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confusion resulted. So, for 1979 Opening Day the Navy will be

Will this incident stop anybody from buying a Santana 20?

wheeling in a Frigate — whatever that is — to make room for all

We certainly doubt it; it’s been a remarkable successful as well

the ceremonies.

as innovative boat that large numbers of people seem to enjoy

And over at Pier 39 in San Francisco it looks like they are

sailing. Our guess is that most of the owners have figured out

printing money. In issues past we remarked how unfair it was

how to prevent the situation which caused Guerilla to founder

for Pier 39 to require berth-holders to erect Christmas lights

and can’t wait for the next race. While Guerilla suffered the

for their boats the day after Thanksgiving — the penalty for

worst indignity, a number of other boats lost masts, spreaders

non compliance was stated as ejection from the marina. We

and rudders during the strong and puffy race conditions.

have not heard of anyone who was thrown out of the marina

Incidentally, Chris Corlett has finally said “Uncle” to our

for not displaying the decorative lights — and about 25% of the

arm twisting and will give some pointers on how to sail ultra

boats didn’t. We still think this rule stinks, but do allow that the

light boats — look for it in the next issue along with a rundown

lighted boats were a festive sight. Another Pier 39 ‘rule’ was that

on ultra-lights boats themselves.

boats be ‘used’ so many times per month to keep^liners sceney

' We’d like to give special thanks to all our readers who call or

active — as yet there is no word how this idea is — or is not

write to give us follow-up information on stories we’ve done. Like Robert Selig, J. Prudhomme, and Peter Sutter who wrote

working out. While at the Pier 39 booth at the Cow Palace Boat Show we

about radar reflectors; and like Neils Kisling who wrote about

were surprised to hear that not all of the berths have been filled.

a horrible experience with a JCR liferaft. (Read what they have

At the start of the Show Pier 39 still had 30-foot berths open for

to say in “Letters”).

individuals as well as 40-foot berths. As we recall they went for

If you’ve got something you’d like to say to sailors, or maybe

about $2.75 per foot, so if you’re interested, give the harbor¬

there’s an article you’d like to read - what the hell, why not let

master there a call. Apparently a number of the people who

us know? And, if you’ve got some pertinent rumors or just plain

originally signed up decided not to take one of the berths. One

interesting information send it to “loose lips”.adios.

of the problems has been that the rubber tire breakwater seems ineffective in keeping the groundwells out of the marina. During high winds boats have been slamming their pulpits on the docks and rapidly fraying dock lines. Even in lighter weather the surge has been a problem and some boats near the restaurants had to

be moved to more distant locations because lunch and dinner

patrons became seasick with the swaying of the masts. Pier 39 is certainly not all bad as there are a good number of guest berths open for yachtsmen who want to sail over to The

BOATSWAIN'S PIPE

City for an afternoon or even overnight. Fees are $1 for four hours with validation at the restaurants — and we have heard some favorable comments on some of these, but there are so many the individuals could not identify them. There is a $5'

The Boatswain's pipe, or whistle, was once the only method other than the human voice of passing orders to men on board ship. Today more sophisticated communications systems exist but the Royal Navy, always believers in tra¬ dition, still use the Boat¬ swain's Call as a mark of respect to pipe tne Captain or special visitors on board, or for emphasising important orders.

charge for staying overnight and you should call George Hagerman in advance, and his number is 981-1796. Now that relations have been normalized with mainland China will there be a race from

San Francisco to Shainghai?

We’ve heard there was talk about this, but we heard it before the normalization took place, so maybe it’s just talk. If it did happen, it would rate high on the exotic racing list. We presume it is fairly common knowledge around the Bay that Urban Guerilla, a Santana 20 sailed by Louis Kruk sunk and disappeared during the Metropolitan YC Mid-Winters in early January. We were unable to contact Kruk, but apparently the

Guerilla

took a bad knockdown on a reach to reach

spinnaker jibe, and without the hatchboards in rapidly filled with water and slipped below. Kruk and his two crewmembers were immediately picked up by others boats and were not hurt. One Santana 20 ov/ner has been trying to get special clearance

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to race his boat in the ocean, as it is now it is too light according to

YRA specifications.

It is very unlikely that it will get

clearance after this race. T

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Latitude 38, Enclosed is the MORA sailing schedule for the 1979 season. I am sending this to you because, assuming that you have seen the YRA master schedule and noticed that MORA isn’t men¬ tioned by name, clarification seemed in order. Owners of yachts under 31

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Division C: 23.0 to 26.3

Latitude 38. We hope to utilize this column as a vehicle to get

We had 14 entrants of which an average of seven showed up

you involved in IOR racing as well as means of reporting situa¬ tions within the IOR fleet.

at the start in 1978. The strongest contingent in this class in

The most logical topic for this first column is what motivates

sons with certificates sailing in the Bay. They will be keeping

1979 will be the Peterson 34’s. There are now ten of the Peter¬

people to race IOR. We spok-e with several people in arriving at

records of their finish as a one design sailing within the IOR

an answer to this question and the most common response is

fleet. These boats provide good competition and finish all over the board.

“that is where I can race against the people most committed to racing sailboats”. We recognize that there are many one design

Rob Lanyon has a new Wylie 34 which will be joining the

classes that are very competitive. However, most of these classes

fleet, also expect that one or more Islander 36’s may compete in

are smaller boats that are really not comfortable* on our ocean.

this class.

To be successful in IOR facing, one has to make a major

Division D: 20.0 to 22.9

commitment to sail boat racing. This commitment is more an

We expect most of 1978’s ten competitors to return. The

energy commitment than monetary. Most people believe that it

division line will probably be increased to pick up the Cal 3-30’s

is a money game, but the results don’t necessarily bear this out.

and Ericson.35’s that we expect to reappear this year.

The Bay area is a very challenging place to sail and is a great

Division E: Under 20.0

equalizer. Witness the repeated dominance of Amateur Hour (a

The 'A Ton North Americans will be held in the Bay June 16

1970 Santana 37) over the last several years. Class C has been

to 24. There are several local new boats being discussed for this

won by boats more than five years old for the last two years.

event which I am sure we will see at the starting line.

Yucca (30+ years old) won division A in 1977. The presence of

If you are interested in crewing on the IOR boat, watch for

the newer boats is strongly felt but the successful ones are

our registration form which will appear in the March issue of Latitude 38.

usually better sailed, better crewed and have better sails than the older boats that finish behind them. Further the advantages that

the

new

boats

have

enjoyed

the

— roger hall

past have been

eliminated by the 1979 Mark III A. The IOR is the one platform where we can compete on an internationally recognized level. It universally is accepted as the rule under which the vast majority of the premier yacht racing events are

held.

SORC,

Admirals Cup,

TransPac,

Fastnet,

Sydney-Hobart, St. Francis Big Boat Series, etc. are all based on the IOR rule. Sailing is no different than any other sport; the

quality of the competition determines the quality of the com¬ petitor. IOR racing is more demanding; it is also more rewarding. The 1979 season is shaping up as a very exciting one. The classes have yet to be firmly established but it appears that they will be roughly as follows:

Division A: 28.9 and up We had 23 entrants in this class in 1978. Normally 12 to 14 showed up at the starting line. In 1979 we expect most of these boats back as well as older boats coming out in response to the 79 rule. Some of the new boats for 1979 are Leading Lady, Stanley Reich’s Peterson 2 tonner, Olf Werners 38’ custom cold molded Peterson, Peter Sutter’s Wylie 36, my own Serendipity 42, Chris Corlett’s Santana 35, as well as Dean Treadway’s Sweet Okole up from Division B.

Division B: 26.4 to 28.9 We had 14 entrants with 8 to 1 0 at the starting line in 1978. "Williwaw" first overall

This is the class w'here we anticipate the greatest effort of the ’79 IOR rule to be felt. All of the older One Tonners are now very competitive. We expect an influx of Ranger 37s, Ericson 37’s and Yankee 38’s. We are not aware of any new boats coming into the area that will compete in thjs class. page 15

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ly. If he begins to run off at the mouth, remove from pointy end immediately. Matthew's Mother Keep up the good work. We really enjoy the reading each month. Best Regards, The Crew of “Obsessed” Crew — You’re right, we did enjoy the letter and we’re sure our readers did, too. Thank you for taking the time to write.

Latitude 38, Please continue my subscription for another year. I realize that you folks purposely put 1979 dates on your “Perverts Calendar” last year so you wouldn’t have to make another one this year, but I’d,sure like to see you do it again! Your readers never mentioned that little mistake in the Letters column last year, probably ‘cause they never even looked at the dates! Keep up the uh . . . good work! John Amen

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John — We sent Sailing Perverts Calendars to 32 states and hundreds of cities but you and your neighbors made Petaluma the leader in perverts per capita. Congratulations. A fearful amount of thought was given to doing another Perverts Calendar, but when we remembered that the last model got frostbite during the shooting and applied for disability we got cold feet. With the Spring thaw we may change our minds, but until then you’ll have to be content with our February

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with weathermark Latitude 38, I’ve enjoyed many of yoifr articles - particularly Marilyn Yolles’ “Superb Sailors” series and the interview with Pete Sutter about “Wild Spirit”. However, the article by Andrew Urbancyzk on his singlehanded trans-Pacific voyages tops them all. This man’s way with English is a treat. I especially enjoyed the way he was able to describe the childhood roots of his singlehanding and his “No. 30. The Virtue df Humble”. page 17

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LETTERS

25 New Yachts Soldi Sv

$1,444,415.00 Do you think Latitude 38 could take on the task of provid¬ ing us with his books, now available only in Russia and Japan? Sincerely, Peter Palches Greenbrae

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Latitude 38, It

takes a

“rather very

special

guy” to accomplish an

endeavor such as Andrew Urbancyzk’s, then retain the humility and dignity to accept the fact that many people in this country couldn’t care less. I feel very privileged to know that I share the same ocean with someone like him. Likewise, it takes a “rather very special” magazine to have

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the insight to give his accomplishment the reward it deserves, told in his own words, when most publications would have polished the text or used the twelve pages for commercial purposes. This crew will remember Andrew Urbancyzk and Latitude 38 for a long, long time. Wishing you both favorable winds and following seas. Sincerely, j.R. Trimaran “Waltzing Matilda”

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Latitude 38, Thank you so much for your short, but sweet article on page 35 of the January Latitude. The one I refer to is the short blurb on JCR life rafts. It’s very close to my heart as on June 28, 1975, I had the unpleasant misfortune of watching brothers Steven and Walter Fennell pass away in one. We capsized off Big

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Sur the night before the annual Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara race. To our amazement we opened this tiny thing and tried to board it. With three people aboard it barely floated free of the surface and was very unseaworthy. During the course of the night it capsized several times and almost every sea that passed by broke over us. There was no repair kit supplied in the raft, it leaked and as I’ve said it was very unseaworthy. I can’t help but feel John C. Romano is a Barbarian for producing these crafts

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LETTERS “vehicles

death”

from

all

ocean

racers.

There

simply

shouldn t be any reason why they should be used where the possibility of a life raft situation is imminent. I'm

writing to you from my vacation spot in Taarbeck,

MOORE 24

Denmark, where I’ll be until February 2. Incidentally, I flew here on SAS, where I’m sure the J.C.R. is standard equipment. But that’s a whole different story. Should you like to get together and hear my complete story, I live in Capitola and work at O’Neill’s Yacht Center at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor. If you have the time back track into Yachting magazine in the August 1975 issue on page 28. There you will see how this kid learned a very important lesson on ocean survival. Once again thanks for the story and thank you for publishing the best sailing sheet in California! Sincerely, Neils Kisling

Neils — Your sharing of your first-hand experience and opinions on JCR liferafts is greatly appreciated. “Let the buyer beware’’ has always been a judicious piece of advice — particu¬ larly when your ass may be on the line.

Latitude 38, I have just finished reading the January edition of your much needed and versatile publication and noted your request for

The Moore 24 is a speed boat . . . pure

radar reflector testing under the “Countess” article. Sea magazine did a test several years ago and published their

and

simple. We sorted out the confusion

results. However, I was not too impressed with their testing plat¬

of all the rules by ignoring them in favor

form and conducted a series of tests myself, using the Coast

of absolute,

Guard’s Yerba Buena Island radar station to check my three

her sleek because that made her beautiful

radar reflectors.

as well as fast. We built her strong because

The first reflector was merely the boat, “Spirit”, a 33’ wooden sailboat with wooden mast. The second reflector was

we're

not relative sense. We made

demanding

competitor

who

side and hoisted to the spreader. The third reflector was a new

appreciates the thrill of high speed sailing.

cylindrical type 6” D. x 18” hoisted to the spreader.

With an amazing PHRF rating of 150 we

13. They came right back, and when advised of our request, were willing and seemed anxious to oblige. They asked our

feel

demanding

built

her

hours, no visible traffic around and called them up on Channel

the

the common 6-sided reflector made of Aluminum 18” on each

We stationed ourselves north of Alcatraz at about 2300

for

perfectionists.

that we can honestly claim to make

the fastest offshore 24-footer afloat. We just completed a smashing midwinter

location, zoomed in on us and could barely make the boat out.

series on San Francisco Bay, and our Lake

When we hoisted the standard reflector they advised that it was

Tahoe fleet grows by the month.

double the brilliance of the bare boat. When we hoisted the new reflector, they advised that it was four times brighter than the bare boat. Needless to say, we always used the new reflector even though Sea magazine pronounced it the worst of the lot. Some¬ times,

think we leave too much

up to so called or self

appointed experts to do it for us or always believe in what we read. Since then, and on numerous coas,tal trips, I have tried the same experiment with ships with the same results. One ship page 21

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Formerly Bauman Bros. & Dick Miller, Assoc.

captain has complained to me that few yachtsmen will light up theit

strobe lights at night, whereas it is almost a universal

practice with commercial fishermen. My new “Wild Spirit” has a masthead strobe, and I plan to use it. Sincerely, Peter M. Sutter

Like Neils with the JCR rafts, we’d like to thank Peter for his first-hand accounts of his experiences with radar reflectors. Given a choice in marine matters, we’d always prefer empirical evidence to theory. ' Also responding to our request for information on the effectiveness of radar reflectors was J. Prudhomme who sent us a copy of a study done by Oregon State Extension, and Davis Instruments of San Leandro who makes such devices. Robert Selig, President of Davis Instruments, has a 16-page book on “Radar Reflectors ... Do You Really Need Them?” The book is available free by writing: Davis Instruments Corp., P.O. Box 3157, 642 143rd A ve., San Leandro, Calif. 94578. It is a good informative booklet that commendably says that radar reflectors can help your vessel be seen, but stops short of saying it is the final solution. Countess did have a radar reflector — an expensive one — mounted high on her mast. She was seen on the radar screen, but came in no stronger than the Blossom Bouy; but apparently that wasn’t enough. Frankly we thing Sutter has got the solution — give them a blip on the radar screen and a blast from the strobe. ■

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Latitude 38, Re: your latest, Vol. 20; lots of ads. Hope

don’t

see

slick

paper

and

CVS cruise boats depart Santa Barbara harbor for a fit e-day cruise.

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CITY

STATE

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THE LATITUDE 38 INTERVIEW

GEORGE OLSON t.

38: George, the last surfboard we ever had in the 60’s was an Olson — and it was very, very heavy — how did you get into building ultra-lights?

Olson: Actually I’d built boats before I made surfboards. I built a trimaran here in Santa Cruz in 1959, it was pretty fast and had a lot of sail area. There wasn’t even the word ‘trimaran’ then, we called it a ‘double catamaran’ . . . no wait, a ‘double outrigger’. I had always been interested in multi-hulls, ice boats, and the speed of sailing. Sometime later a friend had a Cal 20 which he decided wasn’t fast enough so he changed it to a masthead rig and put on a bowsprit, making it a ‘Cal 20 Plus’. I inherited the rig he discarded and decided to try and build a faster boat using the same amounts of materials as the Cal 20. It seemed obvious that the way to make a faster boat was to increase the waterline length. So, we made a boat the same weight as a Cal 20, using the same amount of lead in the keel, and having the same sail area — but it was 24 feet long and o^ily 6 feet wide, instead of 20 feet long and 7 feet wide. That boat was “Grendel”. 38: Were you studying lots of books at this time or were you making the modifications by the seat-of-your-pants? Olson:

One

big

influence

was a chapter called ‘Sailing

Machines’ in Herreshoff’s “Common Sense of Yacht Design”. In that chapter are some designs for swing-keel boats, long narrow boats and some multi-hulls. Another influential thing was the 50-inch Marblehead Class model I had at home. It’s a developmental class, you get 800 square inches of sail and 50 inches of boat. We’d sit around and look at it . . . the thing was real 11 y fast ... we took it up to Golden Gate Park and put a spinnaker on it. It probably went . . . . . well it went to the other side of the lake faster than anyone could run there. Ho, ho, ha. So I thought, ‘Well gee, all we have to do is build a real boat that looks like this.” So that was important in the concept of “Grendel” also. 38: What did you do with “Grendel”, where did you race her? Olson: We raced . . . well, we really got into the MORA Long Distance Race, Wayne Kocher and myself. We won the first five of them as I remember. We won the first two races in his Cal 28,

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If most of you folks haven’t heard of Santa Cruz boatbuilder and yacht designer George Olson, well, it wouldn t be surprising. While many Santa Cruz sailors credit George with being ‘the father of 'ultra-lights’ title that George

—

’

it’s a

who certainly doesn’t court publicity — wouldn’t promote.

Almost 10 years ago George desgined and built the 24-foot “Grendel”, the first ultra-light boat built in Santa Cruz, and a boat that was to have a great racing record. Since that time George has been somehow involved with or dose to the people building successful ultra-lights in Santa Cruz, and has crewed on most of them. In the middle of last year he, with partners Ln Neale and Alan Wirtanen, formed Pacific Boats, Inc., to produce the Olson 30. The boats are being marketed by Far West Yachts of Ventura. While George likes sailing, he also enjoys desert sailing (see photo below) and is rapidly restoring an antique truck in the boatyard. He is well-liked and respected by his peers and is very soft-spoken. George also seems to have been able to make some kind of enviable peace with the tribulations of modern life; he looks calm.

Besides designing and building sailboats, George likes to restore antique trucks (inset) and go desert sailing. Speeds of 100 mph are not uncommon with 'dirt boats’.

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In prying the plug open we did an interesting thing by accident. We put more rocker into the hull; we bent the ends out and shortened the waterline. What happened was that with the rocker the hull fit the ocean better. 38: Did you put rocker into other boats as a result of that?

Olson: Yeah. After it happened we got to thinking that a 505 has lots of rocker while a Flying Dutchman has almost none, and that a 505 is a lot faster boat for its length than the FD. 38: Who else was building boats, ultra-light boats in Santa Cruz at thtat time?

Olson:

Bill

Lee started building “Magic” about halfway

through 1970; Grendel would have been in the water about 6

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months then. He was totally into a whole different thing, and he had built a bunch of different boats before. Bill built that really

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Olson: Yes, but we were on different tracks. Bill got on the track of the real wide flat-bottomed boats — form stability. 38: And you were doing what?

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“Witchcraft” for Art Biehl. Biehl was the madmarr physicist who used to work at the Lawrence Rad Lab and helped invent the H-bomb or something. Bill and Art later build “Chutzpah” which was taken directly off the mold of Witchcraft. 38: Were you building boats at the time, of Witchcraft and Chutzpah?

Olson: No, I was a carpenter building houses. I had been sailing with these people though, I did a couple of TransPacs with Biehl. I only got into boat building professionally with “Panache”. After Chutzpah was built Rod Park decided he wanted an ultra-light and so Panache was designed by Bill and Rod, and myself. At 40-feet Panache was the same weight as the Cal 28s we had sailed in the MORA Long Distance Races. The boat weighed 7500 lbs., with 2500 pounds of ballast.'But there again I think the boat was too wide and too flat — I’m sure you could get the boat upside down if you really tried. On the TransPac in ’73 we blew a jibe real bad one night. . . didn’t release the traveller or something . . . and we got knocked down alot. It was to the point where the rudder was out of the water, and the keel, if there was any left in the water, it was just the last foot or two. It was just 10 or 15 degrees from putting the mast into the water — it was pretty scary. It wasn’t that windy either, maybe 10 or 15 knots. It was really something though, because in that ’73 TransPac we were about the 7th or 8th boat to the dock, and our mast didn’t even come as high as the mizzens of some of the other boats there, they were all that much bigger. It was impressive. 38: So who were you building boats with?

Olson: Well actually it was Magic Marine which was owned by Art Biehl, but Bill Lee was the manager or president ... he

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business and taking the mold for Chutzpah and going south. Chutzpah really didn’t sail that well, even though it did win two TransPacs. It was an ultra-light boat with a very short waterline with very round sections. In fact, I think ultra-lights got

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OLSON Chutzpah. The round sections and short waterline ... it had no

for the Santa Cruz 33, and we ended up doing that. I’m not

forefoot ... it had no directional stability to it, you couldn’t

even sure who the driving force behind that design was, I’m not

get it to track to weather. It did rate well, and in light airs it did

even sure there was one person.

well downwind because it-had so little wetted surface.

In the meantime I had sold my Santa Cruz 27, “California

38: So what happened after Panache?

Zephyr” to this guy from Ventura and had been thinking about

Olson:

Well, Bill went into business on his own afte'r Biehl

doing a new boat. Denpis Bassano — who had been a partner

left, doing some boats for Wylie and I can’t remember what else

with me in California Zephyr — and Don Synder and I were

right now. But then he got an order from a guy in Santa Barbara

bringing Merlin back after the TransPac and we worked together

who wanted a boat 27 feet long. Bill and I sat down and did

'and, came up with “Pacific High”, which is the prototype of the

some preliminary drawings, trying to capture the best qualities

Olson 30. Pacific High was designed by all of us, we all made

in both Grendel and Magic. I liked the way the drawings lookeld

suggestions and stuff. The boat came out real well, although I

and decided I wanted one and so did a couple of other people.

think we blew it a bit on the keel. When the keel was being

We talked to the owner and told him by building a mold his

poured fye found out it was bad lead, it wasn’t heavy enough, it

boat would take longer but it would be better and it would cost

didn’t have the right specific gravity . . . normally it should have

less and take a little longer. He agreed and that was the start of

been 10.5 but it turned out to be just 8.5.

the Santa Cruz 27.

But the boat sails real well.

38: Well, who actually designed the boat?

38: We had the chance to sail on it, and at the time it had

Olson: I’d say both Bill and I did; it was a compromise

won every Wednesday night race here or something - and they’re

between Magic and Grendel. I drew the lines while Bill came up

pretty competitive. You’ve made some changes in the “Olson 30”, what have you done?

with the parameters, the weights, and such. 38: Who owned the first SC 27?

Olson: I felt Pacific High was underballasted and I tried to

Olson: Martin Roe of Santa Barbara, and the boat was called

get Dennis and Don to remold the keel, but they wanted to get

“Vanishing Point”. It was way under-ballasted. It had 850 lbs.

the boat finished which is understandable. They’ve adapted to

of lead, and starting with the second boat they put in 1 350, and

the boat, they work with its limitations. . . what I’ve tried to do

the later ones were increased to 1600 or 1 700. At this time I was working for Bill full time. We did some

is rework the keel so you don’t really have to adapt to it. While the keel was being poured, Gordon, the new owner of

other boats, one was the six-meter for the St. Francis. I liked

California Zephyr, came by to pick the boat up. He and his

that, I like meter boats because the rule doesn’t change. Then

wife looked at Pacific High and really liked it and wanted to

Bill started Merlin.

know if we were going to build more of them. We really hadn’t

38: Did you have anything to do with Merlin?

thought about it so we didn’t know what to say, and he said,

Olson: No, nothing, just a few suggestions on'technique. I

‘Well, if it makes it any easier I’ft give you a check right now.”

never really got into that boat ... I had never really liked big

We said that we’d really have to have three orders, and he told

boats. I was also getting tired of the 27 production line, so when

us he was in the yacht selling business . . . nothing really hap¬

I got a chance to go to El Salvador, I took it.

pened then, but that was the first time I really seriously con¬

There was a guy down there building a 40-foot catamaran,

sidered doing a production line on the boats.

and it was very interesting because he had developed a method

38: These are the people at Far West Yacht Sales in Ventura?

of self-righting it if it had flipped. All the multi-hull designers

Olson: Yeah, he and his wife are both doctors and I’m not

around the world were really impressed because this guy had a

sure but they might have stopped practicing . . .

working model of the self-righting thing . . . this guy in El

38: To get into the boat business? Ho, ho, ha!

Salvador. He had the hull molds built and needed somebody to

Olson: (Also laughing) I’m not positive but I think so, and

show him how to assemble the boat, the interiors, basically to

they love it. The first boat they had was a Coronado 35 because

put the whole project together. Jim Brown gave him my name

they assumed they all went the same speed, but when he tried

and he called me up and Ln and 1 went down. It was great, a

to race it he found out that wasn’t true. He was determined and

neat adventure. Unfortunately we were there just a week when

did pretty well

the whole place burned down and we had to come home.

practiced hard and actually took it on some Mexican races this big houseboat.

38: What did you do when you got back?

Olson: created

Well I didn’t want to go back to Bill’s ... Merlin had physical

and

psychological

havoc

with

the

though; he bought new sails and gear, he

So he looked around and decided that a Farr One Tonner would be nice to have-so he got to work importing them. The

prodution line. So I went to work for Bob Thompson at C&B

boats weren’t going to be here for awhile, so he wanted an ultra¬

Marine and built “Petrified”. Allan had previously worked for

light to practice with which is why he. bought Dennis and my

C&B when they did “Naiad”. Naiad was real pretty, Petrified

SC 27 — which he really liked. Then the Farr boat really got

was a typical half-tonner . . . designer Chuck Burns used to call it “Lumpy”.

hammered in the ratings, but since he was committed to being

After that Bill propositioned Allan and I to do the tooling

them some more after they showed the initial interest . . . Alan

in' the boat business he needed some boat to sell. I talked with

OLSON and I were done with the SC 33 tooling and we didn’t want to

NAC numbers are for the foil sections — that’s a book of

work on the Santa Cruz 50s Bill wanted to do ... so anyway Ln

aircraft section foils where you can get all these drag ratios and

Neale, Allan, and I formed Pacific Boats.

laminar flows out of it — well I can’t even understand any of it.

38: When was all this taking place?

I tried to read it, but it’s way over my head.

Olson: Well back in December of 1977 Pacific High was

38: Bob Perry did a review of the Olson 30 in “Sailing”, and he

started with Dennis and Rainy Bassano, Don and Susie Synder,

said he thought the boat would make a good daysailor. What do

and myself. In May, Far West Yachts saw Pacific High and began

you think.

selling boats off it . . . this was right when Allan and Ln and I were getting Pacific Boats together to do the Olson 30.

Olson: I think he’s way off, I think it’s a good all around boat. I don’t know where he got any of that stuff like “Bill Lee

38: We interuppted you a while back when you were telling us what you’ve changed from Pacific High.

advised me to build the boat” or anything. I never met the guy, I don’t really know who he is except that somebody told me he

Olson: I think I mentioned putting in 400 lbs. more ballast. Adding more ballast means you need more displacement to carry the weight so we widened the waterline a few inches.

has designed some boats. 38: From what we understand the people in Ventura who sell the boat already have orders for something like 18 boats.

We had to do a totally new mold, but it was based on the old

Olson: Uh, . . . well it’s 28.

one and we were very fortunate that we had a chance to sail

38: Lordy! And how long have they been selling them?

Pacific High and find out what things we wanted to modify.

Olson: Well about six months ... we can make about 3 of

The topsides and the profile are pretty much the same, but the keel has less draft and is longer . . . it’s got more keel area

them a month, so we’re filled in production until mid-summer. 38:

You’ve got a reputation — at least in Ron Moore’s

and it’s thicker. The boat is 6 inches wider at the waterline, it

mind

doesn’t have the teak decks Pacific High did, and the we went

entrepreneur. Are you surprised at that the boat is selling as well

up a foot on the mast which gives it quite a bit more sail area.

as it is?

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Olson: (Long hesistation). No, I think it happens to be the

38: This is a bit off the point, but you said you changed the

right size boat at the right time. It’s very versatile. Lots of times

size and shape of the keel. Did you calculate that or eyeball it or

the cut off line for a boat being able to race is 30 feet. Our boat

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is a 1 /16th of an inch short so you can race under 30 feet, and if

Olson: I just look at boats. Everybody asked me what the

you want to race over 30 feet you can slap some bondo on the

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balsa, that’s a known thing. You could probably get foam that’s

38: What’s the beam?

as strong, but it would weigh more. I really don’t think you'can

Olson: 9’4”.

make decks out of foam because you’ve got hardward there and

38: Doesn’t that mean you need a permit to trailer the boat?

it works a little and you end up having to tighten everything

Olson: Well, it’s easyto get a permit to trailer it on a State

once a week because it keeps getting crushed.

Highway. It’s two dollars or something, and that means you can

For laminating purposes, some of the new foams are as good

drive from San Francisco to San Diego with no problem. But

as balsa for adherence. The ultraviolet light in the sun really

here in Santa Cruz county they require that you have a million

hurts the foarh ... so that’s another reason I don’t like it in the

dollars insurance to get a permit to drive on the county roads —

decks. I think foam is O.K. in the hulls, especially those that are

we ran into the same problem with the Santa Cruz 33s. You

left in the water ... I’m afraid to use it in our boats and other

can’t get the insurance so people just don’t get the permits. Its

trailerable boats because when it’s bouncing down the highway

the same problem with J-24s and lots of other boats. It hasn’t

on a trailer it just might start problems. Foam is easier to work

been a problem . . . that comes when you get over 10-foot beam.

with, it costs a little more, and you can build a lighter boat. In our boats we could save maybe 50 pounds by using foam

38: We’ve talked to two people who sailed the last single-

instead of balsa, but since our bulls weigh between 700 and 725

handed TransPac who say they have bought Olson 30s for the 1980 race, were you aware of that?

pounds it's not that much difference and at even the slighest

Olson: Actually, I think there are three, but I don’t think we should say who they are right now. I think it’s an ideal boat for that race. It’s a real fast boat there’s no doubt about that . . . particularly downwind. It’s also a very easy boat to handle.

risk of structural problems it just doesn’t seem worth it. 38: Boats in Santa Cruz all seem to be very neatly done, almost meticulous. Is there any explanation for that?

Olson: I think we all learned a lot from John and Ron Moore in that part of boatbuilding. They used to build 505s and you

You told us before that you just shipped out hull No. 2,

have to be very careful to do those well . . . and everybody here

have you gotten much feedback how hull No. 1 has done in

just sort of copied their work. Besides, you can’t be sloppy and

38:

racing so far? (This interview was done in November).

Olson: The. first Olson 30 is in Dana Point. . . I haven’t even

build light boats ... if you’re not very careful in what you do, you won’t have a light boat.

had a chance to sail on it yet. It was the boat Far West Yachts

38: Do plans to do other boats?

was going to keep in stock to show people, but these guys really

Olson: Well, you always have some new idea floating in the

wanted to race it in the Puerta Vallarta Race in early February so Gordon let them have it.

sort of a minimum TransPac boat. . . Don Synder seems to like

38: It should be interesting to see how they do in that race?

Olson: Well, not really. It won’t be a good race for the boat because they require a crew of six, they require that you carry lots and lots of water, and now they are requiring an inboard engine. Consequently I think the boat is going to float too low in the water. I think by the time they are though the owners will have wished they had entered a race with different require¬ ments, but then it’s their boat and that’s what they wanted to do. But in tuning the boat up in local races they had been doing great. In all the races they’ve been in up till now they’ve been fitst on both corrected and elapsed time . . . by a big margin and this is racing against much bigger boats like CF 37s, C&C 38s, boat like that. This is off the point, but somewhere in this interview I’d like to make sure that people understand.that the concept of light boats isn’t new at all. That lighter boats are faster has been known for a long, long time, what’s happened in the last decade is that the materials necessary to make the concept work are now becoming available and easier to work with. Core materials, lightweight hardware and so forth. 38: You use a balsa core?

Olson: Yes. 38: Do you think it’s better than foam?

Olson: Well, foam doesn't have the compression strength of

back of your mind . . . maybe a 40-foot version of this boat, the idea so who knows . . . 38: Thank you.

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SIGHTINGS let q thousand spinnakers billow, don't pay the tolls We were as shocked-as you to hear the discouraging news that the lower courts are supporting various bridge districts in their attempts to charge sailors tolls for going under their bridge's. We can only hope that the Appeals Court will see fit to put an end to this preposterous idea. Our hunch is that the commuters who initiated the whole ruckus really don’t believe their claim that they “are victims of ‘ipso facto’ dis¬ crimination” and that “sailors are getting a free ride under the bridges and slipping beneath their toll burdens.” Yes, the commuters do have a point when they claim that sailors do go under the bridges and this ks something they couldn’t do if the bridges hadn’t been built. But for goodness sakes, have these commuters been idling in the smog too long to realize that yachtsmen are not benefitted one bit by those stupid bridges. Sure they are scenic, but sailors could do without, and when we do drive across the bridges we pay our fair toll. To this the commuters say that “yachtsmen want it both ways while only paying one way.” Well, what kind: of arguments can you expect from a pack of chiseling ogres, anyway?

The toll assessments are as silly as their arguments. How can they expect to ‘toll’ a 28-foot yawl with a club-footed jib $5 ($1 per spar), while’letting the big sloop Windward Passage slip under spans for just $2 (again $1 per spar)?.

This is clearly an anti-sail movement since the

stinky powerboaters generally don’t have spars and therefore won’t be tolled. And how do you like the bridge officials who are trying to play the role of ‘nice guys’ to yachtsmen by supporting the Governor’s plan to have no tolls collected after 10 p.m.? To these snakes we extend our tongue! If you sail near a bridge — or even if you don’t — you might want to fire off an angry letter to your local bridge directors and give them a piece

your

mind.

The

bridges

involved

are

the

Benicia,

the

Carcinquez, the Golden Gate, the Bay Bridge, the San Mateo, and the Dumbarton. There is some sanity left in Petaluma; the ‘D Street Bridge’ doesn’t charge cars for crossing it and therefore won’t charge boats for going beneath it. It is important that this nonsense be stopped now. If not it won’t be long before some jerk will want to charge sailors from crossing over the Bart tube! We’re so mad we can hardly type. Suppose, just suppose, that you’ve spent three weeks sailing back from Hawaii and you’re broke and you

kitty jomes

can’t pay the toll. So you’ve got to sit under the Gate until the 10 p.m. ‘no toll’ period comes into effect. Can you believe this?

YRA

game!

free spoce free space Ever feel like the world

and

is closing in on you? Like you need a little

space? We know it isn’t much, but feel free to use the space below:

And

Executive she

plays

Secretary it

well,

is too

her —

winning rave reviews from all the racers Tor being so knowledgeable, courteous, and above all, fast with those race results. Since Kitty’s $o good to you, why not be good to her. Now in this picture her YRA (Yacht Racing Association) Office looks pretty tidy, but then it’s not March 15th. March 15th is the date the postman

SIGHTINGS sailing is becoming popular About every four to six weeks Sports Illustrated .decides to run an article about sailing — something they had previously done every four to six years. Recent articles have featured Bill Lee, Dennis Conner, the Onion Patch Series, SORC, and subjects that escape us now. In the January 8 issue (“Bama Stops Penn State” is the cover story) there is a feature article about Alain Colas who is presumed lost at sea during a singlehanded race. The 35 year old Colas reportedly had sailed over 135,000 miles in his 35 years; 50,000 of them singlehanded. Among his notable achievements are a record solo circumnavigation of 168 days in his 70-foot trimaran, and winning the 1972 Plymouth to Newport singlehanded race. Colas was last heard from November 16th during the “La Route du Rhum” singlehanded race from Saint-Malo, France, to Guadeloupe in the French West Indies. A distress call was reported by two radio opera¬ tors from an unknown vessel that night, but no search was undertaken until the first of December. 28 days later the search was abandoned, and Colas is presumed lost with his aluminum trimaran, “Manureva”. The “Rum Race”, as it was called, excited Colas because it offered $45,000 as a first prize. Colas was quoted as saying “There has never been enough professionalism in racing. And professionalism is the truest democracy. If there were more money in racing — sponsors and money prizes as in the Rum Race — then a poor young man could participate in his sport just as the rich do.” Winner of that race was Michael Birch of Canada, who beat French¬ man Michel Malinovsky by a mere 300 yards. The

article in Sports Illustrated was written by William Oscar

Johnson and is superb. Even if it takes some trouble to find a copy, it’s worth it.

hockett ruins soiloffs Rich Hackett and his cronies from the Coyote Point YC ruined what had promised to be an exciting three-day weekend of match racing. The event was the northern California sailoffs for a spot in the prestigious Congressional Cup to be held in a few months at the Long Beach YC. When we arrived at the San Francisco YC on Sunday, loaded with cameras to capture the action for you, we learned that Hackett and crew had succeeded in terminating the competition two days pre¬ mature. By the end of the first day of racing Hackett had won 4 races, lost none, and thereby won the right to sail in the Congressional Cup.

is the name

Other records for the competition were as follows: Jim DeWitt of of

the Richmond YC, 3 - 1; Jeff Madrigali of San Francisco YC and Peter

applications on her desk and hundreds of

Szasz of St. Francis YC both were 2 — 2; Steve Taft was 1 — 3; and

you jam the phone lines all withf the same story: “Please Kitty, I just didn’t have the

Carl Lischeske was 0 — 4. Boats used for the competition were Islander 36’s and the winds

time, don’t charge me the late fee.”

were good, between 8 and 15 knots. Sailoffs for a spot in the 1980

comes

Save

and

dumps

two

tons

Kitty from a March 15th mail

deluge, save Kitty from those awful tele¬ phone

excuses

forms and

—

send

your entry

money today! If you don’t

have them yet, call her at 771-9500._ page 37

were planned to be held this October. We at Latitutde 38 feel that Hackett’s dedicated practice in Etchells 22’s will help him when he goes against the best in Long Beach. As one skipper said, “Hackett can cut it”. Good luck.

SIGHTINGS who were those masked men? Why anyone needs three sailboats is beyond us, but that’s how many Wally Lawson has. Early in November Wally was taking his Columbia 26, “Bluenose 1 ” from its old berth in Berkeley to its new home in at Pier 39 in San Francisco.Wally has been sailing for a long time — 25 years in fact — so if he were to fall asleep while making that trip, we’d all understand, wouldn’t we? Of course. Wally did fall asleep just as he and old Bluenose were approaching the Berkeley Pier, but fortunately two divers arrived with the speed of a rushing speedboat and boarded Bluenose. When Wally awoke a man in a black rubber suit was sitting next to him asking if he were o.k. Wally mumbled yes and before he could completely awake the diver was back in the other boat and gone.

»■

In sort of a maritime version of the Lone Ranger, Wally has been wondering, “who were those vmasked men?”. He and Bluenose would like to say thanks for keeping them from being assaulted by the Berkeley Pier. If the Coast Guard is reading, Wally says he doesn’t fall asleep sailing often and promises not to do it again in the future.

buddy melges and marilyn yolles One windless afternoon a few weeks back we were drifting through a

Brentano’s

bookstore when we spotted “Racing with Cornelius

Shields and the Masters” in the bargain pile. The original price was $12.95, the special price was marked at $T98 — clearly a mistake. The only way to learn is by making mistakes, so we bought the book for $1.98 and hope Brentanos has learned from their costly error. It turns out that this 350-page book is darn interesting, with guest articles by Ted Hood, Olin Stephens, Buddy Melges, Rod Stephens, Bus Mosbacher, Britton Chance, Robert Bavier, Ted Turner and others. Un¬ like many sailing books which wallow in generalizations, this book had

flying junior

lots of practical tips for sailingyour boat better. Buddy

Melges

chapter

‘Melges

Methods’ caught our

attention

just

got

our

Master

Sailing

because it seemed to bear out one of Marilyn Yolles findings in her

Schedule for 1979 and have just checked

series on “Superb Sailors”. Almost all of the Superb Sailors, Marilyn

out the ‘nationals*’ and ‘worlds’ to be held

found, had built boats in their youth with their fathers. Melges, who

locally. While there’s nothing to compare

recently won the prestigious Star Worlds seems to have been no

with last year’s Star Worlds, there will be

exception:

some fine championships.

“My father was employed at the Bouvais Boat Company in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, when I was six years old. As I remember, it was always a big thrill to accompany my father to work on a Saturday or whenever we had a vacation from school. It was exciting for me to walk through

The Flying Junior Worlds will be at the Richmond YC on August 11-17. The North American Quarter Tons will be at the San Francisco YC J une 16th.

the factory and observe the boats being built, to smell the cedar lumber, and to see the shiny, new hull in the final stages of construc¬ tion. These senses are with me yet as I walk though our own factory and enjoy seeing these beloved scows being produced. “My dinghy (his father had bought him a 10-foot gaffer) was my means of transportation around Delavan Lake ... so I relied heavily on my dinghy, my ice skates and eventually the little iceboat that Dad and I made in 1939. Although the dinghy was my very own, I shared the iceboat with Dad and even ventured out alone under ideal conditions. I think the iceboat gave me confidence in being able to use the wind as propulsion.”

3rd singlehanded Due to the recent convulsions in the singlehanded sailing circles some sailors have wondered if there is a singlehanded Farallones race schedule for this year. Singlehanded Commodore,

Sailing

Society’s

new

Mike Herz, says the race

will be held on its traditional day, the day

SIGHTINGS juniors racing seminar Last Spring the Youth Yacht Racing Association (YYRA) sponsored its first ‘Racing Seminar’ for sailors under 21 years of age. It was a smashing success and it’s happening again this year. The dates are March 3 and 4 and it all takes place at the Richmond YC. There will be both lectures and sailing during both days. There will be coaching and lectures for both ‘beginners’ and ‘advanced’, so don’t be put off if you don’t think you’re a very good sailor now. This is the place to learn. What do you need to participate? You need a boat — and we don’t mean things like Swan 65s — an El Toro, Laser, FJ and the like are just fine. You also need an approved lifejacket and if you want to sail in the outer

harbor

you

will

required

have a

wetsuit — which

recommended in any case. You do not have to belong to any sailing club or yacht club; the YYRA wants everybody to attend. The fee for the two days — which also includes two lunches and dinner on Saturday night — is a positively ridiculous $10. It’s a great chance for kids to improve their skills and get to know their peers, to say nothing of having a great time. Registration for the event begins at 8:30 on Saturday morning with the first seminar beginning at 9:30. Be there! Ed Greene, P.O. Box 6145 in Santa Rosa (95406) has more details if you need them.

youth chompionships On March 17 and 18 the Metropolitan YC and the YYRA (Youth Yacht Racing Association) will co-host the eliminations for the Sears, Bemis, and Symthe Cups. The Sears Cup is the oldest of the lot, over 40 years old, and is for the 3-person champsionship. This year it will be sailed in Rhodes 19s. The Bemis Cup is the 2-man championship, and the Symthe is the singlehanded championship. The Bemis will use Flying Juniors and the

worlds at rye

Symthe will use Sunfish. For entry requirements and further information call Wright Huntley

The Rhodes 19 Nationals will be held

at (408) 248-5905 (H); or at (408) 249-2654 (0).

here starting August 19th. September 3rd the Golden Gate YC will host the Challenger Nationals.

the changing of the rules

There’ll be some real fun September at

Want to race with the real hot-shots — the IOR fleet — this year or

the St. Francis too, and not just the Big

maybe even next year? Then you ought to find out more about the

Boat Series . . . we’re talking Ted Turner

IOR rule and getting your.boat measured. To do this is simple; just

sailing for the Forth Worth YC??? More

show up at the Starting Line Room of the St. Francis YC on February

on that possibility next month.

8. Gary Mull will speak about the significant changes in the new IOR rule.and Ray Booth will tell you about the costs and techniques of having your boat measured. Unfortunately we weren’t given the time of the meeting so you’ll have to call the YRA office at 771 -9500.

farollones race before Easter, -April 14. Starting time is

no more foreign subscriptions

set for 8:30. The Singlehanded Sailing Society also

Foreign subscriptions are just too much trouble with the very

plans to hold a Drakes Bay race later in

troublesome Post Office who want to inspect each one for fruit flies or

the fall, and there is talk of a race up the

something. If you’re going cruising and want to keep up with things in

Delta

Latitude 38, have somebody pick an extra copy up and forward it with

mid-summer.

further details. page 39

Stay

tuned for

the rest of your mail.

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The Women's (well, sort of.) ,

This issue, the “Women’s Issue as we’ve called it, is a bit of a failure. We have no idea what gave us the preposterous notion that we could ‘cover’ women in sailing in just one issue — and we rapidly found out how preposterous it was! The fact is that women are everywhere in sailing; women buy boats, sell boats, steal boats, cruise boats, race boats, live aboard bdats, sink boats, and build boats. You name it, women do it! Given the economics of publishing there was no way were could even begin to write about ali the women who should be written about or even — and we’re going to really l

catch all hell here — or even the women we promised we would write about.

So what

we’ve done is the best we could under the circumstances, using articles about women in a variety of sailing situations in the hope that it will begin to give you some idea of how deeply they are involved in sailing. We specifica-lly decided not to focus on the best in every area, but some who are good at what they do, some who are just getting started, and some are just mediocre - after all, they’re all part of it. Next month there will be more, much more, as there will be in the months to come. In the meantime we want to offer our sincerest apologies to those women who should have been in this issue, women like Millie Bratenahl, Susie Klein, Poppy Truman, Marina Park, Pam Poletti, Zona Caesar, Lynn Huntley, Edna Robinson, Diane Beeston, Dianne Chute, Bev Wilson, Kitty James, Chris Kaplan," Carol Jesmore, Suzanne Vaughn, Sally Rowe, Kitty at Mariner Square Yachts, Karen Thompson, Ann Stewart, Jane Rundell, the women of the

Island

Yacht Club, the Sea Wenches, the Night Crawlers, Josselyn

Robertson, Alex ‘Monson, Sally Lind, Mary Jo Foote, Cecily Wilson, Nancy Farnum, Mary Boyce, Marsha Peck, Nancy Rogers, Rosemary Seal, Ln Neale, Harriet Minkowitz, Shelley Stevens, Allison Wohleb, yes and even Elain Sailor who takes the boating ads for the Chronicle and Joan Kiel who used to make boat loans. And, we certainly not forget¬ ting the §anta Cruz women who are in the next issue for sure; Mary Duffield, Joy Free, Ruth Tara, Jane Ellis, Karen Trap, Cynthia Hubbard, Susie Synder, Becky Walsh, Dianna Mercer, Cindy. Philipie, Deb’bie Gross, Mary Ann Foley, Ranie Bassano, Dana Marsh, Evelyn Drew, Eileen Sundett, and Maurya Malloy. Next month besides the Santa Cruz women, we’ll have Diane Beeston, the Women Commodores, the Hot Juniors, Millie Bratenhafl, Edna Robinson, the Womens Racing Calendar, and more — we promise!

JOCELYN

For years Jocelyn has been head and shoulders above,other women racers.

you

can

see

just

glancing

through these pages, women in sailing is

— full Sails.

almost common place today - but it wasn’t, always so.

time

coordinator of DeWitt ,

“When I started sailing I was trying to

Back in the fifties,

prove myself. You have to get past that.

when Jocelyn Nash got her start, it was

Now, I simply consider myself a ‘person

extraordinary seeing a woman compete

who races boats’. You have to fake risks

on the Bay. There were only a handful of

and chances. No individual moment in a race is such a big thing.”

female racers on the west coast way back when - Rhoda Ayers, Marilyn Rodgers, Peggy

Slater from

southern

That’s today. But time was that each

California

race was a big thing to Jocelyn, especially

“I can remember when Jocelyn was

cant,” says Jocelyn with pride, looking

sailing the 100 with husband Gordie ages

spiffy in a new natural haircut and having

ago,” recalls Don Trask. “She left the

shed twenty pounds. “Ray Elliot gave me

infant at the dock. I think she was two

the opportunity to be a functioning crew

and, of course, Joce.

her first Transpac. “That race was signifi¬

weeks out of the hospital.” That baby is

member.

sailor/rower Gordon Nash, Jr., now in his late twenties.

shouldn’t take a woman. A woman will

Jocelyn is a pioneer of women’s sailing

didn’t get seasick once. By the end, I was

in the

Bay. She treads new ground in

almost every area of the sport:

People

crew

for

Gordon

satisfied that I had done my 1/5-plus.” Racing

the

Honolulu

that

event

was

it marked the

beginning of Jocelyn’s writihg career, a

won;

sideline which she has always enjoyed.

- in 1963 crew for Jim DeWitt when he won the Mallory Cup;

She has authored numerous articles for

which

the

'You

110

Nationals years ago

Ray,

let you down.’ I worked really hard. I

important also -

warned

they

— probably the first woman to sail the Transpac (1956); — first woman to do the BuiIship race (across the Bay in El Toros);

all the major boating publications. Her first

article

for

Yachting,

“What,

Ice?” came after the Transpac experience, “joce is a gifted writer,” says associate Jim Warfield. “She has a way of putting

— one of the first women to skipper

words on paper, that makes people take

(putting the whole package together) on

note.” In an aside, Jocelyn adds, “They

usually

San

Juan

"Estrella Tam

Bien”;

— first woman to sail the singlehanded race around the Farollones; - first woman tactician in the “Big Boat” series; - twice winner (and the first woman skipper) of the Nimitz Trophy; - race committee member, Richmond Yacht Club; — organizer of expertly run women’s regattas;

edit out my

Jocelyn,

mother

tart comments.” of

four,

twice

married, grandmother, sailmaker (‘I don’t cut or sew’),

racer,

pionder, -is

often

known for her sharp tongue. Outsiders say she can^ be abrupt, insensitive, and opinionated. Yet Jocelyn is not always as self-confident as she appears. She con¬ fesses, “I have this fear of falling over¬ board.

I’m convinced if I ever do, I’ll

never survive. One reason I learned to sail

NASH *

was that I was scared to death of it. A

powerful person. I don’t think I’ve ever

person in that situation has three alterna¬

run across anybody that can concentrate

tives:

don’t sail; 2) you stay

like she does. You can’t pry her away.

scared; 3) you learn to do it. I chose

And she’s a genius at detail, which is

number 3.”

especially important in this business. I

you

Even today, with years of blue water under her keel, Joce has her moments. “It

was in the singlehanded Farallon race. I

memory.”

was half way out there when I had to put

She

has

tremendous

In turn, Jocelyn feels, that she owes a great deal

shaking and had to give myself a talking

other teachers — Gordie Nash (he is a

to — to get unscared. But what a glorious

superb athlete), Ray Elliot, etc. “I think

ride it was, surfing home.”

my seamanship has been acceptable for

avoid

prepared

anxiety,

and

Jocelyn

super-organized.

wellTrish

Heidersbach has been part of Jocelyn’s all-girl crew on her Hawkfarm for several

to her teacher, DeWitt, and

some time, but it’s taken me a while to learn to go fast. Steering a boat is a skill I admire. “The most important teacher is exper¬

with

ience. Just doing it. It’s imperative for a

affection. “Jocelyn has control of the

woman to make herself do everything on

whole

calm

a boat, especially if she’s scared of doing

throughout and knows what should be

it. It’s important to get past that feeling

years.

She

describes her skipper

situation.

She

remains

done. She talks you right through every

that there are certain things that ‘he does’

situation.

and certain things that ‘she does’.

Each detail and maneuver is

planned out ahead of time. She never

“As for women handling a boat them¬ selves, I recommend a craft under thirty

loses her cool.” Is the all-female crew at a disadvan¬

feet — then everything is manageable. I

tage competing against males, say in the

also strongly recommend wearing gloves

Metropolitan

who

at all times. It makes such a difference in

works the foredeck continues, “We know

what you can do. I wouldn’t sail without

we’re not as strong as the men, but there

them.

Mid-Winters?

Trish,

are plenty of mechanical devices on a

“A woman shouldn’t expect special

boat that can help you out. Where a man

treatment,”

might be inclined to muscle it, we,.just

encouraged so many women to compete.

use a different method to compensate.

“There’s nothing a woman can’t do. I’m

For example, for an end-to-end jibe, we

amazed by women all the time. They run

have

with lazy

a foredeck like it should be run. The

important

straight up, you find your place.

worked

out a system

Perhaps

says

the

lady

who

has

point is, in any sport, if you participate

guys.” Jocelyn’s

most

asset is her ability to organize, a trait

page 43

Clorox.

a second reef in the main. I was just

mean, it’s not like you’re turning out jugs

“I like the genuine, natural people you

greatly appreciated by her boss of 19

find in yachting.

years, Jim DeWitt. “I’ve probably spent

felt like I was a misfit. In sailing, I’ve

more time with Joce than her mother,

found my place.”

father, or cither of her husbands. She is a

Before, I had always

— marilyn yolles

LINDA Ever since sailing became an integral

Upon departure the skies were fair and

part of my lifestyle, the possibility of

seas

someday sailing to Hawaii has been on a

which provided the uncommonly heavy

high priority list. So when I was given the

winds for the single-handers had begun to

opportunity

lessen

crew

with

on'e

other

moderate. The high

thereby

giving

pressure area

sense

would

person on a Ranger 29 to Hawaii, I was

security

forced to make a quick decision about

moderate, which they proved to be.

whether

had

been

only

that our

winds

fantasizing

The thought of unknown catastrophes

about my longings or whether I was ready

at sea is one fear that assails people about

to face reality. I opted for the latter and

blue water sailing, another is seasickness.

was westbound

Pills have only a brief effectiveness. For

out of Monterey four

days later. This from

me it was a three-hour duration. By then

quick

the

turn

of events

fact that

resulted

Bob Whitney was

we were doing six knots under a <130 jib and

main

a close

reach

with

forced to drop out of the Singlehanded

breaking seas. Queasiness forced us to set

Transpac

Hawaii

Race from San due

Francisco to

self-steering

the self-steering and- retire to our

problems

bunks. Lying in a prone position did help

encountered the second day out. He put

but did not cure it. Our first evening was

in at Monterey and decided to continue

spent

after

spersed by “Please pass the bucket”. In

repairs

member on

but board.

with

another

crew

minimal

conversation

inter¬

Having had a fair

my log I entered, “By late evening I felt

amount of bay sailing behind me gave my

like washing my face and brushing my

berth on’the boat some credence — not to

teeth ... it seems that the inner ear is

mention the all-important acceptance of

going in one direction and my eyeballs in

the title of “Chief Cook”.

another — my stomach is in between . . . I may feel like changing clothes one of these days.” By

Laundry day.

the

following

morning

was

hungry and by noon found that oatmeal, honey, bananas and fresh milk were great cures. Fresh air in the cockpit helped a great deal — even though it meant putting

board

began

to settle

into a routine.

on foul-weather gear to go topside as it

Since the boat was well-provisioned with

was now raining.

fresh fruit, vegetables, some meat and

My first impression of the open sea

milk as well as plenty of packaged and

was how unbelievably blue it was — a

tinned goods, meal-planning and prepara¬

deep navy blue with cresting white waves.

tion was actually fun and not too much

Also how effectively the boat cut through

of a chore. Having tasty meals helped to

them. I found out later this also changed

lift our spirits on a few “down days”. I

— it was only oUr point of sail. Later in

had a two-burner kerosene stove which I

the trip going downwind the motion of

found to be far superior to the alcohol

the boat was more exaggerated, changing

stoves I had used in the past. We ate two

to a rocking, and rolling as the waves

hot meals a day with sandwiches, fruit,

broke under the transom or as we surfed

nuts, crackers and cheese for mid-day snack time.

down the front side. The self-steering worked nicely on a

Even though meal preparation was a

reach, holding a good compass course but

fun-filled

the downwind trip was a series of rolls

heroic effort in rough seas. We especially

and arcs of 20 to 40 degrees coming off

liked a variation of omelets, but I do

the waves. Actually the device averaged

recall a few spilled eggs in the cabin and on me.

out a true course but a lot of time and motion was correction.

taken

its

self¬

After the first couple of days, life on

challenge,

at times it was a

Dinner turned out to be a lighter meal, breakfasts being our mainstay of the day. A typical breakfast would be an’egg dish,

WEBER-RETTIE dishes — very effectively using cold salt¬

in celestial navigation, I learned from him

water in a bucket. Ivory liquid was the

and several books he had on board. He

only

soap

product that suds

salt¬

terrific

navigator.

I set up the’

daily plotting sheet with the DR position

clothes, dishes, hair and bodies.

and track and learned to compute oqr

Clothes were also washed in our “all¬ purpose” '

was a

water so we used it for everything —

position

mathematically

but

never

bucket. Only underwear was

mastered sextant readings. The closest I

rinsed in fresh water to allay getting salt

came to our position was 75 miles off, so

sores in certain tender places which

I decided to take a course when I got

succeeded in getting anyway because I

home and hope that nothing happened to

didn’t know better 'the first few days.

Bob. Of course there are always the vapor

Wash days we had everything hung on

trails in the sky, but they are risky and

the lifelines with double clothes pins to

were not evident until we were six days

prevent articles

from Lahaina.

soon

found

from blowing away.

out

drying

was

another

Steering was an endurance trial the

matter. Jeans tooks three to four days

first few days but when my arm and

and never did get totally dry. After a

midriff

while at sea you forget what its like to be

easier. I found it to be quite boring as

muscles

shaped

became

dry anyway and don’t care when you get

you must stare at the compass trying to

to warmer latitudes. We did use a little

hold a steady course which was no mean

clorox in the saltwater to take some of

feat.

the brackish quality out of the clothes.

To other women, I might add, sailing

As for personal care, taking a bath was

is a great way to get into shape, eat any¬

an experience for the hardy in the colder

thing you want and not gain weight. A

latitudes.

person is constantly bracing himself so

It was a “grin and bear it”

experience. Strip down in the cockpit and wash with Ivory and cold saltwater, rinse Linda — on the way to her fiance’.

quickly with a rag dipped in fresh water, dry off and throw on semi-dry clothes. My

best

time

was

about

five to ten

minutes. In the tropics it was much easier fresh fruit, juice, toast or biscuits — some¬

on the constitution — just pour a bucket

times a left-over from dinner as a side-

of water oyer the top.

dish.

I only washed my hair twice — some¬

Dinner menus were usually based on a

how Ivory and saltwater doesn’t do a

rice and canned meat combination dish

heck of a lot for once soft and silky

with fresh or canned vegetables. We did

locks.

eat some soup but, it was a lunch item.

amount of fresh water and white vinegar.

We consumed great quantitites of vita¬

I did rinse my hair in a small

Again, as with the clothes, after a few

mins and most importantly a salt tablet

days personal appearance seems very in¬

once a day and many glasses of fresh

significant. There certainly isn’t anyone

water to ward off dehydration. Liquor

to impress. I even tucked away my false

was, believe it or not, not consumed in

eyelashes, which as my friends know, are

great quantitites. We typically had hot

a mainstay to me. However, they were

chocolate and rum or brandy at bedtime.

duly reinstated within minutes after our

Beer tasted awful to me — maybe because

arrival at Laihaina.

it was warm. We rationed the* Cokes we

Cleaning and personal care took up the

had on board as the one broken link in

morning hours for me, while Bob was at

provisioning was the fact we started out

the helm. We traded four hour shifts on

with six cans. They, like gum and candy,

the helm during the day to make better

were saved for spirit-lifting.

time so we didn’t have a lot of free time.

My job description also included cabin

Later morning and afternoons I would

cleaning and doing my own washing. Bob

take my turn on the helm while Bob did

did

the navigation. Not having a background

his own, and he also washed the

page 45

‘Betsy’ the vane.

LINDA

most muscles are in constant use with the

was. a constant source of amazement to

exception of your legs which you have to conscientiously muscle

tone

exercise

and

which

Bob). When I took the helm at 10 p.m.,

maintain

I nearly went blind from eyestrain trying

didn’t do.

to pick out lights, or anything that would

My favorite time was evening, after

indicate a landfall — but to no avail. At 3

the days work was done and the self¬ steering

was

driving

once

again.

sailing is a great

especially enjoyed the 360 degree sunsets

way to get into

Also the phosphorescence in the wake of the boat cannot be adequately described. attempt

would

“like

shape, eat anything

us as we had to at times change sails at

you want and

which was in full swing on the dock mai-tais freely flowing. It was great! We

nice warm sleeping bags to adjust the

jokingly say that we finished second in

Several nights I got

the race behind “Merlin”. Actually we

soggy long-johns crawling through a wet

not gain weight

cockpit to the stern. The winds picked up at night and although we flew the 130

of this dimension,

we usually took the main down at night

others haven’t, but I’d do it again,

The nighttime work excursions were still

pecially albatrosses all the way across; a

a secondary reason for my sleeplessness.

pod of 30—40 porpoises one day; flying

The

down

fish in a large number later in the trip and

cause for lying

debris in the water, almost one item per

awake. Nighttime was just a series of rock

day - from an encrusted acetylene tank

and rolls, jangles and bumps with a little

to a plastic dish tub floating along. After

off and on sleep. It seemed like every

being out for twelve to fifteen days it

loose thing and flexible part of the boat

really was a high point of the day to even

was

the

see a piece of garbage in the water. It

gurgling and rush of water next to my

reassured me that civilization was still alive and well somewhere.

creaking

—

not

mention

ear. I gradually became more accustomed to the sounds and actually began picking

the

evening

of July

10, after

out the unnatural ones - like the jib

making 170 miles in the last 24 hours, we

backwinding the night we lost the blade

knew we would make landfall the next

on the self-steering device. Fortunately

day. Then the suspense really increased

we had three extra blades so repairs were swift.

for me. By this time we were steering

People always ask, “What do you see

I say “Go for it!”.

Even though we had a great trip, I know

and went with the jib and pole alone.

below gave

didn’t make bad time ourselves - 16 days out of Monterey. To anyone who wants to try a voyage

and usually a reefed main during the day, ■

hears

its record-breaking trip in the Victoria to joyfully included in the celebration party

night and periodically climb out of our

sounds one

behind “Merlin” who had just completed Maui race. We tied up there and were

the trip for me. It was fitfull for both of

ungodly

with ten to twelve foot swells in 25 knots We arrived about forty-five minutes

Sleeping was the most difficult part of

self-steering vane.

great undescribable feeling. We came in of wind and docked at Lahaina.

thousand tiny flashlights glowing in the water”.

lights reflecting on the clouds — no sleep wait for dawn before spotting Maui — a

planetarium shows during clear weather.

best

Bob called me topside to see the

for me from then on. We actually had to

which were spectacular and the outdoor

a.m.

four hour shifts around the clock so we

out there?” Actually we saw many things

could make it on the eleventh, which was when my fiancee, Mike Rettie, was to

- three freighters the third day out, at a

meet

safe enough distance; many birds - es-

‘Gypsy’ would arrive on that day, which

us.

had

unfailing

faith

that

A couple of observations I’d make in closing are: 1. The saying that one is a guest on the ocean’s waters rings very true; 2. Out there one observes the very elementary form of existence — the un¬ ending procession of the sun and moon across

the heavens - a simple setting

minus the people and hassles of society; 3. What we learn by sailing on the bay is equivalent

prep school

graduation

exam

before

on the ocean.

the

Every

little thing which seems possibly insignif¬ icant at the time takes on a new meaning — sometimes between being able to com¬ plete a job or not, when the “chips are down”. This does not preclude another important element for survival out there - just plain cunning and the intuition to sense when a change is needed and then do it - not wait to question the thought.

— linda weber-rettie

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You’ve tasted the excitement of sailing — now learn its refinements. Two series are scheduled — one for sailing enthusiasts in general, the other for racers.

SERIES 1: SAILING TIPS THAT SAVE MONEY AND INCREASE YOUR BOATING PLEASURE Each session takes place on Tuesday evenings throughout February. Classes are held for 2V2 hrs., 7:30 to 10:00 p.m., at DeWitt Sails’ Point Richmond loft. Two guest speakers are scheduled: Jocelyn Nash and Bill Kimley. They both have many years of sailing experience and are experts in their topic areas. Session 1 (Feb. 6): KNOW YOUR BOAT Tuning the rig for safety and power - Weather helm; What it is, how to control it - Sailmaking Afloat: Traveler, boom vang, fairlead and other adjustments to get the most out of your boat. Speaker: Jim DeWitt Session 2 (Feb. 13): SAILS: CARE, USES, and SPECIAL EQUIPMENT Sail inventories: Getting the most for your money - Care and construction of sails - Reefing systems, luff support systems, club jibs: What are they, are they right for you? Speaker: Jocelyn Nash Session 3 ( Feb. 20): NAVIGATION-BOAT MAINTENANCE-MOORING, and ANCHORING SYSTEMS Tide tables and charts - Rules of the Road - Mooring, Docking and Anchoring Techniques - Hull and Hardware Maintenance. Speaker: Bill Kimley Session 4 (Feb. 27): SAFETY AFLOAT-MARINE RADIOS and ELECTRONICS Picking up a person overboard - Hypothermia - First-aid onboard - Survival in different sea and weather conditions - Marine radios and other electronics. Speaker: Bill Kimley Cost: $15 per session, $48 for the whole series. Group rates available, please see below. SERIES 2: RACING: ITS ALL IN HOW WELL YOU PLAY THE GAME! Each of the three sessions in this series has two parts, A and B. these will take place on consecutive Thursday evenings in February and March. The time: 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. Place: DeWitt Sails. Session 1 (Part A, Feb. 22; Part B, Mar. 1): THE RULES An in-depth study of the basic definitions and racing rules, and U.S.Y.R.U. appeals. Session 2 (Part A, Mar. 8; Part B, Mar. 15): TACTICS AND STRATEGY Winning strategies that account for currents, bending and shifting winds, and other conditions you experi¬ ence on the race course - Tactical maneuvers at starts, mark roundings, on upwind and downwind legs, and at finishes - Tips on how to get the competition to do what you want them to do! Session 3 (Part A, Mar. 22; Part B, Mar. 29): BOAT SPEED Power-tuning your rig - Adjusting your sails for speed in different conditions - Go-fast steering techniques for upwind, downwind, or reaching legs - Setting up your boat to win! Cost: $30 per session, $72 for the whole series. Group rates available, please see below. (Cost per session includes attendance at both Parts A and B, for a total of two evenings, five hours of class time. At a reduced rate per session, you may sign up for all three sessions—six evenings, or 15 hours of class time.)

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OCEANIC SOCIETY'S As far as blonde, 32 year-old Jane

vious, you can’t expect someone to sit in

It was during a brief vacation to San

can’t care

a high-rise apartment in S.F. and get con¬

Francisco that it happened. She took one

about something and take care of it un¬

cerned. They can’t get a feel for it. So my

look at the Bay, remembered her love of

less you know it on a first hand basis,”

main focus is to get people out on the

the water and sailing and decided to move

especially when “it” is sailing vand the

water

here.

environment.

experience.”

Pereth

concerned,

“you

they

have

first

hand

She got a job with I. Magnin as credit authorization

manager and

took some

sailing lessons on the side. She also saved up enough money to buy a boat. “My friends

couldn’t imagine why

spend

would

$1,300 on a classic Alden day-

sailer, They used to say, “Jane, you’re a good

looking

woman.

You

could

sailing with anyone whenever you want.” (‘l

didn’t

want

sailing

just

because I was a good looking woman. I didn’t want to always be on somebody else’s

boat doing what somebody else

says. I wasn’t going to learn anything that way and that wasn’t the experience

wanted.” It is precisely this fierce deter¬ mination to learn things by doing them herself that forms the basis of her sailing philosophy for herself and her students. Her sailing program is one of the most unique in the Bay area. She has convinced members

of the Oceanic Society who

have their own boats to teach novices about sailing. Given the context of the Oceanic Society within which the sailing t

program

operates,

everyone

who

sails

there is an active environmentalist as well. For the past four years she has worked at the S.F. Bay Chapter Oceanic Society,

She believes that when you’re on a boat and

you see one year there are

Their research and education programs broaden

the courses from just learning

a membership organization dedicated to

brown pelicans and the next year there

about

improving the Bay and the oceans by

aren’t; one year there are seals and then

environment.

means of research, education and public

there are none, you start to wonder why?

involvement. Her specific role is to run

What’s

the

think ecologically.

sailing

program, something which

the

connection?

You

sailing

learning

about

the

begin to Four years after her initial program,

didn’t exist until she created it.

the Although Jane Pereth has been around

courses

have

expanded.

Beginning

Sailing includes four weeks on eleven-

water all her life, she has not always been

foot dinghies and four weeks on

Sitting in the cozy houseboat on Gate

■a sailor. She grew up on eastern Long

boats

6 in Sausalito, she talked about sailing,

under

thirty

keel

feet. “Opportunity

Island where her uncles had power boats.

Sails” entitles you to sail out of many

what it means to her, and how she came

“I didn’t exactly know about sailing, but

different

to realize that “next to personal relation¬

I knew what a cleat was.” As a junior at

boats. The Intermediate Program stresses

ships, sailing is the top priority in my life.”

South Hampton College she hated gym

reading

class and arranged to take a sailing course

courses. It includes two day sails and an

“The focus of the Oceanic Society,”

instead for 2 units. During the next seven

she said, long blonde hair falling on her

years, she sailed with friends, got married,

broad shoulders, “is to get people con¬

moved

cerned

riding and even motorcycling to women.

about the Bay and the ocean,

keeping it healthy and finding out what’s making it unhealthy. But it’s pretty ob¬

Arizona,

taught

horseback

When her marriage ended in divorce, she didn’t

know

what she wanted to do.

harbors charts,

many

compass

and

different plotting

JANE PERETH overnight. The

Sailing

Education

Adventures

“Confidence is the key,” Jane believes.

“to see, to touch, to smell it. I want them

“It’s pretty hard to gain that self-confi¬

to care if the Bay is polluted, to learn

coordinates skippers who have their own

dence when your learning situation is all

that the earth’s oxygen supply comes

boats with available crew who don’t. It’s

caught up in someone else’s approval.”

from the ocean, and not only from the

a give and take where skippers provide

On a more immediate level, she sees

trees on land. If we kill the oceans, we

their boats, and crew provide time and

her role as getting all people on the Bay

kill the planet.”

— mauree becker

skills, i.e. painting the boats and what¬ ever needs to be done. Ancillary

programs,

Monday

night

sails, lecture series, whale watching trips and

Farallons

experiences,

which

the

Oceanic Society promotes, round out the sailing opportunities. “Actually

got involved

with

this

whole thing,” recalls Jane, “because of one

Monday

Farallones

night

which

lecture

the

Oceanic

the

Society

sponsored four years ago. I was impressed with the lecture and the environmental consciousness.

But

was

even

impressed with the people at the Oceanic Society. Everyone is equal there. All you have to have is a concern for our environ¬ ment and an appreciation of the bay and oceans.”

personal

level

she feels

that

sailing helps her define her own strengths and limitations. It gives her a freedom to test

herself,

resources. women

her

intelligence,

her

this sense she feels that

particularly

can

benefit

from

sailing. In fact one future goal includes teaching a course just to women, to give them an opportunity to gain self-confi¬ dence. If a couple take sailing together, the woman just defers to the man. “She takes a back seat, she doesn’t assert her¬ self.

Even though she may want to, it

seems she can’t help it. All the cultural training,

especially

for

middle

women, gets in the way.” A women’s sailing course

aged would

remove those social-cultural pressures and provide a safe situation in which women can learn to handle the lines, sail the boat and begin to believe in their own abilities.

page 49

Jane doesn’t live here, but she’s temporarily housesitting at Heritage House.

JOAN DUFFIELD Call me anything but a ‘Salesgal’, emhasized Joan Duffield when I asked what I should call her. “Saleswoman is what I guess I would call myself,’’ she added, “but I’d much rather be called a salesman than a salesgal!”

Joan is an attractive, brown eyed, soft spoken woman of 31, single, and success¬ fully making a living selling boats for John Beery Company. She’s certainly not the pushy hustler I secretly expected when assigned to interview women who

sell boats. Joan graduated from Berkeley with a degree in Fine Arts and went to work as a free lancer doing perspective drawings and renderings. So how does an artist btecqme a boat saleswoman? “I reached a point where I wanted to change and about then some people I knew got involved in Albatross Sailing Center in Redwood City. They felt I would be good at it, that I could talk to people, and that I had a good knowledge of boats and of sailing, and they asked me to come to work for them. I didn’t know of any other women selling boats at that time, until the boat show that year where I met Paula. I had my doubts about it . . . I’d never sold anything before . . . but I found that it was fantas¬ tic!” Q. Flow long did it take you to sell your first boat? A. About four days, I was really lucky. I liked the product I was selling, and I sold one right away. Q. Do you find any conscious differ¬ ence in your sales technique when talking to men and women? A. There’s more difference between my approach with individuals than between men and women. I don’t feel I have a certain approach for a woman and a certain approach for a man. Usually women have a different focus or a different point of view . . . they’re interested in a different aspect of the boat. When I’m dealing with a husbandwife team looking for a boat, their interests complement each other. Q. You’re very attractive, do you ever have a problem with sailors coming in and trying to hustle you? A. No, the only time that’s a problem is at the Boat Show. Ypu may get someone who’s been walking around cocktailing for a couple of hours, and they just park on the boat. There’s a certain anonymity to the Boat Show . . . but it’s usually harmless. Q. Why do the salespeople seem to dis¬ like the Boat Show so much? A. The Boat Show is a marathon. You live in the Cow Palace, and you* don’t con't on page 52

PAULA BLASIER Mommy, when I grow up I’m going

Q. Do you find that being a woman

I assumed I’d have problems with men

to be a yacht broker!”. No, it didn’t

has any relationship at all in your dealings

who felt they couldn’t buy a boat from a

really

with your clients? Does it seem to give

“short”. I’ve found there are some men

you any problems or advantages?

who will just say “I’m sorry, Lady, I just

happen

that

way

at all.

Paula

Biasier was a college educated Psychiatric Social Worker working in a prison for

A. I think it does both. When I first

the criminally insane when she saw an

started I wasn’t sure what would happen.

can’t deal with a lady.” con't on page 53

intriguing ad in the paper: “Girl Friday wanted for yacht design office. Typing, filing,

bookkeeping,

accounting,

non-

smoker.” “The only thing I could do on that list was the last,

did not smoke,” Paula

recalls. “But I called, and it turned out to be Gary Mull’s office. I was hired, and I worked there for three-and-a-half years. Through Gary

met John

Beery who

asked me to come sell boats for him. I thought I could never do that, having only sold Girl Scout Cookies before. But I decided to give it a try and that was almost five years ago.” Paula turned out to be the answer to a feminist’s

prayer.

She

intelligent,

articulate, and very good at her job in what was once considered a man’s world. She is -31

and single, businesslike, and

very quick witted. Q. Did you have to have special train¬ ing to

prepare yourself to sell

boats?

A. Legally, you only have to take a silly test which requires that you know virtually nothing about sailboats and a few things about the law with respect to yacht brokers. But that’s why you run into such a variety of people selling boats. This business became a profession only recently.

Before, it was someone who

liked to sail and wanted to be around boats so they thought they’d sell boats for awhile^ You never felt that you could go to somebody like you could a stock¬ broker and say, “This is what I want, and I can pay this amount; define that for me in a boat.” If you’re a decent broker, that’s what you ought to be able to do. Q. Is there a big turnover among the sales personnel?

A. I think it’s pretty high in general, but you’ll find that the brokerage houses have a much more stable sales force than the new boat dealerships. And I think there is a qualitative difference between someone who perceives himself as a yacht broker and

someone

who

sells

boats.

Paula loving life at the Cow Palace Show

JOAN con't from page 50

know whether it’s day or night. The only

on the bay by this summer.

thing to eat is rotten hot dogs and terrible

Q. Is there any recognizable trend in

coffee, and you have to stand in line for

what people want in a boat these days?

everything. You have to stand in line to

A. Yes, I think in the last three or four

go to the john.

years people have become more sophis¬

Q. Do you ever really sell any boats at

ticated in their requirements. Gene'rally,

the Boat Show, I mean actually sit down

people are more open to current thought

and write up a contract? A. Oh yeah.

and developmental thought as opposed to traditional adherence. Customers seem to

Q. How often does that happen?

read more about boats, and the average

A. It depends on how large the boat is.

sailor

Small boats, all the time; large ones, not

seems

far

knowledgeable

about his own requirements.

quite so often.

Q. I have found that often a salesman

Q. Is sailing your hobby, your recrea¬ tion?

doesn’t know much about the brokerage boats . . . they don’t know the answers to

Q. Yes, but sometimes I think I Want to go to the desert or someplace where I

obvious questions about boats they are handling.

Any

comment

about

that?

will not see a single mast or any water. .

A. Yes, I think that’s a real problem,

but I know I will always be boat crazy. I

that the industry in general is not very

do love boats.

professional. I think that each brokerage

Q. Will you always be a boat sales¬ woman?

boat should be viewed by the individual salesmen, and the listing salesman should

A. That’s really hard to predict. Paula and I have just had a tremendous exper¬

sell the boat to the rest of the salesmen in the office.

ience with our new project.

Q. Tell me about it. A.

It’s a one

Why

do you

successful in this job?

design

fleet

we put

A, I

think the ability to listen and

together for San Francisco Bay called the

empathize with

California

any

Corinthian.

think you are so

The

boat

sales

job,

people is important in especially

when

you’re

customized Cal 39, extremely versatile,

acting as an advisor. Salesmen are often

good

sailing,

well

built,

boat that

busy

pigeon-holing

customers

appeals to a number of clients that we

they

have had.

you must interpret what they’re thinking

The Pantyhose Papers

that

aren’t really listening. Sometimes

Q. What was your role in it?

because

A. We worked together, divided the

articulate.

they

may

not be particularly

Sometimes it’s as simple as

responsiblity. I would talk to Sparcraft,

finding out what someone thinks a boat

“We have observed a yachting environ¬

and

Barient. We

should look like . . . maybe that customer

ment in which victories could be bought

sresented it to John Beery when we felt

would never buy a plastic boat but he

we had something viable, and we had afl

doesn’t even know it himself.

who . . . buy the fastest contender and

the particulars. It was just a matter of

Q. Is selling boats a glamorous occupa¬ tion?

the fastest driver.”

A. I think it appears that way to a lot of people, but it is hard work if you

racing is that of unequal men in equal boats.”

Paula

would

talk

getting a financial commitment from him to go ahead with it. We will have 10 boats

really apply yourself. And it is straight commission.

men

with

little

sailing

expertise,

“The most significant test in yacht

Armed

with

this

philosophy,

Paula

Blasier and Joan Duffield have worked

Q. You seem to spend most of your

together to come up with a new edition

time on the phone. What other-specific

of a popular concept: the one design

mechanics

are

involved

your

job?

A. Writing our own ads, taking people sailing ... we do all our own demon¬ stration,

showing

boats

various

marinas, but I would say the majority of it is desk time. — sue rowley

racer/cruiser.

Their

version

involves

customized model of the stock Cal 39, which they haye named the “California Corinthian”. They

put

cooperation builds

the

together with

Cal

the

Jensen

boats),

package

Marine Barient,

(who North

PAULA con't from page 51

Q. Would you recommend this job to

tried to shackle their leg to a stanchion.

other women in the sailing community? A. It’s a job, but the people around

Q. Do you think all the salespeople feel

you are fascinating. The exciting thing about this

job

is that you essentially

way

about the Boat Show?

A. I’m sure they do. I think so. The inthe-water shows aren’t as bad.

make it what it is, and the better you are, the more of your world you can create

that

Q. Have you had any unique experi¬ ences in this job?

around the job. You determine the kind

A. I saw myself as a missionary when I

of people you deal with by the kind of

first started selling boats . . . couldn’t

boats you sell. You can deal only with

bear to sell someone a boat I thought was

the Coronado 25 or the Lido 14, or you

terrible.

can deal with custom boats and ocean

working with who was going to buy a

racers.

Columbia 26 because it was cheaper than

Q. And what do you sell? A.

wind

There was a guy

I had been

the Ranger 23 I KNEW he should own. I

selling larger

boats

knew I was right, and he. was wrong. So I

Q. ,Do you ever develop a sixth sense

sailing in the Ranger 23,” and I thought I

about who is a serious customer and who

would dazzle him with my seamanship.

is just looking for a boat ride?

Everything went well, and I thought I

usually, over 27 feet.

said, “Look, let me'just take you out

A. I think so, you have to, because if

had him. When we sailed back to the

you start asking them the questions that

dock, I said, “Now would you like to see

count . . . when you force them to focus

how to fold a sail properly?” and he said,

on their fantasy . . . when you say ‘Well,

“Oh, yes”. So we were folding the jib and

how are you going to use the boat?’ and

1 started rolling it up, and I rolled it right

you ask them to list their requirements. .

off the edge and ended up in the water!

if someone can’t do that, he is either not

It was very hard to look cool . . . and he

a boat buyer at all, or he is far away from

did buy the Columbia 26 .. . from some¬

it. If he’s far away, those questions may

body else.

help him focus and become a boat buyer. If he’s not serious, he feels uncorpfortable

Q. Do you get to know your clients very well?

Sails, Signet, and Sparcraft to supply the

and can’t answer the questions and will

boat totally equipped and rigged. They

usually

wrote a

tight set of one design rules

experience that it’s not so much intuition

specifying everything from a fixed deck

as your method of communication with

layout to the size of anchors and racing

people that make you find out what you

better than I think anyone in their lives

with

need to know.

outside of their wives or their family.

away.

You

discover

with j

the

approached

table

John

place. Beery

Then for

they

financial

backing.

Q. Are there things about selling boats that drive you up the wall?

A. The constant through selling boats is

that you

meet the most incredible

variety of people you cap meet anywhere. Not just that, but you get to know them

Especially

if you’re selling big boats,

because they’re searching for a micro¬

What prompted two yacht saleswomen

A. Getting the hatchboards back in

cosm of their world in a boat, and you

to pursue such a project? Paula relates:

right whenever you show a boat. When

have to know what their aesthetic values

“We had several clients who all seemed to

you go to Yacht Broker Hell, they put

are, what their financial position is, why

be looking for the same thing ... it was a

you

they do the things they do. You find out

work

putting in

if they, are self directed or other directed.

for honest-to-God head to head racing in

aspect about dealing with the public the

You can guess whether their house is

a boat they could also use to cruise up

way

done in a very severe

the river; a boat with built-in resale value

difficult?

due to the existence of a highly^visable

Seriously, you

Their promotional package is a silver “panty hose package” bearing 43 pages of

that

there makes

it especially

Boat Show. I just hate it.

Q. Why? A.

Because

carnival.

It’s

impossible to sit down and talk to one

“All you have to do is add wine,” says

They feel you’re trying to pressure them

rules,

and

person about what they’re looking for.

plus four line drawings. Paula. page 53

— sue rowley

kind of car they drive. You get a very close personal overview of your client. — sue rowley I

it’s

specifications,

information,

Italian style or

Ethan Allen maple. You can guess what

A. The only thing that drives me nuts now is the

fleet.”

hatchboards. any negative

disaffection with the IOR, it was a desire

because some lunatic two boats down just

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; SAILING LESSONS Many women never get started racing because they feel anxious that they don’t know as much as other women. This is silly, there are plenty of women who know almost nothing about sailing and still race; although there are not quite as many women as men who do this. S The truth of the matter is you learn by doing. This is what the crew of one Hawkfarm learned during last year’s Hawkfarm Ladies’ Race.

p-.V&c Lesson Number One: Just-because your husband’s foul weather gear fits him doesn’t mean it will fit you.

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have him buy it for you.

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Lesson Number Two: It is better to read the charts before going where you’re

going

rather

than

once

you’ve tried to get there. Lesson Two’s fine print reads: “The bay charts lists soundings in feet, not fathoms.” M;S iU.

Lesson Number Three: When the knotmeter suddenly reads “0”, it does not necessarily mean that the knotmeter is broken or that the propeller has fallen off. You may be aground (See Lesson Two).

Lesson Number Four:

Everything

turns out allright in the end.

Yes,

your husband was drunk and mad when you finally arrived with the boat after getting off the mud — but hell

that was yesterday and

now the wind is blowing and the race is on and life is wonderful. And next year we won’t talk so much during the race . .. but we’re

ELLY When we first met tall, tan, and hand¬

few of her many years in the industry,

some Elly Dowd 1 5 years ago, she was no

this

longer the ‘sucker’ of the sailing business

already earned the moniker “World War

she claims she had once been. Her two

III”.

handsome

and

gracious

lady

had

daughters, with whom we were stumbling

Elly never really wanted to sell boats

through puberty, informed us that em¬

when she started in the late 50’s, but she

k-jds, I wasn’t going to have them say,

ployees at Alameda’s Schoonmaker-Dowd

was divorced with two daughters to sup¬

‘Ugh, Wheaties again for dinner tonight’.”

Yacht Sales trembled when she stalked

port — and she herself had come from a

Elly remembers her childhood as a pain¬

the premises. Indeed, in just those first

divorced family. “I wasn’t going to let my

ful

kids feel as if they couldn’t live like other

struggle

between

two

parents and

never being able to afford things. Since her Mother wouldn’t work, Elly started at Elly, Mike Pond and Rich Willaims returning from another ocean race on Elly’s Cal 20, "Puff The Magic Dragon’.’.

14 and

has

been

perpetual

motion

machine ever since. While living in Santa Barbara Elly sold her first boat for Alameda broker Peter Schoonmaker — with whom she was to

have at least a tumultuous business re¬ lationship.

The

eventual

commission

check for that first deal was the largest lump sum the former telephone operator had ever seen. With visions of dollar-signs dancing in her eyes she terminated her 18-month

Santa

Barbara-to-Alameda

commute and moved her girls north. That first boat deal was a keystone to the future. Peter

“I’ll

always be grateful

Schoonmaker

for

his

support,

because without it I wouldn’t be in the boat business and and I owe everything I have

the

boat

business.”

She also

remembers Santa Barbara broker Harry Chanson who managed to work himself into a cut of that first deal. “At 20 I felt cheated, but I also felt that Harry knew .

where it was coming from and how to put it together, and that I got what I deserv¬ ed because I didn’t protect my backside.” Elly would no longer be a sucker, but at “the cost of being tougher than I wanted to be.” If business Dowd

Yacht

—

then

Sales

Schoonmaker -

- required getting

tough, the she was up to it. In those days racing was an important adjunct of yacht sales, so Elly and Petdr were two of the seven

who

started

the

San

Francisco

Midget Ocean Racing Station (later to be replaced by MORA). Together they won one championship in an Electra and when relations

between

the

two

became

strained, Elly bought her own Cal 20 to race in the oce'an. Those are days of particularly fond memories,

especially

of two

Alameda

DOWD

high school kids, Rich Williams and Mike Pond, who were willing to race the ocean with her. “Can you imagine anyone else putting

woman?”

with

Elly

that

shit

muses.

from

Together

they

practiced several nights a week and would continue

races , when

others

dropped

out — sometimes because they couldn’t afford an outboard with which to drop out with. There were bad times when Elly lost her confidence and would cry, but Rich Williams would say, “Elly you can do it, you can do anything.” Apparently Rich was right, and Elly went on to win the championship that season, becoming the first woman in the world to win a midget ocean racing championship. When Elly’s

Art

boat’s

Biehl

got

up to protest

rating during the awards

dinner, it wouldn’t be the last time she would get heat from male competitors. Racing her Cal 40 “Montgomery St” in later Danforth Series, she frequently had her wins belittled as ‘boat wins’ and her losses dismissed with “what do you ex pect from a woman?” Yet there were more than a few — Aldo Alessio,

Hank

Easom, and Bruce Easom are the first she recalls - who treated her as a formidable '

and worthwhile competitor. By

the

mid-60’s

Elly

had

bought

Schoonmaker out and was in the process of making hers the biggest Cal dealership in the country. The opportunity came as the result of a fortuitous arrangement with some San Francisco financiers who lent her money and let her keep 51% of the

business. They offered non-critical

advice when it was requested, taught her many

basic

business

techniques,

and

balanced her checkbook to boot. Racing ‘the Cal 40 “Montgomery St.” had

its

moments

missing

Baruna’s

record in a Danforth Race by 30 seconds was one, making the Acapulco Race was another — but in general, time was too scarce

fully

appreciate

it.

Besides

15 years after selling her business at Pacific Marina, Elly returns to find that peices of the old build¬

racing she had to keep the business afloat

ing still remain. The marina had been its own little world in those days; babies were born on boats, someone feel in the Estuary and drownded, there were marriages and divorces. . . its own little

to say nothing of raising two mischevious

world.

daughters. page 57

not

untypical

weekend

ELLY

hpuse

Gary”,

remembers it. After the from

high

the

daughters

school

way

had

Elly

graduated

Elly wanted out of

retail sales, out of getting midnight phone calls from drunks with halyards caught at the top of their masts. Dick Lindsey, who had been one of her salesmen, had started Lindsey Plastics which made the Newport line of boats. Elly sold her Cal dealership to

John

Beery

and became the Vice-

• President in charge of sales for Newport. It was a new job for her, and challenges were always appealing. But it didn’t last long.

The company was purchased by

Elgin National Industries who made Elly head of sales and the west coast factory; but there were disagreements over policy and she resigned as soon as possible. Never one to do something she had already

done

before,

Elly

left

for

Australia, finally feeling the freedom of having to provide for only herself. She did diving for an aquarium on the Great Barrier Regf, imported a line of Japanese boats, went vcamping with an Egyptian couple, played with the Wallabies, and only Elly knows what else. At the start of the 70’s she returned to the States an.d worked out the concept of a new boat on some cocktail napkins with Charley Morgan, a boat that was to be¬ come the Out-Island 41. Together she and The Rod Stephens-designed Swift 40, one of two boats being marketed by Swallow Craft, a Korean manufacturer.

Morgan decided the way to market this ‘family’ boat was by introducing it in the charter trade. After checking the Tonga Islands Elly decided the place to pioneer the idea was in the British Virgins; con¬

would begin Friday night when some of

the sack early Sunday morning. “It was

sequently

the crew would take Montgomery St. to

wild”, she says, “I don’t know how any

Mooring charter company. Another 22

the St. Francis while Elly would drive her

of us survived.”

boats were sold to others in the charter

daughter’s horse to Concord. Early Satur¬

she

sold

boats

The

During these years Elly was making

trade thus insuring the financial success

friends — and some enemies — through¬

of the boat — even before the first hull

events, after which Elly would dash over

out

was built!

pre-race

would try and help those on the way up.

Seeing the project through at Morgan

throw-up. Then it was a race around the

She advised the then timid engineer Gary

• she worked in the Caribbean getting the

Lightbucket, be dropped off at the St.

Mull to ask Jensen Marine for a better

concept rolling smoothly with the charter

Francis, drive back tq Concord for the

royalty deal than they were offering him.

companies

daughter and horse, and finally back in

“Jack Jensen had been really cleaning

purchasing programs for boats. Later she

day

was the

spent St.

watching the

Francis

for

her

jumping

the sailing world,

and

often

she

and

setting

lease-back

DOWD

skippered several boats to Yucatan and

business lessons of her 49% boat dealer¬

making

ship partners, Charley Morgan, and more.

money that makes it worth it, it’s the

Only

satisfaction

when

pushed

does she work to

things

happen.”

It’s

not

accomplishment

the that

remember the fact that the Richmond YC

makes it all worthwhile. Elly’s grateful

club gave her ail the privileges of member¬

for the support she got early in her career

ship

but voting; that the

St.

Francis

but believes that “each person has their

worked

with

Tortola Charters, and in

invited her to present the Carr Trophy

own fate in their hands and has to be

general

spent several , years of blissful

but then tried to stop her when it was

alert to opportunity.”

sailing. This pleasant style of life came to

done in the Men’s Grill; other incidents

While she says her career has never

an abrupt halt when she was told she had

are mostly forgotten. While Elly wants

been dull, she’s also far from having her

but six months to live. Although Elly

her fair share, “When I deserve it, I want

fill of sailing. If she had her wish, what

stopped

the recognition”, but she’s not inclined to

‘you’ve got nothing to lose’ treatment

be pushy. “I like men, but I don’t see

working

for

several

years,

myself as lovely and gorgeous by forc¬

was apparently successful. In

1975 Elly resumed work in the

ing my way into the men’s grill; I’d rather

would she do? “Well, I’m not looking, but there

must be some guy walking

around who is tall enough so I can look up

him,

who

has a head

his

shoulders so I could look up to hiVn, who

you want to try and work your way into

marketing consultant, a line of work she

my bedroom - it would be more flatter¬

continues to pursue today. Generally she took on five or six clients a year, either

ing.” Elly has gone a long way in the busi¬

sorting their current problems or getting

ness world without a formal business ed¬

new companies marketing planned and in

ucation. While she jokes that her success

operation.

it’s a situation that

is due to “a series of super secretaries”,

“Europe, the Greek

allows her a week out of each month at

it’s really the result of plenty of hard

Sea,

her Edgartown hideaway where she and

work and some self-confidence. “I know

would be fun, New Guinia, the Barrier

her 90 lb. dog fetch the mail in a Laser.

I’m good, and I can sling the bull as well

Reef, ...”

sailing

business,

Ideally

freelancing

as anyone. I like putting deals together, Currently Elly's most interesting pro¬ ject

with

Swallow Craft, a Korean

company that is building and marketing two boats, the Swift 40 and Swift 33, both designed by Rod Stephens. Working with Stephens in New York has been a pleasure,

working with

the Koreans a

globe-trotting adventure. What does being a marketing consult¬ ant local

involve? ‘Fun and headaches. Our dealer

Sailboats/Sausalito doesn’t

know this yet, but their Swift 33 that is supposed to be here for the Cow Palace Show will not come on the “Arizona” as expected.

The

States

Lines

just

went

bankrupt and I’ve got to find a shipping company in a hurry — it’s my job to solve this

problem before Sailboats/Sausalito

ever knows there was one.” (The .boat never did make the show). When Elly looks back on her business relations with men, it is easier for her to recall the good than the bad: the ego¬ building of her Cal 20 crew, the support of early partner Peter Schoonmaker, the financial assistance and encouragement of Bounty manufacturer Ted Schoonmaker (no , realtion ■ to page 59

Peter),

the

gracious

would buy a boat with his own money for a change, and we’d just go off sailing for the few years left you can still do those things.” And where would Norway,

the

Elly like to sail? Islands, the Baltic

Pacific

Islands,

Fiji

latitude 38

The Cal 30, “Papier Mache” (now for sale in Santa Cruz) was always Elly’s favorite boat. She named it during a Cow Palace Boat Show in the nether hours after the millionth person pounded on the hull and demanded, “Is this fiberglass?”. “No”, she thundered, “its’s papier mache and if you don’t stop pounding you’ll drive you damn fist through the hull!” The name stuck.

LYNN

lately to the sailing see be with my first sail just five years ago. We, my boyfriend John and I, bought a 20’ wooden Mer¬ maid, and I learned to sail her all over San .Francisco Bay, in good weather and bad. After a year-and-a-half we needed more room and sold the Mermaid and bought a Bear, No. 11 Cinnamon. Again I learned — more about handling and sailing in rougher

waters.

Although

Bears

are

renowned for their racing prowess, we mainly cruised *- up the Delta, into every cranny of San

Lynn pulling the twin-keeled boat ashore.

Francisco Bay, and we

even got adventurous enough to stick our noses out the Gate and up to Bolinas Bay under sunny

and Drakes Bay. x After another year and a half it was

— quit your job, leave commute traffic to

skies? I did. It took five years of learning

again fime for a bigger boat, we needed

commuters

and working and more learning, but I

more room for cruising. Our requirements

finally made it last summer.

this time weren’t just “more room” but

Ever dream of getting away from it all and

polluted

air

city

dwellers? Did you often think about ever¬ green islands and lazy afternoons drifting

across

. I’m

clear

blue

something

waters

Johnny-come-

specifics

such

double

bunk,

enclosed head, standing headroom and a forward cabin that could be closed off from Running up the Columbia River near The Dalles, Oregon.

the

main

cabin.

These

were all

things I felt necessary for comfortable cruising. We found all this in the biggest 23’

boat

around

—

the

English-built

Westerly Pageant. We managed to provision the boat and settled

on v Puget

Sound

and

British

Columbia as the ideal spot for our first long cruise. One of the nice things about our boat, “Babe”, is that she has twin keels and an eight-foot beam, so she is trailerable. We loaded her onto the trailer and 24 hours later launched at Olympia, Washington. From that point on it was just kick back and enjoy. For three weeks we meandered our way through Puget Sound including the San Juan Islands. We stopped anyplace that looked interesting and stayed as long as we felt like. We watched bald eagles and golden eagles from the top of Mt. Young

San

Juan

Island.

saw

dolphins playing all around us while we drifted between islands, and we even saw a killer whale blow. We left the San Juan Islands behind for

Victoria,

British

Columbia, 'and

shared, for a week, the inner harbor with all the yachts gathered there for the Tall Ships celebration. We also met a single-

TWEEDIE

hander from Japan, Masato Sako, who knew as much English as we knew Japan¬ ese — zero. But when everyone is out to enjoy

and

relax,

sign-language

and

dictionaries work wonders. From Victoria we sailed through the Canadian

Gulf

Islands

Vancouver.

Again we spent a week in the city. We found

the

Canadians to be

the most

hospitable people we’ve met; they’ve always got time to stop and talk, lend a hand or just give directions. After leaving Vancouver

sailed

Princess

Louisa Inlet through fjord-like mountains and then as summer was starting to end we managed to just barely poke our noses into Desolation Sound, which was our northern most point, 50 degrees 20’. We turned south again and reached Neah

Bay on September 1, still early

enough

sail

Lynn and John at Coyote Point.

down the coast — we

hoped. Unfortunately the sailing season ended early, and we only made it as far being

things have a tendency to get out of

Would I go cruising again? You bet!

forced in. Rather than let that daunt us

hand. Finally, remember, it’s o.k. to be

We’re already planning a trip to the East

we decided to cruise up the Columbia.

scared as long as you can still function —

Coast, Great Lakes and Mississippi River

Although the weather farther north was

even the captain gets scared!

for the near future.

the

bad,

Columbia

Oregon

River

was

before

enjoying

— lynn tweedie

Indian

Summer, so we made the most of it and followed the Columbia 200 miles up to the Dalles. Finally we couldn’t put it off any longer and had to take Babe back to Portland and trailer her home from there. This only relates a very small portion of our summer’s sailing adventures, I just haven’t got the space to go into dining with

the

captain

the

Japanese

destroyer “Katori” or hitting a reef in Desolation Sound or our great crab catch off Ar.acortes or many other great adven¬ tures — maybe another time. So after 4Yi months of cruising, what have I learned? It’s hard getting used to constant motion. If the weather was bad, a

dramamine

before

upping

anchor

usually got me off on the right foot, after a while even that wasn’t necessary. A stainless steel

frying pan with a tight

fitting lid is a must - it’s great for baking, although I have a pressure cooker I found the frying pan more versatile. There has to be a place for everything and every¬ thing page 61

must

its place, otherwise

Looking down on the cruising grounds of the San J uan Islands.

The Last Voyage of the Idalia >

By Janet (Mosure) Tompkins June, 1954

On the evening of June 3, 1954, an officer on watch aboard the USNS LT. WILLIAM GREGG saw a red flare shoot into the sky. Another one flashed soon after, and he notified the captain there was a ship in distress about seven miles away on the port side. The big ship stopped and its floodlights revealed a fantastic sight. A small, battered ship was riding low in the waves. Her masts were short, jagged stumps and a tattered, makeshift sail hung from one of them. This was the schooner Idalia , or all that was left of what was once a handsome sailing vessel. I was standing on the deck of the Idalia as the big military transport turned. I saw the red and green running lights and knew it was coming for us. After 26 days of fear we were safe. We weren’t going to be shark bait after all.

II When my friend, Heidi Griffin, and I first glimpsed the Idalia tied up at Pier 7 in Honolulu, she was a lovely sight. She had tall, graceful masts, white sails tied to the booms, and beau¬ tiful teakwood cabins that were in the process of being re¬ varnished. We walked along the pier admiring her. Heidi had in her purse the newspaper clipping which advertised for passengers on a voyage to San Pedro. We desperately hoped the fare wouldn’t be too much or the qualification too high so that we could sail home on this boat. It would be a fitting end to our adventure in Hawaii. We liked the owner of the schooner instantly. He was the most interesting man we had ever met. He seemed in love with his ship and told us glowingly, with pictures and clippings, the fascinating history of the Idalia . She was built in 1906 to be the flag-ship of the New York Yacht Club. She was a proud racing ship in the 20’s and 30’s, owned then by dentist Pain¬ less Parker. In the latter 1940’s, she slipped in and out of Mexican ports smuggling guns. In 1948, when the authorities caught up with the fugitive gun-runner in Honolulu, she was left to decay until Bob Christy, her present 30-year-old owner, bought her and started the year and a half task of rebuilding her. Now she was at last ready for sea again and for the long crossing to the mainland. He was a licensed master, he said, as well as a licensed radio operator. On the voyage, he assured us, we would have Coast Guard contact by radio every four hours as a safety measure. He told us that the ship was fully insured and had been inspected recently by the Coast Guard who had pronounced it seaworthy. The ship was equipped with a refrigerator and we would have a cook and a navigator who

would ride free. If no navigator could be found, he said, his wife was an excellent navigator. The trip would take from 24 to 30 days, but he would take 45 days’ food in case of emergency, plus a few extra hundred gallons of water. We would have a few duties, of course. A sail would have to be patched once in a while and we’d all have to stand about an hour and a half watch. It sounded wonderful! The fare, he said, would be $200. That didn’t sound wonderful, and we prepared to leave, dis¬ appointed, when he said that we could work off half the fare by varnishing cabinets and patching sails a month before we sailed. I decided on the spot I was going to go. Heidi wasn’t positive, but thought she wanted to go. A little while later we were excitedly writing letters to our parents telling of the Idalia and all the wonders of sailing home. Heidi’s parents objected. I quickly wrote a letter to my parents and told them they’d best not bother to object because I was going to go anyway. I paid my $100 and went to work on the Idalia helping Bob and our two Hawaiian crewmen, Skip and Fred (Skip Martin and Fred Allen) put the finishing touches on the ship. Two weeks later Gary (Gary Denton, Jr.), a 13-year-old boy, joined the crew with his $1 00. About this time also, Heidi took a plane home, and I moved aboard the Idalia . Life on the waterfront was wonderful, and the skipper and his‘ wife were my best friends. Once we had a tropical storm, and we all had to sleep on the pier because the deck leaked so badly. That wouldn’t happen at sea, Bob said, because the boards would be swollen tight by that time. As it neared time for departure, peculiar things began to happen. The refrigerator was repossessed, also the family’s television set. The generator was never fixed, so we would have no electricity during the voyage. The navigator was never found, nor a cook. Bob said that he and his wife, Addie, and I and any other women passengers might have to share the cooking. These little sacrifices didnt’t bother me too much, but when the radio was taken out, I was a bit alarmed. However, the skipper assured me that we would have an emergency “Gibson Girl” radio in the life raft in case of trouble. I still didn’t like it, but after a month of labor and the money also, I wasn’t going to be a poor sport about it. And besides, who was I to question the word of a licensed master? Or the U.S. Coast Guard, for that matter. The ad in the paper didn’t attract many more people as the skipper had expected. He lowered the full fare to $100 and the Chelsea s, Ron and Ellen, came aboard the night before we sailed at that price. Our only other passengers besides the two cats was Ben Harris who paid $50 at the last minute and

STAYSAIL SCHOONER “IDALIA” (ex-“Shiyessa”) Designer: F.D. Lawley Builder: George Lawley, Mass., 1906 LOA: 74’6” BEAM: 16’ DRAFT: 9’9’

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LWL:51’ DEPTH: 8’4” GROSS TONS: 34

IDALIA said he’d do the cooking. At 8 a.m., May 9, with much fuss and cussing, we raised anchor and were towed out of the harbor by a motor yacht. The first event of the voyage was when Ron who had been hic¬ coughing violently all morning, almost fell overboard. The skipper dropped a large bottle of whiskey intothe sea and sent Ron below to sleep it off. We never had any of that kind of trouble for the rest of the voyage. The sea was so calm, the skipper decided to go''through Molokai Channel instead of around Barber’s point which would have been a longer, but safer route. The gamble was a bad one. The channel surely was calm, but the winds were calm also and by nightfall when the tide came up and the swells were heavier, we were still in the channel. The Idalia took a beating that night and I lay wide awake and frightened in my bunk in the salon until my watch at 4 a.m. In the morning, a faint breeze took us toward Molokai, but by evening, we had drifted back toward windward Oahu where there are many small islands and rocks. In their flapping, the jibsail broke and the mainsail had to be lowered because of a long rip along a seam. I was called up on deck in the middle of the night to help sew the main. It was a dangerous thing to be with¬ out a mainsail in our position. If a strong wind had blown up then, we would have drifted uncontrolled into the rocks. Those dark shadows were much too close anyway. I climbed up on the boom with needle, palm and twine and began to sew. The ship was rolling and pitching so much that someone had to hold me on and also hold a flashlight. It was then I noticed that the mainsail was rotten! I could tell the way the needle went through . . . even my stitches would tear. Bob sewed half of the sail, but never mentioned what I had discovered. That night is one I’ll remember forever. Even after the mainsail was repaired, we sat rigid, straining our eyes for the dark shadows that were so near. The swells were high and tossed us all about. We had already begun to leak. Water was rushing in around the portholes and dripping through the deck. The bilge \^as filling. In the morning, Skip, Ben and I asked that we put into port for repairs. I reported that the mainsail was rotten and would rip again just as soon as it was raised (which it did). Ben was worried about the rigging. The skipper was willing so long as we put into a harbor on the windward side of the island. However, unfortunately there were none deep enough, he said, and he refused to go back to Honolulu. It was then I recalled a conversation I overheard while I was varnishing cabinets in the next cabin between Bob and a man who had come to collect a bill; and I knew he had left without paying the pier rent. I had an uncomfortable feeling that this was why we weren’t going back to Honolulu . . . that no matter how badly we needed repairs, we couldn’t return to Honolulu. The Idalia was a renegade again.

Ill A breeze finally came and we cleared the channel by the third day. All jf us watched the Island disappear with misgivings. Ben offered to bet anyone that we’d never reach the continent in that boat. No one was willing to wager. Seasickness bothered all of us the first few days of the trip. I guess the one who suffered most was little Gary. He had brought a month’s supply of butter-fingers and lollipops and

had eaten them all the first two days, so we weren’t quite sure it was seasickness he was suffering from. Life aboard the Idalia was almost unbearable now. Every day we had to haul our blankets and mattresses out on deck to dry because the deck and portholes leaked constantly. We tried sealing the portholes with tar. There was a hole in the bathroom,'one in the salon behind a plywood bul khead and two near the bow that we plugged up. Still the water came in. The bilge was getting higher even though it was pumped out every day. Our licensed master said that all boats leak. On the fourth night when we were on a starboard tack, the bilge splashed up and flooded me in my bunk. From then on neither the bunks forward nor in the salon could be used. This left four of us without a place to sleep. Fred spotted the life raft, biit that still left Gary, Skip, and me wandering around looking for a dry corner to sleep in. For awhile we slept in the cockpit until it got too wet and cold. We had very few blankets. One of our favorite tricks was waiting until Ben went on watch at midnight and then sneaking into his bunk, which was not dry by a long ways but at least wasn’t bothered by the bilge. When he came back at 4 a.m. he would find three of us sweetly sleeping in his bunk and the problem of searching a dry corner was then his. This little game lasted only a few nights when Ben threatened that if he caught us in his bunk once more he would throw all three of us into the bilge. From then on, until the other bunk in the captain’s cabin was cleared away, we huddled under a mattress roof we had rigged up over the cockpit. It was very uncomfortable and stuffy, but at least we were warm. What further added to our discomfort and absolute digust was the ship’s plumbing. The captain hadn’t thought to bring any cleaner and the toilet smelled terribly. I sprinkled cologne on a powder puff and held it to my nose every time I went in there. Still I could hardly stand it. Besides that, it wasn’t working properly and pumped sewage into the bilge. The bilge was pumped out on deck and then much of it leaked back into the food and the bunks. It was a revolting mess. .Very soon we noticed a change in our captain. He divided the watches among us, excluding his wife and himself. Then he appointed Ellen and me “cooks” since Ben, the intended cook, was the only experienced sailor on board and was needed on deck.' I was amazed. The galley on this rocking, leaking tub was the worst hell in the Pacific - standing knee deep in the bilge and trying to keep all the pots from slipping off the stove. I asked innocently if Addie, Bob’s wife, was going to help. I was told that this was her vacation, and she would do nothing. Ellen and I checked the food supply. There was a big bag of of rice; the potatoes had already run out. There were small cans of roast beef, Spam, fish and corned beef, and some vegetables; a few packages of beans and spaghetti. Luckily, a box of oranges and limes and some avocados were given to the Christy’s before sailing, otherwise, we would have had no fresh fruit. Later the Coast Guard released a report out of Honolulu that we had sailed with $30 worth of food on board. I would say that was just about right. Seven days out Ellen and I estimated that we had food for ten days more, and the scurviest type of food at that. Then it dawned on us exactly what had happened. Our gallant captain had taken our money and our labor and had given us in return more labor on a leaky boat with garbage for food. We had been swindled or shanghaied, and what was worse,

THE LAST VOYAGE we were on the high seas and could do nothing about it. He had used our money to pay off his most pressing bills, had sneaked away from the others and was sailing for the mainland. Once in Sarj Pedro, he believed, money from his Tahiti charter would help him out of debt. To the, seven passengers aboard the Idalia , the lovely dream of a schooner trip home had become a wet, miserable nightmare. Every day the mainsail had to be lowered and repaired. Sometimes it ripped before it was fully hoisted. Cables and halyards broke constantly. We could never relax a minute for fear a boom would fall on our heads. Ben told the skipper the cables should be tightened, but the skipper maintained they were supposed to -be loose. We had a bad leak somewhere — the bilge1 was so high it was washing the floor ^way in the salon and master’s cabin. And when the helmsman’s stool fell off, we no longer had any brave illusions about the seaworthiness of the vessel. The termites had eaten it away!

Everyday the mainsail had to be lowered and repaired.

As the Idalia continued along her troubled way, the skipper’s temper didn’t improve. When a sail was raised, he’d shout orders and cuss at all of us until his amateur crew would fumble even more. He’d get even more upset when someone on the night watch would jibe or turn the ship about and he would be roused out of bed. He complained that we couldn’t read the compass which was true. It was dark and we had no lights and we couldn’t even see the compass. He had a theory that you were supposed to steer by the wind blowing at the back of your ear. He had brought six flashlight batteries for the whole journey so the helmsman was allowed to flash the light on only every five minutes to look at the compass. He, himself, had a flashlight and compass by his bed and every once in awhile, he’d wake up and look at the compass to make sure we weren’t off course. The “proper” course ^as rather strange. It was actually the way the wind b^ew us — around in circles for the most part. The skipper’s wife slept all night and would spend the day lying in her bunk reading books and munching on dried fruit. Gary got the most abuse. He was the ship’s dishwasher and loved to dawdle which vexed the skipper no end. Gary liked to tell his troubles to the pots and pans or to the ship’s two cats, Goldie and Spotty, when they would sit and listen. One day I found him, dishes half done, giving Spotty lessons on how to water ski. He held two boards to the cat’s paws, and Spotty was yowling in protest. We laughed every chance we got. It seemed to relieve us a little.

Everyone was getting nervous and tempers were short. One day Fred thought he overheard Skip making a remark about his deep brown skin color. Fred, enraged, attacked Skip with his fists. The incident was short-lived. Ben and the skipper separated them and Fred was taken below where the affair was straightened out. That night Fred and Gary missed getting killed by a hair when the topping lift cable broke and the main boom came down.

IV He

began

reading

the

definition

of and

the

penalties for mutiny. He said disobeying orders was a form of mutiny and he would jail every last one of us if we refused to obey orders.

We were eleven days at sea; I was at the wheel and the skipper stormed into the cockpit with a volume of “Robinson on Admiralty” under his arm and summoned the others to come. He began reading the definition of and the penalties for mutiny. He said disobeying orders was a form of mutiny and he

OF THE I DALI A would jail every last one of us if we refused to obey orders. Then the beef began. Ron brought up the horrible food we were eating and the price we had paid for it. The skipper main¬ tained that he was the master of the vessel and could do what he pleased and if he wanted to feed us two grains of rice a day he could do it. Ben said he had never seen the captain of a ship so lazy and ignorant as he and it wouldn’t hurt him a bit to stand a watch and help pump the bilge. The skipper replied angrily, “Never!”. Ellen and I meted out our revenge in a rather underhanded method. The skipper had an inclination to ulcers, so we made it a point to use lots of spices. We especially outdid ourselves with the chili peppers. Soon the spices were confiscated though, and ever after that I had to beg for even one bay leaf. One day, as Skip and I were patching the mainsail in the rain, a foresail halyard broke and the boom missed us by inches. That was my day to cook also and the ship was rolling so badly, everything was falling off the stove and the bilge was splashing all over me. I heard something break and felt the ship lurch. Gary held'the pots and I ran up to see what had happened. One of the main cables had snapped and the mainmast was whipping around dizzily. That was about all 1 coulcj take for the day and while the men were busy securing the cable, I was below crying hysterically in the master’s ca,bin. I didn’t think I could stand it another day. The crew was secretly planning to flag down the next freighter that came by. Mutiny or no mutiny, we had had enough of this hell-ship. Our provisions were running very low and the captain himself was interested in getting some food from a passing ship. But after that none came by. It seemed as though we were lost in a universe of ocean. The captain said he would try to find the Coast Guard light ship (about 500 miles north of us) and ask for supplies. We had little hope that he would succeed. We had found out that the captain’s navigation wasn’t all it should be, especially when he talked of landing somewhere between San Francisco and Peru when we reached the mainland. We doubted if he could even find the continent, much less a tiny ship in a tremendous ocean. We had been on two meals a day rations since the eleventh days at sea, predominantly rice, of course, and even that was dwindling - about 19 lbs. left at that date. One day soon after, the skipper stormed through the master’s cabin, announced some SOB was stealing canned goods and carted everything into his cabin in a big garbage can. Since he had all the food, Edna and I let him worry about doing the cooking, re-divided the watches so that the night watch had only three hours apiece at the wheel. Our meals after that were worse than ever — rice with corned beef and onions, rice with a table spoon of creamed corn, no seasoning, were typical supper dishes. For breakfast, soggy pan¬ cakes or rice. Finally the flour fell in the bilge, so it was exclu¬ sively rice for breakfast from then on. We discovered that by sprinkling Worcestershire sauce over it, we could make it a bit more palatable. But it didn’t do our spirits any good to see empty cartons of dried fruit and candy bars lying around in the captain’s cabin. It may seem petty to people on land to be so concerned about such things, but at sea when food is scarce, it is a source of bitter resentment when one person gets more than his share. page 67

* Gary liked to tell his troubles to the pots and pans or to the ship’s cats.

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I DALI A He talked of landing somewhere between San Francisco and Peru. Twelve days out the mainsail blew to pieces beyond repair. The only other sail we had was a heavy storm trysail, one third as large as the main. It cut our speed down considerably. The bowsprit was prying loose from the great weight of the foremast and was letting more and more water into the hold. It supported one of the main cables of the masts and we_ wondered how long it would be before it broke off completely. Two weeks out, the dolphin bodm broke which held the rear main support cable to the masts. Ben, of course, discovered it and notified the captain. They tied the cable to a rope and anchored it, sling fashion, around the rear cabin. It was a serious blow and gave the ship a queer feeling as the main cable tugged at the cabin. The captain was now thoroughly disgusted with sea life. The captain’s wife stayed in bed reading and said very little. The next day we opened the water tanks in the hold and found them full of green, filthy, vile-tasting water. The bowsprit was whipping up and down lookirtg as if it would fall off any minute. The captain thought it was about time we sent out an S.O.S. A presumed licensed radio operator, he didn’t even know how to work the emergency radio and had to waste time reading the directions. There were supposed to be hydrogen balloons included in the radio kit, but when we looked for them they were missing! There was a kite which he tried to raise while we were moving at full sail, and it dripped into the sea. We could only hope, then, that the mainmast would act as an antennae and we ground out our signal far into the night praying that some ship nearby would hear us and deliver us out of the hands of the skipper. The captain retired early. At two o’clock the morning of the 16th day, both the main cables to the masts were broken; only a few stays were left before the masts would tumble down. Ben reported as each thing broke. Finally he said, “I have never seen anything like this. Something is going to break before dawn and I’m not sure what it’s going to be.” -The captain rolled over in his bunk, annoyed, and replied, “Please, Ben, stop giving me these bulletins; you’re scaring my wife.” He turned over and went back to sleep again. But, I couldn’t sleep. I got up and stuck my head out of the cabin and saw a fantastic, terrifying sight. Held only by side cables, the masts were lurching back and forth wildly in the moonlight. The whole ship was trembling. At dawn, the last stay snapped and the great mainmast fell. V Since the two masts were still cabled together at the top, the broken mainmast became a swinging pendulum, eventually clubbing the foremast down with the rolling of the ship. Once over the side, the sections of mast commenced to ram us in the hull. The men cut the cables and lines and pushed all the debris overboard, freeing the masts from the side of the ship. It was a beautiful morning when we watched our masts float away. All of us watched them disappear, hoping they would find a ship somewhere and tell it of our distress. Idalia was now a helpless derelict drifting at the whim of every wave that beat her hull. What was in store for us, no one knew. The only cheerful one of the seven passengers was Gary. The idea of being shipwrecked was thrilling to him and the thought of holding his schoolmates spellbound with his sea tales page 69

delighted Gary no end. The rest of us weren’t in such good spirits. As a result of the masts breaking, we had several new leaks. The bilge had flooded the salon and master’s cabin and the bunks, furniture and floor-boards and broken cupboards were being dashed back and forth against the bulkheads. The sink had toppled into the bilge when the masts went over. The skipper was on deck enjoying the sun, explaining that we could all have a nice vacation now with a different'twist — a shipwreck, that we were right in the middle of the shipping lanes and would probably be picked up within a few days. The stove had fallen into the stair well, so we were given the dry provisions off the life raft for two days until the bilge was pumped down far enough to raise the stove again. We opened the two water barrels in the life raft. They were filled with salt water! This was fast becoming a comedy of errors — but nobody was laughing. We tried squeezing limes in our other green, dirty water. Once we even put a can of tomato sauce in it to see if we could kill the taste. Nothing helped so we finally were content to strain it, hold our breath and close our eyes when we drank it. We were almost out of food. Even our rice was getting low. We rigged up a jury sail on the foremast stump to give us some direction and keep the waves from beating us too hard. Even at that, the constant thumping sounded like we were hitting rocks in the fan tail. A watch still had to be kept at night for passing freighters. That night the captain’s wife stood a watch. We knew it couldn’t last, and it didn’t. The next day, the captain posted a list for the night watch and only seven names were on it. The captain and his wife moved up on deck under a sail to sleep. The rest of us took over his cabin which was the only one above the waterline and still relatively dry. He would boast that he was on deck 24 hours a day which was true, but most of the daylight hours he spent basking in the sun and at night time he was sound asleep. One of the few pleasures we had during those days was waking him up to see if it was time to change watch. He had the only wristwatch on board. The first few days we spent making kites trying to get the aerial up. We whittled sticks from pieces of mast and used maps, charts and scraps of sheet for materials. None of them would fly. Gary made a beautiful box kite and dreamed about what the papers would say when we were all safe aboard a freighter, and it was known that his kite had saved us. But, it went the way of all the others — into the deep, dark sea. Four days passed and no freighter came. It was obvious that we weren’t anywhere near the shipping lanes. The captain’s disposition was getting worse, especially where Ben was con¬ cerned. The captain resented Ben because he knew more about sailing than he, himself, did and he swore, Ben with all his advice and suggestions, was trying to take over the ship. One morning, a half can of corned beef was missing from beside their bed. He accused us of taking it, naturally, com¬ pletely forgetting that there were two starving cats walking around the deck. No catfood had been brought for them, and they were expected to eat rice like the rest of us. We all swore we’d cat those cats before we’d starve to death. It was a pity to see them growing so thin.

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I DALI A We’d eat those cats before we’d starve. Sharks had started to follow us.

Vl The sixth day of distress, we awoke to an angry command — “No chow until the bilge is pumped dry”. This didn’t set well with the men, especially Ben who had had about all he could take. Ben assumed leadership of the protest committee which declared that no further pumping would be done unless some cooperation was given by the skipper. Ben said he was tired of seeing the captain lounge around on deck and said that when he took his turn on the pump like everyone else, he would work again. The other day he had pumped all morning for a dish of half-cooked rice, and he wasn’t going to do it again. Two coconuts were found in the chart room and one of them was split seven ways, also a small pumpkin (discovered on a ledge above the captain’s old bunk) which we ate raw and managed to hold out until afternoon. Later the skipper stomped in, took Gary’s 22 rifle, the two machetes and the other coconut. Things were getting serious. The bilge was roaring and everyone was hungry. Skip went up on deck and reported that he and Fred were willing to pump if only they could eat. Then I was summoned on deck and asketj what I thought about the situation. I said that I thought the men should be fed first and assured him that they would work then. Fie replied that yesterday he had fed them first and very little pumping was done and he wasn’t going to “pamper” them anymore. I reported the conditions Ben had made, but he would hear of nothing. I ran down to where Ben was wiping the mold out of his shoes in the captain’s cabin and told him the skipper was standing his ground — that he wasn’t about to touch the bilge pump and anyone unwilling to pump could starve to death for all he cared. Ben said that was okay with him, but when he got hungry enough he would “knock the bastard in the head and push him overboard”. Back up on deck I told the captain this was no time for dis¬ cord, that I should think the captain of a ship in distress would do everything he could to keep the ship afloat and the morale of the crew high even if it meant foregoing his principles and manning the bilge pump. Still he stood firm. I was getting worried. Finally, I asked if he would help with the pump if I did the cooking from then on. He could dole out the rice to me as he saw fit. This was satisfactory, and it ended the strife for a t little while. I cooked in the hell-hole only a few meals — sitting on the stove because the bilge was so high; Skip, helping, perched in a cupboard — until the bilge put out the flame in the burner. Then Skip and Fred made a wood stove on deck for me. We were getting more and more sharks each day and still no freighter came. When we weren’t busy, we tried our luck at fishing. We found ourselves with lots of fish hgoks but no bait. That didn’t surprise us in the least, the way everything else had been going. I caught two small zebra fish with a piece of onion and a rag soaked in sardine juice.1 Skip caught two more using the same baits. Our attempts at shooting sharks failed, but at length, the skipper caught a mahi-mahi with a piece of rotten turtle meat. (A sampan had made them a present of two turtle shells before leaving port). It was the first decent meal we had had since leaving Honolulu. We were unsuccessful in catching more fish with the entrails of our mahi-mahi. page 71

Sometimes flying fish would land on the deck during the night, but it was always a race with Spotty, the cat, to see who could grab them first. When his score became greater than ours, we were thinking of locking him below deck every evening. One night a big 1 5-inch fish flew on deck. Spotty and Skip saw it at the same time and both sprang over to where it had landed. Skip and the’ cat literally had a fight over that fish. Skip won, and Spotty stalked away, growling in defeat. During these hectic days when we weren’t talking about our perilous future or disclaiming the stupidity of the skipper, our conversations were always about food. After the evening rations, we divided into little groups, and you could be sure each one was talking about food, the restaurants they had patronized and how each one cooked their steaks. Anyone who mentioned good food while we were eating was promptly told to shut up. It was like speaking of worms or snails at a good dinner. The contrast was more than we could bear. Looking at a small plate of dry, flavorless rice, we didn’t want to be reminded of how we had once feasted. Food haunted our thoughts constantly. I thought of all the soda fountains in my home town, all the restaurants in Honolulu, and of clear, cold springs in the Sierra and all the meals I had eaten when I had left food on my plate. I decided that if I ever saw land again, I would never be without a glass of ice water nearby. One peculiar thing, and it seemed to be common with all of us, was the sequence of our dreaming. All day we would think of steaks, salads, fruits, and things of this order until we seemed to get mentally gorged with entrees. Then we would imagine desserts, especially ice cream, since that satisfied both our food and water cravings. Our makeshift jury sail was pushing us ahead a fraction of a knot. The wheel was tied since we were going so slow and no helmsman was needed. I glanced at the compass. We were going • southeast! I asked the skipper if we hadn’t better start heading for the Islands, a west-southwest course. He said that if every¬ one would sign a statement releasing him from the responsibility of turning back — so that we couldn’t sue him for passage to the States — he would head for Honolulu. Otherwise, we would still sail for the mainland, on very small rations. We figured it was about 400 miles one way and 2,500 the other by sailing route. We had 12 cans of vegetables, 14 small cans of meat and very little rice. I ran downstairs to report the latest proclamation of idiocy from the captain. Nobody would sign anything. Ben said we weren’t going anywhere any way, so it didn’t matter which we we headed. The next day the captain announced we were going back to Honolulu. He got scared himself, I guess. The derelict Idalia was taking a beating every night. It wouldn’t be long before she would break apart completely. Fresh sea water was pouring in from a hole somewhere in the fantail. The bilge could never be pumped down very far. The ship rode low in the water and rolled sluggishly. It was then we knew that we were sinking. If help didn’t come soon, we would all be drifting around in the life raft before many days had elapsed.

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KENDALL 32 CUTTER Heavy duty 32' double ender professionally completed 1978. Beautiful interior with contrasting paint and varnish. Flush deck design gives tremendous deck space. Volvo diesel, 5 winches, sails, lifelines. Offered by builder at $44,950. (415) 457-1862.

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1977 LANCER 28 Excellent condition, VHF, compass, depth-sounder, Lectra-San, Spray Dodger. Many extras. Berth available. Owner transferred. Contact Joanne Olsson, M-F at business: 821-8545 or home after 6 p.m.: 681-0634.

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< "TEKA" 29' Baltic Cruiser, Bonsel plywood with fiberglass overlay built in Denmark in 1961 and sailed here. New Sutter sails, new MB6, 2 cyl¬ inder Volvo diesel (1 qt./hr. at 5 knts). New stainless tanks 20 gal. diesel, 20 gal. water. All new rigging. All new wiring. Sailed from San Franpisco to Cabo San Lucas in '77-78 in 11 days. A safe and proven cruiser. 332-8309 YACHT STORE PRICES TOO HIGH? See us. White semi-gloss epoxy — $8/Gal. Epoxy glue, resin, hard¬ ener, putty — $16/Gal. Bottom paint $30-$40-$55. Linear polyurthane spray paint - $16/Gal. Collect orders sent promptly, UPS or freight. Morgan Marine, 520 Cleveland Lane, Petaluma, 94952. 707 763-5111 — Monday thru Saturday

FOR SALE "BAREFOOT-IT”, Ericso.n 27, 1978 Regional Champion. A competitive one-design racer and comfortable family cruiser. Fully equipped, with extras including Barient 21 two speed winches, folding prop, inboard tracks. Pioneer stereo system, VHF, top quality sail inventory, Signet instruments, many custom rigging features incl. internal reefliness, halyards lead to cockpit, adj. back¬ stay, custom vang, ball bearing traveler, spinnaker track, lengthy list additional extras. $20,000. Replacement value $33,000. SEE IT! (415) 456-1730

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TRAN3PAC BERTH WANTED Male: 6'3", 180 lbs., 34 yrs. Good: stomach, deck hand, disposition, electrician. Crewed: YRA 1st place Yankee 30, SF Bay 1977 & 78, SF-San Diego 1978. Will crew back too! Call collect John Craig! (916) 587-3942, Box J, Truckee, CA. 95734.

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FARR Tonner 1976 Ready to race! Seven sails — all Mitchell, used one sea;on. Digital knotmeter, VHF, full man overboard equipment. Trailer available at extra cost. Evinrude 6 h.p. OB in excellent cond’cion. $16,850.00. Santa Cruz Yacht Sales — (408) 475-5280

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West Coast Marine Corporation doing business as yacht brokerage, sailing school, yacht charter and delivery service. Has need for management partner. Strong sales or business background important Sailing experience desirable. Investment considered. Send complete resume to Jay Varner Enterprises Inc., Drawer A, Alameda CA 94501.

Big price roll-back on Lee Sails! Lee is the name for quality and service in imported sails. For a current, free quotation, call for write: Lee Sails 804 Kennedy St., Oakland, CA. 94606 (415) 533-6980

DREADNAUGHT TAHITI CUTTER 32' FG diesel, VHF/DS, Vane, new rigging, sails, raft. Narco, docu¬ mented, cruised Hawaii, Mexico, N.W., BC. Located in storage in Washington. $28,000. Will sell in NW or bring to Bay. Write Box 45, Moss Beach, CA 94038.

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DEL RAY 24 SLOOP Like Islander Bahama 24, only better. Alameda berth, electric start OB, 2 gas cans. Depth sounder, new stove, new jib, full keel, tough Bay sailer. Call (408) 266-8341 evenings; (415) 364-4511 days.

AUST. GIRL SAILOR Just crewed from N.Z., plus three years racing experience. Good . cook. Enthusiastic. Age 28. Wishing to go to Mexico and on towards Carribean. Phone Vicki 332-1498.

I YANKEE DOLPHIN Beautiful 24' Olin Stephens design. Fiberglass with teak trim and mahagony interior. Customized for 1975 Tahiti cruise. Self-steering vane and dinghy included in complete cruising inventory. Also a competitive handicap racer in YRA Div. L. Full racing gear. $12,000. (415)843-9171 eves.

MOORE 24 'FLYER' This Singlehanded Transpac Boat is for sale by owner. An extensive list of equipment including a Navik Self-Steering Gear, EPIRB and water tank is available. Bill —408-423-4622 (home); 415-523-3535 (work). >

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23' DANISH SPITZGATTER 1943, fir on oak, copper fastened, double-ender. 2 berths w/lockers fwd., Optimus Sea Swing stove, compass, 5 hp gas inboard, new alt. & battery, teak blocks, jiffy reefing, very nice. Call 535-0359 eves. i NV

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COLUMBIA 22 Best maintained 22 in Bay. Pulpits, life lines, 6HP OB, all cushions, special traveler, full galley, head, depth sounder, compass, anchor/ chain, battery charger, curtains. Recently hauled, berth available. $5,750. (408) 356-0541 evenings; (408) 987-341 2 days.

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My offshore-proven CREALOCK 37 is for sale. Successful TransPac competitor, she is now in perfect condition and equipped for serious passage making. She is offered well below her replacement cost. Jim Marco (41 5) 532-41 70 days.

CAL 25 "ANAHITA" Fast One-Design racing/cruising sloop. Five times YRA Champion. Sails — 2 mains (1 new), lapper, mule, 150% genoa. Spinnaker. 4 Barlow, 16 winches, compass, knotmeter, Johnson 6 hp O.B., long shaft. Many more extras. $9,000. (415) 235-0800.

Jane Silvia — 200 Gate 5 Road, no. Ill, Sausalito, 332-5757 1 HALLSBERG RASSEY 31' Quality Swedish Yacht loaded with extras. Wheel steering VHF, stereo, depth, knot, log, 3 sails, new canvas, dodger, 25 hp Volvo diesel. Must see. Call Carl for appointment. Serious buyers please. Asking $44,500. Phone 765-581 8 work; 421-1 901 home.

NEWPORT 28 1976 C & C design in excellent condition. Mainsail, lapper with reef¬ ing, 170% Genoa, EMS knotmeter/log & depth sounder, VHF radio, Gemini compass, safety package. Atomic 4 inboard, sleeps 6. Owner buying larger boat. Call evenings (415) 656-3901.

ISLANDER 36 Outstanding condition,, new 1977. Perkins diesel, teak and holly sole, pedestal steering, CNG stove, shore power, electronics, hot pressure water. Sausalito Berth. $59,500 (415) 332-9002.

FOR RENT OR SALE Deluxe condominium on Northern San Diego County Small Craft Harbor in Oceanside. All units with white water view as well as harbor view. Deluxe condition. Slips possible. Info. Call John Giroux. (714) 722-5080.

FRANK E. BILEK 25' CRUISING FOLKBOAT Sailed from England. Modified cabin, masthead rig, windvane, Volvo diesel. $8,500 firm. (408)475-8817.

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23'Gillmer gaff yawl "DANDY", 1958, good character. . .$15,500 26'Garden gaff cutter "VASHON ISLAND", 1 967 . 32,000 30' Dutch F/G cruising sloop "SAGITTA", 1966. 34,950 30' Tahiti ketch, we have three at this time, from. 20,000 32' Fuji ketch, 1976, in beautiful condition. 46,750 32' Larsen sloop "PAPRIKA", 1961 diesel, vane. 36,500 32' Westsail and Kendall, we have two, from. 42,500 33' McIntosh cutter, diesel and cruising gear.19,500 34' Maas diesel yawl, 1959, beautiful. 29,500 34' Block Island ketch, great saijer, diesel.31,000 34'True North cutter, 1976, good equipment. 59,000 35' CT ketch, owner says to sell now. 48,500 36' Pearson 365 ketch, shower, good gear. 69,500 36' Hanna Carol ketch, diesel, we have two, from. 23,000 39' Peterson gaff ketch "LILLE DANSKER", 1947 . 49,500 40' Hinckley Owens cutter, 1955, great condition. 39,500 42' Kauri Carmen class cruising sloop, 1968. 65,000 46' Monk ketch motorsailer, 1 960, beauty. 96,500 49' Garden custom ketch, 1971, twice around world.115,500 78' Herreshoff Stays'l schooner, fast sailer..200,000

Please send me _ copy(ies) of SPYGLASS, Volume 6. Enclosed is my check or money order in the amount of $ _ ($4.95 per copy, $1.05 postage and handling. Total $6.00). Name Address _____ City _State ___Zip_ SPYGLASS Volume 6, 2415 Mariner Sq. Dr., Alameda, CA 94501, (415) 769-8410. Trade Inquiries Invited. L 38

SPECIALIZING IN OFFSHORE CRUISING BOATS

ED6EWATER YACHT SALES, INC. BRIDGEWAY AT TURNEY

Sausalito, California 94965 (415)

332-2060

MARINE INSURANCE 41' YANKEE CLIPPER. A diesel powered cruising ketch. Excellent condition and very well equipped.Only $57,500

36' MAGELLAN '77. A beautiful glass diesel ketch with lots of teak and ready to cruise. Room for 7.Asking $53,500

25' CORONADO by WESCO. Has 10 hp motor. Very comfortable interior and a fair amount of gear.Only $6,350 page 77

BROKERAGE SAILBOATS 54' CT Cutter, '75.Asking $195,000 49'Garden Ketch, world cruiser . . . .115,000 48' Cal, '68, full race. 85,000 46' Abeking gaff headed classic. 69,500 41' Ericson, ready to race/cruise .... 54,000 40' Newporter ketch. 59,000 40' Hihkley Owens cutter..52,500 38' Kettenberg.Only 23,000 37’ Islander, loaded.Try 33,500 37' Fisher ketch, Bristol.Try 90,000 35' CT cruising ketch. 48,500 35' Ericson MK II, loaded.Try 34,000 33' C&C, 62m invested. . ..Try 39,000 32' Downeaster, '75, like new. 46,950 * 32' Challenger, '74, full cruise. 44,000 30' Rawson, 6 tons ..Only 26,000 30' Bird Boat, a steal at.6,750 30'Friendship sloop, diesel . . . Asking 35,000 30'Tops'l Schooner, new and only . . . 35,000 29' Columbia MK I & MK II. . . . From 18,500 28' English cruising (Old World) type . 15,500 28'Triton, 6 sails, fireplace, etc. . . Try 16,500 27' Ericson, inboard eng., S.F. Berth . . 20,000 26' Pearson, '76, lots of $ invested . . . 15,500 26'Columbia MK 11, owner anxious . . . 7,900 24' Aero, completely refinished . .Try 6,900 24' Mitchell, diesel, full keel, motorsailerl 1,000 23' Bear Boat, outstanding buy.5,700

50' COLUMBIA. Diesel powered racing/cruis¬ ing sloop with lots electronics and gear. Very clean.Asking $75,500

32' CORONADO. Center cockpit. Double cabin sloop w/enough room to live aboard. Loaded w/extras.Try offer of $26,500

26' PEARSON ARIEL. Has dodger, VHF, fatho., auto pilot, direction finder, jib furling gear, stereo, pulpit, 10 hp engine. Asking $11,000

». SKIPPER

SELECT BROKERAGE LISTINGS 60' DORNBUS KETCH, rigged M/S 52' CHINESE JUNK. 47' CHEOY LEE. 45' ROSBORUGH.'. . . . 44' PETERSON. 43' RHODES.i. 42'MISTRESS 39. 41' CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE . . . 41' CT. 41' BENNETT. 38' YANKEE 1 TON. 37' FAR EAST GARDEN. 36' AFT CABIN OLSEN, wood. . . 35' PEARSON ALBERG. 34' MAAS YAWL. 33' MOOR KETCH. 32' WESTSAI L. 32' KENDALL. 32' FUJI. 32'STEEL SLOOP, aft cabin 32' ATKINS KETCH. 32' CLIPPER MARINE. 30' VEGA 30 HORIZON M/S. . . . 30' JEPSEN SCHOONER. 30' CATALINA. 30' PEARSON. 30' RAWSON.■. 30' ISLANDER. 30' SCHULSTER M/S 30' PACIFIC. 30' CLIPPER MARINE. 29' CAL. 29' CASCADE. 29' COLUMBIA DEFENDER . . . .

.$147,000 . 89,500 .110,000 . 65,000 .115,000 . 20,000 . 90,000 . 98,000 .two from 75,000 . 45,000 . 57,000 . 52,000 . 45,900 . 37,000 . 29,500 . 20,000 . 52,000 . 50,000 . 46,950 . 39,000 . 38,000 .21,500 . 38,500 . 35,900 . . .. 28,500 . 28,000 two @ 26,000 and 27,000 .low price 23,500 . 20,000 .14,000 . 11,700 . 24,600 . . '.17,500 .16,750

28' SANTANA. 26,500 28' RANGER. 24,000 28'COLUMBIA. ,15,900 28'CAL ...two from 15,000 28' ZIMMERMIA . ..15,000 28'ALBERT HELLER.-.10,000 28'STAR LITE CUTTER.10,000 28'KINGS CRUISER.7,500 27' DUFOUR. 28,500 27' NEWPORT. 20,000 27' TARTAN INBOARD, good inventory.19,775 27' ISLANDER.16,000 27'CATALINA. 12,750 26'COASTER.19,500 26' RAJMGER.13,000 26’ CHEOY LEE.11,900 26'COLUMBIA MK I.10,500 26'THUNDERBIRD.two from 6,200 25'PETERSON 2-25. 17,785 25'NIGHTINGALE.11,800 25' BALBOA.10,500 25' CHEOY LEE "Frisco Flyer".10,500 25' CORONADO.7,500 25' FLEUR BLEU.3,900 24'SAN JUAN.. .two from 13,700 24' CAL T/4.8,500 24' CAL 2-24 . 7,600 24' ISLANDER BAHAMA. . 6,500 24' COLUMBIA CONTENDER.4,000 23'RANGER.14,500 23'MAYA.10,000 23' BEAR.four from 4,800 22'6" PEARSON ENSIGN. 4,400 AND MANY MORE LISTINGS

SEA TIGER 41, Formosa yard, sleeps 7 in style, walk in shower, H&C pressure water. cruise ready. $60,000.

36' STEEL hull, cutter rigged, world cruiser, Equipped for blue water sailing,

36' NORWEGIAN BUILT center cockpit double-ender not by Atkins, but by William Lapworth. 2 heads. Diesel engine, diesel genera¬ tor. An impeccably cared-for yacht. $45,000

30' BRISTOL IB Excellent Sails - Well Main¬ tained. The best in this area.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DEALERS for Nor'West 33. Now available for inspection at our Sales Dock. A fast full keel cruising sloop.

VEGA 30 HORIZON, priced $10,000 under replacement, full Galley, Pilot House, jib and main sail. Long range cruising capabilities. A good sea boat.

BANK FINANCING A VAIL ABLE /BERTHS A VAILABLE FOR ALL BOA TS

1535 Buena Vista Ave. Alameda

(415) 522-6500

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CRUISING CONSULTANTS _PERSONALIZED SERVICE_^ COVE ROAD, VALLEJO.

HAVE BUYERS NEED GOOD LISTINGS!

'41 GULFSTAR, 1974. Center cockpit, 32' CHALLENGER 1974. 5 winches, 3 sails. Palmer I.B., D.S., compass, wheel steering w/emergency tiller, cockpit, steering w/emergency tiller, cockpit cush¬ ions, shower, refer, pressure water, din¬ ette; etc. Entire boat is in top condition. Ideal live-aboard. $43,800

1945, completely rebuilt in '77—'78. Salty traditional wood pocket cruiser. 20' on deck. $7,000.

32' FUJI KETCH, 1976. Diesel, 4 sails, Lectra-san, shower, H & C pressure water, VHF, D.S. Call for full inventory. Beauti¬ ful cruiser—liveaboard. $46,750.

BROKERAGE BOATS 18' '37 TEAK LADY, recent survey, good condition.$3,000 23' '74 CORONADO SLOOP.6,500 23' '47 BEAR BOAT, full cover, o.b.. . 6,950 24' '66 COLUMBIA, full keel.5,500 24"65 TRIMIRAN, glass constr.,I.B. . 4,500 24"65 TRIUMPH TRIMIRAN.4,500 24"76 NIGHTINGALE, strong win . 14,900 25"67 CORONADO.Offer 26"70 WESTERLY CENTAUR . . . 17,950 26' '76 S-2, diesel. 24,950 26' '46 JUNIOR CLIPPER, full keel . . 4,850 27' '68 CHEOY LEE, diesel. 28,000 30"62 MOTORSAILER, diesel. . . . 17,000 30' 73 CORONADO I.B. Lectra-san . 24,500 32'STEEL SLOOP. 35,900 32' '76 FUJI KETCH. 46,750 34' '61 NICHOL' YAWL. 27,900 35'RASMUS, diesel. 55,000 36"76 ISLANDER. 58,500 37"76 GULFSTAR. 63,000 40' '68 GARD.KTCH., qual.cr.eqp.. . 77,850 41 "77 CHOEY LEE "Custom". . . . 98,500 45' '73 CRUIS.CUT., spec.con. . . . .120,000

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 40. Aft state¬ room, Perkins diesel, radar, autopilot, RDF, all new rigging in 1977, more. $69,000 (sistership). Also have 1977

Cheoy page 79

Lee 41

"Custom" at $98,500.

ENGLISH SEA CRAFT KETCH. Built in

aft cabin with engine room. Quality throughout with U.S. construction. Re¬ frigeration, Perkins diesel, 4 sails on roller furling, VHF, flashing D.S., recording D.S., apparent wind I., wind speed I., Loran, K.M., A.P., emergency tiller, cannister liferaft, cockpit cushions, dodger, Bimini top, anchor windlass, etc. At our docks. $75,000.

34' YAWL, 1959. Built by Franz Maas. Teak construction w/bronze fastenings, oak frames. Volvo diesel overhauled 1978, 10 sails, much equipment. Entire boat ready to go. $29,500.

40' GARDEN KETCH 1968. Perkins 4-

45' COLUMBIA, 1973. Aft cabin, 4 sails,

236, 125 gal. fuel & water, Wood Free¬ man A.P., D.S., ADF, VHF, twin down¬ wind poles, Aries vane, dodger, Boston whaler sailing dinghy. Set up for longrange cruising. Has over three pages of additional equipment and custom fit-

furling gear on headstay & staysail stay. 3.5 KW Onan, VHF, D.S., RDF, auto¬ pilot, refer., C.B., windlass lamp, clock, barometer, WSI, portable heaters, microwave plus standard stove/oven, cruising gear. Owner very anxious. Negotiable.

$86,000._

wave traders v

1702 BRIDGEWAY BLVD., SAUSALITO CALIFORNIA 94965 - 415-332-9300

SPECIAL VALUES New Hi Seas Diesel Heater.$231 Aqua Guide R.D.F.219 Gemtronics GT 1202S Recorder. ... . 372 Forespar mini Galley.43 Ratelco Cole Stove.168 Farymann 4 KW 115V Diesel Generator.2,900 R.F.D. 6-man Life Raft ..1,100 Orinda Control Systems Autopilot.795 Yanmar 2 QM 15-Diesel ..2,850 Yanmar 2 QM 20-Diesel.3,030 Guest 202 200,000 C.P. Spotlite.4,400 Honda EM 400, ready to go.316 Bruce Anchors, 44 lb.224 Simpson Lawrence 555 Windlass. 587 Maxant Recording Barometer.212 Store Alcohol, gallon.v ft.4 Impulse 360 Fathometer.249 Brass Trawler Lamps.65 3 wire, 30 amp Shore Power Cable.65/ft. Silva Compasses. 50

Used Mahogany Boarding Ladder.$75 Aladin Heater.25 45 lb. Woolsey Plow.100 Mooring Float 36" dia. steel ..75 Bronze Clubfoot Pedastal & Gooseneck.70 12" dia. wired porthole glass, each.4 Small boat binnacle compass.128 Bronze Navy bildge pump.30 CPB mushroom ventilator.40 Raritan Lectrasan, inst. not used.300 ?/" w/c Seacock with thru hull.185 201b. CQR.90 Aluminum & Plexi. opening hatch.100 Power Windlass. 200

Constellation The number one boat will be launched soon. Call us about an appointment to see and sail if you are looking for a top quality new boat.

Selected Brokerage Boats 18' HERRESHOFF AMERICA.$7,500 20' BB-11.1,850 22' CATALINA..2 from 5,900 22'SANTANA.5,500 24'TRIUMPH TRIMARAN.2 from 5,500 25' DEBUTANTE.8,000/offer 26' PEARSON.14,900 27' CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE .. 25,000 27' CORONADO. 12,000 27' ERICSON. 20,000 27' TARTAN.18,500 28' CAL.15,000 28'WYLIE y2 TON. 28,000 30' FRIENDSHIP SLOOP. 35,000 30' SAN JUAN. 29,000 32' ANSTY RUSTLER.43,500/offer 32' CHALLENGER.44,000 32' CUMULANT II. 35,900 32' WESTSAIL.2 from 37,000 33' CARTER. 35,600 33' PEARSON 10M.47,900 33' RANGER... 37,500 34'CAL.!.34,500 35' HO SANG JUNK.34,000 35' PEARSON ALBERG. 35,000 35'STONE SLOOP. 29,000 35' YORKTOWN CUTTER.38,200 36' ISLANDER.v. . . . . 2 from 49,000 37' PIVER LODESTAR . ,. 22,000 37' GARDEN KETCH.49,900 37' ISLANDER MOTORSAILER. 39 500 37' PETERSON COASTER. 76,000 38' HERRESCHOFF KETCH.. 45 000 38' SEAFARER.47^500 40' ALDEN KETCH. 55000 40' CHAPPELLE/STEVENS.62 500 40' CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE.. 78R00 40' CONCORDIA YAWL . . .. 47 500 40'GARDEN CUTTER.40000 40' HINKLEY-OWENS.39^500 40' WAYLAND YAWL "Mary Beth" . . . 30000 41' CHEOY LEE CUSTOM.98'500 41' ERICSON. 59000 41' GULFSTAR. 75,500 41'NEW ZEALAND SLOOP.65,000 45' GARDEN PORPOISE. 50 000 45' MATTHEWS MOTORSAI LER.32^000 50' CHEOY LEE LAPWORTH.75^000 52' IRWIN. 195,000 57'STEEL KETCH. 150 000