents house for New Years. It was a great time with lots — she has a big family of great folks. And if you haven’t heard Lydia sing, you’re really missed something. By the way. I’ve had 14 different crew on my trip, all of them from the Bay Area. They’d stay and average of 10 days to two weeks; cifter three months I began to feel like a delivery skipper. The crew worked out fine, 12 out of 14 constituting 'fine' in my book. Manzanillo is still a great place to visit and we were there for the finish of the San Diego to Manzanillo Race. No matter what time a boat finished, the band played on. Most of the time we stayed on the city side because Las Hadas was such a madhouse and so expensive. The worst was some guy in a huge motoryacht screaming that we’d page 150

I | a | > " ^ v j ' '■ | | ’• "

;

LATITUDES

taken his anchor spot while he was gone. After sailing back to the Sea of Cortez, I’m now in Puerto Escondido waiting for aew to explore up north. The bad news around here is that they wanted to start charging for water at the dinghy dock stctring July 17. Terry Kennedy of Erotica is heading up a committee of four to speak with the mayor about it. It’s unclear whaf s ftie outcome will be. A more personal problem has to do with my trying to get James H. Sandero, the Alameda County Assessor, put of my wallet. Despite my sending him correspondence for six months firom down here, his and his offtce keep sending letters telling me I owe tax for 1989 (which I paid) and trying to assess me for 1990. I tried to esqjlain to him 1 left the county in November of 1989, but he keeps wanting proof of where the boat is. So I have to keep sending him receipts and other shift proving I’m down here. After the summer I’ll be heading south agciin, perhaps to Costa Rica in April of 1991. — bob 6/12/90 Bob — Some tax collectors don’t give up. the one in Ventura Counfy is still trying to get us to pay personal property tax for the year 19^ — this despite the fact our boat had been sold and moved to the Bay Area the year before. As for your initial problems with boat gear, you probably put a penny under your mast for good luck. But, we’d be willing to bet a week’s pay you didn’t hire an electronics shaman to check the boat’s electronic astral balance and vaporize the little electronic lucifers. You gotta do that or you’re going to have problems. Return Of The Circunmavigators Tamarac II — Westsail 32 Jack & Lura Hrancis (Stockton) T^e last leg of a circumnavigation seems to be the longest. We’re now stuck in Port San Luis, our engine having gone out with a bad oil pressure pump less-than 300 miles from home! We suspect the pump friiluie is the result of having used improperly refined oil in foreign countries. Some of it was just full of crude. Fortunately, we were able to^make it back into San Luis Bay. Despite rocking and rolling to the swell. Jack managed to page 159

Then we had storms and a big knockdown. In any even^ we should be home soon, after which we plan to spend time at Tamarac I, our High Sierra home. — lura & jack 6/5/90 Readers — Jack & Lura indeed made it back to Stockton. See Sightings for details.

The Francis' daytripping past Morro Rock while awaiting engine parts.

pull the engine. Replacement parts were obtziined from a local mechanic and the engine is going back together even as I write. Cruising means never having a dull moment. We came across the July Latitude today and were surprised to read about ourselves — and the party our friends seem to be preparing for our arrival at tire Stockton Sailing Club. It sounds great to us — and we are coming! Hopefully this month. Our voyage has truly been a grand adventure, ^m the morning of October 14, 1984 when we began by hoisting the anchor in Sausalito. It’s been a fjintastic experience with no regrets. There is so much to tell. Since leaving the Panama Ccinal 90 days ago it’s been slow going. There were the doldrums, an exciting landfall at Cocos Island, lots more motoring and the heavy use of fuel. We’d hoped to travel the old sailing ship route about 1000 miles offshore, but tire wind just didn’t cooperate. When we ran out of fuel 600 miles south of Acapulco, all seemed lost. Then we received a huge surprise, an unrequested fuel drop! That’s a whole story in itself.

Atria — Islander 33 Larry Larson Fueling Up At Point Sur (Novato) I have sailed up and down the coetst between San Frandsco and San Diego several times without inddent That luck changed with this summer’s trip to Catalina and back aboard Atria. Going soufir, we had 30 knot winds — but that just made for a fast and exhilarating passage. It was the upwind, northbound passage — as might be expected ^ where we had trouble. It begem with us being stymied in Santa Barbara because of heavy winds and short, choppy seas between Point Conception and Monterey. Three boats dedded to give it a try anyway; all three were beaten back, sustaining assorted bruises and broken gear in the process. We were glad we dedded to enjoy ourselves in Santa Barbara waiting for a break in tire weaftrer. After five dz^ of waiting, the wind and seas moderated, allowing us to duck around Conception early in file morning. Things went feurly well until Point Sur, where the northwesteriy winds became stiff. With the anemometer needle pegged, we couldn’t make any forward progress. It was remarkable how the seas seemed to calm down when I turned back to seek shelter at the Point Pfeifter anchorage just below Point Sur. I’ll never again change jibs when heading to weather, not when I cem do it so much mot^ easily going downwind. Peacefully anchored by 0900, we went ashore ftirough calm surf wifti two fuel cans in search of fuel. Motorseuling full blast against the strong winds had burned all but six gallons of our fuel. Climbing a steep dift, we found two houses. The residents graciously gave us about seven gallons of gas. Once back down on the beach, we found trouble. The wind had shifted and the surf had become so big that we couldn’t get back to the boat! We made

CHANGES

three attempts to get through the surf; each time we were tossed out of the dink. Again we climbed the steep cliff and walked to the nearest house, some 800 feet up the bluff. When we got there, the owner sciid: "1 saw you tack away at 0700 and told myself that you’d be back because you’d never be able to make it against those seas. Sure enough, 1 saw you anchored by 0900. Then 1 saw you come to shore. 1 knew you’d never get back to your boat if the wind shifted. When the wind shifted, I knew you’d come here because 1 have the closest house." He also knew enough to call a surfer friend who works for Ted Turner in that Big Sur neighborhood. For $25 the surfer got us back to the boat on our second try. A big sneaker wave nailed us on our first try. I never rowed so fast in my life as 1 did getting away from those breakers! The next morning we had an easy sail to Monterey and then home to San Rafael. One must 'go with the flow'. — lorry 6118190 Teal — Garden 31 Sloop Doug & Jamie Owen Central America (Alameda & Catalina) We’ve been rather 'derelict in keeping up with our true friends in the Bay Area — we left Richmond’s Marina Bay in 1987 — and hope this letter makes amends. We spent the summer of 1988 working in Catalina — Doug saw an offer for a job on Tuesday and was working by Friday — and returned from Mexico in the summer of 1988 to get the same jobs back. Then in the spring of 1989 we cruised Teal to Costa Rica. We missed getting hit by a dreaded Tehuantepec’er, but managed to get nailed by a F^pagayo that packed 45 knot winds and 18 foot seas. Our strip-plcinked cedar on oak sloop was left to spend the hurricane season of 1989 at the Costa Rica YC in the Estuary at Puhtarenas. At $100/month it was a good deal, for it included 24-hour security. Leaving the boat, Jamie and 1 returned to the Isthmus at Cateilina Island to earn more 'cruising chips' for the next season. Catalina is not a bad place to be while "trying to reason with hurricane season". When we returned to Teal at the end of the summer, we found that Peregrina of San Francisco and Sisu of Santa Cruz were also in the area. We proceeded as a flotilla toward F^ama and the Caribbean.

Trying to enter the Bay of F’bnama, we were all beset by a five-day norther, which pushed us south down to the coarsts of Panama and Columbia. Peregrina and Teal were pushed way off course, but Sisu had it the worst; she was dismasted. Sisu elected to stay at the Ffedro Miguel Boat Club in the Canal Zone to effect repairs, while we and Peregrina chose to continue on through the Canal and to the Sam Bias Islands. The islands of northern Planama, the Carnal transit, the Sam Blais Islamds — adl were every bit as beautiful and magnificent as one could possibly dream! The Secas Islamds on the I^cific side of F^nama, for example, are like Mexico must have been 20 years ago. The Cuna Indians of the San Bias Islamds, on the Caribbean side of Panama, were most friendly and willing to trade their beautiful, hand-embroidered, reverse-applique molas. We acquired 30 of them wifiiout spending any cash from Teal’s kitty; not bad for novices! After our month-long visit to the San Bias Islands, we returned to the Panama Clamal YC in Cristobal, where we left Teal for the summer. In order to leave the boat there, we had to join the club for $420,

‘Brilliant //' spotted in mid-July at Honokohau, on the Big Island.

and pay a little less than $100/month for the slip. Again we returned to Catalina to earn more cruising money. Our cruising has been a lot more fun than we could have possibly imagined before we took the chance of abandoning our conventional lifestyles. We’ve been having a ball! Previously both of us worked as executive recruiters — headhunters. We’re also more content and have greater peace of mind. The further we cruise, the more rewarding it all seems. If that weren’t enough, it’s all been easier them we anticipated. When we return to Teal in F^nama at the end of the summer, we’ll look forward to voyaging further into the Caribbean — and visiting additional places that will not be zmything like what we expected. Unfortunately, our 19-year old son Jim will, for the first time, not be edong with us; he’ll be attending college in Southern California. ■ . We’ve been asked if we like returning to the States for four or five months each year. Absolutely! It puts more variety in our page 160

IN LATITUDES

lives, allows us to spend time with our families, gives us the chance to {jick up spare parts — all in all, it m^es us appreciate it when we’re back on the boat again. Of course, Catalina isn’t so bad eidier. The 4lh of July weekend is just over, but I’ve never seen Doug look so happy. — doug & Jamie 6/20190 Readers — Doug and Jamie will be giving a slide presentation and lecture titled "Breaking Awap" on October 20th at Two Harbors in Catalina as part of the first annual 'Cruiser’s Catalina Weekend. For further information, call (213) 510-0303. Hawaiian Eye — Carol Post Waterfront Postal Center Keehl Lagoon (Honolulu) Dr. Richard Curtis and Kit Althen on the Anchorage-based Wayward Wind have been enjoying the Society Islands and are now on their way to Tonga. David Morgzm and Barbara Dressier on the 36-foot Amel sloop /Saravah reported a light wind passage from Pago Pago, American Samoa to Tonga. The page 161

Miami, Rorida couple liked Samoa because tiiey were able to tie up to a dock while awaiting engine parts. When there tirey made friends with Caren and Michael Stringer aboard the Hawaii-based Njord. Brent, Debbie c»nd daughter Connie Baker originally planned to sail from Hawaii to Ffedmyra, then back to California. But the trio on Queen Esther liked cruising so much they continued on through the South I^diic to Australia. After a threeweek haul-out in Bundaberg, they sailed on to Guadacanal in the Solomons where they found both the scenery and people to be wonderful. After stops in Kiribati or the Marshalls, they’ll sail to Hawciii and then home to California. Dudley Brown would like his Pacific Ocean friends to know that he and Podge n arrived safely in San Francisco after zin uneventful 33-day passage. The trip included four days becalmed in the Ridfic High and two gales. The Aussie is enjoying his first visit to fire mainlemd United States and describes his hosts at the Richmond YC as "a bloody good lot". He plans to continue down the coast of California to Mexico. After a nice rest in Kauai, Gary Rone and Nini on Shakola arrived at Fining Island. They had a "hopefully once in a lifetime scare" when they were struck by a whale. The hull of the sturdy Rawson 30 was undamaged, but there was damage on the inside and the interior was "a riof. Gary and Marilyn Jones report a rough passage from Panning eind F^myra back to Honolulu aboard their Alajuela 33 Misty Lady. The trip was so rough that ftiey ate giving up sailing in favor of a diving business. Anybody looking to buy cm Alajuela 33? Bob & Mary Carnes on Leilani arrived in Bellingham, Washington after a very nice 22-day passage from Kauai. The Lee Way, a 42-foot Swedish-built ketch from Ventura arrived in Hilo with owners Herbert & Shirley Lee and crew Kerry and Nelda Gray. Upon arrival at Oahu the pulled into Rainbow Marina at Pearl Harbor. Their advice for retired military officers: "take advantage of the many marine facilities that are available to you as you travel the world". After a stop in Kauai, they’ll continue on to soutiieast Alaska. — carol 7/17/90

Staifinder — 'N/A Brad Biehl & Mutt Nanaimo, British Columbia (N/A) I’ve been so busy running amuck while laughing, loving cmd living in the Great Northwest (where the weather reports are always: "Sunny emd cloudy") that it’s been a while since I’ve written. I started norfti from mainland Mexico in 1986, and by July of 1989 had made it all the way to the Straits of San Juan de Fiica. Yes, it was a pretty long trip, but I got to meet lots of nice people on the way. Incidentally, the trip north from Santa Barbara is every bit as arduous as everyone says it is. The trip is well worth the effort, but you must prepare well. As for those who might consider truddng their boat up, consider this: local sailors wil call you a Sissy LaLa. I spent the suirimer of 1989 island hopping the San Juans, Gulf Islands and further north. It’s true when the locals say the summers are awesome up here: waterfalls, green forests, birds, quiet anchorages — and some great sailing

Let it snow, let it snow.

across the straits. I spent the winter anchored out at Port Ludlow Marina in Washington, and worked for an aquaculture farm ffiat raises oysters. The oysters get shipped down to you guys because they are ffie best tasting

CHANGES IN

\ oysters on the west coast. But winter has come and gone emd now I’m into another summer in Canada. At least as good as the scenery of the I^rdfic Northwest are the warm-hearted people. Once you make a friend up here, it’s a commitment to a life long friendship. The accompanying photograph is of die latest in foul weather gear. When you wear tire so-ceilled Total Environment Suif, everything from serlt spray to snow flakes is kept out. Southern Californians could even use ’em in their smoggy marinas. Anyone wearing one would be the talk of the dock — and might even start a fashion fkish. Sorry girls, they’re not yet available in fuchsia. If anyone wants further information, they cein write me at 2162 N.E. Hostmark St #36, Poulsbo, WA 98370. — brad & mutt 716190 Beyond Acapulco Donna Jean — Ireya 39 Steve & Donna Thompson (Sausalito) There’s been plenty written about cruising in the Sea of Cortez and mainland Mexico, but precious litfle beyond that Hopefully this will open the subject up a bit For single-season cruisers and those headed on to ttie Soufli T^dfic or Hawaii, Zihuatanejo or perhaps Acapulco is usually the furthest stop south. While the Mexican coasfline continues for another 360 miles, die attracdons are few emd frur between. But if you’re headed to Costa Rica or the Canal aind Caribbeem, you’ve no choice but to transit that stretch of coeist The following are die only realistic possibilities for stopping: 1. Puerto Escondido, a surf euid resort town 180 miles south of Acapulco. This is not the greatest anchorage in the worid as you have to set the hook in 60 feet of water outside the surf line. We were forced to re-anchor three times in one week. It was roily, too; Donna’s sister was queasy the entire time we were there. There are, however, some compensations for Ae poor anchorage. It’s a nice resort town with hotels on the beach that are popular with Europeans. Here you’ll see confirmation of the fact that European women, no mader where they go, show no respect for local traditions or mores. They all sunbathe topless in Puerto Escondido, despite the fact it’s just not the thing to do in public. The poor Mexican

cart vendors aren’t used to such brazen permit from the Port Captziin, and since displays of flesh. As a result, instead of ^ you couldn’t go around ê Rirt Captain going around hawking their wares and by bribing his relative, the Port Captain had all the yachties by the shorthairs. This earning money for their families, diey situate their ceirts next to their favorite sun was particularly true because most cruisers worshipping beaufy and spend the day with do a lot of motoring in these light air their mouths hanging open. waters and needed fuel to for the 2.5 day trip past the dangerous coasts of Puerto Escondido also has the best surf in Medco. The waves are often big Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. We and powerful, however, so it’s not really a lucked out because as a result of speaking spot for beginners. Spemish, Donna and I got fuel from a 2. Huatulco, Iêxico’s newest resort freelcmcer who yelled to us from the area, is south of Puerto Escondido. Not breakwater. Unfortunately, the Port Capfaun quite as big as Z-town, it’s jusf^ as busy. had the freelancer tossed in the slammer While there is some good surfrnecti^y, the the next day. anchorage itself is calm and well-protected. All the other yachties had to resort to The little harbor is for local Ashing boats siphoning fuel from the tanks of shrimpers, only, not yachts. The big problem with lliis created all kinds of new difficulties Huatulco is that you have to take a cab and it ended up being an ’every yachtie for inland to And the Port Captain. While I himself situation. personally wouldn’t know about it, some Puerto Madero does have a manyachties mountain that die less you dieck in m^tde breakwater tiiat offers excellent along this stretch of coast, the easier life is. protection. Even so, I hate the place and 3. Puerto Angel is one stop that hope I never have to return. The almost all southbound cruisers make restaurants — that’s really not the right because it’s the jumping off point for word — all cater to tiie &hing fleets and crossing the notoriously dangerous Gulf of are nothing more them dirty shacks. Tehuantepec. This is strictly em induâl 5. There’s one commerical port on the harbor, but it’s got a good seawall that l^dAc side of Guatemala, but it is so aAords excellent protection while you wait seldom visited that I can’t remember the for the right conditions to dash across name of it. Mûrc Hightower of Catcilina Tehauntepec. and the 17-foot Freebird is supposedly The traditional wisdom is getting about the only cruiser who ever checked in across the Gulf of Tehueuitepec is to there. Having never had to deal with a absolutely hug the beach so that if a blow recreational vessel, the officials did what all comes, there’s not enough fetch for the officials do when tiiey get confused; they beam seas to build. Donna and I were in kept holding their hands out for more Puerto Angel with the Peterson 44 knock¬ money. Hightower, who had sailed his 17off Sea Biscuit and the Dutch-built 39-foot footer all the way from the Sea of Cortez, steel Felix. All of us had weather-fax hauled his boat here zmd irailered it to machines, and when we saw it looked clear Lake Izabal in Guatemala, where we’ve in the Gulf of Mexico, we all decided to been neighbors this last summer. You rhumbline it across Tehuantepec. We had probably want to skip Guatemala. no trouble. Incidentally, it meikes a lot of 6. I’ve been told there’s a nice sense to shift as much ballast as possible to commerical port in El Salvador where the port side for this aossing. European cruisers have felt safe visiting. If 4. Invariably the ftrst stop on the you carry a U.S. passport, it’s probably not other side of Tehauntepec is Puerto worth the risk. Madero, Mexico, which in addition to the 7. Corlnto is the f^dAc port for being right on the Guatemalan border, is Nicaragua. A longtime Sea of Cortez cruiser one of the most unpleasant, slime-buciet, by the name of Valentino sailed too close pit holes I’ve ever visited in my life. Not to Nicaragua in his funked out boat, so the only that, when I passed through in 1988, Nicaraguem Navy towed him out to sea. one of the Port Captciin’s relatives was They tore off his windlass in the process running the only fuel qsncession in town. and otherwise disabled the boat Without a Since you couldn’t buy any fuel without a functioning engirt, \êntino started yelling for the Nicaraguans to tow him into Corinto. It wasn’t such a good idea; he was towed over the rocks and his boat lost page 162

LATITUDES

About the only other boats I know that have visited Corinto are some proSemdinista cruisers bringing medical and other supplies. Of course, the whole political situation has dramatically chetnged witii the ouster of Ortega, so it’s hard to know what to expect Cruisers wanting to get from Puerto Madero to Costa Rica are caught between a rock sind a tuud place. If you sail too dose to shore, you risk trouble with the navies of the war-tom Central American countries. But if you sail offshore, you run tire risk of getting hit by Mr.. Rapagayo, who is tile mean littie brother of the Mr. Tehauntepecer. In actual fact, Papagayos can often create more problems than the fypically stronger Tehauntepec’ers because instead of blowing on your beetm, tiiey blow you ofehore toward Ecuador and the rest of South America. As anyone who hets ever been caught by a Papagayo will tell you, the problem is making easting. Whenever ^e wind dropped to 25 knots, Donna and I would drop the headsail and motor due east for all we were worth in order to get back dose to shore. There’s a great old guy by the name of Maury Gladsen in Costa Rica who has been* helping cruisers for years through his ham net He’ll ask southbound cruisers you how hard the wind is blowing and what course they are making. Once you tell him, he’ll invariably respond in his crealQ/ voice: "Oh sonny, you’ve got to metke all the easting you can. I know it’s difficult, but you’ve just got to work east." Gladsen really does know it’s difficult, because he used to sedl these waters in his boat Doubloon. A wealth of information, Gladsen is to Playa del Coco what Ralph Flowers is to Saus^to. 8. If you escaped a ftipagayo or were able to make better easting than anyone in history, the first anchorage in Costa Rica is Cabo Santa Elena. This is a beautiful, beautiful spot where the jungle comes right down to a beautiful white sand beach. The local fishermen, whose boats resemble Maine crabbers, are extremely fiiendly — perhaps because the fishing off Costa Rica is beyond belief. You know how dolphins come alongside and like to play under your bow? Nobody will believe ffiis, but we had eight or 10 sailfish broaching beside our boat! y The one thing you don’t want to do is go 40 miles up the river to the 'Oliver page 163

North Airport*. Hidden deep in the jungle and just inside the Honduran border is a small airstrip where local Indians have told cruisers that they loaded cocaine onto U.S. military ahcraft. The cocaine was presumably part of the arms deal with Iran. If you go up the river to Honduras and start asking questions, you won’t be the first cruiser who has been shot at It’s not possible to check-in to Costa Rica or get provisions in Cabo San Elena. We’ll save tire places you can do that for next month. — Steve 7115190 Cruise Notes: California cruisers headed for the tropics have a lot to learn about lightning. While we rarely see it along tire Golden State’s coast it’s a common occurrence in places like Centrsd America and Horida. In fact it was while hauled out in Florida last month that our buddy Joe Hutchins (his mum Bonnie lives in Alameda), captain of the Oceem 71 Oceana, had a dose scrape. While trying to sleep, a big bolt either struck the mast or very dose to it. Stiddng his bug-eyed head out the companionway to check for damage, Hutchins was startled by another nearby bolt. "It was," he remembers with a nervous laugh, "scary as s~t!" Having seen both bolts, the fire department rushed over to see if tiiey could help. One firewoman hollered up tiie suggestion that the batteries be disconnected. Hutchins replied that she was welcome to do it if she wished, but he wasn’t about to touch any metal. There was some damage to the boat. A lot of wires melted together causing tiie boat to fill with electrical smoke for about 15 minutes, and the voltage meters all stuck on 27 volts. The skipper of Oceana was, nonetheless, luckier them some. One week before, a laborer for tiie — we’re not making this up — Lightning Fast Lawn Service was struck and killed by a bolt while getting into his company truck. Also hit by lightning were Steve and Donna Thompson aboard their fireya 39, Donna Jean, while sealing off the coast of Central America two years ago. Currentiy spending the hurriceuie season up the Rio Dulce in Guatamala’s Lake Izabal, one of Thompson’s next projects is a big knife

I /

switch to isolate all of boat’s electronics from the antennas in case of a lightning storm. Mctssive lightning storms eune not uncommon off Central America in the summer and fall. Not what it used to be? A "four-yearsout-cruiser", who insists on remaining anonymous, was laughing about the anchoring habits of the French ("Never anchor to leeward of them") when somehow the topic of conversation turned to the Seven Seas Cruising Association. "Don’t follow a SSCA flag vessel into any anchorage," he said, "because most of them don’t Imow the bow from the stem. And if they do get the hook down, the first thing they usually do is call me on the radio to help them fix all their broken gear." Obviously a gross overstatement by someone who believes tiiere is no excuse for total self-suffidenQ/, many remarkable voyages have been made by members of the SSCA. Nonetheless, 'FourYears Out* is not the first sailor to worry tiiat the association is foremost becoming a Southern Florida potiuck sodal club. We don’t know about the sailing sldlls of SSCA sailors, but we do know that tire SSCA Commodore’s Bulletin has become dramatically more interesting and informative since a fellow by the name of Robert Kohlman has taken over as editor. If you’re interested in subscribing, write Box ' 1256, Stuart, Florida 34995, or call (407) 287-5615. A U.S. subscription is $22/year. Jay and Hjordis of the San ftandscobased Midnight Sun report there are errors in the revised edition of Charlie’s Charts for the Tuamotus: "ftige 41, Bottom view of Hiva Oa should read 'approaching firom N.E. end from seaward (where else?) and n. west'." "Page 31 was unclear to all cruisers we spoke to in the bay. Charlie shows an anchorage on the right side, which is actually the rlt^orst possible place because of shoal water, rocks and obstructions." "Please enter both of these places and others as though you were entering in the middle of a squall during a black night. The only info we had when we did it was wrong!" We’re not completely sure we understand Midnight Sun’s corrections, but we would not rely on pages 31 and 41 of Charlies Charts to fiench Polynesia. In the 'Motiier Nature bats lasf file, many private and charter boats in the

CHANGES IN

\ Eastern Caribbean decided to head south to Grenada, Trinidad and Venezuela to avoid repeats of 1988’s hurricane Gilbert and 1989’s Hugo. So where does the first tropical depression of the season show up? South of Trinidad, where they should "never" be. Latitude’s charterboat, Big O, which survived Hugo while hauled out in tire British \firgins, is spending most of the summer back in the mangroves of English Harbor, Antigua. Boats in English Harbor did very well when Hugo’s 120-mph winds whipped through last September. With even fewer boats crowding the harbor -this summer, we figure odds are pretty good Big O will make it through another hurricane season. While the Atlzintic has been quiet so far, the Ecistem Pacific continues to hop with big blows. Fausto, with 90 knot winds and Genieve, with 70 knot winds, went on their merry ways to tfie northwest off the coast of Mexico in mid July until dissipating in cooler waters. As of July 26, big bad Heman is almost halfway to Hawaii with 125-knot winds while 105-knot Iselle is closer to ihe coast of Mexico. Having two strong hurricanes in the Eastern Pacific at the same time happens only about every fiiree years. There was another tropical depression tfiat for a time looked

A happy Lynn Merrick aboard 'Thales' at the Ala Wai transient dock.

like it might make hurricane force, which would have made three concurrent hurricanes in the Pacific. Now that would

have been something. ^ While touring the new transient dock of the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor, we ran into a couple of familiar boats and sailors. We said hello to Fred Quigley aboard his Sausedito-based Aries 32 \^ta Nova.' After solving some eadier problems with his self¬ steering installation, he had a good 27-day trip from Cabo to ttie Islands. His next stop is the state of Washington, after which his plans are unclear. Med-tied near Vita Nova was tire lovely Mvirray Petersen schooner #1, Thales. A longtime resident of Saysalito, the late Larry Stewart, had eruiser^ her through the South Pacific and then sailed her in the Singlehanded TransPac in 1978. For the last seven years she’s been owned by Soren Stammers of New Zealand and Lynn Merrick of San Francisco. Last May the couple sailed to Hawaii and have been kicking around the Islands ever since. They hauled tire 50-ft LOA Thales at Pete’s Ala Wai Marine and feel that die $360 in-andout price was quite fair. Having fixed the schooner up, Soren and Lynn have set their sights on P&lmyra, Tahiti, Rji, Tonga and Larry’s native New Zeakmd. ^ Transient rates at the Ala Wai are $5.75/foot for 30 to 40-footers and $6.90/foot for 40 to 49-footers. There is also a $l/day charge for each person living aboard. The new transient dodt should get water and electricity by the end of the year, \fisitors are allowed 90 days a year in guest slips, providing there is ^ce. So far Harbormaster Hubert and his staff have been able to accommodate everyone. August 1 was the date that Englishman Mike Dixon’s lease for the Ala Wai Texaco fuel dock was up and new Japanese tenants took over. \Afillie, who currently sits behind the counter, says that die new leaseholder plans major improvements but has not made them public. While the berdi rates in the Ala Wai have traditionally been some of the lowest around, the stem-ties at the Ala Wcu fuel dock have been astronomical. Boats facing die Hawaii YC pedd $750 a month while boats facing die ocean paid $550. Can you imagine paying $550/month to stem tie an Islander 30? A charming lady in the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor office told us that the first 30 berths on the transient dock axe going to be used as permanent spots for local 40-footers, that being the size boat with the longest waiting list for slips. Typically, you can

expect a five-year weiit for an Ala Wai slip. Non-residents must pay $100 a year to stay on the list. Actually, the berthing situation in Haweiii should loosen up in less than five years. At last word, the 300-berth Ko Olina Marina on the leeward side of the island was expected to be operational by the summer of 1992. Flying right over it on our way into Honolulu, we could see that the dredging was all done and ready for piers and piling. We’ve also been told that bids have gone out for a 190-berth marina at the old Her 60 bEurge depot near Keehi Lagoon. As for Keehi, government officials got a mde shock when the bids came in to dean-up Keehi and install 300 moorings. Figuring the winning bid for the first third of the project would come in at $750,000, they were shocked to get a low big of $2.5 million. Despite the financial shock, the Governor says the people voted for the project, so they’re going to get it. Whether there will be years of red-tap>e Eind environmental studies is not deEur at this point. Carol Fb.st counted the boats cumjntly at anchor in Keehi and found that there were more than 300. In other words, if the project goes through, there won’t be page 164

LATITUDES

Warning: pressure check or purge your water tank before heading offshore — or drink mud.

enough spots to accommodate those already there. A small section will, however, be set aside for transients. Current liveaboard will be grandfathered but no new ones allowed. The Keehi clean¬ up eind moorings project is controversial. The Hawaii Navigation and Preservation Society wants Keehi to be left just the way it is. Carol Post says she and what she believes is a majority, want Keehi cleaned up, but object to the moorings. Experts, she says, contend the proposed moorings will be inadequate for Kona winds and that teneuits shouldn’t have to pay for moorings until the shoreside facilities — which are way down the road — are completed. Are for Keehi Mcirine and the Waterfront Postal Center, the situation has stabilized. Apparently the boatyard will continue to be a boatyard for the near future, zmd Carol Post’s lease for another four years is being honored. Ouch! On the way back from Catalina Hal Nelson’s MacGregor 65 Zeus sustained a dent in her hull about the size of grapefruit as a result of hitting a' rock at the entrance to Half Moon Bay. That a boat and skipper who have been in there page 166

so many times can hit a rock is a tribute to how tricky that entrance can be. Be careful out there. If your boat is on the East Coast, and we know it’s probably not, you might consider joining up with the Caribbean 1500, which is a cruising rally that starts in Norfolk, Virginia on October 27 with a frnish line at the Bitter End YC at Virgin Gorda in the British \^rgin Islcinds. While most boats will probably sail direct, those who choose to spend a few days in Bermuda will not be penalized for it. The 1500 will be preceded by four days of seminars, including safety at sea, celestictl and electronic navigation, sail emd mechanical repairs, preventive maintenance, handling emergencies, heavy weather tactics and other topics. Organizer Steve Black, veteran of two singlehanded Atlantic races emd co-holder of the Bermuda 1-2 record, is the former executive director of the United States Yacht Racing Union. Admitting that the 1500 was "inspired to a degree" by the wild success of the Adantic Rally for Cruisers and Europa ’92, Black says, "Lx)ng distance rallies are replacing the big races because the rules are changed to make sure everyone will succeed. We do this by eliminating ways for people to fail. Ovir seminars will eliminate lack of /

knowledge, and the motor allowance will eliminate the main reason most people drop out from races; no wind. But the foremost purpose of the 1500 is for people to get to the Caribbean safely and m^e lots of friends." This 1500 is anything but free. The entry fee is $500 per yacht. Those 16 and over are charged a $125 'activity fee', while ages 9 to 15 pay $85. With the average boat having to put up close to $1,000, it will be interesting to see how many boats enter. Black is hoping for 100 boats the first year and that the 1500 will be an annual event As for the Some Like It Hot California to Mexico Cruiser’s Rally, it’s still free and we’ll be working out the details in the next month. As a reminder for Mexico-bound cruisers, the various events for their entertainment and edification are as follows: Latitude 38 Mexico Only Crew List Party, last week of September, Sausalito Cruising Club. Hree to those on Crew List; $5 at door for those looking to crew, $1 at door for those looking for crew. Lots of fun and free food. Minney’s Marine Swap Meet and Mexico Cruiser’s Party, October 13, Newport Beach. Pacific Marine Supply’s Cruiser’s Kick-Off Pbrty, October 20, San Diego. (619) 223-223-9054. Big, big party with lots of door prizes. Free, but reservations required. Also on October 20, Catalina Cruiser’s Weekend at Twin Harbors. Seminar, dinner, moorings — bit of expense involved. (213) 501-0303. And, Downwind Marine’s Mexico Cruisers Potluck, October 28 on the beach at Shelter Island, San Diego. Admission is one dish to pofiuck; Downwind provides other chow. (619) 2242733. More ituo on these and the Some «Like It Hot California to Mexico Cruiser’s Rally in the next issue. We leave you this montii wifii some mirth from Tom Scott of San Carios, who is currently aboard his Fblkes 39, Nepenthe, in Fiji: A duck goes into a drug store and tells the pharmadst he wants to buy a condom. The pharmadst looks at him for a moment emd then says, "All right, would you like me to put it on your bill?"

• V- 5

■I

L^ZiZi^ 39 n^tfZAAfit C^U/%Ze/i4 POST OFFICE BOX 1678

SAUSALIIO, CA 94965

(415) 383-8200 page 166

■HEADIN' SOUTH?

BRUNO'S ISLAND

DOWNWIND Marine

First rate, protected deep draft moorage in the heart of the Delta

THE CRUISER'S CHANDLERY Keep An Eye Out For Our Cruising Seminars Starting In October We're Eaaerlv Waitiinq To Senre You Witii These and Other Services. Mail Forwarding

• Solar Panels

Redwing Generators

• Sprouting Gardens

• Ham Radio Message Service • Marine Single Side Band Service • Good Advice and More

BRUNO'S

(at Light 41 on the San Joaquin River).

/sland

Chris, Gabrielle, Ces, A.J.

1200 W. Brannein Island Rd. Isleton, CA 95641 (916) 777-6084

ms SPANISH CREW LIST Free Copy of Downwind Cruising ~

**The Most Complete Guide** (If registered in our guest tog with picture of boat etc..

'VOr.'VO PEMTEA. ' FACTORY TRAINED

Limit 1 per boat.)

CAU TOLL FREE NATIONWIDE

SPECIALIST

DOES ALL SERVICE (WORK

1-800-326-5135

ONE OF THE LARGEST VOLVO PENTA PARTS

Nl/l/IND

INVENTORIES

32»42'2rN - 117''13'56"W WHX 369

' TECHNICAL HELP

DEALER ORDERS WELCOME ■ WE SHIP VP PARTS

N E

MARIIME SERVICE

' SMALL ORDERS AND

45 THIRD STREET

2819 Canon St., San Diego, CA (619) 224-2733

’

SAN RAFAEL,C A 94901 &

(415) 453-1001 FMX (415) 453-8460

ENGINES WORLDWIDE

GOLDEN STATE

CUSTOM CANVAS & CUSHIONS

Vrt

OM -

DIESEL MARINE

interior/exterior PARTS AND SERVICE 71 LIBER'FY SHIF^ WAY SAUSAIJTO, CA

PATHFINDER • YANMAR • VOLVO • WESTERBEKE • < DIESEL & GAS ENGINES

94965

—~~'

-■

(415) 332-9593 351EMBARCADERO OAKLAND, CA 94606

Free Estimates

(415) 465-1093 SOCIETY OF ACCREDITED MARINE SURVEYORS

WHAT DO WINNERS HAVE IN COMMON?

SAMS

' National Headquarters (800) 344-9077

1 A((redited Marine Surveyors Serving Northern California:

NATIONAL BISCUIT • MORNING STAR ♦ HANA HO DELIVERIES (415) 332-1234

•

COMMiSdiONING

403 NAPA STREET

•

RIGGING

SAUSALITO. CA 94965 mm

page 167

Campbell's Marine Survey (707) 542-8812

Jack Mackinnon (415) 276-4351

Richard T. Christopher (415)368-8711

Sherburne & Associates (800) 882-7124

Stuart Clark (707) 538-1217

John Sutherland (209) 723-3697

Milton C. Lane (916) 372-0833

RJ, Whitfield & Assex:. (800) 344-1838

CLASSY CLASSIFIEDS Ads taken through the mail or in person only. Sorry, no ads accepted over the telephone.

Money must accompany ad. No Classified billing. Check, cash or Money Order-No Credit Cards. To re-run an ad, simply send in a copy of the ad with your payment by the 18th of the month prior to publication.

DINGHIES, LIFERAFTS AND ROWBOATS

OEAD-LlMEl

PERSONAL ADS

BUSINESS ADS

18th of the month prior to

1-40 Words: $20 41-80 Wbrds: $40 81-120 Words: $60

$35for 40 words maximum

publication, even if it falls on a weekend and/or holiday.

Service(s)orbusHiessyouareselling; chailers;1 boatperbroker

Persmal property/help wanted

Mail To:

cancellations after submitting ad.

LATITUDE 38 P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966

INTERNATIONAL 14: British-built; red/white F/G

SANTANA 20,1§79. Spotless, trailerable racer/

FACTORYHANDLAIDUPF/G24-FTCarlAlberg

with mahogany trim; two sets of sails; spinnaker;

cruiser wim Evinrude o/b, spinnaker, 2 jibs, good

cutaway keel with full ballast sailboat hull w/bulk-

two centerboards; two rudders; harness; whisker

main, all lines led aft. Fast, fun and cheap at

heads, sole installed. Has laminated frames.

pole; new blue canvas cover; trailer; sailor friendly,

$5,000 o/b/o. (415) 778-1612.

Beautiful. $990 b/o. Custom tandem trailer w/

$2,850. (415) 791-8055, leave message.

trim, sliding seat, 10-ft oars, plus fixed seat & standard oars, highway trailer and two-wheeled cart. $1,500. (415) 891-9157.

surge brakes goes with boat for $2,000 h/o. (916) 24-FT ISLANDER BAHAMA, 1967. Sleeps four.

$395/offer. Plastimo model CL2 - 6 man Oceanic+ liferaft in cannister, hermetically sealed, never

LASER, includes Balko trailer. White, very clean,

$4,500 or b/o. Call Scott 788-2020,848-1097.

US 22 F/G SLOOP, 1982. Johnson 8hp deep shaft o/b w/cockpit controls, galley, porta-potti,

LUGER17,1981. Very clean & well maintained.

VHF, inflatable dinghy, etc.Delta berth. $5,500 or

ZODIAC, 13-FT, w/trailer, 18hp motor, new pump,

Perfect for weekend trips. Sleeps 2. Rigged for

b/o. (209) 748-5721.

excellent condition, plus extras. $1,400 or best

single-handing. 3hp o/b, safety equip, AP, trailer,

offer. (415) 865-1313 eves.

and more. $2,300. Dave (415) 321-2775.

WOOD SNIPE with trailer. Good condition. $500.

CORONAD015, blue & white, excellent cond..

tank, icebox, stove, porta-potti, compass, dual

828-1810.

Includes trailer, custom cover, life jackets, tra¬

batteries, new 5hp &agull, anchor. Sleeps 4.

peze, harness & muclj more. $2,200.653-0300.

Many extras. $3,995. (408) 779-4268 after 6pm.

CATALINA 22, gal. trailer, 4hp Evinrude, poptop,

WEST WIGHT POTTER 19,1985. Loaded. Lap-

swing keel, DS, Pineapple main, new Larson 90%

per jib, deluxe interior, VHF, CB, stereo, porta-

jib and class 110. Sharp boat. $5,000. Call (408)

potti, KM, DS, compass, fuel tank & water tank

opened, $2,895/offer. Will deliver No. Calif., cash/ certified check. Lloyd (916)624-3072.

926-3753,926-2473.

New sails. Comfortable and fun. Berkeley Marina. excellent condition. $1,t00. (415) 968-8096.

NEVER USED - as new: Achilles 2 man dinghy,

$3.00 for postage and handling for individual Issues requested.

Street Address: 15 Locust, Mill Valley, CA 94941 Attn: Classified Deot

fun for competition or leisure; excellent condition. 12-FT WHrrEHALL ROWINGBOAT, F/G, teak

Sorry, but due to a tight deadline, we cannot accept changes or

AMERICAN 22,1977. Excellentcond. Shoal draft, VHF, stereo, pressure water, 12 gal. built-in fuel

12-FTSAN FRANCISCO PEUCAN #2330. Smith built. Styrofoam flotation, tilt up trailer, kickup rudder, tillerextension, anchor andline, camcleats for main and jib. Very good condition. $895. Call

24-FEET & UNDER

(408)779-4996.

(each 18 gals.), deep cycle battery, stove, new

443-0230. 10-FT LIVINGSTON. F/G roomy doublehull stable (good fish/dive platform) four person positive flo¬ tation run-about. Also has metal skid protected

keel, new sails, bottom paint. Extras, must sell.

SANTANA 22. Hull #204. Lots of sails. KM, depth,

$4,500 or best offer. (415) 323-1146.

Johnson 6hp o/b. Berkeley berth. $3,400. (415)

keels and is 15hp capable offering a fast planing smooth ride in chop. $600 or b/o. (415) 837-8753. 8-FT LIVINGSTON DINGHY, 1972, with 3.5hp motor. Great shape. $550. Leave message. (415) 485-2602.

3hp Seagull. Trailer with electric winch. $6,200.

CLIPPER MARINE 21 w/trailer, 4hp o/b. Swing

(408)779-4268. 18-FTSLOOP,sleepstwo,sinK 12v lights, deep-

655-1497.

cycle battery, compass, life jackets, plywood V-

O'DAY 222,1986, w/trailer. Unbelievable equip¬ ment list and extensive upgrades. Outfitted for family crulsing/PHRFracing. Impressive itinerary/

CLIPPER MARINE 21 swnng keel wArailer, 4hp

hull, aluminum spars, professionally built in En^

Johnson outboard, porta-potti, lifelines. Good

land, fin keel, singlehands beautifully. Sistership

race record. Excellent trailerability for first time

condition. Great for Bay and lake sailing. Easy to

circumnavigated. Inexpensive to own and oper¬

owner. Exceptionally maintained. Must see to

rig, launch andsail. $2,150/offer. Located in Delta.

ate. Trailer and boat licensed 1990. Alameda

appreciate. $8,900 b/o. Phone (415) 797-5325.

(415) 634-7025.

berth. (415) 581-9909 evenings.

COLUMBIA 24,1964. Excellent condition, no

SANTANA 22, 1972, w/6hp Evinrude. Black

RANGER 22,4 sails, trailer, new o/b, sleeps 4,

blisters, 2nd owner 18 yrs, too many extras to list-

anodized mast and upgraded rigging. Good basic

head, very clean and well-maintained, great for

must see. AP, spinnaker, DS, VHF. Great pocket

sails, bow and stern pulpits, anchors, dock electri¬

family or racing, located at Lake Tahoe, deliver to

cruiser-stable & dry. $8,000. Lv message for Ed at

cal hookup, etc. Must sell. $1,800 best offer. (408)

Bay Area. $7,500. (916) 546-4245 days, (916)

(415) 968-2138. Photo & inventory upon request.

280-7233.

583-2949 eves.

18-R WINDROSE, 1981, in good condition.

NORTHWEST 21,1978. Roller furling, Yanmar

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Extra nice & well

Sleeps 4, fixed keel, 5.5hp Johnson o/b, EZ Loader

dsl, porta-potti, radio, compass, anchor, lines aft,

equipped. 5 sails. 2 anchors. VHF. Rock solid Bay

trailer, Martinez berth. ^;500. Call Jay at (415)

retractable keel, good in Bay or Delta or ? $4,900

boat. Exa. cond. $7,200 firm. Call Scott (415)

933-0751.

b/o. (415) 345-4051 after 6.

925-1309 or (415) 332-3904.

SAIUNG DINGHY, MONTGOMERY 7’11" (no registration required), leeboard model. Lapstrake F/G hull, beautiful teak rails and seats. Positive flotation. Like new, sailed once. The Montgomery is the finest fiberglass dinghy/tender available. Days (408) 761-4232, eves (408) 423-9712. 6-MAN LIFERAFT. Built 1982. Certified & re¬ packed July '90. Single floor. Full offshore speci¬ fications. $1,500 or best offer this month. (415) 381-9125.

WATERFRONT PO$TAL CENTER

JACK MACKINNON

Postage • Message Service • UPS • Parcel Post

ACCREDITED MARINE SURVEYOR

Copy Service * Package Wrapping 24 Sand Island Road #27, Honolulu, HI 96819 (808) 842-3084 Carol Post

NOR-CAL COMPASS ADJUSTING

BO AT LETTERING Beautiful, long lasting & reasonable priced. Call for our convenient order form. Sgns ■ Graphics

(415) 452-3608

(415)276-4351

MARINE SURVEYOR, APPRAISER

Magneuto™ System Exclusively 1. Boat Remains in Berth

2. Owner's Presence Not Necessary 3. Eliminate Deviation

Dick Loomis

(415) 453-3923 days nr eves.

page 168

TANZER 22,1974. Very clean blue & white. Main. 100%, 150%, spinnaker, pole, new Honda 5, bow & stem pulpits, lifelines, roller reefing, new batt., KM, wind direction, VHP, porta-potti, 2 anchors, sleeps 4. $5,000 olblo. Call Don (415) 997-3108. 21- FT GAL Excellent condition. 5hp Johnson motor, good interior, main and jib. two anchors and chain. Great beginner’s boat with trailers, needs minimal care. $2,800 or best offer. (916) 268-9627. Leave message.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Fully equipped plus. 7.5hp Evinrude, radio, depth, compass, extra jibs, winches, lifelines. Nice interior sleeps 4. New upholstery and aft cushions. Stove, icebox, portapotti, sini^ shore power, battery. San Leandro berth. $5,000.(415)881-1813.

O’DAY 19w/trailer, 5hp o/b. Lovingly maintained, immaculate. Ballasted centerboarder is safe for Bay, trailerableto lakes w/small car. Sleeps 2. Full sails, KN, huge, useable cockpit, financing ar¬ rangements flex. Poss. trade for Daysailer? $3,500. Call (916) 489-6063.

CAL 2-24. Great starter boat, lots of extra equip¬ ment, owner has new family, must sell. $3,000 or b/o. Call days or eves (415) 651 -5225, leave msg.

COLMKI, 24-FT F/G SLOOP. Full keel. Palmer 1 cyl. Gas i/b. S’O" hdrm. VHF, RDF, fath, sleeps four, galley, head. Two sets sails plus removable club footjib for easy singlehandling. $5,500. (415) 574-5147.

22- FT CHRYSLER. Excellent shape, 6 sails like new, porta-potti, sink & burners, 6hp Evinrude. Great starter boat. $3,950. Financing available. Call Gil (415) 769-6700.

SANTANA 22 with Gas House Cove berth, 90%+124% jibs and main (all recent), inboard sheeting, new standing rigging, lifelines, all white, clean, Yamaha 4. Race or cruise. $4,700. Call -563-0105.

NORDICA16-FT SLOOP,1978. Excellent condi¬ tion. Easy to sail, family boat, high boom, full length lead keel, draws only 20", built-in flotation, cockpit sleeps 2. $2,700 with trailer, cover, sails. (415) 845-1776. Great boat for Tahoe.

O’DAY 20. Best price for a fun sailing boat. Good condition, three sails, cabin lights, sink, portapotti, sleeps four, pulpit, swing keel, Honda o/b, trailer w/new tires. Must sell, new home needs new kitchen. $3,450 or b/o. (415) 886-7264.

J-24. ‘WonderWoman.'WQ. East Coast. Excel¬ lent condition. 3 sets of sails. Radng bottom. Marine radio. Dry sailed from good dual axle trailer atSFYC. $10,500.435-3778 eves & weekends, 929-4105 days.

C&C24. Immaculate C&Cquality. Fully equipped. Three jibs, spinnaker, KM, DS, VHF. Autohelm, new bottom. $11,850. Home (415) 892-6308, work (415) 332-4940.

MACGREGOR 24. Excellent condition. New bot¬ tom paint; 3 sails; Honda lOhp; elect system; porta-potti; pump sink. Sleeps 5; good trailer; many extras. Located Loch Lomond Marina, San Rafael. $4,900. Call (707) 528-3800 days. (707) 539-5397 eves. COAST 13SAILBOAT.Complete, F/G overwood. Incl. Little Dude trailer. Boat,trailer licensed. $500. Home (415) 897-0639, work (415) 392-0100. LASER If. Absolutely perfect condition. Boat kept in garage at all times. Sails excellent Spinnaker, great Trailer perfect. For the thrill of fast exhila¬ rating sailing the Laser II can’t be beat Put your crew on the trapeze, wow! $2,600. Call Jim (415) 846-9320. SAN JUAN 24. Strong & sexy. Race, auise, sleeps 5, all the goodies, race winner, 6hp o/b, tandem axle trailer, ground tackle, 9 sails, spinna¬ ker. porta-potti. VHF; over 1,000 built very few for sale, priced to move. $8,500. (707) 822-6922. SANTANA 22 #245,1967. Completely redone 4 years ago. New interior paint and varnish. Deck LPU. New winches, standing rigging, chainplates. All rigging led into codrpit including spinnaker and reefing gear. New5hp Nissan. Many sails. $4,000. (415)521-7730.

CATALINA 22. Swing keel, 6hp o/b motor. New cushions, head, mainsail cover, curtains. 5 sails. Coyote Point berth. $4,000. Home (415) 9661445, work (415) 852-4409. SAN JUAN 24. Epoxy/Micron bottom. Set up for liveaboard. Shore power, water, phone, all new rod rigging. 8 winches, 8 bags sails. Full elec¬ tronics. Must see. $25,000 invested in boat. Must sell. $6,900 or b/o. (415) 525-9033. O’DAY 192 (19-FT), 1986. Trailered use only 3 summers, garaged otherwise. Excellent condi¬ tion, sleeps 4. Includes trailer, 90cc Mercury Sailpower motor. Horizon digital depth & knot, digital VHF, iiead, much more. Will consider smaller boat trade. $6,900. (415) 625-0326 eves. WILDERNESS 21. Includes trailer, o/b, spinn, 3 headsails, and new main. A great boat that is now in the water at Lake Tahoe. $5,500 or b/o. Call (916) 676-1545 during the week. We’re outsailing weekends. COLUMBIA CHALLENGER 24’9". Full keeled, stiff, F/G hull. VHF, AP, compass, stereo/cas¬ sette, solar panel, sleeps 4,6hp Evinrude, new interior upholstery ’89, all lines lead aft for singlehandling. Many extras. Free mooring avail¬ able. $3,900. (408) 734-0954 or (415) 336-2338.

DEMASTED SANTANA 22. As is $2,000 or best reasjjnabie offer. Upwind Berkeley berth. Ken at 526-3401 or Bert at 526-2925.

SANTANA 22. Excellent condition with a brand new Evinrude 6hp outboard motor. Boatis berthed at/Mameda Marina. $4,000. Cali Pete Cartwright, B. (408) 452-8755 or H. (408) 867-1012.

J-24, 1978. Very competitive and race ready. Recently hauled. Evinrude 6hp. Complete and ready to go. Owner anxious, ferthed at Bethel Island. $7,500 b/o. (415) 684-2623 days or eves.

24-FT CAL “224” by Jensen. New 9hp o/b. Onboard head. Jib & main, CB radio. Berkeley YC slip. Needs some work, but what a buy at $5,000. Call Bob 254-6869, Hank 368-6383.

CAL-20, trailer, 6hp Evinrude motor, solar power electric, lots of extras. Good condition, clean, freshwater sailed last 10 yrs. Dry stored due to low water at Folsom Lake. $4,000. (916) 823-6867. FREEDOM 21,1984. Excellent condition. 5hp outboard, spinnaker, sleeps4, extra large cockpit. Unstayed carbon fiber mast. Excellent Bay boat and singlehander. $8,500.332-2468. CHEOY LEE 23-FT SLOOP, 1961. All teak hull and decks. 7 sails including new North main, new varnish. Greymarine 4 cyl inboard. 2 yr old rig. Sails and looks like a real Teak Lady". $7,800 or b/o, trades considered. 332-2468. MERCURY 18-FT classic racing, daysailing sloop. #20, manufactured 1938, restored to very good/ orig.l cond. Trailer. This is agreat boat. Try $2,800. (209) 723-6941 days or (209) 722-5239 nights. SANTANA 22. Race rigged, excellent condition, 6hp Johnson, 6 sails plus spinnaker, 5 Barlow winches, radio, KM, DS, compass, auto and manual bilge pumps, new bottom paint and bat¬ tery, plus many extras. Sacrificing $4,975. (415) 435-3702. CORONADO 23. Good condition, 6hp o/b, head, reefable main and 2 jibs, fully equipped, sleeps 4, Sausalito berth. $3,800. (415) 492-9033. /

FREEDOM 21,1984. Probably the cleanest, best equipped 21 on the Bay. Deep keel, tabernacled mast. EZ Loader trailer expands your options to sail anywhere that you can trailer. Take over payments. (415) 865-2511. ^ 24-FT WYUE WABBIT, 1984. Hull #50,875 lbs. displacement. All Harken, great condition. 13sails including fresh one-design set. Super fast onedesign, Bay racer/day sailer. Many spares, trailer. "Fast is funl" $7,500/best offer. (619) 285-1159 WEST WIGHT POHER 19-FT, 1988. Includes: trailer with spare tire and wheel, like new 9.9 Honda with alternator, stainless bow and stern rails, and all its gear and extras. A well cared for little ship. $5,900.(707)445-0720. INTERNATIONAL TEMPEST: A 22 foot, 977 pound, 2 person trapeze keelboatwith an Olympic heritage. Spinnaker, trailer, excellent condition, winning record. $1,175. Must see to appreciate. (916) 4894255.

GLEN-L 17,1973 potket cruiser, partially re¬ stored. Plywood with F/G on hull, lots of mahog¬ any. Heavy-duty trailer (msty); full rigging, mast and sails. Needs c^in rebuilL deck and hull repair, much TLC. Very rough-could be nicel $500.(415)233-5065. MACGREGOR 21, swing keel, 2 sails, dean, good condition, porta-potti, anchor, lines, eta, trailer w/Bearing Buddies. A cabin sloop for the price of a dinghy. 2 boat owner. $2,500 or b/o. Walnut Creek (415) 947-6010. SANTANA 20. A clean & ready freshwater boat Full race gear. Alls Jotz sails. Two spinnakers. KM, compass. Excellent trailer. A race winner at natl. level, but it’s time to move up. $5,800. Ron (916)221-7662. O’DAY DAYSAILER II, 1983. Pristine condition, always stored in garage, with EZ Loader trailer. $3,000.(415)796-3052. ERICSON 23. Nicest Ericson on the Bay. New epoxy bottom w/new keel bolts. New mast and rigging. 7 bags of good sails, induding spinnaker. 6hp o/b. She was surveyed this month. Make offer. (415) 521-1929 or (415) 521-6962 eves. RANGER 23,1975, fully equipped, lots of new stuff, new epoxy bottom, refurbished rig, 8/89 survey, exceptionally dean. See at Brickyard Cove G-1. $8,350 b/o. John (415) 5264607. RANGER 23,1977. One of the best equipp^ and best condition on Bay. New standing rigging, epoxy bottom. $8,500. (415) 865-6729. MERMAID 20-FT. Full keel lapstrake sloop. Alameda berth. Many extras. $850 or offer. Must sell. (408) 370-9371 evenings. COLUMBIA 22. Completely overhauled, new in¬ terior, new cushions, all CGA gear, like new 8hp outboard, full elec, system, VHF, compass, head, cooler, inflatable. High and dry Bay boatl $3,000. (415)883-6245,924-2961. 18-FT MUDHEN SAILBOAT, 1985. Gaff-cat rigged sharpie. O/b motorwell. F/G hulj. teak benches and bimini cover provide snug overnight Centerboard allows shoal waters. Galvanized trailer. Beautiful! $4,995. Call Ed (707) 579-5226. MERIT 22, LOADED. Race, cruise, singlehand or family fun. Vang, Cunningham, out haul, reef fiattener, traveler, DF, point of sail, wind speed, direction, KM, compass, VHF, four winches, split backstay, spinnaker pole, whisker pole, Twingers, upper and lower tracks and blocks, tape drive sails, main, 150,130, new Wade, porta-potti, teak dinette, trailer, solar panel, Evinrude 6 charges battery, and much more. Sailed freshwater only. Excellent condition, new bottom one year. $10,500/ offer. Call (209) 436-0275, leave message: (209) 431-6175.

MARINE DIESEL EINGINE SEMINAR

FLOATING HOME 2 bedroom • 1 bath • 2 story • 950 sq. ft. Located in Alameda (Barnhill Marina) • $135,000 PH. (415) 522-3501 Myron Wolff (Owner) PH. (415) 748-1700 Ask for Brian Ayers (Realtor-Agent)

Learn how to operate, maintain, and repair yopr diesel engine. Get hands-on experience adjusting valves, timing an engine. Weeding the fuel system, diagnosing proWems grid making repairs. Programs held on Saturdays. . For more Information, phone Technical Education Institute, (415) 233-3623.

THE JOURNEYMEN ✓ Major & Minor Repairs A COMPREHENSIVE ✓ CertiRed Diesel Mechanic ✓ Wood & Class Fabrication ✓ Systems Installation SERVICE FOR ✓ Electrical & Mechanical YOUR FINE YACHT ✓ Marine Finishes

■ f % /

CURTAIN LOFT

CUSTOM BOAT CURTAINS Traditional-Roman Shades 1-800444-LOFT San Mateo, CA

(415) 461-6369

(415)461-5487

MARITIME AHORNEY

BOnOM PAINT SPECIAL

Resolving warranty, purchase/sale, forelosure, charter, construction, accident and tax problems since 1960. Practical sailing experience counts...over 40 years racing/cruising from Mexico to Canada W/illiam E. Vaughan, 17 Embarcadero Cove, Oakland, CA 94606 (415) 532-1786

DeVoe ABC #3 & International Paint Interclene in red & black, in fives: $125 • in ones: $35 LPU paint: $30/gal • Epoxy polyamide: $22.50/gal • Boat Epoxy: $25/gal Epoxy Systems, 621-2284

page 169

FREEDOM 21. ExcollCiiit Day boat iii oxcolluiil condition. Spinnakur with new sock and cover, 5hp Tohatsu o/b, San Francisco berth. Very dry boat with overnight accommodations Small enough to singlehand, big crioijgti lor the Day. $8,900. Call Dill at (415) 323-2175.

25 TO 31 FEET CAL 25,1968. “Tantalus.' Excellent condition, epoxied bottom. New: rigging, wiring, water and fuet tanks, thru-hulls, ground tackle, stove, interior cushions. Mast and topsides rolinishedwilh LPU, 9.5 Evinrude. Buy this boat and go sailing tomor row! $6,000. Paul (415) 847-6667 weekdays. 25-FT YAMAHA DIESEL MS SLOOP RIG, 1979. Sleeps 5, sail covers, dodger, VHP, DM, 2 an¬ chors, 2 batteries, tile jackets, bow roller, swim platform, wheel steering, shoal drall keel, ball charger, trailerable. $4,000 and lake over $6,800 bat. $180 month payments, or relinance. (415) 657-9498, PACIFIC DOLPHIN 28, 1978. War. ’ MexicoHawaii vet. Classic Sparkman & Steplrerrs E/G sloop. Fin keel, skeg rudder, new rig, Yanmar dsl recently overhauled. 7 sails, VHP, depth, KM, compass, stereo, solar panels, ground tackle. Excellent condition. Monterey mooring. $20,500. (408) 655-2649. ERICSON 29,1972. Brrslol cond,, strong Atomic 4, oversize Barients, 8 Nodh sails, battery charger, press, water, VHP, DS, KM, new running rigging, shore power, phone, Autoheirn, dorade vents, etc, $16,000.331-5716. J-30,1981. Excellent racer/criiiser. New racing bottom & newly restored painted mast. Yanmar dsl, 7 bags, Loran, Autohelm, knot/log, DS, dual compass. $31,500. Call Karl alter 5;30pm (805) 643-4331. NORTHSTAR 500. 25 II sloop. Race orienled. Well-maintained. Designed by S&S. VHP radio, KM, DS, gas inboard, 4 jibs, spinnaker. 1974 vintage. $12,500.331-1962. RAWSON30. Roomy P/G sloop builltolastj 1965). Suitable lor liveaboatd. Documented, batteiy charger, 3 jibs, refrigerator, F/G dinghy, 3 an¬ chors, 400 ft of line, VHF/DS. New rigging. $ 15,000. (415)221-4179. CATALINA 27,1978. Atomic 4 inboard just re built. Sausalilo berth, VHP, DS. Great starter boat lortheBay.$10,000orbeEloffer. (415)442-1138. 25-FT NORTHSTAR 500, Sparkman &' Stephens racer/cruiser. Great looks. Atomic 4 inboard Pully equip., full set of sails, solidly built. Must see to appreciate incredible steal at $7,800. Call Dan at (415) 388-0990.

CAL 2-27. Richmond berth. North sails w/roller furling. 6 ft standing loom in spaebus traditional interior. Excellent Bay family boat. Join active 227 club for fun and/or racing. (916) 893-2018. 1985CAPO,BAY 26 SchumactierOllshore Racer. “Unity" an incredible, competitive, ready-to-go balsa-cored winner, -Gne owner boat, was singletianded to HawaiiN'II pay your sales taxi Has 5 headsails, 3 spinnakers + 2 poles, rod rigging, Loran, VHF, DF, speedo, AP. PHRF156, MORC 23.7, Coyote Point slip included. $19,999 or trade for your 30-ftH cruiser, or aircraft, classic or antique auto. We have no more room for troptiies on the wall, so call Bill: (415) 636»4302, CORONADO 27. Good condition, 2 jibs, 9.9hp Honda, compass, VHF, DF, sleeps 5, V-berth, head with sink, closet, anchor, icebox, stove, sink, table, cockpit cushions, shoal draft keel, berth. $9,500. (415) 726-2815, J-29. Race ready. 10 sails. 8hp Evinrude o/b, actively raced and cruised on the Bay. The only English built boat on ttie West Coast. Unique and comfortable interior arrangement, galley sink & stove. The J-29 is an exciting boat to race, the fleet will challenge your racing skills, yet with spacious deck and cabin it's a fun boat for casual sailing or weekend cruising. The boat has placed 2nd, 3rd, and 2nd in YHA season championships. Join a great lleot. Great deal, low or no money down. $32,000. Call Andy 641-8323. CAL 2-29, 1974. Sails beautilully. New diesel 18hp Volvo twin cylinder. Wheel, pedestal, com¬ pass, heavy rigging and lifelines, pressure water, girnbalied stove, head, shower, RDF, VHF, 2 anchors, many extras and custom options. Illness forces quick sale. $18,950. (805) 773-3242. 26-FT CONTESSA Canadian cruising sloop built to Lloyd’s specs 1978. The lolkboat improved. Many upgrades. Epoxy bottom '85, hauled May '90. VHF, fatho, log, new 6hp Evinrude, new dodger. Asking $13,000 or best cash oiler. Trailer too! Call Tom 522-8759 eves. 28-R LANCER, 1984. 1 owner, 40 hrs usage. Roomy, beautiful, interior color-coordinated, toakwood, sails, sheets like new, sleeps 6, galley, head, ship to shore, DS, pulpits. Bottom painted/ perfect condiiion. Perfect family cruiser. $10,900 or b/o. (415) 656-5562, (916) 777-6084 or (317) 873-1071. 28-R CHINESE JUNK. Reconstruclion/resurrection needed. Perfect for hardworking dreamer. Three masted, solid teak, 10-ft beam, cat walk, poop deck, hard aground. Make offer. Jill (408) 684-1551.

BLOCK ISLAND BOAT, 26 It on deck. Cedar on oak, spruce spars. New England built, gall-cutter, double-ended. New deck, old Atomic 4. Unrigged and gutted on tandem-axle Irailer, A lot of work but a worthy project. $1,000 boal/lrlr. 236-6507.

RANGER 26. Excellent condition. Groat Bay boat. VHF, KM, lifelines, anchor, compass, new lOhp engine, spinnaker rigging & storm sail, main & jib. Ail lines iead aft. $18,000 b/o. CaH Larry (415) 833-7638.

27-R MOTORSAILER, double-ended Finnish built 1971, Volvo diesel, F7G wilh wood pilot house, radio, DF, folding mast, 3-ft draft, good Bay/Delta boat. Needs work. $8,500/b/o, must sell. (415) 891-9157.

EXPRESS 27,1982. “roma/iawA. "Catch a wave with “the Ultimate Sailing Machine". Compete in one of the Bay's top racing classes. Comes with VHF, depth, Imot, log, 4hp o/b. 2 sets sails, tan¬ dem trailer. Dry berthed. Nice txrat. $19,700. Call Bryan at 479-7619.

PEARSON 26. veiy clean condition. Bottom re¬ cently stripped and completely painted. New trim paint and outboard motor overhauled. Priced low at $7,500 as owner has purchased larger boat. Call (415) 583-4244 to see at Brisbane Marina. CATALINA 30,1977. Excellent condiiion. depth, knot, furling, holding tank, self-tailing winches, stereo, beautiful interior & exterior. Atomic 4, stove w/oven, sleeps 6, 120/12v, swim ladder, main & 155 genoa, very reliable boat, many ex¬ tras, must sell. $15,500. (213) 518-0819. HUNTER 27,1980. Excellent condiiion, lin keel, diesel, wheel steering, 4 sails, VHF, Dalamarine digital KM, log, DF, propane stove, teak sole, 8 opening ports, internal halyards led aft; fast, roomy cruiser. Alameda. $16,000. (415) 932-4046, (415) 865-1035, YANKEE'30 mark III cruiser featured Latitude 3flOctober. Upwind Emeryville berth. Profession¬ ally maintained. Large experienced sail inventory. Newly rebuilt Atomic 4 engine. One fourth share for sale, $3,000 or b/o plus 150 per month. Call Mike 938-2153, evenings. CATALINA 25,1987. Fixed keel, Irailer, Honda 10. Most factory options plus roller lurling jib, ST winches, DS, KM, VHF. Rigged for singlehanding. Bottom paint 4/90. Very nice condition, used very little since new. Located Richmond Marina. $16,000 firm. Will consider 17'-20' trailer-sailor or I/O power boat as partial trade. (707) 528-9133. BABA 30,1979. Already in Hawaii and ready to go. South Pacific vel^Fuliy equipped including SatNav, radar, windvane, Volvo dsl. custom featiiresand many extras. Excellent condition. Airfare refundable on purchase. $58,000. Grog (808) 965-8002. 25-R PEARSON SLOOP. Excellent condition, excellent performance. Exiensively upgraded. Many extras. Sleeps four. Tomales Bay Berth. Asking $6,500. (415) 603-I70:i,

$8,000 FOR30-R F/G1977 sloop or $20,500 lor Ericson 30 sloop with Miaologic 8000 Loran, Avon dink, 2hp o/b new engine overhaul. No blisters-bolh boats in good condition. Call Harry at (415) 367-0660 (hr msg). 1979 DUFOUR - 2800 - 27-tt sailboat; new bot¬ tom; tiller steering; inboard Volvo Penta rSesel; lots of electronics; owner motivated to sell. ExceF lent condition. $18,000. Phone (916) 272-5736. CASCADE 29. Great liveaboard. Strong, fast cruising sloop. Hawaii vel. Atomic 4 engine with only 70 hrs. 4 sails inci spinnaker. $9,000 or b/o. (415)457-8279. SANTANA 30/30,1982. Pristine condition. Volvo dsl, 4 headsails, 2 mains, 2 spinnakers, blooper. Loran, Autohelm, stereo, VHF, depth & KM. Fresh bottom paint 12/89. Teak interior includes slove, icebox. 2 sinks, dinette, chart table, enclosed head & sleeps six. $29,000 or best offer. (415) 582-3872. ISLANDER 26, 1977. 3 headsails, Autohelm,. pressure water, VHF. KM, refer, boat cover, ste¬ reo. depth, lots of extra gear, 3 anchors, etc. Boat is “extremely" clean and has complete records. Worth $19,000. Sell for $12,000. Moving. Steve (408)268-4195. 26-R “GO ANYWHERE ’ CUSTOM CUTTER, 1980. Immensely strong and seaworthy. F/G hull, 1986. Yanmar diesel, windvane, AP, good ground tackle, dinghy. If you are going offshore, consider this vessel. (619) 296-4132,after 6pm. BODEGA 30, full keel sloop, Volvo diesel, LPQ stove, jib roller reeling, cabin teak, insulated, low hours, bottom repainted, 1983. $25,000. (415) 684-2417. 22-R FALMOUTH CUTTER, LOA 30-lt, Lyle Hess. Mini world cruiser. Spinnaker, dsl, propane, AP, furling head, VHF, RDF, depth, knot, Dantorth, CQR. Exc. cond. $27,000. (714) 682-4941.

CAL 31,1979. Excellent cond. 5 sails, including spinnaker, Volvo Penta dsl, VHF, DS, KM, com¬ pass, lines led aft, anchor(s), DBQ, stove, cockpit cushions. Excellent for individual or family sailing. Owner motivated. $34,900. (415) 523-4092.

CAT ALINA27,1975. Excellent cond., just painted. Atomic4 engine, sleeps 5. All standard equigment plus extras. Berthed at Brisbane. Must sell. Ask¬ ing $12,000. Call Dick at work (415) 297-4131.

OLSON 25,1985. 2 sets of sails, 5hp outboard. Like new & updated. Trailer-launch equipped, (415) 828-0491.

TART AN 30,1974. Must see to appreciate. Many extras! $17,000/best offer. Call Tod DetTo (415) 948-9722, (415) 967-6301.

CREW DIRECTORY

MARINE SURVEYOR

Crew available/Crew Wanted/Misceltaneous. List 100 words lor US$5.00/monlh. Guaranteed results! Directory US$7.00. Publisfied monthly. Worldwide coverage. Send to NAUTICAL CONNECTION, Box 84013-K, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA, or call (213) 478-3588 lor more information.

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

1 m

YANKEE 30 “EMERALD ". Recent complete blis¬ ter and epoxy job. Excellent recent rig w/staylock. Good sail inventory. Tillermastor AP, VHF, etc. (415) 752-7239.

1 ThB

" 1

® classroom course in celestial navigation? Want some open ocean practical experience under an accomplished navigator, college instructor and licensed 100 Ton Ocean Master?

CRABTREE MARITIME SERVICES

^ wo^m:AmmG<r^

WAj PLTLR KAl-fL

CALL (415) 372-0144

YACHT REPAIR Fiberglass Work • Blister Repair • Wood Repair Expert Paint & Varnish Work • Decks Refinished

All Work Guaranteed

Reasonable Rates (415) 331-9850

15 Years Experience

SAIL THE BAY ON A1986 PEARSON 28 Charter direct from owner and save. In Sausalilo-331-8366

page 170

SOVEREIGN 28,1984. Cutter rigged, excellent sails, solar panels, 2 anchors, new batteries, BBQ, retrig, ctr cockpit, large aft stateroom, 64 hrs on engine, excellent liveaboard...trailerable! Moti¬ vated seller taking reasonable offers. Call Mark at (415)391-6331. FARALLON 29. Full keel auising sloop. Excel¬ lent construction. Ail lines lead aft. Dodger, diesel, fridge, Lectra-San, six winches, jiffy reefing, iazy jacks. Must see. More. $27,500. (408) 438-1465. IMPULSE 26,1987. Good sail inventory. Smartpac, sail comp, extra gear, inboard 9.5 Yanmar dsl, LP bottom, wrtrailer. $25,000 invested. In¬ quire only if you wish to be first $17,500 gets the hardvrare. (916) 933-5770 or (916) 243-4661. 27-FT BALBOA TRAILERABLE SAILBOAT. Inboard diesel, standing headroom, sleeps 6, head, galley and instruments. $18,500 firm. (916) 283-3218, (916) 836-2682. RAWSON 30. Stable full keel cruiser. Top condi¬ tion. 7 sails, Aries windvane, AP, VHS, DS, KL, boom brake, windlass, head, galley, rebuilt 22hp Palmer. New Imron paint, lines lead aft. Extras. $24,500. Make offerll 439-5396 eves. CATALINA 25, 1985. Immaculate condition. Owner motivated to sell. Includes trailer, 7.5hp outboard Honda, AP, special rigging, compass, KM, DG, VHF, self-tailing winches, many extras. $13,000. Call (916) 966-9540. CATALINA 30,1984. Clean, well equipped and well maintained. Upgraded interior, big diesel, dodger, wheel, steering with pedestal mounted KM, DS. Furling jib, h/c pressure water, CNG, Loran, VHF, stereo, epoxy bottom, all lines led aft. Original owner, $34,500. (415) 459-5059. REDUCED; CORONADO 25. Great Bay boat. \Afell maintained. 3 sets of sails. All lines led alt. Solar charging system with two battery banks. Complete galley. VHF radio. AM/FM stereo. Johnson o/b. Sleeps 5. $5,000 or best offer. (415) 945-1861. ERICSON 27,1978. Excellent condition, wheel, Yanmar diesel, new AM/FM/cassette stereo and VHF, depth, KM. $18,400 or best offer. Call (415) 254-9756,(415)930-7371. KNARR 30, classic wood sloop. Good condition but needs some attention. Pier 39 berth avaiiable. Asking just $5,000 for quick sale. This boat is fast for her rating with iots of trophies to prove it. Vince (415) 424-5038 work, 948-1397 home. NEWPORT28,1975. New bottom (complete) and hull paint July '89. Atomic4.3sails (no spinn^er). VHF, DS, KM, clean! Looks great, sails excel¬ lently. Must sell; bought bigger boat! $15,500 b/o. (707) 554-4129.

CAL25, excellent condition, lOhp Honda, custom oak hatches, roller furling jib, VHF, sails in good condition. Great Bay boat that always brings you home safely. $6,800. (415) 591-8847. COLUMBIA 28,1968. Main with clubfooted jib, Volvo 25hp diesel, VHF-Horizon 25, head and stove, sleeps 6, at own mooring in Monterey Har¬ bor. No monthly mooring fee. Weekend retreat in Monterey. $15,500. Call (916) 889-8117 eves. RANGER 29,1971. “Exit Total rebuild 1988. The best 29 on the Bay. New LPU top and bottom. New interior; 8 sails, rebuilt Atomic 4. South Beach Harbor. Trade me up, trade me down, or $24,500. (415) 941-3705 eves. 25-FT YAMAHA MKII, 1978, with tandem trailer, both excellent condition. 2 main sails, 150 genoa, 135, 110, 90%. Autohelm and many extras. $17,900. For information call Charles at (805) 483-9390 eves, (805) 982-8553 days. ALBERG 30. F/G, full keel, beautiful classic lines, excellent condition. Large sail Inventory-new and old. New electronics, rebuilt ('85) Greymarine 25hp; hauled annually (Aug). Great Bay boatl Berth K31 Marina Village YH. Asking $22,000. Call (415) 865-4845. CORONADO 25. Good condition, bottom painted 1/90. Newstanding rigging and lifelines. Evinrude 6hp o/b, VHF, DS, KM, compass, extra saiis and more. Safe, seaworthy Bay boat. $3,250. (415) 381-5484.

NEWPORT 30 MKII, 1978. Ready to go • excel¬ lent condition. New Pacific Coast Canvas Con¬ vertible dodger. New Sutter fully battened main¬ sail. 3 jibs and original mainsail. Wheel steering, with Autohelm. Lewmar self-tailing winches, pole, battery charger. $27,000. (408) 265-9069.

GULF 29,1984.18hp dsl. Extra pilot station in cabin. Lapper & self-tending sail & rig. DS, VHF radio, cockpit cushions. Excellent condition. Sausalito. $29,000 by owner. (415) 924-8310.

ERICSON 29,1970. Clean, top shape, race or auise. Tiller or wheel, spinnakers and good sail Inventory. Atomic 4, anodized mast, many extras. Coyote Point berth. $16,800 or best offer. Will consider financing. Call (415) 591-8998 days, (415) 347-4987 eves.

MODIFIED H-28. Classic ketch. Great liveaboard/ cruiser. Very well maintained. Double planked mahogany. Full boat cover. Sweet boat. Asking $19,900,331-7814.

30-R HIGH PERFORMANCE CRUISER, 1982. Hullworks built, double spreader rig by Ballenger, Yanmar diesel, VHF, KM, DM. Beautifully trimmed in teak with Brunzeel interior. Small class racing from Santa Cruz slip. Price reduced to sell. (209) 545-2583.

27-R BUCCANEER SLOOP, 1975. Excellent condition. Shoal keel, galv tandem trailer, 4-6 berths, separate shower, head, full cover, 15hp in¬ board, 3 bags sails, main, jib and 150 genoa with cover. Famet jib furling, autopilot, self-tailing winches. Oakland berth. $11,950. John (415) 9374190.

CHEOY LEE 31 OFFSHORE KRCH. The boat you've always wanted, in the condition you wanted, at the price you wanted! Currently imyard for LPU top and bottom. Bottom guaranteed for 5 years by yard. All brightwork refinished. This serious world cruiser is equipped for the Bay or ocean. Diesel galley stove and charcoal cabin heater. VHF, knot/log and depth. CQR and Danforth. Volvo diesel. Windvane available. Asking $27,500. Call 587-9605.

US 25-R PEARSON YACHT, 1982. Honda 7.5 o/b. Nicely appointed interior, sleeps 4 w/comfort. Excellent condition. Good Bay boat Extras. $7,900. 228-7348 or 228-2852. NEWPORT 30-11,1977. Ideal SF Bay boat in top condition, new bottom paint, T-cockpit in custom teak, wheel, refrig, VHF, instruments, large cruis¬ ing inventory incl. Avon dinghy, much more. Alameda berth. $25,500/offer. (415) 493-4619. 30-R CUTTER. 6-ft beam, fin keel. FasL New deck, west system sheathed in '89. Lifelines, anchors, VHF, stereo, dinghy, main, foresails, more, $6,000, b/o. 30-ft Spooner hull, mahog over oak, $3,000, b/o. Ex-wlfe; take over pay¬ ments. Message: (415) 728-0571. 27-R BRISTOL Weekender model. Well main¬ tained seaworthy Bay sailer, beautiful Alberg design. Large cockpit 8 1/2 ft long, 4 berths, multiple storage spaces, main, jib. 180% genoa. VHF, many extras. 18hp Merc o/b electric start, remote controls, very low hours. $10,000. Must sell. Jorge (719) 594-8069. 25-R MACGREGOR, 1985.3 sails, 2 reef points, Loran, DF, AP w/remote, radio telephone, sink, stove, chart table, john, sleeps five, Honda lOhp, trailer, many extras, excellent condition. $8,000. (415) 754-6152. MACGREGOR25,1981,w/trailer,5.5hpJohnson, 150% genoa, reefing, marine radio, compass, knotmeter & head. $5,200. (408) 225-8312.

LEARN COASTAL/OFFSHORE CRUISING SKILLS among Santa Barbara's challenging Channel Islancjsl Unique opportunity to join instructors John&Randi Sanger-couplewhoVe sailed43,000 mi. together-fora3.4or5-day personalized cruise aboard their 40-ft Valiant cutter Grebe. 12th season. Brochure and schedule: EDUCATIONAL CRUISING, P.O. Box 780, Santa Barbara, CA 93102 (805) 967-4700

DOUG S/iOTTON

WESTWOOD

Telephone

MARINE SURVEYOR

SAILS

SAUSALITO

(4i5t

67 Libertyship Way, Sausalito

PO Box 121 El Cerrito. CA 94530

page 171

MORGAN 27,1973. Very clean, new interior, keel modification, heavy rigging, lines lead to cockpit, self-tailing winches, 12 sails, instruments (dual compass, wind, knot/log, Loran, RDF, VHF, ste¬ reo, AP), stove, head, Johnson o/b. $13,200. Call Kurt (213) 649-3477 days.

BENETEAU 305,1986. Fast, comfortabie racer/ cruiser. Good sail inventory, oversize winches. Auto, Loran, etc. Weii maintained. $44,500. (415) 488-0579.

(415) 383-4407

CAL 29,1970. Clean, diesel, blister free, dodger, refrigeration, aii new Loran, VHF, depth, KM, propane oven, compass, cushions, ProFurl furl¬ ing, Tillermaster, custom interior, much more. Must sell. $14,950 o/b/o. (916) 756-4441.

RAWSON 30,1968. Documented. Volvo dsl, F/G, 6 sails, 3 anchors, 2 depthfinders, VHF, engine alarms. Auto Halon engine extinguisher, pressure water system, VDO. $22,000. (619) 281-2750 or (916) 872-9037.

18 years experience

26-FTPEARSON, 1975. VHF, DS, KM, compass, 15hp o/b elec start, sails, 3 years old auising only, cruising spinnaker, sleeps five, head, stove, sink, well-maintained, great Bay boat. $9,500 or b/o. (415) 297-5032 or (415) 833-0961.

25-FT AMERICAN F/G sloop. New 9.9 Yamaha auxiliaiy, trailer, 6' headroom, shoal draft keel, galley, head. This is a great 1st boat, easy to sail and trailer, big cockpit, teak interior. Berthed at Oyster Pt. $5,300. (415) 573-0147.

- SHIPS CARPENTER Specializing in dry rot repair, restoration, inierior design. Reasonable rates • References • Reliable

ISLANDER 28,1978. Atomic 4, wheel, teak inte¬ rior, great Bay boat, exc. condition, Emeryville berth. Priced under market for quick sale at $18,950. All offers considered. (415) 654-3992.

"SMlfM£/?77WEDfl£AW.’26-ftSchumachercustom midget ocean racer; two time 1/4 ton N.A. champ: still winning races (GGYC mids; Vallejo). Rates 186; comes with trailer, 19 bags of sails, tons of other stuff. \Way too many boats; not nearly enough time. $11,500. (41.5) 331-3134.

CATALINA 30,1982 model: A lot of bang for your buck, l/b diesel, h/c pressure water, shower, alco¬ hol 2 burner stove i oven, 9 winches, 6 bags including spinnaker, VHF, RDF, Loran, WS, WP, KM, depth. Richmond location. Asking $33,950 or best offer. Days: (707) 545-9011, evenings: (707) 5234121.

PACIFIC SEACRAR MARIAH 31 CUTTER, 1979. Excellent condition. Yanmar dsl. All new in 1988. New sails. Harken roller furling jib, full batten main, Lewrmar 43 ST, SL windlass, epoxy bottom, h/c pressure. Autohelm 2000, many ex¬ tras. $57,000. (415) 467-1263.

REDUCED! FARALLON 29,1976. Full keel cruis¬ ing sloop. 4 headsails incl. club jib, diesel, dodger, tiller, windvane. Autohelm, bronze ports, roomy vyood interior. $19,750 o/b/o. Extensive equip¬ ment list: (707) 745-6204 days, eves.

COLUMBIA 26.4 sails, Honda 7.5, new paint, keel bolts/standing rigging '87, bruce, pumpabie porta-potti, dual water, propane stove, Loran in¬ terfaced to AP, VHF, DS, KM, TV, stereo, solar panel, more. $13,500. (408) 730-8520.

FRANK SAYRE

ERICSON 26,1985, fully loaded for cruising or racing. Exc. cond. Yanmar 7.5hp diesel, sleeps 5, teak interior, full head and galley, lots of extras, selling for health reasons, price reduced to $24,500-or best offer. Call (415) 461-0499.

cruising sails & TepaifS

331-7137

SAIL THE SEA OF CORTEZ

DONA JENKINS

$1,750 Oct. thru May - $1,500 June & Sept. - $1.000 July & Aug. 41-ft Morgan Outisland ketch. Slee^ 7.3 cabins, 2 heads. Fully equipped. Can be aewed and/or provisioned. The Moores (707) 765-1960

U.S.C.G. Documentation • Mexican Fishing Licenses Mexican Consular Clearances 1050 Rosecrans #3. San Diego, CA 92106 (619) 223-2279

CAL 27,1971. Well equipped boat with no huil blisters at last haul-out. Has new Evinrude Yachtwind o/b and/or new2 cyl dsl i/b. Will deal for RV or cash. Bill (916) 756-3860. 30-RISUNDER BAHAMA, 1979. Pressurized water system, head and gailey, sleeps five, wheei steering, three saiis, DS, KM, VHP, stereo, Volvo diesel, safety gear, cockpit cushions. Great family cruiser/racer. Avoid broker fees. $25,000 or b/o. (408)842-3319. CATALINA 25,1981. Excellent condition. Rxed keel, 10hp Chrysler o/b, electric start, D&, 3 sails, and much more. Affordable Bay and Delta cruiser. New bottom paint and epoxy. Must sell. $8,500. Call Steve (408) 335-2918. PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25. Full keel, sloop rig, tan sails, Yanmar dsl, VHF, DS, teak interior, head, full galley, sleeps 5, Berkeley berth. This is a sweet Bay boat. Moving to the country I $13,000 or b/o. (415) 655-9713. COLUMBIA 28,1969. Excellent condition, Volvo diesel-recent top end, DS, VHF, FM stereo, new sail covers, fresh bottom paint, new prop shaft, coupler and bearing, enclosed head, sleeps 6, ready to sail away. $12,500. Call George (408) 295-4300 days. SANTANA 28,1977. Built by Schock. Excellent racer/cruiser, working sails, Volvo diesel, VHF, DS, KN, sleeps 5, full galley, teak interior, two speed winches, safety equip., lifelines. Original owner. Move necessitates ^e. $19,900 or b/o. (415) 435-9966 evenings. ISLANDER 30. Great racing and cruising boat. 7 sails, KM, DS, VHF, cockpit cushions. Delta awning. Sleeps six, good condition, many extras. $19,900 or best offer. Call Jim 435-9654, leave message. 30-FTSTONEBUILTYANKEEone-designsloop designed by L. Francis Herreshoff. “A sailor’s sailboat’, excellent condition. Full cover, all teak cockpit, mahogany trim. 2 suits of sails. $13,950/ best offer. Tty it nowl (415) 949-4229 eves. ALOHA 27,1985, Bob Perry design, KM, DS, VHF, 150, cruise spinn. Harken rollerfurling, lOhp Honda. $18,500 or b/o. (415) 366-3597. CORONADO 30. Well maintained, 3 jibs, main, spinnaker, VHF, depth, KM, compass, 1981 Yanmar dsl, dodger & covers, sleeps 6, cockpit cushions, h/c pressure water, refrig/icebox, shore pwr, stove/oven, 1987survey for$27,500. $15,500 o/b/o. (415) 865-6223. HAWKFARM 28 “Eyrie". Locally designed and built for No. Calif, conditions by Tom Wylie. Race YRA as a one-design, or elsewhere at a competi¬ tive PHRF rating of 162. Race ready. Invited to Audi Regatta in September. $22,000. Call (707) 257-3577.

MACGREGOR 26,1990. W/trailer, unused portapotti, options, new boat, need capital for new business now, sailing can wait. Even sold my motorcycle collection. Thousands less than list price. $9,500 or close offer. (503) 482-2257.

OFFSHORE 27,1972. All glass wAeak trim & deck, diesel, 130 jib, spanker, furl main, boom jib, tri-color masthead light, sip 4, cushions, curtains, new propane stove, VHF, DS, log, MOB-vety clean. Asking $18,000. (415) 669-7120.

CAL 27, Sails, VHF, KM, DF, 15hp o/b engine, most rigging and interior cushions, etc. were all replaced/new in '83. Excellent condition-Berkeley slip. $9,500 or b/o. Call Dave (916) 421-8260 or Jim (916) 3924267.

J-29.1 don't have time to sail it so you should. Excellent condition. Many extras incl. 9 bags sails. Full berths, VHF, electronics, and more. Active racing fleet. New 8hp Evinrude o/b motor. No money down-assume loan. (415) 328-2408.

ERICSON 30+, 1985. Excellent condition. New Mainsail, 2 jibs. Exciting Bay cruiser. Full galley, sleeps 6, head, 16hpdiesel. $39,500 (or take over mortgage). Call (415) 435-9804.

CORONADO 30,1974. Palmer 4 cyl gas engine, two sails, well maintained, ample headroom, dodger, VHF radio, sleeps 6. $18,000. Call (415) 763-9960.

27- R H-BOAT, 1982. Fast, sleek, go to weather machine. Complete "Pineapple Sails" inventory. Loaded, lots of gadgets to play with, new out¬ board. Scandinavian design a pleasure to sail on San Francisco Bay. Rent to owm $1,000 deposit, $275/month. Call Gary at (415) 865-2511.

NORDICFOLKBOAT,25-R,US56,1951.Ready for the Bayl Very sound and good-looking. 3 mains, 2 jibs, o/b. I fixed her up and bought a bigger boat $4,800 b/o. Must sell. 655-9311 or 649-8065.

CATALINA 30,1985, excellent condition, many extras: wheel steering,^hp diesel, self-tailing winches, depth, knot/log, water heater, pressur¬ ized water, shower, cockpit cushions, Larsen sails, stereo, original owner. $36,950/offer. Call (408) 265-4039. CATALINA 27. Great condition, Atomic 4, three sails, dinette, full instrumentation. Asking$11,000. (415) 341-8009. CUSSIC WOODEN BOAT. 26-tt Cheoy Lee Pacific Clipper, 1962. Varnished hull, new Yar;mar diesel. Full keel, main, jib, genoa, spinnaker, radio, dinghy, Sausalito berth. Excellent condi¬ tion, looks gorgeous, sails beautifully, moving, absolutely must sell-reduced to $6,500. Ken Charles (415) 364-8350. CAL 25, Honda lOhp, enclosed head, sleeps 4,3 sails’-r spinnaker, good sailer but needs TLC. Set upfor singlehanding. Locatedin Oakland. $4,000. Mark 763-0948.

BRISTOL 27 SLOOP. Exc. Bay boat. 4 exc. sails, spinnaker, heavy-duty rigging, Loran, VHF, KM 9.8 Merc elec, start. Large cockpit, many extras, new boat on the way. $8,200. (415) 794-3385. MODIFIED H-28(30-FT]. Great liveaboard/cruiser, well maintained. Teak cockpit, varnished cabin. Recenthaulout. Excellent conditionl$22,900. (415) 849-1766.

26-R INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT, 1969. FI G, new main, new jib, genoa, dodger, compass, KM, cassette, VHF, 8hpMerc. Set-upforsinglehandling. All new halyards led aft. Full keel, excellent Bay and ocean boat. Richmond berth. $6,900. (707) 546-8879.

CAL 29, 1969. Very clean. Rebuilt Atomic 4. recent overhaul. 90,110,130. spinnaker, folding prop, swim ladder, stereo, KM, DS, compass, VHF, blister-fr^e last haulout, sleeps 6. Great Bay boat, raceiWinnet Asking $11,500. Call (415) 528-2301 eves.

SANTANA27.Mustsell. Great family boaL Sleeps 4, inboard, enclosed head, large sail inventory, RDF, DS, KM, tabernacled mast $9,500 o/b/o. 458-0133.

J-29 SAN FRANCISCO BAY ROCKET RIDE!! Competitive racer, fast daysailer, and comfortable weekend cruiser. Factory inboard diesel, many options, like new condition. Four boat owner must decrease fleet. Asking $29,500. (415) 769-7637.

26-R POCKCT CRUISER - Letcher designed “/t/euf/ca'cutter. Custom, all fiberglass, teak trim and hatches, 6 sails, 8hp Johnson, VHF, ground tackle and windlass. Many recent upgrades. Very solid, seaworthy boat. Saus. berth available. Asking $10,500 or b/o. (415) 331-9491.

CATALINA27,1974. Excellent condition. Atomic 4 i/b. Cockpit rigged, electric head vnth holding tank, cockpit cushions, jiffy reefing, IIOv shore power, range and oven, auto bilge, new ground tackle, VHF, speedo, DF. Fun boat. $10,500. (408) 720-8309.

PACIFIC SEACRAR 25, 1977. A strong, full keel, cruising sloop. Double-ender;. 3 sails, diesel, AP, DS. Excellent condition. Cozy teak interior, new cushions. Meticulously maintained. Original owner. This boat is beautiful. $18,000 b/o. (415) 792-3389.

ISLANDER 30 MKII, 1973. Clean boat. KM, fath¬ ometer, VHF, wheel steering. Palmer engine, dinette interior, Emeryville berth, two boat owner. Asking $20,000. Call (808) 935-0520 or (415) 871-2335, (808) 935-9766 ask for Julie.

PEARSON ARIEL 26-R, 1965. Fully loaded for cruising. Excellent condition w/6 sails, lazy jacks, all lines aft, 8hp o/b, new shrouds. VHF, depthknot-log meters, inflatables, windvanes, dodger. Sausalito berth. $8,000. Jim (415) 388-5048.

PEARSON ARIEL26-FT, 1965. In Puerto Escon¬ dido, Mexico. I did the hard part, sailed her there. Now you can enjoy the beautiful Sea of Cortez. Excellent condition andcruiseready. Deduct airfare from purchase price. $9,800. (916) 541-1511.

28- R NICHOLS BUCCANEER, the original. Classic wood beauty. Sips 4, head & galley. I/b Atomic 4 and o/b auxiliary. Can take the heaviest and lightest winds and still sail smoothly. Ex¬ tremely sturdy. $4,500 or trade. (916) 362-7323.

OLSON 30 WANTED, prefer with trailer. Elec¬ tronics not important (707) 996-3355 evenings.

25-R DANISH WOODEN FOLKBOAT. Very solid. 2 sets sails. 10hp Honda outboard. $3,500/ best offer. Alameda Marina. (415) 521-1314.

GORGEOUS INTERNATIONAL DRAGON, Master Mariner's vintage, excellent condition, 29’2', six sails, full cover, Alameda berth 357. $2,500 b/o. Whitt981 -1334work, 474-5220 home.

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

HUNTER 25,1974. Two boat owner, must sell. Six sails, dodger, some electronics, Evinrude 9.9. Good Delta and/or Bay boat. $4,800 or b/o. (209) 745-1253.

30-R HUNTER SLOOP, 1977. AP, KM. wind point, WS, Loran, inflatable. Yanmar diesel, wheel steering. $13,500 firm (repo). 886-6657.

ALBIN VEGA 27,1975.20 hours on rebuilt en¬ gine. 6 sails,. Propane tank, stove, BBQ. SatNav; Loran, VHF, handheld VHF, EPIRB, stereo. Windvane. Dinghy. 3.5 o/b. Ground tackle plus, new rigging. $15,000. Ready to cruise! Back from Mexico Mar. '90. Glenn. (707) 8234411. 25-R FOLKBOAT, 1955. ‘Debutante’. With 7hp Volvo diesel, great for cruising and sailing. Re¬ cently painted, and priced to sell. $2,800. Call 457-4310 or 892-2106. RANGER 26,1976. Equipped for Bay and Delta cruising. Bottom painted this spring. ^ keel bolts '89. Standing rigging replaced '87.9.9 o/b electric start. 4 sails including spinnaker. VHF, KM, DS, much safety gear. $10,500. (415) 689-1066. CAL 2-29,1975. Very dean, Farrymann diesel, natural gas stove/oven, VHF, RDF, KM, fathome¬ ter, pressure water, wheel steering, two-speed Lewmar winches, spinnaker, 150% & working jibs, sail cover, anchors, fenders, etc. New com¬ plete survey and bottom paint $20,900. (415) 527-0888. BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC WOODEN BOAT. Heav¬ ily built 26-ft+bow sprit 1932 Anderson & Christofani. New keel bolts, new floor timbers, new deck-prep for cruising, some gear, no engine, has shaft & prop; over $6,000 invested, Bermuda rig, rigging, mast and boom good; 1 set of sails. $2,600. Call 931-9765 after 8pm.

ISN'T IT TIME YOU LEARNED TO FIX YOUR OWN ENGINE PROBLEMS?? Individual and Group Classes 934-6159

^BOAT GRAPHICS WITH PERSONALITY! 771-8427 ^^^2041 Taylor St

SAN FRANCISCO

In pressure sensitive adhesive vinyl/mylar, simplest to the most elaborate we do it your way! And you can afford if. SeaScript (415) 651-7326.

NAPA RIVER FRONT HOMES

WELDING AND FABRICATION

4 available. Each has a private boat dock, sensational views. Priced from $160,000 to $420,000 Contact: Maureen Paladini, Coldwell Banker (707) 944-1841 or (707) 253-7766

in shop or remote. All work guaranteed to your satisfaction in stainless, aluminum, steel or bronze - You design it or 1 will.

'We can weld a broken heart to the crack of dawn. ’ 2344108 before 9 p.m.

page 172

CATALINA 27,1978. Fast & fun. Rebuilt inboard engine. Great condition, new bottom paint, new stove, VHF, DF. Some owner financing possible. Day (707) 584-0474, eves (415) 332-7007. 30-FT SLOOP, built Holland 1960, mahogany on oak, bronze fastened. 5 sails incl. spinnaker, rolier reefing, inboard engine, galley headroom, VHF, stereo, good liveaboard, looks and sails very well. Good condition. $6,000.627-4086. CAPE DORY 25,1979. Traditionai, fuli keei New England boat with F/G hull and teak trim. Brass portholes and teak cabin with o/b, DF, VHF, and 4 sails. $13,500. (415) 620-2830/4B1-0510. CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27. F/G. Cruise ready. Recent epoxy bottom LPU topsides. 1986 Westerbeke diesel. 6 sails, 4 near-new. New shrouds, club jib. $15,900. (415) 232-6114. PACIFICSEACRAR25. Well maintained, excel¬ lent cond. $18,500. Phone Jill (415) 521-9261. SPECIAL BOAT FOR SPECIAL PERSON. 25-ft Atkin-designed traditional gaff cutter, 1978, by Dean Stevens. Select woods throughout, bronze fastened, lead ballast. Volvo dsl, Tanbark sails. Full canvas sail, boat covers. Recent haulout, paint. Excellent condition. Asking $15,000 b/o. 332-9231 msg. 27-R CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE27,1968. Teak decks, VHF, AP, DS. Rigged for singlehanded sailing. Diesel Volvo engine. Engine needs re¬ building. Opportunity to either buy as is and re¬ power with an engine of your choice or rebuiid present engine. As is price $11,000. Call Burl Brown, (707) 526-1474.

32 TO 39 FEET VANCOUVER 32,1986. All weather pilothouse model, designed by Canadian Bob Harris. Go anywhere in comfort. Quality built. $69,000. For info call: (415) 331-2393. CORONADO 34,1969. Hand laid exc. bottom; new Harken roller-reefing system, new Yanmar 3 cyl diesels prop, new dodger, new battery system & more. Wheel steering. $25,700.456-9725 eves. 33- R TARTAN 10, 1979. Meticulously main¬ tained, exc. Bay racer/coastal cruiser, 11 sails, Loran, AP, VHF, electronics, dinghy, bottom job. $25,000/best offer/trades. (707) 526-0177. 34- R ERICSON SLOOP. Bristol condition. 1987 model with 4 sails, roller furling, diesel, Loran, FM marine, stereo, dodger, anchor hoist, 6 self-tailing winches, all lines to the cockpit for singlehanded sailing and much more. $89,500. (415) 831-3547.

38- R CHEOY LEE SLOOP, 1980. Aluminum mast, new diesel, Bristol, owner desperate. $70,000. (714)493-5526. CORONADO 35 SLOOP liveaboard boat in a liveaboard marina. Redwood City. Raft, depth. VHF, refrig, microwave, TV, tele, and shower. Hauled and painted 8/24/89. $35,000 or trade for fixer-upper home or property. (415) 365-6264 leave msg. DREADNOUGHT 32. Moving, must sell. Factory F/G hull & insulated deck. Interior ready for ve¬ neer. New Saab dsl installed, ready. 80 gal water installed. 2 manual bilge pumps, 2 elec, pumps, 1 engine-driven pump. Professionally applied Ster¬ ling painL Super epoxy bottom, bottom painL Includes most SS hardware. SS fasteners and misc, to finish. One month to completion. If you’re going, this is the boat. Trades welcome (motorhome, boats, auto, etc). $17,000. (415) 373-0490, (714) 587-3822. RAFIKI37, cutter rigged diesel aux. Airex core hull, roller furling main and jib. AP, Loran, stereo, and TV. Technautics refrigeration, Volvo Penta engine, windlass, 280’ chain, located in Newport Beach. A ten! $69,500. (714) 673-0884.

READY TO OWN A CLASSIC? 37-ft doubleended cutter. Many excellent features in this re¬ stored beauty. For fact sheet and photo call (415) 392-0824. 38-R FARALLONE CLIPPER. Rebuilt engine. 1 1/4" Honduras mahogany. Prima Vera interior, battery charger, full boat cover, 150% genoa, drifter, 4 spinnakers, 2 spinnaker poles, whisker pole. Monel tanks. Documented vessel, recent survey, many extras. $35,000. Days 467-0170, eves 512-1715. ERICSON 32, 1974. Mahogany interior, teak & holly floor, teak cockpit glate, Furuno L800 Loran C, Horizon VHF, Signet fathometer & KM, Naviv. self-steering. New bottom 6/90. $27,000. (209) 835-6297. HOBIE 33, fixed keel, very little use. New Honda o/b, knot-log, 5 North sails. PHRF 72. Possible delivery or trade for smaller boat. $19,990. (801) 649-9540 Park City. UT. CATALINA 34,1986. Mint condition, ’89 dodger, usual electronics plus Loran, AP, stereo. Force 10 cabin heater, hand finished interior and more. Must see. $58,C00/offer. (408) 370-2765. ISLANDER 36, 1974. Diesel, full electronics, proven winner, many racing extras, lots of sails, complete cruiser w/new North main, Harken roller furler, bottom blisters repaired. 1/90 appraisal @$46,000; asking $40,000; wili finance. (415) 479-4983 or (415) 435-1797.

ISLANDER 36: Excellent condition, fully rigged and equipped, VHF, DF.Signetwind compass, 10 winches, hydraulics, etc. For sale at $39,500 or partnership. (415) 986-5000.

COLUMBIA 36. OutTitted as a liveaboard; guar¬ anteed liveaboard slip in South SF area. Excellent condition-beautiful Bay sailer, furling jib, self-tail wincfies, spanker and new electronics. Must sell. $36,500. Frank or Ron (415) 692-4169.

ERICSON 38. Bristol condition. North sails. Hood furling, dodger. Force 10 stove, propane system and monitors, 100 galibn pressurized water, shower, instant-on hot water, stainless tanks, double staterooms, tiled fireplace, large galley. Must see! $78,000. (408) 244-1202.

A UNIQUE FREYA 39, steel built, sloop/cutter-a proven, seaworthy, double-ender, world cruiser, designed and built forstabilit# and performance at sea. Quick sale sacrifice $85,0001 For inventory and photo; Freya, PO Box 1736, Port Hueneme, CA 93044, or call (805) 9854942 or 487-5670.

RAFIKI 35,1980. Volvo diesel, AP, VHF, DS, knot/log, stereo, Airex hull, teak decks, h/c water, stove/oven. Oyster Point berth. $59,000. Bill (408) 867-9202,19379 Via Real Drive, Saratoga, CA 95070 for full description.

MASON 33,1985. Very little use, day sailed only, never anchored, never cooked in. 170 hours on 3cyiinder Westerbeke diesel. Looks new-smells new. Call Sat. afternoon thru Tues. or leave message. $92,700/offer. (805) 650-1473.

RARE 1938 WOOD KCTCH. 38-tt w/13-tt beam. Stained glass, bathtub, microwave, granite sink, new interior. Recently hauled. Newer sails. Has antiques. This bronze-fastened full-keel boat will pass surveys. $28,000 or best offer. Call (415) 339-3996.

32.R VANCOUVER PILOTCUTTER,1986, built by Tayana Yanmar 27hp, 2 staterooms, 2 helms, VHF, Loran, AP, Signet SmartPak, stereo, refrig¬ eration, 5hp Tohatsu w/Zodiac tender. $79,500. (213) 306-8429.

39- R PEARSON, 1970, “Competitor" sloop. Keel/ centerboard, skeg mounted rudder, heavy glass, equipment listing available. Must sell. $^,000. (904) 785-1584, Box 1375, Panama City. FL 32402-1375.

TARTAN 37,1982. Sparkman & Stephens de¬ sign. Fast, solid. Bluewater auiser, liveaboard. Documented, Mexico veteran, Westerbeke 50, roller furling jib, dodger with solar panel, refrigera¬ tion, hot/cold pressure water, shore power and telephone. Anchor windlass. $71,000. Call (415) 399-1204.

O'DAY 34,1981, PERFORMANCE CRUISER. Eight sails w/spinnakers, 9 winches, diesel, 40" wheel, Loran, loiotlog, VHF, DF, stereo. Propane stove, h/c water & shower, AC, full safety equip. Santa Cruz. $43,950 or trade for 39-40’. (408) 479-7606. SABRE36, commissioned in October 1988. Fast, beautiful racer/cruiser. Rod rigging. Harken rollerfurling, Hallspar Quik-Vang, Navtec hydraulic backstay, 10 Lewmar winches, all North sails - full batten main with lazy-mate, 4 headsails, spinna¬ ker, gennaker. Westerbeke diesel w/folding prop, fixed prop. Hi-tech sound system with 4 speakers, CD/tape, stereo AM/FM. Full teak interior, extra windovre and forward hatch for light and ventila¬ tion. VHF, Loran with cockpit repeater, KM, WS, WD, dodger, shore power. Featured in April 1990 Latitude 38as “the picture of ioveliness skimming across the Bay*. Asking $120,000. Call/leave message (415) 383-6923. 36-R LUDERS CHEOY LEE CUPPER KRCH. Beautiful offshore cruising sailboat. Great live¬ aboard. Many sails and cruising gear available. Possible trade for aircraft of same value. $47,000. (707) 963-2056, (707) 257-1937. WESTSAIL 32. Factory builL Original owner. Documented. All white hull with red boot and light blue deck. Solid lead ballast. Brightwork Immacu¬ late. Dodger, bimini, caprail covers, and side panels. Brand new cruising spinnaker and full-cut yankee jib by Hood Sails. Also genoa and working sails. Perkinsengine. Refrigeration. Cabin heater. VHF, external phone, stereo. Extra large port¬ holes with screens. Mast, boom and underhuli refinished and standing rigging replaced three years ago. Two large COR anchors. Sailing din¬ ghy plus Avon inflatable. Location Ballena Bay. Price $52,500. Call (415) 277-9225. CATAUNA 36,1983.3 headsails, diesel heater, full cockpit dodger, and much more. See in Sausalito. Asking $64,500. Cali 332-2733. WESTSAIL 32. She’s a beauty. Must see to appreciate craftmanship. Worked 97 days to update boat Interior like new, re-upholstered, freshly painted, varnished throughout, light below decks. Immaculately clean. New mast w/steps and rigging replaced 4 years ago, $10,000. Complete epoxy blister job done ’89, $4,300. New Autohelm, cutter rigged. Heater, shower, refrig, stove, KM, DS, VHF, RDF, 35hp dsl engine. 35 lb. plow. Sleeps 6, excellent survey. The prettiest Westsail for sail in the Bay. $40,000. Call (415) 236-5839. RANGER 33,1974. Justhauledout,new varnish. Many sails, 2 spinnakers, new mainsail, 10 winches, inboard Atomic 4 (gasoline), VHF, DF, wind point, WS, KM, stove with oven, head, sleeps 6. $27,000 or b/o. Call 753-6905. COLUMBIASABRE32-RSLOOP.Cuddy cabin, 4 berths, 5’ headroom, epoxy bottom ’89, many sails, Sausalito berth. $3,900.381-6244.

39-FT STEEL PILOTHOUSE CUnER

SEVEN SEAS YACHT CHARTERS

New world cruiser with 34 hp Yanmar, aft double berth and raised dinette, sails, self-tailing winches, KM, DS, VHF, windlass, refrigeration. Special low price $94,950. Bellhaven Marine, #9 Squalicum Mall, Beliingham, WA 98225.1-800-542-8812.

Offers hundreds of fine power and sailing yachts for a Caribbean or Mediterranean cruise tailored and catered for you. Elegant cuisiri$, personal service, surprisingly affordable. Call (800) 346-5355.

c page 173

ISLANDER 36, 1978. Fast aliweather racer/ cruiser. Teak interior, Perkins4-108, radar. Loran. Autohelm, full Signet instrumentation. VHF, ex¬ cellent ground tackle, 7 bags North sails, spinna¬ kers, 10 winches, ioads storage. Well maintained, yearly haulouts. Morro Bay, will deliver. $47,500. Ted (805) 528-5070.

Sharpen your auising skills in the ocean off Northern California. Next offshore cruising and navigation trip scheduled 8/23-30/90. Learn under a licensed 100 Ton Ocean Master & college instructor.

CRABTREE MARITIME SERVICES

BBT-

B. AXELROD & CO. since 1961 TEAK WOOD

CALL (415) 372-0144

surfaced 3/8“ 1/2" 7/8" 1 7/8" rough 4/4" 6/4" 8/4" quantity discount, quality service 201 Rorida St. S.F. (415) 6264949

FERRARI BOATWRIGHT SERVICES

WANT TO PLAY COWBOY

All Inarine woodwork. Full shop and'mobile services. Dry Rot, Planking, Spars, Interiors Designed & Built. 453-5051

at a real working cattle ranch? B+B located near Crater Lake owned and operated by world cruiser • hunting, fishing, horseback riding (503) 560-3200 • PO Box 66, Prospect, Oregon 97536

SANTANA 35,1982. Popular one-design racer/ cruiser. Race ready w/new Mylar 150,2 mains. 3 chutes, Loran, VHP, stereo, Signet 1000/2000. Large cockpit, berths 8 for cruising. $48,000 or make offer. Call days. (408) 244-1700 e'xt. 3135. 34- R CAL MARK III, 1977.25hp FWC diesel, wheel steering, roller furling jib, AP, Loran, RDF. VHF, KM, WS, wind point, DS, 2 anchors with tackle. H/c pressure water, automatic battery charger, new upholstery. Excellent condition. $28,900 or b/o. (619) 679-1272. 35- FTSPARKMAN&STEPHENSSLOOP,1971. F/G, center cockpit with walk-through to aft cabin, Caribbean model by Chris Craft, 47hp Perkins diesel, Loran, 2 heads, shower, oven, windlass, pedestal steering, new rigging, documented, Benicia slip, exc. cond., ready for offshore speed and comfort. Below bookat $29,900. Partial trades considered. (707) 746-7931 eves. CATALINA 36. Like new inside & out. Extensive equipment for Bay/Delta/coastal cruising, living aboard, entertaining, or single-handing. No blis¬ ters. Clean bilge. Low diesel hours. Powerful #46 winches. New AP. Loran. Spinnaker, roller furling 120% jib, jiffy reefing. All sails in excellent condi¬ tion. 3 anchors, windlass, dinghy, outboard. Side¬ ways sleeping aft cabin. 3 rooms, 7 berths. StereoAape deck. Best buy In Bay, boy. $53,000. Call (415) 494-0659 for complete equipment list. 38-FT GILLMER CUTTER. One owner, built Barcelona, Spain, 1972. finest material, mahog¬ any strip planked on laminated framing, diesel, VHF, DS, AP. Steering vane, full roller furling jibs & twins, storm sails. Complete cruising inventory list available. Beautiful condition. $65,000. (415) 454-9285. 38-FT HANS CHRISTIAN MARK II, Great liveaboard and/or cruiser. Windlass, Loran C. VHF, stereo, stainless steel holding tank. 170 gallon water, 140 gallons fuel, extra cabinets and much more. $82,000. (415) 758-1736. BRISTOL39 YAWL Must sell now. Classic linesTed Hood design. Berthed at Oyster Point. Re¬ cent new Hood sails, rebuilt Westerbeke diesel, liveaboard/coastal cruiser. Make offer. (408) 7214855 days, (415) 728-0155 nights. TAYANA 37 MKI in truly Bristol condition, better than new, ready to cruise or liveaboard in ele¬ gance: lots new in last 2 yrs. Perkins 4-108, SatNav, aK DS, DF, refer, etc. $97,000. Sausalito (415) 331-5916.

35-FT ALBERG design Pearson built, full keel, heavy F/G, comfortable, roomy, excellent for Bay or cruising, carefully maintained. $27,000. (415)

453-487^ ERICSON 32. Immaculate condition. Diesel, WS, knot, depth, Loran C, shore power with auto charge, new VHF & AM/FM/cassette, CNG stove & oven, 110,140, spinnaker. Top condition. Only $27,500. Phone (408) 241-7670. 32- FT ATKINS ERIC CUSSIC, 1978, Marconi cutter, excellent condition. Full keel, teak/ipol, teak c^in, Volvo MD3^1030 hrs., Loran, VHF, RDF, AM/FM stereo, propane range, new dodger/ sail bags, 5 sails, AP, 3 anchors chain rode, much more. $43,000. (415) 726-6419.

COLUMBIA3&-FT. F/G, self furl jib, dodger, wheel, 3 water tanks, h/c water, shower, 3 extra sails, sleeps 6, fast & roomyll Ideal for liveaboardtraveler. Excellent condition. Compare with $60,000 boats. Price $34,500. Consider deed of trust. San Rafael (415) 454-2646.

PEARSON 10M 34-R, 1974. Great racer, com¬ fortable cruiser. Excellent condition. Clean, dry. Electronics, Force 10 heater, Lectra-San, cockpit cushions, eight bags, many extras. HDA divi¬ sional champ. Must sell for $25,000. Call (415) 435-1257.

DOWNEAST38,1976,cutterocean cruiser. Great liveaboard. AP, electric windlass, full dodger, fire¬ place, self-tailing winches, roller furling jib, VHF/ RDF, press h/c water, dsl eng, refrigeration, LectraSan. $60,000. Roy or Karen (415) 456-8368.

36-R F/G KRCH. Excellent conrStion. Roo^ teak cabin, reliable diesel, dinghy, extra sails. Asking $35,000. For info and pictures, call (415) 2844251.

SALTY ANGELMAN KETCH. Fresh diesel, Honduras mahogany, 11’6’ beam. Ideal cruise liveaboard, price negotiable. (445) 435-4065.

33- FT HUNTER, 1981, Bankruptcy, must sell. Good condition, just hauled, lots of extras: Barient winches, electronics, roller furling, dodger, VHF, stereo. $31,000. (415) 435-3079.

32- R TAHITIANA. Steel cutter. Well equipped for cruising/liveaboard. 5 sails. Saab diesel, complete electronics, dinghy, Fatsco wood stove, cherry/black walnut interior. Shipmate 3-burner stove w/oven. Truck, trailer, and cradle. (415) 964-7809 or 960-9225.

BALTIC 35,1986. Great aft cabin, race or cruise. Harken RF (35%), 90,95,150 jibs. 1.5 chute & gear. CNG, pressurized h/c water w/shower, ste¬ reo, Loran, battery charger & telephone. 10 winches (7ST), teak cockpit. 927-3514, no bro¬ kers please. Price $150,000.

SAN JUAN 34,1982. Yanmar diesel. Rod rigging, 3 jibs, full spinnaker gear, new bottom, new elec¬ trical, VHF, CNG stove/oven. Many extras. Must sell. $33,000 b/o, trades. 332-9440.

32-FT ARIES, 1973, wooden hull #2. Excellent sed boat. Monitor vane, Hiller propane range, Lo¬ ran, solar panel, Dickinson wood stove, etc. $28,000. financing possibly available. Sausalito slip. Call 331-1610 after 5:00.

38-R STEEL VAN DE STADT. Round bilged & truly beautiful I Great liveaboard or proven crulserl Documeqted, Volvo diesel, SatNav, Loran, windvane, roller fuder, solar panels, generator, sailing dinghy & more! Personal injury forces sale $40,000. Hauled at Anchor Marine, Pillar PL Come anytimel

CAL 39,1982 (MARK III EDITION). Tri-cabin: excellent condition: well-outfitted for cruising: “Pathfinder" diesel 50hp: Harken roller furling: self-tailing windies: dodger: full-batten main with lazy-jacks: 2 jibs, extra nrain: VHF, Loran C, AM/ FM stereo: Signet knot/log and DF: much more: a dream boaL Asking $77,000. (408) 426-4670.

33- R CUSTOM STEEL CUHER. Merritt Walter designed dbl-ender, Tanbark sails, 32hp diesel. Perfect for liveaboard or extended cruise. Cherry wood interior. Extensive equipment list. Bristol condition. $55,000. Ken (415) 428-4023.

ISLANDER 36, Never raced-never trashed. Perk¬ ins 4-108 dsl, roller furling, VHF, Loran, sounder, speed/log, stereo, microwave oven, batt charger, epoxy bottom, covers for all ext. teak, pristine condition, great name! $49,000. (415) 968-5739. ISLANDER 36. Winner at '89 Oakiand-Catalina race (see Latitude Aug. ’89). Beautifully main¬ tained, cruise/race ready. Full electronics, AP, Loran, Harken roller furling, quickvang, dodger and many extras. Perkins dsl and complete epoxy bottom job. $52,950. (916) 652-6386.

CAL 39,1978. Beautifully maintained in Santa Cruz. Large main cabin w/6'4“ head room. Rig¬ ging & sails in excellent condition. Great cruiser or liveaboard. Too many extras to list. $67,000. Call for more information or to see (408) 427-0209.

CAL 35,1980. See to appreciate this high quality, lovingly maintained, fast cruiser, spacious ele¬ gant interior/outstanding liveaboard, diesel en¬ gine, diesel heater, dodger, windlass, radar, Lo¬ ran, VHF, Autohelm 3000, Avon Redcrest, cruise spinnaker, h/c water, KM, DS. $72,000. Owner, (415)969-9512.

32-Fr CUPPER MARINE AFT CABIN SLOOP, 1975. Sausalito slip. $7,500/offer. Will consider financing. Jerry 332-4745.

Catalina 36,1987, Fully equipped like new, must see. Set up for liveaboard or coastal sailing. $65,000 or best offer. (415) 367-8363.

WESTSAIL32. Te/tacSycutter rig. 5 sails, ProFurl headsail, dodger, lee cloths, rain catcher awning, windscoop, Toyo offshore 4 person liferaft, Achilles sport boat, Yamaha outboard. Monitor vane, Tillerrnaster, AP, SatNav, ham, VHF, 2 depthfinders, knot log, AP wind, VVS. WD, EPIRB, 2 solar panels, new 8D's, custom teak interior. Shipmate propane, Dickinson diesel heater, Adler Barbour reefer, Mercedes diesel, six anchors, new chain. Lots of great gear included. South Pacific veteran. $50,000 or best offer. Call (707) 778-7229. ARIES 32-R, ■VUfAZWGGflACE". Well-main¬ tained. Dodger, Monitor windvane, combi Auto¬ helm, Barient self-tailing winches, boom gallows, Montgomery dinghy, CQR 200' chain, VHF, RDF, DS, epoxy bottom. Moving up. Asking $39,500. Sausiito berth. 548-4180 eves. 32-R CLIPPER MARINE. Roomy liveaboard sleeps six. Aft cabin, sound diesel inboard, VHF, EPIRB, head/shower, galley. SF Marina berth nextto Fort Mason. Moving out of state, must sell. $11,700 cash. (415) 441-2457.

COLUMBIA 36,1968. TransPac vet Great livea¬ board. Wheel steering, AP, propane stove/oven, 12v ref., Cole-stove fireplace, h/c pressure water, shower.20hpdiesel (which needs work). $27,500. Ted 326-1430. 34-R ERICSON, 1988. Excellent condition. 3 burner stove, oven, stereo, Loran C, full Instru¬ ments, self-furling jib, 21 hp Universal diesel, sleeps 6, fully-equipped galley. VHF, inflatable plush interior, teak wooC^orlt $55,000. Nancy (805) 659-4477. SANTA CRUZ 33 ULDB (5,000 lb.) part complete ktt. Hull, customdeck, keel mold, somedeckgear, etc. Owners have already moved to New Zealand. Must sell! $9,500 or best offer, other trades con¬ sidered such as a SC-27. Contact Charlie (916) 685-7295. ARIES 32,1980. Original owner. 90%, 120%, 150%, and cruising spinnaker. Head sails, W^erbeke diesel, Lewnwwinches, dodger, VHF,depth, propane stove w/oven, cabin heater, Montgomery pram (6'8*). $32,900. (415) 343-6738. 32-R WESTSAIL, 1974. These are the boats that do it! Hawaii veL Completely equipped to cruise in safety and comfort If durability and security is what you're looking for in a sailboat call for more information. Santa Cruz. $50,000. (408) 476-2039,(408)4584)193; PEARSON 34,1985. Yanmar diesel, AM/FM/ cassette stereo, battery charger, refrigeration, 3 jibs (110,65,90% high cut). New as of April 1990: bottom paint, 3 battery banks, headstay, 2 extra halyards, dodger glass, double block traveler. Evenings (209) 634-0921. COLUMBIA 32,1976 9.6. Wheel, 7 winches. 2 self-tailers. Dbl. rf. main+ 100,150, and tri-rad spk. RebIt Volvo dsl. Instruments VHF, h/c press water. Stove/oven 6’ headroom, heater and much more. Daysailer/cruiser. Tough and fast $25,000 firm. Day/night (415) 522-1953. CAL 39,1979. "Corinthian.'Rod rigging. Harken furling, Navtec hydraulics, AP, 11 windies, full batten main/lazy jacks, diesel, wheel, DM^M/ WS/WD, Loran, VHF, stereo, hot/cold water, shower, refrigeration, CNG stove/oven. Perform¬ ance liveaboard, Sausalito berth. $67,000. Call 331-2710 eves.

ION ELECTRONICS, FRIENDLY SERVICES

ERICSON 35,1976

All electronics on board Service, Sale & Installation Call anytime for Free Estimate & Consulting. Guaranteed the Best Electronic Service at Economy Rates. Weekends Available • Phone (415) 948-6730

Circumstances force sale. New Yanmar diesel, interior. Six sails, navigation, anchor, safety gear. 1990 haulout, bottom paint, appraisal ($35,000). Asking $29,500. Call or write: Padfic Yachts, 413 Lake Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062 • (408) 475-5503

NORTH BEACH MARINE CANVAS

IN SAN FRANCISCO

543-1887

• Custom canvas, cushions & repairs • Dodgers by Island Nautical from $800 • Inner-spring mattresses by Dean Douglas • Waterproof cushions by Attorn Siders

RICHARD T. CHRISTOPHER Marine Surveyor & Consultant Serving entire Bay & North Coast areas * 40 years experience Sail • Power •• All Types of Construction •• Wood a Spedalty Member. Sodety of accredited marine surveyors * ABYC (415)368-8711 (408)778-5143

BERTHS IN "OLD SAUSALITO"

THE FLEET KEEPER

Rrst month free with sign-up. $5.75 per foot per month for slips.

Varnish • Interior/Exterior Cleaning Waxing • Wood Bleaching • Oiling Topside Painting • Minor Repairs

Dry storage too. Small boats, character boats and fishermen welcome. 4 marine railways, ship's stores in complex with launching. Argues Shipyard' 2350 Marinship Way • (415) 332-3552

Regina Roberts

(415)601-1910

F>age 174

RESTOREDPEARSONVANGUARD33.Fr.New sails, dodger, radar, Loran, VHF, stereo, auto¬ pilot, weather vane steerer, diesel auxiliary, full galley, hauled January 1990. $26,000. Call (209) 835-2303. CLASSICGAFFKETCHMOTORSAILER,1949,

34 LWL, 36 LOD, 42 LOA. San Francisco berth, 4 cyl Lehman diesel, batt chgr, VHF, wood stove, kerosene stove, 110/12v refrig, fir on oak, refas¬ tened, reoaulked '88. Ready to sail/liveaboard. $12,000.(916)8734387. 35.FT FAST CRUISER. Alan Gurney design built 1961, maintained almost like new. If you know how wonderful agood wood boat can be then you should see this Master Mariner. Teak house, decks, Volvo diesel, full cover. $44,000. 3319219. CS 36 SLOOP “CHAMPAGliE". Racer/cruiser, VHF, stereo, Loran/plotter, Signet W/K/D, 33hp Westerbeke w/200 hrs, h/c pressure H20, reefer, stove/oven, main, 110%, 150%, new bottom 5/90. Without a doubt the cleanest CS 36 In the Bay Area. Reduced-$72,000. (415) 467-5145. PEARSON VANGUARD 32.5. Classic cruiserbuilt like a brick restroom. New Loran, speed log, DS. Harken furling. Ready to take you anywhere but Oes Moines. ^1,000.3324871. C&C 38,1976. Excellent condition, completely renovated interior, Yanmar 35hp diesel, race and cruise equipped, extensive sail Inventory, recently hauled, new paint and survey. Well maintained, ready to sail the Bay, Delta or cruise. Must sell. $49,000 b/o. (415) 382-8976. ERICSON 35, Race, cruise or liveaboard boat in outstanding condition. Trades welcomel Boat is open listed and I can sell her to you without commission fee. I am willing to make a great deal for someone. Call Glenn (415) 561-2617, (415) 474-7759 home/leave message. ERICSON 32,1986. Excellent condition. Roller furling jib, propane stove/oven. Alpine stereo, lots of extras, hauled & painted in May, must sell to buy house. Ballena Bay slip. $58,000 or b/o. (415) 9654243.

40 TO 50 FEET 42-FT GAFF CUTTER. 1982 bluewater cruiser, English pilot house. Professionally built ferro hull. Teak deck & fittings, teak interior. Perkins diesel, AP, radar, Loran, sounder, VHF, EPIRB, 12v anchor windlass, 6 anchors, self-tailing winches, Avon 6-man liferaft, Avon inflatable with Merc o/b, survival suits, 120 amp alternator, pressure water h/c, refer. Excellent Sausalito liveaboard location. Survey. Replacement value $175,000. $109,000. (415) 331-0358.

NEWPORT 41-8,1979, hauled May '90. Brick¬ yard Cove slip. Diesel, jib, spinnaker, genoa, rod rigging, recent survey, speedo, VHF, RDF. Sound but needs TLC. $49,000. Art (916) 988-0214. CORONADO 41.FT, 1972. Former show model. Great sailing, excellent liveaboard. Teak interior, large galley and stateroom, full V-berth, head, and walk-in closet. Equipped with Perkins 50hp diesel, radar, tabernacle mast, dodger, and much more. Owner sold. $54,000. (415) 588-7723 evenings. ROBERTS 43 AIREX CORED HULL w/no deck. Has masts for ketch rigs, dsl engine, Edson steer¬ ing & many more parts to finish the boat. Asking $22,000. Call for equipment list (408) 685-9735. 46 LOA 34 LOD S&S AUXlUARY YAWL South Pacific veL Magnificent lines. Lots of bronze, new decks, well maintained, fir on oak construction, Perkins diesel, Autohelm, SatNav, depth, log. Solar panels, 12v/110 refrigeration. Zodiac. Must sacrifice. $26,900. (415) 365-9257. 47- Fr OLYMPIC offshore cruising ketch. Brewer design. East Coast, Caribbean, Hawaii, South Seas veteran, 3 staterooms, 2 heads w/showers, stand-up engine room, LPG oven/stove, LPG heater, hot water, cold plate refrigeration, AP, dodger, life raft, heard & inflatable dinghy, electric/ manual all chain anchor-windlass. Just rebuilt diesel engine. SSB/ham, VHF, Loran. $112,500. Call or leave message (415) 769-0527. 48- R SPARKMAN & STEPHENS Hughes built center cockpityawl, 1972, liveaboard/cruise, F/G, 75hp Mercedes Benz, new Awigrip topsides, new haulout, sleeps 7,3 cabins, 2 heads, 1 shower, Espar, Adler-Barbour, liferaft, lots gear. Asking $109,500.(415)332-7543. LUDERS 42-FT KETCH BY CHEOY LEE. A classic & absolutely beautiful yacht of modern design. Teak& F/G, built to Lloyd's 100A specs. Dsl, refrig., propane stove/oven, h/c press, water, new sails, canvas, much more. A fast cruiser terrific liveaboard. $74,000. (415) 851-0495. 40-FTVAUANTPILOTHOUSE,1980.by Uniflight. Much better than new. One owner professionally maintained. Outstanding cruiser/liveaboard. Amenities including Wood-Freeman AP, Grunert refrigeration, Furuno radar & Loran, Lewmar winches, dual steering, Westerbeke 58 diesel, make this one of the finest cruisers in the NW. Call for picture and specs. Asking $185,000. (206) 979-2806 or (206) 564-1221. CUSSIC S&S 47-FT SLOOP. Fully equipped ocean cniislng veteran of Mexico, Hawaii trips. One of SF Bay's mostbeautiful, well-constructed wooden yachts - to see her is to love her. Sleeps 7, large cockpit, windvane, AP, electronics, many sails. $67,500.331-0907. 42-FT CATAUN^ 1989. Betterthan new. Radar, Loran, radio, refrigerator, microwave, roller furl¬ ing, etc. $107,500. Owner (415) 574-3456.

43-FT WOOD SAILBOAT. Built in France. Very good condition structurally but needs much TLC and mast repaired. Aft cabin, center cockpit de¬ sign. Approximately 85 hours on Perkins 107. Misc gear. $25,000. $10,000 down, OWC bal¬ ance. 268-9191. 50'10" HUDSON FORCE 50,1978. Loaded with equipment. Like newcondition. 1987 new Lehman Ford 135-transmission, rigging, anddeck caulked. Recently returned from Mexico cruise. $149,000. Will consider trade for real estate or antique autos. (415)426-9741. YANKEE CLIPPER 48LOA 41 LOD. Garden designed F/G ketch, teak decks. Perkins 4-108, low hours. Loran, autopilot with vane, remote. 12v refrigerator, planing dinghy w/outboard. Spacious teak interior. Wood stove. Exceptional joinery. Ex¬ cellent, equipped cruiser. Comfortable liveaboard. $75,000. Call (415) 398-8170 or (415) 861-6519. ISLANDER FREEPORT41,1981-commissioned in 1984. Pathfinder 85hp diesel, radar/Loran, 2 heads/showers, full galley, large salon, teak inte¬ rior, dinghy on davits, AP, dodger, etc...Perfect liveaboard, excellent condition. $92,000. All rea¬ sonable offers considered. (415) 243-9402.

page 175

IN NEW ZEALAND. 41-ft classic. 1938 George Wayland design. Cutter rig. Very clean, well main¬ tained, well equipped. EPIRB, life raft, SatNav, lifesling, VHF, MOB pole, newly galvanized chain, 45 lb. CQR, Force 10 stove, Yanmar diesel (less than 1,000 hrs). Sailed S. Pacific, had to return to Calif...Start up where we left off. $50,000. (714) 645-5910 or write: 1227 Rutland, Newport Beach, 92660, Attn: “Typhoon". HUNTER 40,1986. Spacious, little used, one owner, performance cruiser, properly equipped and cruise ready. An ideal liveaboard, maint^ned in like-new condition. Under market at $79,500 firm. Owner lives in Sacramento, boat berth^ at Oakland Yacht Club. (916) 961-0623.

CORONADO 41, 1974. Like new throughout. Large aft stateroom, huge bed. Two heads, shower, large galley. Teak floors. Diesel engine, radar, AP, electric windlass. Roller furling headsail. Fully outfitted-cruise/liveaboard ready. $62,000-make offer. (805) 983-2248.

78-FT LOD WORLD CRUISING GARDEN threemasted pilothouse steel schooner. 250Cummins, cruising range 2,400 miles under power. Fast 12 knots sailor motor. Extensive navigational/electri¬ cal systems. Kohler 17kw generator. 2 auxiliary shore boats, 4 staterooms, 7single berths, shower, watermaker. Spacious galley and dining salon aft Easily handled by crew of 3. Perfect liveaboard for family, excellent world cruiser, or school ship. Located in Channel Islands Harbor. Open to cash offer or trade. (805) 985-8529.

SPRAY COPY, 40-FT, 1980. Proven ocean cruiser. Beautiful classic lines. Excellent balance, designed to self-steer. Heavy construction, cedar lapstrake planks e’xT" sawn frames, 371 GMC dsl, huge cargo hold, AP, Loran C, VHF. $45,000. (415) 323-4878.

72-R STEEL BRIGANTINE, double-ender, 60hp diesel, steel flotation tanks, 9 sails, radar, Loran, radio, DF, 1984-1986 rebuilt/remodeled US govi lifeboats, ocean-going, seaworthy, sailed Pacific coast, spacious & liveable. $57,000. Call (707) 928-5746.

41-FTRHODESBOUNTYIISLOOP.Handcrafted in F/G. 52'9'' custom mast. New engine, furling main & genoa, electric anchor winch, Swedish stainless rigging. Ultra seaworthy, excellent for Bay or cruising. Large cockpit, stainless galley, 3 burner CNG range with oven, AP, large top load refrigerator with deep freeze ACIDC, and much more, top condition. Music capability. Fun boat Hoso has led each Cong. Cup, Opening Day, Christmas parades, etc. For further information call Bob Pierce. (213) 597-7535.

53-FT ROBERTS COLD MOLDED HULL- unHnished. Complete set of plans included. $1,000. Call Gene (408) 263-7633.

44-FT RHODES SLOOP “Tobermory’. A beauty to sail in heavy weather & light winds, good liveaboard. Recently tested, ready to go after painting. 9 sails, ham, diesel, SatNav, VHF, Lo¬ ran, Aries, inflatable, charts, liferaft. Cruise ready. $57,000.(415)474-1782.

CLASSICS SENSIBLE CRUISING BOAT designed by Al Mason; built by Jim Richardson in 1968. Excellent condition. Lotsof cruising gearandspares. Ready to cruise. Call (916) 777-6784 for more info. DANISHSPIDSGATTERCLASSIC.Makesheads turn. New keelbolts 1989, copper fastened, good sails, one fine little yacht $7,000. Ed Freeman 533-7973.

PROFESSIONAL DELIVERIES

Lon Woodrum, Prop.

Competent

ISLANDER FREEPORT41,1977.Aftcabin-clean comfortable liveaboard witons of space and stor¬ age. 600 hrs on Aries diesel. Must sell our homel $75,000 b/o. Call for details 522-6331.

51 FEET & OVER 41-FT SAILBOAT (Freeport, 1978). Like new, completely re-outfitted 4/90, (new mast, paint & Interior). Fully equipped &5’ headroom, queen bed & shower in prlv. aft cabin, microwave, dryer, 2 heads, dinghy, autopilot, etc. Walk to work for $85,000. Dave (415) 956-1867.

NAPA SEA RANCH 3333 Cuttings Wharf Rd., Napa, CA 94558 Ask about our free haulouts (using your trailer). Can handle up to 50-ft boats. Very inexpensive dry storage averaging $30.00 per month. (707) 252-2799 or (707) 252-8011 • Ask for Al ik

(415) 332 597^^^^ WOODRUM MARINE

42-FT MORGAN, 1972, MARK II. Westerbeke diesel, F/G hull, must sell. Emeryville berthed. $36,000 or best offer. Call (415) 938-1452.

25 years experience

Specializing in interior and exterior alterations and repairs. Custom designing and construction in wood or fiberglass.

Dependable

Power or Sail - Worldwide or Local by USCG Licensed Master • Oceans, 200 Tons Free estimates Call Captain Jordan • (800) 675-CAPT or (415) 948-3243

***** MARINE ENGINE SURVEY ***** Physical Inspections. Oil Analysis, Photographic Ferrography, Computer Comparison, Written Reports, Purchase Surveys. Litigation Preparation, Departure Surveys (415)934-6159

COLLEGE OF ALAMEDA

ALUMINUM and STEEL

Evening classes in Coastal Piloting begin at 7PM Wednesday 9/12/90. Celestial Navigation classeybegin 7PM Tuesday 9/11/90. Registration begins 8/27/90. Call the College of Alameda today at (415) 522-7221 for further information.

Progressive local builder seeks new construction projects. Prompt quotes and return postage with complete set of plans. Stock plans 29', 34', and 40'. 34' demonstrator in the water at SF berth. More info, contact: SIERRA YACHTWERKS, (415) 863-1808,4521 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114.

DO YOU WANT TO WIN the 1991 Master Mariner’s? “Antigua'can do it! 47-ft Kettenburg #5 of 25 built. A beautiful sloop. Very fast. $55,000 or will consider trade for trawler type powerboat. (415) 436-6558 or (805) 984-5631. CHINESEJUNKSO-FTHOSANG-HongKongblt 1962. Teak over yakal. Volvo diesel. Cozy! Tanbark lug w/bamboo battens. Sails, looks fantastic! $14,000 or best offer. Jim 661-3724.

“PADDYWESr26-n Seabird-typeyawl, gaff rig, built in Sausalito 1937. Master Mariner veteran/ winner. 20hp diesel inboard, full cover. Asking $10,000, discount possible to righteous buyer. Mike or Sue Proudfoot (415) 634-0559. 1935 CLASSIC, 30'x101/2' wooden gaff Acker¬ man ketch, heavily bit, Volvo dsl, 80 gal fuel, 80 gal water, w/Gashouse Cove slip. $t 9,500/best cash offer. Call (503) 599-2272, eves (415) 637-9136. 25-FT NORDIC FOLKBOAT. Built in Denmark, 1958. Beautifully restored wooden sailboat. Ele¬ gant brightwork. One of the fleet’s finest. Active SF Bay racing and cruising fleet. Unbelievable price reduction. $5,000. (415) 331-5263. 34-FT ANGLEMAN KITTYWAKE built by Hardin in Yokohama in 1965. Mexico vet. Hauled and surveyed 8/89. Gaff main, KS, DS, LP stove, Autohelm 3000, Loran C, dink w/2hp outboard. Needs TLC, divorce forces sale. $26,000 or b/o. Leave message 848-2941. THIRTY SQUARE METER 43-FT varnished mahogany sloop by Knud Reimers, built ’39 re¬ built ’79, exceptionally fast, very easy to handle, extreme lines & lightweight, good cond, excellent sails; suited for daysailing, racing and show, not a liveaboard. $12,500. (415) 348-1170 eves. 30-R HURRICANE “Wave/r^uilt Sausalito 1952. Rr over oak, lead keel. Good sails with tri-radial spin. Spruce mast, all fittings, standing rigging brand new. Insured. All running rigging led back. Must sell. Price reflects market, not condition of boat Bought bigger boat $9,500 or best offer. 935-7096. 43-FT LCD, 72-R OVERALL, English cutter 'Aeolus'. Newly built by 7th generation boat builder w/finest air-dried exotic woods, etc...Copper bot¬ tom, solid spars, traditional g^ rigged, Tanbark sails. Harken winches. A remarkable vessel, meticulously built for world cruising & racing. (415) 234-1043.

MULTIHULLS 40-R SEARUNNER TRIMARAN. Under con¬ struction. Mast rigging, diesel engine, sails, portlights & hatches, steering system, stove, con¬ struction plans and materials, and much more. $25,000. Call Gene (408) 263-7633.

SUPERTRAMP - Australian built 20-ft folding trimaran. (Ferrier design similar to F-27.) Highest quality construction, designed for heavy weather. Every original option plus trailer and many custom extras. Excellent condition. Susan or Barry (619) 234-8579 days, 287-1432 eves. 40-RPIVERAATRIMARAN,professionally built, cutter rig, excellent condition, extensive inven¬ tory, h/c pressure water, shore power. Perfect for cruiser on limited budget. Just completed Hawaii 14 days down, 17 days return. $42,500. Blair (415)372-9092. 50-R RACETRIMARA^foils, many sails, watermaker, generator, AP, and more. Fast 18 knots easy. $75,000. Call (415) 922-3504 or 227-0502. HOBIE16,1984. White hulls with commemora¬ tive Olympic “Summer Games’ sails. Custom trailer, mag wheels, all in great condition. Many extras! Rnance 100% of purchase price. A great way to get into sailing! $1,995. Garry (4t5) 3727353 leave message. I

SEA OF CORTEZ, MEXICO VETERAN. Fast, safe, unsinkable 37-ft Searunner trimaran, cutter rig, 1980 model, Volvo dsl i/b, Lefiel aluminum mast, Bomar hatches. Freshwater moored, re¬ placement cost $120,000. For sale; $60,000. Call (916) 372-0260 for appt. 52-R CSK DESIGN CATAMARAN KRCH. STOWAY sails, new twin Isuzu diesels. Very stable, spacious & comfortably fitted. Raytheon radar, Trimble Loran, power steering, VHF, CB, electric windlass, more. $85,000. (505) 983-2383. HOBIE16:Bluehulls, double traps, jackets, trailer. $1,500. (415) 458-4895 eves. SEARUNNER 37. Trlessence’ls the best on the West Coast, documented and fully equipped for offshore cruising. Extensive 1989 refit; newstanding rig, mast and boom with internal lines, sail covers and bags, instruments, spray shield, windovrs, diesel tanks, LPU on topsides, deck, and cabin. Inventory includes 2 mains, 5 headsails, 2 chutes, 15 winches, 5 anchors, Yanmar 22hp, 6 person liferaft, 2 EPIRBs, Avon 3.ip/15hp, solar charging. Set up for safe singlehanding from center cockpit; all lines and winches are an easy reach from the wheel. Only $61,000. Call Duncan (415) 383-2700. 24-R PIVERTRIMARANforboatbuilder. Needs finishing. Have hulls, alum, mast, boom, and sails. Sell all or part. Almost free. (707) 528-3767. SEARUNNER 31. Yanmar diesel, wheel steering, 7 sails, 7 winches, solar panel, propane stove. Well built and equipped for cruising, liveaboard. Dinghy with outtxtard. Berthed in Santa Cruz. $29,500.(408)458-1724. PIVER LODESTAR 35-R TRIMARAN KRCH. Good condition. $t 7,500 or b/o. Located in Morro Bay, CA. (805) 773-3503 or (805) 773-6186.

POWER & HOUSEBOATS “M ASTERFAB” custom, loaded; pleasure or livein; 140hpOMCmotor, 160hts. Surveyed, painted; exc. cond. $29,500. Berthed Isleton, CA (916) 777-5200. 48-R X 12.5-R X 3-R CHRYSLER. Engines in good condition; clean, plenty storage, toilet, shower; fly bridge. $25,000 firm. (415) 584-7561. 32-R TOLLYCRAR, 1968, twin Greymarine gas engines, hot water heater, propane range, lots of storage, excellent livehboard, Sausalito slip. $18,500. Call 331 -1610 after 5:00.

1/2 SHARE OF EXPENSES for 'Rre Eater", Ericson 32, one of the best looking & maintained Ericsons on SF Bay. Marina Village berth (Alameda). Available to responsible sailor (sailorette?) with solid experience sailing our Bjy waters. Equity share negotiable. Must also be willing to work at keeping'f?re£a/er1n its present spiffy concStion. Can be seen in berth H-45 (Gate 9). Charlie (415) 463-0431 days, (415) 837-1825 eves. CATAUNA 34,1987. Excellent concStionI 1/2 interest available. Fantastic Bay & Delta boat, has fast wing keel! Roller furling, DM, KM, stereo, cockpit cushions, swim ladder, etc., etc. Very personable partner staying with boat I'm buying a liveaboard. Stan (415) 689-2634.

50-R MOTOR YACHT. Hull built 1943, all else since 1980. Exc. cond. Good liveaboard or Delta boat $37,500.454-8818.

CATALINA 34,1986. Looking for responsible person to co-invest in great Bay boat Dodger, roller furling, stereo, heater, CNG range, covers for brightworkand more. Excellent condition. Would berth in Alameda (408) 720-8309.

QUALITY STYUSH DUTCH CANAL BARGE 48-ft Steel classic. Excellent condition. Low main¬ tenance. Dry, warm. Wood paneled. Teak pilot¬ house. Romantic bedroom. DAF diesel engine/ generator/2 large fuel tanks. Galley. AC/DC. Flash water heater. Pressure water with 2 tanks. Call 331-2800.

SAILBOAT PARTNERSHIP. Looking for three more compatible partners (have three now). 1985 Ericson 30-fL Sleeps 6. galley, head. No entry cost. You share 1/6 operating and c^ing costs (approx. $175 per month). Berthed in Sausalito. Call (415) 435-2641.

21-RBAYUNERTROPHY,1989. Fully enclosed locking cqWn,'' 50^ hours on CMC 3-liter, 4 cyl engine. Full electronics, stove, sink, icebox, portapotti. Just hauled and bottom painted. $14,500/ best offer/trade for sailboat (408) 426-4575. 28-R LIVEABOARD, 1974. Land and Sea with twin Voivos, fly bridge, head with shower, stove with oven, over-sized refrigerator. On trailer. One of the best I have seen. $22,500 or b/o. Call Ed (415) 639-7000,836-2519.

PARTNERSHIPS ERICSON 23,1968. Solid pre-gas-crisis hand laid F/G. Jib, genoa, head, outboard, sleeps 4. New standing and running rigging, mainsail, uphol¬ stery, keelbolts, thru-hulls and valves. Recent outof-water survey and no blisters! 1/2or 1/3 partner¬ ship. 586-5124. SHAREHOLDER OPENING. 50-ft yawl. Improve seamanship, entertain, or just enjoy with likeminded, nonsmoking partners. Action & style on SF Bay & coastal cruises. (707) 823-9059.

PACIRC SEACRAR 25.1/5 partnership avail¬ able. Great value, low usage. SF Marina berth. Dry, comfortable cruiserwith inboard diesel, stove & head. Sleeps 5. $3,400 or b/o plus $57/month covers berth, insurance, taxes & maintenance. Drew (415) 647-3760. HUNTER 37.1/4 share avail for responsible per¬ son. Well equipped: Radar, dodger, dsl, AP, roller furling, dinghy with 8hp motor, shower. Great to own & have fun on Bay. $1,200 buys 1/4 share. $300/mo. includes slip/boat payment Tiburon terth. Bruce 543-8666 work, or 435-5626 home. NORSEMAN 40 PARTNERSHIP, rent to own, $200 deposit $365/morrthly cost Boat is professionaliy maintained. We are looking for active individual who likes to race and/or cruise. Call Gary at (415) 865-2511. Without a doubt this is the best deal anywhere. CHEOY LEE 55 MOTOR YACHT. Perfect as city 2nd home or long distance cruising. 4 staterooms, 2 1/2 baths, St. Francis Yacht Harbor berth. Panoramic view. 1/3 partnership. Call Chuck for details and requirements. (702) 825-7444.

TRADE

SAN CLEMENT 23.1/2 share, VHF, head, 6hp, sleeps 5. $2,500, $50 monthly berth fee. (408) 720-9527. PARTNER NEEDED for 1/3 ownership of Catal¬ ina 30 berthed in Clipper Yacht Harbor, Sausalito. No buy-in necessary! Call Roger 434-4544 days.

WILL TRADE CARIBBEAN CHARTS for Pacific and Indian Ocean charts. Over 2,000 to choose from. Will trade 3 for 1. (415) 458-4895 eves.

DONRU MARINE SURVEYORS

DINGHIES & PRAMS WITH DISTINCTION

Donald R. Young Surveys & Appraisals

Quality materials and construction. Reasonably priced. Steve Najjar, Boatbuilder 323-3887 (shop) • 856-6209 (home)

Serving the Central Coast and Bay 32 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940 • (408) 372-8604 Want to cruise the Sea of Cortez this winter in your own boat? But it’s here and you don't have the time nor the inclination to take it there and back. Worldwide deliveries by a 100 Ton Ocean Master.

CRABTREE MARITIME SERVICES CALL (415) 372-0144

I as^

is a taiC strip and a star to steer her by'

T-SHIRTS A sentiment shared by all sailors printed on durable, comfortable 100% PRE-SHRUNK COTTON. Adult sizes S, M, U XL. Choice of royal blue <x\. white, or white on royal blue. $12.95 INCL TX & 1ST CLASS SHIP. Please allow 4 weeks. TOPSAILS • P.O. BOX 30392 • STOCKTON, CA 95213-0392

FINGERS TO THE BONE BRIGHTWORKS

BERTH YOUR BOAT AT HOME

* Sanding • Varnishing • Oil Interior/Exterior * 90c per foot boat cleaning maintenance program * Assist in repairs - bottonVtopside painting Veiy competitve prices! Lots ©’references! (415) 3324056.

Dynamite waterfront property with 40-ft. dock on San Rafael Canal. 3 minutes from open Bay. Gracious redwood and glass 16 year old home with views, level lawn, privacy, security and many other amenities. Call agent, (415) 924-9555.

page 176

COMMERCIAL CORNER IN PARADISE, CA, consisting of two parcels, 2/3rds acre, worth $110,000 honest value, owned free & clear. Take boat in trade, carry some. Prefer motorsailer, but sailboat or auiser will be considered. Must be in top condition. Phone (707) 829-9476. TRADE 38 OR UP TO 45-Fr BOAT, for equity in

asingle family home. Your choice in Scotts Valley or Alameda. (408) 378-4790 or (415) 796-0651. HUDSON FORCE 50,1978. Loaded with equipment-like new condition. 1987 new Lehman Ford 135-transmission, rigging, and deck caulked. Recently returned from Mexico cruise. $149,000. Will consider trade for real estate of antique autos. (415)426-9741. 50'10"

33-FT TO 38-FT SAILBOAT wanted for livea¬ board & offshore cruising. Send photo, etc. & telephone #. I will respond. L. David Morrell, 511 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Suite C-226, Greenbrae CA 94904. PARTNERSHIP. 1/4 to 1/2 interest in 20-25 ft sailboat. Experienced, conscientious, flexible for¬ mer boat owner wants to share the cost of sailing. Will pay equity share in cash and make monthly payments for berth/insurance. (408) 735-1092 after 6pm. THINKING OF DONATING YOUR BOAT to a foundation for tax write-off? I will give you the donation equivalent, in cash, regardless of condi¬ tion. Existing financing not a problem. 332-2468.

CHEOY LEE55MOTORYACHT.Trade myequity ($120,000) for free and clear sail or powerboat. 4 staterooms, 2 1/2- baths, perfect liveaboard or long distance cruiser. Cali Chuck (702) 825-7444 M-F 8-5pm. 30-FT FISHER MOTORSAILER. English bit F/G ketch rig pilothouse double-ender, $47,000 pos¬ sible trade equity for power runabout or for downpayment on power liveaboard. (415) 332-4218.

USED GEAR DIESEL ENGINES 980 Volvo MD11C 23hp, with Walter V-drive RV10D, $1,995, all or part (runs good). Hurth HBW 150v 1.77:1 new & unused, $1,595. Hurth HBW 100 1.77:1 new & unused, $800/offer. (206) 337-0304. CRUISING GEAR: Just returned Mexican vet selling all gear. Aries windvane, EPIRB, 8.4-ft rub¬ ber dink, 3hp Seagull, ABI windlass. 35 lb. CQR, 150' 3/8" chain, Sitex SatNav, sextant. 5 gal Jerry jugs, Mex. charts, solar panel. (408) 269-5659.

WANTED 28-Fr TO 34-FT STEEL OR F/G SAILBOAT. Fixer-upper OK. Owner must be willing to finance. I can put 10% to 20% down and make payments of $500 per month. Call Richard (415) 534-3631. PARTNERSHIPINQUAUTYSAlLBOATinSouth Marin. Desire 1/3-1/4 share in 30-40 ft. Profes¬ sional couple, experienced & responsible Bay sailors. (415) 461-7127.

RADAR, RAYTHEON 2600, $650. VHF, stan¬ dard Horizon Maxi $75. Loudhailer, Raytheon 350 with outside speaker, $75. All stainless steel Hiller range (propane) 2-burner with oven and broiler, $300. Cybernet CMS 3000 marine stereo with speakers, $250. All in excellent condition. (415) 522-3437.

PEARSON 365 or similar cruiser in trade for 1983 Capri 30 sloop with BMW diesel. (415) 854-3968.

SAILS FOR SALE. Used J-24 main and 150. Dacron, great for cruising. $150 each. Call eve¬ nings (408) 476-3570.

SAILING VESSEL WITH COAST GUARD certifi¬ cate of inspection. Must be minimum 35-ft, maxi¬ mum 50 gross tons and be certified for at least 12 people. I'll look anywhere on the West Coast. I will also consider a partnership. Price negotiable. (415) 689-2634.

LEWMAR WINCHES. Pair No. 30 two speed chrome, with covers and manual, $300 or best offer. New man-overboard pole, never used, $75 or best offer. Call (415) 572-0361 days or (415) 594-1045 evenings.

SATNAV. Going cruising; need a reliable unit. Also would like a watermaker. Call Phil at (415) 521-7024. TRAILERABLE SAILBOAT, 22-25 ft, with trailer. I can offer cash plus trade, 1987 Jaxco tent trailer, 10-18 ft, exc. condition. Call don (415) 997-0709, evenings. PAY CASH FOR MONITOR VANE. 45# CQR, 35# CQR. 4-6 man liferaft, scuba gear, GaleRider, drifter & cruising spinnaker for 35' cutterrigged sloop. (714) 974-8494.

CRUISING GEAR - Tamaya Spica Sextant with 6x30 Starscope & 7x50 Monocular, $800. Furling system, fits 30-35 ft boat, $600. Telescoping whisker poles, 21/2x3", $300.3 x 31/2", $400.51 16" P.C. chain, 275-tt, $250. (All new equipment.) Call Gene (408) 263-7633. ' 1981 JOHNSON SAILMASTER OUTBOARD. lOhp, long shaft, electric start, newly recondi¬ tioned, $950. Wind generator 20amp, $700 (new). Autoheim 2000 autopilot, $500 (new). Martec props 14x12 RH, 14x14 RH, $200; 15x15 RH, 15x12 LH, $325. Gene (408) 263-7633.

6HP SHORTSHAFT EVINRUDE, 1972, w/6 gal. tank, hose, mechanic manual. Runs great, $400 or b/o. Call eves or Iv message (415) 726-0416.

FIBERGLASS AND 26-FT WHARRAM CAT plans. Paid $1,850, vrill let go for $600. Call (408) 248-8587 days.

electric windlass. Simpson Lawrence Anchorman 1200 vertical. For rope and/or chain. Chromed bronze and stainless. Hooded deck pipe. Permanent magnet motor (efficient). Man¬ ual mode using standard winch handle. List $2,500. New, still in box, $1,400. (415) 655-3962.

CLUB NAUTIQUE “UNLIMITED, COUPLE” membership. Free sailing/power, navigation and cruising instruction. Free trainer boat use, re¬ duced charter rates. Extensive varied sailing and social activities. Call for more information. $750+ transfer costs. (619) 376-4568.

SEWING MACHINE. Use with AC motor at dock or hand-crank at sea. Straightstitch/zig-zag. Sails or up to eight layers canvas. Includes case & accessories. $350. Ship anywhere. Won't last. Call now! (714) 974-8494.

CLUB NAUTIQUE UFETIME FAMILY member¬ ship for sale. Learn to sail, Sausalito or Alameda, with the best on the Bay! Includes free lessons, use of training boats, charter discounts, and club activities. Moving, must sell. $2,950 value, /taking $2,150 or b/o. (415) 388-1506.

RADAR; APELCO MODEL 9910 w/approx 60 ft radar cable, connectors, and SS mounting bracket (mast mount), $785. Loran: completely water¬ proof Micrologic Explorer w/antenna and vi/iring, $225. Call Jerry (415) 451-7181. AVON DINGHY ALUM. FLOORBOARDS, 11'6", rio leaks or patches, $800. Johnson 4hp plus tank,works fine,, $200. Sailomat windvane with many spares, $1,500. Autohelm 3000, $300. Paca anchor, $50. Tillermaster, $150. Call 945-8207. CRUISING SPINNAKER (no pole required), 1.5 oz nylon, approx 1,000 sq. ft., with launch bag. Marshall Sails, Costa Mesa, unique American flag design. Made for 39-ft boat, ISP 46’8" and SPL 15'7". Near new condition. $1,500. After 2pm, (707) 252-9167. / MAINSAIL • Dacron with two reef points. Luff 43', foot 15'. Good condition. $295. Call John Athey at (415) 462-1769 evenings or leave msg, (408) 432-3220 at work. USED MAST, BOOM, MAINSAIL, furling genoa for 1-45.00'J-14.17' P-40.00 E-13.75 keel Stepped $1,075. Robin (415) 332-4104. TRAILER FOR J/24, MERIT 25 or similar keelboat. Adjustable runners. Very little road use. Very good condition. $1,200. Patrick 526-1436 or 262-2731. , SITEX A310 SATNAV, 10 months new, excellent condition, $700 ($1,250 new). Solarex M40 solar panel (2.50 amps) never out of box, $250.1986 8hp Evinrude short shaft, like new, $700. lO-ft West Marine sport boat, $500. (916) 223-6103. SPINNAKER POLE, aluminum 13'x5", all hard¬ ware included. $235 or best offer. Call Fred (415) 564-0724.

GOING CRUISING. Will sell Sausalito waterfront shop/storage container. Also lots of power and hand tools and miscellaneous boat gear. (415) 332-1259. MARINER 4HP LONG SHAFT OUTBOARD motor, used only two hours. $550. Call at (415) 796-3052. LONG TEAK LUMBER. Ideal for decks and rails, etc. Clear dry' FAS 8/4. $13 bd./ft. Steve (4151 332-2500. MAZDARX7,1981. Dent-free shiny red sportscar. 109K mi. Runs & looks great! Move forces sale. $2,800 or b/o. Suzanne (415) 383-5725.

BERTHS & SLIPS PRIME SAN FRANCISCO REAL ESTATE. Pier 39's quiet side. Upwind slip. 40-fL Phone line installed. $30,000. (408) 7234720. BOAT SUP FOR RENT BY OWNER. Emery Cove Marina. Excellent location. Beautiful mod¬ ern marina Five minutes to Bay Bridge. 45' up¬ wind. $225 per month. Call Robert Rodriguez (415)657-9638. 45-FT SUP FOR SALE OR REMT. Great value. Ideal location for: convenience (executive's power/ sailboat berthed 15 min. from GGate), economy (beat the commute a fraction of the $burbs$). $35,000 or$350/month. Dave (415) 956-1867.

INSTRUCTIONAL CRUISES WITH MIKE PYZEL

Mast top to keel inspection & appraisal for vessel purchase, finance, insurance, voyage preparation. Serving Southern California since 1978 (805) 640-0900

Learn offshore sailing, anchoring & Mexico cruising sl^lls on 3 & 4 day, personally tailored Channel Islands cruise. Join Solo TransPac and TransAtlantic skipper Mike Pyzel for the finest professional, personalized instruction. Brochure & schedule. Pyzel Navigation, PO Box 4217, Santa Barbara, CA 93140 • (805)640-0900

• *

page 177

HONDURAS MAHOGANY up to 2.5" thick, 21" wide, 13' long. Sitka spruce 1 ’ thick, 8" wide,to 18' long. All 5 years dried. 15,500 lbs. of 50 lb. ingots of lead. 365-8521.

MISCELLANEOUS

MIKE PYZEL, MARINE SURVEYOR

Serengef/®

WOODWORKING •

FOR SALE; SAILS, Cal 2-46, genoa4 oz, new luff 42', leech 45', foot 31.8', $1,200. Cruising spinna¬ ker, used, 1 oz, luff 52.4', leech 47.8', foot 26.5', $1,000, Main, used, 8 oz, luff 38.5', leech 42.3', foot 16.4', $400. Boom 8"x4"x18', 2 reef points plus winch, $300.Two spinnaker poles: (1)17'x3.", $50. (2) telescoping 17' to 27' x 4", $300. Before Aug. 11, Robin (415) 332-4104; after Aug. 11, Bill (415) 364-9338 ans. mach.

12'Dinghies $1,695 Schoonmakers

Exterior Spars Steve Jones (415)332-2500

Sausalito

EyeWarO^ fi>r

Sun

^Pay-Ban

Guaranteed Lowest Prices/ • Over 400 Models' Gaaei-Paradigm Optical, p.o. box laee, Orinda, ca 94503 Bolls ® Write for "SailinglBoating — Exclusive Offer" «$1 ■< ® VuamSt

1976 VALIANT 40

MATCHLESS DESIGN

Original Owner. Only 150 Hours on the Westerbeke Diesel. THIS VERY CLEAN BOAT IS SERIOUSLY "FOR SALE" FOR $98,500. ContactH&S YACHT SALES. Ask for Gray at (619) 291-2600.

MARINE ELECTRICAL SERVICE AND CUSTOM LIGHTING DESIGN AND FABRICATION All work to USCG and NFPA standards. Electrical survey, installation, and repair. 109 W. Richmond Ave., Pt. Richmond, CA 94801 (415) 2364025

EXPERIENCED CREW sailing Hawaiian waters. 24, UCSC graduate, energetic, enthusiastic, nonsmoker, creative cook seeks crew position sailing home to Hawaii anytime after8/25/90. Call Megan at (408) 457-2016 or Iv msg at (408) 426-8707.

CREW CRUISETHE CARIBBEAN this coming Oct-May as Rrst Mate aboard 41' sailboat doing light char¬ ters. Congenial, fit, NS, single, Coast-Guard li¬ censed skipper/airline pilot, 45,5'7", 140# (who’d pass inspection with your mom) seeking athletic or tomboy type female (25-35), with easy-going disposition, interested in sailing, snorkeling, scuba, flyfishing and exploring islands. Please write tel¬ ling me about yourself, what you're looking for, and include recent photo to: Jay Spivack, POB 303,177 Telegraph Rd., Bellingham, WA 98226.

PUERTO VALLARTA. Luxury oceanfront condo w/fabulous Bay view. 2BD/2BA on beach, roof-top pool/tennis, modem kitchen, daily maid, satellite TV, lovely decor, restaurant w/room service. In town—walk to shopping, restaurants, sightsee¬ ing I Off-season rate: $475/week. (415) 388-1278.

EXPERIENCED CREW AVAIUBLE. American man and Brazilian mate would like to crew for daysails, or cruising Channel Islands or Mexico this fall. Bilingual. Open to interesting offers. Call Keith (415) 292-4858. LOOKING FOR WOMEN UNDER 50 to sail the Bay, Delta, possible Mdicjco, etc. aboard my new 42-ft Catalina. I am 50's, angle & retired. C^ sail any day. Boat at Coyote Point, San Mateo. Call Jim (415) 574-3456.

CARIBBEAN- looking for crew to sail around the Caribbean for six months leaving Rorida Nov. 1. Looking for someone with basic sailing skills and perhaps some bluewater experience. Call (408) 736-5599 for details.

SAIL DIVE EXPLORE Baja to Acapulco and back for Sail Week aboard 45-ft classic sailing vessel. Depart San Diego November. Join there or meet along the way. Minimum 1 week. Let’s talk! PO Box 531, Sausalito, CA 94966.

EXPERIENCED, BUSINES&ORIENTEDcaptain to manage charter business in Deep Pacific Para¬ dise. Charter 6 guests aboard new and finely finished 65' ketch. Send resume to 1387 San Mateo Ave., South San Francisco, CA 94080, FAX: (415) 873-6339.

NEED FASTLEARNERSTOCREWSantana22. Experience offset by enthusiasm, athletic ability, demeanor. Quality to honor commitments (keep your word) very important. Foulies available. Spinnaker experience helpful. Flakes, fatties need not apply. Mike (415) 967-7886.

UDYTOGOCRUISING.Mexico, Pacific, and/or Caribbean. Cook, steer, swap stories, split food expenses. Slim, agile, educated, sports-oriented, 3045. Don “D-IS" Redwood 6ty Municipal, or Rudi, Jim, Teresa, or Don 325-0909.

WOMAN SAIUNG PARTNER WANTEDforopenended cruise to include the Galapagos and Carib¬ bean. I am 55, just retired, fit, NS/ND. You will find me warm, sensitive and happy. The boat is 41 feet, comfortable, safe and ready. On portions of the cruise I will be giving medical care to natives living on remote islands. Want to share the expe¬ rience with me? If you are growing emotionally and aware spiritually, please call. Richard (213) 578-2520.

REALLY GREAT GUY w/really great boat (40-ft luxury cutter) seeks really great lady, 30's, for long term partnership on the water & off. Photo & specificsto#729, POB5553, Mill ValleyCA94942. 5S-FT MOTORSAILER AND CAPTAIN looking for a healthy, sincere, petite shipmate to share the cruising Ilfs with. Help me finish outfitting the boat and sail away to paradises in your newhome. Call Bill (415) 952-0373 after 4 and weekends.

SWM, 36, FTT & HEALTHY, 5’8", NS/ND, liveaboard, likes jazz, walks on the beach & cham¬ pagne, interested in cruising, seeks woman with same interests. Dave, 909 Marina Village Park¬ way #114, Alameda, 94501.

HEADED SOUTH TO CHANNEL ISLANDS de¬ parting September 15, experienced skipper, is¬ lander Freeport 36, wants experienced crew with mechanical, medical or cooking skills. Also plan¬ ing to winter in Sea of Cortez. Share expenses. Send resume to Chet Ferguson, 6470 Cross¬ woods Circle, Citrus Heights, CA 95621.

VACATtON RENTAL SUN VALLEY, IDAHO. Wonderful vacation home on the East Fork River. Fully furnished 3BD/2BA on 2 riverfront acres w/250 ft of river frontage. Beautifully landscaped, large patio, lots of sun, hot tub, W/D, etc. Outstanding views, great hiking at your doorstep. Please, no smoking, pets. Avail¬ able June $500/week, July & August ^00/week, $2,500/month. Call owner (415) 647-8684.

SAILMATE SEEKING EXPERIENCED SAILOR with boat to share relaxed cruising adventure. I am athletic, European, 40’s, NS, light drinker, emo¬ tionally together and spiritually aware. I am fun, warm, congenial, well-traveled. Payownexpenses. Available Nov-Feb. Marianne (408) 426-2909.

WOMEN SAILORS AND BOAT OWNERS • Women at the Helm is a Lesbian boating club open to all women. Monthly land and sea events, potiucks, charters and leamingexperiences. Write for info: PO Box 3343, Oakland, CA 94609.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ESTABUSHED SAIL CHARTER CO. seeks to purchase older, reliable 34 to 37-ft Pearson, Cal, Columbia or like w/dsi, up to $25,000 or seeks same for leasing. Also seeks 6-person licensed skipper with/without boat for sailing day charters. (415)232-6114.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES CLUB NAUTIQUE IS HIRING licensed, experi¬ enced sailing instructors. We offer the most comprehensive program in the Bay Area. The pay is competitive, boat use privileges are liberal, and our curriculum is excellent. C^l Gus Conklin at (415) 8654700.

(

25' WOODEN FOLKBOAT A Great Boat For A Great Price $5,000 Beautifully restored. New deck, rails, hatches, and sails. Full cover. (415)331-5263.

YACHT MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR Paint • Varnish • Detailing • Repairs • Restoration Highest quality work at reasonable rates. (415) 331-9219

MY WIFE BOUGHT A PLANEI So I'm forced to sell our cherished C&C 27 (1971). Sleeps 5, Atomic 4 power, enclosed head w/holding tank. Sails ind. 130%, 170%, spinnaker & blooper. A solid performer ftat’s fasL comfortable, and dry. $12,900. (916) 583-1770 (Lake Tahoe). OLSON 34. New In '89,10 yr warranty, loaded w/ options and electronics system. Charter income for July was $1,412. Divorce forces liquidation at sacrifice $60,000. (916) 891-8736. FREYA 39,1980 SLOOP. Double-ender located Maine, professionally finished & maintained, new diesel, refrig, press h/c, SatNav, Loran, roller furl, Avon 6 raft. Zodiac MKIIGT. $120,000. Call (617) 933-6600. Warren, Box 527, Woburn, MA 01801. HANS CHRISTIAN 43 KETCH. This showboat brings you a successful offshore cruising record, new Awigrip finish, new tropical awnings, covers and dodger; decorator interior without compare. She's the high performance underbody and measures 51'oa. 43’on deck, 37" Iwl, 13'beam. A partial goodie list includes workshop, ocean sail¬ ing charitable, Dickinson heat, refrigeration, Neco AP, ham, VHF, radar, 3 anchors, 300' chain, custom stained glass c^nets & tile countertops. All ocean gear on board; liferaft, EPIRB, solar still, flares, etc. $169,500. Owner (206) 783-2320. COHO 17. Exact copy of the Boston Whaler. Evinrude 60 runs grt. $6,900 h/o. (415) 383-8200.

JOBS WANTED DELIVERY, INSTRUCTION OR CHARTER. Anywhere, anytime. Licensed, bondable captain. Pre-purchase or pre-delivery inspection, commis¬ sioning. (707) 823-9059.

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY UVEABOARD WANTED: Professional Bay Area couple looking to rent sailboat to live aboard, with possible interest to buy. 36-ft to 45-ft. Peter: (415) 893-2300/654-7641.

U.P.C. CUSTOM MARINE CANVAS

Personalized sailing & self-awareness ) courses in ^usalilo, / Mexico $ British Columbia. Call (415) 383-9530 or (604) 662-8016.

COLUMBIA26. Newelec. start9.9 Johnson. Pier 39 berth. Well equipped. Sacrifice. $7,900 b/o. Lenny 9284115.

NON-PROFIT

on.fheadFeque$t ofinduiiedinthe 'Too Late to Classify" secfkm.

LEE'S BOAT DETAILING

Cushions 20 Years Experience Delta Enclosures Dodgers Biminis Windows Replaced Binnacle Covers Boat Covers Call For Free Estimate Sail Covers Udom-Pon" Clark (415)5364119

n 9{cw Ptae Sailina for 'Wormn Inc.

CATALINA 30,1980. Dodger, cockpit cushions. Atomic 4 gas, KM. DS, VHF, batt chgr, 2 anchors, kerosene stove/oven & Force 10 heater, 2 solar vents, camber spar jib, 110 jib, 2 mains. $28,000/ ofr. (916) 487-8501.

WASHING • WAXING • POLISHING • OILING Keeping you proud of your investments (415) 794-9863 Commercial & Private

20%

Sail/Povver S Systems

DISCOUNT TO USPS MEMBERS SHERBURNE & ASSOCIATES

MARINE SURVEYORS & APPRAISERS Member; SAMS. A8YC, USPS, CSS Monterey Bay, 5F Bay, Delta Areas

Fiberglass Wood

Aluminum steel

800-882-7124

A&L MARINE

Custom Marine Cabinets & Woodwork Jerry Lawrence • (415) 533-0394

SHIPSHAPE Ships' Husbandry' Maintenance Programs • Wash Down • Brightwork* Finish Work References Available (415)229-1202 page 178

Benida Marina Gateway to the Delta ^ Guest Berths Available Reservations Recommended

^ Permanent Slips Are Available (Current Occupancy at 99%)

'■’I

[266 EAST

STREET

(707) 745-2628

DONATE YOUR BOAT TO SEA SCOUTS POWiR OR SAIl

'i-

• YOUR DONATION IS TAX-DEDUQIBLE. LH US SHOW YOU THE AHRAOIVE VALUE AND SPEEDY TRANSFER THAT WE CAN ARRANGE. • ELIMINATE BROKER FEES, ADVERTISING AND BERTHING. • HELP INSTILL THE LOVE OF THE SEA AND BOATING INTO THE YOUTH WHO PARTICIPATE IN SEA SCOUTING. SEA SCOUTS ARE LOOKING FOR ANY CRAR, POWER OR SAIL, IN SERVICEABLE CONDITION. • 1990 TAX CREDIT

BENICIA, CA 94510

MULTIHULLS • 25' PryER • Totally redone. Six sails, lOhp Honda outboard, new batteries plus stereo and speakers. Sloop rigged. $8,000. • 30'PIVER • New paint and non-skid top sides. Brand new Yanmar diesel. Sloop rigged. $13,000. • 32' FIVER • New paint, lOhp Faryman dsl. Ketch rigged. $19,950. • 33.'. CBlQWTHER buccaneer • West epoxy system, 6 sails, 7.5 hp Honda o/b, 5 Barient winches, Awlgrip paint, launched ’87. $30,000. WE HAUL MULTIHULLS • CALL THE MULTIHULL EXPERTS:

NAPA VALLEY MARINA 1200 MILTON ROAD • NAPA, CA 94558

(707) 252-80U

CAUUSmAYH OLD BALD'JcQUNCIL

BOY SCOUTSpE /iMERItft

KENT PARKER Marine Surveyor Purchase Surveys Trip Survey Appraisal of Damage Casualty Reports Mast Surveys P.O. Box 2604 San Rafael, CA

(415) 457-5312 page 179

tSICBEW^VER

THE CREWSAVEE CREWFIT is the world's foremost inflatable lifejacket proven, comfortable and simply the best in material, workmanship, design and finish. The Crewfit meets demanding ; RORC requirements and is available with automettic or manual activation and with or without a built-in safety harness. All models provide a minimum 35 lbs bouyancy. If you are serious about safely, don't compromise - . CHOOSE CREWS AVER,

Design ilexibXtyf reduced mdutenaace and

FROM CONCEPT covering over a polystyrene loan Uodc • Not affected by petroleuai solvents or marine pests

MARINf

FIOATATION

MEETING ALL YOUR FLOATAVON NEEDS SINCE 1968

TO COMPLETION

(415) 233-5929

QUALITY MARINE PRODUCTS

Pckifooffl Inc.

4880 Church Lane, Galesvilie, MD 20765

T«fc301-867-1462 Fax:301-967-7X39

P.O. Box 36, Richmond. CA 94807

ROLLER-STAY® for Hank-On Sails by MARINER The Roller-Stay is the only furling system in the world that works with your existing hank-on sails. It doesn’t need a tunnel luff extrusion and neither do you. In fact, hank-on sails are better for most sailors. Why? Because they remain attached to the headstay throughout a sail change. That makes foredeck work safer, requires less crew and gives you peace of mind. So don’t change your hank-on sails, improve them with a Roller-Stay.

2280 Shasta Wav 106, Simi Valley, CA 93065 (805)522-909! • Fax (805) 522-6218

El/IHRUDE

AVtNil DINGHIES & TENDERS

10 Year Fabric Warranty Avon is your best cruising companion. See Them At:

THE OUTBOARD MOTOR SHOP 2050 Clement Ave. Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 865-9500 41945 Albrae Street Fremont, CA 94538 (415) 490-4454

LIST MARINE INC.

SAIl EXCHANGE THE SAIl BHOKERS

69 Liberty Ship Way • Sausalito, CA 94965 • Complete Marine Engine Service • Authorized §§Perlclns Dealer • WE SERVICE ALL MAKES •

Used and rebuilt Engines From 1 to 8 Cylinders

USED SAILS UP TO 70% OFF OVER 2,000 MAINS, GENOAS AND SPINNAKERS ON OUR LISTI

407 FULLERTON AVE, NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92663

C415I 332-5478

(714) 631-0184 SALES • INSTALLATION

• RACING • CRUISING

Electro Guard Corrosion Control

Expert Electrical Work

1 Harbor Way South • Richmond, CA 94bU4

(415) 234-9047

y' j \

Cruisair Air Conditioning

Sea Recovery Watermakers

% SHORE SAILS

SERVICE

Technautics pefrigeration

Espar Diesel Heating

• PERSONAL SERVICE

•

^ ^i \.

EMS EDINGER MARINE SERVICE ^ 399 Harbor Dr., Sausalito, CA 94965

(415)332-3780 page 180

SEA THE FINEST! JOIN OUR PRESTIGIOUS FLEET OF BOAT DONORS!

Alameda's Finest "acht Harbor

Tile California MarRime Aeadomy provWea unparalleled boating and sailing programs, and Is the direct beneficiary of the boat acquisition program operated by the Callfomia Maritime Academy Foundation.

Compare Our Rates

Utilizing the waters of the Carquinez Straits and San Fran¬ cisco Bay, C.M A welcomes vessels of all types, marine equipment, and training aids. The California Maritime Academy Foundation receives no government support. Your TAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBU¬ TION will be used for demonstration and as training aids, or win be sold to advance the Instructional program.

(415) 522-9080

DONATE YOUR VESSLE TO THE CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMYI

1535 Buena Vista Avenue Alameda, California 94501

For additional information and free brochure, can or write: CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION, INC P.O. Box 327 Vallelo, CA 94590 (707) 648-4216

CAPTAINS SERVICES FOR 1990 POWER OR SAIL • DELIVERIES - Coastal and Local, Yachts to 100 tons. • Newl - BUYERS ASSISTANCE - Want to look at 4 or 5 boats but don't have the time? Hire a captain receive an unbiased 3rd party written report of each boat along with still pictures and a VCR review. • SEA TRIALS - Owners/Brokers need help performing sea trials. Hire a captain and let the boats' performance complete the sale.

GIANOLA &SONS

Award Winning Canvas Products Custom Interiors & Cockpit Cushions Family Owned and Operated Since 1969 400 Harbor Drive, Sausalito For Free Estimates Call

Licensed Captains and Experienced Crew Available.

(415) 332-3339 REPLACEMENT FOAM

We Insure Almost ^ ♦ Everything Under The Sun. For your complete

FAMOUS

TEDRICk-HIGBEE

FACTORY

Marine Insurance needs call: (415) 523-3435 or (800) 647-2025

INSURANCE

For Berths and Cushions

• Free Custom Cutting (includes Bevels) • Free Stuffing • Several Foam Densities and Firmness In Stock • Rapid Turnaround Time

Call With Dimensions For Free Estimates:

(415)526-2645

S E. R V I C E

P.O. Box 567 Alameda, Ca. 94501-0007

1411 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702 Custom Sewing Available

Cruising I Insurance Me^dco I _

No Seasons « Reasonable Crew, Requirements

iMeiLpmaBSAiLS CUSTOM CRUISING & RACING SAILS 3020 Bridgeway, SaOsalito, CA 94965 PHONE: (415) 332-6167 FAX: (415) 332-6169 page 181

-'^3^1^'-

LONG and ASSOC. INCORPORATED INSURANCE BROKERAGE

1318 SCOTT STREET, SAN DIECO,CA 92106 (619) 224-5678 Fax: (619) 224-7159

Harbor Drive ito, CA 94965

332-531 1 THE BAY AREA'S INTERHATIONAL YACHT BROKERAGE FIRM 40' NORTH STAR. Ketch. Sparkman & Stephens design. Center cockpit. Big aft cabin. Full electronics. Diesel aux. Beautiful cond. Asking $98,000

35' FANTASIA. Deep water sloop. Bruce Bingham design. 7' headroom, Iroom, workshop, workshop. aft stateroom, full keel. Loaded & ready to go. Only $72,500.

37' EXPRESS Built 1985. The ultimate in beauty, speed & comfort. Transpac & Cabo winner. 30 bags of sails. This boat has it all! Call for complete information.

36â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ISLANDER 1978 Sloop. Great Boy boat. Fast and roomy. Comfortable cruiser. Combi system. Electric head. Good buy at $39,500.

DAVESHELDbN KEONIWARINNER LINDY LINDQUIST 37' TAYANA. Cutter. Outstanding cruising boat loaded with gear and in immaculate condition. Built 1977, Serious voyaging in luxury. Value at $85,000.

36' CHEOY LEE. Ketch. Center cockpit. Mexico vet. Great liveaboard-cruiser. Spacious salon and aft cabin Custom interior. Cleanl Asking $61,000.

ADVERTISER'S INDEX ABC Yachts .12 Albatross Yacht Charters.142 Allstate-Quan.33 American Battery.134 Arena Yacht Sales.71 Armchair Sailor.61 Astro Nautics.58 Bailiwick.50 Ballena Bay Yacht Broker.62 Ballena Isle Marina.52 Bay Bridge Yachts.186 Bay Riggers, Inc.23 Baytronics.37 BC Navigation Center.49 Benicia Marina .179 Berkeley Marina.56 Bimini, The.141 Boat Show.32,33 Boater's Friend.78 Boettcher & Murray.30 Boy Scouts - Old ^Idy Council . 179 Boy Scouts - Son Francisco.32 Boy Scouts - Stanford.82 British Marine.76 Brisbane Marina.82 Bruno's Island .167 CableMorre.10 CakCoast.11 CalMorine Electronics.75 California Custom Convas.79 Colif. Maritime Academy.181 Capitol Workshop Insurance.65 Capitola Bay.72 Chula Vista Marina.27 City Yachts.31 Club Nautique.73 Club Sail.77 Coastal Cruising School.53 Coastline Canvas .75

Continental Marine.33 Corsair Marine.17 Crawford Books.135 Cruising Consultants, Inc.185 Cruising Equipment Co.61 Cruising Seas Delivery.181 Cruising World Pacific.8,9 Crystal Springs.135 D'Anna Sailing Co.2 Detco.82 Downwind Marine.167 Downwind Design.167 Dublin Power Equipment.50 Dutchman.134 Dutch's Marine.80 Eagle Yacht Sales.15 Edgewater Yacht Sales.186 Edinger.180 Edson.133 Emery Cove Marina.74 Energy Depot.35 Excellence For Yochts.167 Famous Foam Factory.181 Forallone Yachts Soles .15 Feeney Wire Rope & Rigging.78 Fleming Marine.62 Foolproof Marine.140 Fortman Marina .181 Froser Yachts.182 Garret, Dave.140 Gianola & Sons.181 Glen Cove.. 188 Golden State Diesel.1167 Gorman, Bill, Yacht Sales.187 Gove's Cove.186 GPSC Charters Ltd.142 Grand Marina.64 Harken.54 Hawthorne Engine Systems.44 Haynes Sails.78 Helmut's Marin.167

Helms Yacht Sales.17 Hewett's Marine.69 Hogin Sails.47 Hood Sailmakers.25 Integre Marine.51 J-Boats West.16 Johnson-Hicks.56 kane Marine.134 Kappas Marina.68 Keefe Pacific.183 Kensington Yocht. 19 Larsen Sails.191 Leading Edge Sails.68 Lee Sails.76 Life Raft & Survival.48 List Marine.180 Long & Associates .181 Malloy, Bob & Associates.53 Morin County Boatworb.81 Marina Palmira .142 Marin Yacht Sales.190 Marina Village.42 Mariner Boat Yard.18 Mariner Products.180 Mariner Sq Yachting Cntr.14-20 Marion, Sails by.35 Maritime Electronics.40,41 Maritime Store, The.68 MarksClark Insurance.58 Martinez Marine Hardware.58 McGinnis Insurance.80 Metal Magic.60 Milano Yachts.189 Monterey Bay Fiberglass.56 Moorings, The.143 Nanjo.135 Napa Valley Marina.179 National Boatowners Assoc.50 Nau-T-Kol .67 NCMA.32,33 Nelson's Marine.192

Nor Cal Yachts.14 North Sails.6 Nova Petrochemicol.135 O'Neills Yacht Center.7 Oyster Cove Marina.80 Oyster Point Marina.26 Outboard Motorshop, The.180 Pacific Coast Canvas.30 Pacific Marine Exchange.20 Pacific Ocean Yachts.188 Pacific Yacht Imports.24 Parker, Kent, Surveyor.179 Parker, Kermit, Yacht Sales.185 Passage Yachts.4,5 Pelafoam.180 Penninsula Canvas.26 Peninsula Marine Services.26 Performance Charters, 'Ralphie' 140 Petaluma Marina.20 Pineapple Sails.3 Pioneer Marketing .71 Port Sonoma Marin.70 Proper-Tighe Marine .62 Pryde, Neil Sails.181 Quality Marine Products.180 Radar Flag.134 Rex Yacht Sales.184 Richmond Boat Worb.48 Richmond Marina Bay.32 Richmond Yacht Service.60 Rigging Co., The.13 Rogers Electronic Service.27 Ruby for Charter.78 S.F. Boot Worb.28 Sail Exchange.180 Sailtec.79 Sailsystems .48 San Diego Yacht Charters.142 San Leandro Marine.26' Sanford Wood.59 Scanmar Marine Products.81

Scan Marine Equipment.68 Schoonmaker Point Marina.36 Shore Sails.180 Sierra Detroit Diesel.76 Sika Corp.72 Skyline Charters.140 Sobstad.38 South Beoch Harbor.22 Sparky Marine Electrics.134 Speed Sailing .78 Spinnaker Shop, The.82 Star Marine Electronics.20 Starbuck Canvas.69 Stockdale Marine & Navigation Center.184 Stone Boat Yard.46 Sunset Yachts.21 Sutter Sails.13 Svendsen's Boat Worb.Ill Tahoe Wooden Boot Show.29 Tatoosh.188 Tedrick-Higbee.18 Tiburon Land Company.66 Tradewind Instruments Ltd.29 TradewInds Sailing Center.34,45 UK Sails.36 United Yachting Ventures.185 Village West Marina.13 Voyager Marine.63 West Coast Inflatables .77 West Marine.83,84,85 Westwind Precision Details.26 Whale Point Marine Supply.57 Whitfield, RJ.167 Whole Earth Access.39 World Yachts.43 Yacht Custom30.186 Yacht 'Vagrant Sea'.183 Yachting Tableware.135 Yegen Marine.16 Z-Spar.60

page 182

FOR SALE -

^airSarae -

W3‘ STAYSAIL SCHOONER •

Fully Commissioned and Sailing on San Francisco Bay

• English Designed and built in 1938 • Guernsey Island Registry • Excellent Charter History

KEEFE PACIFIC CORPORATION 89VIALABRISA LARKSPUR. CA 94939

Asking $650,000 KEEFE

MAGNIFICENT WORLD CRUISING KETCH

(415) 924-5204

LENGTH: 82-ft. BEAM: 20-ft. Strong steel construction. Don Brooke design, built by Kuma Engineering in Auckland, New Zealand 1980. Rebuilt and modernized at Derecktors Ship¬ yard 1988 under strict supervision. The Vagrant Sea is now truly a show piece. Her layout boasts a huge master stateroom aft with four additional staterooms for guests and crew. Dual helm stations outside and in the huge air conditioned, modem pilothouse with complete instmmentation and new electronics. The salon is expansive and ideal for loimging and entertaining. Under sail she is a delight, capable of swift and easy passages with roller furling and Barient electric winches. Her Catipillar main engine provides dependable economi¬ cs power, cruising 10 knots with maximum range in excess of 3000 miles. Complete with all the modem amenities including watermaker, freezer, ice msiker, air conditioning and heating, all new electronics (1988), new profes^ioncd interior design and. decor. Vagranj; Sea is ready, willing and able to take her new owners virtually anywhere or success¬ fully complete a rigid charter schedule. Conven¬ iently located in So. California, Her owners desire an immediate sale and may consider a motor yacht in trade. Recent major price reduction makes this a very attractive value. $1.3 million. For more information callCAPT. DENNIS ROQUET (213) 596-5794

page 183

308 Harbor Drive Sausalito, CA 94965

(415) 331-0533 FAX (415) 331-1642

Authorized Dealer

BOAT SHOW - At Rex Docks, Sousolito • August 18 & 19 • 40'+ Power & Sailing Yachts

»* 38’ TED HOOD DESIGN CUSTOM SLOOP 1986 »» Built at Lien Hwa Shipyard, this classic centerboard design was superbly detailed by its "two boat"

50' AMERICAN MARINE M.S. 1969 ' Twin Diesels, Genset, Forced Air Heat,

owner. Light ash and teak interior, 6'6" headroom and a long list of quality equipment

14x16 AftCabin.

PRICE REDUCED to $119,500/OFFERS • JOHN BAIER

$179,500 • JOHN BAIER

53’ ROBERTS DESIGN STEEL KETCH 1980. A Solid, Heavily Equipped Cruiser

47’ GULFSTAR SAILMASTER1980

CAL 40 1969

44' BREWER KETCH 1985

Outstanding Equipment

Lapworth Design

A Comfortable, Cheerful

With Bluewater Experience

Serious Seller

Bottom Stripped/RecoatedT987

Cruiser/Liveaboard

$150,000 • JOHN BAIER

$149,500 • AL LEVENSON

$49,750/OFFERS • PETE EROMHAGEN

$109^00 • AL LEVENSON

JOHN BAIER • PETER EROMHAGEN • AL LEVENSON • JERRY RUMSEY • PETER SHEPPARD QUALITY LISTINGS INVITED • SPACE AVAILABLE AT OUR SALES DOCK

Stoef^aCe ^Marine Montgomery Sailboats & Dinghies • O'Day/Cal Sailboats • Mariner Outboards • Prindle Cats • • Specializing in Trailerable Sailboats • Over 40 Boats on Display • 4730 MYRTLE AVENUE, SACRAMENTO, CA 95841 • (916) 332-0775

SELECTED BROKERAGE

O’DAY 240

with trailers

SAILING WORLD'S 1988 BOAT OF THE YEAR

15' MONTGOMERY... .2 from $4,595 17' MONTGOMERY... .$4,700 17' VAGABOND DS ... .2 from $3,995

Wing keel w/trailer, 8 hp Mariner o/b, VHF, roller furling genoa & jib, main w/jiffy reef¬ ing, cxivers, enclosed head, galley. Open spacious interior w/5' 9" hdrm. Beautiful condition! Reduced! Now $19,900.

21' FREEDOM. ..Reduced! $7,500 21' SANTANA..$3,495 21' VICTORY. .$3,995

SELECTED BROKERAGE without trailers

22' CATALINA. .5 from $4,250

22' PARCMAR, fin keel.$4,000

22' O'DAY. .3 from $5,100

23' SEA SPRITE, full keel.$5,500

23' ROB ROY YAWL.. .$19,000

25' SANTANA, fin keel..$7,500

24' NEPTUNE.

25' TANZER, club jib.$8,800

24' WAVELENGTH .... .$14,500

27' CORONADO, fin keel.$8,500

25' CATALINA. .2 from $13,500

28' LANCER, shoal keel.$12,500

25' BRISTOL SAILMASTER.$10,500

28' SANTANA, fin keel.$16,500

25' SANTANA 525. .$11,500

30' ISLANDER.$16,000

26' BALBOA..$8,750

30' RAWSON .$29,000

26' CHRYSLER. .$12,000

32' KETTENBERG.$29,000

page 184

[

KEKMIT PARKER YACHT BROKERAGE _!ii?).4?6-_L86p_

San Rafael Yacht Harbor, 557 Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA 94901 SELECTED SAIL BROKERAGE 20 WINDROSE w/lfir.$5,000 ■22 MERIT w/trlr.8.995 24 MARTIN Full Race..7.200 24 CSC . OFFERS 24 YANKEE . 10,500 25 FRISCO FLYER .(2) From 7,700 25 CORONADO.6,000 25 OLSON .18,500 26 S-2 w/lrailer.)6.500 27 .VEGA....9.500 27 CATALINA 27.(3) From 8.700 27 CAl 2-27 . 17,500 27 CHEOY LEE Offshore .....'.,.. 19 995 28 CAL, 1967. 13,500 28 HERRESHOFF .(2) From 19,900 29 COLUMBIA.(2) From 15,500 29 CAL 2-29.24,000 29 ELITE.38,500 30 ERICSON.(2) From 17,900 30 KNARR.12,500 30 SANTANA 30-30.38.500 30 ALBERG.OFFERS 30 CHEOY LEE LUDERS'.29.000 31 CHEOY LEE KETCH .33,000 31 COLUMBIA 9.6. 30 500 31 BOMBAY CLIPPER.28,500 32 ARIES. 48.500 32 CHEOY LEE M/S .55.000 32 WESTSAIL. 56.000 32 DREADNAUGHT KETCH.29,000 34 ANGLEMAN Ketch .47,500 34 RHODES Sloop.18.000 34 YAWL. Cruiser.16 000 35 JASON 35.49 950 35 YAWL. TERE .52.750 35 ALBERG .35.000 36 CHEOY LEE.57,000 37 RANGER. '42,500 37 GARDEN KTCH Teak.67.500 37 STEEL CUTTER.TRY 35.000 38 FARALLONE CIpr . (3) From 29,900 38 YAWL, full cruise,.35,000

40 CAULKINS. ....65,000 40 YAWL. .... 75:000 41 NEWPORT. ...58,000 41 CHAPELLE SCHOONER. ...60.000 42' WESTSAIL. ,. 109.900 44 CHEOY LEE KETCH . .. 110,000 44 CSY Cutter. .. 125,000 44 HARDIN Kefch . .. 115,000 .45 CORONADO SLOOP.TRY 75,000 45 STEPHENS. ...35,000 46 GARDEN.KETCH . ... 89,500 46 ALDEN SCHOONER. ...65,000 55 SWEDE . . ...89.950 58 SLOOP SABRINA . . ..89,950 60' JONATHAN SWIFT . ...85,000 65 SLOCUM SPRAY. ....97.000 84 STONE Schooner. . 135.000 90 STONE Schooner. .. 185,000 95 ALDEN Schooner. .335.000 SELECTED POWER BROKERAGE 18 DEE WITE, 1931 . .... 16,500 20 LUGER. .7,500 27 SAGA, diesel. .,..29,000 27 TOLLYCRAFT. ...17,000 28 MONTEREY . . .... 11,000 30 CRUISER..'. ...69.500 30 SEARAY, Loaded .. ...55,000 30 MONTEREY, dsl .. ....22,500 36 CHRIS CRAFT. ...36,000 37 HERSHINE Trawler.. ....72.500 42 CHRIS CRAFT. ...89.900 42 GRAND BANKS . .. 175,000 43 STEPHENS, Tri cbn, dsl . ...48,000 45 TRAWLER. .,'..49.500 47 CHRIS CRAFT. ,, 187.500 47 PACEMAKER .... 118,000 48 DUTCH BARGE .,...64,900 51 HACKERCRAFT Classic. INQUI'RE 57' TRAWLER. . 149.900 57 CHRIS CRAFT.,. 169.000 61 CHRIS CRAFT.. .225.000 70 KALLIS — classic . . 189,500 Berthing Available

San Diego. CA

92101

, ‘

' .

★YACHTING^

.(619)543-1316 Fax:6192972440

San Francisco Bay 3300 Powell St. Suite 8 Emeryville. CA 94608 (415) 652-2109 Fax:4156581635

BROKERAGE SPECIALS

CRUISING CONSULTANTS LTD

SAIL 20' FUCKA/79,YQniTiar diesel.21,000 22' SANTANA, 0/B.2,500 22' CATALINA, 0/B very dean, steal! ...„ 2,500

POWIR 22' STINGRAY, 454 Mercury, fasti 20,000 22' OREGON River buiser, 115 0/B... 12,000

SAIL

•cetS*

Looking for the ideal cruising yacht?

Cruising Consultants can help! We are a team of professional sailors who have the knowledge and offshore experience to know a good yacht when we see one. We specialize in locating quality cruising yachts for serious off¬ shore sailors. • Worldwide listing service - Currently offering Swans, Hallberg Rassy’s, Wauquiez, Tayana, Hans Christian • Ability to find the boat to fit your needs at the best possible price • Complete buyers assistance • Surveys & appraisals • Commissioning & outfitting • Voyage planning /

Call for further information: (415)521-9261 page 185

70' LUKE,'38, Cutter.115,000 47' CELERE, New, Sloop.Base 275,000 45' HANS CHRISTIAN, '76 .137,500 44' GY,'78, Cutter.105,000 43' AMPHITRITE, '86, Ketch.169,000/Offers 43'TASWEll, '87 Cutter,.229,000 42* HALBERG RASSEY, '82.185,000/Offers 41' CHEOY LEE,'79.98,500 40' NORDIC,'81, Sloop...139,500/Offers 40' CAL-JEN, '69, Sloop.39,000 38'CATAUNA, '84, Sloop.55,000 38' MORGAN, '81, Sloop.66,000 37' HUNTER,'84, Cutter.69,000 36' ISWNDER, '82.*.Offers 36' ISIANDER,'69, Sloop.40,000 36' PEARSON, 76, Sloop.69,000 35' SANTANA,'80.52,000/Offers 35' RASSEY, 73 .49,000 34' IRWIN, '80, Sloop.39,500 34' PEARSON, Sloop.55,000 32' ARIES.39,500 31'CHEOY LEE,'69, Ketch.27,500 29' CAL 2-29, Sloop...24,000/Offers

Go FAST!

25' CATMJNA, '83, Sloop. .9,000 20' FUCKA,'79, Sea Croft. ...._ 21,000

PO¥rER 53'AlASKAN,'77,Trwlr ...$220,000 50'CAUF.CPMY .239,000 48'CAMARGUE,'88,CPMY . .....275,000 47'NEWPORT,'70, Trwir .....169,000 42' CRUIS.INC.,'88,F.B;Exprs. .179,000 42'GRAND BANKS,'81, Trwir . .175,000 42'HERSHINE,'81, TrwIr .92,500 40' CUSTOM, Contmerdol Fisher. .35,000 38'BAYUNER,'88, Convert. ...... „... 135,000 38'NOVA,'85, Trwir .....120,000 37' GOLDEN GATE,'80, Trawler. .85,000 36'CHRIS CRAFT,'60, Cabin Cruiser .35,000 36'DELTA, Yocht .79,000 32'STAMAS,'79, Spts Fisher . ...... 67,500 32'CAReFA‘88,Sedan . .92,000 31'SEA RAY,'86, Weekender .......59,500 30'COOPER,'88, Sun Deck ...„. .77,000 30' COOPER,'87, Sedon/Conv. .90,000 4 HOT USED SKI/TRAILERABLE BOATS JUST LISTED-

GREAT PRICESII

"SPARKf (30 FT. CUSTOM GARY MULL DESIGN)

WINNER: 1990 TRANS-TAHOE RACE

SAl£S DOCKS AVAILABLE FOR OUR USIINGS

• 1st to Finish • 1st in Class • 1st Overall

Consistent

42' BENETEAU

Race Winner

1986. CRUISE LOADED INCL RADAR/SATNAVASB/& AP. LEWMAR WINCHES ALL SELFTAIUNG. HOOD SAILS. DODGER. FAST WITH SPACIOUS INTERIOR INCLUDING 2 DOUBLE STATEROOMS & 2 HEADS. AT OUR DOCKS. ASKING $130,000.

Since 1983 andStiil Performing.

-NOW!

Seriously for Sale

(702) 831-0548 41' FREEPORT

15 BAGS OF SAILS, NEW OUTBOARD, W/TRAILER

KETCH RIG-DODGER,ROOMYINTERIOR,2STATEROOMS,QUEENSIZEMASTER&2HEADS. IDEAL LIVEABOARD & OFFSHORE CRUISING. DUE ATOUR DOCKS 8/1 .ASKING $89,000.

$45,000 BAY BRTOGE YACHTS guAunr ZJST3NGS imssoED

58' STEEL KETCH HEAVY DISPIACEMENT, ALLSEASON BLUE WATER CRUISER, LOADED /QUALITY GEAR, ELEQ. INCL RADAR AND HAM SH. 6KW AUX. GENERATOR. CUSTOM INTERIOR W/DEN & FIREPLACE. ASKING $250,000.

22' 25' 25' 25’ 27’ 27' 30’ 30’ 32’ 36’ 37’ 38' 38’ 41' 44’

SC^RIT.. US YACHT... ,CTTR O'DAT. NORDIC FOLKBOAT ..L CORONADO . ERICSON...SL PEARSON.. NEWPORT.. CORONADO. COLUMBIA.. TRI. .KTCH FARALLONE CLIPPER CHEOYLEE.,.CTTR CT. .KTCH CSY.

1984 1979 1978 1962 1973 1976 1979 1969 1972 1968 1978 1957 1978 1976 1978

OB OB OB OB OB OB SO SG SD SG SD SG SD SD SD

$ 9,500 $ 9,900 $ 13,900 $ 4,200 $ 11,900 $ 15,900 $ 26,000 $ 18,900 $ 29,500 $ 36,500 $ 22,900 $ 35,000 $ 62,500 $ 79,500 $110,000

Oyster Cove Marina (415) 692-4169

33' PEARSON GREAT SAIUNG, WELL EQUIPPED FAMILY BOAT. LOW MAINTENANCE, LOADED WITH GOOD GEAR. ACCOMMODATES SEVEN. AT OUR DOCKS. ASKING 27,500.

35' J-BOAT 1984 Hot N.W. Winner! - Will Win For You Too! Faired Keel and Rudder, Excellant Sails, Great Electronics. Owners Say "SELL"! Call For Current F*rlce.

★ PLUS ★ 53" STEEL ROBERTS. 46' FORMOSA. 41' TARTAN, COLUMBIA 10.7, 38' GLOBE. 41' ERICSON AND 40 MORE AT OUR DOCKS!

1980 DIESEL AUX. WHEEL STEERING, PERRY DESIGN. HAND LAID GLASS, DIESEL LARGE INTERIOR W/COLE HEATER. IDEAL AUX. ACCOMODATES 5 W/FULL GALLEY W/ CRUISING AND/OR LIVEABOARD. AT OUR HEAD. OWNER HAS NEW BOAT, MUST SELL. DOCKS. ASKING $28,500/OFFERS ASKING $ T7,500/0»ERS.

(206) 283>1390 2448 Westlake Avenue N. Seattle. WA 98109 Home of the North Wests Best Sailboat Values page 186

1070 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 100 Alameda, CA 94501

Bill

(415) 865-6151 FAX (415) 865-1220

qORMAN %J YACHTS

EEmRlHQ; THE BEST MAINTAINED USED CRUISING BOATS

ANNOUNCEMENT

Jack Meagher Adam Sadeg

ANNOUNCEMENT

THEWEEKEND OF ‘jOCn- MONTH (WEATHER PERMririNS)

BEGINNING: AUGUST 11 & 12 • FROM 10 am TIL 4 pm ALL THE (Used BOATS ON OUR SALES DOCK WILL BE OPEN FOR YOUR "HASSEL-FREE" INSPECTION

FREE - NO CHARGE ,

FREE - NO CHARGE

OPEN CRUISING BOATS 30' 32' 34' 34' 34' 36' 36' 36' 37' page 187

S2 BAYLINER WYLIE ERICSON TRUE NORTH SEA RAY PEARSON HUNTER PEARSON

36' LANCER 37' CREALOCK 40' VALIANT 40' CHALLENGER I4T'C&C 4T SEASTAR 41' ISLANDER FREEPORT 45' HUNTER 47' PERRY

FREE - NO CHARGE ALSO IN OUR HARBOR

28' CONTEST 28* CAPE DOR\^ 30' NEWPORT MKIII 32' ELITE 34' CATALINA 382 ERICSON 42' TROJAN

42' 43' 43' 43' 45' 46'

GOLDEN WAVE TASWELL YOUNG SUN GULFSTAR ANGEL KHASHING

ELUSmNYMQR^

PACIFIC OCEAN YACHTS 1070 Marina Vlg, Ste 106 Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 769-6700 Call UsWe Have Your Boat! New Listings Needed COLUMBIA 45 Beautiful and loaded. Radar, windlass, etc. Original owner.

Dealers for the Sabre Line - Sabre 30 • 34 • 36 • 38 • 42 lOO's of other'^tings available thru our exclusive computer listing service.

Ask for Lou, Chuck or Gil V

$116,000 (sistership)

28' Sabre.Inquire

36'Sabre.$107,500

30' Catalina.3 from $26,000

40'C&C.$115,000

39’ CAL. Pretty boat, lots of performance & comfort. $65,900

NEWPORT 28. Think weekend family fun in this one. Inquire

34' CATALINA. Wheel, dsl. like new. One of the Bay's best. $58,000/0ffers

30' CATALINA. You know you like them. 3 to show you. From $26,000.

35' SANTANA Great class, 2 hot performers from $47,000.

SABRE 30. Only Sabre 30 available on West Coast. Immaculate. $46,000

NEW LISTINGS NEEDED

TMQDSH MARINE 809 FAIRHEW PLACE NORTH • SUITE 150 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98109 (206) 625-1580 Fax 682-1473

GLen cove vacHT sales 40' HUNTER 1986 She has seen iitthe use. As new - Taking offers. CALL FRANK

NEW ERICSON 38 - Corian counters, full batten ntain. North Aero luff. Furling, microwave, biiilt in TV-VCR & more. Available for immediate delivery! Save thousands!! SELECT BROKERAGE 65' 51' 47' 45' 44' 44' 42' 42* 38' 38' 37' 37' 37' 36'

(OVERALL) 55'(LOD) DeVRIES _$249,000 1AT005H,1982_ __$259,000 CUSTOM PILOTHOUSE,! 983 _$118,000 U8BnY 458, 1984 . _$214,000 HANSCHRISllANPILOTHOUSE.._$199,500 PFARSON S 69, <1(10 fOflPn 416,1981 siin'nnn sii9>nn COOPER 416,1983 OOWNEASIER SCHOONER, 1978 _$ 69,500 MORraN, 1980 S 79,9'in NEW ZEAUND, 1969 _ SpelKulor! $ 59,900 HANGER, 1973 _ _Oeonl $ 46,950 TAYANA, 1988 . _$ 89,900 ALUB PRINCESS, 1973 $ 64.900

36' 35' 35' 35' 33' 33' 35' 32' 32' 32' 31' 31' 30' 30'

NONSUCH, 1986_$129,000 ElllCSON,1979 _$54,900 aiCSON,I979_Income htenlidl $ 46,500 IIAFIia,1979 _ $ 64,900 HANS CHRISTIAN, 1981 CimtR....$ 89,500 RANGB,1976_$ 34,950 8ABAPIl01H0UStl981_$ 79,500 FREEDOM, 1984 _$ 55,000 VAIIANT, 1979 _$ 54,900 WESISAIUWS_$ 49,950 CA1,1980 _$ 34,950 ERIC50HINDEPENDENtt31_$ 49,900 CATAUHA, 1980 _$ 34,950 NONSUCH, 1985_Oeonl $ 79,950

SAIL 22’ SANTANA,'76 ....$ 4,500 24' LAPWORTH,’60.$ 4,500 24' DEL RAY,'66..$ 6,000 27' HUNTER, '84..$ 27,500 27’ CHEOYLEE, '72..........$ 20,000 IT SANTANA,'72. $11,600 27' ALBIN VEGA, '70 .;.....$ 9,500 27 NEWPORT, '79 .:.......$ 11,900 28’ COLUMBIA, '70. $11,000 30' LANCER, '79 ...$ 34,500 30’S CATALINA, '83 ....-.$ 30,000 35' ALG, ’71......$ 35,000 52’ CUSTOM (COLVIN), '86.$135,000 We’re Selling Boats - We Need Listings! CALIFORNIA YACHT BROKERS ASSOO. MULTIPLE LISTING SERVlOE • OVER 6,000 LISTINGS • WE GAN HELP WITH FINANGING •

(707) 552-4206 • 1-800-798-5704 FAX: (707) 5£2-4296 Off 780 Between Vallejo and Benicia. Take Gien Cove Exit and Foiiow Signs to Gien Cove Marina • 2024 Gien Cove Road, Vallejo, CA 94591 page 188

•

Jmiumo

1535 Buena Vista Ave. Alameda, CA. 945o1

415 523-7474 -

YACHTS

Office Hrs 9;30 - 5:30

Islander 32

Chns Craft Cherokee 32

Quality plus Tradition

or by Appt.

$35,750

$22,500

BAY & COASTAL CRUISERS ■ ' ' ’ '

Islander 36 3 from $44,500

25' YAMAHA 25 MKII.15,000 25'CATALINA.14,500 26' ERICSON.24,500 27' ERICSON 2 from.12,500 27'LANCER P/SAIL.27,500 27' NEWPORT.15,000 28'SANTANA.18,500 28'MORGAN 0/1.Offers 29'CAL 2-29.22,500 29'ERICSON.14,900 29' RANGER.24,500 30' CAL 2-30 2 from.20,000 30' CORONADO.15,000 30' PEARSON 303 . 44,000 30'SAN JUAN.26,800 31' IRWIN Citation.49,500 32' ELITE.49,500 32' ERICSON .26,000 32' ERICSON.77,500 32' BUCCANEER.20,000

C&C40

$95,000

PERFORMANCE CRUISERS 24' WAVELENGTH 30' CAL 9.2. 30' WILDERNESS. 33' PETERSON. 35' SANTANA 35... 33' SODERBERG... 40' WILDERNESS.,

.15,000 24.950 ,18,500 37.950 49,000 45,000 64,500

C & C YACHTS 24' C & C. 25' C & C. 27* C & 0 38' C & C landfall' 30' C & C.

10,500 10.500 19.500 69,950 95,000

OFFSHORE CRUISERS

Wavelength 24

page 189

$I5JOO

25' STORFIDRA 25.17,850 27' ORIAN-Pac Seacraft.46,500 27'CHEOYLEE.25,000 30' PEARSON COAST.24,500 30'C/L BERMUDA.19,200 3Z ISLANDER.35,750 32'CHRIS CHEROKEE.22,500

‘ 35' HALBERG-RASMUS ....49,000 35' NIAGARA.79,500 36' ISLANDER 3 from.44,500 36' CATALINA.69,000 36' CS.75,000 * 36'MORGAN.59,500 * 39'CAL.65,950 40' MARINER.60,000 41'ISLyFREEPORT.94,500 ‘ 43'GIB'SEA .159,000 * 45'HANS CHRISTIAN.137,500

POWER BOATS

* * * * * *

25'BAYLINER.27,500 28'SUNDANCER.27,000 30'CHRIS CRAFT 2 from ..21,500 30'MONTEREY BAY.59,000 37' HERSHINE TRWL.66,000 40' CRUISE-A-HOME.59,500 '45' BLUEWATER.110,000 * 57'CHRIS CRAFT.165,000 * Star indicates at our docks

MARIN YACHT SALES, INC PERFORMANCE MOTORYACHT

LOWRIE » YACHT HARBOR 40 Pt. San Pedro Road San Rafaelj CA 94901 Phone; (415) 454-7595 FAX: 415-454-2561

MEMBER

46’ SPINDRIFT 1983. By Ron Hiller. 12' -10" Beam. 30, 200# Gross. Diesel 90 hp. Loaded and In first class yacht condition. >!\s/f/77g $150,000.

32’ ALDEN MOTORSAILER

34’ PEARSON

1968 by Cheoy Lee . Fiberglass. Diesel. Steering inside and out. Clean. Asking $38,500.

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

32’ ARIES SLOOP

46’ BERTRAM

1974/90, Westerbeke diesel, 6 bags sails, totally shipshape and ready to cruise. Asking $42,500.

1975/88 Convertible, twin 475 hp CMC, air with all the toys. "The Sailor's Stinkpot". Asking $230,000

page 190

LARSEN SAILS BIG WINS IN JULY!!! "Oaxaca' - Pacific Cup 1st Overaii • 1st Class D • 1st IMS Jim Ryley "Good Times 11" - Pacific Cup 2nd - Division A Barry Bevan "Red Stripe" - Singlehanded Transpac 1st - Division I Buz Sanders "Special Edition " - Catalina Race 1st Overall PHRF • 1st MORA Eric Sultan "Legs" - Catalina Race 1st in Division • 4th Overall Lester Robertson "How Rude" - J24 Fleet 17 Championships 1st Overall Dave Hodges/Scott Walecka "Rick's Place"-Santana 22 Nationals 1st Place Bob Comstock

Ooxoco wins Pacific Cup 1st Overaii

Worsen Soils inc. Dealers For: Headfoil, Pt. Richmond Bruce Powell (415)236^300

Musto,

Larsen Sails might not win in every class, but as soon as you order them, they can win in yours. With 20 years of fast sails, super service and attention to detail, we'd like the oppor¬ tunity to help you win.

Designed for Speed—Engineered for Durability

en, Dutchman, Stoboom, Schaefer, Profurl

Santa Cruz Monterey Bob White, David Hodges Jim Womble (408) 476-3009 (408) 372-8666 (800)347-6817 FAX 408-479-4275

Stockton/Delta Pat Brown (209) 838-3285

\NelsoM ’$Marine The Boatowner's Boatyord

COMPEfmVi Bibs IN WRITING^ •

• Fiberiglass Re^xiir • Rigging • Prop & Shaft Work • LPU Paint • ^icucHirai Repair * Do*I^Your^iiers • Blister Repair with Warranty • Refrigeration Repair •