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Won't You Let Us Take You On A Scenic Tour?
"Woodwind"
is a special boat.
carry thirty passengers,
This beautiful wooden trimaran,
certified to
tours lovely Lake Tahoe from April through Octo¬
ber. Last fall,
shortly before the season ended,
new mainsail from Pineapple Sails. owners and licensed skippers,
"Woodwind" was outfitted with a
Suddenly,
Steve and Joel,
"Woodwind's"
found themselves back at the dock a little
too soon at the end of each cruise! tage of the boat's added speed,
Tours were lengthened to take advan¬
providing more miles of scenic sailing. i
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DEALER FOR: Henri-Lloyd Foul Weather Gear • Headfoil 2 Sails in need of repair may be dropped off at: West Marine Products in Oakland or Stockton Svendsen’s in Alameda • Seabird Sailing Center in Berkeley
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CONTENTS We currently have qualified buyers looking for clean quality listings. List your boat with us now if you want results. ONDISPLAY
JEANNEAU 45. Spacious, extensively equipped yacht. A pleasure to sail the open seas. Just reduced to $145,000.
BENETEAU 4Z 1985. The German Frers designed classic. Racing or cruising, this yacht is a proven winner. Sails, electron¬ ics, and all the gear at $129,000. ststcrship
BENETEAU 38. Unique twin aft cabins. Autopilot, Loran, 7 bags, furling jib. $75,000 firm.
PASSPORT 41,1989. Bob Perry's master¬ piece of function and beauty. Mint condi¬ tion, furling, windlass. $185,000.
BENETEAU 285,1988. Beneteau quality in a tough and very functional small yacht with nice equipment.
PARTIAL LISTING 21' MARIEHOLM, 1971 .2,500 25’CAL, 1968 .4,000 26' YAMAHA, dsl, 1984, go fast 21,500 27' CATALINA, diesel, 1986.18,900 27'CAL 27 MKIII, 1984 . 24,900 28'ISLANDER, 1984.27,500 29’BAYFIELD porket <ruiser.24,900 30' CATALINA, 1975.18,000 30'SANTANA, 1976.25,000 30' DUFOUR, 1970 . ,.19,900 32' ERICSON, 1976 ..24,000 32' VALIANT, epoxy bottom.45,000 32'ISLANDER, 1977. 28,500 33' PEARSON, 1986 . 65,900 34'WYLIE, 1980.39,500 35’NIAGRA, 1981 ..59,500 35'ERICSON, 1975 ..34,500 36' FREEDOM, 1975 .. 114,500 36’PEARSON, 1985 .85,000 36' S-2, 1979, <tr cockpit.72,900 37’ PEARSON, 1989.....129,000 37' HUNTER, 1980, cutter rig .. .54,900 37' TAYANA, 1985.89,500 38' SABRE, 1988.159,000 38'MORGAN, 1979 .61,000 38'FARALLONE, 1959 .25,000 38' HANS CHRISTIAN T, 1986... 135,000 39' CAL. 39,000 39' PEARSON, loaded.62,500 40' PASSPORT, 1990 ...189,000 40' BERMUDA, Hinckley, '64 ... 134,000 41' MORGAN KETCH, 1979.95,000 41'HINCKLEY, '65.120,000 41' PASSPORT, 1984.185,000 41' NELSON-MAREK, 1982.59,900 41' C&C, 1984.114,500 43' MASON.125,000 43' CHEOY LEE M/S, 1988 .249,500 44'ALDEN CUTTER, 1983.265,000 45' JEANNEAU, 1984.145,000 47' RHODES MOTORSAILER.125,000 49'HINCKLEY, 1973 .285,000 50' PASSPORT, 1990 ..495,000 51' PASSPORT, '83, ctr cockpit. 325,000 53' MASON, 1984.325,000 54'MAPLE LEAF, 1979.215,000 59' HINCKLEY SOU’WESTER, '84 595,000
• BEMEflAB BROKERAGE e 28* BENETEAU 285,'88 ............ 39,500 M' BENETIAU OSSAHIS 350, *89 89,008 trmtmuM 375 ....... offers/87;50o 38’BENETEAU HRST 38,’84......75,000 40* BENETEAU SIRS! '405, ‘89 ,. 130,000 4®':'BENETEAU 80S-Moft, ..115,000 42' BENETEAU FIRST 42, "85 ..,. 129,000 AT BENETEAU OCEAN1S 430 _ 175,000 45*- BENETEAU JFSRST 4515 ■....... 239,000
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TIME & WEATHER PASS, A BENETAU ENDURES QUALITY: For 105 years, Beneteau has been building some of the world's best sail¬ boats. Ask any kno wledegable person about Beneteau, their reputation is one of the best in the industry. Of course, their exclusive BWS lamination system and 10 year war¬ ranty only reinforce Beneteau's reputation as the industry leader.
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When the time comes to sell your Beneteau you will get more for it simply because people want Beneteaus. If you own a Beneteau you will not be paying for costly survey or blister repairs at the time of sale. When you combine high demand with solid durable construction, you can depend on a high resale value. PERFORMANCE: From the Admiral’s cup To'ffie Whitbread Around the World race Beneteau has achieved outstanding results in grueling offshore racing events. Perhaps a more important measure of performance is the extreme owner loyalty and satisfac¬ tion which Beneteau has earned. Recognized as one of the world's best builders, Beneteau is currently building two 80-footers for the next Whitbread Around the World Races. STAN DA RD FEATURES Nootherboats have as much high quality equipment and standard features as the Beneteaus.
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The primary function of a Beneteouisto bring you a maximum of pride and SYSTEM pleasure that BENETEJUr will endure through weather and time. The exclusive Beneteau Water Shield lamination system is justan example of Beneteau's dedication to long term customer satisfaction. The BWS system is the basis of the 10 year blister and structural warranty on every Beneteau.
A continuous process of innovation, engineering and grueling testing in the world's toughest offshore racing events insure that a Beneteau will take you wherever you want to go in safety and comfort. An example of the Beneteau difference is the composite rudder stock that is much stronger than a typical stainless shaft.
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If you're selling, we give you honest evaluations of your boat, we advertise, promote and show your boat, plus we keep you in¬ formed. If you're buying, we make the effort to find just what you're looking for. We have the knowledge and the network to find your boat anywhere on the West Coast. It's work we're ready to do for you. Don't just look for a boat - look for a broker whom you trust and who will put the energy into finding what you need - you'll find it a much better way to buy.
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DUES HAVE GONE UP SINCE JACK LONDON WAS A MEMBER
When famed author Jack London was an Oakland Yacht Club member, monthly dues were $1. Jack wouldn't recognize the Oakland Yacht Club now, with its brand new $1 million clubhouse overlooking its own marina on the Estuary in sunny Alameda. But he would certainly remember the warm ambiance and the congenial boating spirit that has characterized Oakland Yacht Club for 78 years. May we send you membership information? Or, just drop by any Friday night, by boat or car, and look us over.
CAL 33, 1989. Truly a fine example of a 'racer-cruiser*. Fast & wonderfully appointed. Full electronics, all liveaboard amenities & ease of handling so rarely found. Offers
OLSON 30. Clean - clean - cleanl Never stressed! $14,500.
32' BAYLINER 3218. Without a doubt the cleanest Bayliner to be found on the used market today. Extensive electronics, the works. Just $75,500.
36' Hatteras Sportfisher.Twin427s: well equip'd; excellent shape. Incredible value - Offers
BAYLINER 38, '83. Seldom Is a Bayliner38 of this vintage found in such exceptional condition - a beauty in all respects! Well equip'd ind. twin dsls w/very low hours. Grt liveaboard/cruiser. Offers. SAIL 27' Newport.Reduced $11,500 27' Ericson, 1976.Offers 29' Olson Hull #12, Bristol.SOLD 30' Olson, excellent condition.$14,500 30' Albin Ballad, 1978, dsl.SOLD 30' Ericson.$18,500 30' Scampi, dsl.$29,000 32' Ultralight.$15,900 33' Cal, clean.SOLD 34'Wylie.Offers ' Santa Cruz 40.SOLD POSTER
CATALINA 28. Only one '92 at this price Any reasonable offer! ,
32’ Bayliner, 1988, twin turbo dsl .... $75,500 36' Hatteras, Yacht fisher.Offers 38' Bayliner, very low hours.Offers
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Oakland Yacht Club Founded 1913
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Pacific Marina at the foot of Triumph St. in Alameda
2222 EAST CLIFF DRIVE • SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062
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45' MUU.NZ, '81. Style of a Swan, tremendous performance. AH cockpit, aft cobin, beautiful teak interior, teak decks, white fiberglass hull & deck. Asking $129,000.
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36'PEARSON diesel, 13 sail, refngeral to 35,000 lor quick sail.
jrmonce! Blue Blazer • New ST winches, pager, reduced
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34' MAINSHIP TURBO TWIR, 78. Exceptional perfor¬ mance (13-15 knots), economical, low hrs., rugged construction for oceai cruising and fishing, 8 KWGensel, radar, like new inside and out. Asking $49,900
45' STARRATT CUTTER. 2 staterooms, leak dcks, cold plate refrigerator, | radar, A/P, dodger, roller furling, main jib, beautiful interior.lt+OiOQQ. I Reduced to $99,000 - Owner wants offer/
R.S.V.P. 1-800-585-YACHT
SAIL
36'
ISLANDER. 1976 .... ..4 from 40,000
57*
CLIPPER KETCH, '25. .. 80,000
36'
J, 1981. .. 2 from 66.000
52’
CHEOY LEE. 225,000
36'
PEARSON, 1985 .
.. 85,000
52'
CHEOY LEE M/S, 1982. 242,000
34'
C&C, 79 .
..39,000
48'
CT. 140,000
34'
HUNTER, 1983.
..44,500
46'
MORGAN, 1979. 105,000
33’
GUERNEY alum.
.. 56,000
46'
PORPOISE KETCH, '72. 132,000
33'
HUNTER, 1979.
..29,000
45'
STARRATT CUTTER. ..99,000
321
ARIES, 1981. ..2 from 30,000
45'
MULL NZ, 1981 . 145,000
30’
BABA. ...2 from 62,500
44'
HARDIN, 1979. ..99,000
30'
YAMAHA, 79.
...25,000
43'
HANS CHRISTIAN,'77 2 frm 119,000
30'
ERICSON, 1986 .
...39,000
42'
STEWART, 1968 .59,000/Offers
30'
LANCER.
...25,000
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PETERSON Schnr,'83 97,650/Offers
30'
PEARSON 303.
.48,000
41'
CORONADO, 72. .. 54,000
P7*
1ANCFR1984.
...19,600
41'
FREEPORT, 1976 . ..89,500
23'
STONEHORSE CUTTER.. ...15,900
41'
MORGAN. .. 78,000
POWER
41'
RHODES, 1966 . ..60,000
57*
CHRIS CRAFT.
.169,000
40'
CAMPER NICHOLSON, 79 110,000
52'
DEFEVER.
.250,000
40'
C&C, 1981, great condition. ..85,000
51'
BLUEWATER,'84... .. 139,000/offers
40’
OCEAN M.S.,'82. .. 98,000
49'
ALBIN, 1980 .
40'
MARINE TRADER, MS, '82 .. 85,000
46'
CHRIS . ...2 from 85,000
40'
MOTIVA STL PH, 1981 . ..76,500
43'
PRESIDENT, 1983 .
40'
VAUANT, 1978.2 from 98,900
40'
MONK TRAWLER .. ...2 from 32,000
40'
WORTH, 1984 . .. 90,000
40'
BELL MOTOR YACHT, '82 ...95,000
39'
IRWIN CITATION, 1981 . ..59,000
40'
CRUIS-A-HOME, 1975. ...58.000
38'
DOWNEAST. .. 69,000
37'
HERSHINE.
38'
MORGAN, 1979. ..66,000
36'
SEDAN TRAWLER, 1983.. ...66,000
36' PEARSON CUTTER, '81 Roller furling, demand hot water, dodger, AP, propane cabin healer, excellent con¬ dition. $78,000.
.145.000 .160,000
41' MURRAY-PETERSON. Schooner, '83. Newdsl, leak decks, firepfoce, feathering prop, radar, SatNav, AP, windlass. Cruise the world with grace. $97,650.
...60,000
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38'
CABO RICO. ..93,000
34'
MAINSHIP TURBO TWLR ...49,900
3T
TARTAN,'82. ..79,000
32'
UNIFUTE, 1979.
...57,400
3T
TAYANA, 1978 . .79,000
30'
SEA RAY.
...33,000
36'
HANS CHRISTIAN, 1975 ... .. 62,000
28'
SEA RAY.
...34,000
52' CHEOY LEE, M.S., '82. Twin Lehman dsls, Gen, SatNav, WeFax, Benmar 210,3 statemis, 2 heads w/ showers, washer/dryer. $242,000.
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CABO RICO 38, '81. Shows like new. Autopilot, Radar, SatNav, Loron, refrigerator, dodger, generator, dinghy w/OB. Windlass, roller furling. $93,900.
CSC 40, '82. Epoxy bottom, no blisters, barienl self toiling winches, rod rigging, hydraulics, 13 bags of sails, roller furling jib. $85,000. *
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40' CAMPER NICHOLSON, 79. One molorsailers mode. A new Perkins diesel was installed in 1991. This immaculate boat has always been maintained to the highest standards. Asking $110,000.
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SELECTED LISTINGS 20' 26’ 27’ 27’ 28’ 28’ 29’ 29’ 30’ 30’ 33’ 33’
FLICKA.18,900 EXCALTBUR, trailer.6,500 ERICSON.12,900 STEEL SPRAY.try 25,000 P (Folkboat).7,800 CAL.9,995 ERICSON.19,950 ELITE.Make Offer WILDERNESS.16,950 CATALINA (2).24,900 VANGUARD.24,900 RANGER diesel.try 25,000
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GRAND MARINA „.- .irm^ rmvr-W ALAMEDA
(510)
521-1929
37' PASSPORT
48' MAPLE LEAF
This late model Perry designed bluewater cruiser will be on display during the Spring BoatShow in Jack London Square. In virtually new condition and well equipped. A must stop for the serious sailor. Asking $137,500.
This vessel has undergone extensive refurbishing over the last few years by a professional tradesman. Great equipment list and in good condition. Great boat for extended cruising. Asking a reasonable $119,500.
BROKERS CHOICE 38' IRWIN. .109,500 40' FUJI. .89,900
28’ CAL.
. 9,995
40' COLUMBIA. .44,500
.19,900
40' ENDEAVOUR . .89.000
29' ERICSON.
30' CAPE DORY.$69,950 33' NEWPORT.$32,700
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35' C&C.$68,500 37' CREALOCK, 1978.$96,500 Equipped open ocean sailer Race Rigged-Great Sail Inventory.
43' GULFSTAR.$89,000 Comfortable Center Cockpit Cruiser.
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29' ELITE. .29,500
40' CHE0Y LEE OFFSHORE 40.74i00
30' WILDERNESS. .17,900
41' ISLANDER FREEPORT. .89,000
30' CAPE DORY. .69,950 30' BABA . .64,000
41' MORGAN 01. .79,000 42' FREEDOM. .195,000
30' CATALINA. 2 from 24,900 49,950
43' GULFSTAR. .89,000 149000 44' LANCER.
32' ANASTASIA. .44,500
44' CSY . .87,500
32' WESTSAIL. 2 from 39,950
44' SS5. .62,000
32' ENDEAVOUR. .28,900
44' SEA WOLF. ..2 from 89,000
33’ NEWPORT. .32,700
44' PETERSON. .89,900
33' VANGUARD. .19,900
45' RHODES. .68,000
33' SOVERAL. .29,900 29,500 33' RANGER.
45' NEW ZEALAND MUll. .145,000
31' CRUISING CATAMARAN
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44' PETERSON.$89,900 Best Buy on the Market!!
18,900
27' STEEL SPRAY. .29,500
20' FUCKA.
45' CORONADO. .69,500
33' PEARSON 10METER... .34,950
45' EXPLORER, oft cockpit .89,500
33' CUSTOM OLSON. .34,900 89 900 33' NAUT1CAT.>
46' CAL III. .129,000 119,000 47' PH M0T0RSAILER....
34' CORONADO . .29,500
48' MAPLE LEAF. 2 from 119,000
35' CSC. .68,500 35' FORMOSA. .39,500
50' STEPHENS PH. 2 from 275,000
36' MORGAN OUT ISLAND. .39,500
5T PASSPORT. . 279,000
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CALENDAR Nonrace April 1 — ESPN live coverage of the America’s Cup Trials at noon. Continues virtually every day throughout the month (see complete schedule in A-Cup article on pages 112-114). No fooling! April 3 — "Building a Quality Small Boat", a free slide-illustrated presentation by Jerry Montgomery, manufacturer of the Montgomery 9 and 15-foot sailboats. Stockdale Marine Theater in Sacramento; 7:30 p.m.; (916) 332-0775. April 3 — "Development of Multihull Design for Maximum Performance" by noted English naval architect John Shuttleworth. Among others, Shuttleworth designed Fleury Mlchon (OSTAR winner), Great American (New York to San Francisco record holder) and Brittany Ferries. Sponsored by BAMA at Encinal YC; 8 p.m.; info, Don Sandstrom, (510) 339-1352. April 4-5 & 11-12 — US Sailing Level One Dinghy Sailing Instructor’s Course. Elkhorn YC (Moss Landing), (408) 724-3875. April 4-12 — Spring In-the-Water Boat Show at Jack London Square. See Sightings. NCMA, (510) 254-5772. April 5 — On-The-Water Race Clinic with Kame Richards (Pineapple Sails). A one-design season tune-up sponsored by the Cal 20, Catalina 27, Olson 25 and Santana 22 fleets. Chalk talk at Berkeley YC at 10 a.m.; sailing at noon; videos and critique afterwards. $15 per boat, or come individually for $5. Sally, (510) 444-4321. April 5 — Nautical Flea Market at Elkhorn YC, beginning at 10 a.m. Fun and games, too. ElkYC, (408) 724-3875. April 5 — Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 a.m. — 'spring forward' one hour. Hooray, time to start sailing after work! April 6, 1909 — Commander Robert E. Peary, USN, reached the top of the world, the North Pole. Though officially recognized as the first man to reach the pole by the U.S. Congress and The National Geographic Society (of which Peary was president from 1901-1906), the claim remains disputed. Frederick A. Cook, another American explorer, claimed to have reached the Pole a year earlier. April 7 — Latitude Crew List Party for racers and cruisers. Corinthian YC; 6-9 p.m.; see Crew List article elsewhere in this issue for details. Latitude, 383-8200. April 8 — Another Latitude Crew List Party, this time at the Encinal YC in Alameda. Same drill as above. April 8 — SSS TransPac Seminar #7; "Rigging and Emergency Repairs." Speakers include Bruce Schwab (Svendsen’s Rigging Shop), Karl Gillette (International Yacht Services), 'Wild Bill' Stange of Seattle (who set the current record of 11 days, 15 hours in 1988 with his Olson 30 Intense) and local singlehander Bob Cranmer-Brown. Oakland YC (Alameda); 7-10 p.m.; free. Bob Cranmer-Brown, 3264886. April 9 — Singles Sailing Association meeting; 8 p.m. at the Olympic Circle Sailing Club (1 Spinnaker Way, Berkeley). Nancy, (510) 676-3803. April 11 — South San Francisco Bay Opening Day — Port of Redwood City. The theme this year is "Voyage of Discovery". Joanne Wright, 591-4254. April 11 — Opening Day/Blessing of the Fleet on Carquinez Strait. "Parade of Nations" is the theme. Info, (707) 746-6600 or (707) 746-0739. April 11 — Tiburon YC’s Second Annual Crew Party. Mike Hofman, 821-3760. April 11 — Columbia Challenger Spring Dinner Meeting at Oakland YC. Bill Myers, (510) 935-4437. April 11-12 — Cal 29 Association Cruise-In to Coyote Point YC. Ellen Minning, (510) 938-5649. April 11-12 — Another cruise to Coyote Point, this one for Ericson 27s. Bill Lewis, 960-3639. April 18 — Ockam U. Seminar in San Francisco. Get up to speed with Ockam Instruments’ Steve Moore and Jim Marshall. Info, (203)
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877-7453. April 18 — Encinal YC Nautical Flea Market. EYC, (510) 5620264. April 21 — Sausalito YC’s Most Excellent Crew Party. Bill Rile^, 388-2446 (days) or Rob Moore, 331-3134 (nights). April 25-May 2 — Sea of Cortez Race Week. See Cruise Notes. April 26 — Opening Day on the Bay. This year’s theme is "An International Faire." Hosted by PICYA; Bob Usher, (408) 286-0101. April 29, 1969 — Eric Tabarly sailed Pen Dulck V into Tokyo, 40 days out of San Francisco, to win the first singlehanded race across the Pacific. As we go to press, Peter Hogg had just aborted his attempt at smashing the 23-year-old record (see Sightings). April 29-30 — GPS Seminar at the Coast Guard Auxiliary Training Center in Santa Cruz. Manufacturers will be on hand to answer your questions. Info, (408) 475-3383. May 2 — Marine Flea market at Peninsula YC (Redwood City). For info, call Victoria at 365-9257. May 2 — Marine Swap Meet at Point San Pablo YC (700 W. Cutting Blvd., Richmond). Sellers $5; buyers free; 8 a.m. ’til 3 p.m.; PSPYC, (510) 620-9690. ’May 9 — Sausalito West Marine Products Flea Market; 9 a.m.; space is limited; for info, call Rann at 332-0202. May 9 — PAYC Cruising Lecture Series: "Synergy’s Pacific Circumnavigation, San Francisco to French Polynesia." A free presen¬ tation with slides, music and narration by David Cohan and Sharon Jacobs. Palo Alto YC (Redwood City); 8 p.m.; info, 364-6172. May 9-10 — Islander 36 Association Cruise to Petaluma. Dana Smith, 928-1533, or Skipper Wall, (702) 882-4798. May 13 — SSS TransPac Seminar #8: "Medicine and Food". Same drill as April 8. May 13 — 12-Volt Seminar by electrical wizard Ron Romaine; Sausalito West Marine Products; 7 p.m.; $5 at the door; Rann, 332-
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CALENDAR May 9 — America’s Cup begins — finally! May 16 — Oyster Point YC Multihull Regatta. Three races over "lively" courses. OYC, 873-5166, or Ray Wells, 589-1713. May 16-17 — Stone Cup, an IMS regatta. StFYC, 563-6363. May 22 — Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara Race. A Category II race (i.e. requiring liferafts and storm sails) open to all offshore yachts. Santa Cruz YC, (408) 425-0690. May 23 — Master Mariners Regatta, one of the great spectator races on the Bay. Dan Drath, 851-7601. May 23-25 — San Francisco Memorial Day Regatta (formerly the Volvo Regatta). Eight one design classes (Etchells, Express 27 & 37, J/24 & 35, Folkboat, Knarr and Tuna 35) will race in this benefit for SFBSA. StFYC, 563-6363. Beer Can Races BERKELEY YC — Friday Night Races. Every Friday night from April 10 through September 25. Free! Paul Kamen, (510) 540-7968. CORINTHIAN YC — Friday Night Series. Every Friday night from April 17 through September 11. CYC, 435-4771. ENCINAL YC — Spring Twilight Series. Friday nights on the Estdary: 4/17, 5/1, 5/15, 6/4, 6/19. Rich Pipkin, 957-1956 (days). GOLDEN GATE YC — No Friday Night Series this year due to club remodelling. ISLAND YC — Spring Series. Friday nights on the Estuary: 4/24, 5/8, 5/29, 6/12, 6/26. Jerry Manifold, (510) 521-7265. RICHMOND YC — Wednesday Night Series (first and third Wednesdays, May through September). RYC, (510) 237-2821. SANTA CRUZ — Wet Wednesdays, April 8 through October 21. Informal, free and fun. John Siegel, (408) 688-1820. SAUSALITO YC — Spring Sunset Series. Tuesday nights: 5/5, 5/19, 6/2, 6/16, 6/30. Bill Riley, 388-2446 (days) SAUSALITO CRUISING CLUB — Friday Night Series. Every other Friday until October, beginning April 17. SCC, 332-9349. SIERRA POINT YC — Tuesday Night Series off Oyster Point. April 7 through September 22, every other Tuesday. Dick Timothy, 952-5540. Please send your calendar items by the 10th of the month to Latitude 38 (Attn: Calendar), P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94966. Better yet, FAXthem to us at (415) 383-5816. But please, no phoneins! 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.
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LETTERS flftl’VE WALKED IN BOTH PAIRS OP SHOES Over the past months I have been reading the letters about Coast Guard 'safety inspection boardings' and outright searches for drugs. It seems to me that everyone writing in sees the issue from only their side of the fence. Of course, Coastie Cam Lewis wants to put the Coast Guard in the best light, using terms like "highly trained and skilled professionals". And the people who have never been in the Coast Guard only have their scant experiences to go by. If the experiences were good, the Coast Guard is great. If the experiences were bad, the Coast Guard is a bunch of gun-toting neo-fascists. I am no expert, but I have walked in both pairs of shoes. I served in the Coast Guard from 1970 to 1974 as a radio operator. During that time I had three duty stations: 13 months aboard the USCGC Rush, 10 of which were off the coast of Viet Nam. I was then stationed in Monterey for nine months as a Search & Rescue operator. My last duty station was at the San Diego air station, where I was the senior watchstander. For the past 17 years I have spent as much time as possible — while still maintaining a job and raising a family — in small boats at sea. I joined the Coast Guard specifically to avoid going to Viet Nam, so I suppose it was only fair that it was the first place — after radio operator school — I was sent. While my radio school training was extensive, the only weapons training I received was in boot camp when I got to fire an M-l rifle and a .45 pistol during two visits to the range. We were not required to hit anything. As a radio operator on the Rush, my general quarters combat billet was as the petty officer in charge of a .50 caliber machine gun. The only training my team received on that weapon consisted of shooting at a 55-gallon drum that was bobbing in the water one afternoon. And mind you, we were in a real shooting war at the time! My point is that, even during wartime, my Coast Guard training was minimal. If the young people serving as boatswains — the ones in charge of safety inspections — are being given the same level of training that we in combat were, I would say the boating public is in greater danger than they think. Remember, I was 19 years old and in charge of a machine gun in which I had no training. How much training do you think the Coasties are getting now when there is no war? 1 was part of many Search & Rescue operations in Monterey and would like to think we did the best job possible with the resources available. We were overstaffed with radio operators, so I was able to participate in several operations aboard the 40 and 44-foot boats. We even worked with the Customs people to break up a tobacco and liquor smuggling ring, providing the vessels necessary for the duly appointed law enforcement officers to board the vessels and conduct their searches. Incidentally, these officers had search warrants! During my time in Monterey, our commanding officer told the station personnel that our participation in the operation was limited to providing transportation for the law enforcement officers and that we weren’t to get actively involved with the search or arrest procedures. Obviously things have changed just a bit since I was a Coastie. While on duty at the air station in San Diego, I handled communications for the station’s three Sikorsky HH3F helicopters, two 82-foot cutters, several 40 footers as well as the C-130s transitting our area from San Francisco. Just prior to my discharge, we received a report that a high speed power boat was attempting to smuggle drugs, into San Diego from Mexico. We did not immediately send a cutter out to intercept them, but coordinated the efforts of local authorities in order to follow all the rules for a good bust. When the boat was stopped, it was the police who did the boarding and searching. They found the false compartment but no drugs. Back when I was a Coastie, we were looked upon as being the good guys. 1 have only been in the St. Francis YC two times, once after I hitchhiked to San Francisco in full dress blues. The guy who picked us up was on his way to the club, and asked us if we would like page 28
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Anonymous "I'm very high on the boat.,.it makes a lot of sense. Terrific for San Francisco Bay. If 1 hadn't started the Etchells 22 fleet I'd own one of these. WHAT A GAS. Heck, off the wind we went faster than my power boat!!!" -
Hank Easom, Champion Bay Sailor
"I think the boat is really easy to steer. Very well balanced, not a MACK TRUCK. One of the most comfortable boats I've ever sailed. It’s well laid out for kids, not requiring a bunch of gorillas to sail. I think the boat is nice looking too."
Vicki Sodaro, USYRU Junior Sailing Coordinator, Adams Cup Finalist "I like the concept and general execution. I found her well behaved and pleasant to sail. She lived up, in short, to my expectations when I first viewed her, expectations of speed and simplicity. I was particularly impressed with her responsiveness while close hauled, I look forward to sailing this boat again."
- Warwick "Commodore” Thompkins, Professional Sailing Consultant "I was amazed to di scover that fast could be comfortable. Finally there's a boat that gives us wind surfing thrills but without getting so wet. When I bought my IOD 331 thought it would be my last boat...now it's for sale...the 11 :Metre has seduced me." -
Anthony Sandburg, President, Olympic Circle Sailing Club
Those are just a few of the comments we've heard from some of the Bay's top sailors after going out for spin on the new 11 :METRE. It's why they sold 30 boats at the Stockholm Boat Show last spring and now have a fleet of over 50 sailing IN LESS THAN ONE YEAR! It's also why THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY 11 :METRE ONE DESIGN FLEET IS STARTING.
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USED BOATS CAL 2-46, 92.125,000
43’
NAUTICAT,'85.275,000
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NAUTICAT, '85 .229,000
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NEREUS,'89.195,000
39'
ERICSON 39B, '76.49,500
38'
NAUTICAT, '82 .1 59,000
38'
CATALINA,'84 .
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ERICSON, '81 .68,500
36'
NAUTICAT,'85 .161,000
54,950
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NONSUCH,'87 .141,000
36’
CATALINA, '85 .67,900
36'
CATALINA, '86 .63,995
36'
NONSUCH,'87 .141,000
35'
NAUTICAT, '86.1 46,700
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SANTANA, '81 .38,500
staterooms, bathtub, 2 showers, a galley large enough
34’
CATALINA,'87 .59,000
to be called a kitchen with refer-freezer, microwave
33'
NAUTICAT,'81 .104,000
32'
WESTSAIL,'74.49,900
30’
NONSUCH,'81 .59,500
oven propane stove-oven, Corian countertops...long cruising keel, skegged rudder, center cockpit, roller
30'
NONSUCH, '82 .59,500
furling jib, electricanchorwindlass, Loran C, knotmeter,
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CATALINA, '82 ......26,900
depthfinder, AWI, TV, VCR, AM/FM stereo casette
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CATALINA,'79.26,000
player, mainsail w/reefing & cockpit controls, auto¬
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PEARSON,'74.14,500
28'
ERICSON, '81 .22,900
pilot, cruising genoa, 1 lOv dockside power, DC-AC
34,500
HAWKE ARM, 75 .14,000
27'
CATALINA, '82 .18,000
hp 4-cyliner diesel auxiliary and a whole lot more...
27'
CATALINA, '80.12,500
26'
NONSUCH,'82 .45,000
26'
PEARSON,'76.8,000
25' CATALINA, '80.1 1,000 25'
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1992 CATALINA 28 DEMO MODEL
22’
CATALINA,'90.OFFER
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CATALINA, '87 .8,900
EAGLE YACHT
Why buy an old, beat-up out-dated Brand X 30-footer
Srandard with main & roller furling jib, KM, DS,
with an old, small engine, old sails, and that permanent
VHF, elec, anchor windlass, refrigeration, mi¬
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CATALINA, '76 .4,900
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CATALINA,'78 . 12,995
gear, more...
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CORONADO, '66.Reduced 4,400
25'
CATALINA,'80.11,995
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O'DAY,'76.7,900
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YAMAHA,'78 .12,000
new, modern
26'
INT'L FOLKBOAT.10,995
design family
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PEARSON, '76.7,900
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VEGA, '75 .OfFer pending 15,995
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COLUMBIA, 67.8,995
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CATALINA, '76.21,900
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CATALINA, '79.24,995
30' CATALINA, '80.24,995
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ERICSON,'84.39,995
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30’
MORGAN, '77.Reduced 19,99S
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LANCER, '84.Reduced 25,995
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COLUMBIA.14,495
33'
PEARSON, '75.38,995
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CAL,'70 .Offer pending 23,500
36'
CATALINA, '86 .63,995
36'
PEARSON, '81 .69,995
38'
ERICSON, '83 .Anxious 73,995
38'
BENETEAU, '83.84,000
38'
CATALINA, '82 .44,995
40'
NORTHSTAR, '74.74,995
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SEAHORSE TWLR .69,995
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WELLCRAFT, '88 .88,000
34'
SILVERTON,'90.118,000
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J/44
A rare opportunity! Completely equipped for cruise or race. Certified to American Bureau of Shipping Standards for offshore yachts, this yacht is ready for Mexico, Hawaii or a daysail to Anael Island. Less than a year old, she's essentially new. A change in owner's plans forces sale. At our docks now!
1981 40' C&C
Current owner moving up. Excellent cruiser/ racer, fully equipped for offshore work. Her ability has been proven. Full electronics including SSB, complete sail inventory, custom deck haidware, oversize winches. This yacht was a custom order for on experienced yachtsman. Call today for
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Great cruiser/racer. Inboard diesel, hot/cold pressure water, complete sail inventory, self-tailing winches. Owner has moved up and is motivated. Below market value at $27,000.
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Farr 1020, 1984, "Fast Company". Performance cruiser; fuH electronics, refrigeration with freezer, propane - easy to operate fractional rig, full sail inventory. At our docks. $59,950.
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If you are seriously considering the purchase of a new Beneteou 45r5 you must see this one! Better than the day the dealer delivered her. Since she has hod very little use her original owner is seriously offering her for sa le. Contact Oiris Corlett.
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Introducing the Pacific Seacraft Passagemaker
Crealock 34 A Special Edition Equipped for Cruising Lor the ultimate dream: to sail free,
for today's cruising sailor. Available with either Scheel Keel for performance shoal draft sailing, or the standard deep draft keel.
to visit exotic ports and secluded anchorages. There are few human endeavors that so completely satisfi/ the restless spirit and there are fewer boat builders who thoroughly understand the real needs of cruising sailors.
The Crealock 34 Passagemaker is a special edition of the superbly designed Crealock 34. Chosen by such accomplished sailors as Sue Wilson, who in 1974 established a new record as the first all-women crew to cross the Pacific. Sue's choice of the Crealock 34 was a well considered one.
The Passagemaker is delivered with a Datamarine 5100 LINK and 550 remote unit for full data display of depth, boat speed and wind information. An ICOM VHF Radio is also pro¬ vided. And so are the quality and atten¬ tion to detail that have twice earned Pacific Seacraft the honor of inclu¬ sion in Fortune magazine's list of America's Best Made Products. An investment in a cruising boat is a serious proposition. One you entrust with vour dreams and more. Make the best decision. Join the growing list of over 200 Crealock 34 owners and more than 1400 Pacific Seacraft owners world¬ wide.
"The choice of boat is critical. The The Passagemaker 34 is a Special Crealock 34 offers ammenities and Edition of the now proven the room that I need. Her Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 construction is superb and she sails beautifully, Every Passagemaker is built to ABS approved even in these light airs we plan specifications with thecruising family in have off Newport. She's mind and though the opportunity to change factory specifications is not available, responsive, which, of substantial savings are. course, is very important to me."
Specifications: LOA 34T'; LWL 2(V2"; Beam 1 ()'()'", Displace¬ ment 13,400 lbs.; Lead Ballast 4700 lbs.; Sail Area Cutter 649 ft.; Draft 4'11" Standard, 4'1" Shoal Draft; Mast Clearance 44'3". Engine Yanmar 34hp.
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Equipped For Cruising: Sailors like Sue Wilson have provided Pacific Seacraft with their invaluable experience and time at sea. Listening to their suggestions over the years has lead to the continued development and refinement of every Pacific Seacraft yacht.
For safety and convenience, all halyards and reefing lines are lead to winches mounted on the coach house roof, and Harken roller furling simplifies handling thel30% genoa. In the galley, a choice of CNG or propane stove by Force 10 and 12 volt refrigeration add full convenience and function. A heavy duty battery charger provides plentiful 12 volt power at dockside while maintaining battery condition.
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a beer. He said it was the least he could do for all the good work the Coast Guard did for Bay Area mariners. If I was in dress blues today, I don’t think many local boaters would be willing to make the same offer. I think most of the people in the Coast Guard know what their primary mission is and should be: saving lives and property at sea, and maintaining our waterways. The Coast Guard does both of these jobs in a highly-skilled and professional manner. I am proud to have been a part of that mission. But the fact is Coasties are not welltrained or professional law enforcement officers. It seems to me there should be an arrangement with the federal law enforcement agencies to carry a law enforcement professional aboard the larger cutters while they are on patrol. The Coast Guard should be able to handle the transportation and let the enforcement officer work with the appropriate agencies to determine if there is a legitimate reason to stop a vessel on the high seas. After all, this is the era of high speed computers and large data bases. It would take time to develop the data base, but it really is not any different than a local cop or Highway Patrolman calling a dispatcher to get the particulars on the car and driver. 1 used to dispatch 911 for Monterey County and saw this very thing happen many times. Let’s face it, there are some bad guys out there, but the majority of us are not — and should not be treated as if we were. Jay Ailworth Alameda
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1 enjoyed your recent article on dock lines. What kind of line is used and how it is tied says much about the owner. It was with surprise that we read your description of the ideal dock line system — it’s exactly what we have fashioned for Serenity, our Union 36. Considerations that went into the development of our system were: elimination or protection of chafe points, resiliency to eliminate shock loads, and one end of the line being adjustable. We have a chain shackled to the dock cleat and run through a metal eye with half-inch line spliced to the eye. The line is then run through a rubber snubber. Leather chafe protection is added wherever the line crosses a fairlead. Such a system is easy to inspect for wear and damage, and can be cheaply replaced. Each line is terminated with a back splice to provide a grip. I use the system for both bow and stem lines and a modified version for the bowsprit, where there is tremendous leverage. During a recent southeaster, I used a third system. Since Serenity is at the end of Kappa’s Marina in Sausalito, it’s relatively unprotected from southeasters which strike abaft of the port beam. Under such conditions the tremendous strains make it impossible to tighten any lines. Consequently I added another line that includes the same chain, eye, line and snubber combination, but which runs through a block attached to the stern by another line. This gives a two-to-one purchase with which to tighten any line, while the snubber still prevents shock loading. My wife Jan and I have concluded that we are obviously not sailing enough when I spend so much time thinking about new ways to make dock lines. But when you live in San Jose and your boat is in Sausalito, it’s nice to know she’s prepared for the toughest of nights. Bill Sams San Jose
UftNO WONDER INCREASED FEES ARE NEEDED I purchased a VHF radio and seven days later dutifully filled out an application for a license and mailed it with a $35 check to the FCC address on the letterhead. It turned out to be the wrong FCC office. There are three FCC offices in Pennsylvania and one in Washington D.C. Judging from my experience, they are unable to communicate with each other. page 38
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When I decided to learn how to sail I wanted the best training possible. I had already sailed the Bay with friends, and I knew it would take superior skills to skipper comfortably and safely. So I demanded superior instruc¬ tion. At Olympic Circle Sailing Club, that is exactly what I received. Now I am skippering, and I love every minute of my time on the water. No matter what type of boat I sail or how hard the wind blows, I am in control and having a ball. I'm glad I took the time to find the best school, and to learn right. Olympic Circle is the school I recommend to all my friends.
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LETTERS I was dismayed that the government would waste money by calling me three times from Gettysburg to leave messages to call them back for further instructions — which would be an additional waste of my money. Since there is a 90-day grace period for getting the license, why couldn’t it have been handled by mail? Twelve days after this fiasco began, I wrote a letter to the agent. "If you cannot do business by U.S. mail," I said, "then return my $35." Seven days later 1 received my check, fact sheets, notices, and my application. The agent had done her business according to FCC rules. Most disturbing to me was that they returned my money — something which would not have happened in real life. If they would have written back with clear instructions — what’s an "R.P" and a "506"? — they could have kept the check and it all would have been taken care of. Given these wasteful bureaucratic shenanigans, no wonder they claim there is a need for boat User Fees and increased FCC fees. I will not pay my $25 User Fee nor the $35 license fee until the FCC consults fiscally responsible advisors and cleans house. Ivan Rusch Aptos Ivan,—It’s clear you’ve had a terrible time with the FCC, Ivan. But it’s our feeling that the people at the FCC were acting in the most efficient manner by trying to resolve the matter over the telephone. You’d collapse if you learned how much it costs for a bureaucrat to write a letter. As for the nearly Incomprehensible form they sent you and their inability to forward your initial application to the correct FCC office, you have our sympathy. Nonetheless, we think you’re making a mountain out of a molehill. Getting a VHF license just isn’t that difficult.
M keeping away from the powders and guns Hey Latitude, remember Bruce Perlowin — the pot smuggler with the good attitude? Now that he’s out of jail, it looks like karma pulled him through. It’s too bad that you were so down on him for bringing the heat on to boaters, because it helped you overlook the fact that the NSC was bringing coke in by the ton — some of it with planes rented from Customs. At least Perlowin had the good sense to stay away from the powders and guns. Keep it green. Paul Morningstar Northern California Paul — Your attempt to distinguish pot smuggling from coke smuggling with regard to the ruining of a 'cruising neighborhood1 doesn’t work with us. Completely innocent people have had their boats torn apart or seized In Cabo, La Paz, Acapulco, Costa Rica and all over the Caribbean — all because they were Incorrectly suspected of carrying some kind of contraband. Just last week we spoke with an anti-drug couple who had to wait four months and pay $50,000 to get their drug free boat back. If adults want to smoke a little domestic weed, that’s their decision. But once they start messing up cruising areas, the lives of innocents and the balance of trade, that’s when we draw the line. As for the National Security Council, we don’t think they or any other branch of government are particularly deserving of emulation.
MCOONT YOUR BAY AREA BLESSINGS Latitude 38 has been a great way to stay in touch since we moved to the Detroit area in 1989. Thanks for the interesting years of articles and information. Lake St. Clair has proven to be a worthy body of water to sail. It’s similar to Bay sailing in that there are many one day and weekend destinations of interest and many secure anchorages. Even though page 42
UBSHTON 1) What kind of mainsail flaking system do you recommend?
Almost always Dutchman - though we should discuss your needs... 2) I have a tired, worn-out #1 - can it be saved? What's the cost of a new one?
We can stop by your boat to look at your old sails and give you a quote on the new one. 3) What's the difference between Larsen Sails and your com¬ petitors?
We've invested in technology for design and construction unavailable at most Bay Area lofts. Having been here more than 20 years, we're one of the oldest lofts in the Bay Area as well. But there's more... 4) Where can I get a good burger and a cold beer at the Boat Show?
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we’ve sailed here for two summers now, we’ve only begun to tap its potential. Some observations: 1. Similar to the Bay’s tidal cleansing, the vast amount of water — think Niagara Falls — flowing through this area keeps the water unbelievably clean. Bottom growth is almost nil. 2. The Canadian side of the St. Clair River delta is undeveloped and reminds me somewhat of the Petaluma River. Within just 12 miles of downtown Detroit, you can enjoy a weekend on the hook (there’s great holding ground everywhere) and be reminded that ducks, geese, fish, frogs and all the other things that have become rare to us urban folks still do exist. A shallow draft dink is mandatory for proper exploration. 3. Yearly berth and yard bills are about double those of the Bay Area, and the sailing only lasts from late March until mid-November. Folks in the Bay Area should count their blessings. 4. Insurance rates are the same, however they cover the entire Great Lakes region, which is extensive. 5. The winds are, of course, lighter here and a 150% headsail — if not a drifter — is mandatory. 6. The waters of Lake St. Clair are protected much like the Bay, and seas rarely exceed four feet. But it’s shallow, so you have to watch yourdepthsounder. Nonetheless, shit still happens. P.S. If the now infamous Wanderette ever visits Detroit, I would just lust/like to take her for a sail. Bob and Chris Wingerter Ericson 35 Westwing St. Clair, Michigan
MANCIENT BUT FUNCTIONAL OLD BEASTS I’ve been reading your mag for years. In fact, I acquired my current boat, a sweet little Catalina 25, through your Classy Classifieds. I am continually preparing for my dream in life, which is setting sail in my next boat — not yet chosen — to cruise around the Pacific basin for a few years. Although I haven’t been able to get much in the way of ocean experience, I continue to purchase the things I think I’ll need when the time finally comes. It was while pursuing this goal that I acquired an inexpensive — because of a broken horizon mirror bracket — old U.S. Navy sextant that was manufactured by the David-White Company of Milwaukee, WI. That company is no longer in business, but I was able to learn that some of the former employees started Scientific Instruments, and still stock some parts for the MKIIs. Anyone who owns one of these ancient but still functional old beasts might want to note the company’s address: 518 W. Cherry St., Drawer TR, Milwaukee, Wl 95219, (414) 263-1600. Their expert staff was most helpful. I’d also like to share a method I developed for filling those hard-tofill Origo alcohol stove and heater canisters. As anyone who has dealt with these things has quickly learned, it’s virtually impossible to pour alcohol from a jug into these things without creating a large — and flammable — mess. So here’s my trick: Find a can that’s smaller in diameter than the opening on the top of the Origo fuel unit. The can I used once contained creamed corn. Punch a hole in the bottom of the can from the inside, deforming the hole outward. Next put the canister on a level surface and place the can with the hole on the top of the element opening. If you pour the fuel into the can, it will drain out into the canister at a controlled rate without spilling. You’ve still got to tip the canister to see if it is full between fillings, but it beats the hell out of trying to fill the thing straight from the jug. Darwin Boblet Sunnyvale *
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ffTHE EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED DURING THE OPTIMUM SEASON Many cruising sailors are now taking the opportunity to join international sailboat races or rallies when they are headed in the same general direction. The reasons for cruisers to join such races are numerous: the competition, the camaraderie, the fun — and sometimes to get hard-to-obtain cruising permits. Normally such races and/or rallies are scheduled during the optimum season for safe passagemaking, and host clubs provide an abundance of hospitality for the participants. Entry and racing rules are often tailored to make cruising boats competitive in their loadeddown configurations. I have compiled a list of 29 international sailboat races that start from Australia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand and the United States. This list also includes mailing addresses for all of the sponsoring organizations. Your readers can obtain copies of this comprehensive list by writingto: Earl Hinz, 1750 Kalakakua Ave., #3-762, Honolulu, HI 968^6, USA. I charge $5 to send the list air mail to U.S. addresses and $6 to foreign addresses. Earl Hinz Honolulu, HI
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WIT’S PROBABLY STILL AVAILABLE In the February Letters, a bunch of "retired old sea dogs" were musing about the "Machete Stopper". This device inserts in a 25mm flare gun and holds a .410 shell. It’s a fine piece of equipment and is probably still available from Art Starz in Topanga. A year or so ago it cost $95, plus UPS. Jim Robinson San Francisco
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No longer can I bear the shame and humiliation! If confession truly restoreth the soul, then it is imperative that I throw myself upon the mercy of my fellow man and confess. In the April 1990 issue of Latitude there appeared a heartbreaking letter seeking help. Certain persons, unnamed but well-known, were said to be inflicting pain and suffering upon a cat. The transgressions stated were so heinous and evil in nature that it has taken me almost two years to overcome the remorse and disgrace, but now confess I must. Yes, folks, I am the inconsiderate, insensitive, rude and plain old stupid 'Catnapper' of Sanford-Wood Boatyard! I offer no defense, for my guilt is too obvious. I just happen to like cats. Oh, the shame and degradation! The suffering and pain! The burden soon became too much to bear. In July of that year I had a heart attack and could no longer work. Then my friends, one by one, began to turn their backs. Soon I was spurned by all, alone and desolate. By mid-1991,1 could no longer bear the pain, and on a cold and foggy night slipped the lines and sailed off into oblivion — Southern California. So here I am, starting life all over again in a new marina. There are lots of cats here, but sad to say, when their owners see me coming they grab their little beasts and hide them! "Here kitty kitty!" Darn, my reputation has preceded me. Jim Gill Ketch Mary January Chula Vista
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^REPLACE THE STAINLESS WITH BRONZE I got a kick out of seeing the photo of my dismasted Equater in the February issue. To set the record straight, however, I should tell you that after 1 had owned the boat for 14 years, my insurance company sent an expert over last fall to check my boat over. The surveyor found no deficiencies. The problem with my rig was one of the Navtec screws — the threaded bolt of the turnbuckle. A hairline fault, hidden beneath the part of this bolt that you fit a wrench to for adjustment, had let water seep in. The standing water had apparently increased this fault with rust. Close-hauled in 25 knots of wind, the bolt simply separated, causing the mast to buckle, then blow overboard. It happened so quickly that none of us saw it. Patrick at Bay Riggers tells me that this problem has been solved by manufacturing these bolt screws out of bronze rather than stainless. My crew and I were lucky that no one was injured, and no real damage was done to the boat. I would recommend, however, that anyone with these Navtec turnbuckles replace the bolts with bronze ones. It’s cheap insurance — although it may keep you from getting your picture in Latitude. Dick Henry San Francisco
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Don Farquharson. Mr. Farquharson seems to have forgotten about the concept of territorial waters. Every nation in the world — including the United States — can and will stop and/or impound your vessel if you are found in their waters without permission. The high-handed authoritarian attitude of the United States, of course, goes far beyond territorial waters. The proclivity of U.S. Coast Guard vessels to board ships on the high seas is well known. Then there are places like Indonesia. A good friend of mine was shot and killed by authorities for simply being in their waters! But let’s forget the past and move up to the present. I stopped in Cuba last June while delivering an FD-12 from Seattle to the other side of the Canal. Hopefully 1 will find time to write about that trip, because it also included a stop in Nicaragua. And yes, we survived visits to both Cuba and Nicaragua. I am of two minds with regard to publicizing our stop in Cuba, as I have seen greedy capitalists completely destroy too many places duriqg my 20 years of cruising. The U.S. Virgins are just one good example. Nonetheless, I’ll report that we sailed into Cayo Largo, Cuba, with the Stars ’n Stripes flying off our transom. The Cubans have built a very nice tourist complex on this sandy cay 125 miles north of Grand Cay than. Part of the complex is a sheltered harbor with moorings and dockage. Shortly after we pulled up to the dock in front of the Pirates’ Bar, we were given pratique by a doctor — something I haven’t seen done in years. After she declared us in good health, the Immigration, Customs and port officials came aboard. But get this: they removed their boots before boarding — without being asked! The questions asked and forms to be filled out were all pretty standard. The only exception was that they didn’t stamp my passport. When I asked why, they replied, "We don’t want you to get into trouble if you go to the United States." I told them that 'Trouble' was my middle name, and insisted they stamp my passport. All the Cubans we met were extremely courteous, kind, helpful and friendly. It is not they, but our own government that doesn’t want us visiting Cuba. If you arrive in Cuba by boat, for example, the Cubans will provide you with a visa for as long as you wish. Incidentally, the Cubans said we could go wherever we wished except Bahia Cochinos (Bay of Pigs). The American government, naturally, won’t allow you into the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo. Some opinions and advice on visiting Cuba: Stay out of the major harbors whenever possible, as you’ll be charged the same rates for entering and leaving as large ships. It can be as much as $80. Fortunately, there are hundreds of anchorages to visit and plenty of free ports that don’t charge port fees. There were no supermarkets on Cayo Largo, and while we were there the BBC was reporting that bread and eggs were being rationed in Havana. A fellow at the Cayo Largo Marina would go off and get what we wanted, generally for free or very little money. All the same, I would suggest that cruisers bring all the provisions they need — so as not to take any away from the Cubans. The embargo of Cuba is just another stupid U.S. foreign policy blunder, because it hurts only the little people and not the leadership. Besides, how long do you think Castro could stay in power if the embargo was dropped and the Cubans were suddenly inundated with McDonalds, cable TV, Safeway, frozen dinners and drugs? In closing I want to advise everyone to go and see Cuba now before it gets f-ked over by the Americans. The only animosity the Cuban people have is toward politicians—something they share with us Americans. Stefan T. Zaporwski Panama Stefan — In as much as Cuba, which dominates the entire Caribbean basin, is going to be the great new cruising ground of the future, we’d love to get more details on pour visit.
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LETTERS World countries? Let me tell you those school teachers in Fiji just love the books from the United States. It is also great to gather up all the old clothes you can get, clean them, and store them away to later give to the different islanders you visit. It doesn’t make much difference whether the clothes are for adults or children, they are well received and appreciated. In Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, there are no high schools in the villages on the remote islands. Upon completion of grammar school, students who wish to continue their education have to go to boarding school. But most parents—who make a living growing tapioca, coconuts and taro — can’t afford the $150 tuition or the $150 boarding fee. So I now sponsor two talented young men at a high school on Taveuni in Northern Fiji. I don’t expect either will ever become the president of Fiji, but they are getting a chance. Lastly, we cruisers, given the right equipment, could be monitoring the environment of the world’s more remote area. After all, there aren’t really too many places in the water world that we don’t visit at some time or another. It would be great if the scientific guys were to produce a simple water quality testing kit for monitoring the oceans, estuaries, lagoons, etc., with forms to be filled out and sent to a library or data bank such as Scripps Institute and filed away for future reference. Then when some country or corporation wanted to do some underwater mining or whatever, there would be a track record that would show just what the environment was like and should be kept at. Just dreaming I guess. Thanks for such a great rag — one which never seems to change and always gives me a chuckle. Peter M. Sutter Wild Spirit Sausalito Peter — Great letter with some good thoughts. Now, can anybody tell us how to go about dumping a disk from a boat to shore via SSB?
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slowly catching Melges. Stars led around the mark, but Melges caught and covered them. Stars tacked away just as Defiant’s chute exploded, after which Stars easily crossed the finish line ahead of Defiant for the first time. ESPN’s coverage a week later didn’t come close to doing it justice. It can get lumpy off San Diego, just as your article said. What needs to be added is that the converted ferries and harbor cruise 'cattle boats' were bobbing around like corks. Long and lean Zeus, on the other hand, sliced through the sloppy seas with very little effort. I can get sick on Huntington Lake, but this was the first time in many offshore trips that I was able to keep lunch down. Besides, from a sailboat is the only place to watch the America’s Cup. You were also right about Ben, the skipper. He knows how to show his guests the race. After the start, everyone else charged off after the two racers. Only the mega-horsepower Zodiac tenders can keep up with them, so Zeus was powered straight to the first mark to watch the rounding. As it was, we had to alter course to get out of the competitor’s way — and nearly got showered with pieces of blue spinnaker. \ By tbetime this gets published, the 'important' races will be coming up. The ocean will be more congested and the spectator herders will be less lenient — but if you can book a trip, do it. At half the fun and twice the price, I would still have written this letter. Charlie Krauter Victory 21 fleet Fresno Yacht Club
(ItLIFE’S PURPOSE IS LIVING With interest, I read Jean Irish’s request in the February Latitude for research about doing volunteer work while out cruising. I turned 70 in February, and I’ve been living aboard a 26-foot boat since I retired from state service when I was 50. Your pin-pointing the problem of retirement as being the "lack of purpose" struck a responsive chord. Although 1 suffered a massive heart attack when I was 50, I’m still cruising. After the attack I decided that if my act was to be truncated, I might as well enjoy my curtain calls. And what better way than to cruise the Sacramento River Delta while being my own best captain? Although my good doctor had — half jokingly — given me just 60 days, soon two months came and went. Then two years. It’s now been 20 years since my heart attack and nobody is more presently surprised than I that I’m still around. I’d worked in mental health, and 1 think the cause of my heart attack was trying to solve other peoples’ problems while ignoring mine for too long. Giving myself my own 'second opinion', I decided to use an egg timer to regulate my activity as soon as I got out of bed each morning. I’d work 15 minutes, then I’d rest 15 minutes. I saved my life by not volunteering. That’s right, I cut off all the nagging outside requirements and took care of my own self-healing. My heart attack left permanent, irrecoverable damage. I abandoned the idea of being strong again in favor of utility. Regardless of his or her condition, a person shouldn’t ever retire. By that, I mean fall out and collapse into a hammock. The appropriate strategy to fight growing older and weaker is to change occupations. At age 52,1 learned to commercial fish, and for the next 10 years commercial fished six months a year, chasing salmon and albacore from Santa Cruz to Shelter Cove aboard Easy. Upon qualifying for Social Security, I stopped hunting fish, brought a computer aboard, learned to use it, and began writing copy for various newspapers and magazines. Success at writing has been the most difficult task I’ve ever undertaken. Rejections are brutal, but learning to marshall thought In prose has taught me much about selfinterest. It took me four years to get published. The pay was lousy, rejections irritating, but the growth in my understanding and selfrespect made the great effort to communicate worthwhile. Aboard Easy, justification problems don’t provoke. I feed wild page 58
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OtfTHE SAME BOAT FOR 15 YEARS As the original owners of a 1975 Valiant 40, we axe responding to your interest in those of us who have owned the same boat for over 15 years. Native Sun, our Valiant 40, has not only been a comfortable home afloat, she has carried us safely more than 60,000 bluewater miles., Typically our passages were made with just the two of us — and our trusty Alpha Marine autopilot. Valiant experts might be interested to note that even though we have one of the older Valiant 40s, she’s not had any blisters! Native Son has proven to be an excellent replacement for our previous boat, an Islander 36. We loved the Islander, but felt she was limited in offshore and liveaboard capabilities. After we spent many years enjoying the cruising life aboard the Valiant, hurricane Hugo dealt us a nasty blow that interrupted our lifestyle. Unfortunately, we chose to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, having sought shelter in the harbor at Culebra, Puerto Rico. The north wall of that monster hurricane’s evil eye passed right by with wind speeds in excess of 220 mph on her way to becoming this century’s most destructive storm. Although damaged, Native Sun survived structurally — a testimony to the quality of her construction. Unfortunately, she was not built to withstand the storm of looters that followed. After the storm we evaluated our options. We even tried to objectively think of a replacement for Native Sun, but we were unable to find any yacht, new or used, that does so many things as well as the Valiant. Perhaps that’s why Valiants are so seldom found on the used market. Eventually we elected to ship Native Sun back to the Valiant factory in Texas for a complete refit and repair. We are currently living ashore and working toward our future sailing plans. Sylvia & Stanley Dabney Gordonville, Texas Sylvia & Stanley — Interestingly enough, we recently had dinner with Rob and Joan Roy ofTiburon, whose Gulfstar44 Dirigo was also badly damaged by Hugo when hauled out in Puerto Rico. Although their insurance company would have gladly totalled the boat, she’d been so good to Rob and Joan that they decided to have her repaired. They’ve since sailed her to Venezuela and Trinidad.
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LETTERS 1 and thus try not to be liable for the taxes. I found it curious that he would not accept documentation that other port fees had been paid, as there was clearly a pattern of the boat being out of the United States. Seems to me that 1 read a novel called Catch 22. Property tax on property that is no longer in the county or country makes no sense. In my frustration in deeding with Mr. Scott, 1 decided to make as much trouble for him as possible. The Oakland Tribune and KGO Channel 7 ran stories. Both were all too eager to run a story calling John Scott one of the most uncreative bureaucrats ever to be elected. People like John Scott need to be told by the public that unfair taxation will not be tolerated. I hope you read this John Scott, because I’m telling you to kiss my butt, cause I’m not paying your unfair taxes. My boat is gone, remove it from your tax rolls. When I passed through Southern California, the local rags were full of stories about the Federal Use stickers. There is a definitive way to keep from buying one. Go cruising. No one checks 'out here'. The closest thing to A, B, C or D is the selection on a menu. Sony GPS? Let me see. American development. American hardware in orbit. So let’s go out and buy a Japanese GPS because it’s a little cheaper. No, I don’t think so. Go' cruising, it’s a gas! Craig Uhler Kiku Maru Magdelena Bay Craig — You would expect that there would be conformity among California counties as to whether or not property taxes should be assessed on boats that are out of the country, but there Is not. Some — Marin Is one example — won’t assess you the tax if you can document that your boat Is out of the country for more than six months of a calendar year. Then there are those like Alameda County, who are hell-bent to tax whether there Is any justification or not. We recommend getting on the tax rolls of the right kind of county before taking off cruising. However, our candidate for the worst offender In assessing taxes Is the county of Ventura. They assessed us for a boat we’d both moved to another county and sold the year before! When asked their method of assessing taxes, they said they assess all the boats that are in the marina on March 1 — and all the ones that were In the marina the previous year. It’s that kind of dedication to the job that fosters such contempt for government.
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I’ve just started sailing my 21-foot MacGregor on the Bay and, of course, love it. Having read your magazine over the years, I’ve consistently heard racers give credit to 'local knowledge' of the Bay’s winds and currents in winning races. I think you should start a column with the above title, and talk about various parts of the Bay, giving detailed specific information, along with maps, and anything else you can think of that might be helpful. If you run out of local spots, you could expand to other cruising delectables such as Mexico, the Caribbean or wherever strikes your fancy. What do you think? Is this worth doing? Philip Vardara Sacramento Philip — We’re planning on An Idiot’s Guide to Enjoying San Francisco Bay feature for an upcoming Issue. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, keep your eyes peeled for the Gate. If it’s clear outside the Gate early In the morning, it’s usually going to blow like hell. If it’s cloudy, the breeze will usually be relatively mild. ■ „•
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MSAILS WITHOUT STICKERS If you don’t like the recreational vessel 'User Fee', you can write your congressman. But I think that’s a waste of time. I suggest the only effective form of protest is for boatowners not to bug the stupid stickers! The reason the Congress is stalling about a possible repeal of the User Ffee is simple: they are waiting to see how many boaters will pay. If enough of us do pay, we’ll be stuck with the fee forever. But if enough stout-hearted sailors don’t pay, they may be forced to repeal the fee as it would be too difficult, unpopular and expensive to enforce.' P.S. Has anyone been busted for not having paid the User Fees? For obvious reasons, I do not wish to sign my name. Call me: Sails Without Stickers Point Richmond S.W.S. — Mariners could also trying writing to their congresswoman, but we don’t think that would do any good either. To our knowledge, no boat owner has been busted for not paying the fee. When that happens, we’ll all going to hear about it — and the ensuing court case.
MPUT A DOLLAR TAX ON EVERY CONDOM Dealing with the new government boat taxes is like wearing a condom: it gives one a sense of security while being screwed. Therefore, I have a solution to the national debt: put a dollar tax on every condom. It would seem appropriate that all such proceeds go to the Coast Guard. Lindy Lindquist Northern California
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ff SPACE LETTER In your last issue you asked about the sailing race through outer space. The Columbus Solar Sail Race will be held in 1993-’94, with spacecraft from the Americas, Europe and Asia. The entrants will set off from Earth on a race to the moon and then beyond to Mars. They will be driven by huge solar sails which trap radiant energy from the sun and create 'solar wind'. Linda Tiburon
UtDON’T GO THROUGH LIFE WITH THAT ATTITUDE I’ve been reading Latitude 38 for six years, and this is the first time any words in your excellent magazine have infuriated me enough to put my lazy hand to pen and paper. This is about the Changes by Paul Mikos of Sea Venture. Three times Mikos suggests cruisers cheat governments or businesses by lying about arrival times and not paying what is owed. I hope that this page 64
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HtTHE MASTER AT JUGGLING This past weekend I attended the West Marine-sponsored Pacific Cup Safety and Boat Preparation Seminar, and was extremely impressed by the organization of the event and the quality of the speakers. Everyone was well-prepared and informative, and the variety of subjects was very useful — from Sue Corenman explaining how to provision for the cruise, to Dr. Lewis Tannenbaum and Dr. Judith Fairchild giving pointers on how not to wind up in trouble from sunburn, salt water sores, and other sailing maladies. Jim Corenman and Kame Richards both shared a lot of valuable information on getting your boat and rigging ready for the long haul, and every one of the speakers was worth listening to. But I must single out Chuck Hawley of West Marine, who spoke on safety gear and navigation. Hawley was wonderful — as he’s been every time I’ve heard him speak. His humor, wit, and sense of fun makes all the medicine about serious subjects like liferafts and watermakers a lot easier to take. No one is exempt from being the subject of Hawley’s humor — least of all Hawley himself — but I can’t imagine that anyone, female, male, or manufacturer, could possibly take offense at his ribbing. I says 'thanks' to all the organizers and speakers for an informative and entertaining day, and especially to Chuck Hawley for being a master at light-hearted juggling of very serious and sound advice and information. Susan Alvaro Moss Beach
MIT'S ABOUT TIME I just received a copy of the February issue — courtesy of Fran Bioletti — here in Melaque. Having now read Changes, I’ve finally gotten riled up enough to write you guys a letter. I take great exception to the letter from Sea Venture, which makes it sound as though all the Mexican people are a bunch of dummies: "So screwed up they’ll never find you". And, "Don’t pay unless you get stopped". The people here are laid-back, which is what we came down here to be. We’ve found that if you treat the Mexican people with respect, they’ll treat you with respect in return. The Mexicans who don’t like cruisers are probably the ones that had dealings with people like those on Sea Venture. This is our second year in Mexico. VJe left San Francisco in October '90, returned in May of '91 to do some work on the boat, then headed south again in November of '91. We plan to stay here for page 66
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4 ftNOT ONE OR THREE I have two questions to ask: 1) Do you know of any good software for onboard PC computers to provide weather fax maps or aid in navigation? With the advent of a profusion of small battery operated notebook computers, this type of software should be very useful aboard cruising boats. I have had a PC aboard Elixir for many years and have been using the same navigation software for great circle and celestial navigation for about 5 years. Although I still use it, the software is somewhat crude and I know there must be better stuff out there. I also have heard that someone in Southern California has software that can turn a PC with a printer (plus a short wave radio) into a weatherfax. If you or any of your readers know about this type of software, I would appreciate hearing about it. If you wish, I will be happy to evaluate and compare the available packages and report these observations to Latitude in order to assist others who may also be interested to know what is "out there". 2) I would like to cruise to Glacier Bay in Alaska during the month of July. Do you have any advice or assistance regarding such a cruise? Thank you for your help. I have been enjoying Latitude for 10 years and often take copies with me on business trips to places such as Hong Kong and Japan where they are really appreciated. Keep up the great work. . ^ Les Goldner San Francisco
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HIT LOOKED LIKE IT CAME OUT OF A CRACKER JACK BOX The new formula ior boats, the international interest and keen competition has gotten me quite excited about the America’s Cup. In fact, I recently flew down to San Diego and took a ride on Zeus to watch the action. For the last year I have been receiving many slick requests for donations from Bill Koch’s America3 Foundation. The solicitations have had the look of a professional fund-raising corporation that gets a good cut of the donations. But the copy has been compelling, and as a result 1 have made some small donations. But as a result of a November request for donations, I now feel ripped off. It was during that month that I received a special plea for additional funding. Part of the plea included the promise of a lapel pin for every donation over $25. There was a four-color photo of the pin, which was gold-plated with an enameled American flag and America3 Foundation logo on it in gold and white enamel. 1 donated $50. Come January, I received a button-size, one color lapel pin that had been cast — and looked as though it could have come out of a Cracker Jack box! Very disappointed, I sent it and a letter complaint back. I have yet to receive a response. I’m curious if other readers have had similar experiences. I am sending copies of this letter to the managers of the Americas Foundation in the hope of getting some kind of response. If I don’t hear from them, I’m thinking of contacting the Post Office regarding what I consider to be mail fraud. Dick Linehan Mountain View Dick — Since it would cost you a lot more than $50 in effort and aggravation to recover your money — which you’ll probably never page 70
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4 ft RUMOR HAS IT THERE ARE 50 OF THESE FINE SWEDISH VESSELS ON THE BAY Where are all the International Folkboats? Rumor has it there are 50 or so of the fine Swedish (Marieholm) vessels on the Bay. If you’re an owner, I invite you to contact me in order to join the S.F. International Folkboat Association for cruises and low-key races. If you don’t have an International Folkboat and would like to learn more about them, I can put you in touch with IF members who may need crew from time to time. Locally-owned International Folkboats have sailed as far as New Zealand and others have circumnavigated. We also have one Singlehanded TransPac entrant and another of our members sailed to Hawaii. I suggest the design would make an ideal Latitude Boat Of The Month. Michael Conner Chair, San Francisco International Folkboat Association Box 460789, San Francisco 94146 (415)252-0778 \
ALL THIS FOR JUST A LOOK AT LATITUDE We’re on Molokai — yes, it’s incredible — which is the last stopover of this particular trip, and I thought I would relay my thanks to the power your 'little' publication wields. Armed with just a single copy of the January Latitude, I was able to: 1. Gain entrance to the Hawaii YC. (Okay, it’s not that big a deal, but they do have great views and good rum drinks.) 2. Gain passage on a magnificent 45-foot sloop to Lahaina. 3. Go day sailing out of Lahaina. I then proceeded to Cairns, Australia, where, armed with a single copy of the February Latitude sent by my good friend Peter Kampp of Santa Cruz, I was able to: 1. Get a four-day passage around the Great Barrier Reef. 2. Gain passage on the classic trimaran Australian Spirit. 3. Sail through the little known but beautiful Family Islands. All this stuff for just letting people look through two issues of Latitude. Chris T. Hawk Orinda Chris — You’re obviously a person who Is able to get the most from the least. You could probably do a circumnavigation on less than a dozen magazines.
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One of my ex-girlfriends used to love to sail without a top when we were offshore. To her it was just another aspect to the freedom of sailing and cruising. I am sure that the relaxation added a couple of years to her life. Thanks to Latitude for a good mag — and please, keep publishing an occasional photo of a spicy nature. I sometimes get bored reading all the letters and articles. It is always nice to get to the Changes In Latitudes section and find some interesting photos of 'local color'. It helps show us all the fun people are having out there cruising. I’ve a couple of words for Felix Knauth of Marshall, too: Lighten up! If you and Mary want to bitch about something, why not raise hell about the damn User Fees and the rest of the crap that’s going on in Washington instead of getting so excited about a couple of 'coconuts'? Trucking a Westsail 32 to Lake Tahoe??? Bill Fisher San Diego Bill — It’s a wee bit hypocritical of you to be an advocate of "freedom" and then vilify the Thompsons for finishing off a Westsail 32 at Lake Tahoe. The Westsail 32 Is a perfectly fine boat and Lake Tahoe Is a perfectly fine place to finish the boat off. What’s the problem? Here’s a little quiz: Where was Lon Price’s Scorpio, a state-of-the art 42-foot Wylie IMS design, built: Santa Cruz, Long Beach, San Diego or Lake Tahoe? We don’t even have to tell you the answer to that one, do we?
lift STAY IN YOUR NARROW KAYAK Mary Thompson, your mind is about as broad as that kayak you paddle. I’m sure many people read your mini-minded objection about tits, but I’m also sure that many open-minded Latitude 38 readers understand that a picture is still just a picture. Listen dummy, if you think these pictures are published to compete with Playboy, then you really have limited your sailing experience to paddling a kayak. Get real and stay in your kayak, the sailing world doesn’t need you. P.S. More photos, guys. A1 Lunt A 15-year vet of the Columbus Day Regatta Miami Al — We know you grizzly of vets have gone through some tough times, but next time how about blasting with Just one barrel Instead of two?
H If SO LACKING IN JOCULARITY This graying neanderthal of a sailor read with chagrin the letters of complaint from the 'politically correct' about your editorial treatment of women. I see no mistreatment. But I do see a few people feeding their personal sacred cows. Why is it the 'politically correct' are so lacking in jocularity? Because their sacred cows are bloated with pompous, self-righteous flatulence. These sacred cows need an occasional harpooning. The resulting loss of gas will help them shrink to their normal diminutive size. David E. Paine Trinidad, CA
u I THINK IT’S FREE, NATURAL AND FUN Okay, I’m tired of these sober-sided, party poopers who write to your magazine every time—which isn’t that often—that you publish a photo of a pair of tits! Party poopers such as authored the Suggestion for Every Pair of Tits and Flimsy Excuses letters in the February issue. I do not feel "denigrated" by topless photos or sexy comments. Au contralrel Civil rights issue? Bullshit! Right on to the editor for saying that breasts are not genitalia; page 74
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LETTERS they’re for feeding babies! And for most people, they’re pleasing to look at, which 1 think was nature’s intent. I, as well as several other women I know, enjoy sailing around the Bay bare breasted because it is free, it is natural and it is fun. Remember those Christian Missionaries who voyaged hither and yon, with blouses and brassieres, which they foisted on innocent once free natives of tropical islands and the African continent? They, too, saw the exposure of the female breast as denigrating and wrong. Nuts to them — and likewise to the 'politically correct' who just don’t wanna have fun! The Dixie West Committee For Bare Breasted Days On The Bay (D.W.C.F.B.B.D.O.B.)
ft ft WARNINGS FROM THE VIRGIN GENERAL Boy, do I get tired of the heat you folks take every time there’s a bare breast in one of your photos. As a male chauvinist pig who supports equal rights, I’d like to voice my sincere appreciation to you all at Latitude and the lovely free-spirited ladies who’ve adorned your pages vbith their innocence — despite all the ominous warnings from the Virgin General about how vile and shameful our sexuality is. Talk about perversion! I’m assuming that Felix K. Knauth, who popped his wad in the February Letters, is indeed a male. His letter reminded me of the time I covered the 1971 Miss California Beauty Pageant in Santa Cruz in 1971 for a feminist newsletter, in hopes, 1 discovered through deep introspection, that it would improve my love life. In closing, I’d like to reiterate what I said to you years ago: Your despicable benevolence augmented by your amicable animosity would be a certain affront to any informed illiterate. I demand an immediate detraction. Jesse Goodman Healdsburg
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ft MARY THOMPSON GETS TO BAT LAST O.K., so I learned from the last Latitude. For one, there are some women who like looking at other women’s bare breasts. I’m sorry for the generalization in my previous letter. Secondly, I learned that freedom is represented by women’s bare breasts, not bare-bottomed men — that’s too outta control. I also learned from Gordon Buford that I possess a "joyless, sexually-paranoid, gender hostile, mean-spirited, self-righteous attitude". Geez, Gordon, I don’t ever remember meeting you. How do you know what my attitude is? I’d like everybody — especially those who wrote in — to go back to the February issue and read my letter. I never said you shouldn’t print this tits, I just thought you ought to display another source of represented freedom. Why can’t the guys show off their freedom? Oh well, back to skiing in the nude, displaying my freedom. Ha-ha, c’mon guys, it’s funny, you gotta laugh about it. Don’t get uptight>abbut me being uptight. Mary Thompson Madeshka, Westsail 32 South Lake Tahoe Mary — The Wanderer says he’s got you sussed: "Even though a lot of readers are Jumping all over her, I figure Mary for being a reasonable but spunky lady with a decent sense of humor. The kind of person the Wanderer could have a lively discussion with. But she’s a victim of her environment. Give her a few months on her boat in Mexico, the South Pacific or the Caribbean, and her perspectives — and tan lines — would broaden dramatically." As for photos of guys 'displaying their freedom' by enjoying the sensation of wind blowing between their legs, don’t be shy, ladles, send them In. We’ve printed them before, and In the proper context — which Is just about any — we’ll publish them again. Address all such submissions — and model releases — to the Wanderette, who has appointed herself 'Buns Editor'.
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LETTERS Sea Seminar which we co-hosted with Cruising Club of America and the Pacific InterClub Yachting Association. We had just sent out the evaluations when the letter appeared in the January Latitude regarding the seminar. First, you’ll be happy if not at all surprised to learn that me i people heard about the seminar through Latitude 38. The second largest source was Cruising World magazine, third was through posters and yacht club or S.E.A. newsletters. Participants were asked to rate the presenters and the seminar as a whole on a scale of 1-3, with 1 being "not helpful" and 3 being "very helpful". The seminar as a whole rated 2.82. The presenters rated from 2.16, for the storm tactics panel, to 2.84 for the equipment presentation. A few presenters — the medical doctor and the liferaft presenter — got both very good and very poor reviews! One hundred percent of the respondents would recommend the seminar to a friend, and many said they already had. All in all, our seminar participants were pleased with the effort and had helpful suggestions, many of which we plan to make use of in the next seminar. The Cruising Club of America had already applied to run the seminar when we at Sailinr Education Adventures also applied. Cruising World suggested we put on the seminar together, which, with the help of Dick Gray from PICYA, is what we did. The committee worked well together, with CCA members and Dick arranging for the speakers and S.E.A. handling registration, outdoor sound and the Lifesling demo. For 1992, S.E.A. will be the lead organization, with CCA members and Dick Gray again helping out. All of these groups are small, non¬ profit, and volunteer-based. We were very pleased with how the ’91 event went and hope to do an even better job next fall. We’re unable to announce the date at this time, because Fort Mason cannot yet commit to one. We thank everyone who came to the seminar, and to those who took time to return the evaluations. Thanks too, to Latitude 38 and West Marine, who helped to get the word out. Jane A. Piereth Executive Director Sailing Education Adventures
UftSIZE IS NOT THE ISSUE — STRENGTH IS THE BOTTOM LINE 1 recently received a clipping from your magazine and was surprised to find myself mentioned briefly in the Whatever You Got Will Do letter by Neil Bisbee of Cygnos. The letter described a few of the small yachts that have cruised the Pacific. According to the letter, we sailed a Cal 25 across the Atlantic twice and then on to New Zealand. You know what — it’s true! 1 must add, however, that a 'stock' Cal 25 is a totally inappropriate boat to take to sea. Having done it, I know. In 1983, at the reckless age of 19,1 sailed Martini, a stock Cal 25, from Seattle to New York via Panama. After that bit of voyaging the hull was a structural disaster. It was cracked under the main bulkhead, the rudder was cracked, the bulkheads forming the v-berth were torn loose and the hull between them was riddled with stress fractures due to 'oil-canning'. The cockpit was, without question, too big as the boat tended to wallow a bit after waves had filled it. I realized that if I wanted to keep my cruising dream alive, I would have to rebuild. That or move to Iowa. I started by hauling the boat and gutting her completely with a hammer and large chisel. Over the following 18 months, I created a grid network of stringers, floors and ring bulkheads. The inside looked like the fuselage of a DC-3. 1 cut the cockpit out completely and replaced it with one having wide gunnel? and a shallow foot-well. I also built a hard dodger and doghouse, and made the boat virtually leak proof in even the worst conditions. I stripped the mast and, using the same extrusion, replaced all of the tangs and bolts, page 80
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going up one size. I added intermediates, an inner forestay and running backstays. In order to keep the cost down, I used 1/4" 7x7 wire with Nicro press terminals. I put on a bigger boom section and larger goose neck. Although I kept the same rudder shape, I built a new one of plywood and epoxy. Belowdecks, 1 rebuilt the interior to create maximum storage, particularly over the keel area where 1 would centralize the heavy stuff like canned foods and liquids. I launched the 'new* boat under the name of Direction in New York during the spring of 1987.1 sailed solo to England via the Caribbean. My wife-to-be joined me in England, and together we sailed back to the Caribbean, then on to Panama and across the Pacific to Australia. We sailed here to New Zealand last year. Direction has logged some 25,000 miles without structural mishap. Our largest, most recent problems involve space — actually, the lack of it! Our second baby was bpm in December, her brother being bom last year in Australia. When I rebuilt in New York 1 forgot to do something about the length! Small boats are an ideal way to see the world at a relatively low cost—whatever the hell that implies. However most older production boats have cockpits that are too large, rigging that is too light to take the added load of extra provisions, and bulkheads that are poorly located and insufficiently attached. With a lot of time and a few thousand dollars in materials, a low-cost older production boat can be easily made ready to cross oceans. Size is not the issue — strength is the bottom line. Dave and Jaja Martin Yacht Direction Tauranga, New Zealand Dave — We’re Impressed — not on/y with what you’ve accom¬ plished, but with the first-hand wisdom you’ve shared with our readers.
UftHILARITY AND APPREHENSION Sunday, March 1st dawned dismally, with overcast and light winds. But since it was the first race of the season for Monterey YC’s handicap fleet, there was nothing to do but get out the foulies and go sailing. The TV weatherpersons were promising rain and wind, so when I arrived aboard Dave Morris and Jim Winterbottom’s Olson 30 Wind Spirit, we listened with hilarity — and a little apprehension — to the forecast given by one of the National Weather Service’s non-English speaking announcers. He advised us to be prepared for "intermittent 30-knot squats". All of us had experienced "squats" at one time or another, but none could recall a 30-knotter. Sounded heavy! After agreeing to keep our eyes peeled for anything that looked like a "squat", we went out to race. Halfway through the race — again with hilarity and a little apprehension — we noticed massive black clouds building over Monterey. Could this be one of the dreaded "squats?" What sails, we wondered, should an Olson 30 carry in "squat" conditions. Or should we drop out of the race? We were leading the race, so we couldn’t quit. Only a lightning strike could stop us! So it was down with the #1, up with the #3, at which point we were being "squatted" open. Thunder, lightning, torrential rain and 20-25 knot winds. Still, it wasn’t so bad and we finished. What we want to know is whether a new word — 'squat' — has been added to the sailing lexicon. Does a squall have to have 30-knot winds to qualify as a squat, and should lesser blows be referred to as "diddley-squats"? . s Allan Patterson Monterey Peninsula YC
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'Great American' Francisco in October of 1990, in an attempt to break the sailing record to Boston via Cape Horn. (You may also recall that the boat had already set the New York to San Francisco sailing record in 1989.) A month into the trip, however, skipper Rich Wilson and crew Steve Pettengill ran into hellacious weather, and on Thanksgiving, one day before they were due to round the infamous tip of South America, the boat capsized. An hour later, she was wrenched back upright by a huge sea. At that point, although the hull structure was intact, the rig was down, the boat was awash and the decks were a tangled mess of broken gear. After some 14 hours, Wilson and Pettengill were plucked from the boat by the crew of a New Zealand-registered container ship. For a while, the ARGOS transmitter aboard Great American continued to track her progress — including, ironically, the boat rounding Cape Horn by herself. About the time plans were in place to attempt to rescue her (and Wilson had to make the decision whether it was worth the considerable cost), the signals became erratic, then stopped altogether. Beyond the "deck and portions of the hull" being found along the rocky coastline, the report was unspecific as to exactly what the unnamed Frenchman found, except that he believed the boat had come ashore only recently. Many who knew her felt the John Shuttleworth-designed Great American (originally Travacrest Seaway) was built so exceptionally strong that nothing short of hitting something — like an island — would break her up. Why the boat should have come ashore on South Georgia is something decided upon by powers much greater than us. The island, a dependency of the Falklands, is about the size of Rhode Island. In the vastness of the South Atlantic, it is little more than a fly speck 1,500 miles due east of the Horn. It all reminds us of another famous 'floater' that’s still out there — Pandemo¬ nium. Longtime readers might recall that that 66-ft sled dropped her keel and capsized on the way back from the ’89 TransPac. The incident occurred only 300 miles from San Francisco, and though the four-man delivery crew believed the boat had sunk, five months later she turned up. Spotted by the crew of a Matson container ship, Pando was floating upside down in midPacific. Unable to attempt a salvage, they crunched some numbers and figured that at her rate of drift, the boat would be back in the area of Hawaii by around Christmas of 1990. No one’s seen hide nor hair of her since.
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troubled waters for yacht racing It’s long been an unwritten rule of racing that when a collision occurs, the losing party in a protest hearing pays the repair bill. A court case now pending in the 4th Circuit Court of Maryland could change all that. If the case of De Sole vs. United States is seen through to completion, the precedents could have far-reaching effects throughout the boating community. This case began back in 1988 during a race on Chesapeake Bay. Upon continued next sightings page page 94
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actually used to pen pleasure boat in in places like Belvedere Cove, with long floats protecting them from the hardships of winter. Opening Day was when the floats were opened to let everybody out. Even if this story isn’t true, it should be. There used to be just one Opening Day. Now there are several, to cover all areas of the Bay. These are the ones for which we received information prior to presstime. MAIN BAY, April 26 — This is real
crossing the finish line, Ciro was ’tail-ended’ by Cinnabar. (Yacht sizes and types were not available.) The collision must have been a whopper, for it caused in excess of $40,000 damage to Ciro. As the overtaking vessel, Cinnabar wets found solely at fault in the collision by the protest committee. However, when the owner of Ciro asked the owner of Cinnabar — ironically, the U.S Naval Academy sailing team — to pay for the repair, they refused. So he took them to court. Without a precedent to go on, a lower court accepted Cinnabar’s argument that when a yacht owner enters a race, he assumes the risk of collision and ultimate damages. This ’assumption of risk’ doctrine then precludes the right to sue for compensatory damages for violation of a yacht racing rule.
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weather window and hit the ground running. But, as his custom 40-ft trimaran Aofea neared readiness, and time off from his Mill Valley software development company was arranged, an enticement arose that he couldn’t ignore: the anniversary of the old record. If he left on March 15, it would be 23 years to the day that Eric Tabarly set off on his singlehanded record run to Japan — 5,700 miles in 39 days, 16 hours. Well, of course March 15 dawned cold, wet, blustery and generally foreboding. Rain squalls were blowing through all over the Bay when Aotea crossed the ’starting line* just after noon off the Corinthian YC, and the stopwatch started. Somewhere between the time the boat crossed under the Gate (left) and when Peter tacked south off Pt. Bonita, Aotea sustained damage, apparently caused by the steep,
ebb-generated waves rolling down the chan¬ nel. Although the boat’s overall structure was never compromised, a crack in the jet-like canopy was serious. I meant that Aotea's small cabin no longer afforded dry haven from the elements. Peter kept going for four more days. A day out, he ran into light winds, then had a day of no wind, and then, about 500 miles off Mexico, it started blowing about 25 on the nose. Aotea is a wet boat going to wea¬ ther anyway, but with the canopy leaking badly, Peter not only had no place dry to go, but faced the possibility of ruining a lot of expensive instruments. He decided to abort. Aotea should arrive back in the Bay about the time we send this issue to press. Peter, via a local radio contact, says the plan is to leave again — on a day he picks — as soon as the damage is repaired.
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troubled waters — cont’d On appeal, a higher court — without deciding the ultimate question of whether the 'assumption of risk' applies to sailboat racing — noted that this defense is contrary to general admiralty precedents. And even if the 'assump¬ tion of risk' doctrine were held to apply, the exhibition of gross negligence — i.e. the willful and wanton behavior by Cinnabar that put Clro and its occu¬ pants at great risk — would negate the doctrine and thus allow the wronged yacht to sue for damages. This court also noted that the 'clear ahead' rule was universally accepted: when one vessel is overtaking another, the boat in front has the right of way and the overtaking, or 'burdened' vessel, must stay clear. The case has now been sent back to a lower court to determine if the owner of Clro ever contemplated the risk of collision resulting from a yacht violating continued next sightings page
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thing, and grandaddy of all other Opening Days around the Bay. Sponsored as always by the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association (PICYA), the theme of the ’92 event is "An International Faire", and boats planning to take part in the Decorated Boat Parade (starts 10 a.m. off Crissy Field) should be decorated accordingly. Concurrently, the Blessing of the Fleet also begins off Belvedere at 10 a.m. Co-sponsors of the Parade this year include Marine World, Pier 39, KOFY TV-20 and Magic 61 Radio. For
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this universal rule. What relevance does this case have to yacht racers across the U.S? The whole issue of suing for damages in court is now in limbo until this case is finally decided. There is a chance the parties may agree to a private settle¬ ment, in which case we’ll be left with unclear guidelines because no written opinion will be handed down. In the event the case Is litigated, the important issue of whether the 'assumption of risk' doctrine applies to yacht racing will on/y be reached if the lower court finds there was no gross negligence by the violating yacht (Cinnabar), and the wronged yacht (Ciro) did not contemplate or accept the risk of collision. However, even if the ultimate question is not decided, there is compelling language in the higher court’s written opinion that might persuade a court not to impose the doctrine in future litigation. In the meantime, the De Sole court has given approval to yacht clubs that require racers to sign an 'assumption of risk' statement thereby precluding one racer from suing another in case of collision. However, the court pointed out that just because some sailors could assume the risk, it did not justify a blanket rule that all sailors in all situations should be barred from bringing a suit for collision damages. Note also that in this case the court comments address on/y 'assumption of risk' for property damage and not personal injury. Most local San Francisco Bay Area yacht clubs are now requiring yacht owners to sign a written waiver before they can enter a race. Read these care¬ fully before you sign as a waiver is considered a contract. The waivers vary among clubs, but what you’re giving up in most of them is not the right to sue an offending yacht as in De Sole, but to sue the yacht club itself. If the words "agree to indemnify" also appear, this means you, as a yacht owner, are also agreeing to pay the yacht club for any damage/litigation expense that it incurs from a third-party suit where you are found to be at fault. You may be placing your own personal estate at risk as most yacht club and liability insurance policies will not cover liability you assume under contract. One tactic used by some racers in an attempt to avoid liability for indemnification is to simply cross out the words "I agree to indemnify ..." before signing the agreement. The ultimate decision is yours — you can choose not to race your boat. In the larger picture, the overall implications of De Sole vs. United States — especially in the area of insurance for racers — remains to be seen. — llnda newland
0101. NORTH BAY, April 11 — The theme for Benicia Marina/Benicia YC’s 13th Annual Opening Day on the Carquinez Straits is "Parade of Nations", which sounds close enough that you could probably get away with the same decorations as for the P1CYA event. Again, the parade begins at 10 a.m. (as do landside crafts fairs, food, music, continued middle of next sightings page
Editor’s Note — After an absence of several years while pursuing a law degree at Tulane University In New Orleans, Linda Newland is once again back home in the Bay Area. She passed the California bar in 1990 and now works for the law firm of Birnberg & Associates In San Francisco.
another two bite the dust Yes, it’s another Latitude 'Crew List' marriage! "Over the past 15-odd years that I’ve been reading Latitude 38,” says Alameda’s Dick Mundy, "I’ve used your ads to build a Farallon 29 and ultimately sell it; buy my present Freedom 40 — and meet my beautiful wife of six months." For about the same amount of time, Pat Colapietro of Sunnyvale has harbored the secret desire to go cruising. Short on sailing experience but long on desire, her fantasy eventually evolved to where the 'perfect man', a sailor, would sweep her off her feet, sail out the Golden Gate and never look back. "My friend Suzanne Tumicki (whp then worked at Latitude) finally got the ball rolling," says Pat. "She kept telling me to take part in the Crew List, and a few years ago, I decided it was worth a try. Unfortunately, the first time I just missed the deadline. But even though my name wasn’t published, I called some of the men on the List who were looking for crew. "I’d read all the caveats and heard various horror stories (in fact, I developed a caveat or two of my own — more on those in a minute), so I tried to be very selective. I talked to a lot of men, some really nice, some not so nice, some that were only interested in finding women to date, and some who actually wanted to sail. As careful as I was, I still ended up getting myself into _and finally out of — a dating-scene trap. I resolved that the next time, my continued next sightings page page 97
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SIGHTINGS bites the dust — cont’d first priority would be to find people to sail with. If I met an interesting man and something developed, that was fine, but my priority was sailing." Over the next couple seasons, Pat attended one Mexico Crew List party
opening days etc.), with the Blessing of the Fleet scheduled for 11. For more on this event — which traditionally has been the warmest of all the Opening Days, incidentally — call Peggy Martin at (707) 745-2218. SOUTH BAY, April 11 — The South San Francisco Opening Day is sponsored jointly by the San Jose Sailing Club and the following yacht clubs: Coyote Point, Palo Alto, Peninsula, San Leandro, South Bay and Sequoia. The fun at this one kicks off at
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and ran two ads, the last being in the spring of 1990. "As with so many other women, my phone started ringing before I realized the issue was even out. I went sailing a number of times, but none of the situations were really what I was looking for. For example, I enjoyed sailing with one gentlemen who lived aboard — until I learned that he only took the boat out 10 times a year." In mid-August, she got a call from a fellow named Dick Mundy, and the next month went sailing with him and his friend, Sean. Dick impressed Pat. Not only was he a perfect gentleman and avid sailor, but really knew what he was doing with the boat. They ended up doing quite a bit of sailing together in the next year, including trips to the Delta, Pt. Reyes, and out to watch the Blue Angels. In spending time together, they soon discovered they had the same fantasy about setting sail for points south. Pat says she knew things were getting serious when she showed up one day to find Fantasy painted on the boat’s previously blank stem. Then, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the two were working on the boat when a biplane flew over trailing a banner. It read, "Patty Will You Marry Me? I Love You. Dick." "I was totally speechless," says Pat. The Mundys were married September 14. They spent their honeymoon in the Sea of Cortez on a 37-ft charter boat from the Moorings, and are now actively working to make their cruising fantasy come true by 1995. What advice does Pat have for other women interested in possibly taking part in the Crew Lists? 'Three things: Keep your priorities straight, really scrutinize the men you talk to, and be up front about everything. Most of the men I talked to on the phone — like 95% — were more interested in relation¬ ships than sailing. Not all of them say that, of course, but once you talk to a few, it’s not too hard to figure out. If that’s what you want, fine. If your first priority is to go sailing, hold out for someone with the same priority."
the race that never was It had all the earmarks of a classic encounter: the schooner America accepted a challenge from the topsail schooner Californian to race around San Diego Bay on March 9, an America’s Cup layday. The stakes: only about 150 years of conjecture over which was the better boat — a stuffed-shirt eastern yacht, or lithe and muscular ship of the line built to overtake and capture smugglers and pirates? If such an encounter ever took place in their heyday, the mid-19th century, the results go unrecorded. The fact is, while the schooner yacht America was busy in the Atlantic winning the gaudy silver Cup which will forever after bear continued next sightings page page 98
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11 a.m., with concurrent running of a Bles¬ sing of the Fleet and Decorated Boat Parade, both of which will take place in the Port of Redwood City turning basin. The theme for South Bay’s Opening Day this year is "Voyages of Discovery." Makes us think of the first time we ever took our wife sailing. For details or parade entry forms, contact Joanny Wright at (415) 591-4254. Have fun!
her name, over in the Pacific, the Revenue Cutter Lawrence also proved herself competent in overtaking the 'competition' — and making the lowly scum pay their just duties on cargoes brought into California. Though both original ships are long gone — America met an ignoble end in Annapolis in 1942 when the shed in which she lay collapsed under a heavy snowfall; the Lawrence parted an anchor cable and went onto Ocean Beach in 1851, where her bones are still exposed from time to time by storms — they live on. The 'new' America, a faithful replica of the original, is now under Spanish ownership. With a few concessions to modernity, the state tallship Californian is an equally faithful replica of the Revenue Cutter Lawrence. Both
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scholarship for a How did you do in high school? Person¬ ally speaking, most of the things we wanted to learn and do weren’t offered in classes. Same for you? We thought so. Okay, now picture this: spending 11th or 12th grade aboard a tallship. You’d still have to take all the usual classes, but in between you’d get to sail around and visit different foreign ports with a like-minded group of peers. Yeah, we probably would have done a lot better, too. Well, these days just such a program exists. It’s called Class Afloat, out of Quebec, Canada, and It runs the world’s newest tall¬ ship, the 186-ft barkentine Concordia. Fifteen-year-old Corrina Burnley of Mar¬ tinez is the recipient of the $18,500 Bay Area
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scholarship on board Concordia for the ’92-’93 school year. Corrina, who attends College Park High School (and main¬ tains a 3.93 GPA) in Pleasanton, was chosen in March from among scores of Bay Area appli¬ cants. The local scholarship was made possible through the efforts of the Sausalito Tallship Society, a non-profit organization that funds
Californian and America had no wind for the start, so they agreed to motor around for a while looking for some. A brief light-air bout ended before it began in the lee of Point Loma. They motored around some more, then shut off their 'diesel topsails' as a light breeze filled in. America appeared slightly faster in light air, but Californian set her topsail on the dog leg back to San Diego and started catching up. Then the wind died again. America’s skipper finally came on the radio and said they weren’t having any fun, whereupon everybody repaired back to the docks. So much for the final showdown between East and West. Ironically (no pun intended), nothing much was decided on Hampton Roads 130 years ago either — except that the days of fighting sail were at an end. The Union’s newly-designed Monitor and the Confederate Merrlmac (an iron superstructure built on the wooden hull of a bumed-up sailing ship) pounded the dickens out of each other for several hours, but the cannonballs just bounced off their iron-plated sides. With both crew doubtless suffering Excedrin-strength headaches, they finally called it a day, too. Although America and Californian have agreed to meet another day, one can’t help but get the impression that some contests are never meant to be decided once and for all.
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constellation joins the fray Last month, we mentioned that Roy Disney’s Southern California-based SC 70 Pywacket was going to take part in this summer’s America 500 Rally. That’s about as close as we could get to tying this event, part of the Columbus Quincentennial celebration, to Bay Area boating. We’ve since learned of a tie even closer to home. Cliff and RuthAnn Fremstad, formerly of San Francisco, will also have a boat in the event. No, it’s not their famous Dutch canal boat Groote Beer. That boat, run by their son, is currently sailing out of the Seattle area. Their entry in the A-500 is their most recent acquisition, the lovely 97-ft schooner Constellation, which they’ve been in the process of restoring and chartering out of Key West for the last four years. Constellation’s already had a pretty colorful life. Designed by John Alden and patterned after the famous Grand Banks fishing schooner Bluenose, she was built for J.P. Morgan in East Boothbay Harbor, Maine in 1932. Under her original name, La Relne, and gaff rig, she spent 10 years under Morgan’s ownership, then joined the Coast Guard as an anti-submarine patrol vessel off the California Coast during the war. Back once again in civilian life, she was refurbished, rerigged as a staysail schooner and renamed Constellation. She then spent seven years in a circumnavigation, and six more years in a cradle in a Ft. Lauderdale boatyard before being rescued by Cliff and RuthAnn. With the America 500 Rally starting in Spain in August, it’s going to be a busy summer for participants, especially those still on this side of the pond. Constellation, like many others, will use the TransArc Race, starting May 9 in St. Augustine, Florida, as a feeder. After stops in Bermuda and the Azores, it will finish in Palos, Spain about July 1. The America 500 Rally (which despite the name includes both a cruisers’ rally and a race) starts off Palos on August 3 — 500 years to the day that Christopher Columbus departed the port on his historic voyage. A second start on October 12 — the day the Nlna,J>lnta and Santa Marla made landfall in the New World — has been instituted for yachts wanting to leave Europe later in the season. The first 'finish' is the Canary Islands, where Captain Chris laid over for a month before crossing the Atlantic. The second A-500 start for all yachts is November 18. The finish is San Salvador in the Bahamas, which — you guessed it — is generally conceded as being Columbus’ first landfall. We wish the crews of both Pywacket and Constellation the best of luck, and hope one or both of them will forward reports on the event. Meanwhile, if anyone else out there is interested in finding out more about the America 500 Rally, contact World Cruising Ltd., P.O. Box 165, London WC1B 5LA, England. The phone is 44 71 405 9905; FAX is 44 71 831 0161. pane 101 /
SIGHTINGS high and dry We "ragtoppers" have all been there at one time or another — hard aground waiting for the tide to float us off. But for Baikal, the 46-ft steel-hulled sloop from inner Siberia, the tide has yet to come in. She sits high and dry at the Sanford-Wood Boat Yard in Richmond. Baikal’s 'tide' is not water, but money — funds at her home port of Irkutsk are frozen and the new government allows only a minuscule amount of foreign exchange daily. Irkutsk is a large industrial city on the Trans Siberian railway near the southern tip of Lake Baikal, which is one of the world’s largest bodies of fresh water. Ten years ago, members of the Baikal Marathon Club which, despite the name, is a yacht club, conceived the dream of building an oceangoing sailboat, shipping it by rail to the Pacific port of Vladivostok, and then sailing the boat to Alaska and California to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Vitus Bering’s discovery and colonization of Russia’s 'new world'. An additional motivation: Irkutsk was the headquarters of the fur trading company that established some of the first outposts in North America. As the project took shape, it grew to include the 500th anniversary celebration of Columbus’ discovery of the New World, which will occur about nine months after the Bering celebration in such diverse locations as Spain, England, the Caribbean, New York and San Francisco. So, after the Bering voyage, the plan was to continue on through the Panama Canal, thenqe to New York, England and so on. From there, they’d complete a circumnaviga¬ tion, south around the Cape of Good Hope to Australia, then north to Japan and home with, of course, many island stops enroute. Then the country, and the dream, started to crumble. Baikal was in San Francisco last September when the Soviet Union ceased to exist. At that time, the boat had become one of a 'fleet' of seven Soviet vessels making up the "Russian-American Yacht Expedition 250". Others included the motor vessel Akademlc Shirkov; the three masted full rigger Palladia, a cadet training ship; Blues, another 45-ft sloop out of Vladivostok Yacht Club; and three wooden replicas modeled after Bering’s small fleet. With the breakup of their country came the breakup of the small fleet. The Blues started home to Vladivostok from Sitka in September, only to be forced into Dutch Harbor by an Aleutian storm. The three replicas are currently in Seattle’s Lake Washington, also stranded by the inability to get at money back home. (As far as we know, the Russian government-backed Akademic Shirkov and Pallada are proceeding with their planned voyages — Ed.) Without funds, the Baikal crew exists through the generosity of Russian ex¬ patriots, White Russian emigres and other concerned citizens of Northern California. Most became friends of the crew during her visits last summer to Ft. Ross, Bodega Bay and San Francisco. Principal among these is their adopted "Babushka", Anna Bolshakoff and her son Andy of Guerneville. Another is Jack Phillips, a Bodega Bay realtor. Among other things, he secured the loan of an RV from El Monte Recreational Vehicle Center of Oakland. It currently serves as living quarters for the four Baikal crew. Others deserving mention include the Petaluma Truck Stop, and too many individual helpers-out from San Francisco, Oakmont and Petaluma to name them all here. Drs. MacNeal and Alexander of Occidental even contributed dental work for the crew. Naturally, the Sanford-Wood Boat Yard is also high on the list. They’ve been exceptionally helpful in giving haulout space and many other courtesies. As far as work in progress, four members of the Baikal’s original crew of nine — (1 to r in photo) Alexander Pavlenko, Vasily Danelov, skipper Alexander 'Sasha' Samoroukoff and Victor Turok — are now painting and repairing the sloop, while a fifth back home in Irkutsk continues attempts to free funds. Although hopes and spirits remain high, these yachtsman are now caught by circumstances over which they have no control. As time goes on, they may be forced to abandon their original plans and return home by the most direct route. Even at that, funds are lacking to replace corroded plain-steel rigging with stainless, a new propeller shaft, or even to pay the yard bill — much less add any of the gear (windvane, small diesel generator, radio, etc.) they had hoped. Such accessories aren’t available in Siberia. Any help from the boating community would be greatly appreciated. You can do this one of two ways. The first is by mail. Make donations payable to
scholarship scholarships on traditionally rigged sailing ships. (They’re the ones who also put local cadets aboard the state tallship Californian.) Part of the funding for these programs comes from the annual Vintage Boat Show, held every October at the Bay Model Visitor Center. Corrina will join 40 other juniors and seniors from the U.S. and Canada on the ship. In addition to the fully-accredited regular regimen of math, sciences, humani¬ ties and other academia taught on board, the students will learn the many disciplines necessary to running a working tallship. And they’ll complete an enviable year of travel. Departing from Toronto, the first semester (August through December) will include stops in the Azores, Portugal, the Canaries, South America, the West Indies, San Bias
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SIGHTINGS — cont’d and Cancun, with the voyage ending in Miami. From January through June of ’93, the ship will 'harbor hop' down the east coast of South America (Guiana, Rio, Montevideo, etc.), round Cape Horn, and hit such exotic destinations as Valparaiso (Chile), Pitcairn and the Galapagos before heading back to Miami via the Panama Canal. "To sacrifice the ordinary to experience the extraordinary," is how Corrina qualifies missing the more traditional trappings of her senior year of high school. We can’t say it any better than that, except to add, "Con¬ gratulations, Corrina!" Interested In learning more about Class Afloat? Contact them at Class Afloat, 450-1 Holiday St., West Tower, Polnte-Clalre, Quebec, H9R5N3. Phone numbers are (604) 682-4353; FAX (604) 684-9837.
high and dry — cont’d the 'Bodega/Russian Account' and send them to Bank of America, 14435 Coast Highway 1, Valley Ford, CA 94972. The second is in person, either at Latitude’s booth at the NCMA Spring In-the-Water Boat Show April 4-12, or at either of our two Crew List parties, April 7 at the Corinthian YC, or April 8 at the Encinal. (See elsewhere in this issue for more details on both these events.) We’ll be raffling off prizes at each, with all proceeds going to help get these guys on their way. Everyone who enters will also become eligible for the 'grand' prizes. The first of these is a 'samovar', a copy of a traditional Russian coffee urn, about 200 of which were commissioned by the Shah of Iran (and made in Teheran) to be given as gifts to visiting dignitaries — valued at $2,500. The second piece is a Russian-built military chronometer valued at $4,500. Although definitely more in the realm of collectible art than boat gear — the big raffle is being offered to the general public, too — the chronometer could be used on a boat. It comes complete in its double mahogany cases with a 1992 calibration. You are also invited to practice a little Glasnost of your own — come on down, meet these guys in person and see what a lot of determination and 'Russian ingenuity' can accomplish. They have tentatively accepted an invita¬ tion from NCMA to bring Baikal over to the Boat Show. The only possible continued next sightings page
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impediment to that arrangement is this wet weather we’ve been having. If it breaks long enough for a few days of serious painting (the boat’s in primer now), they say they will have the boat at the show. If not, they’ll still be there in person every day. (They don’t speak a lot of English, but have picked up the basics. They’ve also become proficient at understanding gesticulation.) Sasha, Victor, Vasily and Alexander have also accepted our invitation to come to the Crew Parties, so look for them there, as well. The world’s growing smaller all the time, and these guys are part of the reason why. Their voyage was conceived as, and remains, a symbol of out¬ reach and peace. With a little help from the local marine community, it’s kind of nice to imagine that the most memorable stories passed on to their kids and grandkids will be of the kindness of the sailors of San Francisco Bay. — eugene blshopp & latitude 38
After four years of working with mostly recycled materials, David Coy launched his South Seas sailing proa Millenium from the Richardson Bay Dry Docks on Saturday, March 21. Coy, of Sausalito, has been dreaming of a proa like Millenium since the early ’70s. "In this country, we tend to overlook the speed, elegance and efficiency of the Polynesian and Micronesian sailing vessels. I wanted to see what I could do with one," he says. The project began in earnest in 1989 when he was given the foam-cored fiberglass hulls from an unfinished trimaran project. Working on his own and with a modest bud¬ get, he carefully made two short hulls into one canoe hull 44 feet long. He then added
something old, something new The Pacific Coast Shipbuilders Guild opens its new traditional boatbuilding school on April 4 at the old Arquez Shipyard (Gate 3) in Sausalito. And if you’re a wooden boat aficionado — or would-be aficionado — it definitely
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sounds worth a look. The Guild will offer ongoing workshops on the arts of wooden boat building and restoration. Local shipwrights Charlie Parker and Jim Linderman will lead continued next sightings page
The water quality tests for which we crusaded early last year march onward. Last summer, the first round of water quality tests were conducted over a several-week period at more than a score of sites along the Sausalito waterfront. Although the results (due last August) have not been released yet, it’s our understanding that all sites, including those in or near recreational boat marinas, fell within state guidelines. The initial testing was paid for by the Regional Water Quality Control Board. page 104
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purpose. "In an era when continued depen¬ dence on fossil fuels seems foolish, I think we can learn a lot from traditional sailing vessels that combine speed and practicality as effici¬ ent fishing platforms or cargo carriers", he says. Eventually, Coy hopes to raise enough funds to take the completed boat to Microne¬ sia where she can demonstrate both the con¬ tinuing evolution of the proa, and at the same time draw attention to environmental problems in that area. — anne wayman
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wooden boats — most aimed at the overwhelmed, underskilled or potential wood-boat owners. "We hope to help save a few of these old beauties and encourage people to maintain them," says Parker. Additional workshops will cover sail repair, oar-making, half-model making, traditional rigging, wood refinishing and tool maintenance. (Prices run from $25 for the Thursdayevening tool maintenance workshop to $60 [includes meal] for the all-day boatbuilding classes). Safety and confidence will be stressed throughout. Goals of the Guild include passing on traditional boatbuilding values and skills, regenerating interest and respect for wood boats and our maritime history, and offering traditional boatbuilding skills to those who might not otherwise have access. "Hopefully, we can even inspire some people to become boatbuilders," says Josie Crawford. "Learning to work with wood and tools is rewarding in itself, but bui,lding a wood boat is a real spiritual experience." For more information on the PCSG or their new boatbuilding school, contact Charlie Parker or Josie Crawford at (415) 331-7505.
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tests The money contributed by Latitude read¬ ers — $2,500 to which we’ve added another $500 — will help pay for the second and final round of tests. (All these studies are two-year affairs, with the second round of tests necessary to confirm the original findings.) Delayed several times by all the rain we’ve been having, this testing finally got underway again last month. We’U do a complete summary of the findings when the report becomes available.
The concept is staggering: strap yourself into the cockpit of a Buck Rogerslike capsule, click the cockpit shut and light off the 100-horsepower motor. Within seconds, you’re up on hydrofoils whizzing out to sea at, oh, 75 knots. After a minute, you spot a school of dolphins playing around the bows of two America’s Cup yachts. 'The hell with 'speculation'", you say to yourself, banking into a turn that brings you onto a converging'course. A hundred yards away, you twist the hand controls forvyard and suddenly you’re — underwater! You take ’er down to 90 feet and scoot along just above the bottom at a leisurely 35 knots — wow, lookit the size of those lobster. When you reach the two megabuck boats, you climb to within 10 feet of the surface and slow down to match their piddling 15-knot speed. You press a button and the on-board videocam merrily records every detail of the supersecret keels. Hmmm, so that’s what they’re using ... Now the fun begins. The dolphins have spotted you and swim over for a closer look. You goose the throttles and fall into formation with them. They squeal excitedly as if to say, "Let’s see what this thing can do," and head for continued next sightings page
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Remember when boat shows used to be fun? No, wait, let us rephrase that. Remem¬ ber when boat shows were about boats? It’s not your imagination that in the past few years, boat shows have been 'diluted' by co¬ opping with everything from RVs to camping and hunting to who knows what else. Diluted also by sheer number — last year, one area back east held four shows in four months. Sailboat manufacturers noticed, and decided to do something about it. To help get the 'boat' back in 'boat show', a bunch of them got together and formed the American Sail Advancement Program. ASAP’s aim is to decrease the quantity and increase the quality of boat shows. If they have their way, a few years from now, sailboat shows will be few and far between — but they’ll be so bang-up great they’ll be worth the wait. NCMA’s Spring In-The-Water
the surface at full speed. You burst through the surface together. One dolphin does a backflip, another does a bellyflop. This is the moment you’ve been waiting and practicing for. You’ve kicked her in the flanks down deep and now pierce the surface doing at least 50 knots. The scene outside the canopy becomes a blur of sky and water as your little capsule spins crazily through five barrel rolls before splashing down again. The dolphins squeal their approval as the guys on the AmCup boats radio in UFO reports. You bid them both adieu and buzz home in time for that hot date tonight. Wait’ll she gets a load of today’s video.... Science fiction? Virtual reality? Pitiful daydreams of sailing writers whose minds have finally gone south? Try 'none of the above'. The technology for such a vehicle not only exists, but if a trio of Redding inventors gets their way, you will actually see the prototype VASH — Variable Attitude Submersible Hydrofoil — in operation during lulls in the upcoming America’s Cup this May. Tom "Doc" Rowe and /
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SIGHTINGS boat shows Boat Show at Jack London Square (April 412 this year) plans to be one of the survivors. It’s already one of the great ones — at its previous location over in Mariner’s Village, it was the biggest in-the-water show on the West Coast. And the new Jack London Square site adds severed new dimensions to that — easier access, closer parking, new and/or updated dock facilities (with more on the way) and some of the Bay Area’s best restaurants. Boatwise, the 1992 show is one of the biggest NCMA (Northern California Marine Association) events ever. At this writing, over 90% of the available space is rented out, 89 companies are exhibiting and more than 300 boats (150 in the water, 150 on trailers) are scheduled to be displayed. And we’re not talking just a handful of sailboats. This is one of the largest gatherings continued middle of next sightings page
ultimate dinghy — cont’d Dennis "Dusty" Kaiser came up with the original idea back in 1987 — to build a machine that could 'fly' through and above the water like a dolphin. Doc, a jack of all trades who derives his main income these days via holistic therapy and glass art, cemented the design concept the same year, and the two (Dusty is a computer specialist for Macintosh) began building the prototype in their backyard. A third partner, Bruce "Bonzi Yoda" Hughes — "The characters in all good adventure stories have to have catchy nicknames", says Doc — came aboard by offering a comfortable shop for the expanding project, and in 1989 VASH Inc. was bom. We use the term 'vehicle' to describe the VASH because it’s not really a boat — at least not like any boat we’ve ever seen. In fact, in many ways, 'vehicle' falls short as well. Although first impressions of the prototype do suggest marine, er, compatibility, the VASH looks almost like some 21stcentury science fiction blend of creature and machine — a dolphin with a cockpit, maybe, or R2D2 with fins. Doc does nothing to dispell this notion. He calls it "the first underwater airplane," but then talks not of the VASH’s rudder or trim tabs, but of its "dorsal", "flukes" and "pectoral flippers". Indeed, he says, a primary influence in the VASH design was "the best designer I can think of'. You know the one — He did the dolphin, the orca, seals, penguins .... The VASH team, now eight strong, has piggybacked off many humanoid technologies, as well. Much of the underwater hydrodynamics, for example, has already been worked out by the Navy. Another existing technology may eventually enable the VASH to stay submerged for up to eight hours via a system that 'scrubs' and rebreathes the exhaust. Right now, the powerhead and drivetrain of the big Evinrude outboard (that used to power Doc’s ski boat) breathes via onboard compressed air tanks. When operational, this system will enable the VASH to run for 20 seconds to a minute underwater. Then, like a dolphin, it must surface to 'inhale' anew. But perhaps the most compelling obstacle they’ve had to overcome so far is how the VASH and its occupant can survive the incredible acrobatics of which it will be capable. "Most of our most recent work has been on the 'crash capsule' aspect," says Doc. "One of my main goals for this project was to be able to scare the hell out of myself and survive. To do that, we have to be able to cushion the pilot from the incredible G-loading he’ll experience." Among pertinent features: a fivepoint racing harness to strap the pilot in; airbags which the pilot inflates around himself before taking off; and a canopy made of %-inch thick pre¬ stressed bulletproof polycarbonate. The 'hull' (torso?) of the VASH is built of state-of-the-art composites. Real-world use of the VASH portends perhaps even bigger obstacles. Though thrilling to contemplate on one hand, the VASH has aspects that will doubtless bear much scrutiny if the little water-rocket ever goes public. Safety would almost certainly head this list — Doc says the VASH and its pilot could survive going right through most modern sailboats. The reality is that almost all types of 'freedom' are subject to limitations, and the VASH will be no exception. At this point in 1992, the prototype is still undergoing tests. It’s performed satisfactorily just under the surface, and has been towed up to 40 mph on its foils — sorry, its pectoral fins. Down the road? Come mid-decade, you might be able to buy your very own VASH. Doc figures a kit might go for $10,000 to $15,000, not including bells and whistles like the videocam, surround-sound sonar, etc. Can’t afford it? No problem: by then they’ll likely be rentable, as well as standard issue aboard every big charter boat in the world ... Personally, we’re glad the VASH js not a true powerboat. That way we don’t have to feel guilty when we admit we can’t wait to try one out.
raising the roof Ever wonder why propane needs to be vented to the outdoors? Ever wonder what could happen if this heavier-than-air gas collected in the bilge, and then was somehow ignited? Turn the page and wonder no more — you’re looking at it. continued next sightings page Page 107
SIGHTINGS raising the roof — cont’d It happened one evening last month when Josh Taylor went to light the propane stove aboard his Cascade 36 Comltan, while the boat was at its Sausalito slip. "The burner flared up much more than normal, so I turned it off," says the 84-year-old voyager. But it didn’t go off. Instead, Josh says he watched in amazement as the yellow-blue flame crept soundlessly from the burner, down to face of the oven, and then spread slowly fore and aft, just above the cabin sole. And then came the bang. Strangely, says Josh, "I didn’t feel any pressure, but I did feel some heat. The cabin top went way up, then settled back down slowly until it was resting on the stanchions." And that was it — no more flame, no more heat, no more sound. Although the exact cause of the explosion was not known at this writing, Josh says he doesn’t think it could have been anything but a leak at the boat’s propane regulator. As you can see, Comltan’s propane tanks were stored out in the open on the fantail. Damage to the boat was, obviously, extensive. Incredibly, damage to Josh was very minor, considering. He lost his eyebrows, eyelashes and some hair (and the pre-bang flame along the cabin sole 'welded' his pants to his long johns), but that’s about it. We’re certainly happy to know that Josh, who was the subject of a Latitude article in July of ’88, is okay. Readers may recall from that profile that he built Comltan himself from a bare hull and deck while in his 70s, and completed a continued next sightings page
boat shows of new sailing craft you’ll find anywhere west of Annapolis (generally considered the pre¬ mier boat show in the country). How’s this for openers: a new J/105, one of the fastest growing classes around; two Island Packet boats, a 35 and 38 footer; three boats from the Catalina line; five boats from Hunter and seven boats from Beneteau. To drop a few more names, there will also be boats on hand from Morgan, Valiant, Freedom, Cor¬ sair (including the 'old' F-27 and new F-24), Hobie, MacGregor, Byte, Laser and Sunfish. Bill Lee will even have a booth to show his new SC 52 fast cruising boat. Many brokers are also bringing some of their best used boats along, so there should be a good assortment of those to peruse, too. Naturally, the 'stars of the show' (the boats, folks, the boats) will be augmented by booths featuring the many goods and servi¬ ces available to boaters, from outboards to insurance, dinghies to davits, sailmakers to sailing schools. Some of the latter will even be giving short demonstration sails, so be
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sure to let your nonsailing friends know about the show. Special planned attractions (stress planned — arrangements were not solidified by presstime) include attendance by the square rigger Hawaiian Chieftain, a boat which defines the terms 'heavily built', and, possibly, the Russian sloop Baikal, which was 'stranded' here in the Bay Area when the Soviet Union fell apart last year. (Read more about them elsewhere in Sightings.) We’re going to be there, too, so be sure to stop by to say hi. We’ll be peddling the usual Tshlrts, hats and subscriptions, and will also be raffling off some nifty prizes, with proceeds going to help out the aforemen¬ tioned Russian sailors. Again, the dates are April 4 through 12. Show hours are noon to 7 weekdays, 10 to 7 Saturdays and 10 to 6 Sundays. Admission is $7 for adults ($4 weedays with a discount coupon; $10 for an unlimited 9-day pass) and $3 for kids 6-12. Under six, they’re free.
near circumnavigation in her in his 80th year. The end of that article had Josh planning more offshore sailing. But though the spirit was willing, the years were catching up with this aging adventurer, and this unfortunate accident apparently marks the end of Josh’s voyaging. "At my age, I don’t feel capable of fixing the boat — and I need to start taking better care of myself," he says. As this was being written, Josh was in the process of stripping Comltan of gear and negotiating with someone interested in buying and restoring the boat.
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short sightings CENTRAL PACIFIC — The Coast Guard has proposed closing down the Central Pacific LORAN-C chain on June 30,1992, rather than continuing its operation through 1994 as was originally planned in the Federal Radio Navigation Plan of 1990. In the proposal, the Coasties, who operate CENPAC for the Department of Defense, maintain that continued operation of the CENPAC LORAN-C chain is neither economically nor operationally justified — almost everyone is already depending on the more accurate GPS satellite systems. Early closure of the CENPAC system could save an estimated $6
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There’s plenty of parking around the Square, which runs from $1 to $3 for the day. ASAP or no ASAP, things are looking up for sailing. We can’t speak with any authority about the recession in general — but folks, things are turning around in the boating industry. How do we know? You’re holding one leading economic indicator in your hot little hands right now. In the last five years, this magazine has averaged around 186 pages per issue. This one Is 216 pages long. The drought(s) are over. Great boat shows are on the way back. The Spring Inthe-Water show at Jack London Square is one of them. Go see it!
million. We’ll let you know what decision, if any, is forthcoming.
SAN DIEGO — After an absence of more than two decades, San Diego’s oldest boat is once again in the public eye. Butcher Boy is a 30-ft gaff sloop built in 1904. Though modeled after the Columbia River salmon boats, the 'Boy was to gain her (his?) fame in distinctly more camiverous pursuits. Back in the halcyon days of commercial sail, when crews lived for months on little more than weevil-infested bread, few delights upon arriving in port matched that of cutting into a fresh side of farm-grown beef. And Charles "Boss" Hardy was more than happy to supply it. As soon as topsails wore spotted on the horizon, he’d load Butcher Boy to the gunwhales with meat and sail out to meet the new arrival. As with so many other historic vessels, Butcher Boy faded into obscurity as sail gave way to steam and the quaint little port became a bustling metropolis. She turned up in 1971 in San Pedro, was purchased by the Maritime Museum and sailed home to San Diego with a symbolic slab of bacon in her belly. However, historic ship buffs barely had time to catch a glimpse before she was 'lost' again, put into dry storage for the next 20 years while various agencies argued over a permanent display site. It took an event like the America’s Cup to bring the 'Boy our of hiding. On March 20, she went on display at the Nautical Heritage Festival in the America’s Cup Village. On a related note, if you’re in town, be sure to check out the Second Annual Southern California Wooden Boat Festival on April 11-12 at Shelter Island’s Koehler Kraft Boatyard. More than 100 classic woodies will be there. Phone (619) 223-7376 for more information.
rave reviews It’s almost too late for this, but Peter Spectre’s 1992 Mariner's Book of Days is such a gem, we recommend picking up a copy even though a quarter of the year is already gone. The two review copies sent to us were pounced upon like wounded rabbits in a den of wolves — and remain guarded and 'fed upon' as zealously. Many readers will recognize Spectre as an accomplished maritime author, executive ed¬ itor of WoodenBoat magazine, and a man with a deep respect for the traditions of sailing. What he’s done in the Book of Days is open a literary treasure chest, pull out some of the most practical, amusing, histor¬ ical, arcane and almost-forgotten baubles of maritime information we’ve seen assembled anywhere, and then wrap it around a cal¬ endar-book format. Opposite each weeklong entry page are old-time etchings or engravings, along with information like: * When the Spanish Armada was sighted, Francis Drake was bowling on Plymouth Hoe. "Play out the game, "he reportedly said. "There’s time for that and to beat the Spanish after.” * To make an emergency compass, point the hour hand of a watch toward the sun. A line drawn between the hand and 12 o’clock will point toward true north. During daylight savings time, draw the line between the hour hand and 1 o’clock. * In three minutes a vessel will travel a distance In hundreds of yards equal to her speed In knots. For example, If your speed Is 6 knots, you will travel 600 yards (1,200 feet) In three minutes. Great stuff, all. And as we said before, even if you could care less about,, keeping track of your time with the thing, the Book of Days comes highly recommended by these reviewers purely for its editorial content. It’s $12.95 anyplace marine books are sold, or order it from The WoodenBoat Store, P.O. Box 78, Brooklin, ME 04616.
SAN DIEGO AGAIN — Remember last month when we reported that one of the worst spills of partially treated sewage in the nation’s history was occurring off San Diego? Well, forget 'one of, this is the worst spill ever. It began February 2 when a section of the 2.2-mile-long pipe ruptured less than a mile offshore in 35 feet of water. And at this point, it’s still going on. Repairs, supposedly delayed because of inclement weather, did begin in mid-March. The 420 feet of replacement pipe is supposed to be in place by April 4, at a repair cost of about $10 million. RICHARDSON BAY — We hope this isn’t news to any of you, but Rich¬ ardson Bay is off-limits to boaters from October until April. Why? It’s an important rest stop on the 'Pacific flyway' for millions of migrating birds. Thing is, boats continue to venture into the shallow Bay north of Sausalito. So, at the request of the local Audubon Society, the Richardson Bay Regional Agency plans to stiffen the penalty for boaters venturing into the preserve: shoot-to-kill and use the bodies as carrion for thte condor rehabitation project. No, not really. It’ll just be better signs and a fine or something. The RBRA had not voted on it as this issue went to press. THREE MILES OFF SAN PEDRO — U S. Coast Guard cutters boarded the 57-foot Chris Craft Liberated Lady on February 25 and found more or less what they expected — 85 illegal Chinese nationals hidden throughout the boat. Some had paid as much as $25,000 to be smuggled across the Pacific (on another boat, a Tiawanese fishing trawler) en route to New York City. Also taken into custody were five Vietnamese crew and a Chinese captain, along with several handguns. This was the second pleasure boat caught ferrying Chinese immigrants into the Los Angeles area lately; last September, 118 illegal aliens were nabbed in a similar case. Now for the local angle: the boat was purchased in Alameda just a month before the bust, and several alert members of our yachting community were instrumental in helping federal agents crack the case. "The whole deal stunk from the get-go," we were told by one of the tipsters, who for obvious reasons shall remain anonymous. These Chinese guys in black leather jackets and black pants were flashing money all over the place. They paid $85,000 in cash for the boat — not a money order, but actual bills! Then they added fancy electronics and ordered bladder tanks for long range cruising capacity. We kind of thought they might have been with the Chinese Mafia — heroin smugglers or something. You’d have thought they would have been more subtle about it."
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AMERICA'S CUP UPDATE "April is the cruelest month. . ." — from The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
When British poet T.S. Eliot penned those immortal words back in 1922, it’s doubtful he had the America’s Cup in mind. But April’s gonna be one cruel bitch of a month down in San Diego, for with the exception of just two surviving syndicates — one defender and one challenger — the place is about to be turned into a wasteland of shattered dreams, bruised egos and obsolete boats. The moment of truth is at hand: after two years and untold millions of dollars, four top-flight America’s Cup campaigns are on the verge of being excused. They’ll pack their tents and head home — to quote Eliot again, "not with a bang, but a whimper." And whoever’s still standing after the April bloodbath — which at the moment looks like America3 for the defense and either New Zealand or Japan for the chal¬ lengers — will have gotten their berth in the May 9th America’s Cup match the oldfashioned way: they earned it. And what a showdown the 28th America’s Cup promises to be! Everything about this Cup, except perhaps the sailing conditions off Point Loma, is bigger and better than any previous contest for the Auld Mug. Next month, during which Round Four and the Finals of the Cup Trials will be played out, is going to be fascinating — but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. First, let’s briefly recap what went on last month, starting this time with the ’bad guys’.
Challenger Series March 15, the final day of Round Robin Three of the Louis Vuitton Cup for Chal¬ lengers, was a bittersweet one — though hardly a surprise — for four of the eight syndicates competing. Spain, Sweden and two underfinanced efforts from Australia failed to make the cut into Round Four; in fact, none of them realistically ever had a prayer against the weapons and bankrolls of the Big Four. The scores after three round robins and 20 races tell the story: Nippon (82 points), New Zealand (74), II Moro dl Venezia (69), Ville de Paris (61), Espaha '92 (30), Spirit of Australia (27), Tre Kronor (13) and Challenge Australia (8). Each of the four eliminated teams was applauded by the spectator fleet as they crossed the finish line for the final time, and each team graciously thanked the race committee by radio. But it was Espaha ’92 that got the warmest send-off, not only for the best showing among the ’B fleet’ in their first America’s Cup effort, but for the spin¬ naker they flew at the finish. It said "We Love
America, 1492-1992", a classy gesture. Meanwhile, in the ’A Fleet’, Nippon flexed her muscles in Round Three, going 7-0 and leapfrogging past New Zealand into first place. Skipper Chris Dickson was particularly motivated to pound his countrymen after Kiwi team manager Peter Blake (of Whit¬ bread fame) told Radio New Zealand, "I hope Chris Dickson can never, ever return to New Zealand. He’s not a New Zealander. He’s a mercenary working for the Japanese because they can’t do it themselves." Blake later explained that his remarks were taken out of context. He apologized for the remark, but not before the steely-eyed Dickson—the number one match racer in the world — kicked the Kiwis’ butt on the race course. Other observations from Round Three: the canard-ruddered Japanese boat and the relatively short and light ’dinghy-style’ New Zealand boat were the fastest upwind, with Japan holding the edge in heavier air. The Kiwi boat, equipped with the latest ’tandem keel’ technology, is apparently quick in a straight line, but a little slow coming out of tacks. The French boat proved fastest of all downwind, but suffered upwind and from periodic, though less frequent, crew melt¬ downs. And the Italians? For unknown reasons, their boat — despite the sexylooking new black carbon fiber sails — seemed underpowered in this go-around.
Above and right — Two views of Marc Pajot's 1Ville de Paris' en route to upsetting 'New Zealand1 in the first race of Round Robin Three. Are they slower than before, or is everyone else just faster? Did they peak too early? Will they come roaring back in Round Four with a new ’fork’ (Cayard’s term for keel)?
Defender Series The America3 Foundation’s combination of’Talent, Teamwork, Technology’ (and let’s not forget Money, as in a $55 million budget) continues to walk all over Dennis Conner, everyone’s favorite underdog. Koch’s third boat, America3, proved "faster than a scalded dog" upwind (for more of the wit and wis¬ dom of Buddy Melges, turn the page) and all-around faster than their previous Defiant. Expectations are high for their fourth and final boat. That boat, named Kanza in honor of the Indian tribe from which Koch’s home state of Kansas draws its name, was built by Eric Goetz in Rhode Island, flown into San Diego by Antonov cargo jet and launched on March 20. Kanza will replace Defiant in Round Four; meanwhile, Koch’s first boat, Jay hawk (the "lab rat"), is on a two-month cross-country tour to such well-known sailing capitals as Golden, CO, Wichita, KS and Warren, MI. Fundraising, it seems, takes place in strange places. Contrast that to Conner’s one-boat page 112
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won each of the flat water, moderately windy races by taking the starts and playing the shifts to perfection. The twin victories may have eased the pain of the dismasting, as well as the embarrassment of ramming a spectator boat in pre-race maneuvers in an earlier match, but it still looks a case of ’too little, too late1 for DC. Statistically, Stars & Stripes went 3-5 for the series, versus America's 7-1 record and Defiant's 2-6. Cumulative scores after three rounds are America3 (44 points), Stars & Stripes (19) and Defiant (12). The Fat Lady’s in the back room gargling, and unless the wily four-time Cup winner still has a major rabbit to pull from his hat, the end appears near. Currently, his team is working fever¬ ishly to modify their relatively ancient Stripes (at 12 months old, it’s the senior citizen of the fleet): the transom has been opened, the blue topsides have been wetsanded into a dull, but faster finish; and the mast has been lightened. There’s talk of a new keel and
race eacn omer iour times, ana wmcnever two have the best record when the dust settles will advance to the Finals on April 17. We’ll spare you the math and give it to you straight: DC has to win at least four of the eight races to advance to the Finals. Koch’s camp, which can ’throw’ races to each other, anticipates that the Finals will be an in-house affair. "We’d prefer it that way," allowed Melges. ’That way we can concen¬ trate more on controlling improvements to
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program, which is starting to look hopelessly outgunned. Rumors about a second boat proved to be wishful thinking, and frankly the only real question left in our minds is whether Koch and Melges will apply the coup de grace to DC in the upcoming round or wait until the Finals. Conner, frustrated yet remarkably cheer¬ ful throughout the whole ordeal, had a par¬ ticularly bleak day on March 10. Trailing America3 by 35 seconds at the first weather mark, Conner’s 110-ft carbon fiber mast snapped in three places when a titanium running backstay fitting sheared off. Conner, whose head was bruised by the falling back¬ stay, estimated the damage at $600,000. Team DC came back out the next day sporting their back-up mast, only to lose to Defiant again. But in the final two heats of RR 3, Conner scored crucial victories over each of Koch’s boats, pulling himself from last place back into second. Stars & Stripes page 113
other modifications, too. All of which suddenly has the appear¬ ance, to us at least, of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. However, some true believers — including a couple Latitude staf¬ fers — still claim that Dennis will prevail, that he’ll dig deep and find the extra speed to upset the Koch Machine and go on to suc¬ cessfully defend the America’s Cup again. But what do they know?
This Month Round Robin Four for the Defender Selection Series got underway on March 28, with all three U.S. boats advancing. The America3 group has two slots, one carrying in 2 points from RR 3 and one coming in with zip. The slots are interchangeable, so we don’t know yet which boat, America3 or Kanza, will get the two-point headstart. Conner’s second place shpwing to date was good for one ’bonus’ point. The boats will
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ay: 9 (Sa) Race #1 10 (Su; Race #2 12 (Tu) Race #3 14 (Th) Race #4 16 (Sa) Race #5 17 (M) Race #6’ 19 p) Race #7’ If necessary Broadcast on ABC both boats." The Challenger Series resumed on March 29. The Big Four will race each other three times each in RR 4, with only the best two proceeding to the Finals on April 20. France will surely be eliminated in Round Four, but only fools would dare predict any other outcomes. So here we go: Italy, in a heartbreaker, will be excused along with France;
AMERICA'S CUP UPDATE then the Kiwis will squeak by a scrappy Japanese effort in the Finals. The Cup itself? Well, we want to watch Kama for awhile before crawling out on that limb. In the meantime, if you want to stay on top of the daily warfare in San Diego, we can offer three suggestions: watch ESPN relig¬ iously (they have over 100 hours of live television planned); read the vSan Diego County edition of the Los Angeles Times (extensive and interestingly written cover¬ age) and, if you have a polling fax machine, call the ACOC for race results each night (619-685-3866). Better yet, if you have the time and a little spare change, hop down to San Diego and check it out in person. But hurry, the show’s about to begin.
Odds & Ends * Bob ’Buddha’ Billingham parted amicably with the America3 syndicate in mid¬
March to take a project manager position with a San Rafael construction company. .. * What will DC do if he gets dismissed early? Among other things, he’ll work with his Dennis Conner Sports, Inc. business in putting together and promoting a pair of 60footers for the ’93-94 Whitbread Round-theWorld Race. No, Dennis isn’t personally planning on sailing in the race, nor is he planning on driving in the Indianapolis 500 (they’re also getting into Indy cars). .. * Partytime! By consensus, the ’most excellent’ bash of the season so far was the mega-buck Louis Vuitton-hosted affair aboard the aircraft carrier Kittyhawk. The Beach Boys played, the booze flowed and all the beautiful people (except us) were there. * Neat, but expensive, trick: In the first race of Round Three, Espaha ’92 had a
HEEEERRRE'S BUDDY!
is Buddy Melges, the 62-ycar-o!d primary helmsman for the America3 syndicate, if Melges ever hangs up his topsiders, he could
recent Yachtsman’s Lunch at the St. Francis, where the affable mldwesterner brought the house down with such ’buddyisms’ as: — "The Hercules rocket people built Jayhawk, our drst boat Apparently, they once — it had to make it back to the dock every night, too." — "These (IACC) boats are scary above 18 knots. In 25 knots, they’re actually a lot of fun, except that they sound like a bowl of Rice Krispies." — "Someone asked me if we were having
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— On San Diego: "If anyone ever accuses Lake Geneva of being shifty again, I’ll send them to San Diego." — On Dennis’ unsuccessful keel config¬ uration going into Round Two: "He could be going 10 knots, turn that turkey in its length and be going backwards. Not a good idea, especially right before the start, which is when he did it." system to deal with kelp: "We like to see it on the course. Does that answer your question?" — "I remember when they used to build boats with tools. Now you build ’em with jspionage: "Y the front of one of our chase boats. It drives Cayard up the wall every time we point it at him." — When pressed by a member of the audience on how much better the new boat, ■
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we had only one boat, it was like being at a high school dance. Just when I’d really be getting into it (miming steering the boat), there’d be this tap on my shoulder. It’s Bill say, 'Go ahead, Bill, it’s your boat!" — Noting that his wife, Gloria, is commodore of their local yacht club back in Zenda, Wisconsin: "Not everybody can sleep with the commodore and admit it the next day." — On the food: "We eat really well in the compound. . . If you like pasta. Steak and eggs — forget it! The first thing I do when I get home is bum a batch of bacon so I can remember the smell!"
what the tank and wind tunnel tests say. Now I have to shoot you." And seriously, folks: — "We spend 120 hours a week covering the appendages. I hope that will be gone the next time. I hope they haul these boats out every night somewhere where everybody can see them. Right now: tee’re not sharing this technology with anybody, and I think it’s to the detriment of the sport." — On whether Dennis would be invited over if he loses the Defender trials: "I think it would be great to have Dennis and Tom Whidden come over and help our effort. The same goes for Cayard if, God forbid, he doesn’t make it to the finals. I think we’d go everyplace we could to defend this Cup."
problem getting their gennaker back on board at the leeward mark, so they cut it loose. Tre Kronor, a few boatlengths back, ran over the drifting nylon and came to a screeching halt. The Swedes had to go head to wind and send a diver over to clear their keel, altogether losing three or four minutes. Their protest was dismissed, as the five-man jury deemed the situation an accident instead of a deliberate act. * First ’black sails', now 'Cubenfibre': Following on the heels of II Moro’s carbon fiber sails, Bill Koch has come up with 'liquid crystal' sails. The composite (carbon fibers, liquid crystals and polymers) material, ac¬ cording to Koch, is "50% of the weight of kevlar and twice as strong." If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it — anyway, you couldn’t buy it yet if you wanted to.
Notable & Quotable Hugh Treharne (Challenge Australia): "One of the four challengers will win. I don’t know which because they’re all brilliantly sailed... they haven’t played their ace cards yet." Dennis Conner (Stars & Stripes): "I’m not impressed with the on-the-water judging. I never have been." Peter Gilmour (Spirit of Australia): "I believe that the tandem keel or a derivation thereof will win the America’s Cup." Paul Cayard (II Moro dl Venezia), res¬ ponding to Bill Koch’s accusation of his 'whining' about Americans espionage: "I don’t think I whine a lot. Sometimes I tell it like it is. Some people don’t like that. I really don’t have much to say about any of Bill’s comments. We’re all getting to know the real Bill Koch a little better now." Gary Jobson (ESPN commentator and current 'Koch-head'): "Koch has studied the various boat designs more than any other team. I’m impressed with the speed of his third boat, America3, and based on his track record, the fourth boat will be even faster. New Zealand remains the leading challenger with a crew that rarely makes a mistake. But the challengers are at a disadvantage because they had to declare their racing yachts back on January 25. They can make modifications, but are committed to the same yacht for the duration." Peter Isler (ESPN commentator and currently pro-challengers): "With the new yachts, the learning curve is much steeper than with the 12-Meters. These boats are very sensitive to changes to the underbody. I don’t believe the challengers will need to replace what they have... Racing a diverse field of different boats and different strategies has to help." Hiram Gunn-(rockstar): "Talk’s cheap, let’s race!"
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ost of us California-based cruisers make a living in order to afford to go to sea. When we run low on money, we return to the States and take jobs to replenish the kitty. The further you get off the beaten cruising path, however, the more likely you
are to encounter 'lifers': hardcore cruisers who have discovered ways to make a living from the sea while wandering upon it. The Morice family, whom we became friends with in Trinidad, are just one example. The family is headed by the portly but well-muscled 43-year old Roger Morice, who first went to sea at the age of 13 from his hometown of Cameret, on the coast of France. He sailed to Greenland, on the first of six such trips, in search of fish. "It was only
Jacqueline collecting eggs at the Chagos.
cold when the wind blew," he recalls. His wife, the petit Jacqueline, met Roger in Cameret between fishing trips. In 1972
'Gilbert Gu/ may not be fast or buffed to yacht¬ like perfection, but she's been a good home and provider.
they departed France for 11 years of work, pleasure, adventure and baby-making in the Med, the Red Sea and the far reaches of the Indian Ocean. Jacqueline briefly returned to France for the birth of their first child, Morgan, who is now 14. They quickly reunited with Roger on the boat. Sarah, a budding 13-year old beauty, was born on the Balearic island of Mallorca. A second darling daughter, Anais, now 11, was bom in Djibouti on the east coast of Africa. Except for a brief period of conventional schooling in South Africa, the children have spent their entire lives aboard. By California standards, the Morice’s first family cruising boat, the 45-foot O Hoa-Binh ('Peace' in Vietnamese) was a far from conventional. She was, In fact, a bluff-bowed auxiliary gaff ketch designed for fishing. Her huge fuel and freezer capacities meant she was well adapted to making a living from the sea. But she offered few amenities or creature comforts. O Hoa-Binh’s anything but yacht-like appearance, in Roger’s estimation, was hardly detrimental. In Third World countries, where they spent almost all their time, her work-boat image did little to attract the
attention of thieves or stimulate the avarice of port officials. "She looked like the kind of boat that would carry five or six rugged men," laughed Roger, "so many times the smaller fishing boats would flee, thinking we were the pirates."
^\lthough the Morices criss-crossed the Indian Ocean with O Hoa-Binh, they did so with the most basic gear — particularly electronics. And this may have been a factor in her demise in 1983. While ashore helping to build a harbor in the Comores Islands, which are between Mozambique and Madagascar, Roger heard a sailor from Reunion Island radio a warning that cyclone Elena was just 400 miles away — and headed directly for the Comores. Had the Morices an onboard radio or other equipment, they might have gotten the news early enough to flee to cooler waters. As the Comores hadn’t been visited by a cyclone in 30 years, Elena decided to make up for the interlude with a vengeance. Her 170-knot winds* and 40-foot waves sunk a 900-ton barge, drove a large cargo ship 200 yards up on shore — and made splinters of the Morices’ much-loved O Hoa-Binh. 'Lifers' are as resilient as they are selfsufficient. Roger returned to his hometown of Cameret, purchased the 26-year old gaffrigged tuna line boat Gilbert Guy, and 55 days later the Morice family was back living
MAKING MONEY
aboard and working in the Comores. That’s 55 sailing days, as there wasn’t an operational engine aboard at the time. Despite being 15 feet longer than O HoaBlnh, Gilbert Guy is still a far more functional boat than she is luxurious. Although the five-member Morice family has lived aboard Gilbert Guy virtually non-stop for the last 10 years, the blue-hulled boat still has only the most basic amenities. There is no inside toilet, for example, and a simple bucket on deck serves as the shower. Unaccustomed to what we California cruisers take for granted as minimal creature comforts, neither Jacqueline nor the kids voice any complaints. What Gilbert Guy lacks in personal amenities, she makes up for in money¬ making equipment. She’s able to store 10,000 kilos of cargo at minus 40°, for example. And, she can carry 10,000 liters of fuel.
elf-sufficiency is the credo aspired to by we California cruisers, but for the Morices, it’s merely a fact of life. A broken piston, for example, would render most of our diesels lifeless. But not for this sea-going family. When a piston broke on O Hoa-Blnh, Roger and Jacqueline replaced the broken These cloud formations had the Morices'fearing another 'Elena', but it turned out to be just another beautiful day in the Indian Ocean.
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piston from cylinder #5 with the good piston from cyclinder #2 to balance the engine. Naturally, they also closed off the injector to
the inoperable cylinder. Finally, they used a beer can and some thin strips of rubber to put around the crankshaft so the engine would maintain oil pressure. The couple, who carried out the repair at sea, finished the job in just three hours. They then motored 800 miles without incident to port, where they purchased a new piston. It’s sort of humbling for those of us who struggle with changing oil filters or bleeding diesels, isn’t it? While the Morices still have much of the
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world’s oceans to see, the Indian remains a favorite of theirs for several reasons. "Except around the equator where it’s calm," says Roger, "the Indian Ocean usually has 20 to 30 knots winds — and that’s what a boat like Gilbert Guy needs to make feist passages. We
This is one family that has stuck together, through good weather and bad.
also like the fact there are so few boats in the Indian Ocean, and what boats there are generally stop at only the well-known islands and anchorages." Then, too, there is the unrivaled clarity of the water in some parts of the Indian Ocean, where it’s not uncommon to see 150 feet to the bottom. The Morices liked to kid guests by 'accidentally' dropping valuable keys or other items over the side in 50 or 60 feet of water. They enjoy the horrified expressions of the guests, then dive down to retrieve the easily seen items.
O f all the many and wonderful exotic places the Morice family has visited, their favorite by far is the Chagos Archipelago. Just mention the name and the kids’ faces light up, Jacqueline smiles and Roger proclaims with finality, "It’s magic!" Located just below the equator smack in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Chagos Archipelago, was, and to an extent remains, _ something of a Garden of Eden for cruisers. | The Chagos,,which consists of just 70 square {3 miles of land, formally became known as the o * British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965, the f same year its original 2,000 residents were £ forced to abandon the island and leave their o coconut and other plantations. The deal was S the Brits were letting the U.S. build a “ strategic naval base just to the south at Diego 8 Garcia, and the U.S. didn’t want residents on S the Chagos being able to monitor ship and o aircraft movements. The residents apparently had to leave the < Chagos on very short notice. Cruisers who
VIVE LA DIFFERENCE! arrived soon after — and who are still allowed to visit — were stunned to find beautiful homes intact, with tables set, Bibles open on reading desks, crockery and food in cabinets — as if the people had gone for an afternoon walk and never come back. There were tool sheds stocked with perfectly good tools, full fuel depots, groves of oranges and lemons, chickens running free, stockpiles of lumber — it was a fully equipped modern day ghost town on one of the loveliest islands in the tropics! And everything was for the taking. While most of the material things have been taken, the natural beauty — and bounty — of the Chagos is as stunning and abundant as ever. The Morices have returned many times. "Since there are no supplies available at the Chagos, and since only some of the
waters are charted, typical cruisers only stay a few days or few weeks," explains Roger. The Morices, who need little more than cooking oil and rice to augment the fish and lobster they haul in by the score, frequently stay for three and four months at a time. And undaunted by the lack of charts, they’ve wandered all through the archipelago, rather than hanging out at Salomon Island with the majority of cruisers. It was during one such wandering that they discovered the wreck of a 250-year old three-master. They dove on the vessel and -i-
Sarah and Anais, back when they were much younger, strike a lovely pose in front of a Chagos palm.
were able to locate and recover several artifacts, including an ornate binnacle and some ports.
1 he close proximity of the U.S. base at Diego Garcia, of course, ensures that the cat and mouse games between the military and civilians continues. Since all 'lifers' have a bit of pirate in them, Roger naturally was able to get the better of the military on one occasion. It all started when their engineless O HoaBlnh was repeatedly circled by a ratty looking commerical ship named Rover — which turned out to be a U.S. military vessel in disguise. Once the captain of the military vessel realized it was just a family on O HoaBlnh and not a threat to security, he became very friendly. The Morices, having been at sea for 30 days, were treated to 40 kilos of fresh meat, 100 liters of milk, 240 kilos of fresh fruit and veggies — and a magnum of gin, compliments of the captain. The next day, O Hoa-Blnh and the military ship entered the restricted harbor at Diego Garcia together. Roger told the base commander that he knew it was off limits, but that he needed a temporary harbor of refuge to mend his tom sails and grab a little rest. Despite a good word from the Rover’s captain, the base commander would have none of it. At 6 pm. military personnel took O Hoa-Blnh’s sails away; they were returned, completely restitched, the following morning. When the base commander insisted the Morices leave, Roger explained that it was impossible, as his engine wasn’t working. In a matter of minutes, a military diesel expert was on the spot with all his tools. Within a few hours, the diesel was back in'top shape. "My radio is not functioning," Roger argued when once more told he had to leave. A military radio expert fixed everything in less time than it took the diesel mechanic. With nothing more broken on O Hoa-Blnh, they had to leave. It was 15 days before their next landfall, but it was almost worth it.
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Little Sarah holds one of the many big lobsters she's caught.
Like most fishermen, the Morices have had their encounters with sharks. They gaffed a particularly large shark one afternoon. For kicks, one of the kids tossed a beer can down his throat. The shark didn't even flinch. Roger shot the shark twice in the head with a .44 Magnum. It must have given the shark a bit of a headache, because he thrashed around so much he ripped his thick lip right off the gaff and swam off in a huff. This wasn’t quite Jaws, but about 20 minutes later he returned to bite off the bottom half
One broken piston isn't enough to stop the Morices.
of a 100-pound kingfish they were landing. The Morices haven’t had to rely on just fishing. One time, the captain of a passing page 121
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cargo ship noted that Roger had a dive compressor on deck and wondered if Roger, an expert diver, could do some work right there — at sea — on his prop. Why, of course! Two days later Roger had enough money to support his family for the better part of a year. Having a wood boat has helped, too. When the Red Sea was mined a number of years back, a CBS news crew needed a boat to take into those hazardous waters for filming. Since wood is much less apt to set off mines, Roger was more than willing — in fact he was the only one willing — to take the job. That brought them nearly $2,000 for a day’s work. For the Morices, $2,000 U.S. goes a long, long way. Although Gilbert Guy is not a ’yacht', Roger’s skills as a diver and his boat’s ability to refill dive tanks very quickly has resulted in many dive charters. The places are — or at least were — exotic: Dar es Salaam, the Red Sea, the Maldives, Reunion, Madagascar, North and South Yemen.
1 he Morices aren’t much for settling down, so they often have a number of 'irons in the fire'. They might start, for example, by spending four months in Chagos catching and drying fish. Then they’d head to South Africa, but finding a surprisingly good price in Mauritius, would sell their catch there. Reprovisioned, they’d head back to the Chagos to collect 10,000 coconuts, which would bring them a modest sum in Durban. But then Roger realized they could really make a killing if they could bring in coconut seedlings. So they cut 55-gallon drums in half, filled them with sand, and planted little cuttings. About 1,000 of them survived the trip to South Africa, where garden centers snapped them up for $25 each. It was while in South Africa that Roger and his compressor-equipped boat got the most interesting job: diving for diamonds under contract to the DeBeers Company. It was very, very difficult work off the Saharalike coast of Namibia, but very rewarding. Roger’s biggest find was a 300-carat 'sugar diamond' —■ which is not to be confused with the type of 'rocks' on Liz Taylor’s fingers. Namibia, Jacqueline explains, is an amazing country. The coastline for about 300 miles north and south of the city of Luderitz is sand dunes — dotted with long Black Forest-style German homes that were abandoned right after World War II. Even more amazing is the fact that diamonds can literally be found lying in the sand — which is why DeBeers got the concession to it and doesn’t let anybody go for strolls on the /
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At the time this kingfish was killed, it was the largest ever taken while free-diving.
beach. Of course there’s nothing to stop ostriches, who love gobbling sparkling things. That’s why so many are killed by
locals as soon as they wander back into free territory — about one in 20 has a valuable diamond lodged in its stomach!
VIVE LA DIFFERENCE! be a model when she grows up. Duties aboard the boat are well-defined. Sarah’s are to help sail the boat, clean it, and cook and do dishes on alternate weeks. Occupational equality of the sexes hasn’t taken hold on Gilbert Guy as yet. "Roger and Morgan do all the work on deck," says Sarah, "except for sanding, which is the worst job of all." Anais, who has her share of chores also, agrees that it’s good to be at sea and that seeing the same things everyday — which would be the case if she lived in a city — would bore her. Nonetheless, she’d like to be a child actress on television. She has no "least favorite" aspect of her way of life, loving it all. All three of the Morice children said that children and parents shouldn’t be afraid to take kids sailing. That while it’s hard missing friends, it’s worth meeting all the new ones and seeing so much of what the world has to offer. Diving for diamonds was such arduous work that Roger gave it up after 10 months. So in 1991, they sailed the Atlantic to St. Helena, Ascunsion, Fernando de Noronha, French Guiana and Trinidad. Of all the places they’ve been, the port officials in Venezuela were the worst. "Everybody had their hand out," said Jacqueline. "We had an Austrian friend who had been in Venezuela for two years with no papers at all," Roger continues. Finally an Immigration official came out and said, "You’re in big trouble." "Before you say any more," the Austrian told the official as he greased his palm with $40 U.S., "think about it." That not only got him a current visa, but one that was back¬ dated two years! The same ploy worked with Venezuelan Customs. Roger and Jacqueline just shake their heads in disgust.
The Morices aren’t sure what to do next. One plan would be to sail down the coast of South America to see the Straits of Magellan. Another possibility is sailing through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, Vancouver, Alaska, Japan and back to the Indian Ocean. Plans are flexible, and it’s not money, but Morgan’s future that’s becoming the major consideration. While wise in the ways of the world and the sea, Morgan’s only had a correspondence school education — except for a brief stint in South African schools. His parents wonder if he shouldn’t start attending classes with some of his peers. As for Morgan, he loves sailing, fishing and the life at sea. "The only bad thing about this
The Morice kids and their two-hour catch from the Indian Ocean.
life," he says, "is I miss my girlfriend." His younger sister Anais laughs. "Girlfriends! He’s got different ones all over!" Thirteen year-old Sarah has also enjoyed her life at sea. She thinks it would be fun to spend a little time in the city, but seeing the
same things day after day would be boring. She misses not being able to take dancing classes on a regular basis, and would like to
1 he Morice’s is not a conventional way of life or even a conventional way of cruising. But the world is made up of all kinds of people, and frankly, we sleep better at night knowing there are still completely How big are these 'bugs'! Use the beer can at the upper left for size reference.
free-spirits, like this close-knit French family, still roaming the oceans.
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22nd, appear in The Racing Sheet. The day these pictures were taken, Sun¬ day March 15, was wet and wild — a perfect tune-up for the coming season. With steady 20-knot winds and occasional gusts up to 30, crew work was at a premium. Tactics were important, too, as 10-20° shifts rolled through all afternoon. The conditions rapidly sorted out the champs from the chumps, and finishes in most of the classes — with the notable exception of the highly competitive Etchells fleet — were quite spread out. The '92 pecking order, it seems, is already sorting itself out.
OLSON 30 — 1) Bottom Line, Tony Pohl, 3.5 points; 2) Zephyros, Dave Oliver, 12.75; 3) Killer Rabbit, Bill Coverdale, 13; 4) Kabala, Jay Bennett, * 14; 5) Soul Sauce, Ahrens/McLeod, 16. (11 boats) SANTANA 35 — 1) Wild Flower, Art Mowry, 5.75 points; 2) Swell Dancer, Jim Graham, 5.75; 3) Excalibur, Byron Mayo, 10.75; 4) Flexible Flyer, Mike Creazzi, 14. (9 boats)
EXPRESS 37 — 1) Ringmaster, Leigh Brite, 4.75 points; 2) Spindrift V, Larry Wright, 6.75; 3) ReQuest, 6.75. (6 boats)
NEWPORT 30 — 1) Top Gallant, Frank Hinman, 6.75 points; 2) Achates, Bill Schultz, 9; 3) Mintaka, Cerry Brown, 9.75; 4) Hot Chocolate, Don Oliver, 14; 5) Mariner, Bruce Darby, 19. (11 boats)
ETCHELLS — 1)3 Live Crew, Mike LaHorgue, 5.75 points; 2) Six Hundred, Hank Easom, 6.75; 3) Mr. Natural, Bill Barton, 7.75; 4) Volition, Kriese/Jesberg, 10. (8 boats)
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or years, the Bay Conservation and Development Commis¬ sion has arrogantly maintained that they have jurisdiction over navigable vessels on San Francisco Bay, on the grounds that such vessels are "Bay Fill". This has meant that anyone who has wanted to anchor out for extended periods has needed to get a permit from the BCDC — permits the BCDC has shown little inclination to issue.
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they weren’t entitled to, and wasting money and causing mariners endless personal grief in the process, we at Latitude feel vindicated. Robin Sweeny, Director of the Richardson Bay Regional Agency (RBRA) that administers Richardson Bay, said the ruling would have no affect on their ongoing attempts to remove long-term anchor-outs from Richardson Bay. Andy Anderson, Richardson Bay Harbor¬ master, advises that boats may anchor in Richardson Bay for 72 hours, after which time they must obtain a permit from him. Anderson says he routinely issues one month permits, and will usually renew them twice. In other words, under the current circumstances, boats which meet the safety and pollution standards can expect to be able to anchor in Richardson Bay for up to three months per year. While Sweeny would appear to be correct in thinking that Judge Taylor’s'1 ruling doesn’t affect their attempt to remove permanent anchor-outs, there may be other legal problems with evicting them. A number of legal precedents, in the opinion of at least one Coast Guard expert, suggest that citizens have a right to anchor-out and liveaboard. The RBRA has what’s called "concurrent jurisdiction" over Richardson Bay. This means the Coast Guard, which has ultimate control, has allowed the RBRA to institute certain limitations on anchoring. But would they stand up to a challenge in federal court? Perhaps not, as there are certain navigation rights guaranteed all citizens which states, regional and local governments cannot limit. For example, the RBRA created a Special Anchorage in Richardson Bay. But consider the following letter from Captain R.D. Peterson, Chief, Aids to Navigation and Waterways of the 7th Coast Guard District, to the Director of the Port and Transit Authority in Key West, another city that is trying to restrict long-term anchoring:
anywhere in navigable waters . .. and stay in the anchorage zone an indefinite period." While the concept of boats being "Bay fill" seems preposterous, the powerful and connected BCDC has gotten support for this concept from the State Attorney General’s Office. This despite the fact that State Senator Nicholas Petris, who co-authored the McAteer-Petris Act which created the BCDC, has testified that the legislature never intended navigable vessels to be considered 'Bay fill'. In January, the boats-as-Bay-fill concept was finally challenged in court, when Sausalito attorney Thomas Davis represented Doug Storms, a diver who lives aboard his 32-foot sloop Juniper which is anchored out in Richardson Bay. The BCDC was represented by council provided by the Attorney General’s Office. "Navigable vessels are not Bay fill", was the ruling issued on February 27 by Marin Superior Court Judge Lynn O’Malley Taylor. Here are some excerpts from her ruling: "Having reviewed the entire McAteer-Petris Act, giving a liberal interpretation to its wording, the court finds that the Act was not intended to include navigable sailboats in the definition of the word 'fill', nor did the Legislature intend to include navigable sailboats in the 'structure' definition. "Storms’ sailboat is not a "'structure' with the meaning of Section 66632(a). "Storms’ sailboat is not 'fill' within the meaning of Government Code 66632(a). "The evidence failed to establish that the mooring of ' Storms’ navigable sailboat, the Juniper, in its current and , 1 former locations, brought about a ’substantial change in ' use', of these area within the meaning of Government Code 66632a. Evidence established that the general area had been used for anchoring of boats 'since Goldrush Wm days'. [Editor’s notes: 1. Storm’s boat had been anchored In basically the same place for two years. 2. The question of "substantial change In use” was crucial, because after the concept of boats being "Bay filF', 'change In use of boats', for example from recreational to llveaboard use, Is the BCDC’s other big argument that navigable boats should come under their control.] "No competent evidence was introduced to show that Storms’ navigable sailboat produces or threatens the type III of harm to the environment which the Legislature jl! contemplated when enacting the McAteer-Petris Act. "Storms has not violated the McAteer-Petris Act by failing to obtain a permit from the Commission."
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T 1 hat’s pretty powerful stuff. Capt. Peterson also advises that, 'No state or municipality can preempt the federal government’s authority for setting standards for clean water or for marine sanitation devices." Only the EPA can create a "no discharge zone" — which it has done in Richardson Bay. In another letter, this one to the Director of the Florida Department of Natural Resources, which is trying to limit free navigation and anchoring all over Florida, Capt. Peterson cited case law which would seem to make it almost impossible for the proposed limits to stand up in court.: ‘ ' "The right to navigate upon the navigable waters of the page 128
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We include the case law for those of you who wish to pursue navigation rights causes. Peterson continued: "The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1915 and the Ports and Waterway Safety Act of 1972 addresses the issue of federal jurisdiction over anchorage regulations. In general, the Coast Guard has jurisdiction over regulations associated with the anchorage of vessels. The Coast Guard will not ' normally prohibit a state from enacting an anchoring ||| regulation unless it directly conflicts with matters that have been preempted by the federal government. In this case, the Coast Guard has the responsibility to prevent any state or local anchorage regulation from infringing upon the reasonable needs of navigation, such as the right of people to anchor and stay aboard vessels."
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I n other words, Capt. Peterson is suggesting that state and local governments try to accommodate anchor-outs and liveaboards rather than try to legislate them out of existence. Wouldn’t that be novel? In a later letter to the Florida Director of the Department of Natural Resources, Captain Peterson wrote: "You asked that we define when a vessel is exercising a ' \ f right of navigation, specifically in reference to long-term fjf| anchoring. We agree with you that therein lies the crux of , long-term anchoring and the liveaboard question. "As we see continued proliferation of local laws attempting to control anchoring and as the state. s approaches more comprehensive law on the subject, our "|| greatest concern is that attempts to control a relatively || small segment of the maritime population, the 'problem1 „ p liveaboard, will adversely impact the right to navigation of much broader segments of the boating population. "There certainly are areas where dilapidated, unsafe, /j| unsightly and perhaps environmentally undesirable liveaboard vessels are a problem and likely warrant some Ilocal control. Similarly, effectively abandoned, unattended 'I vessels permanently anchored are often a problem and I ; , frequently create hazards. However, there is also a much | , larger number of responsible liveaboards and legitimate ||| I cruising sailors that can be adversely impacted by anchorage prohibitions, limitations or controls that are not | carefully crafted. Such adverse impacts are apparent in fffff most of the local anchoring laws we are aware of, and h many will, accordingly, end up in court. "A vessel at anchor has been held by the court to be ’in ' ||| navigation' in most cases. In United States v. Monstad, 134 ||| F.2d 986 (9th Cir, 1943), the court found that a barge that had been anchored for two years was 'in navigation' for ' |:1 , | the purposes of enforcing shipping laws. The courts have if not established a clear, workable definition as to when a 1 111 vessel ceases to be 'in navigation' and when it is either :-;f: III used as a residence or left unattended. We expect that any III; regulation or law that states vessels anchored for 72 or 96 hours are no longer protected by the right of free § navigation will not withstand judicial scrutiny." i
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ffi sewage pumpout and dinghy docks, we feel, will likely I accomplish your goal of congregating liveaboard vessels |:,r; without the use of regulations or statutes limiting 'J|| anchoring elsewhere. With good services and reasonable ffl |§! fees, voluntary compliance can be expected."
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NAVIGABLE BOATS ARE NOT BAY FILL due to the needed generalities. In general, the areas of concern are few and quite localized, and control of these areas is likely best left to local authorities following state standards, not unlike zoning laws, a near equivalent. "Some options you may want to consider are: — as previously suggested, permanent mooring fields with good services and reasonable fees to encourage voluntary compliance. — rather than a questionable definition of unattended non-liveaboard vessels anchored more than 96 hours as not being involved in navigation, it might be better to allow state citation/impoundment of unattended vessels anchored in a hazardous manner, such as anchored without required anchor lights . . . similar to vehicle parking laws. Federally designated 'special anchorages' are the only areas where anchor lights aren’t required. — existing law is quite specific on sewage discharge. Dilapidated liveaboard vessels seldom can comply. Local law can be established to enforce — but not modify — established federal requirements, and could perhaps prohibit occupation as a residence unless compliance is proven. — rather than a questionably justified prohibition on permanent liveaboard vessels, consider requiring them to have a state permitted mooring buoy if permanently moored on state lands (federal mooring buoy permits are no longer required by the Corps of Engineers. This introduces a case-by-case basis.
— the control of liveaboards moored to private l|l| property is a zoning matter, not a question of navigation. .. — it appears to us that any general prohibition on anchoring, whether liveaboard or not, will be difficult to , uphold in court unless very carefully constructed, very limited in scope, and very specific as to the 'target'."
fA lx ny general prohibition on anchoring, whether liveaboard or not, will be difficult to uphold in court.' We like that kind of talk. Based on Capt. Peterson’s judgement, it would seem to us that there are a number of local laws in California and Hawaii that are in violation of the federal laws—which take precedence. We read some of Peterson’s excerpts to Harbormaster Anderson, who told us that court rulings in both Marin and San Diego have upheld time limits on anchoring, after which permits are required. Perhaps the case wasn’t argued well? Then again, perhaps Peterson, who was writing on behalf of the Coast Guard, isn’t completely up on the subject. Obviously something isn’t consistent. In any event, after years during which local governments and agencies seemed hell-bent on outlawing the freedom to navigate and anchor, the decision of Judge Taylor against boats being 'Bay fill', and Capt. Peterson’s legal advice to Florida officials are most encouraging. These issues are far from settled, but they seem to be coming to a head. And we boaters would appear to have substantial federal law backing us. — latitude 38
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WYLIE WABBIT Wet ’n wild — a pocket rocket!" "Weally wadical, especially on a weach!" "Maximum bang for the buck." "Like a 505, except it has a beer cooler." "Why ask why? It’s bitchin’!" Of the nearly 50 Boat of the Month features we’ve run over the last 15 years, few boats have elicited such passionate responses and unbridled enthusiasm from their owners as the Wylie Wabbit. Just as there are 'cult' movies and books, there are cult boats — and this adrenalin-pumping 24-foot ULDB is definitely one of them. There’s nothing 'mainstream' about the Wabbit; in fact, there’s really no other boat like it, which paradoxically makes it both easy and hard to capture it in just four pages. Ironically, considering the boat’s 'weputation' as a balls-to-the-wall high performance racer, it was originally conceived as a fast but simple weekend 'camping cruiser'. Inspired by an article In The Small Boat Journal about cruising in a Lightning, East Bay designer Tom Wylie put pencil to paper in the spring of 1981 and several weeks later had the lines drawn for what was originally called the Wylie 24. "It took a fair amount of research," recalls Wylie. "It was a dinghy with a keel, a real departure from the IOR-type boats I was designing at the time." His criteria was simple: the waterline beam was set at four feet (the minimum width for a double berth), and everything else was scaled around that. Other considerations included trailerability, pleasing lines, ease of handling and safety. Wylie looked forward to eventually budget-cruising his creation on some lake with his family, but ironically it wasn’t to be: though he briefly owned two different Wabbits, Tom was sidelined with back problems before he could ever enjoy them. Anyway, the double berth concept (actually a pair of air mattresses which contribute to the boat’s positive floatation) was — even the most rabid Wabbit fanatics will admit — something of a flop. "It’s not
very comfortable," says Steve Bates, owner of Wind Blown Hare. "There’s a compression post between you and your partner; getting the air mattresses 'right' is nearly impossible; and getting in and out of it is really hard." But the workability of the claustrophobic, crawling-room only interior is a moot point, as few if any owners bought these boats with weekend cruising in mind. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule — such as Jim and Treacy Malloy, who once spent a week in the Delta on Hare Ball. With due respect to Wylie’s original vision, let’s come out and call these tiny rocketships what they are: fast, sexy, small and relatively cheap race boats — sort of the Mazda Miatas of the high seas. Weigh¬ ing in at a lean 875 pounds (440 of which is in the keel) with a bare minimum of wetted surface over a long waterline, the low-riding 'rag top' offers a wild ride. Sensitive to live ballast (the class weight limit page 132
is 700 pounds — effectively three large people), the tippy boat rewards good crew work. Upwind, it likes to be sailed flat, which isn’t always easy. And downwind! — well, the Wabbit’s faster than a raped ape, easily capable of planing at 17-18 knots while under fingertip control. The first boat, sold to Gene Groen and named Willow (presumably after the street in Alameda where the builder, Kim Desenberg’s North Coast Yachts, is still located) was launched in November, 1981. Wylie actually built most of that boat at his shop in Canyon, while Desenberg — who had previously collaborated with Wylie in building and selling Hawkfarms and Wylie 34s — finished it off and convinced Tom to let him bring the boat into production. Willow became the plug for the molds and tooling, and over the next three years a total of 62 boats were built. (The molds are currently in Denver, but — page 133
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according to Kim — they’ll be coming home this summer.) The boat, christened the Wylie Wabbit by an unrecorded Elmer Fudd fan, debuted at,the January 1982 boatshows. Between the Moscone and the Cow Palace shows, the first ten boats were sold at an introductory price of $7,000 — and the new class was off and hopping! Standard equipment included a fractional rig by Ballenger, Horizon main and 105% jib, and Harken and Nicro-Fico deck hard¬ ware — winches are unnecessary. Trailers, 2 or 4-horse outboards and assorted go-fast goodies brought the price up to around $10,000 to $11,000, about twice of what a decent used Wabbit costs today. Interestingly, one option that no one went for in the beginning was spinnakers: the first Nationals, held in 1982 at Ballena Bay YC, was a non-spinny event! Gary Edwards and Pat Vincent teamed up on, One Wabbit (hull #2) to win that one, a harbinger of things to come.
As the class grew, spread out — strongholds include the Bay Area, where 20-some Wabbits reside, and a 10-boat fleet in Colorado — and adopted spinnakers, the Wabbit began to make itself unpopular by mopping up the Lake Circuit and various midwinters. Its original PHRF rating of 150 slowly drifted down to its current 132, which also reflects the use of one trapeze. Like the local Soling fleet, the class has decided to allow the wire for stability and comfort. Experiments with masthead kites, which further reduced the rating to 120, proved ineffectual. Regardless, the boat’s plenty competitive in handicap racing at the 132 rating, but these days the one design schedule is full enough that few local Wabbit sailors bother sailing 'outside the hutch'.
The Nationals, of course, are the big attraction each summer. Until he sold his boat, Edwards (with Vincent driving and generally Greg Paxton crewing) was virtually untouchable, winning seven titles. Only two other sailors have ever won the Nationals: George Pedrick, who won in '86 and ’89 with Ricochet, and Desenberg, who sailed his shop boat, Mr. McGregor, to victory at Lake Tahoe last year. Other traditional Wabbit habits include the Wiver Wun, a 50-mile downwind sprint from Richmond YC up to Brannan Island; the Clear Lake SBRA Regatta/class campout; and the L.A. Midwinters. Despite the name, the latter were held, as usual, in San Diego; this year, a trio of Russian America’s Cup refugees commandeered a Wabbit and won overall. page 134
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Friday nights on the Estuary and two midwinter series (Richmond and BYC/MYCO) round out the schedule. One venue in which the Wabbit was never intended to compete is ocean racing. Unfortunately, that point was underscored when Wadlcal Wabbit disappeared withouta trace in the 1983 Boreas Race. Owner John Lusher, the Moss Landing Wabbit dealer, and two friends had entered unofficially and against the advice of almost everyone — and paid the ultimate price. They were photographed less than an hour away from the finish as they zoomed past the Cal 39 Blue Streak at an estimated 20-24 knots, bound for oblivion. Why the Wabbit sank will never be known, but the tragedy contributed to an page 135 /
unfortunate impression that these boats arc: n’t seaworthy. Desenberg is still quick to disagree, "J/24s, Santana 20 s i, Express 27s, Moore 24s, you name it.. .all sorts of boats have sunk z iround here. To single out Wabbits as 'unsafe' based on an isolated iir icident just isn’t right." In fact, Wabbit aficionados claim their lb oats are plenty safe. Sure, knockdowns aren’t uncommon, but no cu re’s ever turtled a Wabbit and dismastings are rare — we’ve heard o f only three sticks falling in ten years. And theoretically, if you did mzi: nage to swamp one (which shouldn’t happen if the hatch is battened down), there is some 600700 pounds of positive flotation provide: d by the air mattresses up front and two airbags under the cockpnit seats. Several dockside sinking tests have confirmed that the boat will stay afloat when it’s full of water, though some people have taken to adding inner tubes as an added safety measure. "The Wabbit’s basically really rugged, " claims Billy Erkelens, who likes the boat enough to have owned two of them, both named WPOD after the satirical Tubes song 'W1 rite Punks on Dope'. "It can take a licking and keep on ticking." Ind leed, the flyweight Wabbits have held up well over the years, despite some strong punishment on the Bay — a real tribute to Desenberg’s ability as a boat builder. No exotic materials were used in laying up the Wabbit, but lots of care did go into each boat. The foam-cored hull is light where the loads are low, and reinforced with stringers ar id extra roving in high stress areas (chainplates, stem, transom, etc.). In fact, the boats are so well built that Kim only sees them returned to his shop for collision repairs, the occasional fall from the hoist (e.g., Kwazy and Tulawemia) or trailering accidents. Trix (whose current owner, Joe Huise, is trying to figure out a cartop arrangement for it!) < and Tulawemia both survived 'asphalt broaches', but lived to sail acja in. Mark Harpainter’s Tulawemia is a particularly tough boat, not to mention it gets our vote for best name: in the Wabbit motif (and there are so many to chose from: Crewsader, Mad Hatter, Bad Bunny, Bay Awea Wabbit Twanslt (BAWT), Thurnper, etc.). Named after 'tul¬ aremia' — rabbit fever (we swear, loo k it up) — the boat was blown over by a gust of wind while being dra gged up the Grapevine back in the mid-’80s. Fellow Wabbit sailors sc ion stumbled on the sad scene, and four men tipped the boat and trai ler back to an upright position. The caravan continued to San Di ego, where the only slightly wounded boat raced under the name Wood Wrash. Like we said, tough boats. The class also attracts some toug h sailors — Jim Warfield, Chris Corlett and Kame Richards (who seisi ms to be the Wabbit sailmaker of choice) are just some of the 'pros' wlhio have put their time in on these boats. The caliber of the fleet is much higher than it was in the beginning, as many of the original 1 recreational sailors have been replaced by younger, more athletilc and gung-ho racers. "Wabbit sailors are a lot better than your av erage weekend warriors," figures Richards. "And the top third of the i fleet is really excellent — we’re talking about people who could wii l in any fleet!" Wabbit sailors are a fun group of people, too. "It’s like an extended family," explained Jon Stewart, O’wner of Kong. "Everyone knows each other, shares information free ly and will do anything to help the other guy out. And everyone real ly loves to sail — we’d rather be getting drenched on a firehose roach than sitting on a yacht club barstool anytime!" Well, as Elmer Fudd’s buddy Porky Pig put it, thattttt’s all folks! Like we said up fronf, we knew wie’d have problems doing justice to this unique little boat in such a sm all space. Our recommendation? If you’ve got the need for speed. . . beg, borrow or steal a ride on a Wabbit and find out what it’s all about for yourself. But be careful, you just might get hooked. — Iatltude/Won For more information on the I Wylie Wabbit, call local fleet captain Zane Working at (510) 530-105'L, designer Tom Wylie at (510) 3767338, or builder Kim Desenberg at (510) 523-8330.
MEDICAL NIGHTMARE
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. ,hysllng, my 44-fo o t Alden-designed Countess yawed to th» 2 rhythm of the tradewind swell, broad re. aching under large jib and single reefed mail 1. An experienced singlehander with more t han one crossing under my belt, 1 sleepilj/ reclined in the
Author Michael Bates at the hel m of 'Rhysling: the dream has stuck with him.
cockpit and stared at the heap of clothes on the bridgedeck. There was no putting it off any longer, I had to get down 10 the chore of sewing. I didn’t own a single t-s shirt or pair of shorts that didn’t require men< ding of some sort. The thought of it made me even sleepier. Holding the needle temporarily in my mouth, I rummaged through my d itty bag for some thread — and then it happened. I swallowed the sewing needle! It h a ppened so quickly, that I hardly realized it«i t first. One moment it was held lightly betwe en my lips, then I coughed and must have ini raled at the same time. In any event, the shari > silver dart was sucked down my throat. It c lidn’t hurt, exactly, but I could feel it lighltly jabbing somewhere part way down. The Idea that it was there made it hurt the most. I coughed and gagged, trying to dislodge ai id. bring it up, but to no avail. I swallowed gincjerly and felt it jab some more.
some stale ship’s biscuits. 1 softened them in a bit of water and swallowed them in hopes of dislodging the needle and carrying it down to my stomach. But no matter how many I ate or how much water 1 drank, the tiny skewer stubbornly remained stuck. Then I got an idea. Rummaging through my ditty bag again, I found a small magnet. 1 unwound some thread from the spool and tied a length of it to the magnet. Then I placed it on the back of my tongue and swallowed gently, easing the tethered magnet down my throat. My intent was to let the magnet meet snag the needle, then retrieve them both. When 1 felt that the magnet must surely have reached its prey, I gently began pulling it back up my throat. Then, with an almost imperceptible jerk, the thread parted! With a literal lump in my throat, me, the intrepid, ingenious sailor, sat and stared at the bitter end of the broken thread. 1 swallowed, coughed and drank more water, but the lump remained. Now both the needle and magnet were both firmly lodged in my throat. For a moment I thought I might cry. My chest tightened with a tinge of panic, but I fought it down. After all, I could still breathe and eat, so at this point I was in no immediate danger. Nonetheless, I felt it prudent to alter course to the nearest landfall where I could get medical attention.
Elvery sailor develops an instinctive sense of direction at sea. Just from his natural surroundings, the sun’s east-west movement, the prevailing tradewinds, the course of the stars and planets at night, he gets a rough idea of which is north and south, east and west. The compass is still necessary, of course, since it’s the instrument which fine tunes the headings. But when I leaned toward the binnacle to set the new course, I immediately sensed something was wrong. I knew I was sailing on a westsouthwesterly course, but the compass read northwest. The realization of what was wrong struck
Qind magnet were firmly lodged in my throat. I went below and found a pock et mirror so I could look for the needle, but it was 'around the corner' and out of sigh t. Firmly imbedded midway down my throat, it would neither come up or go down. I went down to the galley and d ug out
me like a dollop of cold seawater down my neck during a nightwatch: whenever I tried to read the card, the magnet in my throat threw the compass off! It read differently depending on which side and how close I approached, but it was always considerably
it. I had created my own personalized, constantly shifting deviation! Unfortunately, there wasn’t a fixed value which I could apply for correction as I’d normally do. 1 had absolutely no idea how much my compass was being altered each time 1 approached it. Tears of frustration boiled up in my eyes. What a dilemma! Another idea! I rummaged around belowdecks until I came up with a second mirror and some duct tape. I then taped one mirror to a cockpit combing so it would reflect the image of the compass card to the second mirror which I replaced in the companionway. By reversing the compass image twice, 1 could read compass from a great enough distance not to affect it. Now, with the course adjustment lines for the windvane led to the companionway, I was set. ' '
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From 'Rhysling's scrapbook: above, scenes from New Guinea, the Red Sea and the pyramids of Egypt. There's no way to do justice to a six year, 36,000 mile, 24-country voyage in so little room! Below, just another perfect day in the Bahamas. All photos courtesy of 'Rhysling1.
Rhysllng, my forty-four foot John Alden ketch was yawing to the tradewind swells, just as she had been for the past several days during our passage between Fiji and New Caledonia, when I awoke from my mid-day doze. Shaking the nightmare from my head, I confronted the pile of torn pile of clothes in
indeed had that detailed dream while singlehanding my ketch Rhysllng in the Pacific. For some reason it has, excuse the pun, stuck with me over the years.
front of me, still awaiting repair. There was no putting it off any longer, I had to get to the chore of sewing. The above yarn is a true story in that 1
learned to sail in the Bay near Redwood City. After a stint in the Navy I chose a career in the merchant marine, where I worked on everything from tugs to research ships. All the while, I was saving and planning for the day when I would have my
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own cruising sailboat. My goal was finally achieved when I discovered the Aldendesigned Rhysllng out of the water and virtually abandoned in the Marshall Islands. 1 bought her for a low price and spent a lot of time and money installing a new engine and making her seaworthy again. On and off I singlehanded through the South Pacific, which was a story in itself. Eventually I set out to return to the U.S. by way of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean and Atlantic. White in New Guinea, I somewhat adopted a young boy from a village who had been abandoned by his family. He accompanied me on my voyage.
^\fter six years, 36,000 nautical mites and 24 countries, I arrived on the East Coast of the United States where Rhysling had been built. I sold her last May and have returned to live in the Bay Area. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Michael Bates
10TH ANNIVERSARY CREW LIST And now, direct from the home office in LeBrocK North Dakota:
Yeah, we know this Crew List includes a lot more than just cruising. We were just testing you. Welcome to Latitude 38's 10th Anniversary 'Cruising Crew List'. Back in 1981 ^ that’s all it was, a list of cruising folks looking for crew and crew looking for cruising boats. It’s expanded over the years to include categories for daysailing, boatswapping and co-chartering — just about every type of sailing you can think of except racing. The ’92 Racing Crew List ran in last month’s issue. The list of names now before you is, appropriately, the largest Crew List we’ve ever had (although, if you want to get technical about it, the ’83 list had more people listed in the 'cruising' category — but not many more). All right, all right, we’re through through blow¬ ing our own horn. Let’s get to the business at hand, shall we?
TOP TEN REASONS PEOPLE GO CRUISING
amenities aboard (hot/cold water, etc.), type of naviga¬ 1. Research Flipper comeback. tion he does (sextant, elec¬ tronic, by-guess-by-gosh, etc.). Maybe then we’d seque 2. Lynn and Larry tote bags. into what was expected of us as crew — duties, both 3. If you have to waste away, want to do it in ashore and underway; time rt ritaviilc. off; financial arrangements (if any); shower/bathing ar¬ rangements; eating/cooking/ 4. choice of candidates in upcoming cleanup preferences; what presidential election. we could bring besides clothes (tapes, books, Rott¬ weilers, etc.); who else would be aboard; any smokers in the group, that sort of thing. 6. To impress Jodie Foster. A skipper, of course, wouldn’t have to be quite so detailed. All he really needs is a warm body to help run a planet full of beautiful women, just like on the boat. Compatibility is certainly an issue, too, and ! crew should be prepared to be grilled in some detail about this aspect of the deal. 8. No bothersome frequent flyer miles to keep And while we’re semi on the track of. subject, sex is not in any way shape or form 'required' from women crewmembers. Don’t 9. Two words: 'cer' and 'veza' let anyone tell you it is. Those guidelines are If your name appears 10. Finally decided to take everyone's advice admittedly rough, but they here, chances are good that and get a life. should get you started. You you know the drill — look for Listees in other categories the listing showing the type modify your questions ac¬ of sailing you want to do, cordingly. If you’re really decipher the 'code' beside planning to get into this and carefully weigh the pros and cons of each each name by using the information in the gray boxes (highlighting potential situation, we’d suggest writing out a list of questions on a the most desirable prospects as you do), and then start making calls. sheet of paper, leaving lots of room in between. Then make a bunch If you’re listed here, a bunch of somebodys out there will likely be of copies. That way you won’t forget the questions, and you won’t get doing the same thing with your name. mixed up on who said what. (We can almost guarantee that after the If you don’t have a clue what we’re talking about, it’s easy enough to figure out. And you don’t have to be listed here to take part. If you third or fourth call, you’ll begin to fuzz out on who said what.) All you were late getting your name in, didn’t bother, or are looking at your have to do is use a fresh sheet every time you talk to somebody — don’t forget to put their name at the top! very first issue of Latitude — no problem. All we ask is that everybody Here are a few more do’s and don’ts. wanting to take part in the Crew List first read and acknowledge the Do: 1) Be honest. We’ve been aboard boats where people bluffed disclaimer in the dark gray box at the top of the next page. Or, as we their ways aboard by claiming more experience than they had. It was said it in April of ’82, "If using this list leads to your getting hurt, killed or married, it’s not our fault. If you aren’t something of a risk-loving horrible and embarrassing, both for them and the rest of the crew. So swashbuckler who can handle him/herself in any situation, don’t use don’t do it. 2) Please call during normal hours. In most cases, you won’t make big points by calling after 10 p.m. or before 7 a.m. 3) Be this list." (We really wrote 'risk-loving swashbuckler'.. . ?) faithful to any commitment you make. 4) Be realistic about any Someone asked the other day why we don’t detail the questions a prospective crew or skipper is supposed to ask during these first commitment you make. Sailing, and particularly cruising, is not always fun or done under ideal conditions. contacts. We said, "Geez, Louise, ya want us to do everything?" The real reason is that there are so many categories and different types of Don’ts: 1) Please, once again, don’t use the Crew List as a meat boats and situations — well, it would take forever. market. Despite what a lot of you sexist macho wankers out there But we’ll take a stab at it anyway. might think, men and women really can have a lot of fun together If we were looking for a cruising boat on which to crew, we would without exchanging bodily fluids. 2) Don’t overlook the steady hand certainly ask a potential skipper questions regarding his experience, of experience in favor of the exuberant strength of youth. Especially destination(s) and itinerary — and how flexible the latter two are. if the youth favors Metallica tapes or any type of rap music. 3) Don’t We’d ask a lot about the boat — accommodations, when last get discouraged if the first few calls don’t work out. Hey, back when surveyed, how much the skipper plans to sail vs. motor or motorsail, we were dating, we got rejected so many times we were sure we’d eat page 138
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alone In a women’s prison. And look at us now! (On second thought, maybe that’s not such a good analogy. . . .) Anyway, as the philosopher John Donne once pointed out, "Persistence alone is omnipotent" — so don’t give up!
Now for the perks. The 1992 Crew List parties take place April 7 at the Corinthian YC, and April 8 at the Encinal YC in Alameda. Both parties run from 6 to 9 p.m. Everyone is invited to the Crew List parties, whether you are on the List, off the List, have a boat that lists, or speak with a lisp. Everybody is welcome. However, if you did take the time and spend the money to get on the List, you get in free — just point out your name and you’ll be waved on through. Everyone else will be charged $5 at the door. Please try to have exact change or the people at the door will make you wish you were never born. We’ll have the usual munchies available, and will be giving out random Latitude hats and shirts, but try to get there early because it all goes fairly fast. Both clubs will be operating no-host bars, as well. The Crew List parties, as well as being a nice break in the weekly routine, are a great place to meet your prospective sailing crew or skipper for the first time after you’ve done all the preliminary stuff over the phone. If you haven’t made contact, it’s also a good place to mingle. Crew and Skippers wear different colored name tags, so you can spot them easily. You can assume anyone not wearing a tag is just 'here for the beer'. We also plan to raffle off one or two larger prizes ($2 a ticket), with proceeds going to help some Russian yachtsmen who have been stranded here since the breakup of the Soviet Union. (Read more about them and the raffle in Sightings.) Win or lose at the parties, your name goes into a bigger raffle for some real collectors’ items, including an official Russian maritime chronometer valued at $4,500. Incidentally, members of the Russian crew have accepted our invitation to come to both Crew List parties. If you don’t come for anything else, stop and shake the hands of these friendly fellow sailors. They’ve come a long way, both literally and figuratively, to be there. And by the way, if you’re interested in perhaps the ultimate Crew List adventure, we’re told that if they do raise enough funds to get going again, they’ll have room for one or two more crew. That would sure be an experience to tell the grandkids about. Well, that’s about it. The rest is up to you. Good luck, and we hope to see you all out on the water doing just the type of sailing you want in the months to come. — latitude/jr
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Christopher Monti, 27, (805) 541-3720, P.O. Box 1841, San Luis Obispo 93406... .exp 3/wants 5,7,8,9/offers 1,2,3,4,5,7,8-sailmaker's appr. Steve Hoffman, M.D., 40, (415) 367-1050. .exp2c,3/wants 1,2,7-?,10-Brazil/offers 2,3,5b-Portuguese,7,8-M.D.,diver. Bill Homing, 50, (408) 257-4650, (415) 966-7656. .exp 3/wants 1,2,4,6,7/offers 1,3,4. Laurent Nalton, 25, (510) 649-1744.exp 3/wants 1,2/offers 1,4,5b-French. John Stonich, 44, w:(408) 971-2002 . .exp 3/wants 1,2,3,4,5,10-Drake's Estuary/offers 1,6,7. Rul Luis, 29, P.O. Box 1672, Hollister, CA 95024.exp 2c/wants 1,2/offers 3. Michael Johnson, 34, (510) 525-0872 . .exp 2b/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,2,3,4. James Dwight, 49, (209) 464-1969 .exp 1/wants 1,2/offers 3. William Barrett, 58, e:(916) 920-4423, d:(707) 448-8411. .exp 2c/wants 4/offers 1,2,4,7,8-equipment troubleshooting. Larry Emerson, 46, (702) 782-5605.exp 3/wants 2,4,5/offers 1,2,3,4,7. Mark VanDerStraeten, 40, (510) 865-9167 . .exp 3/wants 1,2/offers 3/8-emergency medical. Royce Gish, 61, (209) 465-8136.exp 2a/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/offers 1. John A. Cole, 48, (415) 697-8559 .exp 2a/wants 9/offers 1,4. Omar Sanchez, 45, (415) 941-9502.exp 2c/wants 9/offers 1,2,3,4,5a,7. Arne E. Hillesland, 32, (415) 948-8019. .exp 2a/wants 5,7,8,9,10-Australia/offers 1,2,3,8-SCUBA/Sense of Humor. Davie Jones, 40, (510) 547-1871, w: (510) 933-9300 . .exp 2c/wants 1,2,3,4/offers 1,3,4. Phil Coney, 67, (510) 525-1848.exp 4/wants 4,7/offers 1,2,3. Cliff Shaw, 42, (510) 939-2490.exp 3/wants 1,4,5/offers 1,2,3. Marc Bashaw, 27, (503) 284-4795. .exp 2/wants 5,6,7,8/offers 2,3,4,5b-French/Russian, 7,8-computer literate. Sergio Bracco, 42, (510) 849-9760, P.O. Box 13742, Berkeley, CA 94701 . .exp 4/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10-S.America/offers 1,2,3,4,5,7. Roman A. Rivas, 45, (415) 221-5058... exp 3/wants 1,3,4,5,7,8,9/offers 1,2,3,4,5a. Brad McClary, 39, (510) 828-0630 . .exp 2c/wants 1,4,6,7/offers 1,2,3,4,5b-German,7. Barry Graf, 43, (408) 997-1954 .exp 3/wants 3,4/offers 1,5b-German. Scott Ruhcandler, 32, (312) 944-2883, w: (312) 269-4602. ...exp 3/wants 5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,3. Paul R. Berger, 39, (408) 371-2489, w: (408) 736-4251 or 736-9031 x204 . .exp 2c/wants 1,2,3,4/offers 1,2,3,4. Richard Arnold, 41, (510) 524-4517. .exp 3/wants 1,4,5,7,8/offers 1,3,4,8-cabinetmaker/abalone diver. Jim Walsh, 32, (510) 670-6509, (415) 858-0379.exp 2a/wants 1,2,10/offers 3. Wilson Dietrich, 50, (510) 432-1065, (408) 986-1647 ..exp 2c/wants 2,4,5/offers 3. Chris King, 31, (510) 526-8523.exp 3/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,2,3,4. Martin Barr Jr., 24, (503) 281-0616, (503) 650-8116 . .exp 2b/wants 4,5,6,7,9/offers 1,2,3,4,7,8-celestial nav. Sean Wilson, 26, (916) 333-1653 ...exp 2a/wants 1,2,3,4,5/offers 3,4,8-paramedic. Gerd K. Boettger, 61, (510) 745-7692. .exp 2,3/wants 1,2,3,4,5,7,9/offers 3,4,5b-German,Dutch,7. Frank Aloisto, 47, (408) 274-6780. .exp 2b/wants 1,2,4,5,9/offers 1,3,4,8-carpenter. Harrison Orr, 30, (916) 349-8777. .exp 1/wants 1,3,4,5,9/offers 1,2,3,8-carpentry, woodworking. Glen Swanson, 59, (916) 371-0585,2681 Tyler Way, West Sacramento, CA 95691 .exp 3/wants 5,7,9 /offers 1,3,4,8-boat handling/navigation. Darwin Boblet, 43, (415) 961-1567 .exp 2c/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/offers 1,2,3. Jorg Eichner, 29, (510) 653-8543, 5531 Beaudry St, Emeryville, CA 94608 . .exp 2c/wants 4,5,7/offers 1,2,3,4,5b-German,6,8-guitar. Dave Beyer, 26, (415) 873-2380, msg: (415) 892-3876 . .exp 2c/wants 1,4,5,7,8,9,10-Hawaii/offers 1,3,4,7. Steve Suter, 21, (415) 665-1185...exp 3/wants 1,2,3,4/offers 3,4. Alex Bustamante, 53, (510) 932-9483 ..'..exp 3/wants 1/offers 1,3,4,5a. Fred Roessler, 41, (415) 324-1708 .exp 2b/wants 1,2/offers 3. Steve Baker,45, (707) 527-9401, (707) 528-6460 ...exp 1,3a/wants 1,10/8-inquire. Rene Vogt, 29, (408) 453-1012, h: (408) 727-5001 . .exp 3/wants 1/offers 25b-German,French/8-bareboard skipper lie. Jerry Lugert, Sr., 50, h: (702) 532-8031, dys: (702) 532-8526. .exp 2/wants 1,5,6,7,10-Mexico(2/29-3/8)/offers 1,2,3,5a,7,8-inquire. Michael DeCavalcante, 26, (619) 482-6979. .exp 3/wants 5/offer 1,2,3,4,5b-German,7, 8-inquire. Eric Poison, 38, (916) 482-2203, (916) 557-6664,1618 McClaren Dr, Carmichael, CA 95608 .exp 3/1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9/offers 1,2,3,4,7. Steve Sproul, 43 (707) 938-2537 .exp 3/wants 1,9/offers 2,3,4,5,6,7. Don Perkins, 38, (510) 451-7375 . .exp 2/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 4,6,7,8-abalone diver.
10TH ANNIVERSARY CREW LIST MEN TO CREW, CRUISING — CONT'D D. Dietrich, 49, (415) 928-3680.exp 4/wants 5,6,8,10/offers 1,2,3,8-navigation. Thomas Wadbrook, 20, (415) 296-9564,457 Chestnut ST, San Francisco, CA 94133 .exp 3/wants 3,4,5,7,9/offers 2,3,4,7. David Schultz, 41, (510) 741-7234 .exp 2c/wants 5/offers 2,8-navigation. Bruce M. Pearson, 35, (916) 339-1359... .exp 3/wants 2,4,5,6,7/offers 1,2,3,4,5b-computer,8-navigation.
"WANT TO CREW" CODE MY/OUR SAILING EXPERIENCE IS:
1) None, but I'll do anything within reason for the chance. 1 understand that from time to time I'll probably get cold, Seasick, mad at the owner and wish like hell I was anywhere but on the boat. I'm still game 2) Some. At least a) 5, b) 10, c) 20 sails on the Bay while being active and suffering the normal cuts, bruises and hollering 3) Moderate. Several years active crewing on the Bay or at least one long coastal or trans-ocean trip 4) Lots. Several long ocean passages l/WE WANT TO CRUISE:
1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)
SF Bay and Delta Monterey Bay Southern California Mexico this fall/winter Hawaii and South Pacific Pacific Northwest or Alaska
7) Caribbean 8) Mediterranean 9) Anywhere warm 10) Other destination(s):
l/WE CAN OFFER:
1) At least a month of shared expenses 2) Mechanical skills: engine, electronics, refrigeration 3) Elbow grease for bottom work, varnishing and other upkeep 4) Cooking and cleaning skills 5) Language skills — I'm reasonably conversant in a) Spanish; b) Other(s):_____ 6) Ornamental skills — 1 look good in a bikini 7) Mental skills. I may not look like a playmate, but l don't think like one, either. 8) Other skitt(s):____ . I"’,!"' V ‘l"r‘
Tyler Holt/James Levy, 25, (415) 255-0488. .exp 3/wants 10-trans-Atlantic/offers 1,3,4,5a/b-French/8-naviagation, etc. Rick Jeffs, 34, msg: (707) 838-2785, P.O. Box 885, Windsor, CA 95492 . .exp 3/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10/offers 1,2,3,4,5a/b-French, 8-inquire. Jay Spracklen, 45, (510) 581-9909 .exp 3/wants 1 /offers 8-inquire. Ulrlk Knap Tweita, 23, (415) 441-4024 ... exp 4/wants 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10-Scandinavian/offers 1,2,3,4,5b-Norweigian,7,8-Pro . Swan Crew. Larry Hansen, 47, (916) 661-6679 .exp 1/wants 5,7/offers 1,3,8-inquire. John Bremner, 43, (415) 346-0676.exp 2/wants 4,7/offers 1,2,3,4. Bob McComb, 43, (415) 765-6904.exp 3/wants 1,2/offers 3,4,5b-French,7. Bill Schrader, 28, (510) 848-5337.exp 3/wants 1,2,3,4,6,8/offers 2,3,4,8. Daniel Stauber, 31, (415) 928-5610 .exp 1/wants 4,5,7,9/offers 3,4,5a/b-lndoesian William B. Spencer, 52, (714) 276-4518, 5692 Sheffield Ave., Riverside,CA 92506 .exp 4/wants 1,2,4,6/offers 2,5b-English,7-celestial nav. Nick Goosev, 39, beeper (206) 758-9485 (enter your no.). .exp 3/wants 5,6,7,8,9,10/offers 2,3,4,5b-Russian,8-inquire. Mike Gaylor, 44, (707) 874-3680, P.O. Box 717, Occidental, CA 95465. .exp 4/wants 5,10-inquire/offers 1,3,4,8-inquire. Roger Weitgz, 32, (719) 598-9183.exp 1/wants 1,4,5,9/offers 3,4,5b-German. Richard Ashlock, 40, c/o Harris Yacht Harbor, 100 Trojan Rd., West Pittsburg, CA 94565.exp 3/wants 5,6/offers 1,2,3,4. Steph Bradshaw, 34, (510) 839-6875 . .exp 2b/wants 1,4,5,7,8,9/offers 1,2,3,7,8-woodworking. Bill Moore, 54, (703) 476-5899.exp 3/wants 4,6,7,10-Maine/offers 1,2,3,4. George Bloom, 61, (510) 447-5372. .exp 4, wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.8,9/offers 1.2,3,4,5b-French,7.8-Navigation.
MEN TO CREW, CRUISING — CONT'D Barry Rietz, 48, (602) 456-9122 .exp 4/wants 9/offers 1,2,3,4,8-navJradio. Dave Hickey, 27, w: (408) 985-0960, h: (408) 379-5339. .exp 2c/wants 2,3,4,5,9/offers 1,3,4 Steve Wedi, 45, (415) 349-4765 . .exp 2c/wants 1,2/offers 1,2,4,8-SCUBA/C.G. License. Steven Ray, 33, (415) 369-3755... .exp 3/wants 1,2,3,6/offers 2,3,4,8-SCUBA/Navigation. Timothy Condon, 27, (619) 435-3806. .exp 1/wants 5,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,5a,7,8-inquire. Brent O'Malley, 32, (510) 832-5353 . .exp 2c/wants 1 /offers 3,4,5b-French,7,8-inquire. Jim Mills, 38, (415) 381-8725, w: (415) 923-4260. .exp 2a/wants 1,2,3,4,5,9/offers 1,2,7. Sam Meacham, 24, msg: (510) 524-2501. .exp 3/wants 5,10-lnquire/offers 1,2,3,4,5b-Japanese-French,6,7,8-inquire. Rob Connelly, 26, (510) 222-9529.exp 2h/wants 1,3,4/offers 2,3. Stepheq Walduogel, 22, (619) 465-8115.exp 1/wants 9/offers 2,3,4,8-inquire. Burch Boone, 51, (415) 366-0162. .exp 3/wants 1,4,5,7,8,10-Australia-So.Pacific/offers 1,2,3,4,7. Frank Pacosa, 43, d:(503) 652-2880 X3218, e:(503) 698-2515. .exp 3/wants 3,4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,2,3,4,8-inquire. Steven Bodzln, et al, 20-26, (415) 285-1929, (403) 762-4843. .exp 1,2/want 10-inquire/offer 1,3,4,6,7,8-inquire. Kelvin Taylor, 31, (510) 223-4798.exp 2/wants 1,6,9/offers 1,3,4,7. Tom Barbieri, 42, (415) 892-9475.exp 3/wants 1/offers 2. Scott Marshall, 30, (415) 564-0884,1845 Kirkham St, San Francisco 94122 . .exp 2c/wants 1,4/offers 1,2,3,4,8-gen.contractor. Harold Ginsberg, 35, (415) 285-6769...exp 3/wants 1,2,6/offers 2,3,4,7,8-medical. Joel Waldman, 63, (408) 739-5876.exp 3/want 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,2,3. Dwayne, 39, 905-4182.exp 1/want 1,2,7,8/offers 3,4,7. George Bell, 43, (408) 241-1997 .exp 2c/wants 1,2/offers 2,3,7. Al Hart, 55, (415) 461-7206....exp 3/wants 5,9,10-lnquire/offers 1,2,3,4,7-pilot-nav. Chet Abend, 55+-, (415) 321-9394 ... exp 3/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/offers 1,3,7,8-first aid. Al Snider, 51, (916) 652-7374, msg:(916) 652-3403 . .exp 2c/wants 1 /offers 2,3,4,5a,7,8-inqulre. Dewey M. Weber, 59, (408) 426-1690 ..exp2c/wants 1,2,3,4,5,7,9/offers 1,2,3,4,7. J.F. Turner, 48, (408) 226-7927. .exp 4/wants 1,3,4,5,7,9,10-coastal/offers 1,2,3,4,8-Navigation/Sextant. Peter A. Schmid, 25, (415) 479-6804. .exp 2a/wants 1,2,7,8,9,10/offers 3,4,5b-German,8-honesty. Steve Baker, 45, (707) 527-9401 . .exp 2/wants 1,2,/offers 1,3,8-hard working. Bill Fulthorpe, 37, (415) 467-4817, (415) 468-9073.exp 2/wants 1,2,3/offers 2. Mike Griswold, 59, (619) 482-9989 . .exp 4/wants 4,5,7/offers 1,2,3,4,8-celestial nav. Jesse Gurrola, 35, (805) 482-4589 .exp 3/wants 4/offers 1,3,4,5a,8-inquire. Vertis Hagan, 46, (707) 425-7317 .exp 2a/wants 9/offers 2,3. Bob Haase, 55, (916) 482-6934, P.O. Box 417892, Sacramento, CA 95841 . .exp2a/wants 1,2,3,4,5,7/offers 1,2,3,4,8-inquire. Don Martin, 46, (707) 554-1811... exp 3/5,7,10-Mexico now/offers 1,2,3,4,5a,b-German,French/8-celestlal navigation. Chris Keegan, 25, (707) 585-9560 . .exp 2b/wants 1,2,3,4,5/offers 2,3,8-celestial navigation. Greg Ha, 20, (415) 497-2201, P.O. Box 05793, Stanford, CA 94309. .exp 2b/wants 1,2,6/offers 3,7. Mark Lawn, 38, (415) 331-5882.exp 2b/wants 1,2/offers 1,2,4,7,8-inquire. Ian Leyda, 22, (209) 572-1424... .exp 2c/wants 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10-New Zealand/offers 1,3,4,5b-French,7,8-inquire. Larry Kykie, 46, (510) 536-6067.exp 2c/wants 1,2,9/offers 1,2,3. Bob Griggs, 49, (408) 728-4113 H or (408) 722-7166 W. .exp 3/wants 2,5/offers 1,3,8-lnqulre. Charles D. Lane, 51, (702) 566-6941, 230 Kirk Ave., Henderson, NV 89015 . .exp 1/wants 9/offers 1,3,7. Gerry R. Dowd, 40, (916) 366-4956, P.O. Box 2167, Elk Grove, CA 95759 . ...exp 4/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8/.offers 1,2,3,4,5,7,8-inquire. Victor Meneses-Widmer, 51, (415) 586-5288, P.O. Box 40940, San Francisco, CA 94110.exp 2,3/wants 1,2,3,4/offers 1,2,3,4,5. Jim Cox, 44, (408) 867-0585 .exp 2/wants 1,2/offers 3,4,8-inquire. Frank Farinos, 61, (415) 695-0707 Office.....>:. .exp2c/wants 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,10-So. America/offers 1,3,4,5. John Dermake, 37, (916) 381-4801 ....exp 1/wants 4,9/offers 1,2,3,4,7,8-navskills. Eric Guilyardi, 25, (415) 321-6094. .exp 3,4/wants 3,4,5,6,7,9,10-Australia/offers 1,3,4,5b-French,7,8-easy going. page 140
WILL YOU CREW IN '92? WOMEN TO CREW, CRUISING — CONT'D
MEN TO CREW, CRUISING — CONT'D John Garau, 50’s, (714) 493-9516, (714) 497-6276 .. .exp 4/wants 5,7,8,9,10-inquire/offers 1,2,3,4,5a,8-nav/outfltting. Frank Magnotta,45, dys: (510) 422-7285, eves:(510) 947-1463. .exp 3/wants 1,4,5,7,8,9/offers 1,2,3,4.
WOMEN TO CREW ON CRUISING BOAT Margie DeLong, 49, (408) 729-4747. .exp 2c/wants 1,2,5,6,7,8/offersl ,4,6,7,8-inquire. Lisa, 30, (415) 661-8619 .exp 2/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10/offers 3,4,8-inquire. Brooke Giran, 32, (415) 474-6200.exp 1/wants 1/offers 3,4,7,8-massage. Ginny Hardy, (415) 571 -8878.exp 2c/wants 1,2,3/offers 1,3,4. Barbara, (415) 752-8697.exp 4/wants 1,2,3,9/offers 6,7. Nikki Paglia, 19, (805) 965-3463 ... .exp 2 a/wants 4,5,6,7,8,9,10-So.Africa-New Zealand. Nancy Sederquist, 30+, (415) 327-1689, P.O. Box 51493, Palo Alto, CA 94303 .... .exp 3/wants 1,2,3,7,8,9/offers 6,7. Karen A. Kinsey, 35, (510) 526-1081 . .exp 3/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,5b-Norwegian, 6,7. Nancy Martin, 43, (407) 897-3381.exp 2/wants 5,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,5a. Lorraine, 30, P.O. Box 2093, Elk Grove, CA 95759-2093 . .exp 1/wants 5,7,9,10-Tahiti,N.Z./offers 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-inquire. Julia Howard, 52, (510) 798-0653 .exp 2c/wants 1/offers 3,4,7. Pam Cabak, 52, (408) 662-3227.exp 3/wants 7,9,10-the world/offers 10-inquire. Louise Janes, 40, (415) 585-5535,444 Market St, 5th FI, SF 94111. ...exp 1/wants 1,2,3,4/offers 1,3,4,8-excitement. Cynthia Eriksson, 34, (408) 667-2126, P.O. Box 502, Big Sur, CA 93920. .exp 4/wants 4,5,7,8,9,10-inquire/offers 1,3,4,5a/b-inquire,6,7,8-inquire. Miki Pryor, 47, (510) 569-3623. .exp 3/wants 1,2,4,5,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,5a/b-French,7,8-CPR Jan Gwynn, 55, (510) 532-6105 .exp2c/wants 1,2,3/offers 3,4,7. Jenne Holmgren, 39, (408) 279-6190, Applelink: HOLMGREN1.. .exp 3/wants 8,10-Greek Isles/offers 4,5b-French,7,8-inquire. Gayle Marquess, 38, (808) 329-8795,323-5531,76-6268 Alii Dr. #203, Kailia-Kona, HI 96740 .exp 4/wants 4,5,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4. Jill, (415) 331-6822, P.O. Box 3092, Sausalito, CA 94966 . .exp 4/wants 4,5,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,7,8-canvas upholstery. Rosemary, 44, (415) 979-5286.exp 2a/wants 1,2/offers 4,7,8-humor. Sandy, 44, (415) 883-0662.exp 1 /wants 1,7/offers 3,4,7. Rebecca, 38, (415) 345-6589.exp 1,2b/wants 1,2,3,4,5,7,9/offers 1,4,6. Pauline Martin, 44, c/o Mr. P. Weaver, 48 Barons Courtyard, London, W14, England ...exp 1/wants 9/offers 1,4,7. Joan, 34, (415) 992-8790.exp 3/wants 4,5,7,8,9/offers 3,4. Karrie Allen, 49, (408) 734-8733.exp 2d/wants 1,2/offers 2,3,4,7. Judith Alex, 27, (510) 838-2090.exp 1/wants 1,2,3,9/offers 3,4,6,7,8-inquire. Nancy Jay, (415) 453-9793.exp 2b/wants 1,2,/offers 1,3,4,7. Diane, 46,1845 Mt. View Ave., Petaluma, CA 94952. ..exp 2b/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,6,7. Mabelle Lernoud, 47, (408) 375-2408. .exp 4/wants 4,5,6,7,8,9,10-Brazil/offers 4,5a/b-inquire,7,8-inquire. Lynda Davey, 41, (604) 758-5604.exp 3/wants 4,5,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,7. Maryanne Aspinall, 36, (506) 55-44-10, P.O. Box 127-1250 Escazu, Costa Rica... .exp 4/wants 4,5,7/offers 3„4,5a/b-French,7. Deanna, 40+, (310) 574-3833 . .exp 3/wants 4,5,8,9,10-inquire/offers 1,3,4,5b-French,6,7,8-inquire. Diane Marsch, 35, (719) 481-2407.exp 1/wants 5,7/offers 3,4,7,8-nursing. Ginger Gardner, 51, (510) 792-6267, 38623 Cherry Ln #133, Fremont, CA 94536 .exp 3/wants 1,2,3,6/offers 1,2,3,4,5a. Lauren Anthone, 33, Fax 1 st: (680) 488-1725, Msg 2nd: (716) 855-3354, c/o Dr. & Mrs Sidney Anthone, 300 Rivermist Dr., Buffalo, NY 14202. .exp 3/wants 10-inquire/offers 1,3,4,5a,7,8-inquire. Joy, 45, (415) 479-5238 .exp 2c/wants 1,2,3,4/offers 1,3,4,5a. Sandi, 48, (415) 331-8944.exp 3/wants 4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,7. Brenda Westerman, 45, (415) 349-8357...exp 2c/wants 1/offers 4,5,6,7. Martha Ragsdale, 31, (415) 776-7569.exp 2c/wants 1/offers 8-inquire. Sheryl Goodhue, 37, (707) 557-0430. .exp 2/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10-inquire/offers 1,3,4,7. Collette Bennett, 28, (510) 528-1338. .exp 2/wants 1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10-Mexico summer/offers 1,3,4,5a,b,7. Lisa Jones, 25, (408) 862-3327.exp 4/wants 1,2/offers 2,3,4,7. Lynn Cagle, 40, (707) 833-1214, P.O. Box 844 Kenwood, CA 95452. .exp 2c/wants 4,5,6,7,10-world/offers 1,3,4,5-inqulre,7,8-photography/CPR. page 141
Sharon L. Baker, 42, (907) 586-2968, 623 Main St., Juneau, AK 99801 . .exp 3/wants 4,5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,7. Elaine F., 50, (415) 479-9444, P.O. Box 4013, San Rafael, CA 94913 . ...exp 3,4/wants 2,4,7,8,10-Costa Rica/offers 1,4,5a,8. Virginia, 50, (707) 769-8038 W (707) 763-2454 ... .exp 3/wants 3,4,5,6,7,6,9/offers 1,7. Lorry Pilat, (415) 573-5855.exp 2/wants 1,9/offers 1,3,4,5,7. Donna Rabinowitz, 41, (415) 752-8951 .exp 2a,3/wants 1,2/ofers 3,4,5a,6,7. Catherine, 35,6635 W. End Rd„ Areata, CA 95521 . ...exp 2b,c/wants 4,5,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,5a,6,7,8-inquire. Joan, 40+, (510) 590-7862.exp 3/wants 1,2/offers 4,7. Peggy, 32, (303) 291-6547.exp 3/wants 5,6,7,8,9/offers 1,3,4,8-inquire. Marina, 40's, (415) 381-0123, P.O. Box 305, Sausalito, CA 94965 . ...exp 2c/wants 1,4,7,8,9/offers 4. Dale S. Painter, 36, (408) 626-4418 W: (408) 667-2331 ext. 300. .exp 2,3/wants 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10-lndonesia/Malaysia/offers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-inquire Marcia Mowery, 38, (408) 377-6816.exp 2/wants 1,2/offers 7.
COUPLES TO CREW ON CRUISING BOAT Domenic Bertola & Jennifer Olsen, 24/29, (510) 658-8962 . ..exp 1,2b, 3/want 1,2,3/4,5,6,7,8,10-So. America/offer 1,3,4,5a/b-French, 6,8-inquire. Diane & Tom Dunkelman, 27/30, (415) 744-2395 . .exp 3/want 4,5,6,9/offer 1,3,4,8-navigation/windsurfing. Mary Ellen & Tom Deasy, 41/46, (408) 475-4869. .exp 4/want 4,5,7,9,10-Costa Rica/offer 2,3,4,8-inquire. Chris Paulsen & Carol, 40/34, (707) 762-9265.exp 3/want 4,5,7,9/offer 1,3,4. Tom & Lisa Ambrosic, 37/32, (415) 960-3169. .exp 1,2a/want 1,2,3,4,9/offer 1,3,4,7,8-carpentry. Matthew Marx & Mary Murray, 26/27, (510) 559-9124. .exp 2c/wants 1,2,3/offers 3,7. Jackie & Robert Daley, 28/34, (415) 563-9920, (415) 467-3140. .exp 2a/want 1,2/offer 2,3,4,7. Art Van Allen & Pam Paris, 48/43, (206) 463-5791 . .exp 1,2/want 6/offer 2,3,4,8-inquire. Rad & EvMarie Parsell, 57/37, (813) 957-3958, w:(813) 365-4888 . .exp 3/want 4,7,8,9,10-inquire/offers 1,2,4,5b-French/German,8-navigation. Mike & Anne Brownie, 30/33, (415) 604-6672. .....exp 2c/wants 1,2,9/offers 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-inquire. Geoff & Shay, 30,22, (415) 324-0322 .exp 1,2a/want 1,2/offer 3,4,7. Michael & Samantha Fordyce, (415) 472-0247. .exp 3/want 1,2,3,6/offers 2,3,4,5a/b-French, 8-inquire. April Daniels & Charles Storrs, 40/33, (510) 845-8584. .exp 3,4/want 1,2,4,6,10/offer 2,4,6,7,8-R.N. Marcia & Ed, 35+, (415) 885-0181 .exp 2,3/want 1,4,7,9/offer 3,4,7. Gloria & Everett Jones, 65, (415) 388-6371 . .exp 2-inquire/want 1,2,3,4,7,9/offer 1,2,3,4,8-inquire. Jarl Hytonen & Yvonne Meier, 32/25, (510) 523-8459. .exp 4/want 5/offer 1,2,3,4,5a/b-French, 8-navigation. Mark & Sue Saunders, 40's, (510) 465-8638. .exp 3/want 1,2,3,5,7,8,9/offer 1,3,4,8-some dental/medical. Denise & Troy Parker, 30, (510) 866-6170 . .exp 1,2/want 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10/offer 1,2,3,4,8-medical/dental. John Hurd & Carol Beilina, 44/28, (503) 482-1455. ...exp 3/want 4,6,7,10-lndonesia/offer 1,3,4,5. Tine & Andrew, 24/26, (415) 328-6087.exp 3-1/wants 5,10/offers 1,3,4,5,6,7,8. Donna Murphy & Phillip Schwendinger, 45/50, P.O. Box 371392, Montara, CA 94037.Inquire Rick & Gerry Schneider, 46/45, (707) 252-4103 ..exp 1,3/wants 1,2,3/offers 1,3,4.
CRUISING BOATS LOOKING FOR CREW MEN LOOKING FOR CRUISING CREW Dennis Cox, 45, (408) 688-7251, Tayana 37, So.Cal/Mexico, Aug '92 . ...should 1,3a,5. Joe Hawkins, 59, (415) 948-9556, d: (415) 964-9628, Crealock 37, Hawaii/retum, May/June.should 1,2,3a/b,4,5,7,10. Clayton F. Merrifield, 60, P.O.Box 1554, Costa Mesa, CA 92628, Coronado 27, So.Par/Far East, Jan/Feb 1993.should 1,2.3a,7,8,9,10.
10TH ANNIVERSARY CREW LIST MEN LOOKING FOR CREW, CRUISING — CONT'D Pat Nolan, 43, (209) 369-7726, Islander 33, Aquarius 21, Bay/Delta/Beyond, Anytime ..should 3a/b,7,8. Keith Holmes, 56, (510) 522-3083, Hans Christian 43T, Worldwide, Oct.'92. .should 1,3a,6a,8,10. Rolson Reid, 44, (415) 515-5576, Bdx 566, Brisbane 94005, 50' Ketch, So.Pacific, Dec.should 1,3a,8.
"WANT CREW" CODE MY/OUR BOAT IS A_
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3) a) Have more desire than experience; b) have lots of ocean
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5) Have mechanical skills for the engine, refrigeration, etc. 6) Have language skills: a) Spanish, b) Other;_ 8) Be unattached and unopposed to the possibility of a friendship blossoming 9) Look good in a bikini 10) Understand and appreciate Milton Michael Gartland, 47, (907) 338-2403, P.O. Box 99786, Seattle, WA 98199-0816,36 Catalina, Western Canada/S.E. Alaska, June 1/Sept 15.should 1,3a. Ted Lord, 38, (415) 883-1647,44' Schooner M.S., New Zealand & ?, 1-94. .should 1,3a,7-common sense,8. Bob Lee, 50, (408) 688-3405, Fuji 32, Bay/Delta/Coastal, Spring/Summer/Fall. .should 8. Dave Kelly, 30, (510) 841-8306, Cal 2-29, Farallones/Half Moon/Santa Cruz, AprilSept.should 1,3a,4,8. David Brifman,45, (510) 548-7044,40' cutter, Mexico/So.Pacific, Spring '92-Fall '92 .should 1,2,3a.b,7,9. David Tillson, 57, c/o Manila Yacht Club, P.O. Box 1085, Manila Philippines, Fax:(632) 521 -6434, new40’ Cruising Cutter, S.E. Asia/Philippines/Indonesia/Malaysia, Last half 1992 .should 1,3a,6b English, 7-maturity/health/intelligence, 8. Hubert Shoenherr, 56, s/v Destiny Marina, Santa Rosalia, BCS, Mex, CT-35 PH Ketch, Mexico, May '92.should 3a,8,10. Seth G. Alspaugh, 38, h: (415) 519-7796, w: (415) 397-2876 x258, Custom Mull 36’ Sloop, No.Cal/various wknd trips, summer.should 1,2,3a,8,9,10. Darby, e: (415) 472-0640, d: (415) 565-2579, Alajuela 38', Mexico/Central America/ Carib., 11/92.should 1. David Rich, 48, (602) 274-3137, Ericson 35, Jan/Feb 1993 ...should 1,2,3a,8,9,10. Jerry Cummings, 39, (619) 299-6561, Rawson 30 Pilothouse, Caribbean, 11/1/92 .should 1,3a. Greg, 45, (415) 456-6470, 39' Cutter, Channel Island/LA area, Sept. .should 1,2,3a,7-SCUBA desirable. Steve Robinson, 49, (415) 873-5908,1990 Hunter 42’, Catalina, June-July. .should 1,3a,8,9. John Ivan McLaughlin, 56, Fax:599-7-7506, Yacht Tortuea in Bonaire, Dutch Autillean Island in the Caribbean, Westsail 42, Caribbean, open.should 3a,8,10. Daniel Prades, 49, (503) 222-4488, Landfall Pilothouse 39', Pacific North West, Canada, June 92.should 1,3a,6 English, 8,9,10-who? Max Clark, 49, (510) 791-1937,38' Ketch, Mexico & south, 12/92. .should 1,2,3a,7-cooking, 8. Byron Skaug, 61, after July: (503)867-3321, c/o Colegio Albania-lntercor, P.O. Box 52-3337, Miami FL 33152-3337, 1985 Kaiulani '38 Steel Cutter 41' LOA, Mexico/ So.Pacific, late Oct.'92.should 1,2,3b,4,5,6a/b-French,7-SCUBA,8,9,10. Ron Rhodefer, 48, (916) 459-3569, Westsail 32, Alaska, open.should 1,3a,8. Charlie Mead, 53, APDO, Postal 290, La Paz B.C.S. Mexico, C&C 30, Sea of Cortez, April/March.should 1,3a/b,6a,8,9. Ferdinand Jansen, 50, P.O. Box 29424 Honolulu 96820, Freedom 30, Micronesia/ Asia, June '92.should 1,3a,8. Johnnie Owen, 50, (916) 777-6138, voice mail: 1 -800-621 -1968 box 3642, Nantai 37, SF Bay/Delta/Monterey, All year.should 1,2,8. Greg Stach, 45, (415) 456-6470,39' Wooden Cutter, Central America/So.Pac., midOct.should 1,2,3a,4,6b-French,7-SCUBA. Tom T., 39, (916) 223-6070, Laguna 26, SF Bay, various.should 3a,8,9.
MEN LOOKING FOR CREW, CRUISING — CONT'D Philip Gross, 62, (510) 865-7009, 42' Brewer PH Cutter, So.Cal/Mexico/SF Bay/ So.Coast, ASAP..shouldl.2,3,8,9. Darrell Leamy, 46, (707) 554-6606, (707) 451-8488, Columbia 34, So.Pacific, Sept.’92.should 1,3a,6b-French,7,8,9,10. Aldcroft, 57,1800 Market 35, San Francisco,CA 94102, Motorsailer, B.C./Mexico, June.should 1,3a,8,9. Noel Gaudinat, 40, (415) 364-6592, H.Christian 33, Cal.Coast, Summer '92. .should 1,3a,8. Mark Gumprecht, 35, (619) 299-4851, Cross 40' Trimaran, Hawaii, July 1992 . ...should 1, 3a, 8, 9. David Albinus, 41, w: (510) 689-3890 x 222,37' Searunner, Mexico/C. Amer/Hawaii, Dec. 1992 .should 1,2,3a/b,6a,8. Bill Roe;56, (415) 364-9338, Cal 2-46, Catalina, Summer. .should 1,2,3a,7-SCUBA, 8,9. Earl G. Boyce, 55,6163 E. Ashley Ln, Stockton, CA 95212,45 Steel Sloop, Mexico/ Panama, Nov. 1992...should 1,3a/b, 8. Mark Cenac, 41, (415) 331-9219, 38' Ingrid Ketch, So.Pacific, '93. . .>..should 1,2,3a,8. Bob King, 57, (415) 567-4598, 28' 1982 San Juan, Channel Isl, July 1992 . .should 1,2,3a/b,8,9. Vic Baker, 50, (510) 865-4061, Hunter 34, Mexico/Points on, Sept '92. .should 1,3,8,10. Pete Lund, 40, (206) 259-3711, P.O. Box 2801, Everett, WA 98203, Westsail 32, Alaska or So.Pac, Summer '93.should 1,2,3a/b,6a/b-English,8,10-inquire. Greg Stach, 45, (415) 456-6470,39' Cutter/Aux, Central Amer./So. Pac., Mid-Oct. '92 .should 1,2,3b,4,6a,b-French,7-SCUBA,8. Robley Spaulding, 47, (415) 453-1586, 40' Steel Motorsailer/Yawl Rigged, San Diego/Cabo/Puerto Vallarta, May/June/Oct '92.should 3a,6a,7-willingness,8,9. Gordon G. Herpst, 57, (702) 731-5455, Valiant 40, Mexico/Caribbean/Med., Nov '92 .should 1,3a/b,6a/b,7,8,9. RobMacfarlane,29, (510)521-8393, Newport 33, Pt.Reyes/Half Moon Bay, weekends ..should 1,3a,7-be fun,10. Robert, 50, (805) 965-9500, 50' Schooner, Hawaii, March/April.should 1,3a,8,9. Tim, 35, P.O. Box 1033, Soquel, CA 95073-1033,34' Sloop, So.Pacific via Hawaii, Mid 1993.should 1,3a,8. Tom Bamberger, 54, w:(707) 575-6623, 2446 E. Washington, Petaluma 94954, Ranger 23 w/trailer, Sea of Cortez, Several wks '93.should 3,6a,8. Bruce Westrate, 53, P.O. Box 1507, Pago Pago, Am.Samoa 96799, 35' Hanna Gulfweed Ketch, Brisbane Australia, June/July 1992.should 1,2,3b,7,8,9,10. Dale Dagger, 36, (808) 579-9986, Catamaran, Hawaii, June/July should 2,3a,7. Gary Wong, 36, (707) 944-7277, Pearson 25, Delta/SF Bay/Tomales Bay, Open/ Spring/Summer/Fall/’92.should 1,2,3a,5,7-cooking,8,9,10. C.Owen, 54, P.O. Box 116, Port Angeles, WA 98362,43' Schooner, N.Z., Australia, etc.,Summer '92.should 1,2,3a/b,8. Dr. Bob Schemmel, P.O. Box 1664, Los Gatos, CA 95031-1664, Hardin 44 Ketch, Mexico, May 1.should 1,2,3b,4,5,6b-medical skills. Ed Schoon, 59, (415) 924-7488, Alden designed Fuji 35 ketch, almost anything from Bay to Puget Sound/San Juan Islands, Summers.should 1,2,3a/b,7,10. Tom & Josh, 62 & 9, (408) 353-1665, Windrose 22, Trlr to Sea of Cortez/Baja, May 6...should inquire. Don Roberts, 5b, dys:(408) 481 -7746, P.O. Box 62381, Sunnyvale 940088, Sloop 36', Mexico, 9/93.should 1,2,3a,8. Dan Gravitz, 34, (415) 368-0866, Cheoy Lee 32, Mexico/Caribbean, Oct.1,1992.... .should 1,2,3a,6a,8. Nick Goosev, 39, beeper: (206) 758-9485 (enter your no.), Islander 30, Alaska, '92 .should 3a/b, 8,10. Steve, 44, (415) 871-4377, P.O. Box 2642, So.San Francisco, CA 94083-2642, Beneteau 39', So.Cal, Mexico, Fall '92.should 1,3b,4,9,10. Jim Bandy, 50, (415) 244-9221,42' Cutter, Bay/Coast, year round ....should 1,3,8. Donald Engle, 45, (415) 788-7570, Morgan 44, Ca.Coastal Cruising, Open. ...should 2,3a/b,4,5. Steve Foster, 46, Spirit do Seaward Yacht, 101 Shipyard Way, Suite K, Newport Beach, CA 92663, Tayana 52, San Juan Is/Alaska, May-June '92. .should 3a,7-SCUBA, 8. Richard Warren, 50, P.O. Box 272, Ventura, CA 93002, Center Cockpit Custom Steel Cutter, Mexico/So.Pacific/Paradise, 1992 .should 3b,8. P.M. Whistler, 59, (818) 705-1537,19221 Sherman Way #28, Reseda, CA 91335, Westsail 32', Sea of Cortez/Costa Rica, 1992/1993.should 1,3a,5,6a,7-flshing,9. Vern Rathfelder, 66, P.O. Box 941, Walnut Grove, CA 95690, 34' Sloop, Mexico, Oct.1,1992...should 1,2,3a,8. Miles Cortner, 65, 24 Sand IsI.Rd. #27, Honolulu, HI 96819, 60' OA Schooner, Caribbean/So.Amer.,June.should 1,2,3a,8. Carlos Davis, 35-55, (408) 847-4690, o/b (408) 671-3087, Cal II46, Mexico/Costa Rica, March/April '92.should 1,2,3a,8. Mark Lawn, 38, (415)331-5882,35' Roughwater Sedan Cruiser. Bav/Delta/Coastal, page 142
— WILL YOU CREW IN '92? WANTING TO CO-CHARTER — CONT'D MEN LOOKING FOR CREW, CRUISING — CONT'D this summer....should 1,8,10. Bob Miller, 42, (510) 820-5123, Mexico, Dec.‘92.should 1,3,6a,8. Scotty, 37, (415) 967-7022,34' Cruising Cat, So.Cal./Channel Isl for4-6 wks, July/Aug V"...should 1,3a,8. John, 34, (619) 498-1046, Cascade 36, Hawaii/So. Pac., June 30. .should 1,2,3a,7-SCUBA,8,9,10. Stacey Dobson, 42, (310) 633-4638, CF 37, Mexico Mainland, Nov/Dec '92. ..should 1,3,6,7-inquire,8,9. Scott, 30's, (415) 967-7022,34* Junk rigged Catamaran, S. Cal/Channel Islands, mid summer 4-6 wks.should 1,3a. John, 49, (702) 831-5810, Island Packet 38, New England-summer, Bahamas-fall,
Neil Lowin, 29, (415) 550-8523, wants 4 wks in fall. -..exp 2b,c/prefers 1,5,6/wants 1,4,5,6,7. Richard Arnold, 41, (510) 524-4517.exp 2a/prefers 1,3,4,5,6/wants 4,5,7,8. Bud Wehle, 58, (510) 930-9998, wants 1 or 2 wks in spring/summer. .exp 3c/prefers 1,4,6/wants 6,7. Steve Sproul, 43, (707) 938-2537, wants 2-3 wks.... .exp 3b,c/prefers 1,3,4,5,6/wants 1,9-So. Pacific. Durand Stieger, 50, (916) 967-9558, Box 2693, Sacramento, CA 95812, wants 2 wks in summer...exp 3c/prefers 1,3,4,6/wants 4,7. Val Jina, 53, (415) 359-7225, wants 2-4 wks in winter. .exp 2c/prefers 1,4,5/wants 4,5,7,9-So Pacific. John Stashlk, 45, (510) 235-2195, is open. .exp 3c/prefers 1,3,4,6/wants 1,6,9-delta.
WANT TO CO-CHARTER
Venezuela+west-winter.should 3a,8,9. Ian Arion, 57, (415) 331-7116, Peterson 44 (aux. sloop), Mar. '93 ....should 3a,b,4. Ralph Naines, 45, (415) 331-2614, Cruising Vessel, Bay & Delta, all yearshouldlO. Rod Schoenlank, 69, (415) 726-7970, Newporter 40, Mexico & Beyond, Fall '92 ... .should 1,2,3a,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Kart T. Bochert, 46, (209) 836-2477, Searunner 37 Tri, 1993.should 1,2,3a,8. Bruce Brown, 46, (818) 894-0154, Catalina 38, Channel Isl '92.should 1,3a,8. Richard Bates, 45, General Delivery, Pittsburg, CA, 29' Sloop, Delta/Bay/Coast In the summer.should 1,3a,8. Philip Gross, 62, (510) 865-7009, 42' Brewer PH cutter, Inquire...should 1,2,3,8,9.
l/WE WANT TO CO-CHARTER FOR __WEEKS IN THE_(SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER) ■:
WOMEN LOOKING FOR CRUISING CREW Abigail Grafton, 51, (415) 453-7220, Gladiator 24, Bay/Delta, Weekends. .should 1,8,10.
COUPLES LOOKING FOR CRUISING CREW Galen & Terry Machin, 46/50, (415) 456-8410, British 1990 35' Cutter Tradewind, Bahamas/Caribbean/Grenadines, March 15.should 1,3b,4. Ken & Madeline Fairchild, 23-30, (415) 941-1198, Skye 51, Honolulu/So.Pacific, April 15, '92.should 1,2,3a/b,4,5,7. Beau & Tami Vrolyk (& 2 kids), 40/38, 89366 Dahlin Rd, Florence, OR 97439, 65' Ketch, So.Pacific/Mexico, April/May/June.should 1,3b,4,5,6b-French. Bill Moore & Marion Zoller, 54/52, (703) 476-5899, Yamaha 33 in Ann apolis, Bahamas via ICW, 10/15/92...should 1,2,3a. Paul & Jackie Rasmussen, 57, (510) 521 -3487, Peterson 44', Mexico/Caribbean, 11/ 92.should 1,2,3b,4,5,6a. Don Parrish & wife (& 2 kids), (805) 985-8451,74' Yawl - Custom, Alaska/Caribbean, June '92/2-3 yrs.should 3a/b, 5,6a,7-help w/children.
PEOPLE WANTING TO CO-CHARTER Nancy, 30+, (415) 327-1689, P.O. Box 51493, Palo Alto, CA 94303, wants 2 wks . .exp 2c/prefers 1,3,4,6/wants 1,3,7. Art & Liz Rogers, (+children), 47/46, (415) 897-1768, have no time limit. ...exp 2b,c/prefer 1,3,5/want 1. Chris Paulsen & Carol, 40/34, (707) 762-9265, want 1-3 wks anytime. .exp 3b/prefer 1,3/want 4,7,9-So.Pacific. Chip & Vena Schumacher, 35/30, (800) 888-6423 x1073, are open. .exp 3b,c/prefer 1,3,4,5,6/want 1,2,3,4,7. Larry & Karen Emerson, 46, (702) 782-5605, want 2-4 wks in summer/winter. .exp 2b/prefer 1,3,4,6/want 2,5,6. Dave & Ingrid Angelini, 37, (408) 225-0923, want 1 wk July 1-7. .exp 3c/prefer 1,3,4,6/want 4,9-inquire. Royce Gish, 61, (209) 465-8136, wants 1 or2 wks in spring/summer/fall. .exp 2a/prefers 1,3,4,5,6/wants 1,2,3,4,6. John Stonlch, 44, (408) 971-2002, is open. .exp 3b/prefers 1,3,4,5,6,7/wants 1,2,3,4,5,6. Brad McClary, 39, (510) 828-0630, wants 1-2 wks in fall. ..exp 2b/prefers 1,5,6/wants 1,6,7. Bill Homing, 50, (408) 257-4650, d:(415) 966-7656, wants 2 wks in fall. .exp 2c/prefers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7/wants 2,4,6,7. Frank Magnotta, 45, d:(510) 422-7285, e:(510) 947-1463, wants 2 wks in spring,summer, fall.exp 3b,c/prefers 1,3,4,5,6,7/wants 7,8,9-So.Pacific. Hans Lowhurst, 60+, (415) 366-2874, wants 1-2 wks in summer. .exp 3c/prefers 1,4,6,7/wants 4,5,7,8. /
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1) Little or none a) I'd like a co-charterer to skipper 2) Moderate, f sail and give me direction. regularly and have b) Prefer co-charterer of at least chartered before equal proficiency 3) Lots. I've sailed c) Would be willing to co-charter and . with less experienced party. many types of boats and am a competent skipper. I/WE PREFER TO CO-CHARTER: 1) Bareboats (we sail) 2) Crewed (professional skipper and/or crew) 3) With other couples 4) With other singles 5) A smaller (30 to 40 feet) boat with one or two other people 6) A medium (40 to 50 feet) boat with four to six other people 7) A iarge (60 feet or more) boat, the more co-charterers the merrier '
1) San Francisco Bay 3) Southern California 4) Mexico
6) Pacific Northwest 7) Caribbean 8) Mediterranean 9) Other ___
Steve & Maureen Klein, 39/42, (415) 858-2831, wants 1-2 wks in fall/winter. .exp 1 a/prefers 1,3,5-inquire/wants 7. Burch Boone, 51, (415) 366-0162, wants spring/summer. .exp 2b/prefers 1,3,6/wants 7, 9-Australia/Thailand. Harold Ginsberg, 35, (415) 285-6769, wants 1-2 wks anytime. .exp 3c/prefers 1,3,4,6/wants anywhere. Joel Waldman & Laura Card, 63/62, (408) 739-5876. ...*.exp 2b/prefer 1,3,4,5,6/want 1,2,6. Al Hart, 55, (415) 461-7206, wants 1-4 wks in fall/winter. ...exp 3c/prefers 1,4,5,6/wants 9-Tonga, Fiji, So.Pacific. John Hurd & Carol Beilina, 44/28, (503) 482-1455, wants 1-3 wks in summer/fall. ...exp 2b/prefers 1,3,5/wants 1,4,5,6,7. Don Martin, 46, (707) 554-1811, wants 1-2 wks in spring/summer. .exp 2b/prefers 1,4,5,6/wants 4,5,7. Stephen Mark, 42, (415) 775-2643 .exp 2/prefers 1,3,4,5,6,7/wants 1,3,4,5,7,8. Mike & Cindy, 36/30, (415) 387-2099, want 2 wks In fall.... exp 2/prefer 3,7/want 7. Patricia, 40, (415) 924-4156, wants 2 weeks in 1992 . .exp 2a,b/prefers 1,4,6/wants 1,4,5,6,7,9-Australia/NZ Virginia, 50, (707) 769-8038 W: (707) 763-2454, wants several weeks in June, summer, fall/winter.exp 2a/prefers 1,4/wants 1,2,3,4,5,7,8. Gerry Dowd, 40, (916) 366-4956, P.O. Box 2167, Elk Gove, CA 95759, wants summer & Fall '92.exp 2b/prefers 1,3,4,6,7/wants 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9-Baltic.
10TH ANNIVERSARY CREW LIST WANTING TO CO-CHARTER — CONT'D Mabelle Lernoud, 47, (408) 375-2408, wants 1-2 wks. .exp 3c/prefers 1,3,4,5,6/wants 4,6,7,8. Joe Martinka, 37, (408) 447-6755, wants 1 wk in fall/winter. .exp 2b/prefers 1,3,4,5/wants 6,7. John Bremner, 43, (415) 346-0676Kwants 1-2 in spring. .exp 2c/prefers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7/wants 4,7. Bruce M. Person, 35, (916) 339-1359,10175 Joerschke Dr, #333, Grass Valley, CA 95945-5205, wants 1-2 wks in fall/winter. .exp 2a,b,c/prefer 1,3,4,6,7/wants 6,7,8,9-So.Pacific. Sharon, 40+, fax:(415) 459-5329.exp 2b/prefers 1,4,5/wants 1,6. Jenne Holmgren, 39, (408) 279-6190, AppleLink: HOLMGREN1, wants 6 wks-inquire .exp 2a/prefers 2,3,4,5,6,7/wants 8-Turkey. Bev Barth & Scott Paddock, (415) 381-1117.exp 2b/prefer 1,5,6. Steven Ray, 33, (415) 369-3755, wants 2 wks in fall. ...exp 3b,c/prefers 1,4,5,6/wants 4,6,7.
DAYSAILORS LOOKING FOR CREW MEN WITH BOATS FOR DAYSAIUNG Bruce Chapman, 34, (702) 355-0122, (702) 786-7077, 3. Johnnie Owen, 50, (916) 777-6138, voice mail: 1-800-621-1968, box 3642, 1,3,4. Tom T., 39, (916) 223-6070, 1. Darrell Leamy, 46,(707)554-6606,(707)451-8488,1,2,3. Noel Gaudinat, 40, (415) 364-6592,1,4. Rui Luis, 29, P.O. Box 1672, Hollister, CA 95024,3. Ray Jason, 40, (415) 567-2674; 1. Richard Walther, 56, (916) 489-0812, Catalina 22/Folsom Lake, 1. Bert Felton, 46, (510) 339-7050,1. Steve Brandon, 37, (510) 634-0150, (510) 2942654, 2,3,4. John Stashlk, 45, (510) 235-2195, 1,4. Ron Rhodefer, 48, (916) 4593569.1.4. Bob Pfisterer, 44, (415) 961-4376,1. Dan Groat, 40, (415) 968-9696,199 Acalanes Dr„ #10, Sunnyvale, 94086,1. Tom Oczkowski, 38, (707) 996-0229,2,3,4. Hans Lowhurst, 60+, (415) 366-2874, 1. Jess H. Cooley LT, USN, 35, h:(707) 5549907, w:(707) 646-2479 or2128,1,2,3. Eric Bohl, (408) 888-3523,3. Bob Ritchie, 50, (415) 331-9316, 3. Frank J. Serpa, 49, (415) 666-0376,1. Don Scheer, 58, w:(510) 847-6330, h:(510) 862-2046, 1-inquire. Bob King, 57, (415) 567-4598, 1, 4-? Bob Stephens, 35, (408) 263-9030, 3. Bob McLeod, 44, (510) 582-7645, 1,4. Jerry W. Gerald, 52, (415) 768-8290,3. Brandt Cheroff, 38, (510) 436-0909,1. Joe Dial, 40+, (415) 431-9275, 2300 Market Suite 92, SF, CA 94114,1,3. Clayton F. Merrifield, 60, P.O. Box 1554, Costa Mesa, CA 92628,1. Jeff Yee, 33, (510) 523-0494,1. Darryl Coe, 48, (415) 595-2765, 1. Pat Nolan, 43, (209) 369-7726, 1,3. Ted Lord, 38, (415) 8831647.1.4. Charles Reynolds, 31, (415) 225-0345,1,3,4. Svend Hoyer-Nielsen, 50, e:(510) 237-4722, d:(510) 675-3357,1-females only. Lutz Bergman, 60+, (415) 3430390, 33' C&C, 1. Rick Drain, 34, (415) 583-9594,1. Richard Owens, 46, (415) 3884547,1. Jamie Rosman, 29, (510) 462-6926,1. Bob Lee, 50, (408) 688-3405,1. Steve Robinson, 49, (415) 873-5908, 1. Greg Klein, 45, (415) 332-0512, 1,3,4. Rick Bollmeyer, 43, (415) 457-7228,1. Michael T. Layne, 51,(916) 927-9888,1,2. Wayne Shaw, 32, (408) 249-2935,1,4. Seth Alspaugh, 38, h:(415) 519-7796, w:(415) 3972876 x 258, 36' Custom Mull Sloop, 1,3,4. Dave Kelly, 30, (510) 841-8306, 1. Tom Bamberger, 54, (708) 575-6623, 2446 E. Washington, Petaluma 94954, 1,4. Art Epstein, (415) 737-9824,1,3. George Miller, 47, (510) 215-7860,1,3. Gary Wong, 36, pgr (707) 944-7277, h:(707) 224-0972, P.O. Box 10412, Napa, CA 94581, 3. Tim
DAYSAILING CODES HAVE BOAT, WILLING TO TAKE OTHERS OUT. I AM/WE ARE: 1) 2) 3) 4)
Single to take singles out CoupIc t) take couples o it Singles, couples or small groups okay, but leave kids Home Kids okay as long as you can control them
MEN WITH BOATS, DAYSAILING — CONT'D 222-9529, 1. Richard Allen, 29, (415) 592-5811, 1. Drake Regent, 48, (510) 5239565, 1. Richard Daniels, 42, (510) 523-0499, 1. Matthew, 28, (408) 426-8033, 1. Harold Ginsberg, 35, (415) 285-6769, 1,3,4. David Linn, 48, (510) 376-0266, 3. Richard Landis, 37, (510) 787-1367,1,4. Mike Hickey, 36, (415) 387-2099, 2. Bob Miller, 42, (510) 820-5123,1. Dennis Lowry, 48, (707) 255-9523,1. Don Martin, 46, (707) 554-1811, 1,3. Jerry Furst, 45, (510) 228-3888, 2099 Grand, Alameda, CA 94501, 1,3. Mark Beck, 32, (415) 782-0780, 3. Wayne Fitch, 51,(415)726-4242, P.O.Box 1362.EI Granada,CA 94018,3. Ralph Naines, 45, (415) 331-2614,1,3. Ian Arion, 57, (415) 331 -7116,3. Tor, 32, (415) 331 -6954,1. Victor Menedes, 51 ,(415) 586-5288, P.O. Box 40940, San Francisco, CA 94110,3,4. Marc Barshay, 50, (408) 256-4090,1,4. Arthur, 40+, (408) 985-7885,26' Pearson, 3. D. Goodman, 42, (415) 332-7242, 1,3,4. John R. Klingensmith, (916) 392-0317, 7421 W. Parkway, Sacramento, CA 95823,1. Karl T. Bochert, 46, (209) 836-2477,1. Roger Underhill, 45,(415) 931-6385,1.
WOMEN WITH BOATS FOR DAYSAIUNG Ellen Seh, 30ish, (415) 924-6334,1,2,3,4. Denise Goodman, 38, (415) 337-9422,1,3. K. Rowin', 38, (415) 457-3678, 1,3. Jay Gwynn, 55, (510) 532-6105, 1. Sandi, 48, (415) 331-8944, 1,3.
COUPLES WITH BOATS FOR DAYSAILING Karen & Charley Petersen, 52/72, (510) 534-7277,2,4. Marine Sailing Society, All Ages, (415) FOG*TIDE, 1. David & Barbara Lenschmidt, 78, (510) 521-1667, 3.
CREW LOOKING FOR DAYSAILING MEN FOR CASUAL DAYSAIUNG Mark Lawn, 38, (415) 331-5882,1,4,5. Stephen Mark, 42, (415) 775-2643, Vertis Hagan, 46, (707) 425-7317, 1. Richard W. Boyle, 49, (916) 387-1532, 1-800-8412038.1.3- 2. Steve Hoffman, 40, (415) 367-1050,1. Dave Jones, 40, (510) 547-1871, w:(510) 933-9300,1. Tom Hayes, 27, (510) 842-4035,1,3-inquire. John Stonich, 44, (408) 971 -2002,1. Tony James, 34, (510) 763-8428,1. Dan Fritschen, 26, (408) 2961492.1. Royce Gish, 61, (209) 465-8136,1. Scott Marshall, 30, (415) 564-0884,1845 Kirkham St., SF 94122,1. James Dwight, 49, (209) 464-1969,1. Richard Arnold, 41, (510) 524-4517,1. David Kory, 28, (510) 687-2728,1. Jim Walsh, 32, d:(510) 6706509, e:(415) 858-0379,1. Phil Bazzano, 44, (707) 573-1119, voice mail:(415) 9918282 x8961.1. Neil Lowin, 29, (415) 350-8523,1. Richard Walther, 56, (916) 4890812,inquire, 1. Bruce Chapman, 34, (702) 355-0122, (702) 786-7077,1. Stu Fox, 48, (415) 668-6322, d:330-3600, 1,5. Michael Maloney, 35, (408) 978-9246, 2. Jay Spracklen, 45, (510) 581 -9909,1. Ken Greer, 51,(415) 346-5408, inquire, 1,2. John Larson, 45, (510) 284-2918,1. Fred Roessler, 41, (415) 324-1708,1,5. Dave Beyer, 26, w:(415) 873-2380, msg:(415) 892-3876,1. Frank Magnotta, 45, d:(510) 422-7285, e:(510) 947-1463,1,2. Bruce Kremer, 36, (415) 331 -6629, P.O. Box 410882, SF, CA 94141, 1. Thomas Saviano, 38, (415) 341-0726, 1. Daniel James, 48, (415) 2588244, (510) 444-4738, 1,4,5. Noel Peattie, 59, h:(916) 662-3364, w:(916) 752-1032, 1. Michael Piech, 23, (415) 336-3383,1. R.T. Marshall, 47, (415) 592-5177,1. David S. Martin, 35, (408) 245-6471 ,(415) 852-4297,1. Steve Wedi, 45, (415) 349-4765,1. John Costanza, 36, (415) 331 -0549,1. Atsushi Kosaki, 36, (619) 552-8112, inquire, 2. Steven Richardson, 39, (510) 236-9255,1,2,4,3-1 to 2. Steve Molin, 25, (415) 2582367, 1. Rob Gilbert, 32, (707) 447-2216, 1. Tom Barbieri, 42, (415) 892-9475, 1. Michael Young, 37, (510) 237-7675,1. Harold Ginsberg, 35, (415) 285-6769,1. Joel Waldman, 63, (408) 739-5876,1. Dwayne, 39,905-4182,1. Bruce Brown, 46, (818) 894-0154,1. Tor, 32, (415) 331 -6954,1. Gerry Dowd, 40, (916) 366-4956, P.O. Box 2167, Elk Grove, CA 95759,1. Jim Cox, 44, (408) 867-0585,1,4.
WANT TO JOIN OTHERS FOR CASUAL DAYSAILS. I AM/WE ARE: 1) Single
4) Would like to bring kids
3) A group of _______ (state number) friends interested in sailing Grady, 35-50, h:(707) 769-1216, w:(707) 765-1220,1. Richard Allen, 48, (415) 8566948, 1. Bruce M. Person, 35, (916) 339-1359, 10175 Joerschke Dr, #333, Grass Valley, CA 95945-5205,1. Tom Osvold/Bruce Crewford, 47, pgr:(619) 493-9031,27 Cal & 40 Trimaran, Glorietta Bay, Coronado, 1. Don Engle, 45, (415) 788-7570,3,4. Dr. Bob Schemmel, P.O. Box 1664, Los Gatos, CA 95031-1664,1. Dick Henry, 46, (415) 456-3952,1. Seth Andrews, 48, (510) 235-3820,1, Rob Connelly, 26, (510)
WOMEN FOR CASUAL DAYSAILING i.K. Johes, 25, (415) 461 -6470, fax:(415) 461 -6052,17 E. Sir Francis Drake, Suite 225, Larkspur, CA 94939,1. Vivian, 40ish, (707) 938-8070, P.O. Box 2231, Sonoma, CA 95476.1. Eve L. Plasse, 56, Box 1461, Sausalito, CA, 1. Joyce Scardina, 38 (415) 751-7609, 1. Sharon, 40+, fax:(415) 459-5329,1,4,5,3-4. Shauna Farr-Jones, 33, (415) 759-1645,1. Sandra Fox/Jocelyn Palmer, 35, (510) 352-4371, (510) 937-5055, 1.3- 2. Ginny Hardy, 44, (415) 571 -8878,1. Mary & Janis, 29, (415) 898-3531 ,(510) 521-3773, 3-2. Sandy, 44, (415) 883-0662, 1. Heli, 40, w:(415) 476-4705, fax:(415) 476-0943,1. Barbara, Jane, & Denise, 30s, (415) 752-8697,1,3-3+. Bonnie Farrer, (415) 368-5278,1. Karen C., 32, (415) 367-8381,1,4. Kitrena, 29, (510) 849-3527,1. Judy O'Grady, 49, (707) 829-0937,1. Nancy, 30+, (415) 327-1689, P.O. Box 51493 page 144
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WOMEN FOR CASUAL DAYSAILING — CONT'D Palo Alto, CA 94303,1. Beth, 43, Box3144, Sausalito.CA 94966,1. Anita, 46, (415) 673-6873,1,3-2. Tierney Rossetti, 27, (415) 441-6272,1. Christine, 26, 668-4018, 1. Christl, 42, (916) 338-5712,1. Louise Janes, 40ish, (415) 585-5538,444 Market St, 5th FI, SF,CA 94111,1. Brenda, 36, (415) 771 -8869,1. Jan Gwynn, 55, (510) 5326105.1. Deanna, 40+, fax/phone:(310) 574-3833,1. Karrie Allen, 49, (408) 734-8733, 1. Jill, 38, (415) 331 -6822, P.O. Box 3092, Sausalito, CA 94966,1. Nancy, 40ish, (510) 820-9709,1. Ginger Gardner, 51, (510) 792-6267,38623 Cherry Ln. #133, Fremont, CA 94536,1. Beth Milwid, 43, (415) 323-5303,1. Sue, 36, fax:(415) 941-2499,P.O. Box465 Redwood City, CA 94064,1,5. C.B. & friends, 32, (415) 492-1954,1. Joy, 45, (415) 479-5238,1. Sheryl Goodhue, 37, (707) 557-0430,1. Betsy G., 33, (415) 8822364.1. Brenda Westerman, 45, (415) 349-8357,1. Sandi, 48, (415) 331-8944,1. Margot Rommell, 60, (510) 886-6022,1. Kate & Brenda, 30ish, (510) 525-0860,3-2. Eileen Herzog, (415) 329-1507, 1700 Sand Hill Rd, #202, Palo Alto, CA 94304,1. Collette Bennett, 28, (510) 528-1338,1. Wendy Nankevilie, 29, (209) 524-9826,1. Patricia, 40, (415) 924-4156,1,3-2 to 3 Donna Rabinowitz, 41, (415) 752-8951,1. Louise Denish, 38, (415) 389-1772,1,4. Joan, 40+, (510) 540-7862,1. Virginia, 50, (707) 769-8038 W: (707) 763-2454, 1. Lorry Pilat, (415) 573-5855,1. Marina, 40s, (415) 381-0123, P.O. Box 305, Sausalito, CA 94965, 1. Donna, 40, P.O. Box 132, Kentfieid, CA 94914,1,4,5. Linda M., 34, (415) 332-8593, P.O. Box 1575, Sausalito, CA 94966,1.
COUPLES FOR CASUAL DAYSAILING Jesse & Laura Goodman, 41/36, (707) 433-8174,1,2. Evan B. & Juanita Donaldson, 27/26, (415) 755-8613,2,4. Laurent & Helen Nahon, 25/28, (510) 649-1744,2. Laura Card & Joel Waidman, 62, (408) 739-5876, 2. Cliff & Becky Shaw, 42, (510) 9392490.2.5. Matthew Marx & Mary Murray, 26/27, (510) 559-9124,2. Margaret & Mark Conley, 24/32, (415) 929-0624,2. Rick & Gerry Schneider, 46/45, (707) 252-4103, 2.5. David & Barbara Allen, 33/38, (408) 244-4616, (408) 253-2277,7668 Normandy Wy, Cupertino, CA 95014,2. Doug & Tamara Thorne, 33/32, wk:(510) 268-9188,2.
L. Marovelli, 40, (415) 334-1387, Pretorien 35, would like boat in the New England/ Carribean/Mexico/British Columbia area for 3-4 weeks, time is flexible. Steve Robinson, 49, (415) 873-5908, '90 Hunter 42, would like boat in the San Juans - Seattle area for 2 weeks in July/August/Sept. Jess Cooley, USN, 35, (707) 646-2128, CSD6-1 DetMar Island, Vallejo, CA 94592, 1981 27' Hunter, would like boat in the San Diego/Honolulu area for 1 week. Glen Foutty, 30, (619) 688-9641, Golden Wave 42, would like boat in the Carribean/ Chesapike/Florida area. Steve Brand, 37, (510) 634-0150, (510) 294-2654, Tartan 30, would like boat in the San Juans Island/So. Cal. area for 2 weeks in Sept. Dick Henry, 46, (415) 456-3952, Ranger 28’ Sloop, would like boat in the Victoria/ Vancouver/San Juan area for 2 weeks in July/August. John Hurd,44, (503) 482-1455,1746 Ashland St., Ashland, OR 97520, Hobie/Catalina 22, would like boat in the Seattle/SF Bay/HI/Carribean area for2 weeks in summer/fall.
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PEOPLE WANTING TO BOAT SWAP
SPECIAL OFFER! Richmond
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Michael & Susan Pate, 32/31, (408) 247-5414,2. Jackie & Robert Daley, 28/34, (415) 563-9920, (415)467-3140,2. David Sheehan & Jean Magistrate, 35, (415)454-8604, 2,5. Ken & Jan Koevwitz, 43/42, (510) 935-6365,2. Tom & Lisa Ambrosic, 37/32, (415) 960-3169,2. John & Marcia Knutson, 52/47, (415) 948-4233,2. Eric & Tami, 38/32, (916) 482-2203,2,5. Michael & Samantha Fordyce, (415) 472-0247,2. Bill & Margaret Gottschalk, 48/42, (916) 393-0697, 2. Sue & Mark Saunders, 40‘s(510) 465-8638,2,5. Tom & Pat Jones, 40 s, (415) 345-6147,2. Lisa Stahr A Brian Sublet, 34/33, (415) 494-7904,2. Denise A Troy Parker, 30, (510) 866-6170,2. Mike Hickey A Cindy Evans, 35/29, (415) 387-2099,2. John Hurd A Carol Beilina, 44/28, (503) 482-1455,2. John Jones A Cath Jones, 51/31, (916) 529-4123,1,2. CariAJoanie, 33/31, (415) 854-1054,2. Matt A Leanne Peterson, 32/35, (510) 671-7235,2,4,5.
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RETURN OF Boats bring out the best In people. Put a gun to our heads and we’d probably admit that’s the single, overriding motivation that’s gathered together some drawings and pho¬ tos, wrote an an article in his inimitable style ("She has laughed at the worst storms. .."), and sent it in. Editor Westy Farmer, a good friend of Jack’s, loved it. The magazine ended up run¬ ning a huge spread on the boat. The only thing missing, in Farmer’s opinion, was some catchy little something to tie it all together. The story goes that he found it in the first long-distance destination to whjch one of the boats had sailed: Tahiti. What better image to dangle in front of Depression-weary read¬ ers than swaying palm trees and smiling Polynesian girls? That’s how the legend of the Tahiti ketch started and th£ rest, as they say, is history. Some accounts hold that nearly 2,000 sets of plans were sold in the years following that article. Joe Rodgers and Salty Dog.
kept us doing this Latitude thing for almost a decade and a half. Forget the miles traveled, trophies won or the number of sound bites someone’s accumulatedon ESPN. What’s al¬ ways Intrigued us most Is how, when you put people and sailboats together, the whole Is almost always greater than the sum of the parts. Of course, there are matters of degree. Sometimes the phenomenon is nearly Impos¬ sible to detect. Sometimes It’s impossible to deny. And sometimes, what happens Is noth¬ ing short of magical. Take, for Instance, the story of Sea Squaw ....
1 ahiti ketch — the name still has a ring, doesn’t it? And well it should. Back before Westsail, before Serrafyn and Arthur Piver and even fiberglass, the Tahiti ketch was the cruising boat of choice for many bluewater dreamers. It may also have been the first example, though unintentional, of the power of 'packaging' the cruising lifestyle around one boat — a marketing technique that Westsail would take into the stratos¬ phere in the 1970s. At the time of its original design in 1923, John "Jack" Hanna had no idea that the ro¬ bust, 30-foot doublender he drew for a Flori¬ da dentist would be the boat for which he’s best remembered. Indeed, in the next dozen years only a few lines drawings were sold. Then, in 1935, Modern Mechanbc magazine (later Mechanlx Illustrated) did a series called "How to Build 20 Boats," and Hanna was asked to submit one of his designs. By now, in addition to Neptune, the dentist’s boat, there were four other boats of the same design out sailing around, so Jack
IBuilt in 1930, Fat Squaw may have been one of those original five boats that inspired the Tahiti legend, although Hanna’s article didn’t name names, so we can’t be sure. What little is known of the boat’s early years is that Fat Squaw was built in San Francisco for Bill and Marie Bodenlos (Marie, an American Indian, was supposedly Bill’s 'thin squaw') and sailed locally. Her second owner got the Squaw onto television. You old guys out there (join the crowd) may remember her as the vessel por¬ trayed in the opening and closing sequences of the black-and-white ’50s travelogue Search for Adventure. The pilot show that launched the long-running series was a 'Before' photo shows some of the damage the boat incurred under the Monterey Pier. She's undergone the first major cleaning here.
cruise to Baja aboard the boat. The boat’s real bluewater adventures began with her third owner, Captain Sher-
man Price. He acquired her in the ’60s, changed her name to Seeadler, and added one circumnavigation and several South Seas cruises to her list of credits. The boat’s last long-distance voyage was in 1985, when Captain Price sailed the old girl home from
Hawaii to Monterey. She’s been there ever since,
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'After' — what a difference! At this point, all the boat lacks is a new and complete set of sails. They're soon to come, says Joe.
For the next 4 years, Seeadler went the way of all neglected wooden boats — from rust-streaked 'character' boat to seagull roost to eyesore to derelict, not necessarily in that order. She was vandalized a couple times, adopted by a band of sea lions . . . and by the time she came adrift during a storm in the winter of 1989, the boat was for all practical purposes a wreck. The Monterey Pier finished the job. She wedged under the pilings at low tide and by the time the next cycle had come and gone, her masts were down, her rudder and bowsprit broken off and her decks awash. By default — or was it serendipity? — Captain Joe Rodgers, a certified marine surveyor and commercial salvor out of Monterey, was called in to administer the coup de grace. When the tide was right, he yanked her free of the pier, pumped her out enough to tow and put her on an end tie in the Monterey Marina. That didn’t last long, as the boat was too gross for words — page 147
among other unmentionables aboard was the ripe carcass of a dead sea lion. We’re talking gross. T&G Tugs helped out by towing the boat to a slip Joe had in Moss Landing. And then it fell to Joe to figure out what to do with her. None of the possibilities were very appealing. Logic dictated that she be hauled r nto the beach and bulldozed into oblivion. A more dignified end might be to tow her out to sea and pull the plug. Joe would have sold %
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the next three years, work rarely stopped. Joe began spending all his weekends and most evenings working on the boat. He was joined by people from all walks of life, young and old, male and female. They’d just appear and start working, sometimes for
RETURN OF days, sometimes weeks, sometimes months. Among the more notable of these were Mustafa, a local salvor and shipwright known locally as The Turk'; Richarc^ Keepers, ano¬ ther shipwright (and sometime violin maker), whose meticulous eye for detail is reflected throughout the restored boat; Jonathan Burke, yet another shipwright who rebuilt the original solid-wood masts; and Ray Farrow of Anchor Marine in Half Moon Bay. Ray pulled an old-but-running Volvo diesel out of a wrecked boat and helped bolt it in the 'new' one. Yard work was done at the Santa Cruz Boatyard. All in-the-water stuff was done at Moss Landing. Some of the other people and organi¬ zations Rodgers credits: "The good folks at Eskelund Marine for their patience and understanding; the brothers at Santa Cruz Marine Engines without whose help the engine never could have been installed; the helpful people at Pitchometer Propeller in Alameda who saved me countless hours and dollars in helping redesign the equipment we already had; the boys at Harbor Marine in Santa Cruz, whose patient instruction and help made the whole project possible; Jamie Astor at Berry Nautco Marine who sold us the paint; all the good boats of Sausalito — especially near and around Pelican Harbor — who gave us immeasurable inspiration; Ballenger Spars who helped us do our own rigging; North Beach Marine Canvas who redid our sail covers; all other helpers whose names I’ve forgotten to mention, all on¬ lookers who gave and left encouraging words; and of course you, Latitude, with your many words of wisdom that helped turn the dream into reality." Last but certainly not least was the letter from a sick old man in Utah. After the boat had been pulled free of the pier, Captain Price had been located in Utah, where he lived with his wife. Now in his 80s and confined to a wheelchair, Price had neither the money nor ability to care for the boat any longer, so to pay off the lien, he sent the title to Rodgers. Joe registered the boat jointly — both he and Price appear on the new title. Joe also kept the old man updated on the progress of the restoration once it started. In the last letter Joe got late last
Launch day crowd includes Richard Keepers and the Turk (right foreground/background). The Italian girl and her boyfriend (left) helped out for more than a month. No ID on middle woman.
again. His wife said he’d even dug out some old charts and was planning the next cruise!
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boat was restored the way she was built: fir planking iron-nailed to California white oak frames. The deck needed to be rebuilt com¬
pletely, but despite the neglect, only about 40% of the hull and interior needed replace¬ ment. About the only departure from the 'stock' Tahiti ketch design was the addition of 3 feet to the mainmast when it was rebuilt. "A little more horsepower couldn’t hurt," says Joe, noting the Tahitis were never known for their spirited performance. Indeed, even the most ardent supporters long ago conceded the boats were way underrigged — 422 square feet spread between the gaff main, marconi mizzen and clubfoot jib wasn’t much for an 18,800-lb displacement boat. Com¬ pare that to the similarly-sized Yankee 30, an early ’70s design that carries 430 square feet on a 8,700-lb hull. The restored hull was relaunched amid much celebratibn on August 16 of last year. After a month of rerigging work, Sea Squaw sailed "once more in September — under sails donated by yet another admirer. With the restoration back to her original page 148
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MAX EBB'S What’s the tide doing today?" the skipper shouted down to us in the cabin, above the noise of the inboard. 1 reached into the pocket of my foul weather gear for my tide book, but stopped short when 1 saw the boat’s designated tacti¬ cian open the chart table. After all, on this race I was just an ordinary crew for a change, without the responsibilities of skipper, owner, tactician, or expert-in¬ charge. Kinda nice, actually. So I moved over to the galley to see how many donuts were left, and snapped up the other half of the one that I had started eating a few minutes before. When the tactician found the boat’s tide book, he flipped some pages and highlighted the appropriate date. Then he turned to the table called "Factors for Correcting Speeds," and scribbled two numbers in the margin. "What have we got today?" I asked be¬ tween bites of sugar and preservatives. "Moderate ebb, slack at 11:40, then light flood," he answered without looking up. "First race we’ll stay out and play the cone on the second beat. Second race we’ll go into the beach for the first beat, then maybe the cone, maybe the beach on the long beat." He turned to the little charts in the tide book, and started writing on each picture, using the Olympic Circle area to write the time that applied to each page, and the bottom margins for the times of slack water and the speed multiplier. "This way I’ll have all the tide data on the chart pages for quick reference during the race," he explained. "I waste a tidebook every race like this, but it’s worth it for clarity." The skipper called down again, asking if we had the tides figured out, and I relayed the numbers upstairs. "That’s funny," said the skipper, "Looks like it’s already flooding pretty good out here." "Must be runoff," shrugged the tactician, and he dug around in the chart table for the sailing instructions for the impending raceT This was a major pre-season event, and I thought it would be a nice change to sail on
ever persuade to crew for me, had also agreed to come along. "Can I see that tide book for a minute?" N asked Lee as she came down the compani¬ onway ladder into the cabin. The tactician handed it to her, and Lee turned to the page that was highlighted. She nodded, then reached into the chart table to f get a big black marking pen, the one usually used to write on sails and mark sheets and halyards. She drew a big ’X’ through that page in the tide book, and did the same thing with the next eight pages. She handed the book back to the tactician. "Try it again," she giggled. "Damn!" he said as soon as he realized his mistake. "Those tables for Carquinez Strait tripped me up again!" "First thing to do with any new tide book," said Lee, "is to cross out those pages! I mean, they really should have made them a different format or color or something." "You’re not the first to make that mis¬ take," 1 said. "And after I marked up all the current charts, too," he said as he began to search the interior of the chart table for another tide book. "Try this one," I said, handing over my tide book. It was salt-encrusted, but the pages could still be separated without doing too much damage. A few minutes later we had more accurate tide predictions: a 4-knot flood around noon, slack at about 3:30 p.m. "Okay, that changes everything. We’ll go to the beach on the first leg, but probably work the cone back up from the bottom mark. Second race, I think we’ll want the beach every time."
M eanwhile, the foredeck crew had fin¬ ished checking the spinnakers and had come back to the galley area to get some more cof¬ fee from the big steel thermos that was per¬ manently attached to the bulkhead. She was also listening in on the strategy discussion.
"The temperature gradient hear the surface is much less than the adiabatic lapse rate." someone else’s boat. It was bigger and faster than mine, which is probably why Lee Helm, a naval architecture student who I can hardly
"I don’t understand why it’s better to go to Alcatraz on one windward leg, but to the Cityfront on the next one" she asked. 'The
tide’s already flooding everywhere, isn’t it?" "Right now it’s stronger along the Cityfront," answered the tactician, "and there’s a 'cone' of tide relief behind Alcatraz. Later, when the tide is stronger out by Alcatraz, the best tide relief will be inshore. You see, tided currents always turn first along the shore." "Well, why should it turn first along the shore of San Francisco, but not along the shore of Alcatraz?" "Actually the whole South Bay turns before the North Bay," Lee interrupted, as she opened the container of yogurt she had brought for her own breakfast. "Right," the tactician agreed. "But why?" asked the foredeck crew. I wondered if she knew what asking Lee to explain the phenomenon would do to the poor tactician. "Basically it’s because the South Bay tide is more like a standing wave, and the North Bay tide is more like a progressive wave," Lee began. "Huh?" "What I mean is, like, imagine the South Bay as having a wide open entrance. At high water the tide is high everywhere, and the current is slack. At low water the tide is low everywhere, and the current is slack. When page 152
CURRENT AFFAIR to the City after max flood. The cone is the cone-shaped area of tide relief that’s behind Alcatraz, trailing off in the direction of the shallow water on the chart. You can stay in it by keeping the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge behind the island." "So it all comes down to a rule of thumb anyway," said the foredeck crew. "But early in the flood," Lee added, "there’s still lots of ebb flowing down out of the North Bay, especially after a month or two of rainy weather. So the tide relief might spill all the way around to the south side of the island and out towards the Gate a ways." 'Yeah, I’ve seen that happen too. That’s why sailing along the face of Alcatraz, in the 'windward cone', is more likely to work early in the flood compared to later."
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When it comes to really knowning tides and currents, some navigators leave no avenues unexplored. does maximum current occur?" The tactician answered cautiously: "Half¬ way between the two, at the mid-tide level?" "Right! But now imagine the North Bay as a big lake with a small opening to the ocean. The opening is so small compared to the amount of water inside that the tide level in¬ side never changes very much. When is max¬ imum flood current?" "That would be at high tide in the ocean," said the foredeck crew. "And strongest ebb is at low tide," added the tactician. "Now I see what you’re getting at. The North Bay and South Bay are out of phase!" "Exactly. By this model, the South Bay current should change about three hours ahead of the North Bay current. » "But the North Bay and South Bay aren’t anything like the way you described them," I pointed out. "For sure," said Lee. "That’s why the time difference is more like one hour, not three. Still, it’s probably the most important con¬ cept for understanding how the Bay tides work—especially the north-to-south flow we page 153
get in the east Central Bay at the end of an ebb, and the south-to-north flow at the end of a flood." "What about Richardson Bay?" asked the tactician. "It’s part of the North Bay, but there seems to be very early ebb along the shore by Yellow Bluff." "That makes total sense," said Lee. "It’s another open bay that should turn on the same schedule as the South Bay. The flow in and out of the Delta system is what behaves like the lake with the small entrance."
he foredeck crew studied the chart. "What if we have a windward leg that comes up from one of the marks down by South¬ ampton Shoal? How come we always go in toward Angel Island no matter what the tide’s doing?" "Because there’s always a big wind shift around Point Blunt, and you have to be on the inside of it." "That’s the second big concept you need to understand Bay strategy," said Lee. "The temperature gradient near the surface is much less than the adiabatic lapse rate." "Huh?" we all grunted in unison. "That just means that the air will flow around things much easier than it will flow over them. Cold ocean water keeps the air near the surface very cool, so like, it’s hard to push it up and over an island or a hill. On a’ lake, for example, or even on a warm body of water, you might have air that’s warm near the surface and ready to boil up in ther¬ mal cells. That makes for oscillating shifts as the thermal cells pass overhead, and it also makes it easy for air to flow up and down over obstructions. That’s why lake sailing is so tricky. But not here. All we get are geo¬ graphic shifts, always in the same place and
"Huh?” we all gru/ited in unison.
"So then, how do you know in advance when to go to Alcatraz and when to go to the City?" "The rule of thumb," said the tactician as he took out the chart of the Central Bay, "is to sail up the 'cone' before max flood, and go
very predictable." "Except on the Yellow Bluff course," noted the tactician. "Well, for sure," allowed Lee. "There you have air that’s been blowing over Marin for a few miles, and maybe has had a chance to
MAX EBB'S heat up a little. There’s also some unstable turbulence in the lee of the Sausalito shore¬ line there. Sometimes there’s even a hy¬ draulic jump in the air flow — a thin, fastmoving layer of cool air spills down the hills, blows hard in the lee of the Hurricane Gulch
Blossom?" I asked. "Which side of Alcatraz?" "Good question!" said the tactician. "I know when we can’t fetch, it usually pays to go below because sometimes we can carry for the second half of the leg from below the island. But if we can fetch the island, some¬ times the boats that go to leeward make out. Usually they don’t, though." "Early in the flood after a big ebb is when the current favors the leeward side," said
Bay. Especially if the wind’s got a little north in it. Then you end up running from Alcatraz to Blossom if you take the windward route, and fighting the late ebb on the south side of the island. The early flood is still in on the Cityfront, and it’s too far away to get to. But like, a little later in the flood, when there’s solid flood from Alcatraz to the City, the advantage of the leeward side goes away." "You know, it seems like in the last few years I’ve gone below the island more often than I used to," I remarked. "Some people think that the normal seabreeze flow has changed a little," Lee ex¬ plained, "a result of all the new pavement in Richmond and in the towns immediately to the north and east. The windsurfers especial¬ ly think the wind in the East Bay has more south in it than it did five or ten years ago." "That should make the reach from Blos¬ som to #24 a bit easier," noted the tactician. "It’s never really been a problem," said Lee. "The wind always lifts and fades a little on that leg." "Same for Blackaller to Harding," 1 said. "You can count on a big lift as you approach Harding."
Lee. "That’s when the flow in the east half of the Bay is north-to-south, late ebb from the North Bay and early flood into the South
"And a big drop in windspeed," added the tactician. "With the strong flood, we’ll have to make sure we line up to come in hot."
you’re right about getting too close. A few boatlengths in or out can make a huge differ¬ ence in wind speed on that part of the Bay."
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area, and then rolls up into a thicker and slower-moving layer about halfway to Angel Island. You don’t want to get caught on the wrong side of that wind line!" "I’ve done that," I confessed. "But to finish answering the question about the leg around Point Blunt," continued the tactician, 'You always want to tack towards the inside of bending wind flow. In fact, even sailing downwind you want to jibe towards the inside of bending wind, which explains why we go close to Blunt on our way up and also on our way back down." "That was going to be my next question!” "Work this out with graph paper if you’re not convinced," added Lee. "Getting inside this wind bend is why everybody always says 'go right on the Circle'. The Circle feels some of this wind bend around Angel Island, and the right side of the course puts you on the inside." "Actually," I said, "the rule is: 'It always pays to go right, except when it doesn’t'." "When does it, and when doesn’t it?" "End of a flood, lighter than usual wind speed, is the only time I’ve seen left work," said the tactician. "I like to go left off the starting line," I said, "to be the boat on the inside of the lift." "Right. And if you hit the Island to leeward of Quarry Point, then you’re too far right and should have spent more time on starboard before tacking." 'That depends on the tide," said Lee. "In a flood, with runoff like we might have today, you want to get into the river of very late ebb close to Angel Island as fast as you can. In a strong ebb, you want to get into the deep water in the channel as soon as possi¬ ble. Flood is the only condition where you might want to hang out to the south after a start on the Circle." "And then after rounding Blunt," contin¬ ued the tactician, "it’s important to tack back in out of the strongest flood. But it’s also easy to get too close to the island, where the wind lifts up." "Actually it stagnates," Lee corrected, "but
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CURRENT AFFAIR best current is down along the windward edge of Southampton Shoal anyway."
f,H 1 ley, let’s get some hands on deck!"
"And remember that the current seems to increase a little right over the shallow spot at that mark," I pointed out. Lee had been fishing around for some¬ thing in her seabag, and finally came up with a thin looseleaf notebook. "You’d probably be interested in this," she said as she showed the foredeck crew a small chart of the Bay Area that had been inserted in one of the clear plastic covers of the note¬ book. It was titled, "Typical Summer After¬ noon Flow Pattern." "It’s real approximate," said Lee. "1 mean, the wind bend around Blunt is actually much more localized. It also misses the southerly shift between Point San Pablo and Pinole." "Not to mention it misses the shift to the south up where the old Coast Guard docks used to be on the Cityfront," said the tac¬ tician as he studied the chart from over Lee’s shoulder." "It does show how the air flows around the land masses, and not over them," said Lee. "If you sail north from Treasure Island towards the San Rafael Bridge, the wind will shift 90 degrees!" THE PROTECTOR
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yelled the skipper. "Time to get the main up!" Our strategy meeting broke up, and we fin¬ ished getting the boat ready to race. "What else do you have in that notebook, Lee?" I asked later. "It’s just a log I keep of races where there’s something potentially useful to learn about wind and current strategy. I just note the current, wind, time, what we did, what other boats did, and whether it worked or didn’t work for each leg of each race I sail in. I mean, it’s crazy to try to remember every race in your head." "Good idea," I said, imagining how large a volume of notes I would have by now if I had been writing down wind and current data ever since I started racing on the Bay. "I think of writing as the most basic form of artificial intelligence," remarked Lee. "Artificial intelligence," I thought to myself. "So that’s what she calls it." But artificial intelligence is better than none at all! — max ebb
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With reports 'Ihis month about chartering in the beautiful Pacific Northwest; a rave review about chartering in British Columbia’s Desolation Sound; an update on Frank Robben’s latest plans for 'Klaloa IF; and the usual charter notes.
Chartering The Pacific Northwest "A zoo without fences, an aviary without wire caging, an aquarium without walls," is how William Blenson describes the attraction of cruising the Pacific Northwest. He’s got a point, as there are bears and cougars, eagles
The still waters of Refuge Cove are Caribbean clear — and just as warm!
and seahawks, killer whales and crabs — to name just a fraction of the wildlife. Another big attraction of the Pacific Northwest is the serenity. Nobody has ever mistaken Victoria for Mexico City or Friday Harbor for Los Angeles. There are more trees than freeways, and while disorienting to Californians, most find it’s a nice change of pace. While some folks like to spend their charter time around the urbanity of charming Victoria or Vancouver, the Hong Kong of the Americas, most head for one of three less populated areas: the San Juans Islands of the United States, which are about 60 miles northwest of Seattle; the Gulf Islands, which are the Canadian part of the same chain about 30 miles southwest of Vancouver; and Desolation Sound, which is 100 miles north of Vancouver. These are three distinct areas. The San Juans are the most developed of the three, and cater to mariners. As befitting the American half of the island chain, the San Juans have more restaurants, pubs, marinas, moorings and boats. Friday Harbor and Roche Harbor are popular pub and restaurant towns for those hungry for a little society. Anacortes and Bellingham, about 30 miles east of the San Juans, are the primary
gateway ports. Canada’s Gulf Islands are about five years behind the San Juansi There are far fewer restaurants, stores and marinas. Many of the full-time residents are retired, and those who aren’t have to make a living from a trade rather than catering Jo tourists. Victoria’s suburb of Sidney and Vancouver are the gateways to the Gulf Islands, although folks enjoying extended charters from Anacortes and Bellingham also wander up that way. Desolation Sound’s name says it all. One hundred and seventy-five miles north of the San Juans, there are no roads, no restaurants and virtually no people. The Marina del Rey of the area is a family run dock where you can tie up for a few bucks, get a real shower for $1.50, and buy everything from soap to screwdrivers to scotch at the tiny general store. If you’re looking for hot night life in Desolation Sound, you’re going to need a telescope. Comox, on Vancouver Island, is the gateway to Desolation Sound, although a
It doesn't require a big boat — or budget — to enjoy charter adventures in the Pacific Northwest.
few folks on long charters come all the way up from Vancouver. You can reach Comox by plane from Vancouver or ferry from the
mainland. It’s not possible to walk there. The islands in all three areas are relatively tall, but those in Desolation Sound are snow¬ capped 7,000-footers that seemingly reach to the sky. Most of it’s far too steep to even have attempted to build roads, so it’s fjord, not Ford, country. The Pacific Northwest charter season runs from May through September, although veteran brokers note that the thin-blooded whimps from California generally prefer June through September. July and August are prime time and the prices reflect it. The perception is that the rain never stops in Pacific Northwest. In some places that’s pretty much true, but fortunately, not in the popular cruising areas, all of which are protected from inundation by the 'rain shadow' created by the mountains. The San Juans and Gulf Islands, for example, get 40% less rain in the summer than Seattle. And Desolation Sound is so dry by the end of summer that there is a danger of forest fires. Which is not to say these cruising waters are rain free. Providence drops about a inch in each June, July and August — which is just enough to keep things nice and green. While most of the water is cool and besieged by strong currents, there are some protected pockets where the water reaches 80° in the summer. Excellent! It’s the warmest water on the Pacific coast north of Mexico. In fact, Magarret was going to film the outrigger intro to Hawaii Five-Oh at Pendrell Sound until he noticed there wasn’t any Diamorid'Head in the background. In places where the water isn’t warm, there are often hot springs or relatively warm lakes in which to swim. Wool bikinis are not necessary.
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The further north you go — from the San Juans to the Gulf Islands to Desolation Sound — the fewer boats you encounter.
The air temperature ranges between 65 and 80° — which makes it about 45° degrees warmer than beneath the Golden Gate in July. If you like really fresh seafood, green trees, tall mountains and tranquility, this is the charter call for the summer. A number of fine Northwest charter outfits are running ads in the accompanying pages; our ad salesmen would appreciate it if you gave those folks a ring. — latitude 38 Desolation Sound Many experienced yachtsmen regard the Desolation Sound area of British Columbia, perhaps the most beautiful and varied cruising area of Canada’s west coast, as Majestic Squirrel Cove is typical of the fine anchorages to be found in Desolation Sound.
equal if not superior to any other charter area in the world. My husband and I, who have been to many of the world’s most popular spots, learned this was no idle boat enjoying a Desolation Sound charter last August. Things started off right with the great service we got from Bob and Lois Stevenson’s Comox-based Desolation Sound Yacht Charters. They picked us up at the airport, offered a good selection of sail and power boats, and provided us with excellent briefings on the yacht and area. Their staff even loaded our gear onto the boat! We’d selected a 33-foot Mirage, which was super clean, well maintained and nicely equipped. It suited our needs perfectly. Eager to experience this area we’d heard so much about, we started early on the first morning of our charter. It turns out that Comox, located on the east side of Vancouver Island, is ideally situated for quick access to Desolation Sound. A delightful half day of broad-reaching across Georgia Strait brought us into the midst of a variety of spectacular scenery, from steep mountain slopes to brilliant white sandy beaches (!) on a few of the islands. There were an abundance of anchorages from which to chose. The almost complete absence of development — or even settlements — gave us a wonderful 'wilderness' feeling. In order to preserve this special quality, the B.C. government established Desolation Sound Marine Park. It was in Prindeaux Haven that we decided to make our first anchorage. It was so nice that we spent the next couple of days exploring the tidal pools, miniature lagoons and marshes between many islets and islands that surround the haven. Much of it
was only accessible by dinghy. We collected oysters, which are abundant in the surprisingly warm waters, until my husband began to show signs of becoming oversexed. We fished for salmon, halibut and ling cod with varying success. A fellow from a visiting yacht told us we could catch dungeness crab by putting the head of a freshly caught fish into a trap. He was right. Even though we only kept the larger ones, we still had enough for crab hors d’oeuvres at least once a day. In addition to catching seafood, we hiked on the island, collected wild blackberries and swam in the warm fresh water lakes. It really seemed like paradise, especially in contrast to the rat race of Sacramento. Some of the islands in the area rise nearly a mile above sea-level, and the mainland mountains reach as high as 7,000 feet. We were told that the extremes in elevation create a unique eco-system with four biogeo-climate zones — whatever they might be. From snow-capped peaks to forested and flowered shorelines, it was all absolutely breathtaking. Later we continued to Redonda Island.
There's no restaiirant — nor the need for one in seafood-rich Squirrel Cove.
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Although the prevailing 'good weather' summer wind is from the west, we found that the twisting channels of Desolation Sound could bend it toward every point of the compass. We relied on the onshore breeze to take us into Pendrell Sound, one of the warmest bodies of water in the area. Because there are virtually no currents or tidal changes within the sound, the water remains a
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\ consistently warm 75 to 80° all summer! The high surrounding mountains act as a wind break, so the water along the shore was so emerald green it reminded me of North Sound in the British Virgins. It was just wonderful for swimming! We pulled ourselves away from Pendrell and sailed into Toba Inlet, one of the large fjords that penetrate deeply into the Coast mountains north of Desolation Sound. It provided us with an awesome cruising experience. The uninhabited, remote, tranquil inlet is seldom visited because there aren’t any settlements of any type. The mountains are immense, barren, majestic — and filled us with wonder. On each side of the fjord there were steep mountains with snow-covered summits. The melting snow created a number of wild and beautiful cascades. The grandeur of scenery here surpassed everything else we were to see. With our charter time ticking away, we had to start thinking about heading south again. We circumnavigated Redonda Island on our way to Cortes Island, passing up scores of wonderful-looking anchorages. We had to satisfy ourselves with the cascading waterfall of Teakearne Arm and a quick hike to the Cassel Lake above the falls. It was a great place to swim and rinse the salt from our systems. We spent one evening tied to a dock to replenish our supplies and grab a 'cup of tea' at Gorge Harbor Marina Restaurant. It’s very
'Kialoa's' schedule calls for her to be in Thailand in November of this year.
small, very quaint. Early the next morning, while having coffee in the cockpit, we saw two young bald eagles circle high into the sky
and then come cartwheeling down holding each other’s feet. They only separated a couple of feet above the surface of the water. We later discovered that this was the mating ritual of bald eagles and we felt very privileged to have witnessed it. The male had probably been overdosing on the oysters. Alas, it was the day to return to Comox. We set out with a light northwesterly winds and clear skies: and excellent sailing day. We spoke little on the way home, savoring the serenity of our week away. We were intently searching for the correct marker buoy to take us into Comox when a group of small porpoises approached our boat. What a beautiful conclusion to a fascinating week in Desolation Sound! We plan to return to the fabulous cruising ground again soon, with plans to continue north to explore the seemingly endless fiords and islands of the Inside Passage of Vancouver Island. We can hardly wait! — faith fether 9121/91 Around The World In '92 That’s the plan for Frank Robben with his classic 72-foot aluminum yawl, Klaloa II. Currently in French Polynesia, Robben has an oceanographic research commitment that requires him to be in lovely Vilamoura, Portugal by May 1993. Robben figures it will take about 100 sailing days to cover the 14,000 miles, which means he’ll have about eight months to explore the interesting
places along the way. As always, Robbens likes to have charter guests aboard, both to offset expenses, but also to make the voyages more enjoyable. He offers regular charters on the boat for four to six guests at $7,000 per week for six
and $5,000 for four. Since Klaloa will be a good distance from California most of the time, Robben is wisely recommending twoweek charters. Klaloa will also be accepting 'casual guests' for either long ocean passages or detailed exploration of particularly nice areas. Casual guests can be individuals or small groups of up to three, and will be expected to help with the sailing of the vessel. The charter fee is $100/person/day. Robben has owned Klaloa since 1985 and has cruised or chartered her to Mexico, Hawaii, Japan and now the South Pacific. The big yawl has 12 berths, a large refrigerator/freezer, a watermaker, a dive compressor "and most of the comforts of a yacht this size". For booking information, call Ocean Voyages at (415) 332-4681. — latitude 38 Charter Notes: Capt. Les Holmes and "Mate Marg" inform us that while The Moorings offers the largest bareboat fleet in the Sea of Cortez, it’s "not the only 'professional' charter operation in the area". Capt Holmes and his mate advise they’ve been operating Sea Angel, a 65-foot power cruiser, legally and professionally in the Sea of Cortez and mainland Mexico for the last three years. That would be big news, except for the fact Latitude remains a sailing magazine. Their charter broker, PMM of La Paz, however is apparently able to offer sailboat charters, too. For the. time being, however, we’re going to stick'by our statement that The Moorings offers the only professional
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'Kialoa', already in the South Pacific, is heading around the world. Charter guests, be they individuals or groups, are welcome.
(sailing) charter operation in the Sea of Cortez. The Moorings, incidentally, reports they stepped in to take over 130 charters when CSY Charters in the British Virgin Islands went belly-up on January 30. It’s noteworthy that The Moorings honored CYC’s lower rates without they or the charterers being given credit for the deposits that had been paid. Why would The Moorings be so magnanimous? "As leaders in the yacht chartering industry, we are disturbed by the impression created when smaller charter companies go out of business and leave vacationers high and dry," said Simon Scott, The Moorings vice-president of marketing. "This is bad for the industry. We feel a responsibility to aid these families and let them know the yacht charter industry is alive and well." Naturally Scott hopes their grand gesture will bring repeat business. He also suggests potential charters should seek value, not just the lowest price. He’s got a good point. If this sounds like a bit of a plug for The Moorings, so be it. We recently spoke with Carlos Badeil, who along with his wife Kathy and a group of friends, arrived in the British Virgins during the busy Christmas holidays to find the boat they’d chartered wouldn’t be ready for days. And even then, it wouldn’t be in anywhere near suitable condition for a charter. After much calling around, they were able to get another boat from another company. That boat was also in poor condition. Badeil, who owns the local
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company Excellence in Yachts, did so much work on the boat that the company decided it was only fair they not be charged at all for the three days they had it. But now that he’s got his credit card bill, he’s noticed they haven’t deleted the charge. The irony of it all is that Badeil says it was The Moorings, not the other two companies, which was most sympathetic to their plight and who worked the hardest — at no charge — to try and salvage their vacation. The Moorings is not the only good charter outfit in the Caribbean, and they make mistakes from time to time. But after 23 years and nearly 250,000 charters, they remain the shining star of the industry. One of the most intriguing charter operations on the Bay is Adventure Cat, a 55-foot catamaran. The entire Latitude staff is chomping at the bit to get out on this hot rod, which reportedly comfortably reaches across the Bay at up to 19 knots. Call (415) 777-1630 for further information. A few months back we wrote about the travails of Hawaiian Chieftain, the 103foot square-rigged topsail ketch that was built in Hawaii a few years back. We’re pleased to report that things are looking up for the twin-screwed steel vessel that was built on the beach at Lahaina. Now based out of Pelican Harbor, she’s been buffed up and re-rigged and in Mark Sange, has a new captain. Sange come with 16 years of charter experience, most of it in the Med with his own 62-foot sloop Serena. The renovated Hawaiian Chieftain is Coast Guard certified to carry up to 49 passengers. If you’re thinking of doing a charter in Greece or Turkey, right now is the time to make your reservations. June and July are good months, August is too hot and /
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THE RACING
With reports this month on Russell Long’s new world speed sailing record; John Kosteckl’s Olympic Star campaign; Norman Davant’s tips on leeward mark roundings; the always-fun MEXORC regatta; the Ides of March team racing regatta for Cal 20s; various IMS projects; the doublehanded Rites of Spring Race; results of two St. Francis YC Spring Invltattonals; wrap-ups of various midwinter regattas; and, last but not least, the customary quota of race notes.
Russell Long: Speed Addict On Monday, March 16, after two excruciating weeks of waiting for the wind, conditions were finally right for Russell Long’s latest assault on world speed sailing records. "Half of success in life is just showing up," said Long, paraphrasing Woody Allen, in a March ’91 Latitude interview — and apparently, he was in the right place, at the right time, with the right boat.
world speed record for sailboat^ in October, 1990, in Canada. The result, timed over a 500-meter course set by officials of the Royal Yachting Association, was smashing — a new Class A record of 41.89 knots! To Tut it into perspective, that’s like sticking your head out a car window when you’re going 48.2 miles an hour! It’s also over 4 knots faster than Long’s previous world record of37.08 knots, and starting to close in on the outright record of 44.66 knots set by French boardsailor Thierry Bielak at the same site last spring. (Boats and sailboards are considered
Silver sea gods of the month: Russell Long (above) and John Kostecki (right).
The place was the 'French Trench', a manmade speed sailing ditch in St. Marie de la Mer, France. The time was 1:30 in the afternoon, and the wind was blowing 30 knots at 120° to the course. And, of course, the boat was his Ketterman trifoiler Longshot — the same craft he sailed to the previous
separately in speed sailing.) "The boat handled like a charm," said Long. "We were struggling for a couple of days in more moderate winds trying to surpass 37 knots, and then suddenly the mistral came on really strong without any warning whatsoever. The boat maintained a
very consistent speed throughout the whole run, whereas previous runs had lulls which broke up the average even though our top speed seemed to be 43-44 knots. We fell short of our goal of breaking the outright record, but we’re ecstatic anyway. No boat has ever gone as fast as this one." Ironically — though not atypically — the record run almost ended in disaster. Unable to slow the boat down by easing the mainsheet — and confined by the narrowness (about 60 feet) of the Trench — Long had no choice but to spin the boat hard into the wind. It popped out of the water like a cork, landing with one of its foils on the riverbank. The boat survived that near-disaster only to lose a sensor arm in a mini-pitchpole when a gust rolled through before the start of their second attempt of the day. The team — Long, Greg Ketterman, Dave Wahle, and Sean Carson (an Oakland boardsailor who took time off to fly down the Trench at 36.5 knots, the 75th fastest official time in the page 168
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The J/35 'Draco' (ex-'Dragon') at the leeward mark. Tactician Norman Davant, standing at the rear of the boat, oversees the rounding.
world) — took that as their cue to retire for the day. Longshot is currently sailing in Brest Speed Week, where it broke another world record: Caroline Ducato, Long’s girlfriend, jumped in the boat and hit 17.89 knots — good enough for the women’s Class A speed record. While in Brest, Long was apparently treated like royalty: he was invited to cut the ribbon to start the festivities and he’s been interviewed on all three major French TV stations. If the winds look right, Long will return to the Trench for another stab at upping the record before he heads'home. Russell is due back in San Francisco on April 1; hopefully, he’ll fill us in on his adventures then. Kostecki: High on Bacardi The Bay Area’s best sailor, 27-year-old
John Kostecki of Greenbrae, continues to look strong in his bid for an Olympic berth in the Star class. Sailing in the prestigious Bacardi Cup, held in Miami on March 1-6, Kostecki and crew George Iverson came in a close second to San Diego sailmaker Mark Reynolds. The regatta was tied going into the sixth and final race, with the nod going to Reynolds — this time. Sixty-five boats from 13 different countries competed. "We had good speed," said John, quiet and modest as ever. "We’re learning a lot, and catching up pretty quickly." Catching up, indeed! Kostecki has been sailing Stars for less than half a year, yet he’s never been out of the top five in a regatta yet. At the Bacardi Cup, he defeated the best Europeans, including Hans Wallen of Sweden (third), current world champion Roberto Benamati of Italy (fourth) and tough Americans Ding Schoonmaker (fifth) and Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Ed Adams (sixth). Reynolds and Adams are tied in first
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place in the American Star rankings; ironically, Kostecki hasn’t been to enough regattas to even be ranked yet. John’s new boat, an Italian-built Folli such as Reynolds has been using, just arrived in New York and was trailered to Florida at the end of March. He’ll be spending most of April in Miami, training and tuning for the Olympic Trials, which will be held there from April 27-May 8. "Whoever wins the U.S. Trials has a great shot at the gold medal in Barcelona," said Kostecki. "Getting there is the hardest part." Meanwhile, to keep his match racing skills sharp, Kostecki has entered two big boat events, the Congressional Cup and the San Francisco Cup (unfortunately, both will be history by the time this issue hits the docks). Kostecki is currently fifth in the Congres¬ sional Cup, which is underway in Long Beach as we go to press. He’s sailing with Jim Barton, Scott Easom, Mark Fisher of Baltimore, Mike Herlihy (now also from Balt¬ imore), Hartwell Jordan and Ken Keefe. On March 28-29, Kostecki will defend the San Francisco Cup for the St. Francis YC, sailing Bill LeRoy’s SC 50 Gone With the Wind.
Tips From the Top: Leeward Mark Roundings How many times have you been sailing _ downwind with a comfortable three boatCD 9 length lead over your arch-rival heading into o the last leeward mark — only to blow the b rounding, allowing the other boat to sneak 5 i past and beat you to the finish line? Sound familiar? Yeah, it’s happened to me too, but not very often anymore because I’ve learned a valuable lesson about sailing on the Bay, one that is particularly true in the summer: It’s more important to take the kite down early and have the boat prepared to go upwind than to hold onto the kite until the last possible second. Think about it: The biggest reason you get passed at the leeward mark is because you’ve waited too long to take the kite down, and then have a crew ’meltdown’ as one mistake leads to another. Which brings up the obvious question: * How far away from the mark should I start the drop? Of course, it depends on the wind strength and the current direction, but on a ’normal’ day around here, i.e., when it’s blowing over 15 knots true (over 20 apparent going upwind), you should begin your drop no less than four boatlengths away from the mark. This gives you three boatlengths (approximately 15 seconds) to get the sail on deck and another five seconds to get the pole down and to get everyone on
the rail. If you’re sailing with an inexperienced crew, take the spinnaker down even earlier. You’ll still be running into the mark with good speed, so taking the kite down early will more than pay for itself by allowing you to turn the corner and go upwind with everyone on the rail. This might sound like a conservative approach to mark roundings
but, in my opinion, it’s really the smartest approach. The name of the game when rounding a leeward mark is to start the mark rounding wide and finish it close to the mark. If you come in close and finish the turn wide, you’re liable to look back and discover the whole fleet inside you with clear air (I hate it when that happens!). My rule of thumb when
approaching the leeward mark is to be at least one boatlength away from the mark and to not start the turn up onto the wind until the bow of the boat is parallel to the mark. The goal here is to have the boat on the wind as you’re' sailing by the mark. The perfect rounding is when, just as you are finishing your turn, the bow of the boat is at the mark. page 170
Scenes from the StFYC Spring Keel Invitational (clockwise from above): 'Mr. Naturar keeps on truckin'; bumper cars at the leeward mark; hanging ten on Express 27s; various shots ofJ/24s; the blactj/29 'Maybe'. All photos 'Latitude'/rkm.
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two boatlengths by not executing the round¬ ing correctly. The only impediment to the roundings I’ve just described is having another boat overlapped outside of you when approach¬
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ing the buoy. The rules allow you 'ample room' to make a clean rounding but you’re not allowed to force the outside boat to give you excessive room. As you’re approaching the leeward mark you have to decide early which way you want to perform the spinnaker takedown — and then stick with your plan! Try to arrange your jibes coming into the mark so that you
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can execute a (normal) leeward drop, i.e. taking the kite down on the leeward side before you harden up around the buoy. If the boat has a forward hatch, gather the spinnaker underneath the jib and stuff it into the hatch. This is the only place to pull the spinnaker aboard if such a hatch exists; exceptions here are smaller boats such as J/24s and Express 27s, which set and take down out of the companionway. (Make sure to check the hatch before you leave the dock for sharp edges that might tear the spinnaker — otherwise you’ll be coming to see me, or another sailmaker, on Monday morning.) You want to take the kite down through the forward hatch because it keeps it out of the cockpit and it’s easier to pull in because it’s blanketed behind the jib. The way to pull it in is to grab onto the lazy guy (if the boat you’re sailing on is using them), pass it underneath the jib sheets and pull the sail in as the halyard is blown. Make sure to keep the guy at the end of the pole until the sail is contained so the spinnaker does not blow out behind the boat. If the boat only uses one set of sheets you’ll have to stand on the leeward side and grab onto the sheet as the halyard is eased off. Remember to pull the sail in under the jib sheets — or else it can fly back and drape itself over the trimmer and his winch (I hate that, too!). If you’re approaching the leeward mark and you have to jibe around it, set yourself up to take the kite down exactly as I described above. The only different thing you have to do is to get the pole down on the deck so you can complete the jibe. What I have described above is not a floater drop (a light air takedown where the kite is freeflown and dropped on the leeward side after the jibe). It’s a 'takedown-jibe', and in heavy air it is by far the fastest and safest technique for this kind of rounding. Remember to set yourself up wide of the mark and to jibe before you get there so you are ready to go on the wind. If you find yourself jibing right at the mark, you’re way too close in and you won’t be able to turn the boat upwind until you’re well past the mark. As you get near the leeward mark, there are many things that need to be done to get the boat ready to go on the breeze. How many times have you rounded the mark and forgotten to tighten up something? One way to remember everything is to create a check¬ list and have it attached prominently on a bulkhead or the deck — anywhere that it’s easily readable. Some of the most obvious items on the list are outhaul/flattener, Cun¬ ningham, backstay, halyard tension (both jib and main halyards should be marked with a corresponding mark on the deck forward of the winch when the boat is sailing upwind), and the genoa lead position (did you change
‘Yukon Jack1, the only NorCal entry in this year's MEXORC, had a solid grasp on second in Class B.
headsails on the downwind leg and not move the jib lead?). A final thought: Crewmembers should be prepared to spend the whole next windward leg on the rail. This means getting the rubber clothing back on before you round the mark,
with all the essentials stuffed in pockets: the course sheet, heading to the windward mark, water bottles, sunscreen, hats, etc. Often¬ times, unbeknownst to the afterguard, a cold beer will magically materialize out of someone’s foulies and is shared up and down the rail as the boat settles into the longer tacks. It always tastes best if your mark rounding was flawless, and you’re
SHEET pulling away from the fleet! In conclusion, practice makes perfect. More mistakes are possible at leeward mark roundings than anywhere other than the start, so get out there and work on your technique. — norman davant, sobstad sails MEXORC If they weren’t such nice guys, Roy Disney and Robbie Haines would be wearing out their welcome in the ULDB 70 class by now. Last month, they teamed up on Disney’s Pyewacket to clobber their fellow sledsters yet again, this time at the biennial good-time MEXORC regatta. Held February 24-29 out of the ritzy Las Hadas Resort in Manzanillo, the series consisted of six buoy races and a 36-mile 'middle distance' race which Grand Illusion had disallowed due to a misplaced windward mark. Pyewacket completely dominated the event, posting a 3,1,1,2,2,1 record. The real battle was for second place, as Evolution, Taxi Dancer and Grand Illusion duked it out to the wire. "It was good clean straightforward racing," claimed Taxi tactician Norman Davant, who was equally excited about a 35-person food fight they instigated in a Mexican restaurant ("The best one of my life!"). In a nutshell, that’s MEXORC: a combination of sunny, light air racing and great parties. The racing was intense in the sled class, despite the decision to waive the 18-person crew limit. Wives, children, girl friends, restaurant owners ("He was a great guy! He even participated in the food fight with us," said Davant) and anyone else who happened by got to sail, which led to some interesting moments. Pyewacket, for instance, ripped the foot of their spinnaker because of a 'butt cleat' on the topping lift during a jibe. "Crowd control is always a factor in MEXORC," said sledmeister Tom Leweck. To no one’s surprise, Bob Kahn’s Frers 43 Jano, with Commodore Tompkins, Robert Flowerman and Steve Grillon among the crew, easily beat up the dwindling Mexican IOR fleet and two other American boats, Eclipse and Ecstasy. Jano, more of a 'pure' IOR boat than the sleds or the two 50s, also won the regatta overall for the second time in a row. Winning the award for the 'distin¬ guished skipper' of the regatta was Mav¬ erick's Les Crouch, a popular choice after his seven MEXORC regattas. The sled circuit resumes with the Ahmanson Series in Newport Harbor on April 25-26. Pyewacket, however, won’t be there — the Disneys have decided to give the fleet a break by taking their boat to Ireland, where they have a home. They’re page 173
planning to race the boat in Europe this summer, and possibly sail back in the Route of Discovery Race on November 28 (4,500 miles from Spain to Miami). Antonio Elias (016), who is taking his boat in the Bermuda Race and then probably over to Spain, may enter the same race home. In fact, the sleds seem to be splitting up in this non-TransPac summer: Maverick, Kath¬ mandu, Hokele and possibly Swlftsure, under charter, are doing the Vic-Maui Race, Mongoose is going doublehanded in the Pacific Cup, some are semi-mothballed (Sil¬ ver Bullet, Cheval) and others are seriously for sale (Chance, which is apparently now owned by the bank). The newest addition to the fleet, Dick Compton’s Andrews 70 Al¬ chemy, was due to hit the water at the end of March. CLASS A — 1) Pyewacket, SC 70, Roy Disney, 9.25 points; 2) Evolution, SC 70, Brack Duker, 21.5; 3) Taxi Dancer, R/P 68, Mitch Rouse, 22.75; 4) Grand Illusion, SC 70, Ed McDowell, 23; 5) OI6, SC 70, Antonio Elias, 28; 6) Victoria, Andrews 70, Mike Campbell, 28; 7) Maverick, N/M 68, Les Crouch, 36; 8) Kathmandu, SC 70, Fred Kirschner, 46. (8 boats) CLASS B — 1) Oaxaca, SC 50, Gene Twiner, 5.75 points; 2) Yukon Jack, SC 50, Club Nautique, 10.75. (2 boats) CLASS C — 1) Jano, Frers 43, Bob Kahn, 5.75 points; 2) Eclipse, N/M 43, Bill Bannasch, 14.75; 3) Sidewinder, R/P 43, Chatto Saenz, 23; 4) Saeta, N/M 41, Rogelio Partida, 24; 5) Shamadi, N/M 40, Gonzalo Fernandez, 28; 6) Piet Hein, Peterson 40,
Roberto Vulling, 30; 7) Ecstasy, Baltic 38 DP, John Donahue, 41. (7 boats) OVERALL — 1) Jano, 16.25 points; 2) Pye¬ wacket, 25.75; 3) Eclipse, 33.75; 4) Evolution, 43.75; 5) Sidewinder, 44. (17 boats)
Ides of March Team Racing Richmond YC squeaked past San Fran¬ cisco YC to win the second annual Ides of March Team Race Challenge on March 14, but in reality it sounds like everybody won. "We packed more fun into three hours than you can believe!" enthused participant Dick Taylor. Each club fielded four Cal 20s for the best 3- out-of-5 event. Representing Richmond was Bruce Bradfute (Ice), Peter Fowler (Upper Bound), Bert Rowe (Crackerjack) and Mike Schaumburg (Orange Crate). Sail¬ ing for San Francisco was Barney Barnett (Aolele), Richard Von Ehrenkrook (Far¬ mers), Jerry Leth (Puff) and Nancy Palmer (Minnehaha). The challenge was raced in the South Hampton area, with SFYC winning the first race 3-1. Richmond bounced back to win the next one, 3-1, to tie it up. SFYC took the third race 3-1, followed by a 2-2 tie. In the fifth and final race, RYC blew out SFYC 4- 0 to win the series. "The key to making the event work so well was short courses (about 30 minutes) and on-the-water umpiring," explained Taylor. "That system is usually only used in match racing, but it seems to work well for team racing, too." Judging the event from four different powerboats were, for SFYC, Roger
ULTS BYC/MYCO Midwinters SATURDAY SERIES (4 races; 0 throwouts):
DtV. A (0-138) — 1) Absolute 88, Wylie 37, Wabbit, Bill & Melinda Erkelens, 11; 3) Miss DIV. B (141-195) — 1) Cannonball, Hawkfarm, Mike Bilafer, 8.75 points; 2) Twilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen, 10.75; 3) High Frequency, Wave¬ length 24, 19.75. (17 boats) DIV. C (198-204) — 1) Catalyst, Catalina 27, Ed Durbin, 7.5 points; 2) Checkout, Cal 2-27, Misha Nelson, 13. (12 boats) DtV. D (207-up) — 1) Blue Meanie, Santana 20, Sherron Hart, 4,25 points; 2) (tie) Madman X H2Q, Santana 20, Steven Katzman & Thumper, Wilder¬ ness 21, Erich Bauer, 12. (8 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Saint Anne, Dick Heckman, 6.75 points; 2) White Knuckles, Dan Benjamin, 14.75; 3) Bottom line, Tony Pohl, 20.75. (13 boats) J/29 — 1) Advantage II, Pat Benedict, 8.75 points; 2) Black Lace, A. Sodhani/K. Dincel, 11.75; 3) Blazer, Mike Lambert, 12.5. (11 boats) /
EXPRESS 27 — 1) Guneukitschek, John Collins/ Scott Easom, 6.5 points; 2) Frog In French, Kame Richards, 13.75; 3) Moonlight, Carl Schumacher/ John Franklin, 25; 4) Elan, Steve Lake, 26; 5) Bessie Jay, Monroe Wingate, 30.75. (27 boats) SC 27 — 1) Concubine, Brad Whitaker, 3 points; 2) Good Timin', Dave Wilson, 10; 3) Saltshaker, Art Sutton, 17. (7 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Mercedes, Joel Verutti, 5,5 points; 2) Free Flight, Pat Mitchell, 7.75; 3) Speedster, Jim Samuels, 13.75. (7 boats) j/24 — 1) Casual Contact, Seadon Wijsen/Don *Oiiver, 15.75 points; 2) Grinder, Jeff Littfin, 17.75; 3) Snow Job, Goderick/Meyer, 22.75; 4) Cracker Jack, Steve Highbarger, 26; 5) J-Walker, Don Nazzal/Phil Perkins, 26.75. (32 boats) NEWPORT 30 — 1) Topgallant, Frank Hinman, 8.75 points; 2) Esprit, Robert Stephens, 13.75; 3) Achates, Bill Schultz, 14. (10 boats) CAL 20 — 1) Farmers, Richard von Ehrenkrook, 9,75; 2) Recluse, Howard Martin, 11.75. (5 boats) SUNDAY SERIES (4 races; 0 throwouts):
DiV. I (0-141) — 1) Wavetrain, Olson 91 IS, Rick
THE RACING Eldridge, Charles Fairchild, Hal McCormick and Vicki Sodaro. Richmond judges were Bruce Arnold, Fred Paxton, Scott Rovanpera and Pat Vincent. IMS Spring Projects Like the housing industry, the trend in local handicap racing seems to be towards 'remodelling' rather than moving up. "Love the boat you’re with," seems to be the current thinking — or maybe it’s just that the cost of new boats is prohibitive in these recessionary times. Though one design boats continue to change hands, the market for new handicap racers (especially IMS boats) has all but gone away. Last month, the local IMS group ruled 219 in favor of imposing a 2.5% penalty on boats built after 1989. Four boats were effected — Heart of Gold (Schumacher 50), Scorpio (Wylie 42), Mystical Creampuffs (Beneteau 45f5) and Bullseye (a Tripp 40 due here in May). Two of these boats — Goldie and Scorpio—immediately switched over to PHRF. "We’re leaving on a threeyear cruise following the Pacific Cup anyway, so we didn’t really care," admits Goldie’s Jim Corenman. Mystical Creampuffs and Scorpio will likewise be out of town on road trips (mainly the Pacific Cup) this summer, leaving only Bullseye to face the stiff penalty. Meanwhile, owners of older IMS boats (read: former IOR boats) are scurrying for the drawing board. Everyone seems to be taking the lead out of their boats: High Risk
has shed 2,000 pounds, National Biscuit lost 300 pounds, Bondi Tram 1,000 lbs., Corsair 975 lbs. and so on. "To stay competitive, you almost have to do it," say naval architect Carl Schumacher. "You also need to move the weight back, so the boats don’t submarine like they used to. But if you take out too much, you shorten the waterline too much and make the boat too tippy. It’s an
1Bang' (port) and 'Terminator' (starboard) in last year's Big Boat Series. Is the IMS rule really working on the local levelI interesting game." Carl’s currently working on muscling up Dean Treadway’s 15-year-old Farr 36 Sweet Okole. "We were due for a change," ex¬ plains Treadway. "Besides, it takes my mind off rebuilding my house, which was totalled
FINAL MIDWINTER RACE •
Caskey, 7.75 points; 2) Special Edition, Wilderness 30, Eric Sultan, 11.5; 3) Mystery Eagle, SC 27, Roger Sturgeon. (12 boats) DiV. II (144-168) — 1) Chesapeake, Merit 25,
Blown Hare, 14. (10 boats) OLSON 25 —1) Vivace, Bill Riess, 5.5 points; 2) Biosen, 16. (8 boats) ■
Rollye Wiskerson, 7.5 points; 2) Con Carino, Cal 227, Gary Albright, 13; 4) Antares, Islander 30 Mk. II, Larry Telford, 14.5. (12 boats) DIV. IV (201-up) — 1) (tie) Madman X H2Q, Santana 20, Steven Katzman & Naressia, Coronado 25, Bobbi Tosse, 5.5; 3) (tie) Thumper, Wilderness 21, Erich Bauer & Go Dog Go, Santana 22, Bill Vanderslice, 15. (5 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Zephyros, Dave Oliver, 10.5 points; 2) Adieu, 8. Joe Rosa, 10.75; 3) Assoluto, Dan Swann, 11. (7 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1)Moonlight, John Franklin, 5.25 points; 2) Graeagle, George Koch, 10; 3) Light'n Up, Gary Clifford, 11.75. (8 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Kwazy, Colin Moore, 5.25 points; 2) WPOD, M. & B. Erkelens, 7.75; 3) Wind
Blues, Bentsen/Bochma, 9.75. (5 boats) INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT — 1) Xanadu, Tom Federico, 5.5 points; 2) Elska, Lesta Nadel, 7.75; 3) Skol, Michael Conner, 14.75. (6 boats)
BYC/MYCO Midwinters Champion of Champion* 1) Casual Contact, J/24, S. Wijsen/D. Oliver; 2) Temptation, Cal 2-27, Rollye Wiskerson; 3) Top¬ gallant, Newport 30, Frank Hinman; 4) Wavetrain, Olson 91 IS, Rick Caskey; 5) Ouzel, Thunderbird, Mike Sheats; 6) Farmers, Cal 20, Richard von Ehrenkrook; 7) Advantage II, J/29, Pat Benedict; 8) Phantom, J/24, John Gufliford; 9) Vivace, Olson 25, Bill Riess; 10) Blue Meanie, Santana 20, Sherron
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Golden Gate YC Midwinter* IMS — 1) Kotuku, Farr 1220, David Thomson, 6.5 points; 2) National Biscuit, Schumacher 35, Colin Case, 7.75; 3) High Risk, Smith 43, Jim Mizell, 12.75; 4) Leading Lady, Peterson 40, Bob Klein, 16; 5) Spellbound, Olson 40, Lou Fox, 24. (13 boats)
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Farrs (Petard, Bandldo and Bimbo), and always was sticky in light air. She was pretty undercanvassed, too: in five trips to Hawaii, we never broached once!" Petard, Keith Buck’s Farr 36, will be getting Sweet Okole’s old mast — which is 18 inches higher than Petard’s old one — as well as Okole’s main and three headsails. "We’re adding a horizontal panel to each of our spinnakers as well," says Buck, who figures the added horsepower may make the difference in this summer’s Pacific Cup. Craig Brown’s Serendipity 43 Corsair is also sporting a new rig, a modern triple spreader job which replaces the spar they lost last summer. Another interesting 'remodel' is occurring at Kim Desenberg’s North Coast Yachts, where Bill Erkelens, Sr. and Jr., are reactivating their wooden Wylie 40 Lois Lane. The boat, which will be painted white to hide the damage inflicted upon her by an errant powerboat up at Lake Tahoe, is scheduled to re-debut in the Catalina Race. Lots of other boats (e.g., Surefire, Bang, Terminator) are also being worked on and changed around — like we said, it seems to be the thing to do these days.
in the East Bay fire." Improvements to the ’81 TransPac overall winner include going up 4 feet on the rig (Buzz Ballenger has created a triple spreader, with jumpers, 'in¬ line' rig), adding a foot to the keel, all new Sobstad sails, adjustable jib leads and more. "All of this should help our light air performance," said Dean. ”Okole has the most wetted surface of the other three local
Rites of Spring Race Oakland YC’s fourth annual Rites of Spring Doublehanded Race, held on Satur¬ day, March 14, attracted an all-time high field of 36 boats. "The race is coming into its own as a 'tune-up' for the Doublehanded Farallones," explained race chairman John
PHRF 1: (90-134) — 1) Wild Flower, Santana 35, Art Mowry, 16 points; 2) Gemini, Baltic 38, Dave Fain, 16.75; 3) Rubber Ducky, Hobie 33, lee Garami, 18.75; 4) Yucca, 8 Meter, Hank Easom, 24.75; 5) Svendle, Carrera 38, Sven Svendsen, 25*
18. (7 boats) J/35 — 1) Esprit, 6.5 points; 2) Slithergadee, 10; 3) Red Line, Bi|l Fawns/Don Trask, 15.75, (8 boats) SANTANA 35 — 1) Wild Flower, 5.5 points; 2) Take Five, Fred Doster/Paul & Lauren Sinz, 11.75;
(25 boats) PHRF ill (135-173) — 1) limelight, J/30, Harry Blake, 10.25 points; 2) Tea Bonz, Moore 24, Noel Wilson, 16; 3) Hot Flash, J/30, George Kokaiis, 20; 4) Whitecap, IOD, Tom Allen, 29; 5) Break Away, j/30, Dale Mead, 30, (17 boats) PHRF IV (174-220) — 1) Toots, Thunderbird, Curtis King, 6.25 points; 2) Lord Nelson, Knarr, John Jankins, 15; 3) Boog-a-Loo, Cal 29, Nancy Rogers, 23; 4) Zephyr, Cal 2-27, Team GETS, 24; 5) Red Dragon, Scampi 30, joe Ong, 27. (17 boats) PHRF V (221 & above) — 1) Highway, Foikboat, Dave Boyd, 4.25 points; 2) Shazami, Bud Sandkulla, 11.75; 3) Freja, Foikboat, Ed Welch, 13; 4) Ancient Wings, Santana 22, Ken Katzoff/Steve Shapiro, 16; 5) Caliban, Cal 20, David Green, 19.
3) Flexible Flyer, Mike Creazzi, 13.75. (6 boats) IOD — 1) Whitecap, 12.5 points; 2) Never Again II, Jack Air, 13.75; 3) Undine, Don Payan,
(12 boats) EXPRESS 37 — 1) (tie) Re-Quest and Spindrift V, 5.5 points; 3) Free Spirit, Neil Ross/Andy Rothman, page 175
14.75. (7 boats) KNARR — 1) Lord Nelson, 6,75 points; 2) Aquavit, Ray Palmer, 12.75; 3) Red Witch, Craig McCobe, 21.5. (9 boats) FOLKBOAT — 1) Highway, 3 points; 2) Freja, 9? 3) Volker, Bill Madison, 14. (6 boats) OVERALL — 1) Highway, 4.25 points; 2) Toots, 6.25; 3) Kotuku, 6.5; 4) National Biscuit, 7.75; 5) Wolf Pack, 9.25; 6) Limelight, 10.25; 7) Esprit, 11; 8) Shazami, 11.75; 9) High Risk, 12.75; 10) Freja, 13.(106 boats) (4 races; 0 throwouts)
EYC Jack Frost Series MULTIHULL — 1) Dragonfly, Dragonfly, Don Trask, 3 points; 2) Wlngit, F-27, Ray Wells, 10; 3)
Billmeyer. "We expect even more boats next year, when we add a multihull division." A shifty 9-17 knot southerly, combined with some holes and occasional rain show¬ ers, kept the fleet challenged throughout the 15.6-mile jaunt around the Central Bay. Given the wind direction, the course turned into one reach after another, causing the non-spinnaker boats to perform better to their ratings than the spinnaker ones. SPINNAKER — 1) Dragon Lady, Express 27, Jim Coyne/Greg Paxton; 2) Blazer, J/29, Ian Beswick/ John Hauser; 3) Guneukitschek, Express 27, John Collins/Dan Brousseau; 4) Animaleye, Hawkfarm, Steve Siegrist/John Siegel; 5) Screamer, Capo 30 mod., Dick Horn/Doug Robbins. (20 boats) NON-SPINNAKER—1) Persistence, Hunter 40, Dick Ament/Craig Seavey; 2) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles/April Daniels; 3) Line Drive, Peterson 34, Dave Reed/Willy Dorssers; 4) Latte, Gambler 35, Mike Rettie/Janet Pinterits; 5) Nice Turn, Cal 229, Richard Johnson/Tom West. 16 boats)
StFYC Spring Invitationals The three traditional St. Francis YC Spring Invitationals Regattas were held last month, and — with the exception of the second day of the Keel Regatta being abandoned due to lack of wind — the racing came off without a hitch. The windiest weekend of racing occurred at the One Design Regatta (featured on pages 124-127), while the most pleasant racing had to be on the Saturday of the Keel Regatta (see pic¬ tures on pages 170-171).
Bad Boy, Ropers/Green, 12. (6 boats) PHRF B (0-120) — 1) First Class, Express 37, Bill Stauch, 3 points; 2) Mystical Creampuffs, Beneteau 45f5, John Linneman, 10; 3) Bloom County, ManCebo 31, The Ondry Clan, 13; 4) Danville Express, Express 37, Andy Hall, 13; 5) Maluhla, Beneteau 42, David Sallows, 22. (22 boats) ULDB — 1) Screamer, Capo 30 mod., Dick Horn, 7.5 points; 2) War Hawk, Hawkfarm, Bill Patience, 10.75; 3) Twilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen, 12.75; 4) Redux, Olson 911S, Nick Barnhill, 21; 5) Hurricane,*Moore 24, Adam Sadeg, 28. (21 boats) * PHRF D (125-170) — 1) Blue Max, Dehler 34, Jim Freeland, 4.25 points; 2) Esprit Vietorleux, Beneteau 30.5, Joe Meiino, 7.75; 3) Juggernaut, Islander 36, Bill Parks, 14. (8 boats) PHRF E (171-190) — 1) Crinan, C&C 30, Bill West, 7.5 points; 2) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Caries, 7.5; 3) Kamala II, Ranger 29, Bill Kefth, 9.75.(11 boats) CATALINA 30 — 1) Fat Cat, Seth Bailey, 3 points; 3) Retrograde Motion, Frank Nemeth, 9; 10} Penny, Michael Clarke, 10. (8 boats)
THE RACING Results of the Dinghy and Keel regattas follow: SPRING DINCHV (March 7-8): INTERNATIONAL 14 — 1) #1000, Alan Laflin/ Mike Jankowski, 7.25 points; 2) Chang, Will Baylis/Ben Wells, 9.5; 3) Biek, Larry Craig/Kevin Butler, 13.75; 4) Doris, The Bumblebee From Hell, Rand Arnold/Geoff Baxter, 18; 5) Summer Breeze, Dave West/Dave Berntsen, 28. (10 boats) 505 — 1) Base Hit, Jeff Miller/Bruce Heckman, 9.75 points; 2) Larry Therapy, Jim Maloney/Bob Sutton, 13.75; 3) Foul Balls, Jim Wondolleck/Jay Kuncl, 16.5; 4) Spaceman Spiff, Bruce Edwards/ David Shelton, 16.75; 5) Nancy's Competition, Bill Jager/Robert Park, 22; 6) #8017, Tom Poore/Stuart Park, 22; 7) Trauma Mama, Chris Klein/Rick Rattray, 49. (14 boats) SNIPE — 1) #25992, Bart Hackworth/Mike Mullane, 5 points; 2) #26669, Rich & Marika Bergsund, 7.5; 3) End of Discussion, Standish & Anne O'Grady, 15; 4) TBA, Packy & Julie Davis, 21. (7 boats) (6 rapes; 1 throwout)
5) Bessie jay, Danny Shea, 10; 6) Moonlight, Schumacher/Franklin, 10; 7) Locomotion, Radcliffe/ McRobie, 13; 8) Jalapeno, John Stewart, 14; 9) Sweet Pea, Karl Engdahl, 17; 10) Presto, John Todd, 21. (17 boats) J/29 — 1) Blazer, Mike Lambert, 2.75 points; 2) Smokin' j, Kimo Winterbottom, 3.75; 3) Maybe, Brewster/Worthington, 6; 4) Black Lace, Arvind Sodhani, 8; 5) Power Play, Peter Cunningham, 9. (9 boats) SOLING — 1) Plan B, Mark Hallman, 1.5 points; 2) Wizard, Andy Carson, 4; 3) Second Edition, Mark Murray, 6; 4) Delusions, Bob Baldino, 8; 5) Mistress, Stephanie Hayes, 10. (8 boats) J/24 — 1) Tie, Benjamin Wang, 2.75 points; 2) How Rude, Dave Hodges, 6; 3) New Whrilled Order, Peter Young, 8.75; 4) Wonder Woman, Dines/Kennelly/Pugh, 10; 5) Grinder, Jeff Littfin, 14; 6) Downtown Uproar, Wayne Clough, 14; 7) Ice Breaker, Bob Richards, 15; 8) Sockeye, Dobroth/ Holscher, 16; 9) J-Walker, Nazzal/Perkins, 17; 10) Casual Contact, Seadon Wijsen, 18. (20 boats) (2 races; 0 throwouts)
Race Notes SPRING KEEL (March 22-23): ETCHELLS — 1) Secret Weapon, Chris Perkins, 4.75 points; 2) Six Hundred, Hank Easom, 6; 3) Mr. Natural, Bill Barton, 7; 4) 3 Live Crew, Mike LaHorgue, 8; 5) Celebration, Ken Munro, 11; 6) #824, Dreyfous/McKelvey, 17; 7) LeStat, Joe McCoy, 17; 8) Las Casas, Duane Hines, 17; 9) Illusion, Tim Britton, 18; 10) Rigorous, Patrick Adams, 18. (17 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Guneukitschek, John Collins, 4.75 points; 2) Jammin', Skip Shapiro, 6.75; 3) Abigail Morgan, Ron Kell, 7; 4) Elan, Steve Lake, 9;
Endless summer: The clocks 'spring forward' one hour for Daylight Savings Time on April 5, which can only mean one thing: the summer beer can series are about to crank up again! We’ve listed 8 of these fun, informal series in the Calendar. If your yacht club or marina has a series which you’d like included in that space, please drop us a note. Water, water everywhere: Good news from Folsom Lake! The 27th Annual Cam* ellia Cup, scheduled for April 11-12, will
enjoy a relatively full lake for a change. "Thanks to all the rain, we have 50 feet more water than we did last year," says Folsom Lake Sailing Club’s Deborah Radley. "In fact, there’s 9 feet of water under the docks right now!" Also new this year is the removal of the 12-foot minimum length requirement — which means all SBRA classes will now be invited. "Plus, we’re working on putting together a Lake Circuit this summer," explained Radley. "All the clubs we’ve contacted so far are up for it." Get in touch with Ms. Radley at (916) 929-5734 if you’re interested in either the Camellia Cup or the long-awaited Lake Circuit. Meanwhile, deep in the Delta: The Stockton Sailing Club kicked off its ’92 racing season with a 24.5-mile long distance race on February 22. Brett West’s J/24 Flamingo won the light division, while Ni Orsi’s hot Cal 27 Veloce took the heavy division, as well as overall honors. Orsi and crew followed that performance with an overall bullet in a 13.43-mile doublehanded race on February 29. Second overall in the 15-boat fleet was John Walker’s Hobie 33 Hotllcks; third was John Notman’s J/24 Knots. It appears that Veloce (which won last year’s South Tower Race by 49 minutes!) is the boat to beat these days, but all that could change soon when Pat Brown’s new soupedup Wilderness 30 Rascal hits the race course. "That’ll be a boat to watch this summer," claims fellow Class A competitor John Walker. Banned in Boston (and almost every¬ where else, for that matter): The ULDB 70
FINAL MIDWINTER RACI SANTANA 22 — 1) Riffraff, Erik Menzel, 6,5 ihazam!. Bud Sandkulla, 7.75. (9 boats) PHRF H (191-264) — 1) Mytoy, Ranger 26,
Schmidt; 5) Arnold/Baxter; 6) Bernsten/Stahnke. (16 boats) 505 — 1) Edwards/Shelton; 2) Andreasen/ Hopkins; 3) Tilley/Rankin; 4) Watts/Bassano; 5) Maloney/Sutton (15 boats)
Jim Closll, 12; 3) Andalusia, Cal 20, Dick Taylor; 4) Toots, Thunderbird, Curtis King, 12.75. (12 boats)
INTERNATIONAL CANOE — 1) Erich Chase; 2) Del Olsen; 3) Fran de Faymoreau. (5 boats)
Van Blarigan, 4.25 points; 2) Shay, Bill Myers, 5.25. (5 boats)
Vogetsong; 4) Eric Stoelting. (7 boats) STAR — 1) Doug Smith; 2) Russ Williams; 3) Carl Peterson. <5 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Ion Stewart; 2) Colin Moore; 3) Bill Erkelens; 4) Ben Costello. (8 boats)
CATALINA 34 — 1} Goolara, John Bilfmeyer, 7.75 points; 2) Wind Dragon, Dave Davis, 8.5; 3) Phaedrus, Bill McReynolds, 8.75. (8 boats) PH RF J (non-spinnaker) — 1) Sea Saw, Caf 20, S. Wonner/S. Lawrence, 3 points; 2) Hawk, Alberg30, Steve Collins, 10; 3) Enchanted, Islander Bahama 30, Walt Vance, 14; 4) Lady Luck, C&C 33, Lutz Bergman, 14.75. (13 boats) (5 races; 1 throwout)
John Walsh; 4) Tom Dobroth; 5) Don Nazzal; 6)
Richmond YC Small Boat Midwinters
LASER II — 1) Bart Harris; 2) Cary Bergero; 3) Jonathan Howell; 4) Charles Turner. (8 boats)
INTERNATIONAL 14 — 1) Adams/Berkowitz; 2)
SUNFISH — 1) Bob Cronin; 2) BobRutz; 3) Dee Thompson. (6 boats) LIGHTNING — 1) Bruce Arnold. (2 boats)
FIREBALL— 1) Kevin Rea; 2) Chip Heliier; 3) Will Paxton; 4) Scott Rovenpera. (7 boats)
SNIPE — 1) Spencer Allen/Lee Chermack; Ned & Matt Niccolls; 3) Yano Casalaina/Christian Jones; 4) Charles & Graham Heimler. (12 boats) El TORO SR. — 1) Dennis Silva; 2) Chris Gasparich; 3) Fred Paxton; 4) Vaughn Sellers; ;; 5) Russell Shroff; 6) Aad Rommelse; 7) Dan Setters Ron Locke. (37 boats) El TORO JR. — 1} Skip McCormack; 2) Loomis; 3) Nick Nash; 4) Dana Jones; 5) Paul Saitta; 6) (tie) Kimball Hall & Jason Martin. (23 boats)
Lake Merritt Sailing Club Edna Robinson Regatta EL TORO«rr 1) Wait Andrews, 108.5 points; Jim Cozine, 86; 3) Tom Burden, 79.5; 4) Ron Locke, 70; 5) Chris Gasparich, 60; 6) Jim Warfield, 59.25; David Mitchell & Chris Sanford, 35. (18 boats) HOLDER 12 — 1) Del Locke, 45.55 points; 2) Jim Kearney, 34.5; 3) George Pedrick, Sr., 27.25. (5 boats) Fj — 1) Larry Weatherly, 34.5 points; 2) joe Doering, 32.75. (4 boats) SNIPE — 1)M. Casalaina, 20.75 points. (2 boats)
Association, always quick to see the handwriting on the wall, recently banned exotic sail cloth materials (carbon fiber, liquid crystal, polymer, kryptonite, etc.) such as those currently being developed by several America’s Cup syndicates. "It’s one form of 'progress' we can do without," explained class president Peter Tong (B fondle). "We have no interest in getting involved in an arms war, which would only serve to escalate our operating costs." Materials used in sled sails are now limited to nylon, mylar, dacron, polyester, kevlar and spectra — most of which were considered 'exotic' not too long ago. Hobie heaven: About 250 Hobie cats sailed in the annual Hobie Midwinters West Regatta in the little fishing village of San Felipe, Mexico, on March 7-8. "The food and margaritas were great, and the winds were perfect — double-trapeze conditions!" enthused Miracle 20 competitor George Pedrick, one of 20-some NorCal sailors who made the 14-hour trek down 1-5 to the top of the Sea of Cortez. Races for all sexes and skill brackets were held in Hobie 16s, 17s, 18s and the new Miracle 20s, as well as an 'open' class (14s and 21s). Trophy winners included Nina Farrell (San Mateo), Gene Harris (Berkeley), David Head (San Ramon), Michelle Leonard (Dublin) and Wayne Mooneyham (San Jose). Collegiate circuit: Stanford, still un¬ defeated in the North Series, has realistic¬ ally wrapped up that series with three regattas left to go. The Nautical Cardinal won the San Jose State-hosted North Series
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SULTS (CONT'D)
)0 14 — 1) Doug Hamilton, 19.5 points. (2 NSHEE — 1) S. Thomas, 6.75 points. (1 boat) 5ER U, SUNFISH — No starters. •aces; 0 throwouts)
Santa Cruz YC Midwinters FLEET — 1) Paso Doble, Olson 29, Leon/ 12.25 points; 2) Kabala, Olson 30, Jay Bennett, 19.5; 3) Tsiris, Olson 29, Dan Nitake, 21.75; 4)Third Reef, Custom, B. White/T, McTighe, 28.75; S) Daisy, SC 40, J. Buchanan, 30. (10 boats) ’B’ FLEET — 1) Hanalei Express, SC 27, Schuyler/Sturgeon, 16 points; 2) Kurzweile, SC 27, Brett Cripenstraw, 21.75; 3) Snafu U, Moore 24, Mark Berryman, 29; 4) Summertime, Moore 24, Bobbo Larson, 32; 5) Toxic Avenger, Eric Malmberg, 42. (16 boats) *C FLEET — 1) Cookie Monster, J/24, Dave Jones, 13.5 points; 2) Running Slow, J/24, Darrel Louis, 15.5; 3) Pau Hana, J/24, Cliff McNamara, 19.75; 4) Nighthawk, Hawkfarm, John Siegel, 21.5; 5} Imajination, J/24, Ed Heaiy, 32.75. (10 boats) (8 races; 1 throwout) page 177
Sausalito YC Midwinter* DfV, A (spinnaker)—1) Preparation JJ/30, Jerry Tostenson, 5 points; 2) Contessa II, Centurion 42, Cordon Cox, 11. (3 boats) DJV. B-1 (non-spinnaker below 165) — 1) Sally Ann, Express 37, Michael Franchetti, 8.25 points; 2) Lone Ranger, Ranger 33, Fred Hodgson/Mike Melin, 8.5. (6 boats) DIV. B-2 (non-spinnaker above 165) — 1) Amanda, Newport 30 Mk. II, Pat Broderick, 3.75 points; 2) Tudor Rose It, Hunter 30, Lynne Miller, 15. (6 boats) (6 races; 2 throwouts)
Vallejo YC Midwinters DIV. A — 1) X-Ta-C, Olson 29, Bili Sweitzer, 16.25 points; 2) (tie) North Mist, Catalina 30, Jim Aton & Warhoop, Contessa 33, Jim Hooper, 22; 4) (tie) Sleeper, O'Day 27, Cary Cicereilo & Summerwind, O'Day 27, Jim Nuss, 30. (11 boats) DIV. C — 1) Barbados, Ranger 2 3, John Arisman, 7.25 points; 2) Cinnabar, SJ 24, Tim Dunn, 11.75. (6 boats) (5 races; 1 throwout)
Big winners: The overall winner of Gold¬ en Gate YC's Manuel V. Fagundes In¬ vitational Midwinter Regatta (our favorite tongue-twister!) was David Boyd’s Folkboat Highway. Boyd, a member of the host Golden Gate YC, and crew (daughter Carla Boyd and fellow Folkboater Otto Schreier) were awarded the "world famous" Seaweed Soup Perpetual Trophy for putting the best record together in the 106-boat fleet. Meanwhile, Seadon Wijsen (driver) and Don Oliver (owner) sailed their J/24 Casual Contact to overall victory in the grand finale of the BYC/MYCO Midwinters, the so-called Champion of Champions Race on March 7. Complete results of that 20-boat skirmish appear on page 174. Civil war revisited: The North and the South wilt duke it out again this summer, this tithe in IMS-rated sailboats. The NorthSouth Challenge will consist of four events: two down in 'rebel' country (Long Beach Race Week on June 12-14; Trim¬ ble North Race Week on June 26-28), followed by two home stands (St. Francis IMS Invitational on August 21-23; Big Boat Series on September 17-20). Each region will send up to three 3-boat teams into the fray. Currently, eight NorCal boats have expressed interest: Bang, Corsair, High Risk, National Biscuit, Surefire, Swlftsure, Terminator and Bullseye, Bob Garvie’s new Tripp 40. No word yet on which boats the 'bad guys' will field, but they have agreed to a 2.5% rating 'penalty' for their newer steeds (post January 1990) such as It’s OK! "Without adjusting the ratings, we’d get wiped out by the newer generation of IMS boats," said Challenge co-organizer Colin Case. "It’s a nationwide problem which USSA is looking into." Twenty-eight of the best: By now, the San Francisco Cup — a best 3-out-of-5
THE RACING SHEET 'grudge match' between StFYC and SFYC — is history. It was sailed in SC 50s on March 28-29, unfortunately just after we had to go to press. We’ll have the story and pictures next time. In the meantime — just for the record — here are the starting 14-man line¬ ups for each club: San Francisco YC (Hana Ho): Patrick Adams, John Andrew, Bill Barton, Rolfe Croker (owner), Jim Davies, Mark Dowdy, Steve Fentress, Duncan Kelso, Tad Lacey, Jock MacLean, Jeff Madrigali (driver), Mark Maymar, EricTjensvold and Jeff Wayne. For St. Francis YC (Gone With The Wind): Carl Baldauf, Scott Easom, Bill George, Dave Gruver, Scott Inveen, Hart Jordan, Ken Keefe, John Kostecki (driver), Bill LeRoy (owner), Mike LeRoy, Dan Mudge, Chris Perkins, Phil Perkins and Ernie Rodriguez. Miami vice: In variable and shifty conditions, John Kolius steered Mark Morita’s R/P 50 Champosa VII to a con¬ vincing victory at the ’92 Miami World Cup Regatta on March 12-15. Going into the seventh and final race, all Kolius had to do was cross the starting line in order to win the regatta — instead, he went around the course 2 minutes and 9 seconds ahead of the second place boat! This latest success, the second in a row on the ’92 World Cup Tour for Champosa, ups the string of Reichel/ Pugh 50-footer victories to an incredible 9 out of 12 bullets since the first design (Abracadabra) was launched in February, 1990. However, only 9 boats (down from 16 last year) are competing on the circuit this year, possibly due to crew members’ conflicts with the America’s Cup or the looming switch to one design boats in the 50s class. Results of the Miami regatta: 1) Champosa VII, 9.25 points; 2) Caprlcorno, 19; 3) Carat VII, 19.75; 4) Heaven Can Watt, 21.5; 5) Mandrake, 22.75; 6) Wlndquest, 32; 7) Corum, 36; 8) Pro-Motion VII, 38; 9) Diane, 45. Zany stuff: Ten Catalina 30s showed up for the Encinal YC-hosted Kurt Zane Mem¬ orial Regatta on March 14. Two non-spin¬ naker races were held, resulting in a virtual four-way tie for first place: 1) Penny, Michael Clarke, 7 points; 2) Fat Cat, Seth Bailey, 7.75; 3) Starklte, Laurie Miller, 8.75; 4) North Mist, Jim Aton, 9. The third and final race of the series was presumably sailed on March 28. Mumm’s the word: The 1992 Cham¬ pagne Mumm World Cup resumes next month with the Corum China Sea Series, which starts on April 11 in Hong Kong and ends two weeks later in Manila. This is the second of four events which comprise this now-annual event: the Southern Cross Series has already occurred, while the Japan Cup
(May) and Kenwood Cup (August) are fur¬ ther down the road. Any IMS or IOR yacht that meets certain nationality requirements can race, though only the top three boats from each country can score points. Next year, the CMWC will occur at a to-be^ announced site on the East Coast of the US; followed by a regatta in Kiel, Germany; the Admiral’s Cup in England; and a finale in the Med. Northern exposure: The fourth annual North Bay Series will once again stick with a 9-race, 3-weekend format. Specifically, the racing will occur on April 25-26 (Benicia YC), June 20-21 (Vallejo YQ) and August 15-16 (Martinez YC). The entry fee for the whole series is $50, while individual week¬ end fees are $20. "We encourage people sailing through on their way to or from the Delta to join the fun," said Kathy Folsom, who can be reached at (510) 228-4656 for details. Equal time: the South Bay YRA Sum¬ mer Series kicks off on April 18 with a Coyote Point YC-hosted race, followed by a free beer bash. This year’s series, open to any boat with a valid PHRF certificate, consists of 7 races hosted by seven different South Bay yacht clubs. You certainly can’t beat the cost — $7 for the whole series (vs. $120 for 'regular' YRA)! Call Mike Dixon at (510) 635-5878 for all the details. Olympic grants: The San Francisco Bay Sailing Association (SFBSA) is alive and well, and contributing funds to our local sailors gunning for Olympic berths. Despite increased competition for donations (four of the major yacht clubs — St. Francis, San Francisco, Richmond and Encinal — now have their own charitable foundations) and losing Volvo as their major yearly bene¬ factor, SFBSA continues to provide financial assistance to local amateur sailors. Currently, they are supporting the following Olympic campaigns: Morgan Larson and Paul Kerner (470), Bryant and Brady Sih (470), Jennifer Fisher (crew for Jackie Gollison, Women’s 470), John Kos¬ tecki (Star), Ted Huang (Lechner Sailboard), Allison Rowe (Europe Dinghy), Rebecca Harris (Europe Dinghy), Chris Kostanecki (Tornado), Jeff Madrigali (Soling, with Chris Perkins and Jim Barton), Trevor Gleadhill (Finn) and Pam Healy (crew for J.J. Isler, Women’s 470). "These young people need and deserve our support, especially now with the Olympic Trials only a month or so away," said SFBSA stalwart Bill Claussen. If you’re inclined to donate money (or boats) to the cause, contact SFBSA president Harris Lavine at
(510) 237-6180. House of Usher: Tracy Usher and crew Tim Cordrey came from behind in the stretch to win this year’s Perry Cup, tying with Pat Bradley but winning on the tie-breaker. The Cup, the annual midwinter series for Mercury dinghies, is probably the most hotly con¬ tested contest in Monterey during the off¬ season. Between 12-15 Mercuries showed up for each of the 10 races in the series, with the following results: 1) Vandal, Usher/Cordrey, 19.25 points; 2) Old Buzzard, Pat & Bren¬ dan Bradley, 19.25; 3) Christmas Pudding,. Jack & Patti McAleer/ Brendan Richards; 4) Exterminator, Doug Baird/Steve Becker/ Howie Marion, 28.75; 5) Ernie, Dick Clark/ Judy & Patrick Whitmarsh/ Brent Harrill, 30. (19 boats) Pebblestar circuit: The Cardinal Invit¬ ational, a collegiate-style dinghy regatta for California high school sailing teams, was contested at Stanford on March 21-22. Southern California teams dominated the event; in fact, the only two NorCal teams (Danville and Redwood High) ended up in the cheap seats. Corona Del Mar ran away with the regatta, and looks to the favorite for this High School PCCs coming up in San Diego later this spring. The results: 1) Corona Del Mar, 56 points; 2) Univ. of San Diego H.S., 98; 3) Newport Harbor 'A', 111; 4) Torrey Pines, 112; 5) Point Loma, 146; 6) Cate, 146; 7) Coronado, 153; 8) Newport Harbor 'B', 158; 9) Bishop, 187; 10) Francis Parker, 206; 11) Danville, 239; 12) Red¬ wood, 282. (12 teams) Big Blue comes through: It’s official! IBM has signed on to replace Audi as the title sponsor of the San Francisco NOOD Regatta on September 4-7. The blue chip behemoth will also sponsor the three other Sailing World NOOD regattas (Newport, RI, Chicago and Galveston), as well as be an associate sponsor for six Yachting regattas (San Diego, Block Island, Whidbey Island, Solomons Island, Key West and one more to be announced). Kicks just keep getting harder to find: On September 26,1992, ten identical 67-ft steel yachts, all staffed by amateur sailors who chipped in $28,000 each, will embark on the British Steel Challenge, a race around the world the 'wrong way'. The brainchild (or possibly brain tumor) of singlehanded sailor Chay Blyth, the grueling event begins and ends in Southampton, England, with three stops in between: Rio de Janeiro, Tasmania and Mauritius (Africa). Hood Sailmakers, long known for building durable sails, will supply the fleet with identical inventories. If you’re interested in racing upwind around the world, we recommend you have a ser¬ ious chat with a shrink. If he can’t talk you out of it, call any Hood loft for more info. page 178
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With reports this month about a six-pear cruise from Morro Bay to Turkey and back; a firsthand account of raising a child at sea; a long piece on sailing from Maine to Southern California; quick Impressions of various ports along the East Coast; thoughts on returning to Alameda after ten years of cruising; and lots and lots of cruise notes.
Denali — Yorktown 39 Chris & Darlene Buckley & Kids To Trabzon Turkey And Back (Morro Bay) We just returned to our home port of Morro Bay following our third cruise, which was a six-year, 30,000-mile, 26-country sojourn. It took us as far as Trabzon on the Turkish side of the Black Sea, and gave us good looks at the Med, the Atlantic and the Caribbean. I should say that we are physically back in Morro Bay, as mentally and emotionally we’re still 'out there'. We’ve been busy the last few months, making some changes and trying to settle down, but as the boat work nears completion, the Pacific begins to beckon. Thanks to the West Marine catalog and U.P.S., we don’t have to venture far from Morro Bay for our supplies. The main modification we’ve made to our homecompleted Yorktown is the addition of a hard dodger. I think it was the 3,000-mile sail to windward from Panama that convinced us of the need for it. We’ll have a new mainsail and staysail built before we leave and carry them as
Chris and Shandy, father and child, enjoy Mother Ocean together.
spares. Our three Odyssey headsails (100%, 110% and 180%) still have another 30,000 miles in them, so this wasn’t the time to add
roller furling. We still don’t want a complex refrigeration system, which is why we’re sticking with our R.V.-type propane system. It works well as long as we’re not sailing too hard on the wind, at which time we have to turn it off and live without ice cubes. We may add a small water-maker, however, as once or twice we have had t<? pay more than 50 cents/gal. for fresh water in the Bahamas. And with two small children aboard, our 120 gallons only lasts us four to six weeks. Most of the changes to our boat were made when we returned from a five-week trip to Cabo San Lucas in 1983. Following that first trip — which began just two years after I started building the boat — we re¬ rigged her as a cutter with a much taller mast and much heavier rigging and sails. Since then we haven’t had any problems with the rig. In fact, the only piece of equipment that has failed to perform to expectations has been our Zodiac inflatable — and even that lasted for two years. Then it turned to doodoo and got flushed down a dumpster in Gibraltar. We now carry a 10-foot fiberglass sailing dink and a 10-foot Avon inflatable. Our second trip, after the re-rig, took us up to the Pacific Northwest in the summer of 1984. It was a good test of our new rig and gave us the experience we felt we needed to handle heavy weather. Conception, Mendocino, Blanco, St. George — these points were ideal classrooms from which to learn about the boat and ourselves. They quickly took us through a graduate level of study, and, as we now know, prepared us for 90% of the worst weather out there. After that summer trip, we knew it was in our blood to take off again. How different from our first trip down to Cabo! Our most recent trip, which started in the spring of 1985, got off to a shaky start when we found out—just four days before leaving — that Darlene had fallen pregnant. That’s got to be the sneakiest way to stowaway! We didn’t get a first-hand glimpse of the new deckhand until we reached Costa Rica, as she stayed in her 'berth' and missed seeing the hot spots like Manzanillo and Z-town. Shandy, our little girl, finally signed in the log book at San Jose, Costa Rica, joining our dog, Sophie, as permanent crew. We transited the Canal two days after,
Christmas 1985. For the next three months we stayed in Panama, visiting with Mike Starbuck and getting to know the San Bias Islands — which next to Turkey, has been our favorite spot to date. Then it was up the west side of the Caribbean, carefully timing the northers to make sure we’d have easy trips. The Bay Islands and the offshore reefs of Belize are the attraction for serious cruisers. The people are friendly, the water is clear and the sea is full of life. You can go for days without seeing another boat. We finally ran low of supplies at Glovers Reef and decided to try our luck crossing the bar into the Rio Dulce of Guatemala. It was an interesting experience. The controlling depth of the bar is about 6 feet 3 inches during high spring tides, which occur every 28 days. Our Yorktown draws 7 feet. It took us 30 minutes to plough a 9-inch deep groove 100 feet through the bar to deeper .
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water. That was the easy part. A month later on the way out, it took more than two hours. The river flow causes a build-up of sand in front of the keel on the way out, thus you have to keep veering from side to side to avoid running over your private sand bar. By June we were in River Bend Marina, Fort Lauderdale, getting ready to head off on our first blue-water crossing. Maryanne Aspinall, our Costa Rican friend who had joined us in Guatemala, crewed for us across the Atlantic. Crossing the Atlantic is easy — once you understand the relationship between the isobar spacing and wind velocity. If you get into the Bermuda-Azores high, there are no isobars and therefore no wind. But if you go too far north, where the isobars are almost stacked on top of each other, hold onto your socks, damn the icebergs and full speed ahead, because you can make 180-mile days
with just a reefed staysail. Keeping the barometer between 1012 and 1016 millibars after leaving Bermuda, we had a very good sail. Four days out, however, we responded to a distress call for a sailboat in trouble 20 north of our position. It was only 120 miles north of what we considered to be the ideal barometric gradient, but for the next five days we struggled with gale conditions as the barometer fluctuated between 970 and 990 millibars. Instead of 15 knots over the deck, we had between 35 and 45 knots. We gave up the search after five days, and headed south, watching the barometer climb back into the low 1000s — and the wind drop back into the comfort zone. We then learned that the boat we had been looking for was okay; if fact, she arrived in the Azores 14 days after we did. It had been a false alarm as the singlehander was simply a heavy sleeper. Later that year I built a weatherfax using /
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an Atari computer and my Ham radio. It quickly became our favorite piece of equipment and we studied the weather like fanatics. Just say ’weatherfax1 and I’m all ears. Next to health and you-know-what, it’s the most important thing out there. Our European adventure lasted 2xh years. Shandy celebrated her first birthday at Pt. Sagres, Portugal, her second on the Ionian Sea, and her* third in Amasra, Turkey. Contrary to popular belief, we found that you can comfortably cruise the Med 10 months out of the year. You do not need to start looking for a slip in September or October, as the sailing is still fine and there are plenty of places left in which to hole up when the time comes. We spent the winter of ’86-’87 in Gibraltar and Estepona, and the following winter at Poros, Greece, tied second-boat-out at the quay. Another misconception about Med sailing is that "the wind either doesn’t blow, blows too hard, or is always on-the-nose".
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Certainly the wind can blow strongly from any direction at almost any time, but again, the weatherfax and maritime nets are your best friends in avoiding unpleasant conditions. We planned our sailing around the weather systems. Why, for instance, try to sail against a melteml, which is what they call Aegean northers? It’s much easier to sail south to Crete, then catch a southerly Sirocco out of Africa. Cruising in the Med is unique because of the historical aspect of every port-of-call and because of the variety of people you meet from other countries. Turkey, because of the genuine hospitality of the people, was our favorite. We spent three months in the Black Sea and wish it could have been longer. We knew that Darlene was pregnant again in October of 1988, and it was time to plan ahead. The question: Is it easier to cross the Atlantic with a pregnant first-mate or with a 10-month old baby? Shandy was 3years old by this time, a very good sailor, and no work for us. So we left Marmaris, Turkey at the end of October and arrived in Gibraltar at the end of November. The wind was almost consistently Force 6,7 or 8 from the east during that trip, with thunderstorms and rain. We stopped briefly at Malta —
Maritime Mother: Darlene Buckley was twice pregnant while cruising aboard 'Denali1.
there was a 48-hour limit because we had a dog — Tunisia and several Spanish ports. Gibraltar is where most people prepare
for their Atlantic crossing: hauling out, making repairs, painting bottoms, provisioning — in general spending lots of money. Virtually everything you think you need is available or can be ordered through Sheppards. A discount is given for large orders at both the large grocery stores and they will deliver to the mar(ina. Many shops sell duty-free alcohol, cheese and other items. Gibraltar was fun, too: a fascinating mixture of British pomp and .circumstance, Spanish passion and Morocban ethnicity. We especially enjoyed the Changing of the Guard in front of the Governor’s Residence and a concert in St. Michael’s cave by the Queen’s Own Regiment military band. The 'rock' of Gibraltar is not solid, but is riddled with caves and excavated tunnels between gun emplacements, barracks, hospitals and water cisterns — all to defend this ancient outpost of the British Empire. Shandy still fondly remembers Christmas at the quay in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Santa Claus came in a boat and gave presents to all the children in the marina and arranged a party for them. The harbor was full of vessels of every nationality making final preparations for the long voyage to the West Indies. Everyone watched the weather reports and endlessly discussed their 'game plans'. We sailed on to Tenerife when there was a slight break in the weather to await the cosmically appropriate time to leave. Finally the wind swung around to the northeast and we were off. And none too soon, as it was already January 3 and we figured the baby was due at the end of April. A westbound Atlantic passage is the greatest! It’s warm, it’s terrific off-the-wind sailing, it’s three weeks of watching your noon positions creep closer to the "islands in the sun" while you chase the sunset eating fresh fish. We never sail dead downwind, even when none of the crew are in the third trimester. You roll too much. We’d usually sail with either a deeply reefed main and small headsail; if the wind picked up to over 20 knots over the deck, we’d go with a storm trysail and staysail. We tended to stay 30° off the wind, and would jibe every couple of days to keep recrossing the Great Circle track. Once again, our weatherfax would give us ample warning of eastern waves forming over Africa, and we could anticipate the 45° windshifts with plenty of warning. Apart from a close encounter with a Greek bulk-carrier
500 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, our crossing was uneventful. We would spot ship traffic about once every two days, even though we were out of the shipping lanes. Like the man says, it’s dangerous out there. Even in the middle of the Atlantic you need to keep a watch 100% of the time. [To be continued next month] — the bucklers 3/92 Life Is So Much Better At Sea Beau Soleil — Dickerson 41 Mike, Karen And Falcon Riley (Coronado) I finally found time to sit down and write to you. Being a Mom is a full time job! I never realized what an easy life I had at sea until I tried living with in a house with a 3year old. Horrors! Those moms who want to go sailing with their kids should by all means do it because it’s so easy. A boat is rnade for a young child. What a safe playpen down below! The lockers and drawers are already child-proofed and things can’t be knocked off table-tops because they are bolted in place or put away. Inevitable page 184
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spills aren’t a problem either. Just wipe them up as boats are used to water. Things can get lost on any boat, and I’m sure a child can help lose things. When we were circumnavigating, we’d never blame anyone but the "Bilge Monster" if any item went missing. Tola’s bilge was easy to retrieve items from because she was a little Columbia 24; I have this sneaky oily feeling that the bilge on our new boat, the 41-foot Beau Solell will be another story. Feeding time for a baby presents no problem aboard, especially for mothers who breast-feed. (And I hope all mothers who can, do. Women who have breast-fed at least nine months have zero chance of getting breast cancer — or so they told us in Europe. Use ’em or lose ’em, it makes sense to me.) ' Just as an adult’s appetite is better on a boat, so is a child’s. Falcon never went through a spit-out-the-food stage. He gobbled up everything in sight — which usually included parts of his parent’s meais. lllillllilt i
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play with. The family finally becomes a team, where all the players know their roles. There Is no room on a boat for those who won’t carry their own weight, and this includes children as well. Falcon knows he must keep his berth tidy and help us get the boat shipshape when we’re preparing to sail. Falcon learned how to walk upon a moving boat. The area he could use was confined, yet very safe. How handy it was to have all the seats in the salon surround his ’walkable' area. His crawling was more a roll with the motion of the boat, and quite hilarious at times! But now at three years, his sense of balance is amazing. The sea changes everyone, and you couldn’t ask for a better teacher. The best part of sailing with your child is having his Dad with him. How many children get to see their fathers being men? Dads at home being dads, yes. But what about men at their work, being leaders, or being who they really are during the working day? That’s rare. And it was a bit easier for me having Mike with me all the time. I still ended up doing most of the baby care, but he did wash his share of the diapers — if dragging them behind the boat and bleaching them in the
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Children like motion. Sometimes mothers have to take their babies for a ride in the car to get them to go to sleep on difficult days. On a boat, even at anchor, there is enough motion to put babies to sleep. Pounding to windward never bothered Falcon, either. We put him in the lee berth, and as long as he could see us in the cockpit he was fine. I never confined Falcon to a car seat, but just surrounded him with pillows, blankets and sail bags. At four months old, when Tola crossed the Atlantic, he would be playing with a toy with one hand, holding on to the boat with another, and have both feet braced against the lee board. We had lee boards instead of lee cloths so we could get in and out easier. That’s important with a baby; we moms do a lot of getting up in the middle of the night. I never minded getting up at night to tend to Falcon, as I was so used to it from the watch system. And at sea there was always someone awake for Falcon to play with. The sea teaches patience, and children as well as adults acquire this quality. A child will learn very quickly what they can and cannot /
Falcon was never confined to a car seat, but rather was surrounded with pillows, blankets and sail bags. He wants to move back aboard.
sun can be called washing! It did get them white. Falcon never did get diaper rash from his salt water diapers; I think it was because
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washing them was so easy that we — I should say T — changed them more often than we otherwise would have. Pampers, which we used ashore, were so expensive that we tended to leave them on longer. We were always careful to keep Falcon harnessed to the boat and, as he grew older he encouraged us to wear ours. "Let’s be twins, Mommy," he would say. In the dinghy we always made him wear his life-jacket, and since he always wore it, he never complained about having to put it on. At sea we had the time and leisure to read to Falcon as much as he and we wanted. As a result, at 3-years he now reads to himself for hours on end and still prefers it to television. He doesn’t have much time for TV, as he would much rather be outside playing with his dinghy (on the grass!), riding his bike, or playing in his sandbox. Now that we are living ashore, I realize even more how nice it was on the boat. I could do all the housework in 10 minutes, my man stayed home with me instead of going off to work everyday, and I traveled to romantic ports all around the world. Oh, how much fun we had! Nowadays, Falcon looks at me three or four times a week with his big beautiful eyes and says, "Please Mommy, can we go live on Beau Soleil today?" Oh, how 1 wish it could be. 1 tell him and myself that it won’t be much longer until the boat is ready and we’ll be back aboard again. Life is so much better at sea, 1 love it so much. And, oh how sweet it is! — karen 8191
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Wizard — Bowman 57 John Carter & Chris 'Kiwi' Cole Maine To Southern California (Long Beach) Thanks for featuring a shot of our Bowman 57 Wizard in the February issue, the one where she was under sail at the 1989 Antigua Sail Week. We’re just catching up on
who is now living a life of Saturdays cruising Mexico. v Because we liveaboard and both still need to work to keep up with the mortgage, the passage was a delivery rather than a cruise. My wife was the skipper, cracking the whip over the hard-working crew 24 hours a day. Our insurance policy required we have a minimum of four crew, and with their help Wizard arrived in Long Beach on January 5. We actually made the trip in 60 sailing days, as we spent nearly a month in Miami getting the documentation sorted out before heading offshore. While it was a delivery trip, it was also quite an adventure. There was marginal weather, spectacular scenery, mechanical breakdowns, unexpected crew changes, the
old reading material because my wife and I have been busy relocating Wizard, which we bought on October 4 of last year in Maine, to the West Coast. We’d sold our Valiant 40 Valere to a friend who had won $3.5 million in the California lottery two years ago, and
wreckage of a Haitian refugee boat, rescues at sea, local politics — and absolutely thrilling passages with unanticipated speed from a 12-year old, 35-ton CCA style English cruiser. Credit for the success of this part of our
Readers — It’s very likely the Rileys are living back aboard again, as we’ve had this Changes since last fall.
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cruising life goes largely to my wife, 'Kiwi'I Cole, whom many readers might know through her role as Senior Stewardess aboard the Catalina Express. She’s the cute 5-foot, 100-lb blonde package of dynamite from New Zealand who serves you drinks aboard the Express on your way back from Avalon after the Oakland to Catalina Race. She spends four days a week at sea, and arrived in this country after cruising the South Pacific for 10 years, so this was really a busperson’s holiday for her. Kiwi was aboard for two-thirds of the trip, and did a spectacular job of being chief skipper and getting Wizard to California safely. She was, of course, assisted by many fine crew members and friends. Although the delivery wasn’t always pleasant, each person deserves credit for a job well done. Special thanks go to Beth Privett, a very special crew member who normally works the Caribbean charter trade aboard Natasha. Beth was the only person who made the entire 7,200-mile trip, as the rest of us rotated legs as jobs and other commitments permitted. Not only did Beth do a fine job of page 186
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navigating, standing watch, mechanical repairs, and all around seamanship, but she also managed all of the galley chores. In fact, none of us was even allowed in her galley except to raid the fridge for drinks, her always-available snacks and "mood improvers". Whoever says that the English can’t cook has never tasted Beth’s cooking. Perhaps it’s because she spent a part of her 25 years in the South of France and Italy, but we can truthfully say that none of us has ever enjoyed such remarkably good and varied cooking at sea. Beth’s first task at dawn was to stand on the afterdeck and pay out the handline and meathook. She’d then dance a whirling jig on tip-toe, calling out "Fish! Fish! Fish! Heeeeeere Fish! Fish! Fish!" jn her English accent. Her magic spell was effective nine days out of 10, and there was never a shortage of fresh fish on Wizard. During our trip through the Windward Passage, which was marked by 35-knot breezes and 8 to 10-foot seas, a USCG C130 buzzed us and asked for our assistance investigating the nearby wreckage of a small page 187
boat some Haitian refugees had tried to sail to freedom. It was Beth, as usual, who shinnied 68 feet up the mast — without benefit of a bosun’s chair — to act as a lookout as our GPS helped us home in on the reported wreckage. And it was Beth who first spotted what we all hoped was an arm waving from the sea. The arm turned out to be a tiller bobbing at the stern of the 17-foot open rowboat which was awash to the gun’ls. The boat had a tree limb for a mast and tattered bedsheets for sails. There were peeled tubers and empty water jugs floating away from the wreckage like the crumbs left behind by Hansel and Gretel. But there was no sign of human life. As Beth mournfully descended from the mast, all of us experienced sincere empathy for the agony those poor refugees must have experienced before they died. It was the only time during the voyage that any of us ever saw Beth less than cheerful. The pall of grief hung over Wizard for several days, and only began to lift when Kiwi wisely decided to call a halt to the "forced march" long enough for us to attend a delightful
reggae party at the Royal Jamaican YC. Beth baked fresh bread, cakes and cookies every day without fail until Panama, where one of our skippers, Steve 'Ever Quotable' Steiner shut off the propane in a desperate attempt to beat the tropical heat. Beth took the insult well, and we were all secretly glad that wisdom prevailed and Beth didn’t poison poor Steve. Steiner left Wizard in Puerto Vallarta in order to make it home in time to practice for this year’s Congressional Cup, but not before consuming substantial quantities of Beth’s famous English Christmas Cake. This was a baked concoction, mind you, but somewhere along the way the recipe for the Christmas cake — which was first baked at Thanksgiving in Jamaica — called for no less than four quarts of fine Jamaican rum, a quart of brandy, and God-knows-what-else. We met our old pal aboard Valere on Christmas Day in Puerto Vallarta, and celebrated our mutual good fortunes by consuming the Christmas cake during cocktail hour. The last time we saw Steiner, he was staggering in the general direction of the airport, mumbling something about the necessity of getting Beth’s recipe. I first knew that Beth was someone special off Cape Hatteras at 0300. Wizard’s anemometer stops at 60 knots, and it had been mostly pegged for four hours. We were motorsailing with the Perkins at 1200 rpm and carrying a doubled-reefed jib and jigger. The 35-ton Wizard took a knockdown that put her masthead in the water! Those crew who had been strapped in their bunks were tossed onto the floorboards and into bulkheads. It was so bad that the GPS actually showed us having lost a mile and a half during the hour before the knockdown. We were all feeling a little discouraged until Beth announced "soup’s on!" and started passing steaming mugs of fresh fish chowder and cups of fine Chardonnay to all hands. She had obviously been cooking during the knockdown. How she managed to keep that stew pot from ending up in the bilges is beyond me. A minute later, fresh-baked bread followed the stew up from the galley.
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s. down and proceeding on to Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina for much-needed drying out. The Panama Canal transit was fascinating, and made enjoyable mostly by the wonderful friendship of the Panamanians. That nation has a tough row to hoe economically, and the people seem to be doing a remarkably cheerful job of coping with a difficult situation. We arrived at Colon two hours too late to be admeasured after a miserable trip from Jamaica, and thus had to sit at the yacht club for a week due to the intervening Panamanian Mother’s Day holidays. We had been warned about leaving the yacht club grounds because the population of Colon is so desperately poor that crime is rampant. It’s with pleasure that we can report that such warnings don’t really apply to tourists who are courteous, considerate of local customs, and who use common sense about displaying wealth in a desperate land. We always walked in groups | §
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of at least two and never wore jewelry or expensive clothing. We had a wonderful time exploring Colon and Porto Bello.
We rented a Hertz car from an extremely helpful local agent, who visibly paled when we pointed out the .45-caliber bullet hole in the right rear door. We spent the week getting to know Panama from the local point of view. Trips to the locks were highlighted by delightful meals and cocktails at the Tarpon Club, and skipper Steve Steiner stunned us all and wowed the Panamanian crowd on Saturday night at the yacht club with his keyboard skills. Steve got a standing ovation from the Panamanians for a reggae rendition, and since we were with him, broke the ice for us in terms of making Panamanian friends. We found that without exception, the locals we met were glad that Noriega was gone, and grateful for Uncle Sam’s help in shedding that burden. Many were saddened by the loss of life in the skirmish, but acknowledged that the victory was mostly worth the cost. The trip through the Canal was an adventure all its own. We had the great good fortune to be assigned a 26-year old pilot trainee by the name of Tomas. He spoke excellent English and really knew his stuff in terms of Canal seamanship and boat handling. He gave us some terrific Panamanian history lessons, let us take the 'Banana Cut', enjoyed Beth’s fine lunch and kept us entertained for the entire trip. He pointed out a very large cayman — now I know why nobody swims in Gatun Lake — and shared the aspirations he had for himself and his country. He had a right to be proud of himself, and if he typifies his country’s spirit, they have a decent chance of faring well into the next century. Although Wizard could have made the trip in one day, we anchored in Gatun Lake overnight because we were not allowed to lock down with vessels containing hazardous cargoes, and only tankers were scheduled for that day. Tomas returned the next morning, and we completed the journey only to find that Tomas insisted on picking us up at Balboa YC in his own car so that he could hand-walk us through Customs and the local clearance procedures. He gave us an unparalleled motor tour through his home town, affording us the opportunity to see and understand the beauty of Panama — only a few cruisers get to experience. The following day was Tomas’ Saturday, which he insisted on spending by chauffeuring me to the airport and again escorting me through Customs so I could fly home to El Lay to tend the biz fires. What a guy! I only hope
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there is some way we can repay the hospitality. Considering that the total fee for big old Wizard’s transit was $195 US, it seemed like the bargain of the century. On a related note, I’m sorry to report the shabby behavior of a fellow American yachtie, in the hope that others will take a cue. The smaller sloop that locked through with us was clearly on a much tighter budget than Wizard, and borrowed two of our Panamanian line handlers. These kids get $40 each for the trip, a fee Wizard gladly paid, and happened to be the sons of the Port Captain at Colon. The teenage boys were very polite, clean cut, respectful, and knew what they were doing. They stayed onboard the smaller sloop overnight in Gatun Lake. The next morning we were horrified to learn from a Panamanian guest aboard Wizard that the boys hadn’t been offered either food or water for the entire transit! We did what we could to send over contributions from Beth’s galley, but we all felt like smacking that American skipper for his lack of hospitality. We paid the small fees directly to the boys’ father, knowing full well that most of it would go to support the entire family in these hard times. And we were glad that we could help page 188
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Most Panamanians are wonderful and friendly people. But right now they face desperate poverty.
in some small way. It would have been much better if our fellow cruiser had at least offered to share his lunch with the boys, which he reportedly did not do. We cruisers do not need this kind of reputation. Shame, shame. From Panama, Wizard sped northwest, doing seven countries in seven days, mostly right up the beach. Kiwi wisely elected to stay inshore when crossing the Gulf of Tehuantepec, avoiding the fury of the Pec’ers. Her first stop was in Puerto Madero, Mexico, which was the only place during the entire trip where we found diesel exorbitantly expensive: $2 U.S. a gallon. From there the boat continued on to Z-town and Puerto Vallarta for Christmas Day. Wizard stopped for fuel in Cabo, and as luck would have it, picked up the back side of one of our winter Pacific storms and rode southerlies to Turtle Bay. Just for safety’s sake, we stopped at Turtle to top off the tanks, and had a record turnaround time. Wizard took on 100 gallons of very clean fuel in just 35 minutes — during a rain squall. We paid for the fuel then tipped the extremely
polite and helpful young attendant. The quick fueling allowed us to quickly rejoin the southerly, which enabled us to complete the Cabo to Long Beach leg in just 4 Vi days! Because she didn’t want to lose the advantage of following winds, Kiwi elected to bypass Customs in San Diego and clear in at Long Beach. Although Long Beach deals with commercial traffic and were a little nonplussed by a yacht, the Customs people were extremely pleasant and helpful, and seemed genuinely glad to be doing their jobs. This is in dramatic contrast to the reception we’ve usually gotten from their counterparts in San Diego. Unless absolutely necessary, I think we’ll skip clearing in at San Diego from now on in favor of continuing on to Long Beach. For the short term, Wizard will be cruising the western United States, with an emphasis on the Channel Islands and San Francisco Bay. We are members of Los Angeles and San Luis yacht clubs (I grew up in Morro Bay sailing alongside the likes of Pat’s legendary father Howie O’Daniels and Dev Devlin), and as I expand my hazardous waste containment business around the Pacific Rim, hope Wizard will proudly fly those burgees through the South Pacific and
Dianthus — Pearson 385 Dianne & Bill Sweet Florida, East Coast, Bahamas (Tahoe / Alameda) We trucked our Pearson 385 Dianthus — named after the flower — to Pensacola in March of 1990. We then cruised the Florida Gulf Coast and Keys, all of the East Coast to Maine and back, and then the Bahamas. After flying back to California for a couple of months, we returned to Florida last fall to prepare to sail to the Bahamas, Virgins, Leewards, Windwards and Venezuela. Unfortunately, there have been some deaths in our families, so our plans have temporarily been put on hold. Here are some thoughts on the places we’ve been and seen during 14 months and 7,000 miles of cruising: Florida Panhandle: Gorgeous white sand beaches and very friendly folks. Florida Keys: Good snorkeling but not many protected anchorages for non-shoal draft boats. We draw six feet. Kennedy Space Center: A must! They have great tours, displays and fantastic movies of the shuttle trips. We’ve been fortunate enough to witness three launches. IntraCoastal Waterway & Its Wildlife: Some say the ICW is boring — which is true in Florida — but many spots are lovely and tranquil. Birds and dolphins
it's hard to believe, but dolphins thrive in the IntraCoastal Waterway.
abound. When the weather permitted, however, we sailed back 'outside' on the Atlantic.
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Savannah & Charleston: Wonderful architecture and lots of charm. Hurricane Hugo did a number on the vegetation in Charleston, but the devastation just to the north is awesome. Chesapeake: We thoroughly enjoyed this area and went everywhere — even up the Potomac to Washington, D.C., where a number of foreign boats were anchored. It was only a 15 minute walk from the anchorage to the Smithsonian. New York: We anchored behind Ellis Island, with the Statue of Liberty off our stern and the Manhattan skyline off our bow. Quite a thrill for a California boat! Block Island / Nantucket / Martha’s Vineyard / Newport. All of New England is expensive! Block Island, which looks like Mendocino, was great for bicycling. Newport has tons of boats and is still a neat town. Nantucket is loaded with charm — the whaling museum is terrific — but the moorings are $40 a night! Martha’s Vineyard is pretty, but was our least favorite. Many of the anchorages in this region are now filled with moorings, so anchoring with room to swing is a real challenge. And since many of the moorings are private, who knows what’s holding them to the bottom? Maine: This coast has great anchorages, is uncrowded and has lovely scenery — when you can see it. Boy, do they have pea soup fog! We’re glad we had radar. Naturally the lobster and scallops were fabulous. Nonetheless, the Pacific Northwest has prettier views, with the Cascades and Olympic Mountains in the background — when it’s not raining. Bahamas: There are lots of boats in the Bahamas, but it doesn’t feel crowded. Northers do come through in the winter, and we thought it was better to be down in the Exumas rather than the Abacos, where so many people spend December thru April. The water in the Exumas is gorgeous, but Bahamian water doesn’t get up to the 80s until late spring. The snorkeling, fishing and shelling are great. Some of the outer islands, such as Cat and Eleuthera, are quite different and the people seem friendlier. There is lots of coral in places, but we had no problem. Dead reckoning is a must, however, as the charts for the Bahamas aren’t always accurate. The coral islands are relatively flat, with the highest peak being only 206 feet! The air and water temperatures are nearly perfect toward late April, and next time we’ll stay into early
summer. Cruising has been most enlightening. We’ve made wonderful new friends, have seen some interesting new sights (and insights), had some damn frustrating moments (I now know more about diesel engines than I ever wished!) and made the major adjustments necessary to live in a 38foot 'house'. All in all, it’s been a real adventure and a time of personal enrichment. You mentioned some interest in Sterling Hayden’s Wanderer. She was the San Francisco Pilot Schooner Grade S. for many years. Bill’s sister, Shirley Sweet Stanton, was onboard as cook/tutor when Hayden took his kids, Spike and Red Africa, and their children, out the Gate, turned left and headed to Tahiti. Shirley has lots of stories. Incidentally, Bill has sailed and raced on the Bay since the '50s. He crewed for Ray Demere on the beautiful Ocean Queen (a 55-ft yawl out of the St. Francis YC) and Jim Michael’s one and only 72-ft yawl Baruna through the '60s. We moved to Tahoe in 72, and since then we’ve sailed the Bay less frequently. If you want flukey winds, try Tahoe! We love Latitude with its humor and
irreverent attitude, and have shared past issues with East Coast friends. You’d be surprised at how few people back there realize that it really blows on San Francisco Bay. I must say, however, that sailing in warm weather beats the hell out of summer days in Northern California! — dianne & bill 2/5/92 Martha Rose — 37-foot Motorsailor Dean, Kopl and Fritz Carmine Alameda (Seattle) We’d like our friends to know that we are back in the Bay Area again, cruising the fast lane out of Alameda. Yes, jobs, a berth, insurance, a car, a phone and all the rest. We hadn’t realized how long it had been since we’ve had some of these things: 11 years since we had a phone; nine years since we had a car, 10 years since we lived in a marina. So we’re having to make many cultural adjustments. For those folks who don’t know us, we’ve been sailing for about 20 years now. We started with an old flush-deck Islander 32, which we sailed to Mexico in 1973, then to the Marquesas for six months, then up to Hawaii for a year and finally back to the Bay Area. After our son was born, we bought the double-ended powerboat Venetla and page 190
IN LATITUDES Dick and BJ Deaver, seen here reading a 'Latitude 38' during gale conditions atop Australia's famous Ayer's Rock, report they have | interrupted their world cruise in Mooloolaba, | Australia and are enjoying the ‘North Island1 — as the Tasmanians call it — until BJ gets another two-year leave from United Air Lines. Their plans for '92 include a three-month visit to the Solomons, Louisades and back to Mooloolaba. “Even though this may be the best stopover place in Australia,' writes Dick, who for years was one of the top racing skippers in the world, 'we miss cruising a lot. It's been a perfect '10‘ so far, and we long to be back out again. The spread shot is of their 'Outa Here' at an earlier Sea of Cortez Race Week.
headed up to the Pacific Northwest. Dean did some logging and worked on some ferries while I put in some time as an assistant harbormaster. It was in 1983 that we sold our car and headed for Alaska. In 1984 we returned to the Bay Area and lived in Paradise Cay for a year. As you can tell, we’re pretty restless people. After a difficult year in which Dean’s dad died, we decided to go to Mexico for a year — and ended up staying four years. We spent most of our time around Puerto Escondido, where Dean worked for The Moorings as a charter skipper. We travelled as far north as Bahia de Los Angeles and as far south as Acapulco. But even four years wasn’t enough to see it all. We were surprised at the number of people — about 10 — whom we’d known from Mexico in 1973 and who had either stayed there or come back again. Baja has changed quite a bit because of the TransPeninsular Highway. Twenty years ago they used small freighters to supply the villages and towns of the Sea of Cortez. The greatest change of all, however, is with the cruisers. In the early 70s, cruisers were either very rich or deadbeats. But with the advent of GPS, water-makers, boat airconditioners and the like, the cruising life is much easier and safer. So now everybody page 191
goes cruising. What kept us in Mexico for an extra three years? It’s very nice, it’s very relaxed, and it’s very humanitarian in the sense that Mexicans put greater value in friendship than money. But that’s not to say Mexico doesn’t have problems. Once we met a very wealthy Mexican businessman who must have been about 50. He told us it was a mystery to him how Mexico kept running. We know what he means. Except for two events, our trip back up the coast from Baja was uneventful. First, we were blown off a steep-to anchorage at the north end of Cedros Island by some incredibly gusty afternoon wllllwaws that funneled down the arroyo we anchored off. Fortunately, we only had to re-anchor once, and fortunately my sixteen-year-old son, Fritz, had such an adrenalin rush that between us we got the anchor up in record time. The second event was more a matter of patience than excitement: Waiting inside Morro Bay for three weeks for the sea conditions to settle down. Each time we got ready to leave, a 50-foot powerboat or something would come in with their galley having been tom off the bulkhead due to huge seas. We’d look at each other and say,
Restless souls Dean and Kopi Carmine have roots — a phone, slip and car — in the Bay Area again.
"Naaaw, let’s wait for better conditions.” At one point I remember thinking "Gee, Morro Bay is a nice place, maybe we should settle
down here." But eventually we got out and had following winds and seas all the way to San Francisco. Patience is a virtue. Just weeks after arriving back in the Bay, Dean answered a Help Wanted ad for Edinger Marine Service and was almost instantly hired. He set up an Alameda branch to work on boat engines. Since he was initially the only diesel mechanic they had in Alameda, he was a busy guy, what with having to set up the office and all. Now Edinger has Dave Williams as a second technician — and me as office manager. Our son has his own job — getting through high school. Considering that he has to make the adjustment from four years of correspondence school to a big city high school, he’s having to make the biggest acclimation. We’re very proud of Fritz’s efforts and successes. We want to say 'Hi!' to all our friends still in Mexico and various parts of the world. We’d also like to offer our thoughts and feelings on Mexico, home schooling and cruising as a family to anyone who is interested. We’re delighted if we can inspire anyone to go cruising. Our address is 1150 Ballena Blvd., #54, Alameda, CA 94501. — kopi 2/6/92 Cruise Notes: The battle lines have been drawn in La Paz over whether or not foreign yachts ' should be allowed to continue to anchor for long periods of time in La Paz Bay. Antonio Wilson, Mayor of La Paz, has stated in no uncertain terms that he — and a number of residents and businessmen — want the foreign anchor-outs gone. Not only that, they want them gone "as soon as possible". Two big reasons were cited. First, the yachts are accused of polluting the bay. It’s claimed that divers have plenty of evidence to support the contention, but none has been offered. Secondly, many boats have been around for s6 many years that their owners are considered flinty residents as opposed to the preferred free-spending tourists. There is an unconfirmed report that one foreign yacht has been anchored in La Paz Bay for 10 years — without ever leaving. Boldly stepping in to defend the anchorouts — and having to endure accusations of being a "defender of gringo polluters" — has been the State Secretary of Tourism, Lie. Ricardo Garcia Soto. It’s the Tourism Secretary’s contention that the boats visually enhance La Paz and give the city the
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beneficial appearance of being a tourist center. While Garcia Soto feels the anchorouts should be organized and their pollution regulated, the mayor wants the bay cleared so it can serve — no kidding — as a "water stadium" for jet-ski and windsurfing contests. Jay Ramos, Commodore of the Club Cruceros de La Paz, admitted that the 200 or so boats anchored out do pollute, but that it’s nothing compared with the sewage the city allows to pour into the bay each day. He further notes that there are no functioning pump-out stations in La Paz and thus mariners are supposed to go 30 miles out to flush their holding and sump tanks. It’s rather hard to believe, but Ramos claims that some anchor-outs do just that. Should resident anchor-outs be considered second-class citizens because they add so little to the local economy? Ramos disputes it by figuring each of the 200 boats have owners and crew who spend at least $500 in La Paz, adding $100,000 U.S. a month to the local economy. When asked why yachties don’t pay to anchor out, Ramos answered that it’s because they haven’t been asked. The Cruising Club Commodore suggested that anchor-outs would be happy to pay — if they were provided basic services. We’re not particularly good at predicting the future, but we can imagine a time in the not too distant future — which means as much as 20 years in mafianaland — where all long-term boats in La Paz will be required to occupy a berth in a marina. After all, imagine the uproar if 200 Japanese yachts were semi-permanently anchored off the Sausalito shore — and weren’t paying for it. The process may be accelerated by the fact that the Mexican economy is growing much faster than the U.S. economy, and thus Mexicans now feel less dependent in gringo dollars. While on the subject of the Club Cruceros de La Paz, they would like to remind everybody that Opening Ceremonies for the 9th Annual Sea of Cortez Race Week will be held on April 25 in La Paz. (Nominees for King and Queen of Race Week will be presented at a Beach Day picnic on April 18, and voting conducted the following week.) Races will be held on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday of Race Week, while Monday, Wednesday and Friday will feature beach activities such as volleyball, tug-a-war, chess and scrabble. A fishing tournament will continue through the week, with all the
Dick& Lona Wilson, the only Northern California participants in the 'Europa '92 Around the World Rail/, are now off the coast of East Africa. Lona is seen here with Michael Arundel and a fourfoot mahi mahi they caught in the Arabian Sea.
entries — fish, that is — saved for a fleet fish fry at the end of the week. Closing ceremonies will be held at Isla Partida on May 1. Be there! Just down the coast from La Paz, the Californlcation of Cabo San Lucas continues at a lickity-split clip. The latest evidence is a proposal by an anonymous group of local businessmen who, in the interest of the deity Tourism, would like to see the famous Land’s End Arch illuminated at night. Perhaps something in a Las Vegas neon with fireworks abbut midnight. We knew the Cape when she was an innocent young girl, when she turned a few soft tricks to earn spending money, and now that she’s an eyes-open prostitute. Ironically, we still think we’ll love her when she becomes an old whore — which is exactly what’s going to happen if they don’t let her retain some of her natural dignity. Don’t go too far, amigos! Latitude thanks Martin Bur, owner of the Half Moon-based Radiance II, for supplying The Baja California News that contained most of tire above information. As for Bur, he noted there were demonstrations in Cabo by people protesting that their land had been taken away so more condos could be built. Karen of Papi’s Cruising Center in Cabo reports that the vessel Abracadabra broke
up on the rocks north of Cabo. "Nothing was left," she writes, except for small pieces such as the one she’s using for a paperweight. The story on the waterfront is that the vessel was northbound when she encountered heavy seas. The captain decided to turn back and went below to rest. His crew, who had taken some medication for motion sickness, later tried to wake the captain and tell him he couldn’t stay awake. There must have been a failure in communication, because both were reported asleep when the boat went on the beach. While this is an unconfirmed account, it wouldn’t be the first time something like that happened along the Baja coast. This year’s Hot Rally finished with 330 boats entered. We’ll include the final 35 in our next issue. While 330 boats might sound like a lot, Karen says it’s off almost 100 from the previous year. She feels the recession in the U.S. limited the number of cruisers — and says the downturn in the United States had a generally adverse affect on all tourism in Cabo. In the last few issues we’ve had some reports of unusual side effects associated with the use of Scopalomine patches, perhaps the most popular — and effective — seasickness medication. Writing in the SSCA Commodore’s Bulletin, Steve Salmon, who made a seven-month sojourn to the South Pacific and back with Tina Olton and his daughter Holly aboard the Berkeley-based Valiant 40 New Horizon, reports that he, Olton and Holly were all sick for the first three days. While the two women then recovered, Salmon continued to be so sick for the next two weeks that "the least little effort had me panting for breath". Using the Ham radio, Holly was patched through to Salmon’s physician, who prescribed removing the Scopalomine patch from behind his ear, waiting 48 hours, then putting the patch on Salmon’s stomach. The idea was to reduce the dosage — and it did the trick, as Salmon quickly recovered. The crew of New Horizon reports they knew crews of two other boats that also experienced Scopalomine related problems. Sometimes we wonder if it’s not better to go drug free. The downside risk for the majority of people is the possibility of tossing cookies for a day or so. But perhaps that’s the lesser of two evils. Kirk Bewley of Stockton reports that he’s finished his second year of South Pacific cruising aboard Hayes, the Contessa 43 that page 192
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was once Bill and Diana Chapman’s Bones VII. "When 1 bought the boat," writes Bewley from Australia, "I thought I had a bit of knowledge. But I soon realized I was not only a novice in sailing, but in boat preparation also. Fortunately, I received excellent help and guidance from the Chapmans, who became friends as well as mentors. In addition, I found much needed and appreciated assistance from a number of Bay Area businesses. After two years and 13,000 miles, the following companies deserve credit for jobs well done: Anderson’s Boat Yard in Sausalito, B.C. Navigation in Sausalito, Bay Riggers of Sausalito, Gianola Canvas of Sausalito, List Marine Engines of Sausalito, North Sails of Alameda, Ready Outboard of Sausalito, Rogers Electronics, Scanmar Marine of Sausalito, and West Marine Products 'everywhere'. To all of the above I offered my deepest thanks. With their help, my boat wets well equipped and prepared, and we etre both having a most delightful adventure." Have you readers noticed that everything always seems to work right on some boats, while on others everything seems to be broken down or "defective"? Is it coincidence or does it have something to do with those in charge of the boats? Dave and Sharon Cohan, a careeroriented couple from the Silicon Valley, took two years off in the late '80s to cruise the Pacific Rim aboard their Southern Cross 35, Synergy. They’ve given a number of wellreceived presentations on their voyage, and thus have been selected to give the first two programs in the Palo Alto YC’s new lecture and seminar series. On May 9, the Cohans will give a slide show and lecture on their preparations, passages and adventures in French Polynesia. On June 6, they’ll cover the Samoas, Tonga, Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Both presentations will be given at the Palo Alto YC, which is located at 643 Bair Island Road, Redwood City, near Pete’s Harbor. The lectures start at 8:00 pm. — and what about this — they’re absolutely free! For further information, call (415) 364-6172. The Cohans are articulate people who can answer a lot of your cruising questions Former San Franciscan Bill Gray didn’t intend to go cruising aboard the Cheoy Lee Robb 35 yawl Whistler, it just kind of happened. The former Bay racer — "I used to crew on Dave Saunder’s Cal 40 way back in the late '60s" — left San Francisco 12 years ago to help fix a friend’s boat engine in page 193
The joke is that Cray never meant to go cruising in the first place.
Borneo. The project, as always, ended up taking a little longer than anticipated, as some planks also needed to be replaced. While working on the boat, Gray liked what he heard about sailing in Asia. So after the job was completed, he did some sailing in Thailand. Before long, he learned that Whistler was for sale in Thailand; he couldn’t resist. Gray left Singapore in 1989, sailed the coast of South Africa, and as of March was kicking around the southeastern Caribbean. He didn’t mention anything about missing the cool, grey waters of San Francisco Bay. After a brief stop in Cartagena, Colombia, Jim and Diana Jessie of Nalu IV transited the Panama Canal in late February, which means they are closing in on their circumnavigation. They report that as of February, transitting days for yachts have been changed from Tuesdays and Thursdays to Wednesdays and Fridays. Don’t ask us why. "We want to change our lives," said Anne Hibbs, explaining why she, her husband Kris Diel, and son Adrian "Newt" Diel are taking off cruising aboard their 28-year old 25-foot Atkins-designed gaff ketch Nazdorovia. Anne worked at Starbuck Canvas since 1986, and Kris, who has a degree in cartography, had a construction business in San Francisco. "It’s just time to go," said Anne, "partly because Adrian’s too young to
go to school. We eventually hope to meet up with Kris’ father in the Caribbean; he’s out there cruising right now." Bon voyage! T-birds flock together. The International Thunderbird Class Association—they’re the popular hard-chine fractional rig 26-footers that were first made of ply and later fiberglass, has announced a class cruise in the Pacific Northwest July 25 thru August 2. The itinerary of the loosely organized cruise was created by the Nanaimo, B.C. Thunderbird fleet, who should know their stuff in that area. Boats will be available for those who can’t bring their own T-birds. Call Bill Wood at (604) 753-7521 or Rod Johnson at (206) 454-3583 for further information. How to make friends and influence people while cruising? Start with their kids. So report Bill and Joan Holman of the Portland-based Tangaroa. "We were buddy-boating with Trouvere and Nicola when we stopped at the small fishing camp at Isla San Martin off the coast of Baja. Dave and Sharon of Nicola II are really good at getting to know the locals by doing simple things like going ashore and roasting hot dogs — with enough for the guests, of course. So we had a great wienie roast with some kids joining us. Roasting marshmallows would also be a great idea. Anyway, the next day the kids came aboard our three boats, each with a parent along — these people are very protective of their kids. The kids drank pop, ate homemade cookies and took little souvenirs home. They had a ball, but were nonetheless very well behaved. They had a great time visiting the grande barcas, but we enjoyed their company even more." The moral of the story is that the fewer videos you bring along on your boat, the more you’ll get to know the locals and enjoy yourself. The Holmans had planned to head to the South Pacific-this year, but a combination of the El Nino conditions and their daughter’s * sudden planning of a September wedding in Hawaii has them headed to the Aloha state. The South Pacific will have to wait until next year. More on Cuba. We hear that another unnamed U.S. yacht visited Cuba without any problems last November. When the U.S. vessel arrived in Santiago de Cuba — at a dock once owned by the Barcardi family — officials stamped a blank sheet of paper the U.S. cruisers were to carry with their
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passports. The passports themselves were not stamped, to keep the Americans from getting into hot water with the U.S. government. While the Cubans were friendly and the country reportedly a delight, given the standard of living, it was not particularly cheap. We’ve received a garbled message from a "Craig in La Paz", who seemed to have said — we frequently couldn’t hear him and he could rarely hear us — that a U.S. vessel was under house arrest and the captain in jail somewhere near the Puerto Escondido that’s on the mainland. As best we could understand it, the captain had fired one or more shots at two Mexicans who he believed had held him and his female companion hostage for a couple of hours a few days before. The name of the boat was said to be Mereid, which might very well have been Nereid. If anybody knows the facts, we’d like to pass them along. While we’re rumormongering, we heard there was a juicy domestic dispute near Puerto Vallafta that resulted in a yacht’s visit to Davey Jones’ Locker. A couple apparently had a less than amicable split-up, in which
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the wife got the boat but the husband took the roller furling and engine. (Is this for reql?) When the boat was being towed to Puerto Vallarta for a new engine, she took on water and sank in about 100 feet of water. All we know for sure is that divers have been sent down to check it out. Somewhat lost in the rave reviews about GPS is the fact that the system will still be "under development" until the fall of 1993. This means that its full capabilities — virtual instantaneous position updates anywhere in the world at any time — are not yet available. In truth, the gaps for surface vessels are so short they rarely cause a problem. But "under development" also means that the system is periodically shut down for up to 72 hours. This can be a serious problem if, for instance, it catches you by surprise while you’re meandering through the Tuamotus on the proverbial dark and stormy night.
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15.5-FT SNIPE. Cedar hull, new trailer & rigging, 2 suits Sails, alum, mast & wood mast. Very active one design fleet. A great learning boat) $850 b/o. Call Andy (415) 868-2800 (eves). ACHILLES 7.5 SPORT INFLATABLE, 3 yrs old, great condition, $600. Evinrude 4 hp, approx. 65 hrs., like new, $500. Call Mark (415) 924-8398, 331-6377. 10-FT WEST MARINE INFLATABLE w/25 hp Nissan o/b. Used only 4 times. Accessories included: trailer, 2 paddles, 3 life vests, tools, oil, misc. $3,500 value, sacrifice, asking only $2,300. (415)731-9414.
AQUARIUS 23. Used exclusively at Tahoe. $7,000. SASE to BOAT, 5622 Gentry, Carson City, Nevada 89701. (702) 882-0833 (Iv msg). COLUMBIA 24. Dry & sturdy, ready to sail but needs a little TLC. Priced to sell at $2,000. (510) 283-9317. CHRYSLER 22. Ready to sail. 3 jibs, 6 hp Evinrude o/b less than 1 yr old. Bottom repainted 12/91. $2,400 b/o. Also available - 2 hp Seagull o/b, $140. (510) 481-8263 (eves).
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ENSENADA 20-FT. Bunks 4, dry Bay boat. Swing keel, trailer, Evinrude long shaft, extras sails Sail gear. Berkeley dry slip ($40/month). An easy-to-sail & maintain heavy-gauge fiberglass boat. Faded partnership forces sale. $1,500. Call Craig Miller (510) 658-3688.
13-FT BANSHEE, trailer. Racing rigged, extra sail, self-bailer. Call Richard (408) 264-9559.
19-FT FOLKBOAT JUNIOR. Built in Denmark, 1958. Full-keel lapstrake daysailer w/2 snug berths. As sweet as they come w/anchor & dinghy. $1,650. Call Jack Lee (707) 579-4379.
1966 SCHOCK, TEMPEST 22-FT. Open deck (no cabin), racer fixed keel, North sails. Stored 10 years, needs little work, overall good shape in¬ cluding reconditioned trailer. Giveaway at$1,995. (415) 854-4345 (after 3 pm).
LASER II, 14’6". Great shape, complete w/ spinnaker, trapeze, trailer & extras. Fast, fun & ready to sail. $2,400 b/o. (510)658-7124.
RANGER 23,1976. All lines led aft, 8 hp o/b, 85, 100-125 jibs, Autohelm, boat in good condition. $5,500. (408)251-6436.
17-FT THISTLE (2535). American one design sailboat Fiberglass hull w/mahogany trim, in excellent condition. Aluminum spars, 3 mainsails, 2 jibs, 2 spinnakers (Ullman & North). Shore trailer, compass, paddle, canvas boat cover, an¬ chor. $3,500. Call John (415) 496-5708 (w), (415) 493-6404 (h).
YANM AR 2GM 20. Marine diesel, never used, full factory kit. $2,395. Can deliver. (209)847-2819. TRADE/SELL: 23-FT WOODEN SLOOP, Monkdesigned, Japan-built, structurally sound, needs cosmetic TLC. Valued at $5,000. trade for computer or $2,000. Call Marcus (415) 644-1988.
CARANITA 23. Perfect pocket cruiser. Has cruised extensively throughout Hawaiian islands, plus 3 Pacific crossings. Presently berthed in Oahu. Beautifully maintained, newinterior, stoutly built, heavily rigged, new main, twin running sails, 3 jibs including storm jib, self-steering, full elec¬ tronics. Many neat extras including new 8-ft Nutshell Pram dinghy w/4 hp Suzuki o/b. Owner moving up. $8,500 includes slip. Send for com¬ plete package to M. Bartley, 1750 Kalakaua Ave., #3-778, Honolulu, HI 96826.
198517-FT LO. INVADER runabout, 20 hrs on new engine. Chevy V-6. OMC outdrive, convert¬ ible top, open bow, total canvas enclosure, trailer, manyextras. Like new, good family boat. $9,450. (707)253-8992.
24-FT BALBOA, 1982. Fixed keel, easy load trailer, tow w/6 cylinder truck, but sleeps 5, teak inside, porta-potti, 3 jibs, blue & white North sails, propane, SP, VHF, great shape, used fresh water. $11,500. (916) 895-0711.
23-FT MACGREGOR VENTUREOF NEWPORT cutter, 1976, swing keel, main, 2 jibs, gennaker, porta-potti, galley, compass, anchor, 8 hp o/b, pop-top canvas, bow pulpit, trailer. Excellent condition. $3,995 b/o, trade. (707)996-0791.
STREAKER. 14-ft wooden dinghy from England. Similar to Laser w/stayed mast All West System coated. Very fast & comfortable. Latitude 38 article in'84. Highlander trailer. Excellent condi¬ tion. $1,000 b/o. Call Michael (510) 525-4805 (eves).
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24-FT ISLANDER BAHAMA. Excellent condi¬ tion. Johnson 8 hp o/b, VHF, spinnaker gear, anchor & more, w/slip in Santa Cruz. $4,500 b/o. Cali Deborah (916) 583-0452.
SANTANA 22. Rigging upgraded for cruising & racing. Water tank, self-tailing winches, 6 hp Johnson o/b, 2 fuel tanks. $3,800. Call (415) 457-7108 (Iv msg).
NEPTUNE 24. Dual axle trailer, power winch rollers, new brakes. 7.5 Honda o/b, speed/log, depth, compass, stove, porta-potti, 2 sinks, 2 ice boxes, Halyards aft, cruising spinnaker, bow/stern pulpit, life lines, bimini, cockpit cushions, custom i interior, extras. $10,500. Kevin (415)494-1654 (days).
CATAUNA 22,1972. 6 hp Johnson o/b, VHF. Sails: main, 150,120,90, spinnaker. On trailer at Oyster Point. Didn’t use last year, time to sell. $2,299. (408)988-4280.
SANTANA 22,1976. Excellent condition, new mast & standing rigging, all lines led aft, 2 com¬ passes, KM, 5 bags sails. Best on Bay, a great boat at a great price. $3,500. (415)456-3316. 23- FT CLIPPER MARINE, 1976. Excellent con¬ dition, sailed in freshwater only. 10 hp o/b Honda, longshaft, knotmeter, galley, sleeps 4, Calkins trailer. $4,500. (916)587-8236. CATALINA 22 w/trailer, 1972. Swing keel, w/ sails, 4 hp o/b, mast tabernacled, galley, anchor, battery w/charger, sleeps 4, recent survey. All good condition. $3,950. (408)476-4380. ISLANDER BAHAMA 24-FT. New: VHF, battery & sail cover. 6 hp o/b. $3,000 b/o. Greg 331-3848. MACGREGOR 21 & TRAILER. 3 sets of sails, 1 set new, also 110 & 155 genoa jibs. Porta-potti, swim boarding ladder, anchor & safety equip¬ ment, new rudder & tiller. Very fast, no berth rent. $1,950. (415)472-3075. J24,1982, Great shape, new sails, 2-axle trailer, rigged for racing. Must sell. $11,000. Call (510) 436-6118. RANGER 23. New mast, race rigged, solid boat, . ready to sail. $6,500 b/o. (510)548-7527. 24- FT POCKET CRUISER. Loaded! 8 sails, WS, KM, depth, VHF, log, SatNav, Loran, shortwave rec., autopilot, steering vane, solar panels, dodger, 2 anchors, 6 winches, 7.5 Johnson o/b, more. Ready to cruise. (510) 769-8741. C&C 24,1979. Great dry, family Bay boat in excellent condition. 3 sails & all safety gear, VHF & new 2-cycle Honda o/b. Upwind Berkeley Marinaberth. $8,995b/o. (510)254-7770(before 9 pm). 21-FT MACGREGOR 1985. Very clean, well maintained, main, jib, genoa, easy-on trailer, o/b, VHF, CB, AM/FM, comp, KN, small sink, swingdown table, bow/stem pulpit, lifelines, anchor, safety equip. $5,000. (916)273-2606.
RANGER 23-FT PHOTON, 1974. Good condi¬ tion, clean. 3 jibs, spinnaker, main w/covers, depthsounder, compass, VHF radio/telephone, barient winches, double batteries. 7.5 hp John¬ son o/b. Excellent Bay sailer. $5,975 b/o. (510) 889-0589,(415)491-1830. CAL 20 W/HIGHWAY TRAILER. Sail #1931. Very good condition, race rigged, all equipment plus extras. Main & jib like new, o/b, boat at SFYC Belvedere. Owner moved out of town, anxious to sell. Cal! Hilly Stong (415) 435-0625. AQUARIUS 23 W/TRAILER. Honda 10, new upholstery, private head, galley, DS, KM, VHF, wind instr., pulpits, lifelines, cockpit canvas & table, custom canvas cover, cruise equip, w/many extras. $7,600 b/O. (916) 273-9704. FL1CKA BY PACIFIC SEACRAFT. Large inven¬ tory of sails, custom dodger, Yamaha 9.9 o/b. All lineslead aft, Marine head, VHF, Loran, Autohelm, Datamarine log & depth, ground tackle & much more. Sausalito berth. $17,900. (916)583-9319. MERMAID#8,20-FTCLASSIC Danish Lapstrake fir on oak. New spruce mast, rigging, keel bolts, w/ 3 sails, Seagull o/b, life vests, anchor, full cover. Loves a stiff breeze. Moving, must sell. $2,500 b/O. (707)944-1907,(916)623-4479. 1975 TANZER SAILBOAT 22-FT. Sleeps 4, radio, depthfinder, sink, icebox, porta-potti, good cond. Equipped w/7.5 hp Honda o/b. $4,500 or trade for van or truck. (707)257-1037. CLASSIC SLOOP, 24-FT Columbia Challenger. Extensive inventory, over $2,500 worth of recent improvements, recently reduced price by $1,500. Honda o/b & new: main sail, hatches, KM, DS, halyards, sheets, sail covers & more. Alameda berthed. $4,500 b/o. (916)635-0652. 19-FT O'DAY MARINER 1978. Fixed keel, bot¬ tom done 1991 & is maintained by a diver. 3 sails new in 1991. Spinnaker, jib, main, has small cabin. Fun, stable boat! Good condition. $2,000 b/0. (707)745-3759.
23-FT CORONADO. 7.5 hp o/b, new keel bolts, bottom paint, good condition, Redwood City. $2,200. (415)494-0144.
19-FT O’DAY MARINER. Pocket cruiser version of the famous Rhodes 19. Sails like a dream. Sleeps 2 inside, 2 under tent. Includes sails, anchor, good compass, custom boat cover/tent, whisker pole, optional: o/b, shore power. $750 b/o. (510) 540-5268 (Iv msg).
R23. New rig, clean boat, KM, comp., lights, o/b. $6,500. (415)388-5116.
ISLANDER 24,80,110, main, full keel, rigged for spinn., sail away for $1,800. (415) 258-0110.
J24. Professionally faired hull & keel, tandem axle, Trailrite trailer, 3 mains, 3 genoas, 3 jibs, 2 chutes. Great racing, downwind fun for 2. Brick¬ yard Cove dry storage. $7,500. (408)970-8686 (days), (415) 327-3717 (eves). S-26.8 22-FT. Sausalito berth, 7.5 Merc., tandem axle trlr, shoal draft swing keel, radio, porta-potti, sleeps 4,15 gal water tank. $5,500. Call (415) 332-8784.
25 TO 28 FEET SCHUMAKERMORC.PHRF156. Single-handed Hawaii vet, Loran, autopilot, balsa core, 3 spinna¬ kers, Pineapples, roomier than J or Olsen, needs less crew. Wonderful to sail, great fun boat. 26 x 22 x 9.4 x 4.7. Trade up, down, all around or cash $16,000. Call Bill (415) 323-3806. ERICSON 27,1978. Std. rig, 6 sails, end boom sheet, Harken traveler, new halyards, sheets, bottom, Lewmar portlights, RC stereo, lighting '91. Yanmar diesel, wheel, VHF, ped. compass, Signet KM, RDF, DS. Excellent care - must see. $17,000. (619)438-8252. COLUMBIA 26 MKII, 1969. Good safe family boat. New top/bottom paint, good sails, 9.9 Evinrude, 3 tanks DS/VHF, compass, 2 batteries, solar cell, holding tank. $7,000. HD trailer, new brakes/tires, $4,000. Will deliver West Coast. Too many boats. (702) 972-9350. ISLANDER 28,1978. Excellent condition. Volvo MD7a, new fuel pump/injectors, DS/KM/VHF, Loran, compass, Profurl, stereo, solar, 2 batter¬ ies, holding tank, beautiful wood interior. $23,000. HD trailer, new brakes/tires, $4,000. Will deliver West Coast. Too many boats. (702)972-9350. HAWKFARM 28-FT. Active one design fleet, a great boat to race or just daysail, & very well built by local designer Tom Wylie. The class is full of fun & very competitive people. Will consider a trade to smaller boat. 937-7024. 27-FT FEATHER SLOOP. Mahogany on oak, canoe stern, cuddy cabin, 6’6" beam, trailer & o/b. $2,500. Call Jeff (707) 425-4319. 27-FT CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE. 7 sails, new Yanmar, Loran, KM, DS, VHF, Blaupunkt, dodger, meticulously maintained. All fiberglass w/teak trim everywhere. Own a first class yacht for $17,000. (415)956-1300(w),(510)522r8447(h). MERIT 25. Mylar/Kevlar & Dacron mains, 3 spinnakers, 7 jibs blade to 155%, Loran, VHF, 2 anchors, o/b, depth sounder, twin compasses & knot meters, epoxy bottom, EPIRB, ocean racing equipment. $12,000. Patrick (510) 526-1436, (510) 262-2731.
24-FT LAPWORTH GLADIATOR w/6 hp Evinrude, reinforced hull. Sistership to Dove. Great opportunity, lots of boat for little price. $2,995 b/o. Call Tim (408) 295-4469. MERIT 25,1983. Excellent condition, 90,100, 150, 2 spinnakers, trailer. $11,900. Call Bob (916) 678-5533 (days), (916) 678-4483 (eves). CATALINA 27,1974. 7 sails including spinnaker & blooper, tail rig, race equipped, '91 haulout, Navco auto steering, Loran C, color depth & fish finder, Atomic 4 inboard, new upholstery. $9,700. (805) 486-1633 (days), (805) 986-2620 (eves). BALBOA26. Fast&strong! Sloop rig, retractable keel, go-anywhere boat. 3 sails, VHF, Loran, pressurized water, permanent head, 2-burner stove. Many extras including motor, dinghy & trailer. $6,500 b/o. Tim Kubera (619) 435-8788. ISLANDER 28,1977. Pedestal compass, wheel steering, roller furling, 30 hp Atomic 4, radio, knotmeter, fathometer, lots of wood & cane detail¬ ing below decks, new main. $13,000 b/o. Sausalito berth. (415) 491-8783, (415) 332-0529 (eves). MUST SELL! C&C 25-FT. Race or cruise. Partnership possibility. 3 jibs, 2 spinnakers, VHF, knotmeter, 7.5 Merc, o/b, headfoil & lots more. $9,000 b/o. Call Lane 726-7421. SOVEREIGN-28,1984. Cutter rigged, excellent sails, solar panels, 2 anchors, rebuilt engine (71 91), bottom (7/91), BBQ, propane stove/oven, large aft stateroom, 6-ft headroom, great Bay boat for single liveaboard, can be trailered. $15,000. Call Mark (415) 983-1808. ALBIN VEGA (LARSON) 27-FT SLOOP w/gas inboard, new bottom paint Dec. '91, lots of new gear, needs some cosmetics. Average price $12,000, need cash, sell for $7,000. Call Larry (510) 839-0583 (eves). Berkeley. CATALINA 27. Atomic 4, full electronics, new cushions & interior, all new sails, VHF, new batter¬ ies, all new rigging, 110v. .Too much to list. New topside paint, meticulously maintained. $11,000. (510) 895-1300, (510) 284-5932. ISLANDER 28,1978. Newer condition, immacu¬ late teak & oak interior. New bottom paint, pedes¬ tal wheel & compass, strong Atomic 4, VHS, depthsounder, knotmeter, battery charger, ste¬ reo, TV. Green trim. Roomiest 28-footer. Oak¬ land berth. Must sell. $17,500 b/o. Call (707) 255-6353. SANTA CRUZ 27. Immaculate, fast, race-ready. 12 North sails (3 spinnakers), 5 new. Fresh race bottom, all rigging recently replaced. 6 hp o/b, trailer, VHF, RDF, speed, safety equipment. SC27 fleet crew, skipper your own this season! Berthed city front. $11,900. Call (408) 365-6533, (415) 494-2393 (eves).
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EXPRESS 27. Race ready, good sail inventory, sail-comp compass, o/b & trailer. $19,500. Call Tom (510) 522-1960. 25-FTCHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER. Teak hull, new bottom paint lastyear. Can be sailed now but needs TIC. Includes 7.5 Honda. $2,150b/o. Also will trade for 3000# Hydro Hoist. (510) 684-3709 (lv msg). ERICSON 27. Atomic 4, Hood main & furling genoa, cruising spinnaker. Halyards & sail con¬ trols lead aft. Self-tailing winches, VHF, depth & knotmeter, autopilot & holding system. New bot¬ tom paint & survey. Asking $10,500. Call (510) 846-0851 (eves). NEWPORT 27S, 1977. Inboard Atomic 4, KM, DS, 2 VHFs, 4 sails, cockpit cushions. Clean, roomy interior w/standing headroom & lots of teak. Private head w/sink & shower. Priced for quick sale. First $8,995 takes. (707)642-3659. 27-FT NOR’SEA, 1978. Beautiful rare aft cockpit, cruise equipped. Extensively outfitted in 1989, just returned from 2nd Mexican cruise. Ready to go again. Going inland. A great buy! $42,500. (619) 297-8322. PEARSON 26. Very nice boat, stable, fast, ex¬ tremely well-maintained. Extras include new Loran, autopilot, depth, stereo, etc. 4 sails including spinnaker, recently serviced 10 hp electric start o/ b. Ready to go for $7,900. All offers/trades considered. (415)206-0928. PACIFIC SEACRAFT ORION 27,1985. Hull #99, Lake Tahoe boat on 15,000 GVW, 3-axle trailer. 3-cyl. diesel Yanmar 50 hr. 140 gen/roller furling, pedestal steering, compass, depth, speed & ra¬ dio. Tabernadedmast,CNGstove/oven. $50,000. (702) 882-2291. MACGREGOR 25-FT, 1984. Super condition, trailer, swing keel, 7.5 hp Honda o/bw/generator, solid chemical battery, main sail & jib, compass, pop-top w/dodger, sail/tiller covers, stove, portapotti, anchor. $5,000. (408) 458-1343 (Santa Cruz). ERICSON 27. Very clean, Atomic 4 engine, 4 bags of sails, most less than 3 yrs old & a spinna¬ ker. Oversize winches, KM, DS, VHF, cockpit cushions, sleeps 5. $14,000 b/o. (415)564-2865 (eves or lv msg). THUNDERBIRD 26-FT, 1965. Wood w/fiberglass skin. Recently restored: 3 new UK sails, sail/hatch covers, new rigging, wood boom, Evinrude 8 hp, battery, mahogany hatches. Beau¬ tifully crafted, new teak cockpit sole, interior cush¬ ions. Just painted hull/cockpit/bottom, hauled Nov. ’91. DS, sink, icebox, porta-potti, more. $7,900. (415)327-4665. HAWKFARM 28. Fun, competilive, durable & easy to sail. Boat, motor & sails in excellent condition, $16,000. (707)257-3577.
ERICSON 27,1977. Atomic 4, wheel steering, main & 2 jibs, 2-speed barients, depthsounder, VHF, full headroom, sleeps 5, cockpit cushions, Delta awning, a good all-purpose cruiser/racer. Berthed in San Rafael. $13,500. (415)388-2292. COLUMBIA 26 MKII. New jib, sail cover, main w/ lazy jacks. 150 genoa, cockpit cushions, cabin top traveler, topping lift, double safety lines. KM, DF, VHF, stereo, TV, sink, stove, dinette, etc. $8,750. (707)446-9487. CAL 2-27,1977. Race one design this summer. Zephyr is ready to tace & cruise. New diesel engine. Many extras. Well-maintained. Strong fleet organization. $18,900. (415) 389-1708 (h) for details. CATALINA 27,1972. Good condition, well-main¬ tained. $7,000 b/o. Call Tom (415) 386-7235.
CATALINA 27. Cruise ready, new stainless steel rigging, lifelines & cruising spinnaker w/snuffer. Inboard Atomic 4,110/12v electrical system, 280amp deep cycle batteries-, new Horizon VHF, Loran, depth. Last surveyed in April 1990, excel¬ lent condition. $11,500 b/O. Rich (408)745-7122.
OLSON 25. Fresh water race winner, immaculate condition, 10 bags of brand new sails, full instru¬ ments, trailer & much more. Divorce forces sale. First $7,500 takes it all. Hurry! 664-7729.
NORDIC FOLKBOAT. 25-ft Brandt-Moeller debu¬ tante folkboat. Full canvas cover, 6 hp o/b. Built in 1961, teak & mahogany trim, good condition. Asking $3,500, 1/2 1988 appraisal. This is a classic wooden boat to sail the Bay. Call Bill (415) 391-5780 (w), (415) 752-2324 (h).
EXCALIBUR, GAS HOUSE COVE. Berth, new mast, boom, rigging, depth, winches, radio, life¬ lines, bottom. Teak interior, head. This is a fine Bay or Delta boat in rare condition. Handles the Bay in style, fast& responsive. $9,500. Call (415) 648-2631.
CAL 2-25 BRISTOL BOATI Sleeps 5, h/c press, water, VHF, stereo, knotmeter, DS, Autohelm 1000, vector Loran, 2 cyl. diesel, 2 SS sink, 2bumer alcohol stove. Must see! $16,000. (510) 791-2675.
CATALINA 25,1982. Exc. condition, fresh water sailed, fixed keel. Partial list of goodies: main, jib & cover, VHF radio, knotmeter, stereo, dinghy, porta-potti, 10 hp elec, start motor, compass, watertank&galley. Call for more details. Call Bob (916) 541-2235.
25-FT BOLGER BLACK SKIMMER cat yawl leeboard sharpie, shoal draft, water ballast, sleeps 2,1000 lb. trailer weight, quality epoxy ply con¬ struction, LPU finished, eye catcher, 7+ knot fun, trailer, built 1988. $8,500. (209)296-7972. 27-FT KAUFMAN RACING SLOOP. Fractional, 11 winches, 12 sails. No interior amenities. Fun. $2,700. (408)371-6151,295-8670. CAL-25,1967. Clean, good condition, ready to sail. Honda 10 hp motor, 3 sails plus spinnaker, 2 anchors, jiffy reefing, knotmeter. Lines lead aft for single-handling, neat, no galley, sleeps 4. Asking $4,000. (510)763-0948. 25-FT GAFF CUTTER. Custom made, wood & glass, hard chine, bow sprit. Good sails, sail cover, exc. 9.9 o/b, compass, depth, lights, stove, sink, sleeps 4, roomy for its size, extras. San Leandro berth. $7,500. (415)948-5874. SANTA CRUZ 27. Fast is fun! 10 bags sails, trailer, VHF, KM. Hull #132. $11,500. Call Scott (408)423-7795.
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AMERICA’S CUP SPECIAL Mull 27 MORC. Fast, fun, stable & affordable. Fully equipped beautiful design. Includes 11 bags North w/ spinnakers & complete set Mylars, Autohelm & Loran. New inboard Yanmar diesel. Dennis C. said $15,000,1 say $9,995. (707) 746-1350.
NEWPORT 27-FT. Rebuilt inboard, Atomic 4, VHS, DS, KM, clean & ready to sail. $6,500.
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COLUMBIA 28. Strong sailer, sleeps 6, standing headroom, excellent condition, 12 hp o/b, WS/ WP, KM/KL, DS, VHF. 3 sails, all lines lead aft, self-tailing winches, many inside & outside extras. Price reduced to $9,995. (707) 252-1235.
COLUMBIA 26 MKII. Big, safe Bay boat. In¬ board, custom teak, custom boom, headfoil, 2 mains, 3 jibs. Many extras including digital wind gauge. Call for specification sheets & photo. $6,500 or trade for travel trailer. (510) 439-9636.
CAPE DORY 25,1979. New England grace, FG, full keel, teak cabin, brass portholes. Has 4 sails, DF, VHF, o/b. Very clean throughout, due for bottom paint. Marina Bay. $11,000. Call Steve (510)242-2830.
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CAL 2-27. Excellent condition, great racing class. Custom teak interior, new bottom, gas tank & survey July 1991. Atomic 4, VHF, stereo, knotmeter, depthfinder, Lewmar 40 winches & more! Enjoyed by one family. $18,000. Call Kathy (510)521-0581.
O’DAY 27,1976. Excellent condition, 4 sails, VHF, stereo, Atomic 4, KM, DS, head, stove, icebox, strobe light, wind point, compass, teak interior, teakwood covers, hauled & bottom paint Sept. 1991. $13,900. Terms considered. (707) 253-8992. 27-FT TYLER SAILER. No sails. $650. (415) 468-4423. CAL 28,1964. Clean, well-kept. VHF, Yanmar diesel, 4 sails, depthsounder. Great Bay or Delta boat. Sleeps 6. Must sell soon. $8,000. (510) 439-2003. CORONADO 27. Hauled 1991. Recent: diesel, strong rig, cushions & covers, double-reef, fullbatten mainsail, 80% & 120%. Dual batteries, VHF, depth, log, compass navigation lights, tillerpilot, 1 lOv, 6-ft headroom, head, galley. $10,000 firm, trade-in considered. Call (707) 226-3550. 1975 28-FT NEWPORT. Great shape, 2 jibs, sleeps 6, AP.DS, VHF, etc. Fireplace. Beautiful. Best over $10,000. (800)499-0584.
29 TO 31 FEET 30-FT CUSTOM STEEL modern Sharpie yacht, 1990. Design by Tracy O’Brian/Stephen Wiles N.A. Shoal draft, excellent liveaboard, new sails, 10 hp Honda o/b, professionally-built. $9,500. Call Don (415) 332-6410 (days), (415) 388-5287 (eves). 1976-77 PEARSON 30-FT. Excellent condition, new rebuilt Atomic 4 engine. Used only 2 x/year due to health conditions. Stereo, 3 sails. Recent survey. Situated in Oakland Estuary. $22,900 firm. (510) 947-3193 (lv msg) ISLANDER 30 MKII, 1975. Diesel, wheel, roller furl, compass, KM, DS, microwave, very clean. $18,500. (707)538-7009. COLUMBIA 29, MUST SELL. Excellent Bay boat. New main, new jib, rebuilt engine, VHS, DS, heater, full keel, good condition. $10,000 b/o. 892-0714 (days), 897-7390 (eves). 1988 BENETEAU FIRST 285 GAIA Owner moving up. Excellent condition, hauled & painted 12/90,2 private cabins, h/c water, shower, pro¬ pane cooking, Loran, stereo, VHF, 150 genoa, profurl, wheel, 18 hp Volvo. $39,500. Call Kelly (415) 854-8288.
30-FT CHEOY LEE BERMUDA KETCH. FG hull, traditional teak interior w/tireplace. Refrig., DS, KT, VHF, battery charger. Just overhauled Atomic 4 engine, new masts, boat cover. Exceptionally clean throughout, well-maintained. $24,750. (415) 331-2393.
ERICSON 30+, 1980. Excellent condition, 16 hp Universal diesel, roller furling jib, cruising spinna¬ ker, Micrologic Loran, Combi instrumentation, VHF & stereo. Many more extras. $28,500. Call Ralf (415) 342-1357 (days), (415) 348-7389 (eves).
30-FT BIRD BOATCLASSICWOODIE. $4,000, possible trade for car or ? (707) 545-6825.
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SAN JUAN 30,1977. Excellent condition, USCG
1984 ERICSON 30+. This is it! Great boat, great
31-FT FIBERGLASS SLOOP. Classic design,
pack, documented, new interior, LP paint, pres¬
ETCHELLS, US 296. Good condition, well-main¬
price. Diesel, wheel, Loran, VHS, KM, DS, stereo,
full keel, Palmer inboard, VHF, AM/FM stereo,
sure water, Atomic 4 w/Martec prop. Sail controls
tained, full complement of sails, new mast 8
batt. charger, 150,100,85jibs, dodger, brightwork
110 volt ACshorepower, dual batteries, new cush¬
rigging, full cover, trailer, great one design class
lead aft to control bridge, full instrumentation,
covers, 2 Bruce anchors w/rode. Gorgeous ma¬
ions, new jib cover, very good condition, recent
for the Bay. Good starter boat for low $. Asking
VHF, 8 winches, 8 sails, Hood furler. $16,000.
hogany cabin, roomy & comfortable.
bottom paint & new zinc, extra equipment. Coyote
(702) 329-5626, (510) 523-1774 (Iv msg).
$8,999. Must sell. 452-3381 (Ivmsg).
(916) 961-2497.
Point inner harbor berth. 341-2170.
COLUMBIA 29 SLOOP.
CATALINA 30,1977. Recently hauled 8 in great
CATALINA 30, 1985.
Steal this fine Bay
$27,900.
$12,950.
Call (415)
130% roller furling jib,
shape. Atomic 4 engine, wheel steering, roller
cruiser. Must sell now! Cabin heater, refrigerator,
110% jib, spinnaker, 4 self-tailing winches, 2 spin¬
CATALINA 30,1985. Wheel compass, 25 hp
full galley, VHS, jib, genoa, club jib, Atomic 4.
naker winches, all lines lead aft, custom steering
diesel, 150%, 110%, KM, DS, VHF, Loran, auto¬
covers, cushions, wiring).
Good condition. $9,950. (408)562-6212.
& traveler, 21 hp diesel, Loran, VHF, AM/FM
pilot, custom fort, tabernacle mast, stereo4 speak¬
434-4544.
furling jib. Many new items (head, lifelines, sail Must sell, $20,000.
cassette stereo w/waterproof speakers, speed &
ers, h/c pressure water, new bottom, immaculate
CATALINA30,1978. DependableAtomic4, blue
log, depth, windspeed/windpoint instruments,
maintenance inside & out. Santa Cruz sublease
30-FT COLUMBIA. New 2-cyl. Yamaha diesel,
dodger, 3 sails, wheel steering, new interior, ste¬
upgradedinterior.h/cpressure water, CNG stove/
available. CNG, much more, must see. $36,000. (408) 476-8570.
custom teak interior all new, full headroom. Boat
reo, microwave, VHS, KM, DS, pressure water,
oven, shower, marine head w/Y-valve, holding
folding prop, new cushions, very clean & well-
tank w/macerator pump, boat cover, hauled July
cared for. Alameda berth. $21,900. Call (408) 452-8514.
'91,4 coats barrier paint, many extras. $34,995 b/O. (408) 996-1685 (eves).
needs mast 8 rigging to finish.
Strong quality
construction w/trailer 8 storage jacks. $12,000.
BENFORD 30-FT, 1980. World cruiser, wellmaintained. Must sell, leaving the area. $24,500. (415)456-7413.
(415) 381-3389.
FOR SAIL, 30-IT PEARSON, clean 8 seaworthy,
OLSON 30,1981 - STOCK BOAT. 5 headsails,
CAL 31,1979. Beautiful condition, Volvo diesel,
2 spinnakers, no trailer, excellent condition. 2-
wheel, Harken furling w/3 jibs, spinnaker, h/c
30-FT ISLANbER 1971. $15,000 for sloop w/
boat owner, must sell. $14,000 b/o.
pressure water, shower, propane, Loran, VHF,
great layout, headroom 8 new DM, KM, Loran 8
KM, WS, WD Martec prop. Priced right at $29,900.
gas tank. 2 mains, 2 jibs, spinnaker, VHF, gas
Berthed at Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor. Call (408)
inboard, cushions, shorepower. Call Dan Murphy
low hrs., KM, DS, VHF, spinnaker, pressure wa¬
464-1500 (w), (408) 438-0641 (h).
(408) 358-1529 (days).
ter, teak interior, wheel steering. $19,500 b/o or
chors. Hauled 5/91, no blisters. NewSterlingLPU
OLSON 29. Hull #8, built at Pacific Boat Works
OLSON 30,1982. Ballenger spars, dbl spread¬
on mast & boom. Just finished revarnish & LPU of
1986. Fast & fun, depthsounder, knotmeter, com¬
ers, rod rigging, 5sails. $15,000.1/3down,owner
custom interior w/lots of wood & koa table. Clock,
pass, custom stern rail, 13 bags of sails. $28,000.
finance. (415)468-4423.
R.H/temp, barometer, galley w/pressure water, 2-
Call Bill (707) 643-3590.
Call Ted
(415) 331-5195, (415) 626-2986.
COLUMBIA 29. The go-anywhere, full keel, bul¬
$12,500. Also 16-ft Chesapeake Bay knockabout
let-proof pocket cruiser. 7 sails, lifelines, 2 an¬
gaff rigged, $1,250. (415)331-2157.
CAL 2-29,1975. Clean boat, 9/91 survey, diesel
trade 8 cash for larger late model boat Call (510) 538-4001 (w), (510) 632-0275 (h).
J29, SAILING COMFORT & PERFORMANCE. Actively raced 8 cruised on the Bay. 10 sails, 8 hp
burner butane stove & AM/FM stereo cassette.
30-FT MAHOGANY HULL SLOOP. Dutch built
Evinrude o/b, galley sink, stove, head 8 interior finishes. BestJ29interioronthe Bay. Joinagreat
VHF, KM, depth, compass & Autohelm. Main &
ISLANDER BAHAMA 30-FT, 1983.
Are you
1959, full keel, 4 sails 8 spinn. w/pole. Beautiful
new boat covers. Inboard removed ready for your
looking to buy a boat to liveaboard for Bay sailing
varnished mahogany interior, VHF, head, depth,
racing fleet w/out sacrificing weekend cruising
diesel.
20 hp Johnson installed w/adjustable
or just for cruising for an unbelievable price? Well,
sink, icebox, microwave, sleeps 4, standing head-
comfort.
bracket. $9,500 w/outboard. $8,500 w/out. Great
this Islander Bahama is an excellent choice for a
room. Asking $7,900. Call Michael Taper (707)
radio, depth sounder 8 lots of equipment. Ready
Pier 39 end-of-dock berth. Jim (415) 397-6950.
comfortable spacious liveaboard, weekend sail¬
746-8145.
to sail w/an impressive racing history on the Bay.
ing & is strong & reliable for bluewater cruising.
COLUMBIA 29, MARK 1,1965 fiberglass full keel
New bottom job, new speedo 8 VHF
1992 promises to be a good one with a large one
The boat is beautifully maintained & ready to go as
COLUMBIA 8.7 (29-FT), 1979.
sloop. Beefy construction. Traditional interior (aft
is w/its teak wood interior, h/c pressure water,
knotmeter, depthsounder, battery charger,
over payments. Move up from your smaller boat
galley, opposite saloon settees). Standing head-
shower, wheel steering, new bottom paint, Yanmar
autobilge pump, new sail cover 8 jib bag, new
for no money down. Call Andy (415) 641-8323.
room, AC fridge, LP stove/oven. Strong Atomic4,
diesel, inflatable dinghy & much more. You won’t
stove, stereo, teak interior. 2-boat owner! Must
VHF, stereo, spinnaker. $11,500 b/o. Call (415)
be disappointed. Liveaboard slip available w/boat
sacrifice, $19,900. (510) 614-9446.
647-2351.
inSSF. $27,500. Call (415) 952-9886 (h), (415)
Diesel, VHF,
design turnout. Priced to sell at $23,500 or take
32 TO 39 FEET
PEARSON 30-FT. Volvo diesel, Loran, VHF, WS,
571-9074 (w).
CATALINA 30,1981. Excellent condition, wheel
WI.DS, roller furling, dodger. $18,000 b/o. (415)
steering w/compass, self-furling jib, knot meter,
CATALINA 30,1980. Full batten main, 2 jibs,
depth, VHF, BBQ, very smooth Atomic 4 engine,
WS, KM, DS, VHF, new custom interior, LPU
very clean comfortable interior. $23,500. (408)
mast, new standing rigging, 100% teak covers,
1969 MARINER 31 KETCH. FG hull, full keel
356-8764.
Alpine stereo, 4 speakers, dodger, liveaboard
cruiser, VHF, DS, new main 8 mizzen. Hull #27,
c pressurized water, spinnaker hardware.
equipped, better than new, 3 pages of gear, must
sailed by the first woman to single-hand the Pa¬
sumable, mature note. $7,500 total to assume.
see. $28,500. (415) 934-8864.
cific. Traditional lines, feels like a woody 8 very
Owner assist on down. Call for details 8 equip¬
seakindly. But got to go.
ment list (408) 379-6460 (after 6 pm).
1974, CAL 2-29. Excellent condition, new factory diesel, new covers. Teak interior, sleeps 6, wheel steering, tabernacle. $16,500 b/o.
Call (408)
6884266.
NEWPORT 30,1971. Well-equipped older boat
737-9824.
NEWPORT 33-FT, 1983.
$22,500.
Call (510)
CATALINA 30,1978. Tall rig. Diesel, wheel, all
San Rafael. $11,500. (415)383-1950.
teak interior, 2 tanks, pressure water, macerator,
FOR SALE-36-FT KETCH, unkbuilder, allwood, BOMBAY PILOTHOUSE 31-FT. Metzler dinghy,
no cabin, interior stripped out, has 4 cyl. diesel 8
club footed jib, roller reefing, Hood sails, hot
wheel steering, standing rigging OK.
water, refrigerator, Yanmar diesel, battery charger,
handy person's dream, at best offer over $1,500. Call Barry at Martinez Marina (510) 372-3585.
pulpits, double lifelines, cushions, spinnaker, rig¬
SANTANA 30,1979. Sleek & fast, Volvo diesel,
depth sounder, VHF radio, stereo Ffyl/AM, tape
ging, double sink, genoa furling, dodger, blue
tall rig, 7 sails, 2-speed winches, KM, DS, com¬
deck, pressurized water, 2nd anchor, 2nd wheel
covers, 120v, spreader lights, radio, DF, nonskid
pass, Loran, Autohelm, teak 8 holly sole, cockpit
Station. $37,000. (510)886-3475.
decks, head compartment, shower.
cushions.
$24,500.
(415) 3874265.
As¬
352-4514 (Iv msg).
in excellent condition. Atomic 4, spinnaker, storm sail. Enjoy the ocean, Bay or Delta. Berthed in
Fully loaded, well-
maintained. Roller furling, wheel, refrigeration, h/
As is, a
TAYANA 37. Beautiful boat for cruising 8 livea¬
Great Bay boat rigged for offshore.
board. Loaded w/Loran, windvane, stereo, VHF,
Priced to sell. $18,995. (916)933-5795 (h), (916)
CAPE GEORGE 31,1988. VHF, Ariesvane gear,
new dodger, h/c pressure water, etc. $70,000.
863-0801 (w).
propane stove, heater, dodger, weather cloths,
Call Cindy 578-9244.
CAL 29,1970. Recent topside LPU paint job
Tanbark sails, 150, spinnaker w/sock. 6 coats of
(red). Epoxy blister protection Martec prop. Spin,
1983HUNTER31. Excellent condition. Reduced
epoxy on bottom before launching, stereo, refrig¬
36-FT ROBERTS STEEL CUTTER. Flush deck,
gear. Well equipped. $10,000 b/o. cil (408)
to $1,000/foot. Yanmar diesel, new bottom paint.
eration. $43,000 b/o. Call Dave (510) 521-6382.
center cockpit, solid, roomy cruising sailboat. Now
374-9087.
Great for Bay & coastal cruising. Good equipment
Will consider delivery on the West Coast.
in La Paz, ready to go anywhere. $35,000. (707) 263-7297.
inventory. (707) 823-9669 (Iv msg).
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COLUMBIA34. Great condition, upgraded equip¬ ment/rigging, cruise ready. Radar, Loran, etc. Also sanitation system, refrigeration, dodger, etc. See to appreciate. $28,000 b/o. Call Larry (415) 285-1078, (415) 695-0777. 36-FT CHB KETCH, 1977. 40-ft overall, full keel, new epoxy bottom, new Yanmar 1991. 7 sails, stereo, gas stove & oven, refrigerator, beautiful teakinterior, great cruiser or liveaboard. Excellent condition. $45,000. (510)228-2852,228-7348. 38-FT GILLMER CUTTER. One owner, built Barcelona, Spain, 1972. Finest materials, ma¬ hogany strip planked on laminated framing, die¬ sel, VHF, DS, AP. Steering vane, full rollerturling jibs & twin storm sails. Complete cruising inven¬ tory list available. Beautiful condition. $65,000. (415)454-9285.
PEARSON ALBERG 35-FT. 1969 fiberglass sloop/cutter rig. Solid ocean-going traditional design. Good condition, Volvo Penta diesel, 10 bags sails. Alameda berth. $26,500. Call (415) 982-4455 (days), (510) 947-1489 or 827-3304 (eves). CS36, DELIVERED 1986. Canadian quality per¬ formance cruiser. Refer, LPG, roller furling, Lewmar ST, Westerbeke, charger, large tankage. Beautiful, spacious,teak interior, lowmaintenance exterior. Hood sails recut 1991. Well-maintained. A great value at $65,000. San Francisco berth. (415)897-7506. 38-FT STEEL SAILBOAT, hull new, needs work. Will sell or trade fortrailerable boat of equal value. Consider I/O cruiser. $8,500. (707) 894-2776 (after 6 pm).
CUSTOM PERFORMANCE CRUISER, 36-ft sloop, 1976. Designed & built by Charley Morgan. All lines led aft. Rod rigging, Hood furling, barient ST winches, refrigeration, autopilot, dodger. Op¬ tional cutterrigging. SFberth. Epoxy bottom. You gotta see this one. $69,000 b/o. (415)664-7777.
CAT ALINA34,1986. Excellent condition, loaded. Radar, Datamarine Datalink 5000 (depth/wind/ speed), autopilot, Loran C, knotmeter, VHF radio, h/c water, roller furling, stereo/cassette, lines led aft, 3 batteries, cockpit awning & more. Motivated to sell. $50,000. (916)339-1785.
SANTANA 35,1980 DREAM MACHINE. Family racer cruiser includes prime 40-ft berth St. Francis Marina, right on Marina Blvd! National champ '87, new mast, boom, keel, engine & sails since '88. Price to sell now $39,000. Call John 366-9211.
CRUISE MEXICO IN ‘92. Dufour 35, Mexico/ Hawaii veteran. In Mexico, ready to go. Excellent condition, strong, seaworthy, comfortable. Cruise equipped w/extras: solar panels, Ham/SSB,bimini, water purifier, customized interior, more. $60,000. Call Ted (415) 326-3181.
ISLANDER FREEPORT36,1978. Upgrade 1990. B plan (Pullman style berth, head/shower for¬ ward), Perkins 50 hp diesel, CNG, roller furling genoa, dodger, windlass, Loran, radar. Detail sheet available. $73,500. (408) 655-1479 (Monterey). MORGAN 33-FT O/l. Excellent condition, loaded, 25 hp Volvo diesel, new interior, full dodger, refrig., windlass, VHF, DF, knotlog, pressure wa¬ ter, roller furling, wheel, 8-ft Fatty Knees dinghy, strong boat, great liveaboard. $34,500. (415) 873-4412.
37-FT GAFF KETCH. Take over this building project, 98% complete. Heavy glass hull, diesel power. Built for long distance cruising. Make offer. (415)968-2921. S&S 34-FT CUTTER YAWL w/cruising gear, full keel, plank hull, EPIRB, refastened 1986, SS tanks, Perkins dsl, SatNav, log, speed, depth, VHF, autopilot, hauled annually, classic beauty, good sailing condition. Surveyed $35,000. Sell $14,500. (415)365-9257.
TARTAN 30,1979. Fully equipped for singlehanded sailing w/all lines led aft to ST winches, rollerfurling, Autohelm. Low mileage, never raced, excellent condition. $25,000 b/o. Call (510) 527-3507.
CATALINA 36,1985. Superb condition. Refur¬ bished interior, 1991 engine overhaul, loran, Autohelm 3000,3 additional sails & many other extras. Call for free specification list. $67,900 b/ o. Emery Cove Marina. Call Pete (510) 866-2015 (anytime).
32-FTMORGAN, 1979. Fiberglass sloop, Yanmar diesel, Balmar alternator, 3 batteries, AdlerBarbourfridge, watermaker, 331b. Bruce on chain, bow roller, manual windlass, 2 Danforths, new mainsail, MAS autopilot. Mexico vet. $26,000. (510) 652-9938 (h), (510) 272-8315 (w).
ERICSON 38, cruise ready in pristine condition, radar arch, new Goldstar radar, ample electronic power system, 3 battery banks, Autohelm, Loran, SatNav, extra water tanks, full instruments, roller furling, electronic windlass, Ham backstay, can¬ vas & dodger. $74,500. (415)593-4293.
PRETORIEN 35, 1987. Performance cruiser/ racer. Harken self-tailing winches & hardware. Loadedw/electronics, navigation, autopilot, safety equipment. 11 sails, most new. European teak interior, h/c pressure water, low engine hours, new Micron bottom. Meticulously maintained. $93,000. (415)334-1387.
34-FTCOLUMBIAMKII SLOOP. 2-yr-old Awlgrip epoxy, Palmer 4 cyl. gas engine, 110/12v refrig/ freezer, Honda gen., depth, knot, VHF. Just married, need fast sale. $22,500 b/o. Call (510) 706-9047, (510) 634-2443.
37-FT BEAUTIFUL, FAST, DANISH-BUILT 1954 wood yawl. Mahog. on oak, teak trim, wheel steering, 5000 lb. lead keel, sleeps 6, new diesel eng. Good Bay, coastal cruiser. $14,000 b/o. Have 2 boats, must sell. (510) 397-6977 (after 5 pm). SANTANA 35,1978. Diesel anodized spare, rod rigging, beige hull w/small cove stripe. Boat & equipment in excellent condition. Call Gordon (714) 546-1653 (days), (71^675-5129 (eves). Will send complete equipment list. $35,000. YANKEE 38. Sparkman & Stephens design. Open ocean equipped w/SatNav, EPIRB, wind vane steering, ICOM SSB. Full sail inventory incl. spinnaker. Yanmar diesel engine w/less than 125 hours. Documented. $77,000. (415)336-5079 (days). O’DAY 34 fast, capable coastal cruiser, all-around performer. Over $5,000 invested in luxury interior improvements. Comfortable liveaboard, compre¬ hensive inventory, rigged beautifully for shorthanding. You won’t find a better value at $34,950. (408)479-7606.
38-FT CLASSIC WOODEN KETCH built in 1938, designed for coastal cruising & Bay sailing. Clas¬ sic look, perfect liveaboard for single sailor or couple. Has VHF, new mizzen sail, newer main sail & 3 others. 13-ft beam, recent ribbon ma¬ hogany interior, newer teak decks, brass fittings, hot water, wood stove & yes, a tub. $20,000. (510) 839-8239 (h), (415) 338-7101 (w).
MICKEY 38-FT LOA YAWL Master mariner winner, built 1931 by Ashridge, San Pedro, CA. Health forces sale. Douglas fir over oak frames, new rigging'90, only 3 owners. $17,000 b/o. Must sell. (415) 965-7474 (9 am to 5 pm). 33- FT CUSTOM STEEL CUTTER, Merritt Walter Dbl ender, launched '83. Beautifully constructed & maintained, well-equipped for cruising or livea¬ board. Safe, comfortable & dry. Serious inquiries only: a “steel' at $42,000. Ken (510) 428-4023. 36’5" PEARSON SLOOP, 1980. Club jib, full batten main, 40 hp Westerbeke diesel only 280 hours. One-owner boat, cruise or liveaboard. A steal $45,000. (209)632-7346. 34- FT STEEL CUTTER. Locally built in 1980. Unfinished. Perkins 4-107 auxiliary, Edson steer¬ ing, much equipment for finishing. Located out of water in San Francisco. $15,000 b/o. Call (510) 886-0107.
35 CHEbY LEE SLOOP, 1965. Author Robb design, all teak bright hull, eng. needs overhaul, hull & int. in exc. cond. Partner moved overseas. $19,000. (510)302-5361 (w), (510) 638-0603 (h).
FANTASIA 35. Hull 62 (1979). Excellent condi¬ tion. Heavy displacement, center cockpit, cutter rig. Best liveaboard in its size/price class. Lehman 4D46, 560 hrs. Many upgrades: dodger, sail covers, 4D batteries, propane heater, refrig. $65,000. Call Bruce (510) 865-5366.
VAN DE STADT 34. Steel, metallized, newlyconstructed w/85% completed. Yanmar, Edison, Lewmar, Simpson-Lawrence, Isomat, Nicro-fico, Adler-Barbour & lots of other good gear. 4 sails. Requires light interior work to finish. Life plans have changed. $45,000. (415) 863-1808 (eves).
34-FT BENFORD CUTTER. Liveaboard or cruise ready. $24,500. Work relocation forces sale. Will trade for motor home or other vehicle. Call Roy (916)776-1741.
36-FT CHEOY LEE CLIPPER KETCH. Set up for liveaboard or cruising. Rebuilt 42 hp Mercedes diesel. New interior, many extras. $38,000 cash or trade for airplane, classic Corvette or property. (707) 963-9075.
HUNTER 37,1981. Cutter, fiberglass hull 8 deck, teakinterior. Sleeps 8. Great liveaboard. New epoxy bottom & paint. Yanmar diesel. Roller furling, equipped for cruising. Achilles dinghy w/ outboard. Berkeley slip. Assumable loan $49,000. (408) 353-4699.
36-FT CHEOY LEE UON, 1957. Teak hull, on mooring, Pt. Escondido, Baja. Has had steady, quality maintenance. Ground tackle, rigging re¬ newed since 1987. Complete set sails, storm to spinnaker. Ready to cruise. $15,000. Call (713) 286-8120.
1974 36-FT CUTTER RIG. (40-ft LOA), 4-cyl. Perkins dsl., strong ferro-cement hull, walnut/oak interior, newthruhulls/seacocks, VHF, DS, 110v refrigeration. Spacious cabin, great liveaboard. Good, clean condition. Wheel or tiller steering. Brisbane slip. $23,000. (408) 353-4699.
CUTTER RIGGED DOUBLE ENDER. Well-built double-planked bronze fastened hull. Low hours Perkins diesel. Boat is complete, not pretty, cabin not comfy. 3 anchors, electric windlass, tanbark sails, propane stove/oven, head. 36-ft LOD, 45-ft LOA. $7,500 b/o. (916)873-4387.
33-FT TARTAN TEN. Well-maintained racer/ cruiser. Fully equipped. Motivated seller. $16,000 b/o. Call Chuck (510) 439-2150, (707) 747-7525 (days). CASCADE 36. Volvo diesel 25 hp, wind vane, autopilot, windlass, CQR & Danforth anchors, stereo, depth finder, 4 sets sails, new bottom paint & more. Atlantic veteran. $32,200. Call (415) 366-4523 (eves).
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34-FT WINDJAMMER CUSTOM FG dbl. end flush deck cutter. 42'6" LOA, Volvo, Aires, auto, SatNav, Ham, wind gen., etc. Launched 1982. So.Pac. vet, truly one-of-a-kind world cruiser. Load & gol S.B. slip available, come see her! $58,000. (805) 682-8922. TRAVELLER 32. Caribbean veteran, repowered 1985. Yanmar 3GM modified for ocean cruising, rerigged w/Sialoks/Norsemen, cold machine, Force 10 kerosene stove, furling jib, storm jib, bimini, VHF, autopilot, depthsounder. Wiil help finance, $36,500. (408) 423-4604.
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WYLIE34. Ready to win races: sails, electronics, cruising gear, lots of extras. Call for price & inventory. (415)326-6484. VALIANT 32. This is the one you've been waiting for! No dreaded bottom blisters. Peeled & re¬ placed w/a serious Interlux epoxy bottom. Less than 100 hrs. on the 1987 Westerbeke diesel, wheel steering, all North sails in great condition, LPUd rig, KM, DS, WP, WS, properly varnished bright work, plus a perfect teak interior w/lots of storage & all the amenities. The best value you’ll find in a blue water boat. $45,000. Call (415) 325-1036. PEARSON 36 CUTTER, 1982. Roller furling jib, windlass, dodger, bimini, davits, Loran, VHF, h/c water, 56 sails, Autohelm & more. Fresh interior w/ash & mahogany. Great cruiser/liveaboard. Liveaboard slip available in South San Francisco. $78,000. (415)742-6413. ATKINS “FORE-N-AFT” 1956 GAFF CUTTER. 5. F. Master Mariner. 39'x28'x9’6"x5! Cedar on oak, bronze clad, 25 hp diesel, VHF, wheel steer¬ ing, tdnbark sails (5). Insured $30,000, asking $28,000. Pilgrim. (510)373-1878. 1985 NEWPORT 33 w/Santa Cruz slip. Gucci boat, has all the toys. Needs clean partner. $5,000 down, $350/month. Randy (408) 423-0349 (home). ERICSON 381,1984. Bruce King design in excel¬ lent condition. Universal 30 diesel has less than 300 hours. Brand new bottom paint, new profurl jib system, new dodger, Datamarine repeater instruments, Loran, spacious clean interior sleeps 6. Ideal cruiser/racer. This boat really shines. $77,500. (415) 982-2013 (days), (415)221-9281 (eves). ISLANDER 36,1972. Good condition, 4 bags, 45 hp diesel, VHF, DS. $36,000 b/o. (510)865-7786 (eves). WOWIWOWiWOW! $1,000/ft buys this 1982 Catalina 38. Pregnancy requires larger boat. Great condition. AC/DC refrig., Marine battery charger, all gear goes w/Rascal. Full battened main, dodger, covers for everything. Trades up considered. Call Tim (510)215-6211.
32-FT SHOAL DRAFT FIN-KEEL SLOOP. The 1986 Clipper Marine Drifter is a great family Bay cruiser. A center cockpit, aft cabin fiberglass sloop that sleeps 6, w/3.5-ft draft, wheel steering & large compass. Now how much would you pay? Also has reefing jib, 15 hp “Sail Power" auxiliary, shorepower, h/c pressure water, porta-potti, ice¬ box, VHF, stereo & ground tackle. Asking only $10,900. At Oyster Cove. Call Charles (415) 225-0345. WM. ATKINS’ “ERIC”, V7/C/A/Gisfor saii/sale just in time to tune up for Master Mariners. Well equipped (12 bags, autopilot, etc.), well cruised, Pacificvetmanytimes. $24,000. SendSASEinfo J.O., 609 Valley Dr., Vista CA 92084. ERICSON 35. Excellent boat, great sailing, fine shape, super price! Many upgrades, newish sails, 3 jibs, roller furling, new digital instruments, new bottom paint, spinnaker gear, enlarged rudder, no blisters. Roomy, sleeps 6, comfortable, fast. Cruise or race. $29,950. (510)935-3701. ERICSON 32-FT, 1974. Excellent condition, die¬ sel wheel, full galley, main, working genoa & spinnaker, VHF stereo, Loran, depthsounder, knotmeter, windspeed, wind direction. Beautiful design, nice interior. $22,000. (415) 587-6040 (eves), (415) 957-5957 (days). CHINESE JUNK, 35-FT, 1968. Teak, Volvo die¬ sel, shower, head, sleeps6, well-maintained. Great liveaboard, something special. $30,000 b/o. Call Michael (415) 479-7128. ERICSON 35+, 1983. Excellent condition, new full-batten main & roller furled tri-radial Mylar genoa. Full instrumentation including Loran & Autohelm 4000. Diesel w/3 gelcells & 3-step regulator. Beautiful teak interior, fully enclosed head w/separate stall shower. $68,500. (415) 499-1395. 35-FT FIBERGLASS CUTTER. 7-ft headroom galley, head w/bathtub! Auxiliary motor, alumi¬ num mast/boom, sails, $15,500. Also: 38-ft Samson sloop, needs: mast, sails & interior finished, has diesel engine, $13,500. Both come w/liveaboard berths. (415)453-6961 (call noon¬ time).
40 TO 50 FEET 48-FT MAPLELEAF CUTTER/SLOOP, 1981 Bristol. You can eat off the engine deck on this center cockpit cruiser! Berber carpeting, 2 heads, 6'6" headroom, full electronics, water maker, dive compressor, etc. Excellent value for cruising couple. $179,900. (619)221-9111 (broker). 44-FT MASON KETCH. 1986. Quality yacht, impeccably maintained. Cruise equipped by ex¬ perienced owner. Top brand equipment includes 4.4 kw Westerbeke genset. Technautics coldplate freezer, Nilsson electric windlass, Autohelm 6000, SatNav, Avon & much more. Brochure on request. By original owner. $210,000. Call (805) 984-8739. 47-FT RHODES MOTOR SAILER, 1972. Fully loaded for ocean cruising. Heating & air condition¬ ing, complete kitchen, beautiful spacious interior, full size shower & facilities, twin diesel Perkins power plant & generator, flying bridge. $119,000 b/o. Call Chris (415) 493-7071.
40-FT SCHOONER, 1980. William Sauter-built. 3/8’ fiberglass over 1.5’ marine plywood rein¬ forced w/fir planking, white oak beams. Great hull, bilges dry, clean, 6’4" headroom, sleeps 8 easily, 3 staterooms, ample deck space. Replacement $100,000, yours $25,000, trade. (805) 927-8169. SPENCER 42 MOONUTE Family interior, lo¬ cated Loreto, Mexico, diesel. Write Chuck Conrad, APDO 62, Loreto BCS Mexico. GULFSTAR 50 KETCH. Water maker, genera¬ tor, microwave, IBM computer, fax, radar, Loran, Ham radios, diesel heater, RDF, cruising sails, VHF, depth, windspeed/point, knotmeter, Perkins diesel, Vac-U-Flush head & much more. Never chartered, great condition, U.S. made. $145,000. Call Alex (415) 368-5488. 40- FT SEA WOLF KETCH, 1976. Garden de¬ sign, fiberglass, original owners & in Bristol condi¬ tion. New masts & rigging, Perkins 4-108, fully equipped cruising vet. Too much gear to list. Start your Pacific adventure from Hawaii. Call Lindsay (808) 842-3084 (Iv msg). $65,000.
WESTSAIL 42,1979. Factory custom yawl, 85 hp Perkins, 7.5 kw gen., 300 each diesel/water, full electronics, teak decks, full bimini, lots of sails, extras, new rigging. $90,000. (714)646-9927.
SPENCER 42. Yanmar 44 JHE, Furuno radar, refinished bottom, no blisters, new rigging, refrig., dodger, VHF, Ham, SatNav, 10 sails, autopilots, windvane, wind instruments, 195 gal. diesel, 2 Avons, o/b, complete cruising package. 3 pg. inventory. $70,000 b/o. (415)341-8337.
REINFORCED MAGNIFICENCE. Custom order (1989) famous Tartan 40-ft, balsa core super strong hull/deck, watertight bulkheads (BOC spec), collision chamber, step-down mast, extra rigging, direct outflow cockpit, internal rain collecting sys¬ tem. Fiberglass dodger. More! Equipped for extensive ocean sailing. Price neg. Call (415) 726-2560.
THE ULTIMATE SEA BOAT! Rare Hans Chris¬ tian 43 ketch w/performance hull, special cruising layout. Loaded & ready. Fast, stable, luxurious, beautiful. Copper fireplace, marble table, velvet settees, 3 staterooms, 12 winches, 6 sails. A bargain at $138,500. (415)331-0723.
PAJARA, 1937 45-FT OCEAN RACER. Master Mariner class champion. 1941 Transpac 2nd. $35,000 b/o. Will finance. (800) 487-8443. CAL 46-3. Beautifully cruise equipped. Furling main, new dodger, Avon rig, davits, 2 electric windlasses, 60# CQR, 2 Danforth anchors, 400-ft chain, 4 kw diesel generator, 3 kw cruising gen¬ erator, watermaker, scuba compressor, radar, Ham, SatNav, Loran & much more! $129,000. (408) 354-4079.
PEARSON 36 CUTTER, 1982. Roller furling jib, windlass, dodger, bimini, davits, Loran, VHF, h/c water, 5 sails, Autohelm & more. Fresh interior w/ ash & mahogany. Great cruiser/liveaboard. $78,000. (415)742-6413.
CUSTOM 46-FT SLOOP. Robert Salthouse of New Zealand design. Loaded! $149,500. (619) 437-0176.
J36. Excellent racing or cruising B&G, Loran, VHF, stereo, autopilot, LPG stove/oven, refrigera¬ tion, dodger, full sail inventory, more. $62,900. (310) 376-4960.
CHRISTINA 43 by Hans Christian 1991. Shows like new. Performance cruising yacht. Teak decks, Hood sails, full batten main, Harken roller furling, 66 hp Yanmar diesel. Interior teak & marble, forward & aft heads. $189,950. (916) 424-6013. CRUISING CAL 40. Modified interior with private mooring in San Carlos, Sonora. $55,000. Call Jim Austin for complete equipment list (213) 935-7671.
DEL REY 50,1986. 45-ft factory-made fiberglass hull & deck. 12,500 lb. lead ballast installed. Inexpensive storage/working area. Dickerson diesel stove, WC, heads. 21’ bandsaw, misc. $12,000 firm. (510)932-4339. 41- FT CHEOY LEE KETCH, offshore Richards design, 1977. Customized for worldwide sailing. Replacement $150,000, sell $75,000. Call (805) 658-7703. FREEPORT 41,1976. $66,000 firm. New70hp engine w/195 gal. fuel, radar, SatNav, Loran, 190 gal. of hot pressure water, 3.5 kw gen., 35# & 45# CQRs w/350-ft chain to electric windlass, roller furling jib, new gennaker, self-tailing winches. Principals only call (408) 252-7391. 1986 HANS CHRISTIAN 41T, cutter, roller furl¬ ing, head sails, performance hull, 90 hp Volvo, Autohelm, Furuno Loran, B&G instruments, ICOM VHF, radar detector, deluxe “Molokai" interior w/ forest green velour, 2 queen berths, 2 heads. Principals only. $169,000. (510) 523-5334 (Alameda).
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1986 BENETEAU FIRST 405. Bristol condition, large aft stateroom, full Datamarine instruments, spinnaker rigged, propane stove, refer, microwave, 6-speaker in/out CD system, 4 hp o/b, dodger. No brokers (415) 282-1500 (days), (510) 748-0151 (eves). $109,500. 1980 PETERSON CUTTER "Formosa 46.” 80 hp Ford Lehman diesel, teak decks, hauled 4/91, excellent condition. $75,500. Call Miles (510) 930-7371 or Doug (510) 254-9756. ROBERTS 43 AIREX cored hull w/8000 lbs bal¬ last no deck. Reduced from $8,000 to $6,000. Call Bob (408) 685-9735, (209) 728-8803. ERICSON 41 SLOOP. Dark blue hull. 60 hp Isuzu, Monitor, Furuno, MagnavoxSatNav, 60 lb. CQR, 230-ft chain, 180% Hood jib, Harken furl, spinnaker w/chute scoop, storm sails, 6-man liferaft, Fatty Knees sailing skiff, solar panels, propane Force 10 BBQ, cabin heater, 3-burner stove w/oven, Wolter water heater, emergency watermaker, new dodger/canvas/cockpit cush¬ ions. Mahogany interior w/green mohair uphol¬ stery. Moss Landing slip. $65,000. Call (408) 757-5866. 43-FT ALUMINUM RETIRED IOR RACE BOAT. Cruised Mexico double-handed. Won Race Week '91. Some cruising gear, has slip in Hawaii. $43,000. (808)946-7051. 45-FT FG SLOOP w/roller furling, sailing dink, dodger, propane stove, large refer., 5 new batter¬ ies, like-new Perkins diesel, 3 sails in good shape, just hauled. $39,950. 381-8310,485-6044. 47-FT SLOOP S&S. One of S.F. Bay’s most beautiful & well-constructed wooden yachts. To see her is to love her. Sleeps 7, large cockpit, autopilot, electronics, many sails. 2-boat family, must sell. $57,500 b/o. 331-0907. KNIGHTRIDER DAVIDSON 40. Cold-molded Kauri wood. Winner 1990 Vic-Maui Race but also an excellent cruising boat. In excellent condition & very well equipped. $70,000 b/o. Call (206) 676-8939.
SAMARKAND, 55-FT S&S YAWL by Abeking & Rasmussen. Bermuda race winner, transAtlantic & Mexico vet, actively sailed & raced. Strong, correct & strikingly beautiful w/pages of recent inventory. Ready to go now, change of plans forces sale at $259,500. (510) 582-3613 (princi¬ pals only). 58-FT CUSTOM STEEL KETCH. Divorce sale. 15-ft beam, launched 1988,fresh 471 Detroit 165 hp. Full electronics, full galley, wet bar, 2 heads & shower. Large salon, 3 staterooms, large forepeaks storage, hauled 7/91. $134,000. (707) 553-1861,645-9299. FORSALE BYBUILDER. L.F. Herreschoff Marco Polo, 1985 3-masted schooner, 55 x 10 x 5.8, Detroit 2-71, sleeps 8, composite construction, proven passage maker, extensive cruise inven¬ tory. Anchored Jupiter, Florida. $85,000 or trade for trailoring shoai cruiser or real estate. (707) 964-0487. MACGREGOR’S MACGREGOR 65 FOR SALE. One-of-a-kind, builder's personal racing yacht. 1987 tall rig, 7 halyards, 5 jibs, 4 spinnakers, 13 winches, off-shore electronics. $129,500. (510) 549-9497. 65-FT(OB) FERRO GAFF-RIGGED fishing ketch. All sails, davits, all electronics, 471 diesel, will trade or take low cash deal. See Peter Weber, “D” Dock, Seabreeze Marina, Oakland, CA or write c/o P.O. Box 9751, Berkeley, CA 94709.
53-FT SLOOP, NZ-built, 1982. Cold-molded, John Spencer design. Luxury teak interior but fast. Comfortable, easy to sail, great liveaboard. Cruise orTransPac ready! Asking $125,000 b/o. McKay, Box 30747, Honolulu, HI 96820, (808) 941-3264, Fax (808) 524-1097.
53-FT ROBERTS FIBERGLASS HULL including complete blueprints & full size patterns. Still on building frame ready for transport. Mover avail¬ able. Must sell at drastically reduced price of $4,900 b/o. (209) 357-1956.
31-FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN. 90% com¬ plete. Mast rigging, winches, West system. Ill¬ ness forces sale - ends dream. It’s a giveaway at $8,000 firm. (707) 374-6032 (eves).
40-FT HINKLEY CUTTER, 1955. Radiant. Geo. Owen designed, double planked mahogany/ce¬ dar on oak. Much local race history, Sausalito Boardwalk berth, completely rebuilt 1990/91. If you want a restored “Rolls Royce," this is it. $85,000. Call John (415) 387-5757.
30- FT PIVER TRIMARAN. Pilothouse, galley, inboard Yanmar, solar panels. Needs mast. Cal! (707) 829-3428 for more info. Must sell (trade?).
MULTIHULLS 41-FT TRIMARAN KETCH. Professionally built. Avoid preparation stress! All new cruising toys & electronics. Climb aboard & sail away. Currently sailing Sea of Cortez. Buying larger trimaran. Air fare deductible from purchase price of $75,000. Will deliver. (916)453-0693. NEW 65-FT CAT. Cruise or charter, USCGcertif., 49 pas., day charter/term charter, galley, 4 dbl cabins, 2 crew cabins, wingmast, 140 Yanmar dsl., much more. Over $600,000 invested, make offer - will consider partner. (305) 527-1450 (Florida). 50-FT TRIMARAN. Foil ocean race, good condi¬ tion. High-performance, very fast 25+ knots, 7 sails, jib furl, 10 winches, Nike computer, VHF, water maker, generators alot more. Ask $75,000, now$49,000/offers. (510) 736-8093 (days), (415) 474-6480 (eves).
CLASSICS CLASSIC CHAPELLE SCHOONER, 42-FT on deck. Gaff rig, built 1954 by Geise. Fir on oak, Pisces diesel. Great liveaboard or world cruiser. Asking $28,000. Call John (415) 969-6575. 18-FT GAFF-RIGGED MAHOGANY/OAK full cover. 6.5 o/b, brass & bronze fittings, 2 berths, new paint in & out, battery, lamps, upholstery, etc. $4,000 ortrade for trailerable plasticclassic. (916) 878-7761. 34-FT SUNSET CLASS, 1937 DEWITT DESIGN sloop by Thos. Short. Recent decks & bottom paint. $5,500. (510) 653-0354.
51 FEET & OVER
26-FT DOUBLE-END GAFF SLOOP, Master Mariners candidate, 1939 restored, cedar, oak, copper. $7,500 b/o. Galilee Harbor, Sausalito. (415) 332-4741.
PIC 26 X 6 X 4 classic racer/daysailer woodie, sitting headroom in cuddy cabin - entire boat rebuilt in '88. New U.K. main, Starbuck canvas, brand new 3.5 Tohatsu longshafL Pretty, great sailer. $22,000. (707) 865-1767. 1931 CHARACTER BOAT EXTRAORDINAIRE. 22-ft LOD sloop w/self-tending jib, 4-cyl. inboard, stout seaworthy constr. Atkins design. $2,500 b/o, trade. Call Joe (510) 532-8953.
25-FT PIVER MARINER COMPLETE HULL & plans, $1,000 b/o. 45 lb. Wishbone anchor, $50. Polaris VHF radio, new in box, $25. Call Larry (510) 432-2510 (after 6 pm). SUPERCAT 20-FT CATAMARAN, 1984. Very fast & in good condition. Includes trailer, custom sail box & double set of beach cat wheels. $4,700. Call Dan (408) 730-5117 (Santa Cruz, CA). 32-FT PIVER TRIMARAN. Excellent condition, great liveaboard w/sink, stove/oven, hot water, 10 hpHondao/b, newpaint, wheel steering, anchors, lifelines, double trapeze, PFDs, flares, charts, ladder, compass, etc. $14,500 b/o. Call (510) 522-2391.
41-FT PIVER AA TRIMARAN. Professionally built, ketch rigged, equipped for cruising. New sails & many extras. A proven boat. $31,000. Call (707) 984-6742 for details. 28-FT WH ARRAM CAT. FG over ply - all sound. No leaks, 16 hp Suzuki, good rig, double forestay, 3 sails, all good shape. Anchors, chain, rode, battery, lights, VHF. Nice boat in Port Sonoma berth. $4,000 b/o. (415)868-2522. PRINDLE16,1981. Fast, perfect for couples, good condition. Trailer, cat box, cover, double trap. $1,800. (408)287-5868. 40-FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN. Under con¬ struction. Mast, rigging, diesel engine, sails, portlights & hatches, steering system, stove, con¬ struction plans & materials & much more. $25,000. Call Gene (408) 263-7633. 31- FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN. 3 hulls only. $900. Call Gene (408) 263-7633. PIVER 33 TRIMARAN ketch, aluminum masts, tanbark sails, 9.9 o/b in well, VHF, DS, stereo. Sleeps 6, berthed Vallejo, 4 sails, good Bay boat or liveaboard, propane stove. $7,000. Call (415) 457-5618 (3-9 pm) for appointment.
POWER & HOUSEBOATS 40-FT VALIANT PI LOTHOUSE. 1980 by Uniflite. Much better than new. One owner, professionally maintained, outstanding cruiser/liveaboard. Amenities include: Wood-Freeman autopilot, 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 & specs. Asking $175,000. (408) 371-0180.
H2 CROSS TRI, 1986. Documented, cutter rig, furling head, sails, Airex construction, pilothouse, aft cabin, 2 heads, vanity, 4 dbl berths, 36 hp Bukh, equipped ocean cruising or liveaboard. $60,000: Miss Canada, Club Cruceros, Apdo Postal 366, La Paz Mexico.
1928 50-FT CLASSIC STEPHENS M.Y. Located in Sausalito. Excellent condition throughout. Beautiful brightwork. Spacious interior w/full gal¬ ley, 2 staterooms, 2 heads & shower. Flybridge, twin diesel. $125,000 or partial trade for real estate in Southern Marin County. Call (415) 398-2159.
37-FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN, BUILT 1979. Good liveaboard, cruiser/Bay sailer. Mexico vet¬ eran, strong, fast. West system epoxy, Marine plywood, 4 sails, fiberglass dinghy, stove, refrig¬ erator. Too many extras to list. Inventory, photo¬ graph available. $29,500. Dennis (916) 361-0639.
1936 STEPHENS 36-FT SEDAN CRUISER. 5 owners since new. Original layout of cabin. Sur¬ veyed in 1991. Much restoration work done, excellent Bay & Delta cruiser. Needs only cos¬ metics. $16,000. (415) 431-1100 (days), (415) 331-6314 (eves).
MACGREGOR'S MACGREGOR 65 FOR SALE
50-FT PIVER TRIMARAN
One of a kind, builder's personal racing yacht: 1987 tall rig, 7 halyards, 5 jibs, 4 spinnakers, 13 winches, off-shore electronics. $129,500 (510)549-9497
1974 Ketch, Perkins 4-108, Radar, Loran, VHF, SSB, RDF, Autopilot, 1992 Survey. Reduced $25,750. Stockdale Marine, 4730 Myrtle Ave., Sacramento, CA 95841 (916) 332-0775, Fax (916) 332-2500.
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40-FT DEFEVER TRAWLER, 1973. USA con¬ structed. Very spacious tri-cabin. Twin 120 hp Lehman diesels, 8 kw Onan, dual AC, fridge/ freezer, electric range, heads, hot water. New canvas, brightwork, bottom, batteries & zincs. Bristol condition. Perfect liveaboard. $72,000 firm. (214)235-7239. FLOATING HOMES FOR SALE!. Alameda, in¬ credible lifestyle! 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath for $139,000. 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath for $145,000. Sunny, decks, fireplaces. Safe, secure & close to shops/gym. If you are interested in buying or selling, call Paul Galloway (510) 339-1400. CHRIS CRAFT POWER BOAT. Twin V8s, 1984 fiberglass flybridge, canvas, screens, new plastic. Very clean. Asking $42,000. (510) 444-8484 (days), (510) 534-0735 (eves). 46-FT CHRIS CRAFT CONSTELLATION 1964. Repowered '88 twin 454 Chevy engines, fresh water cooled, new prop shafts, canvas, bottom paint, fully equipped, well maintained, recent haulout, current survey, Oyster Point Marina, SSF. Ideal liveaboard! $80,000. (415) 952-6522. 65-FT PILOTHOUSE MOTORSAILER. Built 1946, William Hand design. Spaciousstaterooms, excellent liveaboard/cruise. Hull (wood, refastened, 1980), sails, machinery in good con¬ dition. Diesel power 6-71,3.5 & 5.5 kw genera¬ tors, 750 gals, fuel/water. Reduced for quick sale: $72,000. (310)548-1532. 29-FT OWENS 1959 CABIN CRUISER. Fixer upper, has great potential. Berthed in SSF. Ac¬ cepting best offer. Call Renee (415) 468-8321, 864-7645. 44-FT STRIKER. Completely refurbished: Awlgrip above, Micron 33 below, tuna tower, twin 8-71 s, 12 kw generator, 3 kw inverter, watermaker, new carpets & upholstery, new Furuno radar, Loran, VHFs, fathometer logs & AM/FM radios, twin ULine refrigerators w/freezers, JennAir range, mi¬ crowave oven. 162,000. (510)2364551.
PARTNERSHIPS TIMESHARE36-FT ISLANDER SAILBOAT. An elegant sloop for sailing & entertaining. Interior is mahogany, dark blue velour cushions, teak & holly sole. Roller furling jib, self-tailing winches, wheel steering w/Autohelm 3000 autopilot, wind direction/wind speed, depthsounder & knotmeter, 27 hp Westerbeke diesel, 2 pairs of 12-volt batter¬ ies, VHF, AM/FM stereo cassette radio, color TV & VCR, mahogany-finished cabinets w/canewebbed fronts in salon, DC refrigerator, h/c pres¬ sure water, shower, LectraSan sanitation unit (CoastGuard approved). Berthed at Emery Cove, Marina, Emeryville. $300/month. Call (415) 753-3607.
CAL 31. Alameda berth. 5 sails. Only $150/ month covers all. Exp. sailors or willing to learn only. For details & a trial sail call Mike or Loma (510)865-5147.
TRADE WILLTRADE 3-BEDROOM HOME w/2 bedroom in-law, Marin Cty., ($110,000 equity) for cruising sailboat approx. 50-60-ft, 3 staterooms, inside/ outside steering, steel, glass, cold-molded hull up to $200,000. Call (415) 924-0735 or Fax (415) 927-2648.
T1MESHARE OPPORTUNITY. Enjoy our profes¬ sionally maintained, well-equipped Ranger 33. Prime upwind Berkeley berth, roller furling, knotmeter, depthsounder, Loran, VHF, LectraSan head, CNG galley, wheel, safety package, more. 25% usage includes berthing, insurance, fuel, maintenance, etc. $200/month. 525-7477 (eves).
1982TOYOTA DOLPHIN 21-ft mini motor home. $54,000. Good condition, trade for sailboat - 2227-ft, approx, value $7,000. (415) 726-6319 (morn¬ ings).
PEARSON 30 SLOOP. 1/3 ownership, 1/2 up¬ keep. Berthed S.F. Marina, excellent condition, new furling jib, diesel, radio/telephone, new cush¬ ions, low maintenance. $7,500. (415)434-5534 (day), (415) 334-5884 (eves/wkends).
PROPERTY FOR SAILBOAT. 3 mountain acres w/view in historic artist colony of Woodstock, New York for blue water fiberglass or metal sailboat. Trade Catalina 22 sailboat, needs work, & AT computer w/software for nautical & other stuff. (415) 897-3060.
MORGAN 38 PARTNERSHIP. One week/month available. San Francisco Pier 39 location. Sloop rig w/diesel auxiliary. Excellent condition. Fully equipped for Bay or ocean cruising. Experienced sailors. $300/month includes all maintenance. Security deposit required. (415) 328-2408. CENTURION 42. Luxury racer/cruiser by Wacquiez. Like new. Sausalito berth. All ameni¬ ties. 1/3 partnership available. Call for details. (415)342-0101.
WANTED
ALBIN VEGA 27 OR RANGER 26 wanted in Bay Area. 1974 model year or later preferred. Must be in good condition. Instant cash available for good boat. Particulars to Douglas or leave message. (707) 939-1873. NAUTICAL ANTIQUES WANTED: telegraphs, binnacles, telescopes, wheels, compasses, dive hats, flare guns, big binoculars, good ship models, etc. Call Stu (510) 523-1089 (3-9 PST).
SAN DIEGO-AMERICA’S CUP-FUN! Bed& breakfast on a very comfortable 50-ft bluewater cruiser at Harbor Island. Spacious private cabin, full dbl. bunk. Gracious, tasty, entertaining. Close to airport, central to city & water attractions. $65 dbl. (619)298-5118.
GETTOP$ FOR YOUR NAUTICAL ANTIQUES. Call Steve (415) 331-5551, (800) 788-5111.
ADAMS WINDVANE for 30-ft sloop. Consider Monitor or Navik too. Also in need of sportboat type inflatable & short shaft o/b 6-8 hp. Charts from Baja, Western Mex. & south. Call Norman 931-6881.
CASH FOR 3K + DIESEL generator set. Give hours - (916) 525-5658 (Iv msg) or Fax 525-5940 (Tahoe).
SAIL SAN FRANCISCO BAY. Daily departures out of Sausalito aboard our 35-ft sailboat Morn¬ ing, afternoon & sunset cruises. Flexible hours, rates negotiable. Call for more information. (415) 898-9525.
PADDLE FOR NAVIC self-steering vane. Can trade windsurf gear, surf stuff, and/or wetsuits. Also need reasonable priced boat worker, 4/14 through 4/28. Basic sanding & painting. Chance to learn yacht maintenance from the bottom up. (808) 579-9986 (call collect - morning best).
CRUISE EQUIP. Anchors 60+ lbs, 350-ft 3/8 chain, charts, blocks 3”, winch ST 3’ drum, Ham, radar, 2-3 oz. light air genoa or drifter luff approx. 55-ft, watermaker, wind generator, 15-ft whisker pole, etc. (415) 728-0248 (eves), (415) 852-5152 (days).
OFFSHORE GIVENS OR SEARCH & RESCUE Switlik liferaft, double floor, foul or 6-man, in good condition. (206) 851-1965.
BOATS FOR CHARTER
SO HAVENT SOLD YOUR BOAT YET... Why not lease it? Clean & responsible individual wants 35-ft+ liveaboard power or sail to lease 3-5 years. Will pay up to $600/month. Option to buy consid¬ ered. Call Mike (510) 806-8822, (408) 274-2520 (Iv msg).
WANTED: 50-70-FT steel or aluminum yacht. (Ideal: Deerfoot). Exchange for residential real estate. 3 houses in Oceanside, California, 3 incredible acres w/cottage, 1 medium-size house in Kauai, Hawaii. Trade value $1400,000. Call John Powell (310) 457-8621.
TIMESHARE34-FT KETCH. Wooden boat, clas¬ sic, mahogany/teak/bronze, sleeps 6. 1 week/ month. Tiburon berthed. (415) 383-0545 (Iv msg). 1/3 SHARE COLUMBIA 26. Berthed Gas House Cove, S.F. Marina. Virtually unlimited use, dry boat, headroom, sleeps 5, sail the Bay & have a place to stay in the city. $1,800 b/o. Call (415) 826-8595. 2 shares available.
BOAT SIT/LEASE of 30-ft+ sailboat for livea¬ board. West Bay or Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay. Desire April/May through July. We want to try liveaboard lifestyle while looking for a new home. Call Bruce (408) 756-1423.
FULL SET OF CHARTS S.F. BAY NORTH, in¬ side passage through Canada & Southeast Alas¬ kan panhandle. 332-7933. SUMMER SUBLET WANTED. S.F. City front for racing Bear 23-ft, no sea lions. Call Bob (415) 765-6904 (days), (415) 574-0504 (eves). TRAILER FOR CATALINA 22. Swing keel. (415) 897-1809 (Iv msg). SAUSALITO YC WANT YOU to sign up for the Tuesday Night Sunset Series! It’s 10 races begin¬ ning May 5, with a party each night afterwards. Good courses & perfect weather are guaranteed! Come to our Crew List Party on April 21 to learn more. Call Bill Riley 388-2446 (days), or Rob Moore 331-3134 (eves).
SAILORS NEED BOAT. Ex-boat owners seek part-time lease on 27-35-ftcruiserw/spinnaker for fun & entertainment. Over 10 years sailing expe¬ rience. East Bay location (Alameda preferred). Lease/purchase option? Local references avail¬ able. Mike (510) 795-9250 or Jeff (510) 939-0436. MONTGOMERY 17-FT. Please write or call Phil Nevearez, 1004 Crellin Rd., Pleasanton, CA 94566,(510)846-3941. ChuckS. Think it over, let’s talk.
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DAWSON 26. Please write Ed Hart, 24 Sand Island Rd., #27, Honolulu, HI 96819.
USED GEAR HARKEN HARDWARE, too numerous to list. Used racing sails off National Biscuit & Sunstreaker, I=41.4-ft, J = 12.4-ft, P=44.3-ft, E = 15.8-ft. 2 med #1,1 hvy #1,1 main, 1 1/2 oz. spinnaker. Details & prices on application. Nego¬ tiable offers encouraged. Call Colin Case (415) 441-0197.
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CHARTER A PASSPORT 40 SAILBOAT Fast, comfortable 40-ft sloop is sparkling clean. Equipment includes dinghy, dodger, full instrumentation, roller-furling headsail, two private staterooms, head w/shower, refrigeration, VHF, stereo, propane stove w/oven, and much more. Call George or Joan (206) 821-1208.
Seeking well-maintained and insured boats for charter and/or bed and breakfast. N&n Sandusky (510) 527-4298 -4-A-►
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LEATHER WHEEL COVER /'Wheel Diamete Custom Fit. Includes: Pre-punched holes, Waxed polyester thread, Stitching f V V instructions, Needle. Available in blue-grey, buckskin and black. Kit or SrvRim/\ ;j Installed. Measure A & B. Call or Fax: BOAT LEATHER: Custom Leather ‘V Circumference Products for the Marine Environment. (800) 468-9110: Fax (206) 283-7613 MAINE COAST CHARTERS Cruise our spectacular coast. The finest sailing in the east! 4Q yachts: sail and power to 51'. ASA Sailing School offering land/sail vacation packages. BAY ISLAND YACHT CHARTER CO. P.O. Box 639, Camden, ME 04843 800-421-2492
SATNAV. Magnavox MX 4102, current produc¬
LECTRA-SAN WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM,
tion model. Includes Brookes & Gatehouse inter¬
12v, excellent condition, used very little, $300.
face & antenna. $1,200 or negotiable offer. (415)
Swim platform (fiberglass), 22" wide, 122" long, w/
441-0197,(415)331-1924.
all mounting brackets, excellent condition, $500. (408) 370-2709 (days), (408) 358-2966 (eves).
THE BEST SSB IN THE WORLD: ICOMM700
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MISCELLANEOUS BAY AREA WOMEN ATTHE HELM (BAWATH),
CREW WANTED:
a Lesbian boating club open to all women, invites
Division 3 Hobie Cat regattas. A positive attitude
Race a Hobie 16 in 1992
Perfect
REBUILT VOLVO MARINE DIESEL engine, 12
boaters to join us for day sails, outings & other
& a desire to win a must. Oh, it's fun too! Contact
condition. Lists for $3,150. Moved to Chicago &
events. For information on our upcoming sails,
Mi ke M urphy (916) 974-1415 or write4038 Logston
don't need. Sell for $1,500 b/o. Call Jim Schrager
hp single cylinder, $800. The engine comes w/a monel steel shaft & 3-bladed propeller. Richard
call (415) 431-4644.
Ct., Sacramento, CA 95821.
(219)232-2201.
King (408) 752-6499 (days), (510) 455-0746
SSB w/AT 120 fully automatic tuner.
(eves).
FOLDING PROP, Martec III Eliptic, 16" dia, 14
1978 OMC REPOWER PACKAGE: 235 hp 10,
ABLE-BODIED SCUBA INSTRUCTOR (43)
rebuilt 351 engine & rebuilt electro shift out-drive,
wants to learn his “ass from his elbow" before
pitch, 1" bore, right hand. $400 new, $250 sale.
MAINSAIL BY SHORE, 7 oz. Dacron, luff = 39-ft,
fresh water cooling, True Course steering system,
taking Captains papers. Willing to work any ocean
(916)422-7476.
foot=11 -ft, good condition, triple-stitched, dbl reef
gauges, many extras. $4,600. (415)846-7582.
- anytime. Mates experience includes Cayman
SURPLUS BOAT BOTTOM PAINT. Hard red
Club Dr., Santa Cruz, CA 95060, (408) 429-6456.
Islands liveaboard.
points. $300 b/o. Call Fred (415) 435-9513.
y.
6HPO/B. 1974 longshaft Evinrude. Just tuned.
Contact Dennis, 337 Golf
Tank, hose, transom, bracket & manual. $400.
HONDA O/B MOTOR, 7.5 hp, 4-stroke, longshaft,
vinyl anti-fouling paint. Mfg. Woolsey. 72% cop¬
(510)458-1933.
pull-start, w.g. condition. $300. (415)871-6306
per. Reg.price; $180/gal. My price $50/gal. Also
NAVIGATOR/CREW AVAILABLE summer 1992
(days), (415) 775-9869 (eves).
black vinyl & other mfg. available. Abla’ding paint,
either to/from Hawaii. Male, adaptable, sense of
50% copper, $50/gal.
humor, age 45.
RAYTHEON R-10 RASTOR SCANNER RADAR for sale. 2 yrs old, works great. Selling to upgrade to a larger radar. $1,200. (510)846-7582.
SPINNAKER 3/4 OZ. Luff & leach 46, foot 27,
SAILS FOR SALE. Brand new main, P = 35, E =
Primer epoxy, $10/gal.
Send expectations & require¬
ments to G. Johnson, 6106 Riverside Dr„
Polyurethane, $20/gal. (415)588-4678.
Vancouver, WA 98661.
11, will fit Ericson 28 or similar, $550. Cruising spin., J = 10.75-ft, I = 30-ftw/sock, will fit 25-27-ft
BOAT BUILDER/SPONGY WOODBOATS/one-
boat, $450. (415) 366-3597.
off construction. C-Flex (C-65) fiberglass plank¬
CRUISE THE WORLD - 5 YEARS.
ing (unopened 3+ rolls), $500/roll b/o. Sufficient
sailing partners. GPS, SatNav, sextant, EPIRB,
great shape, $900. Stay-sail mizzen 3/4 oz., luff
Seeking
26, leach 24, foot 22 w/pennant, great shape,
SAILBOAT GEARCLOSEOUT. 40-60%off most
for 42-ft LOA. Call (707) 546-8457 (days), (707)
autopilot, liferaft, whirlpool spa, washer/drier, VCR,
$250. Call John (510) 215-0293.
items:
579-1 $98 (eves).
air/heat, ref/freezer, luxurious galley, 3 staterooms.
Staloks, winches, blocks, turnbuckles,
Cost share $500/month. All inclusions. Bermuda;
Martec props, travelers, cleats, clocks, anchors,
Axores, Spain, Med., Canaries, Venezuela,
50 HP BMW DIESEL. 2 to 1 reduction gear.
toilets, shaft logs, staffing boxes, cabin heaters,
TRAILER. 1979 Calkins single-axle for fixed keel
Excellent condition, will bench test it for you.
cabin lights, running lights, compasses & much
sailboat. Will fit up to 24-25-ft. Approximately
Panama, So. Pacific, Australia, New Zealand.
$2,500. (707)554-2813.
more. (408)263-7633.
3,000 to 3,500 lbs. Excellent tires, bearing bud¬
Contact Bill Beckerstaff, 123 Estey St. N, Luverne,
dies & keel guides. Perfect for Santa 22/J-24 or
MA 56156.
USED SAILS - FURLING GENOA 7.5 Dacron w/
RACING & CRUISING SAILS for Beneteau first
similar^ Current license tags. Very good condi¬
white UV Dacron furling cover leech & foot, luff =
42. I = 55.45-ft, J = 16.73-ft, P = 49.21-ft, E =
tion. $1,200 b/o.' 332-9231.
CREW WANTED: 2 m/f crew persons needed for
55.4, foot=26.4, leech = 51.8, LP = 24.52, area =
14.60-ft. Racing: Light #1 Mylar, $1,200. Heavy
679, #6 luff tape, $400- Mylar genoa 3.4 oz., luff
#1 Kevlar (like new), $2,500. #3 Kevlar (like new),
LOTS OF GOOD READING still left in these '70s
35-ft sailboat in excellent condition. Easygoing
=57, foot=26.6, leech=53.6, LP=24.84, area=
$2,200. All North in excellent condition. 1.5 oz.
& '80s-era sailing magazines. I have about 150
44-yr-old, USCG lie. skipper. You should have
708, $300. Triradial spinnaker 3/4 oz„ luff=55.9,
Sobstad spinnaker (never used), $1,750. Cruis¬
issues of Sail,
some offshore exp. & lots of enthusiasm. Call Phil
foot = 33.7, area = 1828, black & white, $500.
ing:
Fullbatten main w/Dutchman reef system,
Yachting, Motorboating & Sailing & even a few Cruising WortdsM I wantto get rid of.
Furling genoa 9 oz. Dacron w/white Acrilon furling
includes boom topping & hardware, $15,000.
How does free sound? Only 2 conditions: you
Hawaii-San Francisco crossing in May '92. Sleek
(408) 377-7951.
cover, luff = 54.8, foot = 19.4, leech = 49.8, LP =
150% furling genoa, $1,200.
85% furling jib,
have to drive to Mill Valley (Latitude office) & you
17.58, area=482, $475. Robin (415) 332-4104 (8
(new) $1,000. All Elvstrom in good to excellent
have to take them all - no grazing. Call John R. if
serious racing. You need athletic ability, desire to
am to 5 pm).
condition. (510) 793-2490.
you need to know more (415) 383-8200.
win, spinnaker experience & most important, the
YANMAR 2QM20,20 hp, good condition, $2,250.
JIB, STAYSAIL & MAIN for sale from 48-ft mast.
CREW ON SANTANA 22 for practice/daysails &
ability to honor your commitments (keep your Lewmar 48 3-speed winches, $950 each. Solid
Working sails from Hans Christian 38. In good
boom vang, suits 30-45-footer, needs rigging,
condition.
$250. (510)236-5716.
Main, $800. (415)331-5916.
Yankee jib, $300.
Staysail, $425.
word). Call Mike (415) 967-7886.
BERTHS & SLIPS
ATTRACTIVE WIDOW, 40ish, N/S, independent, longs to return to life of 1st mate.
Looking for
adventure, extended bluewater cruising & de¬
13" X 9" MARTEC FOLDING PROP. 17" Martec
YUPPIE DIESEL. 6 hp BMW w/2.7 reduction &
SAUSALfTO 50-FT SLIP: available July/August.
2-blade feathering prop.
panel. Compact, 165 lbs. Runs, but low compres¬
Best marina/all amenities. Sharon (916) 646-1684.
Gunmount spinnaker
set-up for Freedom 3638. Used genoa 34’6" luff,
sion. $500. (415)474-4081.
have 5 years cruising experience, I am depend¬ able, enthusiastic, hard working, healthy, trim &
REDWOOD CITY SAILING CENTER. RCSCisa
leech 31’2", foot 17’, LP 15'6". 1.5 oz. spinnaker,
serted sandy beaches, wherever that may be. I
open to new experiences. Please write D. Taylor,
34’6" x 20.25". Almost new: 1.5 oz. drifter, 49'5"
ENGINE, 4 CYLINDER, 70 hp, Gray Marine gas
small privately owned marina in the South Bay.
P.O. Box 54, Todos Santos, BCS Mexico 23300 or
x 17.8", 1/2 oz. spinnaker 49.25' x 25.79,3/4 oz.
engines transmission. Completely rebuilt. $350.
Berths available from 25-70-ft. Power & water,
fax 011-52-682-40170.
spinnaker, 33.75 x 17.8. Danforth D 40 anchor.
(415) 368-7018.
phone available, locking gate, maintenance pro¬ grams & emergency services. Adjacent to 2 full-
CREW WANTED for casual day sailing on the Bay
HONDA 10 HP SHORT SHAFT O/B, like new
service restaurants, yacht club, broker, etc. (415)
w/or w/out sailing exp.
condition, $895. Martec folding prop, 11/4x20x
365-8686.
diesel, roller furling, wheel, located S.F. Marina
Fiberglass
BERTHS AVAILABLE. Live/work maritime co¬
tion to the boat maint. Call Kitty 563-3747.
dockside 4-step/storage boarding steps, $750
operative. Galilee Harbor, Sausalito. Call (415)
new, now $350. Zippered engine blanket, $800
332-8554.
Roger (510) 523-8773 (days), (510) 352-5302 (eves).
REBUILT ADLER-BARBOUR cold machine, $350.
Teak boarding ladder, $75.
15, R.H., $295. 924-9727.
Beautiful Catalina 30
Harbor (Marina Green). Cost: $20/month dona¬
SKIPPERS & CREW make boating connections.
new, now $200. Call (510) 523-3555.
The Sailing
Network
(a non-profit group) wel¬
TIBURON PRIVATE SUP. Located in Paradise
comes sailors w/any experience level. Daysails,
NAUTA FLEXIBLE FUEL TANKS, only 6 mos.
Cay. It is deep waters protected. Will accommo¬
raftouts, plus some local cruising & racing. Meets
old, 50 gal - $150,25 gal - $95. Newmar 30 amp
date up to a 40-ft boat. Available for immediate
bi-monthiy in Oakland. Call Lynne Orloff-Jones
battery charger, $150.
short or long term rental. $145/month. CallZe'ev
(510) 769-8466.
Radio direction finder,
isolator, large pump, bilge or ? (408) 395-3054.
(415)435-9280.
MARINE SURVEYOR Robert A. Viel, Member National Assoc, of Marine Surveyors.
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CUSTOM MARINE UPHOLSTERY Interior/Exterior
Custom cabinetry, tables, interiors. Electrical & mechanical repairs & maintenance. Fair
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& Reasonable rates. References. Going cruising? Substantial discounts available on
(415) 331-2128
electrical upgrade systems, au pair wind turbines, solar panels, retrofits and more.
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(510) 229-1202
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WOW! ONCE AGAIN Tom (62) and Josh (9) will trailertheir sloop to Baja & seek adventure in Sea of Cortez. Around 6 May until? Don’t have to be female, but be N/S & crazy. (408) 353-1665.
DON’T STOP READING YET. Hardworking, enthusiastic woman, 43, wants to crew on a regu¬ lar basis. Sailing experience. Call Sheila (415) 441-3894.
SKIPPER AVAILABLE to deliver yacht back from Ensenada after Newport/Ensenada race. Coast Guard licensed, yacht delivery experience & ref¬ erences available. Call Mike (510) 671-2089 (Iv msg).
DOCKMASTER WANTED for small So. CA pri¬ vate marina. Professional maintenance skills required. Send resume, qualifications & salary requirements to: Marina Manager, 725 Lakefield Rd., Suite B, Westlake Village, CA 91361.
PROPERTY FOR SALE/RENT
SAILOR 44 W/50-FT seaworthy ketch. Easygo¬ ing N/S experienced, seeks adventuristic enthusi¬ astic female companion for South Pacific & be¬ yond. Call Roily (415) 515-5576 (eves).
URGE OFFICE & SHOP SPACE near Alameda Marina for rent. 400 sq. ft. office, clean, bright, fully carpeted, full bath, $500/month. 1100 sq. ft. shop,currently usedfor woodworking,$650/month. Rent both $1,050/month. (510) 522-2705.
SAILING INSTRUCTORS. Olympic Circle, the Bay's busiest & highest rated sailing school has a few openings for instructors. Must have extensive sailing experience, strong seamanship & commu¬ nications skills. Excellent wages & curriculum support, liberal boat use privileges. Call Rich (415) 843-4200.
CREW WANTED: The Singles Sailing Associa¬ tion is a non-profit group of unmarried persons genuinely interested in sailing on a regular basis. Some of our sails are charters & some are aboard private boats. We participate in both cruise & race events & schedule social activities for members to exercise their land legs. Originally organized in 1984, our club has recently experienced a period of transition & we are seeking new members. Our home base is Olympic Circle in Berkeley, yet we have boats leaving from various harbors through¬ out the Bay Area. Our dues are $49/yr. Inter¬ ested, call Sharon (415) 453-8326, George (510) 215-7860. CREW WANTED IMMEDIATELY. Zihuatanejo to Barcelona. Wanted: someone tough enough to sail from Panama toTrinidad & personable enough to make it enjoyable for all. Experienced sailor required. Non-smokers. Share food costs only. Isobans awooden 45-ft sloop, well-equipped, ex¬ ocean racer w/superb charm, a small winch farm, watermaker, SatNav, new sails throughout. Boat is in Zihuatanejo & leaves for Costa Rica April 15th. Plan to stop in Venezuela, Trinidad, Grenada & the Grenadines, Antigua, Bermuda, the Azores, w/first stop at Lisbon September 1st. Barcelona by October. I will be in Sausalito for interviews April 4 (evening), all day April 5-6. Call 332-7757 from 7 am. Owner is an experienced ocean sailor who has sailed the Mediterranean, France, Ire¬ land, etc. He also likes to do things the “right way" (which usually means his way) & still takes in the flags at sunset. Richard Steinke (owner & skip¬ per). CREW POSITION WANTED. On sailing vessel going anywhere. Maximum6months, lam: male philosophy student, age 20, level headed, intelli¬ gent, eager to learn, 10 years laser etc. experi¬ ence. Seek cruising experience w/competent skipper. Embark after Junel. Call Cory (719) 389-7191.
BUILDABLE LOT. 50-ft Napa River fronlage by 120-ft to the road. 25 NM to GG Bridge, 7 NM to downtown Napa. Most site improvements are already finished. Drawings for house/garage also available. $135,000. Owner (707) 226-7617. UPLANDS BOAT WORKS, water-side, boat stor¬ age, environmentally sound, projects welcome. Galilee Harbor, Sausalito. (415) 332-8554.
BOATS: Woman-owned/operated professional yacht maintenance company needs helpers var¬ nishing, sanding, waxing, cleaning. Must be bright, energetic, hardworking, responsible. Must have car. Non-smoker, neat appearance, local work references. M-F, 8:30 - 5:30 pm, $7-12/hr, perma¬ nent. Call Regina (510) 601-1910. SAILING INSTRUCTORS. ClubNautiqueisnow interviewing applicants to teach in Alameda or Sausalito. Successful candidates will have good sailing & communication skills & should possess a USCG license. Highest rated school on the West Coast. Call David Forbes (510) 865-4700.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ESTABLISHED BOATYARD in island commu¬ nity for sale or lease. Marine store, wood shop, mechanic shop, haulouts to 18 tons on hydraulic trailer. Work dock, dry land storage, boat ramp. Michael Durland, P.O. Box 203, Deer Harbor, WA 98243, (206) 376-4056. MARINE CANVAS SHOP. 35 years in business. Equipment & inventory $5,000. Must be relo¬ cated. (510) 523-7393 (Iv msg).
HELP WANTED SALESMAN WANTED. Qualified yacht sales¬ man for our sailboats. Full time including week¬ ends & wanting long-term commitment. Excellent location & opportunity. Send resume to Premier Yachts, 3300 Powell, Ste. 8, Emeryville, CA 94608. PATIENT INSTRUCTORS WANTED. Very busy University Aquatics Center seeks experienced instructors for windsurfing & sailing programs for kids & adults. Call (510) 642-4000 for an applica¬ tion. SMALL BOATYARD NEEDS WORKER w/allaround skills. Salary based on ability. Experi¬ enced only. (415)456-3154.
KATE'S BRIGHTWORK Marin & Sonoma Counties Sail or Power (415) 485-4254
JOINOURTEAM. The Modem Sailing Academy currently is seeking a few instructors to join our fun & progressive ASA sailing program. Our ideal Sausalito location combined w/all instruction on 30-36-ft yachts makes teaching rewarding & en¬ joyable. All candidates must have their USCG license, extensive experience & the ability to com¬ municate. ASA certification a plus! Call (415) 331-8250. PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT w/the City of Oak¬ land at Lake Merritt. Requirements: 18 yrs. old, previous teaching experience & one of the follow¬ ing: Red Cross, U.S. Sailing or equivalent certifi¬ cation. Hourly pay $10.99, closes 4/24/92. Call (510) 444-3807 for more information.
TOO LATE TO CLASSY CREW/BOATWORKER AVAILABLE for short/ long sail/motor. Open to all inquiries. Have experience. Ready to start immediatley w/enthusiasm. Age 24 male w/out commitments. Previ¬ ous ocean cruising, fishing & harbor racing expe¬ rience. Call Paul (510) 643-2584 (Iv msg). »
WANTED: used boats. Will pay cash. Call (510) 232-8188
HANS CHRISTIAN 41T CUTTER. Molokai inte¬ rior, 2 doubles, 2 heads, Mercedes 72 hp diesel, custom mast, Harken furling, 10 barient ST winches, 5 sails & spinnaker, Nielson 3000 wind¬ lass, 2 CQRs/chain, Raytheon radar, Shipmate SatNav, Furuno Loran, B&C ICOM SSB, Autohelm 7000 AP, JRC Westerfax, custom fridge/freezer, Switlik SAR Liferaft, 900 amp 12/110 batt. sys¬ tem, Avon 310/Evinrude, dodger & covers. Ready for ocean cruising; health forces sale. Replace¬ ment approx. $330,000, sell $220,000. Call (415) 331-6234 (Sausalito). BEAUTIFULH-28 KETCH, mint condition. Ready for world cruise. Belt-driven refrigeration, Yanmar diesel, new sails/rigging, Ham, radar, autopilot, wind vane, CQRs, windlass, sailing dinghy/out¬ board, depth, knot, log, propane stove, lots more! $27,000. Call Mark (805) 772-7833 (days). CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27. FG cruise ready, Mexico vet. Recent epoxy bottom, Awlgrip topsides, exhaust system, new in 1986: Westerbeke 2cyl. dsl, Loran C, shrouds, Forespar club jib/rig, traveller, 4 cruising sails, 6 total. Can deliver, trailer. $14,900. (415)331-7576. 10-FTCHAISSON DORY TENDER. Brunzyee!/ mahog. new & very elegant. 13-ft Chamberlain dory, glass/mahog., new. (415) 323-3887. WATCH THE AMERICA'S CUP FROM your own 1979 Nigara Nautic Nautilus 36-ft pilothouse sloop, then cruise home in this warm & dry dual steering station beauty. Westerbeke diesel, gen/set. Origi¬ nal owners, berthed in San Diego. $75,000. Brochure (714) 496-5057. 12-FT SEMPERIT INFLATABLE. Wood floor, V hull, wheel steering, windshield, 25hpTohatsu o/ bw/electric start, trailer. Quick & fun. $2,500 b/o. (408) 365-1518 (eves), (408) 434-2133 (days). DUFOUR 34. Unique opportunity for discerning sailor. Lightly used, in superb condition. Spa¬ cious accommodations. Awlgrip paint. 5 virtually new Watts sails. Roller furling, wheel steering, Brookes & Gatehouse instruments. Micrologic Loran. IcomVHF. Less than 100 hours on 25 hp Volvo diesel. $48,700. (206)2854)191. CUSTOM CHOATE 33 BY MULL Built for 1978 3/4 ton N.A. Modified extensively by Schumacher 1981. Stem, cockpit, 2 cyl Yanmar, keel rider, fore peak, Category II equipped, 5 signets, 8 barients/ Navtec hydraulic, complete racing gearw/13 sails, cruise 6/mech. ref & CNG, 2 water tanks, last PHRF rating -126. Consistentwinner, strong in all conditions, ready to race w/ new bottom. Recent survey, equip, list, photo avail. $40,000. (310) 821-9555 (days), (310) 479-0116 (eves).
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ISN'T IT TIME YOU LEARNED TO FIX YOUR OWN BOATING PROBLEMS? Seminars held 2nd weekend of every month: Alameda CA. Hands on education!! No mass lecture!! Self paced!! Pacific Marine Institute: (510)522-7300
YACHT DELIVERS • PACIFIC COAST ■ LOCAL Seamanship and sailing lessons - your boat. Hire a "designated" captain for your parties. New boat owners, brokers and charter companies welcome USCG Licensed Master to 100 ton. 25 years Experience - Professional Please call (707)762-1899 LEARN COASTAL/OFFSHORE CRUISING SKILLS among Santa Barbara's challenging Channel Islands! Join John and Randi Sanger couple whoVe sailed 45,000 mi. together - for a 3,4, or 5-day personalized instructional cruise aboard their Valiant 40 Grebe. Fourteenth season. Brochure and schedule: EDUCATIONAL CRUISING, P.O. Box 780, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, (805) 967-4700
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1972 60’ LOA STEEL WORLD CRUISER. Circumnavigation veteran and loaded with gear. PRICED TO SELL! $89,000.
1983 42’ CHEOY LEE Autopilot, radar, SatNav, generator. Outstanding liveaboard/cruiser. PRICED BELOW MARKET FOR QUICK SELL! $89,000.
30' FISHER M/S Classic little motorsailer keth rig. Roller furling, Volvo diesel. Try $47,500.
FUJI 32
JASON 35'
Original owners. Mexico veteran. Extensive equipment. Ready to go and very clean. Asking $44,750.
Brewer design F/G cruiser. Excellent sailer, fully equipped. $52,500.
1981 CHEOY LEE 41'
33' NUNES, 1936
Offshore ketch, extensively equiped. Bluewater cruiser/Liveaboara. Try $80,000.
Local classic, new motor, decks, canvas, etc. Needs interior finished. $9,000.
SANTANA 20' HOLDER 20'
$3,500
26' SEA RAY
$6,000
Excellent condition. Twin V-6s, with trailer. Ready for Baja or the Pacific now. $25,000.
Both include trailers. 1986 SEA RANGER 51' COCKPIT MOTOR YACHT Twin 255hp Volvo turbo diesels. Motivated seller! PRICED REDUCED. $248,000.
X 36' NAUTILUS PILOTHOUSE \ Inside/outside steering. Diesel gen. set. She sails well under main only - easily singlehanded and large rig gives this boat plenty of horse power. V $75,000. J
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TERE' 34' YAWL Excellent opportunity to own a truely bristol classic at an affordable price. Ownermustsell. Reduced to $34,500.
SAIL - PARTIAL LIST 24' 24' 25' 2/' 27' 30' 30' 34' 41' 44' 45'
ISLANDER.1,800 COLUMBIA.3,500 PETERSON.l/4tonner.*.OFFERS NEWPORT.inboard.6,500 CATAUNA.outboard.8,500 NEWPORT II.12,000 CATAUNA.diesel.Try 19,500 WINTHROP-WARNER YAWL.36,000 CT 41.owner anxious.67,500 FISHERS ISL KETCH....owners anxious.OFFERS CORONADO.BestBuy.44,500
POy/ER 19' MAKO. . 115 hp w/trlr.....6,000 27' SEA RAY. ,V8..24,500 36' CHRIS CONNIE.
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51' HACKERCRAFT . . bristol. .149,000 70' FAIRTAIL. . twin dsl. ....Tty 90,000
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ENDEAVOUR 40,1982. 2 staterooms/2 heads, aft master w/queen berth. Very roomy boat, shows well. Blister free as of Fall *91. Asking $85,000.
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1985 Catalina 34 Diesel, refrig, roller furl, loron, AP. Try $45,000.
Volvo diesel rebuilt '88, 6 bags. Signets, custom interior. $17,500.
4 cyldfosel. Profurl, 10 bogs, Loron, Sottfov, tfir^hy, radar. $69,500.
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7,500 3,500 10,000 8,500 29,000 24,000 60,000 50,000 28,500 50,000 21,500
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Northern 37, ctr cockpit .49,000 ???? 38 "10". 59,950 C&C38......Try 69,500 Downeast38 .Try 54,000 Cal 39 "10". 69,500 Alden 42..33,500 Gulfstor44......'134,500: Col48.....Try95,000
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Be ready for the '92 season. PHRF winner has recently undergone $10K+ in upgrades. Ineludes refurbish* epoxy bottom, el $64,500.
Pilothouse ketch. Dual stations, roomier. Loaded with gear. AP, radar. $7,000 refit 9/91. New shaft, prop, bearings and bottom. TRY $75,000.
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ERICSON 32 Two to choose from, both loaded wilh gear, diesel aux. and in excellent condition. FROM $22,500.
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34* NASSAU '86. Cruising cutter, just bock from Corib-
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980 from Finland . Pilolhouse ketch w/Profurl headsail, quality construction, excellent leak work inside & out. Loaded w/gear inch radar, SalNav&GPS. REDUCEDTO$17S,000.
(510) 652-2109
Real quality in a production boat. New diesel, 15 bags of sails, self-toiling winches, interior like new. ASKING: $23,500.
RANGER 23
Loaded wilh gear, inch trailer, Barient winches, speedo & log, DS and much more. ONLY ASKING: $7,500.
50'AMERICAN MARINE '62. Twin engine motorsoiler, spacious and heavy duty. Asking $72,000.
47'STEPHENS MOTOR YACHT This classic yacht is in excellent condition. Complete restoration inside and out, belter than new. ASKING: $250,000.
SAIL - PARTIAL LIST
41* DOWNEAST MOTORSAILER ,80. Twin helm, furling, mid lobin, epoxied. Asking $72,500.
40’ VALIANT PH Loaded. Induded roller fuding moin and jib. $159,000.
BROKERAGE OFFERINGS SAIL 47' CEL£RE Sloop, Yanmor D, New.$275,000 45' COLUMBIA, Sloop, Pert 45HP, '76.$69,000 42' H/RASSY, Kelch, Volvo,'82.$185,000 41' ISLANDER F/P Ketdi, Perk D, 76.$59,000 4! ’ DOWN EAST Pilolhouse Culler, '80 .... $72,500 40' VALIANT PH.$159,000 40' SANTA CRUZ.$89,000 35' SPENCER Sloop, Perk, '65.$25,500 34' ERICSON Sloop, Univ.D, '88.$84,000 34' NASSAU Culler, Yon Dsl.,'86.$65,000 30' NEWPORT Sloop, Dsl., 79.$29,500 30' CATALINA Sloop, Atomic, 78.$24,500 30' RAWSON Sloop, Perk D, '62.$11,000 30' LAGUNA Sloop, 2 eyl D, '87.$30,500
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LIEN HWA Motoryodit, '88, 3208's.. $274,500 CARVER Sedan,'87, TG.$169,000 GRAND BANKS Trawler,'73, TD.$121,500 ELCO Cobin Cruiser, '48.$35,000 BAYUNER 3855,'88, TD.$120,000 REGAL'87.$85,000 SEA RAY, Sun Dancer,'86, TG.$72,500 CHB Trawler, '80, SD.$55,000 GOLDEN STAR'86.Call STAMUS Sport Fish, 79, TG.$45,000 CHRISCRAFT 294 Fisher, '86, TG.$47,000 SUNRUNNER CuddyCbn, '85, T I/O .. $28,000 SUNRUNNER Twins, '86, T I/O.$17,500
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51'PASSPORT.$299,000 48' MAPLELEAF CUTTER.$ 98,000 45' JEANNEAU, OPEN TO TRADES, BOAT/REAL ESTATE.$175,000 44' CUTTER, MASTER MARINER WINNER.$ 40,000 44' HARDEN KETCH. PRICED REDUCED. AT OUR DOCKS.$ 98,500 38' PILOTHOUSE GARDEN CUTTER.$ 85,000 38’ PACIFIC, AT OUR DOCKS.$ 84,500 36' CHEOY LEE, AT OUT DOCKS.$ 37,500 35' HUGHES, AT OUR DOCKS..$ 44,500 31' SEA ISLAND SLOOP, MASTER MARINER WINNER, AT OUR DOCKS.$ 17,500 23' SAN JUAN, CENTERBOARD SIOOP, GREAT FOR LAKES.$ 7,500 23' BEAR, FULL COVER, NEW KEEL BOLTS/BOTTOM. AT OUR DOCKS.$ 3,500 22' CAPE DORY 1982, CLEAN, FUli KEEL AT OUR DOCKS.$ 10,800
POWER - PARTIAL LIST 70' FANTAIL CLASSIC.TRY $ 90,000 57'TRAWLER.$ 65,000 55’ BLUEWATER COASTAL CRUISER 1988..$275,000 52' LAKE UNION CLASSIC...$ 95,000 52' HACKERCRAFT RESTORED TO BETTER THAN NEW.$150,000 43' STEPHENS CLASSIC TWIN DIESEL, SAUSALITO BERTH.$25,000/OFFERS 40’ LAKE UNION, AT OUR DOCKS.$ 55,000 36' MARINE TRADER AFT CABIN TRAWLER W/BRIDGE, CLEAN.$ 50,900 33' TROJAN SPORT MACHINE.$98,000/OFFERS 31' UNIFUTE, DUAL STEERING, REFURBISHED, INCL MOTORS, S.F. BERTH . $33,500/OFFERS
Lager Yacht Brokerage Corp. 400 Harbor Drive, Suite C, Sausalito, CA 94965 Fax:415»332*9503 Tel:415*332»9500
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41' Swan, 1974 Double aft cabin, teak decks, equipped for short handed sailing. $120,000. (slstershlpl
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BERTRAM FLYBRIDGE.90.000
32' GRAND BANKS.2 From 67,500
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41' Swan 411, 1978 Aft cabin, very successful S&S design, race/cruise, good inventory. $119,000.
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Cal 39 Me H, 1978 Very well maintained, excellent condition throughout, furling, pilot. $69,500.
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SANTA CRUZ 40. This speedster was built for fun - stop puttering and put some excitement in your life. Yours for $89,500.
35’ BENETEAU OCEANIS, 1987. Very well equipped and maintained. Enjoy the latest design. A used boat savings. $79,000.
27 CATALINA, 1980. A perfect family starter or weekender. You will find value here at $11,500.
60' Ladd Design Highest quality, fast, elegant large interior, under construc¬ tion. unique opportunity.
58' Alden Boothbay Ketch First class yacht for comfortable cruising anywhere. Pilothouse. Reducedl
3T Hunter, 1980 Aft cabin, roomy interior, furling, self-tailing winches, dinghy, outboard. Ask $36,000.
44' Lager, 1990 Ladd design, outstanding quality, race, cruise, aft cabin, teak decks. Loaded. $275,000.
36' Islander, 1975 Original owner, equipped for cruising, great Bay Area boat.
41' Nelson/Marek Serendipity 1982 Proven winner, current inventory, excellent condition. $59,000. A;.
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32' BAYLINER, 1989. A couple of nice ones available - one diesel, one gas. Call for yours. Start at $74,950.
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40' Garden Ketch, 1968 Bristol condition, double plus 2 single berths, diesel, 60' SF Marina berth.
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“FLYING ON THE WINGS OF INNOVATIONS” Are you tired of grinding in those headsails? If so, this 1988 customized 36' Cat Ketch is a must see. Ease of sailing! High Tech! Carbon fiber spars! Top quality! Excellent performance!
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38’BENTLY INGRID Far East Craftmanship.$55,000 39* CAL
Original Owner..
40* VALIANT
168 Hrs., Epoxy Job **«»•*••*«» $89,500
44’ PETERSON
.....Stoke Offers
43* POLARIS 46’FORMOSA
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$68,500
$109,000 (Peterson) .....Just reduced $ 79,900
44' HC PILOTHOUSE Incredible ...$269,000 46' IRWIN
Tri Cabin
.$99,000
51* STEEL COLVIN * Junk Rig Schooner . Offers $110,000 72' RHODES
Steel Hull Motor Sailer.$495,000
Many other cruising boats available from Pt. Concep¬ tion to Ensenada. Call Mac Pearce, 2 time Mexico Vet, class of'86-'87, '90-'91, 8 yearliveaboard HC 34 Tender Mercies, to discuss your dream. page 213 /
BALLENA BAY Y A C H T Lenard Lee - Broker Jock Rokrnd—Soles
MAC DONALD YACHT
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Attention Sellers! 3 Months
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Berthing At Our Sales Dock 42‘ TAYANA.
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C/C performance cruiser. 6 man liferaft, Signet Smart Pak, > AP, custom factory interior. May trade down! $117,000.
That's how sure we are that we can sell your boat fast. CALL LEN, JACK, BOB, NEIL OR VICTORIA AND FIND OUT HOW BALLENA BAY YACHT BROKERS AND THE BUC YACHT SALES NETWORK GET RESULTS FAST.
41' ISLANDER. Lapworth designed cruising sloop. Sellerbeing transferred and is desperately seeking offers!
41' MORGAN 0.1. The roomiest monohull available. 2 AP, refer/ freezer. In excellent showroom con¬ dition. Will trade down. $79,000.
37‘ TAYANA MKII. Weather fax. radar, SatNav, Fleming windvane, AP, 2 dinks. Ready to cruise! Re¬ duced $115,000.
30' ENDEAVOURCAT. Video's available now! Arriving in June - for demo sails. Base price $85,950.
SELECT LISTINGS 42' 41' 35' 34' 33' 30' 30' 30' 30' 30' 30' 29' 29' 27' 27' 27' 26' 24' 23' 20'
PEARSON, 1982 ......$115,000 JEANNEAU, 1990..$162,000 HUGHES, 1979. $44,500 OLSON, 1988.;.$75,000 RANGER, 1976. $31,500 C&C MEGA, 1979 .. $12,900 CATALINA, 1976 . $22,500 ERICSON, 1985.. ...$39,000 ERICSON 30+, 1983 .. $34,900 PEARSON 303, 1985. $42,000 PEARSON 303,1983.. .$44,000 ERICSON, 1972 .. $23,900 HUNTER, 1979. ..$24,500 CATALINA, 1974. $12,800 ERICSON, 1978. $15,900 LANCER, 1984.$19,600 COLUMBIA, 1972 . ....$7,900 ISLANDER, 1969. $5,900 PEARSON, 1983. $7,500 PUCKA, 1985.... ....$29,500
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SAIL 30' 32' 32' 32' 32' 33' 34' 35' 35' 36' 37' 38' 40' 40' 41' 42' 43' 47' 49' 50' 51' 54' 66'
Catalina.2 from 20,500 Ericson.2 from 21,950 Britton Chance, custom.21.000 Westsail.2 from 51,500 Cheoy Lee.Offers Irwin.26,500 Pearson, 1989 .107,000 Ericson, trade up.28!500 Piver Tri.29,000 Catalina....2 from 58,500 Tayana, ketch.Offers Downeaster.74,000 Endeavour, C&C. offers Hans Christian Christina.194,500 CT. 49^900 CT Mermaid.Offers Columbia.67,500 Vagabond. Income property.???? Transpac. Offers Force.147,000 Formosa.139,000 Hunter.130,000 Custom C/C.154,000
YOUR CAUFORNIA ENDEAVOUR REPRESENTATIVE, ENDEAVOUR CAT & 45'-68KC/C PERFORMANCE CRUISERS.
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•29 Clement Avenue • Alameda, CA 94501 (510) 534 To the owner of Zeus, On March 10 & 11 my son and I were on your boat to watch the America's Cup trials. I want to let you know what an excellent job your skipper Ben did for those 2 days. He is courteous and knowledgeable. The best part was his ability to position Zeus so that Dennis Connor and Buddy Melges tacked around us at the pre-race jockeying. So close that I could count Dennis Connor's fillings! Thanks for making Zeus available with an excellent skipper.
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