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Una “Maas” Success Story Chris and Monique Maas know what they want - they want to sail! They cruised Pteron, their modified Wylie 34, down the coast of California and Baha and into the Sea of Cortez because sailing for days and days is their idea of fun. Chris, an experienced sailor and boat builder, knew the kind of boat he wanted: a quick and comfortable cruiser. With Monique’s help, he built one. He knew the kind of rig he wanted: one easily managed by two people. And he got what he wanted. Pteron's wishbone boom and small headsail simplify boat handling. So when it came time to choose a sailmaker, Chris again knew what he wanted: someone he could work with, who would bring exper¬ tise to an exchange of new ideas. He and Monique chose Pineapple Sails. They bought the main, the jib - and some storm sails, just to be safe. But it’s the asymmetric spin¬ naker, complete with dowsing sock, that has become the favorite sail on the boat. Full enough to be readily trimmed, yet flat enough to reach up in light air (and they’ve seen a lot of light air), they’ll even sail a few degrees off course, avoiding the irritating engine, just for a chance to fly it. Call Pineapple Sails today — and let’s talk about the sails you want.

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The SAILING CONNECTION Sailing School, Charter Co., Sailing Club

Why Sail with Us? 1. The Best Location. Brickyard Cove is per¬ fect, close to the City, Sausalito and Angel Island, but out of the strong wind. Set your sails in comfort, and enjoy the best part of the Bay. 2. Our Fleet. We feature Beneteau, recognized around the world for their combination of style, performance and reliability. We also have other quality boats. 3. Our Attitude (or lack there of). It's our belief that sailing should be comfortable to the body and the spirit. We combine a well run organi¬ zation with a comfortable, pleasant environ¬ ment.

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ISLAND PACKET

See the Island Packet 37 and 40 at our docks. Today's standard for offshore cruising yachts!

PEARSON 424 KETCH. Very comfortable cruiser. Well maintained. See to appreciate, $98,000.

SAIL 27' SEA RAY, 1982, engine overhaul $23,000 27' ISLAND PACKET, 1988.55,000 29' FARALLON pocket cruiser.32,500 30' CATALINA, 1978 very clean.19,900 30' OLSON 91 IS, 1989.39,900 30' ERICSON 30+, 1981 .31,500 31' ''ISLAND PACKET, 1986.69,000 32' ERICSON, 1985.47,500 33’ APHRODITE 101, 1979.25,500 35' ISLAND PACKET, 1989.129,000 38' ISLAND PACKET, 1989.139,500 4V MORGAN 0/1 KETCH, 1978 . 79,900 41’ C&C, 1984.99,500 42’ PEARSON 424 KETCH...98,000 43’ SLOCUM, 1984, loaded. 159,000

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1985 model. Prout's most popular cruising cat. This is a great liveaboard or go around the world.

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Snowgoose Elite. 149,900 Escale. 244,900 Privilege '89. 175,000 Privilege '89.229,000 Privilege '90. 162,000

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YACHTS (510) 814-0400 38' KAISER KETCH ..59,900

40' ENDEAVOUR .... 94,500

Owner carry; trades? Make offer.

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Another new arrival our^dckVT?is Furopean-luiH center cockpit vessel is an excellent value for the budget-minded cruiser. This is the best layout we’ve seen in a 36' boat in years. Excellent offshore sailing performance. Asking $60,000.

Small Yacht Specials

27' U.S. YACHTS.8,950 Owner says sell! Make offer!

50' COLUMBIA. 109,900

45' EXPLORER CENTER COCKPIT, 1979 ,

She just arrived at our dock and is priced to sell. This roomy liveaboard also makes a perfect bluewater cruiser. The Huntingford design affords excellent sailing characteristics and functional layout. Asking $98,000.

4?' CATAUNA, 1992 .

Has absolutely everything you need to go cruising, in some cases two of everything. Most of all equipment has been purchased and installed recently. If it's not on her, you don't need it. Call for a complete package. Asking $139,500.

Small Yacht Specials

Additional Quality Listings 23' 24' 25' 25' 27' 27' 27’ 27' 28' 28' 29' 30' 30' 32’ 33’ 34' 34' 35'

NORTH AMERICAN.$5,500 CAL.$4,200 C&C.$9,500 CALMK2, 75 . $11,500 O’DAY.$16,900 CATALINA, '84 . New Listing ERICSON, 78.$16,800 U.S.,'81 .$9,875 NEWPORT .. $16,900 ERICSON, 28+,'81 ..'$19,900 ERICSON.Make Offer! HUNTER.$17,900 HUNTER, '91. $49,950 O'DAY.$29,500 NEWPORT, '82 . $34,000 ALOHA, '83. $58,900 CAL, 76.$29,500 CAL MK 2, '80.$54,500

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35' 35' 35' 35' 37' 37' 38' 40' 41' 42' 45' 46' 47' 50' 50' 50' 50' 57’

CHALLENGER, 74. $39,750 CHEOY LEE LION... 2 from $25,000 ERICSON, 76. $31,500 HINCKLEY, 57. $55,000 IRWIN KETCH, 79.$49,900 PROUT SNOWGOOSE, '86 $139,500 KAISER, 72. $59,900 ENDEAVOUR, '82. $94,500 SCHOONER, 63. $39,900 CROSS TRI, 79 . $77,500 JEANNEAU, '85.$149,500 IRWIN, '80. $109,900 CELERE. NEW $399,500 COLUMBIA.2 from $109,900 BOC RACER. $225,000 CHALLENGER, 74.$129,500 CHEOY LEE, '66.$98,000 STEEL MOTORSAILER. $175,000

27' CATALINA . New Listing Very Popular Bay Boat for a Family

35' ERICSON.19,900

30' PEARSON, 1979 23,500

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Electron microscope photo (30x) shows North NorDac 4800 on top of an equal weight competitor. Note the tighter weave in both the vertical (fill) and horizontal (warp) direction.

he tighter a polyester sail fabric is woven, the more stable it will be, the less it will stretch, and the longer it will last. North's NorDac 4-800™ and Premium NorDac™ are the tightest woven polyester fabrics in the’world. For a given weight, they are the longest lasting sail fabrics made. North weaves its NorDac fabrics on classic shuttle looms rather than high-speed "modem" looms used by other manufacturers. Because we weave our cloth so tightly, a minimum of finishing is required. This means the strength of NorDac is in the weave, not the filler. From a distance, most cruising fabrics appear the same. Up close, you can see the difference North quality makes...now and years from now. Whether you cruise around the Bay or around the world, you get more with North. There is a difference. ___ __ OATTCJ IM ORTH SAILS

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"Everyone Needs a Bigger Boat"

KENSINGTON YACHT & SHIP BROKERS WEST BAY 475 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito

TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS

(415) 332-1707 FAX (415) 332-1726

EAST BAY Fortman Marina, 1535 Buena Vista, Alameda

(510) 865-1777 FAX (510) 865-8789

52' TAYANA CUTTER, 1987.

46' MORGAN SLOOP, 1981.

Truly a luxury yacht for racers or cruisers.

Cruise, race or live aboard an exception¬ ally well-maintained yacht.

Asking $329,000.

$120,000.' —

TOP QUALITY LISTINGS ACCEPTED FOR SHARED BERTH RENTAL AT FORTMAN MARINA.

49' CT CUTTER, 1986. Teak decked, streamline baby has it all. Asking $219,000.

50' CHALLENGER sistership KETCH, 1974. Center cockpit, dual helms. Loaded! Asking $139,000.

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39' PRIVILEGE (French) CATAMARAN, 1990. Ready for fast cruising. Loaded. Asking $250,000.

35' NIAGARA SLOOP, 1981. A sturdy cruiser by Hinterhauler (Nonsuch) in great shape. Asking $67,500.

32' TRAVELLER CUTTER, 1976. A solid circumnavigator. New bottom job, rigging. Asking $39,900.

44' MASON. Worth every penny. 2 from $229,000.

16,500

36' COLUMBIA,'68.22,500

43'SWAN, 71.89,000

30' SCHOCK Sloop, '38.23,000

37 SWEDISH Steel Ketch.Now 35,000

44' AMAZON Steel Cutter, '92 (Canada) 239,000

34’ TARTAN YAWL, 74.29,900

38' WAUQUIEZ (Hood), ’80 . 80,500

46’ & 48' AMEL...from 160,000

35' CORONADO, 74.32,000

40’ GARDEN Schooner, '82.125,000

47' GARDEN PORPOISE Ketch.79,900

35' CHALLENGER Sloop, '77.30,000

43' CUSTOM MULL Sloop, 74 . 69,000

58’ SCHOCK Cutter.«... 229,000

27 O'DAY (diesel), '86..

36' NAUTICAT, 1984. Superb quality motorsailer. Shows 1st rate. Asking $95,000.

45’ JEANNEAU SUN KISS, 1984. Recently upgraded. Asking $110,000.

32’ MARINER KETCH, 1968. Herreshoff design. A woody in super shape. Asking $27,900.

43' SEA FINN MOTORSAILER KETCH, 1992. Well worth the Scandinavian craftsmanship. Asking $260,000.

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GET WHAT We’ll help you become one of the chosen few.

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1986 BENETEAU 405

1987 PASSPORT 37'

Big, reasonably priced, aft state¬ room liveaboard. Ask $105,000.

1980 ENDEAVOUR 32'

May take an Express 27' or Olson 28' in trade. $119,000.

1987 ERICSON 38-200

Comfortable, affordable liveaboard. Ask $32,000.

Aft stateroom/head, roller furl, lazy jacks. $88,500.

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Next 1990 ISLAND PACKET 38'CUTTER Elegant, sturdy passagemaker. Loaded. Save $$$ over new boat!

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1982 LANCER 36' Radar, AP, cockpit canvas. Ready. $37,500.

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10 am to 4 pm 1983 SABRE 30' GPS, AP, roller furl jib. Long lasting ■ qualify. Asking $42,500.

Watch for our 5th Anniversary Celebration in August

1981 HARDEN 45' KETCH Cruise ready, gorgeous, lotsa toys. Easy to handle. Ask $129,000.

Selling a boat? This will be the place to be in August!

1987 CATAUNA 34'

1987 FREEDOM 32'

Dodger, roller furl, refer, some nice improvements. $51,500.

Aft stateroom, big interior, nicely equipped. $49,500.

1984 NEWPORT 33

1990 BENETEAU 35s5

1974 VINDO 30'

1985 ISLANDER 28'

Traditional layout, roller furler, nice. $35,500.

Raceor cruise! Aftstateroom& head. Refer, roller furl. Asking $78,000.

Swedish design, full keel, enchanting. $28,500.

Wheel, dsl, roller furl. Teak & holly sole. $25,000.

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Nonrace July 1 — Hokule’a, a 12-man traditional Hawaiian outrigger canoe, will arrive after paddling down the West Coast. Why, you ask? See Sightings for details. July 1-4 — Hans Christian Owners Association cruise to South Beach Harbor. Joe and/or Sandie Tynik, (408) 776-0977. July 3 — Royal Lymington Brut Cup on ESPN, 1:30 PST. July 8-9 — Sailing Network Raft-up at Aquatic Park. Bring paint scrapers, putty knives, sandpaper, spooge irons, etc. and plan to join the work party on the C.A. Thayer. Eino Rich Niemi, (510) 785-0873. July 9 — Cal 20 Picnic/Cruise to Angel Island. All Cal 20s welcome! Howard Martin, (510) 530-4787. July 9, 1878 — Wreck of the month: Western Shore, a fouryear-old, 184-foot fully-rigged sailing vessel. Seven days out of Seattle bound for San Francisco, the Western Shore clobbered Duxbury Reef at ten knots. The impact split the forefoot, throwing pieces of wood 40 feet into the air! The huge boat listed to port and sank within three hours, with only her four masts and sails protruding. Her cargo — two tons of coal in gigantic lumps — washed ashore on Bolinas Beach for many years following the wreck. The circumstances of the disaster were deemed 'mysterious', as the evening was clear and even then all sailors knew to avoid this dangerous area. A strong northward current was blamed — but some reports implied that this may have been one of the Bay Area’s earliest nautical 'insurance jobs'. July 12 — "The Cruiser’s Alternative to Liferafts," a free seminar on different approaches to survival craft and safety requirements, including on-the-water demonstrations. 7 p.m. at the Whale’s Tale Restaurant in Alameda. Details, (510) 814-0471. July 12 — Howl at the full moon, preferably from a sailboat! July 14 — Berkeley YC BBQ and Open House, following the Friday Night Race. BYC, (510) 540-9167. July 14-16 — Catalina Yachts Summer West Coast Rendezvous at the Isthmus (Catalina Island). Morgan and Capri owners also invited. Info, (818) 884-7700. July 15 — Master Mariners River Rat Cruise, a "week of fun in the sun." Leaves Raccoon Strait at 10 a.m. for Driftwood YC (Antioch) the first night, second night at Steamboat Slough, and who knows after that? Dan Drath, 851-7601. July 16 — Sausalito West Marine Flea Market, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. More seller spots than before! Bobbi, 332-0202. July 22 — Third Annual Historic Work Boat Association Festival at Point San Pablo YC, beginning at noon. Jan Owen, (510) 2367664. July 27 — "Anchoring", a free lecture by Marcie McKay (USCG Auxiliary), 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Berkeley YC. Christine Jackson, (510) 528-0172. July 29-30 — Offshore Cruising Workshop, presented by Jillian Baty, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day at the Sausalito Cruising Club. Not free, but worth considering if you’re getting ready for the 'Big One’. To register, call Offshore Cruising Consultants at (510) 534-4317. Aug. 5-6 — Islander 36 Cruise to Sausalito. Rich Princeau, (408) 985-8542 or Rick Wall, 962-1515. Aug. 5-6 — California Cape Dory Owners Association Second Annual Rendevous in Martinez (in conjunction with the Martinez Peddlers’ Faire). All owners of these rugged New England-built sail and powerboats are encouraaed to 'make the scene'. Mike Fahy, (510) 934-3249. Aug. 10-17 — 11th Annual Tahoe Wooden Boat Week, includ¬ ing the 23rd Annual Tahoe YC Concours d’Elegance (featuring Gar Wood runabouts) on August 11-12. A week of workshops, speakers, cruises, picnics, etc. Tahoe YC; Steven Lapkin, (916) 581-4700. Aug. 12-13 — American Sailing Association (ASA) ’95 Sailing Symposium at St. Francis YC. Seminars, on-the-water demon¬ strations, and more. Details, (310) 822-7171. Aug. 12-13 — Freya 39 Cruise to Delta Marina in Rio Vista.

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CALENDAR Randy or Donna Bender, (209) 368-5758.

Racing July 1 — 44th Annual Boreas Race, 90 miles from the Cityfroni to Moss Landing for PHRF and motor divisions. Co-sponsored b\, Elkhom YC (408) 724-3875 and Oakland YC, (510) 522-6868. July 1-2 — TransPac Race starts: ULDB 70s on Saturday, super boats on Sunday. See entry list and preview on pages 136-138 Sandy Martin,TEntry Chairman, (310) 608-3401. July 1-2 — Laser Slalom: 32 young guns will wiggle through the gates in hopefully nuclear conditions. St. Francis YC, 563-6363. July 2 — San Francisco to Santa Barbara Race. See entry list in The Racing Sheet. Encinal YC; John Boyd, (707) 823-3182. July 2 — Mayor’s Cup Independence Day Regatta, three dinghy races on Lake Merritt. LMSC; John Hege, (510) 832-4261. July 6-8 — Laser North Americans. St. Francis YC, 563-6363. July 8 — The Treasure Island Toot Race and Barbecue. Sierra Point YC; John Felch, (408) 741-0880. July 8 — 28th Annual TransTahoe Race, open to monohull boats over 21 feet. Barbecue and Pusser’s Rum 'painkiller party' the next day. Tahoe YC; John Utter, (702) 329-2311. v Ju,y 8-9 — High Sierra Regatta, weekend #1. High altitude racing at beautiful Lake Huntington for centerboarders and multihulls Fresno YC; Dave Mosher, (209) 673-2344. July 15 — SSS South Beach Race, another 'in the Bay' race for single and doublehanders. Shama Kota, 332-5073. July 15 — Adams Cup Area 'G' Eliminations, a women-only Santana 22 regatta. San Francisco YC; Jodi Lee, (510) 521-7131. July 15 — Ericson 27 Regatta, held in conjunction with a cruise to Richmond YC. Bill Lewis, (408) 736-5940. July 15 — South Bay YRA Race #4, hosted by San Leandro YC Michael Dixon, (510) 635-5878. July 15 — Plastic Classic Regatta and Concours d’Elegance for seasoned fiberglass boats (pre-’70s design), hosted by the Bay View Boat Club. Details, 243-0426. July 15-16 — P1CYA Championships: Upton (PHRF ratings between 48-84), Larry Knight (120-150) and Little Upton (162-198). r o6S hosted by StFYc; regatta chairman Wes Wallstrom, (209) 668-1453, or principal race officer Doug McVae, 479-7411. July 15-16 — High Sierra Regatta, weekend #2 (PHRF, one design keelboats, Thistles). FYC; Dave Mosher, (209) 673-2344 July 15-!6 - High Water Regatta on Lake Almanor (east of Chico). Butte Sailing Club; Ben Sevdy, (916) 893-1286. , du!y Xt'21 T Thunderbird Class International Championship, hosted by Encinal YC and T-Bird Fleet #6. Jim Glosli, (510) 4825858 or Jim Newport, (510) 636-0607

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around down below, I noted that the shaft was turning, so 1 figured something must be haywire with the prop. On previous occasions we’d managed to motor fast enough for steerage even with the prop wrapped in kelp, but this time we had no propulsion at all. Manuel circled back and I gestured toward the prop. I think he got the picture. He seemed to sympathize by nodding his head up and down, but then interrupted, "Si, si,” he agreed with me, "but what about the cruise ship, senor?" Holy flaming burritos! The cruise ship, which had been at the dock only five minutes earlier, had cast off from her berth and was headed directly toward us. Manuel didn’t exactly smile, but since I had just beaten him down $5 on the slip, he knew he was about to recoup that and more. "I will pull you from in front of the cruise ship, senor,” he said, "but not for free." Manuel and Banditos did the right thing by us, after which I began working on the propulsion problem. It was a problem that would bedevil us for a year of cruising. Gates is spot-on when he says that variable pitch props introduce forces that two coupler bolts cannot withstand for very long. While in reverse, the shaft is trying its damnedest to back away from the coupler. Given anything less than a perfect match between the round shoulder bolts and the dimple in the shaft, sooner or later some working takes place. At that point it’s only a matter of time until the hardened bolts begin working the softer shaft. What happens next, of course, is the bolts break. I have a long and not very interesting series of stories about our trials with this shaft problem, but most of the time we managed to cope. Sometimes the problem tried the crew’s patience, which is what happened when we entered Mag Bay. The wind died a few miles from the Man o’ War Cove anchorage. After starting the engine, we again discovered we had no forward! It seems we had three ’gears’ — neutral, reverse, and amuck. After awhile, my wife Barbara became very tired of watching me play the puffs and make so little progress to the anchorage. After several days of sailing, her impatience was understandable — nonetheless, I disregarded her suggestion that we motor into the anchorage backwards. Few men would consider it — after all, can you imagine the merriment it would create aboard the anchored boats? If the blood rushing to my head hadn’t choked off my good sense, I would have dumped the dinghy over the side and pushed us into the anchorage using the outboard. In fact, we used this method several times later on. While in La Paz, we machined new bolts for the shaft and then continued into the Sea of Cortez. I checked every two hours of engine time for any sign of loosening bolts. I had dispensed with the wire tied through the bolt heads. The wire had probably contributed to the problem, as it lead me to believe that as long as it was intact, all was well. When the bolts wore down too far to hold the shaft from slipping into the ’reverse’ or ’amuck’ positions, I at first used to go over the side with my trusty brass hammer to pound the shaft back into the proper ’forward’ position. This, I soon discovered, was a tiresome way to change gears. So, I soon began just using a visegrip on the shaft inside the boat to line up the coupler and the shaft holes before inserting new bolts. By the time we reached Mazatlan in November, we had ground away all six replacement bolts — and found ourselves trying to sail through the breakwater entrance amid shrimpers and all sorts of Sunday sportboats returning from sea. The wind had been decent all day, but in the lee of the large hill with the lighthouse, the wind swirled around and backwinded us several times. That did it! I swore that a more permanent solution was in order. I drilled out the threads of the coupler and through the shaft, knowing full well that a 3/8-inch hole doesn’t leave much meat in the shaft. But at that point, I just didn’t care. The hardened bolt was hammered home and it fit tight. We left Puerto Vallarta in January, but just north of Chamela the problem finally resolved itself when the

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shaft broke! Naturally, it broke at the weakened hole. We drifted around in the dark, at which time a guy on Puffin, already inside the anchorage, was good enough to offer assistance. I told him that we’d just use our dinghy to push ourselves in. Our Yamaha outboard had never failed to start. . . but, of course, there always has to be a first time. No wind! No main engine! No dinghy! Puffin’s dinghy arrived about 2200 and we didn’t get to the anchorage until about midnight. Even a warm beer couldn’t console me. The next day Shades of Blue, a big Canadian ketch, offered to tow us back to Puerto Vallarta, where we could haul out and get the thing fixed once and for all. Talk about generosity. Once on the hard in Puerto Vallarta, the coupler and shaft were taken to a machine shop where a new shaft — with a keyway — was fashioned. As I had done shortly after all this madness began, I checked the alignment between the coupler and reduction box. As had been the case before, it was within three or four thousandths of an inch. Away we went again. Upon reaching Melaque, I was horrified to notice that the stuffing box was wobbling! We used the engine as little as possible on our way to Las Hadas, where I discovered the alignment was way off. How had this happened? I improved the alignment slightly and by midFebruary we arrived at Z-town. If the old salt’s definition of cruising is ’fixing boat things in exotic places', then we’ve really been cruising this past year. And in truth, we’ve really had a wonderful time. To think that it could have been so much better had Saab correctly engineered the linkage between shaft and coupler has been the trip’s major disappointment. Instead of heading to Costa Rica this spring, the boat will be left in Marina Ixtapa, just north of Z-town, and we’ll return to Oregon for the summer. In the meantime, I’m taking another shot at getting the problem solved. One more failure though, and I’m returning with a fresh engine this fall — and not a Saab — or at the very least a new coupler. Yes, folks, do take Allen’s comments to heart. I wish I had seen them earlier — or taken that Norwegian machinist’s advice. Tom Mitchell Windward Star Eugene, Oregon

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I’m finally getting off a note to say 'thanks' for the Baja Ha-Ha. The race/rally from San Diego to Cabo proved a great opportunity to form friendships with other cruisers, and was a great way to start a season of fantastic cruising in Mexico. It was so good, in fact, that I’m gonna do it again this fall — all I’ve got to do is bash my way back up to San Diego. Right now I’m in San Diego, catching the finals of the America’s Cup. As I write this, the Kiwis have won three and Conner has won zero — I couldn’t be more pleased! As a San Diegan, it’s unfortunate to have to say that, but it’s been such a debacle on the defender side that I’ll be glad to see the Cup go 'Down Under'. Hopefully, taking the Cup out of San Diego will breathe new life into the whole deal. The New Zealanders have been such a class act throughout the whole process, that I’m sure they’ll do a good job in 1999. My hometown simply doesn’t deserve the event. On another note, I’d like some info on cruising Cuba. Is it okay? Dave Fiorito Northstar San Diego bave — Thanks for the kind words. We don’t think the America’s Cup needs new life so much as the recent Defender’s Trials needed a little integrity. i The rules regarding Cuba are a bit strange. For example, it’s illegal for Americans to fly there, but it’s legal for Americans to sail there. Last year, the Sarasota Sailing Club sponsored a race in which a fleet

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LETTERS of 80 American boats raced from Florida to Havana. In fact, it’s our intention to do a couple of charters early next year with Big O from the Cayman Islands to Cuba. VJe wouldn’t be the first Americans to have done such charters. What U.S. citizens can’t legally do in Cuba — strange as it might seem — is spend money. But since there are no U.S. Treasury agents looking over your shoulder, who’s to know? This is not to suggest that the Cuban government is any less strange than ours. Last year a Tiburon sailor cruised to Cuba with a bunch of other Marin residents. The entire crew was allowed in without any problems — except for one, a guy who’d been bom in Cuba more than 20 years ago. Ever nice to their own people, this Cuban-born American citizen was denied entry and tossed into the slammer. Without the efforts of his mates, he might still be there. Most cruising boats call on Hemingway Marina, which serves nearby Havana. Some folks find it depressing, what with the crumbling buildings, ancient cars, three people to a bicycle, and the young women willing to sell themselves for a couple bars of soap. The less populated and less developed southern coast, however, is said to be fabulous. For details on cruising Cuba, pick up a copy of the Cruising Guide To Cuba by Simon Charles which was recently published by Cruising Guide Publications. The 258-page book is far and away the most current and detailed guide to the huge but forbidden tropical island just off the coast of Florida. tilt BETTER TO HELP HIM WHILE HE’S STILL LIVING Readers who have heard of Tristan Jones — one of the greatest living sailors — or read any of his books — he’s one of the great sailing writers — will be interested to know how he’s faring. Readers of Outward Leg know that Jones, after having had one leg amputated, set out from San Diego on a circumnavigation aboard a trimaran to: 1) Show that trimarans are capable ocean cruisers, and 2) Prove that people with physical disabilities can perform feats that many fully-abled people might hesitate to attempt. At present Jones — now in his 70s — is in Phuket, Thailand. He has this to say about his body and his state of mind: "Bloody but unbowed: Since 1991, both my legs are off above the knees. Despite this, in 1992 I built a 9-ft self-launching dinghy, Little Legend, and a system which allows it to be self-launched by 'plegics such as myself over any surface of beach. "In 1993, I adapted the 38-ft catamaran Gabriel for sailing by a crew of three, all whom have at least one limb missing. We have achieved speeds of over 16 knots. "But also in 1993, the Enablement-Afloat program had to end because of a lack of funds. Naturally, my writing had suffered. Incredibly, no mainstream publisher was interested in a book about the Enablement-Afloat project, so the tales are included as brief episodes in my new book, Encounters. Sheridan House, the publisher, keeps stalling on publication date, however, and now I’m told it will be out "in the fall". "I ask two favors: 1) Ask all your pals to put some pressure on Sheridan House to publish Encounters ASAP. I need royalties to continue useful work. Sheridan can be reached at (914) 693-2410 or faxed at (914) 693-0776, attention Lothar Simon. And, 2) Please note that I am, at the moment, supported only by Atlantis Society, Inc., a non-profit organization of which I am the president, and of which my books are the main source of income. The Society exists solely to support my efforts on behalf of disabled people — especially amputated youngsters. ■ "U.S. tax-deductible donations may be made — up to $250 without formalities — to the Atlantis Society, a/c 043-114440, Chembank, 204 West 4th St., New York, NY 10014. Payment can be by wire-transfer or by check made out to 'Atlantis Society'. Anything people can afford will be welcome,- bis our funds are low after our leap into cyberspace.

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LETTERS "I’m now collating information for an electronic guidebook: Access for Wheelchairs Ashore and Afloat in Asia, as well as preparing to publish my books To Venture Further and Yarns on the Internet for free distribution to hospitals and disabled homes. Again, no publisher has shown any interest yet, but I’m going ahead. My view is that anything that fights despair is worthwhile, and that if it’s in existence, it will be used sooner or later. "I cannot get into the Internet here yet, as the phone monopoly is delaying connecting us up, so we’ll pay long distance charges to connect through Bangkok. Phuket should have an Internet node next year, and then I’ll be able to get through to ’rec.boats'. "Meanwhile, please tell all my North American friends that I keep them always in mind, and when things get a little gloomy at times — which they are bound to, for anyone — I remember their cheery greetings to me, all the way from Maine to San Diego, Vancouver and Anchorage to Dallas and Miami. God bless ’em all. If anyone had told me I’d be able to reach my pals this way four years ago when my second leg was chopped off and when I was in the pit of despair, I would have said they were crazy, (e-mail: tristan@phuket.com)." I am sure that those familiar with Tristan Jones — and his ac¬ complishments, work and life — will be eager to help him at this stage of his voyage. Any contribution to the efforts of this unique, indomitable seaman would be fitting tribute to the career of one of the world’s great sailors, and would do great honor to the craft and tradition of sailing. It would be far better to help this man while he is living then to recall him fondly after his death. Robert Lipman Sacramento

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him that we thought he was trying to rip us off, and Lura and I went to the boatyard to ask which surveyor had come up with Helmut’s estimate. The yard told us there hadn’t been any surveyor, that they had just totalled up all the work that Helmut wanted done! We asked if the yard knew of a surveyor who normally made these kinds of estimates. They said they could put us in contact with such a person, but that we’d have to pay for his services. As you can see from the enclosed papers, Capitan Joaquin Prieto G. Nams, a certified marine surveyor, estimated that the cost of repairing Lun II would not be in excess of $500 U.S. In his letter, Helmut implied that we 'knew' people in Mexico and that the estimate we got might not have been fair. The truth is that Helmut and Conni live in Mexico; they are the ones who 'know everyone'. We wanted no trouble. While waiting for the surveyor’s report to be completed, we told Lun J/’s owner that we thought $500 was fair compensation, and went to the Port Captain’s office to report on the situation. But before we could give Helmut the money, he and three other men had boarded Dancing Dolphin without our permission. Helmut later told us he had a new estimate: $1,000. This, he said, was the 'real' one. We handed him the surveyor’s report, which indicated the repairs wouldn’t cost more than $500. Helmut said he didn’t care about any report. We said $500 was fair, at which point Helmut said he would accept it. As the situation had become acrimonious, we wanted to give him the money in the Port Captain’s office so there would be witnesses. Helmut said we had 15 minutes to get the money. We got the money from our cruising kitty and gave it to him in front of the Port Captain. At this point we left Helmut to count the money and went into another room. We told the Port Captain we planned on leaving in the morning. He said it would be all right and offered to check us out right then. By this time Helmut had lost track of his counting and got mad. He threw the money at us and said he wanted larger bills. My last words to him were: "Fuck you! If you want the money, come to our boat, we’re leaving." We later checked out with the Port Captain, who had seen everything, and departed the next morning with the tide. We sailed to Cabo and are now cruising the Sea of Cortez. I don’t know if that German marine biologist couldn’t count to 500 or what, but his side of the story was inaccurate and most unfair to us. The Port Captain in Ensenada will verify what we’ve said. Bob & Lura Blackseth Dancing Dolphin Sea of Cortez Readers — Avoiding nasty disputes such as the one noted above is one of the reasons veteran cruisers usually prefer to anchor well away from other boats.

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LETTERS Mthey deserve our respect Thanks for the invitation to comment on the America’s Cup. Let me begin by saying many of Latitude’s attitudes regarding the Cup appear well-founded — whether or not one agrees with them. I personally enjoyed the event enormously. The outcome of the Defender Finals was particularly satisfying. Team Dennis Conner is a winner to be respected in the skill and science of sailing. 'Never say die', 'sail to the finish', and 'make every effort to win' are the attitudes 1 personally admire of the whole team. Tom Whidden, Paul Cayard, Dennis Conner, and the balance of the team appeared to be the best qualified to defend the Cup — regardless of the criticism heaped upon them for engaging in a "rich (wo)man’s game". I felt as though I could count on them to put out their very best effort in the Cup finals and that time spent watching would be educational and exciting. Unfortunately, commercial marketing is part of the American way of life and, like when watching any commercial sporting event, has to be endured — unless everyone was willing to cough up for a pay-perview broadcast. Likewise, try to find an event of a similar magnitude that does not involve lawyers. There are many games for only the well-to-do, including world cruising. Being well off — which I’m not — shouldn’t be considered loathsome or offensive. On the other hand, being overly critical of others — another quality of modem Americans — can be offensive. Respect for others is easier to achieve when we remember to look for the good in the words and actions of others, knowing they are not perfect beings either. In recent readings of your fine publication, there has been a pile of negative criticism of the America’s Cup, its sponsors and its competitors, with few kind words to be found. It’s your right and privilege to proffer your opinions. Do try to remember though, that a critic should not be the one who descends upon the battlefield after the battle has been fought to shoot the wounded. All the players played hard to win; they deserve our respect for reaching one of the highest pinnacles of competition. Bob McComb Bear #22, Goldilocks Northern California Bob — ’Never say die', ’sail to the finish', 'make every effort to win’ — and how about 7 want money!'? Would you still feel the same way about Conner’s America’s Cup Defense if it turns out he decided to 'line his pockets' rather than build a second boat and the sails necessary to be competitive? It was reported over New Zealand Radio that Conner took 40% 'off the top' of every dollar that came into his campaign. If this is true — we can’t prove it — then Conner gave his personal fortune a higher priority than the best possible defense. And it’s not as though the former partner in a small drapery business hadn’t already become quite wealthy via the America’s Cup. Personally speaking, we’re greatly disappointed that America’s most famous sailor is the object of such tremendous scorn, both here in America and around the world. Conner’s Kiwi counterpart, Peter Blake, on the other hand, is held in the highest regard, not just for his sailing skill, but also for his integrity, sportsmanship and courage. You won’t find anybody arguing that Blake "deserves" respect — he’s always had it. As for commercialism in the America’s Cup, we have no problem with commercials on television and logos on the boats. The crews could have 'Coke' tattooed on their foreheads and 'Pepsi' on their butts for all we care. And we have no problem acknowledging the sailing prowess of Conner in particular and his team in general. In fact, we agree with you that his team — in terms of sailing skill — was probably the best qualified to represent the United States. We don’t even have that much of a problem with the ridiculously unnecessary expense of Cup campaigns — other than the fact it

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LETTERS eliminates half of the international competition before the event even starts. Lastly, we don’t have a problem with the America’s Cup being held off San Diego. At least not any more than we would with the Olympic Grand Slalom being held on the bunny slope at Dodge Ridge. No, what really got our knickers in a twist is that the results of the Defender Trials were decided not by what the sailors — male and female — did on the water, but by the deal the bigwigs such as Conner and Kocb cut in the backroom. The 'deal' meant Conner unfairly advanced from the Semi-Finals into the Finals — and only then, according to Yachting World, was he able to pocket the many millions from his various sponsors. To prove we’re not sexist, we’re pretty disappointed with the women, too. Not a single one of them had the balls to deck either Conner or Koch, after they’d been figuratively raped by both of them. Noting that Conner was allowed into the Defender Finals after his team had been eliminated, Sports Illustrated editorialized that the one sure thing about the America’s Cup is that it’s not a sporting event. Not any more than World Federation Wrestling. Conner, Koch and the others played us Americans — and especially American sailors — for chumps. If you enjoyed it, that’s your prerogative. Maybe the rest of us are a little more picky, because we thought it sucked. %

1111 WHAT ABOUT CANOPUS? Two years ago my husband and I bought a 49-foot, 1974 ferro cement, cutter-rigged sloop named Canopus, which we believe was built by Richard Colbert. She was a repossession and the seller didn’t know too much about the boat. We’d like to know if anyone has any information about her and where she might have been sailed. We can be reached at 19001 Ascot Ave., Rio Linda, CA 95673. We plan on cruising to Mexico in two years with the Baja group. Meanwhile, we plan on finishing the boat and getting used to her in the Bay. Christy and Mike Halvorsen Sea Goose (formerly Canopus) UllWHAT KIND OF BOAT MAKES SENSE? Twice now, my dear friends Darrell and Liberty Harvey have sent me round-trip plane tickets from L.A. to Honolulu in exchange for a hard day’s labor sanding and repainting the bottom of Kartella II, their Hans Christian 48. The boat is hauled, power-washed, sanded, and given the first coat of bottom paint before the sunlight has disappeared. Early the next morning — groan — we buff the sides of the bright black gelcoat, and then give her one more coat of bottom paint. She’s back in the water in under 28 hours! This always amazes the other boatowners because we do a really good job. After four days of rest and relaxation, I find myself saying goodbye to the Harveys at the airport. Just before boarding my flight home late last year, Darrell looked me square in the eye and asked, "Hey, did you take my new Latitude?" Busted! "Yes," I said without hesitation, gripping my carry-on bag even tighter. I promised not to cut out stuff and remove whole pages — like he does! — and that I would return the mag intact so that he doesn’t have to feel like he’s reading a block of Swiss cheese. Three weeks or so later I received a post card from Latitude informing me that my own subscription would start soon. What are friends for? Thanks, Darrell and Liberty — you’re the greatest! Now for a serious question. I’ve been considering a change of lifestyle for several years, and I only want to do this once. What kind of boat makes the most sense for both local and bluewater cruising? Ingress and egress is very important, as I’ve been a scuba diver for nearly 30 years. So is ample room for underwater photography equipment. Do I want shallow draft or full keel? Fiberglass or steel? Over 40-ft for space as a liveaboard or under 50-ft due to the lower

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LETTERS cost of proper maintenance and number of persons needed to sail her? Although the Irwin 52 looks like a dream come true, I’ve heard some nice things about the Hunter 42 and Peterson 44. Perhaps an article for those of us who aren’t sure what to look for would be helpful. Something to get us moving in the right direction. Eric Beach Tujunga

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the same as I, in that I love my boat? I think she’s just right. Not too big. Not too small. She’s comfortable, yet sails to weather well. Perhaps my happy-with-what-l’ve-got attitude will encourage others to write in with their comments. It seems only fitting to ask this question in your pages. After all, Latitude was largely responsible for sparking my interest in cruising. The varied and numerous real-life testimonials from cruising folks around the world have provided endless hours of entertainment, encouragement, and pertinent information. The stories fueled my desire to cruise. But seldom have I heard why someone changed something in their boat — besides installing the latest gadget, of course. Through the years, I traded boats, learned, made friends in foreign ports, and met many other cruising folks. My keen knowledge of electronics enabled me to help many cruisers in remote places. Through these people, I learned specific things about boats and their equipment I wish to share with others. A comfortable boat has room to store belongings, allow free movement, lay down, cook, entertain friends and so forth — without causing backaches due to cramped quarters or uncomfortable seating arrangements. Let’s face it, not too many sailboats have a chaise lounge and ergonomically designed seating. Maybe Big O does, but she’s not the typical cruising boat. Three years ago, I tore out the galley and main salon of my Gulfstar 41 center-cockpit sloop, and replaced it with a newlydesigned galley that featured ample counter space and better storage areas. I utilized all the areas effectively. For example, I constructed a counter, complete with counter stools made from office chairs that had adjustable seats and lifts. I placed the double sink in a better location. The refrigerator, stove and sink form a work triangle. Two people can now work in the galley without going crazy. I made one comfortable built-in sofa — with springs and all. I made cabinets for the TV, VCR and books. I even built-in the computer at the nav station. This refit made the interior look and feel much bigger, and there was a substantial gain in storage area, too. It made the boat much more comfortable. I also added more opening ports — the same type the factory originally used — to keep the cabin a comfortable temperature. As is the case with most boats, when friends visit in the tropics, we all congregate and relax in the cockpit. For this reason, I feel it’s important to make the cockpit as comfortable as possible. Frankly, I’m amazed at how uncomfortable some cockpits become when there are more than two people aboard. I added contoured cushions to my boat. Needless to say, the ergonomic seating does much to improve overall comfort and prevent back pain. But why stop there? I even put an innerspring mattress in my berth. I simply couldn’t endure any longer the back pain produced from a worn out foam mattress. Comfort is actually economical, so there is no reason for us to punish ourselves! Another aspect of comfort is making the boat and its systems easy to maintain and tailored to the needs of her captain and crew. I believe there exists simple yet effective fixes for most problems. In fact, I have taught many cruisers — through hands-on seminars — how to understand and improve their electrical systems quickly and easily. Solar panels provide more than 85% of my extensive electrical needs. A small diesel engine turning a high capacity alternator takes the load off my main engine. I have electric refrigeration, microwave oven, toaster oven, washing machine, and many other AC appliances powered via an invertor. With a sizeable battery bank, I often go a week or more between recharges. All this is possible — contrary to popular opinion — with little maintenance. I guess my boat is no longer the typical cruising boat. She may look it from the outside, but not inside. She is roomy and com¬ fortable. As I said, just right. I love her! Anyone who desires more specific information on anything can

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Cameron — There are all kinds of people who totally love their boats — and some who didn’t realize how much until they sold them. For instance, there are two people on our staff who have bought back their former boats — and we know of numerous others who’ve done the same. If that ain’t love, what is?

U-tTNO ANCHORAGE AT ALL If the state of Hawaii has the right to limit anchoring to 72 hours, it wpuld seem they could limit it to zero hours if they saw fit. If they have this right, then so does California. If California did pass such a law, it would mean that boats anchored — many on permanent moorings in such places as Drakes Bay, Tomales Bay and Bodega Bay — would have to be moved every 72 hours. Or if the stat6 decided on a total ban, not be anchored there at all. It seems to me that the territorial waters of the United States belong to the people of the United States, and thus no state should have such dictatorial powers over them. Perhaps it’s a little far-fetched, but someday the cruising life for Americans might only be possible outside of U.S. waters. And suppose Mexico, Canada, and the South Pacific nations came up with 72-hour limits on anchoring? Earl Miller Stockton Earl — The issue of anchoring rights is complicated because there are legal conflicts. On the one hand, the Constitution seems to say that navigation rights — which include anchoring — are inalienable. However, various courts have ruled that federal, state and even local government can impose restrictions — usually with the approval of the Coast Guard — that abridge this so-called 'right'. In December of last year, for example, a U.S. District Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that Hawaii indeed has the authority to regulate the anchoring of vessels in state waters. A year or so before, it was ruled that local government agencies can limit anchoring in San Diego Bay. While it’s possible that California could outlaw anchoring and mooring, it could also make the speed limit on freeways 15 mph. In other words, we wouldn’t slip into a deep depression over what government might do — at least not quite yet. It’s also important to remember that many of the recent restrictions placed on the anchoring and mooring of vessels have been brought down on mariners by the grossly irresponsible behavior of ’pseudo mariners'. Most people — ourselves included — don’t believe that prime public lands should be the place where thoughtless individuals let their boats go to hell and become legitimate hazards to safety, navigation and the environment. One thing you can be sure of, Earl: The more populated a certain area gets, the more likely there will be restrictions on all behavior, not just mooring and anchoring. Which is just another reason why it’s so important to support population control.

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LETTERS spooged on two tubes of Desitin, which is approximately $5 worth. Now that two months have passed, there has yet to be any growth — other than a fine coating of algae which swirls off when the dinghy is towed or sailed. As yet there has been no noticeable thinning of the coat, although there has been the problem of the stuff wiping off when the dinghy is hauled over the dock. However, with a few deft strokes of the white goo, all is repaired. So thus far it’s working fine — and my dinghy bottom smells fresh as a daisy! P.S. As per the folks on D dock, there’s an added bonus for those who might be experience 'butt boat' during a long cruise. Just 'drop trou' and slide along the smooth and slippery dinghy bottom for a substantial application of the heeding balm. But that’s another story. Mike Sisson Westsail 32, Mysticeti Northern California t

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-UTTDO use drogues I’m writing to endorse Earl Hinz’s comments touting the usefulness of drogues in storm conditions. A drogue we deployed after capsizing off the California coast some 30 years ago stabilized our boat in line with the wave pattern and prevented us from being rolled endlessly. I know that drogue saved our lives. The radio report during the storm recommended that all shipping remain in port from the Mexican border to Canada. It was that bad. That we were out there at all was a tribute to my enormous ignorance —which became increasingly apparent when the waves reached what I believe to be higher than 50 feet. I know the 26-ft Cheoy Lee Frisco Flyer we were sailing fit quite easily on the face of each wave. Unlike the Queen’s Birthday Storm, however, during which the waves were extremely steep, the waves we faced weren’t the problem. No, what got us were the huge overhanging crests at the peak of each wave, as they easily picked up our hove-to 26-foot, 7,000 pound vessel and tossed her mast-first down the face of the wave. It buried the boat so deeply that no bubbles or foam were visible in the translucent green ocean — as seen through the boat’s somewhat oversized cabin windows. Eventually the weight of the keel righted the boat again, during which time I 'fell' from the cabin top to the cabin sole. I don’t know how many seconds had passed from the time we were thrown down to the time we were righted, but it seemed like a lifetime. I did many things wrong which placed my younger brother and his friend in jeopardy. Fortunately, I also did some things right. First, I’d bought a small parachute, the sort military aircraft of the time had used to pull out a larger chute to reduce their speed when landing. This 75-cent purchase from a 'used stuff bin at the old Oakland Airport had a nylon web through which I sliced a hole and passed 200 feet of 5/8-inch nylon line. I additionally wove it through the shrouds for extra grip. We deployed this parachute as a drogue, and it worked perfectly. This arrangement provided sufficient drag so that no one was required on the helm. This last point is essential to note, for as with the waves of the Queen’s Birthday Storm, they were breaking over the sterns of the boats and could have injured or possibly drowned anyone who might have been in the cockpit. This leads to a second point relating to drogues. During our storm the waves broke not over just the stern, but over the companionway. Remember, these crests were picking up a 26-foot boat and throwing her fqrward, not unlike surfers being wiped out in large waves. Miraculously, I had filled-in half the cockpit to seat level with a stout bridgedeck, installed two 2-inch cockpit drains, provided a means to secure cockpit locker lids, and perhaps most importantly, bolted steel strips to the inside of the companionway to prevent the drop boards from being driven into the forepeak. It was by these measures and the grace of God we survived. My advice is to use drogues of sufficient size so that no one is

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My wife Linda and I are planning a cruise to the South Pacific, New Zealand and Australia in the near future. We have a small dog, Skipper (Schipperke). . . the 'Belgian Barge Dog'. We would like to cruise with him coming along. We have asked several people about the problems we might encounter with regard to quarantines, government regulations and so forth, but no one seems to be able to give us exact information or help. We called two consulates, but they can’t seem to give us answers and just refer us to other people. We are, therefore, wondering if there is anyone out there that reads your g-r-r-r-eat magazine that could write or give us a call with advice on where we can get the information we need. Bob and Linda Hoekman (and Skipper) Break Away, Valiant 40 16211 Oxford Circle, Truckee, CA 96161 (916) 582-1901 Bob & Linda — Check out chapter three of Earl Hinz’s Landfalls of Paradise, which starts out ominously: "Pets are a problem for the cruising boat because the islands of the Pacific are rabies free, and all government works hard to keep it that way.” The book lists government policy country by country in the South Pacific. You can also try Jimmy Cornell’s World Cruising Handbook, which describes the pet policies of every country in the world — in addition to the telephone and fax number of all the pertinent agencies. Even though both of these books have been recently revised, be aware that rules and regulations with pets can change at any time. Can anyone cruising in the South Pacific give us some updates?

Mmy last abode must be a boat Ebbtide I am old and soon will die. My wants are few / my resources dry. I’ve lost my homes / to wives and lovers Who paid their dues / 'neath the covers. My last abode must be a boat To keep this sailor’s life afloat Until the mooring lines untethered Send me on my last adventure. Just me and my Ebbtide. Peter Hobman Trabuco Canyon, CA Peter — Getting a poem in Latitude — that’s an accomplishment!

Mpadding the kitty In reading the response from Chris and Eric to criticism of the Manta Madness article way back in November, I have to say I feel I was misinformed as to the sequence of events of the video incident. The information in their letter was not in the article. The article seemed like a one-man war against the Mexican fishing industry, using the government as a weapon. If the initiative was on

Valiant 1975 - Valiant ushers in the era of the performance bluewater cruising yacht with the launching of the Robert Perry-designed Valiant 40 hull #1. 1976 - Moonshine (V40122) and Windquest (V40114) successfully compete in OSTAR (Singlehanded Trans Atlantic Race). Moonshine (Francis Stokes) becomes the first American monohull to finish. 1978 - Moonshine (V40122), with Francis Stokes, wins both Bermuda Single and Doublehanded races, setting the still¬ standing record for monohulls up to 40 feet. 1979 - Foreign Affair (V40107), with Bill and Mary Black, becomes the first Valiant yacht to circumnavigate; they are awarded the CCA BlueWater Cruising Medal for this 4-year passage.

1983 - Fantasy (V40101), sailed by Dan Byrne, successfully competes in the '82/'83 BIC Singlehanded Round-the-World Race.

1985 - Stormy Petrel (V40259), sailed by Blane Nashold and crew, becomes first in class and first overall in the 1985 Miami to Montego Race. 1986 - Lonestar (V47115), sailed by Mark Schrader, successfully completes the 1986 BOC Singlehanded Round-the-World Race and is the only boat that did not sustain any disabling breakdowns on the entire trip. 1989 - Spice (V40239), sailed by Rob and Arthur Burke, wins first in class and first overall in the PHRF Marbehead to Halifax Race. 1991 - SAIL magazine selects the Valiant 40 for its list of all time 20-year classic sailing yachts.

1980 - SAIL magazine's readership poll selects the Valiant 40 as offshore cruising yacht of the decade. 1983 - Resourceful (V40252), sailed by Mark Schrader, completes the first Valiant solo circumnavigation via the 5 southern capes and sets a record time. This passage is the first via the 5 southern capes by an American.

1992 -About Time (V37147), with Lee Moore and Dee Whited, takes first in class, Caribbean 1500. 1993 - The new Valiant RS 42 hull #1, Topaz, is lauched, with John and Lois Post, winning her class in the Columbus 500 TransAtlantic. The Valiant 47 Lindisfame, with John Miller, also wins her class in the same event.

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20 Years of Non-Stop Production 1993 - Bill Pinkney completes a solo circumnavigation via 5 southern capes with Commitment (V47115), becoming the first African-American to complete such a voyage. This marks the second solo circumnavigation for the same yacht, previously named Lonestar. 1993 - Foreign Affair (V40107), is selected by SAIL magazine as one of the 100 best sailing yachts in North America. 1993 - Valiant begins the next generation by launching the new Valiant 42 series. 1994 - The Valiant 42 is selected as one of the two top boats in the Cruising World Bluewater Boat of the Year award (the other winner cost more than twice the price of the Valiant). 1994 - Valiant launches the new Valiant 50, queen of the Valiant line. 1995 - Valiant announces its new Valiant 39. 1995 - Owners, Tom Rodenhouse and Dave Miller, successfully complete circumnavigation aboard Morning Winds (V40273). Starting and finishing in Lake Michigan, they handled numerous storms, including the '94 Queen's Birthday Storm, and their Valiant 40 performed flawlessly.

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LETTERS the part of the government, we have no objection, and are glad that maybe something good will have come from the killing of the mantas. The article sounded like the cruisers were wanting to pad their cruising kitty by sensationalizing an environmental issue. On a smaller scale — but still harmful — are many cruising gringos that are 'fishing abusers' in Mexico. We hear people brag about the 40 lobsters they put into their freezers or that they caught a gigantic grouper but had to throw away most of it because they didn’t have room to store it. These people are also guilty of wiping out ecosystems. What do we do about our fellow cruisers — turn them in to the Mexican government? Although we try to discourage this practice, we haven’t found a suitable solution. What’s your response? Thanks for the information on the permits. And yes, we had just heard they started to give permits out to Islas Revillagigedos. Mail is so slow from here, by the time Latitude received our letter, the permits were being issued. \Ve still hold our ground with respect to the philosophy that there should be careful introspection before dealing with foreign governments. Remember, there are many people who would like to be able to cruise in your path, without having to deal with disgruntled officials and locals. Barbara Ross-Moore and Paul Moore Romany Star Palo Alto Barbara & Paul — Terry and Joyce didn’t have the least monetary motive in what they were doing. We don’t think we gave that impression, but if we did, apologies all around. As for 'fish abuse', that can certainly take place on the individual level. Lobster’s good, but it’s not that good — especially in large quantities. We wouldn’t be surprised if half the ’bugs' consumed in Mexico aren’t eaten just so people can brag about what they had for dinner. What to do if you find somebody taking too much fish and lobster? Be friendly but firm, as in: "Don’t take this personally or anything, but I think you’re being an asshole about the amount of sea life you’ve been taking". If that doesn’t work, shoot the offender in the foot with your speargun and ask, "See, how do you like it?”

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With the situation in Oklahoma fresh in everyone’s mind, 1 don’t want to put myself in the position of picking on our 'boys in blue' — or any color, for that matter. But I do want to make a comment that I hope is taken constructively. We’ve had many thousands of regattas on San Francisco Bay without the benefit of the Coast Guard Auxiliary policing the courses. But on April 22,1 had the misfortune of showing up in a sailboat to watch the Citibank Regatta off Pier 39 — rather than watch from Pier 39. I’ve always felt that a water-borne fleet of spectators enhanced the spectacle. Imagine, if you will, an America’s Cup or a Superbowl without a live audience. I really don’t want to dwell on the competence or etiquette of the Coast Guard Auxiliary — or my own, for that matter — but, I would like to suggest that if we are going to be controlled as a herd in the future, perhaps we should have representatives from the sailboat racing world aboard the patrol boats. I might, in fact, occasionally be available to help out in that regard. Alan Laflin Absolute Saidee Northern California

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we cruisers and the Harbor Police. Out of the line of duty, of course. By the way, folks should be aware that there indeed will be two events from Southern California to Cabo at the end of October. The cruising division of the Long Beach YC’s race to Cabo will leave on the 28th from their club. The cost is $7/foot, the gear requirements are relatively expensive, and yacht club membership is required. Folks who prefer greater organization, more elaborate parties and better trophies should by all means consider that fine event. But if you like less organization in your life, aren’t a yacht club member, and will be watching your pesos, you might think about the $99.99 Ha-Ha. For details on this event, please see the article later in this issue. We wish there weren’t two cruisers’ rallies to Mexico in late October, and tried to get Hugh Lamson and the folks at the Long Beach YC to 'adopt' the Ha-Ha. Unfortunately, they’re in a somewhat restrictive situation, and it doesn’t look like it will happen. Since a lot of folks heading to Mexico would have been left without an event to participate in, we felt an obligation to present Baja Ha-Ha, the Sequel. May both events enjoy a tidal wave of success.

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^UNNECESSARY CHANGES In January I submitted a letter to the Changes in Latitude column. It was a difficult letter to write. It reported the death of my partner, Dicky Derickson, the sale of our sailboat, Waimea, and my departure from the cruising lifestyle. I recently arrived in California and read 'my' letter in the February issue. It somehow seemed unfamiliar, and a few phrases were startling to me. I fully understand that Latitude might need to edit letters for brevity and want to correct English language errors. But I was appalled at the changes that were made to what I wrote, for no apparent reason. The result was a number of significant changes to the intent and style. For example: • "In remembrance of Dicky" was added, out of the ether, as the purpose of my letter — that was not my intent in writing. • "Waimea" was changed to "Dicky’s boat" — Waimea, in fact, belonged to both of us. • "My" was changed to "our" when I referred to a cruising kitty — I was low on money, not Dicky. I am going through quite a difficult time, and perhaps I am oversensitive. Your magazine felt like a good forum to send my farewell to the boating and cruising community. I wanted to bring this to the attention of your editorial staff. Maybe they’ll tViink twice before making unnecessary changes to future letters. Jill Derickson Vallejo Jill — First, our sincere apologies for disappointing you — particularly at such an unhappy time in your life. Having edited thousands of Letters and Changes over the last 18

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years, our desire and intent is to 'follow copy' whenever possible. For one thing, we want the author’s content and tone to be true. More selfishly, editing is a time-consuming process and we’d rather be out sailing. Alas, sometimes copy can’t be 'followed'. You have no idea how often we bang our heads on the desk in the wee hours, agonizing over the meaning of a cryptic but important letter, trying to decipher it accurately. And as in your situation, the author is often somewhere in the middle of the Pacific and thus clarification is not possible. How confusing is some of the stuff we get? Having received your two letters on the same subject, it wasn’t until your subsequent phone message that we finally knew the status of your relationship with your "partner" Dicky. Boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife, brother and sister, cousins — you’d always left us guessing. If you’d simply mentioned that the two of you finally married nine months before Dicky’s death, there wouldn’t have been a problem and we’d have been saved a major headache. And believe us, the 'clues' only made the mystery deeper. We’re frbm Marin County, so we’re used to unusual relationships. None¬ theless, we never would have guessed that you owned half the boat, yet you almost had to give up cruising with your lifelong partner and later spouse because your cruising kitty — as opposed to a joint cruising kitty — had run low. It’s important that things be made clear — especially when situations are unconventional. Once again, Jill, our condolences for your loss and our apologies to you, and anyone else, whose Letters or Changes we might have mangled. Lord knows, we make more than our share of mistakes all by ourselves. But in our heart of hearts we do the very best job of editing we can — and would much prefer to do none at all. lift PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY BOAT I am 10 years old and am learning how to sail. 1 have been sailing with the junior sailors at Sequoia YC. 1 was looking forward to sailing a lot this summer, but somebody just stole my boat! It is an older fiberglass El Toro with a white hull and a red foredeck. It has a wooden mast and boom. The sail is white with a red arrow-shaped symbol. There are no numbers on the sail or the hull. It was stolen off a dock at Pete’s Harbor in Redwood City. Please help me find my boat! If you see it, please call me. Lisa Eldredge Redwood City (415) 367-9730

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Over the past several years, I’ve had several opportunities to do the South Tower Race that is sponsored by the Stockton Sailing Club. This year, 1 did the Ditch Run, which is co-sponsored by the Richmond YC and the Stockton SC. I must report that I’m very impressed with the way the Stockton SC puts on a regatta and the way they treat their guest sailors. As we crossed the finish line after nine hours of rough downwind sailing, we were greeted with a horn, a "Welcome to Stockton" greeting, and were told which slip they had reserved for us. Once inside the harbor, another volunteer was there to direct us to our slip. On Sunday, as we were preparing to hoist the boat onto the trailer, Jim Penkowski came over, introduced himself and offered to help us with the hoist. He had apparently recognized us as visitors who were unfamiliar with the equipment. He was very helpful and concluded by encouraging us to return to the club on any subsequent trips to the Delta. , You’re a real class act, Stockton SC — thanks! Nat Gildersleeve Junior Staff Commodore Fresno YC

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World according to Gary. Besides being the most visible sailor in America, Gary Jobson is one of the true good guys in the sport, and a helluva nice person outside the sport. A glimpse at how he keeps all his various projects and family life in perspective appeared recently in his annual newsletter. We reprint his ’Rules of Success’ here for their value not only to sailing, but to life in general. The Rules of Success 1) Use time efficiently. 2) Be in good physical condition. 3) Admit mistakes — then move on. 4) Read many publications. Include some periodicals outside your field to get new ideas. 5) Associate with successful people. a) Ask opinions and advice, b) Write letters. ’6) Use lessons of the past to prepare for the future. 7) Take time to plan — make lists. 8) People who deliver will rule! 9) Learn what quality is — and associate with it. 40) You can’t win them all. ID Ydu have the ability to choose your own events. 12) Go back to basic routines when things get tense. 13) Say nice things about people. 14) Loyalties pay off in long term. Always return favors. 15) Overcoming nervousness: a) Think things through in advance, b) Be enthusiastic, c) Know your goal, d) Know details. 16) Molding opinions: a) Be accurate, enthusiastic and available. b) Be helpful when you don’t need to be. c) Give out enough information. d) Know how to reach people. f) Keep in touch — formally and informally. g) Use third-party endorsements. 17) Dangerous expressions: a) I told you so. b) No worries, c) That’s not my responsibility. 18) Don’t nickel and dime on expenses. 19) Leave something on the table for everyone. Don’t be greedy. 20) Use common sense. 21) Find a niche and do something no one has done before. 22) When making a decision, go with your first instinct. 23) Have no secrets with those who work with you. 24) Schedule leisure time. 25) Write down business goals — renew each year. 26) Become a good public speaker. 27) Keep in touch — write letters and make in-person calls. 28) Don’t drink alcohol at business occasions. 29) Don’t talk in elevators or restrooms. 30) There are no scheduled business hours. Always be available. 31) Favorite words: a) Excellence, b) Essential, c) Grateful. Caswell’s canons. In the latest issue of Boating World, we came across a great article by Chris Caswell about how to undo frozen fasteners. Check out their July ’95 issue for the details, but we got such a kick out of ’Caswell’s Laws of Frozen Fasteners' that we wanted to pass those on here. "Caswell’s First Law of Frozen Fasteners: Brute strength always results in damage and bloodshed. Caswell’s Second Law: The likeli¬ hood that you will break something while removing a fastener is dir¬ ectly proportional to its value." Words to live by, for sure. Equal time. Fair is fair, Latitude. Please print this photo as a gift (and tribute) to your many female readers. We won’t mind all those female forms

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There, but for the grace of spooge . . . We were sorry to hear in late June that the Chesapeake Bay-based sailing magazine Rags bit the proverbial dust after only a couple of years. Patterned after the Cadillac of the genre, which is currently purring lustily along under your fingertips, we recall reading in the premier issue that part of Rags’ editorial mission was "to be as good as Latitude 38." Apparently, the only thing they didn’t count on is that we have cornered the market on the best readers, advertisers and sailing venue in the country. Eight Bells. Just before press-time, we received word that the sailing world had lost two of its most prominent figures, Tristan Jones and Alan Payne. Jones, who died at age 71 on June 21 from stroke complications, was certainly the more public of the two. A famous sailor and author known the world over, Tristan was an inspiration and role model for a generation of adventurers who chose to travel by sea. Jones was quite literally born into the life — aboard his father’s ship as it rounded Cape Horn in 1924. He grew up in Wales, but re¬ turned to the sea as a young man when he joined the British Navy. After that, there was no looking back. He went on to rack up some 400,000 sea miles, 17 books and countless articles. Despite the loss of one leg in a traffic accident in 1983, Jones continued to sail until 1994, when he lost his other leg to an infection. For the last 10 years, he made his home in Phuket, Thailand, and continued to write and teach disabled youngsters navigation and sailing. Alan Payne is perhaps best known as the designer of the various Crete!s, the first Australian challengers for the America’s Cup. These 12-Meters were thought by many to be superior to the American boats and, had their crews been more experienced, the Cup might well have been wrested from American domination as early as 1962. The boat that cemented Payne’s reputation as Australia’s foremost yacht designer was the radical 35-footer Nocturne, which turned the 1949 Sydney-Hobart fleet on its ear. Steaming down the Bass Strait before a northerly gale, Nocturne blew by all the big boats like they were tied to a stump — then repeated the unbelievable feat in 1952. Payne, an unassuming talent who shunned the public light, succumbed to bone cancer in Sydney. He was 73. Shipshape and Bristol fashion? The following item was culled from The Boston Globe last month: "Bristol, RI — Town Council Chairman Halsey Herreshoff has been fined $700 by the Coast Guard after passengers on his boat 'mooned' a cruise ship in Bristol Harbor. HerreshofFs boat had pulled close to the Vista Jubilee last August 29 and several of the passengers mooned people on the cruise ship. Herreshoff — son of L. Francis, grandson of Captain Nat, an America’s Cup veteran and a skilled mariner — said he did not violate "any standing rules of the Coast Guard." Instant kharma. To celebrate its tenth year of transpacific air service, Hawaiian Airlines recently signed on as one of the major sponsors of the ’95 TransPac. They’re underwriting the media center, providing dis¬ counted travel to race participants, and who knows what other 'random acts of kindness'. But that’s not why Hawaiian Airline officials are smiling. Coming out of a period of financial difficulty, their stock (HA on the Amex) just began trading again in the third week of June. By the closing bell on Friday, the stock had soared from 1 5/8 to 13 1/2 — which on an annualized basis is about a two billion percent return to the share¬ holders. We’d like to think it was because word leaked out about their association with the TransPac — but maybe there were other forces at work?

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intense for those aging sailors who aren’t quite as quick or as strong as they used to be. That was premise enough for Arne Jonsson and Sven Svendsen to partner up on a new boat from the drawing boards of Sweden’s H&kan Sodergren. Now being built (of carbon skins over a balsa core) in Svendsen’s Alameda yard, the 31-ft skimming dish will tip the scales at a mosquito-like 3,500 pounds, but will feature a simpler, more manageable fractional rig than similar boats — hopefully without runners. If all goes as planned, look for it to be sailing by October. If all goes as hoped, look for it to go into production. Heed the thunder. To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boat at sea — "cruising," it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the ven¬ ture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about. "I’ve always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can’t afford it.” What these men can’t afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine — and before we know it our lives are gone. What does a man need — really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in — and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That’s all — in the material sense. And we know it. But we are all brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life? — Sterling Hayden, Wanderer

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SIGHTINGS shoal

freda stays home We are happy to announce that the oldest sailing yacht on the West Coast, built and berthed in San Francisco Bay for all her 110 years, will remain in San Francisco. For a while, though, it looked like the Raiders deal in reverse. Jerry and Diane Brenden, owners and caretakers of the boat for the last 20 years, put Freda (below) up for sale last year. Lots of people expressed interest, but in the end the most'serious potential buyer was a man who planned to take the boat to Southern California.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the people at Cal Sailing Club should feel flattered. Even as their yearly breakfast got underway on June 17 on Ash¬ by Shoals, a spinoff of major proportions was happening on a large sandbar just east of the Benicia Bridge. As a group of 30-odd CSC’ers set up shop on Ashby Shoals, some 150 Benicia YC

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freda — cont’d To anyone with an iota of respect for local maritime history, this would be the equivalent of moving the Sistine Chapel to Detroit. Freda was built in Belevedere in 1885 by shipwright/bartender Harry Cookson. He named the boat after his daughter, who later became a nurse in San Francisco. After Harry sold the boat, it went through a series of owners who gave it varying degrees of TLC and use. In 1955, Harold Sommers bought the boat and did a total restoration of it. (Sommers is probably best known for his magnificent restoration of the German pilot schooner Wander Bird.) The Brendens acquired the boat from Sommers, and have kept her sailing and looking good ever since. So Southern California? We don’t think so. Fortunately, along came the Sea Training Institute at just the right time. The three-year-old, non-profit organization, which among other activities runs marine science and sail training programs aboard the Sausalito-based tallship Hawaiian Chieftain, officially accepted donation of Freda last month. "We’re thrilled with this turn of events," says STI director Greta Hicks, echoing the sentiments forwarded to Latitude’s offices by the Brendens, who are currently based in St. Thomas. "It means Freda will stay on the Bay where she belongs, and receive the continuing care and use she deserves."

hail Columbia! When Richard Larsen left Honolulu’s Keehi Lagoon aboard his Columbia 29 Mk I Big Sky on May 18, he wasn’t anticipating a difficult crossing to Port Angeles, Washington. At least no more difficult than he’d experienced on any of his previous three singlehanded trans-Pacific voyages. But as the weather started to deteriorate the first week of June, it soon became apparent that — one way or the other — this trip was going to be more memorable than any of the others. \ By June 8, Big Sky was two days into the teeth of a big blow — a 980 millibar low that had spun up out of the southeast carrying 50-knot winds and sideways rain. With just a storm trysail up and the Autohelm windvane steering, the hardy little Columbia was making about a knot headed due south. It was rough going, though, as wind-generated waves colliding with the westerly swell occasionally produced huge 'haystacks' of foam, which were quickly shredded into flying spume. At dusk, Larsen went below to catch a couple hours of sleep. It didn’t come easy, and when he finally did nod off, he imagined he was flying again, feeling the familiar sensations of climbing, rolling and. . . "I suddenly realized I wasn’t dreaming," he says. The boat had been rolled by a wave and Larsen knew from the sudden silence and 'weightless' feeling that it was free-falling — upside down. The boat bottomed out with a tremen¬ dous crash. Larsen remembers the Columbia’s large windows, along with their V2-inch plywood covers, imploding into the boat, followed by geysers of water. Then everything went black. He doesn’t remember coming to. He was just there, standing in water up to his knees in the cabin of the boat, trying to figure out if it was going to sink out from under him or not. At first sight, the interior was a mass of wreckage. All the electronics were out, the engine was underwater and every drawer and locker had been emptied of its contents. As testimony to the force of the roll, he found a crescent wrench and socket set, usually stowed in a drawer near the engine compartment, lodged in some bookshelves above the V-berth! There were food containers floating everywhere, clothes floating everywhere. Even the clock was broken, its hands forever frozen at 7:20 p.m. Outside, he discovered the rudder was gone. The tiller was gone. Several stanchions were either missing or bent. There were large cracks starting at the hull-to-deck joint and extending up all over the deck. The companionway hatch was ripped from its slider on one side, and the top companionway board was gone. When he tried to fit the second board back in, it just fell out — the fall had actually wrenched the companionway wider! "Any lesser boat, and I probably wouldn’t be around to tell you any of this," he notes. continued outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS Columbia — cont’d Larsen’s first inclination was to set off his EPIRB. But after half an hour or so, he realized the boat was in no imminent danger of sinking, so he shut the beacon off. Amazingly, the mast still stood, although both aft lower shrouds were flopping in the breeze. The trysail was still rigged ("real loose-footed now," he says) and the Avon four-man liferaft was still in its cradle under the boom. The windvane’s paddle was missing, but its rudder was still there, so he tied it amidships and got the boat back sailing, more or less. Then he started pumping. The mechanical pumps were useless, and the fall had caused a crushing injury to Larsen’s ribcage, which caused him pain when he tried to bail with a bucket. The only acceptable arrangement was one of those bicycle-pump-like plunger pumps, which he was able to work while seated on the quarter berth. Slowly but steadily, the watqr level inside Big Sky dropped, with the added benefit that the physical activity kept him warm in the cold weather. Nourishment was no problem, he says: "I’d just grab a Snickers every time one floated by." By 2 a.m., the boat was empty and Larsen was exhausted. He climbed through . Richard Larsen. the oil and water-soaked interior, with teabags stuck to the ceiling and ruined clothing strewn everywhere, and climbed into the V-berth for a rest. Waking at about 4, Larsen went over the boat in more detail. Being of 1965 vintage, he realized it would cost more to repair than it was worth, plus it was still taking on water somewhere, the rig was questionable and any part of the structure might fail before he could make it back to the mainland anyway. At 10 minutes to 6, at a point 950 miles west of Coos Bay, Oregon, Larsen set off his EPIRB again. Despite being an old "cheapie" 121.5 MHz unit, Larsen later found out that the Coast Guard picked up the signal within 10 minutes. By 8 a.m., they had launched a C-130 out of Kodiak, and shortly before noon, the big plane roared through the mist overhead. Larsen grabbed his handheld VHF, one of few electronics to survive the roll, and vectored them back to his position in the low visibility. They informed him that the AMVER ship President Lincoln was due on scene in about 2Vz hours. "When I was sailing, I was always worried about seeing big container ships," says Larsen. "But 1 have to say, when they hove up out of the mist 300 yards away, it was one of the finest looking sights I ever saw." The weather was still atrocious as Captain Norman Sollid maneuvered the 860-ft Lincoln into position upwind of the tossing sailboat. Conditions were way too rough for a small boat transfer, so Sollid’s crew deployed a cargo net and pilot’s ladder over the port side of the ship, about a third of the way up from the stern. The plan, Larsen was informed, was for the ship to work its way slowly down to where the solo skipper could transfer directly over. Captain Sollid used the wind, waves and his bow thruster to ease down to Big Sky. When they were still a good distance apart, a crewman shot a line over to Larsen, to which he attached a bag holding the few belongings sal¬ vaged from his boat. Then, in a heartbeat, the two vessels came together. Larsen had read about such encounters. He knew that even though the little boat was in the protected lee of the big ship, it was likely going to get sucked against the side pretty hard. With both the ship and small boat rolling heavily, and the prospect of being crushed between the two as they came repeatedly together, Larsen knew he probably had only* one good shot at saving himself. Fortunately — and amazingly — Captain Sollid’s expert seamanship had put the ladder almost directly in front of Larsen as the two continued outside column of next sightings page

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shoal Befitting a first-time event, four birthdays were concurrently celebrated, two engage¬ ments were announced and the day was unanimously voted "Best Stupid Idea Ever". With a longer 'exposure' time, the BenYC crowd enjoyed the bar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., still well before the tide reclaimed all of it. By

the bridges of As things are now, the four bridges on the Oakland Estuary are manned all the time, and will open any time, except during short

SIGHTINGS — cont’d contrast, the CSC crowd pretty much had to eat and run — the reclusive Ashby Shoals only comes out at the lowest of low tides. Several times in the past, it never showed up at all and celebrants — black tie optional — had to wine and dine in ankle deep water.

alameda county periods around morning and afternoon rush hours: 7:30-8:30 a.m and 3:45-5:45 p.m. continued middle of next sightings page

Columbia — cont’d came together. Larsen timed it so Big Sky would be at the peak of a wave, then he grabbed the ladder and scrambled quickly to safety. His last view of Big Sky was of the boat banging and grinding its way down the massive steel side of the Lincoln, finally breaking free again as the ship nudged ahead. The Columbia was already beginning to settle in the water — just before the ship came alongside, Larsen had opened a seacock. No sense in leaving another hazard to navigation drifting around out there. For the next two days, as the ship resumed its voyage to San Pedro, "1 was given the Royal Caribbean treatment," says Larsen, who made it a point to introduce himself and thank all 21 members of the crew. Upon arrival, Larsen was found to have numerous cuts and bruises, but nothing was broken. He’s presently on the mend at his son’s home in Walnut Creek. (While it was still in San Pedro, the Coast Guard also presented a wellcontinued outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS Columbia — cont’d deserved public service award to the President Lincoln, an American President Lines ship, for its quick and expert assistance in the rescue.) In retrospect, the only thing Larsen says he might have done differently is to stow more items in plastic bags. Not those sandwich things or garbage bags — both of whicfuwere blown apart during the capsize, spewing food and clothes. He’s talking about the heavy plastic affairs that sell for about $20 apiece at West Marine. The handheld VHF was stowed in one, and his videocam in another, and both came through the capsize unscathed. Big Sky, named for Larsen’s native Montana, was not insured. He had owned the boat for almost 10 years, living aboard most of the time in ports from Ventura to Alameda to Hawaii. There may not be another sailboat for this sailor, at least in the near future. Larsen, who will celebrate his 66th birthday on July 4, is one of those vagabonds who goes through 'phases' —10 years backpacking, 10 years flying and now 10 years sailing. "There seems to be a message here that I’rq done with boating for a while," he notes wryly. For the short term, there are children and grandchildren long overdue for visits. In the long term, this dauntless adventurer looks forward to a Pacific crossing of another sort — navigating the Pacific Crest trail, which stretches 2,650 miles from Canada to Mexico. v

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bridges Ostensibly to save money, Alameda County is looking into a reduced schedule of attended service. The proposal is for the bridges to operate as they always have during the day and early evening. But the bridges would not be manned from 10 p.m. through 6 a.m. (11 p.m. through 7 a.m. on weekends and holidays). The bridges could be opened during 'off hours' if at least 4 hours advance notice is given, and there will be 'provisions' for emergency openings. We don’t think this is a good idea, and not only because it might inconvenience some recreational boaters (which it undoubt¬ edly would). It would also have a detrimental impact on oil spill and fireboat response time and other emergencies. It would 'land-lock' such places as Aoelian YC during nighttime hours. And according to a tugboat driver we know, the four-hour advance notice would

SIGHTINGS Look, out in the water! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! . . . It’s Super Schooner! At least, that was our first impression upon setting eyes on Elliott Marine, the wild brainchild of Kiwi designer Greg Elliott and partners Tom McCall and Brian Peterson. Launched just last year and built to no racing rule in this dimension of time and space, Elliott took first to finish and second on corrected time in its first offshore outing, the grueling Melbourne/Osaka Dou¬ blehanded Race in April. The radical schooner was turning heads in and around San Francisco last month as it was readied for the Catalina Race, which will serve as a tune-up for July’s TransPac — where it should turn a few more heads. The photo at left was taken near Mile Rock on the way to Catalin^i. (To see how they did, see this month’s Rdtcing Sheet.) Elliott Marine is 52 V2 feet LOA, 15 feet wide, 13 feet deep and displaces 15,400 pounds. It is an amalgamation of ideas and technology that would take a couple of quar¬ ters at MIT for most of us to appreciate, but here are a few highlights: The two equallength, rotating wing masts are made of car¬ bon fiber and present 200 feet of sail area to the wind before any sails go up. The two North mains feature squared-off headboards that project the roach well back from the mast. The boat carries one headsail upwind, but will likely fly an extra gennaker off the breeze. As you can see from the photo, under¬ neath each mast is a foil, the rudder aft and a raisable steering canard forward for added control upwind. The incredibly deep strut and 6,100-lb bulb keel are set in the back Al Mitchell gives some perspective to 'El¬ third of the boat, which reportedly promotes liotts gargantuan 13-ft keel and strut. exceptional reaching and running perfor¬ mance — the conditions for which the boat is optimized. (In fact, the local PHRF committee felt it was so optimized that it carried a -54 rating for the Catalina Race, the same as a Santa Cruz 70!) The hull is composites of composites — a carbon/kevlar outer skin covers Divinycell foam above the waterline and balsa below. Kevlar makes up the inner skin. Inside, it’s supported with a frame and girder arrangement that would not have looked unusual to the builders of the Sopwith Camel. Creature comforts make death row seem sumptuous — this is not a boat built for comfort. Greg Elliott and his partners intend the boat to meet many challenges, both short-handed and fully crewed. For that reason, the boat does not carry water ballast, but does have the requisite jet-fighter canopy of a state-of-the-art singlehander, and all lines led aft. The first split-rig yachts amazed and thrilled spectators, and one onlooker gave them their names with the exclamation, "See how she scoons!" Elliott Marine is proof that the thrill is definitely not gone.

be unworkable. "We’re very dependent on tides," he said. "When we’ve got to go, we’ve got to go.” There are also some who think such re¬ strictions would set a precedent for further restrictions and even closures of bridges on the Estuary and Delta. Others believe that such restrictions could end up costing much more than they save in the long run. (Every¬ thing else aside, unattended bridges are his¬ torically prime targets for vandalism.) If any of this yanks your chain, please make your voice heard by participating in an evaluation of this proposal. Write to: Com¬ mander (oan-br), Eleventh Coast Guard District, Coast Guard Island, Bldg. 10, Room 214, Alameda, CA 94501-5100. You need to include your name and reasons for sup¬ port or opposition to the plan, and have your continued middle of next sightings page

a conversation with bill price On May 1, Bill Price became the new Sausalito Harbor Administrator, replacing Andy Anderson. Bill brings a wealth of boating knowledge and diplomatic skills to the position. He has made at least part of his living in the marine industry since 1981, and has at various times taught sailing in San continued outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS bill price — cont’d Francisco Bay, skippered charter boats in the Caribbean and done lots of cruising. In addition to the part-time position of Harbor Administrator, Price has for the last 14 years put together security crews for Bill Graham Presents. We caught up with Price in late June to get the latest on what’s going on with the Sausalito waterfront. Long a political hot potato, in the last year or so, the anchor-out situation has seen the 'up' of removing the infamous drydocks and the 'low' of one anchor-out murdering another. What’s the current situation with the drydocks? We’ve heard that there’s still a lot of debris out there.

What happened is that there was considerable natural shoaling that had built up over the years around the drydocks. But the contract for removal called for removing only the actual drydock structure and a few nearby wrecks, not the shoal. That would have required a whole separate Environmental Impact Report. After the initial removal, the county received a number of complaints. So a second pass was made and quite a bit more debris was removed. In June, a third pass was made, and they pulled up some more huge sections of barge. The bottom line is that this area is foul, and likely will be until the natural tidal action removes the shoaling. That could be 10 years. I’m trying right-now to get marker buoys on the corners and a big one in the middle. As it is, somebody goes aground out there every weekend. Where can you legally anchor in Richardson Bay and Belvedere Cove?

In Sausalito, anywhere east of the channel is fair game, though once again, it gets pretty shallow in places and there are unmarked wrecks all over the place. Exceptions to this are that you can’t anchor off Dunphy Park or near the Corps of Engineers docks. These places are marked with buoys. As far as Belvedere Cove, my understanding is that you can anchor outside the 5 mph buoys — though once again, it gets pretty shallow in there. You also can’t pick up one of Corinthian YC’s buoys. What’s with the 'unmarked wrecks' — can’t they be removed?

They can, and we’re working to do that. The thing is, even if it’s sunk, a boat still belongs to someone. Officially, we can’t move — or remove — it without permission. What is the time restriction for anchoring?

There’s a 72-hour anchoring limit for boats that anchor in the Bay. If people want to anchor longer than that, all I ask is that they come up and register with me. I’ve done lots of cruising, so I’m very sympathetic if cruising boats want or need to stay longer. I can also issue 30-day permits. I just want to know who you are and what you’re doing. What is the current situation with the anchor-outs?

The anchor-outs threw me a 'welcoming' barbecue and I’ve gotten to know many of them. My two main agendas with the anchor-outs right now are adequate mooring and making sure they all subscribe to a holding tank pumpout service. As you’ve written in recent issues, many anchored boats break free in stormy weather and drive ashore on beaches in Tiburon and Belvedere. And several years ago, there was a lot of damage when a northerly came through and drove anchored boats into the marina docks. What I’m doing is restricting mooring — I won’t approve any new moorings until we get the current ones straightened out — and I’m working with the anchor-outs who are already out there to get them all squared away before next winter. Those anchor-outs who have complied with the RBRA (Richard¬ son Bay Regional Authority) mandates in 1987 are already in compliance with moorings and sewage, so it’s mainly the others I’m concerned about. We’d like to get everyone using the railroad car 'half wheels' by next winter (as mooring ball anchors), and on a regular pumpout service such as that offered by MT Head. What about the derelicts? If you leave a car parked on the side of the highway with no registration, it’s towed in a minute. Why hasn’t that happened to some obvious derelicts — some of which aren’t continued outside column of next sightings page

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bridges opinions in by July 10. The Coasties do read these things, and have changed proposed plans before based on public opinion and comment. The Estuary bridges are not the only ones under scrutiny. Last year, there were huge bouhahas over opening-bridge restrictions in Chicago and Washington, DC. One spinoff from these cases was a move by the DOT to usurp bridge control away from the Coast Guard, which currently grants permits for all

it’s the Back in the days of prohibition, it was illegal to import, export, manufacture, sell or transport alcoholic beverages in the United States and Canada. But it wasn’t illegal to drink the stuff, and drink it people did, in homes or illegal bars called speakeasies. One of the ways they got booze was through highly organized smuggling rings, which brought it in from all over. There was ample opportunity for, well,

zaca About 12 years ago, Annie Sutter got together with the Sausalito Historical Society and organized a floating tribute to the Nunes Brothers. Perhaps the best known boatbuilders ever to operate in San Francisco Bay, the Nunes yard was located on the property now occupied by the Charthouse Restaurant in Sausalito. The reunion/celebration featured exam¬ ples of Bears, Big Bears, Hurricanes, Mer¬ curies and cruisers. One of the fun topics of conversation was how much teak in all the various small boats came from the lumber over-ordered for the Nunes’ most famous big boat project, the 118-foot schooner Zaca. Built for Templeton Crocker (of Crocker Bank) in 1930, ostensibly to do various kinds of research, Zaca’s enduring fame would come from the period in the 1950s when she belonged to actor Errol Flynn. I’ve owned several Nunes boats, and have had a longtime interest in all aspects of the Nunes yard and its boats, including Zaca. After Flynn’s death in 1959, however, the big schooner dropped out of sight. In the early ’80s, I heard she was little more than a mastless hulk, lying in a small yard in the South of France. About the same time, I was watching the James Bond film Never Say Never with my sons, and there was this motorcycle chase scene through some caves on the south coast of France. All of a sudden, in one of the

SIGHTINGS — cont’d opening bridges. The Coasties — who, love ’em or hate ’em, are on the boaters’ side on this issue — won a lengthy court battle in the Chicago case, keeping bridges open far longer than the City wanted. In the Washing¬ ton, DC case, however, Congress voted to take authority away from the Coast Guard and to set up rules for that bridge them¬ selves. If that’s not one of the most horrific scenarios imaginable, we don’t know what is.

bill price — cont’d even boats?

There have been laws in place to remove derelicts since 1987. But once again, everything moored out there belongs to someone and it can’t be moved without their permission. It’s a complicated situation. As much as a lot of

real thing opportunists, to cash in on the illegal trade, often trying to pass off rotgut home brew in fancy name-brand bottles. But one British captain named William McCoy soon became famous for always having the genuine article on board when his ship Arethusa made her secret rendezvous off our coastline. The good captain’s rakish honesty lives on in the lexicon with a phrase reserved for only the authentic product. . . the real McCoy.

lives! scenes, there are these huge, varnished wooden masts. Somehow I knew they had to be Zaca’s. Sure enough, the next time I was in France in 1985, I took a drive down the coast. I found the caves in Vitlefranche, found the masts, found the yard — and I found Zaca. She was in terrible condition, swinging on a mooring in the harbor. It turned out the yard owner had had a 'me¬ chanic’s lien' against the boat for a number of years because the Flynn estate or whoever hadn’t been able to pay the repair bill. The yard wanted the equivalent of over a million dollars to bring her into some kind of shape. That work, if performed, would also get you title to the boat. To make a long story short, the yard went under a few years ago, and the boat and all her gear were bought by an Italian real estate developer who lives in Monaco. Now on the way to a complete restoration, she’s cur¬ rently berthed in Port de Fontvielle, just across the street from her owner’s office building. At the time I last saw her in 1994, she was in beautiful shape on the outside, and a crew of Italian carpenters on,board were redoing the interior. 1 was told that her below-deck accommodations had been 're¬ designed', but wasn’t invited aboard to see exactly what that meant. Although the owner didn’t want to talk,

people would like to see it, I can’t be the Clint Eastwood of the waterfront. For the most part, you’re right, nothing is being done about removing derelicts. Except that we’re not allowing any more in. No more liveaboard 'homes' will be allowed to anchor. And the current residents are not just grandfathered in. As I said, they are having to register, install adequate moorings, get on a sewage plan and so on. Long term, we’re going to work with the situation as it is, not allow it to get any bigger, and let natural attrition take care of the rest. What’s the current situation on landing dinghies?

The current situation is that you can only land dinghies at Sausalito Marinways, near the Margaritaville restaurant. Many of the private marinas have restricted or banned dinghy landing at their docks. In a perfect world, we would incorporate a new dinghy landing dock in the proposed expansion of Dunphy Park. At the moment, though, dinghy landing is a problem with no obvious solution. What do you hope to accomplish in the long run?

I would like to see Sausalito becofne a major 'destination', both for transient cruisers and local sailors wanting to come over for the weekend. Presently, we have about 20 cruisers coming through a month. That will peak in August and September at about 40 as people begin staging for Mexico. I’d like to see them have adequate dinghy landing facilities, adequate pumpout facilities, and to really enjoy Sausalito. At the same time, I’d also like to see the present tenants squared away and everybody happy with the situation. We’re working on it.

electronic update Anybody willing to bet us that we can’t write an electronic update without putting in something about the ubiquitous Internet? Wfell, here goes .... GPS

For those of you Global Positioning System (GPS) fans who fret at night over the government’s degradation of the satellite signals, you’re not alone. Some rather bigwigs at the National Academy of Science’s National Research Council and the National Academy of Public Administration came out against Selective Availability (SA) at the end of May. SA is the term referring to the Department of Defense’s periodic dithering with the GPS signal which limits accuracy to 300 yards — a defense, supposedly, against our nasty national continued outside column of next sightings page

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electronics — cont’d adversaries delivering their bombs with pinpoint accuracy. GPS users have gotten around SA by adding another component to their system, Differential GPS (DGPS). By keying off a land transmitter, DGPS unscrambles the degradation and provides accuracy to within 5 to 10 meters. The aforementioned bigwigs — including CIA director James Schlesinger — came to the official conclusion that this extra layer to GPS is a drag. Given that the GPS industry, which now includes everything from directing ambulances to applying fertilizers, is projected to reach $10 billion by the year 2000, it makes sense for the DOD to stop scrambling. (We might remind you at this point that, with DGPS, any enemy missiles coming our way would once again have pinpoint accuracy — as if a couple hundred yards one way or the other is going to matter to a nuclear warhead in the first place.) In keeping with their traditional dysfunctional relationship with common sense, the DOD has adopted a wait-and-see approach to the matter. Weatherfax

Speaking of dysfunctional, the U.S. Congress is threatening to do some dithering of its own in relation to both marine weather radiofax communica¬ tions and the dissemination of tide measurements and predictions. Both programs have been threatened with the ax in the Federal budget now under discussion in Washington. ' According to experts in the field, like marine weather forecasters Bill Biewenga and Bob Rice, the cutoff of funds for the National Weather Service’s marine weatherfax is a double-edged sword. Much of the information broad¬ cast by NWS, says Rice, deals with upper atmosphere data that doesn’t apply to sailors on the ocean. If the broadcast of data gets turned over to the private sector, you would pay for custom tailored information that would be more useful. At the same time, Biewenga points out, some people out there won’t get important weather information, which will increase the number of search and rescue missions and damage to vessels. "If weatherfax is put on a user-fee basis, less people will use it and I don’t like the idea of some of my friends out there without it," he says. As you may know, a couple of Congressmen from Michigan, Representative Chrysler and Senator Abraham, have taken direct aim at the Department of Commerce. What you may not realize is that 40% of the DOC’s budget goes to programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which includes the NWS as well as the folks who bring you tidal measurements and predictions. The latter may go the way of the dinosaur if the proposed budget cuts go through. The whole idea is a little preposterous when you consider not only how many recreational marine users rely on tidal data, but its importance to commercial shipping. According to Elliot Hurwitz at NOAA, "the hundreds of thousands of dollars that are at stake are what drive our tide information program." NOAA has plans for a new feature, due in San Francisco this fall. The Physical Oceanographic Real Time System (PORTS) will put sensors in the Bay and provide real-time information about the tide. Interested parties could connect by phone or modem for the latest data, which would factor in ele¬ ments such as river runoff that the annual printed tide books don’t have. But then again, you can kiss this project good-bye if Congress goes through with the budget cuts. Channel 16

Here’s some more news: On February 1, 1999, the Coast Guard will no longer accept distress calls via VHF Channel 16. This is due to the increasing number of hoax calls that cost money and in some cases lead to deaths when the Coasties respond to a bogus call instead of real one. Instead of Channel 16, boaters will have to use Digital Selective Calling, which is yet again another little doogie that you’ll need to have in your VHF to call for help. DSC involves a number that you receive when you buy your radio that identifies you to the Coast Guard. If you call in a hoax, then you’ll get billed for the expense. So if you’re in the market for a new VHF, make sure it’s DSC upgradable. continued outside column of next sightings page

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various crew told me she had been actively sailing, and had even participated in the ’93 St. Tropez Race. While it’s unlikely Zaca will return to San Francisco anytime in the foreseeable future, if ever, it’s good to know she seems once again to be leading the pampered life a matron of her heritage and bearing deserves. — bill belmont & latitude 38

SIGHTINGS — cont’d Radio Licenses

Finally, there’s some good news: The Federal Communications Commis¬ sion (FCC) is reducing its VHF radio license fee from $115 to $75 as of September 18,1995. Evidently, the $115 figure was causing people to forego buying or using their VHF altogether, so the FCC is trying to encourage people to use these safety devices. There’s also a bill, HR 963, now in Congress, that proposes the elimination of the fee altogether. While it seems too good to be true, it wouldn’t hurt to contact your representative and request support of this Dm.

— shimon van collie

ALL PHOTOS BILL BELMONT

Readers interested in finding out more about the Nunes Brothers will be interested to know that the Sausalito Historical Society’s special Nunes exhibit will run through the rest of the summer. The SHS is located on the top floor of the Sausalito Library at 420 Litho Street (a block off Bridgeway). They can be reached at (415) 289-4117.

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SIGHTINGS don’t let the sun shine in Imagine that you’re sailing down the coast of Mexico, it’s mid-day, there’s precious little wind and the sun is beating down mercilessly. You can’t really put up that big, bulky, heavy canvas awning, which means the only shade on deck is a slim sliver provided by the boom. Even with your #30 sunblock, wide-brimmed hat and UV shades, you are not only getting roasted, you’re dramatically increasing the chances of long-term damage to your skin. Until recently, there was nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide from old Sol short of staying home. Now a technology that has long been a favorite among cruising and charter boats in the eastern Mediterranean is finally gaining a following here: inex¬ pensive plastic or vinyl mesh. Used primarily for agricultural purposes both in the Med and here (check out the stuff that makes shade next time you’re at the nursery or under an umbrella at your favorite cafe), the beauty of mesh is that any awnings or dodgers made from it can be left rigged underway — unlike canvas, the wind passes right through it. High tech mesh (vinyl-coated polyester) actually has a 'shade factor' continued outside column of next sightings page

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the scoop "Don’t dump, use the pump!" is the message to Bay-Delta recreational boaters from an outreach campaign currently under¬ way. Sponsored by the San Francisco Estu¬ ary Project and Cal Boating and Waterways, the campaign encourages boaters to use pumpout and dump stations to dispose of sewage rather than discharging it directly into local waters. Pollution continues to threaten California waterways. Gone are the days when we could just point the finger at industry or sewage treatment plants — both must now meet strict discharge requirements. Today, the primary source of water pollution in California — and indeed the nation — is 'nonpoint sources'. Primarily, this is runoff

SIGHTINGS on poop from streets, farms, factories and the like. According to a recently released Lindsay Museum report, Changing the Course of Cal¬ ifornia’s Water, some 45% of Estuary pollu¬ tion, 65% of river pollution and 76% of lake pollution originates from these nonpoint sources. Studies show the continued presence of untreated sewage in our waterways. Al¬ though it’s illegal to discharge raw sewage into the territorial waters of the U.S., some boaters still do so. Sewage pollution can impact the health of human water-users and the Bay-Delta ecosystem, especially in marinas and harbors with minimal water flushing. continued middle of next sightings page

no sun — cont’d equivalent to blocking out 94% of the sun’s ultraviolet rays. The material is available in many different colors, shade factors and weights, from 8 ounce up to 16 ounce, depending on the manufacturer. (By comparison, normal 'Sunbrella' brand canvas seen on boats is 9 ounfce fabric.) The general rule is, the tighter the weave, the heavier the weight and the higher the shade factor. Darker colors absorb more sun (and heat) and therefore actually offer more shade. Most of the fabrics are surprisingly durable, with a lifespan of 5 to 8 years depending on use and climate. They are also flame retardant. Although the agricultural mesh is still available, most of the newer high-tech fabrics — which are comparable in price to marine canvas — are made to last longer and look better. So now that you’ve found your 'wonder fabric' to save you from the harm¬ ful effects of ozone depletion, how do you put it to work on the boat? The installation procedure is generally a hybrid between an awning and dodger, depending on your budget and how you choose to take advantage of the fabric. On the lower end of the scale, you can easily do it yourself. Simply get some fabric (sold in maximum widths of 60 inches) from a local industrial supply house or marine canvas shop and start sewing. The mesh can be sewed with an ordinary home sewing machine, and folded onto itself for a hem. The addition of some non-corrosive plastic clips that snap into the fabric (no sewing required) and a length or two of line and presto: instant low-budget awning. The agricultural mesh, if you can find it, comes in much larger sections and need only be cut and trimmed, not sewn together. The drawback to the agricultural stuff is that it will only last a season or two. Our original awning/dodger was cut and shaped from agricultural fabric. Bought at a hardware store in Israel, the equivalent of $50 worth was more than enough to completely cover the cockpit and forward decks of a 31-ft sailboat up to the mast. The finished product took only a few hours to make on a home sewing machine, and most of that was measuring and fitting. It kept us cool for more than month (July and part of August) cruising Cyprus, Turkey and Greece. Best of all, we kept the awning up all the time. Even when it blew 30 knots directly on the nose on our first leg to Cyprus (who says it never blows in the Med?), and we had to reef down twice, we never worried about the awning. For the deluxe version, pay your favorite canvas person to sew you up a nice custom job. If you have a dodger, simply add one or two more bars in the cockpit, similar to a folding stainless frame for a small powerboat enclosure. Remember that the material is not as heavy and bulky as canvas, and that there is little, if any, wind resistance, so you don’t need a very heavy frame. Have the fabric fitted tight over the top of the frame — or the whole cockpit area of the boat, with zip-out or snap-out panels for access to lines or winches if you like. Though you’ll likely want to roll up and stow the awning or side panels from time to time, you should be able to carry the full awning under sail in strong winds with no problem. Of course, you don’t have to wait until The Big Cruise to Mexico, the Med or the South Pacific to start staying cool. Sailors planning on heading up to the Delta this summer can also reap the many benefits of mesh right here in our own backyard. — john skoriak

has anyone seen melanie? Many of you in the sailing community knew Melanie Jones. Some of you may have even been shipmates with her at one time or another over the last 15 years. She sailed on Talofa from Honolulu to San Francisco in 1976, was watch captain aboard the 118-ft ketch Cariad on a trip from Majorca to the Caribbean, and crewed on Veleda just to name a few of her adventures. Now she’s 10 months overdue on a trip from Borneo to California. Melanie, who would be 42 in November, left her home in Martha’s Vineyard for a job in London, which led to a vacation in South Africa. For the next six years, she lived there, spending the last two in Durban doing a complete rebuild of her boat Figaro V, one of Bill Snaith’s Figaro 51s. In early continued outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS ( melanie — cont’d July, 1994, with Figaro V up for sale, she said she was going cruising for two to three months, and boarded a plane from Durban to Palau Island, 400-plus miles east of Mindanao. There she joined the crew of the Swan 57 Aphandra (formerly Parandah), bound eventually for California with projected stops in Borneo and Hong Kong. The Palau harbormaster says the vessel departed there on July 19 with a crew of four aboard. A friend of Melanie’s in Durban re¬ ceived a post card from her dated July 31, apparently written in a small town near the northern tip of Borneo. Nothing more has been heard or seen of Aphandra or any of her crew since. Strangely, however, no rela¬ tives or friends of the other crew members have contacted the Pacific Rescue Coordi¬ nating Center, which has a huge database of every sort of contact or communication con¬ cerning vessels plying the Pacific Ocean and its ports. We’ her Parents- became concerned about Mel’s silence by late November, and really anxious when Christmas came and went with no word. Then, on January 30, a William Galt called to say the boat was two months overdue. When we asked its destination, he said he was "not sure, maybe Panama, maybe San Francisco." How many on board? "Two French people, a Jimmy Black and Melanie." He had no clearer information because what he did know had been relayed to him by his sister, Susie Galt, who was "very distraught. She had Hong Kong Rescue looking for the boat unsuccessfully." At this moment, the phone went dead. William Galt never called again. Through other sources, we found that his name was actually William Danson, that he was the owner of Aphandra, and that he had just sailed on her from Panama to Palau. Also, he had recommended the job of cook and crew to Melanie, and had left the boat and sold his interest in her in Palau. We were also told that he was a "very private, very secretive" person. As parents wanting to know more about the fate of our daughter, we are pretty annoyed at all this subterfuge. We’d like to contact relatives of other crew members and the current owner of the boat, but do not know their names. Can anyone out there help? — harry and ginger jones Anyone with any information about Melanie may contact the Jones at (805) 969-4062.

Melanie Jones.

sail free day Like many wonderful inventions that have come about by mistake, no one is quite sure exactly why Sail Free Day, held on June 4 at South Beach Har¬ bor, was such a big success. In fact, no one’s really sure how it came to hap¬ pen at all, least of all event organizer Laurence Cornfield, who is also on the board of the sponsoring Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors (BAADS). "The nearest I can remember, it went something like this: every year, we have an open house that draws 80 or 100 people. And over the years, we’ve been interacting more and more with the South Beach Yacht Club. "Anyway, at this year’s Spring Boat Show in Jack London Square, we ended up being the main organization that took people out on demonstration sails. I don’t know how that happened. But over the two weekends of the show, we did hundreds of sails for the general public, and everyone involved had a great time." "So when it came to planning our yearly open house, we figured, why not just work with South Beach YC and host, well, a 'Sail Free Day' — sort of a pilot program to see if there was any interest." Interest? A capacity crowd of more than 350 people took part in activities continued outside column of next sightings page

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the scoop You can make a real water quality differ¬ ence by treating and disposing of your vessel waste responsibly. Learn how to set up and use your boat’s head correctly, and call for The San Francisco Estuary Project at (510) 286-0734 for free maps of all 68 pumpout stations on the Bay and Delta. If your marina does not have a pumpout station, let your harbormaster know that

— cont’d federal grants are available for the construc¬ tion and renovation of pumpout facilities. Under this five-year program, 75% of the costs will be paid by the government. (A 25% local match is required.) Applicants should contact the Department of Boating and Waterways at (916) 445-9657. — joart patton

SIGHTINGS sail free — cont’d ashore and afloat. The former included sea chantey singing, knot tying, food booths and even a pond where kids could 'sail' styrofoam boats. The latter took place on a dozen volunteer boats from South Beach YC, the charter catamaran Adventure Cat (which donated the day) and three of the BAADS boats, which are specially set up to accommodate physically challenged people. Most participants in the weekend were not physically challenged. They had just heard or read about the opportunity for a free sail and converged on continued outside column of next sightings page

the one excuse we’ll accept for a late classy . . .

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South Beach. The usual 80 or so physically limited folks rounded out the attendance. And once again, everyone went home happy. Perhaps none were happier than the BAADS volunteers themselves (many of whom are challenged), says Cornfield. "These people end up being given so much during their lives that it was really something special for them to be able to give some back." As far as another Sail Free Day next year, "I think there’s no stopping it now," says Cornfield. "We may even hold it in conjunction with the dedication for the new park opening just up from South Beach marina." For more information about BAADS and their many programs, contact their 'sailmail' at (415) 281-0212.

a race to remember — tahiti ’95 Winning races is great. Setting records is even better. But how many of us can tell our grandkids about the memorable spring of ’95, when we raced across the Pacific Ocean to Tahiti to break a course record set 70 years earlier by a 107-ft Gloucesterman fishing schooner? Well, to be exact, the five men aboard the Santa Cruz 50 Yukon Jack, three of which are pictured at right. Starting with five other boats at noon, fvfay 20, from Harding Rock, Jack made a mad 3,700-mile rhumbline dash across the Pacific. Unlike the rest of the fleet, they kept wind the whole way — even through the Doldrums — arriving in Tahiti in 19 days, 31 minutes and 21 seconds. Less than half as long as that aforementioned schooner, Mariner, they nevertheless beat her 1925 record by a tad over 35 hours. To say it was a memorable achievement is like saying the Beatles were a pretty good band. Tahiti racers were just beginning to get back into town as we went to press, which made our usual exhaustive race coverage impossible. We do know that Bill Siegel’s Swan 36 Viva, with Commodore Tompkins aboard, corrected out to win the race overall. We also know that none of the three-boat Hawaii con¬ tingent, which started on May 27, ever had the opportunity to fly spinnakers! Results, faxed just hours before we went to the printer, appear below. So in this case, to the victor go the spoils. Yukon Jack’s first-to-finish victory not only got them the record, it got them home in time to talk to us. And besides, they’re the only boat at this writing to have brought back any of the rolls of film we supplied to everyone. Now, about that photo at right... "It was our initiation for crossing the Equator," said Larry Hoffman, Jr., Yukon Jack’s navigator and son of Larry Hoffman, Sr., Jack’s owner. "We had

Tahiti Race Results SAN FRANCISCO FLEET (May 20 Start) boat

corrected time

t. Viva Swan 36 2. Petard Farr 36 3. Yukon Jack SC 50 4. Irish Hurricane Swan 431 5. Sienna CheoyLee63 6. Sea Hawk Huntingford 55 HONOLULU FLEET (May 27 start) 1. Kaimlloa III J/44 2. Windspan Catalina 38 3. Blackjack Ericson 36

21d/23h/52nV20s 2td/20h/11m/04s 19d/00h/31m/21s 23d/19h/29m/00s DNF DNF

16d/11h/42m/20s 18d/02h/43m/04s 19d/00h/31m/21s 20d/06h/0Sm/00s

DaveNottage 14d/03h/52m/51s Jerry McKenna 19d/11 h/49m/07s John Davis DNF

14d/03h/52m/51s 16d/18h/25m/25s

Bit! Siegel Keith Buck Larry Hoffman David Clark Arthur Mintz DarstAtheriy

to shave ourselves!" After we got done rolling on the floor laughing at the whole sequence of photos, Larry admitted the three amigos pictured, (1 to r) Bill Boyd, himself and Garret Walker, ended up shaving their chests only. But of course, chest hair grows back. To truly memorialize the moment for all time, the same three got ankle tattoos. We’ve seen these on some-Hawaii racers, but they don’t hold a candle to the art or significance of Yukon Jack’s ’toos. "We asked around and ended up going to this old Tahitian guy way out in the country," says Larry. "We told him basically what we wanted and he kind of winged it from there." The result is a Tahitian 'totem' denoting the wind continued outside column of next sightings page

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Long before pushbutton navigation, long before sextants, astrolabes, Norse voyagers and even the splendid maritime cultures of Minoan Crete, South Pacific voyagers were navigating over vast reaches of water to settle what is now Polynesia. The vessels that made these remarkable voyages as long as 30,000 years ago were seagoing canoes, made from hollowed out logs and lashed together with natural fibers.

SIGHTINGS old way The men that got them to their destinations used a method of navigation now called 'wayfinding', the all but lost art of knowing where you are by watching the wind, the waves, the clouds and even the birds. Way¬ finding took years to learn and a lifetime to master. A living example of both the canoes and wayfinding will make a brief visit to the Bay continued middle of next sightings page

tahiti — cont’d god, the sun, sailing the sea. . . It’s so cool, we want to do the ’99 race just to get one ourselves. Oh, that’s the other news. Current talk among the Tahiti Cup Association, the organizers of the race, is that every two years is not enough time for people to put together a Tahiti campaign. There will definitely be another Tahiti Race — patterned, as this one was, after the Pacific Cup — but the tentative plan (not yet official by presstime) is that every four years may be more realistic. Although most of her crew is home, Yukon Jack is still down in the South Pacific where Larry Sr. is enjoying exploring the islands. If all goes as planned, she’ll be back doing day charters out of Pier 39 by September.

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SIGHTINGS short sightings RIVER THAMES — It was one of the stranger sights on England’s most historic thoroughfare — on June 15, a 32-foot high statue of Michael Jackson was towed up the the Thames to London to publicize the singer’s latest album. The statue, which reportedly took 30 people three months to build, is one of nine on display throughout Europe. Let’s see Madonna top this one. MORE RIVER THAMES — And more strange sights. Rick and Karen Dobbertin are currently circumnavigating aboard an amphibious craft made from an old milk truck. Now comes word that Britain’s Robert Dyer is about to take off around the world in a boat made from a, ahem, chimney. He bought the thing, which was originally installed in a Welsh hospital, for a few thousand quid, put in an interior, attached an outrigger made from a length of steel oil pipe, put in some kind of motor and Pipedream is ready to go, he says. Well, as soon as he raises the £20,000 or so that he figures he’ll need to complete the trip, anyway. MOZAMBIQUE — That’s where they found a crayfishing boat in April, washed up on the beach. The amazing thing is that, seven months earlier, the 33-ft boat had been tied up in Perth, Western Australia. Last November, she had broken free of her mooring in a storm, and since then has drifted 5,000 miles across the Indian Ocean to come to rest on a southeast Africa beach. Excuse us while we go check our docklines. ^ MAINE Dr. Benjamin Spock was an amazing man. As well as being 'the' authority on baby rearing and an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war, he was also an Olympic gold medal winner (8-man rowing shell, 1924) and, befitting a man of intelligence and class, a sailor. Spock’s enjoyment of our sport was taken mostly aboard a stubby little boat called Turtle, which despite his 6’ 4" height he reportedly lived aboard in Maine each summer. The design was a type called the Scud, designed and built in England right after the war. In fact, the Scuds were the first production line yachts ever built in Europe. Said to be advanced for their time, they were constructed of aluminum by former aircraft builders, as wood was in short supply at the time. Turtle is believed to be the last of the type in existence. STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT — If you sail, own, have ever owned, or just admire Luders yachts, we remind you that the first reunion of Luders lovers is scheduled for July 28-30 in various locations along the waterfront in Stamford. As noted in previous issues, the Luders yard built many types of boats besides yachts, and all of them will be celebrated over this busy weekend. If you’re going to be in the area, the Stamford Historical Society can tell you more at (203) 329-1183. ALBANY, NEW YORK — By the time you read this, there will be a new America afloat. And before this issue is a week old, she is due to sail majestically into New York Harbor for the first time. If the ship is anything like her namesake, that schedule will likely get pushed up several times. But make it or not, the new America will be something to see. Stretching 104 feet LOA, 22 feet wide and displacing about 130 tons, she is a 'modernized' replica of the handsome schooner that gave the America’s Cup its name back in 1851. The original America suffered an ignoble end, when snow collapsed a shed in which she was stored in 1942. In 1967, a replica designed by Olin Stephens was built, and is still sailing. The newest America — geez, it’s almost a class! — is the brainchild of Ray Giovannoni, a 67-year-old restauranteur and sailor from Virginia. Above decks, the new boat will appear very similar to the original, with the exception of double headsails. Under water (thanks to input from John Scarano, who modified the original plans) she’ll be radically different, sporting a long fin, bulb keel, detached rudder and shallower draft. Construction of cold-molded cedar over laminated cedar frames will also make her lighter than the estimated weight of the original (and 1967 replica) by about 40 tons. The masts will be Douglas fir wrapped in kevlar. In return for his $4 to $6 million investment in the project, Giovannoni continued outside column of next sightings page

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voyaging Area on July 1. Bay Area sailors are invited to come out and help welcome the 57-ft, 12man Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hokule’a as it passes under the Golden Gate at or about high noon. Watch for falling flowers, though, as 30,000 will be dropped from the Golden Gate as part of a welcoming ceremony by members of local indiginous tribes, the Miwoks and Ohlones. Following the grand entrance, Hokule’a will proceed to Crissy Field, escorted by 42 local outriggers (so that’s what they’ve all been out practicing so hard for). The remain¬ der of the day will be spent in various cere-

SIGHTINGS — cont’d monies involving the canoe, while ashore, visitors can partake of Hawaiian entertain¬ ment, food and crafts. The Hokule’a was built in 1976 in Hawaii using traditional Polynesian methods, al¬ though concessions to modernity were made in some of the fastenings and lashings that hold her together. The catamaran-canoe has already traveled thousands of miles on voy¬ ages of research and good will. Her present journey began in Seattle and will eventually span the entire West Coast before she is shipped home.

shorts — cont’d hopes to reinstate the schooner as the flagship of the American Nation. He is already arranging sponsors, charters and goodwill tours.

THE DELTA — That’s where we’re headed this month to both beat and enjoy the heat wave. And we’re going to build an article around it, so get ready, cause you Delta dawgs out there are going to be the stars. We’re going to pull up and do quickie interviews with a dozen or so random boats and among the questions we’re going to ask is, "What’s your favorite Delta story?" This is one of those thinker questions that usually doesn’t work too well on short notice, which is why we’re asking you now. If you have a really good story and don’t want to chance our missing you on the Delta, send it in by mail. Otherwise, when you see a near derelict Bertram 25 called .38 Special on final approach to your boat, throw out the fenders, ’cause Latitude’s come calling!

Boats don't have to meet a lot of criteria to appear in our monthly ‘Looking Good feature. All you have to be is out there enjoying the sport. But when we end up taking lots of photos of lots of people doing just that, as we did last month, it comes down to picking and choosing. Smiles and waves in the photos help in the selection process, but as soon as we saw this photo of‘Friar Tuck1, we knew we'd found our July boat. The good ‘Friars' were waving hard, smiling big, sailing well, AND ALL WEARING LIFEJACKETS!!! In our book, you can't look much better than that — even if the lifejackets were those big, ugly orange jobs. We also intend to make good on our promise to send a T-shirt to the skipper of any ‘Sightings' boat where everyone's wearing personal flotation. If‘Friar Tuck's owner will let us know where he is, we'll get one in the mail poste haste.

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aturday, May 27, was one of those days that Master Mariner boats have revelled in since the mid-1800s, when their yearly regatta was contested in a friendly competition between ships of the line. jSince 1965, of course, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been raced in vintage yachts in one of the great aijhual spectacles on San Francisco Bay â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and for many individual boats, if not divisions, one of the hardest-fought races of the year. | Ninety boats answered their starts on Memorial Day, crossing the line in 5lpinute intervals according to ratings. They then spread out all over the Bay

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depending on which course they were given. Three to four hours later, it all came together again as the fleets approached the finish line behind Treasure Island. In fact, some of the most exciting drag races of the day occurred in the final moments of the race as crews tried to squeeze the last hundreths of a knot out of their craft — with the handicap built into the start, the first boat in any division to cross the finish line is the winner. After the finish, it was on down the Estuary to the sponsoring Encinal YC for another Master Mariners tradition — one of the best parties of the season.

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about the beginning of time, by afternoon, conditions were ideal. Which proves one of two things: either God really was a sailor or the Mariners have sold their souls to the devil. At any rate, these mostly heavy dis¬ placement boats need some serious breeze to really move, and every year they seem to get it. By the time everyone was blazing down the homestretch, it was blowing a steady 25 with gusts to the low 30s, and there were acres of shredded dacron in their wakes. Almost everyone we talked with blew at least one sail out. Other gear damage was mostly minor, but often exhilarating in a perverse sort of way — Lance Schoenberger’s tiller coming off Orn in mid-race, for example. July, 1995 • UM*JU 3? •

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Clockwise from left, 'Californian' charges past 'Hawaiian Chief¬ tain' in the homestretch; why they call them "widowmakers", (top) the Farallon Clippers were out in force, with six boats racing in Ocean II; (bottom) not all Master Mariners are huge; 'Maramel' retrieves an AWOL halyard.

T 1 he usual suspects who always lead their respective divisions were for the most part back out front this year. Conspicuous by their absence, however, was the Southern California contingent. Last year, three SoCal boats of a half dozen that came north won their respective divisions. This year, however, rough weather kept southerners in port. The new — and to us, long overdue — division that did sail this year was the so-called Post War class. To be a 'proper' Master Mariner, a boat has to have either been built before World War II, or built to a pre-war design using materials available then. Unfortunately, that once left out many 'modern classics' such as Dave Pressley’s marvelous sloop Spirit. We were glad to see Spirit finally racing this year in this new division. (There are also provisions to allow the Ocean Racers to use aluminum spars, though at a serious rating disadvantage.)

O ne of the most visible 'new' faces on the course this year appeared in the Ocean I Division, the domain of former grand-prix ocean racers. That was Bruce Fowler’s lovely 63-ft Alden yawl Cock Robin. Bruce, a longtime Master Mariner who heretofore campaigned the Dutch yawl Else, actually acquired Cock Robin almost two years ago with the intention of entering her in last month’s Tahiti Race. Thpse plans went out the window when the boat dropped its mast off Point Conception during the delivery north. That was followed by six months of "basically rebuild¬ ing" the boat in Ventura. The project still has a long way to go. Despite her businesslike appearance in our opening spread, Cock Robin still has only a rudimentary interior. Fowler and his partners, Paul Tuhus, Fleet and Ruth Irvine, and Bill and Beth Richardson, are working on the boat as time and money permits._ July, 1995

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1995 MASTER MARINERS RESULTS

Part of the reason was that Samarkand blew up a chute on their first leeward leg. That bought the Credit crew a little time. But once sorted out, Samarkand charged ahead, overtaking everything in her path — and the building wind only worked to her advantage. Belmont, who said he "roped in some kids this year" to really push the boat, also shredded a kite in a 30-knot blast near T.I. His crew, tasting victory, got another one up in record time as Samarkand loomed up in the rear view mirror. Down the homestretch they came, Samar¬ kand seemingly overhauling Credit by a boatlength every heartbeat. Fifty more yards and it would have been different, but Credit got the gun only 10 seconds ahead of her larger rival.

year buill owner name type BIG SCHOONER (3 boats) Nautical Heritage Society 1, Californian US’ topsail schooner 1984 1987 Central Coast Charter Z Hawaiian Chieftain 103' topsail ketch 3. Alma 80' hay scow National Maritime Museum 1891 GAFF I {3 boats) 65' Herreschoff sch 1924 1. Brigadoon Terry $ Patty Klaus 2. Felicity 50' Stone cutter Lyle Kent 1896 3. N-ghtwatcher 1978 Ken & Patty Godshalk 50'ChapeUesch GAFF li (10 boats} 40' Angleman ketch i. MakaniKai Ken & Kristine Inouye 1970 2- Joshua Bill & Mary Harpster 55'Spray yawl 1980 3. Black Witch Craig Swayne 38'Winslow Sloop \ 1949 *' ' MARCONI 1 (8 boats) PillBSi 1. Kandu 1946 40' S&S Sloop Jim Conway SO' Eldrlge-Mclnnts sch 1991 Babe & Ltz Lamerdin 2, Elizabeth Muir 3. Grtsette 58' lytton cutter Jim Van Dyke 1908: , MARCONI II (8 boats) 36' OMson sloop 1964 1. Enkidu Jim Stoye v2. WLady 38.5' Ulfstrup sloop 1937 Yasuko Tomizavwa -1958 3. Smile U Tim Ward 46' Bamere ketch MARCONI III (8 boats) L Random Kers Clausen 30’Nunes skx>p 1949 2. Simoon 33.5’ Rhodes sloop 1952 Date & Luisa Williams 3. Hoyden 30‘Afden sloop 1947 : Kathy Nelson MARCONI IV m boats) ; i. Honatse 28‘Herreshott ketch Paul & Dawn Miller 1962 2. Numse 1936 Kermit Parker 28‘Aageutzon sloop 28' Herresheff yawl 1965 Z Wizard of Bristol Jim & Adrienne McGee 4. Sea Spray 33’ Herreshoff ketch 1961 Connie Channon & Ru Zingaro Mark Downing & Alex Hunt 5. Samara 30' Garden stoop I960 OCEAN t (2 boats} 1. Samarkand 54.5’ $&$ yawl 1958 Richard Humphrey 2. Cock Robin 63’Aldm yawl Bruce Fowler 1931 OCEAN ll (8 boats) 1. Credit Faraflone Clipper 1952 Bill & Janice Belmont 2. Ouessant Farallone Clipper Frank Buck 1957 3. Chorus Ketlenburg38 1958 Peter & Kathleen English POSTWAR II (4 boats) i. Leda Lapworih36 David James ft 965 33.5'S&S sloop Z Spirit 1960 David Pressley ' 3. Eventide Lapworih 36 1958 , . Bob Griffiths “BEAR (3 boats) 1, Sugar Foot 23’Nunes stoop 1938 Marty Zwick Z Trigger 23' Nunes sloop 1938 Scott Caucbois 3. Huck Finn 23’ Nunes sloop 1938 Margie Siegal & Robert Briscoe BIRD (3 boats) 1. Skylark 30‘Alden sloop . 1927 Peter Brosig & Jane Hook 30’ Alder sloop Z Oriole 1924 Stephen God 3.Swallow 30’Atden sloop 1937 Robert Keete —

Elngaging in excitement of another kind, Alan Olson’s 54-ft William Hand schooner Maramel was clobbered by a spec¬ tator boat on the run down the Cityfront. The skipper of the rental boat appeared to simply get disoriented and zig when he should have zagged, stabbing the schooner at full speed near her transom. The collision spun both boats around and locked them to¬ gether for a few anxious moments. Once free, Olson dropped his sails, exchanged names and motored home. Fortunately, the damage to Maramel turned out to be rela¬ tively minor and the other boat’s insurance has been very cooperative. "The thing that gets me is, though," lamented Alan, "is that up until that point in the race, we were doing great!"

SPECIAL AWARDS Baruna Cup (tst Place Perpetual, Ocean classes): Credit Bllliken Bell (Fastest Gaff): Brigadoon Deadeye Trophy (Fastest Any Rig): Brigadoon Lyle Galloway Trophy (Fastest Under 30’}: Honalee Longest Distance Travelled: Wilhelm H. starck (Half Moon Bay)

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winner of the coveted Baruna Cup, which is awarded to the first place Ocean boat. Almost always awarded to a big Ocean I 'gold-plater', this year, Bill Belmont’s Ocean II boat Credit — a 38-ft Farallon Clipper — held off all comers to take the Baruna.

\A/ith all the thrills and spills out on the course, however, the star of this year’s Regatta was a participant who received a se¬ cond place award — and a rousing round of 'Happy Birthday'. That was Kermit Parker, who turned 85 the day of the race. Parker, who lives in Inverness, has spent the last few years restoring the boat he raced, a 1936 Aaguetzon sloop called Numse. Look for more on this most master of Master Mariners in an upcoming issue of Latitude. And that’s about it for our quick recap. Like we said, the Master Mariners is first and foremost one of the great spectacles of the Bay, and spectacles are to be looked at, not described. So we invite you to peruse the photos on these pages, which speak volumes more than we could ever capture with our deathless prose. Enjoy! * ' — latitude/jr

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The Latitude Interview:

Jim & Ann Cate You’re going to cruise to Mexico and beyond this year or maybe next, and you’re confused about what you need in terms of a boat and gear. There are no simple answers because needs are subjective and budgets vary. Some folks can be happy with a bare-bones 25-footer while others — who can afford it — couldn’t do without a tricked-out 55-footer. But to get a general idea of what works, we spoke with a Bay Area couple who started cruising in their late and mid 40s, and who after nine years and 50,000 miles are still enjoying the cruising life. Jim and Ann Cate — he originally from Livermore, she from Richmond — took off cruising in 1986 aboard their PalmerJohnson Standfast 36, a retired racer. They did Mexico and got as far into the South Pacific as Bora Bora before running out of money. They returned to Marina Village in Alameda, lived aboard for 18 months, then took off again in March of '89. Since then they’ve been circulating between Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania. Recently back in California to visit old friends and family, we grilled them about their boat and gear. And asked Ann if she bad any tips for women about to cruise with male partners.

38: Are you satisfied with the size and type of boat you have? Jim: We’re happy with Insatiable. She’s been great for the two of us, although in order to have visitors . . . well, they’d have to be pretty good friends. Four people aboard a 36-foot boat means you simply have to forgo privacy. Having a strong boat has been important, because it’s allowed us to make the arduous voyages necessary, for example, to get to places like Tasmania. It’s a hell of a long and hard sail — 1,500 miles from Gladstone, which is halfway up the east coast of Australia — and the weather is abysmal, but Tasmania is just magic! The season is only four to six weeks long, but we’ll go back again. One nice thing about owning the same boat as long as we have is that you have to spend increasingly less time sorting things out. You’ve fixed all the major problems long ago, and permanently solved the annoying little ones that kept recurring. 38: Are there any changes you’ve made to the structure of Insatiable? Jim: The previous owner had been putting coat after coat of hard vinyl bottom paint on the boat for 17 years in order to race. When we hauled the boat out in New Zealand a few years ago, I decided to take it all off. I don’t ever want to do that job again, because the buildup had been incredible. I took close to 400 pounds of old bottom paint off! We’re currently using an ablative bottom paint with a very high copper content. We put about three or four coats on, which because our boat has a 29-foot waterline, means eight liters. It’s been holding up quite well. 38: Didn’t you add a hard dodger several years ago? Jim: We hadn’t been out cruising very long when we realized that solid dodgers are a whole lot better than cloth ones. The problem was that most hard dodgers looked like telephone booths cut in half and plopped on the deck. But we finally came up with a design that looked good and found a young man in Auckland that did a beaut of a job. It’s been on for three full years now and we’re very happy with it. We later added a short extension made of clear plastic. This has been a welcome addition, especially in cooler climes such as Tasmania. 38: What have you had for a sail inventory? Jim: Since our boat is heavy and beamy, she needs more sail area to move along than lighter and narrower boats. Actually, she’s quite Page 114 •

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heavy with all our gear, coming in at 22,500 pounds — about 30% over her racing weight. In any event, our workhorse sail for many years was a 140% headsail. In addition, we carried heavy and light 165s — we don’t motor often — and a blade. We also have an old 1.5 oz. bulletproof chute that came with the boat — which we actually use quite a bit. I’d like to have a newer 3/4 oz. asymmetrical chute, but our budget doesn’t allow it. This first set of sails were made by Hogin in Alameda, and they lasted great for 45,000 miles. It just goes to show how long sails will last if you take decent care of them. The main in particular was still in good shape, in part because I’d had Bob put a double ply of cloth on the leech. A year ago we decided — with some reservation — to go with a roller furling system on the headsail. At that point we had a new 140% triradial genoa and full batten main built by Sobstad in Auckland. Both these sails have been terrific, and the roller furling works much better than I thought it would. What impresses me about the headsail and furling is that you can still get pretty good sail shape even when it’s rolled way up. It’s not perfect — 1 really miss having a light #1 for ghosting conditions — but speaking as the one who got to do most of the sail changes, it’s certainly improved my lifestyle. One of the good things about getting old is that you can buy stuff that makes life easier without feeling ashamed of yourself. The full batten main makes it less trouble to reef the main, which is also nice. We also added an inner headstay and staysail for rough weather. I still don’t completely trust roller furling. 38: Let’s talk about electronics. Jim: We’ve got a little Furuno 1720 radar, which is really an important piece of gear. Ann and I do a lot of careful planning to make sure we arrive at new ports during daylight — and still usually arrive at night! Normally we stay offshore until daylight, but if the entrance is fairly clear and there are good radar targets, we’ll go in. Radar really helps. 38: GPS? Jim: If anyone were to cruise without a GPS, they’d be . . . well, I just can’t imagine anybody going without. We also carry two sextants and know how to use them. We can’t imagine anybody going

offshore without a sextant either. We’ve seen any number of people come into port with multiple GPSs as their sole means of navigation — people who have no knowledge of coastal piloting, dead reckoning, or celestial. This is noteworthy because we’ve also seen people come in with all their electronics having been blown out by lightning. We have one GPS at the nav station and also a handheld version. The handheld is important because we take it out in the dink.

38: In the dink? We don’t understand. Jim: When you cruise Tonga and Fiji, you’re spending a lot of time in and around coral reefs and coral heads. Whenever we anchor in a coral area, we plan an escape route in case we have to leave at night. We do this by going out in the dink — which is safer and more convenient than the boat — and coming up with a set of waypoints that will take us out of danger. Even when you have charts and the reefs are supposed to be July, 1995 • UWwit ?? •

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interview: marked, it’s still good to develop your own escape route. For one thing, charts of areas with lots of coral aren’t that accurate, and cyclones often destroy the reef markers. In places like Fiji and the Ha’pai group of Tonga, you just can’t trust the charts or reef markers. When you go through areas with reefs, you want to be able to eyeball it. There’s another electronic item I haven’t seen in the United States that I don’t know how we lived without. It’s a handheld depthsounder made by Hondex, a Japanese company. It looks like a flashlight and sells for less than $100 in New Zealand. We’ve used this countless times, both in the dink to help plan escape routes and when we’ve run aground in murky water and needed to find the deeper water. 38: Do you have an autopilot and/or a windvane? Jim: We have both. Our autopilot is an Autohelm 3000, which the manufacturer would say surely can’t work on a boat our size. Yet it has — and for more than seven years now. What they don’t seem to understand is that it’s not the size of a boat that matters, but how hard it is to turn the wheel or tiller. We use the autopilot when we’re motoring and also for coastal sailing when a degree or two difference in course can be critical. We built our own windvane, but it’s based on the Autohelm model, with a trim tab and an auxiliary rudder. It’s probably steered us 30,000 miles, as we use it offshore all the time because it’s quiet and doesn’t use any electricity. We used it once in up to 65-knot winds in a cyclone. 38: Speaking of strong winds, how often do you see 35 or more knots of wind while cruising? Jim: It depends on where you are. You seldom see 35 in the tropics. But in Tasmania and New Zealand, every front that comes through has that much wind. Usually it only lasts for an hour or two. 38: Hmmmm, an hour of 40 knots. That sounds like it would be excellent practice for rough weather. Jim: We don’t want to practice anymore. [Laughter.) The winter before we left San Francisco, we used to take the boat out in the ocean every weekend that there was bad weather coming through. People thought we were crazy, but it was very useful because we got our reefing drill worked out. And it was good to be able to sneak back into the Gate with our tail between our legs rather than reefing for the first time in the middle of nowhere and having something go wrong. 38: What kind of setup do you have for a dink and outboard? Jim: When we bought the boat, she came with a 13-foot Zodiac Mark II. We thought, 'This is too damn big' . . . but then we tried it. Yes, it really was too big, but it sure beat rowing or motoring around in a little inflatable. The big inflatable has allowed us to cover a lot of ground and stay dry most of the time — which is perhaps an underrated consideration. The size is a pain in the ass, yet it’s wonderful. I’ll give you an example. We’ve spent three full seasons cruising in Fiji, and last year we circumnavigated Vanua Levu, during which time we saw a total of two other yachts. The big city there is Lambasa, which is about five

"You seldom see 35 knots in the tropics, but there’s that much wind in every front that comes through New Zealand." miles up a river that is too shallow for our boat. So we anchored Insatiable and took the dinghy up the river to the big market at Lambasa. We’ll never forget arriving at the market and having about 100 of the locals standing over us. It was obvious they were all saying to themselves, 'Where the hell did these white folks come from?' It’s not like there are any racial problems, they just don’t see many folks Page 116

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of European stock in remote places like that, places often accessible by dinghy only. And what we enjoyed most about Fiji is hanging out at the remote places, because by the third visit the locals let their hair down and treat you like family. Three years ago we bought a 13-foot DSB inflatable, which is made of hypalon by a long time German manufacturer of liferafts. It’s excellent. At the same time we bought a Suzuki 15 hp outboard. If we had to do it again, we’d probably not get another Suzuki because it seems to have a narrow torque curve. Folks with similar inflatables powered by Yanmar 15s seem to be able to plane with four people and dive gear, while our Suzuki bogs down. The difference between being able to plane and not being able to plane is critical. 38: What’s your opinion on liferafts? Jim: We don’t have one and we don’t really miss having one. I did a dispassionate analysis of the risks involved, and I concluded that boats rarely sink quickly in the middle of the ocean. Certainly it can happen, but it’s not likely. And along the coast, we always tow our inflatable,i so that would be our liferaft. The year before we left, there was a guy named Barney who sold and serviced liferafts, and who went around giving presentations about them. It was actually he who talked us out of buying one, because he had all these stories about how liferafts didn’t work or failed in some significant way. The day may well come when we’ll be very sorry for making the decision not to carry a liferaft, but we just can’t see spending half a year’s cruising budget to buy and maintain something that we probably won’t need and might not even work. Most cruisers, however, don’t agree with us. It’s also interesting how many of the boats 'lost' in the Queen’s Birthday Storm have reappeared. Ramtha, a catamaran given up for lost, was recovered in good shape. The monohull Silver Shadow reappeared near Tonga. And the 32-ft wood Atkins Sofia was found six months after the storm, several thousand miles away. She was returned to the original owner — a good friend of ours — in pretty good shape. On the other hand, it’s speculated that the one liferaft that was inflated blew away from the people trying to use it — all three of whom were never found. So there’s surely something to be said for staying with the boat. 38: What about an EPIRB? Jim: We have an ACR antique that’s probably 15 years old. We’re going back and forth right now deciding if we’re willing to spend the money for one of the 406 models. We may wait until they drop in price a little more. 38: What kind of engine drives Insatiable? Jim: We’ve got a BMW 35. It’s a two-cylinder engine that runs a little rough, but has been extremely reliable. We’ve got 3,300 hours on her and haven’t had any problems. We had the injectors cleaned at about 2,500 hours just because I thought we ought to do something, but they just had a little carbon. The pop valves were a little low. We got slightly better fuel economy after they were fixed, but not enough to justify having it done. 38: Given all the time and miles you’ve had on the boat, 3,300 isn’t very many engine hours. Jim: Well, we don’t motor all that much. And unlike many other cruisers, we don’t use our engine to charge or batteries or run the refrigeration. 38: What kind of refrigeration and battery charging systems do you have? Jim: We’ve had the same old Adler-Barbour Cold Machine for the last five years, and it just keeps working. It’s enough to keep a few beers cold — and, as Ann says, a big wahoo if we ever catch another. We’re not great at fishing. 38: Does your Cold Machine make ice? Jim: It could if we ran it for 24 hours, but we don’t. 38: What do you have for batteries? Jim: We have one small battery to start the engine and two 120-

jim & ann cate amp gel batteries in parallel for the house bank. It would be nice to have more house batteries, but two is all we have room for. 38: If you don’t charge the batteries with the engine, what do you use, a little gas generator? Jim: You see a lot of those on cruising boats in Mexico, but not on boats that go further and longer. They’re too inconvenient and too noisy. We charge our batteries with a homemade wind generator that you have to hoist up in the rigging. It doesn’t have overspeed protection, so we don’t feel good leaving it on while we go to shore. It’s a bit of a pain, but it works well. This same generator also works with a drag propeller — actually, it works even better than with the wind propeller. You get lots of juice from it, although it means you can’t drag a fishing line. 38: Any solar power? Jim: We have two solar panels. If we had the room, we’d add some more. Solar is the nicest way to make electricity — as long as you don’t need too much. 38: We’ve gotten away from the engine a bit, but what kind of prop do you have and how much fuel do you carry? Jim: We have a Martec folding prop. It’s fine, but what I’d really like is a Max Prop. As for fuel, we only carry 40 gallons. That might not sound like much, but we don’t motor often. Besides, in flat water it still gives us a 500-mile range. 38: How much water can you carry? Jim: Fifty gallons. We also have a Recovering Engineering 1.5 gallon/hour watermaker. But we only use it when we have to. I’ve been very impressed with the unit. You have to 'pickle' it if you don’t use it all the time, but our experience is that if you flush it out for a few minutes, it starts right up again. It doesn’t seem to have any of the problems of the fancier systems. We also use a Sun Shower a lot. 38: Moving up to the foredeck, what about a windlass? Jim: We have (laughter) an 'Armstrong' windlass. When we got the boat ready, we didn’t have enough money for an electric windlass — or better yet, a hydraulic one. We anchor with heavy chain, a heavy anchor — and I bitch heavily when we have to bring it up. It was probably just an odd streak, but we heard of quite a few people who had problems with electric windlasses this year. 38: You’ve got a boat that weighs 22,500 pounds. What size chain and what type of anchor do you use? Jim: We use 3/8-inch chain and a 44-lb Bruce anchor, both of which we’re happy with. We had used a plow anchor for years, but we’ve found that the Bruce will set quickly if it will set at all. This is an important consideration in crowded anchorages where it’s sometimes necessary to 'place' your boat in a specific spot. 38: What do you have for radios? Jim: We have a VHF, an ICOM 735 ham radio, and we also have SSB capability. Folks coming this way should know that both New Zealanders and Australians are much more formal about radio use. There is considerably less chatter over VHF, and they pay attention to the rules. In Australia, for example, there are really only two channels for yachties to speak to one another. 38: Computer? Jim: We’ve got an old, old Toshiba laptop. It’s good for word processing and for use as a weatherfax — which is its most important purpose. While in New Zealand, we also picked up a shareware program for world tides — which is good because Admiralty tide books get bloody expensive. The shareware program is not perfect, but it’s close enough for planning purposes. It also has information for obscure parts of the world. 38: We’re certain it varies depending on weather you’re cruising uninhabited parts of Fiji or downtown Sydney, but can you give us an idea of how much it costs you to cruise? Jim: In Fiji, there are lots of places where you can hardly spend

money at all. And back when we were in Mexico — it’s been quite a few years — we could live high on the hog for $300 a month. It’s considerably more expensive in places like New Zealand and Australia, however. Roughly speaking, I’d guess about $1,000/month on the average, for everything except plane tickets back to the States — and major

"One of the most important things women can do is to learn to sail the boat so they can do all the jobs themselves/ boat projects like new sails. 38: Have you tried working? Jim: Yes. We found that we didn’t care for it. (Laughter) There are jobs to be had, however, in places like New Zealand and Australia. As odd as it might sound, in that part of the world Americans are perceived as being very productive workers. 38: One of the big concerns potential cruisers have is health insurance. Do you have any? Jim: We’re covered by Prudential through my retirement plan with the University of California. There’s a $250 deductible after which they pay 80%. They haven’t balked at any bills yet — even when the receipts have come from foreign hospitals. It’s been our experience that health care in the Third World is usually very inexpensive. But you get about what you pay for. In Australia, on the other hand, they have national health care which is very good. But it is not extended to foreigners. Medical care there is not as expensive as the United States, but it’s certainly not cheap. 38: How do you handle your money while cruising? Jim: We have a Merrill Lynch Cash Management account with a Visa debit card. It’s worked very well — even in the less populated areas of Fiji and Vanuatu. You give them your card, they make a phone call, then they give you your money. 38: Ann, you’ve been trained in psychology and are an experienced counselor. Are there any tips you might have for cruising couples — or women — who are contemplating taking off on a cruise? Ann: Certainly one of the most important things women can do is to learn to sail the boat so they can do any and all jobs by themselves. Your partner will certainly sleep better on off-watches if you do. It’s usually better to learn these skills from someone other than your partner, as it will lessen stress on your primary relationship. But you must demonstrate your capabilities so that your partner can develop trust in your skills. This includes the capability to read charts and pilot the boat. And once you learn the skills, you must keep in practice. 38: Some women without a strong sailing background might have a hard time visualizing themselves being accomplished at cruising skills. Ann: It’s easy for novice women sailors to 'see' how they might not be able to do something, so they have to adopt a 'can do' attitude that may require some creative problem-solving. I suggest that the women picture themselves as solving a problem for their best friend. 38: Is cruising hard on marriages? Ann: When a couple takes off cruising — and it doesn’t matter if it’s just for a year or two or if it’s open-ended — there is still a lot of stress. And this is even true if both people view their upcoming cruise as a 'good' change. So it’s important that both of you hone your communication and compromising skills before you leave. If your relationship is sick, both you and your partner must begin healing it before you take off. 'Water soluble' marriages are relationships that were already in trouble. Often it takes nothing more than the stress of a big change to July, 1995 •

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jim S. ann cate completely wash such a relationship away entirely. 38: W on’t suppose that taking off cruising is the ultimate dream of all that iany women. Ann: Although some of us find cruising a wonderful lifestyle, it isn’t for all women — or men, for that matter. One drawback is that you have to give up a certain amount of intimacy in long term and family relationships. In addition, you may have to lower your level of financial security and give up quite a bit of comfort. On the other hand, you can get what you want out of cruising. I love the sea and 1 love being out there with Jim. I also enjoy meeting new people, learning about them, and coming to love them. I also thoroughly enjoy being outdoors and travelling. 38: Do you have any suggestions on how to lessen the impact of the negative aspects or drawbacks of cruising? Ann: I recommend that most women be open to a hobby or some other activity that can be a source of self-validation. This is particularly true for women who’ve given up a large salary and the validation they once got from their work or profession. This has been the biggest challenge for me, as doing boat jobs alone simply isn’t an adequate replacement for my career. 38: Any practical tips for cruising? Ann: Male or female, when in a foreign country you have to remember that you’re acting as an example of an American. And even though foreign cultures may have rules that you don’t like, you need to obey them anyway. It’s important to learn and then respect local customs — which is what’s meant by leaving a 'clean wake'. I’ll give you a couple of examples: Everything on the islands you visit in the South Pacific belongs to someone — even if there isn’t a fence around it. As such, if you see

fruit or breadfruit growing unattended, don’t think you can just pick some. The owner of the produce can be found — often this is a great adventure in itself — after which you can trade him or her for the food. But don’t just take it. Somebody also owns inshore waters and the land. So fishing and shelling without permission would be considered stealing — especially in Fiji where all land and water inside the barrier reef is tribal property. And where water or other resources are limited, we try to take little or none. V It’s also important to be discreet on the VHF, as the locals often monitor what you’re saying. More than a few times we’ve heard cruisers denigrate the locals over the VHF—when we knew the locals were listening. Obviously, that’s not a good thing to have happen. While in Fiji once, we heard a women brag over the radio that she’d taken all the valuable shells from one uninhabited island! What was she thinking? 38: Any surprising health problems that you’ve come across? Ann: We all know that the tropical sun is hard on skin, but few of us realize just how destructive it can be. Skin cancer is not fun, so use plenty of sunscreen and wear a hat. And use moisturizers — even if you think it’s sissy stuff — because once your skin is tanned, lined, and leathery, it’s too late. One last health tip. Women on hormone therapy — such as myself — need to watch out if they seem to be getting and staying seasick more often than normal. It took me a long time to make the connection between the two. 38: Jim and Ann, you’ve been out cruising for quite a few years now. Are you getting tired of it? Jim: Not at all. It beats anything either one of us has ever done.

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SAYONARA — MAGNIFICENT MEN "T1—«ess is more," observed the great German architect Mies van der Rohe back in the ’30s, "and God is in the details." If that is indeed the case, the new state-of-the-art Farr ILC maxi Sayonara is a most god-like boat. She recently spent a week in the Bay Area, stabled at Anderson’s Boat Yajd in Sausalito and later at Grand Marina in Alameda, while her professional crew assembled her for their upcoming world tour. Happily, we were invited to crawl around on the 78-foot behemoth and meet some of her crew before Sayonara took off down the coast in the 'revived' Catalina Race. Here are some of our impressions. Some Background Imagine for a moment that you’re the richest man in California, a workaholic bachelor in need of a new hobby. You own¬ ed a 34-foot cruising boat many years ago, so you know you like sailing — but now you’ve got the itch to go yacht racing. You get chatting with a neighbor, a hardcore Kiwi yacht racer, about the possibility of charter¬ ing a sled and breaking the TransPac record. But when that race is opened up to jumbo IMS boats, you opt for that route instead. Problem is, there aren’t any boats like that to charter, so you decide to build one for yourself. Thinking beyond just the TransPac, you want the boat to be capable of winning buoy races such as the Big Boat Series, as well. Price is no object, so naturally you hire the best people in the world to design, build and crew on the new boat. That’s exactly how it happened with Sayonara, or at least that’s the Cliff Notes version. Legally owned by 'Team Sayonara', it’s no secret that the man behind the new boat is Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle, the red-hot software company based in Redwood Shores. 'Brilliant', 'controversial' and 'flamboyant' are just some of the ad¬ jectives used by the media to describe the youthful-looking 50-year-old entrepreneur. We wouldn’t know about any of that, just that Ellison, who recently joined St. Francis YC, has a ton of money and great taste in sailboats. The 'Kiwi connection' was David Thom¬ son, an easy-going New Zealand expatriate who used to campaign the Farr 1020 Kotuku. Ellison put Thomson in charge of the project, essentially handing over the checkbook to David and telling him to 'do it right'. A private investor currently between boats, Thomson had the time and interest to devote to the Sayonara project. A little over a year ago, he quickly picked Bruce Farr of Annapolis as designer and Mick Cookson of Auckland as the builder. "Going with these guys was automatic," said David. "The only question was whether Cookson could fit us Page 120 • UKUJUW • July, 1995

into their hectic schedule." Originally, the boat was scheduled to be built side-by-side with Chris Dickson’s Tag Heuer last summer, but actual construction didn’t start until November due to the continually changing IMS rule. Even then, the project was halted for awhile waiting for the ORC rating committee to finalize the ILC maxi limits and VPPs. When those numbers were finally established, Farr’s 12-man office tweaked the design one last time and then

gave Cookson the green light to build the world’s first purpose-built ILC maxi. Twentytwo weeks later, in mid-May, the boat was ready for sea trials. Boat captain Bill Erkelens and mate Zan Drejes spent several months in the boatyard overseeing the birth of the new boat. "Cook¬ son concentrated on building the composite carbon hull and deck, and subcontracted out as much as they could — the engine, elect¬ ronics, rigging, and other stuff," said Zan.

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"That’s not how we used to do it in Santa Cruz, where the boatbuilder tries to do everything. The Kiwi approach is much more efficient and businesslike. They got a lot more done in a day than we ever did at the chicken coop!" After three days of sailing off Auckland Harbor, the boat was put on a container ship bound for Oakland, where it arrived on June

The New Rocketship To oversimplify, Sayonara is a cross between an America’s Cup boat and a Whit¬ bread boat. The gear is much bigger (and more expensive) than on a sled, as this is an all-around boat that’s meant to go both upwind and downwind. It’s a beautifully finished, but stripped-out machine. Little thought was given to below-decks comfort,

just like on the old IOR boats. But if you can see the beauty in function, Sayonara is a knockout. "It’s strictly a race boat," shrugged Geoff Stagg of Farr International. "Sure, it’s spartan — but we’ll get there in a hell of a hurry! Anyway, we’d rather party after the race, not during it." Vital dimensions, as provided by the Farr office, are: Length Overall — 77.9 feet; Waterline Length — 64.67 feet; Beam — 17.29 feet; Draft — 13.12 feet; DisplaceJuly, 1995 • UlUUt 19 • Poge 121

SAYONARA — MAGNIFICENT MEN ment — 47,398 pounds; Ballast — 31,746 pounds; Engine — Yanmar 145 hp. Under the water, Sayonara sports a tapered bulb keel similar to a Whitbread boat and a high aspect rudder controlled by dual steering wheels. Towering 105 feet above the deck of the relatively narrow boat is a fpur spreader (plus jumpers) fractional aluminum rig by Southern Spars of Auckland. Unlike the noodley rigs on ULDB 70s, this is a beefy mast, one which will stay up while pounding to weather in 40 knots. In addition to all the normal features you’d expect on a rig of this pedigree (discontinuous rigging, hydraulic everything, a forestay loadcell), external halyards exit above the diamonds for 'mast¬ head' kites (it’s actually two-thirds of the way up between the hounds and the tip). The max-depth boom is made of S-glass over a nomex core. A full North Sails 3DL inventory will grace the spars: a light #1, heavy #1, #3, #4, main, jibtop, blast reacher, and staysail. The kite arsenal consists of big and little kites, light and heavy, all purpose and reach¬ ing designs. For downwind races, Sayonara is rated with a small main and 'masthead' kites. For buoy racing, she’ll sport a big main and fractional kites. Controlling the sails is an exotic Harken custom winch package, basically the same one that Young America used except without carbon fiber and titanium parts (carbon is illegal in IMS except in the hull, deck and rig; titanium is completely banned). The fourspeed winches are operated from two dif¬ ferent sets of pedestals — the three forward grinders are athwartships, while the back two are on centerline. The grinders control which winch they’re spinning by stomping on var¬ ious large chrome buttons in the cockpit floor — it’s an elaborate dance that’s almost

impossible to explain. "We had. trouble getting used to it when we switched boats right before the America’s Cup finals," allowed Greg Prussia, one of Sayonara’s two bowmen. The instruments are top-end B&Gs, a Page 122

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ALL PHOTOS LATITUDE/ROB Hercules 790 system with all the bells and whistles. A Furuno 210 weatherfax, an electronic barograph and two IBM 'thinkpads' (which feature incongruous but colorful flower gardens as the screen savers!) round out the package. Navigator Stan Honey uses one computer to monitor boat performance and weather patterns, and the other for roll call analysis, course analysis and 'house¬ keeping'. A portable 'Deckman' allows Stan to navigate from on deck if he chooses, "just like the Mumm 36 navigators". Interestingly, Stan still relies heavily on marking up charts with pencil lines. "I started an electronic charting company, so I ob¬ viously understand the technology," said Stan. "But I’ve found it’s still easier to get the whole picture, and to convey it to the after¬ guard, by laying it out visually on a big chart." N Down below, with the exception of a hotwater shower, a water-maker, a freezer and a single fan above the nav station, there aren’t a lot of concessions to luxury. Winch drive-shafts, hydraulic hoses, and even the steering cables are left exposed. "It has all the warmth and charm of a Texaco restroom," observed Steve Taft of Anderson’s. Mostly black below (the 'color' of unpainted carbon fiber) with white bulkheads, the interior consists of 16 pipe berths (eight to a side), an aft nav station, a tiny head on the port side and a minimal galley on the starboard side. There’s nothing forward of the mast, and there aren’t a lot of places to stow food or seabags. There’s only a minimal amount of standing headroom, and when the sails are dragged back from the forepeak onto the cabin sole for racing, the interior becomes even more cramped. "It

Coming off the container ship, 'Sayonara' im¬ modestly revealed her bottom. Note Whitbreadstyle keel, deep rudder and sail drive.

makes Windquest and all the ULDB 70s seem like luxury liners in comparison!" claimed Taft.

We figure the price tag for the new boat was somewhere over $2 million, but prob¬ ably well under the $3.5 million an America’s Cup boat costs. Given Ellison’s enviable financial situation, we offhandedly mentioned to a crewmember that the damage Sayonara caused to his wallet was probably equivalent to a 'normal' person buying a Laser. "Get a grip," came the reply. "It’s more like Larry just bought a pair of roller-blades." The Crew Like the boat, the international crew — selected largely by Thomson and Stagg — is the best group money can buy, and you can be sure that virtually everyone onboard is being compensated in some form. The entire TransPac crew showed up in Alameda for three days of boat work and sailing before the Catalina Race, and we’re sure a less professional group wouldn’t have been able to pull the project together on such a tight schedule. Seemingly every crewmember car¬ ried a cellular phone and a notebook, and worked tirelessly to get the boat ready. "Team Sayonara is really coming toget¬ her," said Thomson. "Morale is high, and there is no competitiveness or politics — everybody has already made the travelling squad. It’s an amazingly talented group — just about everyone is capable of doing any job on the boat." Here’s the scouting report, in alphabetical order, on the crew: Joey Allan (bow) — Three-time Whit¬ bread vet, including winning it last time on Yamaha. Joey was recently the mid-bowman on Black Magic — this Kiwi spends more time aloft than on deck. Paul Cayard (watch captain) — Needs no introduction. Though possibly the best allaround sailor in the world, this will be Paul’s first TransPac, and he’s excited about doing it. Speculation about a Cayard/Ellison alliance in the next America’s Cup is a bit

AND THEIR FLYING MACHINE sold and serviced maxi sails for years, and is one of the most experienced offshore sailors in this country. Bruce Farr originally planned to make the Catalina Race, but was sidelined by back problems. Brian Fishback, a Farr employee who was the office liaison with the new boat, went in his stead as the guest 14th crew¬ member in the Catalina Race. His replace¬ ment for the TransPac is still a secret, though we’re assured it’s someone high-powered and famous ("Not Dennis Conner!"). The watch system they’ll use consists of the Kiwis (Stagg, Allan, Naismith, Thomson, Drejes and the 'mystery man') on one side, and the Yanks on the other (Cayard, Prussia, Erkelens, McCann, Shaw and Weisman). El¬ lison and Honey will float. Framed by the Golden Gate Bridge, 'Sayonara' appears every inch a long, lean fighting machine.

premature — but didn’t Paul’s relationship with Raul Gardini begin with a maxi pro¬ gram? Zan Drejes (first mate) — Highly regarded sled captain, has sailed on Blondie, Mon¬ goose, Pyewacket and others. A speed freak, Zan also sails multihulls like Tomcat when time allows. Only sailor in history to wear hiking boots while sailing. Bill Erkelens (boat captain) — An accom¬ plished Bay Area sailor in I-14s, Wabbits, sleds, you name it. Won the ’94 Pacific Cup overall on his custom 26-footer Moonshine with wife Melinda, who quit her job as an attorney to run the shore support for Sayonara. Cheerful and competent, both the Erkelens are adapting to their new nomadic lifestyle. Stan Honey (navigator) —A sought-after TransPac navigator, Stan had his pick of rides this summer. He’s a veteran of in¬ numerable Transpacific races, and currently holds the singlehanded (’94 with Illusion) and doublehanded (’92 with Mongoose) elapsed time records. Honey, a successful businessman in 'real life', wants the crewed record this summer. T.A. McCann (mast/pit) — Whitbread vet (Tokio) and most recently the mastman on Stars & Stripes, the former Olympic swim¬ mer is also the team medic. Robbie Naismith (trimmer) — Trimmed both port and starboard sides on Black Magic. A Kiwi, 'Battler' is also a multiple Whitbread vet, most recently on Endeavour. Greg Prussia (bow) — The best bow man to ever come out of the Bay Area, Prussia’s most recent assignment was with Dennis Conner on Stars & Stripes. Greg’s an "olive farmer — no kidding — when not sailing. Robert Shaw (cockpit) — An Oracle executive and friend of Ellison’s, Shaw has done about 15 TransPacs. Starred in Jaws,

The Deep — oh, sorry, wrong one. . . Geoff Stagg (watch captain) — World class sailor known for his ability to get a program up to speed in a hurry. The ultimate hired gun, Stagg manages several projects a year and appears to live out of a seabag. David Thomson (project coordinator) — Thomson oversees the whole operation and is the spokesman for Team Sayonara. By our

What the competition will see a lot off— for the first few minutes of the race anyway.

eye, David has done a marvelous job for Ellison. Thomson’s making noises about owning another race boat, something to sail locally when he’s not off racing Sayonara. Gary Weisman (sailmaker) — Weisman runs the North Sails loft in San Diego. He

The Future The 360-mile Catalina Race, which they finished in the record time of 34 hours and 30 minutes, was their shakedown for the upcoming TransPac. "The boat exceeded all expectations," said Honey. "It’s faster than the polars in light and moderate air, and also goes fine in the heavier stuff. We hit some

20s going down the coast, but I don’t think our top end will be as high as a 'super sled'. We won’t have the big highs, or the sub¬ sequent lows, they’ll have — I’m just hoping we run out of race track before they overtake us if there’s heavy-air running at the end!" The coastal run confirmed the quality of the crew. "There’s no posturing and posing like you sometimes find among big boat crews," said Stan. "These guys are the real July. 1995

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Hawaii after the race and see what makes sense. The Cape Town to Rio Race next January is a definite possibility."

thing!" It also revealed the forgiving nature of the new boat. "It’s easy to steer," said Thomson. "At one point, we had a problem atthe end of the pole during a heavy-air jibe. We sailed without it for about ten minutes, sheeting on both guys — the boatspeed never dropped and we were never out of control!" The boat is presently in Marina del Rey, where Billy and Zan are continuing to prep her for the upcoming TransPac. "We’re plug¬ ging up some leaks and changing around a few pieces of deck hardware based on what we learned during the Catalina Race," said Erkelens. "But basically, the boat was fine right out of the box." Sayonara will start the TransPac on July 2 with the 'super sleds', and should run at the front of that pack for the first half of the race. Whether or not they can hold off the turbo¬ sleds Pyewacket and Cheval when the wind goes aft remains to be seen. It will also be interesting to see how the new boat stacks up against Windquest, the previous IMS bench¬ mark, and the Whitbread 60 America’s Chal¬ lenge. "Realistically, it all depends on what kind of weather we get," figures Cayard.

'Sayonara' will be back in town for the Big Boat Series — be sure to check her out then!

After the TransPac, the boat will be delivered here for the Big Boat Series, where it will sail in a maxi class against Windquest, Cassiopeia and Exile. "We honestly haven’t figured out our schedule after that," said Thomson. "We’re going to sit down in

hough Sayonara's homeport is listed as San Francisco, it’s doubtful that we’ll see much of her after the Big Boat Series. The boat will be roaming the world looking for competition, elapsed time records and good times. At the moment, it’s a little lonely at the top, as there aren’t any other ILC 70 maxis to play with. But that’s changing: Ellison’s business rival Hasso Plattner (Morning Glory) has ordered a Reichel/Pugh ILC maxi which is just now getting underway in Sydney, and East Coasters Bevin Koeppel (Congere) and George Coumantaros (Boom¬ erang) have also apparently ordered ILC maxis. "When we decided to go ahead with the Sayonara program, we wanted to accomp¬ lish two things," said Thomson. "First, we wanted to win races. Second, we wanted to have fun. I’d say we’re well on our way to accomplishing both objectives." — latitude/rkm

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\A/ hen we put our ear down near the jrface of the water, we hear a very soft amble. While it might be a distant ship, we rink it’s actually the sound of a whole lot of |j| alks getting ready to do this fall’s Baja Hafa Cruiser’s Rally from San Diegd to Cabo Since we’re picking up numerous ndications that 'here might be a whopping urn-out for the Ha-Ha — there were 39 >articipants last year despite very short lotice — we’ve decided on a slight change n policy: As of right now, we’ve started an rntry list. So if you want to be assured a slot n the Ha-Ha, you’ll want to send your §jf lame, address, boat name, boat type, and a :heck for $99.99 made out to Latitude 38 / 4a-Ha, Box 1678 Sausalito, CA 94966. The Ha-Ha will leave Coronado Roads on Dctober 30 at noon, and there will be two With a ‘hi ho‘ and a 'ha‘, 'Cascade' Charges off stops on the way to Cabo. The first will be Coronado Roads starting line on the first leg of about 360 miles down the chute at Turtle the '94 Ha-Ha. Bay, one of Baja’s finest all-weather anchorages. The fleet will leave Turtle Bay the surf camp blew away in a summer hurri¬ on November 4, with a second stop about cane. So that leg may end at Mag Bay. The 240 more miles southeast, either at Bahia third and final leg will start on November 8 Santa Maria or Mag Bay. Last year folks and finish 160 miles later at the capital of found it a little bit hard to get ashore at Mexifornia, Cabo San Lucas. Boats that Bahia Santa Maria. Besides, we heard that average four knots should have about a full

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he race will be open to boats 25 feet and over that are suitably designed, maintained and outfitted for offshore sailing, with skippers and crews who understand and are gladly willing to accept the hazards of going to sea. While the Ha-Ha was fun and safe last year, there’s no guarantee that it will always be that way. Over the years, a number of sailboats have been lost and crew hurt or killed on the way from San Diego to Cabo. While the passage often features light winds, there’s always the chance of a late season hurricane or even a winter survival storm. While there has never been a hurricane off Mexico in November, there was a survival storm about eight years ago that

claimed both boats and lives. Sure as water is wet, there’ll be similar storms in the future. There are many other potential dangers. Boats have been intentionally rammed by Mexican fishing boats and unintentionally run down by shipping. Heck, last year two Ha-Ha entries collided off Ensenada. In addition, boats have burned, broken up on Sacramento Reef, and a countless number have been driven up on the beaches by accident. Crews have been hit on the head with booms, fallen overboard, suffered severe cuts and/or bums, broken bones, drowned — not to mention other horrors.

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don’t want to make the trip alone, don’t enter. The Ha-Ha is a challenging event for bold adventurers who hunger for the oppor¬ tunity to take full responsibility for their decisions and actions — no matter if it might cost them all their money or even their lives. Have we made ourselves perfectly clear? With those warnings out of the way, we can get on to other details. Motoring will be allowed, but you’ll be penalized approxi¬ mately three hours for every hour you putt. There are times when motoring makes a lot of sense — such as if you’re five miles from the finish, it’s getting dark, and the wind is on the nose at 35 knots. For competitive reasons, there are also times — total calm — when it also makes a lot of sense to motor. However, a lot of cruising folks simply refuse to motor on principle — unless they’d be late to the next start. This year we’ll recognize these folks by instituting a special 'Order of the Ha-Ha'.

^5ince this is a cruising race, the assumption will be that all entries will carry gennikers but not spinnakers. If you’d prefer to compete with a spinnaker or with just working sails, you should indicate this preference. With enough interest, we’ll have separate divisions for those classes. The Wanderer will be the grand pooba of the HaHa handicaps, and as such will break down the fleet into six-boat — approximately — divisions on the basis of what he believes will promote the greatest fun for the greatest number of people. He’ll also be assigning handicaps, which will be based on PHRF ratings modified by the amount of 'go slow' gear on a given boat. The Wanderer reserves the right to change the ratings at any time — including after the first or second leg of the race — for what he believes to be more equitable competition. If this benevolently dictatorial approach Page 128 •

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doesn’t seem fair to you, don’t enter. In addition to being willing to accept full responsibility for participating in the Ha-Ha, entries must forswear whining, because nobody wants to hear it. There was almost none last year, and we’re expecting even less this year. The Ha-Ha is for folks who are primarily looking to have a good time and make lots of new friends on the way to Cabo — not to show everyone what a hot-shot racer they are. In the Ha-Ha, we value the last place finisher in each division as much as the first place finisher. If white-knuckle competition, protests and other quibbling turns you on, we heartily recommend that you enter the Long Beach YC’s Long Beach to Cabo Race that starts on October 28th. Seriously. That event requires yacht club membership, and at $7/ft the entry fee is a little more expensive. But they’ll have a blue ribbon race committee, a protest committee, and a more active and formal social schedule at the Cape. They’re wonderful folks, too. So if that interests you, by all means go with that group. As for the Ha-Ha, 'Nothing serious' is the

if you have qualms, don’t enter. motto. Participants will be taking their own finish times at the end of each leg, and the starting lines will be between the transom of the committee boat and a landmark on shore. They don’t do it that way in the America’s Cup, but it worked fine last year. But if that’s too casual for your taste, you know who to call.

Gear requirements haven’t been finalized, but the stuff required for Category II or III races will give you a good idea. Things such ' as liferafts and 406 EPIRBs are highly recommended. All entries should give safety the utmost consideration, because you sure can’t Ha-Ha if one of your crew needlessly gets hurt or if your boat sinks. And remember, safety isn’t something you can buy at the chandlery . Make sure you practice crew-overboard and other safety drills with your entire crew. Although recommended, SSB radios will not be required. Morning and evening roll calls will be conducted via VHF, either directly or by relay. Again, this very simple system worked well last year. Although several large sailboats and one large powerboat expressed interest in being the 'Mama Boat', we’ve decided on the Ocean 71 Elmo’s Fire that will be starting her circumnavigation. See CruiseNotes for more about the boat, her owners and her crew. If anyone else, power or sail, is interested in escort or communications duty, please contact Latitude at (415) 383-8200 ext. 111. We’re pleased to announce that the HaHa has already gotten a good bit of support from within the industry. Almar Marinas, for example, will be offering a 50% Baja Ha-Ha discount on guest slips at all their California marinas during the months of September, October and November. Their marinas are Dolphin Isle in Fort Bragg, Ballena Isle in Alameda, Ventura Isle in Ventura, Anacapa Isle in Channel Islands Harbor, and Cabrillo Isle on Harbor Island in San Diego. All these marinas will be offering special services for Ha-Ha’ers such as mail forwarding, reservations and slip assignments for their next marina along the way, seminars, and social events. Ha-Ha headquarters in San Diego will be at Cabrillo Isle Marina on Harbor Island, where everyone will be welcomed by managers Bob and Gladys Swanson. The marina is right next to the airport and reasonably close to most stores and services. The shuttle at the nearby Sheraton takes passengers to the airport, Balboa Park, Sea World and other sites. In addition, Ha-Ha’ers will get a 20% discount on rental cars or vans — plus free delivery at the marina. Cool, is it not? We’re hoping that as many as 50 entries will gather at Cabrillo Isle Marina as early as October 23 in order to get to know one another. During the week before the start of the race, we expect there’ll be informal question and answer sessions with veterans of not just Mexico, but also Central America

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and the Canal, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Europe. Then on Friday the 27th, the Wanderer and Wanderette will host the spectacular Halloween Ha-Ha Costume Ball — complete with food and beer — for all Ha-Ha entries. (In all free food and beverage situations, it’s free for the skipper and mate of each entry, with a $5 charge for each extra adult crewperson). Almar will also be offering a Baja Ha-Ha Special at Cabo Isle Marina in Cabo San Lucas. The special — with 50% off berth rates — will run from November 10 through 25. It’s on a space available basis, although they usually have many 39-foot slips open. For details on all Ha-Ha specials at Almar Marina, call (800) 307-ISLE. Downwind Marine in San Diego is ano¬ ther Ha-Ha supporter. Folks will want to remember that Downwind will be hosting a Cruiser’s Fair on October 27 and 28, with many manufacturer’s reps on hand. Down¬ wind will also be hosting a Cruiser’s Kick-Off Party on the beach at Shelter Island on the afternoon of the 29th. West Marine will also

be providing support, not the least of which will be a starting line boat at Coronado Roads on the 30th. The Ha-Ha is also being supported by Barnett Insurance of San Diego which — and this shouldn’t come as a

"Nothing serious" is the motto. surprise — sells insurance for boats in the United States and those headed to Mexico. If any other marine outfits want to jump on the sponsor bandwagon, it’s only $200. For that you’ll get your logo on the Ha-Ha shirts as well repeated mention in Latitude’s coverage. Call us for details. Speaking of the distinctive Ha-Ha commemorative shirts, they’ll be free to each skipper and first mate. A limited number of extras will be for sale.

1 o review, here’s what you get for under $100 in the Ha-Ha: a free Halloween BBQ with beverages in San Diego before the race, a free beach party / finger food feast / awards presentation on the beach in Cabo, two trophies, discounts of up to 50% on berthing all down the coast of California and at Cabo (space available), commemorative T-shirts for the skipper and mate, roll call mornings and evenings, a good group to go with, games and contests all the way — plus countless intangibles and serendipitous good times over a two-week period. Oh yeah, and maybe even a race program, too. Detailed entry forms won’t be sent out until the end of August because we’ll be too busy sailing for the next couple of months, but if you want to reserve a slot, send in $99.99. If you receive the Ha-Ha’s detailed instructions — at the end of August — and decide you’d like to pass, we’ll cheerfully refund $90 up until October 1. After that, consider your $99.99 a much-appreciated donation to the fleet beer fund — in which case you won’t be in the Ha-Ha, but the HaHa will be on you! — latitude 38

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DELIVERY SKIPPERS:

D elivery skippers are the one-way drivers of the sailing world. After you take your dream cruise to Mexico or Polynesia, or following your exhilarating spinnaker run across the pond in the TransPac, they’re the ones who turn the boat into the wind and slog back home. Not that this work is drudgery. There are fates worse than two or three weeks at sea where the air is fresh, the water blue and the mahi mahi biting at the line draped over the stern. As one delivery skipper with many years experience noted, there’s a strong pleasure/pain dynamic operating when boat owners are paying you to have a great time on their boat! We surveyed several of the delivery skippers who operate in the Bay Area to find out just what they do and to describe some of their best and worst assignments. For most of them, delivering boats falls somewhere between vocation and hobby, a pursuit in which they can use their considerable sea¬ faring skills and be rewarded, at least to a degree. More than one also mentioned that they really need to be out on the ocean at least part of the year in order to make life ashore more bearable. Just so none of our interviewees feels that he or she’s giving away their trade secrets, let’s talk fees anonymously. Skippers gen¬ erally charge between $2 and $2.50 per mile for their services, or between $200 and $250 per day. This is only their fee, with other expenses, including airfare to or back from the boat, food, fuel, repairs and additional crew being extra. Laydays, which are some-

consider that if you lowball the price, you may get someone who’s not as qualified and the resuiting damage and/or unecessary wear and tear could end up costing you a lot more in the long run. We can’t guarantee that the skippers we talked to won’t screw up either, but by appearing in this story they’ve at least made themselves accountable for their per¬ formance. (Regular Latitude readers may remember the story several years ago of the owner who hired a cut-rate skipper to deliver his wooden 35-footer from Hawaii to San

Delivery skippers should be ready for anything — John Collins in action.

sailed East until he hit Mexico, then fell in with some buddy boats who helped him get back to San Diego, where he found the very relieved and happy owner.) We might also mention that the skippers with whom we talked were also fairly open to the idea of having the owner onboard during the delivery, although a few felt that having their employer along could create some fric¬ tion. "If I’m more experienced than they are,

"Eighty percent of any delivery is keeping the engine running. “ John Collins.

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Diego. The fellow turned out to be totally inept, going so far as to invent an emergency so the Coast Guard would 'rescue' him in mid-Pacific. His lone crewman, who had never sailed before, chose to stay aboard and actually completed the delivery. He

they might feel put down," said one. Others regard the owner’s presence as a positive element. If anything goes wrong — and sometimes lots of things go wrong — the owner will see it firsthand and not feel put out when the skipper tells him about it over

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the phone. Although the following list of skippers isn’t exhaustive, we do think it represents a good sampling of who’s out there and how they conduct their business. Many are Coast Guard licensed and all have been sailing actively for many years.

J ohn Collins of San Rafael has been de¬ livering boats since 1980 and considers it a part of his yacht brokerage service. With his Coast Guard 1,600-ton master’s license for motor and sail in all oceans, he’s prepared for just about any contingency. "I’m a little overqualified perhaps for deliveries," he says, "but the insurance companies like to see that on my resume." John’s done some very interesting trips, including the transport of the Ocean 71 Elmo’s Fire, which was part of a drug bust in Mexico a few years ago. "I had to bid on the delivery without knowing where the boat was or what shape it was in," he says. It took two

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bringing a motorsailer up from Southern Cal¬ ifornia and getting stuck in Santa Barbara waiting for the winter weather to abate. He left again with a forecast for 50 knots from the southeast, which sounded like a good way to get north. The boat was surfing down the waves with just the main up when the autopilot inexplicably took over and wouldn’t let Gary steer. The main jibed and blew out, and eventually the boat did a 360 until Gary regained control. On the plus side, he recalls another time when he and his wife delivered a 50-footer to Friday Harbor and got to spend a few days touring the Pacific Northwest before turning the boat back over to the owner. "I’m not big on long offshore trips where I’m away for more than two weeks," he says. "It’s great when my wife can come along for some of the shorter trips."

any delivery is keeping the engine running and I had a friend who was an engineer who helped me with that part," says John. "Hav¬ ing the right crew can make a big difference." One of John’s favorite jobs was taking a

Gary Jimmink.

112-foot schooner from Chile to the Easter Islands and back with 56 tons of cargo for a film crew working in the South Pacific. "We sailed the whole way," he says, "and even though I spent a lot of time on the foredeck sewing sails back together, it was really fun."

^/iarvin Burke of Novato programs computers to pay the bills. To keep sane for the past decade, though, he’s delivered boats. He also races offshore frequently, a hobby which often results in jobs bringing I

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ary Jimmink of Petaluma was in real estate before taking his Islander 44 to Mexico for a couple of years. When he returned in 1991, he found the real estate market didn’t look too rosy, so he concentrated on deliver¬ ing boats and managed to stay busy for quite a while. So far, this year has been slow, and he fills in his landbound time working on his house and his own boat. Gary likes to run at night, when the wind dies down and the seas are quiet. Sometimes on coastal deliveries he’ll start at dusk and go through to midday when the ^breeze comes up, at which point he’ll anchor or put in to a harbor and rest before starting the cycle over again. As for his best/worst cases, Gary recalls

Delivery jobs can be unbelievably brutal, says Marvin Burke. “But somebody's got to do it.“

days to get the derelict craft up and running in La Paz and almost 10 days to deliver it directly to San Francisco. "Eighty percent of

boats back after the finish. At this point, he averages about half a dozen delivery trips a year, mostly up and down the West Coast and to Hawaii and back. Like other skippers, Marvin’s developed an intuitive sense about whether a boat will July, 1995

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DELIVERY SKIPPERS make a good passage or not. Last year he arrived in San Diego at night to prepare a 50-footer for a run up to Seattle. "Even in the dark I could tell this one might be trou-

Sam Crabtree.

ble," he recalls. Rigged for light Southern Californian winds and suffering some serious neglect, the boat lost most of its rotten, six foot bowsprit to a crashing wave off the Channel Islands. (The surveyor had missed the problem just a few months earlier.) It took five weeks for repairs, but then the real fun began. Between Point Conception and Morro Bay, the main¬ sail tore, the engine quit due to a clogged filter and the jib track tore out of the deck. "That was an amazing thing to see," laughs Marvin. Finally, the steering gave out and Marvin called the Coast Guard, which stood by until he limped into Morro Bay. Marvin called the owner and told him he just couldn’t go on with the trip. "I was glad to walk away alive," he says. Burke’s tribulations were followed by a polar opposite experience aboard a Mull 45 that he returned from Hawaii. The owner complied with all of Marvin’s recommenda¬ tions and even bought a single sideband radio so the skipper could receive weatherfax information on the voyage. "An owner with a great attitude makes all the difference in the world," says Marvin.

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am Crabtree of Martinez has been de¬ livering boats since 1983. A self-employed civil engineer, he relishes going sailing and getting paid at the same time. "If I had worked for a company that had a good retirement plan," he says, "1 would have retired already and just gone sailing. Instead, I found another way." Sam also teaches navigation and often has some of his students accompany him on dejiveries. For them, it’s a chance to learn the practical side of navigation, including the use of radar and other equipment. Early in his delivery career, Sam tried to round Point Conception during the after¬ noon on a Southern California boat that had never really been offshore before. The condi¬ tions weren’t awful, but they were wet, so the pump was running — and clogging. It wasn’t long before Sam had fished from the bilge two coffee cans full of junk left over from the original manufacturing of the boat! Things got worse when the jib halyard broke, the fuel pump clogged and, finally, the bilge pump packed it in for good. Sam had to leave the boat in San Luis Obispo for a week of repairs before he could finish the job. He also thereafter avoided Point Conception except for early in the morning when the seas tend to be flat and the wind calm. Like many professional delivery skippers, Sam’s aggressive about contracts. He has a five pager that outlines just about every contingency imaginable. He gets a deposit for each trip and receives the remainder of

Linda Newland.

the payment before he gets to the boat. He then bills for expenses after delivery and expects payment within ten days. "Some¬

times that means 1 don’t get a job," he admits, "but otherwise things generally work out okay."

"I was glad to walk away alive. “ L_inda Newland of Alameda combines deliveries with her other pursuits, including being a lawyer and teaching junior high school. Besides a finely tuned contract that includes a provision for a plane ticket home in case she arrives to find the boat in poor shape, Linda has gleaned a few tips from her experiences. One is to require a survey for any boat that’s over 10 years old. "I want to make sure they’ve replaced the rigging at some point," she says. While not picky about radios, she does insist on an EPIRB and a life raft.

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The school of hard knocks has afforded her a few lessons which she vows not to repeat. Primary is the case of the 32-footer that the owner had sailed to Tahiti with his wife, at which point the latter disembarked and caught the first plane home. "I knew it was bad because the woman left her lipstick behind!" says Linda. The owner was a friend of a friend, so Linda agreed to make the delivery in spite of her reservations, but the trip and the relations with the owner didn’t work out well. "The boat leaked, it was hard to steer and we had to curl our toes over the edge of the bunks to keep from falling out since there were no lee cloths," she says.

al McCormack of Novato made his first delivery 44 years ago as a 13-year-old aboard a Tahiti ketch enroute from Belling¬ ham, Washington, to Tiburon. He was a watch captain on that trip with two other Commodore Tompkins (in his signature bush hat) drives 'Viva' out the Golden Gate in the Tahiti race. He'll deliver the boat back, too.

Hal McCormack.

teenagers and the boat’s owner. Since then, he’s logged about 50,000 miles both racing and delivering boats. The latter role is now a small part of his yacht business. "I tried earning a living doing just deliveries but

there wasn’t enough money in it,” he says. Working in the boat business, Hal knows many of the boats he delivers as well as their owners. Nevertheless, he always conducts his own inventory of the yacht and its systems before heading out to sea. "I try to get there two or three days early and go over the boat with the rest of my crew," he says. "We run the engine, use the electronics, make sure everything works." Still, there are times when, well, things happen. While bringing a Serendipity 43 home from Hawaii back in 1981, Hal was caught in a storm about 1,000 miles out. Water started coming into the hull faster than his panicking crew could bail it out. Hal sealed all the through-hull fittings he could find and the water kept rising. "We were talking about what we were going to do in the life raft,” he recalls. Finally, he sat down with another crewmember and went over all the possible leak points. The one spot Hal had overlooked was the rudder shaft. A quick check found a broken seal. They cut away part of a cabinet to get access and used duct tape to plug the leak. Within an hour the boat was dry again and they were on their way. On the other end of the scale, Hal remembers another return from Hawaii six years ago on a C&C 45. Although he prefers sailing with people he knows, Hal was ap¬ proached by a friendly Aussie who wanted to go to sea. The fellow had a girlfriend and another pal who wanted to come, too. Hal had lunch with all three and couldn’t think of a good reason not to take the whole bunch. "They turned out to be three of the most wonderful people I’ve ever been around," says Hal. "The Aussie had won the lottery and was just messing about. His girlfriend was a CFA and very smart. The third guy was a Stanford grad who had been a sailing 1 instructor. On the trip, they all taught themselves celestial navigation and by the end they were testing me! The Stanford grad also played guitar and every evening he would entertain us as we cleaned up after dinner. The Aussie went back home and started a toy factory — we still exchange cards."

^^ill Carber of Sausalito has been de¬ livering boats<for the better part of 15 years, a sideline that dovetailed nicely with the * navigation business he owned during that period as well. After selling the business a couple of years ago, he’s had more time for deliveries, although things have been slow in recent months. He speculates that one could make a living at it, but you would have to really stay busy and really enjoy things like rounding Point Conception on a 35-foot July, 1995

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DELIVERY SKIPPERS sailboat with a 20 horsepower diesel. "That’s not a glory ride," he says. Like many of his counterparts, Bill prefers

Bill Carber.

delivering race boats back from contests like the Pacific Cup. They’re usually good boats fully tricked out for the race, so sailing them is a pleasure. Last year, for example, he cruised home from the islands in a zesty 18 days. On the other end of the scale, there was an old schooner with a sick engine that he once delivered to Hawaii in a light wind year. The last 500 miles to Hilo took 11 days, making the total crossing a long, slow 31 days.

cJ oe Guthrie of Point Richmond delivers boats as part of his marine business, too, and has been doing so for almost two decades. His clients include individuals as well as brokerages, which sometimes need boats transferred from one market to another. Joe stresses flexibility and compatibility when it comes to both clients and their boats. Having the owner along, Joe maintains, can sometimes help, as in the case of one delivery he made from Ensenada. He arrived at the marina to find all the boat’s throughhulls jammed with slivers of wood, the result of a recent storm. The engine ran for 20 minutes before stopping repeatedly. Joe found water in the fuel tank, so they had to build an alternative system in order to get to San Diego. At that point, they pumped out the old fuel, steam-cleaned the fuel tank and put in 180 fresh gallons, all for a cost of $700. Off Anacapa, the main ripped from luff to leech. "I asked the owner if he would have believed me if I had called him up on the phone and told him everything that happened," says Joe. "He said no!” Page 134

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^^arlos Badell of Sausalito is another longtime delivery skipper. About five years ago he was doing quite a few but he says there’s less money in it now. He averages about four trips a year at this point. He too has a fairly detailed contract and he always tries to forewarn a client if the trip might be delayed due to weather and hence cost a little more. Carlos enjoys the speed of racing boats, but says that a well maintained cruising boat can also be an enjoyable ride. One of his great personal pleasures in delivering boats is having his two sons, Jessie and Delmar, join him. Jessie was never an avid sailor as a youngster, but six years ago, when he turned 21 at sea, Carlos brought along a lobster feast to mark the occasion. Somehow, the whole thing coalesced for the young man and these days, Delmar, who just turned 23,

Carlos Badell.

is more enthused than ever by sailing, espe¬ cially racing. "Delivering boats can be good discipline for kids," says Carlos.

I-^ast, but by no stretch of the imagina¬ tion least in our short review, is Warwick 'Commodore' Tompkins of Mill Valley. In

COURTESY JOE GUTHRIE

One of Joe’s fondest memories stems from a singlehanded delivery of a Ranger 33 back from Hawaii. Joe prefers sailing with a crew, but bodies were scarce at the time and he asked the owner if it would be okay to do it solo. The boat was extremely well organ¬ ized and Joe enjoyed the adventure of doing it all by himself for once.

Joe Guthrie.

fact, Commodore probably ranks as the Bay Area’s (as well as the nation’s — maybe even the universe’s) most experienced deliv¬ ery skipper. His 30 years of professional experience is buttressed with more than five decades of blue water racing and cruising. Commodore’s a stickler for proper prep¬ aration, and he requires that any boat he’s delivering have the gear to make it sea¬ worthy. Such equipment might include a sea anchor, a drogue and a small storm sail. When you add his fee and the costs for crew, food and fuel into the picture, "the cost to the owner can sometimes be a punishing fig¬ ure," as he puts it. Commodore also prefers to have another paid crewmember onboard, someone who can lend a skilled hand in a black squall. Commodore avoids hell trips. "If someone wants a 24-footer brought up from Santa Barbara, I tell them to take 1-5," he says. He’s not averse to long deliveries, however, such as the one he did about a decade ago aboard the Farr 52 Zamazaan. The trip from New Zealand to San Francisco took four months and included stops at several South Pacific islands and Hawaii. Even Com¬ modore’s wife and family joined him for part of the trip. Commodore does offer advice to wouldbe delivery skipper employers: look for someone who will protect and care for your boat — in addition to maintaining the integ¬ rity and safety of the craft. "In some ways I may be more prudent than even the owner," he says. "A yacht represents both a loved object and a very costly piece of equipment that I could never replace. It’s important that a delivery skipper take that approach, and for owners to seek out qualified skippers to take the proper care of the boats they deliver." — shimon van collie

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ith apologies to Winston Churchill, this year’s 38th biennial TransPac is shaping up to be "a riddle inside of a mystery wrapped in an enigma." Why did only 38 boats sign up (the lowest turnout since 1963), especially in light of the new relaxed 'anything goes' format? Where are all the Bay Area participants this time? Why did the sleds initially opt for Lahaina, and then 'return to the fold'? Why bother with the 'invited guest' sideshow? Is this what’s euphemistically called a 'transitional year', or is the longest-running and most prestigious West Coast distance race circling the drain? We’ll try to answer these and other pressing questions in next month’s feature report. All we really have room for in these three pages is a quick preview of the entries, which at least makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity. It’s an eclectic group, spread out in seven starts over five different days — and 18 official racers have the horsepower to obliterate Merlin’s near-mythical 1977 milestone of 8 days, 11 hours, 1 minute and 45 seconds. Four 'invited guests' have the potential to post even faster times than the 'real' racers, but the guests are ineligible for the Bam Door Trophy. As always, the weather will be the 'wild card' that determines who gets to Honolulu first, who corrects out overall, and if the record will finally fall. With five days before the first start on June 28, several top navigators have told us the Pacific High is still acting shifty and unco¬ operative — which may bode poorly for at least the little guys. But on with the show. Here’s our quick and dirty evaluation of this year’s fleet, by starting date: Jiine 28 — Our crystal ball tells us that Air Stripper, a J/35 that finished last in PHRF-C two years ago, will win Division V. Their victims will include the aging Peterson 41 Irrational, sailing doublehanded as a fast delivery to the boat’s new home in the islands, and the all¬ woman crew of Antara. This is the second trip for the 'new age' Antara gang, whose Cal 40 is the oldest and slowest boat in this year’s line¬ up. They’ll be the last boat in the fleet to finish, and by quite a lot — Cheval, the scratch boat, owes them 5 days, 6 hours, but starts only four days after Antara. Hopefully, the women will make it to Diamond Head in time for the awards ceremony on July 14. Division IV is likewise an easy call: Solution, with Bay Area navigator Hal McCormack on board, should destroy the other two more cruising-oriented boats, Daddaboat and Mountain Oyster. Given their two-day head start and some luck, there’s an outside chance Solution could arrive in Hawaii first in fleet — the IMS numbers show that they should beat pre-race favorite Morning Glory in by seven hours. Don’t count on it. Page 136

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June 30 — When the ten boats in Division III take off, the TransPac will start getting more interesting. Look for Morning Glory, the vet¬ eran R/P 50, to win this class handily — and probably be the first boat into Honolulu in the process. In ’93, Morning Glory held the sleds off until the last day. This time the sled fleet is a little thinner, and Morning Glory, with the addition of veteran navigator John Jourdane, a new carbon rig and masthead kites, is more lethal than ever. The rest of the 'winning' crew includes owner Hasso Plattner (from Germany),

boat captain Charles Whitten (England), Curtis Bluitt (Canada), Torbin Grael (Brazil), Bouwe Bekkins (Netherlands), Marco Constant (Italy) and Henrik Sodeslund (Denmark). Talk about an international crew! "We may be reduced to communicating in sign language," joked JourThree boats with a good chance to win (top to bottom): 'Morning Glory, 'Sayonara' and 'Pyewacket.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN 1995TransPac Entries

dane. Their competition will come from the wellsailed Pressure Cooker and the old-but-surprisingly nimble Jumpin’Jack Flash, with Climax just behind the top trio. Two other good Ceil 50s which should be right there are Persuasion and Stealth Chicken, fast boats that are pretty easy to sail. But both are charter efforts, and it will only be blind luck that brings them to the finish line ahead of the paid assassins on Morning Glory. The other four boats in the fleet include the aging Cruz 50 Baywolf, a pair of uncompetitive Hunter 54s (Mach 1 and Opua Li’l) and Final Approach, literally on a final approach to its homeport of Honolulu after a leisurely circumnavigation. Sailed by a bunch of Hawaiian TransPac vets, Approach will surely have the most rousing dockside party on TransPac Row. July 1 — Division II consists of 13 boats — 9 ULDB 70s, the oddball schooner Elliott Marine, the doublehanded Mac 65 Black Jack, the grand prix R/P 66 Exile and the Japanese effort Hatsu (ex-Charley), which despite a new carbon fiber rig and big kites is still our pick for tail-end honors in this otherwise competitive class. Choosing the winner is much harder, but after looking over the crew lists and consulting our Ouija board, we’ll go with Orient Express, Peter Tong’s SC 70. Sagacious sledmeister Tom Leweck agrees: "They’re untouchable downwind! Huge main, small foretriangle, super crew. . . You can take it to the bank!" O.E.’s crew includes navigator Joe Buck, Dave Ullman, Bill Petersen, Randy Smith, Peter Frazier, Craig Chamberlin, Mark Donahue and Peter Tong’s daughter Sarah. Their main com¬ petition should come from Mirage and Evol¬ ution, with Mongoose and Grand Illusion not too far behind. The 'B' Fleet will consist of Swiftsure, Cheval, the chartered Chance and Kathmandu — older boats whose crews prob¬ ably have more fun than the frontrunners anyway. Black Jack, with just two crew and a harsh rating (they owe the sleds a few hours), real¬ istically doesn’t have a chance. The 'K-Mart Sled' can scoot downwind — ’Jack hit 30 knots going down the coast last month before blow¬ ing out its main — but will suffer in the early going. Without a full crew, John and Carl will never recover. The innovative Elliott, Marine will do well if it’s a windy reaching race — but the boat’s 'zone' is way too specialized, and it will be hard to overcome the five hour handi¬ cap it sports the sleds. The fractionally-rigged green R/P 66 Exile, which has been residing in Santa Barbara, is a dark horse to beat O.E. — she’ll look great for the first few days, but will

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Pet. 41 J/35 Cal 40

Mark Brewer & Marco Columbo Ralph Schmitt/Steve Stefanko Bonnie Gibson/Debra Rigas

79 '84 '68

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Fred Hibberd/Hal McCormack George Bailey/Susan Pieper Denise Fox/Lee Piatek

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DIVISION 3 - June 30 Morning Glory Stealth Chicken Persuasion Pressure Cooker Baywolf Climax JJ Flash Final Approach Mach 1 Opua Li'l

R/P 50 Perry 56 And. 53 SC 52 SC 50 Barnett 52 David. 50 Lidgard 60 Hunter 54 Hunter 54

Hasso Plattner/John Jourdane Carlton Seaver/Same John Garrison/Dan Newland Jeff Chandler/Jon Shampain Kirk Wilson/Richard Parlette A. Oberschmidt & J. Montgomery Bruce Tabor/Eric Bohman D.J. Johnson/Same Richard Mulvania/Same Andrew Nickles/Louis Abrams

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Elliott 52 Mac. 65 SC 70 SC 70 SC 70 SC 70 SC 70 SC 70 N/M68 N/M68 SC 70 R/P 66 Holl. 66

Greg Elliott/Brian Peterson John Townsend & Carl Nelson Peter Tong/Joe Buck Jim Ryley/Jack Halterman Brack Duker/Peter Isler Joe Jaconi/Same Joe Case/Rob Wallace James McDowell/Same Doug Mongeon/John Craig Steve Popovich/Erica Clark Fred Kirschner/David Delo Warwick Mitler/lan Burns Masanori Kusaka/Makato Namba

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Auckland, NZ Campbell Long Beach Santa Cruz Los Angeles Los Angeles San Francisco Redondo Beach Dana Point Los Angeles Coronado British Virgin Isi. Newport Beach

DIVISION 1 - July 2 Cheval II Sayonara Pyewacket Trader Merlin

And. 70+ Farr 78 SC 70+ And. 70 Lee 66

Hal Ward/Mark Rudiger Larry Ellison/Stan Honey Roy Disney/Skip Allan Fred Detwiler/Same Dan Sinclair/Ron Ogilvy

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Long Beach Woodside Burbank Grosse Pointe, Ml Vancouver, BC

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Richard DeVos/John Bertrand Neil Barth/Brad Avery

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Steve Fossett/Ben Wright Robert Hanel/Tim O'Sullivan

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suffer when the poles come back. July 2 — Division I will be the most entertaining to watch, but also the hardest to call. The only thing for certain is that Merlin and Trader will get murdered by the new Farr ILC maxi Sayonara and the two 'super-sleds'. Of the latter, word on the docks is that Hal Ward’s new Andrews 70+ is stiffer and will have the advantage early on. But apparently Pyewacket is a click faster off the wind, and should excel on the bottom part of the course. The boats have never gone up against each other and both are still jiggling their ratings around, so no one really knows what to expect. But our gut feel is that Pocahontas — oops, make that Pyewacket — will win in a squeaker. The talent aboard both 'super sleds' is /

enough to make boat owners everywhere drool with envy. Cheval’s squad consists of owner Hal Ward, navigator Mark Rudiger, Jeff Madrigali, Dave Gruver, John Kolius, Ron Love, Scott Vogel, Stan Gibbs, Mike Howard, Bill Jenkins, Rob JRambo' Snyders and J.J. Jackson. The Pyewacket group is equally impres<i sive: owner Roy Disney, son Roy Pat Disney, navigator Skip Allan, Robbie Haines, Gregg Hedrick, Dee Smith, Ben Mitchell, Doug Rastello, Cam Lewis, Rick Brent and Dan Crowley. Crews like this come with big price tags, and we’re glad we’re not paying the bill. Sayonara (profiled on pages 120-124) is going to crush both 'super sleds' out of the blocks. When the wind goes aft, however, both Cheval and Pyewacket will begin to 'play through'. It’s anyone’s guess who will win, but July, 1995 •

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accommodate — they opened up the upper limit of the race essentially just for them! In a move that both surprised and pissed off lots of people, notably the Sayonara gang, Windquest elected to drop into the 'non-race' division rather than face the heat from Ellison’s new rocketship. To make ’Quest livelier, they’ve switched to a 4,000-pound lighter keel bulb and added 35-foot spinnaker poles (9Vfe feet bigger than normal), huge asymmetrical kites, a big-roached main and evidently some kind of starboard-side water ballast system. "No comment," was their answer to most of our questions about the new set-up. Windquest will sail with an impressive 15man crew: the three DeVos sons (Richard, Doug, Dan), John Bertrand, navigator Dale Nordin, Bill Biewenga, Rock Ferrigno, Farley Fontenot, brothers David and Dean Tank, Kimo Worthington, Brian Maclnnes, Geordie Shaver, Dennis Durgan and one more to be determined. They’ll be chasing the waterballasted America’s Challenge after the start, but should reel them in long before the finish. But it’s a meaningless match-up, completely apples and oranges. And if Windquest beats all the Division I boats — and theoretically they should — what will it have really proved? The two multihull guests are equally mis¬ matched: Lakota, like most modern trimarans, doesn’t fly spinnakers, relying instead on blazing jibe angles. Double Bullet, a large homebuilt catamaran, will set big kites and sail much, much lower — which in the TransPac is the name of the game. Bullet, whose crew includes Gino Morelli and Steve Grillon, could get there first assuming they keep the boat in one piece — remember, it DNFed the light air Ensenada Race due to gear failure. Our prediction? Windquest over America’s Challenge, and Double Bullet over Lakota — just the same order they finished in last spring’s Newport-Cabo San Lucas Race. given the latest weather ’progs', things could be looking good for Sayonara, which sports more waterline and sail area, and sails deeper than the 'super sleds'. But going strictly by the numbers, Cheval should finish first, Pyewacket should finish 1.77 hours later and Sayonara will follow another 1.7 hours back. However, if pressed to pick one of the trio for line honors, we’d choose Sayonara — we gotta go with the home team, even if the new yacht will hardly ever see the Bay Area! Invited Guests — Just two monohulls and two multihulls accepted the TransPac’s invit¬ ation to race in the unlimited classes. None of the four boats are eligible for overall honors or for setting the new TransPac course record. Setting an absolute record to Hawaii is pretty Page 138

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Three decidedly different approaches to the race (top to bottom): 'Windquest, 'Antara' and 'Double Bullet.

far out of reach, too — it’s something like 6V2 days, set a century ago by a clipper ship during a winter storm. Accordingly, each of these four 'escort vessels' has their own agendas for going. America’s Challenge (ex-Yamaha) is there to gain visibility for Neil Barth’s upcoming Whit¬ bread program; the multihulls hope to set a 'funny boat' record and to spearhead a larger multihull class in ’97; and Windquest is sailing in this class supposedly because the DeVos brothers couldn’t get their rating down to ILC maxi limits without neutering the boat too much. Ironically, Windquest was the boat that the TransPac committee bent over backwards to

I f you care enough to follow the race on a daily basis, you have two options. You can call the TransPac hotlines at (310) 431-6562 or 6992. Between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., a human being will answer the phone and an¬ swer your specific questions; at other times, a recorded message will read you the stand¬ ings. The second option, if you’re a cyber surfer, is the World Wide Net (see pages 144-145). Both are unprecedented oppor¬ tunities to watch this year’s riddle/mystery/ enigma unfold in virtually real time. These are interesting times for the TransPac — a great race which is, more than ever before, standing at the crossroads. Tune in next month for all the gory details. — latitude/rkm

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1his isn’t going to be easy," I warned my cruiser friend as I reviewed the checklist. "You don’t have an emergency rudder, you don’t have the kind of hatch locking mecha¬ nism that they want, and I don’t think your cockpit drains are the required size. When did you say the inspector gets'here?" He confirmed that the inspection was scheduled to start in less than an hour. "But the race instructions don’t say anything about those things. Are you sure I really need them for this race?" "Well, the instructions specify ORC (Offshore Racing Council) Category," I explained as I scanned the race instructions again. "And look, they even provided you with a copy of the booklet from US Sailing that has all the requirements listed..." "Yeah, I know there’s some stuff in there that I’m not a hundred percent up to speed on," allowed the cruiser, "but they get awful¬ ly picky if you take them literally. Besides, there isn’t nearly enough time to fix the cockpit drains. I’ve been going nuts tying to get all the boat’s systems working the way they’re supposed to work." He had a point. The main cabin was thick with repair people. One was the marine re¬ frigeration specialist, trying to get the icemaker to work, while the electronics dealer was troubleshooting the inverter and 110-volt system. Even the canvasmaker was hard at work measuring the aft cabin double for a new mattress and fitted sheets. Mean¬ while one of the cruisers-turned-race-crew was trying to rig the required jacklines down the sides of the deck. "Besides," he continued, "I’ve got all the big-ticket items in order: new liferaft, new single sideband; I even got a new 406 EPIRB. I figure the other regulations are there to cover the race committee’s derriere in case there’s an actionable loss." "Well, we’ll see what the inspector says. If that’s his attitude, too — and it might be — then you might squeak by."

I was at least partially responsible for my friend’s predicament, because I was the one who had talked him into entering the race in the first place. On my advice, he was using it

The problem was that he knew far, far less about offshore sailing than I had ever imagined. This was not a skipper who had come up through the club’s junior program — in fact, this was his first boat, and I doubted that he had ever set foot in any¬ thing smaller. At least it was a reasonably good boat and he was not cutting corners to save money. "Okay, we’ll have to make a quick run to the chandlery," I said. "We’ll need the wood plugs for the thru-hulls, whistles for the lifejackets and a few other odds and ends." "I need to stay here and supervise the work force," he said. "And I can use your help also, so let’s send one of the crew." After another half hour going down the list and identifying more things we’d need, we called the crew off her jackline rigging project. "Take my credit card," said the owner as he handed her the list. "No wait, this one’s at its limit — here, I’ll write a blank check to the chandlery for you. Don’t worry about ID, they know us pretty well by now." "I imagine they do!" I joked, looking at the piles of cruising gear yet to be stowed. "But let’s just hope the inspector doesn’t insist on seeing everything rigged. Do you know the guy’s name?" "Someone named Lee, I think. Lee Helm. Do you know him?" "Her," I corrected, breathing a sigh of relief. "Yes, I know her, and I think we can relax. She’s a good friend, and she even crews for me sometimes. Hopefully, we’ll get off easy, as long as she sees all the gear. Some issues like the emergency rudder and the cockpit drains might be a problem, but I think she’ll be reasonable." "Considering the boat’s almost new and very well constructed and fitted out for cruising," said the owner, "I don’t see how there could be a safety problem." While we waited for Lee to arrive we went over some of the safety gear. "You’re not required to carry a strobe light for each person," I advised, "but it’s a real good idea. The little personal strobes are cheap enough

Lee made the first note on her clipboard with heavy black marking pen... as a shakedown for a long-range, extended cruise. I had little doubt that this first race would probably also be his last. But under the circumstances, when he asked me to spend a day helping him get the boat ready, I was in no position to refuse. Page 142

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these days." I didn’t say what I was really thinking: this skipper was new to sailing, this big expensive cruiser was his first boat, and he had no small boat experience. In fact I wasn’t sure if I had ever even seen the boat under sail,

since he always motors in and out of the har¬ bor and motors to the club cruises. He said that a couple of his crew were very good sailors, but that also made me suspicious — it only takes a little bit of exaggeration for one novice of questionable ability to con¬ vince another that they’ve got salt in their veins. So I had a feeling that anyone who fell overboard would be in big trouble, unless they took some additional precautions. That meant personal buoyancy — a good idea no matter who’s driving — and extra attention to position signaling. I explained some of the options. Self-inflating harnesses, whistles, a pocket-size waterproof flashlight as a backup to the personal strobe, and I even demon¬ strated the mouth inflation option of the ’Stormy Seas’ inflatable jacket that I was wearing. "This isn’t another pile of stuff you have to buy," I reassured him. "It’s much better if each of the crew owns their own. The equip¬ ment is far more likely to fit right and be used often if each crewmember has to shell out for their personal safety gear." "Okay, I’m sending a mailing out to them tomorrow, mainly so they know what’s going on with the condo and the banquet reserva¬ tions. I’ll add in those requirements, especi¬ ally if you write down the list of equipment

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While most traditional, heavy-displacement de¬ signs are good sea boats, they still need work to come up to ORC specs.

that each of them should have." I wrote out the list for him: In addition to the required harness, a comfortable lifejack¬ et of some sort, self-inflating or otherwise, a personal strobe, whistle, and backup water¬ proof flashlight. "We’ll tell them to standardize on double-A batteries for the flashlights," I suggested, "so you only have to buy one box of spares." "Good thinking. I see you’ve done this before." I also added some comfort items that should be required: a wool or other kind of fuzzy hat, gloves, polypro long johns, and a sleeping sheet for nights that are too hot for the sleeping bags — although the owner still had the idea that they were going to be sleeping under top sheets and blankets.

e returned to the cockpit just in time to see Lee Helm coming down the gangway. She didn’t look too happy when she greeted us. "Umm, I guess you didn’t get the letter I sent," she growled. "Isn’t your heavy weather jib supposed to be up and trimmed?"

"Oh, no problem," said the skipper. "We’ll just unroll the right amount off the rollerfurler. "Wrong!" said Lee. "Gotta be a separate sail. ORC Rule 10, it’s right in the book." "But it doesn’t say it can’t be a roller furler," protested the owner. "Just that it shouldn’t be made of kevlar, if I read right." "But think about when you’re going to need it," said Lee. "It’s like, after the roller furler is destructo and the sail’s in ribbons. The meaning’s clear—gotta have a separate small jib." She made the first note on her clipboard with heavy black marking pen. "I also want to see the mainsail reefed," she continued. "You need a deep reef point, since this race doesn’t require the storm trysail." The owner agreed to set the main with the reef, but on Lee’s suggestion we decided to wait until the crew returned so we could get on with the inspection. But Lee took a look at the luff of the mainsail anyway, pulling some out from under the sail cover and measuriing the height of the first reef cringle. "Gotta be 40% up from the tack," she said, shaking her head. "Is this the only reef point?" "Just one," confirmed the owner. "There’s still time to get the sails taken

care of," I said. "That is, if a sailmaker can have a jib ready in three days. The deep reef shouldn’t be any problem, but we should order the jib right away or look for a suitable used one." The owner handed me his cellular phone. "Let’s do it then. Go ahead and order what we need." I dialed the sailmaker with the easiestto-remember phone number, and after we exchanged some comments about clueless owners (with my side of the conversation in code) we had a new jib and reef points promised for Friday. Meanwhile, Lee was busy snooping around the cockpit. "Two halyards per mast — check. Top¬ ping lift — check. Toe rail — check. Steering compass — check. Jacklines — port looks good, starboard looks like it’s not done yet, but I’ll give it a check. Lifelines — bzzzzt! Too loose! Need to tighten them up." "What’s the matter with the lifelines, Lee?" I said. "They look fine to me." "ORC says maximum deflection of two inches under a load of 11 pounds." she said as she pushed the wire out a few inches to one side with her finger. "These have quite a bit more sag. Easy to tighten, so no biggy." "Okay, we can handle that. And I know we need to get an ORC style latch for the hatch boards, too." "For sure, that’s next on my list. Can you secure the companionway from inside and outside?" Lee asked the owner. "Well, I can lock it from outside, but the door latch doesn’t have a way to lock it from the inside. I can add little latches to the inside of the doors, though." "It says right here in ORC 6.13: 'The main companionway hatch shall be fitted with a strong securing arrangement which shall be operable from above and below.' That fneans that if you lock the hatch shut from outside, it has to be unlockable from the inside — and vice versa. Didn’t you even read this?" "Hmm," said the owner. "I hate to mess up my nice companionway doors. What do people usually do to solve this problem?" "They deal with it," she snapped. "We’ll come back to it later. Cockpit drains are next on the list," she said as she read from her clipboard. "We need four three-quarter-inch diameter drains, or equivalent area." I waited for her to discover that there *were only two, no bigger than an inch in di¬ ameter each. "Looks like you’re a little short here, too," she said after measuring the drains and doing a quick calculation. "But that big door through the transom to the swim step, does that open easily while you’re under sail?" 'Yes, no problem," said the owner as he demonstrated the door. July. 1995 •

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MAX EBB: "Okay, I’ll check you as passed on cockpit drainage, since you’re very close anyway. Just don’t do anything that keeps you from opening the door if the cockpit floods."

hat’s next?” "Bilge pumps!" said Lee. "I need to see both manual bilge pumps actually pump water." "The bilge is dry. They both work, though." "Need to see it," maintained Lee, still sounding irritated. (I sensed, however, she was secretly enjoying her newfound role as a hard-ass bureaucrat.) "My letter said you should have enough water in the bilge to demonstrate the pumps. Don’t people read anymore? Should I have sent a video?" We ran a hose into the bilge and then found the bilge pump handle amid Lee’s admonitions that the handle must be secured near the pump on a lanyard. One pump worked fine, but the other wouldn’t pump more than a couple of fitful drops. "I can feel it pumping air," I said. "Does that count?” "This is about average for bilge pump tests," Lee said, finally resigning herself to the slow pace of the inspection. "A couple of months ago I inspected five of the boats racing to Tahiti, and only one was able to demonstrate two functioning manual bilge pumps. And that was only because they were fresh from a Coast Guard inspection." "That’s amazing," I said. "For sure. But like, people don’t realize that those rubber diaphragms in the manual pumps have a shelf life. Old ones get brittle, so after a few hours they crack and the pump fails. You really need to replace the valves and diaphragm in each pump before a long trip. If it were up to me I’d require a rebuild kit to be onboard for each pump." Meanwhile, the owner had crawled into the port cockpit seat locker to trace the suction line from the outside pump. "You don’t actually have to fix it now," said Lee. "The race committee only wants me to check to see if the pump is there. The demonstration is my idea, but I think you see why I ask for it. As long as Max verifies that it’s working before you leave, I’ll give you a check-off on bilge pumps. Besides I have another boat to do this afternoon." "Well at least Lee’s giving her old pal Max a little bit of a break," I said. "In your dreams!" she replied. "Now let’s check out the fuel and water and electrical systems."

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TRANSPAC ON THE INTERNET .

Max still has trouble with this stuff, so he asked me to explain how to get the latest info on the TransPac over the Internet. v It’s simple. The URL is: http://holoholo.org/transpac.html They have daily positions, track charts, bios of the boats and crews, weather maps, historical information and even articles on race tactics. It’s the ’kooi’ sailing site of the month. 1 told all of this to Max, of course. His response was, "What’s a URL? "URL stands for 'uniform source locator’," 1 explained. "It means that you need what’s called a web browser to access the site on the World Wide Web via http (hypertext transfer protocol)." "Oh, you mean like the sign you see at the Marin Civic Center as you drive by on 101? The one that says, 'http://marin. org?" "For sure," I said. "And that’s a interesting site, too. Not as interesting as KPIX’s live camera on top of Nob Hill — which is aimed at the Bay. But still worth a look. Anyway, for TransPac, you just log in, fire up Net¬ scape, aim at the URL and you’re there. All the features are finked in, hypertext style. The track chart feature is especially cool — you can select any combination of boats you want, and see only the tracks of those spe¬ cific boats." "I’ve heard about those web browsers, Lee," Max said, "but they tell me they won’t work on my 2,400 baud ..." "Ow!" I had to cut him off right there. "Max, that's the very bottom of the food chain. You have to get wired at 28,800 bps, minimum, and do it now. I mean, like, up on campus we have a T-l connection just for the department. That’s fast enough for the graphics to stream in as fast as a whole bunch of computers can throw stuff up on their screens. I mean, at the very least you could sign up for home ISDN, which is a digital 56,000 bps — or even twice that in some applications." "But Lee," he protested, "I can only physically read the test on my screen at 2,400 or less. What would I do with ail that way in order to give Lee visual access to the full shut-off valves and the thru-hulls, despite her written request to have the appropriate hatch covers and lockers already open. There was a problem with the flares, though. Although brand new, they were not the more expensive SOLAS-approved kind required. Another 'action item' on Lee’s list. She also found some relatively trivial things to fix, like the first aid kit needed a manual and we needed to put the boat’s name on

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data that I don’t even have time to go back and look at?” "Get a duel It’s fire pictures — the photo of Diamond Head on the holoholo opening screen, the photos of the boats in the boat bios, the point-and-click interface that makes navigating the web a no-brainer... especi¬ ally for people like you who will never learn the unix incantations to get the stuff off the some miscellaneous floating objects. The crew arrived just in time with the whistles for the fife jackets and the tapered softwood plugs for the thru-hulls. "There’s a trick to blowing a whistle when you’re overboard," said Lee. "If you can tell me what it is, I’ll sign you off on whistles and wood plugs, as long as Max promises to make sure they get tied to the lifejackets and the plugs to the thru-hulls." We all looked at each other uncomfor-

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web in other ways. Ail that takes heaps of bandwidth." "But the kind of information I’m most in¬ terested in is just fine as text oniy," he said. "Data and words on things like position reports, standings and news from the fleet. That’s all I really want to know every day, so I can keep tabs on my friends in the race. I don’t need a graphical interface."

"Yeah, and a hundred years ago, there were people running businesses who thought they’d never need a telephone; that Morse code worked just fine. Anyway, the TransPac folks haven’t completely forgotten the late adapter. They’ve set up a 'mailbot' to send out text files to an e-mail mailing list that you can get on." 1 handed him a printout of a posting from

the rec.boats. racing newsgroup which had the e-mail addresses of the maiibots: transpac-news@ho!aholo. org transpac-entries@holoholo. org transpac-pos@holoholo. org hi-marine-news@holoholo.org "Now this is something I can use," he said. "Along with 95 percent of people with Inter¬ net access who can only get text from the Web, and miss all the fancy pictures." “But, like, the neatest thing they’ve done this year is the new format for the weather maps. I mean, for years I’ve been trying to come up with a way to transform the coordi¬ nates of the satellite pix (which is a photo / from geosync orbit, so it’s a perspective , view) to match the surface pressure analysis (which used to be mercator, but now it’s some sort of polyconic). And the wind fore¬ casts are shown in still a third coordinate system. But like, someone at the Hawaiian weather site that the TransPac page connects to has done all the work: Now you can download a single picture that combines the high and low level clouds from the satellite photo, the isobars and the wind field, all overlaid on each other, and in color. Totally kewel." "That’s the first graphical image you’ve mentioned that I’d really be interested in," Max finally admitted. "But you know, I was able to download an occasional picture from the America’s Cup site, albeit slowly. Can I do that from the TransPac site?" "Not from the TransPac site itself, but the weather server it’s linked to does a slow download — which would be more like gla¬ cial if all you’ve got under the hood is 2400 bps. So yeah, you can get those weather maps with lynx, or any other text-only browser that supports graphics downloads. The tools they give you with accounts on Prodigy, CompuServe or America OnLine should be enough to let you do that." "I’m all set then," he said, and ran off to cruise the net at 2,400 bps. Sorta like cruisin’ Van Nuys Boulevard in a ’62 Corvair. — lee helm

tably until one of the crew said, 'You have to put the whistle in your mouth upside-down, so the water runs out." "Check!" said Lee, as she checked off,the two items. Next we discussed the companionway se¬ curing arrangements. We were hoping Lee would forget to return to this item. After all, it seemed to be one of those things that was a result of the ’79 Fastnet, where many cap¬ sized IOR boats lost their hatch boards. I

didn’t think it was really important for this boat on this race. But Lee was unyielding. Finally, we agreed to cut an access port in the doors so that a person outside could open the port to reach in and operate the inside latches. "But my beautiful teak doors!" protested the owner. "After the race you can replace the access ports with fancy bronze portholes," suggested Lee. "They’ll fit right in with the overall

motif." Finally, everything was resolved except for the emergency rudder. "I’ll lash the spinnaker poie to the stem rail," the owner proposed. "Have you ever tried to steer a boat with a spinnaker pole?" Lee asked rhetorically. "It does a lot less than you’d think. And if you add some blade area, you know, like the usual lash-the-cabin-table-to-the-end-of-thepole stuff, then it’s too hard to push without July, 1995 • IaMoJU 3? • Page 145

MAX EBB winches, plus you’ll probably break the pole. The only spinnaker pole system that has half a chance is the setup where the pole fits into a socket on the transom and has control lines running out to the end. Keeps the pole mostly in compression that way." "I guess we could rig up something like that," 1 said. "It still wouldn’t really be adequate, but the other inspectors are allowing the spin¬ naker pole fu, so I have to also. At least pre-drill some holes or fasten some hardware to the board you plan to use for a rudder blade, and have some extra hacksaw blades for trimming down the pole to a manageable length. You’ll end up getting towed in if the rudder breaks anyway, which seems to hap¬ pen on about one per cent of the first-time entries in this race."

one per cent risk of incurring a huge salvage bill didn’t seem to bother my friend all that much. We finally declared the in¬ spection over and the boat passed, pending completion of the long list of action items Lee handed to us. "If it were up to me," Lee warned, "you’d

have a lot more work to do. But I have to go with the race committee policy." "You know there’s never been a fatality in

"Have you ever tried to steer a boat with a spinnaker pole?" all the years they’ve been ruhning this race, Lee. Don’t you think that says something for their judgment?" "That’s because it’s been a race mostly for top-end racers with lots of experience, up ’til now," she said. "Even so, there was a very close call with a person lost overboard for more than a day one year. I think the real reason for the good safety record is the way they used to screen entrants — you had to submit skipper and crew resumes, have someone on the boat who knew celestial, and the committee could still make subjec¬

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nnr 11hink they’ll be okay?" I asked Lee as we walked back up the gangway to the parking lot together. "It’s the first time in the ocean for all of them, as far as I can tell, and they really have no idea what to expect." She shook her head. "There are three ele¬ ments of a safe ocean crossing: good crew, good boat, and good luck. Let’s just say it’s a good thing that only one of the three is usually sufficient."

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JLTlany years ago when I began living on my sailboat, I had a first date with a man who, upon discovering my chosen lifestyle, offered the following comment. "Well," he said with a look of great suspicion, "you don’t smell like you live on "a boat!" It wasn’t the only speculation about a single woman living alone on a boat in those days. There was the inevitable supposition that I must be gay, which quickly became dispelled when I was often sighted underway with my blond bevy of all-male crew. One time when one of my crew cut his foot rather badly and walked around deck leaving a trail of blood, the harbor patrol pulled alongside to see if they could be of assistance. I clearly heard one of them say, "My God, it’s true! She really does chew them up and then spit out the bones!" At any rate, after 12 years of rising and falling with the tide in harbors from Port San Luis, California, to Port Orchard, Washing¬ ton, 1 have learned a few things about living aboard. Some of them are philosophical (owning and living on a boat is an invest¬ ment of the heart, not the 'smart'), some discriminatory (behold the liveaboard, perse¬ cuted in story and song), and some of them just plain practical (put your high heels on after you step off your boat and make it to the top of the ramp.) Though a lot has been written about how to handle your vessel in gales and on long passages, the truth is that the majority of us are still tied to the dock, paying for our vessels from 8 to 5, and won’t be going fur¬ ther than a weekend jaunt any time soon. Some enjoy their vessels as floating homes in a tranquil marine environment with nary a thought of crossing the pond, though there appears to be some stigma attached to admitting this philosophy. Contrary to what

Two of the bigges t 'odor offenders’ on any boat are the engine and bilge. romantic but clueless nonboating friends and diehard cruisers will tell you, I find absolutely nothing wrong with being perfectly content at your mooring or slip. But I digress. Back to practical sugges¬ tions, whether you cruise, stay put or a little Page 148 • UtiUJilH • July, 1995

of both. The three most common complaints I hear from boat-dwellers on small, simple^ craft without elaborate conveniences involve those 'boat smells', the lack of hot, running water, and storage space for the type of clothes many working people must wear. Here are some solutions which worked for me when I lived aboard my first boat, which was as small and basic as they come. Smells — The reason I don’t smell like I live on a boat is because my’ boat doesn’t smell like one. Ventilation is the main con¬ cern here, even if it means leaving a hatch cracked during inclement weather. If you don’t have dorade vents, a dinghy over the hatch during bouts of rain works just as well. Or install a set of solar ventilators, one forward, one aft, to create constant circula¬ tion. However you do it, you need to keep fresh air flowing through the boat at all times. That said, no matter how much fresh air you keep flowing through the boat, food¬ stuffs such as crackers, cereals and the like are going to go stale faster than you’d like. Unless you do what my non-boating friend Stuart calls 'sailorizing': Buy a bunch of different-sized Ziploc bags when they’re on sale and store what’s left over in them. These little bags are also wonderful for 'sailorizing' tools, cameras, binoculars, and any other item that needs to stay dry. If you can find little packets of silica gel to throw in with the non-consumables, all the better.

^3ne of your best friends on board should be common household bleach. Mix it up about 10 to 1 in a spray bottle and use it instead of spray cleaner to wipe down all the interior surfaces, especially food preparation surfaces in the galley, overhead liners, and anywhere mildew seems to persist. Anything stinky becomes instantly neutralized, so it’s great for cleaning the ice box or refrigerator. In the head, pouring a small dash of bleach into a cup of fresh water and letting it sit for awhile helps eliminate odors from that space. Soaking the bowl with this solution will also eliminate the brown 'saltwater ring' that persists in marine heads no matter how often you scrub them. Bleach is cheap, rela¬ tively environmentally acceptable in dilute form, and it works. While on the subject of the head, I can recommend another best friend. Go to Costco and buy yourself a gallon of the cheapest vegetable oil you can find. When

the pump on the head starts to stick and get stiff as it invariably will, pour about an ounce of oil directly into the head and pump it through. Vegetable oil will not harm the seals the way petroleum distillates (such as miner¬ al oil, petroleum jelly, etc.) will. Vegetable oil is also non-polluting. I’ve often read the recommendation to run a cup or two of white vinegar through the head occasionally to keep the hoses free of mineral buildup. While I’ve found that the regular use of small amounts of bleach in the head seems to take care of this problem just as well, it wouldn’t hurt to use vinegar every once in awhile, too. Whatever you do, though, don’t use both at the same time. The

THE NEIGHBORHOOD greasy chili pot at home with cold water in a bucket. Yuck. A good solution is to go to Goodwill where, for a few bucks, you can pick up one of those two-gallon coffee urns with a spigot. Plug it in — don’t add coffee — and voila, instant gravity fed hot water system. If you want a trick installation, buy some clear plastic hose at the hardware store the same inside diameter as your freshwater-pump spigot. Attach it to the spigot — after dunking the end in hot (but not boiling) water to make it easier — and add a hose clamp if you like. Then drill a hole through the top of the coffee urn and run the other end of the hose right into it. Now you can pump your day’s supply of water directly into the urn. By the way, after seven years of roughing it with various coffee urns, a 20gallon fresh water tank and annoying hand pump, I made sure on my second vessel that I had 220 gallons of pressure water and four ways of heating it — five if you count the Sun Shower. If you don’t have access to power, just heat the water on your stove and transfer it to the urn. Even with every-day use, the urn will last about a year. When it breaks, go find another one for a couple of bucks. Clothes Storage — Whether you have one of those jobs you have to dress up for, or you just like to have a few nice clothes on board, all small-boat liveaboards have the same problem — there’s hardly anywhere to hang them and it’s a drag to try to iron them on the chart table. I suggest rigging a long dowel in that quarterberth you never use and hang stuff up there. On my first boat, some nice person

Ten dollars worth of household items can go far toward making your boat more pleasant to be aboard.

gasses produced will knock you out. Vinegar and water also make a good organic spray cleaner for onboard but it does make your boat smell like a salad bowl. Again, I prefer the dilute bleach solution.

Two of the biggest 'odor offenders' on board any boat are the engine and the bilge. Keeping the bilge dry and stopping all leaks in fuel lines and fittings will help immensely. While I’ve been fortunate that both my boats

have had relatively odorless diesels, others have found that a good cleanup of the engine room with Pine Sol or Mr. Clean is an invaluable aid to eliminating odors. From time to time, pour a dash of either of these into the bilge and take your boat out on a choppy day. After sufficient agitation, pump the cruddy water out of the bilge — prefer¬ ably into a bucket or jerry jug to be disposed of appropriately at a shoreside facility. Hot Water — So you’re dockside with a power cord but don’t have pressure water. It sure is a drag to try to use 'one hand for yourself (or your dishes) and one for the pump.' Even if you have a foot pump, you still don’t have hot water. For those of you unclear on the concept, try washing out that

and song. had already installed two wooden fishing rod holders at each end of the quarterberth using some strong two-part epoxy that looked a lot like Marine Tex. All I had to do was slide the dowel in. Needless to say, you’ll want to use plastic coat hangers of the type you can pick up at Thrifty’s for ten for a dollar or two. Do keep at least one of those rust-prone metal hangers around, though. You’ll need it to July. 1995 •UKUJtW Page 149

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room; and you don’t need a flat surface like your salon table to de-wrinkle upon. Also, roll clothes you keep in a drawer. You’ll find less wrinkling and more storage space than if they’re folded. And to further eliminate that 'boaty' odor, buy whatever good smelling bar soap happens to be on sale and keep one unopened bar in each drawer with the clothes. Nice with linens, too.

break into your car when you lock your keys inside, or when you have to fish something out of the bilge or from between the boards on the dock. Just don’t hang any clothes on it. By the way, after becoming a master at retrieving tools from the bilge with a strong magnet (and stomach), I learned that taking

In real estate, it's location, location, location. With boats, it's ventilation, ventilation, ventila¬ tion. a minute or two to fasten a lanyard to each tool any way possible and keeping it tethered to your wrist was time well spent. If you hate ironing, buy a clothes steamer. They’re small, flat, don’t take up much

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With a special report this month on the Bay’s own Rogue’s Gallery of Charter Skippers and reasons why you should sail with them this summer, as well as miscellaneous Charter Notes.

Leave Your Nag in the Stable and Let a Pro Show You the Ropes Having your own boat on the Bay — or a friend’s boat that you can regularly crew on — makes you one of the luckiest sailors on the West Coast. We certainly don’t have to remind our readers that the Greater Bay Area offers sailing conditions that are, with¬ out exaggeration, truly world renowned. Unfortunately, though, sailing on the same boat month after month, does severely limit your exposure to the subtle nuances of seamanship, different vessel types and the wisdom of seasoned mariners. For a change of pace, consider hiring a charter boat this summer. There’s an excellent variety of vessels, most of which are skippered by likeable salts who’ve paid their seafaring dues and possess a bounty of tall tales to prove it. In fact, spending time with these sea¬ soned sailors — some of whom are out on the water 5-7 days a week — is one of the best rationales for chartering a boat with crew. Another prime reason, of course, is for the variety: to get behind the wheel of a 70footer, to haul some lines on a square rigger or to experience a screaming reach at 15 knots aboard a catamaran! "Why spend the money when we can take out Fred and Sally’s 22-footer for nuthin’?" you say. There are dozens of reasons, not the least of which is that occasionally you (and/or your friends and family) deserve a

treat, something a bit out of the ordinary. When you split the cost of a custom charter between several couples, it’s really not that expensive — certainly less than a night on the town. (Charters usually include drinks, snacks and/or a meal). If the budget is tight, consider joining a scheduled trip and share the ride with others. Either way, chartering a crewed boat is a winning idea — especially for special occasions like office parties, birthdays, romantic overnights, weddings and reunions with visitors from out of town. L. A. may have Disneyland, but we have 'The Bay', and the way we see it, no visitor should cross over the Golden Gate without sailing under it as well! Now that we’ve pleaded our case, let us introduce you to some of the Bay’s own 'Rogue’s Gallery' of salty skippers. All are Coast Guard licensed and all have a knack for combining safety with thrill-a-minute fun. (We’ll give you 'chapter two' next month, which will include charter skippers on Monterey Bay.) Captain Hans Korfin, co-owner of the 55-foot custom catamaran Adventure Cat, was first inspired to learn about boats and sailing while looking through family photo albums. There he saw pictures of his father sailing on his grandfather’s 30-foot racing sloop on a German lake. With the dream of sailing in mind, he recalls standing on Marina Del Rey’s rocky breakwater as a kid, and wishing someone would offer him a ride.

Twenty years ago he bought his first boat, a 17-footer called Teak Lady, in Sausalito and taught himself to sail in Richardson Bay. A lot of water has passed under his keel since, including a half-dozen Oakland to Catalina races. In recent years he spends time on the water almost daily during the summer and fall. With the help of co-owners Jay Gardner and John Janus, Hans launched Adventure Cat in 1991, to meet the specific require¬ ments of Bay sailing conditions. Combining

Alan Olson has spent his adult life living out his childhood dreams of voyaging and adventuring.

Chris Jordan and Jennifer Engstrom have the enviable job of running the record-smashing 'Yukon Jack.

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Dean Gurke (with sail needle) splits his time between 'Sea Raven' and the newly refurbished 'Rendezvous'.

Ian McIntyre keeps track of a spaghetti of lines aboard the squarerigger 'Hawaiian Chieftain'.

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Remember our recent winter? Better get out on the Bay — now! 'Second Life' glides out of Raccoon Strait; (inset) charter guests lend a hand aboard 'Hawaiian Chieftain'.

speed and stability, the Cat’s top recorded speed to date is 22.5 knots with 30 pas¬ sengers on board. If thrills like that ever get boring, Hans plans to go cruising on his classic wooden boat, Ingwe, a 'Master Mariner' Atkins Ingrid. • Vessel: Adventure Cat is a custombuilt 55-foot catamaran.

• Passengers: up to 49. • Located: South Beach Harbor, San Francisco; call (415) 777-1630. Dave Brodsky’s story is one that should inspire those of you who 'wish you could' but 'think you can’t'. He went to work on the MacGregor 65 Andlamo five years ago as a deckhand, moved up to captain and today is her owner/operator. "I never really dreamed I would actually be a charter boat owner," Dave recalls, "because I had always worked as a deckhand or as captain." It seems his

hard work paid off. Andiamo takes guests out seven days a week and more often than not, Dave is at the helm. He grew up sailing in Southern Calif¬ ornia under the tutelage of his father (an excellent seaman) and went on to do lots of racing and yacht deliveries before gravitating toward chartering as a career. Working out of Pier 39, he takes pleasure in hosting would-be sailors from all over the world. One his favorites was a 94-year-old German gent who was a life-long sailor and circumnavigator. The old fellow’s mission was to tick San Francisco off his short list of places he hadn’t yet sailed, so Dave turned over Andiamo’s giant wheel to him for their entire spin around the Bay. After 30 years of sailing, days like that still keep Dave’s spirit alive and reaffirm that he’s chosen the right line of work. • Vessel: Andiamo is a MacGregor 65. • Passengers: up to 19. • Located: Pier 39, San Francisco; call Let’s Go Sailing at (415) 788-4920. Long-time Bay sailor Bill Belmont is co¬ owner and captain of the vintage Nevins motorsailer Argosy Venture. Raised in Mexico, Bill cut his teeth on sailing out of the Acapulco Yacht Club. But his romance with voyaging began as a young man, when he explored the Gulf aboard a ftmky old schooner and developed a passion for Joesph Conrad novels (he is now a collector of first editions). 'As a young man, Bill’s wanderlust took him sailing throughout the South Pacific and East Indies. Since purchasing this classic 101-footer with several friends, he has used her to explore the Med, the Caribbean and

Josh Prior and his 'Ruby1 have been familiar fixtures on the Bay for more than 15 years.

Determined to charter on the Bay, Tony Clarke and Kathleen Hanna, altered 'Second Life' to meet the regs.

Hans Korfin takes his speedy 55-foot 'Adventure Cat through her paces almost daily.

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the Pacific Coast. A low-key, easy-going sort, Bill is conversant in French, Italian, Spanish and German. His favorite charters are inter¬ national expeditions where his expertise in dealing with foreign bureaucracy comes in very handy. • Vessel: Argosy Venture is a 101-foot Nevins motorsailer built in 1947. • Passengers: up to six. • Located: Brisbane Marina; call Holi¬ day Charters (415) 952-4168. Most Bay Area charter skippers have impressive sailing resumes, and some are downright unique. But only one can say he was conceived in the master cabin of the historic square rigger, C.A. Thayer! Captain lan McIntyre of the square topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain prides himself on that nautical distinction in addition to many others. Both his parents were employed, at the time, at Hyde Street Pier. (Ian’s dad, Don McIntyre, was a shipwright who helped restore the Balclutha.) A favorite childhood experience was living with the 'Alcatraz' Indians for three days after they’d taken over the island as an act of protest. It seems his dad was delivering water to them with his Baltic ketch, Fri (Ian’s home at the time), and young Ian decided to jump ship. Another youthful adventure was sailing to Hawaii with his mother, Johanna MacIntyre, aboard a 45-foot ketch which had been donated to Johanna’s conservation organiza¬ tion, Project Joana. At age 15 he and a friend built a small catamaran which became his floating home near Lahina. He cruised the islands extensively with his mom, helped deliver a boat to San Francisco at 16 and by 19 had become the youngest 100-ton license-holder in Hawaii. After working aboard a variety of charter vessels in Hawaii, Ian ran Chardonnay (now Yukon Jack) in Santa Cruz and did a stint aboard the 140-foot brigantine Soren Larsen in Australia. He returned to Hawaii just in time to help rig the newly-built Chieftain, and later took over as master when she arrived in the Bay in ’92. By all indications, he’s now found a very comfortable niche. • Vessel: Hawaiian Chieftain is an 85foot square tops’l ketch. • Passengers: up to 49. • Located: Marina Plaza, Sausalito; call (415) 331-3214. Most of us have a general sense of where our inspirations come from, but Alan Olson, owner/captain of the 54-schooner Maramel, can pinpoint the single event that Page 154 • UKUJc 3? • July. 1995

opened his ears to the 'call of the sea'. As odd as it sounds for a man who is renowned as an outdoorsman, not a couch potato, Alan pegs his inspiration on a TV docu¬ mentary he watched as a kid which featured six men sailing around the world on a wooden schooner (an episode of the Bold Adventures series). As you may have read in these pages, Alan has had a few adventures of his own in the years since, including his 11-month Pacific Rim Expedition, (1992-93) which took him and a cadre of sail training cadets through the Pacific Islands to the Far East. Maramel became the first U.S. vessel to (officially) visit the port of Shanghai. His nautical career began at age 16, when he taught water-skiing on Minnesota lakes. Since then, his adventures have included building a 40-foot catamaran and sailing it down the Mississippi and building the 70’ brigantine Stone Witch here in California during the late ’60s. After involving the Witch in several Greenpeace environmental projects, Alan and friends established a non¬ profit organization named Call of the Sea, which specializes in sail training. For seven

This ain't no bareboat fleet; every crewed charter boat has its own unique style. (Clockwise from upper left) 'Adventure Cat, 'Maramet, 'Rub/, 'Hawaiian Chieftain' and 'Andiamo'.

years the Witch could be seen plying the Bay, the Central American coast and the Pacific Islands, until she met her untimely end on very unfriendly rock in Mexico. Whether you hire Alan for a day charter or join him on an offshore passage, you can bet this is one sailor who has no shortage of adventurous tales to share. • Vessel: Maramel, 54-foot William Hand staysail schooner. • Passengers: six. • Located: Schoonmaker, Sausalito; call Schooner Expeditions, (415) 331-1282. Dean Gurke and Bud Setnik both trade off skippering the newly restored brig¬ antine Rendezvous and the multi-passenger catamaran Sea Raven. Both are life-long seamen who not only have the history, but look the part. Dean’s been sailing the Bay and coastal waters for 25 years, and as if swapping time on two charter boats isn’t enough, he also dallies on his own 78-foot staysail schooner.

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preferred to spend his leisure time surfing. When he was a teenager, Josh’s mom sent him back east for the summers to crew for his grandpa, Scruffy Wellman, aboard his 47-foot Hood yawl Indigo. It was during these ambitious offshore races (such as out to Bermuda) that young Josh honed his skills in navigation and seamanship, and fostered the opinion that racing is the best way to master sailing. In 1970, he discovered the joys of cruising, when he set off on a schooner for an around-the-world voyage. He jumped ship in Panama, to pursue his own course, bought an old 'woody' and spend the next five years cruising the Caribbean. When Josh returned to California, he went to work building Ruby, with the dream of extensive cruising. He soon sobered to the fact that he’d need to make a living with his boat before his dreams could be fulfilled. Four years and a mountain of red tape later, Ruby became U.S. Coast Guard 'certified' to carry passengers for hire (probably the first on the Bay). Over the past 15 years, Josh and his lady, Ruby, have turned thousands of daytrippers on to the pleasures of sailing, and have become as familiar a sight on the Bay as Alcatraz or the Red and White ferries. One of these days, though, he still may surprise us all and set out over the horizon to recapture the dream of worldwide voyaging. • Vessel: Ruby is a 64-foot steel cutter. • Passengers: up to 31. • Located: 'The Ramp'; foot of Mariposa St., San Francisco; call (415) 861-2165. Captain Tony Clarke, owner of the customized Ocean 71, Second Life, is what you might call a sailor’s sailor. Affable, easy¬ going and solidly built, Tony is the kind of life-long mariner you’d want at the helm in a mid-ocean gale. His vast maritime exper¬ ience began in the waters of Long Island Sound where he sailed dinghies and class boats as a kid. During the summers of his high school and college years, he worked on local tugs as well as ore carriers and freighters on South American and European routes. The disparate entries on his resume include a hitch in the Navy as an assault boat coxswain, work in the merchant marine doing Vietnam supply runs and adventures skippering a Caribbean trading schooner* back when yacht chartering was still in its infancy. In years past, he also worked as a commercial salvage and abalone diver and as a yacht delivery skipper. If anyone’s counting, he’s logged some 300,000 miles on merchant ships and over 100,000 under sail.

Tony’s mild-mannered attitude helps him to establish an easy rapport with charter guests as well as with sailing students. He’s been involved with marine education since the early ’60s. While residing in Hawaii, Tony split his time between running tugs and yacht chartering, with the help of his able first mate, Kathleen Hanna (who is an accom¬ plished artist and gourmet chef). Although Second Life is now part of the Bay Area charter market, she, and her crew, are 'well suited to special offshore voyages and expeditions. • Vessel: Second Life is a customized Ocean 71. • Passengers: up to 49. • Located: Marina Plaza, Sausalito; cel! Second Life Charters at (415) 332-3205. The sleek Santa Cruz 50 Yukon Jack is well known on the Bay, and has been building a strong reputation in yacht racing circles. Last month she set a new elapsedtime record in the Tahiti Cup with owner Larry Hoffman at the helm. We have to believe that 'working' a boat like Jack on the Bay is more like fun than toil, but then all of us who 'sail our desks' all day are bound to be a bit resentful. Captain Chris Jordan has that enviable job — another former deckhand who worked his way up the ladder. Chris hails from Ohio, where he grew up literally at lakeside, and caught the sailing bug before his birthdays were in double digits. Over the years, he raced just about anything with a mast and a rudder. But like most Great Lakes sailors, Chris eventually yearned for a bigger patch of blue. Four years ago Chris came west with his ladyfriend Jennifer Engstrom (who now crews on Jack), bought a Swiftsure 33 and settled into life on the Bay. Together, they’re happy to host all types of charter groups, but their favorites seem to be the weird and wacky ones. Think of a 'theme' sail idea, and they’ll try to accommodate. (Chris also works as relief skipper on Andiamo.) *

• Vessel: Yukon Jack is a Santa Cruz 50. • Passengers: up to 25. • Located: South Beach Harbor, San Francisco; call (510) 682-6610. We’d venture to say that all of the above Bay sailing experts would agree that late summer and fall offer the very best sailing days on the Bay. So conjure up an excuse for a special event, pick up the phone and make some plans! (Tune in for more skipper profiles next month.) — latitude/aet

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WORLD OF CHARTERING Charter Notes While we’re on the subject of Bay Area charter boats, here are a couple notable tidbits. We’re happy to report that the long¬ time San Francisco brigantine, Rendez¬ vous, is about to come back into service after undergoing exhaustive renovations. As some readers may remember, the old girl was forced to retire from service last year when she failed to pass a Coast Guard inspection. More specifically, her bilges had been filled long ago with poured concrete ballast, making it impossible for the Coasties to thoroughly inspect. Short of jack¬ hammering out the cement, there seemed to be no option but to retire her. We’re happy to report that a year later, Rendezvous is about to part the waves again, after many sweaty hours of hard work and six Coast Guard inspections. The old concrete ballast has been chipped out and replaced by 22,000 lbs. of lead ingots (30 55-gallon drums full) — a delightful job, according to owner Drew Harper. Other upgrades were also completed. Rendezvous is a fine old girl, launched in 1935, by Howard and Sons of Seattle. Her beefy hull was built of 2" Douglas fir planks

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over steam-bent oak ribs. Three cheers to the renovators for saving this ol’ square rigger from the boneyard. Speaking of new beginnings, the fledgling Sausallto Charter Boat Association is beginning to take flight, with the intention of jointly promoting Sausalito as a premier

waterfront destination, while capitalizing on the town’s nautical heritage. Members are primarily owner/operators, in addition to several charter brokers and a sailing school. This new bonding of would-be compet¬ itors also gives members a unified voice with which to address local government on several maritime issues which currently face the town (see Sightings). The idea of competitors joining forces has greatly benefitted other industry groups such as the BVI Dive Operators Association and the British Columbia Bareboat Charter Assoc¬ iation (see World of Chartering, June 1995). Once again, we’ll sign off this month with a reminder about the balmy South Pacific. Now through early fall is the primo sailing season in Tahiti, Tonga and Fiji. The selling points are idyllic sailing conditions; warm, clear water; spectacular vistas; great diving and friendly folks — and air fares are about the same as to the Caribbean. There are plenty of excellent, late-model bareboats to choose from, or if you prefer to be pampered by European service and gourmet cuisine, there’s also a small, but top-notch, fleet of luxury crewed yachts available. Isn’t it your turn yet?

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THE RACING

With reports this month on the quick Moonlight Race; the shorthanded SSS Corinthian Bay Race; the postcard perfect 1-14 North Americana; the second coming of the Colin Archer Race; the lightly-attended return of the Catalina Race; the new Hard Day's Night ocean race; the windy Clear Lake Regatta; the Olson 30 Nationals up in Seattle; the slow Stockton South Tower Race; the collegiate sailing wrap-up; the fun Delta Ditch Run; and as many 'box scores' and 'race notes' as we could shoe-horn in at the end.

Moonlight Race San Francisco YC’s Midnight Moonlight Maritime Marathon began on Saturday even¬ ing, June 17, with the traditional reverse order starting sequence from 6:10 to 8:10 p.m. With winds steady at 10-15 knots from the southwest and the tail end of the flood, conditions were ideal for fast passage. Though no records were broken, the 20-boat fleet completed the 35.6-mile race from Raccoon Strait to Carquinez Bridge and back about an hour earlier than the last couple years. First back was Hans and Susie Bigall’s venerable Wylie 28 Animal Farm, crossing

the moon came up about midnight — and consistent with the strange weather we’ve had all spring, a light drizzle began as the fleet was finishing. 1) Animal Farm, Wylie 28, Hans Bigall; 2) Kuda Shuda, Islander 29, Craig Paige; 3) Blue Lou, Pearson 10 Meter, Joel Davis; 4) Alert, Wylie 36, Mike Lingsch; 5) Double Pucker, Melges 24, David Wadbrook; 6) Frog in French, Express 27, Kame Richards; 7) Chimo, J/105, Chuck Winton; 8) Kinship, Ranger 23, Ken Frost; 9) Freyja, Catalina 27, Larry Nelson; 10) Thrasher, J/105, Steve Podell. (20 boats)

SSS Corinthian Bay Race "It was just another routine SSS race," claimed Singlehanded Sailing Society poten¬ tate Shama Kota. "Well attended, well run, good course, great weather, nice party after¬ wards." Fifty-six boats responded to the guns off the Corinthian YC at 10 a.m. on June 17. Most took four or five hours to sail the 20mile course (Blossom, Blackaller, South¬ ampton Shoals, Blossom, finish). Many of the participants enjoyed CYC’s hospitality after the race, and the winners were de¬ lighted to receive framed color photographs of their boats taken earlier in the day!

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the line at 11:10 p.m., just 13 seconds ahead of Craig Paige’s Islander 29 Kuda Shuda. The next three boats came in within the next two minutes, making for an exciting finish despite the small size of this year’s fleet. The race was fast enough that it was over before Page 164 •

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SINGLEHANDED: DIV. I (0-126) — 1) White Knuckles, Olson 30, Dan Benjamin; 2) Flying Tiger, Soverel 36, Kirk Miller. (4 boats) DIV. II (127-168) — 1) Roadhouse Blues, Hawkfarm, Torben Bentsen; 2) Stormrider, Aphro¬ dite 101, Don McCrea. (5 boats) DIV. Ill (169-up) — 1) Impossible, Ranger 23, Gary Kneeland; 2) Chelonia, Yankee 30, Ed Ruszel; 3) Dulcenea, Coronado 27, John Slivka. (7 boats) DIV. IV (non-spinnaker) — 1) Grand Slam, Cal 29, Fred Minning; 2) Grey Ghost, Zaal 38, Doug Grant; 3) Amanda, Newport 30 Mk. 11, Pat Broderick. (10 boats) DOUBLEHANDED: DIV. I (multihulls) — 1) Sundowner, Buccaneer 33 tri, Joe Therriault. (3 boats)

DIV. II (0-126) — 1) Ram, J/35, Robert Milligan; 2) Harp, Catalina 38, Sallie Rowe; 3) Limelight, J/105, Harry Blake. (10 boats) DIV. Ill (127-168) — 1) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair; 2) Kelika, Hunter 33.5, Michael Weaver; 3) Cookie Jar, Moore 24, John Hansen. (6 boats) DIV. IV (169-up) — 1) Strait Jacket, Pocket Rocket 22, Ben Haket; 2) Shazam!, Santana 22, Bud Sandkulla; 3) Honalee, Rozinante, Dawn Miller. (6 boats) DIV. V (non-spinnaker) — 1) Lone Star, Serendipity 43, Dave Reed; 2) Wenlemir, Swan 47, Wen Lin. (5 boats)

1-14 Nationals On June 9-11, the ’95 U.S. International 14 National Championship was hosted by St. Francis YC on the Cityfront. A total of seven races were sailed in moderately windy and sunny conditions: three heats each on Friday and Saturday, followed by a 16.2-mile long distance race on Sunday. A small 505

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velli, David Klipfel/Tony Basso, 37; 6) Rodney Dangerfield, Jim Maloney/Mike Jankowski, 38; 7) Extended Adolesence, Andrew Bates/Kurt Schmidt, 45; 8) Scared Skiff, Gordon Clute/Ben Wells, 47; 9) A Toy Yacht, Gary Gremaux/Kevin Butler, 48; 10) Divine Madness, Dave Berntsen/ Andrew Cuddihy, 55. (19 boats) 505 — 1) #7349, Jim Wondolleck/Jay Kuncl, 3 points; 2) Trauma Mama, Chris Klein/John Paulling, 9; 3) Dirty Harry, Mark Adams/Craig Perez, 13. (5 boats)

Inset, Karl (left) and Zach. Spread, breaking the speed limit during the NAs. Their 'Channel 4' logo had to be covered up for the regatta.

contingent tagged along after the 'main show'. Nineteen boats from up and down the West Coast showed up to wrestle for the title. The formidable field included pre-race favorites Zach Berkowitz and Karl Baldauf of San Francisco, winners three previous NAs, as well as three other past champions: Ron Boehm, Chris Bundy and Alan Laflin. The buoy races were double windwardleewards, and it quickly became obvious that the only real race was for second. Childhood buddies Berkowitz and Baldauf, sailing their gold-plated Jon Turner-built Passion, were invincible in all wind ranges, showing speed to bum on top of great boat handling and superior tactics. Taking turns filling out the top three spots behind Berkowitz were Keith

Stahnke of Sausalito, Paul Bieker of Seattle, and Ron Boehm of Santa Barbara. The long distance marathon, a two-hour tour around the Central Bay in building winds and an ebbtide chop, revealed the only chink in Berkowitz’s armor. Though he’d already wrapped up the 7-race, 1throwout series with straight bullets, he chose to race anyway — and finally found the competition he was looking for. In a virtually overlapped finish, Ron Boehm’s hot new-to-him Howlett 'lb' Dude held off Passion’s late charge to win the enduro. Next year’s Nationals will be held on Lake Cachuma, near Santa Barbara, in July. Can Zach and Karl up their enviable string of NA championships to five? 1-14 — 1) Passion, Zach Berkowitz/Karl Baldauf, 4.5 points: 2) Carbon Copy, Keith Stahnke/Paul Kerner, 15; 3) #1094, Paul Bieker/Kris Bundy, 18; 4) Dude, Ron Boehm/Pete Mohler, 21.75; 5) Machia-

Colin Archer Race, Take Two When we think 'racing', almost everyone conjures up images of the sleek IOR/IMS group or the HDA collection of racer/ cruisers. Once a year, there is a race for the really non-racing boats — the Colin Archer and Bob Perry-designed double-enders. These are, for the most part, full or modified full-keel boats of heavy displacement. A Union 36, for example, weighs over 21,000 pounds. These are not 'pointers', but are designed for ease in reaching and running with 15 or more knots of wind. They will sail quite comfortably all day long at near hull speeds of 6 to 9 knots, keeping their owners and crews dry. In less than 15 knots, 'tack' is a four letter word. The Colin Archer Memorial Race is split into two divisions. Division A boats are all Colin Archer designed or inspired and have outside-hung rudders. These boats are eli¬ gible for the Colin Archer Memorial Trophy. Bob Perry and other designers have contrib¬ uted the second class of inside-hung rudder, heavy displacement boats such as the Hans Christians, Unions, Rafikis and others. Beginning next year, there will be another overall trophy for these boats. Courses are designed for a combination of reaching and running, and the starting line is canted to be square with the first mark. Racing is boat-for-boat with corrections built in by offset start times for length differences. Spinnakers and cruising chutes are permitted with a 6-second-per-mile time penalty. Even though most of the owners are 'non-racers', there are lots of familiar race faces on board 'as hired guns. It’s fun for the HDA or OYRA guy or gat to be considered a 'rockstar' for this event. The race has traditionally been staged on Mother’s Day weekend. In 1994, the race was shortened due to lack of wind. This year, the May race was abandoned, as many had rounded the first mark and were being swept backwards through the Gate. Despite the lack of wind, 110 people enjoyed the 'post non-race party' at host Encinal YC. Encinal’s July. 1995

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race management committee decided to restage the race on June 10 so that all involved could have some sort of fun this year. Thirtythree boats answered the start line call for the first running — but only ten were brave enough, or had schedules permitting, to show up for the June running. Luckily, all that sailed in the second running trophied, receiving the same type of John Perry trophies given for the Coastal Cup. — dan fleming DIV. A & B — No starters. DIV. C (outboard rudder > 35 feet) — 1) China Rose, Ingrid 38 ketch, Peter Minkwitz. (1 boat) DIV. D (inboard rudder < 35 feet) — 1) Cursor, Fantasia 35, Connie Chandler/Jennifer Gallear; 2) Patti J, Crealock34, Harry Nystrom; 3) Zea Mesiter, HC 34, Ted Hartman. (3 boats) DIV. E (inboard rudder, 35-40 feet except for modern underbodies) — 1) Magic Flute, Fast Passage, Jon Lopez/Dorene Gould; 2) Wind Gypsy, HC 38, Park Phelps; 3) Kuleana, Union 36, Tobius van Rossum Daum. (3 boats) Dl V. F (inboard rudder > 40 feet plus Valiants and Freyas) — 1) Happy Trails, Valiant 40, David Bennett; 2) Contrary to Ordinary, Freya 39, James

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Hogan; 3) Oriana, Freya 39, Chuck Woods. (3 boats) OVERALL — 1) China Rose. (10 boats)

Catalina Race Metropolitan YC’s Catalina Race was reborn — and basically died again — on June 17, when only six boats responded to the starting guns off Baker Beach. After a two-year hiatus, and after repositioning the race so that it no longer conflicts with Encinal YC’s popular Santa Barbara Race, hopes were high for a comeback this year. No one expected anything like 127 boats, which was the all-time high in 1988 — but the six-boat turnout was way below the anticipated 20-30 entries. But if this really was the end of this oncegreat race, it went out with a bang: Sayonara, Larry Ellison’s new 78-foot Farr ILC maxi, smashed the course record, finishing the 360-mile course in 34 hours, 30 minutes and 53 seconds. They lowered the old record — 35 hours, 11 minutes and 40 seconds, set by the Farr 68 Winterhawk in 1989 — by about 40 minutes. In moderate winds that peaked at 30 knots, Sayonara stayed fairly

close to shore, arriving at Point Conception the next morning. Because of the early time of day, navigator Stan Honey elected to take the boat down the south side of the Santa Barbara Channel, leaving Anacapa to star¬ board. "We crossed the line around 8:30 on Sunday night, and motored straight back to Marina del Rey," explained crewmember David Thomson."Sayonara is a 'dry' boat, as we don’t believe in drinking out there and Larry (Ellison) doesn’t drink at all. But somehow a few bottles of champagne mater¬ ialized from down below, and we toasted the new boat and our first record. We also celebrated my 50th birthday, which was literally that day. What a great way to remember it!" Sayonara’s crew was met by stretch limos in Marina del Rey, and then whisked back to the Bay Area in a company airplane. They were home before the next boat finished, setting a 'roundtrip record' that may stand forever! The radical Elliott Marine, a 52-foot Kiwi custom job that looks like a cross between a Melgi and a BOC boat (see Sightings), pulled

100% of the Catalina Race entrants (clockwise from upper left): 'Coquelicof, 'Team Gravity", 'Elliott Marine', 'Gypsy Warrior", 'Sayonara' and ‘My Rubber Ducky". The 'Latitude Curse' struck one third of the fleet — read the article below to find out which two boats were dismasted. All photos/rob & jr.

in just before dawn on Monday morning. Their elapsed time was 42:47:49. Like the Farr maxi, Elliott Marine did a button-hook around the committee boat and headed for Long Beach. "It was an easy trip, and we had lots of laughs," claimed crewmember Alan Weaver. "The boat handles like a dream — the faster it goes the more stable it gets!" Elliott Marine was sailed by two Americans (Mike Taylor was the other), two nonEnglish-speaking Japanese ("They loved to fold sails and coil lines!" said Alan), and five Kiwis, including owner Tom McCall and his son Andrew. Only two other boats finished behind the two TransPac-bound maxis: Lee Garami’s yellow Hobie 33 My Rubber Ducky arrived Monday evening to post a time of 55:55:37, followed by Rick Gio’s Freya 39 Gypsy Warrior after 60:22:10 on the course. On corrected time (applying PHRF ratings not adjusted for downwind sailing), the fleet sorted out as follows: Sayonara, Gypsy

Warrior, Rubber Ducky and Elliott Marine. The race ended with a bang, literally, for the other two boats: both Team Gravity, Rick Johnson’s Martin 242 from Arizona, and Coquelicot, race organizer Bob Gray’s Ranger 33, were dismasted south of Point Conception. Both boats were towed in to Santa Barbara by Navy vessels. With one third of the fleet dismasted — surely another record — and the two big boats gone before anyone else arrived, the awards ceremony in Avalon must have been a pretty lonely affair! Hard Day’s Night Race Thirty boats showed up for the inaugural Hard Day’s Night Race, hosted by Golden Gate YC on June 10. The new nighttime ocean race borrowed the format of the Midnight Moonlight Marathon, sending the fleet out on a 51-mile course in reverse handicap order beginning at 6 p.m. "The idea was to all finish about the same time and have Sunday brunch at the Golden Gate

YC," explained MORA board member Mike Warren. "Basically, we wanted to try some¬ thing completely different!" Other than coastal races, the Silver Eagle and the Stockton South Tower Race, there just aren’t many other opportunities to race at night around here. "Everyone seemed to be really pleased with the new race," claimed OYRA president Don Lessley. "It was a gor¬ geous moonlit night, a really beautiful sail in the Gulf of the Farallones." FLEET 1—1) Dolphin Dance, SC 50, Dave Sallows; 2) Gandy Dancer, SC 40, Gary Hausler; 3) Zamazaan, Farr 52, Chuck Weghorn. (10 boats) FLEET II — 1) X-Dream, X-119, Steen Moller. (1 boat) FLEET III — i) Golden Bear, Frers 46, Adam McAfee; 2) Hot Lips, Frers 41, Philip Gutin. (5 boats) FLEET IV — 1) Wind Chaser, Ericson 35 Mk. Ill, Dick & Patti Cranor; 2) Redux, Olson 911S, Nick Barnhill. (3 boats) FLEET V — 1) Roadhouse Blues, Hawkfarm, Bentsen/Boschma; 2) Tutto Benne, Ranger 23 (tall rig), Mike Warren. (3 boats) SHS — 1) Erin, Antrim 30+, Dan Buhier; 2) Tiger July, 1995 • UVUJ* 3? • Page 167

THE RACING Beetle, Newport 33, Rob Macfarlane; 3) Orange Blossom Special, Beneteau 35.7, Edward English. (5 boats) CRUZ — 1) Rooster Cogburn, Ericson 36, Tim Leathers. (3 boats; all others DNF). «s

Clear Lake Regatta The centerpiece of the SBRA season, the Clear Lake Regatta, was held on June 17-18 at a new location, the Clear Lake Riviera Yacht & Golf Club. Over 130 boats from all over Northern California gathered for two days of unusually high wind sailing. Con¬ spicuously absent were the 505s, whose NAs in Vancouver conflicted with the weekend, and the Wabbits. Three different race courses accom¬ modated the 13 classes, which included a Portsmouth 'open' division. As the winds built up to 20 knots during Saturday’s three races, fatigue and breakage began to take their tolls. On Sunday, it was gusting to 25 knots and only the higher performance boats ventured out for the final two races. Apparently, the new location worked out nicely despite the bottleneck caused by only one launching ramp. "The people there were really hospitable, and we’re looking forward to going back again," said race official Del Olsen.

Benedict, 8; 3) Gerry Swinton, 13. (16 boats) FJ — 1) Steve Klotz, 3 points; 2) Charles Asper, 8; 3) Jay McCutchen, 21. (12 boats) 1-14 — 1) Rand Arnold/Lawrence Henderson, 9.5 points;2) Paul Disario/Eric Johnson, 12. (12boats) LASER II — 1) Michele Logan/Bart Harris, 5.75 points; 2) Arianne Rettinger/Chris Sanford, 10; 3) Gary Bergero/Ron Loza, 12. (9 boats)

EL TORO, SR. — 1) Vaughn Siefers, 3.5 points; 2) Jim Warfield, 10.75; Ron Locke, 13. (15 boats) EL TORO, JR. — 1) Nick Nash, 4.75 points; 2) Rusty Canada, 5.75; 3) Abby Swann, 16; 4) Rob Horne, 18. (14 boats) BYTE — 1) Gail Yando, 3.5 points. (4 boats)

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CONTENDER — 1) Gil Wooley, 1.5 points. (4 boats) LIGHTNING — 1) Mike Molina, 1.5 points. (3

Al Holt's Run Wild" (#8942) at the Olson 30 Nationals, held in the shadow of the Olympic Mountains. 'Wildfire' (#77923) was the winner. boats) FIREBALL — 1) Sean Couvreux, 3.5 points. (2 boats) OK DINGHY — 1) Gordy Nash, .75 points; 2) Tim Nash, 2. (7 boats) PORTSMOUTH — results unavailable.

Olson 30 Nationals Unbelievable! Thirty-seven Olson 30s— the biggest gathering since the boat’s in¬ ception in 1978 — sailed the ’95 Nationals in Seattle on May 25-28. The Pacific North¬ west Olson 30 Association, which now boasts an active fleet of more than 25 of these low-riders, hosted the 7-race, no-throwout event. With a scenic backdrop of the Olym¬ pic Range to the west and Mt. Rainier to the east, the regatta featured blue skies and afternoon breezes building into the #3 range. Sobstad sailmaker (and soon-to-be world cruiser) Keith Lorence and partner Mike Ellis sailed Wildfire to yet another class cham¬ pionship — despite of, or perhaps because of, their bright pink jib. "It was an awesome regatta, one of the best I’ve ever sailed in," claimed local Olson 30 class president Jack Easterday. "They really gave us the red carpet treatment!" Easterday’s already looking forward to reciprocating at next year’s Nationals in

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Stockton Sailing Club were all in the Cruis¬ ing Division, which is allowed five hours of motoring on both the upwind and downwind legs. The 'real' racers trickled in between 6 to 11 p.m. on Saturday evening, beginning with Tom Goodwin’s Express 34 Two Scoops. They beat another 99-rater, Carl Bauer’s Olson 34 Ozone, by just three minutes after an intense 31-hour match race. However, the smallest boat in the fleet, Bill Dalton’s Capri 22 Too Cool corrected out as the overall winner, nine minutes ahead of last year’s champ, Rex Malott’s Olson 25 Alzora. What happened to this formerly popular race? The previous weekend’s Ditch Run, which was created four years ago as a 'feeder race' for the South Tower Race, just enjoyed a record 66-boat turnout. However, it seems fewer sailors are eager to endure the roundtrip these days — especially not on back-toback weekends. "It’s time for drastic meas¬ ures," figured Malott. "If anyone’s got any ideas of how to rebuild participation in this great race, let us know!"

Santa Cruz, the birthplace of the Olson 30. Just a guess, but we figure the price of used Olson 30s is about to zoom — just like the Moore 24s did a year or so ago. No one’s making boats this cool at this price anymore — so get yours now! 1 ) Wildfire, Seattle, Mike Ellis/Keith Lorence, 32.5 points; 2) Airtime, Kirkland, WA, Marc Hulburt, 35.75; 3) Roadrunner, Seattle, John Hoag, 36.5; 4) Lunch Box, Gig Harbor, Dennis Clark, 45.75; 5) Black Ice, Sidney, BC, Mark Frampton, 47; 6) Holy Guacamole, Grenada Hills, CA, Steve Meseda, 50; 7) The Dancing Bear, Seattle, Joseph Gerhardt, 55; 8) Wild Turkey, Bainbridge Is., WA, Dave Lynch, 59; 9) (tie) Surfer Girl, Seattle, Pat Kershaw, and Mr. Peabody, Bainbridge Is., WA, Otorowski/Wilson, 65. (37 boats) NorCal boats: 17) Stray Cat, Soquel, Team Cat; 20) Kabala, Soquel, Jay Bennett; 23) Liquid Gait, Alameda, Jack Easterday; 24) Run Wild, Livermore, Albert Holt.

Stockton South Tower Race Only 15 boats sailed (and motored) in this year’s 24th annual Stockton South Tower Race on June 16-17, a disappointing turnout considering that not too long ago the 140-mile marathon used to attract 40-50 I starters. Conditions were generally light this | year, especially on the 70-mile upwind leg to i Blackaller Buoy. Rounding early wasn’t a : bargain, as wind holes and ebb currents favored the little boats. Predictably, the first boats back to host

Andy Beeckman (Irvine, junior), Charles Meade (Stanford, senior), and Peter Wells (Irvine, junior). Honorable mentions went to Jesse Andrews (Hawaii, junior) and David Houser (Berkeley, junior). Earning Sailing World all-star crew honors were Rachel Braun (Berkeley, senior), Sibyl Diver (Stanford, junior), Carrine Palm (Irvine, junior) and Cara Strebe (Berkeley, junior). The National Intercollegiate Team Racing finals occurred just prior to Dinghy finals at the same venue. Tufts upped its winning streak to three in a row, while Navy finished a close second. The National Women’s Championship was held in San Diego in late May, with ’94 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Danielle Brennan leading St. Mary’s College of Maryland to a narrow victory over Navy. With a bullet in the Dinghies and two deuces in the other competitions, Navy emerged as the best all-around team this year. Complete results follow:

DIV. 1 — 1) Two Scoops, Express 34, Tom Goodwin; 2) Ozone, Olson 34, Carl & Jenny Bauer. (2 boats) DiV. li — 1) Alzora, Olson 25, Rex Malott; 2) Faded Badley, J/30, Dana Badley. (3 boats) DIV. Ill — 1) Too Cool, Capri 22, Bill Dalton; 2) Transposition, Catalina 27, John Toste; 3) White Satin, Catalina 27, Steve Reinhart. (5 boats) CRUISE — 1) Namu II, Cal 39, Otis Kelley; 2) Mandalay, Catalina 36, Bill Lancaster; 3) Tuesday, Pearson 36, Andy Anderson. (5 boats) OVERALL (Divisions l-ill) — 1) Too Cool; 2) Alzora; 3) Transposition; 4) White Satin; 5) Two Scoops. (10 boats)

Collegiate Nationals As predicted in Latitude last month, the U.S. Naval Academy won the ICYRA/Sperry National Dinghy Championship for the sec¬ ond year in a row. Racing occurred on June 2-4 in Alamitos Bay, with USC acting as host. Led by 'A' skipper Ryan Cox, who subsequently was honored as the Collegiate Sailor of the Year, the Navy team sailed consistently during the 32-race event to edge out bridesmaid U.C. Berkeley by 24 points. Berkeley’s unexpectedly stellar finish capped off a great year for 'A' skipper Andy Zinn, who earned All-American honors for his efforts. "Berkeley was brilliant at the Nationals," said Blake Middleton, Stanford’s sailing director. "Everyone here is genuinely happy for them — and it bodes well for our whole region!" In addition to Zinn, a junior, other West Coast sailors honored as All-Americans are

Blake Middleton (above) of Stanford ranks the collegiate sailing teams each month along with Gary Bodie (Navy) and Ken Legler (Tufts). DINGHY — 1) Navy, 138 points; 2) Berkeley, 162; 3) Irvine, 166; 4) Tufts, 170; 5) Dartmouth, 207; 6) Charleston, 208; 7) Kings Point, 211; 8) Old Dominion, 234; 9) Coast Guard, 241; 10) Boston University, 241; 11) Spring Hill, 322; 12) Texas A&M, 374; 13) Univ. Wisconsin, 388; 14) Marquette, 407; 15) Western Washington, 435; 16) Univ. of Florida, 436. WOMEN

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THE RACING 159; 3) Dartmouth, 161; 4) Princeton, 200; 5) Charleston, 213; 6) Tufts, 225; 7) Connecticut College, 233; 8) Brown, 235; 9) Stanford, 240; 10) Yale, 265; 11) Georgetown, 303; 12) Northwestern, 312; 13) Harvard, 356; 14) Marguette, 433; 15) Univ. of Texas, 439; 16) Univ. of Washington, 460. TEAM — 1) Tufts, 14-3; 2) Navy, 13-4; 3) Old Dominion, 10-7; 4) Irvine, 10-7; 5) Charleston, 7-4; 6) Dartmouth, 7-4; 7) (tie) Harvard and Stanford, 6-6; 9) Wisconsin, 3-8; 10) (tie) Texas A&M and Western Washington, 2-9; 12) Northwestern, 0-12.

Confessions of a J/Sailor All too often it’s our minor blemishes that we, as individuals, internalize to be our greatest stigmas. Ross Perot has his ears (and then some), Lauren Hutton has gapped front teeth, and I. . . well, I sail J/Boats. It all started harmlessly enough — a casual conversation with a new acquaintance at a party, an expression of interest in sailing on the Bay, nothing serious. I’d assumed that would be the end of it. Then came the phone call. "Next weekend, we need a fifth, can you make it?" "Sure," I answered confidently. It was only one sail, what could it hurt? The race was unremarkable; we did fair. What was remarkable was the attitudes of the other J/sailors I confronted while putting the boat away. Like a locust swam of Amway sales¬ men, they descended upon me until I was completely surrounded without an avenue of escape, and strong-armed into committing to sail again. "You had a good time. . . didn’t you?" one of them asked. "Of course he did," another answered for me, and then added, "What’s not to like about J/boat sailing?" A few of the obvious rebuttals to that statement came to mind, but given the audience, I felt it wise to remain reticent. In the car on the way home, Bruce, the one who suggested I come along in the first place, explained the dynamics of the J/World. "Initially you start out as crew, but with the right motivation and enthusiasm, there’s no limit to where you could go. You remember Mike, right?" I nodded in affirm¬ ation, remembering Mike as the burly one with the vacant eyes, vise-like handshake, and a brand new Cadillac Sedan de Ville. "Mike started out as fifth man just like you, no more than two years ago, and do you know what he is today?" "A boat owner?" I offered obtusely, hoping the person I’d just seen smoking a cigarette at the last intersection wasn’t Rod Serling. "That’s right!" Bruce bellowed enthusiastically, expunging glee seemingly from every pore in his body. His rapture passed quicldy, and with the judicious air of a kindly, yet reproachful grandfather, he added, "Now there’s no guarantee that you’ll Page 170

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achieve the kind of success Mike has — hell, to tell you the truth, he surprises most of us! But the support network within the fleet is set up to help you every step of the way." Bruce went on like this for the entire hour and a half it took to return to Santa Cruz. The rest of the afternoon was spent at his place pouring over flip charts and piegraphs, all proving conclusively that happiness and fulfillment could be attained by sailing a J/Boat. I nodded politely, while frantically searching for an excuse to get away from this man. Finally, worn down by my desire to be elsewhere, and his seemingly tireless enthusiasm for "The Organization", I meekly promised to sail ^gain the next month. To say at this point that I was mildly skeptical would be akin to saying that spinal paralysis is kind of a drag. Never in my life' had I met such people. Oh sure, occasionally a well-dressed pair with narrow ties will knock on my door, but generally a wellplaced ketchup stain on my forehead will send them packing in a hurry. These guys were a different story all together. In a daze, my mind wandered back to the summer I spent in Tucson where, stumbling upon a cockroach, I exhausted an entire can of Raid at point blank range to no effect whatsoever. "Don’t you think you’re over-reacting a bit?" my girlfriend asked when I’d calmed down enough to relay the day’s events to her. "After all, we’re just talking about sailboat racing, right?" I finally agreed (I was probably drunk by then), and by the next morning the events of the past day had faded into the upper recesses of the gray matter, so I put the issue to rest. After all, I reasoned, there was plenty of Moore sailing to be done, plus coastal and distance racing as well. So what was the harm in adding another venue to my schedule? It wasn’t as if I was going to give up the rest of my commitments just to sail a J/Boat. In retrospect, this is what I consider to be the pivotal rationale, the precipice I stag¬ gered blindly over. I’m sure you’ve heard the excuses before: "I only do it occasionally". . . . "1 could quit anytime". . . "It’s not that important to me". . . Deep down, however, I knew the hook had been set. And then the little changes started coming out. Not all at once, but slowly, calculably, unnervingly. The new affinity for polo shirts, when previously they had made me wretch; the obsessive drive to own multi-colored loafers, and the breathless enthusiasm I would exhibit upon receiving an invitation to a Fresh Crew mixer at the St. Francis Yacht Club, now known to me as 'The Frantic'.

These changes slowly, almost imper¬ ceptibly, began to erode the lifestyle I’d previously come to enjoy. While channel surfing, for no reason, I’d find myself lingering far longer than is necessary on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour. I started insisting that my socks matched, I even lost enthus¬ iasm for owning my Volkswagen. Casual friends simply stopped calling, while my more stalwart comrades tried to gently suggest that I was traveling down an unhealthy path. And all the while I was committing to more and more regattas on the J, sailing less and less in Santa Cruz, and shrugging off the snide remarks of my peers by reasoning, "they’re only jealous." Aggressive therapy was needed, but I was too blind to see it. Gone, almost completely, were the bliss-filled days of surfing down waves in the high teens, pumping the chute tirelessly in anticipation of the next surge. Instead, I was frequenting cocktail mixers, comparing stock portfolios, and trudging from windward to leeward mark well within the U.S. Coast Guard’s guidelines for safe

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without permission from the May ’95 'Moore News', the funniest class newsletter in North America. Naturally, the opinions expressed above don’t necessarily reflect those of this magazine. Delta Ditch Run A record 72 boats, including a dozen Moore 24s, enjoyed the 65-mile Delta Ditch Run on June 10. Co-hosted by Richmond YC and Stockton SC, this most excellent downhill race has grown steadily since it debuted in 1991 with 37 boats. Ironically, it’s probably done more to hurt the next weekend’s South Tower Race than it has to help it. This was another one: Bill and Marie Erkelens, Sr., sailed their Tornado cata¬ maran to within 10 minutes of Rocket 88’s course record (4 hours, 59 minutes, set last year). Rocket was on pace to knock about half an hour off the record, but broke their spinnaker halyard half way through. This year’s drama was provided by Greg Byrne’s Wylie Wabbit Indecent Exposure, which broached and sank (and was sub¬ sequently recovered) near Pittsburg. Eric Malmberg’s Fools at Large and Peter Rookard’s Insufferable assisted in the rescue.

'War Stories' leads 'Fatuity around the windward mark in the recent Moore 24 PCCs. Results ap¬ pear in ‘box scores'.

boating speeds. As I said, aggressive therapy was needed, and fortunately the friends I still had were more than willing to oblige on that score. What I remember of that cool July morning was stepping outside of the Java Junction with a cup of coifee and the newspaper when everything went black. When I awoke, with a dull headache and a knot on the back of my head, I was about a mile off Davenport with two friends (they have asked to remain nameless) who were patiently waiting for me to regain consciousness so we could sail back to Santa Cruz. No sooner had I settled myself in the cockpit, when 'John' handed me thy tiller and moved forward to set the kite. Squaring the pole back the boat lunged confidently forward to conquer its first wave, the 25-knot northwesterly proving to be more a partner than an adversary to this goal. Dissipating rapidly was the fear of high winds and big

waves; this was a Moore after all, not a J/Boat. Carving southward over 10-12 foot waves I felt a strong urge re-awaken within me, an urge for more wind, bigger waves, and for beer. With the afternoon waning, my first two desires went unfulfilled; the third however, was provided in terrific abundance. Arriving back at the dock in Santa Cruz, drenched, exhausted, and elated, I couldn’t help but feel that I was on the road to recovery. Editor’sNote (theirs) — We here at 'Moore News' are committed to providing counseling services to aid in the recovery of those who have strayed from the true path. If you know of someone at risk, please call our 800 number now and we will deploy our quickrecovery Tactical Team. Remember, these are serious situations and require the services of highly trained professionals. Due to the extremely personal nature of the above experience we have withheld the name of the author. Editor’sNote (ours) — This was reprinted

MOORE 24 — 1) Fatuity, Dave Hodges; 2) Fools at Large, Eric Maimberg; 3) Kangaroo Court, Peter Carrick; 4) Wet Spot, Mike O’Callaghan. (12 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Kwazy, Colin Moore; 2) Wet Bunns, Bill Gardner; 3) Tulawemia, Ben Cos¬ tello. (5 boats) CRUISING — 1) Purrfection, Nonsuch 30, Ray Drew; 2) Sea Harp II, 'cat', Joan Harp; 3) Mandalay, Catalina 36; 4) Whimzcal, Catalina 34, Scott John¬ son. (8 boats) HEAVY I — 1) QE III, Tartan Ten, Greg Melanson; 2) Spindrift V, Express 37, Larry Wright; 3) Two Scoops, Express 34, Tom Goodwin; 4) Ozone, Olson 34, Carl Bauer. (7 boats) HEAVY II — 1) White Satin, Catalina 27, Steve Reinhart; 2) Chaos, Ranger 23, Tim Stapleton; 3) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Nash Family. (15 boats) MULTIHULL — 1) No Name, Tornado, Bill Erke¬ lens, Sr.; 2) Rocket 88, Spruit 34 cat, Serge Pond/ Jay Crum; 3) Tfje Wild Thing, F-24, Vic Thiry; 4) Triptych, F-27, Ken Kinoshita. (8 boats) * ULDB 1 — 1) Tourist in Paradise, Hobie 33, Dave Mosher; 2) Rascal, Wilderness 30, Pat Brown; 3) Family Hour, Olson 30, Jeff Bilafer. (6 boats) ULDB II — 1) Summertime, Moore 24 prototype, Mark Golsh; 2) Bear Grotto, Custom 26, Hank Jotz; 3) Flying Circus, Express 27, Gene Ryley; 4) Dragon Lady, Express 27, Jim Coyne. (11 boats) OVERALL — 1) Kwazy; 2) Summertime; 3) Wet Bunns; 4) Bear Grotto; 5) Flying Circus. (72 boats) July, 1995 •L&UJclg •

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THE RAGING Box Scores Brevity is the soul of wit — so, mercifully, we’ll spare you our ramblings about the fol¬ lowing races. It should be noted that whether a regatta gets covered in Latitude as a fulllength feature, or an article in Race Sheet, or just a mention in 'box scores' has absolutely nothing to do with the caliber of the event — it’s completely at the whim of our dedicated and incorruptible editorial staff. Don’t even try to bribe us — although T-shirts, free lunches and/or Andrew Jacksons under the table have occasionally been known to do the trick. Without further ado, here’s this month’s ration of Race Sheet Lite: FARALLONES (SFYC; June 24; 56 miles): FLEET 1 — 1) New Wave, Express 27, Buzz Blackett; 2) Friday, Express 27, John Liebenberg; 3) Hoot, Olson 30, Andy MacFie. (14 boats) FLEET 2 — 1) Jarlen, J/35, Bob Bloom; 2) Spin¬ drift V, Express 37, The Wrights; 3) Kiri, J/35, Bob

SC 27 — 1) Dynaflow, Mdtt Dini, 2.25 points; 2) Ciao, Andy Carson, 8; 3) Jersey Girl, Greg Miller, 9; 4) Excalibur, Jeff Smith, 13; 5) Velocious, G.W. Grigg, 16; 6) Mistress Quickly, Larry Weaver, 17; 7) Cruzin, Barry Hopkins, 18. (7 boats)

TRIMBLE/NORTH RACE WEEK (6/23-25; 4 races): CLASS A — IJTravieso, N/M 44,14.5 points; 2) White Knight, Farr 40, 15; 3) Amante, Choate 48, 16.75. (10 boats)

FLEET 3—1) Golden Bear, Frers 46, Adam

18.75. (15 boats) CLASS E (Melges 24) — 1) Dave Ullman, 11.75 points; 2) Chris Snow, 28.75; 3) ^teve Grillon, 31; 4) Thorpe, 40.75; 7) David Wadbrook, 48.75. (26 boats) CLASS F (30-footers) — 1) Intense, Olson 30,13 33, 18.75. (17 boats)

(10 boats)

Clark. (3 boats)

Joseph Melino. (8 boats) DIV. L (165-189) — 1) Current Asset, Islander 30 Mk. II, John Bowen; 2) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair; 3) Dr. Who, Merit 25, John Drewery. (10 boats) DIV. M (190-up) — 1) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman; 2) Hippo, Smith 24, Mark Wommack; 3) Nebllna, Cal 28, Carter/Mosher. (8 boats)

WOOD YINVITA TIONA L (StFYC; June 2-4; 5 races): BIRD — 1) Skylark, Peter Brosig, 3.5 points; 2) Widgeon, Heinz Backer, 4.75. (4 boats) BEAR — 1) Smokey, Steve Robertson, 9.5 points; 2) Little Dipper, Joe Bambara, 15.75; 3) Trigger, Scott Cauchois, 18; 4) Sugarfoot, Marty Zwick, 22.5; 5) Circus, Jones/Johnson, 23. (10

CLASS H — 1) Amorous, Capo 26, 12; 2) Schock Treatment, Schock 34, 15.75; 3) Lickity Split, Catalina 38,17.75. (16 boats) CLASS 1 — 1) Faux Pas, Newport 27, 13.75 points; 2) X-Rated, X-79, 16.75; 3) I’ll Go, Chaser

boats) FOLKBOAT— 1) Little Svendle, S. Svendsen, 6

29, 20. (15 boats)

28. (12 boats)

HDA #4 (Bay View Boat Club; June 3): DIV. F (multihull) — 1) Wingit, F-27, Ray Wells; 2) Bad Boy, F-31, Gary Helms. (5 boats/ DIV. G (0-84) — 1) Jubilation, J/40, Henry Smith;

points; 2) Prophet, Henry Mettier/James Hennefer,

points; 2) Windy, Bill DuMoulin, 14; 3) Thea, Tom Reed, 17.75; 4) Freja, Evie Ashcroft, 22; 5) Windansea, Don Wilson, 25; 5) Freja, Ed Welch, IOD — 1) #100, Tad Lacey/Evan Dailey, 10.25

SHS — 1) Cheyenne, Wylie 34, James Fryer; 2)

Tiger Beetle, Newport 33, Rob Macfarlane; 3) Grey Ghost, Zaal 38, Doug Grant. (6 boats) CRUZ— 1) Miss Conduct, Columbia 36, George

DIV. K (141-162) — 1) Ouessant, Farallon

Bill Menninger, 34.75; 5) Don Sullivan, 39; 6) Jeff

Lips, Frers 41, Phil Gutin. (8 boats) FLEET 4 — 1) Wide Load, Santana 35, Bruce Wilcdx; 2) Wind Chaser, Ericson 35 Mk. Ill, The Cranors; 3) Dance Away, Santana 35, Doug Stork-

ma; 3) Freewind, Cal 9.2, The Lessleys. (7 boats)

4) Fire Drill, Tartan Ten, Lambert Thom. (14 boats)

Weaver; 3) Esprit Victorieux, Beneteau First 305,

CLASS G (Catalina 37) — 1) Mike Van Dyke, 4.25

2) Roadhouse Blues, Hawkfarm, Bentsen/Bosch-

3) Indecent Exposure, Wylie Wabbit, Greg Byrne;

Breakaway, 11.75; 3) Tatiana, 13.5. (13 boats) CLASS C — 1) Water Moccasin, 15.75 points; 2) Outlier, 25.75; 3) Mischief, 26.75; 4) Adrenalin, 29.75; 5) Wings, 30. (21 boats) CLASS D — 1) Charmay II, New York 36,12.75 points; 2) Salsa, Frers 36, 16.75; 3) J-OK, J/105,

points; 2) Mary Anne Wilson, 11; 3) Fred East, 17.

FLEET 5 — 1) Chorus, K’burg 38, Peter English;

& Diana Freeland; 2) Ixxis, Olson 911S, Ed Durbin;

Clipper, Gene Buck; 2) Sonata, Lapworth 39, Donn

McAfee; 2) Miramar, Frers 41, The Robbins; 3) Hot

ovitch. (11 boats)

(3 boats) DIV. J (117-138) —1) Blue Max, Dehler 34, Jim

CLASS B (J/35) — 1) Juice, 10.75 points; 2)

points; 2) Bad News, J/29,14.5; 3) Outlaw, Ericson

George. (9 boats)

Keith; 2) Two Scoops, Express 34, Chris Longaker.

11.5; 3) Youngster, Ron Young, 16; 4) Undine, Adam Wheeler, 23. (8 boats) KNARR — 1) Huldra, Jim Skaar, 13 points; 2) Peerless, Larry Drew, 28.5; 3) Red Witch, Charles McCabe, 29.75; 4) Nordlys, Joel Kudler, 36; 5) Benino, Terry Anderlini, 37; 6) Lykken, Bob Fisher, 44; 7) Snaps III, Knud Wibroe, 49; 8) The Coast Is Clear, Chris Perkins, 50.75; 9) Huttetu, George Rygg, 51; 10) Sophia, Mickey Waldear, 55. (27 boats)

MEMORIAL DAY (StFYC; May 27-28, 4 races): 11:METRE — 1) Ronstan, Alistair Murray, 5.5 points; 2) Blue Dog, Tim Wells, 10.75; 3) Pier 23 Cafe, Hogan Beatie, 11.75; 4) Team SportsChannel, Chris Watson, 16. (9 boats) EXPRESS 27—1) Flying Circus, Gene Ryley, 3 points; 2) Curses, Larry Blanchette, 16; 3) Baffet, Tom Baffico/Forest Baskett, 17; 4) Summer Palace, Bart Harris, 19; 5) Peaches, Grant Baldwin/John Rivlin, 21; 6) Archimedes, Dick Swanson, 21. (13 PLAZA CUP (MPYC; June 17-18; 3 races): OLSON 30—1) Stray Cat, Team Cat, 5.38 points; 2) Tsiris, Dan Nitake, 6.13; 3) Wind Spirit, Jim Winterbotham, 6.75; 4) Capitol Affair, Host/Raabe, 12; 5) Bullet, Mike Gross, 16; 6) Tsunami, Bob Haase, 16. (6 boats) Page 172 •

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Feeling swamped? Fortunately, July is a month off for most racers.

boats) EXPRESS 37—1) Spindrift V, Larry & Lynn Wright, 8.75 points; 2) Re-Quest, Glenn Isaacson, 10; 3) Melange, Steve Chamberlin, 10.75; 4) Bliss,

2) Blue Chip, Mumm 36, Walt Logan; 3) China

Mike Grisham, VI .5. (9 boats)

Cloud, J/40, Leigh Brite. (7 boats) DIV. H (87-114) — 1) Cabaret, Oyster SJ-35, Bill

2) Freja, Ed Welch, 13; 3) Polperro, Peter Jeal, 17.

FOLKBOAT — 1) Thea, Tom Reed, 11.5 points;

SHEET 1995 Santa Barbara Race Entries* Yacht DIVISION A (-36-63) Phoenix Two Dog Gone Dolphin Dance Jobe Gandy Dancer Rascallion X-Dream

lype

PCR

Skipper

Yacht Club

MacGregor 65 SC 52 SC 50 J/44 SC 40 Baltic 51 X-119

-36 6 12 40 51 62 63

H. Kulduff/D. Crowe Angeio Peykoff David Sallows Jim Archer Gary Hausler Jim Starr Steen Moller

Encinal South Shore Encinai None Island South Beach Tiburon

DIVISION B (72-89) Espresso Ariel Friday Harbor Spindrift V Equanimity Mostly Harmless Invictus Enchante

Express 37 Tradewinds 40 J/35 Express 37 J/35 C&C SR 33 . J/105 Beneteau First 42

72 77 80 80 82 84 87 89

Steve Saperstein Hugh McIntyre Ryle Radke Larry & Lynn Wright R. Paul/T. Thayer Paul & Lee Bergman Walt Marti D. Jacoby/R. Barton

Encinal California San Francisco Richmond St. Francis Encinal None Marina Bay

DIVISION C (90-124) Duker Tsiris Hoot Holy Guacamole Speedy Gonzalez Endurance Culebra Dance Away Strange Bird Wide Load

Hobie 33 Olson 29 Olson 30 Olson 30 Olson 30 Express 34 Olson 34 Santana 35 Hunter Legend Santana 35

90 93 96 96 96 105 106 112 121 124

Graham Dawson Dan Nitake Andy Macfie Steve Maseda/Jim Bean Juan Tellez Mike Condon Craig & Caro! Riley Doug Storkovich Jay Aiiworth B. Wilcox/L. Van Breen

Pacific Corinthian Santa Cruz Richmond Ventura Sailing Encinal Richmond Encinal Encinal None Berkeley

DIVISION D (125-153) Route Du Vent Takeoff Grey Eagle Cavu II Orange Blsm Special Blue Max Mintaka

Pedrick 43 Laser 28 Valiant 40 C&C 37 Beneteau 35.7 Dehler 34 C&C 36

125 131 131 132 141 143 153

Seth & Bev Bailey Ron Byrne Bill & B.J. Stephens Brian Deans Ed & Judy English Jim Freeland Gerry Brown

Encinal Encinal Encinal Richmond Richmond Berkeley Palo Alto

DIVISION E (155-198) Juggernaut Blue Lou Roadhouse Blues It's Jazz Perpetual Motion Sun Singer Bianca

Islander 36 Pearson 10M Hawkfarm 28 Ranger 33 Cal 31 Cal 34-2 Isl. 30 Mk. II

155 157 168 172 177 178 199

Bill Parks Joel Davis B. Boshma/T. Bentsen Ben Mewes Noble Brown David Wheeler Paul Berger

Encinal Coyote Point Richmond Island Benicia Richmond Cal Sailing

NON-SPINNAKER A Springbok Wianno Sabra Lizard's Breath Moonshadow China Doll

Hylas 42 Catalina 42 Wyliecat 39 O'Day 34 Ranger 33 Rafiki 35

102 106 109 142 172 189

Martin Brauns John Sullivan III Michael Katz Douglas Lange Deborah Lage Carl & Barb Tessman

Sierra Point Richmond South Beach None Encinal Aeolian

ONE DESIGN (E-27) Bobs Moonlight Frog In French Peaches

Express 27 Express 27 Express 27 Express 27

126 126 126 126

Mike Heam Jim Gibbs K. Richards/B. Wright G. Baldwin/J. Rivlin

Richmond Corinthian Richmond St. Francis

* as of 6/23/95 (7 boats) J/24 — 1) Cujo, Kimo Winterbottom, 14.75 points; 2) Downtown Uproar, Wayne Clough, 15.75; 3) Wonder Woman, Paul Dines/Tom Kennedy, 22; 4) #4306, Scott Sellers, 22; 5) Sockeye, Dave Holscher, 23; 6) Cool Breeze, Stephen Pugh/Phil Perkins, 23.75. (15 boats) J/105 — 1) Invictus, Walt Marti, 4.25 points; 2) Aquavit, Thomas Sponholtz, 10.75; 3) Jest, Jim Cascino, 11. (5 boats) J/35 — 1) Jarlen, Bob Bloom, 7.75 points; 2)

More Power, Perkins, Wilson & Wilson, 9.25; 3) Kiri, Bill George, 14. (6 boats) * KNARR — 1) Blow Baby Blow, Mike Guzzardo, 3 points; 2) Aquavit, Ray Palmer, 9; 3) Snaps II, Knud Wibroe, 23. (6 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) White Ford Bronco, Tom Pollack/Norman Davant, 5.75 points; 2) Mary Don’t Surf, Hans Williams/Mark Eastham, 9.75; 3) #201, Greg Dorland, 14.75; 4) Double Pucker, David Wadbrook, 18. (9 boats) SANTANA 35 — 1) Breakout, Les Raos, 9.25

points; 2) Dance Away, Slabeck/Storkovich, 10.75; 3) Tinsley Light, Hank Grandin, 16. (7 boats) GO FOR THE GOLD (GGYC; June 11-12): OPEN MULTIHULL — 1) Lou Stark, Hobie 21, 8.75 points; 2) Hubert Van Dijk, Hobie 20, 9.5; 3) Jack Jefferies, Hobie 14. (9 boats) OPEN CENTERBOARD— 1) Dan Ouellet, JY15, 9.25 points; 2) George Koch, Banshee, 11.75; 3) Skip Dyke, Laser, 19. (9 boats) OPEN KEEL — 1) Dennis Fritts, Holder 20, 8.25 points; 2) Mike Bringolf, Space Sailor, 8.5; 3) Steve Vaczovsky, MacGregor 26,15. (8 boats) CATALINA 22 — 1) Don Samuelson, 3.75 points; 2) Doug Epperson, 14; 3) Gordon & Karen Fellows, 20. (6 boats) DAY SAILOR — 1) Bill Fiock, 10 points; 2) Ed Grisetti, 13.5; 3) Vince Lyddane, 15.25. (7 boats) EL TORO — 1) Walt Andrews, 3 points; 2) Art Lewis, 10; 3) Jim Cozine, 14. (7 boats) FIREBALL— 1) Randy MacKinga, 8.5 points; 2) Scott Rovanpera, 10.75; 3) Kevin Rea, 14.75. (6 boats) SUNFISH (Western Regionals) — 1) Byron Jonk, 6.25 points; 2) Bob Cronin, 8.5; 3) Darryl Coe, 14. (9 boats) LIDO 14 (NorCal Champs) — 1) Joe Doering, 13.75 points; 2) Don Lockwood, 17.5; 3) Larry Salas & Leslie Pewers, 19.75. (8 boats) LIDO 14 (B Fleet) — 1) Jeremy Gicker, 3.75. (3 boats) SOUTH BAY YRA #3 (BVBC; June 17): DIV. A — 1) Wind Dragon, Catalina 34, Dave Davis; 2) Sundancer, Hunter 34, Bob Carlen; 3) Loose Cannon, Express 27, Bill Schwager. (7 boats) DIV. B — 1) Jet Lag, Catalina 34, Roger Roe; 2) Dolphin, Cal 2-30, Robert Young. (4 boats) DIV. C — 1) Hardtack, J/24, Charles Allen; 2) Zodiac, Kettenberg 40, Frank Ballintine. (5 boats) DIV. D— 1) Leeward, Catalina 30, Jim Balestra; 2) Friday’s Eagle, Catalina 30, Mark Hecht. (5 boats) MOORE 24 PCCs (TibYC; June 3-4; 6 races): 1) War Stories, Royce Fletcher/Skip Allan, 12.5 points; 2) Fatuity, Dave Hodges, 13.75; 3) Adios, Scott Walecka, 17.75; 4) Mooregasm, Hank Niles/ Chris Watts, 27.75; 5) Kangaroo Court, Peter Carrick, 31; 6) Great Pumpkin, Jim Maloney, 31.5; 7) Solstice, Drew Doll, 35; 8) Nobody's Girl, Sydnie Moorg, 38; 9) Snafu-U, Mark Berryman, 39; 10) Mercedes, Joel Verutti, 41.75. (22 boats)

Race Notes Coastal races: A pair of 'poor man’s TransPacs' will leave San Francisco on the Fourth of July Weekend. Oakland and Elkhom YC’s 90-mile Boreas Race will leave for Moss Landing early in the morning on July 1. About 20-30 boats are expected... A day later, the fourth annual 277-mile Santa Barbara Race will leave from the Cityfront July, 1995 •LOXUtVl* Page 173

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beginning at noon. Over 50 boats, including lots of repeat entries, are entered (see box on preceeding page). Hopefully, everyone will finish in time for the July 5 party at Santa Barbara YC. Cerveza circuit: Long Beach YC’s Cabo Race is slated for Oct. 28 (cruising start), Nov. 3 (PHRF, IMS) and Nov. 4 (sleds, big boats). Call the club at (310) 598-9401 for details. San Diego YC’s Mexican race will feature staggered starts between January 31February 2 — but the destination is now Mazatlan instead of Manzanillo. "It was time for a change," acknowledged race chairman Ken Bertino. "Las Hadas isn’t what it used to be, and we’d all been there a lot. Besides* there’s a brand new marina in Mazatlan, great beaches — and it’s really cheap! It also makes for a shorter race, which is what we think people want these days." Sound great to us! Call Ken at (619) 2262623 if you need more details sooner than later. MEXORC, the biennial good-time race week that lately has been occurring after the Manzanillo Race, will now be held in PV on odd years following the Puerto Vallarta Race. Multihull mania: Peter Hogg has given up on finding Aotea — but he’s hardly giving up on sailing 'funny boats'. After flying to San Diego for a crew tryout, he’s been invited to be part of the five-man team on Steve Fossett’s 60-foot trimaran Lakota when they go for two records after the TransPac: from Hawaii to Japan, and then from Yokohama, Japan, to San Francisco. No one’s quite sure what the former record is at the moment, but the Japan to San Francisco record of 21 days was set by the clipper ship James Stafford in 1884. "We’re looking to knock about six days off that time," figures Hogg. . . ENZA stopped in unannounced at Sausalito’s Schoonmaker Point Marina for five days early in June on her way up to Seattle. The Jules Verne record holder will be back here for a week or so in late August or early September. Sale boats of the month: Jim and Bob Gregory recently sold the family’s Wylie 34 Magic to a new owner up in Seattle. The brothers have been chartering an Etchells lately. . . . Bill Koch has sold his allconquering 84-foot maxi Matador2 to Anton Starling of Sydney, Australia. Random ramblings: Reigning Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Danielle Bren¬ nan of New York, NY, won the singlehanded division of the U.S. Women’s Open Championship for the second year in a row. Nancy Haberland of Annapolis and crew Carol Newman won the doublehanded division. The event, an open competition, was held in Annapolis on June 16-18 in Page 174 •LOMJU'ii* July, 1995

Laser Radials and Snipes... Brazilian Robert Scheidt won the ’95 Laser World Cham¬ pionship in the Canary Islands. Stanford sailing coach Steve Bourdow was the top American, finishing 12th. Toys ’R Us: Peter Tong’s newest yacht, Orient Express II will be launched on July 10 after being trucked from Marblehead, Massachusetts. An appropriately sized bottle of spirits will be cracked on her bow — most likely a mini-bottle like you get on air-planes, as the new sled is only 36 inches long! OE2, an apparently perfectly crafted, scaled-down

scaled-down version of his SC 70, is a remote-controlled boat which set Peter back $1,050. That’s kinda expensive for us 'normal' folks, but remember that sled owners probably spend twice this amount every time they leave the dock! Tong has been appointed regatta chairman of the tiny boat sailing competition at September’s StFYC Tinsley Island Stag Cruise, and he’s looking for competition. Look for all the sled owners to have pne soon. Paint it Black: West Marine recentlyannounced they’ll sponsor a five-year ocean

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Light air at an early June Corinthian YC Friday night race, recently voted by our staff as the best beer can race series on the Bay. All photos/rs. racing campaign for avid singlehander Steve Black of Newport, RI. A Marek 50 to be called West Marine is being built by W.D. Schock Corp. in Corona, with christening planned at the Annapolis Sailboat Show in October. A narrow boat (12V2 feet) with a comfortable deckhouse, the boat will be a departure from the current flush-decked, beamy BOC racers. A 76-foot carbon fiber rig and a water ballast system will make the

boat "a wolf in sheep’s clothing," said Black. Lewmar and Autohelm have already signed on as co-sponsors. Black will campaign the boat in all the upcoming single and doublehanded race venues. Brutal sailing, Chapter II: Thierry Peponnet of France won the Vauxhall Royal Lymington Cup, the second of five regattas in the Brut by Faberg£ Sailing Series. In the thrilling finals, Peponnet defeated Jesper Bank 3-2. Meanwhile, an unseeded local sailor, Andy Beadsworth, was third ahead of Ed Baird. Roy Heiner, winner

of the first Brut Cup last month in San Francisco, didn’t sail due to conflicts with his Mumm 36 schedule. The next regatta on the Brut circuit, held June 26-July 1 at Sete, France, should just be ending as you’re reading this. The latest rankings, which don’t include the Lymington Cup, show Russell Coutts back on top, followed by: 2) Peter Gilmour; 3) Rod Davis; 4) Bertrand Pace; 5) Ed Baird; 6) Roy Heiner; 7) Paul Cayard; 8) Jesper Bank; 9) Magnus Holmberg and 10) Thierry Peponnet. War stories: Paul Kamen’s Merit 25 Twilight Zone broke its second mast this year during a windy Berkeley YC Friday night beer can race last month. . . John William’s new Sticky Fingers is still having problems getting sorted out. During April’s Drake’s Bay Race, the Whitbread 30 impaled itself on the bow of the starboard-tack Olson 30 IVYS/WYG, necessitating her first trip to the boat doctors. Last month, Fingers blew out her custom rig during a Sausalito YC Tuesday night race, apparently due to operator failure on the runners during a jibe. . . Johnny Walker’s Stockton-based Choate 40 Bottom Line was noisily dismasted a minute before the start of the Ditch Run when it tangled rigs with the starboard-tack Express 37 Spindrift V. Foreign affairs: Englishman Josh Hall, whose Gartmore Investments sank under him in the first leg of the BOC, has leased Coyote from its owner, Helen Davis, with the intention to buy. His first regatta was the Bermuda 1-2 in early June, in which he missed the singlehanded record (630 miles from Newport to Bermuda) by 10 hours. No word yet on how the second half went. . . Camp Freddie, an extremely light displace¬ ment 31-footer that sets huge asymmetric kites, beat 1,261 boats in the 59th Round the Island Race — a 50-mile race which sails the same course (around England’s Isle of Wight) as the first America’s Cup. . . Ac¬ cording to the June Yachting World, Mike Slade’s world-wandering maxi Longobarda was fired upon by pirates off Somalia in April, but was rescued after an hour-long encounter by a nearby Canadian frigate. Fortunately, no one was injured. More war stories: One Eyed Jack, J.C. Armstrong’s Express 37, clobbered the rocks off Alcatraz while kite reaching over the island in an ODCA race last month. Jack absolutely mangled her keel, which will be replaced, but the hull survived amazingly well. "Guess we built ’em too strong," joked designer Carl Schumacher. . . Chris Per¬ kins had a rough month: his Knarr Whistler was dismasted in the seriously windy Wood¬ ies Invitational on June 2-4. A week earlier, he lost the J/35 division of the Memorial Day July, 1995

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Regatta in the last race when More Power's spinnaker wrapped permanently around the forestay, leading to an uncharacteristic DNF. Chris’s spirits were revived later in the afternoon when he won the grand prize in the regatta’s raffle, a $2,000 Kenwood stereo! . . . Bruce Darby’s Newport 30 Mariner was dismasted in an ODCA Cityfront race on June 11. Darby, who is leading the class, will fortunately be allowed to sail a loaner boat, Achates, in the last ODCA race before the July break. Melges update: Sailmaker Dave Ullman took home a $5,000 paycheck for winning the Cal Cup, held over Memorial Day Weekend for the first time in Melges 24s. Cal YC in Marina del Rey hosted 13 of Cali¬ fornia’s best-known skippers (9 of whom are sailmakers) for the light-air, 7-race fleet racing series. Top finishers in Ullman’s wake were: 2) Steve Grillon; 3) Mark Reynolds; 4) Bill Menninger; 5) Mark Golison; 6) Vince Brun. . . The Melges 24 Gold Cup, the unofficial class world championship, was held on June 8-10 back on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Forty-three boats, including six from California, made the pilgrimage for

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17-year-old Skip McCormack, whose father Hal appears elsewhere in this issue, will represent Area C at the upcoming Smythe JrOphy.

what turned out to be a fluky regatta. Local scow sailor Brian Porter, an amateur, was the overall winner with Full Throttle. Under the boardwalk: The best Bay Area juniors battled it out in Santa Cruz on June 10-11 to see who would represent Area G in

the U.S. Sailing/Rolex Junior Sailing Championships coming up in mid-August at Chicago YC. Dueling weapons were Lasers, Laser IIs and Moore 24s. Earning rights to the Windy City road trip were Skip McCormack (Smythe), Whitney Gilmour and Brendan Richards (Bemis) and the Richmond YC team of Mark Breen/Dana Jones/Jeff Loomis/Nick Nash (Sears). The other big-time youth sailing venue, the U.S. Sailing Youth Championship, was get¬ ting underway at Richmond YC as we went to press. Look for pictures and a report on that prestigious event next month. Eastern eye: Blue Yankee, Bob Towse’s Admiral’s Cup-bound Farr ILC 40, won IMS honors in the biennial 473-mile AnnapolisNewport Race, one of the slowest in his¬ tory. The following weekend’s Block Island Race Week, which ran from June 26-30, attracted nearly 200 boats, one of the biggest fleets in recent history. Twenty-three mostly grand prix IMS boats were entered — more than we have on the whole West Coast at the moment! Tune in next month to see how Dave Liggett’s spanking new Caroll Marine 39 Jack Rabbit fared in her debut at Block Island.

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CHANGES With reports this month from Capritaur on getting a little help from a lot of friends around Las Hadas; from John Humphrey in Kauai on the last days of Saltflower; from Constance on the pleasures of French Polynesia; from Nepenthe’s Tom Scott on returning to California after a six-year circumnavigation; from Red Witch on the loss of a Mazatlan institution; from Rick Gaffney on Gentry’s Kona Marina, from Kirt Barker on Puberty Fest '95 in the San Bias Islands; from Moondancer on boogying down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico; from Day by Day in Greece; and lots and lots of Cruise Notes.

Capritaur — N/A Fred & Rae Maeder A Little Help From Friends (San Francisco Bay) While cruising mainland Mexico early this year, we had an experience which had all the potential for being negative. But thanks to the help of a lot of people, it turned out positive. We’d like to tell folks about it. We motor-sailed Capritaur out of Las Hadas (Manzanillo) on the evening of February 1, and headed for Zihuatanejo. Eleven miles out, our transmission stopped working altogether. Friends on Nereid and Miglory were 20 miles ahead, and offered to turn back to stand by. But there was little they could do from that distance, so we just had them maintain an SSB schedule with us in case something changed. As there was no wind and we were only six miles from nearest point of land, we tried to radio back to friends at the Las Hadas anchorage to provide a 'heads-up' in case assistance might be needed later. It was late at night, however, and they didn’t hear our call. However another vessel — Tacuarina — responded to our call. A professionally

In physical terms, Las Hadas can no longer compare with her glitzy youth. But in many ways she's become a warmer, more gracious place.

skippered boat, she’d just arrived from Cabo on the way back to her homeport of Ixtapa. The crew was pretty tired, but Deon the Page 178 •

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skipper indicated they would come out and tow us in if necessary. As we were drifting on an outbound current, we opted to sit it out until daylight with the hope that we’d be able to sail back without any help. Deton indicated that his crew would stand anchor watch all night, and that we’d only have to call if our situation worsened and we needed immediate assistance. True to their word, they checked in with us during every change of watch, each time renewing their offer of a tow. By the next afternoon there still hadn’t been any wind. Another cruiser — the 42-ft Grand Banks Carefree with Fred, Gayle, Hans and Kay aboard — also offered to come out and tow us back in to Las Hadas. We decided to accept. Dick on Cubie I coordinated all of the necessary activities shoreside, and joined Carefree as they came out to assist. Along the way they hooked a 30-lb. dorado they insisted on sharing with us! We dined like kings for two nights on that catch. Carefree handed us off at the harbor jetty to Aleta Grande, a 34-ft sportfishing boat which side-tied to us and put a crew aboard. Obviously they’d done this many times. They drove our boat into the harbor, dropped anchor, and backed us down to a Med-style mooring. It was quite a production, given the tight quarters in the inner harbor. Neither boat, by the way, would accept any compensation — not even fuel — for their time and effort. Throughout this time, an armada of dinghies was standing by in case they could help. Within moments of landing, offers of every type of assistance were made from our fellow cruisers, including the loan of an excellent technical manual on our particular transmission. Yes, we had documentation, but Jack on Egress II had even better. The Las Hadas harbormaster, Jaime Verduzco, could not have been more helpful. He had a local mechanic out the very next day to assist Fred with repairs. The local crew, headed by Chema, was terrific. Between part runs they drove us around town several times to facilitate our own errands — and insisted on taking us to dinner with their families when the job was done. Can’t say that we’ve ever had that

experience back home. All in all, the entire experience was very positive; the service was professional, the price of repairs was most reasonable, and the good will that was extended to us was overwhelming. If something must break, Las Hadas is a great place to tough it out! — fred & rae 2/95 Fred & Rae — If that doesn ’t explain why Mexico is such a great place to begin cruising, we’re not sure what would. A tip of the Latitude hat to all those who offered and/or came to your assistance. Saltflower — Gaff Ketch Gavin Reed The End Of The Line (Hanalei Bay, Kauai) During the late hours of May 21, the gaffrigged ketch Saltflower went aground on the reef at Hanalei Bay. Her owner, Gavin Reed, was alone on ix/hat was the boat’s first

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anyone who can get her off. It’s always sad to see a boat dying on a reef or beach, no matter the circumstance. The only good news is that she’s inside the line-up for the good rights off the point, and thus not interfering with the surfing. — john Humphrey 6/2/95 Readers — For more than a decade, Saltflower has carried a 'San Francisco Bay' hailing port. Back in the '80s she was purchased by Bruce Westrate of the Peninsula, who later made her part of the notorious 'G' Dock crowd in Ventura. Westrate later sailed her across the South Pacific to Suva, where he worked at the yacht club for the better part of the season. The little ketch lost her bowsprit during a long sail back to Hawaii, and then got clobbered when Iniki roared through Nawiliwili with a vengeance. She was pretty badly damaged then, but this is surely the end for the little gaffer. We have no idea what happened to former owner Westrate or Mugger, his cat. As for contributor Humphrey, he worked for Bill Lee "since the early days" and did several TransPacs on boats such as Panache and Octavia. He’s since given up racing boats for a return to the world of surfing.

After a long and adventurous career from Cali¬ fornia to Fiji,'Saltflower' found her final resting place on the reef at Hanalei Bay, Kauai.

voyage since being rebuilt after hurricane Iniki had badly damaged her at Nawiliwili in 1992. Exactly how Saltflower came to end up on the reef is not clear. Hanalei folks have always valued a good story over a true story, and everyone seems to have their own version of what happened. All from reliable sources, of course: "The skipper was drunk." "He ran out of fuel and drifted on." "The depthsounder gave him false information." "He was tired and disoriented." "The weather got squally and the visibility was poor." "This is the third boat the guy has run aground." What we do know for sure is that by Monday morning the boat was lying on her

starboard side 50 yards up the reef. She had failed to clear the reef by a mere 200 yards. By coincidence, Vice President A1 Gore and wife Tipper were vacationing in Hanalei. Their 'vice presidential yacht' — actually a 48-ft, 1600 hp. target towing vessel from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, attempted to drag Saltflower off the reef. The tow line broke twice, with no effect on the grounded Saltflower. Unfortunately, the surf came up on Monday night to a 'Hawaiian' five feet, and pushed the stranded gaff ketch another 100 yards up the reef. The P.M.R.F. guys returned Tuesday afternoon with a two-inch hawser and gave it another go, but no way, she was stuck fast. By Sunday the 28th — when the accompanying photos were taken — Saltflower had settled in and had opened up for 15 feet along the port side. Until the swells of winter pound her to pieces, she’ll probably stay right where she is — except in the unlikely event somebody can pull her off. Gavin Reed has stated that he’ll give her to

Constance — Slocum 42 Ed Kirwin, Lynne Schechter French Polynesia (Corinthian YC) ' We’re sitting in the cockpit, anchored in the beautiful Baie d’Avea, which is located at the southwest tip of Huahine, reading the April Latitude. I can’t tell you how much we enjoy them. Lynn ran across the article by Steve Brown aboard Southbound. We spent Ed Kirwin and Lynne Schechter, enjoying a little 'land time' in French Polynesia. The former racing champ was always a cruiser at heart.

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some time with Steve in Nuku Hiva in late January, and when we left, he wasn’t sure if he was heading to Hawaii or Tahiti. As we never caught up with him, it was nice to know he made it safely back to the States. You interviewed me in November of '87 after we won HDA J with my Pearson 10M Olias. At the time 1 said I was really a cruiser at heart. Well, it took seven years, but I finally made it. With everything sold, Lynne and 1 set sail from the Corinthian YC on November 3, 1994 — just a day before all the rains started. We still had 50 odd projects to complete, but we wanted to do them in warmer weather. On December 10, with everything done, we left San Diego for the Marquesas. Mexico had been an option, but it seemed like everyone who owned a boat was headed there. We were looking to get away from the crowds. We arrived in Taiohae, Nuku Hiva on January 3 after 23 days and 2,750 miles. We wound up spending six weeks there waiting for parts and enjoying the people and the great weather — only five days of rain. Ours was the only cruising boat and we had most anchorages to ourselves. It has been that way until just recently, as the cruising fleet has only now begun to catch up. In the middle of February, we sailed to Ua Pou, then Tahu Ata — great snorkeling — Hiva Oa and then Fatu Hiva., Although it was officially the hurricane season, the Marquesas are too far north and east to be in any serious danger. It’s been our experience that the way to really see these islands and meet the people is to be here when other cruisers aren’t. When other boats arrive, they tend to gather among themselves and don’t Everyone knows Moorea is fabulously beautiful above the surface, but Ed and Lynne report it offers fantastic deep dives, too.

interact with locals as much. In early March we had a four-day passage to Toau in the Tuamotus, where we spent a week snorkeling, spear fishing, lobster catching and exploring. We anchored on the north side in Anse Amyuot, a small bay, but not a pass into the lagoon. It was actually much safer and nicer. From Toau, we sailed on to Papeete and spent a month exploring the west coast of Tahiti. What great snorkeling and interesting historical sites. We rented a car and went around both Tahiti and Tahiti Iti. Then it was time to meet old friends and make new ones at beautiful Moorea just 20 miles away. We carry our own tanks, and found Moorea to have some spectacular deep diving areas. After a little more than two weeks, we sailed out of Cook’s Bay on the overnight passage to Huahine. Stops at Raiatea and then Bora Bora will finish off our tour of French Polynesia. Then we’ll be off to the Cooks, Samoa, Tonga and finally New Zealand — to see the America’s Cup. Our best wishes for great summer sailing to all our friends on the Bay. — ed 6/7195 Nepenthe — Folkes 38 Tom Scott The Last Legs (Redwood City) [Part One of this Changes, which wraps

Cojo, a few hundred yards south of Point Conception, is a place of many textures. It's also the place to be when the northwesterlies howl.

up a six-pear circumnavigation, appeared in the June issue.] I’d continued my habit of listening to the radio while sailing up the coast of Mexico, and was now picking up all the Southern California stations. One of the things that caught my ear was the change in the language. Later I was to learn that the new palaver is called being 'politically correct' — and derives its virtue from minimizing the potential for offense. I suppose that’s sort of all right, especially as I’m an unexpected — and I’m sure unintentional — beneficiary of the 'new speak'. No longer am 1 to be labeled 'depraved' and 'lazy', but rather 'morally and motivationally challenged'. Having worn out my welcome at the Ventura transient dock, I moved to nearby Oxnard and learned that feminism had changed people’s outlook — and certainly the tenor of even casual conversation. On the way up the coast I’d let it be known that northbound crew would be welcome aboard Nepenthe. One day a lady appeared and said that she’d heard I was looking for crew. "Come aboard," I said, and we talked for awhile. All the while she fiddled with a slip of paper. Overcome with curiosity, I finally had

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to ask her what it was. "It’s my list of demands," she replied! Somewhere along the line I needed identification. Not having a driver’s license — mine had expired three years before — I presented my passport. "What’s this?" asked the sales clerk. After I explained, she said, "I don’t think we can accept it." After a lengthy discussion with the manager, I was grudgingly allowed to make my purchases. However, I definitely got the impression that I was somehow suspect: no proper identification, no telephone number, no fixed address. Heavens, where will they send their advertisements! I later sailed back up to Ventura, when my sister Pam picked me up to drive me to a party at my cousin’s place. We were almost there when we rounded a curve and had a head-on collision with a big white van. Metal screeched, cars spun, shards of glass flew in all directions. I used up about a year’s supply of adrenalin and remember thinking — as Pam’s car did a one wheel pirouette — 'I sail all the way around the world and this is how it ends? It can’t be. It just can’t be.' Fortunately, it wasn’t. * Both cars were total losses. Luckily, all seven people involved — including several children — escaped with no more than minor cuts and bruises. When I later arrived

at my cousin’s place, someone asked me one of the standard questions: "Is sailing the ocean dangerous?" I had to laugh. The area of Southern California between San Diego and Santa Barbara is generally characterized by light winds. Further northwest, things get more lively — in the manner of my recent Cabo to San Diego passage. While 'lively' didn’t sound that appealing, it had to be done. As 1 cleared Point Conception, the wind picked up and the spray began to fly — which might be why I didn’t see the container ship cutting close across my stern! I shuddered, but by then it was too late to do anything. Now the wind was howling mightily, and I decided I needed to strike some sail. Just as I released my grip on the cabin’s overhead handhold, a wave broke over the starboard side. The impact threw me clear across the cabin, where I knocked down the salon table. I recall wishing that I could have called a cab. Having dropped and secured the jib, I was just finishing putting the last reef in the main — trying very hard to make my fingers work in the icy wind and spray — when I literally looked up to see a huge container ship fine on my bow! Somehow I managed to get back to the cockpit and fall off the wind — not that it helped much, since the ship was very close and moving very fast. We cleared each other by little more than 100 yards, with me holding my breath all the while. A minute or so later the ship’s watch officer called to say that his radar hadn’t registered Nepenthe, but that he’d 'finally' seen my lights. The seas and spray had made seeing much of anything difficult at best, so I was very glad I had used my anchor light — illegally — in addition to the normal, Jess visible, navigation lights. By sunrise the wind and seas had eased a lot and Nepenthe sailed into Morro Bay without incident. As we motored up the entrance channel, I reflected on the previous evening’s hazards and close calls — and especially on the calm conditions at Cojo Cove just around the corner from Point Conception. I should have spent the night there rather than trying to round Conception; it certainly would have been easier and a lot less dangerous. But then life is hard, and it’s a whole lot harder when you’re stupid. Unfamiliar with Morro Bay, I called the local Harbor Police for a little local knowledge. They quickly found me a place to tie up — and the officer even jumped in

his truck and came down to take my docklines. Wow, what service! When I offered to pay right there, the officer told me that there was no rush and to stop by his office whenever it was convenient. It was so relaxed that I immediately felt comfortable and welcome. I couldn’t help but reflect how lovely it would be if the managers of the San Diego Harbor Gestapo could get their people to behave as pleasantly. I should add that the harbor officials along the California coast had generally been courteous and helpful — with those at Monterey and Ventura being especially so. Over the years I’d heard about the hospitality of the Morro Bay YC. Late one afternoon I walked over, found the Officer of the Day, and introduced myself. He paused for a moment and said, "Oh, you’re the guy in Latitude 38, referring to the article which had run several months before. It was kind of nice being famous. He bought me a beer and introduced me around to more embarrassing compliments. In my book the folks at the Morro Bay YC deserve their fine reputation. Since I’d been back in California, it seemed there was a lot more xenophobia than in the past. Folks had made grating comments from San Diego to Morro Bay. Mexicans were singled out for particularly lusty vilification. As a matter of historical record, California was part of Mexico until the middle of the last century. California has also had a large Mexican expatriate population, and for as long as I can remember, illegal immigration has been a

Morro Bay is home, naturally enough, to the Morro Bay YC. For many years this club has set the standard for yacht club hospitality.

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One claim that kind of tickled me was that the 'Mexicans are taking all our jobs'. There is, I suppose, a kernel of truth in this. People might find hard going were they anticipating highly renumerative careers in dishwashing, farm labor, garbage collection, gardening and the like. However, I don’t reckon there are a lot of illegal immigrants in investment banking, corporate management or feature film production. I suppose I’m especially sensitive to such foolishness because I’ve spent such a long time as a guest in other countries, where without exception, I’ve been received with warmth and graciousness. Nepenthe later called at Monterey, a town I had lived and worked in for over nine years. Reunions with old friends were a great joy. Walking along the streets I knew so well brought floods of nostalgia. I think it was the first time I felt a glimmer of 'being home'. Still, I felt largely disconnected from things, viewing the culture as a traveller might. Perhaps one of the most striking impressions I got was that of extreme wealth set against a pervasive discontent. Curiously, the discontent has no name, no object, but rather seems diffuse — a broad shadow touching everyone to one extent or another, darkly coloring hopes for the future. It is almost as if the country had misplaced its sense of humor. Or maybe was like someone who dashes from home with great energy

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from Cabo, Nepenthe caught a southerly wind and flew toward San Francisco. We arrived at the Golden Gate at sunset, and were lucky enough to catch a strong flood' tide. Racing under the Gate at nearly eight knots, I couldn’t help but feel the sea spirits were with me. After an overnight stay in San Francisco, Nepenthe made the short trip down the Bay to Redwood City where she now lies. We arrived on July 7, a few months short of being out six years. I’d originally set out for a wee sail. Understandably, Nepenthe looked pretty beaten up when we arrived. When people asked where we’d been, I’d wave vaguely down the dock and mumble something about it being too far to walk. I was, thanks to Latitude, still a bit of a celebrity. Over the months, as Nepenthe began to look better again, my notoriety began to wane. By late summer, Nepenthe’s refit was well underway and the local politicians were gearing up for the fall elections. One after another they repeatedly assured the public that they had "a vision". I wondered whether they had considered seeking professional help. Nepenthe’s home at Pete’s Harbor is just a few miles from my Mom’s place. Some have wondered where I get my sense of humor. It could have been from falling from a second story window at an early age, which really happened, or it might have had something to do with my Mom. Now 74, she recently told me, "You know what it is about old age? There’s no future in it." Current plans call for Nepenthe and me to take off for the South Pacific again later this year. — tom 2/95 Red Witch Lou & Cookie Kennedy The Loss of Playa Sur (Seattle) It’s always sad to lose a friend, and thus it’s truly painful that I must report the passing of a real friend of the sailing community. It happened in Mazatlan, and all the cruisers who have passed through there will immediately recognize our collective loss. The big blue bus, known to everyone as 'Playa Sur', is no longer with us. This was the blue monster that had packed cruisers back and forth from one side of Mazatlan to the other for all these years. It wasn’t a pretty bus, and it rattled, shook, bounced and bucked. The rivets in the roof were mostly gone, so there was an 'oil can'

effect with us inside. The straight pipes for exhaust gave fair warning to clear the path, and probably saved more lives than the local hospital. The big 8D battery sat right next to the driver and was equipped with a big 'knife switch' to fire up the diesel. Like all good buses in Mexico, the blue monster carried several shrines to the Lady of Guadalupe in the front of the cab. If she taught the bus drivers to drive, she must have had an advanced sense of humor. I once saw a short gentleman swing all the way off the floor, during a rare application of the brakes, while holding onto the overhead rails. You could get anywhere on the blue monster: Mazatlan’s three major markets, churches, the bus station and all the good restaurants located along the line. Yes, for a mere peso the city was yours. How could anything of such great value be permitted to pass on? Clearly it took foolish, short-sighted bureaucratic bungling to eliminate a ride that could have dazzled patrons at Disneyland. When we left Mazatlan in December of '94 all was well, but when we returned in March of '95, the dirty

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deed had been done. Sitting at anchor in front of Club Nautico, 1 noticed a sterile, white, quiet conveyance picking up people and whisking,them off. It almost seemed like it was an alien thing picking up and capturing all the people who certainly were waiting for the real 'Playa Sur' bus. Alas, it was the Mazatlan bus service, not aliens, that had replaced 'old blue' with a plain, boring, characterless, quiet bus. So hang your heads, ring your hands and shed a tear all of you Mazatlan cruisers, past and present. A true friend has passed on. — lou 5/15/95 Gentry’s Kona Marina Capt. Rick Gaffney Honokohau Small Boat Harbor (The Big Island) The lee coast of Hawaii’s largest inland has many attractions for the cruising sailor. Dozens of secluded bays promise idyllic stopovers, superb snorkeling and diving along this relatively uncrowded coast. The

calm, protected, offshore waters are worldrenowned for their big game fishing. Rainfall is minimal and there is the promise of fine weather throughout the year. The sunsets never cease to amaze and delight. 'Kona' is the Hawaiian word for 'leeward coast', and the Kona coast of the 'Big Island' of Hawaii is by far the largest lee shore in the state. A pair of 13,000-ft. volcanoes — Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa — contribute to the protection of roughly 80 miles of Kona coast from the predominant tradewinds that affect the islands and particularly the channels between them. Yet another attraction — still unknown to many cruisers — of the Kona coast is Gentry’s Kona Marina, a service marina facility located at the back of the Honokohau Small Boat Harbor. This complex of privately owned and operated facilities, right in the middle of the Kona coast, is unique in Hawaii. World offshore powerboat racing champion Tom Gentry wanted nothing less than the finest marina facility in Hawaii when he built the complex, and in my estimation he has succeeded in his goal. Kona has long been considered a backwater, but times have changed. Today, U.S. Customs clearance for arriving cruising

vessels is available in Kona, and every marine maintenance requirement can be met by the skilled service and trades people in the once sleepy fishing village of KailuaKona. The development of Gentry’s Kona Marina has been a big catalyst for much of the change. With a 50-ton Travelift, covered paint shed, power, water and air pressure equipped haul-out area, and extensive dry storage space and functional service bays, skilled tradesmen moved to Kona and began to service the growing marine community. Tremendous demand for additional boat storage space recently led to the development of the largest dry storage facility in the state. This on property adjacent to the original Gentry development, and directly accessible to Honokokau Harbor. Gentry’s Kona Marina and the service industry housed there has the capability to handle all vessel maintenance and repair jobs, and store vessels for short or long term under full security. A fully-stocked chandlery, a fishing tackle shop, mechanics, shipwrights, machinists, marine electronics technicians, welders, fiberglass specialists and marine paint experts fill the complex, which also includes a yacht brokerage, fueling facilities, a harborfront restaurant, an ice house and a fish monger. In addition to the many attractions of Hawaii’s Kona coast, Gentry’s Kona Marina also affords an option for cruisers desiring or needing a break in cruising. After a cruise to Mexico and Hawaii, many yachties want or 'need a short break. These folks can leave Kailua-Kona is a relatively roily anchorage, but the local kids spend half their waking hours getting off on the ocean motion.

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their boats on the hard at Gentry’s for a very reasonable price — and if they want, have work done on their boat whHe they’re gone. It’s also perfect for South Pacific cruisers who want to bring their vessels back to the States, but not all the way to the mainland. P.S. The people of Hawaii are taking steps to curb abusive behavior by the occasionally overzealous state harbor attendants — such as recently described in a recent issue of Latitude. Make no mistake, the businesses and people of Hawaii — and particularly the Kona Coast — welcome cruisers. And we’ll endeavor to be sure that those public servants we pay to manage our harbor facilities do the same. — rick 5/5/95 Puberty Fest '95 San Bias Islands A Side Most Folks Don’t See (Panama) When it comes to cruising grounds, there aren’t many places as beloved as Panama’s San Bias Islands. The pristine waters — teeming with lobster, squid and fish — are protected from the steep swells of the Caribbean Sea by a string of reefs stretching for nearly 100 miles. Although the palmfringed islands are very small — often no more than 200 feet in diameter — there are 365 of them, many of which are uninhabited. The disturbances of modem life — such as televisions, telephones, running water, electricity, cars, and lawyers — are virtually non-existent. If you’re weary of the fast lane, this is the place for you. But what people love most about the San Bias Islands are the indigenous Kuna Having fun with different cultures! Anet gets 'Kuna-ized just before the Puberty Fest. The Indians are very hospitable.

Indians, said to be the second shortest race of people in the world. These 'little rascals', as they are affectionately known, have retained their culture, and although reserved, are ever eager to show off their islands. The women, of course, are famous for making the traditional molas, garments that cruisers seem incapable of resisting. Covered from head to toe in molas and traditional beads, the Kuna women are even more shy than the men. When they come aboard to weave bracelets or anklets around the women’s wrists or ankles, they are hesitant to speak. When they do — such as to ask that their little girl have her toes and fingernails painted — their voices are almost inaudibly soft. \ There’s another side of the Kuna Indians, however, that only emerges four days a year. A side that would shock cruisers who only knew them the other 361 days of the year. It all happens during what Kirk Barker, mate on Big O, calls 'Puberty Fest'. The pagan festival takes place each February for four days on Carti Cay. Indians sail from all over Kuna Yala — 'Kuna world' — in their hand hewn cayucos to celebrate the passage into womanhood of all the young girls who began menstruating the previous year. As with most festivities, everybody brings lots of drink — and a little to eat. The drink wasn’t Tab or Pepsi, however. It was either cicha — a potent liquid made from cane spirits and coffee — or rum. The men and women gather in a large, traditionally constructed — thatched roof, dirt floor — building, but are divided into two groups according to sex. The sexes are kept separated for the duration by men who function as referees. Members of the Big O crew who’d been

invited to attend by Kuna buddy Hernan Martinez were warned that there would be some drinking during the festivities. Veterans of any number of parties and festivals, none of the crew were worried — especially knowing how nice the Kunas are. None of the crew, however, were quite prepared for what ensued. "It was a plain old four-day drunk," Barker remembers with a laugh. "The first day everybody drank cicha from these big gourds that are brought around by some of the Kuna men. When that ran out, they drank rum. Before long, everyone was completely drunk. Screaming, yelling, falling down drunk. One by one they’d either pass out or crash out. It’s plenty warm in the San Bias Islands, so everybody pretty much slept wherever they landed." "And the normally mild-mannered women were far more rowdy than the men," insists Big O cook Anet Martin of Redwood City. "I’d recognized all these Kuna women who’d always declined a drink or a cigarette whenever they’d come aboard, but you should have seen them at Puberty Fest! They were drinking up a storm and smoking like

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chimneys. These normally placid women were shoving and knocking each other over to get at the booze. If they weren’t so small, I might have been trampled!" The same scene — well, the participants did eat some of the dried fish and other nibbles the other women had prepared along the sidelines — was repeated the next three days. While the 'refs' did a good job of keeping the men and women separated during the festival, they naturally had no control over the chief of all Kuna chiefs, Henry — we’re not making this name up — Dick. When Chief Dick spied this one 'Kuna babe' that he hadn’t recalled seeing before, he was clearly smitten. It turns out, however, that she wasn’t any Kuna babe at all, but Anet the cook. Because of her Greek heritage and the great costume the Kuna women had helped her with, she had no trouble 'passing'. "As soon as Chief Dick spotted me," Anet laughs, "he came for me on a beeline. After really looking me over, he told me that he

loved me. It wasn’t all that long before he was asking me to marry him. You know how men are with 'forbidden fruit'. But poor Henry was out of luck." Despite all the cicha and rum consumed, nobody drank themselves to death, and none of the fights got out of hand. When punches were thrown, the refs came in and hauled the pugilists off to another room until they sobered up. When Puberty Fest was all over, all the little Kunas climbed back into their little ca^/ucos and paddled back to their islands, all hoping that more girls would reach puberty so there would be reason for another pagan festival the following year. As for the crew of Big O — and especially Anet the cook — they’d never view the Kuna rascals with such innocence again. — latitude 5/17/95 Moondancer II — Cal 39 Mark Beck and Julie Harrar The Long Way To the West Coast (Oyster Point Marina, Originally) It’s been an exciting and unpredictable

last few years for us. Mark and I lived in the Bay Area three years ago, and in fact met at a Latitude party. He moved to Chicago two years ago, and I followed him in April of last year. A couple of months later we decided to sail to the Caribbean, and just two months after that we left! We’re now in St. Maartin in the Eastern Caribbean, and have loved every minute of it. When we left Chicago in September 1994, our Cal 39 became a powerboat (yuck) for roughly 1,256 miles. The mast had been taken down in Chicago and was not re¬ stepped until Mobile, Alabama. On our way to the Gulf of Mexico, we traversed no less than five rivers: the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Tombigbee Waterway. The Mississippi was the fastest flowing, with the current running at between five and six knots. The Ohio River was very industrial, while the Tennessee and Tombigbee offered beautiful scenery and fall foliage. We arrived in Mobile on October 17, and became a sailboat (yeah!) once again. Able to carry sail, we cruised down Florida’s west coast for about three weeks. We made the crossing to the Bahamas and landed in Cat Cay just before Tropical Storm Gordon hit. We waited for five days while it danced around the Bahamas and Florida. One boat was lost during Gordon, and Mark and Johnny from Panacea helped save the couple as their boat was being pounded on the rocks. The unfortunate couple decided to abandon the boat and give up sailing entirely. It was very emotional. We hop-scotched around the Bahamas with Johnny and Diane from Panacea, and spent a month snorkeling, swimming and fishing in those beautiful waters. We’ve been a lot of places since, but we’ve not seen water as clear and colorful. There are so many shades of blue and green in the Bahamas . . . it’s just breathtaking! Our next stops were the Dominican Republic ports of Luperon and Samana. Six boats arrived in Luperon at the same time, and the Customs and Immigration guys were overwhelmed. They’d never had six boats at one time. The DR is yet to be spoiled by tourism, and the scenery is spectacular and the people friendly. Luperon had brightly colored houses and dirt streets with pigs and dogs running about. Samana has more palm trees than anywhere I’ve been to — plus beautiful waterfalls. We’d like to return to the DR someday and tour by land. From the DR we sailed to Puerto Rico and sailed along the south coast. Our favorite July. 1995 •

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spots were Boqueron and Ponce. We also did an excursion to a Caribbean rainforest at El Yunque. It was spectacular, with waterfalls, huge plants, flowers blooming and lots of rain showers. Bring an umbrella! But our favorite spot so far has been a little island called Culebra, which is roughly 25 miles east of Puerto Rico. This place has yet to be discovered by tourists or the big hotel chains. Culebra has some of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean, and they remain uncrowded and undeveloped. We did lots of R & R there before moving on. We were joined by various family members for our next two stops, which were the U.S. and British Virgins. We actually did more sailing — as opposed to motorsailing — in the Virgins than we’ve done anywhere else. Working your way east against the trades and current is not easy. Now in St. Maartin, we’re looking to do some reaching off as we sail to the islands south of here. Once we finish sailing the Caribbean chain, we’ll hopefully be bringing Moondancer II back to the West Coast. We’ve met some really nice people and have seen some cool stuff in our travels. People are most surprised by 1) The fact we’ve gotten so far in such a short time, and 2) That we took our deep draft — 6' 10" when fully loaded — boat through the Bahamas. In truth, we hit the bottom more in the five rivers than we did in the Bahamas. As long as you play the tides, a deep draft boat can go just about anywhere — and we have. — mark and julie 2/95 Mark & Julie — We’ll tell you what surprises us the most: That you found Culebra so captivating. We never found it that enchanting — and that was before Hugo drove 200 cruising and charter yachts onto the shore. But to each their own; it keeps places from getting crowded. Day By Day — Passport 40 Jim & Pamela Damm Argostoli, Greece (San Jose) It’s been three years — after we finished crossing the Pacific in May of 1992 — since we’ve written. In the interim, we’ve travelled over 22,000 miles, crossing the Coral Sea, the Indian Ocean, and coming up the Red Sea in April of '94. We spent last summer cruising Turkey — which we thoroughly enjoyed. We finally returned home to California for a long-awaited visit with family and friends. Page 186 •

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We are currently at latitude 38° again — but at longitude 20°30'E — tied to a quay at Argostoli, Cephalonia, Greece. We are one month into our new cruising season, during which we plan to 'do' the Med. We’ll probably winter somewhere along the Italian coast. We continue to love our Passport 40 and would only trade for a Passport 51! Day by Day is 11 years old now, and has proven to be thoroughly reliable — and a great boat to not only sail, but also to live aboard. We want to take this opportunity to pass along greetings to all our sailing friends in the Bay Area. And to encourage all those wishing to make the journey to 'just do it'. You won’t regret it! — jim & pamela 5/8/95 Cruise Notes: Ka-boom! The very, very bad news from Paris is newly-elected French President Jacques Chirac’s announcement that the French will resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific this September. The only silver lining to the upcoming mushroom clouds is that when the eight tests are completed by the fall of 1996, it will mark the completion of the program. Just in time — what a coincidence — for the French to ink the comprehensive test-ban treaty. "I’m looking for articles describing the personal health insurance used by people while cruising," writes Fred Goldsand of San Francisco. "If anybody has any help¬ ful information about this subject, I’d like to hear about it." If you read this month’s interview with Jim and Ann Cate, you know that their Prudential policy — which is part of Jim’s

That 'Damm' boat at Pythagoria, Samos, Greece. Jim and Pamela are in love with cruising — and their Passport 40.

University of California retirement package — has served them well. They aren’t sure, however, if such a policy is available to the general public, and if so, at what cost. Acquiring reasonably-priced health insurance has always been a problem for cruisers, so if anyone has any great solutions, Goldsand and the rest of us would appreciate hearing about them. Meanwhile, don’tsmoke, drink in moderation, and enjoy at least five servings of fruit and veggies a day. Cruisers Chuck and Pat Broussard of the Portland-based Acadia and Bob and Phyllis Neumann of the Penngrove-based Adventure both want to caution cruisers about Flamingo Marina in Costa Rica. The Broussards report that the only place to leave boats for any length of time at the marina is stem-tied some 50 feet from the wall. Even so, their boat was still left high and dry at low tide, which made living aboard uncomfortable. What made them even less happy is that owner/manager Jim McKee failed to clean and wax their boat — as per what they say was their agreement — prior to their returning from an absence. "Checking on the boat after a few weeks. Chuck encountered 'the birds'!" writes Pat. "It was straight out of Hitchcock’s movie: the sky darkened as thousands of swallows swarmed around their chosen boat for roosting each night. The birds used every inch of our boat — including the dorades, lifelines, spreaders, awnings — completely taking over Acadia. And upon arriving with a guest of ours, we found the boat hadn’t been washed br waxed — and was literally inches deep in bird shit! The smell was so

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overpowering and the guano so deep that we had to check into a hotel. It took six days at anchor with two full-time helpers to make the boat habitable again." The Neumann’s complaint with McKee is that he allegedly recommended a mendacious repairman in San Jose to repair Adventure’s alternator and isolator. McKee figured a total rebuild would run $120, but when the estimate arrived from San Jose it was for a staggering $365 U.S. Yet when the credit card bill arrived several months later, it was for $446.68 — $86 unexplained dollars more than it was supposed to be! To add insult to injury, the nine diodes that were supposed to have been replaced at $25 each had not been replaced, nor had the bearings. When the Neumann’s confronted McKee, he told them that the dispute was between them and the mechanic in distant San Jose. The mechanic suggested the Neumanns "take me to court" — something they obviously weren’t in position to do. In the end, the Neumann’s had the alternator completely rebuilt in Puntarenas — for just $120. We haven’t been able to get McKee’s side of the story on these two incidents which happened late last year, but if you’re headed to Costa Rica, you might want to file these reports in the back of your mind. Lots of cruisers start a circumnavigation with a TransPac or Pacific Cup, only a few — like D. J. Johnson of Honolulu — use such races to finish them. When Johnson crosses the TransPac finish line sometime in July with his Lidgard 60 Final Approach, it will mark the completion of his circumnavigation. Those who appreciate clever boat names will be amused to learn that Johnson is a retired airline pilot. "I had a rough passage from Panama up

here to Key West," reports Ray Jason of the San Francisco-based Farallone 29, which is yet another cruising yacht that was christened Adventure. "I went at the best time of year — late April — and it was supposed to be a close reach in relatively mild conditions. I ended up being closehauled all the way and doing a lot of slamming. It was tolerable — but just barely. "But what’s really rough are Key West berth rates," continues Jason, "which are $500 to $600 a month for a 30-footer. I’m paying $321/month to tie alongside a funky gas dock where amenities don’t exist: no phone, no hose, no water, no electricity, no head — and, of course, no cable television. But Key West is still a killer place, and I’ve got great hopes of rebuilding my cruising kitty by juggling hatchets, bowling balls and other objects during the well-known Key West sunset festivities." About the only West Coast boat Jason saw on his way to Florida was Dave and Ann’s Gulfstar 50 Starship, which is either from San Diego or San Francisco. The couple was last seen at Grand Cayman Island. Tim Tunks and his partner Suzy of the Marina del Rey-based Islander 37 Scallywag report they’ll be starting a new, strictly fox kicks, cruisers race in Z-town come February. Having been cruising in Mexico since ’90 and having put on a number of cruisers’ races, we expect the as yet unnamed event will be a hoot for all. Currently, Tim and Suzy have Scallywag in San Carlos on the mainland side of the Sea of Cortez, and report berthing and storage rates are easy on the cruising kitty. "A berth at Situr’s Marina San Carlos is

about $7 to $10 a night for a 35 to 45-footer, with about 20% off on a monthly basis. The only problem is some boats sit on the bottom at low water and Situr, one of Mexico’s suddenly cash-strapped mega-companies, isn’t ready to spend the money necessary to have the marina dredged. Folks looking for dry storage don’t have to worry about shallow water. "It costs $173 U.S. to have Scallywag hauled out and put back in," reports Tim, "plus $75 a month for dry storage and a little more to rent the stand. There are about 150 cruising boats on the hard here, many of them based in Texas or New Mexico. It’s a little on the hot and dusty side for cruising in the middle of the summer, and winters are cold, but spring and fall are just great for local cruising." Whatever happened to Mary McCollum, the Pacific Northwest-based grandmother who had been singlehanding the Pacific aboard her Orion 27 Mighty Merry, Too? You may remember she ran into some difficulty on a passage to New Zealand, and had to be rescued. Her rescue, along with the rescue efforts associated with the Queen’s Birthday Storm, are what sparked the New Zealand Parliament to pass controversial Section 21 of the 1995 Transportation Act, which requires cruising boats to be inspected prior to their leaving New Zealand. We’re told that McCollum is currently living ashore at Whangarei, a lovely town between Auckland and the Bay of Islands. As civil as most Kiwis are, McCollum has nonetheless been the object of 'sidewalk derision' such as: "How dare you cost New Zealand taxpayers so much money!" McCollum hasn’t come up on any of the cruiser nets lately, so folks aren’t sure of her plans. But she still has plenty of admirers. "That woman has a lot of balls," says Jim Cate of Insatiable. "Here at West Marine in San Diego we’ve gotten lots of great feedback on last year’s Baja Ha-Ha," reports Dale Paquin. "So you can count my wife Alice and myself in for this year’s October 30th start with Journey, our Columbia 41 center cockpit ketch. By the ■"way, we’ve already talked with quite a few others who are planning on entering as well." "Put our names on the entry list for the Baja Ha-Ha," is the request of Dario and Emma Sezzi of Susanville. The couples’ boat is Mariposa, a 1989 Island Packet 38. "Let it be known," write Scott and June Squires and Lynsey Evans of Sacramento, "that we of the good ship Vixen, a Force 50, are seriously committed to making the Baja July. 1995

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Ha-Ha. Despite the heavy schedule of partying, we’re just about sure we can make it all the way to Cabo." "Please put our names on the entry list," write Seth and Bev Bailey of Alameda, veterans of the '94 West Marine Pacific Cup. "Our boat is Route du Vent, a Cheoy Lee Pedrick 43." "My wife and I want to cruise to Mexico on our Newport 30," write Dave and Susan Bennett of Olympic Valley. "The Baja Ha-Ha sounds perfect for cruising safety." While there may be some additional safety in numbers, Dave and Susan, it’s probably not significant. Who can forget, for example, that just two months ago, 20-yearold Victoria Taylor fell overboard and drowned on San Francisco Bay — in the middle of the 311-boat Vallejo Race? So let there be no doubt: anyone who enters the Ha-Ha must be 100 percent self-reliant and responsible for their own safety.

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For details on how to enter the Ha-Ha, see the special article earlier in this issue. We’ve been overwhelmed at the interest in the event, and thus encourage folks to sign up as soon as possible. Speaking of the Ha-Ha, we’re delighted to announce that Alex von Wetter, John Patterson, and their respective teenagers will be running the Ha-Ha from aboard their co¬ owned Ocean 71 Elmo’s Fire. The 52-yearold von Wetter makes documentary films, while his partner Patterson is an 'A-list' director for made-for-television movies. Von Wetter used to race all the Olympic classes in Europe, including a Soling Worlds. In addition, he cruised a 45-ft pilot cutter in Europe from the late '60s to the early '80s, and has considerable experience in

organizing and running races. Patterson’s previous boat was a Hunter 54. The two men have spent the last six months having Elmo’s Fire refurbished, and after the Ha-Ha will be taking off on a' circumnavigation. One of their primary reasons for the adventure is to spend as much time as possible with their offspring. Von Wetter’s son Daniel is 18, while his daughter Chantal is 15. Patterson has a daughter Mary, 18, and a son Chuck, 16. In typical understatement, veteran sailors often refer to the sometimes turbulent Atlantic Ocean as 'the Pond'. But that’s exactly what it was like for the 15 boats — including Big O — that departed Antigua for the Azores shortly after the conclusion of Antigua Sailing Week. "We’re at 38° 38'N," advised the Wanderette over the SSB, "so we just had to call." When the Big O, her crew and charter guests arrived in the Azores, there was hardly any room in the small harbor so they had to raft up. Their partner? The 72-ft Herreschoffdesigned legend Ticonderoga. The ketch with the sweet sheer is one of the most beloved racing yachts ever, and thrived in an era when yachts looked like yachts. Big Ti smashed more major race elapsed-time records — all over the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, including several of the most exciting TransPacs — than any other boat in history. After being retired from racing, Ti was owned by a succession of folks, most recently two businessmen from Newport Beach who are to be congratulated for maintaining her in the manner she deserved. About 18 months ago she was purchased by a wealthy young man from the Northeast, who seems

L*ttc ft Hot Officially, Latitude’s 'Some Like It Hot’ Rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas begins on November 1 and ends on February 28. But what are you going to do when the boats just keep coming? The only thing we can think of is to keep noting them — and possibly pushing the deadline up a bit next time around. As for the continuing Class of ’94/’95, Karen of the Cabo Cruising Center reports that it was 'better late than never' for the following boats .

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381) Aphrodite/ Ranger 33 / Tom Deasy / Santa Cruz. 382) Love/ 34-ft Steel/ Capt. Blackie / Oregon City, OR 383) Rainbow/ Fantasia 35 / John Thomas / Sta Cruz 384) Airborne/Mason 44 / Hal Farley / Sequim, WA 385) Pluto/ Ericson 28.2 / Wm Matten / San Francisco 386) Bombero/ Mystery Ship / Danny Otto / Chnl is! 387} Sherry Lynn / Mystery 27 / Capt. Steve / SF 388) Hullo i Santana 39 / Bob Hull / Vallejo 389) Misty Isle / Westsail 32 / Steve Swanson / Seattle 390) Ariel / poyvn Easter 38 / Steve Marks / Boulder, CO 391) Selah / Force 50 / Fred Richards / Sublimity, OR. 392) Drumbeat/N/M 54' Cutter / Capt. Drew / S Diego 393) Nereidi Valiant 40 / Rod Me!!/ SF 394) Ingenue i Esplrit 37 / W Keith Gnggs / SF 395) Voyager/Gulfstar 50 / Wade White / Us Angetes 396) Mariah III Crealock 36 / Mystery Skipper / S piego 397) Moremesal Irwin 37 / David Smith / Portland. OR 398) Anna Jean i Down Easter 32 / Mike Dale / LA 399) Poem / Folkboat / Tucker Burling / SF 400) Batina Grande / Rawson 30 / D. Ensor / Sta Cruz 401) OceaniaII1Sambon/Jacquestlbnrt.' Vancouver 402) Nehustitan / Mystery Ship / D. Prigmore / Newport 403) Latest Caper I Capo 30 / Gary Di Donato / S Diego 404) Cruizing Time/ Yrktn 35 / V. Roe / Loveland, CO

405} Sea Crane / Peterson 441 Richard Crane / SF 406) Unreadable! Southern 45/ K. Weiss / Somewhere 407) Qua Sera 1 Hans Christian 36 / Jay Mueman / MDR 408) Hale KutanH Island Trader/ M.B. Kelly / Chnl 1st 409) Takaroa ill Tahiti Ktch / S. Severson 1 Sitka, AK. 410) Salient/Truant Triad / Bryan Bowie / Victoria, B.C. 4U)Tri Quest/Piver 40 trl / R; Woolworth / OR 412) Lemonade / Hardin 44 / Steve Bernhardt / SF 413) Sleeper II / MacGregor 22 / Patrick Sleeper / MDR 414) Saalure > Seawitch / Dennis Collins / Long Beech 415) Significant Other/C&C 39 / S. Adam / Ml 416) Justice/Tayana 52 / Bruce Lenkeit/Honolulu 417) Lady Godival Mystery Ship / T. Chodar/Caymans 418) (toon Shadow/ Mystery Ship / Al Felena / Seattle 419) Lending Lady1 Cat 31 / Kenny Pearson / Chnl is) 420) Dutch Treat / Mystery Ship / Capt. Joe / SF 421) Tanks Try/Mystery Ship/ Capt. David/S Diego ' 422) Got To Try/Mystery Ship / R. Jacobs / Los Gatos 423) Au Natural/ Oust/ G. Soroka / Campbell Rvr B.C. 424) Bobbi Jo/ Col 30 / R. Amoldsen / Coupeville. WA 425) Island Time/Oatalina 27 / Will Crandel! / S. Diego 426) Addiko/ Wagg 43 AK. Bingham / Walla Walla, WA 427) Noble House/Gozz 36/ B Gardiner / Vancouver 428) El Solag/29' Cutter / Damon McIntosh / Laguna

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equally dedicated to her preservation. "I checked her varnish very carefully," reports the Wanderette, a varnisher by trade. "But I couldn’t find any flaws." 'If you can sail San Francisco Bay, you can sail anywhere in the world.' We don’t know who came up with that oft-repeated claim, but it’s nonsense. You can learn just about everything you need to know from sailing on the Bay — except how to deal with huge seas, which, of course, are likely to be the greatest challenge any cruiser will face. Fortunately, one of the best testing grounds for significant seas is to be found right outside and to the north of the Gate. If you doubt it, you only need consider the number of large and excellent vessels which have been turned back during attempts to reach the Northwest for the summer. Last year, for example, one powerboat in the 100-ft range had to return to the Bay after breaking a number of bulkheads free and doing other damage. This June the same thing happened to a 90-ft powerboat trying to get to Victoria. Sailboats have a tough time, too. In early June, the splendid Frers-designed 120-footer Xtra Beat had to put into Eureka after constant pounding caused an inner forestay to break. A couple of days later ENZA, the 92-foot catamaran Peter Blake and mates sailed around the world in 75 days, pulled into Sausalito’s Schoonmaker Marina. The crew had planned a non-stop trip north, but the conditions were adverse enough that even this most intrepid performer ducked in for respite. So if you get turned back while headed north, you’re in good company. In any event, the correct adage would be: 'If you can sail north from San Francisco in the summertime, you can sail just about anywhere in the world'. Except, perhaps, when there’s tricky navigation to be done among coral reefs. The Atlantic hurricane season got off to an quick start when Allison came ashore on the Florida Panhandle on June 5 — just five days into the season. Unlike the Eastern Pacific, the Atlantic / Caribbean region only averages a couple of hurricanes a year. Allison, a wimp of a hurricane, caused relatively little damage. By the way, the National Hurricane Center opened its new headquarters in Coral Gables, Florida, in time for the start of the season. The old headquarters lost its rooftop radar to Andrew in 1992. "I’d greatly appreciate a contact address for Lansing Hayes, skipper of the Freedom Lansing Hayes takes the plunge off the cliffs at Acapulco. Well, maybe it's not Lansing but just somebody who looks like him.

44 Ivory Goose, who according to the May issue was cruising Mexico," writes Irving Rubin of Marina del Rey. Hayes, who has made it as far as Costa Rica — with a short stop in Acapulco to watch the cliff divers — can be reached c/o Mansell & Company, 300 Third Street, Suite #9, Los Altos, CA 94022. Based on his last newsletter, he’s loving the cruising life and associated adventures. "East Coast marinas are really expensive," Lori Lawson recently told us over the telephone. She and her husband Carl Henger left Dana Point for San Francisco aboard their 28-ft Bristol Channel Cutter Bijou six years ago. Once they reached the Bay, they headed south and east. Although Europe was and remains their goal and they’ve been cruising almost continuously, they’ve only gotten as far as Maine. "On the East Coast you pay $1 - $2 per foot a night, and a mooring with no services is $15," Lori reports. "But people on the West Coast have this mistaken opinion that there are no anchoring alternatives; there are. On Long Island Sound, for example, there are plenty of lovely places to anchor. Since the area is so heavily populated and the season is only three months long, you do have to accept the fact you’ll never find an anchorage to yourself. Further north, in celebrated places like Martha’s Vineyard, there are also anchoring alternatives, but they usually involve a long dinghy ride to the dinghy dock. It’s a lot like having to anchor on the east side of the bay at Cabo, where it’s almost a half mile dinghy ride to the inner harbor. "Maine has plenty of boats," Lawson continues, "but it never gets crowded because there are so many beautiful coves in which to drop the hook. It’s a short season, though. We arrived in mid-July — we might 'have been able to get there a little earlier — and stayed until mid-September. We were really pushing it by staying that long, as we really bruised some water getting back south again." Prior to taking off cruising, Lawson and Henger owned dive shops in Dana Point and El Toro, so we quizzed them about the best places for diving. You’ll be surprised. "I’d have to rate Honduras, the Bay of Islands and Belize as all being tied for second," says Lawson. "Although it may shock some, we put the Sea of Cortez — a very special place A — at the top. While the Sea isn’t tropical and doesn’t have coral reefs, it does have tropical fish and an incredible number and variety of fish. The sea life was so prolific that we usually snorkeled instead of bothering with tanks. And north of Bahia Los Angeles, it was pristine frontier—at least when we were there." After six years do Lori and Carl find Bijou a little on the small size? "No," replies Lori, July, 1995

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CATALINA 22, 1975. Swing keel, trailer with extension tongue, 5.5 hp Suzuki o/b. Fully equipped, in good condition. Three sails, radio, KM, DM, compass. Custom wood rudder and tiller. Great first boat! $3,400. Call or fax Chris @ (408) 730-8342.

9' DYER INFLATABLE. Hypalon, hard & soft thwarts, dodger, motor mount, fir brds, oars, good condition. Also Br. Seagull o/b w/ spares, works great. Both for $750. Bill (415) 332-7609.

J-24,1981. Good condition, main, 100%, 150%. $5,500. Call Rich at (415) 363-1390. SAILBOAT W/ TRAILER. Excellent condition, 20/Ensenada, retractable keel, sleeps 4 w/sink & Porta-Potti. O/b w/ transom mount. $2,800 obo. (707) 253-8871.

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PACIFIC SEACRAFT FLICKA. 24' sloop, three sails, diesel engine, self-tailing winches. $22,500. Call (510) 686-4387. Lv. Message.

24-FT FARR. 17 bags sails, new paint job, looking for new home. Asking $7,600 or interesting trade truck, boat, airplane, whatever. (510) 865-4109.

J-24,1979. '95 Club Series Champion 3/27. 2 coats brushed bottom paint 7/94. Jib, genoa, main, spinnakerwith gear. Double life lines. PortaPotti, sink, cooler, 2.6 hp elec, motor. 2 deep cycle batteries. $5,500. (415) 368-6358, h; (415) 8331155, w.

NIGHTINGALE 24-FT. First boat designed, built and still owned by Thomas Wylie. Complete Pine¬ apple racing sail inventory. $5,500. Call (510) 376-7338. SANTANA 22, designed specifically for S. F. Bay. New mast, boom, chain plates, rigging, main, spinnaker, windows, and rebuilt 6 hp o/b, & toilet. Ultra clean interior. Re-strengthened mast step. Several other sails. All lines led back. Free sailing lessons. $2,200 obo. Mike, (510) 389-MIKE.

CATALINA 22,1982. Classic class boat. Barely used. Seen more fresh water than salt. Honda 7.5 o/b. Trailer, full sails plus genoa. No time to use anymore. $4,500. Call Dan to make arrange¬ ments to see. (707) 764-5331. 1978 S-2,22-FT. Rigged for single-handed sail¬ ing, good condition, freshly painted bottom, new Nissan 5 hp long shaft motor, trailer and 5 sails. Needs a new home. $6,200 obo. (510) 524-4331.

COMPAC19/2,1987. Highest quality shoal keel trailer sailer on market. Main, genoa, & working jib. Bruce and Fortress ground tackle, 9.9 sailmaster, new full boat cover, galv. trailer. Porta Potti, BB, extras. $9,800. Call Neil, days at (415) 726-5505.

J-24,1980 with trailer, main, 100%, 150%. Good boat, great price. $6,500 or best offer. Call Rich at (415) 363-1390.

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CAPE DORY TYPHOON. 18’6\ 1977 Week¬ ender version, low-time 4 hp Yamaha long shaft (1987) on Spartan bronze bracket, 3 sails, com¬ pass. Includes one month Monterey Mooring, sail the Bay on a stout boat. $3,600. (408) 648-1615.

SANTANA 21 swing keel with trailer and 7.5 hp Mercury long shaft outboard. Includes main, two jibs, boarding ladder and Porta-Potti. New mast and standing rigging. Great for family cruising on lakes and in the Delta. $3,200. (415) 592-5216.

CATALINA 22,1987. For sail, swing keel, Honda 5 hp. Custom factory boat. Pop top with cover. Stereo AM/FM cassette, VHF, all safety gear. DL trailer with tongue extension. Main, two jibs, one self-tailing. Absolutely beautiful. $7,500 Call (707) 823-8471.

MONTGOMERY 15, well equipped - great shape. Call for details. (707)463-2913.

RANGER 23-FT, 1972. Good condition, all gear, new motor, good bottom. A steal at $3,500. Great price! Great little boat! All offers considered! Call (415)461-0880. RANGER 23. Red Fox. White hull, 6 sails, 8 winches, Tandem axle trailer, 2 compasses, 6 hp o/b, race rigged, epoxy bottom. Asking $5,000. Without trailer $3,700. Phone Tom (415) 8994465 w; (707) 778-0291 h. 17-FT MOLLY, 1988. Traditional gaff-cat rigged, modem construction, quality fiberglass scantlings. Designed and built on the Bay for Bay and Delta sailing. Called a “small yacht" by Small Boat Journal. Hauled, professional bottom paint Oct., ’94, diver inspected monthly. Totally equipped: Yanmar diesel inboard, Signet depth, speed and windmeters. Cushions, sail cover and full boat cover, teak grates, cedar lined cabin with 2 full size berths and Porta-Potti, 2 anchors, all safety gear, charts, etc. Ready to go sailing. Retail $23,000, blue book $12,500. Asking $10,500. Glen Cove Marina, Vallejo. (707) 553-2289.

1993 MacGREGOR 19-FT Power Sailer (water ballast) with 40 hp Tohatsu. Includes trailer and extras, i.e. genoa, swim ladder, mast raising kit, bottom paint, spare tire fortrailer, boom vang, etc. $10,500. (707) 443-4623 CATALINA 22,1973, swing keel, 8.6 Evinrude, main, 110 and 150, 6 gal. fuel tank, fresh water boat, good condition, no trailer. $2,500 obo. Great starter boat. (209) 463-2381. 21-FT MacGREGOR. Very good condition, ready to sail. Includes trailer, 4 hp Merc., swing keel, sails, much new hardware. Motivated seller. We just don’t have the time to sail. (408) 335-2746 or msg. at (408) 335-1322. $1,750. 20- FT O’DAY. Used little, stored a lot. This oneowner boat has not been sailed in 12 years. Excellent condition. Shoal keel with centerboard. Roomy cabin sleeps 4. Price of $1,900 includes trailer. (209) 462-3808, Stockton. 21- FT VENTURE, 1976. Swing keel, four sails, trailer, 3 hp Johnson, Porta-Potti, recently painted hull & deck. $2,200. (916) 587-0856.

J-24, 1983. Eleclra, '94 season champ. New mast, new winches, faired keel. Calibrated turnbuckles. Procter spinnaker pole, 4.5 hp outboard. Class measurement certificate and North Sails (2 sets). This boat is totally set up for racing. $16,500 obo. Call (408) 257-2633. COLUMBIA CHALLENGER 24, #4475. YRA/ ODCA race ready. Listed in 1995 Yachting Year¬ book. An active laid-back class. Same owner 22 years. Shoestring budget ideal advantage for rac¬ ing and cruising. 7 sails, 6 hp o/b. Choice Sausalito berth. $3,750. (408) 867-3470. CATALINA 22, 1975. Fixed keel, 2 jibs, VHF, solar charger, 4 hp Evinrude o/b, Porta-Potti, survey and bottom paint in '93. Very clean. Side slip at Coyote Point Marina ($60/month.) $3,000 obo. Call Michael, (415) 324-1433 (h); or(408) 955-4559 (w). ISLANDER BAHAMA 24,1965. Sail # 154. Great Bay boat, club jib, 3 sails, compass, DS, plenty of safety gear, needs VHF. $2,900 obo. See at Jack London Sq. Call (510) 832-3565 or (916) 8916946 or (707) 923-4604. 22-FT MacGREGOR, 1984. Completely equipped: anchors, VHF, new spinnaker, genoa, sleeps 5, pop top cabin, great weekend fun! Includes all safety gear, trailer, head, 6 hp outboard motor. Call Ken (510) 680-2661. $3,500 obo. 24-FT O’DAY. Full keel, 3 ft. draft, sleeps four, chart table, VHF, depth, phone hook-up, dodger, 6winches, spinnaker gear, tiller-autopilot, ground tackle, 7.5 outboard, 1 mainsail, 2 genoas, 1 working jib, 2storm jibs (new), 1 spinnaker, $3,000 obo. (415) 453-4091.

MOORE 24. Recent refit, new non-skid deck, lots of goodies, ready to go, big sail inventory, custom trailer, autopilot, etc., etc. Moore fast is moore fun! (408) 429-1421. $12,000 obo.

SAN JUAN 21, trailer. Original 1976 main and jib, new Hood reacher-drifter (green, yellow, blue), big internal gas tank, VHF, depth/fish finder. 1990 Johnson 6 hp long shaft. Many extras. Boat needs minor repair. $3,200? Moving abroad. (510) 233-5065.

RANGER 23-FT, 1976. Teak cabin, dodger, 5 bags, like new 120% and spinnaker. Epoxy bot¬ tom, all lines aft, S.T. winches, aluminum toe rail, many upgrades. Well kept, shows excellent. Fortman Marina berth. Asking $6,000. Call Alan at (415) 775-8879.

CATALINA22. Hull #460. Great Bay boat, superb LP paint, 6 sails including 2 mains, spinnaker, 90, 110, and 150 headsails. Great shape and rigged for single-handing. Nissan 5.0 outboard, recently serviced. Alameda Marina, Pier 1 #126. $3,500 obo. (408) 777-0302.

SANTANA 20-FT, 1985, with trailer, 5 hp Nissan, one year old. Spinnaker and related equipment. 98%, 110%. Everything in excellent condition. North full batten main and UK main. $4,200. (707) 576-0934.

S-2 22-FT. Shcaldraft with retractable keel, flat deck, V and 2 quarter berths, Porta-Potti, main and jib, 7.5 Merc, o/b, EZ Loader tandem axle trir., dockside storage locker, Sausalito berth. $2,500. (415) 332-8784.

NEPTUNE 24, with trailer, 1981. Excellent condi¬ tion & well equipped: 7.5 hp outboard, Loran, depth, cushions, pop-top, etc. Valued at $6,000 by certified surveyor. Will sell for $4,900. (510) 486-1552.

PEARSON 23 CAT-RIG, 1983. Excellent condi¬ tion, new 8 hp Nissan, Porta-Potti, sink, DS, compass, comfortable cabin/cockpit. Remove the work, add fun. Easy sailing. Great boat to learn on. Reduced to $4,400. (415) 467-0388.

SANTANA22,1974. In slip in Santa Cruz Harbor. Tabernacled mast. 2 mains, 3 foresails (150,120, 100) and spinnaker. Race rigged with lines led to cockpit. Nearly new outboard. Alcohol stove. $2,800. Call (408) 427-3032.

RANGER 23,1975. Rigged to race, all lines aft, red hull, black spars, heavy boom & spin pole, windward sheeting traveler, 2 speed primaries, depth, knot meter, VHF, 2 lappers, spinny and blooper, 8 hp o/b, Sausalito berth. $6,000. Call Gary at (415) 421-2900 or (415) 474-8430.

RANGER 23,1974. Kamala. New: North main & lapper, standing & running rigging, aluminum air¬ foil spreaders, lifelines, battery, compass, winches, windex. Hauled 2/95: fresh bottom paint & keel re¬ fastened. Evinrude serviced 2/95. Ready to race. Almost $9,000 invested. Make offer. Call (707) 426-5823.

RANGER 23. Clean, best equipped Ranger on the Bay. Exc. sails, new boom and rigging, magic boxes, custom traveler, quick vang, spring engine mount, internal halyards, etc. Featured in Sailing Mag. A $24,000 Ranger for $6,800. Call Dan (707) 544-4454.

CATALINA 22,1972. Good sails, new jib, retract¬ able mast, 31/2 hp Nissan runs good. Nice boat, needs T.L.C. and sailing. Must sell. $3,450 obo or trade for diesel Mercedes or ? (510) 235-0868. SKI BREEZE 19. Swedish built. Good condition. Good sails, jib, main, very fast, centerboard, twin rudders, figerglass. $375 for quick sale. Call Bob at (415) 453-3149 or (415) 454-7300.

WEST WIGHT POTTER, 15-FT. Very good con¬ dition, kept in garage. Sleeps two. Comes on a tilt trailer, easy launch and recovery. Many extras: genoa, boarding ladder, cockpit rails, cabin and cockpit cushions. Great WWP Association in Bay area. $2,500. (707) 664-5146. COLUMBIA CHALLENGER. 24', 1963. In good condition, 6 hp o/b. Sails. $1,800 obo. Call Robert (415) 665-5790.

25 TO 28 FEET PACIFIC SEACRAFT DANA, 1986. 27' LOA. Sturdy, stable sloop. Single-handed rigging, 4 sails, inboard Yanmar diesel, DS, KM, VHF, 25 lb. CQR, enclosed head/shower, gimbaled CNG stove/oven, extras, sleeps 4. Vallejo. Price re¬ duced to $42,000. (916) 477-8421 eves. CAL 2-27,1974. Much loved: new outboard, new bottom, new battery, but new job in Tucson so must sell! Roomy interior, lots of teak. Excellent bay boat. DS, stereo, VHF. Berkeley berth. $6,500. Call (510) 540-7318 or (520) 621-4077. email: mbrown @ LPL.arizona.edu CATALINA 27, 1972. Excellent sailboat, 9.9 Evinrude o/b, auto pilot w/ remote available, radio, DS, main, jib, shore power, galley, head, many extras. $5,950. (408) 929-6510 ERICSON 27,1972. Sturdy, reliable Bay boat. Rerigged for single-handing. Long list of upgrades. Honda 8 hp, long shaft, with 5 amp alternator. Excellent condition. Asking $9,950. No dealers. In Alameda. Rick (707) 446-4028. NORSEA 27. Beautifully equipped with AP, furl¬ ing, diesel & trailer. 1/4,1/3, or 1/2 partnership available. Families with children welcome. Trail or sail anywhere. Steve or Cathy. (415) 851-3056. YAMAHA 25 II, 1978. Yanmar diesel rebuilt 12/ 94, bottom paint 10/94,2 mains, 2 jibs, 3 spinna¬ kers, KM, DS, VHF, 2 compasses, 2 anchors, dual batteries, Autohelm, dodger, stereo, alcohol stove, folding prop, sleeps 4. Sausalito berth. Sacrifice $8,900. (707) 578-8864. CAPE DORY27,1979. Yanmar diesel. Located in Alameda at Fortman Marina G-5. $11,000. (916) 444-1967.

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ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Great Bay boat. Safe, strong, dry. All usual gear plus custom cockpit sole, self-tailing jib, bow/stem rails, new main, Honda 10 and full canvas for camping on long Delta weekends. You want this boat! $2,750. (510) 672-8850.

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21 ’6” TREASURE ISLAND sloop, Finesse. Great sound sleek bay boat. Last one built in class, #25 in 1960. Mahogany, mahogany ply, spruce mast, Nissan 5 hp very reliable long shaft o/b. Main, jib, genoa & spinnaker. $2,000. (415) 456-9305.

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SOUTHERN CROSS 28,1979/80. Classic Tom Gilmer offshore, canoe-stern cutter. Airex-cored hull, balsa-cored deck, and in Robert Perry’s words, “she looks like a sailboat”. See Sinbad at Berth 194, Alameda Marina. $27,000. Call (510) 521-0196. 26- FT PEARSON SLOOP, 1973. Excellent con¬ dition, sleeps 5, galley, head, many extras, 9.9 Johnson o/b. New bottom paint, solid Bay sailer. $6,000 obo. Charles (408) 996-1100 days, (408) 253-3461 eves. CAL 25, Trailer cruising - Bay coastal'Sailing. Venerable Jensen 4 ft. draft, modified full keel, custom standing headroom, doghouse. Heavy spar, updated sails. Race rigging, deck hardware, repainted, new thru hulls, running lights, good Johnson o/b, VHF, compass. $3,450 obo. North¬ west delivery. 2-axle 5 ton trailer for rent. (415) 331-7576. PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25,1977. Yanmar. New seacocks. Anchors. Dodger. Boom Tent. Teak foredeck, dual batteries. Autopilot, Sat Nav, VHF, EPIRB, good sails, self tailing winches, whisker pole Clean, well-maintained. Moored Monterey. $18,000/offers. (602) 788-4245. SANTANA 525 with 4 stroke 7.5 hp Honda. Race or cruise. Sleeps 4. Fresh water maintained in bristol condition. VHF, KM, DS. Jib, genoa, main and spinnaker. $4,500. (415) 479-7031. COLUMBIA 28,1970. Main with reef, 110,115, 150, jibs, spinnaker, running rigging to cockpit, radio, depth sounder, compass, anchor, dodger, strong Atomic 4, cushions, screens, well main¬ tained. $7,900. (510) 866-7352; (707) 554-3912. CORONADO 25.1992 Nissan outboard with al¬ ternator. 2 mains, 1 jib. Lines led aft. Must sell (got a new boat). $3,200/offer. (415) 331-5919 days; (415) 332-6108 eves and weekends. CATALINA 25, 1981. Swing keel, very clean. Teak interior, dinghy, full inventory of gear and sails. Priced to sell at $6,000. Call Tom at (510) 625-4619. ERICSON 27,1978. Diesel, wheel, all lines led aft. KM, DS, VHF. Dual batteries, auto charger, auto and manual bilge pumps. Teak interior, 6’ standing room, enclosed head. Great Bay boat. Prime Sausalito berth. $16,000. Contact (408) 399-0062. CRYSLER 26-FT SLOOP, swing keel, 1977. 3 sails, reefing gear, complete marine head holding tank system, 10 hp o/b w elect, start & cockpit controls, galley, 6 berths, compass, depth sounder, many extras, spares. Clean, easy sailing gunkholer. $8,000. Trailer avail. (503) 649-5826 evenings. 27- FT SANTA CRUZ ULDB with great racing potential. Trailer, VHF, radio, 5 bags of sails. Hull No. 129. $9,000. (818) 716-9352.

26- FT THUNDERBIRD SLOOP under construc¬ tion, for sale very reasonable, nearly finished. May be seen at Svendsen’s Boat Yard, 1851 Clement Ave., Alameda, CA 94501. If interested call (510) 522-2886 or (408) 296-0632.

MERIT 25. Trailer, O/B, autopilot, new sails, new instruments. Lots of great stuff for the Bay and ocean. These boats are a blast, and this one (Double Agent) is well set up. $8,000. Call (510) 832-2707

BRISTOL 27,1966. Alberg design, long cabin cruising model, sleeps four. 7.5 Mercury plus spare, VHF, recent main, 75% jib, 150% genoa, Berkeley Marina slip. Excellent boat to learn to sail the Bay. $4,500. (415)968-0896.

MacGREGOR 26,1990. Swing centerboard and rudder. Pop-top with cover, extra clean, shore power, teak interior. Low maintenance boat. $8,000. (510) 308-1279.

ERICSON 27,1974. Excellent Bay boat. 6' head room, sleeps 5, very clean, new upholstery & cockpit cushions, new teak hatch, bottom painted 3/95, dual batteries, main, jib, genoa, spinnaker pole, VHF, Atomic 4 needs rebuilding. $7,000 obo. (415) 382-8281 days; (415) 382-8422 eves.

LAGUNA 26,1984. Fixed keel, new 9 hp Honda, trailer, four sails, whisker pole, full awning, large cockpit table. All the goodies that go with a 1995 USCGA safety certificate. Largest cabin available in a 26 footer. Full standing headroom. Sleeps five. Teak interior, private V-berth, Porta-Potti, full galley, lots of locker space. Navigation station, depthsounder, VHF, stereo, dual compasses. Rugged and forgiving family boat on Bay or Delta. Excellent condition. Test sail in Bay whenever. $7,000. (916) 428-9154.

27- FT ALBIN VEGA ’68. Swedish-built pocket cruiser, really capable of offshore passages (sis¬ ter to John Neal's Mahina). Volvo dsl, 4 sails, depthsounder, autopilot, 2 anchors, etc. Nicely kept. $9,900. (805) 644-9665. HUNTER 27-FT, 1990. Excellent condition, elec¬ tric start, cockpit controls, furling jib, flasher, solar, duel batteries, full cockpit cushions — roomy galley (6'2‘), knotmeter, depthsounder, stereo, galley w/ sink & stove, teak interior, like new. Will consider trade. $18,700 obo. (916) 362-6606 days, (916) 967-4523 eves. 1977 PEARSON 28. Many sails, some virtually new, 2 anchors with rode, chain, Loran, dodger, VHF, DS, KM, log, Atomic 4 inboard. All in very good to excellent condition. $13,000 obo. Jeff (707)445-3479. 1965 CAL 28. Roomy flush deck Lapworth de¬ sign, Atomic 4, many good sails, lowerable mast, VHF, stereo, spinnaker & whisker poles, much other gear. Save a 20-year wait with transferable Monterey slip lease. $16,000. (408) 624-7643, eves, Judd. 27-FT U.S. YACHT, 1981. Volvo diesel, pedestal wheel with compass, cruising spinnaker, DS, KM, VHF, stereo, H/C pressure water, roomy interior. $8,999 obo. (510) 371-0333. EXPRESS 27. The best one-design fleet in the Bay. Two suits Kevlar sails, light use on rig and rigging. Roller jib cars and pole lift, curved traveler track, upgraded winches. For sale $16,000 obo. Call (415)941-6287. CAL 2-25,1980. Universal diesel, great cruiser, exceptional freeboard & roominess. $10,000. (415) 472-7931. NOR’SEA 27. Must see. Factory built “boat show” boat. Aft cabin. Beautifully maintained teak. Roller reefing, 2 anchors, new dodger, new Lewmar bronze self tailers, radar, Loran, VHF, DS, KM, Autohelm, 18 hp Yanmar, holding tankw/macerator, stereo, sunshades. Lots of canvas. Hauled 4/ 95, new bottom paint. $45,000. (916) 878-8027 weekday eves. COLUMBIA 28,1970. Main with reef, 110,115, 150 jibs, spinnaker, running rigging to cockpit radio, depth sounder, compass, anchor, dodger, strong Atomic 4, cushions, screens, well main¬ tained. $7,900. Contact (510) 866-7352 or (707) 554-3912.

CLIPPER MARINE 26. New standing/running rig¬ ging, lines led aft, 2 year old Sobstad main and jib, roller furling, epoxy bottom, new topside paint, VHF, depth, rebuilt Honda 100, tandem axle trailer. $5,000 obo. (707)427-1956. FISHER 25 MOTORSAILER, 1975. Profession¬ ally maintained, excellent condition. Re-rigged In '93 to taller cutter rig. New mast & standing rig¬ ging. Purler jib & removable wire luff staysail. Sobstad jib, staysail & full batten main. New In '93. Dinghy davits, forced air heat, flux gate compass, nav computer, Loran & fish finder. Navico autopi¬ lot, windlass & chain rode. New Railmakeris bow¬ sprit. Excellent sailer. $48,000. (408) 255-1800. FOLKBOAT ADMIRERS — here Is a nice one: fiberglass, well maintained, new mainsail Jan. '93. New running rigging, Bruce and Danforth an¬ chors, good electronics. $7,500. Now at Rich¬ mond Marina. Call Howard at (707) 224-1969. MODIFIED H-28 KETCH. 18 horse diesel - Volvo, 2 suits of sails, Loran, autopilot, depth finder. $12,500 obo or trade for automobile. Call John at (916) 549-3740. 1976 McGLASSON BAHAMA 25. Loaded new main, rigging, topsides, dodger, self furling, Achilles, Honda 10, VHF, Loran and more. $7,000 obo. (510)236-0344. 26-FT O’DAY, 1984. Excellent condition, many extras, full canvas dodger, Nissan 6 hp. New standing rigging '94, tabernacle, VHF, shore power, depth, wind, pressure water. $9,950. (408) 4416399 Iv. msg. NOR’SEA 27. Factory built, aft cockpit. Cruising veteran with recent refit. Best equipped pocket cruiser at any price. Cruise ready with an exten¬ sive inventory. Call forspec. list and photos. (415) 332-1031. CATALINA 27,1971. Price reduced; new rig, new folding dodger, new main & cover, 3 jibs, VHF, KM, DS, lines led aft, new traveler, split backstay, Mine reefing, lazy jacks (all Harken), stereo, charger, gel cell, 15 hp, new upholstery, safety gear (including Lifesling), BBQ, pressure water and more; hauled and cleaned regularly. Great club racer and weekend cruiser. The best of older solid glass with updated gear. Motivated sellers now asking $8,400. Call Doug (415) 397-6700 days, (415) 586-7128 eves.

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26-FT PEARSON, 1976. Seeing is Believing. Sleeps 5, head and galley. Bottom paint one year old. Outboard 9.9 Johnson 1990, long shaft. Many extras. Just knowing that It's a Pearson, enough said. $5,500 obo. Call Al (510) 657-2720. CAL 2-27,1978. One of the youngest boats in the Bay area. Extremely clean and well maintained. Atomic 4, epoxy bottom, KM, DS, VHF. Call for inventory listing. Highly motivated seller. $10,500. (415) 361-2024 days; (415) 692-4099 eves. CORONADO 27,1973. Excellent condition, in¬ side and out, new main, stove, Autohelm, interior cushions, and many extras. 3 sails, 10 hp Honda outboard, berthed at Brisbane Marina. $6,500 obo. (415) 598-0457. LANCER 25, 1978. Just hauled, new bottom paint, 2 jibs, main, all rigging in good condition, 7.5 hp Honda, S.F. marina berth (St. Francis), life jackets, 2 anchors, stove, many extras. Interior like new. Must sell. $2,950. Call Bryan (415) 3461364. CHEOY LEE 26. Frisco Flyer. Beautiful. Fiber¬ glass bottom, teak topside. Full cover. Six bags of sails. Volvo diesel i/b; dual batteries, depth sounder, knotmeter, VHF, stove, enclosed PortaPotti, dodger. Berthed Martinez Marina. $9,500 obo. Call (510) 370-9338. 26-FT PEARSON, 1973. Excellent condition, sleeps 5, galley, head, many extras, 9.9 Johnson o/b. Bottom paint one year old. Solid Bay sailer. $6,000 obo. Charles (408) 990-1100 days; (408) 253-3461 eves. CS 27,1982. Yanmar diesel. VHF, DS, KM, com¬ pass, main, 110%, 75%, Auto pilot teak interior, teak/holly floor, battery charger, sleeps 5, great condition, $14,500. Call (510) 247-1074. LANCER 27-FT POWERSAILER. Excellent con¬ dition. Two boat owner. Must sell. $11,900. Kathy (510) 865-9045.

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28-FT POCKET CRUISER, Nichols Buccaneer full keel, diesel under 300 hours, main, 2 jibs, spinnaker, pressure water, knot meter, depthsounder, Gel Cel, all lines led aft, dodger, 2 speed winches, turnkey condition. $8,500 obo. (408) 458-0846. HUNTER 28,1989. Excellent condition, used only at Tahoe. New bottom, hauled spring 95. Wheel helm, VHF, DS, KM, Yanmar inboard, 2 jibs, 1 cruising chute, 2 batteries. $33,500. (916) 4544640 eves. SANTA CRUZ 27, Ballenger spar, VHF, Loran, 2 axle trailer. Recent bottom job. 7 bags of sails, including2chutes. All misc. gearinduded. $10,000 obo, trade? Located in Santa Cruz Harbor Dry Storage. (408) 685-2433. CATALINA 27,1971. Beautiful teak interior, new cushions, roomy, shorepower, head. 2 jibs, main, 2 batteries, 15 hp outboard. Gas stove, refrigera¬ tor. Great liveaboard. Hauled out 9/94. $5,900. Craig (415) 776-0309.

26-FT PEARSON, 1976, SI ROBIN. Safe and stable Bay starter. Recent blister repair. VHF, Autohelm, Loran, Magna grill, stove, Porta-Potti, 9.9 hp o/b, extras. $6,500 (510) 485-9888. CATALINA 27,1974. 8 hp Honda. All lines lead aft. Autopilot, DS, KM. Custom interior. 70,100, 130,155%. New head and life lines, 2 reef main, Come race or sail with me. Hauied Oct. '94. $5,500. Call (408) 281-9613. CORONADO 25 NEEDS SKIPPER. Fully equipped, rigged. Custom mast plate, 4 sails & Lewmar winches. Custom interior, 91 Johnson 15, LPU mast, boom, bridge, shore power, charger. Lines to cockpit, jiffy reefing, lazy jacks, adjust¬ able backstay. Custom oversize boom. Double lower shrouds. $5,500. Call (510) 769-1409. MacGREGOR 26,1988.7.5 hp Honda o/b. $6,500 includes trailer. Loch Lomond Marina. Please call (415) 381-4446 wkdys or (415) 459-1301 eves/ wknds.

INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT, 1972. Beautiful 26-ft. fiberglass sloop. New North sails and better, 1994. Rebuilt rudder, 1994. New mast and stand¬ ing rigging, 1993. New portholes, head and can¬ vas, 1992.1992 Tohatsu 5 hp O/B. $7,500 obo. Jim (415) 777-2811 (ext. 221); (415) 550-6800. CATALINA 27, tall rig - dinette version, beautiful interior. Atomic 4 i/b, folding Prop, harden roller furling, spinnaker. Shore power, VHF, DM, dual batteries. Very clean! New bottom paint. $8,400. Days (707) 428-4444, evenings (707) 426-2357. 1992 MacGREGOR 26-FT SLOOP. 18 hpTohatsu o/b, tandem axle trailer, galley, head, electronics, extras. Like new, excellent condition! Offered at $11,900. Call (707)765-2628. INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT, 1968.1st. IF on the Bay. Hull #174. Excellent condition, beautiful interior. 5 hp Mercury in well, low hours. All lines led aft, 2 sp. winches, KM, DS, compass, Electra-San head. Rebuilt rudder, all new wiring. $7,000. (510) 521-3939.

COLUMBIA 28, 1986. Evinrude 9.9 outboard. Good condition, recent overhaul. Great S.F. Bay boat. Fully equipped sloop. Sleeps 6. Priced to sell at $5,100. Cal! Rod at (415) 927-4027.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27. Great Bay sailer, Volvo diesel inboard. Sails, enclosed PortA-Potti, alcohol stove, radio, compass, etc. Emeryville Marina berth, needs TLC. Captain deceased. $6,500 obo. Call (707) 542-2445.

CAL 2-27. Equipped to cruise or race. Long list of added gear & custom rigging. Excellent sails including spinnaker. One owner - immaculately maintained. Attractive & comfortable teak interior, standing headroom. Probably the best-equipped 2-27 on the market. $13,950. (510) 837-4648.

CATALINA 25,1980. Swing keel, Poptop, 150%, 80% club footed, full batten main, 2 anchors, new running rigging, whisker, 10 hp Honda, VHF, DS, knotmeter, galley & head. Fresh water boat since new. Moving & must sell. Reduced to $6,800 Call (209) 334-3021.

RANGER 26 SLOOP. Fast, rugged Bay sailer and coastal cruiser. Good condition. Storm, 90 & 130 jibs. Knotiog, compass, VHF, water system, 7.5 hp Merc. Sleeps four. $4,900. (408) 578-2067.

ERICSON 27, 1972. Great Bay boat, 6 sails, Alameda Marina berth. Inboard Atomic 4, new upholstery, extensive equipment list. $10,395. Call John at (209) 586-3222.

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26' KETCH, 1966. Classic Privateer fiberglass with 5' bowsprit & standing interior. Shoal keel, new sails. 6600 lb./3000 lb. ballast. Bottom paint 1994. Head, inboard. S.F. South Beach Harbor, #A-84. Sacrifice, reduced to $4,888. (415) 6654324. Pager 201-3405.

26-FT PEARSON, 1976. KM, VHF, depth, com¬ pass, 8 hp Nissan, new. Berthed at South Beach. Rreplace. Beautiful. 3 sails & more. Stove, head, charger. $4,000. (209) 575-9563.

30-FTISLANDERMKII SLOOP. 1973with Palmer inboard motor, VHF radio, Kenyon speed log, Kenyon wind speed and direction, Kenyon depth sounder, close hull indicator, compass, plus many extras. Offered at $17,995. Cali (714) 675-1890. Leave message.

ISLANDER 28, 1977. Volvo diesel, 8 sails, 5 Barient winches, DS, KM, VHF. Lines arranged for single-handing. Upgraded interior. Great con¬ dition. Will consider smaller boat in trade for part of purchase price. $16,500. (510) 236-4025. SAN JUAN 28, 1980. Yanmar diesel engine. Roomy interior, 10' beam, 6’2‘ headroom, sleeps 6, galley and head. Includes 4 sails, Loran C. Excellent condition, with trailer. $13,000 obo. Call (916) 763-9826 for specifications. ATKINS ‘GARY THOMAS’. Beautiful traditional gaff cutter built by Master Boatbuilder, Dean Stephens in 1979.27' with Volvo diesel, tanbark sails, new cushions, sail covers and a beautiful sitting room interior of teak, mahogany, walnut and maple. Sacrifice $7,500. (510) 521-5427.

COLUMBIA28. Roomy dinette design, two burner stove, enclosed head. Needs TLC. Located in Berkeley Marina. $3,900. (408) 251-2340. CATALINA 27, 1981. Standing rig, diesel, for¬ ward galley, dinette, large quarter berths, stereo, VHF, depth, knots, modified for single-handing. Main with 2 reefs, 150%, club foot #3 and #4. Excellent condition, six winches. $12,999 obo. Rob (209) 943-7294. 26-FT INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT. Fiberglass with teak interior. Factory installed Volvo diesel. Dodger, VHF, KM, DS, compass, stereo, en¬ closed head, sails, life jackets, cushions. Hauled out and bottom painted one year ago. Veiy good condition. Priced for quick sale: $7,500. Call 510-849-0267 CORONADO 25, 1972. Must sell. $2,500. 9.9 electric start, DS, clean, full cushions, head, 2 mains, 2 jibs. Great boat. Call (209) 239-8775.

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CATALINA 27,1973. Johnson 9.9 electric start. Good condition - everything works! Good sail inventory including spinnaker. Four cockpit winches. Lifesling. VHF radio, knotmeter, depth sounder, stereo w/ cockpit speakers. Traditional interior in good condition w/ new factory curtains. %5,500. Benicia (707) 746-0788. CATALINA 27,1976. Atomic 4, four sails, Loran, nice interior, blisters on bottom. Moved, must sell. $4,500. Call Jon (407) 788-7347.

YANKEE 30 Sparkman & Stephens sloop, 1971. Excellent, loaded for cruising, diesel, Pro-furl, vane, pilot, ham, GPS, excellent ground tackle, 5 sails, raft, dinghy, outboard and much more. Lying Puerto Vallarta. $24,500. For info call Patricia weekdays (619) 698-9044 or fax “Breezy” 011-52322-10722. ISLANDER 30 MRII. One of the best. New Volvo diesel in '89. New topsides and hull paint in '92. Fun racer or cruiser. Three mains, five jibs and spinnaker. Many more upgrades. Asking $19,500. (408) 996-1386. CAL 2-30, 1968. Hull #3. Race rigged with 9 Barients, full batten main, 4 jibs, 2 spinnakers. Wheel steering. Needs cosmetic and engine work on Atomic 4. Depth sounder and VHF. Ice box, propane stove with broiler and oven. $6,900 obo. (510) 521-2368. After July 15th (510) 523-9011.

1968 PACIFIC 30 F/G SLOOP, Alameda-built to ABS specs for Bay sailing and short trips. Sleeps 4, marine head, no galley. Rebuilt Atomic 4, cut¬ away full keel, hauled 11/94 (no blisters), Petit Trinidad bottom paint, new cutlass bearing, en¬ tirely rewired 10/94, epoxy painted topsides, two deep cycle batteries, anchor w/200’ 1/2” rode, VHF, new antenna, bilge pump, 8’ Achilles inflat¬ able. Sausalito berth. A real cutie. Want bigger boat. $11,700 obo. (415) 332-9543 Iv. msg. CATALINA 30. Going cruising, clean and sweet, newly rebuilt Yanmar diesel, 3 hrs., wheel, 110 refrigeration, propane stove, VHF, DS, KM, 4 sails, new cushions, fresh new carpet, heater, regulation head, bottom maintained regularly. Ready to deal! $19,300. (415) 365-6712. CAL 3-30, 1974. Ocean ready, Loran, VHF, Autohelm 2000, 2 compasses, interior excellent condition, Atomic 4, well cared for and runs well. Two mains, three jibs, two spinnakers, pole, auto bilge pump, boarding ladder, air compressor for alcohol stove, oven, inflatable dinghy. $15,500. Write 9 Tollbridge Court, San Mateo, CA 94402. CAL 29,1970. ProFuri headsail, Perkins diesel (low hours), autopilot, propane stove, Loran, fathometer, knot log, two compasses, VHF, LP, CQR, all lines lead aft, 12v/110v. Well maintained. $12,000 obo. Call (510) 236-9100. 30-FT CROSBY MOTORSAILER. Cedar hull, oak frames, mahogany bulwarks and interior, LPU paint. Built in 1938 by Baker Yard, custom for 3 physicians. This is a classy candidate for Master Mariners. Saab Marine diesel, dual helm, pro¬ pane, microwave, solid fuel htr., holding plate ref., H/C water, trace inv., bat. chg., pwr. sup., AP, DS, VHF, Loran, CQR & Danforth. 9' rowing dinghy & davits. $20,000 firm includes dust in bilges. (415) 875-4268. 1982 PEARSON FLYER, 30-FT. Great Bay boat, weekender, club racer. PHRF147, fractional rig, main, 3 jibs, spinnaker, VHF, depth, knot, Loran, Yanmar diesel, epoxy bottom '93, hauled and painted 2/95. The sports car of the Pearson line. $18,000. (707)938-1181. WINDJAMMER 30 CUTTER, 1978. Fiberglass over marine plywood, full keel, aft cabin, var¬ nished mahogany cabinsides, full cover. Working sails & drifter, Palmer engine, depthsounder, knotmeter, VHF, RDF, propane stove/oven. Looks good, sails good! Water-tight, Mexico veteran. $15,000. (415) 367-7994. 1973, ISLANDER II 30-FT. Gas engine. Great day sailing. Newer main & head sail. $16,000. Days (408) 985-5733; eves (408) 265-5401. ERICSON 30+, 1983. Excellent condition. Mod¬ em interior w/teak, dodger, Universal diesel, Lo¬ ran, h/c pressure water, battery charger, depth sounder, inflatable, bottom paint 6/95. $29,500. Call, days (415) 969-9112, ext. 2458; eves (415) 365-9353.

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TARTAN 30-FT, 1974. Sparkman/Stephens de¬ sign sloop with keel stepped mast. Strong, fast, stable. Easy to singlehand, halyards led aft. Great for Bay and Coastal work. DS, KM, VHF, Loran, AP, Atomic 4 inboard, dodger, West Marine 8.4 inflatable dinghy. Ice box, enclosed head, sleeps 6. Jib, genoa, spare main. Good condition but needs bottom paint and some maintenance. $19,000 obo. (415) 464-1336.

CATALINA 30,1976. Excellent condition. Must see. Hauled, surveyed, bottom painted 4/95. New: thru-hulls, fuel pump, 2 batteries, halyards, much more. Yanmar diesel, VHF, inflatable, 2 jibs, 1 main, wheel steering, refrigerator and morel! Sleeps 5. $18,900. (415) 665-9135.

'80-81 YAMAHA 30-FT. Racer/cruiser, diesel, wheel. $25,000 obo. (415) 923-6029 days or (415) 255-9587 eves.

BABA 30. A capable world cruiser, excellent condition, windvane, autopilot, depthsounder, knotmeter, SSB, VHF, windlass, CQR, Danforth, batt. charger, h/c water, refrigeration, stereo, dodger, spinnaker, wheel, full cover, diesel, lots of teak, original owner. $55,000. (805) 245-2213.

YANKEE 30. One of the greatest all-around 30footers ever made. Beautiful S &S desigrc Hand laid FG hull. Nice teak interior and trip. Great sail inventory. Atomic 4. Many, many extras. Well maintained. $22,000. (510) 845-0649.

HUNTER 30, 1990. Excellent condition, VHF, depth, wind, speed, knotmeter, pressurized hot and cold water, Yanmar diesel, dodger and bimini and new ground tackle. Brickyard Cove Marina, #E18. $39,000. (916)455-7217.

SANTANA30. Competitive racer/delightful cruiser. Excellent condition, 10 winches, double headfoil, 7 bags sails, 2 spinnakers. New: mast, boom and rigging. Sleeps 5, full galley. Volvo diesel - runs great. Can give race/cruise instruction if inter¬ ested. $18,500. Larry, (707) 745-4811.

ERICSON 30, 1969. Large interior space. 6'+ head room. Hand-laid fiberglass hull and deck. Lots of sails, 7 winches, traveler. Ground tackle. VHF, DS, AP, KM, stereo. Slip available, lots of extras. Two boat owner - must sell. (408) 4390969 or (415) 638-5802.

1988 CATALINA 30. Meticulously maintained with many extras: roller furling w/3 head sails (70, 110 & 150), Bruce & Fortress anchors, Loran, Zodiac/3.6 hp outboard + all standard equipment. $36,000 or trade up. Call (707) 664-8366 h, or (415) 877-7483 w.

BALTIC CRUISER, 29-FT, 1962. Sleek Danish design, fiberglass over wood. Ideal for the Bay and short ovemt trips. 8-ft. beam, 5-ft. headroom. Too small for liveaboard. VHF, 1993 8 hp Honda O/B, 30 hrs. $5,900. Stephen (415) 621-0231.

OLSON 30,1982. Hull # 170. UK and Sinbad sail inventory. This Olson is in immaculate condition and race ready. Many upgrades and extras. Trailer included. Recent survey. Absolutely flies down¬ wind. $19,000. In Los Angeles (310) 831-1463. Photos available. BRISTOL 30, traditional fiberglass full keel cruiser by H.C. Herreshoff 1973. Autohelm 3000 w/Loran Nav interface and windvane, Tridata, Loran w/ remote station, VHF, dodgerwith bimini and “Delta Room”, CD stereo, Volvo MD2B diesel, Harken furling, Racor filtering, windlass, ac/dc, 20 amp charger, wheel steering, head w/holding tanks, teak & holly sole. Safe, strong, and ready. $26,500, no brokers. (510) 521-6672. 31.5-FT SLOOP, 1939. Mahogany over oak. Classic lines, full keel, fair to good sails, inboard gasoline, depth, wind, knotmeters, reefer, pro¬ pane stove, hanging locker, head, anchors, misc. gear. Priced to sell $7,500. Wants TLC. (415) 7282229. 30-FT ALBERG ODDESSY, 1972. Yawl, cured fiberglass, full keel, first launched 1982. Very basic, very good condition blue water cruiser. New bottom, thru hulls, valves. VHF, Loran. $15,000. (707)869-1120. 1981 CATALINA 30. New mast, boom, rig, head, VHF, 3 sails, 24 hp Yanmar 3GMF30 diesel, new KM, bottom paint; berth sublease at S.F. Marina/ Gas House. $25,000 obo. (415)731-4956.

WYLIECAT 30 PROTOTYPE, Mustang Sally, in like-new shape; 435 sq. ft. cat rig with wishbone on carbon spar. $42,500 or best higher offer. Call Dave or Dick (510) 523-6730. GREAT RACER-CRUISER, built 11/79. lOyrs in Great Lakes, stored in winter. 15 hp Yanmar in excellent condition; new North main, 8 bags ex¬ cellent and good condition; new LPU 6/93, decks, topsides, non-skid; new mast 6/95; interior excel¬ lent, teak/holly sole, sleeps six; never raced hard, fast fun boat. $31,000. Call John (707) 525-0952. NEWPORT 30 II, 1975. Well maintained Bay, ocean, Delta racer/cruiser. Twice YRA fleet cham¬ pion, comfortable roomy family boat. Full sail inventory, spinnakers, Yanmar, Martec, Loran, KM, depthfinder, VHF, LPG oven/stove, ’94 sur¬ vey, new bottom, much more. $14,500 obo. (415) 346-3323 or (415) 441-4599. CATALINA 30,1985. Pedestal steering, Univer¬ sal 25 diesel (260 hrs), depth, knot, VHF, Harken furling, dodger, alcohol stove, Force 10 heater, batt. charger, added storage access, 2 Bruce, jackets & misc. Fresh water, pristine. $33,000. (916)332-4471. 1978 HUNTER 30. Diesel, wheel, Autohelm, VHF, KM, DS, h/c pressure water, shower, AdlerBarbour refrigeration, battery charger, dockcord, teak/holly sole, 2 jibs w/ extra self-tending rigging, adjustable backstay, BBQ. Good condition. In¬ cludes Moss Landing transient berth. $17,900 obo. (408) 372-8305.

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NUNES 30-FT SLOOP. Classic, Hurricane berthed at Sausalito Yacht Harbor. Full keel, Atomic 4 inboard engine, LPU paint, non-skid decks, full cover. Excellent Bay/coastal cruiser in veiy good condition. $9,500. Call (415) 922-4676.

32 TO 35 FEET RANGER 29, 1974. Great Bay boat, 1990 Ballenger spar, Harken furler, Yanmar diesel, Awlgrip decks, no blisters, barrier coats, spinna¬ ker gear, lots of sails. $14,900. Call Pete (510) 521-6100. 30-FT BENETEAU FIRST 305 (1985) Well main¬ tained, beautiful cruiser/racer, 1994 race winner. All teak interior, 2 private staterooms, sleeps 6. Teak/holly sole, folding table/wine rack, color co¬ ordinated cushions, 30 gal water tank. LPG stove/ oven, twin sinks, lots of storage space. Almost new North 95% and 155% jibs; 125% furling jib. All lines led aft to cockpit. Yanmar diesel - low hours, Racor fuel filter, plus lots more. $38,000. Call (916) 646-3400; (916)421-5132. 30-FT CLIPPER MARINE, 1976. Fresh haulout, runs and sails great, 9.9 Evinrude, AC-DC, VHF, refer AC/DC TV, 6 sails, good liveaboard, needs T.L.C. Sacrifice $4,000 obo. Benicia berth. (707) 745-0646. CARL SCHUMACHER DESIGN, Pyramid 30-ft (+11/2’ scoop) Highly modified (under designer's supervision) ULDB with maximized sail area. Epoxy (laminated) bottom, new rudder, retract¬ able carbon bowsprit, 940 sq. ft. asymmetrical spinnaker, Harken roller furler, 3 headsails & big roach full batten main (all Kevlar, 11/2 years old). Reason to sell? Building new boat. (510) 7690602 or (510) 522-5838. Ask for Arne Jonsson. $17,000 obo. ALBERG 30. Good boat - cheap price! Fiberglass sloop. Cutaway full-keel. Good for the Bay or around the world. Two mains, several headsails. Original interior. VHF, diesel (not installed). Avon inflatable. $9,000, make an offer. (510) 525-3871. CATALINA 30, 1977. All new standing rigging and new bottom paint. Looks nice. Selling as is for $12,000! Call Roger (415) 434-4544 days; (415) 927-3127 eves. PEARSON 30, 1977. Recent sails, Atomic 4, VHF, Loran, RDF, compass, dual batteries, 2 anchos, engine maintenance and haul out 5/95. Clean. Lying Sausalito. $13,500. (415) 883-5445.

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ERICSON 35 MK III, 1982. Wind Chaser. Fast cruiser/racer, well maintained with numerous up¬ grades, CNG stove and heater, hot/cold pressure water, separate stall shower, Adler Barbour refrig¬ erator, high output charging system, full spinnaker gear, rod rigging, upgraded winches, Harken trav¬ eler, NKE Topline instruments with mast display and GPS, 12 bags sails, 5 spinnakers, bottom faired April, ‘95. $78,000. Contact (510) 5822389. SOVEREL33,1985, Olson built Ultra Light. Rarely used, this boat has been professionally main¬ tained by the original owners. New in 1994: Ballenger spar and rod rigging, rebuilt Yanmar diesel, interior varnish. $37,500. (510) 444-8448, eves; (510) 835-8448, days.

NEWPORT 30 MK III, 1982. Beautiful condition. Unique sails rig with furl main & jib. Low hr. diesel. All new dodger, stereo, micro, cockpit cushions, wheel & BBQ. Like new DS, RDF, CHF, stove & shore power. H/C shower, 2 anchors, windlass, SI T winches. Bottom & engine maintenance 5/1/95. $29,500. (510) 655-9469. RANGER 29,1974. Great Bay boat. Atomic 4,2 mains, 3 jibs, spinnaker, VHF, DS, full galley and head, sleeps 5. Owners motivated. Will consider trade. $12,000 obo. (510) 490-3288.

PEARSON 32, 323. Clean and well equipped. Teak interior. New sails. Aires vane. Autopilot, radar, etc. Serious inquiries only please. Call John (510) 525-0919. $34,000.

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1971 CORONADO 35 center cockpit. Low hour Atomic 4, pressure water. Dinghy with Evinrude. Autohelm. Great liveaboard or go cruising to Mexico. $25,000. Call Frederik and make an offer. (415) 285-9831.

BABA 35, 1980. Perry designed full keel blue water cruiser, cutter rigged cored fiberglass hull, Perkins 4 cyl diesel, DS, KM, WM, RDF, Sat Nav and Alpha 4400 autopilot. This one-owner yacht is finely appointed and equipped for world cruising. Alder Barbour refrigeration, kerosene stove and pressure water. Cruise in quality for $89,500. Seven bags of sails, 2 mains, 2 jibs, genoa, storm jib, trtsail, upgraded Barient winches and many extras. (408) 425-6559.

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CAL 35,1975. Ready to cruise or liveaboard. 170 gal. diesel, 110 gal. water, radar, Perkins 50 hp diesel, roller furling, extra sails, spinnaker pole, new autopilot, electric windlass, new standing rigging, refrigeration, new custom cushions and curtains, custom mattress for captain’s quarters, teak floor, wood paneling and new dinghy. Must sell due to health reasons. (415) 594-9076 or (916) 345-1687. 32-FT TRADEWIND SLOOP. Tough, well built bluewater cruiser. 40 hp diesel, rollerfurling, refrig, davits, anchor windlass, autopilot, canvas, Lectra San and more. Custom mahogany interior, teak & holly sole. Well maintained. Already in the Baha¬ mas! Asking $37,000. (407) 688-2953. BRISTOL 33,1969. Back from Alaska and Mexico — fully cruise ready. All cruising gear goes with her. Aires windvane, Apelco radar, anchors, rode, excellent VHF, Avon liferaft, Famet roller-furling, autopilot, windlass, watermaker, depthsounder, spare parts and lots more. She has an Atomic 4, but don’t let that put you off — it's a great engine! No blisters. Take a look—she did us well. All this for $29,500! Call (415) 261-1216, evenings. SAIL EXOTIC SE ASIA. No need to cross oceans to cruise Thailand, Burma, Bali, etc. Must sacrifice 35' steel cutter lying Malaysia. Fully equipped heavy displacement world cruiser. Huge inven¬ tory. Asking $35,000 obo. Trades for U.S. boats considered. (206) 525-3290. NOR’WEST 33. “The Best of a Legend.” Hull number 18, Chuck Bums, Alameda built offshore cruising boat. South Seas veteran, has just re¬ turned from Mexico. Extensive equipment includ¬ ing, Custom Arch with 4 solar panels, upgraded electronics, watermaker, inverter, monitor vane, engine driven refrigeration, ProFurf, canvas and much more. This vessel is in excellent condition, needing only a fresh coat of varnish. Call (415) 365-1992 for information packet or fax to “Native Dancer” (408) 956-9859. $49,500 obo. CUSTOM CHOATE 33. Consistent winner. 13 sails, diesel, cruise 6 with CNG, mech. ref., dual water tank, etc. Photos, survey, equipment list upon request. Moored in Marina del Rey. Asking $32,000 obo. (310) 479-0116 (eves). COLUMBIA 5.5. Good condition, needs T.L.C. Main, jib and spinnaker like new. Fresh bottom job. $2,500 obo. Call (916) 776-1836. 35-FT SANTANA 79. Like new, 32 custom hard¬ ware items, new Yanmar dsl, Signet smartpack, fluxgate, depth, Loran, stereo, 11 bags nearly new, faired, new btm paint. $38,000 obo. Call (310) 373-4455. ISLANDER 34, Zydeco, 1970. Full keel. Major refit in ’93. Plus Atomic 4 repower. New thru hulls, fuel tank and lots more. 2 speed Barient 22s, green LPU hull, wheel, spinnaker rigged, needs upholstery work. Recent survey. $17,500 obo. Call (510) 232-6685.

ISLANDER 34, 1978. Great liveaboard. Volvo diesel, CNG stove w/oven, hot water heater, shower, new head, roller furl equipped, holding tank, spin, pole, 6 sails, regular haul-outs. Will consider trade w/wooden boat, plus difference $34,850. (415) 331-9343.

CAL 35,1981. Built by Jensen, Universal 32 hp diesel, dodger, rollerfurling, S.T. winches, beau¬ tiful roomy interior, propane, pressurized h/c wa¬ ter, refrigeration, GPS, autopilot, VHF, stereo, cruising chute, windlass, much more, Mexico vet¬ eran. $56,500. (619) 222-4917.

SCHOCK 35. Late model, '87 with all factory updates. Great racing history, excellent mainte¬ nance and top inventory. $56,000 or $5,000 down and monthly payments of $650. Eves (619) 2224002; days (619) 232-3057.

CHEOY LEE ‘LION', 35-FT SLOOP, 1964. Fiber¬ glass hull, teak over fiberglass deck, teak cabin and trim. Ruggerini 20 hp diesel (’91), Max-prop, Autohelm wind vane, 12 sails including Reckman rollerfurling &2 spinnakers, self-tailing primaries, VHF depth, log, Loran, autopilot, charger, dual compasses. Cozy teak interior sleeps 5, stove, sink, refrigeration, head, pressure water, cabin heater. Many custom racing/cruising features. Black LPU hull and cabin top, and varnished teak make her possibly the most beautiful classic boat on the Bay. Excellent fast cruiser for couple or singlehander. Mexico vet. Recent haul and paint, currentsurvey. Offeredforsale by broker/delivery skipper owner at $37,500. Please, serious, quali¬ fied parlies only (sorry, no owner finance). (415) 332-9231.

1994, 35-FT BENETEAU, Oceanis 351. Many extras. Excellent condition. Health condition forces sale. $99,950. Berthed at Brickyard Cove. Please call (916) 944-3937 between 2:30 - 7:30 pm. (Or anytime to leave a message.) CORONADO 35, 1973. Center cockpit, diesel engine, dodger, h/c pressure water, refrigeration, sleeps 6, excellent liveaboard, many extras, 9.9 hp Honda with 10-ft Zodiac, sailboard w/rack. $32,500. (415) 365-6513, Iv. msg. 33FT SOVEREL, 1986, ultralight, PHRF 90, Olson built, epoxied bottom, full racing gear, 4 spinna¬ kers, 16 bags sails, new set in '93,4 bunks, galley, chart table, autopilot, Yanmar diesel, folding prop, $35,000. Monterey dock available. (408) 3722352. ISLANDER 32,1977. Excellent condition. Great liveaboard. Dodger, fireplace, main, 110 & 90% clubfoot jib. Atomic 4 runs great. Very comfortable boat. (510) 679-1343, Dennis or Karey. $27,000. 32-FT GAFF CUTTER, Go anywhere ocean cruiser launched 1982. Fiberglass NA designed hull, 20,000 dsp, diesel, expertly custom built to extremely sturdy standards. Excellent condition, completely equipped. 6 tanbark sails 1 G&Y spindrifter. $89,500. Call/fax (360) 849-4242 for detail and equipment list. 34-FT BENETEAU OCEANIS 350,1988. Excel¬ lent condition, roller furling, dutchman, WS, WP, KM, DS, VHF, Freedom 10, all lines led aft, 2 dodgers, bimini, 10' Nissan with 9.9 Merc. Call Tony at (510) 806-6882. Leave message.

1974 ERICSON 32-FT. Atomic4, VHF, DS, wheel, 150, 110, storm and drifter. All Leading Edge sails. Good condition. $18,000 obo. Call (510) 372-6657. WESTSAIL 32-FT Pablo. Ready to cruise, just back from Mexico. New rig & mast O/H, Volvo MD2B diesel, 9 bags of sails, recording band, VHF, GPS, fath, Sony 2010 all band, RDF, watermaker, shipmate stove, cabin heater, solar panels, 80 gal. fuel, 120 water, 8 kerosene, 20 holding, 35/45/60# CQRs, 20# Danforth, 3/8” chain 300’, 5/8” rode 500’, AP, Aries vane, teak decks. $54,950. (818) 348-2868. 35-FT ‘AERO’ WOODEN SLOOP, 1954. Diesel, new sails, pulpits, deck. Totally refurbished in '95. Beautiful and very fast. $18,000 oobo. Call (415) 388-8627. 32-FT ATKINS SCHOONER. The Anna Maria. $12,000. Volvo diesel, new wood bottom, Loran, VHF, Autopilot. Many sails in good condition. Leave message at (415) 456-5936.

YAMAHA DESIGNED, engineered 32-footer, beautiful new 1992. Two staterooms, galley, nav station, head. Elegant teak interior^ 8 hp Yanmar diesel engine, Isomat mast, Harken furling. Sleeps 6. $98,500. Will consider cash and real estate. (415) 485-6809.

CAL 2-35, 1980. See to appreciate this high quality, strong, lovingly maintained, fast cruiser, spacious elegant interior, outstanding liveaboard. Rebuilt diesel, 200 hours. Harken “C” furling, new jib, full batten main & cruising spinnaker. VHF, 24mile radar, CG atove, autopilot, Loran. Brightwork immaculate. Asteal, $44,900. Ed (510) 736-2817.

COLUMBIA 34 MKII, deluxe model. H/C pres¬ sure water, VHF, Lectrasan, AP, roller furling, fireplace, 6'+ headroom, many extras, great con¬ dition. (916) 268-1073.

FOR SALE, 1973 MORGAN 33 O.l. Perkins die¬ sel, heavy sloop rig, four jibs and main.ipropane cook stove, Emeryville, CA. $29,000 obo (702) 847-7777.

HUNTER 33,1981. Roller furling, Yanmar diesel, wheel steering; VHF, wind, depth & speed gauges, self-tailing winches, dodger, h/c water, cockpit cushions, stereo, 2 anchors, stove, head, battery charger, etc. Excellent condition. Sleeps 6+, fast, comfortable & fun. $29,950. (415) 461-7147.

TARTAN 10,1979.33-ft. racing sloop. Recently replaced knotmeter and depthfinder. Also has Loran, VHF and windspeed. Well equipped and in good condition. Will consider partner. Call (415) 892-8753.

VOYAGER YACHT CHARTERS Sail the Pacific Coast of California and Mexico aboard the auxiliary ketch Voyager. Captained charters for a day, week or longer. Available for up to six guests to Santa Catalina Island, the Channel Islands, California coastal ports and further south along the Mexican Riviera. Tel/Fax 310-433-5040

35.5-FT HUNTER LEGEND 1987-88. Loaded & immaculate! Call for spec sheet. Roller furling genoa, spinnaker, dodger, low hours diesel, din¬ ghy w/ 6 hp o/b, autopilot, refrigerator, pressur¬ ized hot/cold, complete instruments, stereo, up¬ graded electrical system, solar panel, extensively equipped wt lots of extras. Brand new bottom paint. Sacrifice at $60,000. (310) 832-5741, Judy or Hugh. GURNEY 33-FT, 1968. Strong, lightweight, fast. Displacement 9,000 lbs. / 4,100 lbs. Aluminum hull, built in Holland at Huisman’s Yard. Alen Gurney design. The perfect couples blue water cruiser/racer. All mahogany below decks. Config¬ ured for passage making. Volvo MD6A, extra watertanks, Avon, spin. gear. Excellent condition. $39,500 obo. Jim Van Beveren.h (510) 827-8915. 1975 MORGAN 33 OUT-ISLAND. Very roomy, ideal cruising/liveaboard. New engine (Volvo 28 hp), sails, stove, lots more in '91.50 gal. fuel, 70 gal water, sleeps 6, new VHF, Loran. Bill (408) 978-1875, fax (408) 978-1670. $28,900. ERICSON 32,1976. Yanmar 2GM20F (approx. 90 hrs.), 6 sails (new 150), new dodger, Harken furling, GPS, VHF, AP, wind-knot-depth, stereo, ground tackle, inverter, oil lamps, wood stove, cockpit cushions, etc. Asking $29,900. Call for complete inventory (707) 445-3937. ERICSON 32, 1987. Beautiful condition, fully equipped. Wheel steering, inboard diesel, CQR 25#, Danforth, lots of rode. Dodger, roller furling, all lines led aft. Autohelm, GPS, Loran, fixed and portable VE, stereo, CD, TV. Propane stove, oven and BBQ, refrigeration, hot and cold pressure water, marine head and shower, teak folding cockpit table, etc. etc. Also have West Marine inflatable with 8 hp Nissan engine. All equipment top notch. $50,000. (707) 546-2954. 35-FT NIAGRA MK1. Fast cruiser. Large cabins fore & aft. New main & sea furl & V-drive. Full galley, large head & shower. Dodger, Autohelm, Westerbeke 50.150,110,80 & gennaker w/sock. Reefer & instant hot water. A steal $63,500 or reasonable offer. (510) 828-4880. APHRODITE 101 (33' SLOOP), 1979. Sleek, fast and fun for exciting racing and comfortable cruis¬ ing. Elvstrom design and Danish craftsmanship (Bianca Yachts). Fractional rig with a self-tacking jib that actually works for easy sail handling withoutsacrificing performance. Easily single-handed. Comfortable, attractive interior with lots of wood. New mast and engine within last 6 years. Full sail inventory, engine within last 6 years. Full sail inventory, electronics and extras. $25,500. Call (415) 227-3560). FANTASIA 35,1976, Beautiful teak interior, 7' headroom, 3 cabins, workshop, Loran, EPIRB, dodger, bimini, hot shower, 5 sails, ground tackle, 40 hp diesel, dinghy, 220 gal. water, propane oven/stove, windvane, much more. Excellent liveaboard! Must sell. $43,000. (408) 996-2045.

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YAMAHA 33,1979. #38. Strong, swift, well-built

PEARSON 385. Great liveaboard/cruiser in

1979, 36-FT NEW HAMPSHIRE-BUILT mariner

WESTSAIL 11.8M. Modern, fast 39’ Bob Perry

racer/cruiser. Diesel, depth, knotmeter, compass, Loran, VHF, LPG rang/oven. Full head room. Tiller steering, 4 jibs, 2 spinnakers. These don't come on the mrkt often. $30,500. (707) 224-1512.

bristol/turnkey condition. New in 1994-95; furler, radar, mast refit, GPS, epoxy bottom, inverter/ charger. Center cockpit, aft stateroom, two heads, stall shower, dodger, full cockpit enclosure, cus¬ tom storage cover, five sails, four anchors, electric windlass, downwind pole, davits, Autohelm 6000, SSB, VHF’s, microwave, icemaker, 9' Avon din¬ ghy, 8 hp outboard, custom teak interior/new upholstery thoughout. Loads of storage and many more extras. Current survey available. Canaveral, Florida. (407) 868-2107 or (702) 782-7164.

rigged for short-handed sailing from the Chesa¬ peake to the islands. Equipped for safe, comfort¬ able cruising in any season. This is a turnkey boat inside and out. Call (410) 626-0101 for photos and specs. Price: $66,000.

designed sloop. Spacious liveaboard, separate shower, sleeps 6. SSB, VHF, new dodger, Avon/ Evinrude, refrig. 12v & engine driven, propane stove w/oven, Volvo diesel, self-tailing winches, well-maintained. Call for spec sheet or appt. $115,000.(415) 332-5970.

FISHER 37-FT motorsailer ketch, aft cabin, radar, Loran, wind s/d, depth, speed, log, 2 VHF, CB, loud hailer, Avon, 80 hp Ford Saberdiesel, 120gal fuel, 120 H20, Avon, Monterey slip avail. Must sell. Call (408) 624-7210.

CATALINA 38,1980. Fast coastal cruiser, great

38-FT CAT BOAT. Ketch rig, 1983. In Puerto

bay boat. Very clean! Many new upgrades. New rigging, radar, sails, loran, water heater, stereo, batteries (3), whisker pole, epoxy bottom and more. Surveyed 6-95! Asking $48,000 obo. H, (415) 668-1076; w, (415) 367-3967.

Vallarta. Complete for wonderful short-handed long-distance cruising. Very good condition. Two double berth cabins, two heads, comfortable main cabin. Strong Airex foam core/carbon fiber masts. One loving owner. $69,000. (602) 951-3205.

UNION 36 CUTTER, 1980. One owner, 3 yrs.

ISLANDER 36, 1978. Very meticulously main¬

Mexico cruising, Perkins diesel, roller furling, ra¬ dar, GPS, autopilot, VHF, depthsounder. $65,000 obo. (714) 673-1550.

tained, deluxe teak and oak interior, 5 sails, spin¬ naker, rollerfurling, dodger, full electronics, LP’d hull & spars, 9 winches, refrigeration, AP, fixed & folding props, much more. This yacht is beautiful. $42,900. (510)614-9181.

with dodger, anchors, sails, propane, extras. Crealock designed, owned by professional. Tiller, oversize self-tailing winches. Propane stove, Avon, kayak, lead keel, user friendly. Easily sailed by one, 12,000 displacement. $35,000. Call(415) 563-4421.

36-FT CUTTER RIG SAILBOAT. Ferro-cement

37- FT HUNTER IN ENGLAND, wants to see the

hull, 1976,4 cyl. Perkins diesel, spacious oak & walnut interior. Must sell now. $6,000, Needs rudder work. Located at Duckstown Marina, Red¬ wood City, adjacent to Harbormaster’s office. #CF5081HM. (916) 587-0522.

med and come back to the Carib. All the charts and the following: watermaker, radar, dinghy/raft, outboard, SSB rcvr, inverter, frig, LP stove and heater. 2 or more of the following: wind gen's, GPS’s, (4) anchors, VHF’S, autopilots, even spare prop. 2 sets of sails (even main), storm jib. Tools and engine spares. Just add dsl. (304) 783-5295.

34-FT. STEEL CUTTER. Unfinished. Built by a

professional welder. Hard-chine. Alum, mast, many accesso ries. Out ofwater in S.F. location. $10,000 obo. (510) 886-0107. CHEOY LEE CLIPPER 33 CUTTER, 1975. Docu¬

mented, surveyed, recent Perkins diesel, bow¬ sprit, teakdecks, full keel, traditional design. Needs some work but will make an excellent cruiser or small home afloat! In dry storage at Nelson’s. $28,000. Pete (619) 424-3660 or (619) 43T-5124. SANTANA 35-FT., 1979. $32,000. Race ready: three new racing sails, compasses, recently re¬ conditioned, all race instrumentation on bulkhead. Also updated for cruising with new cushions, kerosene stove, electrical refrigerator, table and headliner. (510) 536-5548 during business hours. BRISTOL 35.5,1979. Sloop. Westerbeke 24 hp diesel. Autopilot, dinghy, rollerfurling, VHF, refrig, hot water. Combi depth, wind & boat speed. Drifter & pole. Epoxy bottom. (415) 994-4543.

36 TO 39 FEET ISLANDER 36, 1973. Pristine condition, one

owner, never raced. Custom teak interior, Harken roller furling, portable dodger, Pathfinder diesel installed 1983, low hrs. Delta awnings, cockpit table & special swim ladder. Hauled April '95, no blisters. Asking $38,000. Call (510) 522-6278. 36-FT LANCER SLOOP, 79. Lots of goodies,

dodger & bimini w/side pnls, VHF, AP, Loran, full instr., H/C press wtr, ample gmd tkl & 8' Zodiac w/ 2hp Yamaha. Fast & roomy. Exl cond. $35,500. (619) 970-4163, pgr. San Diego.

dodger, pedestal mounted wind, speed, depth. VHF, stereo, Loran, microwave, color TV, CNG, h/ c pressure water, two staterooms, great galley, storage, shower. Custom interior, cockpit cush¬ ions. $62,000 or trade possible for larger yacht. (916) 988-7113. SOUTHERN CROSS 39. Built 1980. Up to date

electronics, 10 sails. Dinghy with outboard, wind vane. A cruising boat in immaculate condition. $98,000. Call (510) 814-6974. Please Iv msg. SANTANA 37. Fast, strong, performance cruiser. Very roomy interior. Must sell boat. $37,500. S.F. Yacht Harbor slip also possible. Contact Stu at (415) 455-8747. TEAK CHINESE JUNK 36-ft, 12-ft beam, 40 hp

diesel, 5 yrs old, built in China, one-of-a-kind. Call Tim (707) 865-1202.

Poulsbo, WA. $82,000. No brokers. No trades. Call (206) 780-5017. 38-FT SLOOP. F/G encapsulated light density

prototype, bulletproof, documented, cruising keel, dsl, wheel. Excellent live-aboard, oversized Vberth, spacious deck, cockpit seats 9. Must sell my beloved Synergia as we are going cruising and she won’t sell hers. $35,000 obo. (510) 215-5506. 36- FT COLUMBIA. Easy to sail, well equipped

ERICSON 39. Strong, stiff and fast. Excellent low budget blue water cruiser. 19,000 lb. displace¬ ment, 9,500 lb. ballast. 1972 with Perkins 4-107 diesel, roller furling, large comfortable interior, spacious cockpit, don’t sacrifice strength for speed. Check this out! $39,995. (510) 232-7999. O’DAY 37, '80 American made fast cruiser, center

cockpit, 2 heads with hot and cold showers, low time on Westerbeke diesel, well equipped with new Autohelm pilot, VHF, Loran, SatNav, DS, speed & log, electric windlass, excellent condi¬ tion. $39,500 obo. (916) 371-6455. CANADIAN-BUILT CAT KETCH. Built for 1989 Toronto Boat Show. Similarto Nonsuch 36. Beau¬ tiful joinery. Great layout. Well maintained by original owners. Volvo dsl, Autohelm, Tridata. Fast, easy to sail, very safe & lots of fun. $85,000 Call (415) 898-5947.

HEAVY-DUTY 37'5” deep water gaff ketch. 1980 William Atkins Ingrid fiberglass hull #5. Doubleender. Diesel power. Heavily built for long dis¬ tance voyaging. Permanent berth in Moss Land¬ ing transferable to buyer. $36,000. Eves (415) 968-2921 or (408) 227-4495. ISLANDER 36,1973. Diesel, pedestal steering wheel, compass, stove/oven, etc., sleeps 6, July 94 survey, much work done in 1994. Won Islander Regatta Championship, 4 match races. $29,500 obo (415) 454-2294.

36-FT FRIENDSHIP SLOOP, 1985. Clean, well CATALINA 36,1985. Pegasus. Bristol condition,

1981 CABO RICO, 38-FT. Good condition. Lying

kept. 6 hp outboard, VHF, stereo. $12,500. (510) 793-1209. 38-FT HANS CHRISTIAN TRADITIONAL, 1980.

Autopilot, ProFurl, GPS, VHF, insulated backstay and grounding plate for SSB, electric windlass, Avon 2.8, Suzuki 4 hp, Seafrost holding plate refrigeration with AC option, four sails, Autohelm ST50s & repeater, Force 10 stove, TV/VCR, CD player. Cabin sole refinished, heat exchanger rebuilt, new dodger, awning, propane tanks, cus¬ tom salon table, custom nav panel. $20,000+ upgrades since '92. Hauled June '94.45 lb. CQR & 330' 3/8" chain. Two boat owners must sell. (619) 226-7245. ERICSON 38-200,1988. Pristine condition, cus¬

tom built for owner, over $50,000 of extra equip¬ ment, two private cabins, separate shower stall, very special boat ready for Bay or coastal sailing. $99,500. Call (408) 581-1951 for all the details.

CATALINA 36,1986. Bristol condition, pedestal

mounted instruments, H/C pressure water. Club footed jib, cockpit cushions. Very little use with low engine hours. Blue interiorthat appears neversat upon. (510) 634-7524. $58,000 obo. 1984 MORGAN, performance cruiser a Nelson

Marek design for speed and comfort. 36' of bliss. Let those other vessels watch your backstay, 23 hp diesel, large wheel, new covers, microwave, h&c water, shower, captain's station, etc. $37,950. (408) 978-5123 pm. (408) 249-5100 days. 1975 FORMOSA KETCH. Fiberglass 37' LOD, 43' LOA. Very roomy teak interior. Hot/cold pres¬ sure water, shower, new head. 6’4" headroom. Fresh Volvo diesel. New decks, needs some exterior trim and finishing. Great Seaboard or bluewater cruiser. Better hurry at $14,950. (209) 948-2920.

ANITRA 12 METER, #U.S. 5. Built by Akeking

and Rasmussen and designed by Starling Bur¬ gess in 1929. Anitra is the last of the original six US twelves still sailing and has a long and colorful history, she is constructed of 1 1/4* mahogany over oak and iron frames. Anitra has a beautiful interior with accommodations for six, full galley w LPG stove/oven, aluminum spars. Asking $95,000 obo. Call (510) 522-0906. HUNTER 37’, 1983. VHF, Loran, radar, Autohelm 4000, heater, shower, H/C water. $45,900 obo. $75,000. (415) 861-6853. PERFECT 38-FT SLOOP for Bay or ocean cruis¬ ing. Newly refurbished, 43 hp Westerbeke diesel. Large cabin area, great for liveaboard. Owners may help with financing. Possibly trade. Priced at $39,000. Owners accepting any reasonable offer. Jeff (707) 795-7827 or (707) 584-8363 days. CABO RICO 38-FT, 1979. Cutter rig, full keel,

radar, sat nav, ST50 speed, ST50 depth, new rigging and mast in '91, epoxy bottom, teak decks. (415) 331-5323. PEARSON 36,1986. Very roomy performance

cruiser. Queen size aft berth. Excellent condition. VHF, autopilot, AWI, depth sounder, rollerfurling, Yanmar 35 hp. dodger, electric windlass, UK Sails, 35# CQR. Berkeley Location. Two boat owner, must sell. (510) 220-3649.

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FISHER 37-FT MOTORSAILER, aft-cabin model. Ford Parson 80 hp diesel, excellent condi¬ tion, loaded with all the right stuff. A bluewater boat, cruise ready vessel, upgraded ’91-’94, too much to list. $87,000 obo. (707) 765-2628. 1979

40 TO 50 FEET WILDERNESS 40 Gary

Mull designed hull, deck and cabin with partial interior. Vinylester resin and vacuum bag construction, for an extremely stiff and strong ultralight racer/cruiser. $15,000 obo. (408) 469-9920. Ready to go. Watermaker, generator, Trace inverter, W/fax, radar, Loran, ham radios, diesel heater, RDF, cruising sails, VHF, depth, windspeed/point, KM, Perkins diesel, Vac-U-Flush head and more. Never chartered, great condition. $130,000. Alex (415) 366-8318. GULFSTAR

KETCH,

CT 41. Center cockpit ketch one of 6,60 hp Isuzu,

120 gal h/c press., a/c refer., propane stove, liveaboard berth. Bay Area loc. Will take trade, (916) 596-3613 & (510) 228-1662, Iv. message. P.O. Box 253, Martinez, CA 94553. Felicity. $75,000 obo. Fiberglass & teak, aluminum masts, 48 hp, shower & 2 heads, 8 sails, all new thru-hull valves, VHF & SSB radios, EPIRB, Loran, depth finder, 1 lOv & 12v refrigerator. $53,000. Eureka. Tom at (707) 8390245 or Brendan at (707) 826-7448.

Pilothouse center cockpit cutter ketch. Professionally fin¬ ished. 500 gal fuel, range 3500 miles. Aft cabin with sink, head. Fresh paint inside and out. Car¬ pet, cushions '92.10 hours since top overhaul Perkins 4-107. Sat/Nav A/P, electric windlass. Propane stove with oven and propane refer. Din¬ ghy on davits. 6 sails. Already in P.V. Mexico. Appraised at $96,470. First $60,000 obo takes all. Bought another boat. Fax Attn: Van Dyke. 011 -52322-10722. 42- FT CASCADE MOTORSAILER.

Superior wood¬ work by Les Standacher. Teak cabin & deck. Seaworthy, comfortable, fast cruising boat. Roomy, spacious interior. Mexico vet. New Awlgrip. Most equipment new. Furuno radar, Hart 1800 inv., Trimble navtrac GPS, Alpha 3000 AP, Quad cycle, 100 amp alt. 5 batteries, Fourwinds windcharger, 3 solar panels, radar arch., ham radio with SGC auto tuner, custom mattress, Paragon Jr. water system, propane hot water, refer, dsl heat, watermaker, upgraded standing rigging, ProFurl furling, new Hasse main, plus 12 bags of sails, 10 winches, 2 DS, KM, WS, VHF, elec, compass, dodger, side & back panels, Bruce stern anchor plus 2 storm anchors, two 5.5 props, liferaft, inflatable with outboard, Perkins 4-107, Aries windvane, built-in TV and VCR, plus more. This boat is ready to go. Call for more info. $95,000 obo. Olympia, WA. (360) 956-1769. ALUMINUM KETTENBURG 43.

40- FT CHEOY LEE, 1970 YAWL.

OLSON 40.

Cruising equipped, GPS, SSB, VHF, Signet instruments, Harken furter, refrigerator, freezer, shore power, watermaker, gel batteries, life raft, anchor roller, solar panels, 100 amp alt, quad-cycle, Autohelm, EPIRB, much more. $76,000. Call (206) 562-7271. 41- FT CHEOY LEE offshore ketch,

Ray Richards design; large inventory, fully equipped. $69,000. (805) 569-5225.

Modified fin keel with rudder skeg. Ideal cruiser, 18-month Mexico cruise, 2 people. Aft cockpit with additional center companionway. Extensive quality equipment, some only 2 yrs. old. Robert AP, 24M radar, wind gen., GPS, SatNav, SSB, 2 VHFs, PWR monitor, 130A alt, inverter, 4 bat. banks, life raft, wind vane, refrigeration, 150G water, 150G fuel, tank tender, 2 Baros, 2 clocks, VDO instalments, for/ aft deck lockers, 11 ST winches, anodized spars, 4 sails plus spinnaker, 3 anchors, 300’ Hi Tensile, other chain/rode, stern anchor roller/mount, Perkins, SS prop and shaft, cockpit h/c shower, bimini, side/back panels, deck wash, awning, all manuals. (415) 712-9218. $238,000, reduced to $219,000. CT 49 CUTTER, 1986.

Rhodes design, fiberglasssloop.Newengine, transmission, good sails, windvane, lots and lots of cruising extras. Have cruised west coast of North America, lived aboard for 15 years. Sale price under $50,000. (415) 467-6965. 41-FT 1966 PEARSON,

14 ft. beam. Design and construction by local author and nau¬ tical designer. Ruggedly constructed of ferrocement. Low maintenance. This boat was designed for comfortable cruising or use as lum¬ ber/cargo schooner. Has federal documentation. Small diesel. 1500 sq. ft. of sail. Pilothouse chart table, plumbed for galley and w/ marine heads, gimble stove, instant hot water. Comfortable liveaboard with 6' headroom. Sausalito location. Asking $27,000 obo. (707) 984-6329. 47-FT PILOTHOUSE SCHOONER,

46-FT GARDEN KETCH, 1973. Fiberglass hull, teak decks, Data Marine Link 5000, inverter, re¬ frigerator, freezer, fireplace, microwave, three burner propane with oven. Seven sails, halon, electric windlass, autopilot, 800 hp diesel. Aft cockpit. Bristol. (415) 883-7962. $102,000. No brokers.

full keel ketch, 1980. Gorgeous teak decks and interior, beautiful glass. Three private cabins and pilot berth sleeps 8, Perkins 4-154 diesel, Zodiac tender with 4 hp. Asking $122,000. (415) 588-8753 for detailed equipment list, survey findings, or appointment. 43-FT HANS CHRISTIAN

1974. Furling main, jib. Continuously upgraded, full found, re¬ cent epoxy bottom. Perfect liveaboard or go any¬ where boat. Too much equipment to list. Must see to appreciate. $130,000 obo. Details, call (707) 745-3858. RARE CHALLENGER 50 KETCH,

‘86 HANS CHRISTIAN 41-FT, TC, USCG docu¬ mented. Teak decks & interior. Equipped for cruis¬ ing. Navigation & communications equip, included. Sail the world at your leisure. For info: Liz De Stael, P.O. Box 1534, Kailua-Kona, HI 96745. (808) 329-3739, fax (808) 329-1060 or Richard, (619) 299-7797. $169,000 US.

1989 42-FT CATALINA, 3 cabin version, in great condition. Easily sailed by couple. Garmin GPS, Autohelm, roller furling, galley microwave, stereo w/CD, TV/VCR, extra jib, dodger, Balmar alterna¬ tor, new bottom 3/94 and more. I love this boat but need to do a 'land re-model’ and I can’t have both. Best offer over $96,500. Call (408) 732-8325, Steve, eves.

Rigged 1978. Radar, furling, LPG. Perkins 4-108. Must sell. $49,000, going down $1000/week; some financing avail. (916) 878-8323. NEW BOMBAY 45 EXPLORER SLOOP.

1974 ISLANDER 41T, one of twelve built. Cruiser

ready. Excellent condition. Refrigerator, freezer, gen., radar, GPS, Loran, autopilot, 2 TVs, VCR, electric windlass, dodger, bimini, large sail inven¬ tory, two dinghies and much more. Dry stored San Carlos, Mexico. $87,000. (619) 286-1775. 1993 BENETEAU OCEANIS 440. 85 hp

TurboDiesel, only 230 hrs. Furling main, jib B&G Instruments, autopilot, Raytheon RlOx Radar, RayChart 600, 390 GPS, air-conditioning, Sea Power Generator, Sony AM/FM Cassette, CD, interior-exterior speakers, 2 VHF, refrigerator, freezer, electric windlass, dodger, 2 cabins, 2 heads, 2 anchors, wash-down pump, spacious cabin and cockpit. Cruiser’s Dream! Like new, professionally maintained. $204,000. (415) 956-7210. 1976 PETERSON 44. Excellent liveaboard with¬ out compromising sailing quality. Center cockpit, set for singlehanding, rollerfurling jib, high-visibil¬ ity dodger, modified full keel, Westerbeke diesel. New upholstery, 2 heads, freezer/refrig., stereo, hot water heater, sleeps 7. $99,000. Sharon, (415) 905-2550 dys; (415) 871-4272 msg. 41-FT CHEOY LEE offshore ketch,

1976. Perkins dsl, windvane steering, survival raft, SSB, Loran, roller furling jib, Force 10 range, standing rigging, new ’90,5 sails, much more. Beautiful. Licensed captain available for delivery from Brookings, Oregon. (503) 469-0540. COLUMBIA45,1973. Spacious/clean liveaboard/

(Carl Schumacher) design ves¬ sel in excellent condition, PHRF rating 30, limited interior space, lots of fun to sail. Asking $95,000. (510) 865-4109. 44- FT CUSTOM

1980 by Unlflite. Better than new. One owner, professionally main¬ tained. Outstanding cruiser/I iveaboardw/one state¬ room and big salon. Amenities include: WoodFreman AP, Grunert refrigeration, Furuno radar & Loran, Lewmar winches, dual steering, Westerbeke 58 diesel. One of the finest if not the best cruisers in the N W. Call for picture and specs. Asking$150,000. (408) 371-0180; (206)564-1221. 40-FT VALIANT PILOTHOUSE.

Flush deck, 9 ft. cockpit, aft cabin, full keel, spacious below. Ex¬ ceptional cruiser/liveaboard. Upgraded in 1990 for 18 mo. S. Pac. cruise. Call for specs. (310) 822-5470. $85,000. 45- FT DEL REY SLOOP, 1973.

Become A

43- FT IOR CUSTOM SLOOP. Gary Mull design,.

Blue water performance, liveaboard amenities. Two private cabins, two heads, complete galley. New cushions. Fourteen sails. Sexy, strong, com¬ fortable and fast. Reduced to $73,000. (415) 7803785. (206) 702-5087.

Outfitted 93/94 with full Autohelm instruments, radar, AP, elec, windlass, 300 ft. 3/8" HT, 406, GPS, Heart 10, Quadcyde, 6 man offshore, more. 800 hr. on diesel, 800+ amp hr. Avon w/15 hp, all self-tailing. $105,000. Call Lawrence (619) 523-1037. WESTSAIL 43,1980.

cruiser. 1990 rebuilt 50 hp Perkins diesel. Roller furling main and jib. microwave, refrigerator, stove, oven, hot water, color TV. Walk-in shower. Davits/ 9 foot Avon dinghy. New batteries. More. $58,000 obo. (510) 814-9755. Classic woody, excellent condition, must see. Perkins 4-107 low hours monel tankage, 85 gal. water, 45 gal. diesel. Complete set of sails including spinnaker. Great weekenderor cozy live aboard with refer, propane stove and oven. Full canvas top cover. Asking $24,000. Located Sausalito. Call (707) 538- 2482. 40 FT KETTENBERG.

BARGAIN $12,500, TRADE?

40' LOA, 32' LOD, Seamist double ended gaff-rigged cutter, good sails, diesel, ferrocement hull, possible free berth, cruise or liveaboard, 20 min. from Monterey or Santa Cruz on Monterey Bay. (209) 480-1627 or pager (209)492-1655.

Large aft cabin with walk around double bed. New bottom paint, current survey. Autohelm 4000, ST, CD player, microwave, good sails. 40 hp Yanmar dsl with low hours. Great liveaboard. $68,000 obo. Brian (707) 448-8977.

1992 ROBERTS 434. Finest steel pilothouse cutter ever built, using only top quality materials by qualified builder. 200 gal. water, 80 gal. diesel, 65 hp engine, dsl heater, dual hydraulic steering. Needs to be rigged. $69,500. (408) 469-9920.

CATALINA 42,1993.

MASTER MARINE TECHNICIAN

in only 15-20 weeks Many employment opportunities. Financial assistance (to those who qualify). Repair all appliances, electronics & assessories. Call: R.V. Service Academy (800) 869-9511 (Licensed & Accredited)

HUNTER 40,1986 SLOOP. Very clean.

Two cabin model. Radar, SSB, autopilot, VHF, GPS, Perma Shield bottom, new dodger, inverter, more. Excellent condition. May take smaller sailboat in trade. $135,000. Call Bill (916) 477-5007, leave message.

1990. Immaculate condition, fin keel, cutter rig. Yanmar 66 hpturbo, 160 hrs, full cockpit enclosure, marble counters, gorgeous woodwork. $199,000. (415) 967-7359. 43-FT HANS CHRISTIAN CHRISTINA,

FERRARI BOATWRIGHT SERVICES All marine woodwork Full shop and mobile services. Dry Rot, Planking, Spars, Interiors Designed & Built. 453-5051 T

HARRIET'S SAIL REPAIR 2041 Taylor St. S.F. 94133 '415 - 771 - 8427

GOING SOUTH? '... other mail centers could mAiLCAU take lessons from Mail Call' Established 1980. Worldwide mail forwarding for cruising sailors. We know our businessl 2726 Shelter Island Dr., San Diego, CA 92106 • 619-222-1186; fax: 619-222-1185

SURPLUS BOTTOM BOAT PAINT

YACHT DELIVERY

Hard red vinyl anti-fouling paint. Mfg. Woolsey. 72% copper. Reg. price; $180/gal. Our price $50/gal. Also black vinyl & other mfg. available. Ablading paint, 50% copper, $50/gal. Primer & other epoxies, $10-$15/gal. Polyurethane, $20/gal. Penetrating epoxy, $25/gal. Pratt & Lambert white enamel, $10/gal. Non-skid paint $10/gal. (415) 588-4678

— Power & Sail — Experienced • Licensed • References Bill Carber* 415-332-7245 July, 1995 •

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CUSTOM CENTER COCKPIT lightweight cruis¬ ing ketch 49-ft overall, a long, slim speedster easily sailed by couple. Major rebuild in '88 from keel up through rigging, including wiring, remodel¬ ing, chain plates, instruments, etc. A new boat on a unique older hull. LPU painted hull and topside 1993. She is a sleek, well maintained vessel, out cruising since '88. Loaded with gear and spares, ready to go again with minimum investment of time and money. $44,000. (619) 298-5118. 44- FT STEEL ROBERTS KETCH. Wheel house, autopilot, windvane, center cockpit, Harken furl¬ ing, radar, GPS, VHF, depth, Perkins 4-108,200 gals, fuel, propane, solar panels, life raft, AC/DC refrigeration, pressure water, watermaker, Lectrasan MSD, cedar interior, liveaboard. $79,500. Call (415) 589-6980. 47-FT PERRY DESIGN KETCH, 1979. Center cockpit, large interior with aft cabin, fiberglass, LOA 497", built by Litton Marina. Recent haul and survey. Needs cosmetic attention. Asking $79,000. Call for details, Don at (415) 332-9500.

NORTH SEA PILOT CUTTER, 41’, gaff-rigged, ferrocement. Recentsurvey, insured, CoastGuard documented, new bottom paint, fresh brightwork, 80 hp Ford Lehman, refrigerator, propane stove, heater, 2 cabins, sleeps 5. Excellent liveaboard or cruiser, Mexico vet. $32,000. (916) 283-4560. OLSON 40. Pristine condition, original owner, cruise/race equipped. GPS, VHF, SSB, Signet instruments, dual compasses, extensive Sobstad sail inventory. Transpac ready. $85,000 obo. Call for detailed inventory: day (916) 750-1700; eve. (916) 753-9331.

51 FEET & OVER SPENCER 53-FT KETCH, aft cockpit. Designed, built and equipped for offshore cruising. Property modified and fitted out for short-handed sailing. Call or write for complete, detailed description. Will deliver anywhere. $129,000. (360) 437-0153 or Amity, P.O. Box 65472, Port Ludlow, WA 98365.

45- FTSTARRATTMORGAN YAWL. Fast, strong performance cruiser. Aft cabin, fiberglass with stainless and aluminum rig, new engine, sails, anchors, 200 gal. water, 100 gal. diesel. Interior unfinished but otherwise ready to go! $36,500 or trade for nice 36'. (510) 841-0885.

68-FT ALAN ANDREWS CUSTOM supercruiser - spacious 3 cabin, 2 head layout - sleek, fast &fun - currently under construction in California. Call Bill (408) 377-7440.

CORONADO 41. Sleeps 6, good condition, 4 cyl. diesel, auto sail, many other extras, estate sale, an information sheet is available upon request by either phone or fax. (916) 666-7498.

65-FT STEEL CUTTER, 1987. Superb, fast, safe, N.Z. built world cruiser. 4 cabins, ideal for family or charter. Lying Auckland. Ready to go or stay for America’s Cup. Only $230,000 U.S. See Latitude Sept. 94, page 185. Write Box 331063, Takapuna, Auckland, N.Z.

WARRIOR, 50-FT BRITT CHANCE cold-molded sloop (cutter rig), 1970. Successful IOR ocean racer. Excellent condition. Fully equipped. 1991 Perkins, MaxProp, radar, fridge, electric windlass, etc. Call (808) 264-0099 with mailing address. Located Hawaii. Motivated. $85,000 obo.

1985 CT 54.120 hp Ford-Lehman, 8 kw Northern Lights, complete electronics, 3 staterooms, 21/2 heads, AC, washer/dryer, cruised extensively. Style and performance. Specs and survey on request. $260,000. (305) 462-2276.

AEOLUS, LOD 40-FT. Full keel, gaff-rigged cut¬ ter, 1904. Rebuilt keel timber up 1990 by re¬ spected shipwright utilizing quality air-dried woods, fastenings, fitted with copper bottom and tanbark sails. Lost dream. Reasonable cash offer. (510) 286-7983. Slip K-136, Berkeley Marina.

1986 COLVIN STEEL SCHOONER. (52' LOD) comfortable proven world cruiser/liveaboard, lug rig sails, 85 hp Perkins diesel, Grunert refrigera¬ tion/freezer. Full electronics, watermaker, autopi¬ lot, etc. Reduced, take $100,000 obo; consider various tradeS/real estate. (503) 484-3812.

NEWPORT 41, 1984 sloop. Original owner. Daysailed in Bay only. Rod rigging, Harken roller furl, CNG stove, factory modified winch pods for single-handing. Diesel engine w/ low hours. Extra water tanks. Custom canvas, s/s cockpit enclo¬ sure. Fast. $69,500. (707) 252-6347.

FORCE FIFTY KETCH (51' LOD) Strong, com¬ fortable, proven world cruiser/liveaboard. Double Salon w/ two stations. Roller furling sails, work¬ shop area, spares, extra sails, watermaker, etc. Take $111,000 obo. Consider various trades in¬ cluding real estate, power or sail. May finance. Roger Perry (415) 331-5251 or (800) 728-7254.

34-FT ATKINS KETCH, 1961. At 47-ft LOA Auwana is constructed of Alaskan yellow cedar laid on Apitong frames. Completely restored (1991 1994) from fasteners to sails and from electrical system to rebuilt Yanmar with new transmission. Over $100,000 invested. Auwana was built and restored with passion, has wonderful balance under sail, is in rhythm with the ocean, and is many times a trans-Pacific vet. $65,000 buys the deal of a lifetime. Call Ted or Cathy at (510) 523-6186.

1947 ATKIN 28-FT, double-ended cutter, Tortuga, Volvo MD2 w/60 hours on total rebuild, 6' headroom, four adult bunks, stroilg huH, salty charac¬ ter, spacious foredeck, able South Seas/Mex. vet. Not a restoration project. Lying LA. Asking $10,000. Chuck (310) 438-0873. 40-FT CHRIS CRAFT CONSTELLATION. 1959 classic seeks liveaboard owner. Mahogany-onoak, VHF, depth, compass, head, galley, hot water, microwave, AC/DC refrig, delta canvas, 5 hp inflatable, rebuilt fresh-water cooled V-8’s. Hard work’s done. Asking $45,000. (510) 7939786 of fax (510) 793-5216 for details. 38' FARALLONE CLIPPER. Classic 1955 Stephens. Mahogany/oak/bronze. New standing rigging, alternator, holding tank Rewired engine and 12y panel. Call for details. $25,000. (415) 728-9506, eves. CLASSIC 1940 HUNTER. Comfortable liveaboard. Lots of storage. Mahogany in and out. Full galley, VHF, depth finder, stereo, dinghy, ground tackle, 1 lOv AC, telephone, etc., etc. $10,500. (415) 567-4598. CLASSIC SEABIRD YAWL. Built from original 1899 plans (available) documented. Museum con¬ dition, gaff-rigged, deadeyes, teak decks, Tasma¬ nia ironbark blocks, bronze fittings. Exterior teak, interior mahogany. New Yanmar, recent haulout, only authentic Seabird on coast. Sausalito. Pho¬ tos, (415) 332-5293.

37-FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN. Full batt. main, Hood furling, Yanmar diesel, windvane, autopilot, solar panels, wind gen. Mexico, Hawaii vet. Lo¬ cated San Carlos, Mexico. Will deliver. Looking for trailerable tri. Glen (619) 659-9132.

COLUMBIA 1966 SABRE. 6 hp Johnson. Fun & fast. $2,250. Also Rhodes 19 daysailer with trailer, $550. (707) 542-8911.

18-FT HOBIE CAT with trailer and box, double trapeze. $1,500 obo. Work: (707) 646-7055; home (707) 642-9957.

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TRADEWINDS 28. Molded fiberglass (hand laid) trimaran with 16 hp Renault diesel with low hours. Sloop rigged, 3' draft fin keel, many sails. VHF, DS, autopilot and many accessories. Call (510) 245-0667. $15,000, trade, obo. STILETTO 27 CATAMARAN. 20+ knots. Racer/ cruiser. Totally upgraded in 1994. Beautiful, strong, trailerable, 10 hp Honda. $15,500 obo. Can fi¬ nance. (707) 274-1875, eves, after 7pm. PIVER NUGGET 24-FT TRI. Production fiber¬ glass hulls, alum, mast, sloop rig, good sails, motormount. New battery. $2,250 obo. San Rafael berth, $40 month. Also: Hobie 18' (disassembled), no trailer or sails, '95 tags, $500. (415) 383-0925. 63-FT FIBERGLASS/PLYWOOD CATAMARAN. Built in 1990. Twin 75 hp Volvo diesels. Needs mast, rigging interior finish work. $12,000 obo, trade. 1961 30-ft Trojan cabin cruiser converted for liveaboard. No engine, $2,000 obo. 1980 25-ft MacGregor sloop, no trailer, $1,800. Call (510) 532-1332. 16-FT HOBIE CATAMARAN, good condition, new colorful sails. $750 obo. Call (415) 595-2155. SOLARIS 42-FT Bridgedeck catamaran. Profes¬ sionally built in f/g to Lloyd’s highest specifica¬ tions. Luxurious teak interior with 4 double state¬ rooms. Comfortable cruising. Twin Mercedes die¬ sels, radar, GPS, AP, windvane. Life raft, wind¬ lass, hard dodger, dinghy & davits, freezer, in¬ verter, etc. $139,000. (415) 331-3925.

POWER & HOUSEBOATS 28-FT BAYLINER VICTORIA SUNBRIDGE. New engine! New outdrive! Worth $7,000. GPS and fishfinder work $3,000, queen berth and V-berth, bath w/shower, kitchen, 130 mile range. Excellent salmon and weekend boat. $17,500. Serious call¬ ers only. Chris (415) 883-2443. 1965 CHRIS CRAFT. 27 feet, 327 gasoline, VHF, Loran, fish finder, radar, sleeps 4, galley, head, hanging closets, lifejackets, flare kit, etc. $6,500. Berthed Pillar Pt, (415) 728-2229. Keep calling.

MULTIHULLS

CLASSICS

at discount prices. High performance Alternators, Regulators, Batteries — the whole works, including design service from ihe experts! FREE 16-page brochure. (206) 784-8100. Cruising Systems, 6042 Seaview Ave., NW, Seattle, WA 98107

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1951, 47-FT CHRIS CRAFT CATALINA. Out¬ rider. Twin 4-53 Detroit “inclines”, Velvet drive trans, Onan 7500 watt, air con., washer-dryer, dinghy, FurUno radar, autopilot, full galley, dual head with shower, refer-freezer, sleeps 8. $32,750. (415) 728-1630 or (415) 728-2310.

F-27 TRI, 1992. Hull #331 plus trailer. All options - little used - boat cover. $55,000. (916) 265-8375 from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. PST.

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32-FT GAFF CUTTER. Go anywhere ocean cruiser launched 1982. Fiberglass NA designed hull, 20,000 dsp, diesel, expertly custom built to extremely sturdy standards. Excellent condition, completely equipped. 6 tanbark sails, 1 G&Y spindrifter. $89,500. Call/fax (360) 849-4242 for details and equipment list.

52’6" BAGLIETTO MY, Italy, 1971. Twin Detroits V-8-71-T 340 hp each. New Awlgrip, electronics, survey. 10' hardbottom Achilles dinghy + 5 hp Honda. 2 stations w/hydraulic steering. 2 state¬ rooms, 2 heads w/shower. 2 saloons, sleeps 8. Maintained like new. (415) 775-9869. $109,000. 1949 STEPHENS 36-FT. Cedar on oak; Navy brass fastened; recent bottom job. Needs work. $3,500. (510) 684-3458. 37-FT X 11 1/2-FT RIVERQUEEN. Great liveaboard. Good condition, lots more. $10,250 obo. (415) 332-8551, Gregory; (415) 907-0574 Pager.

BLUE WATER BOAT & BREAKFAST will offer a romantic sailing adventure for one couple from St. Martin to Trinidad. Portions of the cruise may be booked. Call for more information. (809) 774-5630, 6 am-2 pm

AJ^OODRUM MARINE

complete mobiU shop

Specializing in custom interior cabinetry. Tables, cabinets, countertops, decks, cabinsoles, for power or sail.

call Lon Wood rum at: / 1 C OO'*) *A /U

CHARTERS, DELIVERIES & LESSONS

SHOOTING STARS - BOAT PHOTOGRAPHY

Let me show you how to get the most enjoyment out of your boat. Offering full range of marine servies, including yacht management. U.S. Coast Guard licensed skipper — Serving the Bay Area. Phone/Fax: (510) 233-7059 • Joe Guthrie

You in action: at the start/finish, setting the kite, at the mark. At Leisure, Cruising the Bay. Doing it right/wrong. As'you like it! Chris Giovacchini.(707) 938-1736

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36-FT VIKING, 1964. Spacious, clean liveaboard,

wood hull, twin V8’s, 200 gal. monel tanks, AP, VHF, double bed stateroom with shower, hot water, full kitchen with large fridge, full canvas, dual control flying bridge. $20,000 obo. Possible trade, finance. (510) 814-0121.

PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25-FT. Excellent boat for S.F. Bay. Diesel, galley, head, sleeps 5. Gas House Cove berth. $200 quarterly includes every¬ thing, even maintenance. $3,000firm. Phillip(415) 552-8523. DUFOUR 31. Seeking 1/2 partner, flexible or

35-FT CHRIS CRAFT, 1957 hard top cruiser.

Mahogany hull and bottom planking in very good condition. Hull completely re-fastened gunnels to keel. Removed engines need repair or replace¬ ment. Fittings and assemblies available for reinstallation. $5,000. (510) 843-8195.

PARTNERSHIPS SANTANA 35 Charter/racing package. Twice National Champion. Excellent shape, 1983. Mini¬ mum three month charter buys full/part time us¬ age, racing/cruising or, will trade one year charter for new racing sails. Negotiable. Berthed in Alameda. (510) 834-6301 after 11 am. BEST P-SHIP ONTHE B AY! MORGAN 38: Share expenses with 4 amiable partners. Sausalito. Just hauled, refurbished. New main &jib. Rollerfurling. Cabin-top mainsheet traveler. Electric windlass, diesel, 6 berths, refrigerator, many extras. Use at your own convenience. (415) 964-2801.

structured. Beautiful boat, Frers design, lots of extras. Paradise Cay berthed. Great partners. (415)453-8100. LANCER 36. 50% interest available in 1982 Bill

weekender (cockpit accommodates 4+ adults comfortably), '94 Johnson o/b, '95 haulout. $900 obo, $54/mo. Russ, (408) 458-9020.

WANTED: TWO SIGNET SMARTPACK displays

ICOM 700 SSB transceiver - excellent condition $900, Autohelm 5000 autopilot old style, with linear motor • $700. Signet MK 254 WP/WS $100, Signet Windpoint for System 1500 - $80. Call 408-270-8108 Sunday thru Thursday after 7:00 PM or leave message.

in working condition. Call (408) 270-8108 Sunday thru Thursday after 7:00 pm or leave message.

ATOMIC4. Engine andtransmission.Waterpump,

Night watchman, caretaker plus rent, 2 or 3 year minimum. No drugs or alcohol. Good references. Jack Robertson (408) 691-0645.

WANTED: 406 EPIRB, marine ham radio and

tuner, 45# CQR anchor, handheld VHF, watermaker, SCUBA compressor. Call Mark, Monday-Thursday 7am-4pm (415) 634-2387; or (415) 367-4939 evenings and weekends.

Lee sloop. Outstanding Bay boat, never raced. Original owners, dark blue Awlgrip LPU topsides, five sails, roller furling, cruising interior, epoxy bottom, dinghy, downtown Sausalito berth, com¬ pletely equipped. Great deal, great boat. Experi¬ enced sailors only, please. Selling partner has bought new boat. Call George Backhus at (415) 289-1308 or Alson Silva formore info: Office (408) 748-9398; evening (408) 288-6307.

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TARTAN 10,1979. 33-ft. racing sloop. Recently

SEEK TO RENT, reasonably, a space for building

replaced knotmeter and depthfinder. Also has Loran, VHF and windspeed. Well equipped and in good condition. Race or daysail in Bay or ocean. Will consider equity or nonequity. (415) 892-8753.

a 31 -ft. fiberglass sailboat anywhere in the greater Bay Area or Delta areas. Call (408) 737-9276.

WANTED: TRAILER suitable for 25' O’Day (408)

SAILOR NEEDS BOAT. Have cash for 34'-38' late model Crealock-Perry type cruising sailboat. Under $150,000. (714) 646-0365.

BENETEAU 35-FT OCEANIS, 1988.1/3 equity share. Flexible use. Original owner. 7 yrs TLC perfect condition 3 new sails, rollerfurling, skylit, bright interior, 3 separate cabins, sleeps 6. Ample storage. Alameda. (415) 967-7359. 1981 Catalina 30 one-third timeshare - flexible

calendar-dean;fresh bottom paint; 24 hp Yanmar; located at S.F. Marina/Gas House Cove. $275/ mo. (415)731-4956. SPECIAL GROUP of like-minded people

partnershipping a 60+ foot blue water sailboat for personal use in the South Pacific. Partners just bring a tooth brush, for a world class adventure (scuba, passage-making, island-hopping?) in Tahiti, Fiji, The Great Barrier Reef, or?! We all decide the itinerary and the skipper/partner-couple will keep the boat ship shape and well stocked with shades and sun tan lotion! About $20,000 ea. should do it. Call (916) 484-5709 or (916) 823-9309 or FX. (916) 888-0672.

FOR SALE: ALL ITEMS in like-new condition. Balmar Mariner stove - 4 burner oven with broiler ($800). TwoLewmar55,3-speed chrome winches ($900 each) - will trade for Lewmar 52 self-tailing. Nissan 3.5 hp outboard ($500). Avon Rover 3.10 inflatable ($1,100). CQR 45 lb. ($350). Chelsea Boston Barometer ($130). 1 Danforth Standard S22 25 lb. anchor ($40). Lewmar 40, 2-speed chrome winch ($250). Call (408) 267-9068. HOOD SAILS, used on Islander 41. Jibtop $250, tall boy $250, 110 jib $400, 0.5 oz. tri-radial spinnaker $325, #1 genoa $600. All in excellent condition. (619) 286-1775. SAILBOAT CRADLE/TRAILER. Adaptable,

TRADE

1-2 weekends a month and would like to stay on and use a sail- or motor bota, 24-30 feet. Respon¬ sible experienced professional consider share, equity, rent, etc. (916) 589-0791 eves.

Pearson or similar, prefer wheel over tiller for my 1966 restored Mustang coupe white/red and cash. Call Fred at (510) 654-0733 or (510) 786-2300.

Used. 10 months old. $290 obo. Will sell with or without impeller. This sells for $500 new, it’s a bargain. Call Juan at (415) 506-2548 days; (415) 552-7171 eves.

USED GEAR carpentry and restoration needs dental TLC. Will trade skills with equally experienced dentist. Gary (415) 398-4274. TRADE YOUR TWIN 24 TO 26-FT SEARAY with

trailerfor34' fiberglass, dsl sloop. (510) 372-5640. 59 MGA TO TRADE for sailboat. 2000 cc engine,

5 speed trans. (408) 293-0601,8 a.m. to 5 p.m. TRADE YOUR TRAILERABLE SAILBOAT on

purchase of 41-ft sailboat, a Cheoy Lee offshore ketch, complete for cruising. Priced below value, $58,500. Licensed capt. available for delivery from Brookings, Oregon. (503) 469-0540. WILL TRADE EQUITY in new, beautiful Mt. Shasta

duplex foryoursailboat; property value $250,000, equity $50,000, or completely rebuilt Victorian, 2,800 sq. ft., licensed as B & B, $395,000, equity approx. $150,000. Both properties are new, de¬ luxe, upper-end properties. (916) 926-3762.

WANTED WANTED: CAL 22. Any condition, trailer and o/b

motor a plus. Dave (916) 927-6682.

HAPPY BOAT COMPANY Marine carpentry & finishing • Bright Work • Deck Repair and Sealing Custom Cabinet Work & Design • Fiberglass Repair • Marine Plumbing 30 Years U.S. & European Experience Call Tony & Yvonne, (510) 370-7911 PACIFIC MALI SI INS 111 III SMALL, HANDS-ON & SELF PACED CLASSES DIESEL, ENC TROUBLESHOOTING. ELECTRICAL. REFER NEXT CLASS : JULY ISA IS ALAMEDA CA.

CALL (510)-522-7300 FOR INFO. PAR

heavy duty, all steel 4 axle carrier for 28 to 34 x 10 boat. Removable axle assembly for rail or deck cargo. Wet launchable, lights, brakes, 2 5/16 ball. In California. $3,500 negotiable. (503) 929-4282. KNOTMETER, B & G Network speed for sale.

BOATWRIGHT with 25 yrs. experience in fine ERICSON 30. Experienced sailor for partnership interest in well-maintained Ericson berthed in Sausalito. Rollerfurling jib, Loran, VHF, KM, gaso¬ line engine, oven/stove, depth, standing head room. Call Lynda (415) 355-0263. Returning home from the Caribbean July 6.

carburetor, intake manifold, already rebuilt. Valves have been reground. Muffler included. $1,500. Call Tom Marlow at (408) 773-8773.

WANTED: O’DAY TEMPEST. (510) 937-3236. WANTED: BOAT TO USE. I am in Marin County

YOUR 30-32 INBOARD DIESEL Islander, Ericson, COLUMBIA 22, Santa Cruz slip 1 /3 interest. Great

WANTED: PLACETO FINISH42-FTWESTSAIL

FOR SALE: CONTAINER WORKSHOP and Marine Canvas/Upholstery Business. Includes 26' insulated container (on wheels) with electric, light¬ ing, canvas awning, roll-up canvas door and lockable roll-up door. Equipment includes tables, shelv¬ ing, tools, supplies and some inventory. A com¬ plete 'shop on wheels’, ready to go anywhere for $6900.00. Will sell containerworkshopseparately forapprox. 50% less (w/osewing equipment). Call (415) 332-9231. MAST & BOOM for 32' to 42' power boat or trawler. Complete with blocks and line, stainless steel support cables, heavy duty stainless steel tilt down base, anchor and running lights, TV ant. mount, stainless steel spreader lights and brass bell, excellent condition. - best offer. Anchor wind¬ lass for chain and rope, stainless steel handle $175. Sextant, brass complete in wood case, vintage 1919, Amer. Shipping Board, Wlfrid O. White, excellentconditi on, has antique whitevalve. Best offer. Bill (707) 576-0632; (707) 894-9526. CRUISEAIR. 12000 BTU, 115v reverse cycle air conditioner. Heat and cool your boat. New, still in box, $1,250. Seacook one-burner, gimbaled pro¬ pane stove, $125. 16 x 11p x 11/8 shaft, bronze, 2-blade prop, $75. O'Brian windsurfer, beginner/ interned $350. T rades considered (510)582-7498.

TWO OUTBOARD MOTORS. 150 hp Force

(Chrysler) less than 30 hrs. Beautiful shape, well maintained, $4,000 each obo. Buy both and get hydraulic steering controls in the deal. See at Jack London Sq. Call (510) 832-3565 or (916) 8916946 or (707) 923-4604. QUALITY CRUISING GEAR: Monitor windvane.

$2,100; Avon 6-man liferaft, single floor, double wall, cannister, inspected 9/93, $2,100; SSB Icom M600 with AT 120 auto tuner, $1,600; 35 lb. CQR, $220. Call Tammie (707) 664-1689. SALE: MARINE HARDWARE, fasteners, sup¬

plies, tools, furniture, office, etc. Contractors ma¬ terials - July 8th 9-6,1914 Standford at Clement Alameda. Across from Alameda Marina, Gate #5. All cash offered considered. LORAN IMPULSE 2830, Loran C/fish finder, like new, only $200. for quick sale. Call (415) 8962523. Leave message. VOLVO MD2B DIESEL ENGINE. 500 hours on

new sleeves and rings. Includes 110 Amp Balmar alternator; Balmar ABC quick charging system. Double front pulley for added alternator or refrig¬ eration compressor. Maintenance history avail¬ able on request. (510) 232-5800 $2000.

OFFSHORE CRUISING SEMINAR #80 Exciting 20 hr. wknd course covering important topics: Outfitting, Safety, Medicine, Finances, Provisioning & more. John Neal, Caro! Hasse, Barbara Marrett and Robert Perry look forward to sharing the latest info. Sept. 2&3, Seattle. - Armchair Sailor *2110 Westlake N. Seattle WA 98109 • (800)875-0852 Since 1977

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VILLAGE MARINE reverse osmosis desalinator.

27 YEAR-OLD MALE interested in crew position

600 gal. per day capacity. Power 110 vac. Pur¬ chased new, never used. Sacrifice at $3,750. Call (206) 549-4322.

for 3+ month voyage will share expenses. Call with any opportunities. Tim (408) 942-6023 or (408) 736-1177.

FOR SALE: 1985 HONDA outboard motor, $975, long shaft. 9.9 horsepower, 4 cycle. Includes fuel tank, low hours, like new. (707) 649-1623.

GAIN EXPERIENCE, 50-FT KETCH. Seven to 14

day legs down the coast, Sea of Cortez, Mexican Riveria, Panama. Figure costs about $25 per day. Ranger, 7420 W. 25th St., Tacoma WA 98466.

SPINNAKER POLE, length is 16 ft. end fitting to

end fitting/XP style; pole dia. is 31/2 inches. Hvy duty. Best offer. Steve (408) 353-4017 Iv. msg. SAILDRIVE. Yanmar 2 cylinder diesel, approxi¬

mately 800 hours, good engine, easy installation - Just cut a big hole in the bottom of your boat & glass in the motorm't. $3,500 obo. (805) 7724163

BERTHS & SLIPS FREE • DOCK SPACE Strawberry for boat 22-24 ft., 6 ft. draft, low tide, in exchange for occasional use. (415) 388-3793. DOCK SPACE/SAN RAFAEL CANAL Secure with locked access area. $4/foot. (415) 388-0838. DELUXE 50-FT SLIP at prestigious Pier 39. Ex¬ cellent location within Marina. Regular $50,000. Now $45,000. Please contact Walt Eller Com¬ pany, Santa Cruz, CA. (408) 476-5543.

DO YOU WANT TO SAIL? Male/female crew

members needed to help exercise my Hunter 30, San Francisco Bay. Experience is not necessary. Senior are especially welcome. Call Bob (209) 795-7554 wkdys, (510) 215-7228, wknds. COUPLE LOOKING for third crew person with

some offshore experience for Baha Ha Ha or Mexico to South Pacific passage (April to May ’96). 46-ft, extremely well equipped. Reply to suite 418,1001 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965, by August 15. PHYSICIAN IN BOSTON, some sailing experi¬ ence, 34 years old, looking to sail to Europe from the east coast after July 17, as a crew member. Call (617) 859-1415. TWO YOUNG SENIOR WIDOWS, very fit, one

experienced, one not, want to crew in warm wa¬ ters, Oct., Nov., Dec. 1995, with woman skipper. Will pay own transportation. Contact Louise, S.R. 7B, Captain Cook, HI 96704. (808) 328-2380. CREW WANTED: from Curacao, N.A. to Venezu¬

PROPERTY SALE /RENT MENDOCINO RETREAT RANCH w/sandy beach on Eel River. Well built home needs completing. Private setting w/ substantial usable acreage, plus adjacent to Gov’t land reserves. Ask $185,000 TIC consider partnerships and financing. Trade up or down for power, sail or Bay Area properly. Roger Perry (415) 331-5251, (800) 728-7254.

CREW FAMILY NEEDS CREW. Woman, to cook, help clean and navigate, accompanying two crewmen, couple and two children. 74-foot sailboat. No salary, but we pay food and fuel. Will cruise from Caribbean to South Pacific. (805) 482-5333. CREW POSITION WANTED, 38’-50' cruiser. Pre¬

fer circumnavigation. 36, adaptable, outgoing engineer, bluewater experience, physically/emo¬ tionally fit, mech/elect. skills. Share expenses. Will pay travel to/from boat worldwide. Avail. 1 /96. Fred, 270 Chichirica St. #905, Turnon, Guam, 96910, tel: 671-649-8806, fax: 671-649-8807.

ela, Grenada, Antigua, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Caymans, Mexico, Belize, Cuba, Florida Keys. Must participate as crew, cook and share ex¬ penses. December ’95 to March ’96.32-ft cutter, just completed 6 year circumnavigation. More information call Rod at (415) 927-4027.

to discover all the rainbows in the world and experience the Wonder of Double Rainbow. Lv msg. (310) 785-7099 or (213) 938-9024 or write 7233 Stearns Dr., L.A., CA 90035.

CLUBS/MEMBERSHIPS CLUB NAUTIQUE unlimited couples member¬ ship. We learned to sail, bought a boat and we’re outa here! Great instruction & fleet. Value$4,425, sell for $2,800 obo. Larry, Bonnie (707) 539-9259.

ship. ASA School of Year. Ongoing classes for beginners through advanced. Charier discounts. Large fleet new/well maintained boats, Alameda and Sausalito. Club and social activities. Trans¬ ferable membership value $4,425. Asking $3,250 OBO. 510-770-9202. CLUB NAUTIQUE single unlimited membership

(transferable. ASAand US/Sailing certified classes from beginner to offshore. Alameda/Sausalito club locations. Took classes, bought, boat, going cruis¬ ing. Value: $2,750, asking $2,375. Includes two free daysails aboard my Tartan 40 ($710 value). (510) 582-7498. CAL SAILING CLUB offers Race Association

Membership for $50 to those sailors in need of club sponsorship for participation in YRA/SBRA and class racing events. Call (415) 388-5116.

Free ASA, US Sailing classed, charter discounts, Sausalito, Alameda fleets. Come on, you want to sail. Now is the time. $1,000 off regular member¬ ship. $1,950 obo. Scott (415) 572-8165, Iv msg.

have 3+ months to play. I am a youthful, slim and fit, multilingual European woman, age 52. U.S. citizen, educated, adventurous and curious world traveler. Have cruised the South Pacific and Mexico. Want attractive, intelligent, fit man with sailboat to explore the islands and plan eventual future long-range cruising. Erica Abt, 104-A Wahikuli Rd„ Lahina, HI 96761. (808) 661-3568. P.S. Marty in St. Thomas: lost your address, please write again.

ship. ASA classes, charter discounts. Large fleet, new and well maintained, Alameda and Sausalito. Value $4,125. Asking $2,950. (408) 247-5266.

RAINBOW GODDESS (SWF, musician, writer, therapist) ISO, SWM, 30-60 journey into love/life. Beautiful inside/outside, intelligent, adventurous, joyful, caring with variety of interests including sailing, cooking, traveling, looking for companion

Are you planning a cruise? Who's going to handle yhour mail? Who's going to pay your bill? Want an affordable, dependable, professional bonded service company to take care of these details? Safe Harbor Services 800-996-1950 for brochures.

BAADS, the Bay Area Association of Disabled

Sailors, offers safe, exciting recreational opportu¬ nities on San Francisco Bay for physically dis¬ abled sailors and able-bodied volunteers. No sail¬ ing experience necessary; adaptive equipment available. Cash and other tax deductible dona¬ tions welcomed. (415) 281-0212.

JOBS WANTED I LOVE TO SAIL, EXPLORE & TRAVEL I would like to make a living doing it! Experienced, I'm good! Chris Giovacchini (707) 938-1736.

CLUB NAUTIQUE, single unlimited membership.

CLUB NAUTIQUE, unlimited couple member¬

help bring a boat up from Newport Beach. 30 ft. Expenses paid. 3 or 4 days. Leave Sat. 28th, San Jose Airport 11:00 a.m. (408) 457-7355 leave msg. for James.

NON-PROFIT

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GREEK ISLES! Flying to Greece in September,

CREW WANTED: one or two persons needed to

edge & 3-5 yrs. exp. in advertising or catalog copywriting. Also requires excellent writing, gram¬ mar, spelling & punctuation skills & typing skills of 50 wpm. Must have an enthusiastic attitude, an ability to work independently & and be able to juggle simultaneous projects. Macintosh Pagemaker & Work skills a definite plus. Our associates enjoy a smoke & drug-free environ¬ ment. Position located in Watsonville, CA. Fax or send resume to West Marine, Ad# VA310LAT, 500 Westridge Dr., Watsonville, CA 95076. Fax (408) 728-2736. EOE.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FIJI: 45-FT CHARTER YACHT PLUS beachfront

home with guest accommodation. Successful ten year operation. Will sell separately. Would con¬ sider suitable property in part exchange. US $550,000. Fiji phone/fax 011-679-880141. BEAUTIFUL

JOB OPPORTUNITIES DO YOU SAIL & DIVE? If you do and you would like to make a living in a warm water place like Costa Rica or the Caribbean Sea, call John at (510) 235-1449. Let’s talk. SALES POSITION OPEN forknowledgeable sail¬

boat salesperson. Active San Francisco location. (415) 495-5335. COPYWRITER: WEST MARINE has an exciting,

new opportunity for a copywriter. Will prepare product copy for use in ads, flyers and signage, maintain a copy database & perform research. Requires high degree of boating product knowl¬

LAKEFRONT

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Cleariake. Great location to start a sailing school which could be developed while utilizing the exist¬ ing well established clientele. Or how about a retreat investment for a sailing club? $640,000. Details: call Ann Campbell, agent. (707) 279-2790 WELL ESTABLISHED MANUFACTURER of

marine heating equipment. Ten year old producer and marketer of high quality marine water and space heating equipment is available. Included is inventory, spare parts, test bench, show exhibits, marketing literature and artwork. All product speci¬ fications and supplier’s lists and extensive cus¬ tomer lead databases are also included. Seller will give technical assistance in setting up. Manufac¬ turing is mostly assembly and not labor intensive so relocation is veiy feasible. (513) 651-2666. Fax (513) 651-0633.

SAN PEDRO BOAT STORAGE — located in San Rafael — • Launch Ramp • Dry Storage • Shrink-wrap Boat Covers

(415) 453-2209

WORLDWIDE DIESEL POWER Volvo & Perkins engines 10 to 85 hp Rebuilt, guaranteed, ready to ship. Our rebuilt parts and engines represent great value. Free oil analysis with purchase. Cash paid for your dead iron — basket cases welcome, phone: (707) 987-3971 • fax: (707) 987-9785

Hand Carved Nameboards Ornamentation

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Woodworking

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IS YOUR BOTTOM CLEAN?

-Connecting you with a network of professional boat movers nationwide. Call for knowledgeable, friendly information on all of your yacht transportation needs. Stacey Parsons, (408) 475-3702, fax (408) 475-5621 • 2900 S. Main Street • Soquel, CA 95073

Cali Bob for Just Bottoms Underwater Hull Cleaning • Zincs Changed • Fully Insured Alameda, Oakland, San Francisco (510)814-9150 • Emergency pager# (510) 297-1276

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CURTAINS LOSING TEETH? CUSHIONS SAGGING? We can give your boat a 90’s interior featuring new marine fabrics of Sunbrella, Olefin, etc. at affordable prices. 100% satisfaction guaranteed/no deposit Call Bobbi at (415) 331-5919 for free estimate.

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Beckwith, Craig, Yacht Sales.210 Bellhaven Charters . 163 Berkeley Marina. 119 Berkeley Marine Center. 57 Blue Pacific. 163 Boeshield T-9. 139 Boy Scouts - Pacific Harbor.209 Boy Scouts - San Francisco.207 Boy Scouts - Stanford. 119 British Marine . 54 Brisbane Marina . 139 Cal Berkeley. 177 Cal-Marine Electronics. 45 Caliber Yachts. 12 California Custom Canvas.79 California Maritime Academy.206 Capitola Bay Marina. 78 Caribbean Yacht Charters.161 Chain Mate. 80 Charters Northwest. 163 Charter'Yukon Jack' . 160 Chula Vista Marina. 129

City Yachts. 19 Club de Yates Palmira . 163 Club Nautique .44, 45 Compass Yachts. 207 Conch Charters. 160 Crane, D.F. 33 Crisis At Home Intervention Center ... 150 Cruiser's Guide Video. 119 Davis Instruments. 33 Defender . 70 Desolation Sound Yacht Charters .163 Detco Marine. 135 DeWitt Studio . 162 Diesel Fuel Filtering . 60 Diesel Krud Busters..;... 177 Dimen Marine Financing .62 Dolfin Details. 140 Downwind Marine. 190 E-Z Jax Systems. 206 Eagle Yacht Sales. 51 Edgewater Yacht Sales . 209 Edinger Marine Service . 74

Emery Cove Yacht Harbor .141 Emeryville City Marina . 17 Essex Credit. 46 Eurosail Charters & Brokers .212 Everfair Enterprises. 150 Famous Foam Factory. 61 Farallon Electronics . 12, 20 Farallone Yacht Sales . 51 First New England Financial.14 Flaherty, Willie, Real Estate.204 Forespar. 206 Fortman Marina. 12 Forum on Economic Accountability.63 Fuel Oil Polishing/USS Clean Machine 76 Ganis Credit Corp. 42 Gentry's Kona Marina. 206 Gianola & Sons. 140 Gleason Sailmakers. 87 Golden Gate Yacht Club.32 Golden State Diesel. 65 Gorman. Bill, Yachts. 15 GPSC Charters. 156 Grand Marina . 2 Hackworth Insurance. 8 Handcraft Mattress Co. 140 Hansen Rigging. 1 £4

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Harbor Bay Realty. Harken . Hathaway, Reiser & Raymond . Hawaiian Chieftain . Haynes Sails . Helmut's Marine Service. Hewett Marine . Hogin Sails. Hood Sailmakers. Hutchinson Sports. International Marine. Island Girl. Island Yacht Club. Johnson Boat Works. Kappas Marina. Kensington Yachts. Kevin's Quality Marine. King Yacht Charters. Kissinger Canvas. Kopper's. Ladd's Marina. Lager Yacht Brokerage . Lange, Cecil M., ana Son. Larsen Sails. Latitude 38 Adventure Charters . Leading Edge Sails. Lee Sails.

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ADVtKUSERS' INDEX ABC Yachts. 214 Action Marine. 191 Alameda Prop & Machine .76 Allemand Bros. Boat Repair.147 Alpha Systems . 71 Altamarine Electronics. 87 American Batteiy . 206 American Omnitech . 69 American Sailing . 18 Ample Power. 12 Anacortes Yacht Charters .163 Anderson's Boat Yard. 41 Arena Yacht Sales. 75 Avon Seagull Marine. 21 Bag Lady, The. 147 Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers .210 Ballena Isle Marina. 53 Ballenger Spars. 125 Bankson, Ron, Yacht & Boat Sales .... 209 Barnett Yacht Insurance . 191 Bay Island Yachts. 6,7 Bay Riggers . 176 Bay Ship & Yacht Co. Boat Repair.61 Bay Wind Yacht Sales. 215

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WAYNE MOSKOW Broker & Sales raws spats 59' Custom Cockpit MY, 1985/86 ..$685,000 57' Carri Craft Catamaran, 1972 ... $68,500/offers 50' Lien Wha MY, 1988. $279,000 43' Bayliner Aft Cabin MY, 1991 ,..$151,500/offers

36' Islander, 1976. Finest example of an Islanderon the market. So clean it shines. $39,500. 36' Islander, 1978, diesel.$42,500.

43' Bayliner 4388 Mid-cabin MY, 1993.. $179,500 41' Sunharbor Trawler, 1979. $102,000 40' Silverton 40X Express, 1990 ... $99,000/trade

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$ 163,000 BERTH 75, PORTS O’CALL VILLAGE, SAN PEDRO, CA 90731 PH. (310) 831-2363, FAX (310) 831-1094

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Hull #11. The finest example of this proven Frers design anywhere. Always professionally maintained since delivery from the factory in 1991. 3 S/Rs, and a comprehensive inventory presents her as a true "turnkey” yacht.

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These well respected boats are STRONG, FAST and LUXURIOUS. Built with fine Canadian craftsmanship. Offered in either the original 41 configuration or with the new "sugar scoop" transom. 43’ - 3 listings in brokerage.

Hull #40. This Sparkman and Stephens design is offered by her original owner. A true world cruise-ready yacht. Hydraulic furling, power winches, incredible cruising inventory. All records since new. Ready to go anywhere.

63' DYNAMIQUE, ‘83. 3 dbl S/Rs. Extensive equipment list. Outstanding charter boat. Unique opportunity.

32' BENETEAU, '91. Offered by her original owner. Fully equipped for coastalcruisingorclubracing, sistership

38' SWAN, 74. S&S design. An outstanding opportunity to own a Swan. Always well maintained.

54' ROBERTS/KANTER, '90. Steel hull ketch. Equippedfor worid cruising. Must sell. Reduced.

SELECT BROKERAGE LIST

38’ ERICSON, 1983. Great liveaboard, aft cabin layout with many custom features. Motivated seller.

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44' 46' 46' 47' 50' 51' 55' 55' 62'

ANNAPOLIS,'63.$62,500 CHOATE,'80.$79,000 SWAN.Inquire PERRY KETCH,'79.$79,000 FORCE 50,'78.$165,000 FORMOSA,'80.$159,000 FRERS, '88.$475,000 TAYANA, '87.$425,000 RHODES Cstm, 1949... $285,000

SWAN 53, '89/'95. Unquestionably the BEST 53 in the world. Complete custom refit. Better than new.

Exciting new Farr design

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SANTA CRUZ 72 (under construction). Unique opportunity to finish to your specs as IMS 70, IOR 70, orfast cruiser.

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400 Harbor Drive, Suite B • Sausalito, CA 94965

MUMM 30. Exciting new Bruce Farr design built by Carroll Marine, Ltd. 24 boats on order. Call for details.

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TESTIMONIAL OF THE MONTH "Thank you for helping us achieve our dream... We will be indebted to you throughout the years... You have given new meaning to the term gentleman ...and will always be a valued friend." - Tolmgn Geffs MacGregor 65 Titan M:ke Kushner • Dave Marshall

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radar, GPS, AP,SSB,SL $130,000.

42' SOLARIS CATAMARAN, 76. Fiberglass catamaran built to Lloyd's 1OOA1+specs, 4 dbl strms, 2 heads, twin Mercedes dsls, Cruise equipped. $159,000.

41' LAVRONIS, '88. Performance cutter. Swan-like) style. Light wood interior. Teak decks. $89,500.

SELECTED CRUISING YACHTS SAIL L0D BUILDER

38' EASTERLY. Spacious interior, clean decks, large cockpit, powerful Westerbeke diesel. $39,000.

36' 5-211 METER AFT, '79. Excellent finish above and below decks. Epoxy bottom. Roller furling, ST winches, Volvo dsl engine, $48,000.

L0D BUILDER

PRICE

36'

FREEDOM

'88

$110,000

65'

MacGREGOR

'86

$139,500

36'

ISLANDER

$44,500

54'

ROBERTS STEEL

'83

$249,000

36'

PEARSON

'85

$69,000

54'

VENNEKENS

$170,000

36'

S-211 meter aft

$48,000

50’

FORCE 50

$111,000

36' WATKINS

'81

$49,500

47' GARDEN KETCH

$67,500

MORGAN

$24,500

COLUMBIA

$62,000

BENETEAU

'90

$79,000

HANS CHRISTIAN

$169,000

34'

WYLIE

44'

PETERSON

'80

$118,500

33’

HUNTER

$34,000 $29,000

41'

LAVRONIS

'88

$89,500

33'

GURNEY/HUISMAN

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$39,950

41'

MORGAN

2from $61,500

33'

HUNTER

$29,000

40‘

OLSON

'83

$85,000

32'

ERICSON

$22,500

39'

CAL

$46,000

32'

MORGAN

$33,000

38'

CABO RICO

$89,000

32'

WESTSAIL

$40,000

38'

EASTERLY

$39,000

31'

CHEOYLEE

$27,000

37’

HUNTER

$50,000

30'

PEARSON 303

'84

$41,500

HUNTER LEGEND

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$84,500

29'

CAL

$17,000

RANGER

$39,500

28'

ISLANDER

$14,000

POWER L0D 60' 53' 51' 49 48' 46' 45 44' 42' 42' 42’ 42'

BUILDER STEPHENS FDMY HATTERAS BLUEWATER ALBIN TRAWLER CHRIS CRAFT CHRIS CRAFT CALIFORNIAN LUHRS CALIFORNIAN

HATTERAS LR CHRIS CRAFT SEA RAY 420 41' PRESIDENT FDMY 40' BEST WAYS FDMY 39 BESTWAYS 38' BAYLINER 34' CALIFORNIAN 34' LUHRS SPOFtTFISHER 32' UNIFLITE 31' RIVA 28' SEA RAY 25 PILOT CRUISER

YR '66 79 '83 '80 '85 '64 70

'69 '90 '81 '84 '82 '83 '90 79 78 '86 72

PRICE $350,000 $345,000 $145,000 $145,000 $210,000 $69,000 $269,500 $72,500 $120,000 $189,000 $75,000 $199,000 $109,500 $124,000 $90,000 $89,000 $55,000 $78,000 $49,500 $79,500 $22,000 $20,000

38' CABO RICO, '79. Traditional lull keel world cruiser. Exceptional quality and finish. $89,000.

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35' BENETEAU, '90. Performance racer cruiser. Unique wraparound portholes provide bright illumination below, impeccably maintained & modem interior. $79,000.

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35' NIAGARA, '81. Very high quality sloop, Westerbeke dsl, roller furling, autopilot, dodger. $67,000.

54' R08ERTS STEEL KETCH, '83. No compromise 3 staterm cruiser. Bright light oak interior. Gleaming blue LPU hull. Teak decks. New engine^ more. $305,000. Page 214 • UMUtlt • July, 1995

34' SABRE, '82. Dodger, cockpit cushions, autopilot, roller furling jib, ond Stow boom. Very clean. $58,000.

33' GURNEY/HUISMAN, '68. Aluminum hull. Strong, lightweight, fast. Gurney design. Perfect couple bluewater cruiser/racer. $39,950.

34' CALIFORNIAN, ’82. Twin Perkins 4-236 diesel Sedan, custom mahogany interior, galley down, davits & swim step, head w/ separate shower. $55,000.

32' WESTSAIl, 76. Solid cutter. Low use engine. Auto¬ pilot, extensive ground tackle. Rigging. Mechanically and structurally superior. $40,000.

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32' MORGAN. EAR BETTER THAN NEW. Extensive customizing and upgrading, new 3 cyl. FWC Yanmar in '91. $49,000.

65' MACGREGOR, '86. Fastest production boat built, attains speeds of 26 knots, yet can be single handed. Very clean. $139,500.

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GOLDEN WAVE 42.

Classy Robert Perry F/lSTcruiser.

N 30+. Modern interior. New listing.

fast, go fun.

CRUISING BOAT OF THE MONTH

Negotiate!

ERICSON 29. New Harken furler plus much more. New Listing.

GULFSTAR 43.

Great cruiser by an excellent company.

LORD NELSON.

Been there. Ready

to cruise again.

New Listing.

Now $79,500.

PEARSON 365. BIGGE $52,000.

36-footer.

Very clean.

MAJOR OPPORTUNITY LOCATION: CATALINA 25. Super clean "poptop” w/fixed keel. $8,900.

ISLANDER 28.

Shorthanded set up. Lines led aft. $16,950.

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Strong sales and marketing. Positive, motivated professionals.

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FREEDOM 36.

Excellent condition.

Gear for days.

Reduced.

BENETEAU FIRST 32. Trading Must sell. Now $39,900.

up.

SELECTED SAIL LISTINGS 25' Cal 225 78.9,900

29’ Ericson 73.12,950

30' O’Day 78.19,950

36' Freedom '88. 96,900

25' Catalina '80. 8,800 27' Canadian Seacraft'82 . 16,500

29' Ericson 76.New listing

32' Beneteau First '84. 39,900

38' CT (Ta Chaio). 64,500

’30' Catalina 75.19,950

32' Dreadnought '80 . 79,000

42' Golden Wave '82.Negotiate

27' Coronado 72.7,995

30' Tartan 78. 16,900

33' Lord Nelson custom '82 New listing

43’ Gulfstar 76 ketch. 79,500

27' Hunter'80 . 13,900

30' Newport 78. 17,950

35' Ericson 76.New listing

46' Rosborough gaff schooner. 67,500

28' Islander 77.16,950

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Nelson's Marine has been working closely wi John Townsend to optimize his MacGregor Black Jack. John and crew Carl Nelson are en¬ tered in this year's inaugural Doublehanded Divi sion. Race entries feature a diverse array oughbred boats including the new Sayonara, the Whitbread 60 America’s Chal¬ lenge, and a radical new ULDB schooner, an Elliott 62 built in New Zealand. Black Jack may be the sleeper in the list of hot rods. Nelson's upgraded the standard MacGregor with design consultation in hull and rig modifica¬ tions. Added were a new SC70 rig, a new forward bulkhead, strengthened chainplates, a rede¬ signed deck layout, and a new forward hatch, all creating a faster MacGregor. Nelson's also in¬ stalled Navico's new Corns instruments and a new Navico autopilot.

John Townsend & Carl Nelson prepare to doublehand 'Black Jack'

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