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The Pineapple Health Plan Wylie Wabbits are demanding boats. They are long and narrow and light, and the crew is ex-pected to hang on a trapeze wire just to keep the boat on its feet. The thrill of sailing one of these high speed 24-footers is highly contagious. Mark Harpainter’s Wabbit, Tulewemia, named for a disease that afflicts only rabbits (sic), has shown a healthy propensity for winning races, placing first in the 4-race Berkeley-MYCO Midwin-ters and tying for first in this spring’s SBRA season opener. Mark’s prescription for a suc¬ cessful series was a well-pre¬ pared boat, a consistent and talented crew - and a new Pine¬ apple spinnaker to compliment the two-year-old Pineapple main and class jib. Give yourself the full Pineapple treatment: excellent sails and unfailing service.

*Tulewemia DEALER FOR: Musto Foul Weather Gear & Headfoil 2 Sails in need of repair may be dropped off at: West Marine Products in Oakland or Stockton Svendsen’s in Alameda & Seabird Sailing Center in Berkeley Bay Riggers in Sausalito

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1987 ERICSON 34 JELINA JELINA is a one owner sloop which really lives up to the EljUCSON reputation. With an aft cabin, elegant interior and modem underbody, this is a comfortable and seaworthy yacht. Here is your chance to get into a good cruiser at a very reasonable price. We are proud to offer it as our 'BROKERAGE BOAT OF THE MONTH'.

$64,900 BESTBROKERAGEBUYS BENETEAU BROKERAGE 30' BENETEAU FIRST 305,1985.$35,900 31' BENETEAU FIRST 310,1993.58,000 37’ BENETEAU 370, 1991, loaded. 89,900 43' MOORINGS, 1988.98,000 50' MOORINGS, 1988.. 179,000

See to appreciateI 27' SEA RAY, trade in.21,900

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CONTENTS subscriptions calendar letters loose lips sightings antigua classic solo transpac preview new boats on the bay vallejo race bom: brigadoon baja sail week '96 mucking about max ebb: hand jive world of chartering the racing sheet changes in latitudes

30' FARALLON, great cruiser, 1976.... 32,500 30' ANGELMAN, 1957, refit.19,500 3V CAL, 1979, outstanding. 32,500 31' CAL, charter income incl.31,995 32' COLUMBIA, 1976.,... 19,500

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Many of our clients visit us to view our new boats. This traffic also generates used boat sales. We Need Your Listing to Sell Your Boat!

Latitude 38 welcomes editorial contributions in the form of stories, anecdotes, photographs - anything but poems, please; we gotta draw the line some¬ where. Articles with the best chance at publication must 1) pertain to a West Coast or universal sailing audience. 2) be accompanied by a variety of pertinent, in-focus black and white (preferable) or color prints with identifica¬ tion of all boats, situations and people therein; and 3) be legible. Anything you want back must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Submissions not accompanied by an SAJ>E^ wijl not be returned. We also advise that you not send original photographs or*"negatives unless we specifically request them; copies will workjustfine. Nqtlffeation time varies with our workload, but generally runs four to six weeks. Plsqs^ don't contact us before then by phone or mail. Send all submissions to hafitade 38 editorial department, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941. For mofe spbcific information, request writers' guidelines from the above address.

CRUISING STYLES - WHAT’S YOURS? ISLAND PACKET 45 Every aspect of every yacht Island Packet builds is focused on the needs and enjoyment of cruising under sail. From design concept through engineering, con¬ struction, delivery and customer relations. Island Packet has set the standards for the industry. In the 1996 Cruising World magazine Boat of the Year Awards, the Island Packet 45 swept the categories. Once you see her, you’ll know why. Beat the July 7 Island Packet price increase!

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SUBSCRIPTIONS

MULTIHULLS Sales • Charters YACHTS New Production

□ Enclosed is $26.00 for one year Third Class Postage (Delivery time 2-3 weeks; Postal Service will not forward third class, so you must make address change with us in writing.)

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We regret that we cannot accept foreign subscriptions, nor do we bill for subscriptions. Check or i^oney order must accompany subscription request.

□ Enclosed is $50.00 for one year First Class Postage (Delivery Time 2 to 3 days) (Canada: First Class Only)

□ First Class Renewal (current subs, only!) 50' CUSTOM TRI ......... 139,000 World cruising vet and ready to go again. Call for complete specs & a color package.

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48' PRIVILEGE, 1988 ...389,000 Available for charter on San Francisco Bay. Explore the Della or cruse to Monterey. Call for a brochure.

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40' BROWN TRI.59,950 Want to go to Mexico and beyond? This is a great way to get there. Great condition w/many upgrades.

40' NORSEMAN400...from 120,000 We have several of these available for charter and for sole. They make a great cruising boat. Call for details.

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Antigua . .$145,000 Lagoon, '95. . 245,000 Privilege, '91. . 198,500 Fidji, '91. 2 from 148,000 Polynesia, '91 ... . 159,000 Norseman, '92.. .)... 190,000 Norseman, '93.. . 229,000 Brown Trimaran . 60,000 Lagoon, '92. . 229,000 Lagoon, '91 . . 309,000 Privilege, '89. . 270,000 Custom, '85. . 169,000 Ollier, '84. . 175,000 Royal, ’95. . 335,000 E.T.E.L. Charter . . 375,000

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Furling, diesel and much more.

MOST BOATS AT OUR 25' Yamaha.JUST LISTED 25' C&C, '74.$9,500 25' Bahama . 7,000 26' Cheoy Lee,'71, diesel. 15,000 27'Ericson. 2 from 11,900 27' O'Day, '88, diesel . 16,900 28'Newport.17,500 28' Pearson. 19,000 29'Cal . 15,900

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C&C. 29,500 Ericson.2 from 9,995 Catalina. 29,950 Islander MKII. 16,900 Hunter, '76, diesel . 15,900 Odyssey, '75, diesel . 14,900 Formosa center cockpit.... 29,950 Columbia MKII. 17,900 Cheoy Lee, wood. 25,000

We 've been selling small boats - we need more listings!

Bookkeeping. General Manager. Production. Production. Production. Advertising. Advertising. Associate Editor. Managing Editor. Contributing Editors. ... Paul Kamen, Andy Turpin, Shimon Van Collie Directions to our office ... Classifieds. Subscriptions.. Distribution. Editorial. email.

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51' HUDSON.$219,000 3 staterooms, inside steering.

PH ..$249,000 2,000+ mile range, inside steering.

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STEEL MS.$175,000 Safe & roomy world cruiser.

41' MOORE ULDB ... 69,900 Custom ULDB ready for race or cruise.

45' COLUMBIA Great dockside condo or Mexico cruiser.

43' WE5T5AIL, 1977 This popular Crealock design in top condition has many upgrades and new equipment added in the last few years. You can walk on her today and leave for Mexico and beyond tomorrow. Call for a complete spec sheet and color pockage. Located at our dock and asking $114,500.

65' This boat has been in charter in the Caribbean and has been very successful. The owner is in a situation where he needs to sell the boat immediately, so all offers will be considered. Use as a private boat or continue to charter. Was asking $330,000, but now??? Call for details before it's too late.

57' ALDEN YAWL, 1931 Cock Robin is now for sale and will make the true afficionado of classic yachts a happy person. She's been well cared for and has a rich history. Capable of world cruising or use her as a classic liveaboard. Call for complete details. Asking $225,000. 1

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34' FORMOSA.27,500 Great liveaboard/cruiser.

25' 25’ 26’ 27' 27’ 28' 29' 29' 29’ 29' 30' 30' 30' 30’ 34' 34' 34'

BAHAMA C&C CHEOY LEE O'DAY ERICSON, '78 PEARSON '79 C&C HUNTER 29.5, '94 ERICSON CAL ISLANDER MKII ODYSSEY HUNTER S-2 9.2A COLUMBIA FORMOSA CC ERICSON T

$7,000 $9,500 $15,000 $16,900 $11,900 $19,000 $29,500 $49,950 from $9,995 $14,900 $16,900 $19,900 $15,900 $36,500 $17,900 $27,500 $34,900

40' PEARSON.69,950 Performance cruising, well equipped.

35' 38' 40’ 40’ 41' 43' 44' 45' 45' 47' 50' 50’ 50’ 50' 50' 51' 57'

CHEOY LEE LION KAISER, '72 BROWN TRI, '76 CHEOY LEE MIDSHIPMAN ULTRALIGHT WESTSAIL HARDIN COLUMBIA JEANNEAU, '85 CELERE NEW CUSTOM TRI MARINER COLUMBIA BOC RACER CHEOY LEE, '66 HUDSON STEEL MOTORSAILER

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30' S-2 9.2a, 1985...$36,500 Very clean late model boat, good value.

St. Maarten Listings 29' C&C, 1985. 29,750 Furling, diesel and much more. DEALERS FOR:

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FORMOSA. .$23,000 . $137,000 AMAZON C&C 37+. .$95,000 ROBERTS. .$120,000 GIB SEA. .$98,000 SWAN . .. $55,000 ABEKING & RASMUSSEN $120,000 C&C. .$119,000 CSY. . 69,000

45' 48' 54' 52' 54' 55' 75' 76'

BENETEAU 45f5, '91 . $119,000 CHEOY LEE. .. $28,000 IRWIN. $325,000 DYNAMIQUE. .Offers IRWIN, '90. $325,000 TAYANA, '87. $334,000 CUSTOM SCHOONER.... $329,000 KETCH, business opp. ..$39,000

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30' CATAUINA.29,950 Very clean and well equipped. Mike Clausen Chuck Sorensen

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We Will Rebate Your Travel Cost at The Rate of 1% of Purchase Price Phone For Details! MONOHULL

32’ 41' 45' 36' 49' 59' 60'

BENETEAU FIRST 325,1986.$51,000 NOORTHOR STEEL HULL KETCH, 1974 .$70,000 KIRIE FEELING 416,1991. INQUIRE WAUQUIEZ CENTURION, 1990.$110,000 WAUQUIEZ CENTURION.3 FROM $350,000 WAUQUIEZ CENTURION, 1990 .$280,000 WAUQUIEZ, 1992. $1,200,000

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38' KENNEX 380,1991 .$142,000 39' JEANTOT MARINE, PRIVILEGE 12M, 1992.$260,000 46' METALU, LANGEVIN 13.65M, 1982 .$180,000 EXCEPTIONAL AND RARE

39' A. BOTTINI YAWL, 1961 .$66,000 53' POUVREAU KETCH, MARCONI 16.30M, 1972 . $186,000

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BUC NET

57' (LOD) ALDEN,1931.

44’ CHERUBINI KETCH, 1981

His most famous original yawl design. Major refit '94-'95.

One of the world's most beautiful.

Asking $225,000.

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

49' CT CUTTER, 1986 Teak decked, streamline baby has it all. Asking $209,000.

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36' MORGAN SLOOP, 1984 A sturdy Bay & coastal cruiser, designed by Nelson-Marek. Asking $39,700.

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33' SWIFT, 1978 A spacious liveaboard cruiser in excellent condition. Asking $45,000.

47' WAUQUIEZ CENTURIAN, 1985 Top quality, fast cruiser. Shoal draft. Asking to $245,000.

40' BRISTOL, 1982 By Ted Hood. , Sleek, practical, comfortable cruiser. Reduced to $85,000.

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1986 PEARSON 36' An elegant interior in this easily handled, quality midsize coastal cruiser. Asking $69,000.

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CALENDAR Racing May 28-June 2 — Brut Cup International Match Racing Regatta, held at St. Francis YC in J/105s. A big-time shootout — see Race Notes for the list of invited gunslingers. StFYC, 563-6363. June 1 — Delta Ditch Run. Downwind from the Brothers to Stockton Sailing Club — on a flood tide, no less! It doesn’t get much better than this. Richmond YC, (510) 237-2821. June 8 — Soitth Bay YRA race #3 (of seven), sponsored by Bay View YC. Mike Dixon, (510) 635-5878. June 8-9 — Drake’s Bay Race. Corinthian YC; YRA, 771-9500. June 8-9 — Go For the Gold Regatta on Scott’s Flat Lake (near Nevada City). Gold Country YC; Earlene, (916) 432-9449. June 9 — Bay Challenge, a windward/leeward windsurfing safari from the Cityfront to the Berkeley Pier and back. IMCO and open classes. StFYC, 563-6363. June 13 — Last day to submit amended rating certificates for the upfcoming West Marine Pacific Cup. If you haven’t figured out how to get a four-hour credit for only $15, you’re guilty of not reading last month’s Racing Sheet. June 13 — 2nd Annual Monterey Bay Doublehanded Race — rescheduled! A 35-mile romp around Mo’ Bay beginning at noon, hosted by Monterey Peninsula YC; Bruce Becker, (408) 454-9934. June 13-16 — US Women’s Open Championships at San Diego YC. Doublehanded and singlehanded racing open to all US Sailing members of the female persuasion. USSA, (401) 683-0800. June 14 — 24th Annual Stockton SC South Tower Race, 140 miles of pleasure spiked with pain. Info, (209) 951-5600. June 14; 1986 — Ten Years After: Eighteen boats started the fifth Singlehanded TransPac, including blind skipper Hank Dekker on his Laser 28 Outta Sight. Ten days, ten hours and 2,150 miles later, Ian Johnston’s Crowther 40 tri Bullfrog was first across the finish line at Hanalei Bay. Dan Newland, strapped to the Olson 30 Francis Who?, finished three days later to claim overall monohull honors. But when we think back on this epic race — certainly one of the best SSS TransPacs ever in terms of war stories and human interest — the following is, ahem, what we remember best. From the June ’86 Latitude account of the start: Um, this next part is a little embarrassing. We followed the fleet out as far as we could in our photo boat. All of a sudden, right off Mile Rock, the transmission for the starboard engine literally exploded. There were parts flying around the bilge, water coming in, smoke coming out and all of it making a horrific racket. At first, we didn’t know exactly what was happening. We didn’t want to open the engine covers for fear of being struck by something, but we didn’t want to shut the engine(s) off either. If iff they wouldn’t restart, we’d be heading toward Hawaii with everybody else. So we started shouting and waving to the only boat near enough to hear to call the Coast Guard and stand by. That boat was TransPac’er Paul Kamen’s Merit 25 Twilight Zone. Paul just smiled and waved back. "See you in Hawaii," he said. "No, no, don’t leave us here," we shouted back, waving even more frantically. It’s odd how you lose all sense of dignity and decor (sic) when you’re scared—HEEEEEELP!! Paul, blesshim, swung Twilight Zone around and sailed back against the ebb to our aid. He called the Coasties and stood by while we shut the beasts down and peeked into the bilge, there to see oil, gears and other chunks of unidentifiable shrapnel scattered about. Once we realized what had happened, we restarted the port engine and made it in okay. Paul requested an additional 17 minutes from the race committee "for saving Latitude 38A June 14-16 — Woodie Invitational for Birds, Bears, Knarrs, IODs and Folkboats. Five races over three days. StFYC, 563-6363. June 14-16 — Rolex National IMS Championship, hosted by the New York YC in Newport, RI. Checkbook racing at its finest. June 15 — SSS In the Bay Race. Corinthian YC will fire the guns for this cleverly named race; 'Mama' Shama Kota, 332-5073.

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CALENDAR June 15 — Midnight Moonlight Marathon Madness, usually an easy evening sail. Who cares if there’s no moon? SFYC, 435-9133. June 15-16 — Clear Lake Regatta, always the highlight of the SBRA season. Info, (510) 234-SAIL. June 16 — Olsonjammer, a feeder race to Santa Cruz for Olson 30s heading to their Nationals. Jack Easterday, (510) 521-9223. June 16 — tyYCO’s Oakland to Catalina Race. So far, four boats have paid up: Bolt (Choate 41), Coquelicot (Ranger 33), Gaivota (Pretorian 35) and Rage (Wylie 70). "We still hope to pick up a few more," says race chairman Bob Gray, (510) 444-5895. June 20 — 'Laser Lunacy' begins at Sausalito YC, 6:30 p.m. All Laser sailors are invited to sail in this low-key series which carries on every other Thursday through September. "We’ll offer fun racing, in¬ cluding some really stupid courses!" promises Peter Gibson, 3837809. "Beg, borrow or steal a Laser, and come join us!" , June 21-23 — Long Beach Race Week, for classes ranging from Cal 20s to ULDB 70s. LBYC, (310) 598-9401. June 21-23 — Olson 30 Nationals at Santa Cruz YC. About 25 boats are expected for 'The Homecoming'. Jack Easterday, (510) 521-9223. ''June 21-27 — U.S. Youth Championship at Bay-Waveland YC in St. Louis, MS. Racing in Lasers, 420s and Mistral IMCO for the best junior sailors in the country. US Sailing, (401) 683-0800. June 22 — Hard Day’s Night, a 51-mile OYRA 'pajama party'. Reverse handicap PHRF starts beginning at 6 p.m. from host Golden Gate YC. Nancy Wesley, 441-4446. June 22 — Cal 20 Tune-Up Races at RYC. Hester, 388-5116. June 22 — First Annual T.I. Sprints, a time-trial format regatta over two different courses for multihulls and high performance monohulls. Co-sponsored by Treasure Island YC and Gary Helms Yacht Sales. "PFDs, SPF-30 and cameras are mandatory," says event spokesman Jim Brown, (510) 426-0947. June 22-23 — Cityfront Regatta for I-14s, 505s, Europe dinghies and J/105s. What, no Spanish galleons this year? StFYC, 563-6363. June 23 — Bull & Belle Regatta, an annual El Toro pageant on Lake Elizabeth. John Amen, (707) 762-5926. June 25-29—Vic-Maui Race—weather permitting, you can kiss Merlin’s ’91 record of 9 days, 23 hours goodbye. See Race Notes for entries. Royal Vancouver YC, (604) 224-1344. June 27-29 — Pacific Coast Yachting Association’s Jesse L. CanRegatta, a series of races in Express 27s for West Coast skippers over 50 and crews over 40. San Francisco YC; Craig Brown, 332-3890. June 28-30 — 12th Trimble/North Sails Race Week at Long Beach, headquartered out of the Seaport Marina Hotel. A four-race series primarily for big boats; doubles as the PCCs for Schock 35s and Western Open for Melges 24s. Bruce Golison, (714) 379-4884. June 29 — Coastal Cup, aka the San Francisco to Santa Barbara Race. See Race Notes. Encinal YC, (510) 522-3272. June 29 — SSS TransPac starts at noon off Corinthian YC. See preview on pages 126-134. Shama Kota, 332-5073. June 30 — Mayor’s Cup Independence Day Regatta on Lake Merritt. LMSC; Jim Kearny, (510) 582-1048. June 30-July 7 — Harrah’s Tahoe Sail Week, including the 26mile Southern Crossing (6/30), the Moore 24 Nationals, various beer can races, lots of barbecues and high altitude parties. Ralph Silverman, (916) 525-SAIL. July 3-7 — 29th Annual TransTahoe Regatta, hosted by Tahoe YC, (916) 581-4700. July 4 — 45th annual Boreas Race, 90 downwind miles to Moss Unding. Co-sponsored by Oakland YC, (510) 522-6868 and Elkhom YC, (408) 724-3875. July 7-12 — Whidbey Island Race Week, the centerpiece of the Seattle summer sailing schedule. Bob 'JayBob' Ross, (206) 323-2405. July 8-11 — West Marine Pacific 'Cup staggered starts off St Francis YC. Pat Lowther, 564-6791. July 13-14 — Centennial Cup for yacht clubs over 100 years old.

J/120 OWNER PROFILE #2 OWNERS: JIM & DEBORA CASCINO We spoke to Jim who has just taken delivery of his new J/120 Eos (Greek Goddess of the dawn), Hull #48, about what influenced his decision. "To start with, my most recent boat was the J/105 Jest which I bought in '92 and just loved. I joined the class early and became the first local class president of J/ 105 Fleet #1. I had loads of fun being part of the new and growing fleet, helping it develop and participating in some great one design racing. The J/l 05 fleet also turned out to be a super group of people" says Jim. "As my family has grown and enjoyed more time on the boat we decided we wanted something with more room and amenities but still the same great performance. I looked around and found that there is nothing that compares with J/Boats and their new 120. It's a great performer in sailing ability, quality and price" he enthused. "In addition, I still love the one design racing and there is nothing on the market with the potential to build another great fleet in the 40' range. J/Boats is already building one of these a week and mine is the fifth one in California. I had such fun building the J/l 05 fleet that I'm excited by the chance to be part of another fantastic fleet on the Bay. 7 "I should add that the quality of construction is particulprly important to me and should be to everyone who sails the Bay. If you want to use your boat a lot in San Francisco it can take quite a pounding in our sailing conditions. The J/l 05 held up beautifully during years of frequent use and after all the boats I've sailed the quality was easily apparent. "Our J/l 05 was very fast and I expert the J/l 20 will be even better. It's just lots of fun to be surfing along on a reach at 14 knots and feel in complete .control. They're designed so well that you can be in some really wild conditions and still be in control with a small crew. Our top speed in the Bay on the 105 was 19 knots!! With a great sail area/displacement ratio and masthead asymmetrical kite pn a 40' 12,000 lb boat I'm sure we'll see that again," says Jim, clearly anticipating the sailing ahead. "I've got a couple of kids, the older one is sailing Lasers and FJ's at the Encinal Junior Program. We look forward to doing some racing together as well as doing some cruising up the delta. The boat is well laid out, clean and spacious below. It's ideal above decks with a large comfortable cockpit. With its asymmetrical chute and simple rig the boat is easy to use and enjoy. These sprit boats are a lot more family oriented and easy to sail with a small crew. We plan to race with just seven aboard, that's great on a 40 footer!" "With my experience with the J/l 05 I also must tip my hat to the support given to me and the fleet by Sail California. They really want to help you get started, they really help build the fleet and provide lots of follow up support. "After all this it must sound like I work for them, but truly I'm just a very enthusiastic owner looking forward to lots of terrific sailing in a great new fleet. "In summary, it's just a lot of fun!"

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Mfiji is a reasonable place I’ve read the Corenman’s series on the South Pacific in the past few issues of Latitude and thought that I should pass on some recent news about Fiji — where Running Cloud and I spent last winter. While many people consider Fiji an area to avoid between the November to Apri) cyclone season, I found it to be a fine cruising area during those months. And this year there were no hurricanes at all. There are hurricane holes all over the various island groups of Fiji that provide better security than similar holes in the Caribbean. And Vuda Point Marina, which makes a great 'hurricane hole', has just been built at Vuda Point on the Coral Coast side of Veti Levu. Although the marina is presently a $10 taxi ride from Lautoka or Nadi Airport, services will probably become less expensive as more cruisers use the area. The marina has plans for a full service haulout yard wh^re the work can either be done by Jeff Norton and his crew or the boatowner. Next to the marina is First Landing, a place which has the kind of social atmosphere a cruiser looks for in every port. The Kiwi owners and pleasant Fijian staff serve delicious pizza, steaks, and seafood, as well as cold beer and other thirst-quenching beverages. In addition, they offer indoor and outdoor dining, beach activities, volleyball, and shade trees on the beach where you’re welcome to take a nap. First Landing currently has limited facilities for overnight guests, but will be expanding as the area grows. Need a ride to the airport or Lautoka? First Landing has a van that makes runs to those destinations. From the marina you can sail to a host of islands and dive sights — but still only be hours away from the well-protected harbor in case it looks like a cyclone might be headed in your direction. Being on the dry side of Veti Levu means you avoid the daily showers that drench Suva. As the first paying customer at Vuda Point, I’m very interested to see what it looks like when we return to Running Cloud in October. It was hot and dusty this March when they were building the marina and boatyard, but it should be much more comfortable when the landscaping is done and they work through the normal problems associated with a new operation. Fiji is attempting to increase tourism without destroying the pristine but delicate ecosystem of her islands and reefs. I hope they can succeed. The internal clearance system in Fiji is a bureaucratic quagmire, but the individual Customs and Immigration officers are usually quite friendly — as long as you remain cheerful and cooperative. I suggest you have lots of copies of your Crew List and boat description in order to get off on the right foot. Once you establish a good relationship with the officials in the area you want to cruise, the rest is easy. Not being in a hurry and developing a taste for kava also helps. Those cruisers who wish to continue boycotting New Zealand on account of the Section 21 regulations can now consider Fiji — at least in my estimation — as a reasonable place to spend the hurricane season. Larry & Barbara Pollock Running Cloud, 54-ft trimaran & Sierra Cloud, 55-ft catamaran Incline Village, Nevada Readers — Back in 1985, Pollock and Running Cloud took line honors in the first-ever Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. More recently he’s been running Sierra Cloud, a Kurt Hughes designed 55-ft catamaran, as a day charter vessel out of Incline Village on Lake Tahoe. mkeeping things in perspective Though I’m still in the throes of panic preparing Rumbleseat for the Singlehanded TransPac, I’d like to take a moment to say some 'thank yous' for the help and support I’ve received in the last several months. ‘ N First off, I’d like to give sincere thanks to my boss and primary sponsor, Svend Svendsen. In addition to giving me the time off that my sailing project requires, he even had the yard help me with my

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lights. In any event, I decided to use the steaming light — and even switched on the engine to be technically legal. After setting the hook in the anchorage to enjoy our first night alone in ages, I flicked on the anchor light and went topsides to make sure it was working. Nothing. Oh well, we’d use the steaming light. The next morning we set sail for Vallejo. The wind was strong and there was plenty^of chop, so we put in a second reef for better comfort — even though there weren’t enough sail ties to be found. But we arrived safely. On our return, we switched on the Loran and set a course for latitude 38°, arriving at China Camp about 1700. We got the hook set in 18 feet of water without incident. Never once during thfit day did we hear the bilge pump go on, which we thought was odd. But since it was a charter boat, we assumed it must have been a characteristic of the boat. But when I woke up the next morning to find the source of the sloshing noise we’d heard during the night, I discovered we’d been wrong. After fiddling around with the switches for some 10 minutes, the bilge pump kicked in and ran like the devil was chasing it. A look over the side showed a water jet shooting a good two feet away from the boat. 'Good thing I checked', I thought to myself. I checked the batteries and they showed plenty of juice, so I decided to turn on the radio to help calm me down. Little did I know that things were going to get progressively worse. Around noon we had our lunch, so I went on deck to shake out the reef and prepare the boat to get underway. When it came time to start the motor, I turned on the ignition and listened for the normal buzz. Nothing. I tried turning over the engine. Nothing. I went below to check both sets of batteries, and everything was fine. Since she was a sailboat, we figured we’d just sail off the hook — and did just that. After setting the sails and joining my wife back in the cockpit, we took off on what we expected would be an enjoyable sail before having to return the boat to Sausalito. The winds were again strong and there was plenty of chop, so when the foot of the main started to come out of the boom, we put in two more reefs for comfort. And now comes the really memorable part. As we slowly made our way toward the Richmond Bridge, I noticed a large black blob coming towards us from San Pablo Bay. Naturally I was a little concerned because we didn’t have an engine. Although all the electrical systems on the boat were dead, we remembered there was a handheld radio that we could use to call Vessel Traffic Service. Alas, the batteries on that radio were dead, too. Thus we had no form of communication and the blob was getting bigger all the time. By the time we reached the Richmond Bridge, what once looked like a single black blob was now obviously two 300-ft long black barges surrounded by at least six unmarked tugs. The barges had no identifying marks, which we thought strange. A short time later it appeared that the barges were being anchored. Some time later, while we were sailing down the leeward side of Angel Island, we got caught in the familiar wind shadow. I eased all the sheets and once again tried to get the engine started. In our pre¬ occupation with trying to get the boat underway, we forgot about the barges. Suddenly, we heard the five-blast warning signal. Seeing no other boats in the area, we wondered who they were trying to warn. Then it dawned on us; they were sounding blasts for us! Just 75 yards off our stern were the two black barges and their attendant tugs. With no wind and no engine, we were sitting ducks unable to help ourselves. And with no functioning radio, we couldn’t even communicate. Then, like Darth Vader, a tug approached within 10 yards. He just sat there, looming, vibrating the water, creating chop, and generally scaring us half to death. I searched the horizon for any kind of boat in the area. There was nothing but what looked like a 16-footer with a very small outboard. With Darth Vader still looming off our port side, I hailed the little boat for a tow. The first attempt was a fiasco'. The gracious skipper took my line and cleated it, but when he powered up, he inadvertently began to circle our boat rather than tow her! The second attempt, with our

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MNO CREWMEMBERS WHO CAN’T SMILE After last year’s Baja Ha-Ha, there were some great cruiser gettogethers for the various holidays as well as for no reason at all. Almost everyone had a wonderful time, although there were a few boats on which there were some minor problems between the skipper and the crew — which is why I’m writing. In spite of owning a rather humble Cal 34, my good fortune in finding great crew is almost legendary. Here are some clues to selecting good crew: I require that all my crew board with a smile, safety harness, passport, visa, and Mexican fishing license. These are imperatives! A potential crewmember who can’t smile, chuckle and laugh, for example, is best left on the dock. I’ve also found it a major plus if my crew have had a couple of seasons of serious buoy racing. Future crewmembers: go race and really learn sail trim. A few tenths of a knot may not seem like much, but it makes a big difference over the course of a long passage. My crew also must realize that watch standing means sailing the boat — not just looking for traffic and monitoring an autopilot or windvane. Previous open ocean experience and cooking abilities are desirable, but not essential. Eagerness to learn, and ladies with good looks are positives, but not during a squall or after a difficult watch. My crew of Deanna, Suzanne, and Jan did a magnificent job of sailing Tafia in the last Ha-Ha. When they set the spinnaker, the popping of the chute and the heeling of the boat woke me with a smile. Their non-stop laughing and very funny stories cut further into my sleep. And after one particularly long watch when I wasn’t thinking too clearly, they got me to groggily agree to let them dress me for the awards ceremony — if we won our division. A bet is a bet, which is why everybody saw that picture of me in a grass skirt and wearing two halves of a coconut for a bra. From start to finish of the Ha-Ha, we laughed until our faces hurt. After Deanna and Suzanne left, Jan and I were joined by Jennifer and Micheala. All three of these ladies proved most capable at

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Letters navigation, watch standing, cooking, and generally enjoying sailing in the tropics. But I obviously said too many nice things about this group, because two of them got positions on a 70-foot sled bound for Antigua Sailing Week. And lest anyone think that I only sail with women, I want to thank Hientz and Danny, who helped me with timeconstrained passages from San Francisco to Morro Bay and Puerto Vallarta to Z-town. Where did I meet these people? Seattle, Puerto Vallarta, Redwood City, La Paz, and Cabo. You can find good crew everywhere. I was sad to see each of them leave. As much as I love to sail, it would seem foolish to bring my boat back to San Diego just to be able to do my third straight Baja Ha-Ha in November. So I’ll probably try to charter a boat; probably a Cal 34 or Cal 40. Naturally I’ll be looking for crew, although previous crew get priority. I’m sailing the Gold Coast of Mexico as I write this. The cost of wear and tear, and breakdowns has come to a total of $170, and down-time just 10 hours. That’s not bad. Life is being good to me. Jim Meeker ' Tafia, Cal 34 Redwood City Readers — While in Mexico last year, we met a guy who has had years of success finding terrific women crew. He gave us the following secrets: 1) Be competent and confident on the ocean, and pay attention to safety. Fear and anxiety may be an aphrodisiac to some men, but they’re not to women. 2) If possible, have more than one person aboard who really knows what’s going on. It makes a woman feel safer and more relaxed. 3) If possible, have more than one woman on the boat. Women like men who have lots of women friends ... at least until they take a liking to the man, at which point all other women are banished. 4) Yelling makes everybody feel bad and ruins the ambience. 5) When somebody screws up, you can bark at them and make everybody feel like shit, or you can be understanding and sow the seeds of respect and admiratidn of the entire crew. 6) Make sure the woman has some private space that’s all her own. 7) Be relaxed and act like it’s normal to have women sailing with you. 8) Keep burping and farting to a minimum. 9) The best way to find new women crew is to have lots of former women crew who say they had a great time — and not necessarily sex — on your boat.

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Thanks for the coverage of Brigadoon in your May '96 issue. As one of the schooner’s regular crewmembers since Terry bought her in '76, I, along with the rest of the crew, am most appreciative of the coverage Latitude has given her over the years. We appreciate the fact that you seem to hold her in the same special regard that we do. You asked about circumnavigators. I’m proud to add three names to your list: my wife Kristi, her brother Robby Fouts, and myself. We left San Francisco in February 1972 aboard my 1937 53-foot S&S yawl Skylark, and returned in July 1974. Robby was our invaluable full-time crewmember. Skylark s route was west to east. Today it’s apparently referred to as 'The Milk Run', a concept that never crossed our minds in 72. The two hurricanes and several monumental gales that crossed tacks with us during our voyage will never allow us to think of it in such ordinary terms. By the way, if you want to see how a couple of ol’ circum¬ navigators look 22 years later, Robby is fourth from the left on page 144 of the May issue, and I’m on Robby’s right, trying to figure out what/whom to drill.

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If there are any old salts out there who cruised during the 70s and early '80s, they may remember Maurice and Katie Cloughley and their 34-foot woodie Nanook. Maurice later wrote A World to the West, a wonderful tale of their circumnavigation that inspired many folks to cast off docklines and pursue their own sailing dreams. The book was published in 1979 by David McKay Company — but according to Maurice, it’s about to be re-published by Horsdal and Schubart of Victoria, British Columbia. Since writing that epic, the Cloughleys have done a ton of cruising. They are currently working on the story of their travels along the west coast of the Americas, concentrating mainly on the Chilean coast with all its nooks and crannies. Maurice, a superb artist, is illustrating the book with pen and ink drawings and multi-color woodblock prints. The Cloughleys can be contacted at 2623 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC V8T 4M2, Canada. Ray & Jenny Jardine \ Circumnavigators aboard the CT-41 Suka, '82-'85 LaPine, Oregon

Mcruising with the big dogs In the December '95 issue there was a report on Joe and Philly Gluver’s Dutch Treat, which they are apparently now cruising in the Sea of Cortez with their Saint Bernard, Dutch. My fiancee and I are planning to cruise Mexico in the next few years, and we have two Newfoundland dogs who will be accompany¬ ing us. We will probably need tolmake some modifications to the boat — and possibly the dogs — before we take off. Do you have an address for Dutch Treat so I can contact the Gluvers for advice about cruising with big dogs? Mary Lackner Aspen Mary — While we’re certain the Gluvers would be delighted to answer all your questions, we’d prefer to have them contact you at 709 West Main Street, Aspen, CO 81611, or by dialing (970) 9205106. By the way, we received a Christmas card from the Gluvers that included a photograph of the three of them motoring around a Sea of Cortez anchorage in an inflatable. Even Dutch looked like he was having a great time.

UllLEAVING MY BOAT IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES I m one of the fortunate few who has a job where I can work when I want and cruise when I want — as long as I work four months a year. Between my job as a tug captain and pleasure cruising, I’m on the. water close to 300 days a year. The other 65 are reserved for snowboarding and other shoreside interests. I have sailed my Hans Christian 33 from Alaska to Mexico, and presently have her stored on the hard at San Carlos — which, by the way, is numero uno. Since I have to pome back every so often to work and pet the cruising kitty, I will have to keep leaving my boat in places outside the United States. Do you have any information on what countries will let your store your boat while you fly back to the

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LETTERS States for a few months? In addition, I will be looking for a female cruising companion, so could you give me a rough idea when your next Crew List Party will be? I want to be close to land at that time. By the way, I’m on my way from Guam to Seattle via Hawaii as I write this. ^ Jim Koecher Arlington, WA Jim — Along the Pacific Coast, the possibilities include Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama. Further out in the Pacific, there’s Hawaii, French Polynesia, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Hew Zealand, and Australia. On the north coast of South America, there’s plenty of space in Colombia and Venezuela, to say nothing of Trinidad and just about everywhere in the Caribbean. Actually, we’re going to stop listing places because you can basically leave your boat for at least six months anywhere cruising boats can be found. It wasn’t always that way, but with the dramatic growth in worldwide cruising, facilities and laws are continually evolving to meet the demand. The next Crew List Party will be on October 2, and will primarily be of interest to people sailing from the States to Mexico and Central America and/or the South Pacific. Given your vast ocean experience, we expect you might get some interest from potential crew. Good luck.

111!EASIER FOR A SMALLER VESSEL TO SPOT A SHIP Blind and deaf indeed! I don’t know what this guy Wijsen has been smoking, but as a merchant marine officer myself, I can say that the watch keeping I witness aboard American flag vessels is done in an efficient and professional manner. An AB and a Mate are on watch at sea 24 hours a day. Vessels do not leave port without both radars operational, and at least one is running 24 hours a day. Both the AB and Duty Mate check the radars for traffic continually throughout the watch. The watch standers also scan the horizon with binoculars on a regular basis when visibility permits. Any radar failures are immediately reported to the Captain and/or the Radio Officer. A Radio Officer myself, I have corrected many radar failures on the spot. Since I sail with a different company almost every time I go to sea, over a 10 year period I’ve seen a good cross section of the watch standers in the industry. Vessels operating strictly on coastal runs are not required to carry a Radio Officer, but watch standers on U.S. flag vessels are required to meet the same professional standards. There are unfortunate accidents throughout the transportation industry every year, but I would put the U.S. merchant marine record up against that of any other flag in the world. I have been present on the bridge when we have made radar contact with another vessel, but have been unable to raise them on any VHF channel as they approached our position. In all cases these were foreign flag vessels — and usually large fishing vessels running on autopilot with no bridge watch. I doubt if most pleasure yachts stand a 24-hour watch, and many do not have radar. They could have been easily run down by the large fishing vessels such as mentioned above. I think it’s important for small vessels to take safety more seriously, and not depend on others to watch out for them. I don’t think most pleasure boat folks have a clue how difficult it is to see a tiny vessel on radar — or visually in times of poor visibility from the bridge of a large ship. It’s m$ny times easier for the smaller vessel to spot the larger vessel at sea. Any time a larger vessel is sighted, an attempt should be made to contact the vessel on VHF to let them know you are there and confirm they have you on radar or visually. It’s common practice at sea for large vessels to make radar or visual contact and to agree on a passing procedure. I believe many small boat people would gain a whole new perspective if they could make one voyage on a U.S. flag Page 62 • UUUA-12 • June. 1996

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W.H. — We once had the opportunity to make the trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco aboard a 960-foot American President Lines container ship, and it was indeed an eye-opener. We learned: 1) That the crew on that ship — there were only 11 — was extremely conscientious. 2) That it’s much easier for a small vessel to spot a huge one than vice versa. 3) That even in relatively clear conditions, the navigation lights on recreational vessels are absurdly dirti. 4) That it’s extremely difficult to turn a large ship, and impossible to stop one. In summary, when you’re out at sea in a small boat, you’ve got to rely on yourself 100% for safety and well-being.

lit!AMERICAN COMPANIES ARE BIG ON SUPPORT I just received a warranty exchange Link 2000R voltage regulator and monitor system from Heart Interface of Kent, Washington. This despite the fact that the warranty had expired 30 days before! It did my Head — not to mention my pocketbook — good. It once again confirms what I have seen happening with American marine manufacturers and suppliers since the beginning of the 'West Marine Ethic' — American companies are big on support. According to the friends I’ve made in Europe, this sort of attention to customer satisfaction is unheard of in most of Western Europe — as I believe it was even in the States not so many years ago. So please, let me give an 'atta boy' to Heart Interface. And while we’re being generous, let me say that Latitude is a much appreciated read in Turkey. v Sam Harper Vera Antalya, Turkey Sam — One of the lessons we learned taking Big O from Gib to Turkey and back last summer was that nobody even comes close to American marine suppliers and retailers in terms of quality, service, and price. As we mentioned several months ago, consumers in Europe aren’t kings, they’re supplicants. We American mariners not only have it the best in the world, but based on our observation, it’s getting even better.

Mhe seemed to be trying to hit my boat Although I’ve been a devotee of Latitude for many years, this is my first letter. But I feel it’s necessary to warn Bay sailors of a menace lurking in the guise of a beautiful little sloop which seemingly sails out of Berkeley, although the hailing port on the transom is San Francisco. Late on Opening Day, I was sailing on a reach from Angel Island toward home in Alameda. About 1400, I noticed another sailboat about 100 yards away running toward the Berkeley Marina — but on a collision course with me. We were both on starboard tack, but he was to windward, so I had the right of way. The wind and the waves were the usual impossible monstrosities in that corner of the 'slot'. I waited and watched for him to alter course and take my stern. This might have required him to do an uncomfortable controlled jibe, but as he was getting close to the Berkeley Pier, he would have had to make one sooner or later anyhow. But he made no move to alter

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LETTERS course — or even turn his head. I yelled but got no acknow¬ ledgement; the wind was strong and he might not have heard me. When we were about 100 feet apart, I yelled again, something about the windward boat having to keep clear. He looked at me and started heading up onto a reach. I thought he was going to luff up and let me pass under him. But suddenly he bore off again and started coming directly at me full speed! By then I was afraid to luff, as I would start to lose steerage and he might still have been thinking of jibing. So with him 50 feet away, I bore off as much as 1 could with the heavy helm. With the boom all the way out against the shrouds, I was considering whether or not I could bring the helm around for a wild jibe. Earlier in the day I had mistakenly decided not to reef when we were in the lee of Angel Island. My crew was inexperienced and I had been reluctant to give one of them the helm in that crowded and gusty anchorage while I went forward to reef. Besides, it was going to be a sleigh ride all the way home, reaching and running down the waves to Alameda. Thanks to good luck or the Good Lord, just as I was about to try to force my boat into a flying jibe, praying that I had the strength and that the rudder/tiller/rigging would hold out, a wave caught him and swung his stern towards me, giving me a chance to swing hard up into the wind and then fall off behind him. I cleared him by no more than a few feet. That was the closest I have come to being sunk in more than 40 years of sailing on and around the Bay! I was and still am furious with that man! He should not have been out there without knowing rules of right away. Or perhaps he doesn’t know how to sail or doesn’t know how to control his boat in a jibe. But Berkeley is the mother of all teachers for jibing to get into the harbor. And although he was not reefed either, my petrified crew told me later that they saw him lift both hands from the wheel and shrug in a "What could I do?" gesture. So he apparently was not fighting his helm. It’s also possible — I hate to think it might be true in this day and age — that he saw we were four women aboard my boat, and so he decided to go back to his original course, forcing me to avoid him because 'women don’t belong out there anyway'. Whatever his reasons, I couldn’t believe my eyes when he seemed to be deliberately trying to hit my boat! It’s true that I did delay changing my course too long, but that’s because I was thinking of the many possibilities he had to avoid collision and was expecting him to give way at any second. But I guess I gave him far too much credit for having a brain ... or at least for being as concerned as I was for the safety of our boats and crew. If there are sailors in the Berkeley Harbor who know the man who sails this boat and who seems to care not that he is endangering lives, please give him some lessons — whether he wants them or not. Shirley Howland Gypsy Gull, Cal 2-25 Alameda Shirley — If the facts are as you presented them, you have our sympathy — but only to a certain extent. Here’s why: The way we — and we think most other sailors — view it, anyone who ventures out on a boat for pleasure needs to take 100% responsibility for themselves. This means being able to comfortably complete the most basic maneuvers — tacking, jibing, and reefing — at any time. A person who can’t do this in normal Bay conditions is not completely in control of their boat or their fate, and is therefore subject to unnecessary anxiety. True, there are rules of the road that should be followed. But the reality islhat they aren’t. Sometimes it’s because of ignorance or incompetence on the part of the other skipper. But there are also plenty of occasions we’ve seen where it was because of gear failure, injury, unseen other boats, or other circumstances. The only thing that prevented collisions in those situations was that the skipper who had

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lilt A YOUNG MAN IN TAHITI I’m a retired, 90-year-old sailor who enjoyed many years of racing and sailing on San Francisco Bay. I sailed with Arthur Rousseau and Denny Jordan way back in the '20s and '30s aboard the likes of Lady Gay, Ace, and the 6 Meter Maybe. But that’s not why I’m writing. During the Depression, I acquired a camera store. While I owned it, I sold a 16mm Eastman Model B camera to a man named Rod Pell. After buying the camera, Pell and his wife did a lot of travelling, and I would edit their film. By '34 my camera store went under, which gave me the opportunity to go to Tahiti as a paid assistant to make a film with Pell. After we finished shooting the first Kodachrome footage of those woriderful islands, we went along the waterfront where we met a young man named Dwight Long. He told us he had singlehanded from the West Coast and was on his way around the world. Since Long didn’t have a camera, Pell loaned him the Model B and what film we had left over. Years later I bumped into Long in Hollywood, and he told me that after completing his circumnavigation and editing his film that he had the opportunity to show it to Eleanor Roosevelt. When World War II broke out, Long somehow got a navy commission and was given a carte blanche order to go and film anything he wanted. He happened to land on the Yorktown and shot miles of 16mm color film of that carrier. The footage was later blown up to 35mm, the result being the very successful film Fighting Lady. I never did see Dwight Long again, so I can’t tell you much about his circumnavigation. But maybe one of your other readers knows more about it. My son gets your magazine regularly, and I enjoy it as a way of re¬ living my sailing days. Frank Wulzer San Rafael Frank — VJe sure appreciate you taking the time to tell us about Long. It would be terrific if we could find out where he was from, what boat he sailed, and other details of his circumnavigation.

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LETTERS awarded if the drill is accomplished on subsequent legs. This is a generous time allowance — especially given the light winds and flat water that prevail on Lake Pleasant — and would almost certainly encourage all participants to perform the drill. What follows is the entire text of 18.4: MAN OVERBOARD DRILL ADJUSTMENT — Crews performing a man overboarcttirilf will be awarded an adjustment to their finishing time as follows: 5 minute deduction if accomplished on the first leg 4 minute deduction if accomplished after the first leg Only one deduction per dap allowed. Drill must be witnessed. The following criteria must be satisfied to qualify for the adjustment. A PFD or cushion will act as the object to recover and will be dropped overboard. The boat must sail at least one boat length au)ap from the object being recovered before changing course to recover the object. When recovering the object, the boat must be head to wind with no or very little wap on. While accomplishing this drill, the onus is on the boat to keep clear of other pachts racing. vAny thoughts on the way the crew overboard provision was implemented? John Tuma Take Five, Olson 25 Fremont John — We onlp have two objections: 1) Retrieving a PFD at a planned time is about as far removed — in distance and realitp —from recovering a real human overboard in a crisis as Lake Pleasant is from the Pacific Ocean. 2) What map be a fun drill on the placid waters of Lake Pleasant might be a recipe for disaster elsewhere — San Francisco Bap, for example. Could you imagine what a Vallejo Race would be like if it were blowing25 knots and400 boats threw PFDs overboard and tried to retrieve them? Five people would probablp be killed. While we applaud the intent of the folks on Lake Pleasant — what the hell kind of name is that? — to promote safetp, we think 18.4 is a couple of tacks short of the mark.

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power. Additionally, there are literally dozens of schemes to improve the accuracy of the existing Global Positioning System, with or without S/A. The Coast Guard’s Differential system is merely the one closest to implementation — and the one most appropriate for maritime use. Use of GPS is exploding in the same way the Internet is — which also was originally developed for the military. In a few years we’ll all — sailors and landlubbers alike — wonder how we got along without it. And as it becomes more and more integrated into different aspects of our technological society, the penalties for turning it off or seriously modifying it become greater and greater. It won’t be going away, that’s for sure. Thanks for putting out such a great magazine. Since I 'discovered' it last year, it’s always at the top of my must-read list. Paul Menconi < Santa Barbara Paul — Good stuff. But wait, it wasn’t really the Department of Defense that paid for GPS, but taxpayers such as you and us. And siijce GPS is such a phenomenal time and money-saver for militaries, companies, and individuals the world over, can you explain why we, the taxpayer!owners, are letting everybody use this incredible valuable utility for no charge? Pac Bell owners make us pay for our phone service; PG&E makes us pay for our gas and electricity; why shouldn’t we taxpayer/owners of GPS make 'non-owners' pay their share of the GPS utility tab? Latitude advocates a one-time $250 licensing fee on all GPS units sold to non-U.S. taxpayers, and a $50/year use fee for all non-U.S. taxpayers. What to do with all the proceeds? Well, we could start with the world’s biggest beer bust ever at the conclusion of Baja Ha-Ha III.

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I’d like to thank the person(s) who anonymously placed the colorful Easter baskets on the boats at anchor in Clipper Cove on Easter Sunday morning. We were aboard one of 40 boats there, and it was such a nice surprise to open the hatch and see the thoughtful gift. Whoever you are, you made my day! Mia Raaphorst Wijsen Mechaieh Alameda

UffTHANKFULLY WE CHOSE SAN FRANCISCO After four wonderful years living in the Bay Area, it’s time for me to pack the family into the 747 and head on back Down Under to my hometown of Melbourne, Australia. I will sorely miss all of my mates in the sailing scene here. Five years ago, we had the unique opportunity of being able to choose any city in the United States to live in. Thankfully, we chose San Francisco. If anyone in the business world asks me why, I mutter excuses like it gives the company a presence on the West Coast, the time zones are closer to our home office, it’s a good market for our products, and so forth. Most of that is bullshit. What I really thought was, "What a beautiful place to live, and what a great place to sail!" Our team then put the ll:Metre Ronstan on the water. Ron and Stan would have been proud to see their names pushing the envelope all around the Bay, whether it was hitting Alcatraz — that was Mike! — pulling a skier down the Cityfront, busting a mast in the Citibank Cup, doing 20 knots with fingertip control on the tiller, leading 400 boats home in the Vallejo Race, or simply 'going shrimping'. If anyone was wondering why our latest spinnaker is black, it’s so that our black bottom paint doesn’t show on it! A fond farewell to my Ronstan teammates: Big Mike, Dave, Will, Skip, Teddy, Craig and Bill. Keep the name flying. And farewell to my mates at Latitude: John, Rob and Mitch. I get dozens of sailing magazines, but Latitude is one of the very few I read cover to cover

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RUhardest part is throwing off the docklines Now that we have half of a cruising season under our belts — which we’ve had to take in several notches — we wanted to express our thanks for all of Latitude’s efforts in organizing the Baja Ha-Ha. It was a wonderful way to get introduced to the cruising lifestyle and has definitely enriched our experience in Mexico. The Ha-Ha provided a kind of bungie cord security line that kept stretching thinner and thinner . . . until one day we realized both that it wasn’t there anymore and that we no longer felt the need for it. Some advice to pass on the next year’s class: 1) Don’t worry about provisioning. You eat less in hot weather, and once you pass Cabo nearly every anchorage has wonderful palapas on the.beach where you can get some of the best Mexican food you’ll ever eat for about $3 a meal. And the major ports have supermarkets with excellent supplies of food. We’re carrying aboutsix month’s worth of food, but only because we’re going on to the South Pacific. We’ve hardly touched any of these stores while in Mexico. 2) Carry and feel comfortable flying a light air sail such as a cruising spinnaker. Our first three months have been all downwind or broad reaching in 5 to 15 knots, and we can’t even remember the last time we saw the mainsail up. This will change as we work our way back north, but boats without at least one light air sail have regretted not having the option. 3) Be prepared to motor a lot. When you need to make 30 miles to get to the next anchorage during daylight and there isn’t any wind, even hardcore sailors will motor. Expect to do this half the time. If your boat has plenty of fuel capacity and a reliable engine, you’ll. avoid a lot of anxiety and grief. 4) Have a good dinghy. You will happily kiss the dock goodbye pretty much after Cabo, so then every day becomes a dinghy day. An inflatable is a must, and inflatable dinghy wheels are not only 'in’ this year, they are fabulous. Spend some time on an easy-to-use dinghy lifting system, since you should lift your dinghy out of the water every

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UftCHOOSE FERRO WERE IT NOT FOR THE MONEY? We’re writing in response to the Foster’s recent letter praising ferro cement as a boatbuilding material. I have to ask fhe question: budget arid design considerations aside, would you — or anyone else — choose ferro over steel, glass or wood — assuming, of course, that all were well built? The answer is that ferro is always chosen only because even wellbuilt ferro boats are cheaper than comparable boats of other materials. The sad thing is that it is false economy because the hull represents only about 25% of the total cost of a well-equipped cruiser, yet of two identically designed and equipped boats, the ferro one will always be worth less than 75% of the cost of one built in steel, glass or wood. As for falling off jackstands, running into rocks and so forth, our steel Joshua ketch once went aground in the Magellan Straits and pounded on the rocks in 60-80 knot williwaws for an hour — and suffered only scratches to the paint. Destiny, a glass Norseman 44, fell off her cradle in New Zealand a few years back and was impaled on the broken arms. We were there to see it. After a relatively easy repair, she got caught in the Queen’s Birthday Storm, nose-dived off a huge wave, wrapped her mast around the hull, and was abandoned with the mast banging against her hull. She turned up a couple of months later in Vanuatu. Ironically, the photo on page 82 of the February Latitude tells the ferro story: Maxwell's Demon, a well-built "first class all the way" ferro boat was a total loss after she went aground on a sand beach and two to three foot swells cracked her hull. I’m not knocking anybody for buying ferro if that’s all they can afford, but to claim that ferro is in the same class as steel, wood, or glass — assuming always that all are well-designed and built — is nonsense. I’m sure that the Foster’s ferro Chez Nous is pretty and seakindly, but these are functions of proper design rather than materials. Strength and by implication safety is, on the other hand, very much a function of material. I guess that even if you could build a ferro hull "as strong as steel", it would be so heavy that it wouldn’t float. True, 'all boats are a compromise', but some are less of a com¬ promise than others. By the way, we have checked out the "free thinking, don’t give a damn cruisers" solution to New Zealand’s Section 21 — as proposed by Latitude. Specifically, just sailing away from New Zealand without clearing out. It’s true that Vanuatu and New Caledonia have accepted boats without clearance from New Zealand. Tonga and Fiji, however, will not. And unless you have up to $1,000 (N.Z.) to throw away, you’ll never have another "great old time" sailing in Kiwiland. That’s because that’s the amount of the fine for leaving New Zealand without clearance and then trying to return later on. Further, some boats which tried to enter New Caledonia without New Zealand clearance were fined by the French. Also, New Zealand Customs keeps your clearance forms from the previous country you

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My name is Lance Bartle, and I have been a faithful Latitude reader from the beginning. I even recall someone calling on us at the Boat Warehouse in Walnut Creek in 1977 to sell some display advertising space. Unfortunately, the Boat Warehouse closed in the early ’80s, and 1 presently find myself in Solano State Prison for a couple of years. I still enjoy your magazine arjd would like to subscribe — but being short of funds, I’m not able to come up with the $26 per year. Do you have an 'institutional rate'? As Latitude is the only way for me and a very few others to vicariously sail, I would appreciate any discount you can offer. I would also like to sign up for the Crew List, but I don’t think I’ll be able to make any races this year. Lance Bartle Vacaville Lance — Tell us what you did to end up in Solano and we’ll tell you what kind of 'institutional rate' we can come up with. And don’t try to bullshit us, because we’ve probably got a lot of old high school buddies in there who can verify your story.

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LOOSE LIPS Eight Bells. The Bay Area lost one of its most colorful personalities last month with the passing of A1 'Punky' Mitchell. He died May 5 of cancer at the age of 59. Born in San Francisco and raised in Marin, Mitchell began sailing early and went on to become one of the top sailors in the tough International Stat Class. Building on a sailmaking apprenticeship he started in high school, Mitchell went to work at North Sails in San Diego. In 1961, he returned to the Bay Area and opened his own loft. Mitchell Sails carried on for more than 20 years until Hood bought him out in 1983. In his last years, A1 worked at Anderson’s Boat Yard. He will be missed by his family and many friends. Memorial contributions in Al’s name may be made to the American Cancer Society, the Stinson Beach Village Green Asso¬ ciation or the Audubon Canyon Ranch. I

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LOOSE LIPS As detailed in his book The Sea Devil, Von Luckner blames the failure of an air compressor for the wreck of his ship at Mopelia. The compressor was necessary to start the auxiliary diesel, and its breakdown meant the anchored ship couldn’t get out of the way of an approaching gale. Two of the Seeadler’s salvaged cannons face the water in Papeete Park. Just as the Johnsons of Yankee fame narrated their slide lectures in the ’60s, Von Luckner did this in the ’20s and ’30s. I heard him in Chicago. Coincidentally, I photographed Von Luckner’s yacht, aptly named Mopelia, at a dock in the Hudson River in 1931. Also at the dock were the barkentine City of Beumont whose doubling (the section where a topmast joins a lower mast) is on exhibit here aboard the Balclutha. — Chuck Stem t

Can’t keep a good ship down. The Jeremiah O’Brien, the last of 2,751 Liberty Ships to survive in battle trim, is not quite ready to retire. Rescued from the mothball fleet in 1979 and restored by volunteers, she made the 17,000-mile voyage to Normandy, France, two years ago to honor the 50th anniversary of D-Day. As the only ship of the 6,000-vessel armada to return five decades later, she was the star of the show. The adventure showed a new side of museum ships — that not all of them are at their best as static displays. To prove the point, the O’Brien is off again this summer, this time to visit six Pacific Northwest ports as far north as British Columbia. "We took the ship to France to show what the spirit of American volunteers could do, and we are taking the ship to other West Coast cities to prove that it is a living, moving monument to our maritime tradition," said Anna Falche, an East Bay business executive who is chairman of the board of the National Liberty Ship Memorial. The O’Brien will depart the Bay on June 21, crewed by many of the same World War II veterans who made the D-Day voyage. She is expected to return to her Pier 32 berth — where she is normally on display to the public visiting Fort Mason — on August 10. More information on the O’Brien can be had by calling the ship’s office at (415) 441-3101. Calling all Catalina 36s. Convincing Catalina 36 owners to join Fleet 9 is an easy sell — the people are incomparable, the activities plentiful (9 cruises planned in ’96) and the price a ridiculously low $10. Members can be as active or limited in their participation as they want, and everyone is welcome — even associate members who do not own at Catalina 36. Interested in joining the 33-member-strong fleet? Contact treasurer Jody Leonard at P.O. Box 4014, #475, Alameda, CA 94501. Better check that GPS... In the January/February issue of Multihulls magazine, a Floridabased brokerage added the following ’Late Breaking News!' to their ad for the new Corsair F-36 (the bold face is ours): "First F-36 launched takes line honors in 1996 Cape Town to Rio trans-Pacific Race." Either that’s a mistake or they’re taking the long way to Rio these days. To the bitter end. . . Like many other phrases in the lexicon, 'bitter end' probably had it origins aboard ship. In the old days, the anchor rode took its turns around a huge bitt, and the end of the rope nearest the bitt was called the 'bitter end'. Boat quote. * •»' "Jack Kennedy praised economic growth as a rising tide that lifted all boats, but today’s economy lifts only the yachts.” — Daniel Yankelovich

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the saints come marching in The rumors have been circulating for months: Bay Area prodigal son Paul Cayard, veteran of four America’s Cup campaigns, was returning home to lead a St. Francis YC challenge for the next A-Cup. Supposedly in cahoots with Jim Clark, gazillionaire founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, Paul (below, at left, at last month’s Citibank Spring Cup) would have the financial and techni¬ cal backing to design the fastest boat(s) possible, staff it some of the Bay Area’s finest, including John Kostecki, and — viola! — the Cup was as good as on its pedestal in the club’s trophy case. Reserve your seats early for the 2004 America’s Cup on San Francisco Bay! Start getting used to the idea — all the above hearsay was confirmed in mid-May, when Cayard and the as-yet unnamed St. Francis syndicate ponied up the requisite $100,000 entry fee to officially challenge for America’s Cup XXX, which commences in Auckland on February 26, 2000. Ten other chal¬ lengers also anted up, including two from the U.S. — the PACT2000/New ^Qrk YC 'Challenger of Record' group, which recently signed up Ed Baird as continued outside column of next sightings page

Steve Fossett’s 60-ft trimaran Lakota slid into Yokohama on May 23, adding yet ano¬ ther record to her growing string. This one was the 4,525-mile passage from San Fran¬ cisco, a record which until last month was held by the clipper Swordfish, which made the crossing in 33 days in 1853. Lakota did it in 19 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. For those of you keeping track, this also smashed the East-West record of 31 days (between any ports) set by the clipper Pam¬ pero in 1854. The accomplishments round out to seven the number of world records in sailing — as certified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council — that Lakota has made in the past two years. The others

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saints marching — cont’d skipper, and Peter Holmberg’s new renegade effort through St. Thomas YC in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Conspicuous by his absence was Dennis Conner, who’ll now have to pay $200,000 within the next year if he’s going to be a player this time around. Six of the eight other challenges came from abroad. Notable entries include the first ever-Chinese effort, which challenged via the Aberdeen BC in Hong Kong; the Russians (St. Petersburg YC) back again for another shot after their ’92 debacle; and England (Royal Dorset YC), returning to the Cup wars for the first time since ’87. Returning veterans include Japan, Spain and France. The last two challenges are for some reason confidential, though New Zealand YS officials hinted that one of them has been to The Show before — possibly Australia’s John Bertrand, who is known to be mounting a campaign. But back to the St. Francis campaign: On June 1, at a press breakfast before the Brut Cup, Cayard will officially kick off the new $30 million program. "We’re still in the fundraising and R&D phase of the project," said Bruce Munro, spokesman for the St. Francis group. "With the Cup four years away, and actually building a boat probably two years away, we obviously don’t have all the details pinned down.” Mainly, Cayard is expected to formerly announce his financial backers (think Silicon Valley), the designer (think San Diego), introduce a few key players, and shed some light on his game plan for recapturing the Auld Mug. He’ll also reveal the name of the new syndicate (how about the 'Paul and the Saints'? 'Netscape Navigators'?), and presumably his plans for the future of the America’s Cup when he flies home with it. We’ll let you know all the news that’s fit to print in the next issue, but anything else we’d say right now would be idle speculation.

never underestimate the risk Sailing is always an adventure, and with adventure comes risk. Maybe not the risk of climbing Everest, competing in the Indy 500, or operating a jet ski, but nonetheless a risk. When you’re sailing offshore along a difficult part of the coast or in a crowded big boat regatta, both the adventure and the risks in¬ crease. Unfortunately, that was demonstrated all too clearly by two tragic accidents last month. Shortly before 4 p.m. on the afternoon of April 25, 23-year-old Danielle Faucher was lost overboard from the state tallship Californian. At the time, the 145-ft topsail schooner was about 90 miles off Point Conception, headed north under sail from Long Beach to Monterey. The wind was in the 25 to 30knot range with the attendant big swells, but the ship had not been taking any water on deck. However, as one watch was relieving the other, a big wave came on board and swept across the quarterdeck. Faucher, who was standing amidships, was swept toward the rail, possibly struck it, and went over the side. She was not wearing a life-jacket. Crew overboard drills are a regular part of the regimen aboard Californian, and everyone sprang in to action, throwing everything floatable they could lay their hands on over the stern. Danielle’s head was seen to surface behind the ship, but she made no attempt to swim for any of the items. It took between 5 and 7 minutes for the ship to turn around. All 17 remaining hands aboard were called on deck and the Coast Guard notified. When the ship returned to the scene, the flotation items were there but Danielle could not be found. Two Coast Guard helicopters, a C-130 and two nearby merchant vessels soon joined the search, which lasted til dark. Californian was then released by the Coasties, and returned to Long Beach. Captain George Hill and his crew returned the ship to the area the next day and continued the search. But again, no sign of Danielle could be found. The loss is the first from the ship since its launch in May of 1984. Between regular crew, guests, charterers and cadet training programs aboard, Califor¬ nian creator Steve Christman estimates that 110,000 people have crossed her decks on various trips in the last 12 years. Although the Coast Guard were the first to inform Danielle’s parents of the loss, Christman also spoke with them in the wake of the accident. "I was one of the hardest calls I ever made," he said. continued outside column of next sightings page

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risk — cont’d Faucher, of Augusta, Maine, was nearing the completion of her threemonth stint as a paid deckhand on the tallship. Members of the Dana Pointbased Nautical Heritage Society, which owns the vessel, attended services for < Danielle in Augusta. Two services were also held aboard the Californian, one at the dock andtme off Point Conception at precisely 35°33’ north. "That will now be a tradition aboard," notes Christman. "From now on, a moment of silence will be observed whenever the ship continued outside column of next sightings page

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Ironically, halfway to Japan, Hogg learned via fax that his 40-ft trimaran Aotea — lost for more than a year after she cap¬ sized in the 1995 Doublehanded Farallones Race — was found on a beach in the South Seas. (See "Mayday in Murilo" elsewhere in Sightings for more on that story.) The irrepressible Fossett, a 52-year-old

SIGHTINGS securities dealer, will eventually sail Lakota back to San Francisco singlehanded some¬ time this summer. He’s also going to drive in the 24-hour Le Mans auto race and, come winter, attempt a feat for which there is no record yet (because nobody’s ever done it): a nonstop balloon flight all the way around the world.

risk — cont’d crosses that latitude." The other death occurred aboard Wild Thing, Bill McGrory’s Little Harbor 70 on April 28, during pre-start maneuvers for the first race at Antigua Sailing Week. The victim, 52year-old Helena Franco, was part of the crew of the immaculate and near¬ ly new sloop which was under charter for the event. The wind was blowing about 25 knots and the seas were sloppy from the wind and scores of big boat wakes. According to mainsheet trimmer Michael Silverman, nobody will ever know precisely what happened to Franco, because Wild Thing was in the middle of the crowded 25-boat start at the time of the incident and all eyes were facing forward. Shortly before the starting gun was fired, the vessel gybed as part of their strategy for the downwind start. It was a controlled gybe, and Silverman had greatly overtrimmed the main so it wouldn’t slam over. When the main did come over, however, Franco had apparently somehow gotten in the path of the mainsheet, which runs from the end of the boom to the deck of the center-cockpit boat. "One of the crew saw something out of the comer of his eye," said Silverman. "He looked back, and then immediately reported that somebody was down. When the rest of us turned around, we saw Helena lying on the deck. She had apparently — we might never know for sure — been 'slapped' by the mainsheet. Whatever hit her broke her neck." The experienced crew of Wild Thing immediately furled the jib and within three minutes had managed to pull alongside the committee boat and medical help. "We couldn’t have gotten to medical help faster if we’d been downtown in a large American city," said Silverman. But it was too late. While it has not been confirmed, it’s believed that Franco had been seasick the day before and took something — possibly a seasickness remedy — prior to the start of the fateful race. Seasickness remedies often effect mental and physical agility. "It was an incredible, freakish accident," says Silverman. "The mainsheet was not flogging and Franco was not hit by the boom — two of many false and sometimes ridiculous rumors that swept the island. Our whole crew couldn’t — and still can’t — get over how bizarr^ it was." While others have died of heart attacks and such at Antigua — notably Southern California’s Don Vaughn who had sailed for many years aboard Windward Passage — this was the first death as a result of a sailing accident. It’s actually somewhat surprising, given the number of boats, sailors — and collisions — that are common at Antigua. This year’s Sailing Week saw close to 3,000 sailors aboard more than 200 boats sail over 20,000 miles. And this kind of stuff has been going on — albeit in lesser numbers — for 30 years. Given the wild nature of the event, it’s actually a reasonably enviable record. Amazingly, there was nearly a second fatality in the same division of the

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risk — cont’d same race only hours later aboard Jimmy Harrison’s Irwin 68 Taza Grande. A Fort Worth, Texas, member of the St. Francis YC, Harrison has competed — often with the same core crew — in the last 14 Sailing Weeks. The fleet had sailed around to the leeward side of Antigua, where the water was flat but the wind was howling in the low 30s. There was great racing in the division between, among others, Taza Grande, the Hinckley 73 Windigo, the Bowman 66 Dione, and our Ocean 71 Big O. Boats were crossing tacks frequently, sails were tearing; and people were laughing, yelling, and having about as much fun as it’s possible to have on boats. When Taza Grande’s skipper told the crew to prepare for a tack just a mile or so from the finish, crewman Gary Gooden started down the broad expanse that is the aft deck of the Irwin 68 to get ready to release the leeward sheet. But as Gooden, an experienced crewmember on the boat, got about jialfway down the heeling deck, he slipped on a jib sheet and found himself stumbling headfirst toward the leeward lifelines. Gooden’s momentum carried him almost completely through the lifelines. He managed to catch himself momentarily with his toes, but that only served to rotate his body around and smack him face-first into the hull. Therrhe was swimming. The fun-loving Texans aboard Taza Grande have a well-developed sense of humor, so when they saw their buddy overboard, they all started hooting and howling . . . until they saw the blood in the water. Lots of blood in the water. It’s a tribute to the skill of the merry crew that they were immediately able to retrieve Gooden before he was run over by any of the 175 boats behind them. Gooden’s head was quickly bandaged, and the boat rushed to nearby continued outside column of next sightings page

A fisherman off the South Pacific atoll of Murilo hauled in an interesting catch on May 1, 'May Day': the remains of the Bay-based trimaran Aotea. Regular readers will recall that the 40-footer capsized in a squall during the ’95 Doublehanded Farallones Race, and that owner Peter Hogg and crew Jim Antrim — who is also the boat’s designer — were airlifted to safety by the Coast Guard. Peter tried for months to recover the boat, which was sighted a number of times heading toward Southern California. But every time he’d fly out or charter a boat to go get her, she could never be found. At this writing, Hogg is aboard Steve Fossett’s 60-ft trimaran Lakota, which is on the verge of breaking the San Francisco to Yokohama sailing record. So he was unav¬ ailable for comment. But Shama Kota, who communicates daily with Peter via fax, says he’s chomping at the bit to get to tiny Murilo Atoll in the Hall Island group — about 60 miles north of Truk — to see what’s left of the boat. (The atoll’s coordinates are 8°30’N, 151 °50’E.) The story Shama has gotten so far through American ex-pat Steve Winter on

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Truk — there are no phones on Murilo, so messages have had to go through a pains¬ taking array of phone calls to Truk and then several radio relays — is that the boat was found upside down near the island by a local fisherman. He towed it in and beached it on sand. Aotea had apparently been untouched in her 388-day trek, as the rudder and daggerboard were still mounted and most of the gear, including the outboard, was still aboard. The boat is likely stripped now. Whether it’s salvageable or not is impossible to gauge without seeing it. The boat appar¬ ently is missing the port ama and the rig. Designer Antrim crunched some numbers and figured out that Aotea averaged .525 knots on the 4,886-mile upside-down, nohanded voyage, which one observer noted "is still faster than a Westsail 32." As we went to press, a photographer had taken the 60-mile open-boat ride to Murilo from Truk to document what he could of the boat. That film did not arrive stateside in time to include photos in this issue. But stay tuned, we’ll have more on this interesting turn of events in the next issue.

Dickenson Bay where an ambulance was waiting. It took 15 stitches to close the gash in Gooden’s head. When we took the accompanying photo of Gooden two days later, he was drinking mud slides, laughing hard, and eager for the next race. Unfortunately, not everybody else was so lucky. We at Latitude sing the praises of sailing, but at the same time we try to get everyone to appreciate the risks involved. Just because there are grandparents out there on their second circumnavigation, or 150 first-timers who cruise to Mexico each year, it should never obscure the fact that there are inherent risks in sailing. The weather can be overwhelming, even the best designed and manufactured stuff can fail, and the most experienced skippers and crews do make mistakes. Shit does happen. So be prepared, and be careful out there.

boating and waterways in dire straits Not all government agencies are bloated, inefficient, archaic, moneywasting juggernauts. Some, like the California Department of Boating and Waterways, could serve as models of governmental efficiency. One of the most well-managed entities in the state, the Department of Boating and Waterways has functioned economically and efficiently to meet the needs of California’s boaters since it began as the Small Craft Harbor Division in 1957. (It became a full-fledged department in 1966.) Every season, the DBW loans or grants money to marinas all over the state to build docks, launch ramps, pump out stations and other facilities that make California marinas the envy of most other states and countries. In fact, DBW is so good at what it does that it probably won’t surprise you

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dire straits — cont’d to learn that Pete Wilson wants to get rid of it. As part of his new 'Competitive Government' effort, Wilson would abolish the Department of Boating and Waterways — and divert its money (gas taxes and boater registration fees) to 'non-boating related uses'. His program would also seek to terminate licensing of yacht brokers, abolish the Boating and Waterways Commission and offer the DBW’s loan portfolio for sale. If the prospect of losing the DBW doesn’t scare the living daylights out of you, it should. Without them, boating concerns in California would almost cer¬ tainly be handled by non-boaters with little or no interest, knowledge nor care about our sport. (It was doubtless just such forces that got this stupid idea included in die Competitive Government Plan in the first place.) It would also very likely open the door wide for increased taxation on the state’s boaters — and the wasting of that money, too. We strongly urge readers to take pen in hand and write your lawmakers soon about this issue. Tell them: • Not to eliminate the Department of Boating and Waterways and transfer its functions to other departments. • Not to offer the Department’s loan portfolios for sale. • Not to terminate licensing of yacht brokers. \ • Not to abolish the Boating and Waterways Commission. Address letters to: The Honorable Pete Wilson Governor State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 The Honorable Milton Marks State Senate P.O. Box 942848 Sacramento, CA 94248-0001

The Honorable Kelly Mazzoni State Assembly P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0001 Also, please forward copies of your letters to two of the watchdog organiz¬ ations fighting hard on your behalf over this issue: the Recreational Boaters of California, 925 L. Street, Suite 220, Sacramento, CA 95814 (fax 916-4413520), and the Northern California Marine Association, c/d’Alan Clarke, Clarke and Associates, 1010 11th St., Ste. 300, Sacramento, CA 95814 (fax: 916-447-5194. Both RBOC and NCMA are on the front lines in the battle to retain the DBW, and the cause will be helped if they have some idea of the mail going to Sacramento.

breakfast with mark One of the many nice things about living in the Bay Area is that it’s truly one of the crossroads of the world. Sooner or later, everyone finds an excuse to breeze through our town, if only briefly. Among the sailing celebrities to grace us with their presence last month was Mark Schrader, who’s been associ¬ ated with the BOC Challenge — the singlehanded race around the world — almost from the very beginning. A two-time circumnavigator on his Valiant 40 Resourceful — an independent jaunt in ’82-’83, followed by the ’86-’87 BOC — Mark has served as Race Director for the last two BOC Challenges (’91-’92 and ’94-’95). He splits his time between working at his 'day job' (he has a farm north of Seattle) and running the Round the World Race, with his heart clearly more into the latter. When it comes to the BOC, Mark is the authority — it’s probably fair to say that this race has defined and obsessed his existence for the last dozen years. To stick with the 'crossroads' metaphor a moment longer, that’s pretty continued outside column of next sightings page

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If you’re interested in a small boat cruise with big boat 'comfort', consider the 6-day voyage offered by the Maritime Museum on June 16-21. Organized by the Small Craft Shop of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and sponsored by the Nation¬ al Maritime Museum Association, this cruise will be a six-day row/sail from Suisun City through Montezuma Slough, up the Sacra¬ mento River and down Georgiana Slough to the B&W resort on the Mokelumne River. The cruise is planned for small traditional craft — dories, Whitehall, wherries, peapods, etc. in the 15-20-ft range — and will involve about 10 miles a day of rowing and/ or sailing depending on conditions. The big boat 'comfort' will be supplied by the Park Service’s scow schooner Alma, the last work¬ ing sailing vessel of her type still plying Bay waters. Built in 1891, the 60-foot-long, 23foot-wide, 43-ton Alma will serve as a mobile dock/RV for the smaller craft. She’ll follow along behind like a mother hen during the day. At night, the small boats can tie along¬ side. There’ll be dry space below to stow gear and plenty of room on the old scow schooner’s deck to throw down a sleeping bag. (If it rains, you might be able to get under the tarp that will be slung over the main boom.) With a little imagination before you drift off to sleep, you’re liable to hear the ghosts of some of the Delta’s old paddlewheelers chug by in the night.

SIGHTINGS In addition to Alma, the Park Service will provide two motorized chase boats for safety and a van for land transport. The van will leave Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco each day at 3 p.m. It will remain at the campsite during the night and return to San Fransicso in the morning. Participants will be responsible for their own meals. Using a camp stove, meals can be cooked on the deck of Alma or ashore, and in some locations, restaurants will be within walking distance. The Park Service will provide at least two dinners during the cruise. The cost of the six-day cruise is $100, which includes everything mentioned so far, as well as launching and haulout fees and a magnificent memorial T-shirt. Space permit¬ ting, participants may sign on for as little as one day for a flat fee of $18, which may or may not include all benefits, depending on the day. Of course, if you want real comfort, this may not be the trip for you. But if it’s adven¬ ture you seek, and you have the right boat, a reasonable level of experience, good phys¬ ical condition, a sense of humor, camping gear and plenty of mosquito repellent and sunblock, then call Bill Doll at the Small Craft Shop (415-556-7013) or Pete Evans (510-652-2034). There’s room for 8-12 small boats with 1-2 crew per boat.

breakfast — cont’d much where this great race now finds itself. After four runnings, The BOC Group (formerly British Oxygen Company, a supplier of industrial gases) has dropped its sponsorship of the race, which now calls itself simply 'Around Alone ’98-’99'. With the next race scheduled to begin from Charles¬ ton, South Carolina, in November ’98, Schrader — along with fellow race executives Nigel Rowe and Dan McConnell — is currently beating the bushes looking for a new title sponsor. Hans Bernwall — owner of Scanmar Marine (Monitor windvanes), a long-time fan of the BOC, and Schrader’s friend and host while he was here — ar¬ ranged a breakfast meeting for us with Mark at a cafe in Tiburon early last month. Articulate, passionate and possessing a keen sense of humor, Schrader filled us in on the past, present and future of the Around Alone Race. What brings you down this way? Mainly to give a Tuesday Yachtsman’s Lunch talk at St. Francis, and to enjoy Hans and Sylvia’s hospitality. Besides, it’s Mark Schrader. raining in Seattle. Can you give us a thumbnail sketch of the BOC to date? Sure. At 26,234 miles, it’s the longest race of any sort that an individual can compete in. The first three races started and ended in Newport, Rhode Island; the fourth and most recent one was held out of Charleston. There are four legs, with stops at Cape Town, Sydney and Punte Del Este. There are two classes, for boats 40-50 feet and the all-out 60-footers. The French, who are crazy about this kind of racing, have dominated the 60-foot class, with Phillipe Jeantot taking the first two races and Christophe Auguin winning the last two. The small class, which is more Corinthiah, has always been up for grabs: past winners have been Yukoh Tata (Japan), Mike Plant (U.S.), Yves Dupasquier (France) and, most recently, David Adams (Australia). There have been 87 competitors from 14 countries who have started the four races, including 20 Americans. Of the 87 starters, 22 dropped out for various reasons, six lost their boats, and two lost their lives — Jacque DeRoux in ’86, whose boat was damaged about where Isabelle abandoned hers this time. I remember the night clearly — six boats were rolled 360°. Jacque carried on, but something went wrong and his boat was found just off the coast of Australia. . . And, of course, Harry Mitchell disappeared near Cape Horn in the last one. Why did the race switch to Charleston? Newport is still a great sailing town, but they weren!t interested in helping us promote or grow the race. Charleston wanted to show the world that they’re more than just a 'gas stop' on the coast, and they did a terrific job. The whole community got involved, especially the school kids — way, way more people turned out than at Newport. If all goes well, we’ll be going back there next time. How has the race evolved over the years? Just about everything but the wind and the sea have changed! The elapsed time records tells a lot about the speed potential of the boats — when Jeantot won the first race in 159 days, everyone thought it was a record that would stand forever. Then he lowered it to 134 days the next time, and subsequently Auguin dropped it to 120 days and, in the last race, went backwards up to 121

LATITUDE/ROB

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SIGHTINGS breakfast — cont’d days. The designs and technology have improved dramatically and people are pushing the boats harder than ever. But one thing remains the same — you have to finish the race to win.

just the We’re always getting faxes and press rel¬ eases noting interesting statistics. Here are a few of the more interesting ones of late:

Sounds like it’s getting to be pretty insane?

Actually, no — it’s safer than ever. In the first race, the 17 competitors used relatively primitive electronics and even antique divining tools called sextants — remember those? They used single side-band radios to communicate on a pretty loose schedule. If you got in trouble back then, you were basically on your own. These days, there are many factors which make the race much safer: more accurate weather information, better emergency location equip¬ ment, watertight bulkheads, and less gear failure due to across-the-board advances in technology. If anything, after 2Vi million collective miles, we have a hell of a safety record — especially compared to the Whitbread Race. ^t you lost Harry in the last race, and almost lost Isabelle.1

The safety net is there as much as technologically possible, but it’s still an inherently dangerous proposition to sail around the world alone. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we all do> it? Harry knew the risks, and died doing some¬ thing he loved. . . That Isabelle lived was a miracle — if she’d been op deck or inside the 'pod' when it was ripped off during her 360°, she would have been swept away. It was also fairly amazing that we found her, but that’s another story. The better communications have also made the race more spectatorfriendly, wouldn’t you say?

Absolutely. We outfitted each boat with IMARSAT-C equipment, and could send messages back and forth to each competitor. The previous three races only had ARGOS, which is a one-way tracking and emergency location device. . . We also put video cameras on many boats, and the resulting 90-minute PBS documentary really showed the world what it was like. That show should be re-airing soon — try to catch it! The last race was epic. Would you say it was the best one yet?

Sure, but I say that after each one! It was certainly the most dramatic one yet, a real roller-coaster emotionally. It was very hard on me personally, espe¬ cially losing Harry. He was a good friend. Changing subjects, how did you begin sailing?

I grew up in Nebraska, but thank God my parents had the sense to move to Santa Barbara when I was 17.1 fell in love with the ocean and sailing, and one thing led to another. My first circumnavigation was actually a fundraiser for the Resource Foundation, a private school for developmentally disabled kids that I had been running. It was the world’s longest 'sailathon'! How was that trip?

It took a long time. I was invited on the Larry King show afterwards, along with a well-known mountain climber, an Iditarod winner and similar adven¬ turers. I was the junior person on the menu, and King made it clear he thought I was nuts. He opened the interview with "So, 199 days. What did you do about sex?" My answer—something about 'self-service' — was bleeped off the air, and the interview went downhill from there. . . One of my overriding memories of that first trip was of cabbage. My Aunt Thelma did the provis¬ ioning for me — and filled the forepeak up with the stuff. I hate cabbage! I learned, among other things, to pack my own food so I could be sure I was taking things I liked to eat. What stands out about the BOC you did In ’86-’87?

Well, there was a moment that really captured the essence of the whole race for me. Pentti Salmai from Finland and I both dove on our boats in the harbor at Rio de Janeiro before the start, unaware of how polluted it was. Pentti, who’d scraped himself on some barnacles, developed a horrible infec¬ tion on his arm a week or so into the next leg. He became incapacitated and sent out an SOS and hove-to. Jen Luc Van Den Heede from France, one of the real characters of this race, tracked him down ten hours later, and threw over the injectable antibiotics that probably saved Pentti’s life. He wrapped the drugs in a Playboy magazine, and — because of the language barrier — drew an 'X' on the centerfold where Pentti was to stick himself with the needle! It was a dramatic yet funny moment, very human. continued outside column of next sightings page

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— More than half of all stolen boats in the U.S. are motorboats in the 18 to 23-foot range. Theives steal an average of 1,000 boats a month at an annual cost to boaters and their insurance companies of $40 mil¬ lion. The odds of recovering a stolen boat are only about 1 in 10. — The state with the most registered boats in the U.S? Michigan, with 898,265 as of last year. (California is second.) The least — American Samoa, with 149. — There are 240,156 registered boats in the Bay-Delta region. — 200,000 personal watercraft (read: jetskis) were sold in this country in 1995, a 41% increase over 1994 and a definitive

SIGHTINGS facts, ma'am

breakfast — cont’d How did you do in that race?

signpost on the decline of western civil¬ ization. — 44% of sailors and 60% of powerboaters have household incomes of less than $50,000 a year. — Approximately a third of all boating fatalities occur in water temperatures below 60 degrees. — According to the Coast Guard, about 80% of boating accidents are caused by 'operator error' and not mechanical equip¬ ment or environmental causes. — 75% of all boating-related drownings could be prevented if people wear lifejackets. — There are approximately 7,900 mari¬ nas in the U.S.

I finished (laughter). Okay, I was sixth in Class II. It was the biggest race ever, with 25 starters. Are there getting to be too many round-the-world races?

There are certainly a lot of them now, but most are crewed races — much easier, in my opinion. The 'pay-per-view, buy-your-bunk' races like the British Steel Challenge are really gaining in popularity. The Vendee Globe, a non¬ stop around the world race which starts for the third time in September, is the only race like ours — but the two races actually complement each other, I think. We use the same boats, and some of the same competitors sail in both events. How would you compare the BOC to the Vendee Globe?

Ours is technically and physically more challenging, as it’s four 7,000 mile sprints instead of a straight shot. The stress of multiple 'take-offs' and 're¬ entries' is greater, and the logistics are harder. The stopovers also build a greater camaraderie than the Vendee Globe — there is a real spirit to our race. A lot of very deep bonds are formed. What is the future of the BOC?

(Sources: BOAT/US, U.S. Coast Guard and California Department of Boating and Waterways.) /

It’s a little hard to say right now, but it won’t die — in fact, we’ve already continued outside column of next sightings page

LATITUDE/JR

We don't know what it is, and wherever it was going, it wasn't getting there fast. But the sun was out, the water was flat and the helmsman seemed to be enjoying life. More power to him.

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SIGHTINGS love, honor

breakfast — cont’d had about 20 serious inquiries from sailors for the next one. The BOC Group gave us some seed money to help with the transition, and right now we’re searching urgently for a new title sponsor. Hopefully, we’ll have an announce¬ ment soon. This race is a tremendous opportunity for some company to pick up — the event’s well established, and the international exposure it generates makes it a good investment. What are your personal sailing plans?

I’ve been sailing multihulls lately — I’ve owned parts of an F-24, an F-27 and a 37-foot Fountain/Pajot. I’m not sure I’ll compete in the BOC again, unless it was on a really hi-tech 50-footer — which is out of the question financially anyway. Once you’ve been swirled into this vortex, it’s hard to swim out — I’m envious of the competitors every time a new crop starts out! But then I come to my senses and realize I’ve already gone around twice, which is probably enough. One thing I do want to do someday is buy a,cruis¬ ing boat and explore the Pacific. Thanks, Mark, and good luck getting a sponsor for the race. Thank you. Hope to see you in Charleston in 2Vz years! \

discovering the nina It would take quite a stretch for the modern mariner to imagine a caravel like Columbus’s Nina — a replica of which is pictured here — as 'fast'. But in Columbus’ day, she was a veritable greyhound of the seas, much more versatile, utilitarian and downright fun to sail than a heaving pig like, say, the Santa Maria.

Visitors to the 96-ft, 100-ton replica ship, which visited the Bay Area last month, learned that and a lot more about the vessels that carried Columbus on his various voyages of discovery to the Americas. (That would be 'voyages of raping and pillaging' to you eco-historians.) The ship entered the Bay early in the month and docked for self-guided tours at Redwood City through May 21. Then it was up to Stockton. If you read this early enough, you still may be able to catch it there — it takes off June 4 to continue its two-year tour through Oregon, Washington, Vancouver and Alaska. This Nina is historically the most 'accurate' of several Columbus replicas in existence. It was conceived as part of a grand plan by the Columbus Foundation (headquartered in the Virgin Islands) to rebuild the entire threeship 'fleet' in time for the Columbus Quincentenary celebration in 1992. Time and money constraints eventually whittled the project down to,one ship, and Nina was the logical choice, as she was Columbus’ favorite ship> Two years of intense research followed, and the ship was finally built in Valencia, Brazil, by shipwrights who still use methods and hand tools very like those used to build the original Nina. The ship was launched in 1991, and immediately took part in the filming of the Ridley Scott movie 1492, starring Gerard Depardieu as Columbus. Since then, she’s been on a busy schedule of touring and discovery — this time in reverse, as thousands of curious visitors have trod her decks and 'discovered' a little of her history. In the last four years, the ship has visited more than 170 ports all over the East Coast, Great Lakes and the Missouri, Tennessee and Ohio Rivers. This year, she headed west, passing through the Panama Canal in March. Now, what’s this about Columbus’ favorite ship? It’s apparently true. When his crew got drunk and ran the Santa Maria onto a reef off Hispanola (now Haiti) on Christmas Eve, 1492, the captain wasn’t all that upset. In his journal, he wrote"... she was very heavy and not suitable forthe business of discovery." He immediately transferred his command to the Nina, and she dutifully carried him back home to Spain with the news that was to make him enduringly famous. (Ecos: 'infamous') After the first voyage, the third ship in the tiny fleet, Pinta, disappears from history without a trace. But the Nina returned to the Americas with Columbus on his second voyage in 1493. In fact, he selected her out of 17 ships as his flagship. She was later captured by pirates off Sardinia, but recaptured by the good guys in time to sail as part of an advanced guard on Columbus’ third voyage in 1498. She was last heard of carrying cargo off the coast of Santo continued outside column of next sightings page

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Vancouver, Washington, sailor Bill Huseby takes the West Marine Pacific Cup’s doublehanded division pretty seriously. Both times he has entered his Soverel 33 Sting — in 1988 and 1994 — he has won the divi¬ sion. What made the ’94 race particularly memorable, however, was a radio conversa¬ tion he had with girlfriend Becky Hill, who was the navigator on the all-woman team aboard the 42-ft Magic Carpet. Halfway to Hawaii, with about 450 people listening in, he proposed. She accepted. Becky and Bill will be back — together

SIGHTINGS this time — for the ’96 Pacific Cup, hoping to continue Sting’s winning ways. In the meantime, they’re doing some serious off¬ shore training. "We took the boat to Astoria at the end of April and did a couple of 30-hour training trips out into the Pacific," says Becky, a 33year-old teacher who began sailing on the East Coast (aboard a square rigger, no less) when she was 16. "Then we’ll take on a crew to race the Oregon Offshore to Victoria." "We’ll probably pass up the Canadian Swiftsure weekend for more race training on continued middle of next sightings page

nina — cont’d Domingo in 1501. But her type — a caravel — appears all through the great age of discovery. Used as cargo carriers, warships, patrol boats and even corsairs (pirate ships), caravels were considered rugged and quick, and their shallow draft (Nina draws only 7 feet) and maneuverability made them the ships of choice for even the most discriminating explorer. To drop a few names, caravels were used in the history-making voyages of Bartholomew Diaz, Vasco de Gama and even Magellan’s around-the-world expedition (1519-1522), the first ever circumnavigation. The trade routes opened by these explorations led to the need for larger cargo ships — especially to plunder all that Inca gold. So the caravel was slowly replaced by larger ships called galleons. Just as modern sailors might have a hard time thinking of Nina in terms of performance, they would have little conception of what life was like aboard. continued outside column of next sightings page

COURTESY NINA

and going fast

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SIGHTINGS niria — cont’d On each of her three trips to the new world, for example, Nina’s cargo hold was full of provisions, armament, fresh water — and live animals. These latter included horses, cows, pigs and chickens, with the four-legged critters having to be suspended in slings so the rolling motion of the ship wouldn’t break any legs. As one can imagine, below decks wasn’t a fun place to be on the best of days. But that’s okay, most of the 27 crew ate and slept on deck. Coils of rope were the preferred bedding. But Columbus wasn’t the only guy aboard who made discoveries that would change the course of history. The crew did, too. They discovered that the Indians slept in simple, comfortable contraptions called hammocks — and the life of the working class was never the same again. For more on the travels of the Nina and/or the Columbus Foundation, the latter can be reached in Tortola, BVI, at (809) 495-4618; fax (809) 495-4616.

so you want to be in the charter business?

For some full-time cruisers, the idea of taking a charter guest aboard their boat for a couple of weeks is . . . well, tempting. For Jeff and Dawn Stone of the Sausalito-based Nicholson 39 Dawn, it only became 'tempting' for three reasons: 1) Their kitty was darn near empty and Jeff really didn’t want to get back into marine refrigeration quite so soon; 2) They really wanted to visit Cuba, which was only 90 miles away from their berth in Key West; and 3) They’d met a very nice nationally-renowned psychiatrist who had a lot of friends around Key West. "Normally we still wouldn’t have done it," remembers Dawn, "but we really wanted to go to Cuba, and so did he. He had the money to pay for the expenses, otherwise we weren’t going to be able to go. So in a moment of weakness, we decided that we’d do the charter. But I laid down the law — we weren’t bringing him to Cuba for any sex tour, and he was absolutely prohibited from bringing any women back aboard Dawn." The noted shrink agreed to the conditions and the three of them sailed to Hemingway Marina, which is about 10 miles outside of Havana. "So what happened the very first evening?" Dawn continues. "The guy doesn’t bring a woman back to the boat, he brings back a 14-year-old girl — and several of her relatives. The sad truth is that in Cuba just about all the women have a price — e\>en if they are married or are still children. And not only is the price ridiculously low, but this sad state of affairs is pretty much accepted by all the people of Cuba." Although furious, Dawn couldn’t bring herself to throw the guy off the boat that night or make him take the girl home. But the next morning, she clearly reiterated the details of the charter arrangement once again. It didn’t make much difference, because before long the shrink had pretty much moved off the boat and in with the girl — or her sister or her family or some situation Dawn really didn’t want to hear about. If sex started the trouble, money exacerbated it. The 'charter guest' was pretty successful with the girl and her family for the simple reason that he showered them with little presents. In Cuba, where even doctors often make less than $5 U.S. a month, even little gifts are almost irresistible. But soon Jeff and Dawn, who hadn’t collected any money from the guy, became worried that he wouldn’t have the money left to pay the marina bill. And they didn’t have the money themselves. So they demanded and got most of the money. But within a day or two, the shrink was seriously running low on money. And without money, he was soon going to seriously run out of love and affection. So he demanded that the Stones give him his money back. When Jeff and Dawn steadfastly refused, the charter guest from hell and his newlypurchased Cuban girlfriend and extended family friends paid a visit to the Cuban authorities — and told them Jeff and Dawn had stolen his money. For Americans with a boat in Cuba, life is anxious enough, but for Jeff and continued outside column of next sightings page

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blue moon Whether you sail as regularly as the moon rises, or only once in a blue moon, there is an old sailor’s saying that applies: The moon and the weather may change together But change of the moon does not change the weather. The June being a mooney month, it seems at appropriate time to take a look at mariners and the moon. First, there is this business of a blue moon. Nowadays, the expression connotates two full moons in a calendar month. Because the moon’s syno¬ dic period — a full cycle of its phases — occurs every 29V2 days, it is possible to fit two full moons into every month except February. However, this phenomenon occurs on the average of only once every two or three years, hence the expression "once in a blue moon." This year, we will see a full moon on June 1 and again on June 30, the first time two full moons have occurred the same month since August, 1993. An older definition of a blue moon occurs when forest fires or volcanic events fill the sky with dust that 'scatters' red light, making the moon appear blue. This happened in 1950 when Canadian forest fires produced a spectacular blue moon that was visible over most of New England and the mid-Atlantic states. More recently, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines in 1991 caused quite a few blue-moon sightings in the Pacif¬ ic. By more traditional definition then, "once in a blue moon" was more akin to meaning "once in a lifetime." For sailors of old, the appearance of the moon in its various phases foretold the wea¬ ther, a ship’s fate, or a sailor’s luck. Old English shipbuilders, for example, always

SIGHTINGS love — cont’d

charter biz — cont’d

the 200 miles back down the coast to Astor¬ ia," adds Bill, a 36-year-old project manager for Hewlett Packard. He bought the boat in Santa Cruz as a bare hull after the builders closed their doors in 1988, and finished it off himself. They’ll conclude their impressive prepar¬ ations with the passage to San Francisco for the start of the race. By then, says Bill, "going out the Golden Gate to Hawaii should feel like no big deal." — peter marsh

Dawn it was much worse. For they’d violated the U.S. laws with regard to taking paying passengers to Cuba, and by spending money in Cuba. And now, they were being accused of stealing by a guy who’d now made friends in

For the first time in its history, the Pacific Cup has sold out. Sixty-seven boats are cur¬ rently entered, with four on the waiting list. Look for a preview of the 'Fun Race to Hawaii' in our July issue.

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laid a keel on a Wednesday when the moon was full. Odin, the Norse god, bestowed not only his name to that day of the week, but strength to a ship’s keel that drew from the moon’s power over the tides. When the ship was completed, a fullmoon Monday (moon day) was considered a most fortuitous day to launch. That way, the moon would 'bless' the ship and help insure its seaworthiness. At sea, sailors upon these lucky ships looked to the moon for Signs of'approaching weather. A moon 'with the old moon in her arms' — a crescent moon with the faint out¬ line of the rest of the orb — portended strong winds to superstitious old salts. In fact, this phenomenon occurs only when air is particularly clear and stable. An old salt’s tale that does hold up to scrutiny is that a halo around the moon predicts rain. It would be a real stretch for a meteorologist to predict the duration of the storm based on the thickness of the halo and number of stars visible inside, as mariners of yore tried to do. Other signs: a crescent moon with horns pointing up meant a 'dry moon', one that 'held' water and portended a dry spell. A crescent with horns down was a 'wet moon' that spilled its water, indicating rain to come. A pale full moon also held the promise of rain. Two full moons in a month was thought to increase the chances of a flood. To this day, crabbing, shrimping and clamming are best done when the rrfoon is full, while the days between the new and full moons are better for fishing. And a red moon? All sailors know that one holds the prospect of fine breeze: "Red sky at night, sailor’s delight!" — louisa otis

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Cuba. The Stones had no friends — and they could hardly ask for mercy at a U.S. embassy, because there isn’t one. By now they were furious at the day they ever agreed to take on a charter guest — and for such little money! "Things were really looking pretty bad for us," remembers Jeff, "so we didn’t really have an option but to tell the Cuban officials the truth and get ready for big trouble. We were plenty scared!" So they told the officials that the guy had agreed to pay the expenses to get to Cuba, that he’d broken his agreement about not bringing women back to the boat, and now he’d made a bunch of Cuban friends by buying them presents. The Cuban officials listened to the Stones’ story impassively, and then did something surprising. They didn’t seize Dawn, they didn’t throw the Stones in prison, they didn’t even put them before a firing squad. No, they simple said, "Don’t worry about it, this kind of stuff—men coming down to exploit Cuban continued outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS charter biz — cont’d girls — happens all the time. You are free to go. And you can return to America without him." That was fine with the Stones, who by this time had come to the realization that the guy wasn’t a famous shrink at all, but actually a very clever patifent who’d learned all the lingo and names to drop. Thrilled at the outcome, the next day Jeff went to the Marina office to pay a couple of hundred dollars for their berthing — so they could get the hell back to the States. But they wouldn’t let him. "We heard all about your story," the marina official told Jeff, "so we’re not going to charge you any money for your stay." Jeff couldn’t believe his ears, but it was true. About two weeks later, the Stones were back in Key West when they saw the pseudo shrink — the guy who had tried to get them thrown into a Cuban jail, the guy they’d left in Havana — walking down the street. Rather than yell aijd scream at Jeff and Dawn, he jumped up and down and greeted thdm like long, lost pals. Which is just another reason why the Stones won’t ever be taking on any more charter guests.

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scene of To many ecologically-minded Americans, the ultimate symbol of environmental disas¬ ter is a supertanker named Exxon Valdez. Few west coasters will likely forget the name of the 987-footer which struck rocks on Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989, spilling 11 million gallons of her 62-million gallon capacity of North slope crude in the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Exxon spent $3 billion to clean up the area, and another $1 billion to settle civil and criminal cases arising from the spill. They repaired the ship, renamed it Mediterranean, and put it into service carrying oil from Egypt to other countries. The problem is, the ship isn’t making

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nearly as much money as it used to, because the Jones Act requires it to be operated by an American crew whose high wages make it uncompetitive. So Exxon is trying to get it back on the Alaska run. The Mediterranean and hersistership, the Long Beach, though built in 1976, are the two newest tankers built in the U.S. They were specifically designed for the Alaskan oil trade, and the Long Beach is still up there. But the Valdez/Mediterranean is a symbol of big business that most Alaskans don’t want to see in northern waters ever again. And right now, it would be illegal for the ship to

Amidst the chaos, confusion and outright confrontation between devel¬ opers and maritime tradesmen at the Arques waterfront property in Sausalito last March, a former Sausalito boatbuilder, sailor and teacher quietly returned to town. He joined with another renowned boatbuilder in a mission: to help found a boatbuilding school on the property and fulfill the request of the late property owner’s estate. Despite the continuing 'turf wars' between the developers and the waterfront tradesmen, the new school will not only be open in June, but the first classes are already full. The Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding grew out of the vision of the late Donlon Arques. Before his death in 1993, Arques established a Trust to save the now-threatened traditional skills of the working waterfront on his property. Long a benefactor to various maritime endeavors, he created the Arques Maritime Preservation Foundation "to preserve and foster the art and craft of building small boats." In 1995, after interviewing boatbuilding teachers from around the country, the directors of the Trust chose the staff to direct the program. The future of the school, according to Trust director Ron Silveira, could not have been placed in better hands. Robert Darr was a natural choice. Raised in Tahiti aboard his father’s various schooners — including Sterling Hayden’s former Wanderer — he gained valuable experience and an appreciation for traditional boats from an early age. The young Darr’s playground was aboard some of the finest sailing vessels in the Pacific, both his father’s and others, and he made several voyages from California to Tahiti. In 1981, during the traditional boat 'renaissance', he founded the Center for Wooden Arts in Sausalito, later moved to San Rafael. He taught numerous students and built a number of small, traditional-style sailing vessels, including several Lyle Hess Bristol Channel Cutters./ f / Darr’s co-founder of the Arques Boatbuilding School is Simon Watts. A renowned boatbuilder in his own right, Watts grew up in England and origin¬ ally trained as a civil engineer. He learned traditional boatbuilding in Nova Scotia. He is also a respected furniture maker and has written numerous arti¬ cles on both furniture and boat building for such publications as WoodenBoat and American Woodworker, for which he is west coast editor. Watts also pio¬ neered the '6-day boat' concept, where students complete and launch a lapstrake boat in less than a week. The school, according to Darr, will emphasize the study, design and construction of traditional small craft. Rather than try to 'train' future boatbuilders, the program focuses more on teaching students to appreciate the design and concept of traditional historical vessels, as well as the tools and techniques used to build them. Emphasis will be on hands-on techniques, teaching students "to make things and convert them with their own hands," according to master craftsman Watts. Students will learn all aspects of building, from wood technology and uses to design and lofting. From drawing plans to planking. From casting bronze fittings to traditional rigging, marlinspike seamanship and ropework. Courses will run from week-long classes to one-year apprenticeships. There will be evening and weekend classes as well as full-time programs. Among the many small designs slated to be built are an lVA-ft Norwegian sailing pram, a lapstrake canoe and a 14-ft Whitehall skiff. Year-long apprenticeship programs will complete a 22-ft gillnetter and a 25-ft Isle of Shoals boat. Additional programs will be offered in Traditional Rigging* Lumber Harvesting, Drying and Applications, Pattern Making and Bronze Casting, and Yacht and Boat Repair. Classroom instruction will take place in a large office room overlooking the waterfront. The actual building will happen in a newly renovated and up-to-code workshop. Fees are reasonable, beginning at about $350 for one of the six-day, small boat building classes. At $35, the all-day Basic Hand Tool class costs less than an hour on a jet ski. Applicants for the first classes range in age from 13 to 40, with all levels of skill represented. After graduation, Apprentice Program participants will be encouraged to join the Sausalito Shipwright’s Co-op next door, where they may have the opportunity to apply the skills learned at the school to build or help build

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return. When Congress passed the Oil Pollu¬ tion Law of 1990, Alaskan senator Ted Stevens tacked on a provision banning entry into Alaska by "any ship that had spilled more than 1 million gallons after March 11,

larger boats. Whatever is built at the school, not only the students, but the community at large will certainly benefit. And there is no doubt that Donlon Arques himself would smile at the encouraging beginning of his dream. Especially at the words of Dick Wagner, of Seattle’s internationally-known Center for Wooden Boats, who sent congratulations to the new school with the following note: "I hope the project becomes a treasured part of the community fabric, with those of all ages and abilities participating. Waterfront is limited and its use has to be evaluated by who comes there, and what benefits they have gained when they left." — john skoriak

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life of brian, part X

Brian Caldwell, Jr., the intrepid 20-year-old singlehander we’ve been following around the world, is due into Grenada a few days before this issue hits the streets. 'BJ', you will recall, is attempting to becorpe the youngest person ever to circumnavigate. He began his present journey in Hawaii last June. His goal is to be back there well before his 21st birthday in December. BJ’s platform for this ambitious project is a Contessa 26 named Mai (Miti) Vavau. Brian is on the downhill part of his journey. He left the Indian Ocean and the dangerous currents of Cape Town — the halfway point of the trip — behind two months ago. He then hopped the 1,680 miles to St. Helena, fixed a bent boom gooseneck and pushed on. He left St. Helena on April 11 and was due into Grenada in the West Indies on about the 25th of May. The 3,700-mile leg wasn’t without its pitfalls, reports his PR representative — his mom, Jan. She talked to a Tony, the Korean singlehander who’s been sailing in company with BJ, in a Ham radio patch late last month. "He said that BJ was running low on food, but was able to catch plenty of rainwater," she says. We’ll be back on schedule with an update from BJ himself next month. In the meantime, Jan forwarded an interview with BJ to us. It appeared in SA Yachting magazine, "South Africa’s Leading Sailing Magazine" according to its own cover. Here are a few of the more interesting excerpts. SA: One of the things that held Robin Lee Graham up was meeting his wife continued outside column of next sightings page

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Yeah, it’s been awhile on this one. We’ve been, uh, busy. Yeah, that’s it. Anyway, the dozen of you who wrote in to tell us what was wrong with this boat’s running light were all right: the lights are oriented wrong. According to reader Matt Peterson, they are Perko model #955DPs — "suitable for mounting on vertical surfaces only!" he wrote. But we liked Brent Ruhne’s explan¬ ation just as much: "Unless you’re dead ahead or cruising along in your Lear Jet, the lights wouldn’t be visible." Specifically, the Navigation Rules for vessels less than 20 meters in length call for port and starboard lights — red and green, respectively, for you beginners — to cover an unbroken arc of the horizon of 112.5°, or from dead ahead to 22.5° abaft the beam on each side.

looking A big boat, roller furling, a dodger and a good breeze. We must be getting older, be¬ cause when we took this photo, that combi¬ nation looked about as close to heaven on

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1989." Exxon’s shipping subsidiary, SeaRiver Maritime, is expected to pursue the case through the courts.

during the trip. Have you heard any siren songs along the way? BJ: I have met a few people... but I can’t commit myself at this point. I’m too young and I have too many things I want to do. I have to remember that and wear a blindfold in port (laughs). SA: You are spending long periods of time alone at sea, 34 days to Vanuatu, 40 days to Cocos Keeling. Do you relish being alone? BJ: I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel the whole solitude thing is overdone. I’m never aware of it. I’ve always got too much to do — watching the weather, sailing the boat, navigating, cooking, reading and writing. In fact, the longer the passage the better 1 feel. I can adjust. It’s the coast hopping and the short passages which are disruptive. SA: Do you have ambitions of doing the BOC or something similar one day? BJ: For sure. This trip is the first step on a tall ladder. After this, I intend going for the youngest non-stop circumnavigation and maybe one day the Vendee Globe Challenge. Each voyage builds my experience and convinces sponsors that I’m a good bet.

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short sightings OAKLAND — Sail America, the folks who put on the wildly successful Sail Expo boat show in Atlantic City every February, have tentatively decided on Oakland as the site for the first West Coast version of the show. No dates have been announced yet, but a spokesman for the sail industry marketing association said the inaugural show will run sometime in the fall and last for four days. / ,.

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RICHMOND — In the continuing quest to come up with alternate ways of disposing of dredging mud besides dumping it at sea, the Port of Richmond has come up with an inventive idea. This fall, when the Inner Harbor Channel is deepened from 35 to 38 feet, most of the 1.7 million cubic yards of sediment have been cleared by the EPA for ocean disposal. But about 200,000 yards were not. So the port plans to offload it, dry and aerate it and used it as cover material for a 46-acre parcel of land that has been contaminated by asbestos. The dredged material will then be corripacted and covered with 4 inches of asphalt and used as a parking lot for all those Hondas, Toyotas and Nissans that come into Richmond. Pretty clever, eh?

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>ast September, the Eastern Caribbean Island of Antigua was severely battered by hurricane Luis, and there were fears that her glorious events — April’s Classic Regatta and Antigua Sailing Week — might be in jeopardy for '96. But, to the surprise of some, the islanders rallied splendidly. With the help of Mother Nature, boatowners, and sailors from around the world, they pulled off what was certainly the most magnificent Classic Regatta ever, and the best Sailing Week in memory. This month we offer a report on the Classic Regatta from Jol Byerley, who is not only a fine sailor and the Voice of Antigua, but a first-rate character who has seen and done it all in the Caribbean_ and numerous times, too! Next month we’ll have a feature on Antigua Sailing Week — assuming the Betty Ford Clinic releases the Wanderer in time for deadline.

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Then there is Myrna Snyder. She is the lovely lady who owns the 115-ft wishbone ketch Sintra. During the Classic Parade this year, when the entire fleet was on its best behavior as it motored past the admiring crowds at the Antigua YC, Myrna’s entire crew of nearly 40 retainers lined the decks as rigid as guatdsmen. Suddenly Lady Myrna had had enough of ceremony. On went the deck speakers, and in moments Sintra was transformed into a Brazilian Carnival. Conga lines — led, of course, by Myrna — snaked under the massive spars and the crowd roared its appreciation. I am told that the crew would gladly follow her on the Whitbread Round the World Race, should she choose to go! Aboard the 168-ft schooner Adela, the ladies of the galley were

producing whole roast turkeys as the juggernaut hurtled along — just so the lads of the professional crew could grab a little snack. Then, led by little Helen, the ladies were suddenly on deck heaving on lines which were thicker than their arms! As for the lady owner of Lista Light, she seemed to care little that her fine old ex-fishing boat was glued to the water on the light days, as she produced scrumptious tea and cream cakes for anybody who happened to be around. A young couple who are now planning to head out across the lonely long reaches of the Pacific are wondering if by way of a circumnavigation they may be able to return to Antigua in time for next year’s event. "Never really cared much for racing," said the pretty little wife, "but this seems somehow to be so different."

1 Vwo Aussie lads from the sturdy 33-ft cutter Misha were here for the Classic Regatta two years ago, and had a blast. At the end of that

year’s event they wondered what they should do next. "Well," said the skipper) "we thought we might as well go for a little sail.” So off they went — around the world — but got back just in time for this year’s affair. Hanging from the end of Misha’s bowsprit for the entire 30,000 miles was, for some unfathomable reason, a stuffed, straggly, imitation chicken. I must remember to ask them about that. For most of the afternoons and evenings, a gentle group of musicians playing accordions, fiddles, pipes and some unrecognizable instruments gathered in the regatta tent. Whether they had an audience or not, they played happy little sea shanties for hours. And how much nicer it was than the blasting electronics at ordinary regattas! Desmond Nicholson got into the act on the day when the tent was filled with shipwrights and riggers and other nautical knick-knackers quietly demonstrating their skills. Desmond had his scrapbooks going back to the early '50s, when every yacht visiting English Harbor filled a page by either supplying a photograph, poem, or drawing a picture. The Pyes, the Hiscocks, Carlton Mitchell and Edward Allcard were in it, as well as Irving Johnson of the brigantine Yankee, Tom Worth of Beyond (whose house I now live in), Rod Stephens and Captain John Illingworth — and a host of nearly forgotten names which were the royal family of yachting in the early days. And outside the tent, resting gratefully perhaps, stern-to the stone walls of Nelson’s Dockyard, were many wonderful old yachts who would remember them all. What a wonderful time it was!

**h, but the sailing! There is something extremely regal about very large sailing vessels blasting along an indigo blue tradewind sea. They really should have had the massed bands of the Royal Marines playing Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance as the huge yachts majestically rose and fell — rather in the manner of the British

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Preceding page; the spectacular 125-ft'Hetarios' charging through the swells off Antigua. Top; the 137-ft Bruce King-designed 'Alejandra', which was built in Spain in '93, is the most beautiful boat the Wanderer has ever seen. Below, Dennis Conner at the helm of the recently rebuilt 168-ft schooner 'Adela'. Lower left; it takes the 175-ft schooner, 'Fleurtje' 30 seconds for her rudder to go from hard over to hard over. Middle; the cockpit of'Hetarios'. Note the size of the primary and secondary winches.

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ANTIGUA CLASSIC Empire, old boy — to the Caribbean swells. Anyway, Antigua’s 9th Annual Classic Yacht Regatta left me tingling with a strange excitement. I felt it once before, when the exhausted remnants of Britain’s armed forces marched down White Hall in their victory parade after World War 11. Spitfires and Wellingtons zoomed overhead, thousands of school children waved their little flags, and my Aunty Mabel danced Knees Up Mother Brown with anyone in uniform — including the driver of a double decker bus bound for Bethnel Green. Unfortunately, the first two races were on the light side for some of those magnificent monsters of the deep. In a way, of course, the conditions gave us ordinary mortals a chance to see the vast acreage of downwind sail which would have otherwise been kept in the sail lockers. Adela’s new rig is apparently larger than the original one designed in the days of the German Kaiser. A huge roach on the fullybattened foresail gave her the impression of having a gaff topsail — which was in stark contrast to the towering Bermudian spires of Alejandro and Hetarios, which at 135 and 125 feet respectively, are actually larger than the famous J Boat Endeavourl I mean when the 115-ft wishbone ketch Sintra looks rather small, it gives you an idea of the grandeur of things. Take the 182-ft three-masted schooner Fleurtje. In the light going she was hard pressed to keep up with smaller boats, but nevertheless she looked absolutely gorgeous.

O n the third day in 22 knots apparent, however, Fleurtje was bloody fantastic! At 13 to 14 knots, with her normally bone-dry and aloof caprail just inches from the building sea, she shouldered aside long cresting waves as if tfjey were ripples on the village pond. Apparently it was the first time in all her years of world wandering that her silver plates of caviar, lobster salad, and Crystal champagne tumbled to the galley sole. Beautiful big yachts, like Belle Adventure and Mariella, still the pride of William Fife’s Clyde-built creations, had to step aside in a bit of a rush to avoid being trampled on! The first two courses involved a little of everything: reaching, running and a few tacks and gybes just to keep the Stormy Weathers, Windigos and Boleros happy. But on the never-to-be-forgotten last day there were simply four reaching legs. The little boats started first on the 24-mile course, and how brave and proud they looked. Venus ketches, New England schooners, North Sea pilot cutters, gleaming American masterpieces such as Arawak, not-so-gleaming British and European chunks of teak from between the two world wars, all loudly singing a chorus of sheer traditional joy as they pitched and pummeled through the trades. Sparkling rainbows of spray highlighted the return of the lovely 1912 Fife-built Dione. She had indeed just completed a two-year rebuilding; two years of back-breaking hard work for Cy Macy, her

dedicated owner. But this was a day when sheer unadulterated happiness took over. The old boat was positively jubilant with a wave at her bow which roared like a Glasgow Rangers football crowd. A. O. Halsey was there, too, with his tiny Lyle Hess-designed Polaris Jack, bobbing along like a child at its first Christmas pantomime. Therd was even a Street racing — not the grouchy old man of the sea, but his son Richard aboard Little Iolaire. Just about every type of traditional design had a similar craft to race against, be they work boats or new traditional vessels in the 'Spirit of Tradition' class. By now everyone knows that the mighty Adela was not allowed to race in the Mediterranean’s Nioulargue Regatta owing to the fact that she was considered not to be a re-build but an entirely new yacht, with a re-designed keel and unconventional rig, and so forth and so on.'So that’s why the 'Spirit of Tradition' class came into being in Antigua, to allow yachts of this type to race — although they are not eligible to win overall honors. But just having them here not only made the most memorable regatta I have ever attended in my 38 yeajjs in the West Indies, but gave hope and encouragement to owners who love the classics but want to build using modern techniques. To begin with, I was not too keen on the idea. Classics should be real classics or not all, shouldn’t they? Until I realized that when I owned the 1938 Alden schooner Lord Jim, the 1928 Clyde-built ketch Ron ofArgyl, and sailed them on charter for all those happy but penniless years, I would have been delighted if the galvanized rigging had not rusted, if the fastenings had not wept down the topsides, if the brass had been stainless steel saving two hours a day of polishing, if dinghies had been rigid inflatables and so on, ad infinitum. Not to mention those wonderful old hatches which always leaked without their covers and usually fell down on your toes to boot. It’s most likely a fact, I’m afraid, that if Lord Jim had been an exact replica out of fiberglass, I would probably still own her and have been racing in this fabulous event! (Good Lord, did I really write that?) And now, as I sit on my veranda still aglow with memories, Adela has just a few moments ago completed the annual Guadeloupe to Antigua Race in only 3 hours ana 16 minutes! The previous record, which we thought we’d never see beaten, was held by an 80-foot maxi!

P 1 erhaps the last word should go to a certain Mr. Dennis Conner, who sailed aboard Adela as guest helmsman in the Classic Regatta itself. After his first trick at the wheel, he is reputed to have said something like, "Holy Shemoly, how in hell do we stop this thing?" — jolyon byerley

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Chuck Beazell „ Joe — Hunter 54 (1981) PHRF rating: 42 Yacht Club: SSS and Sequoia Homeport: Alameda Occupation: Mechanical engineer, Silicon Graphics Age: 38 "I like singlehanding and this is the ulti¬ mate west coast challenge for that type of sailing," ^ays Chuck in response to what our --- question about what motivates someone to do this race. In a nutshell, that likely sums it up for everyone who’s ever com¬ peted in the Sin¬ glehanded TransPac. One of the bigboat sailors in the ’96 SSS TransPac, Chuck is in a min¬ ority when it comes to steering. While other competitors will likely touch their helms little if at all, heavens above, Chuck is planning to steer the boat most of the time himself. "On a boat this size, once you get above 10 or 15 knots of wind with the spinnaker up, the autopilot has a tough time steering," says Beazell. "I can also carry more sail for longer if I’m at the helm. So I’ll steer as much as I can downwind." v Chuck’s strategy for the fastest possible journey also includes keeping close tabs on the weather and "to start reaching as soon as possible." Like many of his peers, he plans to sleep during the day, waking every 15 min¬ utes (via egg timer) to look around. Chuck’s personal wrinkle on this common regimen is that he’ll snooze under the boat’s dodger, so those lookarounds will be quick and easy. Joe — named for a feisty mutt Chuck had as a boy — was getting a new coat of bottom paint as this was written. Beazell hasn’t added all that much to the boat, which came pretty complete. But he did put a second spinnaker pole aboard, a high out-put alternator and a CD player. The latter will help pass the miles with music ranging from Handl to Jimmy Buffett to Nirvana. Another unique aspect of Beazell’s pro¬ gram is that after the race, he’ll have the boat delivered home by a professional skip¬ per. Reason? "I have to go back to work!" Chuck’s thanks go out to John Sisler, for help with the radio equipment, Joseph Mandrucchia for help with provisioning, and J.P. Page 128 • UfcWt?? • June. 1996

and Paula for helping out in a variety of ways. s Navigation: Garmin GPSs (fixed and hand¬ held), sextant backup; Steering: Navico autopilots; Food: "This is a low priority." Tony Carr Tease — Hobie 33 (1985) PHRF rating: 102 Yacht Club: None Homeport: Alameda Occupation: pharmacology researcher Age: 30 Little did Tony know that when he de¬ cided 12 years ago — at age 19 — to do this race, that he would find himself cruising the streets of New Orleans in a rental car looking for something that he could use to tow a beat-up Hobie 33 back to California. He came to be there through a convo¬ luted series of events that started with an article in Latitude 38. In a piece about the ’94 Pacific Cup, doublehanded division win¬ ner Bill Erkelens made a passing comment that "doing the race in a Hobie 33 would be nice." A couple of months after the article came out, Bill got a call from a guy who told him about a Hobie 33 going up for silent auction in the Big Easy. It was pretty beat, the guy said, and the mast was broken in three places. Erkelens was busy with another project at the time, but called a good friend of his to tell him about the boat. That friend was Tony Carr. 'You can’t believe how much I agonized about what to bid," says Tony. "I finally came up with $5,102, which is basically all I had. A week later I called and they said to come get the boat." So now Tony’s driving along with a mag¬ azine photographer friend of his and they spot this really nice looking cus¬ tomized Dodge van on a used car lot. It had one of those plush velvet inter¬ iors and a price tag of only $1,000 in the windshield. Turns out the side away from the street was demol¬ ished, windows busted out, the whole nine yards. Yet to Tony, there was a certain symmetry to tow¬ ing a totalled boat with a totalled van. He offered $600 and they were styling. On the way back west, the photographer

had arranged to do a few shoots. "One was for an article titled The Aftermath at Waco or something, so there we were with this boat with a broken mast and this beater van, tak¬ ing pictures of the Branch Davidian ruins." The photographer ended up chronicling the whole 10-day trip by taking pictures of the boat at its various stops — Waco, the Grand Canyon, Vegas, Monument Valley. .. More odd fortune was to come Carr’s way with Tease. He had Joey Hulse sleeve the broken spar, christened 'Frankenmast' for all the screws and scars, and used that to sail the boat for the first few months. Then he made a deal to buy the rig and most of the sails of the ill-fated Twin Flyer, the custom Hobie 33 that capsized in the ’94 Big Boat Series. (Tragically, that accident claimed the life of one crewmember.) Tony will follow a course based on the forecast of professional weather router Bob Rice. Carr extends thanks to Bill and Melinda Erkelens, "without whom I’d never be doing this race." Navigation: GPS, sextant backup; Steer¬ ing: Monitor windvane, Navico autopilot; Food: Lots of canned. A favorite is "Hot and Chunky Sirloin Burger Soup, with cayenne pepper." Mark Deppe Berserker — Ericson 38 (1982) PHRF Rating: 117 Yacht Club: SSS Homeport: San Francisco Occupation: Director of Software Engineer¬ ing at Sybase Age: 43 Mark Deppe is not as concerned about celebrating his 44th birthday on July 7 — a week after the start of the race — as he is about missing his wife’s mid-August birthday as he singlehands Berserker back home af¬ terward. It’s a feeling many singlehanders can likely identify with. "In spite of getting seasick easily and not being particularly fond of sailing, my wife Dawn has always sup¬ ported me 100% in this effort," notes Mark. All new electronics and all new sails — including a fully battened main, two jibs and an asymmetrical spinnaker — were a few of the upgrades Deppe made to the boat. Un¬ fortunately, the practice sessions have been on hold the last couple of months while the boat underwent repairs. Just south of Yerba Buena last March, while sailing on starboard tack, Berserker was clobbered — by another Ericson! The collision tore all the stanchions, lifelines and rear pulpit off Mark’s boat, but luckily caused no structural damage. No in-

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juries, either, and the other skipper’s insur¬ ance is taking care of the yard bill. Still, with the Solo TransPac looming, the wait has been frustrating. Mark’s version of the best sleep routine will be to get most of his rest between dawn and noon. He’ll use a battery-powered cooking timer to get him up for a lookaround every 20 minutes, and otherwise take short catnaps when conditions permit. One of an elite group of singlehanders with cast-iron stomachs — and an even more elite group who don’t get seasick — Deppe’s planned diet bears special mention: "Sar¬ dines and kippers, Beenie Weenies, Break¬ fast Bars and my favorite — Dinty Moore Beef Stew!" He’ll supplement those four main food groups with other canned food. As might be expected, Mark extends a special thanks to wife Dawn for her support on the project, and to Gary Rolfe at Svendsen’s for his help in putting the boat back together again after the crash. Aspects of the race he says he’s particularly lookirig forward to include "learning more about my boat and hopefully about myself. The solitude should feel good for a while." Navigation: Raytheon and Trimble GPSs, sextant backup, Raytheon radar; Steering: Monitor windvane, Alpha Spectra autopilot; Communication: Apelco VHF, Furuno SSB. Edward English Orange Blossom Special — Beneteau 35s7 (1994) PHRF Rating: 138 Yacht Club: Richmond Homeport: Point Richmond Occupation: Program Manager, . Space Technologies Age: 57 Preparing a boat for a trans-ocean race is not a cheap proposition by any stretch of the imagination. But Ed English admits to one of the more unique 'unexpected costs' in the annals of the SSS TransPac: "I had to buy my wife Judy a Santana 22 to sail while I concentrated on practice and preparation with Orange Blossom Special," laughs Ed. "But that’s become an unexpected dividend, too. We’re both growing in our skills, and

too. We’re both growing in our skills, and she now wants to do the next race to Hawaii doublehanded." When he ordered the Beneteau new in 1994, Ed originally planned to do that year’s SSS TransPac with the boat. But the factory in France flooded out when they were build¬ ing her, causing a big delay. Then, during the trek to California from the east coast, the truckers went on strike and the 'Special spent several weeks "parked who knows where in the midwest," says Ed. When it finally got to Richmond, the travelift drove over the trailer to lift the boat off — and the travelift’s steering promptly broke. "I figured with three strong signs like that, maybe I better wait for the next race," says Ed. That wait has not only allowed English to get valuable 'stick time' in, but to really prepare the boat properly. His philosophy for doing so was formed at least in part by the advice of four-time SSS TransPac veter¬ an Peter Hogg. "Just before he lost Aotea, Peter told several of us that he viewed the ocean as a harsh mistress. If you showed her enough respect, she’d let you pass safely. I’m preparing for this race with that thought." Ed will sail the rhumbline, deviating south only to the extent necessary to avoid becom¬ ing becalmed. "I’ll take the squalls to star¬ board," ne says, "exiting left to be ready for the next one." Ed is one of several competi¬ tors this year who will get his main sleeping time in during the day — "in three two-hour increments" — so that he can be awake and alert at night. English extends thanks to his wife Judy for her tireless effort and support, Tim Murison for advice and work on the boat, Singlehanded TransPac veteran (’92) Dan Benja¬ min for advice, and Germaine Brassinga for "support at work". "I look forward to the experience of self reliance while keeping the boat moving quick¬ ly," says Ed, who adds that "doing the race will complete the checklist of things I’ve needed to do to get through my mid-life crisis." Navigation: Compass and Barometer, GPS and sextant backup; Steering: Autohelm 6000 autopilot, Monitor windvane; Food: Pasta dishes, fresh fruit and veggies, some prepared meals.

Doug Graham Big Dot — Pacific Dolphin 24 (1977) PHRF rating: 278 Yacht Club: None Homeport: Antioch Occupation: Shop teacher, Antioch H.S. Age: 55 "Safe and secure can be boring," notes Doug. While most of us might think of teach¬ ing high school in these troubled times as anything but safe, secure or boring, ever since he started sailing six years ago, Doug has looked to the water for fulfillment. "My friends think I’m crazy to do this," he says. "I’m just thankful I can call it a race, and do it with a group equally as crazy." Although sailing the tiniest boat, Big Dot (named for Doug’s wife, Dotty), Graham is considered by several competitors to be the race’s dark horse. "With that rating, he could get there a month after every¬ one else and still win," laughs race favorite Bruce Schwab. "I’m more worried about that boat thah any of the others." To Graham, though, the ’96 Singlehanded TransPac is about personal accom¬ plishment, not hard-driving trophy hunting. "The milestone for me," he says, "will be just getting there." Doug has put a good bit of work and gear into the boat to do this race, including extra cabinets, a little doghouse, solar panels and almost all new standing and running rigging. Echoing the sentiments of other married singlehanders, Doug notes, "My wife doesn’t understand how I can spend so much on such a little boat!" Like most of his peers in this year’s race, Doug will get the rest he needs by taking 2hour naps during the day. He’ll stay awake from midnight until dawn. Also like many competitors, he looks forward to opening a 'halfway package' from Dotty. In a milestone of another kind, the race is something of a retirement gift Doug is giving to himself. June marks the "grand finale" in his career as a teacher. Graham offers special thanks to his wife "who didn’t always encourage me, but al¬ ways said, 'buy it'." Navigation: Garmin GPSs (2), sextant backup; Steering: Navik windvane, Navico June, 1996 • Uz&Ji Z9 • Page 129

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autopilot; Food: One-pot meals, stew as long as the fresh food holds out, then canned and dried. Gary Helms Bad Boy — F-31 Trimaran PHRF Rating: 0 Yacht Club: Encinal Homeport: Alameda Occupation: Boat Broker Age: 52 About seven years ago, self-proclaimed 'boat junkie' Gary Helms had an experience that "twisted my entire perception of what sailing was all about." At the time, he’d owned a number of boats, including a Norse¬ man 40, Islander 44, Mapleleaf 48 and Moore 24. Then he took a ride on a Corsair F-27 trimaran and was hooked immediately. In fact, he liked 'funny boats' so much, his Helms Yachts brokerage became the North¬ ern California dealer for Corsair. Gary will be sailing the biggest and newest boat offered by the company, the F31, and as one of only two multihulls in this year’s race, he’ll have a good shot at first to finish honors. Speed is definitely on the agenda for Helms, who plans to head as far south as necessary to avoid the Pacific High. "I don’t like getting stuck in light air," he says. "I’m looking for high winds and high speeds!" As preparation for the race, Helms has sailed the three-year-old Bad Boy hard for the two years he’s owned it. The bugs have long since been worked out and the fine tuning completed. Gary gives a special nod of thanks to Gal Bar-Or, the owner of the only other F-31 in the Bay Area, for the loan of some solar panels and other miscellan¬ eous equipment. Helms hopes his Navico Autohelm will steer the boat as much as 60% of the time because, as he says, "I love to sleep under¬ way." His 'alarm' turns out to be Bad Boy itself. "When the boat gets up to speeds above 20, I’m usually awake!" he says. "My wife Jean and my two kids "My wife Jean and my two kids Adam and Staci have been very supportive," Gary con¬ cludes. "I rented a house for them on the beach at Hanalei Bay. After days of hard Page 130 • U&UM 1? • June, 1996

sailing, I’m already looking forward to relaxing in one of the prettiest places on earth." Navigation: GPS (3 aboard), sextant; Steering: Autohelm and Navico autopilots; Food: "Nothing fancy, just basic." Fred Hess Bravo — Pretorian 35 PHRF rating: 130 Yacht Club: SSS, Islander Homeport: Alameda Occupation: Sales Age: 53

Fred admits he’s wanted to do a race like the SSS TransPac for more than 20 years. Some of the best advice came only a few years ago, though, when three-time SSS TransPac winner Dan Newland told him "the only two things you really need to do well in this race are a life support system for you, and a spinnaker. Everything else is super¬ fluous." To that end, Hess will have at least three kites aboard — and refrigeration for the important facets of life support, such as ice cream. In his 40 years of sailing, Fred has owned more boats than most of his fellow TransPac’ers combined. He reckons Bravo "is about my 12th boat," in a long line that includes an O’Day 30, Folkboat, Islander Bahama, several Hobies and a number of smaller craft. Hess plans to head right down rhumbline for Hawaii, sleep during the day and be up at night, and when he’s not steering, indulge his addiction to Volumes 8 and 9 of Patrick O’Brien’s swashbuckling sea stories. With a full galley below, he’ll be eating more appetizing fare than that reported by most other competitors, including favorite dishes red beans and rice and beef stroganoff. Fred thanks girlfriend Jean Novonty for her love and support (she’ll help him deliver the boat back home), his two brothers and other family members "who never doubted I could do this" — and "everyone I work with so I’ll have a job to come home to." Navigation: GPSs (2), sextant backup; Steering: Monitor windvane, Alpha auto¬ pilot.

Alan Hebert Spindrift — Ranger 29 PHRF rating: 186 Yacht Club: SSS Homeport: Redwood City Occupation: Software trainer, professor Age: 38 (Photo not available)

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Alan originally planned to do this race with his 27-ft Interational H-boat Quiet Victory. But he made a valuable discovery during last fall’s LongPac qualifier race: "I’m 6’2" and the lack of headroom in the H-boat gave me back cramps after 5 days offshore!" The Ranger 29 eased the headroom problem. But it meant doing another quali¬ fier before the TransPac; the rule is 400 solo ocean miles in the boat you’re going to race. It’s also been a bit of a tizzy for Alan to get the boat like he wants it in a relatively short amount of time. Typical of most singlehanders, Hebert has paid particular attention to safety as he’s put Spindrift together. For example, in addition to the strobe in the new masthead tricolor, he’s rigged additional strobes on the spread¬ ers. Any freighter that gets close enough to Alan that he sets that array off will think they’re being attacked by alien invaders! Most competitors in this race said they’ll depend on automated means to steer their boats most of the trip, and Alan is no excep¬ tion. He is in a minority, however as the only singlehander who is going without an auto¬ pilot. He hopes his Navik windvane will work good enough to steer about 75% of the time. Also unique: Spindrift won’t be coming back to the mainland. Alan plans to donate the boat to a nonprofit organization in Hawaii. Alan thanks ’94 SSS TransPac veteran Reed Overshiner, competitors Pat Zajac, Mike Jefferson and Terry McKelvey and race organizer Shama Kota, all of whom contrib¬ uted time, energy and support to his program. Navigation: Garmin GPS, sextant backup; Steering: Navik windvane; Food: Canned chili is a favorite. Fresh fruit as long as it holds out, granola, PB&J. Micheal Jefferson Foxx Fyre — Yamaha 33 (1978) PHRF rating: 150 Yacht Club: SSS Homeport: San Francisco Occupation: Physicist Age: 46 - s As one of two returning SSS TransPac veterans, Mike is looking to better his '92

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race time of 18 days, 19 hours. To that end, Jefferson has added a bunch of new equip¬ ment to Foxx Fyre, including a new spinna¬ ker, improved spinnaker handling gear and removable forestay with two tack positions. Add to that four more years of experience sailing the boat, Mike’s plan to push the boat harder, and one of the most extensive sail inventories of any competitor — reacher/ drifter, 115% jib top, 60% blade (for fore¬ stay), #1, #2, #3, #4 jibs, a storm jim and, count ’em, five spinnakers — and the sur¬ prise will be if ’Foxx doesn’t beat that personal record and correct out high in division. At the same time, Mike says he’ll try to put the rein on his "obsessive compulsive" personality and try to have more fun this time around. "Last time, I was so stressed out that I was 10 days into the race before I started enjoying myself." The voice of experience tells Jefferson he’ll probably ride the rhumbline to Hanalei Bay, making adjustments as needed depend¬ ing on what the weatherfax spits out. Sleepwise, he’ll take short naps at the chart table the first week. Once in the trades, he’ll get most of his shuteye during the day and stay up nights. An oven timer clipped to his collar calls reveille. With safety from ship traffic a constant concern at sea, Foxx Fare’s radar — one of three or four among this year’s fleet — will help keep an eye out for things that go bump in the night. It’ll be supplemented with a Ferdell blipper, a rader detector, a masthead tricolor and stobe and "a good pair of binoculars." Mike extends his thanks to Lisa Sisack, his mother, Hermelie, her friend, Worth, his sister Ann and his brother, Rick. All have contributed time and support to his effort. Still a selfproclaimed "adren¬ alin junkie" who has made several trips up the sheer face of El Capitan, Mike looks forward to the Solo TransPac in part, he says, "because it regenerates me. I also look forward to the exquisite pleasure of being on the edge again." Navigation: Two Garmin 100 GPSs, one Garmin 45, Loran, two sextants; Steering: Autohelm ST7000 and Navico TP5000 auto¬

pilots, Monitor windvane; Food: High carbohydrate, lots of fiber, canned fruit, cereal, etc. Eric Jungemann Big Mon — Olson 30 (1978) iPHRF rating: 102 Yacht Club: Corinthian Homeport: Alameda Occupation: Computer Systems Consultant Age: 45 Although Eric sees his participa¬ tion in the Singlehanded TransPac mainly as a perso¬ nal accomplish¬ ment, he admits "that may change when the gun goes off." He’s got both the boat and the experience to threaten the favorites — Olson 30s have won and set records in this race a number of times, and Jungemann himself has completed two Pacific Cups, taking second in class in the doublehanded division of the last one in 1992.' Actually, Eric almost climbed aboard the same boat, the Crealock 37 Oregon Native, to do last summer’s Tahiti Race. But those plans fell through when business commit¬ ments caused his partner to pull the plug on the project. Somewhat dejected about the whole thing, Eric drove out to New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir—a popular sailing site — to visit his father. "And sitting right there at the dock was this Olson 30 for sale that had spent almost its entire life in fresh water. . . says Jungemann. It didn’t take long for Eric to work a deal, have a trailer built and tow the boat out to Alameda. Then the work began. Big Mon un¬ derwent one of the most extensive upgrades we’ve ever heard of, including the addition of the following brand new items — headsails, furler, rod rigging and Spectra/Technora running rigging, wiring/batteries/ charging system, dodger, rudder, rudder bearings, and a newly faired bottom. The rig itself — mast, boom, vang and mast step — have also been beefed up and the stick converted to double spreaders. Eric echoes the sentiments of most racers when he says, "The preparation is endless and by far the most work. Compared to that, the race itself should be fun." Like many, Eric will sail the boat back /

home across the pond himself. Unlike most, that trip may be as special or more so than the race, as his crew will be Bert, his 72year-old father who’ll be making his first ocean crossing. Navigation: Magellan GPSs (2), sextant backup; Steering: Alpha 3000 and Auto¬ helm 3000 autopilots; Food: "Basic single dish fare, mostly canned and easy to prepare." Rob Macfarlane III Tiger Beetle — Newport 33 (1986) PHRF rating: 168 Yacht Club: SSS Homeport: Alameda Occupation: Programmer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Age: 34 Rob and the 'Beetle were all geared up to do this race in 1994, but during that year’s Singlehanded Farallones, Rob took a bad step, fell back down the companionway and broke his wrist. The cast came off a few days before the SSS TransPac but, notes Macfar¬ lane, "I wasn’t ready, work wasn’t ready to let me go and it just wasn’t happening." Two years later, boat and skipper are beyond ready. All SSS TransPac boats undergo extensive preparation, but few to the extent of Tiger Beetle. Among the things Rob has done or added to the boat: "re¬ placed shrouds and lifelines, added cutter stay for storm jib (and a new bulkhead in the bow to take its load), installed runners to stabilize mast and Harken furling gear. Built a new boom and gooseneck fitting. Bought every camcleat Harken ever made and bolted it to deck. Built a dodger. Built an instrument pod, rebuilt the icebox to be more efficient. Led all halyards internally. Led all other lines aft. Strengthened rudder shaft. Re¬ placed all cabin windows with 1/4inch Lexan. ..." The list goes on and on. Rob’s anticipated rest patterns differ from those planned by most competitors this year. "I tend to be up in the day, asleep at night. This may not work best in the trades, when the biggest squalls are at night, so 1 may have to modify things then. I usually go to sleep about midnight. After an hour, I’ll poke my head up to check sail trim and look for June. 1996 •

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stuff to hit, then back to sleep. If the motion of the boat changes, I wake up immediately. Rob grew up sailing with his parents. He bought Tiger Beetle ("my first boat," he notes) in 1989 — purely as a place to live. His father talked him into racing the boat and the rest, as they say, is history. Rob’s parents are currently on a cruise to Alaska, and plan to follow their son’s progress via daily calls to Sarita May, Rob’s girlfriend, whom he’ll call every day on SSB. Navigation: Magellan GPSs (2), Loran, sextant backup; Steering: Monitor windvane, Alpha autopilot; Food: Simple canned soups, pasta, cheese; "Carrying fishing line, so I may have sushi." Terry McKelvey Sensei — Cal 2-27(1977) PHRF rating: 198 Yacht Club: SSS, Pt. San Pablo Homeport: Berkeley Occupation: Systems Analyst Age: 39 When Terry went a year and a half ago to ask her boss for a leave of absence so she could sail in a singlehanded race to Hawaii, his response was, "That’s a damn fool thing to do!" "But," says Terry, "he got me the appro¬ val." McKelvey makes no bones about being a 'junior' member of this year’s race. She has been sailing only eight years, has never even been to Hawaii, and jokes that her conserva¬ tive approach to singlehanding may allow her "to celebrate Christmas before I get to Hanalei." Terry makes no bones about being a 'junior' member of this year’s race. She has been sail¬ ing only eight years, has never even been to Haw¬ aii, and jokes that her conservative approach to single¬ handing may allow her "to celebrate Christmas before I get to Hanalei." Growing up in Death Valley, Terry says she was a real desert rat until she came north. "In the late ’80s, a friend at work took a bunch of us out for a sail and I was hooked," she says. After a couple of seasons learning the ropes in the Women’s Racing Association, she bought Sensei, and has Page 132 • UUXUi'i'Z • June. 1996

been sailing actively in shorthanded events ever since. The experience has started to pay off recently — last year, she took first in, division in both the Drake’s Bay and Great Pacific Longitude Races (the latter is a qualifier for the Singlehanded TransPac). That race featured weather extremes of 30knot winds and 8-ft cross seas for 30 hours versus so little breeze at the end that some boats took 15 hours to cover the final 12 miles! Although Terry sailed ^he rhumbline (straight out to a predetermined longitude and back) on the GPL Race, on the TransPac she says she’ll likely follow the 1020 Mb line "unless the voices tell me otherwise." She plans to1' reserve the mornings for her main sleep times and sail the boat hardest at night. Terry plans to do some reading, but she doesn’t quite know what yet — "I’m asking friends to give me books, so we’ll see," she says. Musically, she prefers an eclectic com¬ pany of composers from Beethoven to Bon¬ nie Raitt. Navigation: Traxar and Garmin GPSs, sex¬ tant backup; Steering: Monitor windvane, Autohem 2000 autopilots (2); Food: Canned food, backpack rations and power bars. Michael Reppy Nai’a — 36-ft Shuttleworth Trimaran (1992) PHRF Rating: -42 Yacht Club: None Homeport: San Francisco Occupation: Physical therapist Age: 51 "Nai ’a hasn’t been lying, but her nose has been growing," wrote Michael in the Winter 1996 edition of Trimaran Times, a newsletter published by Save the Dolphins, a division of the San Francisco-based environmental group Earth Island Institute. Ever since her launch four years ago, Nai’a ('dolphin' in Hawaiian) has performed the dual roles of offshore racing boat and publicity vehicle for the Institute. What Reppy was referring to was the 'growth spurt' the boat experienced this past winter. The former 30-footer was literally cut apart and lengthened, 2 feet in each ama and 6 more feet in the main hull. With other additions such as a carbon fiber boom and spinnaker pole and a deeper daggerboard, says Reppy, "the results have been dramatic. The boat is much more stable and control¬ lable." After previous plans to sail the Singlehanded TransPac were shelved in 1992 and 1994, Mike feels the boat — and

skipper — are finally ready. Indeed, Michael’s slippery 'new' Nai’a will likely be the boat to beat for line honors, even sailed conservatively. Although the SSS TransPac will be Reppy’s first, he is no stranger to crossing oceans quickly. Aboard his former boat, the Shuttleworth 42 trimaran Damiana, Reppy took third in the (crewed) 1987 'Open' TransPac, making Hawaii in 9V2 days, and first in class in the ’88 CSTAR (singlehanded trans-Atlantic race, formerly the OSTAR). Michael will keep busy during this year’s race tweaking and tuning for maximum effi¬ ciency while the autopilot steers the threeruddered boat. At the speeds of which Nai’a is capable, he doesn’t feel like he’s going to be doing much recreational reading, but he is bringing along music "to fit the mood and conditions — rock, folk, spiritual, whatever." Similarly, he’ll choose his exact route depending on the 'mood' of the weather at the time. "I’m looking forward to some great tradewind surfing," says Reppy of the upcoming race, adding, "I’m also sailing to save the dolphins." Navigation: Trimble, Garmin GPSs; Steer¬ ing: Navico autopilots; Food: "One-pot meals" — premade the first few days, then fresh as long as it lasts, then canned. Bruce Schwab Rumbleseat — 30 Square Meter (1930) PHRF Rating: 120 Yacht Club: SSS Homeport: Alameda Occupation: Rigger, Svendsen’s Marine Age: 36 Bruce is one of the youngest competitors in this year’s race — sailing the oldest boat! Which is a story unto itself. Although he has owned the classic 39-ft Rumbleseat for 15 years, Bruce quickly notes that, "I’ve only been sailing it for three." To help motivate himself the final year, the normally clean-cut Schwab determined he wasn’t going to cut his hair until the project was completed. With all the last-minute details and updates he included in the project, the former bicycle racer looked more like a Harley biker by the

TRANSPAC PREVIEW

time the boat was finally launched in Decem¬ ber of 1993. Bruce, once again presentable, has been sailing hard ever since. Actually, Bruce has been sailing a variety of boats hard in shorthanded races for more than 10 years. He has won his class 7 or 8 times in the annual Doublehanded Farallones, and last year finally broke his peren¬ nial bridesmaid standing in the Singlehanded Farallones Race by winning his division there, too. Bruce is an ardent admirer of long, slender boats, which he feels are much easier to sail to their ratings shorthanded. An extensive list of modifications including an articulating bowsprit and bulb keel make Rumbleseat a deceptively light and lethal weapon upwind or down. A dynamic competitdr, excellent sailor and Hawaii veteran (he’s done crewed TransPacs in 1987 and 1991), Bruce is the odds-on favorite to take overall race honors in 1996 — a state of affairs which gives him mixed feelings. "I’m sailing a 66-year-old boat, but everyone tells me I’m going to win," he says. "It’s starting to bother me." As skipper of the only sponsored boat in this year’s race, Bruce ex¬ tends 'thanks to Svendsen’s Marine, Harken, Ronstan, UK Sails, Waypoint Marine, Uni-Solar, Clif Bars and Garmin for their sup¬ port. Individuals deserving of special recognition in his effort include Jennie Souza, fellow SSS TransPac competitor Eric Jungemann, Stuart Heilman, Carlos Badell and Jim Plumley. Navigation: Garmin GPSs (2), sextant backup; Steering: Autohelm 4000T, Auto¬ helm 2000T backup. Communications: SSB, VHF; Food: Nothing special except Clif Bars, a high-energy snack popular with rock climbers. Ken Roper Harrier — Finn Flyer 31 (1981) PHRF rating: 162 Yacht Club: Navy (Long Beach) & Hawaii Homeport: San Pedro Occupation: U.S. Army, retired Age: 66 Ken is like a character from a Hemingway novel who one day just jumped off the page and went sailing. He served two tours in Viet

Nam, flying "any¬ thing with wings or rotors", retired as a brigadier general in 1977, and has since lived a life of nonstop adventure. Much of it has been aboard Harrier, which he’s owned since 1983. Be¬ tween that boat and a previous one, Ken figures he’s sailed 100,000 miles in the last 20 years. This will be Roper’s fifth Singlehanded TransPac (the others were in ’84, ’86, ’92 and ’94) — and his "13th or 14th" Hawaii trip — and he says his routine hasn’t changed much for the last few crossings. "I used to go too far south, looking for wind," he says. "In ’92 1 tried going rhumbline. It worked well then and in the ’94 race, too, so that’s probably what I’ll dp this time, too." Howev-er, Ken doesn’t expect'to beat his best time of 14 days, IV2 hours, set in ’94. "That was a windy one," he notes. 'The General', as Roper is known by singlehanders up and down the coast, doesn’ymess with any exotic sleep programs. "I pretty much sleep at night and am up during the day. If I’m in the shipping lanes, I have an alarm that wakes me every 15 min¬ utes, and of course I wake up immediately if the motion of the boat changes." A new radar with a proximity alarm will help keep a lookout this time. He’s also had a new jib made, and will once again break out the 'TransPac' main — He had Sobstad make the sail for the ’86 race, and he’s used it on every race since. Between times, it’s stowed carefully away and Harrier uses its well-worn cruising main. As the 'elder statesman' in this year’s race, it’s tempting to make the analogy of a warseasoned general and the greenhorn troops. (Competitor Mike Jefferson is the only other returning race veteran. At least half the others have never sailed to Hawaii before.) Nothing could be further from the truth. "The race, the trip, the people, I’m coming back because of all of that," says Roper. "This is a great event, and most of the friends I’ve made in the race I’ve kept up with over the years." Navigation: "You name it, I got it"; Steer¬ ing: Various autopilots (6 on board); Food: "Live food, dead food and dog food" — in other words, fresh fruits and veggies, boxed stuff (rice, cereal) and canned food.

Ray Thayer Wild Thing — Brewer 60 PHRF rating: -102 Yacht Club: Corinthian YC of Bellingham Homeport: Bellingham, WA Occupation: sheetrock contractor (retired 1990) Age: 61 When Ray decided to buy a sailboat 30 years ago, he didn’t see much sense in going the usual route — buying a smaller boat than he wanted and spending most of his time working to pay for it rather than sailing it. So he saved his money and when he retired he got the boat built that he wanted: a custom Ted Brewer-designed 60-ft sloop. Thayer had the boat designed to with¬ stand the rigors of the BOC around the world race. Yet he also wanted the comforts of a cruising boat. The marriage of the two ideas is a craft whose wide beam, plumb bow and gargantuan rig (93-foot mast, 4,400-squarefoot spinnaker) reflects much of the current thinking in BOC design — but which Thayer is the first to admit is way too heavy to be competitive with those boats. Wild Thing tips the scales at 51,000 pounds, about twice the weight of a top-end French BOC racer. But it also has a microwave, TV/VCR and 15cubic-foot freezer aboard, in addition to other amenities. Thayer intended to participate in the ’94’95 BOC, but the boat had so many growing pains that those plans had to be put on hold. For awhile, it seemed like something would break every time the boat went out on a shakedown cruise—or as Thayer calls them, "breakdown cruises". The keel to hull joint opened up on the very first sail, for example. Another time, the mast came crashing down. The boom has broken twice. Thayer’s remedy is to replace the bro¬ ken part with one that’s twice ,<as strong — and keep doing that until it doesn’t break any¬ more. In 1994, he sailed Wild Thing to Hawaii and back. In ’95, he made an 11,000-mile voyage to Mexico, the South Seas and back to Washington. Thayer feels he and the boat are finally ready to test themselves in compe¬ tition, and the SSS TransPac seemed a per¬ fect venue to do that. Besides, says Ray, "It’s something to do while I wait for the next BOC." June, 1996 •

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Navigation: GPS, Maptech computer, sex¬ tant backup; Steering: autopilot; Food: Normal fare. "I have fishing lines out when I’m sailing. It’s not unusual for me to come in with the freezer more full than when I left."

Patricia Zajac Rusalka — Cheoy Lee Offshore 40 PHRF Rating: 186 Yacht Club: Richmond Homeport: San Francisco Occupation: Professor of Criminal Justice, Cal State Hayward Age: "old enough" As far as we could determine, Rusalka is the first yawl to be entered in the Singlehanded TransPac. What makes her even more unique is that Pat has owned the boat — and lived aboard — for 22V£ years! Of course, for the race, the first thing to go was "all the liveaboard stuff' to lighten the classic 1973 Cheoy-Lee. Zajac also had a

dodger installed and new rigging put on the mizzen. "I figured 23 years on the original was probably enough," she says. In addition to knowing her boat thoroughly, Pat brings 25 years of sailing experience to the race. In addition to sailing jifct about every local shorthanded event, including both the Single and Dpublehanded Farallones races, Pat also crews on a handful of other boats in both handicap and one-design races. Although she claims to be doing the Singlehanded TransPac mainly for personal accomplishment, she could well correct out to a high placing in her division — especially if there’s wind along the 1020 Mb line, which

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SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW. . . ^3orry, but we couldn’t resist that title. We’ve been dying to use it for a dozen years, and this time, it fits perfectly! It’s spring, you see, and the winter rains have brought not only flowers, but more than a few boats new to the Bay Area. Some are here to stay, others are just visiting. Some are custom jobs, others are production models. Some are brand new, some have

Sy's new place: 'Swiftsure //'.

been around a while. All in all, they rep¬ resent quite a broad segment of sthe sailing spectrum, from pocket ocean cruisers to flatout speedsters. We caught up with several of these efforts for the following report. Please realize that this list is by no means exhaustive. In fact, if you feel left out, we’d love to hear about other new boats as well!

Recidivist As the boat’s name suggests, this is not the first time that San Francisco’s Colin Case has launched a new sloop. He started this series over a decade ago with Felony, fol¬ lowed by Second Offense and then detoured slightly (name-wise) with National Biscuit and Albatros. All four were collaborations between Case and Alameda designer Carl Schumacher, whose working relationship dates back to the early ’80s. After racing the hell out of the Biscuit since 1987, Colin began started talking with Carl about a bigger model three years ago. "It’s been a front burner project for the last two," says Colin. Page 136 • lOAJtli • June, 1996

Recidivist was designed to the IMS rule and measures in at 39 feet, just under the level rating ILC 40 category. That difference' was intentional, since Case likes to race the boat himself and didn’t want to get into a big rockstar ILC 40 program or the ensuing expense. "Just mentioning the phrase 'ILC 40' costs you an extra $100,000!" says Colin. Nevertheless, he has strong IMS goals in mind, including the Kenwood Cup in Hawaii this summer. He’ll use the Pacific Cup to deliver the boat to the islands; and then ship it back here in time for the Big Boat Series in September. Schumacher designed the boat for racing, with a deck layout for performance sailing and an interior that will support a racing crew. Only three feet longer than the Biscuit, the new boat has standing headroom for most people (Carl and Colin, both well over six feet, are exceptions, of course) and lots of room for other features, including a full-size nav station. Construction was completed by Ian Franklin of Christchurch, New Zealand, the only foreign builder out of five to bid on the project. The favorable exchange rate made the intense labor costs more palatable. Even with the inspection trips and shipping the boat across the Pacific, the total package came out less than it would have if the boat had been built in the U.S. "And Colin got a very nice boat, too," adds Schumacher. Swiftsure II After 16 years of campaigning his pretty blue and gold Frers 58 Swiftsure, Sy Kleinman has finally upgraded to a new boat. Swiftsure II is another .Schumacher design, measuring 54 feet and, at a total dis¬ placement of 23,000 pounds, weighing less than the keel of the original Swiftsure. Sy plans to keep both boats, using the original for cruising while the new one is on the ocean racing and around-the-buoys circuit. Over the years, Schumacher has done a few preliminary plans for Sy, including an IOR 50 and an 81-footer. The latter took shape during the early 1990s when the luxury tax was hurting the boatbuilding t industry. "The tax was 10 percent of every¬ thing over $100,000," recalls Carl, "and with an 80-footer, there’s a lot over $100,000." About two years ago, Sy was inspired by the growing popularity of the California 50s, a loosely-confederated group- of boats that often race against each other in the southern end of the Golden State. Sy gave Carl a firm budget and said if he could find a builder who could deliver a boat at that price, he’d give the okay. Schumacher asked three builders about the idea. One said sure, another said maybe and the third said no

way. The first two didn’t work out and the third, Westerly Marine in Costa Mesa, had second thoughts and found a way. "Lynn Bowser really busted his butt to do a good job," says Sy. Designed to fulfill the IMS racer/cruiser criteria, Swiftsure JTs interior features many modular components and centerline place¬ ment of the head, engine and console, "to keep things simple," according to the designer. The hull is e-glass with a vinylester and epoxy combination. Sy upgraded to epoxy

. . . SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE in the Big Boat Series. Chris Corlett will be the crew organizer and driver for the big events, with the long term goal being next year’s TransPac.

on the exterior skin and had it post-cured for added stiffness and longevity. Westerly is the only West Coast builder that can 'bake' a boat this big. Savings generated in the hull allowed for go-fasts like a top-of-the-line two speed pump for the backstay and outhaul, a very thorough deck layout, a Ballenger racing mast, and a carbon fiber rudder from Advanced Composites. After her christening party on June 16 at the St. Francis YC, Swiftsure II will head to Long Beach to debut at Trimble North Race Week. Later in the summer, the boat will sail

Nai’a Michael Reppy’s trimaran is back, only it’s no longer the super-tender Shuttleworth 30 that it started life as four years ago. You may recall that in her first race, the 1992 Windjammer sprint to Santa Cruz, Nai’a’s crew lost the handle on a power reach and the boat flipped over backwards. Hosting a 49-foot tall wing mast, the multihull just didn’t have enough of a platform underneath her to make for safe sailing.

Above, Mike Reppy aboard 'Nai'a' before the boat's nose job. See article on the Singlehanded TransPac for ‘after’ photo. Below, ‘Recidivist made her local racing debut at the Stone Cup.

June. 1996 • UmUiH • Page 137

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW. Over the past two winters, Reppy, San Diego boatbuilder Bob Dixon and assistant Scott Shaffer added two feet to each of the amas and extended the bow three feet, carrying the bow fullhess forward to counteract the tendency to nose dive. The main hull also received a three foot scoop at the stem to further increase stability. Other additions include a central rudder linked to the outer two, two additional spinnaker winches, a jiffy reefing system for quick sail reduction, a deeper daggerboard for more upwind pointing ability and an articulating bowsprit to pull the tack of the asymmetrical kite around to weather for deeper running. There’s also a roller furling genoa rigged on the forward stay attached to the sprit for more sail combination possibilities. Although Michael says he still has to be quite vigilant about reefing down, the boat’s performance and safety has increased noticeably. The boat has performed well this spring and plans are in place to compete in the solo TransPac next month. "Nai’a may be four years old," says Michael, "but we’re still tuning it like it’s a new boat. It certainly feels like it is." Morning Glory Germany’s Hasso Plattner, one of the big players in the global software market, likes the Bay Area. Both of his state-of-the-art racing yachts, for example, are here. The first Morning Glory, a Reichel/Pugh 50, has now been joined by her big sister, an 80-footer also designed by R/P. Fresh from winning her inaugural outing, January’s Cape Town to Rio Race, the boat is currently at Anderson’s in Sausalito being readied for

her summer tour. According to boat captain Charles Whitten, MG2 tips the scales at about 45,000 Page 138 • ItXUJilS • June, 1996

pounds and measures in as an ILC 70, putting her in the same class as Sayonara, the new Frers-designed Boomerang from thi* East Coast, and a Nelson/Marek ILC 70 called Falcon now being built in New Zealand. Hopefully, all of these boats will meet in Hawaii this August for the Kenwood Cup, and then travel to the Bay for the Big Boat Series and a world championship of their own at the same time. The new boat features an interior by the English company StructuralPolymers Sys¬ tems, which specializes in combining high tech materials with high stress applications. The interior is reportedly light and clean and the hull sandwiches a djvinycell core between layers of carbon fiber. The Southern Spars (from New Zealand) rig has four spreaders and can support either masthead or fractional kites depending on which rules the boat is adhering to. On the Cape Town to Rio jaunt, they flew the big kites and a large main. For the Kemlvood Cup, the sail inventory will be scaled down a bit. The talent onboard won’t be, however. Skipper Plattner will be ably assisted by New Zealand’s America’s Cup winners Russell Courts, Tom Schnackenberg and Simon Daubney, as well as Danish sailmaker Jens Christensen. Some Bay Area faces may also appear in the 26-person crew, but Whitten couldn’t confirm exactly who. You can get a If you missed the new 'Morning Glory1 this time around, she'll be back for the Big Boat Series.

glimpse of new boat during the month of June when she’ll be out practicing on the Bay.

True Blue University of Colorado (at Boulder) chancellor Rod Park and his son Malcolm have been doing TransPacs in fully crewed boats for the past three decades. This year they’ve chartered the ’94-’95 BOC Class 2 winner True Blue to compete in the West Marine Pacific Cup’s doublehanded division, their first1 shorthanded crossing. Malcolm, who runs Advanced Compos¬ ites in Santa Cruz, said they wanted a singlehanded boat that was capable of going around the world. "We figured the two of us should then at least be able to get it to Hawaii!" he notes. Finding an American BOC boat was pretty hard, but David Adams of Australia had Ttue Blue up on the ways in Rhode Island looking for a buyer after his circumnavigation ended last year. Getting the 50-footer out here was a challenge, complicated by the fact that the 12-foot keel extends over three feet up into the hull. "You have to get the hull 15 feet into the air just to get the keel out," says Malcolm. Jay Crum will be putting the boat toge¬ ther for the Parks and David Adams himself will come out for a week in June to give them some in-depth tutorials before the start of the race in July. The 14,500-pound sloop has swept back spreaders on its 90-foot car¬ bon spar, so there are no overlapping headsails. They’ll fly hound kites measuring up to 1,600 square feet and they’ll rely on water ballast to steady the hull as they head for Hawaii. "It looks like a really simple set up," says Malcolm.

. . . SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE True to Letcher’s design, she has oars for auxiliary power. As of yet, she doesn’t even have sails, but Wayne hopes to get a suit made up in the near future and be out sailing this summer.

Sponsors told David Adams they wanted maxi¬ mum exposure, so he put their logos on the part of the boat most commonly seen by competitors in the last BOC.

Their goal is to be the first double¬ handers to finish and, if the weather is right, eclipse the SC 70 Mongoose's two year old record of 8 days, 20 hours and change. "The boat can do it," says Malcolm, "but the ques-

Above, the half-completed 'Banjo' rolls out of the shop. Right, Bill Erkelens lets 'Freedom' ring.

tion is the weather. We’ll probably go way south looking for wind. We rely on apparent wind, and we can’t sail those deep reaches very well." Banjo Back in 1978, San Francisco’s Wayne Person already had a boat, but while tending to his ailing mother, he decided to build

another one in her garage during his spare time. With only about 10 feet of clearance, he was constrained from building a deep draft vessel. He opted instead for a 5,000 pound, double-ended offshore cruiser with bilge kdels. The 26-foot design comes from Maine’s John Letcher who, early in the 1970s, sailed the prototype around the Pacif¬ ic, shipped it across Mexico and headed north through the Gulf of Mexico, through the Intercoastal Waterway and eventually returned to his home state. He did all that without an auxiliary, relying on a pair of oars for extra power. Wayne built the frames and bulkheads of plywood, over which he fastened long 1/4" battens to form the hull shape. Those he glassed over with 11 layers of cloth. His only prior experience was a dinghy he’d built and a kit boat he and his brother completed in the mid-’70s. "1 made a few mistakes along the way, but you can usually correct them with fiberglass," says Wayne. The project took a little longer than he had in mind. After building the hull upside down, he wheeled it out of the garage on steel pipes ("like building the pyramids!" he says) and trucked it first to San Francisco Boatworks and then Pier 64 North, where he slowly finished it off over the last 10 years. Wayne’s mother, unfortunately, passed away halfway through the project. Wayne himself is now 74 and his original dreams of sailing to Hawaii have been scaled down. "If 1 make it to Half Moon Bay, I’ll be happy," he says. He launched the boat in March and she now sits in the San Francisco harbor V

Freedom Bill Erkelens Sr. has never been one to let convention stand in his way. Best known to Bay Area sailors for his Wylie 40 Lois Lane and his recent run in the Tornado catamaran class, he’s upped the ante a bit with his latest craft, a 25-foot 'C' Class catamaran. Weigh¬ ing less than 400 pounds all-up and sporting up to 600 square feet of sail, this is sailing’s version of jet fuel drag racing. "She has an awesome amount of power," says Bill’s wife and crew, Marie Roehm. Bill puts it a bit more prosaically: "You start to pee in your pants when the wind hits 14 knots and the boat starts acting like a submarine on crash dive!" Freedom started life as a design product of Pete Melvin for the Little America’s Cup, the multihull version of the Auld Mug. Orig¬ inally called Freedom’s Wing, she competed in the 1993 event but suffered breakdowns and lost in the finals. Bill heard about the carbon fiber hulls just sitting in storage in San Diego and snapped them up at a bar¬ gain price last summer. He decided to turn the boat into an R&D project, bring-ing in Melvin and his partner Gino Morrelli along with sailmakers Skip Elliot and Jay Glaser. These guys have also been the test pilots, with Marie coming onboard in lighter wind

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW. . . conditions. "I’ll eventually become a regular when they figure everything out," she says. Bill’s goal is to break the course record for events like the Ditch Run, the downwind dash from Richmond to Stockton. He barely missed the record last year on his spinnakerequipped Tornado. This year, the competi¬ tion will be a pair of bigger, heavier 'D' Class catamarans, Beowolf V and Rocket 88. He already hosed everyone in this year’s down¬ wind leg of the Vallejo race, finishing an hour ahead of everyone, including Rocket. "Basically, we’re sailing like an ice boat out there,” says Bill, "and just using the reacher hqadsails. We double the windspeed up to 15 knots and we’re capable of hitting over 30 knots. We’re rated the same as the 'D' Class boats, so it’s always boat-for-boat, which makes it like one design sailing, except we can change the boat to keep improving. The boat’s God-awful fast!" Seventy Two

Bay Area sailors aren’t too used to seeing 6.5-meter Mini-TransAt racing sloops, which are much more popular in Europe. Norton Smith’s American Express was the last flatout model of this type to grace the Bay in the late ’70s, but now Frenchman Jean-Yves Lendormy and American John McCartney have partnered up to bring one to local waters. Called Seventy Two after the official number affixed to her sail, the 21.5-footer represents the radical edge of shorthanded sailing. Built in 1989 by Lionel Lemonchois (one of Isabelle Autissier’s around Cape Horn crew), the 2,000-pound boat has a car¬ bon fiber hull, a 39-foot high mast, a seven foot deep, 900-pound canting keel, two

Another work-in-progress: building the plug for the Antrim 27.

rudders, and rigs for both conventional and asymmetrical spinnakers. "She’s a bit more of a boat than we are sailors at this point," Page 140 •

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admits Lendormy. "Downwind it’s like being on a skateboard headed down Nob Hill!" Jean-Yves and John have been crewing together on other boats for a while. They were both interested in the Mini-TransAt class and travelled to Martinique last November to watch the fleet complete a TransAtlantic race. Seventy Two finished fourth after losing the lead a week from the finish when her mast broke. The California pair liked what they saw and bought the1 boat, delivering it from Puerto Rico to Florida themselves before having it shipped across the continent. Their initial goal was to compete in this summer’s doublehanded Pacific Cup, al¬ though they’ve run afoul of the race’s 24-foot minimum length requirement. JeanYves is obviously disappointed, reasoning that Seventy Two, with three Atlantic cros¬ sings to her credit, is obviously seaworthy. With all that horsepower, she’s going to be fast too, so she won’t hold up the fleet on the other end. "It’s their race," he says philo¬

Bob Garvie's 'Bullsette' is the first of several Mumm 30s expected to be sailing the Bay by this fall.

sophically, "but we may go as an unofficial entry anyway." There are plenty of other races in which to compete, like the coastal race to Santa Barbara and other local ocean races. In the meantime, the two owners are still learning how everything works, including the carbon, asymmetrical leeboards for upwind lift and the six-foot articulating bowsprit that hasn’t quite been tamed yet. Moored at South Beach, Seventy Two welcomes visitors, and Jean-Yves and John are happy to talk about their most unusual and exotic vessel.

In addition to custom boats, there continue to be new production models entering the Jopal sailing scene. Here are some of the ones we’ve seen or heard about, and we’re sure there are more to come in the near future.

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Azzura 310 — Svend Svendsen intends his new 31-footer, designed by Florida’s Hakan Sodergren, to be ideal for "middle aged guys who want a boat that’s easy to sail

and fun without six rockstars onboard." The first production boat should be sailing in June, with a fully battened main, three swept back spreaders, no runners or backstays, an articulating bowsprit and just a main, jib and kite to worry about. Base price will be $68,000 without sails and the PHRF rating has initially been set at 66. Antrim 27 — Tooling and production are unaerway for Jim Antrim’s latest crea¬ tion, a 27-footer that combines sporty per¬ formance with a bit of interior for daysailing and overnight cruising. Visually, the boat will resemble the Ultimate 20, which Antrim redesigned for Ultimate Sailing International (USI) in Santa Cruz, only a little narrower and with a little less waterline beam. The first ten boats are being put together by Craig 'Seventy-Two' — ‘like being on a skateboard headed down Nob Hill... *

Smith and Dave Hopton of Technical Fiber¬ glass and hulls number two and three are headed for the Bay. Base price is $38,000 and you can snap up one of the original ten still for a complete price of $48,500. Ultimate 20 — Production at Santa Cruz Yachts continues to roll right along for the two-year-old Ultimate 20. Boat number 69 is under way and the boat has been chosen for US Sailing’s Mallory Cup cham¬ pionships for the next three years. Pro¬ duction is also getting underway in Italy to satisfy the European market. Base price is $19,900 with a special Mallory Cup deal of $23,800 (only two left). PHRF rating varies geographically, with a 138 figure on the Bay and 156 on the East Coast. USI’s Jeff Canepa hopes it will eventually settle in the 140s. ' Mumm 30 — A smaller version of Bruce Farr’s successful Mumm 36, the Mumm 30 is also slated for one design competition. In the meantime, the demo boat — Bob Garvie’s Bullsette — is handicap racing on the Bay with a PHRF rating of 54. More Mumm 30s are expected this fall for the Big Boat Series, and a possible class championship in October. With a carbon fiber rig, fractional jib, masthead spinnakers, a seven-foot draft and all up weight of 4,500 pounds, these are high performance planing machines. Profes¬ sionals are being discouraged, however, by an owner/driver rule for class events. Base price is $84,700 without sails, trailer or electronics. Trifoiler — Anyone who wants to tear about in a hydrofoil trimaran can now get their hands on the production version of Russell Long’s record breaking Long Shot. At least two of these Ketterman-designed TriFoilers are now sailing the Bay. Over 100 have been completed by Hobie Cat in Oceanside for a base price of $12,995, which includes the double sailboard sail rig. The boats rate -240 locally, and they attract June, 1996

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attention from a wide variety of speed freaks, including race car drivers, boardsailors, speed boaters and plain old tinkerers. It only takes about 11 knots of wind to get the singlehanded sailor up on the foils and speeds of 35 mph have been reported in less than 15 knots of breeze! Randy Devol is planning on entering Blade Runner in the Ditch Run and the Silver Eagle — get ready to rewrite the record books! Mount Gay 30 — The first production version of this new level racing class is due on the Bay in mid-summer, although the prototype Sticky Fingers has been here a while. Designed by England’s Simon Rogers, this boat allows water ballast so it can be raced offshore with a shorthanded crew. You can also pile your friends on the weather rail and race around the buoys. The hull sand¬ wiches divinycell between two epoxy/vinylester glass layers and supports a 48-foot mast. All-up, the boat weighs only 5,500 pounds. Two boats are now in production at Santa Cruz Yachts with four more back¬ ordered. Base price is $84,500, and the boat

Gary Helms will be singlehanding 'Bad Bo/ to Hawaii at the end of this month.

is approved for offshore racing by the Ameri¬ can Bureau of Shipping. F-31 — Four of Corsair Marine’s F-31 trimarans are now enjoying the Bay waters. Two of them, Gary Helms’ and Mike Rpper’s Bad Boy and Gal Bar-Or’s Babylon Rocker have been pursuing the racing angle, espe¬ cially at Treasure Island YC’s first Saturday

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Vallejo visuals (clockwise from above): Peter English's lovely 'Chorus' hung in to win Division L; 'Blade Runner' and a sister TriFoiler never got the breeze to show their stuff; 'Rapscallion' finding some rare breeze on Saturday; doing the Richmond fueldock shuffle; (inset) getting into the swing of things helped free several grounded boats; 'Windwalker' take a time-out. Previous page: 'Zamazaan' on a brief spinny reach after the first mark.

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DIV. F (multihull) — 1) (tie) Pegasus, F-27, Andrew Pitcairn, and Babylon Rocker. F-31, Gat ,

Quest, Glenn Isaacson, 6. (6 boats) HAWKFARM — 1) Predator, Jim Wheeler, 3.75 points; 2) El Gavitan, Jocelyn Nash, 4; 3) Nighthawk, John Siegel, 5.75. (6 boats) ISLANDER 28 — 1) Challenge. Peter Schoen/ Virginia Jones, 5.76 points; 2) Sagitta. Walter George, 7. (4 boats) ISLANDER 36 — 1) Windwaiker, Richard Shoenhair,' 6.75 points; 2) Altair, Michael Bowes, 8; 3) Blue Streak, D.R. Schumacher. 9. (6 boats) ISLANDER BAHAMA — i) Warm Boot, John Col¬ ley, 5.75 points; 2) Goose, Bud Cohen, 7. (4 boats) J/24 — 1) AWB, Marcia Peck. 4.75 points, 2) Phantom, John Guiliford, 8.76; 3) Jam Jam, Mart Ruxton, 11. (3 boats) J/29 — i) Advantage II, Pat Benedict, 1.5 points; 2) Power Play, Gordon Smith, 4. (4 boats) J/105 — 1) Aquavit, Thomas Sponholtz, 2.75 points; 2) Thrasher, Steve Podett, 5. (4 boats) J/35 — 1) Jarlen, Bob Bloom, 3.75 points; 2) Major Damage, Chris Perkins/The- Wilsons, 4.75; 3) Kiri, Bob George, 5. (5 boats) NEWPORT 30 — 1) Harry, Dick Aronoff. 4 points; 2) Mariner, Bruce Darby, 4,75; 3) Fast Freight, Bob Harford, 5.75. (9 boats) OLSON 25 — 1) (tie) Alchemy, Joe Kitterman, and Barking Dog, Jeffrey Kroeber, 2.75 points; 3) Three Ring Circus, Dave McMurtry, 8. (7 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) White Knuckles, Dan Benjamin, 3.75 points; 2) Speedy Gonzales. David Carrel, 4; 3) Lurker, Paul Martson, 7. (7 boats) 198 RATERS — 1) Star Ranger, Ranger 26, Simon James, 2.75 points; 2) Lyric, Thunderbird, James Newport, 8.75; 3) Seabird, Thunderbird, Verb Wallace, 11. (7 boats) RANGBR 23 — 1) Impossible, Gary Kneeland, 1.5 points; 2) Blitzen, Michael Polkobla, 4, (5 Doats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Kokopelti, Judy English, 6 points; 2) Shazam!. Bud Sandkulla, 6.75; 3) Soliton. Mark Lowry, 9.75. (6 boats) SANTANA 35 — 1) Breakout, les flaos. 1.5 points; 2) (tie) Wide Load, Bruce Wilcox, and AWB, Darrel Louis, 6. (7 boats) TRITON — 1) Bolero, Ely Gilliam. 10.75 points; 2) Captain Hooke, Tom Newton, 11; 3) Windswept, James Bartlett, 12, (9 boats)

DIV. G (0-8i) — i) Sundog, Bianca 414, Bill 9; 3) (tie) Swlftsure. Frers 58, Sy Klemman, and Blue Chip, Mumm 36, Walt Logan, 12; 5) Enchants, Beneteau 42, David Jacoby, 13. (17 boats) David Wadbrook, 2.75 points; 2) Ozone, Otson 34, Carter, 7; 4) Novla, Cal 39. John Webb, 10; 5) Two Scoops, Express 34. Chris longaker, 7. (16 boats) -

Peter Rookard, 5.75 points; 2) Jane Doe, Olson 911-S, Bob Izmirian, 9; 3) Harp, Catalina 38, Mike Mannix. 11; 4) Fire Drill. Tartan Ten, Lambert Thom, 13; 6) Bloodvessel. B-25. Margaret Gokey. 14; 7) Scoop, Wylie 34, Mike Clarke, 17. (25 boats) DIV. K (138-156) — i) Dert, Soling, Pete Rowland, 3.75 points; 2) Mintaka, C&C 36, Gerry Brown, 5; 3) Mustang Sally, WylieCal 30. Warwick Tompkins, 9; 4) French Kiss, Beneteau 350, David Borton, 11; 5) Moonshine. Dogpalch 26, Eric Stein¬ berg, 14.75. (16 boats) DIV. L (159-183) — i) Chorus. Kettenburg 38. Peter English, 1.5 points; 2) Animal Farm, Wylie 28. Hans Blggall, 5; 3) Doctor Who. Merit 25, John Drewery, 12; 4) It's Jazz. Ranger 23. Ben Mewes. 16; 5) Lost in Space. Merit 25, Bruce Koch, 16; 6) Joanna. Irwin 30, Martin Jemo,24. (21 boats) DIV M (186-up) — 1) Rhumble. Ranger 26, Kim¬ ball Sargeant, 7 points; 2) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman, 8.5; 3) Sukey II, Kiwi 24, Tom Gardner. 15; 4) Pappy, Wiiderness2l. Dan Haynes. 24; 6) Samsara, Cal 20, Colin Gilboy, 26; 6) Antares, Islander 30-Mk. II, Larry Telford, 27. (23 boats) 11:METRE — 1) Ronstan. Mike Ratiani. 2.75 points; 2) SportsChannel, John Sweeney, 3.75; 3)

| The beat past Richmond was a thrill a minute.

CAL 2-27 — i) Alliance, Whit Conley, 7.75 points; 2) Temptation, Rollye Wiskerson, ,9. (6 boats) CAL 29 — i ) Boog-A-Loo, Nancy Rogers, 2.75 points; 2) Serendipity, Tom Bruce, 7.75; 3) Endeavour lit, Ruth Summers, 9. (6 boats) CATALINA 27 — 1) Wildcat, Ernie Dickson, 3.5 points; 2) White Satin, Steve Rienhart, 4.75. (4 boats) CATALINA 30 —1) Missy B. Car! Ballard, 4 points; 2) Goose, Michael Moradzadeh, 7.75; 3) Irish Lady, Dennis Mahoney, 11.75. (10 boats) CHALLENGER — 1) Gunga Din, Jan Grygier, 2.75 points; 2) Freebird, Liam O'Flaherty, 6.75; 3) Murphy’s Law, Bill Murphy, 9. (5 boats) ETCHELLS — 1) Air Tuna, Jim Gregory, 1.5 points. (3 boats) 1 EXPRESS 27 — 1) 'Motorcycle Irene, Will Paxton, 7 points; 2) Friday, John Liebenberg, 7.75; 3) (tie) Peaches, John Rivlin, and Sunshine Express, Aidan Cotlins, 13; 5) Bobs, Mike Hearn, 13.75. (18 boats) EXPRESS 37 — 1) Spindrift V, Larry & Lynn Wright, 1.5 points; 2) Bliss, Mike Grisham, 5; 3) Re-

ARIEL — 1) Jubilee. Don Morrison, 7.75 points; 2) Llckety Split, Joe Antos, 9; 3) Lady J, Eugene Roberts, 10. (6 boats)

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BRIGADOON It was December, 1976, and although Bay Area sailor and maritime executive Terry Klaus was not exactly out Christmas shopping, he and wife Fatty ended up buying themselves a present they had long dreamed about: a classic 50-foot wooden schooner. Never mind that it would hardly fit at their dock space in Alameda, much less under the Christmas tVee. Wrapping it up was out of the question and besides, it needed lots of work. "We were driving along and I noticed the rig," recalls Klaus, who had been looking for a classic Murray Peterson schooner. "When 1 went to take a closer look, 1 saw that it was Brigadoon." The boat was in sad condition, and was not even being offered for sale. But Terry remembered that she had once been one of the proudest boats on the Bay, a 'gold plater' in the words of one writer. Now the old schooner was a shadow of her former self, bordering on a derelict. Klaus knew he had to check it out further. As an avid Bay sailor, licensed captain and classic boat enthusiast, Klaus did some research on Brigadoon’s background. He found that she was the first boat ever designed by the legendary L. Francis Herreshoff, and was built by the Britt Brothers in Massachusetts in 1924. She was commissioned by Herreshoff patron Waldo H. Brown, who also had the famous Tioga — later to become Ticonderoga — built. With a long, full keel that drew only 5 feet, 4 inches, Brigadoon had originally been designed for shallow-water coasting along the Eastern seaboard, from the Chesapeake to New England. She was planked with long-leaf yellow pine over sawn oak frames and iron fastened. Although 'officially' measuring 49 feet, IIV2 inches on deck, the boat is nearly 65 feet from the tip of her bowsprit to the end of her main boom. She was launched originally as Joanne, with black topsides and a 'bald-headed' rig (no sails above the top gaffs). After Brown, she was owned and sailed by several prominent east coast families. She Page 150 • l/Wwt 38 • June, 1996

eventually caught the eye of famed sailor, actor and author Sterling Hayden, who purchased the boat in Maine in 1946 and renamed her Brigadoon of Boothbay. Hayden sailed the boat on his native east coast waters and, when Hollywood beckoned, brought her around to Southern California in the late '40s. There he commissioned schoonerman Bob Sloan, build¬ er of the famous Spike Africa, to fit her with topmasts, making her rig resemble a Peterson schooner — the feature that would attract Terry Klaus’s eye some three decades later. After several years, Hayden

sold the boat to yet another owner who took her on a cruise to the South Pacific. In 1959, under the ownership of Jim Mills, Brigadoon showed up on the starting line of the Transpacific Race, rounding out a fleet that included the first Kialoa, Chubasco, Escapade and Ralph Larrabee’s mighty 161 -ft schooner Goodwill. Shortly thereafter, Brigadoon found her way up to the Bay Area where she was purchased by Gary Reese. For the next decade and a half, Reese sailed her under the banner of the Corinthian YC, keeping her in bristol condition. He campaigned her in many local racing

series including the annual Master Mariners Regatta. In fact, Briga¬ doon participated in the inaugural modern version of this historic event. Originally raced in ships of the line in the 19th century, the MMR was revived in 1965 as a regatta for classic yachts. Wooden boatbuilder and Herreshoff aficionado Bob Darr of Mill Valley (and Tahiti), who spent years aboard Sterling Hayden’s schooner Wanderer in the South Pacific as a young boy, remembers a stint as caretaker of the Brigadoon in 1969. While finishing high school, Darr secured a bunk aboard in exchange for doing brightwork June. 1996 • UUUJtlS • Page 151

See how she scoons! (clockwise from below right): 'Brigadoon' on a reach; under the original baldheaded' rig and paint scheme, circa 1940; at rest somewhere in New England, 1940s; all sails set in the Master Mariners Regatta (note rig differences from below left); rebedding the keel, 1996. Photos courtesy Terry Klaus except as noted. ■

and general upkeep. "She was a classic New England-style yacht of the 1850 to 1920 period," says Darr. "Certainly the high-end thor¬ oughbred of her era." A boat like Brigadoon demands a lot of patient care, attention and resources. After nearly 15 years of dedication to his beloved 'mistress', Reese, who was no longer a young man, sold her in 1974 to several members of the rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. While Quicksilver succeeded as a rock group, Brigadoon reportedly suffered in her role as 'party pad'. It was not long before the pedigreed yacht i had deteriorated into the nearly derelict hulk that Terry Klaus found on the docks that December day in 1976. When he inspected the boat further, Klaus could hardly believe it was the same Brigadoon he had always admired. But was she worth Page 152 • LO&JU12 • June. 1996

the time and expense of rescuing? Was it even possible? It was true that Terry had been looking for a 'project' and, as a mariner who had worked his way up from boat operator to a management position with Crowley Maritime, he had the contacts to pull off a major restoration. But even surveyor (and friend) Jim Jessie kept shaking his head as he went through the boat. As if to symbolize the grim news, Jessie came topside at one point, held up a long-dead black cat and said, "I hope you’re not superstitious." Jessie’s final assessment: "If it were anyone else, I’d tell them to forget it." Luckily for Brigadoon — and tlie Bay Area sailing commun¬ ity in general — Terry Klaus is not just 'anyone else'. The sweat and tears and countless dollars of the next 20 years would prove that. After several weeks of frustrating negotiations with Brigadoon’s

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owners and the bank, Klaus was finally able to purchase the boat. But that was just the start. He then had to bargain for the boat’s sails and equipment, most of which had been removed for 'storage'. Then he had to arrange drydock space and a working area for the project he was about to begin. But through his varjous contacts, Brigadoon was soon on her way to a staging area where the restoration began in earnest. Several years of hard work went into the boat before Klaus was able to see any real progress. During that time, word had spread along the classic boat'grapevine' that Brigadoon was being reborn. Little by little, more equipment began to appear, some as if by magic. People would just drop by with items, like priceless bronze fittings. A sail that had been dropped off for repairs and never picked up was

donated by sailmaker Peter Sutter. After awhile, the project seemed to take on a life of its own. A new engine was fitted. The transom, rudder, several keel bolts and planks were replaced. A new mainmast, topmast and gaff were fitted. In 1987, the original fir deck was removed and a new teak deck installed. Many old-time shipwrights and craftsmen came by to lend a hand — often for no more compen¬ sation than just knowing they were helping preserve one of the classic yachts of the Bay. As the project progressed, a core group of six or seven 'associates' emerged who were to become Brigadoon’s crew — in every sense of the word. All originally friends of Terry’s from their high school days (and a Sea Scout program) in Berkeley, they were now, like Klaus, all involved in the maritime industry. Several even had circumnaviga¬ tions under their belts. When the restoration began, they appeared, and stayed on, sacrificing weekends, vacations and trips until the job at hand was completed. They have remained faithful to the boat at every subsequent haulout, refit or simple dockside project. The rewards have been plentiful. First and foremost is the grand spectacle that is the Master Mariners Regatta. Having competed every year since 1977, Brigadoon has amassed an enviable record. In addi¬ tion to a handful of first-in-division awards, she has won the Billiken Bell Trophy — awarded to the gaffer with the fastest elapsed time of the day — more times than any other boat. Last year’s race was par¬ ticularly memorable: First in Division (Gaff I), Billiken Bell Trophy and the Deadeye Trophy. The latter is awarded to the fastest boat around the course of any rig — and Brigadoon was the first schooner ever to win it! At other times of the year, Brigadoon has served as a 'vacation home' at Tinsley Island in the Delta for crew friends and families, and she is always a big hit with kids and grandkids during the annual lighted boat parade up the Estuary. Although berthed at the Klaus’s home in Alameda, Brigadoon is shared by the entire crew and their families as if it were their own. After nearly 20 years of ownership, and despite regular upkeep, by the mid-1990s, Brigadoon was showing signs of her 72 years. A seri¬ ous structural refit was looming, and once again, Klaus was up to the task. Haulout was arranged with Rick Wood (Brigadoon was one of the last big projects at the Sanford-Wood yard in Richmond before it changed hands). The call, to arms went out to the crew, and in late February, the boat came out of the water. Essentially, the boat underwent a nearly complete rebuild from the waterline down. After a brief assessment of her condition, the work — supervised by Sausalito shipwright John Bums — began in earnest. Four new strakes were added, 20 planks in all, on each side from the keel up. Fifty-four frames were replaced. All the old fasteners were removed and new ones put in. The biggest part of the job: dropping the 9-ton keel and installing all new keel bolts and floors — each 3inch-thick solid oak. A host of smaller tasks were completed. Once again, weekends with the family were given up and ski trips post¬ poned while the boat came apart and went slowly back together. Klaus’s teenage son Erik and daughter Lindsey pitched in, working as hard as as anyone. Everyone involved spent every available minute they could spare on the^boat. By early May, after 80 days on the hard, the revitalized Brigadoon was finally ready to be relaunched. On May 9, amid a celebration worthy of the launching of a brand new boat, Brigadoon was eased back into the water. As we went to press, Herreshoff’s thoroughbred seemed to fidget nervously 'in the gate' as she anticipated this year’s Master Mariners Regatta, which was held on Memorial Day weekend. Whether she continued her win¬ ning ways this year or not (unfortunately, the ’96 regatta occurred after this issue had been sent to the printer), she was doubtless one of the most admired boats in a fleet of stars. And, if Klaus and his faithful crew have their way, Brigadoon will remain every inch a 'gold plater' for many more years to come. — John skorlak June, 1996

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BAJA SAIL WEEK 96 _ THE BEST Do you remember what it felt like when you left summer camp after having a great week making new friends and having non-stop fun? That’s what it feels like after my husband Chris and I and our two boys,

cruising set. About 14 boats raced outside the anchorage on both days. Most of theses had crews that were put together during the morning radio net. Racing with cruising boats has its challenges, as my husband Chris observed: "It’s the first time in a race that I’ve almost caught my spinnaker on someone’s solar panels."

Race Week's King John and Queen Nancy from ’Cruiser’.

Patrick and Thomas, spent a week outside of La Paz, Mexico. We were at a beautiful island anchorage with about 100 other boats for the 13th Annual Sea of Cortez Sail Week. The festivities started at the beautiful Club Naval in La Paz with the nomination of a Sail Week King and Queen, and the sign-ups for the festivities to come. The afternoon kick-off party consisted of plenty of cold drinks, taco stands, a band, a raffle and even a local group of Hawaiian dancers (who looked slightly out of place in Mexico) for entertainment. The party set the pace for a week of relaxation and fun thanks to the wonderful organizers, Sue and Pepe — who came to be known as "gOD with a,small 'G'" — from Melissa. They rounded up a lot of great prizes from the local merchants with the help of other La Paz cruisers and somehow managed to get huge shade tents, tables and chairs out to the otherwise sleepy fishing island of Isla Partida, which lies about 20 miles away. The big story of the week was the number of boats which participated in the races. No fewer than 60 boats raced from La Paz to Partida as compared to only 10 last year. This had to be due to the strong race com¬ mittee of Geni and Gary from Latest Caper, and Padre Timo (formerly Tim from Scally¬ wag). They did a great job getting all these cruisers to actually race. The downwind start was quite a sight to see with most everyone flying spinnakers, but things soon fizzled due to lack of wind. The same situation occurred during the two races held later in the week, but some boats consistently stuck with it and won their divisions. Indigo, a Santana 35, won the racing division and Emma’s Rose, a wooden Little Harbor 40, took top honors among the Page 154 •

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e were pleased when Nancy and John from Cruiser were elected King and Queen of Sail Week. We knew them from when we had all done the Baja Ha Ha Cruis¬ er’s Rally from San Diego to Cabo last fall, and they had won over a lot of people during their past five months in Mexico. Looking back on the week, they were the perfect goodwill ambassadors. Nancy was always optimistic and took her duties as Queen very seriously. After all, someone,had to judge the men’s swimsuit and beer belly competitions! John also took his swimsuit judging seriously, and he was rarely seen without beers in both hands — one for him¬ self and one to offer anyone he happened to be around. I think they both really enjoyed wearing their crowns, too, because they were never seen without them — except maybe when they won the egg passing contest during the Olympics. There were competitions available for Sail Week’ers of all ages all week long. Twenty different pots of chili were sampled during the chili cook-off. The runaway winner in the best presentation was Lisa from Indigo with

The 13th Annual Sail Week set an all-time record for smiles.

"Lisa’s Sin Gas Chili” which also came in second for best name. We’re still not sure if the 'sin' part is an English or Spanish reference. Winner of the best chili name was A1 from Different Worlds, who was a shoe-in with "Peckerwood’s Jump Up and Kiss Me Chili With Passion." Terrific won for best tasting even though most of us didn’t have any taste buds left by the end of the evening. Another fun evening was the potluck and dessert competition. It was unbelievable how many incredible desserts appeared on the beach that evening, especially considering we were in the middle of nowhere without electricity or running water. Luckily for us we did have one very industrious local fisher¬ man who decided to sell ice cold Pacificos on the beach. Needless to say, his fishing hut was quite popular.

Spread, Partida remains one of the prettiest stops in Baja. Top inset, beer belly finalists, present and future. Left, it's not what you think! This is the only way you can pass a raw egg from one chin to another without using your hands. Center, 'Blarney31 in racing mode. Right, Padre Timo makes his rounds through the anchorage.

During the day, the beach was usually buzzing with children’s activities. Vicky from Cruising Time, who organized the kids, said that the Sail Week committee spared no expense because they wanted to emphasize how important children and families are to the event. On any given day, there were at least a dozen or more kids participating in everything from kite building and flying to sandcasting and sandcastle building. The most amazing thing was the kids Olympics! Where else would you find such a large

group of kids who all own their own snorkeling equipment? They were amazingly fast running on the beach in flippers! There were some serious horseshoe and volleyball competitions going on all week, too. This included a rather large and serious

fishermen when they left. These guys started playing every day after they came in off the water and are currently at Olympic Gold Medal level.) In the end, the fishermen didn’t want to compete, they just wanted to play a game with us. Do we really need to tell you

uit’s the first time in a race I've almost caught my spinnaker on someone 's solar panels." volleyball eliminations tournament to deter¬ mine which team would get to compete against the Mexican fishermen in the big annual contest. (Early Sail Week partici¬ pants left volleyballs and nets with the

who won? Two 'weddings' were also performed dur¬ ing the week. Jessie and Connie from Topaz were actually married in town the week before, but Don of Steeldiver performed an June, 1996 •

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Race Weekhap'nins: Above, two weddings and no funerals were a record. This is Connie and Jesse from ‘Topaz' tying the knot. Below, "When does the movie start!" Left, reportedly banned by the EPA north of the border, Lisa's ‘Sin Gas' chili was the near perfect fuel for Race Week'ers. ALL PHOTOS SHEILA MAHER

absolutely hysterical parody which included plenty of audience participation. A couple from Exposition were also 'married' by the rarely serious Padre Timo. In between marrying people and helping organize the racing, the good Padre ran the Sail Week radio net, wherein he was confessor, advisor Page 156 • Utitwk?? • June, 1996

and reminder to people who had momentar¬ ily forgotten the 'no whining' rule. On two of the more mellow evenings at sundown, anywhere from 30-40 dinghies could be seen rafted up to the side of Steeldiver to watch a video. One night, they played Captain Ron, and another evening it

was Babe. I wish I had been able to get a picture of the scene because it looked so weird. From our boat, it looked like 50 people worshiping a glowing orb.

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ing was the final night with the swimsuit competitions and the beer belly contest. Jake from Cascabel was the big winner, but a lot of us were rooting for Jherek from Gumboya-ya. He has 0% body fat, but after all, he is still young and only a beginning cruiser. He and his family comprised most of the

band which played each evening. It’s amaz¬ ing that a 40-ft boat can fit a full drum set, keyboard, guitar and sound system, but I guess it’s important cargo when you travel with teenagers. Lorraine from Southern Cross had been to the very first Sail Week. Maya Mike has

been to all of them except the first. Many other people had been to multiple Sail Weeks over the years. Everyone said this was by far the best one ever. We just might have to go again next year. Chances are we’ll probably see a lot of the same faces! — sheila maher June. 1996 • UVMJU. Zi • Page 157

NANTUCKET 'PLAYRIDE' \A/e were high and dry for nearly two years, landlocked by a litany of excuses. We had just moved from San Francisco to Bos¬ ton. My husband, Jim Hammitt, was im¬ mersed in his new teaching job at Harvard. Our sons, Robbie, 6 and Galen, 4, would be

social outcasts if they didn’t spend Saturdays charging after soccer balls. After decades of hardcore racing in California, how could we possibly find happiness as dilettante daysailors? Besides, the lawn needed mowing and that hideous kitchen wallpaper had to come down. The lameness of the excuses hit me as I delivered the eulogy two years ago for my father, Bob Klein, to a church packed with Bay Area sailors. Sailing, in all its communal, spiritual and intellectual dimensions, was in my blood and my children’s birthright. We had to get out on the water.

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saw her perched in a field, her black hull and barn-red keel stark against the snow. Her owner, Greg Graham, is a true Alberg

devotee. His first Alberg perished in an unseasonable early blizzard several weeks after purchase. Insurance money in hand, he combed the Eastern seaboard in a neigh¬ bor’s plane until he found Buccaneer, which he later salvaged when she washed ashore during Hurricane Bob. Greg mournfully confided to me that family commitments might preclude him from launching Buccaneer for the summer. Captivated by her resemblance to Wild Flag, the Pearson Vanguard my father cam¬ paigned on the Bay when I was a kid, I proposed a deal: we would pick up the mooring and launching fees in exchange for half-time use of the boat. Greg readily agreed. The high point of the summer was a twoweek sail in the waters off Cape Cod, Mar¬ tha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. We departed from Mattapoisset on the northwest flank of Buzzard’s Bay, outfitted with a herd of plastic dinosaurs, stuffed animals, a bucket of crayons and two kayaks lashed to the foredeck. For inspiration, the ship’s library included a copy of Arthur Ransome’s 1930s classic Swallows and Amazons, which chron¬ icles the sailing adventures of six English schoolchildren. Provisions included generous rations of Fruit Loops, Cocoa Crispies, Oreo cookies, Pringles and other normally forbid¬ den foods. If all else failed, I would bribe the boys into enjoying life at sea. Jim and Mary Ann Carrick and their three boys, aged 10, 9 and 4, came along for the first few days of the trip. Jim and I go way back. Our dads raced Snipes on Lake Merritt in the ’40s — long before either of us were born — and we went through puberty and the Richmond YC junior program together. Sherpani, our aging, 93-pound golden retriever, rounded out the crew to 10.

O ur first landfall was Woods Hole YC, where we would pick up the Carricks. To get there, we had to brave 'The Hole' itself, a narrow, rock-strewn passage connecting Buz¬ zards Bay to Vineyard Sound. It’s roiling currents make Raccoon Strait look like a millpond.

We careened around the nun buoys on a favorable tide into a large, placid cove. The mast we spotted from afar turned out to be Shamrock V, the restored J-boat. Early the next morning, we approached Shamrock in our kayaks, like curious natives ogling her brass and brightwork and brawny crew. The town of Woods Hole is the departure point for large car ferries transporting summer people in overloaded Jeep Cherokees to Martha’s Vineyard (referred to by East Coast cognescenti as, simply, 'The Vineyard'). The center of town was hot and packed with people. By contrast, the Woods Hole YC is a friendly one-room affair with a broad porch and wooden rockers, located a short walk from the Woods Hole Oceano¬ graphic Institute. From Woods Hole, we made the twohour sail to Lake Tashmoo on the north shore of The Vineyard. In the 1800s, Vine-

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yard Sound had the same volume of com¬ mercial traffic that New York boasts today, a scary thought given its strong currents, submerged rock shoals, treacherous fogs and lack of today’s navigational aids. The entrance to Tashmoo cuts through a narrow sand spit. The channel is 15 feet wide and 5 feet deep in the dredged parts. I hol¬ lered at the kids to brace themselves as we inched our way over the sandy bottom,'eyes locked on the depth finder. We dropped anchor at the far end of the lake and mucked about that evening in the kayaks and Budcy, our El Toro-like tender. Worn out by the day’s adventures, the five boys aligned themselves for sleep in the fo’c’s’le — heads to port, feet to starboard, tallest aft, smallest

forward — with little squabbling.

We left Tashmoo just after dawn the next day, arriving under sail by midmorning in Edgartown, a historic whaling port-cumsummer resort on the east end of The Vine¬ yard. Dodging the Chappaquidick ferries — which shuttle back ?nd forth to an island often associated with the Commonwealth’s best-known senator — ws snagged a moor-

ing and sent a party ashore for provisions. Edgartown’s cobbled streets are edged with Greek-revival mansions built by whaling ship captains. White picket fences struggle to stay erect under the weight of sprawling rose bushes. At cocktail time on holiday week¬ ends, front porches brim with generationX’ers garbed in oxford button-downs and sleek linen sundresses. Graceful yachts swing on moorings in the harbor, including Walter Cronkite’s Wyntje and a fleet of saucy gaff-rigged Herreshoff 12s. On the bluffs above spread rambling, gray-shingled homes that are the epitome of good taste. The exception is a house of resort-hotel dimensions a quarter mile down the harbor from the Edgarton YC. Aboard Old Port Launch, the local shore transport, passenger gossip invariably turns to the house and its owner — a Boston car dealer with a huge advertising budget. Rumor has it he was denied membership in the yacht club and, as revenge, converted one of the town’s most historic homes into an imposing glass and brass-festooned edi¬ fice, ablaze with light on a summer evening. According to one wag, "He just puts all those lights on to make everyone think he has friends." We anchored just to the south in Katama Bay, a wide, shallow spot well away from the hubbub. It was stifling hot. We swam, kay¬ aked, sailed Budcy and made frequent trips to the library and ice cream parlor. The only downpour of the trip hit in the middle of the night after the Carricks had left. It was preceded by a smacking-good lightning storm that fried the controls of a drawbridge over Vineyard Haven. ’ It was in Katama Bay that Jim and I had one of those rare instances where we felt supremely confident in our roles as parents. We awoke to a beautiful morning and a fresh breeze. Robbie insisted on hoisting Bucks’s sail himself. "Boy, Mom," he enthused as he struggled with the halyard, "is sailing fun, or what!"

We once again departed at sunrise to take advantage of favorable tides for the 25mile sail east to .Nantucket. Blasted by eons of wind and surf, Nantucket has scrubby, undulating countryside and one principal harbor. Contrary to the morning’s weather report, our brisk southwesterly continued to build and back so by the time the island’s church spires poked into view over the horizon, we were bucking 30 knots on the nose and short, steep seas. Robbie and Galen spent most of the passage below with their dinosaurs and coloring books, seeming¬ ly oblivious to our pitching or angle of heel. The entrance to Nantucket is not for the faint of heart — especially in an adverse June, 1996 • UMUtZi • Page 159

NANTUCKET 'PLAYRIDE' — CRUISE OF blow. The narrow channel is lined on the east with a partially submerged sawtooth breakwater. Beyond the line of nun buoys to the west is a shallow sea of sand shodls. Mammoth car ferries come barreling in and out with little heed for pleasure craft. We made it in with great relief and picked up a mooring.

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The restored J/Boat 'Shamrock V under sail.

of-heart, the harbor is not for those of limited means. Although it appears to afford ample room for anchoring, much of the harbor is only two feet deep at low tide. In the true spirit of capitalism, the friendly folks at Nantucket Mooring Company have planted mooring buoys — for which they charge $40 per night — over every sheltered inch of harbor not used by the ferries. Naturally, we eschewed such commercialism for putting down our own hook in a remote part of the bay. At least until a long afternoon of dragging and resetting several times, after which we were only too grateful to fork over our credit cards for one of the few vacant moorings. Never laggards about gaining local know¬ ledge, we formed a shore party as soon as we arrived and snuck into the lofty halls of the Nantucket YC. Unlike Edgartown, NYC does not extend privileges to visiting yachts¬ men. Until the recent arrival of its junior program, the club was primarily concerned with providing its membership with fine cuisine and well-tended tennis courts. We soon spied sailing journalist and his¬ torian Nat Philbrick, a former All-American college sailor. Nat’s first book, Away Offshore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890, was published this summer to favorable reviews. Still soggy from an afternoon’s racing, Nat bought us beers and regaled us with tales of Nantucket.

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eventually became the base for whaling ships that plied the globe. Whale oil merchants — some of whom amassed the greatest fortunes of the 18th and 19th centuries — built stately homes, churches and meeting houses. But as railroads were laid in the mid-1800s, whaling shifted to mainland ports such as New Bed¬ ford, leaving Nantucket to wallow in an economic depression. It gained cachet as a summer resort at the turn of the century, in the nick of time to save and restore the island’s colonial and 19th-century architecture. Nantucket is now the playground of Wall Street tycoons and tycoons-in-the-making, who throng the treelined shopping district with their well-heeled young families in tow. Development is a major issue here, with longtime locals bemoaning the construction of estates on formerly untouched sections of the island. We spent our second day ashore window shopping and touring the whaling museum and period homes maintained by the Nan¬ tucket Historical Society, taking a late-afternoon dip at the children’s beach and linger¬ ing for a freebie folk concert in the park.

The next day we prepared Buccaneer for our return voyage and played on the sandspit beneath the lighthouse at the harbor entrance. Ensconced in my beach chair, I looked up from my book to see a 12-Meter passing a hundred yards away. It turned out to be 1962 defender Weatherly. She was followed by another 12, American Eagle, the red-hulled Flying Goose and all manner of large and famous yachts, including a spitand-polish 1930s trawler—with a helicopter on top! I realized I was witnessing one of the true spectacles in sailing: the arrival of a New York Yacht Club cruise. I settled back to enjoy the spectacle. Yachties swelled the afternoon ranks of tourists, racing either to bars or to reserve ‘

Above: John (left) and Galen unwind after a hard bout of cruising. Inset: Sherpani made 10. Below: Rub-a-dub-dub, three boys in two tubs.

rental bikes. Laughter swelled from cockpit cocktail parties and swarming shore launches wafted across the water late into the night. The NYYC cruise is not for sleepyheads. According to cruise etiquette, all boats must have code flags flying — bow pulpit to mast top to stern pulpit — by 0800 sharp. Robbie, Galen and I spent a breezy morning on Buc¬ caneer’s foredeck deciphering the snapping pennants with my .code flag dishtowel. We had a windless, uneventful return from Nantucket to Vineyard Haven,

THE BUCCANEER credo are advised to steer clear of Cuttyhunk. A few locals have converted front porches into crafts shops, and there is one excellent bakery on the far side of the island in the back of someone’s house, but other¬ wise the pickings are slim — with one notable exception: the entrepreneur who caters to the cruising crowd by delivering complete lobster dinners via launch. We dined sumptuously on fresh bluefish purchased at the pier and corn vended by a portly old farmer in a straw hat and overalls rowing from boat to boat. That is, the part of the bluefish that wasn’t nabbed off the plate by Mr. Wylie E. Seagull. Bushwhacking is frowned upon here, but we found lots of beautiful walks on the roads and beaches, with spectacular views of the white cliffs of Gay Head over on the Vine¬ yard. Progress was slow, however, because Robbie insisted we stop for periodic tastes of the honeysuckle that grew by the roadside in great profusion. Flotsam and jetsam abound, and combing the bleak, rocky beaches is a rewarding pastime. Sailing dinghies ply the pond, and at low tide on sunny days, the sandbars at the entrance are packed with bathers.

dropping anchor off the Vineyard Haven YC — which also denies privileges to visitors. We portaged our kayaks over the inner har¬ bor breakwater and had dinner ashore at a Greek take-out joint. Vineyard Haven appears to cater to working-class families. After the decorum of Edgartown and Nan¬ tucket, it was a relief to be in a place where babies cry, parents look frazzled and boys stick gum in their big sisters’ hair. A front broke the hot spell, bringing dense fog for our morning passage, which turned to light drizzle by afternoon. We headed for Tarpaulin Cove, an old pirate haunt on the south side of Naushon, the largest of the Elizabeth Islands.

Tarpaulin is a desolate place. A light¬ house and weathered saitbox farmhouse stand sentinel over the half-circle bay. The

I baked bread and the boys tended to Bill, their nefv pet hermit crab. Our final stop was Cuttyhunk, a small island with broad moors and a peeling-paint village at the southwestern tip of the Eliza¬ beths. First colonized as a trading post in 1602, it is now year-round home to a few oystermen and their families, as well as several hundred summer regulars who occu¬ py ramshackle cottages that trail up the hillside. The island’s sheltered inner harbor, known as Cuttyhunk Pond, is a popular weekend destination for Rhode Island and Buzzards Bay sailors. We searched for a spot in the crowded anchorage and saw a C&C 35 with a large golden retriever on the cabin top and two tow-headed boys in the rigging. Sensing synergies, we swung into an opening beside them. In short order, all the boys were in a dinghy tied astern, screaming pirate taunts to

We had a strong, wet nor’wester for our final leg home. r, Dad would have loved it cove is rimmed with a cuticle of pink sand and fist-sized granite glacier tailings. A barrier of dune grass separates the beach from rolling hillocks criss-crossed with low stone fences. Jim went exploring in a kayak.

passersby while the parents relished their respective tranquility.

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We had a strong, wet nor’wester for our final leg home up Buzzards Bay to Mattapoisset. Dad would have loved it. Jim and 1 took turns sitting by the mast with the boys, watching the squall lines approach and iden¬ tifying distant islands and water towers. It felt good to be out on a body of water with recognizable landmarks. It felt almost like being home. — susie klein June, 1996 • U&UM12 • Page 161

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e could tell there was going to be trouble. He was at the wheel, and she was at the bow with the boathook. They were shouting at each other. "Tide’s pushing us to port!" said the woman at the bow. "Why do you want me to steer to port?" yelled back the man on the helm." "No, steer to starboard! Starboard!"

raft-up, skippers and crews put down their plates and glasses and jumped into action v with extra cushions and bumpers, ready to fend off. Meanwhile the skipper of the disabled boat kept trying to start the engine again and

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"Why didn’t you say so?" he answered as he adjusted course. Their boat was a 40-foot cruiser/racer, a fairly new design of the type usually favored by charter companies. They bumped along¬ side the buoy as the tide tried to push them over it, but the skipper somehow managed to get the end of a stern line through the bale before it scraped under their transom and popped out on the other side. He put the engine in gear again and revved it up. We were observing the proceedings from the cockpit of my boat, securely rafted up in our favorite cove enjoying our annual one design fleet cruise. Only a fraction of the boats in the one-design class association race anymore, so the raft-up and other non-race social functions have taken on a new impor¬ tance in recent years. Of course we could hear every word the couple shouted at each other as they struggled to get mooring lines onto,the buoys they wanted to use. They had to shout to be heard over the noise of their own engine, even though it was barely audible from where we sat. Quite a show. "Here’s where they wrap the stern line around the prop," said one of the other skippers in the raft-up who had come over to my boat to socialize. "Yup," agreed another pundit, as we watched them miss their bow buoy by more than half a boatlength and then attempt to back up cross-current to try again. It was funny at first, but these people were about ready to kill each other when the engine finally stopped — stern line tied in a double clove hitch around the propeller shaft, as predicted. And they were directly up-tide of us, too. One of the small inflatable dinghies from our raft-up had been trying to get over to assist ever since they had approached the first buoy, but under oars they were making slow progress against the current. Now it was clear they wouldn’t get there in time to run a line to an uptide buoy. Up and down the Page 162 • UMcJcli • June, 1996

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again, each time trying to put4t in gear at a higher RPM, and each time making a worse noise as the engine literally ground to a halt. Through all of this the woman on the bow was screaming something about pulling in the stem line, still slack but connected to the first buoy by way of the propeller shaft. "Definitely a charter operation," I re¬ marked as I watched the gap between the stricken boat and our raft-up narrow. "You know, if they unrolled that jib and cut the stern line." noted one of my crew, "they could just sail out of trouble with this nice gust from the south." "They’ll never think of that," said another skipper. "Those charter companies teach their customers to start the motor whenever they’re in trouble."

he day, or at least a minor crunch, was saved when a small but very fancy rigidbottom inflatable with et big outboard came zooming in from uptide. It spun around in its own length to stop right in front of the bow of the disabled cruiser, and the driver — a rather trim-looking young woman — stood up just long enough to pass a line around one of their bow pulpit rails. She jumped back to her engine controls and pulled the bow of the big boat into the current, ready to tow them clear. "Why don’t you raft up with us," offered one of our fleet members, probably feeling that we should extend some hospitality in return for the entertainment they had already provided. The skipper nodded affirmative, relayed instructions to the towboat, and after clear¬ ing the stern line from the buoy, the inflat¬ able tow-boat brought them neatly along¬ side the outermost boat in our raft. It was a shame to break the symmetry of our one-design fleet raft-up, with our row of nearly a dozen identical boats. But these people needed a party. They also needed separation! When we invited them over for

snacks and drinks the woman gratefully accepted, but the man disappeared below. "No way this marriage is going to survive this sport!" was her first comment as she stepped into my cockpit. "Oh, come on," said one of my friends from another boat. "We’ve all been there, and worse." Meanwhile the inflatable finished tying up, and, as I suspected, the young woman driving it turned out to be none other than Lee Helm, a grad student who usually won’t even race on a boat as old and slow as mine,

THAT CRAZY HAND JIVE

let alone come along on a cruise. "How do you like my way-cool ’assault dinghy’, Max?" "I’d say ’assault dinghy’ is an apt description, all right. What are you doing in the cove on a Saturday morning, and where did you get that thing?” "I’m on a weekend cruise with my com¬ puter geek friends," she said as she gestured towards another large raft-up at the other Understandable hand signals from the bow are an integral part of any sailing endeavor, be it racing or cruising.

end of the cove. In contrast to our 12-of-akind raft-up, the fleet she pointed to had boats of every description, from a giant power yacht to a 19-foot trailer-sailer. "Every other month we meet ’f2f — that’s ’fenderto-fender’ for some analog socializing. This dinghy is from that big heavy ketch in the middle of the raft." After some hors d’oeuvres and a drink, the woman from the boat with the fouled prop was a little more relaxed and started to explain the situation. She and her husband had both taken a short series of courses at a

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commercial sailing school — one of the better ones, actually — and as soon as her husband was certified they charted the biggest boat that he was allowed to skipper for a weekend. "I’m really upset with the sailing school," she said. "There’s no way that we were ready to handle a boat of this size. What you saw was only the last straw in a miserable day — it was one disaster after another."

”W V V hat could they have done to pre¬ pare you better?" asked another one of our one design fleet skippers who had come over to my boat to hear the tale of woe. "Mainly we just didn’t have enough time in this kind of boat," she said. "Plus we never received any instruction at all about tying up to mooring buoys in current. But they check¬ ed us out for this boat anyway. Do they expect us to learn it all on the job? Of course we got in trouble!" "Actually," the other skipper tried to ex¬ plain, "most'of us did learn ’on the job’." -”I have to come to the defense of that sailing school," said another crew. "Their big-boat charter skipper certification means that you know about five per cent of what you’ll learn after a couple of years of sailing. Think of it as a ’license to learn’ on your own. And no matter how much you know, being aware of your own limitations, and staying within them, is more important than anything else." "Well, those certificates they kept giving us didn’t say anything like that," she sighed. "How can we learn how to handle a boat like this without so much trauma? Should we hire an instructor or professional skipper to sail with us all the time?" "You could, if you wanted to spend lots of money and make slow progress," said the other skipper. "There are two things you can do that are very effective," added the crew, "and both of them are practically free. But I doubt you’ll be interested in either of them." The woman asked what they were. "First, join a college or community sailing club that has a fleet of sailing dinghies for the members to use..'The smaller, older, and leakier these boats are, the more you’ll learn. Yofi’ll end up dumped in the bay more than once, but you’ll learn how to sail." The implication was that anyone who starts out in bigger boats never really learns how to sail — and this touched off a raging debate. The sailing school graduate had never even heard the case made for smallboat versus big-boat instruction, and she heard it made rather eloquently by almost everyone present. What seemed to impress her most was the contention, surprising to her but agreed to by all the skippers present, June, 1996 •

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HAND SIGNALS, BOW TO HELM Anchoring

that a 14-foot boat in 15 knots of wind handles about like a 40-foot boat in 40 knots of wind. "I’ll bet I know what the second way to learn is," said Lee Helm, who had secured her dinghy and joined the conversation. "Crew on a race boat," said one of the crew from the raft-up. ‘ "For sure," said Lee. "But we’re not interested in racing," complained the charterer. "We’re not com¬ petitive." "That’s good," said Lee, "because you’ll probably be on boats that finish near the back of the fleet. That’s where the crewing opportunities are for newbies, for like, obvious reasons." "And you’re saying I can really learn on boats like that?" All present said emphatically 'yes', and we proceeded to explain how easy it is to get rides on weekday evening 'beer can' races, and all about the entry-level crew position, much in demand at windy race venues, called 'sandbag'.

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Engine in forward, at a rate propor¬ tional to rate of circling finger

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inally the husband, skipper of the charter boat, made his appearance. We did our best not to make him feel humiliated, telling our own stories of personal nautical disasters from our formative years as owners and skippers. It seemed to help, and he eventually loosened up. "What were we doing wrong?" he finally asked. "You might have had the wrong person on the helm," said Lee. "But I’m the one with the big-boat certification," he said, "and I’ve had most of the helm time on the boats we took lessons __ M on. "Wrong person on the helm," she re¬ peated, "In an anchoring or mooring buoy situation, the person in charge is really the person at the bow. The driver is, like, just a 'drive-bot'. He or she just follows instructions — all the thinking should be on the bow." "And as you discovered," said one of the skippers present, "communications from bow to stern are very important. With the engine running and the bow person looking ahead, it’s almost impossible for the person at the helm to ever hear a verbal instruction." "But like, everyone else in the cove can hear every word," noted Lee. "Really?" said the charter skipper, putting his head in his hands. "Oh, geez. .. ” "Hand signals are vital," said one of the skippers. "Most cruising couples have worked out a system that’s quite a bit more elaborate than just pointing which way to steer. The person on the bow should be able to signal just about every action involving helm, engine or boat handling."

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"I use a much simpler system when I’m out sailing with a beginner," said another of the skippers. "1 just move one hand as if it’s on the tiller, and the other hand as if it’s on the throttle or gear shift, in big exaggerated motions. The novice on the helm just mimics my hand motions on the controls, and the boat does what I want it to do, more-or-less. It’s crude, but much better than the other way around." "Then there’s a whole system of signals for racing," said another one of the crew. Especially at the start, when the bow person has to watch out for traffic, and then call the line." "I was in a head-on collision once," confessed one of the skippers, "because my bowman started to point emphatically to leeward. I thought he wanted me to fall off, so 1 did — right into the bow of the starboard-tacker he was pointing at!" "I remember that race!" I said. "Quite a crash." "After that incident we developed some fairly detailed signals for pre-start manuevers." "A really good bow person actually has to steer the boat for the final approach to the line," said Lee. "It’s like in those old bomber movies, you know, from the Second Punic War? Over the target, the bombardier says Tve got the plane1 because the bombardier actually flies during the bombing. Think of the bow person the same way — they have to steer the boat across the line because they’re the only person on the boat with a good view." "Which means that to be a really good foredeck crew, you have to be a competent racing skipper in your own right. And especially skilled at good starts." "Anyway," said the woman from the charter boat, "back to anchoring. Where can

"Just what we needed!" they said. "Thanks!" Meanwhile one of our group had been diving on the tangled propeller shaft, and swam over to Lee’s dinghy in order to get out of the water. "Prop’s all clear!" he gasped as he held up

we get a list of the hand signals that you use for anchoring?"

Anchoring With a Newbie on the Heim The person at the bow "drives'' the boat, making exaggerated versions of the motions they would use at the wheel or tiller, e.g., a gesture pulling up with the right hand on a lever, if the shift lever is on the right-hand side of the binnacle and if reverse is up, would tell the person at the helm to put the engine in reverse, and so on. Works best with people who don't yet know the layout of your controls, and in situations where the shift, throttle and wheel are well separated. Not very pre¬ cise, but useful.

a few shreds of the cut mooring line. The grateful charter skipper climbed back to his boat and started the engine, but every time he tried to put it in gear there was a terrible noise, and the engine stalled. "Oh no!" whined his wife, who was still sitting in my cockpit. "Part of the charter agreement is that we’re responsible for the insurance deductible if we damage some¬ thing!"

L 111 the skippers started to explain their own set of signals, mostly made up as they went along. But Lee jumped back into her ’assault dinghy’ and sped off to her own raft-up. A few minutes later she was back, waving a sheet of paper. "One of the boats has a cellular modem for their on-board computer," she said as she tied the dinghy to my stem, "and like, I was able to/log on and download this from the net." It was a print-out of a list of anchoring hand signals, found on the rec. boats.cruising newsgroup, according to Lee. "The anchoring signal list is from an Alberg 37 named Sarah that sails on Buz¬ zards Bay. The racing signals are from the rec. boats, racing newsgroup, and like, they’re a compilation from a few different sets of signals." She passed the list up to me, and 1 handed it to the skippers of the charter boat.

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I looked over at the charter boat, established eye contact with the distressed skipper, and made a hand signal familiar to all boat owners: Holding my left palm flat, like checkbook, and holding my right hand as if to hold a pen, I made a motion as if writing a number with many zeroes after it. The charter boat skipper returned an equally universal signal: Holding his right hand in front of his face, as if to hold a small glass, he tipped his head back and moved his hand towards his mouth, as if consuming the contents of the glass in one gulp. — max ebb

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Mi What Now, Coach? A Bay Bareboating Primer So you’ve learned how to sail, but you don’t own a boat. Now what? Well . . . you Could drop hints with sailing friends until they invite you along on a Sunday sail, or perhaps catch a ride with the 'beer can' fleet for a Friday Night race. But sooner or later you’ll get the itch to 'command' your own craft, carving up the Bay on your own timetable and making your own damned mistakes . . . That is, creating your own grand adventures. When that time comes, you’ll need to recruit a few fun-loving friends, pack up the cooler and go rent yourself a well-maintained bareboat. With this idea in mind, we’ve gathered the opinions of a variety of Bay Area charter professionals (as well as Latitude staffers) on the best game plans for both daysails and overnights in our local waters. After all, now that you’ve decided to strike out on your own, you’ll need someplace to go! First let’s look at some typical and not-sotypical daysail itineraries. Regardless of which charter base you start from, the classic Central Bay 'milk run' is hard to beat for thrills and scenery. Sheet in, hold on and charge westward into the blast of supercharged air that funnels in daily through the Golden Gate. When you pass beneath the mighty span, give your best Ayala Cove is a popular day stop on Angel Island. Bring your volleyball, a picnic lunch and some hiking shoes. (All photos: Latitude/RS.)

rebel yell, raise a toast, then fall off to a broad reach so you can skpte along the cityfront past Crissy Field, the St. Francis Yacht Club, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach and Pier 39. Although we grow to take this 'golden loop' for granted, when compared to daysail venues in other parts of the country bashing around the Central Bay for a few hours is a dream ride. In fact, sometimes it takes an out-of-town sailor’s awe-struck appreciation to remind us just how special our backyard sailing venue is. What makes it even more special is stopping off at some of the picture-perfect spots along the way for lunch, cocktails, a stretch of the legs, or an overnight. Since you normally rent a boat for the whole day anyway, it makes sense to balance several hours of sailing with an interesting pit stop ashore. Then you’ll have the energy to bash around again until sunset! Angel Island is on everybody’s list of favorite stops, since its anchorages give easy access to hiking trails, historic ruins and sheltered picnic spots. The back (east) side anchorages are almost always calm and warm — yes, you can actually strip down and work on your tan — while the park facilities at Ayala Cove (facing Tiburon) offer both slips and moorings, bike rentals, volleyball courts, a snack stand and rest¬ rooms. Across Raccoon Strait is quaint ol’ Tiburon, where the guest dock at Sam’s Anchor Cafe seems to tug at passing sailboats with a powerful invisible force — especially when the skipper is feeling a bit parched. Sausalito and North Beach are two other prime stops that can add immeasurably to a spin around the Bay. In either case though, you’ll want to call or radio ahead to make arrangements (Schoonmaker is probably your best bet in Sausalito, while Pier 39 gives you access to Fisherman’s Wharf.) If you’re trailing a dink, however, you could opt to anchor out 'cruiser-style' — in which case the Aquatic Park anchorage, adjacent to the Hyde St. Maritime Museum, would also be a fun choice. Most marinas around the Bay keep a few

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guest slips open for boats in transit (available for overnights, if not for lunch stops), and a variety of restaurants welcome you to tie up free of charge — as long as you’re spending money under their roof. Our local experts have woven a few favorites into the following game plans. Drew Harper, head honcho of Spinnaker Sailing (of San Francisco) suggests you set sail from his Pier 40 location, reach over to Alameda, cruise down the Estuary and dock up at Chevy’s for lunch and lubrication.

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three layers of Gortex and fleece, you’ll also want to check out well-protected Paradise Cove on the back side of the Tiburon Peninsula, and China Camp, adjacent to McNear’s Beach, where you can gulp down a com dog, play a round of volleyball and take a dip in the large public pool. The liability of relaxing in out-of-the-way places like these is that you won’t want your mini-cruise to end. And why should you when you could spend a whole weekend or longer exploring under sail. Use a bit of creative thinking and you can design dozens of fun-filled itineraries that incorporate worthwhile sightseeing or special events ashore. True, overnighting aboard in a marina isn’t terribly exotic. So with the boat secured in a quiet marina, our favorite way to balance an active day of sailing is to sample the local nightlife, perhaps taking in some live music after a nice meal. While berthed at the Berkeley Marina you could catch a twilight summer concert at the Greek Theater; from Jack London Square you could peruse the jazz clubs; from Sausalito you could catch a cool combo at the No Name Bar or taxi up to Mill Valley and party down at the Sweetwater. And from South Beach or Pier 39 . . . The mind boggles at the possibilities. We’ve been sailing these waters for longer than we care to admit and still haven’t been to all the places on our own ’must do’ lists. Lpcal charter experts offer these ideas. One of Drew Harper’s favorite trips is up the Petaluma River to visit the historic Victorian farm town by the same name. It’s an easy sail up to Port Sonoma (at the river mouth) where you can spend the night or

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Afterwards, beat out of the Estuary, up the cityfront, spin under the Gate and run back to the marina. From her charter base at Schoonmaker Marina, Joanna Rizutti of Atlantis Yacht Charters suggests a day trip through the Central Bay to the Berkeley Marina and back. There’s usually good wind all the way and there are several good restaurants to choose from on arrival — including Skates, Joanna’s fav’. The South Bay is home to Spinnaker

Sailing of Redwood City. Manager Bob Diamond points out that the winds are milder, the waters are flatter and air temps there are often comparable to the Delta during the summer months. And while this area may not offer as many shoreside attrac¬ tions as the Central Bay, adventurous sailors have the option of gunkholing through wetland waterways like Smith’s Slough (beyond Pete’s Harbor) which is a nursery for baby seals and sea lions and is normally teeming with bird life such as herons, egrets and cormorants. If you’d rather sail in a T-shirt than in

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continue on (short tacking or motorsailing) all the way up to the heart of town through beautiful farm country. There’s a fun little Yacht Club and loads of great restaurants and bars. (Call (707) 778-4395 for 'D' Street drawbridge details.) On the way up or back you might also check out the Point Richmond area — which locals have affectionately dubbed the Rich¬ mond Riviera. The sailing’s great and the cozy little?'village of Point Richmond has some lively night spots like the Baltic which always seems to be pumping out hot jazz, swing or R&B. Tradewinds Sailing is located nearby, where Kirk Valentine will share his secrets for catching crabs up the coast at Drakes Bay — one of his favorite recommendations for experienced sailors. Coupled with a spin around the Farallones (where you might be lucky enough to spot a whale or two), this mini-offshore trip can be a great introduction for those who hunger for the challenge of offshore conditions. On the other hand, those who prefer flat seas and swimmable water temperatures head in the opposite direction — up to the Sacramento River Delta. You really need five to seven days to do it right, so we’ll save that vast region for another issue. It is possible to make a nice weekend trip from the Central Bay up to Benicia, how¬ ever. Joanna Rizutti suggests reserving a slip in advance at the Benicia Marina, and plan on treating yourself to a massage at New Attitudes, a three block walk afway (very reasonably priced). The area has no short¬ age of restaurants to suit a broad range of tastes and budgets. Also, hanging out at the Union Hotel can be fun, especially when it’s rockin’ with live music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. (Be sure to plan your passages up and back around the tides.) Another mellow overnight cruise is from the Central Bay down to Redwood City. The downwind run is a great opportunity to fine tune your spinnaker skills, and along the way you can chase the windsurfers off Coyote Point and stop off for lunch at Oyster Point or Oyster Cove. Later, your boat will be safe and happy at Redwood City’s Municipal Marina while you head off to toast the good life at Clarke’s by the Bay (owned by ex-49er Dwight Clarke) or Charley Brown’s. Okay, that’s it. We give up. If we haven’t convinced you by now to get out there and rip up the waterways, you have our permis¬ sion to grab another carton of Haagen Dazs and settle back into the couch. — latitude/aet Page 168 • UtXiUiZS • June, 1996

Eight Women in a Sailboat: A Modern Greek Odyssey If there’s one thing I remember from reading Homer’s Odyssey in college, it’s how every morning started with "dawn’s rosy fingers" or some variation thereof. Whenever I’m at sea — it doesn’t matter where — I’m reminded of these words at sunrise. So it was with my first charter in Greece, where Homer actually wrote these words. So what happens when eight women decide to charter a sailboat in Greece on a budget? Too much fun? Definitely! After seriously shopping around, we chose to charter from Albatross. Not only did they fit our budget, but they were low pressure, attentive and very friendly. We decided to hire a skipper because we'd never sailed in the Med and weren’t

familiar with the weather or docking in quays. We figured we'd also gain local knowledge, a translator and insights into modern Greek culture. We required a skipper who would (1) take sailing seriously, 2) take us seriously as sailors and (3) wouldn’t take much else seriously! We understand lots of skippers wanted the job, but Tim Munsol of Albatross was apparently very selective, because Yiannis, our skipper, fit the bill perfectly. After a fun night in Athens making plans, we were introduced in the morning to Yiannis and our boat, Sugar, at Kalamake Marina. We found the boat, an Atlantic 55, to be very big and roomy, with four double cabins with heads. It had AC, an electric fridge, microwave and separate crew quarters. After getting settled, we left Athens in 15-20 knot winds and headed down to Pt.

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Sunion and Poseidon’s Temple. Still on the mainland it was a nice 2-3 hour reach, highlighted by an absolutely brilliant sunset. After a vote, we decided to get to the Kildades islands early — a relative term among our crew — the next morning, heading for Siros with wind up to 30 knots from the North. We were sailing in early June, so these were not the dreaded 'Meltemi’s' that are more common in August. Meltemi’s are similar to our Santa Anas but stronger. Everyone was at various levels of seasickness for about eight hours, yet no one complained. Obviously, these conditions weren’t what we’d envisioned before leaving the quiet harbor, where the girls were stripping down and putting on suntan lotion,

while Yiannis was putting on foulies. From Siros it was a nice four-hour sail west to Mykonos where we anchored in Ornos Bay. It was still blowing like crazy, but everyone was feeling great. We had a glorious celebration that included she bottles of champagne, presentation of crew shirts and Mardi Gras beads, and the 'sacrifice' of the dreaded Michael Bolton CD — all to the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction. Look out Mykonos, here we come! We decided Mykonos needed three days of our attention, so despite our skipper’s insistence that the inner harbor could be a nightmare of anchoring problems, we tucked Sugar up against the busy quay. As the afternoon waned, our anchor was pulled up twice by other sailboats, then later by a 300foot ferry. After an hour or two, they were able to free it and we settled in to enjoy the trendy Mykonos night life. Delos, the ancient birthplace of Apollo, was another highlight. These days, with few inhabitants and fascinating ruins and history, it’s a nice daysail or short ferry ride from Mykonos. We then sailed on to Paros with abso¬ lutely ryo wind at all, which allowed for a few swim breaks. (Apparently it’s either feast or famine when it comes to wind in the Aegean.) We were all happy to anchor in peaceful Ay Ioannou after three nights in Mykonos. The snorkeling was barren, but we took a beautiful hike to the lighthouse at sunset and dined at the only taverna, next to a deserted beach. The food was impeccable and the price was right. Naxos was a bit touristy, but we stocked up on water, food and drachmas before heading on to Amorgos the next day. It was easy to provision just about everywhere we went, with higher prices noted in Mykonos. Amorgos was our favorite island. There were fewer tourists, less development and mountainous, rugged terrain that dropped vertically into the sea along the southern coast. To make it even more dramatic, the monastery of Chozoviotissa, built in 1088, was painted stark white and perched precariously atop steep brown cliffs. (Amorgos is where the movie The Big Blue was filmed.) We all rented scooters ($15.00 a day) and explored every inch of the island — you should have seen the looks on the villagers’ faces when all eight of us cruised through town! Later, we managed to find a great little bar to stay up all night in called Katerina's,

where they brewed their own version of ouzo. Our final stop was at Ios. Since it was early in the season, we saw nothing of the crowds and wild parties we'd heard about. After a wonderful day spent sipping rather large Heinekens at Milopotas Beach and making some poor attempts at windsurfing, we found the harbor to be charming and peaceful. The next day we disembarked and went on to Santorini by ferry where we all parted ways. Closing notes: Greeks seem to dine late, often after ten, and always take an afternoon siesta (from about 4-6 p.m.), during which all the shops close. We ate in the tavernas almost every night — the Greek cuisine was always fresh and delicious. I particularly enjoyed the salads, gyros, spinach and cheese pies, and moussaka. We mixed in enough American food to keep it interesting, but I think I’ve had enough feta cheese and olives for a while. Ouzo is OK if mixed with the same amount of water, but none of us could stomach retsina (Greek wine). Now that I’ve gained some experience and local knowledge, I think I’d probably forego hiring a skipper next time. As cool as Yiannis was — and as valuable as his local knowledge and language were — we didn’t come home with that same feeling of ac¬ complishment and self-reliance as we did when we bareboated previously in the BVIs. It’s a 'pink thing' I guess. — susan stromsland santa barbara

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WORLD Charter Notes We've done our best to inspire you to make the most of local charter possibilities this summer. As much as we'curse our persis¬ tent North Coast fog, if does burn off eventu¬ ally, revealing a truly world-class sailing venue. While we’re on the subject of summer sailing plans, be reminded also that June through October is the time to explore Cali¬ fornia coastal destinations like the Monterey Bay and the Channel Islands. We'll bring you reports on these areas in coming issues, but don't hesitate to make reservations now, especially fc^r weekends in autumn — typi¬ cally the best time in terms of weather. Many Bay Area sailors tend to forget that The Islands' are California’s only offshore cruising grounds — indeed, one of our state's greatest treasures. If you'd like an intro to the islands without committing to your own bareboat, check out the scheduled trips of¬ fered by veteran offshore sailor Mike Pyzel (see 'business' classifieds). You'll gain insights about the region's unspoiled ecology while fine tuning your seamanship. Afterwards you'll likely be ready to skipper your own bareboat out of Santa Barbara or Oxnard. (In S.B.: Santa Barbara Sailing Center (800) 350-

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9090; in Oxnard Offshore Island Sailing (805) 985-3600 or Marina Sailing (800) 262-SAIL.) For Monterey Bay bareboating, give Pacific Yachting a call at (800) 3742626 (in Santa Cruz). It's no secret that summer and fall is also the prime sailing season in many other char¬ ter destinations around the world, such as Northern Europe, the Aegean, Tahiti, Fiji, Alaska, Maine and the Pacific North¬

west. If you're planning to charter overseas, we assume you've already sewn up your charter reservations and secured your air flights. If not, you'd better get on it. As we write, fleets in Maine and the Pacific Northwest are already heavily booked, but there is still limited availability in both regions. We highly recommend both locations, but since you could be sailing in the Gulf or San Juan Islands within a few hours of leaving the Bay Area, the Northwest is espe¬ cially attractive. Plenty of late-model sailboats are available on both sides of the boarder including a few new multihulls. (And yes, there are plenty of stink-potters too if you really feel you must.) While sailing conditions in the South Pacific are generally brilliant throughout the summer months, be aware that most Europe¬ ans — particularly the French — vacation in August. If you like a good party, take note that Bastille Day (July 14) celebrations in Tahiti are wild and euphoric. (Call the Tahitian Tourist Board for info at (310) 414-8484.) Air fares are cheaper than to many Caribbean islands, and with any luck you might still find a nice bareboat for hire. Need any crew?

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With reports this month on the Olympic Trials (take a bow, Madro!); high altitude fun at the Skl/Satl Nationals; the all-PHRF Stone Cup; the resurgent Camellia Cup on Folsom Lake; the first — and maybe only — winner of our Beer Can Challenge; the best Citibank Spring Cup Regatta yet (take another bow, Madro!); a slow Ensenada Race; a civilized Duxshlp Race; the return of the Flight of the Bulls; the Yachting Cup in San Diego; and all the 'race notes' we could wedge in.

,\ Olympic Trials The Olympic Trials are all over but the crying, and for the most part the 'right' people will be heading back to Savanrtah for The Games in August — including the Bay Area Soling squad led by Jeff Madrigali. Two other local sailors did exceptionally well, but came up just short — Russ Silvestri in Finns, who looked like he was 'golden' until getting on the wrong side of a huge shift on the final beat of the series; and Ted Huang, who was hindered by carpal tunnel’s syndrome (a common windsurfer’s ailment) all week. We’ll catch up with Madro next month, and fill you in on all the Olympic action. Meanwhile, here’s the abbreviated version of what happened: EUROPE — 1) Courtenay Becker-Dey, The Dalles, OR, 17 points; 2) Hannah Swett, Jamestown,

Great news — Marin County Soling sailors Jeff Madrigali (above), Jim Barton and Kent Massey are going to the Olympics! Rl, 32; 3) Kim Logan, Miami, FL, 38. (19 boats) FINN — 1) Will Martin, Charleston, SC, 41 points; 2) Brian Ledbetter, Medina, WA, 42; 3) Russ Silvestri, San Francisco, 43. (26 boats) 470 WOMEN — 1) Kris Stookey/Louise Van Voorhis, Darien, CT, 17 points; 2) Jody Swanson/ Page 176 • UUUclg • June. 1996

Debbie Probst, Buffalo, NY, 25; 3) Tracy Hayley/ Linda Wennerstrom, Coral Cables, FL, 32. (6 boats) 470 MEN — 1) Morgan Reeser/Kevin Burnham, Wilton Manors, FL, 26 points; 2) Josh Adams/Bob Merrick, Rochester, MA, 32; 3) .Kerry Poe/Chris Bittner, Portland, OR, 39. (10 boats) LASER — 1) Nick Adamson, Newport Beach, CA, 40 points; 2) Andy Lovell, New Orleans, LA, 50; 3) Mark Mendelblatt, St. Petersburg, FL, 71; 4) John Myrdal, Honolulu, HI, 97; 5) Kevin Hall, Ventura, CA, 103. (48 boats) MISTRAL WOMEN —T) Lanee Butler,-Aliso Viejo, CA, 14 points; 2) Jayne Fenner Benedict, Salt Lake City, UT, 16; 3) Melissa Spoerke* New Berlin, Wl, 35. (11 boats) MISTRAL MEN — 1) Mike Gebhardt, Fort Pierce, FL, 19 points; 2) Ted Huang, Los Altos, CA, 27; 3) Dan Kerckhoff, Naples, FL, 30. (29 boats) TORNADO — 1) John Lovell/Charlie Ogletree, New Orleans, LA, 28 points; 2) Lars Guck/PJ Schaeffer, Bristol, Rl, 31; 3) Robbie Daniel/Enrique Rodriguez, Clearwater, FL, 34. (17 boats) SOLING — 1) Jeff Madrigali/Jim Barton/Kent Massey, Marin County, CA; 2) Coleman Brothers (Gerard, Peter, Paul), Hampton, VA; (21 boats in fleet portion; 2 boats in rjiatch racing finals) STAR — 1) Mark Reynolds/Hal Haenei, San Diego, CA, 33 points; 2) John Kostecki/Tom Olsen, San Diego, 34; 3) Eric Doyle/Brian Terhaar, San Diego, 39; 4) Paul Cayard, George Iverson, San Diego, 40. (19 boats)

Ski/Sail Nationals The 1996 edition of the Ski/Sail National Championships, held on April 19-21 at Lake Tahoe, attracted the best of both worlds. With freestyle skiing world champion Jon Moseley of Tiburon and former U.S. national Laser champion Steve Fleckenstein of Van¬ couver among the 20 competitors in the singlehanded Laser fleet, the competition for this year’s title was formidable. Fleckenstein was the only singlehanded competitor to place in the top five in both events, good enough to win the overall title by 6.25 points over Moseley. "1 thought if you could be fourth or fifth in each event you’d win. 1 was pretty lucky yes¬ terday on the water and I was happy with today," claimed Fleckenstein after Sunday’s skiing at Squaw Valley. "I was just trying to get a couple of good runs (skiing) in, and

then speed things up a bit." Saturday’s sailing off Sunnyside started off under partly cloudy skies — not perfect, but a relief from the forecasted snow storm. "We would have done it in the snow. The first year, 1994, set the tone for the event — it was snowing fairly hard, and yet we still went out and sailed. Everyone knew that was a possibility," said event director Ralph Silverman. The wind finally filled in from the west in the early afternoon, and those who could stay in phase with the shifty conditions were able to win the races. Fleckenstein staked himself to a great start by winning two of the three races in Saturday’s sailing off Sunnyside, thereby carrying first place into the skiing. San Diego’s Bruce Sutphen placed second with Nick Pullen, Duncan Pierce and Matt Hebard rounding out the top five. The Laser competition was tight, with

SHEET The event was sponsored by Mount Gay, Patagonia, Rossignol, Sunnyside Resort & Lodge, and Ralph’s Sailboat Services. Overall results follow, with sailing (first) and skiing (second) scores in parentheses. — Stuart streuli LASERS (20 boats) — 1) Steve Fleckenstein (1/3); 2) Jon Moseley (8/2); 3) Matt Hebard (5/6); 4) Eric Conner (15/1); 5) Rob Sproehnle (12/4); 6) Stuart Streuli (10/7); 7) (tie) Rick Moseley (13/5) and Duncan Pierce (4/14); 9) Jim Granger (9/10); 10) Bruce Sutphen (2/19).

MELGI (4 boats) — 1) DBA, Greg Dorland, Eric Klausen, Stan Erikson, Jane Stevenson, Susan Whittenburg (1/1); 2) Snow Man, Greg Dyer, Rob Geweke, Darren Knobe, Leslie Ames (2/3).

Lookin'good: BuffWendt's all-female team came in third. Inset: The winning form of Steve Fleckenstein, obviously a well-rounded guy.

only five points separating second and fifth place. In the four-boat Melges 24 division, Greg Dorland’s team swept first place in both disciplines to claim a second straight Ski/Sail championship. Dorland put himself in a good position to defend the title as he rebounded from a last place finish in the first race to win the next two, beating Greg Dyer by 1.25 points. ' "We were really worried after coming in dead last," said Greg. "Actually, we weren’t worried that we couldn’t do it. We were just worried we wouldn’t have enough races to stage our comeback!" Dorland’s team of Stan Erikson, Eric Klausen, Jane Stevenson and Susan Whit-

tenburg also won the skiing with a combined time of 4 minutes, 27 seconds. Buff Wendt’s Franklin Templeton Funds-sponsored all¬ female team placed second 21 seconds back. "I was pretty confident we’d win on the slopes — Eric and Stan Erikson are really good skiers," Dorland said. Local skier Eric Conner boosted himself to fourth overall in the individual standings by winning the skiing event with a combined three-run time of 1:01:18. Jon Moseley placed second, followed by Fleckenstein in third. But no matter where they finished everyone seemed more than pleased with the event. "I had a great time," enthused Moseley. "It’s a combination of two of the most perfect sports!" Fleckenstein concurred, "It’s not often you see 100% of the competitors having a good time. There was nobody grumpy or moping around!"

Stone Cup In its glory days — which really weren’t so long ago — the St. Francis YC’s Stone Cup was a grand prix IOR event, second only in stature among Bay races to Sept¬ ember’s Big Boat Series. By the late ’80s, the regatta was rapidly shrivelling in size — more or less in proportion to the mysterious IMS rule, under which the Stone Cup was sailed for half a dozen years. As interest in IMS waned, the yacht club put together an allPHRF format for the first time last year — but only 16 boats showed up. To bolster the depleted ranks, this year’s Stone Cup was combined with a pair of HDA races on Saturday, May 18. This 'captive audience' had the option of sailing two more races on Sunday, thereby competing in the 'full' Stoner and potentially doubling up on pickle dishes. Few of the smaller boats (and none of the multihulls) took the bait — too bad for them, as the sailing on Sunday proved to be much nicer than the previous day. Given professional race management, fair courses, and a range of current and wind conditions, this year’s Stone Cup provided a fairly reliable reality check on everyone’s PHRF ratings. Many races were decided by a matter of seconds, and no one boat ran away with any class. "From the looks of it, I’d say all of the ratings are well within the ballpark," said PHRF guru Carl Schumacher. "As opposed to rrjidwinters and ocean races, regattas like this are good fodder for our monthly PHRF meetings." Consistency was the key, as exhibited by Jim Archer’s smartly sailed J/44 Jobe, which reeled off a full house of deuces in the big boat division with Ted Wilson and Norman Davant behind the traveller. Four different boats took bullets — Scorpio, Bullsette, Sweet Okole and the hot-looking new Recid¬ ivist — but Jobe enjoyed the last laugh. In order to squeeze everyone into the traditional four-class Stone Cup format, the bottom three HDA classes — K, L and M — June, 1996 •

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Bartz Schneider, 15. (7 boats) DIV. A-1 (0-81) — 1) Jobe, J/44, Jim Archer, 8 points; 2) Recidivist, Schumacher 39, Colin Case, 13.75; 3) Jackrabbit, CM 1200, Dave Liggett/Bill Menninger, 17; 4) Sweet Okole, Farr 36, Dean

DIV. B (114-135) — 1) Tinsley Light, Santana 35, Hank Grandin, 6.5 points; 2) Annalise, Wylie 34 mod., Kim Desenberg, 12.75; 3) Harp, Catalina 38, Mike Mannix, 19; 4) (tie) Scoop, Wylie 34, Mike

Treadway, 17.75; 5) Bullsette, Mumm30, BobGar-

Clarke, and Blue Max, Dehler 34, Jim & Diana

vie/Kimo Worthington, 19.75. (10 boats)

Freeland, 24. (10 boats)

DIV. A-2 (84-111) — 1) Surefire, Frers 36, Jon &

DIV. C (138-up) — 1) Current Asset, Islander 30

Matt Carter, 6.5 points; 2) Endurance, Express 34,

Mk. II, John Bowen, 7.75 points; 2) Mintaka, C&C

Mike Condon, 9.75; 3) Expeditious, Express 34,

36, Gerry Brown, 8.75. (4 boats)

The Stone Cup just keeps changing with the times. All photos 'Latitude'/rob & jr.

Camellia Cup There wasn’t a camellia in sight at Folsom Lake YC’s 30th Camellia Cup on May 4-5. No one was complaihing, however, since there was plenty of water in the man-made reservoir, enough wind to complete a fiverace series, the natives were friendly, and no

prisoners escaped from the nearby correct¬ ional institute during the weekend. A total of 73 boats showed up to enjoy the sun¬ drenched, mellow weekend headquartered at Brown’s Ravine Marina. Two race courses ran simultaneously, with big boats (the lake allows up to 30footers, though the 'maxi boat' in this year’s regatta was an Olson 25) and dinghies running on different tracks. When the smoke /

cleared, the Camellia Cup — which essen¬ tially is awarded for the best performance in the biggest class — went to local rockstars Charles Witcher and Sherron Hart, who sailed their Moore 24 Hot Rod Lincoln to a decisive victory in the Open Keelboat division. This was the third time that Witcher’s name has been engraved on the Cup — pre¬ vious victories came in ’85 with his June, 1996

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THE RACING Wavelength 24 Magic Jammies and last year in ’Lincoln. Witcher and Hart, a husband/ wife team who own Hart Sails in West Sacramento, were pushed in each race by Joel Verutti’s Mercedes — but in the end, their boatspeed and local knowledge proved untouchable. "We played the geographical shifts, not the oscillating shifts," said Charles cryptically. "Tell everyone that the Camellia Cup is back!" declared race chairman Charlie Hess. "The drought scared off a lot of people, but that’s ancient history now. We’re rebuilding the regatta, and^ will offer a one design start to any class that fields five boats next year." OPEN KEEL — 1) Charles Witcher & Sherrop Hart, Moore 24, 3 points; 2) Joel Verutti, Moore 24, 7.75; 3) Jack Tatum, Hotfoot 20,15; 4) Charlie Hess, Wavelength 24, 19; 5) Dave Maxwell, Wavelength 24,19. (14 boats) OPEN CENTERBOARD — 1) Robert Koch, Ban¬ shee, 3 points; 2) Bob Backer, Banshee, 9; 3) Ryan Schofield, Coronado 15,10. (7 boats) OPEN MULTIHULL — 1) Mike Rayhuse, Hobie 18, 5.5 points; 2) Kit Wiegman, Hobie 20, 6.5; 3) Jim Sajdak, Hobie 18, 7.75; 4) Erika Hansen, Hobie 18, 19. (10 boats)

CATALINA 22—1) Bob Baker, 5.25 points; 2)

Queen of the Cans The Beer Can Challenge put forth two issues ago has been mastered and, just like last summer’s Labor Day Weekend Ironman Challenge, the inaugural — and so far only — winner is a woman! Renee Wilmeth, a 28year-old book editor from San Francisco, sailed in four beer can races (almost five, as you will read) early last month, thereby becoming the first known person in the history of the Bay Area ever to accomplish this feat. "It was fun seeing some new yacht clubs and meeting lots of new people," en¬ thused Renee. "Most of this wasn’t pre¬ arranged, 1 just showed up at different clubs and found rides. Sailors are an incredibly friendly bunch of people!" Wilmeth admits she wouldn’t have at¬ tempted the daunting Challenge if she hadn’t been taking some time off from the stress of the publishing business. She also claims she’s still learning about the sport, having only picked it up 3V2 years ago! When not beer-canning, Renee regularly appears on the Olson 30 Jack’s Back, the Merit 25 1 Twilight Zone and the Farr 40 Bodacious. With so many crewing opportunities, she isn’t in a big hurry to buy a boat, "but I think when I’m ready a Wabbit would be high on

Gary Preston, 7.75; 3) Terry Cobb, 8.75; 4) Tom

Page, 8.75; 5) Niles Kynett, 19. (14 boats) CRUISER — 1) Mike Bringolf, Spacesailor, 3 points; 2) Scott Hefty, Catalina 25, 9. (6 boats)

Spoils of victory: Charles Witcher and Sherron Hart (left couple) and the 'Hot Rod Lincoln' crew display their Camellia Cup booty.

CAPRI 22 — 1) Mike Doyle, 6.75 points; 2) Wade Behling, 7.5. (6 boats) SANTANA 20 — 1) Nick Rau, 3 points; 2) Travis Wilson, 9. (6 boats) THISTLE — 1) Mike Gillum/Kim Zetterburg, 7.25 points; 2) Craig Lee, 11.75; 3) Dean Iwahashi, 21; 4) Dave Keran, 28. (10 boats)

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the list — well, at least this week!" We’ve heard through the grapevine that several other people are attempting to com¬ plete the Challenge (see page 150 of the April issue for the 'rules'). One crazy group, led by Russ Taft of Vallejo YC, even intends

to take a Cal Cruising 36 to five beer can faces in row in August — same boat, same crew! We’re stocking up on T-shirts in case they actually pull it off. .. But back to Wilmeth’s week on the brewski circuit. We asked her to document her achievement, and were pleasantly surprised to receive the following report: April 29 — The Bay View Boat Club’s Monday Night Madness Series can be sum¬ med up by their division breakdowns — Div¬ ision A (the 'fast' boats) is 275 and below. Division B (everyone else) is 276 and above, some with club-assigned ratings in the mid300s! Ten boats started in Division A. Racing with Jeff Brown on his Santana 22 The Greatest Thing in the World (TGTITW), I enjoyed a pleasant evening on the water as we doublehanded against two club rivals. We lost to both of them — but still had a great time! Jeff quickly promoted me from grinder to foredeck to tactician — although I was less than brilliant at the latter job. The evening was unseasonably warm, which made the pear cider at the YC bar afterwards taste even better. Frequency: Every other Monday through September, with a break in July. First gun: 6 p.m., or whenever they get around to it. Prizes: Top three skippers in each division receive an empty pint glass to redeem for a free beer. Beer: Anchor Steam and Wyder’s Pear Cider on tap. Best way to get a ride: Hang out on the back deck of BVBC starting about 5:30 p.m. Chat with a few folks and make sure they know you’re looking for a boat, as they might introduce you to skippers who need crew. Most skippers come by the club early, since their boats are nearby. April 30 — As we motored out of the yacht harbor on Jarlen, Bob Bloom’s J/35,1 was excited to see wind for the Sausalito YC’s Tuesday Night Series. After a day of sweltering heat in San Francisco and Saus¬ alito, the spray and 15-20 knots of breeze were a welcome way to cool off, though the crew dove for foulies when the first waves broke over the bow. The main was up, the #3 was on deck and we were waiting for our gun when the main tore, leech to luff. After stowing the sail and spectating at the wind¬ ward mark, we headed for the bar. The party scene at Sausalito YC is pretty mellow. Most activity centers around heck¬ ling boats coming into the guest dock. Extra

SHEET points are awarded for number of crew need¬ ed to fend off. Turnout was apparently good for the first race of the season. We saw lots of nice racing boats on the water, including Reus, Moonshine and an ll:Metre damaged in last winter’s storm. After the repairs, how does it handle? "Not bad for a boat that got thrown across a parking lot," said crew Peter Winter. Frequency: Every other Tuesday through September, also with a break in July. First gun: 6:30 p.m. Prizes: Cocktail glasses. Beer: Bass on tap, the usual bottles. Best way to get a ride: Most of the boats at Sausalito YC are scattered in marinas up and down Bridgeway. If you can’t arrange a ride beforehand, the guest dock at SYC is the best place to be. Boats that, need crew often stop by to pick up extras around §:30. May 1 — I stumbled upon a larger than normal group of people on the deck at 5 p.m. for the first Richmond YC Wednesday night race. A transformer had blown earlier in the afternoon leaving the club — and worse, the hoist — powerless. Several reg¬ ulars were contemplating how many people it would take to lift a Wabbit into the water by hand! The two Express 27s in the water already had cr6w waiting lines, so we decided to have a beer and think about our options. About 5:30 p.m., Mike Henry, Pete7Row¬ land and I stumbled onto the Hawkfarm Predator. We had a relaxing, warm, light air race out to Southampton Shoals and back — only sullied by the fact that I had to put on shoes to jibe the pole. Three classes (29 feet above and below, and non-spinnaker) compete boat-for-boat with bottles of wine dispensed liberally afterward for 'first to finish', 'best crash', 'best color', 'guest crew' and other categories. Eating is the main apres-race activity at RYC. The real tactical feat is getting room at the grill for your Gardenburger. Frequency: First and third Wednesday through September. First gun: 5:50 p.m. Prizes: A bottle of white wine — but don’t look for corrected times. Beer: Red Hook and Weinhardt’s on tap; assorted domestic bottles. Best way to get a ride: Show up at RYC between 5-5:15 p.m. The back deck by the hoist is usually the best spot. # May 2 — After a hot and breezy after¬ noon in Benicia, I was more than ready for the air-conditioned yacht club and a sailboat race. My ride this night was Walter and Joe Lew’s Columbia 10.7 Shanti. After they confirmed I’d brought my PFD (BenYC has

Renee Wilmeth, exalted high goddess of the Suds Circuit. "I sail, therefore I am," she said in her acceptance speech.

a standing PFD rule for Thursday nights), I was assigned the most dubious position on any boat — tactician. I earned my keep only by spotting and interpreting the general recall flag after a start in strong ebb. The crew of Shanti also made me feel great by declaring that they’d never been second boat to the Windward mark. We finished mid-fleet — better than normal, they kept insisting — and even the RC said we looked smart. Can’t ask for better praise than that! Racers in three divisions (including non-spinnaker) banged around a windward/ leeward course with a short jibe mark. The windward mark was off Benicia’s First Street. The leeward mark was by the Benicia Bridge, a long enough downwind run to have a beer and enjoy the evening. Mischief, a Soverel 33, won our division. After the finish, folks at BenYC were terrific as we enjoyed a fine din¬ ner and race results. Frequency: Every Thursday through Sep¬ tember. First gun: 6 p.m. Prizes: Bragging rights. Beer: Budweiser and Bass on tap; Heineken and assorted domestic bottles. Best way to get a ride: Boats snag pick-up crew from the gas dock by the Benicia Mar¬ ina office. Most racers are there by 5:30 and boats stop by on the way out. May 3 — A few weeks ago, I made the decision to head over to Corinthian YC on Fridays instead of fighting Bay Bridge traffic to get to Berkeley. After my first race, I was pretty sure I’d made a good decision. After several races, I’m convinced. This night, I joined my now-regular Friday night crew on /

Bob Bloom’s J/35 Jarlen as their bowman — well, bowman wannabe. I’d like to say I’m learning bow, but I’m really still learning jibes, from the front end. This particular Friday wasn’t much different. After the normal close call with the spinnaker, we won our division. CYC has several starts including a non¬ spinnaker class. It’s also one of the only beer can series where the big boat division might include ll:Metres and a Mumm 36 in addi¬ tion to the regular complement of Express 37s. A typical course is a triangle between Yellow Bluff or Little Harding, Point Knox, a leeward turning mark off the Caprice Res¬ taurant and the finish off the CYC deck. CYC wins my award for best party afterward! Frequency: Every Friday through Sep¬ tember. First gun: 6:30 p.m. Prizes: Winners in each division receive CYC highball glasses with 'Friday Night Regatta' inscribed. This club is a class act. Beer: Steinlager on tap. Need I say more? Best way to get a ride: CYC equips pick-up crew with spiffy name tags that read 'I Want to Crew'. Crew congregate on the main deck outside and are usually picked up around 5:30-5:45 p.m. Citibank Spring Cup Regatta Coming off his hard-fought victory in the Soling Olympic Trials, Jeff Madrigali ex¬ tended his winning streak by taking the Citibank Spring Cup Regatta, held May 1819 off PIER 39. Sailing Blitzkrieg with owner Dennis Rowedder, Shawn Bennett, Keith Stahnke and Jon Stewart, Madro picked up steam as the 10-race, no-throwout series unfolded. His scores of 4,4,1,2,1,4,3,1,8,2 were good enough to win the windy regatta for the second time in a row, though it wasn’t quite the runaway victory he enjoyed at the ’95 Citibank Fall Cup series. For his efforts, Madro earned a check for $4,000, which he split with his crew. "Except for our meltdown in the ninth race — we were over early on a spinnaker start, and later T-boned Ben Wells — we sailed really consistently and cleanly," claimed Rowedder. "It definitely wasn’t as easy as the point spread suggests, but Madro Stayed really calm and focused during the whole regatta. He’s not as excitable as he used to be, no doubt from all his Olympic training." Madrigali returned the compliment: "Thanks to Dennis, we had the best prepared boat. We also had the same team we had last time, but with Keith replacing Billy Erkelens. Our boathandling — which along with good starts is what this regatta’s all about — was superb. .. and we had a great time together. I’d do it again in a minute!" June, 1996

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courses if you got behind." The surprise of the weekend had to be Bart Hackworth’s third place finish in his inaugural Citibank appearance. Running fifth going into the finale, Bart and tactician Howie Shiebler scored a timely bullet to pull up into the winners’ circle. In addition to a $2,000 paycheck, Hackworth — who is leav¬ ing North Sails and apparently going back to school — earned a berth in the upcoming

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The Citibank Spring Cup dash for cash. Upper left, 'Team Blitzkrieg" takes home the big check. All photos 'Latitude'/rob & jr, except as noted.

Brut Cup (Madro and Cayard were already enlisted). In addition to title sponsor Citibank, other supporters this time included Nissan Path¬ finder, Crystal Geyser, Headsail, Revo and AT&T. Tune in to the SportsChannel on

RACING SHEET Oceanside, or Dana Point. . ." That pretty much sums up what we learned about the Ensenada Race this year. Starting at noon on April 26 outside Newport Beach, the 49th edition of this 125-mile race rapidly degenerated into a light air, upwind binge of pain. Ultimately 265 of the 444 starters came to their senses and pulled the plug on the torpid race. Only the bigger boats and the 77-strong motor-sailing divisions made it to the finish line with their classes relatively intact. Bob Lane’s blue Andrews 56 Medicine Man was the standout ULDB performer this year, sailing in company with the sleds almost the entire way to Ensenada. Evo¬ lution, Brack Duker’s slippery SC 70, also put on an impressive performance, finishing a hour before the next sled. The turbo-sleds, which corrected out at the bottom of the ULDB 70 class, stacked up in this order: Victoria, Pyewacket and Cheval. Also deserving of mention was Phil and Marty Friedman’s Farr 40 White Knight, which clobbered PHRF-A in its Enchilada Derby debut. "I should have followed my own advice," moaned sailmaker Kame Richards, who DNF’ed aboard the Beneteau 45f5 Mystical Creampuffs. (Regular readers may remember that last year Kame vowed to take a leave of absence from the race after the unusually splendid conditions.) "I knew it would never be that good again, but I didn’t think it would be this bad, either!" Fortunately, sailors have notoriously short memories — and next year’s 50th Ensenada Race, scheduled for April 25, is bound to be an epic one. Pray for wind! ULDB 70 — 1)

Dancer,

R/P 70; 3)

Evolution, SC Cheval, N/M 70.

70; 2)

Taxi

(13 boats; 1

DNF) MULTIHULL — 1) Delta Vee, Corsair 31; 2) Stars & Stripes, Custom 60; 3) Tigershark, Farrier 31. (22 boats; 17 DNF) ULDB — 1) Medicine Man, Andrews 56; 2) Pressure Cooker, SC 52; 3) Bay Wolf, SC 50. (23 boats; 9 DNF) SCHOCK 35—1) Water Moccasin; 2) White Fang; 3) Whistler. (8 boats; 4 DNF) J/35 — 1) Rival/2) Incisor; 3) Abba Zaba Dad. (9 boats; 3 DNF) '"iMS-A — 1)

Tuesday, June 11, at 8 p.m. to catch all the highlights.

Ronstan,

Mike Ratiani, 82. (10 boats)

PRIZE MONEY — 1) Madrigali, $4,000; 2) Cayard, $3,000; 3) Hackworth, $2,000; 4) Perkins,

Blitzkrieg, Jeff Madrigali, 29.25 points; 2) Citibank, Paul Cayard, 37.25; 3) Toxic Tuna, Bart Hackworth, 42.75; 4) Dilithium, Chris Perkins, 44; 5) Nissan Pathfinder, Seadon Wijsen, 46.5; 6) SportsChannel, John Sweeney, 57.75; 7) Flying Pig, Ken Kieding, 60; 8) Headsail, Jeff Thorpe, 66; 9) Ultra Nectar, Ben Wells, 82; 10) SCORES — 1)

$1,000.

IMS-B —

1) Amante,

Choate 48; 2)

Elusive,

Choate 48. (6 boats; 3 DNF)

White Knight, Farr 40; 2) Voodoo, Charmay III, Frers 40. (29 boats; 21

PHRF A — 1) Tripp 40; 3)

Upwind to Ensenada? "After dark, if the decks are dry, head for the beach. If they’re wet, head offshore. And if you’re slatting around mindlessly in ab¬ solutely no wind, head for San Diego, or

It’s OK!, Andrews 43; 2) Heart Beat,

Wylie 45. (4 boats; 0 DNF)

DNF)

Ballistic, Hobie 33; 2) Sidekick, Cutie Pie, Hobie 33. (26 boats; 20 DNF) PHRF C — 1) Tantallon, Soverel 33; 2) Pride & Joey, Lacost42. (13 boats; 11 DNF) PHRF B — 1)

J/37; 3)

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THE RACING PHRF D — 1) Vendetta, Olson 30; 2) Mad, Olson 30; 3) Howling, Olson 30. (16 boats; 9 DNF) PHRF E — 1) Sedona, J/29; 2) Phoenix, Capri 30; 3) Hetaira, Santana 37. (24 boats; 19 DNF) PHRF F— 1) Thunder II, Catalina 38; 2) Llckity Split, Catalina 38; 3) Hassle, Catalina38. (29 boats; 22 DNF) PHRF G — 1) Oasis, Santana 35; 2) Pussycat, Peterson 34; 3) Seadora, Santana 30/30. (36 boats; 30 DNF) PHRF J — 1) Prophet, Laser 28; 2) Southern Comfort, SC 27; 3) Wood Aye, Mair 30. (27 boats; 20 DNF) PHRF 1 — 1) Sheezaliedee, CF 27; 2) Windbourne, Eri^son 30. (17 boats; 15 DNF) PHRF J — 1) Prime Time, Hunter 31; 2) Wol¬ verine, Morgan 27. (16 boats; 14 DNF) PHRF K — 1) Tie Breaker, Ranger28. (23 boats; 22 DNF) PHRF L — 18 boats, all DNF. ANCIENT MARINERS — 9 boats, all DNF. CRUISING (spinnaker) — 1) Bossule, Alberg 37; 2) Gypsy Wind, Tartan 41; 3) Mahalo III, Hunter 40.5. (53 boats; 10 DNF) CRUISING (non-spinnaker) — 1) Born Free, Cal 46; 2) Streaker, Columbia43; 3) Oh Pretty Woman, Catalina 42. (24 boats; 4 DNF)

her talented crew that day was San Diego sailmaker Gary Weisman, who flew up to help Shaw tune up his boat for the upcopiing Pacific Cup.

FIRST TO FINISH — Stars & Stripes, Custom 60’ cat., Dennis Conner, 21.5303 hours.

PHRO-I (lite) — 1) Gai-Jin, J/130, Robert Shaw; 2) Dolphin Dance, SC 50, Dave Sallows; 3) Zama-

Duxship Race After a IV2 hour postponement, 57 boats took off on May 11 under blue skies for a pleasant 31.6-mile jaunt up to Duxbury Reef, out to the Lightship and return. The occasion was Sausalito YC’s Duxship Race, the second of eight ocean races this summer. Some politically incorrect old-timers—relics from the ’60s, no doubt — still refer to this as the 'LSD Race', as it originally went to the Lightship first, then Duxbury. Like the season-opening Lightship Race, the Duxship was quite well-mannered. Con¬ ditions to Duxbury were top-of-the-heavy#1, followed by a tight spinnaker reach to the Lightship, a jibe onto port for the run to the Gate, ultimately downshifting to the light kite as the wind dropped out inside the Headlands. The jibe at the Lightship was apparently the trickiest part of the day; in fact, the Express 27 Baffett broke their spinnaker pole during this maneuver. How¬ ever, the resourceful crew managed to 'McGiver' it back together using a spare winch handle, the bilge pump handle, duct tape, a sail tie and kev cord — and salvaged a seventh with the jury rig! Meanwhile, way out in front of the pack, Robert Shaw’s still-teething J/130 Gai-Jin ("foreign devil" in Chinese) won her first race — and with lots of room to spare. Sporting a new deeper keel, her second in the half year Shaw has owned the boat, Gai-Jin finished only five minutes behind Dolphin Dance to correct out first by over six minutes. Among Page 184 •

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zaan, Farr 52, Chuck Weghorn; 4) X-Dream, X-119, Steen Moller; 5) Pegasus XIV, Newland 368, Dan Newland. (16 boats) PHRO-II (heavy) — 1) Tinsley Light, Santana 35, Hank Grandin; 2) Dance Away, Santana 35, Doug Storkovlch; 3) Juggernaut, Islander 36, Bill Parks. (10 boats)

Still life: A fleet of ducks starboard tacks the Flight of the Bulls, circa 1970.

aluminum rowboat outfitted with a tired ’74 outboard. Writes 80-year-old race chairman Bob McKibben, "T-shirts were handed out to the first 28 finishers, including the first three seniors, first three juniors, and naturally — because it was Mother’s Day — the first three females. Thanks to everybody who sailed or helped me run the race. See you next year — same time, same place!"

MORA-I (lite) — 1) Dragon Lady, Express 27, Jim Coyne; 2) Jaded Lover, Express 27, Richard Bryant; 3) Attitude, Express 27, Michael Henry; 4)

BOX SCORES

WYSIWYG, Olson 30, bop Martin. (12 boats) MORA-II (heavy) — 1) Roadhouse Blues, Hawkfarm, Bentsen/Boschma; 2) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman; 3) Doctor Who, Merit 25, John Drewery. (8 boats) SHS (shorthanded) — 1) TGTITW, Santana 22, Jeff Brown; 2) Happy Trails, Valiant 40, David

relative obscurity of Box Scores. But our mission remains the same; to seek out and

Bennett; 3) Narwhal, Newport 27, Don Blood. (9 boats) CRUZ (motor allowance) — 1) Jasmine, Union 36, Bob Hungerford. (2 boats)

Bulls Fly Again Last month’s long-awaited return of the Flight of the Bulls Race in Foster City was a great success, featuring a veritable 'who’s who' of El Toro sailing. Held in nice winds on May 11, it was the first time since 1974 that this 5-mile round-trip has been con¬ tested. Winds were light and shifty at the start, but soon increased to the point where the two crash boats could barely keep up with the 34-boat fleet — which isn’t saying much for the horsepower of the escort boats, an old FJ with twin electric motors and an

been before. . . All ahead, warp five!

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TRIANGLES — t) Wartna-B, B-25, JCbn Hart-

19 boats)

Colbom; 4) Ooo Wee Baby. MacGregor 26. Jim :■

SHEET

SENIOR — 1) Jim Warfield; 2) Tom Burden; 3) Dennis Silva; 4) Walt Andrews; 5) Steve Brigman; 6) Jim Maloney; 7) Art Lewis. (26 boats) JUNIOR (< 16 years) — 1) BradNieuwstad; 2) Ian Murray; 3) Abby Swann. (8 boats) WOMEN — 1) Abby Swann; 2) Sybil Lewis. (3 boats) OVERALL — Jim Warfield.

Yachting Cup After taking last year off due to conflicts with the America’s Cup, San Diego YC’s popular Yachting Cup — one of the best

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K-CUP (0-209) — 1) Desperado, Express 27, Mike Bruzzone; 2} Family Hour. Olson 30, Briefer Family; 3) Renegade, Santana 525, Jim Tinker; 4) Quicksilver, Raven 24, Wade Hough. (26 miles; 22

SoCal regattas — made a welcome return on May 3-5. Nearly 1,000 sailors on 128 boats sailed in the well-run event, a nice turnout these days. Race chairman John Gladstone described the light and shifty conditions as "more Newport-ish than San Diego-ish, very mind-taxing." The weekend — which is no longer affiliated with Yachting magazine — began with a late afternoon race on Friday for the Leukemia Ton Cup, which saw Pressure Cooker, the J/35 Cheers, Vendetta and Menace XVII emerge as class winners. Two races followed on both Saturday and Sun¬ day, with overall trophies for best performance going to Jon ’Hippie’ Shampain’s and Scot Tempesta’s SC 52 Pressure Cooker on the big-boat course, and Ted Ward’s J/24 Big Pumpkin on the little-boat course. Inevitably, Dennis Conner’s runaway class victory in his ’new’ boat, a refurbished CF 27, was the talk of the regatta — as was the liquor store he recently purchased a few blocks from the San Diego YC. While some accused DC of slumming it to race a trickedout boat in PHRF, Gladstone put it in another light: "Dennis picked up a beater boat for $4,000, and then bought a few lowtech sails from us (North). He also went back to the stock rudder from Choate, painted the hull, and semi-faired the keel. He did it not only for the fun of it, but to remind people

WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Jon Stewart, 4.25 points; 2) Colin Moore, 5.5; 3) Bill Part ridge, 16.(8 boats) WBRA SEASON OPENER <GGYC; April 26):

BIRD - 1) Grey Goose, Jock MacLean, 1.5 points; 2) Polly, Jim van Dyke, 4; 3) Skylark, Jane

SBRA REGATTA (Richmond YC:May 4-5:5racesj: EL TORO, SR. — 1) Will Paxton, 12.5 points; 2) Hank Jotz, 13.75; 3) Al Kenstler, 24.75; 4) Gordy

Hook, 7. (7 boats) BEAR — 1) Little Dipper, Joe Bambara, 4.75 points; 2) Smokey, Steve Robertson, 5; 3) Circus,

Nash, 29. (27 boats) EL TORO, JR. — 1) Joey Pasquali, 12.75 points; 2) Katie Clausen, 12.75; 3) Abby Swann. 13.75; 4) lan Rogers. 28. (14 boats) INTERNATIONAL CANOE — 1) Del Olsen, 3 points; 2) Fran DeFaymoreau, 10. (6 boats) LASER H —- 1) Bell/Need, 1 5 points; 2) Gary

Bob Jones, 10. (7 boats) FOLKBOAT — 1) Thea, Tom Reed, i .5 points; 2) (lie) Freya, Ed Welch, and Polperro, Peter Jeal, 5.

Wall, 7; 3) Mssr. Ouellet, 8. (6 boats) INTERNATIONAL 14—1) Gremaux/Hanke, S.25 points; 2) Arens/Berntsen, 5.5;3) Bates/Schmidt, 11; 4) Amoid/Henderson, 15/(11 boats) 506 — t) Milter/Heckman, 3 points; 2) Poore/ Park, 8; 3) Largay/Sander, 14; 4) Perez/Smith, 15. (10 boats)

PHRF AA (under 33) — 1) Pressure Cooker, SC 52, Shampain/Tempesta, 6.75 points; 2) Bullseye, CM 1200, John Wylie, 11.75; 3) It’s OKI, Andrews 43, Lew Beery, 13. (9 boats) PHRF A (36-72) — 1) Cadenza, N/M 45, Carl Eichenlaub, 10.75 points; 2) Charmay III, Frers 40, Joel Morenfeld, 11.75; 3) Snooker, J/120, Jim Cochran, 15.75. (14 boats)

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that you can take a tired old boat, put some effort into the project, and then go out and win races. I think he deserves credit for doing it, rather than being hazed." Another topic of debate was the last start for the 25-boat strong Schock 35 fleet, which counts this regatta in their High Point Series. The vast majority of the fleet jumped the starting gun — but, to the amazement of the racers, there wasn’t a general recall. Some boats did go back, but others apparently felt they were shielded from view and therefore safe. It turns out the race committee didn’t know exactly who was over early — how¬ ever, they were able to accurately identify the handful that actually started correctly, thereby PMSing 15 boats "by exclusion". It was a unique and controversial way of handling the situation, to say the least. "It was ridiculous — boats started going over the line at 30 seconds," explained principal race officer Peter Young. "At the gun, most of the fleet was so far over the line that we had an unobscured view of the pin! Our decision to PMS boats ’by exclusion’ was perfectly legal, dating back to a precedent set in the ’76 Finn Gold Cup."

(5 boats) . tOD — 1) Undine, Adam Wheeler, 1.5 points; 2) Hecate, Dennis Jermaine, 4, i3 boats) KNARR — 1) Sequoia It, Chris Perkins, 4,75 points; 2) Flyer, Chris Kelly, 7; 3) Cardinal Sagehen, George Sayre, 10; 4) Nordlys. Joel Kudler, 10.75; 5) Huldra. Jim Skaar, 11. (17 boats)

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Wayne Clough, 22. (17 boats) KNARR — 1) #107, Chris Perkins, 10.75; 2) Lykken, Bob Fisher, 18; 3) Red Witch, Craig McCabe, 20.75; 4) Huldra, Jim Skaar, 22; 5) Peerless, Larry Drew, 24. (18 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Sonita, Craig Page, 11.75 points; 2) Flying Circus, Ryley/Hodges, 13.5; 3) Archimedes, Dick Swanson, 18; 4) Peaches, John Rivlin, 23; 5) #18394, Unknown, 25. (16 boats) 11:M£TRE — 1) Ronstan, Mike Ratiani, 6.5 points; 2) Team Montgomery, 7.75. (4 boats) ETCHELLS — .1) Mr. Natural, Bill Barton, 5.5 points; 2) Six Hundred, Hank Easom, 11; 3) Wild Woman, Kers Clausen, 12.5; 4) Celebration, Henry Fisher, 13; 5) #776, Jim Gregory, 24. (13 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) #44, Melissa Purdy, 10.75 points; 2) Mary Don’t Surf, Mark Eastham/Hans Williams, 11.25; 3) Double Pucker, David Wadbrook, 15: 4) Surfeit, Henry Otsen/Atison Dimlck, 18; 5) Not the Family Buick, Mike Stone, 19. (10 boats)

£££U j/24 — 1) Cool Breeze, Phil Perkins, 8 points; 2) Grinder, Jeff Littfin, 10.5; 3) #4528, Seamus Wilmot, 18.5; 4)#3379, Unknown, 20; 5) Downtown Uproar,

B-25 NATIONALS (Encinal YC; May 17 -12; 5 races}:

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THE RACING j/35 — 1) Flashback, Lance McCabe, 9.75 points; 2) Break Away, John O’Connor, 11.75; 3) Rag Tag, Chuck Burns, 16. (9 boats) SCHOCK 35 — 1) Minnesota Fast, Jim Maslom, 29; 2) Wings, D. & S. Case, 31.5; 3) Whistler, Johnstone/Wainer, 32; 4) Alakazam, Turner/Miller, 44; 5) Mischief, Hardy/Reardon, 46. (25 boats) MELGES 24—1) Bazooka Joe, Mark Golison, 15.5 points; 2) Gl Joe, Steve Grillon, 17.75; 3) Hard Core, Stephan Maseda, 18. (12 boats) PHRF B (75-114) — 1) Vendetta, Olson 30, Ernie Richau, 5.5 points; 2) Bodacious, B-32, Rich Corbett, 13.5; 3) Miss Ali, Adhara 30, Dan Harlan, 22.5. (22 boats) PHRF o'(117-153) — 1) Menace XVII, CF 27, Dennis Conner, 4.25 points; 2) Prophet, Laser 28, Stagg/Palitz, 11.75; 3) Bligh’s Spirit, Cal 36, Sam Butler, 15. (18 boats) PHRF D (156-above) — 1) Big Pumpkin, J/24, Ted Ward, 3 points; 2) Pandemonium, Thunderbird, Bruce Cameron, 10.5; 3) Hot Ruddered Bum, J/24, Dave Johnson, 15.5. (7 boats)

Law, Thierry Peponnet, Jeff Madrigall, Morgan Larson, and the winner of the J/24 division of the Leukemia Cup. Picking a winner from such a formidable line-up is impossible, but Russell Coutts will certainly be a factor in the finals. Coutts just blew the doors off all comers at the Brut Royal Lymington Cup in England, winning all 16 of his matches with apparent ease despite his one year lay-off from match racing. Finishing in Court’s wake were; 2) Chris Law, GBR, 12-7; 3) Ed Baird, USA, 10-5; 4) Peter Holmberg, ISV, 11-8; 5) Thierry Peponnet, FRA, 9-6; 6) Markus Wieser, GER, 7-6; 7) Sten Mohr, DEN, 5-8; 8) Peter Gilmour, AUS, 6-9. Sale boats; Dennis Conner sold his 60foot cat Stars & Stripes to record-monger Steve Fossett, who has shipped it to Chicago for an attempt at the Chicago-Mackinac course record in late July. Check this month’s Outside magazine for more insights into what makes Fossett tick. . . Bill Twist

recently sold half of Melges 24 to Jennifer Lords of Sausalito. Though the boat never had the name painted on it anywhere, Twist called the boat Pris (the ’basic pleasure unit’ in Blade Runner, portrayed by Darryl Han¬ nah). Lords, however, entered the Los Angeles NOOD regatta under a different name — Twist and Shout... Bob Garvie just sold his third Bultseye, an almost-new CM 1200, to San Diego’s John Wylie, who’s moving up from his J/105 J-OK. . . Two Santana 35s recently changed hands: Mark and Susanne Sloan bought 50/50, moving up from an Olson 30 they owned on the East Coast, and Allyn Hoffman and John Rizzi just bought Great Expectations. ’Bated’ breath: An anonymous Wylie Wabbit capsized (actually twice) going downwind under only white sails in the ’washing machine’ off Pt. Blunt on Mother’s

Race Notes Brutal timing: The St. Francis YC-hosted Brut Cup San Francisco, Cityfront bump¬ er cars in J/105s, will be almost over as this issue hits the docks. The sixteen contestants will be whittled down to' just eight by Saturday, June 1, and then to just the final four on the last day, June 2. Competitors vying for a piece of the $25,000 purse include Ed Baird, Gavin Brady, Russell Coutts, Paul Cayard, John Cutler, Sebastien Destremau, Peter Gilmour, Bart Hackworth, Peter Holmberg, JJ Isler, Chris

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Chicago, ill., 21; 6) Hakuna Matata. Doug Rodda, Carmel, 26; 7) Molly, Paul Descalso, San Rafael, 33; 8) Zlila, Mark Thou las. San Jose, 34. (8 boats) JESTERS MOTHERS DAY REGATTA (May 11-12): LIGHT — 1) Andre Lacour. 45 points; 2) Joe Francis, 45.25; 3) Jot Fisher-Smith, 61.75; 4) Mark Gotsh, 62.25; 5) Chris Watts, 73. HEAVY — 1) Dennis Bassano, 67 points; 2) Ian Ktitza, 68.5; 3) Alan Wirtanen, 95. WOMEN — 1) ’Lois', 207 points; 2) ‘Cathy’, 209; 3) Mary Lacour, 233. (13 races; 0 throwouts; 22 boats) SCORE RACES TO DATE (Santa Cruz YC): DIV. I — 1) (tie) Red Hawk, SC 40, Lou Pambianco, and Absolute 88, Wylie 37, Keith MacBeth; 4.75 points; 3) Tacos Pescodos, Olson 30, Mr. Boston, 5. (6 boats) DIV. II—1) Summertime, Moore 24 prototype, Dennis Bassano, 1.5 points; 2) Camaval, Santana 35, Bill Keller, 5; 3) Wildfire, Moore 24, Howard Page 186 • UXUjt J? • June, 1996

iiiiPP Boys and their toys racing on the lake at the Marin County Civic Center. Some of these 'toys' cost as much as a used Laserl Look for an article on model boating soon. Ruderman, 6; 4) Rapid Transit, Moore 24, Shana: Rosenleld, 10; 5) Gandalf. Santana 35, Carl Quitzau, 12. ill boats) DIV. HI — i) Gails Warning, Cal 22, Paul Nichols, 1.5 points; 2) Pau Hana, J/24, Cliff McNamara, 4; 3) Moonchitd, Olson 25, Tim Kelbert, 7. (6 boats) (after 2 races — 3/31 and 5/5) SPRING ONE DESIGN TO DATE tSanta Cruz YC): SC 27 — 1) Good Timin’, Gary Evans, 13.75

points: 2) Jersey Girl, Greg Miller, 14.75; 3) Dynaflow. Mark Dmi. 17; 4) Ciao, Andy Carson. 20; 5) Hanalei Express. Sturgeon/Schuyler, 21.75; 6) Spotted Cow, GW Grigg, 22; 7) Duet, Bob DeWitt, 24.75. (14 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Fatuity. Dave Hodges. 5.5 points; 2) Great Pumpkin. Jim Maloney. 10.5; 3). Adios, Scott Waiecka. 18: 4) (tie) Rapid Transit. Shana Rosenfeid, and Mocregasm, Dave Josselyn, .20. (10 boats). SANTANA 22 — 1) High & Dry, Len Fiock, 8.75

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Day. Two of the three crew had to stand on the keel to right the swamped boat. "Now 1 know why they have non-skid on the win¬ dows," claimed one of the soggy crew. Fortunately, the Wabbit had been retrofitted with watertight bulkheads (the trend in that fleet), and sailed away unharmed. The yellow Merit 25 Lost In Space wasn’t quite as lucky. Sailing in Berkeley YC’s windy Friday night race on May 17, the boat crashed violently at the leeward mark (a jib sheet jammed) and laid over long enough to fill the cabin up with water. Had ’Space not been 'sink-proofed' with foam flotation a week earlier (for the upcoming Pacific Cup), it would have been deep-sixed. The swamp¬ ed boat was towed slowly into BYC and bailed out, wet and muddy but not really worse for the wear. "I suspect the real cause of the accident might have been overloading," said Merit 25 guru Paul Kamen, who witnessed the aftermath. "With six people onboard, their live ballast was greater than the boat’s 1,050pound non-bulb keel. If they all hang on lifelines, shrouds, the boom and so on, guess which force wins? People in small boats should be prepared to go swimming the moment the mast hits the water!" First notice: Del Rey YC’s 14th Biennial Marina del Rey to Puerto Vallarta Race is tentatively scheduled to start on January 2325, 1997 (with a cruising start on January

17). The Mexican Sailing Federation will host MEXORC ’97 immediately afterwards, on February 1-8. Call Peggy Redler at (310) 828-7201 for details. Pac Cup runneth over: "We’ve still got 67 entries and 4 on the waiting list — Tacony Palmyra, Folly (aka Mustang Sally), Meltemi of Melbourne and Aldora," said PCYC staff commodore Jim Quanci. "Kaneohe YC has bumped the limit up from 50 up 60 boats, but we’re still oversubscribed. Historically, we’ll lose a few entries between now and the July 8-11 starts — and some boats usually quit a few days into the race. We’re really hoping not to turn anyone away — but it may happen yet." Look for a full preview on the upcoming West Marine Pacific Cup in the next issue. If you can’t wait that long, surf the internet to http://worldvoyager.com/ races/, which is the web site for the Pac Cup, the TransPac, the Vic-Maui Race and the Kenwood Cup. Road warriorette: Melissa Purdy of Tiburon, whose sailing career has zoomed after her stint with America?, has a full plate in the coming week. Over Memorial Day Weekend, she steered an entry in the invitation-only Cal Cup, a Melges 24 regatta out of Cal YC (Marina del Rey) featuring a $5,000 purse. Then, it was off to Annapolis to compete in the all-women Santa Maria Cup on May 29-June 2. Melissa was one of the 'headliners' along with Betsy Allison and Dawn Riley in the J/22 event. When she’s home, Melissa has been campaigning her J/24 Small Flying Patio Furniture and

BOX SCORES points; 2) (tie) Tara, Jim Samuels, and Insanity Cruz, Mark Langer. 10.75. (5 boats) (alter 4 races — 4/27 and 5/18)

MELGES 24 — 1) Head Rush, Vince Brun, 19 points; 2) Narwhal, Mr. Baraka, 36.75; 3) Voodoo Lounge, Don Sullivan. 37.75; 4) Monsoon, Bruce Ayres, 41; 5) Bazooka Joe, Hottyday/Golison, 44.

DOUBLEHANDED RACE M (SCYC; May 19): 1) Summertime, Moore 24 prototype, Dennis

(18 boats) SANTANA 30/30 — i) Speedway, Mark & Debra Wilson, lODOints; 2) Redtine, Ftobert Marcus, 16.6; 3} No Pilikia, Greg & Guy Gadbois, 19. (7 boats) ULDB 70 — 1) Evolution, SC 70, Brack Dukpr, 7.25points; 2)Holua, SC 70. Richard Blatt, 18.75; 3) Taxi Dancer. Hughes Richards, 18.75. (7 boats)

Syd Moore; 3) Wildfire. Moore 24, Howard Ruderman/Tom Conerly; 4) Rapid Transit. Moore 24, Pepe Parsons/Shana Rosenfeld; 5) Spotted Cow, SC 27, G.W. Grigg. (15 boats; 12.4 miles) LOS ANGELES NOOC (L AYC: May 17-19: 7 races/: CAL 40 — 1! Callisto. Eddy Family. 16.25 points, 2i Primera, Burdge/Wilkins. 20; 3) Radiant, Kevin Fitzpatrick, 23. (7 boats) CATALINA 37—1) Mark Noble. 6.5 points; 2) Rick Rajweski, 7.75. <6 boats) ETCHELLS — 1) Spirit, Doug Jorgenson, 20 points; 2) Seduction, Paselk/Kettenhofen, 26.5; 3) Piranha, Pat Chandler, 29 75; 4) No Xqsis, Tom Corkett, 33; 5; Celerity, Steve Mode:, 38, (13 boats) j/35 — 1) Fiambouyant, Steve & Barney Flam, 18.25 points; 2) Breakaway, John O’Connor, 23.5; , Ooug Ament, 23.75. (9 boats)

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(Sierra Point YC; May 19):

DiV. A — 1) Spectra. Columbia 45, Hal Wrignt; 2) Sundancer. Hunter 34. Bob Carlen; 3) Coyote, Wylie 34 mod., Nick Kluzmck. (12 boats) DIV. B — 1) Wind Dragon, Cat. 34, Dave Davis; 2) Far Better Thing, Ericson 30 *. Charles McArthur: 3) Jet Lag, Cat. 34, Roger Roe. (8 boats) Div. C — 1) Hardtack, J/24, Charles Allen; 2) Tight Squeeze, CS.C 29, Wayne Yacoots; 3i Bam¬ boozled, J/24, Larry Westland. (6 boats) qiV. D — 1) Leeward, Catalina 30. Jim Balestra; 2) Folie 'A' Deux, Islander 28, Frank Gibson; 3) tsta, islander 27, Keven Bailey. <8 boats)

crewing on the Mumm 30 Bullsette. "A high¬ light earlier this year was sailing with JJ Isler on the all-women’s Mumm 36 team in the SORC," said Purdy. "I really hope we get to do that again." Random notes: The big deal on the Right Coast this month is the biennial Block Island Race Week on June 24-28. Russell Courts, Dennis Conner and other heavies will all be there. . . Bowing to popular demand, the Golden Gate YC Board of Dir¬ ectors finally backed off on their contro¬ versial mandatory lifejacket rule at all their regattas. However, like any dub, they still have the power to fly the Y' flag if conditions warrant it — but no more light air 'pop quizzes' in the foreseeable future. Buy a good lifejacket anyway... Alameda’s Krysia Pohl, now a senior at the Coast Guard Academy, recently received the Robert Hobbs Sportsmanship Trophy, the highest such annual honor for collegiate sailors in New England. She was selected unanimously by the coaches and her peers — truly a great honor! / Fun with numbers: Last month, we reported that the BOC 60 Wild Thing was awarded a -102 handicap, the lowest number ever meted out locally (the -240 number that the Hobie Trifoiler sports comes from the multihull group itself, not the PHRF committee). At the opposite end of the monohull scale is the 'Herman 20' Sllthy Tove, which rates — get this — an astro¬ nomical 312. Now, that’s a slow boat! Sweet sixteen: That’s how many boats signed up for the ’96 Vic-Maui Race, which starts on June 25-29. Here’s the fleet in alpabetical order; Brigantia, Hunter 35.5; Cassiopeia, Davidson 73; Cheval, Andrews 70+; Due West, Passport 40; Farr-ari, Beneteau 45.5; HMCS Oriole, Owens 102; Jubilee, IMX 38; Kismet, Cal 40; Louis I, Perry 43; Luna, C&C37R; Luna Barba, SC 70; Pyewacket, SC 70; Sangvind, Farr 48; Spitfire, Chetubini 44; Surface Tension, N/M 36, and Time & Tide, Custom 52. May the best boat win! Damage control: In addition to 'normal' bow-to-stern fender benders at starts (which included the pristine Recidivist getting mounted by China Cloud at the Stone Cup), there was a fair amount of carnage last mpnth. The Contessa 33 Waruihoop got speared in a Benicia YC beer can race by a Newport 30, incurring all kinds of damage. Repairs will take about a month, after which owners Chuck and Shelly Hooper are truck¬ ing the boat to Washington state for a cruise. . . The Express 27 New Moon took a direct hit from a sistership at the start of the second day of the Vallejo Race. The guilty party punched its bow about a foot into the cabin of New Moon, sending that boat to the hospital for several months. June, 1996 • UWU-AH • Page 187

THE RACING SHEET More war stories: Wide Load, Bruce Wilcox’s and Lucie Van Breen’s Santana 35, dismasted going upwind on May 4 during an ODCA race on the Circle. "We were in first place, too!" laments Wilco£, who described it as a "routine" dismasting of unknown origin. . . The SR-33 Mostly Harmless smashed into a channel marker during the Vallejo Return, putting a hole in the starboard side. "We were probably going 12 over the bottom when we hooked our over¬ size carbon-fiber spinnaker pole on the bouy, causing the crash," said Lee Bergman. "We wish the pole had broken instead — it would have been pheaper!" Collegiate update: The three spring Nationals will all be hosted by University of Wisconsin, beginning with the Women’s championship on May 30-June 1 (West Coast qualifiers: Stanford, UC Irvine, Berkeley). Team racing will follow on June 3-5 (West Coast qualifiers: Stanford, Hawaii), followed by the grand finale, the Dinghy Nationals, on June 6-8 (West Coast qualifiers: Berkeley, UC Irvine). Look for some or maybe all of the following to emerge as All-Americans: Adam Loory and John Meade (Stanford), Andy Zinn and David Houser (Berkeley), Pat ' Whitmarsh

The Bay has its South Tower Demon, vicious currents and lots of shipping traffic — but the Lake Circuit has its share of hazards, too!

(Hawaii), and, in the Women’s All-American category, Alice Manard (Stanford). Tune in next month for all the gory details. Non-events: The ILC 46 Worlds, an event that was expected to draw ten boats, is currently underway at Larchmont YC. The fleet consists of, ahem, just two boats — and Willi Illbruck’s J/V-designed Pinta, with

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John Kostecki aboard, is having its way with Bob Towse’s Farr-designed Blue Yankee. That thud you just heard might have been the lid shutting on this class’s coffin. . . As expected, this fall’s Grand Mistral Race has been postponed "about a year" due to lack of entries. Only four syndicates forked over the $4 million entry fee, which includes chartering the identical Farr maxis for what was billed as "world’s longest one design race." Countdown to the Coastal Cup: Thirteen boats are presently signed up for Encinal YC’s June 29 sprint to Santa Barbara. "That’s a little low, but they’re starting to pour in at a rate of two or three a day now," said spokeswoman Margaret Fago. So far, the lucky 13 are: Petard (Farr 36), Mintaka (C&C 36), Balzaphire (Islander 28), Run Wild (Olson 30), Two Scoops (Express 34), Sun Singer (Cal 34-2), Sceptre (J/130), Grey Eagle (Valiant 40), Pegasus XIV (Newland 368), Top Cat (Catalina 30), Tacony Palmyra (Swan 47), Perpetual Motion (Cal 31) and Team Gravity (Martin 242). Entries for the 277-mile race, which includes a doublehanded division for the first time, close on June 23. Call the club at (510) 5223272 for details.

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With reports this month from Nehalennla on the dressing habits — or lack thereof — at Orient Bay, St. Martin; from Meshach on 2Vz years of cruising in Mexico; from Outa Here on the pleasures of Greece and Turkey; from Eyllxr on cruising off the Beaten Track south of the equator; from Mendocino Queen on the Queensland coast of Oz; from Utopia on 'greenwater' cruising to and through the Canal; from Windward Luv on a new yacht club — sort of — in Baja; and, Cruise Notes.

Nehalennia — Morgan 32 Johnny 'No Not That One' Carson Orient Bay, St. Martin, FWI (Hailey, Idaho) "Full nudity not allowed in front of restaurant," read the sign. This is about as far as regulations go on Orient Beach. But judging by the completely nude couple reposed on beach chairs next to the sign in front of the restaurant, the admonition wasn’t taken too seriously. Located on the windward side of St. Martin, Orient Beach is a delightful, horseshoe-shaped mixture of white sand, bars, beach chairs and the best-looking, least-dressed women in the Caribbean. Although totally wiped out by hurricane Luis last summer, the beach has rebounded. The temporary wooden shacks hastily erected for the tourist season are gradually being replaced by more permanent concrete structures. At the south end of the mile-and-a-half long beach is the renowned Club Orient, which first opened in 78. Rows of bungalows dotted the beach until Luis. Now concrete slabs and various remnants of structures bear mute witness to the fury of the hurricane. But reconstruction is in progress, and according to Ray Brink, the Dutch entrepreneur and We know what's running through johnny's mind:

'These white folks sure are strange!' And isn't it the truth ?

owner, everything will be completed by this November. On shore, conversatiori is easy and friendships are built effortlessly over grilled ribs and beer for lunch at Johnny’s. A St. Kitts native who speaks with a strong British accent, Johnny gives folks fr^e rides around the island in his London taxi. An ex-boxer, he claims that he was once ranked sixth in the world. The Kon Tiki bar and restaurant next to Johnny’s is the hot spot after the sun goes down — particularly on rambunctious Sunday nights. At the north end of the beach is the Boo-Boo Jam, where more locals than tourists hang out and dance the night away to a rather curious mixture of calypso and zydeco. People like to stay out late in the tropics, and I’m told Boo-Jam doesn’t shut down until about 0500 — or whenever the revelers decide they’ve had enough. The anchorage at Orient Bay — actually tucked in behind Caye Verte (Green Key) — is roily, but the holding is good. While there are definitely more comfortable and secure anchorages on St. Martin, certainly none is livelier. You won’t find a lot of Mom & Pop cruisers hanging out on Orient Beach, as they’ll either use Marigot or Simpson Bay as a place to reprovision and recuperate from the beating they took in the notorious Anegada Passage on their way from the British Virgins southeast. It’s 70 miles directly upwind and upcurrent from the British Virgins, and the wind and waves which have raged unhindered all the way from Africa seem fiercely determined to keep you and your little boat from making any progress. Prior to St. Martin, my little boat and I enjoyed three months of splendid gunkholing around the Virgin Islands. We had no difficulty — except for fending off inadequately anchored boats in the overcrowded anchorages of the British Virgins. As for a favorite, St. John in the United States Virgins is the greatest! When our turn came for the lumpy Anegada Passage, both the boat and crew suffered. I lost the use of both my Autohelm and faithful Yanmar, and even had water splash through my splashproof GPS. But other than an extra day at sea and a terribly

seasick crew — who caught the first flight from St. Martin back to Idaho — the boat and captain came through in good shape. It’s now the end of the first week in May, and I should be considering moving on down island so that I can make Venezuela well before the onset of hurricane season. The season officially begins in June, although there is rarely much action until the end of July. It’s about 450 miles straight south to Venezuela from St. Martin, but with the scores of Leeward and Windward Islands between, it’s a journey well worth the months most cruisers take. Unless I can tear myself away from Orient Beach — a prospect which seems highly improbable at this time — I’ll probably wait until the last minute and sail non-stop. When I last wrote Latitude in July of '94, I was still a part-time cruiser, flying back to Idaho every several months to look after my movie theater.. Well, no more. Bruce Willis and Demi Moore — yes, the 'real' ones —

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Far right; Liz and John hamming it up on the bowsprit — just before they began bowing out of Mexico._

bought my theater and now I’m allowed to enjoy the cruising lifestyle full time. Sorry about the photo of the lady without a top. When I asked her and several other women to put on their tops so I could take a few photos for Latitude, all I got was strange looks. One said she’d never heard of a bikini top. Another said that even if she had one she couldn’t see why she’d possibly want to wear it. Come to think of it, neither can I! —johnny 517196 Meshach — Formosa 51 John Dano & Liz Fong Returning From Mexico (Newark, CA) We’re currently headed toward Southern California after 2Vfe years cruising in Mexico, where we met many wonderful people and loved the warm climate. The resourcefulness

of Mexicans — who work with almost no tools — especially intrigued John who has always been a farm boy at heart. It’s only because of health concerns that we are leaving our friends in the cruising community who are sailing on to new adventures, but we hope to return to Mexico by land someday. We’ve included some photographs that we thought Latitude readers might enjoy. Clockwise, from the bottom right of the spread they are: 1) One of the many pacho’s — an 18footer — that were in Marina Ixtapa around June of '95. About 10 of them were "relocated" in October of '95, but the other 140 or so near the golf course more or less disappeared. A net was strung over the bridge near the clubhouse / marina office. When a croc was caught in the net, Cocodillo Dundee — we made up his name — would jump on the crocs back and tie him up to be transported to another location near La Ropa. There were no witnesses and this usually happened at night. A few of these /

crocs started to return to Ixtapa by March of '96, supposedly having followed the brackish water along the coast from Z-town. 2) The northern wall of Ensenada Grande in the Sea of Cortez. It’s hard to believe how many people we met who have anchored in the southern anchorage but did not know a delight such as this geology was just a serene dinghy ride away. This was one of our favorite spots. I’m a non-swimmer, but I practically hung upside down from the dinghy in order to watch the fish swim among the rocks. 3) Meshach at anchor at Caleta Lobo in '94. 4) The fine folks of Marina Ixtapa on the dock saying goodbye and more goodbyes . or "Will they ever untie that dockline?" 5) John at Isla Espiritu Santo with two of the crew from the shrimper Chayito from Punto Lobo. Using sign language, John was invited aboard for 12 hours of night shrimping — a great experience. These shrimpers deserve every peso for their camarones, as it’s hard work. Here they sort June, 1996 • LOU/tlS • Page 191

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the shrimp by size and remove the heads. Over on the mainland, the shrimpers don’t remove the heads. 6) Eight folks from Madam Mae and Snail swam qver to give Liz swimming lessons in 23 feet of water while waiting for a weather window at Los Frailes. At 70°, the water seemed a bit cool, but it would later heat up to between 88° and 92° up in the Sea. Liz returned the favor by bringing them homebaked cookies — a real treat among cruisers — and called it Trick or Treat. Whenever Liz got nervous about starting a new passage, out would come her baking supplies. We had a great time in Mexico and will miss it and all the great friends we made. — liz & john 5/15/96 Outa Here — Farr 55 Dick & B.J. Deaver Cyprus, Greece, Turkey (Long Beach) [Continued from last month.] After sailing from Kenya to Israel in the first half of the '95 cruising season, our next stop was the Greek side of the divided island of Cyprus. It was here that we came across our first 'Med style’ marina, where boats tie bow or stern to quays rather than individual slips. When you sneeze in this type of marina, somebody three boats away says "bless you". By cruiser standards, our one week stop at Cyprus was very short. But w*lth the help of our motorbike, we made the most of the No matter if you call it Santorini or Thera, it sure is dramatic. They've recently installed a chair-lift to carry cruise ship folks to the top.

time, running around looking for parts and getting stuff made. What really delighted BJ — who was going around with Annette of Evergreen — was finding a big supermarket. We hadn’t seen anything like this in a long, long, long, long time — Singapore to be exact. The women drooled, gasped, and giggled at the quality and quantity of products on display! But after;two short visits to big, civilized ports, we were ready for a quiet cove and a return to 'real cruising'. Tqrkey offers exceptional cruising opportunities, so we headed north, arriving at Tusucu on July 21. The shbreline there is breathtaking, as mountains of huge rocks come right down to the water’s edge. And this is before you see all the ruins of which the Turks are justifiably proud. We made several quick stops along the southern coast before spending a week at Cinivez Limani, a spectacular cove 30 miles south of Antalya. When we eventually arrived at Antalya’s Setur Marina, we were so impressed with the facilities that we signed up to haul Outa Here onto the hard for the winter of '95-'96. And when we took the bike into Antalya city for a look around, we became aware of what a modern and forward-thinking country Turkey is. Since Biblical times the Turks have played a major role in the history of civilization. Then in the 1920s, Ataturk, the first president and 'father' of modern Turkey, initiated sweeping reforms to westernize the nation. These reforms included replacing Sharia — the Islamic Holy Law — with civil, trade, and criminal codes adapted from the West. Ataturk even changed the country’s 'day of rest' to Sunday — despite the fact that 90% of the population was Muslim. Americans have a lot of false impressions about Turkey, which is clean, has soundly built buildings, and a population that includes many smartly-dressed people. A large number of Turks living along the coast are multilingual because of the tourist trade, and just about everyone is very friendly. Like almost all cruisers, we were very impressed with Turkey. In early August, our daughter Kim arrived with our first 'real' mail packet of the season, and with the rigging we’d needed since we lost a shroud off Africa. With her arrival, we thoroughly enjoyed a busy two weeks of cove-hopping, rock and ruin climbing, bazaar shopping, and learning a new way to anchor. In Turkey it’s very common to drop the bow anchor, back toward shore, then tie a stern line off to a tree or ruin. July and August are busy months on the popular southwest coast of Turkey, and

between the charter boats and the beautiful gulets — which are large local boats usually built of pine — you can almost reach out and touch the boat next to you! By wonderful chance, we happened to bump into our friends aboard the Long Beach-based Cannibal. They’d been our buddies through the South Pacific and it was wonderful to see them again. In addition to having a grand reunion, we did our first carpet shopping together — which was a real learning experience. When it was over, we came away the owners of a beautiful 'soft toned' carpet to complement our boat’s teak and holly sole. The real treat, however, were the Turkish baths. Having one of these is being able to enjoy the most delightful and relaxing 90 minutes you can imagine! We bid farewell to Kim at Marmaris, a major yachting center which is surrounded by beautiful mountains. After enjoying a few fabulous coves nearby, we made an impromptu decision to head off to the Greek islands, the first of which are just a couple of

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Sure it might look a little weird, but everybody we know who has tried a Turkish Bath has gone back for seconds.

miles off mainland Turkey. Doing this meant we wouldn’t have to backtrack the following season. So we island-hopped across the Cyclades to Mykonos, where we enjoyed our first taverna meal along the quay, and wandered the narrow cobblestone walks between the famous whitewashed buildings with the blue trim. Only a few miles from Mykonos is Delos, which is the legendary birthplace of Apollo as well as having once been the political and religious center of the ancient world. A small island with no natural resources, Delos was nonetheless the focal point of the world for ancient sailors because it had the best anchorage on the east - west trade route between Europe and Asia as well as the north - south trade route of the Aegean. The ruins at Delos are amazing, and we climbed around for hours with our guidebook in hand, trying to 'put the pieces together'. The quiet island of Faros, our next stop,

was a real treasure. We took our motorbike ashore and travelled around the island, stopping frequently to enjoy the beauty. Most of the Cyclades are pretty barren, but Paros has an abnormal amount of greenery, including hillside after hillside of vineyards. We sampled the inexpensive local wine, found it good, and bought several bottles. While at los, we met up with Ed and Sandy Martinez of the Mill Valley-based Tayana 47 Peregrina. We’d first met them on a tour in Bali, but hadn’t seen them since Thailand! We organized a ride aboard a Russian-built hydrofoil ride to Santorini, which some believe is the site of Atlantis. What a spectacular place! Once an important Minoan settlement, it blew itself to pieces in spectacular fashion in 1450 BC. The volcano crater is now a bay 6 miles by 4 miles — with two large towns perched atop the nearly vertical cliffs. Awesome! We arrived back in Turkey to met Judy, one of BJ’s buddies from United, and sailed to Fethiye Bay. When you talk about super cruising areas, Fethiye is certainly one of them. There are over 40 anchorages in a 10mile enclosed circle. This was a return visit

for us, as we’d become enthralled with the area. Each of the coves we tried had a different atmosphere. One cove — labelled #13 in the cruising guide — was an extra special stop that seemed to be off the beaten track of the gulets. For the duration of the summer, a succession of folks 'secured it' for bluewater cruisers. It was a perfect place for BBQs, and at times there would be 10 boats stern-tied to the beach. We used #13 for the site of Outa Here’s 10th birthday party. Wanting to finish off our Greek cruising permit with some duty free fuel — the least expensive in the Med — we headed back to nearby Rhodes where we could see the sights and enjoy some more Greek wine. We even squeezed in a quick bus ride to the ruins at Lindos. Judy didn’t have much time left, so we took off at sunset for a rigorous sail back to Marmaris, Turkey —just four hours away. After a visit through the huge bazaar, we saw Judy off by bus for the ruins to the north, and began a leisurely trip back to Antalya, our home base in Turkey. We arrived back at Setur Marina on October 19 in time for many social activities: a 'last' dinner with Paul and Jamie of Decision; Apollo 13 for 'movie night'; a 'band night' at the amphitheater at Ancient Espundia. The latter was a wonderful opportunity to see and hear 'how it was' centuries ago. The next two days we had arrival parties for Mtwapa pals Gary and Bill aboard Amadon Light, and Liz and Lloyd on Northern Shadow. Although we’d been talking to each other every day by ham There is so much history in Turkey it's hard for most Americans to comprehend. Dick studies the fabulous ruins at Ephesus.

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radio, we still had much to catch up on! Marina life is soooo busy. But there’s also sooooo much to see in Turkey. In late October, 10 of us took off in our own mini-van — complete with driver and guide — to the stupendous Cappadocia area some 600 miles inland to the northeast. Wow, is that place hard to describe! Lava spouting'"from volcanos two million years ago formed a layer of tuff on the plateaus, and the wind and the flood waters of the ensuing years from the valley flanks has eroded the layer of tuff, creating the socalled 'fairy chimneys'. The peaks, which are 75 feet tall, are dotted with cave-like holes that housed various civilizations. Many of the caves were early Christian churches and have well-preserved frescoes from the Bible and the life of Jesus. Other pinnacle spires are shaped in a manner that suggest phalli. By this time the leaves of autumn were out and the layers of lava were in varying shades, so the sun created fabulous color effects for photographs. In addition to hiking up, in, and around much of the four square mile area during our two-day stay, we also explored the truly amazing underground city. This city had dwellings for thousands, stables, churches and storage areas! We also stopped at a caravansary, which was a precursor of the Motel Six chain. Caravansaries, which provided accommodations and food, were spaced 40 kilometers apart — a9-hour walk by camel — all the way along the Silk Highway to Asia. This inland adventure was a terrific change of pace from the sea, and needless to say, we cruisers yakked and laughed the entire time. By the time we got back to Antalya, it was late in the year and there was freezing rain and lots of wind. With a break in the weather, we took the local bus four hours inland to Pamukkale or 'cotton castle', which is a shimmering white cascade formed by limestone laden hot springs which have formed stalactites, potholes, and magical 'fairy tables' or ponds on the cliffs edge. The water is reputed to be therapeutic — but certainly not when it’s 40° and windy! Passing on a bath in the springs, we warmed ourselves by wandering around the ruins of Hierapolis, which was probably the world’s first health spa. Hoping for warmer weather, we took a four hour bus ride west to Kusadasi, and from there visited Ephesus, Turkey’s most famous ruin. Described as "unmatched by any archaeological site in terms of sheer magnitude", Ephesus is in remarkable Page 194 •

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condition, being constantly restored, and with new areas being'uncovered. Luckily the sun was out and we could leisurely stroll along and absorb the full impact of it all. The ancient theater, for example, holds 24,000 and is still used. And the two-story facade of the Library of Celsus is still nearly intact. The long marble Sacred Way, the many fountains, the baths, the agoras, the homes — you can tell it was once a magnificent city. Originally a port, thousands of years of silting have resulted in Ephesus now being four miles up a river. Part of the excursion was a fact-finding mission. We wanted to look into getting leather to redo the interior of Outa Here — and came away with the famous Turkish leather jackets. After stopping in Izmir to see how our mainsail repair was coming and a 9hour bus ride to chilly Istanbul, the jackets were a godsend. Although the sun was more or less out each day, it was still bloody cold. Nonetheless, we still packed a lot into three days: a boat ride along the Bosporus that

Spread; picturesque Antalya, 'Outa Here's' home base in Turkey. Inset; the spa at Pamukkale, home of the 'frozen waterfall_

separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey and leads into the Black Sea; and the major sites such as the Blue Mosque, Topkapi Museum, St. Sophia — and the most fun of all, the Grand Bazaar. The latter is a nearly half mile square labyrinth of pedestrian walkways that teem with vendors of clothing, jewelry, pottery, carpets, leather and souvenirs. Fabulous! By then it was the beginning of December and seriously cold. The average temperature was in the 30s and 40s, but when wind accompanied the rain, the chill factor was much worse. When we cruisers got together in the evening, our 'sundowners' would be hot buttered rum! With our equatoracclimatized bodies not taking to the cold at all, we began asking ourselves: "What in the hell are we doing here?" From then on we pretty much alternated between sightseeing and getting Outa Here ready for her first long stay on the hard. By December we were back in California — where the pace is much too fast — but where we would stay through

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March. What a year '95 was! We saw 2000 B.C. in Egypt; O in Israel, and the ruins of more recent history in Turkey. It’s so different from the lazy, sandy, palm-tree lined beaches of Southern California where we’ve spent most of our lives. By the time you read this, we will have already been cruising in Europe again for several months. — dick & bj 1115/96 Elyxir — Westsail 43 Bob Ely & Carol Noel Off The Beaten Path (Seattle) We arrived in Puerto Montt, Chile — the northernmost port of the southern archipelago — in November of '95. Out trip started with an adventure up the rivers of Panama’s Darien, accompanied by the San Diego-based Little Bit and the San Francisco-based Delbe II. While in the Darien, we met up with M’Lady and Harmony. Then we sailed down the coast to Manta, Ecuador, where we spent a month traveling inland. The 3,200-mile passage

from Ecuador down to Chile’s Chacao Channel took 29 days via the 'outside' — not down the coast and into the teeth of the current and prevailing winds. Yes, you can take a sailboat into Panama’s Darien jungle, but there are easier ways to beat up yourself and your boat. And using a topographical map doesn’t help much when navigating the river — which must mostly be done by braille. As far as we’re concerned, the risk of grounding and serious damage in the swift currents and 22foot tides is just not worth it. Next time we’d leave our boat in La Palma and take side trips by dinghy or panga — because it is definitely worthwhile to visit! Ecuador is a colorful country with much more to offer than just the Galapagos. The yacht club in Manta was inexpensive, convenient, and a reasonably safe place to leave the boat for inland excursions. And the members and staff were helpful. From Manta we sailed to Isla de la Plata — which is called 'the poor man’s Galapagos' — and which has no time limit on how long you may stay. From there we headed south to Chile. Just as we departed Ecuador, two other West Coast boats, C-Lise II from Seattle and Kiunga II from British Columbia, left the Galapagos for Chile as well, so we sailed within a few hundred miles of each other. We contacted each other by ham radio each day to share weather and conversation . . . sort of a 'Chile Chat'. We didn’t see another vessel this whole trip, but the ham radio made it feel less lonely out there. Unbeknownst to us, Night Runner from Seattle cruised right thruough our 'fleet' of three en route to Valdivia, and Mahina Tiare from Friday Harbor more recently passed us enroute to Easter Island. Do you get the impression that Chile is full of cruisers? It’s not. In the four months we spent exploring the islands and channels down as far as the Golfo de Penas, we saw one other cruiser, a Chilean, and handful of fishing boats. For some reason Chile is not a well-travelled cruising area. Only five foreign cruising boats entered Chile from the Pacific side this year, four of them from the Pacific Northwest. Southern Chile is simply fantastic! The inland waters offer great gunkholing, with hundreds of protected bays and inlets in which to sit out adverse weather. Our feeling is that the weather is colder and more violent than in, say, southeast Alaska, but the scenery more than makes up for it. Some of

They've got some big plants in Chile. Thisgiantis a relative of the rhubarb. Moments later it leaned over and tried to eat Bob.

the major channels actually run back into the snowcapped Andes, and it feels as though you are sailing through an Ansel Adams photograph. Further, glaciers calve into the It gets chilly in southern Chile, which made Pacific Northwesterner Carol Noel feel right at home.

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THE DELTA AT ITS BEST choose to remain in their slip through an entire weekend, swimming in the harbors and making use of the quality facilities. Bar-B-Que areas blend in with the natural surroundings, and the restroom buildings, which contain tiled showers and laun¬ dry rooms, are the best any marina has to offer. The harbormasters at Hidden Harbor are owners as well as residents of the marina. One of them is always present both day and night. A card-lock gate on the land side allows entry to boat owners only. Hidden Harbor’s fuel dock and other facilites are not open to the general public so those people you see at the marina are either berthers or their guests. The marina’s geographic location provides some welcome benefits that other portions of the Delta do not share. Farmland that makes up the islands in our area consist of heavy soils which are not carried away on the winds. Clouds of dust associated with much of the Delta’s peat soils do not exist. The river just outside the mouth of Steamboat is deep and wide. Wind crosses this vast expanse of water delivering a steady broad reach throughout the summer, providing some of the best sailing in the Delta. Sailing north out of the marina takes you up Cache Slough to secluded deep water anchorages in the labyrinth of sloughs made up of Lindsey, Hass, Shag, Prospect, lyfiner and Cache itself. This is an area where the levee serves as private farming access. Boaters who choose to “get away from it all” need only to take the one hopr cruise to their favorite anchorage and drop the nook. Hidden Harbor’s geographic location has given it an added benefit: 310-ft. down is an aqua strata that runs clean and pure. A well put down in 1983 tapped into this source and provides the marina with quality water. The proximity of Rio Vista, just two miles down the river is also fortu¬ itous. If your needs are something other than the

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V water at any number of places. Almost any bird you see is something new — such as the Magellenic Penguin, Andean Condor, and Wandering Albatross. During our time in Chile, we covered 1500 miles, anchored in 57 different

'Etyxir' at anchor among the 'bergie bits' of southern Chile. There are many glaciers that come right down to the sea.

anchorages, and had no overnighters. Provisioning in Puerto Montt, Castro, and Aysen is excellent, with a delicious boxed wine for $1.80/liter and smoked salmon at $1.20/lb. Further south provisions become a little sparse, but the basics are still available. We’re currently back in Puerto Montt at the very modern Marina del Sur for the winter months of May to September. In October we’ll take off once again for points further south. After that, we’ll be heading to the South Pacific via Easter Island, Pitcairn, Gambier and the Australs — where we hope to catch up with some of the friends we made from Mexico to Pandma. In the meantime, we hope to see a few more cruising boats make that long hop down here to some of the finest cruising grounds to be found anywhere in the world. And if you do come this way, bring your back issues of Latitude, as they’re difficult to come by down here. — carol & bob 4/30/96 Mendocino Queen — DownEast 38 Allen & Kate Barry Cruising Queensland (Sausalito) Having been cruising our Mendocino Queen since leaving Sausalito in October of '93, we’re writing to pass along our impressions of Australia’s Queensland coast. We arrived at Bundaberg, which is 150 miles north of Brisbane, in November of '95. Since that time, we’ve cruised up the Great Barrier Reef, the southern tip of which starts at Lady Elliot Island, just off Bundaberg. At the 'lower end' of the Great Barrier Reef, there are some cays which afford decent protection from the wind and enough Page 198 • UubJilS • June, 1996

land so that it’s worth exploring ashore. One of the 'reefs', Lady Musgrave Island, has an enclosed lagoon which provides a nice anchorage in moderate conditions. We found it exciting to sail from reef to reef with our only protection from the open Pacific being reefs which dried out at low tide. Although we would stop at dozens of reefs, we found that each oi?e was different in some way. Two things most of them had in common were few human visitors and fantastic diving. We saw plenty of pretty reef fish, manta rays, mating turtles, large reef sharks and even one harhmerhead. We managed to speargun coral trout and lobsters in the non-restricted areas. We didn’t see many sailboats during this period for the simple reason that it was cyclone season. What sailboats we did see were heading south. There were, however, a number of fishing trawlers in some of the anchorages. Generally the crews would sleep during the day and then go out at night in search of prawns. We stayed offshore for about three weeks, and had terrific daysails of about 20 miles between each reef. We spent Christmas at Northwest Island, a wonderful place with beautiful sandy beaches and a reef packed with fish and crabs. It wasn’t all sweetness and light, however, as a passing thunderstorm forced us to circumnavigate the reef over a 24-hour period — during which time we had to re-anchor seven times and keep watch all i^ight. Nevertheless, the isolation made it all worthwhile. Once you get north of Gladstone, 'the reef extends much further offshore. On the positive side, there are great green islands with fairly large hills, good anchorages and lots of hiking. The Percy Group is bestknown as a good stop for yachts traveling this stretch of coast. After provisioning in Mackay, we approached the renowned Whitsunday Islands, including Shaw and Lindemann. January being the season for tropical storms, there were only a few other yachts around. During cyclone season, you stay alert for tropical storms. Since the storms generally form in the Torres Straits, usually there is several days warning, so -we weren’t too worried when we left Airlie Beach for Nara Inlet on Hook Island — even though there was a gale reported a couple of hundred miles to the north. Well, that gale turned out to be cyclone Celeste, which had formed suddenly. By the time we reached the

protection of Hook Island, the wind was blowing 35 knots and the seas were building. Along with about 20 other boats, we took shelter in the moderate chop of Nara Inlet. We battened down the hatches, but it was already too late to remove sails and other stuff which creates windage. Although we received as much as 50 knots of wind, Celeste thankfully headed out to sea during the night so the damage was slight. A few miles north at Hayman Island, however, many trees were blown over. So it had been close. Despite the cyclone scare, we found the Whitsundays to be great cruising grounds. You have the option of remaining in protected waters, visiting resorts, or heading to the east side of the reef where you’ll find better snorkeling — but also more wind and bigger seas. Recently we sailed out to Hardy Reef, which is on the outer Great Barrier Reef. We spent a few days there in calm weather enjoying the spectacular diving. And last night we saw a comet — along with a million stars — illuminated against the dark sky. We plan to slowly continue up the coast to Cairns, where the Barrier Reef is closest to the mainland. Until then, however, we have hundreds of islands and reefs to visit. Other than the effects of cyclone Celeste, the weather has been fine, varying from warm

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Inset; the beaches and rivers of Queensland are unusual — and home to crocs. Spread; Isla Parida, a gem of Panama's Pacific Coast.

calms to 25-knot southeast trades with some rain which helped with our water supply. Australia offers good weather forecasting, easy provisioning and boat repair, and delicious cheeseburgers. These may not seem that important to folks back in California, but those who have cruised the South Pacific will know what we mean. The Aussies are great people and we love their culture and accent. We’d have no trouble spending a year cruising here. In short, cruising the Queensland coast and Great Barrier Reef is fun, varied, and as adventurous or protected as you want it to be. You can stick to the mainland coast and have all of the conveniences, spoil yourself at mainland and offshore resorts, or get out to the distant parts of the reef where there are plenty of fish but hardly any people. The Australians are so lucky to have all of this right in their 'front yard'. — kate and alien 4/15/96 Utopia — Challenger 32 Jack & Sandy Moopey 'Green-Water' Cruising (Sausalito) Currently in Belize, we’re nearing the end of our 'green-water' cruise to Florida. Our

dream, when we started out, was to cruise around the world. But when we did a non¬ stop sail from San Diego to Cabo to test our long-passage capabilities, our autopilot couldn’t handle the seas created by 30 knots of wind, so we had to hand-steer for two days. We found the hand-steering to be very tiresome and got little sleep. Since Utopia is too small for crew, we decided we’d be 'green-water' as opposed to 'blue-water' cruisers. In other words, we’d happily harbor-hop from one beautiful spot to another, with seldom anything longer than an overnight passage. After three years of 'green-water' cruising, we’re very satisfied with our decision. Since our last letter of about a year ago, we have moved on from Puerto Vallarta to Belize. While at Huatulco, I partied a little too hard and was thus too 'tired' — for want of a less embarrassing word — to lift the dinghy out at night. So it was stolen. Fortunately Rob and Mary of Maude I. Jones, veterans of the first Ha-Ha, sold us their spare hard dink the next day. So everything turned out fine — except 1 was in danger, because of all the rowing, of becoming muscle-bound. That problem was eliminated when we picked up an outboard in Panama. We had perfect passages through the often turbulent gulfs of Tehuantepec and

Papagayo. Part of this was because we used the weatherfax to time the passage of a weather front through the Gulf of Mexico. As explained in a May '88 Latitude article by Stephen J. Brown, when a weather front moves through the Gulf of Mexico, the wind comes from the south and away from the Gulf of Tehauntepec. With this knowledge and the U.S. Surface Analysis, it’s possible to time a gulf crossing so you don’t get hammered. Unfortunately, the weatherfaxes have been curtailed since the Weather Bureau stopped sending charts to the stations. WLO, the best Caribbean source, dropped its weather services. The amateurs, such as Willie on Pacific Child, David on Mistine and Herb on Southbound II, have filled the gaps very well. [Update: More recently I’ve learned that the same weatherfax charts that WLO provided are now available from the Coast Guard in Louisiana. The most useful fax is the 18/36 hour forecast for the Gulf, which is broadcast on 8503.9 KHz at 0005 and 1205 Z. They broadcast a schedule at 1500 Zulu.] The radio situation south of border has also evolved, with SSB nets now more active than ham for boat-to-boat communication. You can meet your friends most every morning on SSB. The Papagayo Group that was organized in Z-town last year, for example, made Central America seem like a small1 town, with its 'party line' on 4030KHz at 1300Z. By the way, Sandy came up with an alternative name for the Club Northbounders that was also formed last year: the Yo-yos — because many of those folks just keep going up and down the coast. The ham nets and the stateside volunteers, it must be noted, still provide a wonderful service with phone patches transferring traffic even to non-ham boats, and health and welfare checks. We are particularly indebted to Ralph KD7DHQ of Although Mike Startfuck 'swallowed the hook many years ago, he and his Playa Blanca home offet great hospitality to cruisers.

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\ Oloha, Oregon, who is our contact with our kids. Although blind, Ralph spends most of his days helping cruisers — when he’s not out trout fishing, that is. With Ralph’s help we managed to help grandchild #15 and great grandchild #1 into the world. Well, the mothers did the real work, but Ralph kept us in touch. Now jfor places we particularly enjoyed. We took inland trips in Costa Rica to the cloud forests of Monte Verde and a longer trip to see Arenal Volcano. Watching the nighttime eruption from the hot springs pool is a real experience. The beautifully painted church with its sculptured gardens at Prasacia, Costa Rica is a must-see that was not mentioned in our guidebook. Our visit with Maury, the Breakfast Club net’s 90year-old ham friend in Playa del Cocos, was also very special. We took short trips inland while in Mexico, but thanks to all the guns the CIA has brought into Guatemala, we limited ourselves to daytrips there. We also spent two days at the Mayan ruins at Copan, Honduras. This is a must if you enjoy inland travel — and flying aboard an old DC-3. The islands of Panama are another wellkept secret. Most people have heard of the San Bias Islands, but we’re referring to the Pacific islands of Western Panama, which are not only spectacular, but have many beautiful anchorages. And on the Caribbean side of the Canal is Playa Bianca, where The only treasure left in Portobelh^ are the ruins of the fort and the riches of history. If the stone walls could only talk, the tales they would tell!

retired Marina del Rey cruiser Mike Starbuck has a lovely Caribbean home. It shouldn’t be missed as it’s the most beautiful anchorage we’ve seen so far. Starbuck handles much of the ham traffic in the area, and he and Sandra probably feed more homeless (cruisers) than St. Anthonys. Another must is a visit with Pat McGehee in Portobello. McGehee has researched, written, printed, and handbound a history of this well-fortified Spanish treasure port. We prefer the Caribbean water to that of the Pacific, as the water is rr\uch clearer and the coral is spectacular. And for some reason, we don’t have to clean the bottom as often, either. I’d always wanted to dive The Wall at Roatan, and it was the only place we struggled into dive gear. But it was worth it! We motored more than we sailed in the Pacific, because what wind there was frequently on the nose. In the Caribbean there is plenty of wind, so we sail more. The seas have been very lumpy, however, and with a light boat the ride is sometimes uncomfortable. And although we’re confirmed 'green-water' sailors now, we couldn’t help but see some 'blue-water' on our way to Providencia, Colombia — a beautiful, quaint, hilly island off the coast of Nicaragua. We had Thanksgiving dinner in Guanaja, one of the Bay Islands of Honduras, at Bill and Wanda’s home. Their place is 500 feet above the lagoon, and has the greatest view of the cays lining thereef. They invited folks from all the boats in the harbor, and served a traditional meal. Bill was a radioman in the navy at the same time as I, and so we swapped sea stories. About a month later, Carol Roberts of Wanderlust II, the author of The Forgotten Middle, organized a Christmas potluck in Port Royal, Roatan, for 18 boats with 48 people. We’re not 'potluck commandos', but we enjoyed the Christmas dinner in a beautiful setting with our cruising friends. By the way, we haven’t mentioned our cruising friends by name because there are just too many of them. But as everyone knows, they’re the best part of cruising. It rained so much in Central America that we had to cover most of the boat with tarps so we could open hatches for air — and thus it often took quite a bit of time to get underway again. Having bought Power Ranger toys, we now refer to it as 'morphing' the boat from the 'residential' to the 'passage¬ making' mode. We would not bring as much food provisions again, as we’ve found

supermarkets everywhere. We would bring more money, however, as it’s more expensive to live a Norte Americano life out here than at home. If you eat rice and beans with the fish you can catch, skip insurance, and wait for the wind to blow, budget cruising may still be possible. We would bring more spare parts — and even consider towing a sistership to scavenge! A thorough grounding in maintenance and repair is second only to seamanship. If you’re a mechanical klutz, you’d either better learn' or should take up backpacking. By the way, the more expensive boats seem to break as often as those that cost less. The sea, which is salty and constantly in motion, remains a geareater. Also, I think that the relatively small market for nautical equipment precludes the engineering and quality control that we are used to with our cars and other consumer products. I have avoided the geriatric cruiser bit because I have wrung it dry by now, but I’m looking forward to the birthday party that Sandy is going to set up for my 70th on June 9 in Ft Lauderdale. I am going to be a septuagenarian — which has a better ring to

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The founding members — and clubhouse — of the Agua Verde YC, which is located between La Paz and Puerto Escondido.

it. But time does march on. When we get to Florida we will get a van and cruise the grandkids, then refit for cruising the East, and the Bahamas if we need an island fix. We may even circumnavigate the Eastern United States. That would make us 'circumnavigators' while remaining 'green-water' cruisers. Of course, when we do the Mississippi, we’ll become 'brown-water' cruisers. It’s a great life but who wouldn’t be happy living in Utopial —jack & sandy The Agua Verde Yacht Club Windward Luv — Islander 36 Don & Lenna Hossack (Truckee) Just a short note to let you know that the Agua Verde YC of Baja California Sur is alive and well. The season opening gathering on April 16, when the rules and by-laws were officially published, was a huge success. Since the rules and by-laws are a little

unusual, we thought you might enjoy reading them: 1996 Rules and By-Laws Rules: There shall be no rules. 'Bye'-Laws: 1) No Whining 2) There shall be no dues levied at any time. 3) Meetings: All meetings must be held at Agua Verde, BCS, Mexico, in or in front of the Agua Verde clubhouse. Any member may call a meeting at any time. Also, any three people holding cold beers in the area of the Agua Verde clubhouse shall constitute a meeting, even if none has been announced or called for. No minutes are allowed to be taken or kept at any time. Any member who organizes a meeting shall be called 'Commodore' and hold that title for the rest of their lives. The title is transferable to next of kin at time of death. At no time shall the number of commodores exceed the number of total members. 4) Membership: Once you are member of the Agua Verde YC you are always a member — unless you are caught whining. You can not resign membership. Displaying the letters AVYC under your boat name is allowed only after you have become a member by attending a meeting/gathering

where at least three people have held cold beers in front of the AVYC clubhouse. Any person donating ice or fish to a AVYC function is automatically a member — even if they don’t want to be. 5) Discrimination shall be limited to lawyers. They can discriminate all they want, or they will sue you. Biologists are automatic members if they attend a meeting or potluck at Agua Verde. So is everyone else. There shall be no discrimination as to the type of boat a member is involved with. However, any proposed member with a boat over 150 feet long, must be sponsored by a member whose boat length does not exceed 30 feet. 6) If you find that you are anchored close enough to any other boat to be able to ask them — without the use of the radio — over to your boat, for cocktails, you must do so. 7) Any further 'Bye' laws shall be in effect as soon as they are written and approved by any three members holding cold beers in the area of/the Agua Verde clubhouse. Only "aye" votes are allowed. Members who attended the festivities at the luxurious Agua Verde clubhouse included: Bruce, LeAnna and Jerry Spear — Tumbleweed; Dave Stephens, Trish Contier — Kochab; Carl and Karin Amato — Reliance; Wayne and Leslie McFee, — Wapd’rin Star; Joe and April Dame — Windfall; David, Angela, Nancy and Ana Howie—KEA; Rex and Jeanie Hendricks — Margaritaville; Berke and Karen George, and Steve and Carol Fletcher — Senor; Gene and Ann Fletcher — Caramba; Bart and Cindy Gallagher—Jus' Cruisin’; Keith, Sally and Scott — Besame; Woody and Coley Hunt, Lu Quinney, Bobbie Benshoof — Coley "D"; Darrel and Cindy Jones, Captain Cantana — Sensei; Gregoria, Maricella, Raquel Amador, Linda Sabin — 10 Pie Panga; Don and Lenna Hossack — Windward Luv; and Dave Evert, Commodore and General Manager of the Agua Verde YC Clubhouse. — don & lenna 4/18/96 A

Cruise Notes: The ocean is constantly changing, so if you go cruising and decide to change plans, consider yourself in tune with Nature. A couple of pages back, for example, the Mooneys aboard Utopia told how they decided to switch from 'blue-water' to 'greenwater cruising after their first long passage — and have been delighted with their decision. Making such a dramatic change after a first long passage — or attempted passage — is not rare. After 30 years in the Coast Guard June, 1996

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and four years of restoring their 76 Valiant 40 Yellow Rose, Garry and Carol Domnisse decided they were going to begin seeing the rest of the world with a trip to Hawaii this April. But not far from San Diego they spent 27 hours battling 25-knot winds and breaking seas. They returned to San Diego to await more promising weather in the Pacific. But when the outlook was slow to improve, they said the heck with Hawaii and headed for Mexico and friends in La Paz. Next fall they’ll be sailing south for the Canal and the Caribbean — at least that’s the most recent plan. Nine years ago, Roger and Samantha Moore of Alamo sold their business, their house, and the Gulfstar 50 they’d only used for trips up the Delta. After inspecting Denny Jordan’s Cheoy Lee 63 Lady, they bought a sistership, christened her Good Grief, and figured they’d spend six months recuperating in Mexico. "By the time we got to Acapulco," Samantha remembers, "a friend convinced us to sail to French Polynesia. And by the time we’d arrived in Papeete, we were hooked on cruising. So Roger returned home briefly and returned with tons of suitcases filled with long-distance cruising equipment for the boat." When we saw the Moores in Antigua this May, they’d already extended their cruise by 8Vi years! Having completed most of a circumnavigation, they still figure it will be several more years before they make it back to California. "We’ll either heacl to Florida or down to Venezuela again," says Roger. "We’ve really been enjoying ourselves," says Samantha, stating the somewhat obvious. "Turkey was one of our favorite places," adds Roger, "and we even went up the Black Sea to Odessa, Russia. We carry a full-size motorcycle, which was great to have in Europe where license plates from different countries are common. The motorcycle hasn’t been as good here in the Caribbean, where foreign license plates stand out like a sore thumb and every country wants you to buy another license." The moral of the Moore’s story is, we suppose, be careful if you start cruising because you might not be able to stop. We’ll conclude our 'flexible is best' mini¬ feature with the experience of Steve and Barbara Schmidt, former Saratoga residents who’ve been cruising aboard Hotel California, Too, which is a Santa Cruz 70 modified for shorthanded cruising, for the last four years. The couple left Santa Cruz with a schedule to sail around the world, starting with Mexico. "After three months Page 202 •

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Steve and Barbara Schmidt with that i^s-goodto-be-alive-and-have-your-daughter-going-for-aPhD. smile. -,-v-;-

south of the border we found ourselves way behind schedule and getting anxious about it," recalls Barbara. "So we just said the hell with the plan. We’ve been much more relaxed and really enjoying ourselves ever since." Instead of heading west as per their plan, the Schmidts slowly sailed to Panama, through the Canal, and to South America and the Eastern Caribbean. Typical of their new we-ain’t-moving-unti!-we-feel-like-it attitude, they spent six months diving in the San Bias Islands and another six months at Venezuela’s offshore islands. "We still plan on sailing west around the world," assures Steve, "but the only time frame we’re going to honor is to be in Auckland for the America’s Cup in 2000.” The Schmidts and about 8,000 other West Coast sailors. Barbara, who joined Steve for one race aboard Big O at Antigua Sailing Week, More and more cruisers seem to be enjoying 'Dessert First'.

an interesting youth-raising strategy with us. "As we were getting ready to leave, our daughter was figuring out what to do after graduating from high school. She had her heart set on becoming a rock 'n roll star, while we preferred that she attend college. So we . . . well, we bribed her. We told her that if she got accepted at the University of California at Santa Barbara and went there, we’d buy her a sailboat of her own. She agreed to the deal, so we found her a Cal 3-30 and a liveaboard slip in Santa Barbara. The week after she graduated from high school, she was gone and living on her boat. But we can now happily report that she’s graduating from Cal Santa Barbara — and her plans for the future are to go for her PhD. rather than go on tour. So that Cal 330 is beginning to look like a pretty good investment." There were many other Northern California sailors and boats at Antigua during Sailing Week. Pete Passano of San Rafael, for example, arrived by way of Auckland, Cape Horn, the Falkland Islands, and Rio, singlehanding his 39-foot steel sloop C-Bear all the way. Passano, who retired from Bechtel a couple of years ago, is totally at home with his boat and the sea. After plenty of wine and dinner with some of the Big O crew aboard Ken and Madeline Fairchild’s San Francisco-based Dynamique 62 Orient Express, Passano awoke early the next morning and, long before the other crews were about, took off for Bermuda. Lansing Hayes of the Freedom 44 Ivory Goose and Ha-Ha I was also in Antigua, and had just located crew for a trip up to Georgia. He and his wife are trying to reconcile cruising to their marriage. Incline Village’s Bob Garvie and some friends were aboard his Swan 59 Odalisque, although they skipped cotnpeting this year. Doug and Anne Murray of San Carlos were anchored in Falmouth Harbor with their Liberty 456 Murmur, and were kind enough to give the captains of Orient Express and Big O tips on anchorages and procedures in the Dominican Republic. Jeff and Dawn Stone of the Sausalito-based Nicholson 39 Dawn were also on the hook in Falmouth, and told the Wanderer a hilarious story about "the charter from hell — in Cuba!" We’ll hope to share that with you next month. Anchored a mile or so away at English Harbor was Paul Franson, who gave up his Northern California PR business last year to cruise Selkie in the Caribbean. He’d been having quite a few problems with the boat, but when we spoke with him he wasn’t feeling much pain — because he was watching the statuesque Alicia of Danville win 'most outrageous' honors in the Lay Day

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Wet T-Shirt contest. Alicia had sailed the first two races aboard Capricio, a Centurion 49 chartered by Dale and Luisa Williams of the St. Francis YC, who were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. When a third race collision knocked Capricio out of the competition, Alicia joined Big O for the last two races. Oddly enough, there weren’t any complaints from the rest of the crew about extra weight. Also seen in the nearby Virgin Islands: the Swan 651 White Knight, which had been based in Sausalito for several years, and the San Francisco-based 43-footer Dessert First, (not to be confused with Chris and Karen Sheridan’s Victoria-based Cal 40 Dessert First, which sailed from Puerto Vallarta to the Marquesas a few months ago.) Regrettably, we don’t have the names df the owners of White Knight and the 43-foot Dessert First, as they were destroyed in a mishap involving a bottle of rum, a brick of firecrackers, and a wet T-shirt. If you find yourself and your boat in the vicinity of Malololailai, Fiji, on August 30, may we recommend the Musket Cove World Yacht Regatta? The brainstorm of Dick Smith — who has made yachties most welcome at Malololailai for many years — the Musket Cove Regatta is one of the most casual regattas in the world and features all kinds of cruiser-friendly rules. Will someone please send us some photos? After several years of cruising and writing superb guides to the South Pacific, Alameda’s Jim and Sue Corenman are about to sail their Schumacher 50 Heart of Gold to Indonesian waters. If we’re not mistaken, they’ll be doing this via July’s 20th Annual Darwin to Ambon Race. The 600-mile competition is one of the most popular in that part of the world, and feeds into three other sweet-sounding events: the Makassar Regatta, which is based at Ujung Pandang, an exciting South Sulawesi city of 1,000,000; the 650-mile Ball to Jakarta Race; and the Thousand Islands Regatta and Race to Batam Island. The latter event starts in the fabled Thousand Islands and finishes with the fleet just 11 miles from Singapore. That the Malaysian government is welcoming cruisers to their country is a dramatic turn of events. Less than 10 years ago it was extremely difficult to obtain a permit to cruise this island-studded country — except for a limited time as part of the Darwin to Ambon Race. The Indonesian events, of course, are feeders for Malaysia’s popular Raja Muda Regatta in November, the Andaman Sea Race, and Thailand’s King’s Cup in December. Life is too short for all the great cruiser events to participate

O.K., you're on the crew! As outrageous as she is, ‘Grab a mitt and get in the game' Alicia is a real sweetheart.

in and people to meet! Speaking of Singapore, that’s where Fritz Warren, former mayor of Sausalito, currently has his Celestial 48 Truly Fair. When Warren returns to Sausalito this fall, he’ll almost certainly be the first person to have done fwo circumnavigations aboard a Chinese-built yacht. Thank you, Richard Nixon! Warren’s evaluation of Singapore? "It’s out in the middle of nowhere and they like their caning. On the other hand, it’s clean and the buses run on time." And like everywhere, you get to meet great people. "I was nearing Tunisia — a really terrific place — a while back, and I heard this familiar voice on the radio. It was a friend of mine I hadn’t seen since four years before in Singapore! When we finally tied up to the dock, he was right there at the dock with fresh loaves of bread! After a couple of circumnavigations, you have friends all over the globe — and you never know where you’re going to run into them." Bill Forsythe, one of the five doctors who did the Baja Ha-Ha last year aboard Lawrence Gold’s S&S 50 Chap, reports that he and his wife Katherine will be entering “You folks back home go ahead and pay your faxes," says Tom Scott, "Don't mind me, I'm just going to relax out here in the South Pacific."

their Richmond YC-based Endeavour 38 Trilogy in this year’s Ha-Ha. “We’ve been waiting all year for it," he says. The Forsythes will be accompanied by two other couples, H. James and Judy Cornelius, and Pate and Kathy Thomson. H. James also sailed aboard Chap last year. Forsythe advises that the' Vallejo-based Gold is still down in Mexico with Chap and loving it. "Lawrence got as far south as Ztown and was then heading back up to La Paz for Sea of Cortez Sailing Week. He’s coming back to Northern California soon, but only because one daughter is getting married and the other is having a baby!" Other Baja Ha-Ha entries for this November include Barry Lennox with the Alameda-based Catalina 42 Annybelle; Ron Jordan and the San Diego-based Roberts/Crealock 57-ft ketch Relax; Ric Cuthbertson and the Long Beach-based Crealock 37 Esprit 11; Zubenelgenubis and their Berkeley-based Island Packet 35 Rajada; some Marina del Rey folks who wish not to be identified yet also with an Island Packet 35; Brad and Louise Mason of San Francisco with the Fairweather Mariner 39 Altaira; Steve and Marsha Sears with the San Francisco-based Pearson 424 ketch Spirit; Peter and Jean Ryan with the Brisbane-based Catalina 42 Neener; and Bart and Debra Day of the Long Beachbased Spindrift 43 Day by Day. We’re honored that all of your put your faith in us, and we’ll do our darndest to put on the best event possible. If anybody else wants to HaHa this November, send $99 to Latitude with all the very basic information about you and your boat. Today’s cruisers sail ail over the globe, especially the tropics, where they are sometimes exposed to malaria, cholera, dengue fever, and all sorts of other rare-tothe-U.S. health hazards. So what’s the biggest threat? Automobile accidents — and by a wide margin. Last year in Turkey, for example, the Wanderer and kids were double rear-ended while riding in a taxi. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries, but speed really does kill. If your taxi driver drives like a maniac, demand that he or she slow down — or get out. A helpina hand from dad. Twenty-one year old Ethan Hirschfeld and his sweetheart, an almost equally young Kirstin Kremer, got the enviable job of delivering his dad Kurt’s Belvedere-based C&C 61 Barbara’s Song from Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco over the last four months. With the boat currently in Manzanillo and

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Doug and Anne Murray, enjoying the soothing waters of the Caribbean while listening to the manta rays murmuring at their toes.

Libre and headed for Tahiti. By the way, I loved the Corenmans’ piece on the South Pacific; they know what they’re talking about. Lots of boats keep arriving from Mexico, and the tiny harbor at Atuona is getting very cozy. The weather is very rainy at the moment as a couple of fronts are passing by. But it’s beautiful — as always." We’ll have more from Scott, who pens some of the best cruising newsletters we’ve read, in upcoming months.___

Stand by! Well here’s a fax from Tim Tunks of the Southern California-based Islander 37 Scallywag, who cruised Mexico for several years with O’Keefe. According to Tunks, "Suzy just crossed the equator last week on her way to the Marquesas and other South Seas adventures aboard Alice Coleene, a Canadian Alberg 34 skippered by a fellow named Dave. Suzy sounded happy and optimistic. The word is they have lots of company, as tons of boats left Puerto Vallarta and La Paz for the South Pacific. "Scallywag and I had a great winter in the Sea of Cortez," reads the fax. A transmission failure curtailed my trip to the mainland as I had to divert to La Paz for repairs. This was one of the nicest winters in history up here, and all the crowds were—thanks to Latitude — in Z-town. I had a grand time doing boat projects and swimming out at the islands. I even had a three-week 'blind date1 with Bobbi, who found me through the Latitude Crew List." Out of room already? Next month we’ll tell you about a Kiwi woman who recently finished a multiyear solo circumnavigation aboard a wooden sloop. While that’s relatively rare, he’s the kicker: it’s a 104year-old sloop. Yes, 104 years old._

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DINGHIES, UFERAFTS AND ROWBOATS 16-FT FIREBALL. Boat and trailer have current registration. Two suits of sails. Has compass and new hiking stick. Race ready. $950 obo. (510) 548-3730 days. LASER, 1995. Excellent condition, lightly used. Seitech dolly, top and bottom covers. $2,900. Scott (415) 776-7392. 14-FT FLYING JUNIOR in good shape, but in¬ complete. Needs rudder and sails. First $350 takes it. Also for sale 13' Banshee—hull only, but new boat, never completed, $175. Please call (510) 653-1724. LASER, 1978. With trailer. New centerboard. Like new. $1,000 firm. (510) 943-2147. FINN, VANGUARD. Just refaired and sprayed, excellent condition, Halspar carbon mast, 2, Needlespar masts, carbon rudder, 7 sails of which 3 are new, measurement certificate, race ready and fast, dolly, box trailer, covers and much more! $3,300 obo. (510) 376-3351 or (510) 837-0780. AVON 4-MAN LIFER AFT VALISE. Current certi¬ fication, $1,900. 1986 Zodiac Mark I GT, hardly used, 11 1/2’. $1,500. (415) 332-7442. 12-FT AEOULUS SEMI-DORY. Sliding seat, cus¬ tom oars, canvas cover, launch dolly, high grade mahogany, ready to row. Lots of extras. $1,800. (415)368-1808. LASER II, 14'6". Great shape, complete w/ spin¬ naker, trapeze, trailer & extras. Fast, fun & ready to sail. $1,900 obo. (408) 257-4977.

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MONTGOMERY ROWING DINGHY. Fiberglass lapstrake construction with positive flotation and teak trim. It rows and tows very well. Price new in ‘93 was $735. Two “Feather brand” caviness oars. Cost new $75. $450. (916) 344-4358. EL TORO. 9' dinghy. Fiberglass construction with mast, sail, and oars, $120.31’ wooden mast and boom cut to fit, $120. (510) 337-1708. VANGUARD 15 DINGHY, 1993, with 14’ Caulkins trailer. Green and white hull and decks. Sailed very little and well maintained. All in excellent condition. Fast and too much fun. Yours for $3,200 obo. Call Aaron (503) 252-4903. 12-FT ROWING SCULL. With sailing rig. Beauti¬ ful fiberglass hull has stable 42' beam with fixed rowing seat. 62 lb. hull is effortless to row and easy to cartop. Includes sail, mast, leeboard and rud¬ der. $925 obo. (510) 865-7439. 505 RONDAR. 2 sets of sails, bow launching, belly button spinnaker, traps, race ready, trailer,' $2,000. Jet 14, Great Lakes racing dinghy. Origi- > nally $5,000 new. $1,400 obo. Catamaran, 12’. Main and jib, 2 person capacity. May convert to windsurfer. Fast. Great for beginning windsurfing, $700 obo. (408) 423-6000 or (916) 544-8226. USED EL TORO. Sailable as is, but a fixer-upper. $500 or best offer. Call Anne (408) 353-2620 or (408) 435-2168.

LIFERAFT RFD offshore, 4 person, 1982 in va¬ lise. Repacted Oct. ’94. Report available. $750. Leave message. (510) 937-5297. AVON6-MANCOASTALLIFERAFTvalise pack. Certified spring of 1995. $2,850 retail value. $1,800 obo. Sausalito. (415) 332-8401. 11-FT 8” NISSAN INFLATABLE. V-shaped keel. Neoprene, nylon, Hypalon, marine plywood floor, 18 horsepower Nissan motor - less than 15 hours run time - galvanized EZ Loadertrailer, bimini top, excellent condition. $2,985. (408) 336-2459 or (408) 475-9494. 7.5-FT SEAHORSE ROWING/SAILING DINGHY forsale. Lapstrake mahogany plywood, good con¬ dition Very pretty, traditional. Rows great, sails well. Fixed shoal keel. Complete: oars, jib, spritsail, removable bowsprit, spars, tiller, cover. $1,000. Redwood City. Rick (415) 367-9926 orv rdrain@slip.net. ACHILLES 11-FT INFLATABLE, with 15 hp en¬ gine $2,900. Underwater camera new, $200. VHF handheld, $130. Multiband programmable re¬ ceiver, $100. Foul weather gear mens medium $90. Opti hand bearing compass, $60. Two way hands free radio pair new, $50. Binoculars new, $50. (805) 462-1616.

AVON 315. Rollaway 8 hp Johnson, $3,100. Avon Redcrest, 2 hp Mariner, $950. Pumps, oars, etc. (415)331-6234.

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ZODIAC 9-FT DINGHY, with motor bracket, ex¬ cellent, $400. Johnson 3 hp outboard, 1991, $400. Both for $750. Also 4 person liferaft. (415) 435-5308. ELTORO. New: mahogany, flotation. Hull #11598, built to specs, all epoxy seams, epoxy coated inside and outside, bottom painted white, topsides varnished. $550. Boards, spars, $200. Call (916) 684-3646. CAPRI ‘91 -14’2”. Sailed twice, like new. Fin keel, stable, easy handling. Roller jib. Self bailing cock¬ pit has long seats w/backrest. Lead keel w/fiberglass jacket. Beam 8’2”. Draft 2’. Custom trailer inc. $1600 or BIO. (510) 684-2623. BOMBARD AX2 2.4 meter (7.8 foot) inflatable dinghy. Avon look-a-like. Floorboards and ply¬ wood transom. Built in pumps. Comes with carry¬ ing bag and aluminum oars. Used less than 10X. $450. (415)553-1160. 6’8” PETERSON PRAM “SANDY" Glued lap¬ strake, mahog., very pretty, new. $2000. 10’6" Chaisson Dory Tender. Glued lapstrake, mahog., like new $2000. (415)366-3263.

24 FEET & UNDER J-24,1984. Min. class weight, new epoxy bottom, faired keel and rudder, racing deck layout. Interior in excel, cond. Great mast. $6,000. (310) 320-5671. 24-FT ISLANDER BAHAMA. Sturdy, full keel, sails and handles well. Topsides, bottom and interior all in good condition. Weli-equipped with all lines led aft and spinnaker. VHF, depthsounder, outboard motor. ASA instructor's boat, so instruc¬ tion included. $3,500 obo. (415) 873-3617.

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cockpit cover, running rigging and bottom paint. Five sails plus spinnaker. Seagull motor. Trailer. Lying Millerton Lake, Fresno. $4,000. (209) 627-4285 evenings.

RANGER 23. Best equipped Ranger on Bay.

Mylar sails, new boom and rigging, magic boxes, custom traveler, quick vang, spring engine mount, internal halyards, etc. Featured in sailing mag. A $24,000 Ranger for $6,000. Dan, days at (707) 263-8382. HOLDER 20. Winner‘95 High Sierra Regatta (13

boats). All lines, hardware, winches, etc. replaced in '94. Keel and rudder faired, 8 bags, nice trailer w/ new tires. A turn-key trailer racer for $4,400 obo. Dave (209) 673-2344.

lent condition. Used exclusively in the delta and lakes, can be seen in Emeryville, CA by appt. $1,500 obo. (702) 945-3586 or (702) 945-7710 days. CATALINA 22. Full keel with 6 hp Johnson out¬

board, self-tailing winches, interior and running lights, VHF, lots of goodies. $2,500 obo. Sam (415) 962-9488. RANGER 23,1975. Rigged to race, all lines aft,

trailer, sleeps 4. Must sell. (707) 253-8871. COMPAC19,1983. Clean, excellent family cruiser.

CATALINA 22. A real beauty, fresh water only,

Very stable, sleeps 4, easily trailered. Shoal draft keel. Includes main and jib, VHF, compass, 6 hp Suzuki, trailer. $6,250. Will deliver. Contact (209) 823-5116.

trailer with extendible tongue. Stern mast support for transport, bow and stem pulpits, galley, head, swing keel, Pop-Top with new canvas. Sails in¬ clude main, jib, 120,150, spinnaker. Boom vang, genoa tracks. VHF, depthfinder, compass, solar charger, cockpit cushions, traveler and backstay adjuster, line brakes, the list goes on. Call for more details. $5,500 obo. Bill (707) 887-9743.

22- FT PARCAMAR, 1970. Swedish, fiberglass,

cutter rigged, 3+ sails, galley, head, fixed keel, 5 hp Nissan o/b, main roller rigged, lots of storage, rugged, safe, dry Bay sailer. Great beginner boat. $2,250. (415) 459-5539 eves; (415) 652-0136 days. CATALINA 22,1972. Hauled Dec '95, new: FG

surface on keel, bottom paint, rigging, jib. Mercury o/b, cabin, table, sleeps 4, lots of extras. $5,200 obo. (510) 528-1146, pager (510) 308-6948.

CORONAD015. All rigging new in 1996 to class specifications. New mast and boom. New lines, blocks and cleats. Two sets of sails. Includes galvanized trailerwith newwiring and lights. Ready for racing or great daysailing. $3,800. (510) 337-9619.

naker, easy to trailer. Everything like new. Large cockpit, $2,500 obo. Call (408) 423-6000 or (916) 544-8226. 22-FT CHRYSLER, swing keel sailboat and trailer.

1977 model, 13,hp Chrysler outboard and 2 sails. Our first sailboat needs a good home. Call (415) 363-2224 eves. 19-FT WINDROSE, 1981. Mainsail, 90% & 150%

jibs, spinnaker, new running rigging, fill-lead keel, 4 hp Mariner o/b, new VHF radio, E2 Loader trailer, all safety equipment. Very stable boat, ready to sail away. $3,500. (510) 797-6067.

cleanest, most original Rangers in the Bay Area. Bow & stem pulpits, life lines, self-steering, ste¬ reo, depth, VHF & many additional extras. 2 mains, 2 jibs, a 110% and a 140%. Located Bel Marin Keys in Marin Co. $3,350 w/ 6 hp o/b, $3,050 w/o 6 hp o/b. Joe (415) 382-8679. Pocket cruiser, hauled - new bottom 4/94. Full keel, main, jib, 2 genoas, 1 spinnaker, S steel gimbaled oven, stove. Sink, CG approved head. Great Bay or coastal boat. $2,000 or trade for daysailer with trailer. Call Jim (707) 553-2863. COLUMBIA 24.

New jib. With 6.5 hp Evinrude outboard. Extras. Berthed at Pete’s Harbor in Redwood City. $3,000 obo. (415) 578-1170 eves.

Honda 8 hp, fresh sail, origo stove, Porta-Potti, Navico tiller pilot, shore power, battery charger, 2 batteries, ground tackle, sail covers, trailer, cock¬ pit table. $3,500. (415) 456-5211.

condition, set up for racing. Must sell. $5,500. (510) 339-6264.

SANTANA 22. Great sailing boat for starter.

Ocean-worthy, great for Bay. Recent new main, rigging, cushions wood and covers. Tabernacled, Santa Cruz 5 month slip available. 90%, 125%, genoa, and spinnaker, 4 hp Mercury long shaft outboard, VHF. $3,900 obo. (408) 341-5082.

daysailer. Perfect starter boat. Very good condi¬ tion fresh water boat. Includes trailer, outboard, spinnaker gear, stainless rigging, main, #1 and #3. Must sell! $2,500 or offer. (916) 583-1949 or (916) 443-1030. COLUMBIA 231974. Very good condition, trailer,

10 hp Honda with less than 20 hrs. $4,500. (707) 823-8803 leave message.

SF BAY PELICAN. Custom sails, roller furling, 5

hp outboard, trailer. Custom cover, hull #2624. West System Epoxy. Excellent condition. Only $4,000. Call Glen (510)581-6511. NORTH AMERICAN 23. Fixed shoal keel w/ swing centerboard, 6 hp Evinrude, fully equipped 4-berth cabin, hull newly faired, epoxy, bottom paint. Well designed, clean boat. On dual axle factory trailerw/extending tongue. Extras. $5,000 obo. (408) ,395-3625.

O’DAY DAYSAILER, 16-FT 9" TYPE II. Like new! Complete with sails, cover, motor and EZ Loader galv trailer. Can fax you info. Asking $3,450 obo. John (707) 463-1081 days, (707) 468-1489 eves. SANTANA 22. 7.5 hp o/b, 130, 150, spin, up¬

grades, sturdy 1967 hull, finished interior, all lines aft. Strong and steady Bay boat. $2,200. (707) 447-1200 or (707) 421-5622 (voice mail). MOORE 24, MOORE ON, red LPU hull, race

WEST WIGHT POTTER 15,1986.15' sloop, 6’6”

RANGER 23. Best equipped Ranger on Bay.

SAN JUAN 21,1975. Excellent condition. Blue

hull, white deck, new cushions throughout. Kickup rudder. Includes trailer. $3,950 obo. (7p7) 2631200 days or (707) 263-5565 eves.

furbished. New topside striping and bottom coat. Sink and alcohol stove. VHF radio. Life jackets. Flare gun. Anchor & rode. Swim ladder. PortaPotti. Main & jib sails. Perfect-running 6 hp Evinrude. Swing keel. Tandem axle trailer. $2,500. (916)626-4005.

CAL 20,1964. Custom paint, split backstay, for¬ ward hatch, teak handrails, outboard motor, Porta Potti, custom cushions, depth sounder with speed log, launchable trailer. Dry storage for last eight years. $4,500 or trade for larger boat. (707) 428-3316.

J-24,1982. Double axle trailer, new sails, good

keel, 280 Chrysler outboard (12 hp w/ electric start/charge/inboard controls), VHF, epoxy bot¬ tom, Interlux CSC anti-fouling, dinette, slide-out galley, sleeps 4, tandem axle trailer. Excellent condition, $5,000. Will take coastal liferaft as partial trade. Jack (916) 487-1^81.

WONDERFUL AQUARIUS 23,1973. Interior re¬ 23- FT MacGREGOR. Venture of Newport. 1992

Locke as a Delta retreat. Bottom paint 5/95, reg¬ istered '96. Race rigging with lines led to cockpit. Main, jib and tapper. $1,950 obo. Call Walt (510) 793-8794.

21-FT CATALINA VICTORY. Classic fixed keel CAL 20. Classic Bay boat. Excellent condition.

CHRYSLER 22,1979. Aeri'Et. Pop-Top, Swing RANGER 23,1977. Metal toe rails. One of the

SANTANA 22, 1968. Hull #333 moored near

O'DAY DAYSAILER, 1978. Proctor mast, spin¬ 16-FT O'DAY DAYSAILER. With trailer, in excel¬

red LPU hull, black spars, heavy boom & spin pole, windward sheeting traveler, 6winches, depth, knotmeter, VHF, 2 lappers, spinny and blooper, 8 hp o/b. Sausalito berth. $4,750 obo. Gary (415) 421-2900 or (415) 474-8430.

ENSENADA 20. Retractable keel, o/b motor,

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Three bags, DS, club foot jib, lines lead aft, VHF available, Honda outboard. See in Oakland. $2,750 obo. Call (916) 343-9080 for info, or page (510) 319-2789 to see.

V-berth in cabin. 100 lb swing keel and kickup rudder. One reef point. Halyards and downhaul in cockpit. Adjustable lazy jacks act as topping lift. Tilting trailer. Paddle. $2,500. (415) 560) 2981 (pager).

rigged, light interior, newish 3.5 Nissan o/b, lots of sails and gear, trailered in Alameda Marina, launch and go for Moore fun. $9,500 obo. (510) 521-1667. J-22,1988. Excellent condition, race-ready. In¬

cludes single-axle trailer, main, jib, spinnaker, radio, Porta Potti, compass. $6,000 obo. Call us and make us an offer. We’re ready to negotiate. Cathy (415) 775-8779. ,

17- FT MONTGOMERY, 1980.6 hp Johnson long shaft, 3 sails, Porta Potti and more. 1984itrailer. $3,500 obo. (707) 279-9644.

SR MAX> 21.21’ pocket rocket rates PHRF=174 from Florida! Built 1993, hardly sailed. 4 race sails (North, 1993). Drop keel, trailer. Reduced to$8,000 obo. In the water at Newport Beach. (909) 626-0800 or fax (909)621-5651 for more info!

J-24,1983. Ready to race, excellent condition.

J-24,1980. Excellent condition, main, jib, genoa,

With latest go-fast deck layout. Brand new set North sails plus Shore practice set. Melges faired keel and rudder. Includes trailer and gear. $11,500 obo (415) 453-1123.

4.5 hp o/b, newly painted decks, new standing and running rigging, newly painted mast, new out¬ board bracket, last haul Feb '96, includes trailer. $6,500. Rich (415) 363-1390. ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Great Bay boat in great condition! 2 main and 3 jib sails. Fixed keel for fast and steady sailing. 10 hp outboard. Sleeps 4 and sails 6 in comfort. Located in Emeryville. $2,800 obo. (510) 284-5330.

J-24,1984. Racing deck layout. Lots of sails, new

main, new running rigging, nice dual axle trailer, outboard. Wet sailed, recent bottom. Ready for sailing now! $9,000. (800) 666-1050.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Best little pocket cruiser on the Bay! Excellent condition, many extras. Lying San Leandro. $4,000. (520) 726-3642.

24-FT O’DAY TEMPEST, 1964. 8 hp outboard.

RANGER 23,1976. Epoxy bottom, dodger, de¬ luxe cabin, VHF, KM, compass, ST primaries, all lines lead to cockpit, new spinnaker, new Mylar 120%, self- tacking 90%, main & 100%, aluminum toe rail, 6 hp Evinrude. Fortman Marina. $6,000. (415)775-8879.

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24,1965. Good condition. 7.5 hp Evinrude o/b, compass, club jib, genoa, VHF, Porta-Potti. Berthed Alameda Marina, Pier One, #114. $2,650 obo. Will trade for car, truck, motorcycle orpowerboat. Partnershipconsidered. Call Mario before 2 pm. (510) 351-0401.

18- FT LAGUNA, 1987, WEEKENDER. Equipped for lake or estuary, shoal draft w/ 8' beam. Great! sail inventory. 5 hp Honda outboard. Trailer equipped with surge brakes & telescoping tongue. Two custom covers. Many Extras. Better than new condition. $4,995 obo. Dan (510) 828-2244.

Beautiful condition, fully equipped, excellent day sailer! $3,000 obo. (510) 232-3974 leave msg.

CAL 20,with newly reconditioned Johnson 6 hp.

Moving) priced for immediate sale at $1995. Call (415)663-1514.

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J/24. Proven winner, just refurbished and actively racing. All new rigging and bottom. Much “go fast" gear. Sharp! $8,300. Trailer available. Call (510) 734-6276.

CAPRI 22,1989 with trailer (telescoping tongue),

Johnson 4 hp, wing keel, 110% roller jib. Safe, quick cruiser. Adult owner never abused like new. No disappointments. Need to buy home, must sell. Out of water more than in. $7,750. Call (408) 438-1392.

WINDROSE 22, 1980. Dinette model w/swing

keel. Main (1 RF), sail cvr, jib & 120. Full lifelines, pop top, new interior cushions, sleeps 4, anchor, compass, tilt rudder, swim ladder, 5 hp o/b, trailer. Great family boat. $4,200. (408) 252-1751.

AEOLUS GRAND BANKS DORY. Three rowing stations, two sets of oars and motor well. Comes with trailer, 6 hp outboard, sail and rigging. 5 coats of Z-spar inside and out. Moving, must sell. Sacrifice $2,000 firm. Call (707) 431-0328. 18’

O’DAY 27,1976. Atomic 4, VHF, autopilot, KM,

CATALINA 25,1980. Fixed keel, Pop-Top, new

DF, furler, located Richmond. Moving from area. $6,500 obo. (510)526-3612. OLSON 25. Santa Cruz built, new condition, new

Evinrude 9.9 hp o/b long shaft electric start, bat¬ tery charger, VHF, knotmeter, depthfinder, stove and potty, two anchors, new sail covers. Relocat¬ ing, must sell. $7,000 obo. (510) 841-6944.

racing sails, new outboard. $14,500 obo. (510) 229-6040 or (510) 234-6959.

ERICSON 27,1974. Two boat owner, must sell,

CATALINA 25,1979. Swing keel, 9.9 Evinrude

elec start o/b, EZ Load trailer, excellent condition. $6,800. Dave (209) 586-6368.

WYLIE WABBIT 24, 1982. Hull No. 19, Well

maintained, excellent condition. One new sail. Jib, main, and spinnaker in good condition. Gal¬ vanized trailer. Moving up. $6,000. Call (916) 589-3093, eves.

MacGREGOR 22’. Trailer, pop top, pulpit, pushpit,

lifelines, VHF, depth, CB, knot, full lights, Honda 7.5,3 sails, double jiffy reef main, head, kitchen, bunks 5, 2 anchors, safety gear. Great Condi¬ tion!—a steal at $2300 obo. (408) 246-9214.

23’ ERICSON, 1968. Main, Genoa, jib, fixed keel,

9.9 hp outboard. Solid built, sleeps 4. Great starter boat. At Coyote Point. $1,500. Motor not sold separately. (415) 361-1145, press # to leave message.

24' S2 SLOOP 1980.10 hp Honda outboard with

charger. New bottom paint, lazy jack, head, di¬ nette, sleeps 4, compass depthsounder, auto¬ pilot & VHF. Fixed Fin Keel, internal halyards, tabemackle mast, and all lines lead aft. Alameda $5,800 obo. (40fe) 371-4074.

CAL 20. 3 sets sails. Spinnaker. Recent new

rigging. 6 hp Johnson outboard. Sausalito berth. Great single-handed sailboat for SF Bay. $2,000 obo. (415) 383-8750.

CATALINA 22, hull #460 with spinnaker and all

gear, 150, 110, and 90 jibs, great LP paint, 2 mains. Swing keel with Nissan 5 hp outboard engine. Great bay or delta boat in excellent condi¬ tion. Trailer included. All for $3,500. Call (408) 777-0302.

MELGES 24, HULL #38. New Bank inventory,

Sailcomp compass, elec sys, new Nissan 3.5 hp o/b, trailer, one design of the century. $33,000. Call Skip (503) 625-2555 or (503) 636-9666.

22’ FALMOUTH CUTTER. Lyle Hess designed

CATALINA 22,1976, swing keel, 6 hp. Evinrude

Pocket Ocean Cruiser. Built in 1979 by Heritage Marine, Long Beach, CA. Extensive detailed sur¬ vey 8/94 (copy available). VHF radio, direction finder, Garmin 45 GPS, 8 hp outboard. $13,500 obo. (707) 762-6234.

long shaft, trailer, etc. Great family boat. $2,100 obo. (408) 257-4325.

CATALINA 27,1980. Dinette,-inboard with one-

design sailing dinghy, excellent family package. Great shape, ready to sail. VHF, knotmeter, depthfinder, battery charger, stove, shore power, swim ladder, 2 anchors, enclosed head, holding tank, headroom, fresh bottom. $10,000. Pager (510) 340-5816.

25 TO 28 FEET by Ted Brewer, canoe stem, roller furling jib, double reefing main, lazy jacks, all lines lead aft, 8 hp Yamaha in well, shoal draft / drop centerboard, lift-up rudder, all sail covers, full boat cover, fresh water only, custom aluminum dual-axle trailer, trailer launchable in one hour, “bristol condition”, South Lake Tahoe. $12,500. (916) 577-8577 or (307) 455-3339.

BRISTOL CHANNEL CUTTER 28,1989. Excel¬

lent condition, factory built. Never cruised, 3 cyl¬ inder Yanmar. Pro-furl furling jib, Pardey steering vane, totally prepared, documented. New replace¬ ment cost $180,000. Lying San Francisco. $114,000. (415) 821-0617.

WYLIE WABBIT 24, 1982. Hull No. 19. Well

maintained, excellent condition. One new sail. Jib, main, and spinnaker in good condition. Galva¬ nized trailer. Moving up, $6,000. (916) 589-3093, eves.

SOUTHERN CROSS 28,1979. Tom Gillmer de¬ sign, Ryder custom construction, cutter rig, cored Airex f/g, diesel, tiller, bowsprit. Great shape in and out. Berthed Richmond. A must see beauty. $25,000. (415) 479-7031. 28-FT COLUMBIA FG SLOOP, MUSIC. New 8-

26-FT SEAQUEST, 1969.3 sails. Dad can’t play

anymore, must sell. A fixer upper at a great price. Docked at Vallejo Marina. $600 obo. H (707) 2527114 or(lv msg on business line (707) 257-1598.

90 cushions, MOB, DF/FF stereo, 9.9 elec/rebuilt 15 hrs. Filet, rod holders, VHF, 12 gal, etc. $8,750 firm. 5 hp Gamefisher, good tank, $235. Ross (510) 451-2012 eves.

PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25,1977. Yanmar diesel. Autopilot, wind speed, knotmeter, dodger, self¬ tailing winches. Lots of other stuff. Clean, good condition. Located Monterey. $15,500. Would take Typhoon, Montgomery 17 or other in partial trade. (602) 788-4245.

COLUMBIA 28. Excellent condition. Diesel en¬

C&C 25,1974. Best of Canadian built, fully lined pleasure and race craft. Many extras, excellent throughout. 9.9 Evinrude elec start. Lake Oroville now, will move. $8,000 obo. Partial trade possible. (916) 877-4617.

COLUMBIA 26, 1970. Good sailing condition,

OLSON 25,1988. Excellent condition. Includes

23’ ROB ROY YAWL. “Pocket cruiser”, designed

price reduced, excellent condition, 6 sails, Harken furling, Loran, DS, KM, Autoheim, VHF, Atomic 4, ‘93 survey, new batteries. Rigged for single hand¬ ing, located at Coyote Point. $9,900 obo. Mark (h) (415) 324-2010 or (w) (408) 973-7865.

North Kevlar racing sails, spinnaker, cruising sails, Sail Comp, knotmeter, VHF, stereo, outboard, sleeps 4, Pprta-Potti, sink, alcohol stove, cockpit cushions. Dual axle trailerwith brakes, dry sailed. Price reduced. Call Richard (510) 234-6959.

gine, wheel steering, North main, 3 jibs, lazy jacks, refrig, mast steps, spreader lights, cutter rigged. Hot &cold pressure water, fridge, TV, VCR, much, much more. $9,500. See at J.L Marina. Call (510) 451-4609.

large roller jib, 6 hp outboard, ship-to-shore radio. Ballena Bay, Alameda. $6,300 obo. Call (510) 829-5137. EXPRESS 27, LOOSE CANNON. Finest main¬ tained and equipped E27 in area. Cockpit mounted Loran, mast mounted Sailcomp & knotmeter, out¬ board —it goes on and on. Look at the others and then call for equipment list. $19,500 Bill Schwager (415) 592-4572. CHEOY LEE 26, FRISCO FLYER. Beautiful. Fi¬

25-FT FOLKBOAT. All new ribs, new deck. In the

water and sailing. Needs detailing. $2,500 obo. Leave message at (415) 331-6930.

berglass bottom, teak topside. Full cover. Six bags of sails. Volvo diesel i/b, dual batteries, depth sounder, knotmeter, VHF, stove, enclosed Porta-Potti, dodger. Hauled & bottom painted 9/ 95. $8,000 obo. (510) 370-9338 after 6 pm.

HUNTER 28.5,1986.16hp Yanmar, aft cabin, h / c pressure water, built-in microwave, Heart inter¬ face inverter charger, shore power, wheel, dodger, roller furling. Bottom paint 2/96, no blisters. Full covers, showroom condition. $21,900 obo. (707) 374-2999.

MacGREGOR 26,1991. 4 sails, 8.8 Nissan w/

CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLIER 26. Odin, Volvo diesel MD1, in Antioch area. Must see. $6,500. (510) 757-6769.

NEWPORT 28,1974. Well maintained in South

COLUMBIA 26,1963. Mark I. Atomic four inboard

CAL 28,1968. Bright, spacious 6-berth interior.

Beach slip. Atomic 4, new cabin cushions, stain¬ less steel fuel tank & mast head, new 95% headsail. Zodiac tender included. Great boat. $7,500 (702) 734-3565.

Fast comfortable sailing. New rigging, 9.9 Honda. Crescent City. $5,950. (707) 464-1620.

28-FT BRISTOL CHANNEL CUTTER, 1981. Sam

engine, overhauled March 1996. Jib roller reefing, VHF, depthsounder, compass, Electrosan, 2-burner alcohol stove, Braun electric heater, Avon dinghy, 6' headroom in salon, sleeps four, good condition. Owner incapacitated .$5,500. John (415) 363-2224.

electric start, VHF, Autohelm, depthsounder, bimini, trailer w/ surge brakes, 8' Achilles dinghy. Too many features to list. Well cared for pocket cruiser in excellent condition. $9,500 obo. (619) 758-0774.

OLSON 25,1996. Midwinter Class winner, Pine¬

apple race sails, outboard, Porta-Potti, stove, knotmeter, race or play! Owner motivated. $11,500 obo. (209) 523-2101.

J-24.1995 LPU paint, Halyards, shrouds, chain

plates, stanchions, etc., in great shape. 2 com¬ plete sets of sails. New lines. 4 hp Seagull. Not pretty but always reliable. Asking $5,900 obo. Call Jeff at 331-5515 days or 388-4041 eves. CATALINA 22, 1981. Swing keel, trailer with

surge brakes, 7.5 hp Honda 4-stroke, digital depth sounder, VHF, dinette, slide out gallery, jib and main, original gel coat, stored covered in San Rafael. Well maintained, excellent condition, fully equipped. $4,900. (415) 491-1339.

ERICSON 27,1971. Atomic 4, Spinnaker, shore

power, stove, enclosed head w/ holding tank, water tank, sleeps 5. New running rigging. (408) 776-8517.

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MERIT 25,1982. Mylar sails, main and two jibs, 3/

4 and 1/2 spinnakers, Suzuki outboard, tandem trailer. $7,800.(209)931-6115.

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FOLKBOAT FOR SALE. Boat, rigging and sails

MacGREGOR 26,1989. Gas House Cove, SF

in good condition. Full cover, outboard motor and handheld radio. Asking $3,500 and will consider any offer. William (408) 954-1443.

Marina. 9 hp Evinrude, extra sails, ship to shore radio, AM/FM cassette, head, sink, tools, sail cover, rigged for SF Bay. Loaded. $6,500. Call Peter, w (415) 752-4031; h (415) 661-4120.

CATALINA 27, 1984. Diesel, new bafts, batt

charger, dock power, 2 burner stove, 2 man inflat¬ able, radio, adj backstay, boarding ladder, double lifelines, Lifesling, main & 120% furling jib, holding tank with Y-valve, auto bilge pump, Tiller master. $15,000. (408) 778-0047. NEWPORT 28, 1981. Coastal veteran, never

raced. $10,000 invested in last year up grading. New Harken roller furler. New 20 amp solid state charging system. New gells. Knot/log/depth w/ alarm. New offshore dodger w/ hand rails, VHF radio, offshore pole, head w/ shower, 11 hp, diesel, w/ filtering system. Professionally main¬ tained. 6’ headroom, BBQ, teak and mahogany sole. Hauled and bottom in June '95. This is the cleanest Newport 28 I have seen in SF Area. Located in Alameda. $16,500 obo. Garry (916) 645-6201 after 6 pm. NOR’SEA 27.1000 miles under keel. Just beau¬ tiful, teak dbcks, Monitor, Loran, aft cabin, wood stove, sealed batteries, triple barrier coat, new bottom paint, liferaft, dinghy, Hogin sails, spa¬ cious custom interior. With adjustable trailer. $65,000. (541) 779-6530. YANKEE 28. 3/4 ton race/cruise sloop. Volvo

Penta diesel inboard. 3 sails, spinnaker pole, VHF, 2 anchors. Almost new gelcoat, sail covers, poly-coated mast. Good condition. Located at Lake Mead. Must sell. $12,000 obo by 9/1/96. (909) 624-0624; fax (909) 624-1873. PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25,1975. Inboard Yanmar diesel, double ended, depthsounder, speed meter, VHF radio and mast antenna. Brand new Sutter sails. This boat has been tuned, new sheets, new winches, excellent condition. Must see. $17,900. (415) 459-1674. 26-FT FRANCIS, 1982. Chuck Paine design, West

System cold molded construction, 29’6” LOA, 26'6" LOD, 8,000 lbs displacement, flush teak deck, inboard Yanmar 15 hp, GPS, VHF, autopi¬ lot, solar panel, documented, located Sausalito. Specs available. $30,000. (415) 388-3854. 28-FT TRITON, #248. Yanmar diesel, new teak trimmed interior, improved structural mast sup¬ port, generous freeboard, liveaboard headroom, w/ 4 berths, two speed winches, main & jib, dodger, new boom & cushions. 8,500 lbs for$1.41 per lb. Myron Spaulding (415) 332-3721. COLUMBIA 28,1969. Volvo 17 hp dsl. New rig

'95, dodger, autopilot, dinghy w/o/b, depthsounder. $9,500. Harold (510)658-2335. JUNK RIG FOLKBOAT. Cold-molded, West Sys¬

tem throughout, 2/3 completed. All materials, mast, sail, hardware, etc. included. Sell or trade. Ask for Brandon (916) 661-5980 or (916) 662-0602.

O’DAY 27,1986. Diesel inboard, roomy interior, three sails, self-tailing winches, cockpit cushions, marine head holding tank, new batteries, 110v shore power. VHF radio, 6' headroom, hauled Sept. 95. Like new condition. $12,500. Call (510) 228-2852.

MacGREGOR 26,1987. Sailing Big. Numerous

additions and safety features have been made to this fine craft. Heavy rigging, lines lead aft, roller reefing, 4 reef points, flattening reef, toe and hand rails, Harken traveler and cam cleats, auto pilot, 15 hp, electric start, depth, knotmeter, VHF, chart table, lots of storage. Phone for a four page inventory with photo album. $16,780. Hank (707) 441-2780 or (707) 443-1665. BALBOA 27, w/ tandem-axle trailer w/ surge

brakes, wheel steering, inboard diesel w/12 gal fuel tank, 3 sails, headsail roller furling, 2-bumer stove, 2 stainless sinks, sleeps six, fully cush¬ ioned cabin/cockpit, radio-telephone, custom cur¬ tains, bimini top, Porta Potti, whiskerpole, 2 heavy duty marine batteries, 12v system, Danforth an¬ chor & chain, extras. Ask to see Heaven Can Wail at The ForeDeck, 11317 Folsom Blvd., Rancho Cordova, Tues-Sat. Fantastic price at $10,900. Owner at (916) 673-7664. INTERNATIONAL FOLKBOAT by Marieholm.

BMW diesel. Good sails including spinnaker. Very clean; $8,500. Columbia 26. Very well equipped. Lots Of sails. Excellent condition, $3,000. Donated boats must be sold now to raise cash for RYC Foundation. (510) 283-0394 or (510) 233-1286.

26-FT. EXCALIBUR, 1978. Solid Bay boat. New Furlex furler with kevlar/mylar sail, VHF, Loran, 8 hp Mercury o/b. Good boat at a good price! Asking $5,000. (415) 780-9107. DU FOUR 25,1983. Great family bay boat. Volvo diesel just sen/iced. New cruising spinnaker, roller furling. Very comfortable cockpit. Beautiful inte¬ rior. Excellent condition. European quality de¬ signed for Bay of Discovery in France. Similar to Bay conditions. First $9,500. Ask for Richard (408) 353-3413. 28' HAWKFARM, 1979. Coyote. Quality built,

Wylie design sloop. Hull #32. Outstanding condi¬ tion. Hauled 2/96. New 155 Genoa 12/95. Sleeps 5. Inboard diesel. Ready to race or cruise. $19,500 obo or trade towards J35 or S35. (619) 940-1168. MILLER 28, rugged performance cruiser, Carib¬

bean vet. Spacious teak interior, new diesel, $11,500 obo. Haida 26, offshore proven, diesel, new sails, rigging, interior, headroom, Baja or Alaska trailer, $10,900. Offers on LectraSan, Lofrans Windlass, propane and CNG Stoves, reli¬ able Atomic 4. (415)331-7576. BALBOA 27. Absolutely beautiful condition! Brand

CHRYSLER 26. Full batten main, self tending jib,

Nissan 8, mast steps, bimini, lazy jacks, VHF, Loran, stereo, speed, depth, solar panel, brass fireplace, electric water, galley, cockpit controls, sailing dinghy, hauled 4/95, nice clean boat. $7,000. (510) 679-9201. CATALINA 27. Well-maintained freshwater boat

in very good condition. Ideal for family cruising or racing. New depthsounder and knotmeter. Practi¬ cally new Nissan 9.9 outboard. Dual batteries. Pineapple mainsail, Sobstad Genesis club jib. Located at Stockton Sailing Club B-16. $8,500. Ed (209) 464-0983. 1961 PEARSON TRITON - 28-1/2 ft. Loran, depth sounder, VHF radio, alcohol stove. 3 jibs, 2 mains, 2 genoas, spinnaker, 2 anchors & inflatable. $10,000. (510)843-5410.

new electric start 9.8 longshaft outboard. New canvas, dodger, sail covers, etc. New bottom paint. New VHF and marine battery. AM/FM ste¬ reo, depth sounder, compass, bristol teak interior w/ stqve, tiead, pressurized water, sleeps six! With E-Z Roller trailer, this 1983 easy sailer is the perfect pocket cruiser of Bay boat! $8,500 obo. Steve (415) 258-2041 days or (415) 455-9375 evenings. CATALINA 27, 1975. Excellent condition, new

interior, sleeps five, VHF, main, 3 jibs: 90,110, 150% genoa with pole. Yamaha o/b, cockpit cush¬ ions shore power w/charger, inflatable dinghy, microwave, 2 anchors, many extras, well main¬ tained. Located Coyote Point, slip available. May consider partnership. $6,795. (408) 998-2418.

CAL 25, ‘84 JOHNSON SEA HORSE. 6 hp, 2 jibs, 1 main, knotmeter, compass, VHF, elec, refrig., sink, head, 2 sump pump, barely sailed, in great shape. Shore Power, customized w/many extras. Sleeps 4. $3,500 obo. (510) 845-5676. O’DAY 27,1977. Atomic 4, new lifelines, batter¬ ies, VHF. Well equipped, roomy, nice boat. DS, KM, AM/FM stereo. Berthed in PSPYC. $7,900. (510) 433-7497.

29 TO 31 FEET YANKEE 30. Classic S&S design. One of the alltime great Bay or bluewater boats. Handles beau? tifully. Easily single handed. Well equipped and maintained. Fresh epoxy bottom job. Call (510) 597-0812. NEWPORT 30 MK III, 1982. Loaded & meticu¬ lously maintained. Ideal liveaboard. Micro oven, stereo, stove/oven, h/c shower, BBQ, custom cabinets, new dodger & Bimini, new furling main & jib, S/T winches, new lines lead aft, VHF, DS, RDF, low hr. diesel, cockpit cushions & table, w/ anchors/windlass, wheel, etc. Reduced to $28,500. (510) 655-9469. CATALINA 30,1976. Recently hauled, surveyed and painted. New thruhulls, sail covers, halyards, fenders, etc. Yanmar diesel. 2 head sails. Galley, head, refrig clean, looks great. Good liveaboard. Berthed in Sausalito. $16,900. (415) 665-9135. ISLANDER 29, 1966. Kuda Shuda. Jass Cup winner past3yrs, club champion. Great condition, good sailing, overnight cruiser. Many upgrades, new gear & rigging. VHF, speed, depth, spinna¬ ker, Atomic 4, epoxied bottom, good PHRF rating. $11,500 obo. (415) 382-0647. CAPO 30,1984. Coiibri, formerly instinct. Excel¬ lent race/cruise. 15 sails, Yanmar diesel, 6.4 knot cruise, hyd backstay, 6 winches (4 @ 2-speed, 2 self-tailing), KM, log, DS, WS, WP, Loran, AP, sail-comp, CNG stove with oven. 6’+ headroom. $40,000. (619)222-4811.

PACIFIC SEACRAFT25,1976. Topquality pocket

CATALINA 30,1987. Harken roller, Alder-Barbour refrigeration, dodger with custom covers for mail sail, binnacle and winches, and custom sun/rain awning, Datamarine VHF/DM/KM, Autohelm 3000 autopilot. Recent pull-out and bottom paint (no blisters), propane stove converted from CNG 2/ 96,21 hp Universal diesel with 370 hrs, propane barbecue, pressure h/c water (shore and engine heated), 25# find 50# Danforth anchors, three 6 gal auxiliary diesel tanks on board, 18 gal fuel, MSD with macerator pump, new bilge pump, 40 gal water tanks, boat refurbished in Feb '96 to sail to Mexico. $31,500 obo. Jerry (619) 222-7664.

cruiser with full keel, inboard diesel, knot meter, depth sounder, VHF, stereo, galley, marine head, etc. Very easy to sail, safe and secure in heavy winds. $13,000. (408) 683-2170.

SANT ANA 30. New rig and main, Harken jib and 150, spinnaker, autopilot, depth and speed log. Volvo diesel. $19,000 obo. (707) 255-8898.

26-FT. RHODES MERIDIAN, 1964. BMW i/b die¬

sel. Simple, safe, beautiful sailing craft. Rigged for single handling. New running rigging, club jib, genoa, main. Sleeps 4. Porta-Potti, VHF. Heavy laid fiberglass hull. Gorgeous mahogany brightwork. Berkeley marina. $6,000. Call (510) 540-5839.

28’ BRISTOL CHANNEL CUTTER, 1995. Proven

bluewater cruiser with classic beauty. Teak trim. Full keel fiberglass. Cruiser ready with cruising sails, roller furling, anchor windlass, VHF, SSB, Autohelm, AC, Yanmar, dodger and bimini. Avail¬ able July 1. So. Carolina. $159,000. Call (970) 353-3456.

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CATALINA 30,1982. sunstar, the immaculate,

one owner, spacious performance sloop. Many extras and new equipment. Atomic 4, autopilot, Loran, full Datamarine instruments, pressure hot water, folding prop, 3 headsails and more. Excep¬ tional value. Asking $30,500. Call Steve (415) 854-6530.

FARALLON 30,1980. Proven bluewater cruiser, full keel, no blisters, Volvo MD2B, tall rig sloop. Bronze portholes, wheel steering added. Very stable but responsive boat. Interior rough, topsides in good condition. Needs TLC, could be a real jewel. $12,500. Mark (510) 820-0725. NEWPORT 30II, 1976. Professionally maintained

pit. Good builder reputation. Wheel, depth, speed, 15 hp Yanmar Diesel, runs great. Alcohol stove, h/ c pressure water. Berthed at South Beach Harbor, SF. Must sell, make offer. Can show weekends. (408) 954-7285.

Bay, Deltas and coastal one design class racer/ cruiser. Partnership dissolving. Three head sails (90,110, & 150), and spinnaker. Avon Redstart w/ boards & outboard, self contained head, VHF, DS, Loran, KM, and new cushions cockpit and interior. Berthed in Sausalito. $16,500. Bill (415) 347-2686.

ISLANDER 30,1970. Roomy, solid full keel cruis¬

NICEST COLUMBIA 29 You've Ever Seen. S&S

ing sloop, good Bay boat or liveaboard. Atomic 4, VHF, DS, KM, autopilot, stereo, main and 2 headsails, 2 anchors, tiller steering. $8,000 H (408) 268-2857, W (408) 996-3553 x 220.

design. Completely overhauled. Atomic 4 rebuilt 1992, 3 headsails, full batten main, Harken self tailing, winches, Avon, Johnson 2 hp, generator, Loran, gel ceil batteries, CQR 300' chain & rode, Dodger, Tillermaster, RDF, Solar, Gimbaled stove, Much more. $12,000. (510) 601-9044.

30-FT S2 9.2A, 1979. Excellent shape. Aft cock¬

COLUMBIA 29,1966. Beautiful full-keeled sloop.

Strong Atomic4. VHF, Autohelm,compass. Hauled 9/94 - no blisters. Dinette, head, sleeps 6. Jiffy-reef main. All lines to cockpit. $7,000. Steve (408) 246-1263. CATALINA 30,1982. Original owner. Excellent

condition. Diesel, wheel steering, roller furling, new dodger, sun shade, complete canvas, Autohelm 4000, DS, KM, AM/FM/cassette, microwave and more. $27,000 (510) 376-7924. 30-FT WOODEN SLOOP. Professionally-built in

New Zealand, 1974. Beautiful, low-maintenance strip-planked hull (11/4' Kauri wood) with heavy framing, fiberglass-covered deck and cabin. Rac¬ ing/cruising (Planet Class) design with modern rig, aluminum mast, SS rigging, modified full keel (nimble yet stable), diesel (recently serviced - new batteries). Complete set of sails including, 2 Genoas, spinnaker, storm sails. Self-stefering, 3 anchors, liferaft, new bottom paint. $18,000. (707) 629-3349 John. BODEGA 30,1995. Full keel world cruiser, cus¬ tom interior. New 10 hp Honda 4 cycle o/b with 28" extra long shaft. Windlass, 3 anchors, VHF, new 1/4’ rigging with twin headstays, club-footed boom. By owner. $12,800. (415) 331-0885. SANTANA 30, 1979. Excellent condition, well

maintained, Volvo diesel, Loran, DS, KM, new Furiex w/120 furling jib, 150,90, cruising spinna¬ ker w/sock, new Autohelm 2000, new VHF. Good cruiser and/or racer if desired. Located Vallejp YC. Reduced $18,950. (707) 226-7209. NEWPORT 30 MK III, 1982. Great Bay vessel, 3

headsails, all lines lead aft, self-tailing winches, autopilot, instruments, epoxy bottom, diesel, livea¬ board interior. Alameda slip. $23,400. (408) 373-1838. IRWIN CITATION 30,1979 SLOOP. Great shape, strong, fast, fun, easy to sail. Yanmar diesel. Shoal keel, wheel, newmain, clean bottom, Harken roller furling. Comfortable teak interior, shower, VHF, KM, WD, DS, Loran, stereo. Specs avail¬ able. $21,500 obo. (415) 458-1665. YAMAHA 30, 1980-81. Racer/cruiser, diesel,

wheel. $20,000 obo. (415) 923-6029 days or (415) 863-2045 eves.

PEARSON COASTER. Carl Alberg 30’ classic.

Featured in 67 boat show. Full keel, Fariman diesel (crankable). VHF, knotmeter, depthfinder. New paint, top & bottom. New running and stand¬ ing rigging, new ports, cushions extra sails etc. Best Gas House Cove berth S.F. $19,500. (415) 924-6680. PEARSON 30,1977, LUTETIA. Never raced and lovingly cared for. Pacific Coast Canvas dodger w/rear and side hand holds, autopilot, inflatable w/ Tanaka outboard, '94 Richmond Boat Works re¬ built Atomic 4. $20,000 obo. (415) 726-0416. CORONADO 30,1972. Solid cruiser, 10T beam,

draws 5'3", Palmer M60 inboard, VHF, Loran, knotmeter, depthsounder, Tape/AM/FM, Autohelm, Trim'tab, primary anchor 35# CQR, 170' 5/16’ chain with manual windlass, 50 gal water, 20 gal gas, 6 gal electric water heater, head, galley with 2 burner stove & oven, Force 10 cabin heater. Located at South Beach, SF, slip F51. $13,500. Michael (415) 826-8299 for details. COLUMBIA 29. Sparkman Stevens design. New

main, 2 jibs, one self-tending. Atomic four, new head, valves. Custom interior. New deck paint. New depth sounder, compass, Loran. Must see, $9,400 firm. (408) 738-2948. CAL 29, 1969, PADDYWAGON.

Well main¬ tained & needing summer exercise, light sailing last several years, 3 head sales+spinnaker, all in good to excellent shape, slipped in Alameda/ * $12,500 obo. Call forfaxsheet days (510) 523-8146 or eve (510) 521-8575.

WORLD CRUISER. Beautiful Dutch-built Contest

31 offshore sloop. Heavily constructed fiberglass with 25 hp Volvo diesel. Performance underbody with modified fin keel and skeg-hung rudder. Over¬ sized rigging, twin backstays, pedestal steering, tabernacle mast. Autohelm 3000, battery charge, RDF, GPS, Loran, etc. This is a fast, capable, quality-built offshore cruiser that will take you anywhere in the world you want to go. Must Sell ASAP! Giving it away at $21,500. (805) 995-2437. ALBIN BALLAD 30,1978. Built in Sweden for the

Baltic, this heavy-keeled fiberglass sloop will en¬ able your family to safely enjoy Bay sailing. (Her twin circumnavigated the globe)! Sleeps 5. Volvo diesel, Alameda. $18,500 obo. Original owner. (510) 653-7658 days.

HANS CHRISTIAN 34 CUTTER, 1977. A cruising

boat for all seasons.’Lots of beautiful teak inside and out. 36 hp Volvo diesel. Long list of cruising goodies. Price cut to $63,900. In Seattle. (206) 789-9609. Recently rebuilt Atomic 4 engine. Boat built by Richmond Boat Works, 1967. Straight-grain fir planking, oak frames. Very light and sound. Sleeps four in two areas. Needing cosmetic TLC. $7,000 obo. (707) 746-7266. 32-FT AUXILIARY SLOOP.

COLUMBIA SABRE. 32’ 6” LOA, 6'3" beam. New

bottom, red vinyl. Black hull. Mast, boom, spin pole, blasted, primed, painted. New cushions, Signet, KT, log, depth, temp. VHF, 6 sails, sleeps 3. Alameda slip. $6,000. (916) 333-1657. ERICSbN 35,1972. Quality fiberglass in great condition. Wheel, Westerbekediesel, refrig/freeze, propane stove/oven & cabin heater, h/c pressure water, dodger, Loran, radio, depth, knot, Bruce, tabernacled rig. Main, 85,110,120,150, jib top, spinnaker. $34,000 (415) 949-4457. COLUMBIA 32.5,1965. Nice lines, large cockpit,

PEARSON 30,1984. Bottom and hull job March

'96. Autohelm wind/depth/knot meter. Yanmar diesek 1994 main and tri radial jib with Harken furling. Dutchman sail flaking system. Berthed Tiburon. $27,950. Call (415) 435-2777; Fax (415) 435-7622. YANKEE 30 TALL RIG. All new 1995; autopilot,

dodger, VHF, solar panels, GPS, Loran, 2 batter¬ ies. Atomic 4 overhaul 1994,4 headsails, 2 spin¬ nakers, 1 main (9 oz, 3 reefs), 3 anchors, 3 water tanks, gimbaled stove, lots of equipment, T ranSPac vet (twice). Asking $17,000 obo. (510) 527-2465. CAL 2/30,1969-70. Located Santa Cruz, 3 new

like-new sails, rebuilt Atomic 4, spinnaker, wheel steering, great sailor! Ask $13,500. (408) 4251022, e-mail: kshort@cruzio.com.

alcohol stove, sink, 10 gal water tank, head, sleeps 4. Main, jib, Jenny, spinnaker, fast. Cruis¬ ing boat, $8,000 obo. Santa Cruz 27, new boat. Never launched. Needs sails and running rigging. With trailer, $12,000 obo. (408) 423-6000 or (916) 544-8226. MORGAN 33 O.I., 1973. Heavy duty cruising sloop. 4100 Perkins diesel, tiller, dodger, Aries vane, propane cook stove, 5 sails, 4 anchors. $20,000 obo. (702) 847-7777. SEBMAR 34 SLOOP, 1971. Fiberglass, Volvo diesel, tiller, tabernackle mast, Autohelm, four sails, two anchors, SatNav, refrigerator, propane stove, microwave, bathroom, water pump, etc. $19,000. (619) 581-3937. VALIANT 32,1978 SLOOP. Robert Perry design,

Harbor. Atomic 4, VHF, depth finder, knot. Spa¬ cious interior. $12,500. (415) 332-8676.

“sweet" cruiser, Westerbeke 25 hp diesel, w/low hours, clean/beautiful interior w/extras, dinghy, CNG stove, Autohelm, extra sails, sailed fresh water, a steal at $35,500. (209) 296-7360.

J29,1983. Great boat. Original owner. Must sell,

going cruising. Stored on trailer (included). New Johnson 8 hp outboard, VHF, marine head, an* chor & rode, life jackets, brass oil lamp. No blis¬ ters, very clean competitive racer/cruiser. Add water. $21,500. (510) 337-1586.

32 TO 35 FEET

TRUE NORTH 34 CUTTER. Comfortable full keel

ocean cruiser. Volvo diesel, good anchors, rodes, windlass. Good sail inventory. Hard dinghy topside &Avon. Radar, insulated backstay antenna. Good bimini. Fiji, Mexico, liveaboard? Ready, with mi¬ nor maintenance. $45,000. (916) 374-8219. ERICSON 32,1974. Atomic 4, wheel steering, 5 sails, VHF, DS. $15,500 obo. (510) 229-3936.

ALBIN BALLAD 30,1978. Sleek Swedish

half-toner racer-cruiser Volvo 13 hp low hours, skeg, fin keel. Furiex gear, dodger, auto pilot, Shore power, charger, VHF, depth, RDF. In excel¬ lent cond. Berkeley Berth. Will leach. $19,700. (510) 524-2609, fax (510) 525-8846. RAWSON 30. Good cond., Mexico vet. New since

1992; Volvo diesel, all tanks, galley stove, pro¬ pane tank & sensor, interior cushions, 120 amp alternator w/3 step regulator, 350 AH batts, all wiring, VHF, 35#CQR, Simpson windlass, dodger, located in San Diego, $17,000 obo. Call for spec sheet. (408) 335-4086.

Bareboat charier a beautiful Southern Cross 39 from Bellingham. She's comfortable, easy to sail, safe, fast and extensively equipped. Accommodations for seven including two private double cabins. Affordable rates. Call Sonsie (208) 336-7565

J. KARMIN BOAT HANDLING Customized instruction on your power or sailboat. ** USCG 200 Ton Licensed Captain ** ASA Certified Instructor Also available as charter captain or boat deliveries. Ans. Svc. (415) 341-2852 • Reasonable Rates • June, 1996

ISLANDER 30 MK II, 1971, with Atomic 4. Am on the beach, must sell. Negotiate below $11,000. (707)252-2241.

ERICSON 30,1969. Located in SF Marina West

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ERICSON 30+, 1983. Diesel, wheel steering, standing headroom, VHF, stereo, stove, depth, speed log, very clean. Must sell. $24,500 make an offer! Berthed in Sausalito. (415) 388-9214.

ARIES 32,1972. Sturdy, full keel world cruiser, 35-FT ALBERG/PEARSON, 1965. Classic fiber¬

glass sloop, full keel cutaway. New custom inte¬ rior, recent haulout, all new seacocks, new L.P. paint inside & out, LPG stove/oven, fridge, wheel & tiller, 7 sails, autopilot, strong, roomy & comfy cruiser. $29,500. Call (714) 840-3246. CAPE CARIB 33 CUTTER, 1979. Ted Brewer

designed blue water cruiser with Volvo diesel and f/g hull. Well-behaved with abundant storage and spacious interior. Call for equipment list. $27,900. (415) 593-2373 (H) or (415) 367-6885 x 340 work.

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mahogany on oak, Volvo diesel, Monitor vane, LP range/oven, 6 sails, solar, Bruce and Danforth, last hauled and painted 7/95. Cruise without sell¬ ing the house. $12,950 obo. (707) 578-4279. FOR SALE 33’ DBL ENDED CRUISING KETCH.

F. Herreschoff design. Cold molded Port Orford cedar hull, deck, cabin, rudder, bowsprit done. Needs engine & ballast keel. 8,000 lbs. lead, 1x19 SS wire, Bronze hardware included. $13,000. Bob Hogin (510) 523-4388 days, (510) 523-0173 nights.

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MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING Installation, Maintenance & Repair. Diesel, Gas • 20 years experience Michael Lord (510) 522-3011

Garden traditional full keel ketch, fiberglass. Great bay and coastal cruiser, Caribbean and Mexico vet. Heavy and forgiving, comfortable, dry & safe. Warm, wood interior, large cockpit, teak decks. Easy single hander, great for a couple. 1995 new standing rig, alumi¬ num main mast, full-batten main, ProFurl. Main, working jib, drifter, mizzen staysail. Also self¬ tending jib, self-tailing winches, dingy, autopilot, CD, VHF, depth/speed, Perkins diesel, new bot¬ tom paint May 96. $32,500 obo. (415) 331-6640 (night), (415) 974-2425 (days). MARINER 32,1971.

Yanmar diesel, low hours, wheel steering, roller furling, hot/cold pressure water, dodger, cockpit cushions. $16,500. (510) 832-4656. ERICSON 32,1974.

Looking for a wonderful toy? New sails and canvas 1992.1995 survey. New bottom paint, no blisters. New cushions, dark green. Pot-bellied stove. 15 hp, 2 cyl. Yanmar diesel. Great live-aboard. New head. $29,000 obo. Catharine (415) 937-2643. HUNTER 1979 33'.

Looking fora go anywhere yacht that will turn heads in any port? Look no further! Absolutely bristol, finest Traveler available anywhere. Diesel, 9 sails, Aires vane, auto pilot, more. $39,500. Call (510) 655-7908 or (415) 542-2585. 32' RHODES TRAVELER KETCH.

Performance cruiser, excel¬ lent condition. 4 headsails, dodger, bimini, Autohelm, Harken rollerfurling, GPS, folding prop, inflatable dinghy, Tri-data and many extras. $63,500.(916)891-4704. ERICSON 38,1983.

COLUMBIA 36,1969. Atomic-4, hot/cold pres¬ sure water, roller furling, cruising prop, refrigera¬ tion, wheel, TV, dodger/bimini, windlass, 22# Danforth, 4.5” Bulkhead compass, two 135 amphour batteries, Autohelm ST4000, knot/log and depth, head. $25,900. (415) 321-6040.

Perkins 4-108, 2-VHFs, wheel steering, pressure water, hot water heater, depth & fish finder, forced air heater, refrigeration, dodger, stereo system, alarm, cutter rigged, good condition. $35,000. (707) 823-8803 leave msg.

OHLSON 36,1964. Mahogany on oak sloop, teak

decks, spruce spar. Recent Master Mariners win¬ ner, this beautiful Swedish woodie is fast and easily singlehanded, sleeps 6. New bottom & topsides paint. $24,000 obo. Call (415) 388-6057 for specs. YORKTOWN 39 SLOOP. Center cockpit, Perkins

diesel. Mast, boom, sails, rigging, other major equipment on hand. Minimum work, most materi¬ als to complete and launch. Carefully crafted for blue-water cruising. Illness forces sale. Call V. Bishop, Sacramento (916) 966-1556. Please leave clear message. HUNTER 37,1983. One ownervessel in excellent

condition. Able coastal cruiser. Spacious and com¬ fortable living quarters. Head w/separate shower. Many extras. Pier 39 slip. Priced to sell. Call (415) 861-6853. Lying Florida. Overnight to Bahamas. Modern full keel bluewater double ender. Set up for cruising couple or singlehander. 32’ x 11 ’ x 4-1/2’x9 tons. Tiller, autopilot, Yanmar, dinghy, Davit, 5 sails (2 new), pole, windlass, 3 anchors, Loran, VHF, TV, microwave, Norcold, great ventilation, screens, lots more. Salty, stiff, safe, solid, simple and ready. Recent survey. Wanted as part trade (or buy): Trailerable cruiser, moving van, diesel pickup, aluminum project boat, or $5,000 under low BUC, $30,000 cash. Mes¬ sage 1-800-795-0411 New Mexico. J-35c, 1990. Clean, turn-key, and

100% ready for summer cruising. Roomy aft cabin & forward Vberth are ideal for 2 couples or a family. White bulkhead interior with teak trim, 16 opening ports/ hatches, rod rigging, Quickvang Autohelm, 100A Alt, 3 Gels, Navtec HYD Backstay, G.P.S., Loran, Muir Vertical Windlass, new dodger, Sun Shade, stereo C.D., Maxprop, furling, North sails. Fast, fun to sail, low maintenance with lasting quality and classic good looks. Reduced to $99,000. Days (805) 988-1641, eves (805) 644-1260. Great shape. Several sails. Located in Annapolis, MD. FOB Annapolis. $21,000. Call Neil (703) 241-0987. 1992 11 METRE.

Classic, capable, restored fiberglass sloop. Full keel/cutaway. Re¬ cent: standing rigging, mast step, bow pulpit, roller, dodger, wind curtains. LP deck, cabin. Upgraded interior. Reliable Atomic 4. Recent haulout, excellent. $29,000. (805) 965-3040. Must be seen. ALBERG 35/PEARSON 1963.

Classic 1955 Stephens. Mahogany/oak/bronze. New standing rigging, alternator, holding tank. Rewired engine and 12v panel. Survey 11/95. Asking $19,000. (415) 604-4563, (415) 728-9506. 36’ fir on oak knockabout sloop, built 1938 at Stephens. Perkins 4107, new paint, H20 tanks, upholstery. LectraSan head, gimbaled alcohol stove, ample storage. A strong cruiser or cozy liveaboard. $22,500. Call (415) 388-6057 for specs. SPARKMAN & STEPHENS WEEKENDER.

36’ FREEDOM, 1986byTillotson Pearson. Balsa core hull & deck. Fast racer, very comfortable cruiser. 3 cabin layout sleeps 7. Full battened main, sparred jib, with spinnaker. New sailcovers & running rigging. 3 cyl. Yanmar diesel, propane, electronics, dinghy with 9 hp o/b, ground tackle, etc. This extremely clean & well maintained yacht is available to the right person or couple. For sale by owner, $95,000. (415) 331-1313.

Carvel planked Heart Kauri built at Opua, Pay of Islands, New Zealand in 1974. Fast, lovely classic. $48,000. Please call (510) 521-3078 if you want to be her next owner.

CATALINA 38,1980. Sparkman Stephens, re¬ modeled interior. Yanmardiesel, 9sails, Sailcomp, Loran, other instruments. Excellent liveaboard, cruiser or racer. Must see. $47,000. Call (415) 261-9241.

ETCHELLS. Ready to race. Latest new sails, trailer, many extras. $18,500 cash or owner will finance. (510) 548-4159 or (510) 547-0685.

38-FT CATBOAT, KETCH RIG, 1983. In Sea of Cortez. Wonderful shorthanded long distance cruising. Very complete, very good condition. Two double berth cabins, two heads, comfortable main cabin. Strong Airex foam core, carbon fiber masts. One loving owner. $64,500. (602) 951-3205.

36 TO 39 FEET LANCER 36,1981. Bill Lee designed sloop. Beau¬ tiful condition. New bottom 11/95. Heart 2000 inverter, refrigerator, propane stove, DS, KM, WS. Private quarter berth. Large salon, Loran, Autohelm, 2 anchors. Avon dingy with o/b. Lots of goodies. $33,000. Make offer (209) 462-5186.

1980 PRAIRIE 32-2.

ISLANDER 36, 1976.

38' FARALLONE CLIPPER.

HERRESHOFF 33, ARAMINTA.

Dodger, fireplace, Atomic 4. Very clean, great liveaboard. Bay & coastal cruiser. $23,000. (510) 679-1343 evenings. ISLANDER 32,1977.

HANS CHRISTIAN 33, I960. Cutter. This proven bluewater cruiser is in excellent condition Pullman master berth. Hauled 4/95 for new epoxy bottom, paint, thru-hull service/replacement, cutlass bear¬ ing. New Harken roller furling head and stays’l batteries, exhaust system, motor mounts, GPS, AM/FM/CD. Recently replaced head, hot water heater (engine & shore operable), water pump, accumulator, wind/speed/depth instruments (B&G Network). Ample power with Isuzu 40 hp (850 hours) with rebuilt starter. $89,000. (415) 897-2916.

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THIS IS THE CRUISING BOAT YOUR WIFE WANTS. Bright, airy, easy clean & maintain, oodles

stowage, safe, strong — she can sail it alone. Great systems design means more sailing, less work. Cumulant 38F: steel round-bilge staysail sloop. $127,500. (541) 899-9192. Push button, sail goes up. Easily single-handed, 50 hp diesel, 49 gal fuel, 112 gal water, microwave, TV, stereo, autopilot, Loran, VHF, two mainsails, dodger, air condition¬ ing, propane heater, cockpit cushions, etc. Docu¬ ment. $135,000. (916) 268-2404. NONSUCH 36,1989.

CRUISING CAL36. Excellent condition. Discover

island cruising! Beautiful cabin views, lace cur¬ tains, stained glass ports, teak interior. 50 hp Perkins diesel, refrig/freezer, hot water, epoxy bottom, Autohelm, Avon, roller furler genoa, an¬ chors, chain. Sails great! $34,000. Call Kirk (317) 743-1319. Built by Pelle Petterson in Sweden. Fiberglass hull, fore and aft cabins, 6'4" head room, perfect mahogany interior, oversize rigging, Volvo diesel, immense storage inside and out, battery charger, spinnaker, BBQ, pressure water, LPG stove, 8' dinghy, all systems and engine room very accessible, hull to deck joint is solid glass, modified fin keel, skeg hung rudder. This boat is strong, fast, very dry and-one of 120 built as performance cruisers. $37,000. (970) 328-7762. 36-FT SLOOP, 1983.

CATALINA 36,1983. Tall rig. This is rehlly a great

boat. New interior, new FB main, new 135 genoa, new Harken roller furling, cruising spinnaker, full spinnaker. If you are a serious buyer, you should see this boat. I don’t think you will find a nicer one. $49,000. (408) 929-2928. Bill Garden design cutterrigged ketch. Full keel with 5' draft is ideal for Bay sailing, liveaboard or blue water cruising. Reno¬ vated in ‘93 with new teak interior and deck, epoxy hull, aluminum masts, new SS rigging and lots more. Fully equipped with Autohelm 7000 AP, radar, GPS, Loran, 2.5 KWinverter, electric wind¬ lass, etc. 900 hours on Perkins 4-108. Lots of canvas. Surveyed May '95. Beautiful boat in ex¬ cellent condition. Reduced to $62,800. (510) 337-9592. MARINER 36,1979.

My Friend Ziggy, by Capt. Peter W. Huebner A touching story about the heroic canine, Ziggy, sailing on Lady Lee from S.F.

To order: $6.95 + applicable sales tax + $2 for S & H; allow 4 wks Mail to: PW Huebner, 101 Rainbow Dr. #6071, Livingston, TX 77351-9330

CREALOCK 37,1982. Total refit 1994-95, moni¬ tor, autopilot, GPS, ham, watermaker, custom layout, 9 cruising sails, extensive spares. New: stainless ports, rigging, LP spars, upholstery, re¬ wire. $98,000. (619) 425-2949. 36- FT CUTTER. Ferro-cement aluminum mast, SS rigging, diesel engine. Sleeps 8. Propane stove. Australia veteran. $22,500 or trade for property in Sacramento Area. (916) 687-8698. 37- FT STEEL CUTTER. Roberts design, center cockpit, cabin, Isomat alum spar. Roller furling, jiffy reefing. Perkins diesel. Hy-Drive hydraulic steering. $45,000. (510) 685-1793. CORBIN 39, flush-deck pilothouse cruiser with tall rig, ProFurl jib, 3 reef main, Airex cored hull, Volvo sail drive, 10 gal propane, 220 gal water in 5 tanks, 80 gal diesel, Monitor gear, Autohelm 6000, dual hydraulic steering, freezer/refrig and AC generator belted off engine, 300 feet high tensile chain, 45# CQR, 3 Danforths, electric anchor windlass, Paloma hot water, work bench with grinder, dual Surrette batteries, Achilles din¬ ghy, Icom 735. Sleeps 4. $50,000. Contact (510) 455-0847. CAL 39 RACER/CRUISER, 1972. Trans-Pac veteran, classic blue/white, recent interior/exte¬ rior repaint, tiller, new North main, 3rd place '95 Vallejo race, PHRF105. Sails beautifully, a lot of boat for the $$$. $39,500. (603) 577-8105. PASSPORT 37,1985. Rigged for short-handed sailing. Performance cruising design by Robert Perry. Equipped for traveling, including ground tackle, radar, Loran. Teak deck, marvelous teak interior with Pullman-berth owners’ quarters, amenities for heading south in comfort, sailing the Bay in style, or living aboard gracefully. She's a boat you have to see. Offered at $79,500. (510) 795-6800 evenings. FISHER 37-FT motorsailer ketch, aft cabin, radar, Loran, wind s/d, depth, speed, log, 2 VHF, CB, louphailer, Avon, 80 hp Ford Saber diesel, 120 gal fuel, 120 H20, Monterey slip avail. Mustsell. (408) 624-7210.

RAFIKI 37, 1978 - IDEAL BLUEWATER YACHT Double ender, diesel, cutter rig, triple reefing main, Harken roller furling, cruising spinnaker, lazy jacks, autopilot, oversized tankage in the keel, oversized rigging with Norseman fittings, dodger, shower, 12v refrigeration, lots of storage, and more! $76,000

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RAFIKI37. Canoe stem full displacement world cruiser. New epoxy/cloth bottom, re-cored teak deck (no through-deck screws) custom teak inte¬ rior, new Formica galley and table tops, new DC refrigerator, wiring, electrical panel and fuel tank. Custom head and galley. Rebuilt Volvo MD3 en¬ gine and windlass. Solid rigging, diesel heater, ground tackle, radar. Restoration 95% complete. On the hard. Needs exterior paint, cap rails, cush¬ ions, and headliner. New job, no time to finish. Sacrifice $55,000. Tom (510) 337-1930.

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C&C LANDFALL 38,1983. Excellent condition,

loaded. New SSB, watermaker, wind, Autohelm 6000, radar, GPS, Datamarine, Avon, Suzuki 8 hp, Lewmar 55, 6 sails with full battened main, spinnaker, bimini, 3 anchors, windlass, holding tank, Espar. $69,900. (619) 492-8059. 36-FT CAPE GEORGE CUTTER, 1975. Cecil

Lange built Atkin world cruiser, recently rebuilt Volvo 36,3 blade Maxiprop, epoxy bottom, Ster¬ ling LPU, Mariner rollerfurling, self-tailing Barients, new Gianola dodger, electric windlass, mechani¬ cal refrigeration, vane (see Mate’s Best-Boats). $75,000(916)988-1384. 39-FT INTERNATIONAL 30-SQUARE METER

Sloop, 1985. Equipped for racing and cruising. Fiberglass hull, leak decks, mahogany cabin and cockpit. 4 sails, Ballenger spars, Navtec rigging. 3/4 cover, outboard motor, recent survey. Beauti¬ ful boat in excellent condition. Asking $26,600. (408) 867-2631. ERICSON 39. Documented, new Perkins M-60, feathering prop, 6V batteries, inverter, GPS, roller furling, sails, refrig,, stove, heater, all new latex king size mattress. Too much to list. Cruise ready $7,000 +, sail or power. Sacrifice at $49,000. (909) 305-0258.

HUNTER 37,1984. Cutter rig $47,000. Also would like to trade slips for a month at a time. Prefer Berkeley or Emery Cove. Presently located at Hidden Harbor in Delta north of Rio Vista. (916) 392-0317. O’DAY 39,1983. Perfectly cared for original owner yacht. Set up for serious cruising with custom two stateroom interior and hard dodger. New sails, dinghy, outboard, upholstery, 470 AH batteries, battery monitor, 100A alternator, air conditioner with heat, windlass, chain and LP paint. Three page equipment list includes radar, full deck aw¬ nings, bimini, autopilot and much, much more. Located in San Carlos (Guaymas), Mexico. $69,900. Glen Bradley (703) 706-9567 H, (301) or 925-3222 W. FARALLON CLIPPER. Beautiful 38' wood sloop,

1949 Stephen Bros, Stockton. Perkins diesel, teak decks, mahogany cabin & cockpit, roller furling genoa, rebuilt varnished mast. Very good sailing boat in excellent condition. $27,000. Jim (415)389-9304.

PETERSON 44’ CUTTER, 1978. Excellent con¬ dition. Returning May from Panama/Caribbean. Ready for offshore cruising. Loaded with equip¬ ment. $115,000. Call for equipment list and to see boat. (714) 960-6271.

45-FT CUTTER. Cold molded wood hull. “Jay

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 41 KETCH, 1976.

PETERSON 44,1976. Cutter rig, center cockpit, proven cruiser. She’s ready to go again. $95,000. Call for complete specs and info. (415) 663-1550.

Cheoy Lee quality plus extensive equipment up¬ dates and additions. Including new Lewmar ST 44s, sail and hatch covers, running rigging, #1 rollerfurling genoa. ground tackle, dodger, stereo, etc. $64,500. (541)469-6681. 40-FT NEWPORTER CUTTER'T Designer/owner

built. Done the right way. African mahogany on 12" oak centers. Super solid sailer. Extensive work just completed, bottom & top. Former Mexico cruiser. Too much boat for us. $54,500. Will con¬ sider partial trade. (209) 576-1920. 42-FT WHARRAM SAILING CATAMARAN. Built

1990, refitted 1994. Solar - 3 panels, 60 watts each. Hot/cold water, 2 burner stove, heater, all propane, GPS, VHS, Signet, autopilot, outboard. $49,000. tin Alaska. Maurice, 887 El Paso, San Dimas, CA 91773.

40 TO 50 FEET

MASON 43,10/85. Classic, moderate displace¬

37’ VIKING, 1966. Twin Pisces diesels, 120 hp.

40-FT MOTORSAILER. Large blue water livea¬

Head w/shower; galley w/full-sized refrigerator. Engines low hours, run well. Double berth, excel¬ lent live-aboard; very roomy & comfortable. Hull sound; hauled & repaired 1995. $15,000 obo. (510)735-0725.

board, custom interior in super condition, only two on West Coast. A/P radar, fish finder, depth, GPS, Loran, SatNav, watermaker, 2 units, central heat/ air, generator, VHF, stereo, TV, micro, safety gear, stand-up shower, heated cabin, 1,000 mile range under power, 200gal water, 200 gal fuel, tile galley, bath, teak interior, new bottom paint, no blisters, new sail, 14’ beam, 2 refrigerators, sleeps 6. Compare at $100,000. Must sell only $72,500. (916) 635-7447.

ment blue water sailer. Cutter rig, excellent condi¬ tion. Cruise vet and ready to go again. Radar, wind generator SSB/HAM, 2 autopilots, de-sal, self¬ tailing, bimini, furling jib, heavy duty ground tackle, more. $169,000. (805) 962-7487 eves.

MUST SELL! 36’ FC KETCH, 1978. Isuzu diesel, full sail, teak decks, Barient winches, Ritchie com¬ pass on steering pedestal, Benmar Autopilot, pro¬ pane stove, Norcold refer. Great liveaboard, owner finance poss. $18,000 obo. Alameda Contact (510) 865-6384. ^ ISLANDER 36,1975. Perkins 4-108. New: 120%

genoa, Harken roller furler, head stay & shrouds, bow roller, upholstery. Wheel, beautiful interior upgrades, Loran, H/C pressurized water, wired 110v throughout. Excellent liveaboard that's great fun to sail for $33,000. (415) 330-5875. iSLANDER 37 PILOTHOUSE M/S. Rare factory

model in beautiful condition. Dual stations and controls. Large pullman double berth, extra large galley and refrigeration. Incredible storage & hang¬ ing lockers for ultimate liveaboard. Perkins 4-107 diesel, Benmar autopilot. Impeccably restored. $65,000. (619) 698-1845. 38’ HANS CHRISTIAN CUTTER RIG 1977. Hull

#15. Major refit 1987; new Nissan diesel, teak decks, rigging, lifelines, paint. All chainplates & hardware removed, rebedded. Sharp, Aries, Giv¬ ens, Nordic sailing dinghy, complete canvas cover. $69,500. Kailua-Kona (808) 322-4948.

Remember.. Classy deadline is a-1- w-a-y-s

the 18th.

HYLAS 44, 1985. Frers design, 1985. Well

equipped sloop for long range cruising and live aboard. Inverter, diesel generatorwith watermaker, refrigerator, freezer, raft and safety gear. Full batten main, two spinnakers, roller furling jib. In Hawaii. $145,000. (808) 545-3791. OLSON 40,1983. Equipped for cruising. Refrig¬

eration, freezer, GPS, SSB, gel batteries. Autohelm 2000, watermaker, anchor roller, VHF, quad cycle, dodger, awning, wind scoop, shore power, Cybernet stereo, many sails and much more. $76,000. (206) 562-7271 IRVING JOHNSON’S LAST YANKEE. Sparkman *>• and Stephens design, Dutch built, Corten steel. New rigging, wiring, teak decks, etc. Extensive update. Circumnavigation ready. Best offer or trade. Information package $10. Jim Friedlander, 417 E. Sheridan St., Suite 210, Dania, FL 33004. 48-FT L.O.D. CUSTOM CRUISING KETCH.

Launched Nov 1986. Full keel, center cockpit, dodger, cutter rigged. Sea kindly, fast, plenty of deck space. Isuzu diesel. Functional, airy, com¬ modious interior. Two heads, shower, CNG, much storage space. Well insulated. A beautiful and properyacht above and below decks. Perhaps the most comfortable liveaboard for its size to be found anywhere while still having excellent sailing qualities. Now moored in the Delta. An outstand¬ ing buy at $89,500. (916) 777-6173 after 6 pm.

40-FT CHEOY LEE YAWL, 1970. Tri cabin. 48 hp

diesel. Fiberglass & teak, 7 sails and electronics. In Humbolt Bay. $48,000. Call Tom Walsh (707) 839-0245 or (707) 826-7448. MASON 43. Strong offshore cruiser, wellequipped, EPIRB, SSB, liferaft, GPS, radar. For details see Web page www.pacificrim.net/ -hartpac/mason/ or call (360) 378-7048. CT 41. Bill Garden design full keel center cockpit

ketch. Fiberglass hull, 60 hp Isuzu for sale or trade for equity in small house or commercial property. North Bay or Richmond area. Jim Boyer (510) 228-1662, Box 253, Martinez, CA 94553. PETERSON ISLANDER 40,1985. Documented

tri-cabin sloop. Includes Autopilot, GPS/plotter, VHF, AM/FM/CAS, hydraulic backstay/vang, wind¬ lass , aux fuel, furler, 4 sails, dodger/bimini, cush¬ ions. Plus additional. Recent price reduction. Please fax (818) 991-4554 with data for fax reply including inventory and price. SPECTRE 41 PILOTHOUSE. Must Sell!! Custom

built ’86. Extensive restoration just completed. Loaded w/ gear and every factory option. Avail¬ able immediately. Priced $30,000 under market to move now. Excellent recent survey. $139,500, FOB Seattle. Some trades possible. Delivery avail¬ able. (206) 233-8414. 42-FT COLVIN GAZELLE. Steel, fully insulated,

professionally built by Jake Fehr. 60 hp diesel, Autohelm, 6 solar panels, SS hatches, SS galley, refrig/ice box, 2 heads, separate shower, lovely interior, needs some final trim. Big aft cabin, 4 yrs old, needs sails. Located San Diego. Offer on $40,000. Contact Colleen (619) 222-1186; fax (619)222-1185.

Benford’s Argonauta." Cedar planking finished hull is on 45’ trailer. Plans, new 20 hp marine diesel and gearbox. In Brookings, OR. $10,000. (541) 469-5715 days or (541) 469-2909 eves.

PETERSON 44,1979. Original owner. Presently cruising Mexico, plans changed. Boat has all cruising goodies needed to take off — and it’s already in Puerto Vallarta. Perkins M80,500 hours. 3.6 KW diesel Kubota generator 1260 hours. Automac MaxProp, ICOM 735 ham/SSB with auto tuner, GPS, SatNav, Loran, radar, 2 VHF radios, TV, VHS, roller furling jib and staysail. Adjustable whisker pole. Separate refrigerator and freezer, runs on 1 lOv or engine compressor. Microwave, magna SS BBQ, full Sunbrelia awning, dodger, bimini, Imron paint 1992. Rigging has Stalock terminals. lOBarientwinches.Signetinstruments. Benmar 21R and Autohelm autopilots. Avon 310. 2 and 5 hp Yamahas. Electric anchor windlass. 45# CQR, 27013/8" BBB chain, much more. Save sales tax. $117,000. Fax Illusion 011 -52-32210722. CAL40, CLASSIC. Perkins, 12 Norths, Sta-Locks,

Lewmar 44 STs, new wiring, h/c shower, refrig¬ eration, propane, autopilot, solar, windlass. $43,000.(415) 365-8798. CELESTIAL 48, 1985. Beautiful cutter rigged ketch. Completely outfitted with quality equipment and ready to cruise! Well maintained and in excel¬ lent condition from the conveniently laid out deck to the spacious interior. $175,000. For details or to see, call (408) 286-6991. 41-FT GAFF-RIGGED PILOT CUTTER. Profes¬

sionally built ferro-cement. 80 hp Ford Lehman diesel, 12 volt refer, propane stove, diesel cabin heater. VHF, DS, sleeps 5. Mexico vet. Beautiful wood interior, excellent liveaboard. $26,000 obo. (916) 283-4560. HARDIN 45,1982. Durable, spacious, Taiwan¬

ese built cutter-rigged ketch. Center cockpit, 13’6“ beam, 4 staterooms including queen bed and rear windows in aft cabin. 2 heads: 1 manual, 1 elecv trie, both tiled with showers and propane flashheated hot water. Tiled galley with 3 burner stove, oven and microwave. Fiberglass hull never blis¬ ters, teak deck and interior. Last hauled April ’95. Autohelm, Loran C, many more amenities. Great cruiser and liveaboard, served 3years as TransPac communications vessel. Now berthed in Sausalito. Currently for sale by owner. Asking $110,000 negotiable. For more detailed information, page (510) 810-4174and leave number. Weekendviewing appreciated. 48-FT ALUMINUM KETCH. Fast, strong, quality.

Sailing back from Hawaii. Soon in Washington. Designed by Langevin. Built in France, 77. Best offer. If interested leave msg at (604) 682-0901. 41-FT SEA TIGER, 1973. Outstanding condition,

fiberglass, Awlgrip paint hull & mast, 60 hp Isuzu diesel. A must see. The Dee-0 at San Rafael Yacht Harbor, Gate 7. Asking $69,000. Call (415) 457-2917.

PACIFIC YACHT DELIVERY

MARIN MARINE REPAIR

U.S.C.G. Licensed Master -100 Tons • Sail or Power • Experienced • Reliable • Careful Reasonable • Refs • Owners and brokers welcome Also available for Bay and Delta Deliveries Capt. Gary Jimmink • (707) 762-1899

Teak decks re-cut and caulked, glass gel & non-skid repair, equipment installed.

General maintenance & repair. Retired builder. (415) 383-6606

SAN JOSE SAILING CLUB For trailerable & cruising sailboats 20-40 feet, and dinghies too. Bay, lake, Delta and ocean outings. Improve sailing and racing skills. T Learn boating safety. Learn to maintain and upgrade your boat and equipment. ' Low dues. (408)978-0420 sjsclub@aol.com Page 214 • UtitiJiJS • June, 1996

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Teak Decks Repair

CT 41 KETCH. F/G hull, teak house, Perkins diesel, radar, solar trig, autopilot, windvane, fire¬ place. Beautiful, strong, world cruiser in good condition at a very low price. $45,000. Must sell, lying San Carlos, Mexico. Fax address to D.W. Content. (916) 675-1646.

HANS CHRISTIAN 43 TRADITIONAL KETCH. New 1983; still new and fully maintained. Fully equipped; replacement cost over $300,000. Ask¬ ing $155,000. Serious inquiries only. Call (510) 283-2753, Jim.

41-FTCHEOY LEE “OFFSHORE” KETCH, 1977. Lloyds registry, Teak decks, custom interior, depthsounder, knotmeter, VHF. -Strong cruiser and great liveaboard, many extras. Asking $58,000. Call Rich (415) 363-1390.

SWAN 43 S&S 1969. Complete refit 95/96. Dark blue awl grip, epoxy bottom, 3 blade feathering prop, Nexus instruments. Pro-furl, mast LP, self tailing winches. Rigid Vang, Norseman fittings w/ new rigging. Custom double berth fwd„ new cushions, etc. $95,000. (310) 433-5251.

41- FT P1VER TRIMARAN, 1987. Cruise equipped, autopilot, refrigeration/freezer, 3 burner propane stove/oven. Perkins 104 diesel, sleeps 8, bimini, extensive sail inventory. $52,500. (415) 332-8676.

KL 41 FLUSH DECK, LOW PROFILE PILOT house cutter, 1985. Beautiful main salon, full galley, two cabins, two heads, 1995 refit. New dodger, bimini. Hood sails, Dutchman, Isomat rig, Yanmar, Inverter, Powerline alternator, radar, full instruments. Bristol! $96,500 firm. (415) 589-3810.

40-FT MOTORSAILER. Cutter rig, custom built one-of-a-kind, 90% restored. Complete restora¬ tion yourself & save $$$$. Cedar on oak, 85 hp Ford Lehman. Excellent liveaboard/cruise. Re¬ placement $120,000, asking $39,950 obo. Call for brochure (415) 988-1922 or (415) 965-2023, Bill.

CONCEPT 40 (Gary Mull design, Swan look-a¬ like). Owner anxious to sell or trade for some older 30 ft. sail/power or real estate (particularly Tahoe). Plans to cruise canceled. Self-furling jib and main, a lot of electronics, ground tackle and other equip¬ ment. Boat is in great condition. Will send or fax specifications upon request. Call Mel Peterson (702) 324-4343 days, (702) 853-2941 nights or weekends.

42- FT TANTON IOR 2 TON 1977 SAILBOAT. Famous racer w/1996 survey and new epoxy bottom. Fin keel. Fuily cruised out. (Gorgeous mahogany int., propane stove/oven/heater). 8 man life raft, 4018 Westerbeke engine, EPIRB, Autopi¬ lot, M/K, D/S, W/S, W/P, etc.) Radar arch, dodger, weather cloths, solar panel, and lots of extras. Not happy about selling but we have no choice. $61,000. Call (510) 836-2304.

WAUQUIEZ CENTURION 47,1985. Shoal draft. Little used, professionally maintained in perfect condition. Kept out of the water 8 months of the year. World renowned cruising quality. Located East Coast. Asking $240,000. Jill (510) 534-4317 for more info.

CAPRICE, LAPWORTH 50, very fast wood clas¬ sic, canoe stern, multiple race winner, prettiest boat on the bay. Full electronics plus Ham, new rig, sails, etc. Teak, mahogany, apeton. Extensive gear and spares, elegant interior, excellent condi¬ tion, cruise ready. $95,000. (510) 521-1667.

ILLINGSWORTH, PRIMROSE 50. Axel Heyst, laminated members - cold molded hull. Newer Ballenger spars and Volvo 3 cyl (sail drive). British builtto Lloyds, A-1 standards 1967. Full sail inven¬ tory racer-cruiser & brother to Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV. Has won many ocean races. Cutter rig ideal for short-handed sailing. $52,000 or trade big island property. Owner (415) 907-9803 pager, ormsg (415) 485-6044.

50’5” BENETEAU 500, 1990. Excellent condi¬ tion. 4 stateroom layout (dbl. beds) w/private heads/showers. Separate crews qtrs. (2 single bunks) w/head. Spacious main salon (6’5” headroom throughout) and large galley w/excellent counter/storage space. Many new items includ¬ ing: new sails, new epoxy bottom (5 year war¬ ranty), Alpha Systems auto-pilot, etc. 85 hp Per¬ kins engine. Located in San Francisco Bay. $219,000. (415) 941-9323.

51 FEET & OVER 57-FT COLD MOLDED ROBERTS Motorsailer. Excellent liveaboard with business opportunity. Beautiful Monterey Bay location. Will go quick at $85,000. Call for details (408) 464-0411.

43- FT HANS CHRISTIAN FULL KEEL KETCH, 1980. Gorgeous teak deck & interior, beautiful glass. 3 private cabins & pilot berth sleeps 8, Perkins 4-154 diesel, Zodiac tender with 4 hp. Asking $122,000. (415) 588-8753 for detailed equipment list, spec, sheet, or appointment.

56-FT LOD, 66-FT LOA STEEL KETCH motor¬ sailer. If you are looking for safety, comfort and affordability, this is it! Perfect for cruising, livea¬ board, charter. Fully equipped, even sonar. Ship¬ yard built. Bristol, ready to go. Seeing is believing. $210,000. (360) 378-3290.

EXPLORER 45. Rarely available, documented, seaworthy, beautiful lines. A comfortable, fast cruising boat in excellent condition. Cutter rig, aft cabin, aft cockpit w/2 heads. Furuno radar, heart inverter, 880 amp dual batt bank, heart interface, power line alt. Muir elec, windless with 400 ft. BBB 3/8 in. chain 65 lbs. Bruce, stern anchor on roller, 2 storm anchors. Dsl. heat, 2 solar panels, pro¬ pane hot water. SSB, refer., DS, KM, VHF, SatNav, GPS, TV, VCR. Hard dinghy with 3 hs Merc, sail, and ors. Autopilot, dodger, bimini top, sun awning, custom cockpit cushions, spare parts, the list goes on. Mexico vet. Ready to go again. $ 125,000. Joe (415) 345-3062.

65-FT FREEDOM. 3 masted schooner built forthe 1981 Whitbread Race. Beam 17.9, draft 7.4, new keel & 200 hp Volvo Penta. New paint. Refitting not complete. $150,000. (510) 620-0642.

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CLASSICS 36-FT STEPHENS SEDAN, 1949. Cedar on oak, brass fastened, bottom good, cabin fair, shower, galley, V berth, salon, engines dead, looks good, fireplace. $5,000. Mike (510) 684-3458. 38' LAURANT GILES ENGLISH CHANNEL Cut¬ ter. Built 1946 Poole England all African Ma¬ hogany. Galley, head, sleeps 4. All sails good condition. Boom roller furling. 2 cyl. diesel, hull spliened. Good recent survey. $28,000. CA (209) 369-2989 or (209) 931-6379.

MULTI HULLS 37-FT SNOWGOOSE CATAMARAN by Prout, 1986. One owner. Low miles in Bay and Delta only. Nicely equipped. All original (even water pump impellers). This is the best performing and best looking cruising cat under 43’. $128,000. Trade? (415) 380-8979 or fax (415) 381-8142. 37-FT CATAMARAN. Fast, light, Rudy Choy de¬ sign. Fiberglass, built by Schock. Amazing dual raised steering stations. Radar, GPS, SSB, VHF, weatherfax,6-pac. Furling,self-tackingjib. Yanmar 20 hp. Propane oven/frig, sleeps 6, recent survey. $58,000 obo. (619)222-0515. , BANSHEE, 1988. Factory built, 35 x 20. High performance and luxury. 2 queens staterooms, 2 doubles, 2 heads, showers, bridge deck galley, SS oven, fridge. Deep dbl sink, hot water, Autopi¬ lot, Yanmar 4 stoke, large cockpit, dagger boards, balanced kick-up rudders, tillers, tall rig, battened rpain, roller furler, Harken self-tailing winches, spin, windlass, GPS, excellent condition. No other cat will out-point, out-sail and accommodate for its size and price. $130,000 delivered to San Fran¬ cisco. Lying Florida. Contact(954) 609-7679 or (702) 746-8218. 31-FT TRIMARAN. 22' beam, high performance ultralight. Foam sandwich construction. Faster and lighter than the F-31 Cosari or Actrum 31. 85% finished. $25,000 obo. (408) 423-6000 or (916) 544-8226. 40-FT CATAMARAN - APACHE 40, built UK 1972, full battened mainsail, autopilot, watermaker, SSB, VHF, fatho, solar panels. South Pacific vet, situated Guam. $75,00d. Call (408) 899-1264. TRIMARAN, 31-FT BROWN SEARUNNER. Job relocation forces sale! Sloop w/7 sails. 15 hp Evinrude. New paint, new electrical system. Lots more! Propane galley, Porta-Potti. Great for fam¬ ily. Fast, fun and safe! Ready to go! $15,000. Call (510) 458-6560. (510) 458-1049 message. (408) 442-2038. 40-FT PIVER TRIMARAN. Ketch rig. Ideal for single handing. Doyle sails: fully battened main/ mizzen, 150 roller reefed headsail, drifter. Perkins 4-236 diesel, Autohelm 4000, instrumentation. Great liveaboard. Spacious mahogany/white inte¬ rior - finish to suit. $21,500. (415) 271-2714 or voice mail (800) 413-8023. t

MULTIHULL WANTED, around $10,000 or less, preferably Northern California area. Motivated cash buyer interested in all prospects. Contact Kurt at (408) 336-2201. BEAUTIFUL 38-FT CUSTOM cruising catama¬ ran in Sausalito. Seeking 1/3 equity partners. $45,000 per partner. Financing available. Fast, spacious and great interior layout. 3 years young. Great opportunity to share in modern multihull for low cost. (415) 331-8730 for details.

POWER & HOUSEBOATS 54-FT TRAWLER TYPE POWERBOAT, 1965. Good condition, needs engine work. Great livea¬ board. Autopilot and good electronics. Forward stateroom for two with head. Galley, main salon and 2nd head with shower on main deck level. Nice pilothouse. $11,500. (510) 653-1724. 44-FT TRAWLER, 1973 MARINE TRADER. Single Lehman 120 diesel, 4 kw generator, huge water and fuel storage. Dual steering stations, radar, twin heads, huge kitchen, etc. $49,500. (415) 453-2583. 34-FT HOUSEBOAT. Headroom all the way. Perfect one or two person studio. Shower, refer. Two 20 amp service lines, phone, great Oakland location. $14,900 obo. Call (916) 343-9080 for info, or page (510) 319-2789 to see. 32-FT CHRIS CRAFT CRUISER, 1955. Good liveaboard, low hours since engine overhaul. Runs good, new prop and shaft, nice mahogany interior needing minor finishing. Depth finder, VHF, radio. Great hull. Good boat needing TLC. Must sell. $6,900.(510)235-0868. . STEPHENS 42,1961. Cabin cruiser. Great livea¬ board, new engines and transmissions 1995, with all new electrical. New carpet, recent haulout and bottom work. 1996 survey. Must sacrifice, leaving area. $27,000 obo. Dale (510) 525-9492. WORKBOAT. 26' x 10' x 3', fire retardent fiber¬ glass, full flotation, towing bit. Detroit 671 diesel, hydraulic transmission V-drive. 1 -3/4” monel shaft, 24" bronze prop. Great shape, newly reworked and painted. $12,000 obo or trade? Call (510) 522-2705. 32' GRAND BANKS TRAWLER 1971. One of the best 32’ woodie available! Dependable family boat for Bay and Delta, an offshore veteran, too. Autopilot, radar, Loran, fish finder, Espar diesel heat. You must see this one. An excellent boat at $42,500. (415) 331-2975.

APPRAISER

BAREBOAT CHARTER SAN JUAN & GULF ISLANDS

(member, SAMS)

Well equipped Mirage 33 and Hunter 34 ready to explore the inland waters of Washington State and British Columbia. All the amenities for a great cruise in our comer of paradise. (604) 589-1248 or (604) 946-4436

Fax: 510-276-9237 -

'91 PRIVILEGE 482 CATAMARAN. No expense spared to make this the finest 482 available. Extensive refit '94-’95. Owner upgraded to all the best U.S. systems, replacing factory equip. A/C, 8 kwgenset, custom refer system, multi-system TV/ VCR,'■stereo, watertoys, 15’ R.I.B. w/40hp Yamaha - absolutely loaded w/gear for cruising or charter, and ready! You will not lind a cleaner, better maintained 482 anywhere. This is not a charter 'dog'. This is a show-class yacht. $495,000. (619) 222-9694.

e-mail: surveyjack@aol.com

COMPLETE VESSEL MAINTENANCE & REPAIR Fiberglass - wood - steel. Anchors to zincs, we do it all. Competitive prices and professional sen/ice. Over 20 years experience with yachts, commercial and military vessels. References Call Gary (510)420-6929

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PARTNERSHIPS

WANTED

MERIDIAN 25. Seeking experienced, economy-

LAURENT GILES VERTUE, fair to excellent con¬ dition, wood or glass. Doug (360) 379-0395.

minded non-equity partner. Seaworthy classic 1961 Rhodes designed pocket fiberglass cruiser. $125/month, share maintenance. Upwind Berke¬ ley berth. Sleeps four, galley, 5'11" headroom. New main, 6 hp Johnson outboard. Electronics and furling jib to be installed. (510) 849-1444.

31-40-FT high quality solid glass blue water cruiser.

Cash buyer seeks motivated seller. Prefer West Coast. All considered. Needing some work OK. No brokers please. Contact: Skipper, P.O. Box 2905, Sausalito, CA 94966.

ERICSON 32,1985, with 6’ keel. Well maintained.

Rigged for single-handed sailing, all lines aft, fully battened main, newheadsail furling system, whis¬ ker pole, Loran, windlass, backstay hydraulic, full safety net and lifelines, full teak interior, etc. Prime Sausalito berth. 1/3 equity ownership. $15,000. (415) 435-9524, evenings.

EQUITY PARTNERSHIP interest (1/4,1/3,1/2) in 26-30’ sailboat, berthed in Marin, for Bay sailing (no interest in racing or offshore). Experienced sailor committed to safe boating, regular mainte¬ nance and responsible ownership, looking for friendly, compatible partners. (415) 924-2678.

BEST P-SHIP ON THE BAY! MORGAN 38: Five

NAVIK WINDVANE. (415) 332-8080.

joint owners. New main, roller-furled jib, spinna¬ ker. Cabin-top mainsheet traveler. Electric wind¬ lass, 50 hp diesel, 6 berths, refrigerator, BBQ, stereo. Access reservations, no maintenance duties. Excellent, Solid boat! Sausalito. (415) 964-2801. BEAUTIFUL 38-FT CUSTOM cruising catama¬

ran in Sausalito. Seeking 1/3 equity partners. $45,000 per partner. Financing available. Fast, spacious and great interior layout. 3 years young. Great opportunity to share in modern multihull for low cost. (415) 331-8730 for details. GRAND BANKS 32. Half-ownership for sale.

Classic wooden trawler-style, built 1973. Refur¬ bished & painted May 1996. Berthed Sausalito. Excellent condition. Full electronics, many new systems. Very economical diesel at 2.5 gal/hr. Seakindly and seaworthy comfort. Very success¬ ful easy-going partnership. $19,000. Call (415) 564-6686. ' TARTAN 30.25% equity in a great Bay & Coastal

cruising boat. S.F. marina slip. Radar, GPS, Lo¬ ran, dinghy, extra sails & much more. (Over $23,000 in upgrades have been added). $6,500. (707) 255-3368 (eves). CATALINA 22:1/2 share in partnership for only

$1,800. 1985 Catalina in excellent condition. Moored in a great location in upper Santa Cruz Harbor. $100 a month slip and insurance fee. Relocation is reason for sale. Bill (408) 442-2701. SUPERB

CRUISING/RACING

SLOOP.

Partners) wanted - Newport 30. Mull designed, roomy, fast, well equipped. Excellent sail inven¬ tory. Recently repowered. Tiburon berth equals easy access to heart of Bay, Angel Island. Can finance down pmt. Share low monthly costs, etc. (415)459-5102. PARTNERSHIP IN 22’ COLUMBIA SAILBOAT

in slip at Santa Cruz. New outboard motor, bottom cleaned and painted in 1995. $900. Call Russ (408) 458-9020 or Jim (408) 779-2737.

12-FT METZLER INFLATABLE. 1 -6 hp, 1 -15 hp, J&E manuals, J&E catalogs, misc. outboard pads & tools, microfiche & reader. Bill (415) 593-9191.

inboard or outboard. Trailer or no. Keel or centerboard. What have you? Don (415) 382-0129. WATERMAKER for 40’ sailboat. Prefer modular

design & any accessories: solar panels, SSB radio & tuner, portable generator, charts S.F. south, 10 hp outboard. Please call anytime (510) 522-6587. SHELL. WTB small (inexpensive) two person fiberglass rowing shell or similar rowing craft (slid¬ ing seats, etc.) Please call Bob at (415) 349-3241 or e-mail at comtel@netcom.com.

USED GEAR dinghy, anchor, 4x8-3/4 Marine grade plywood. All items new (except anchor), everything half-price. Mike (415) 383-8604.

4 HP EVINRUDE MOTOR, 1993. Used one time, just not enough horse power for the boat. Cost new $720.00, includes external tank. $450. (916) 344-4358.

MONITOR WINDVANE. Absolutely like new. Has both standard & light air vanes, wheel adapter, and spare parts kit. $2,100. Glen Bradley (703) 706-9567 (H), (301) 925-3222 (W).

25 HP LONG SHAFT EVINRUDE, 1970s model.

FOR SALE: SITEX/KODEN RADAR older but perfect, including antenna and mounting mast. 110 volt fridge, 3 burner propane stove w/oven/ broiler, piezo ignition/safety shut-off; Wood-Free¬ man Autopilot, lots of dishes and misc. kitchen ware. (415)328-1060.

Excellent condition. Very low hours. Spare tank. Recently serviced. $850. Gregg (408) 279-2206. BOAT TRAILER, fully loaded 18-23 footer, easy load, tanderti wheels with brakes, buddy bear¬ ings, spare tire in excellent condition, heavy duty, needs a boat on it.. .$1,200. Ben Senior (510) 569-7434.

HARKEN ROLLER FURLING. 1.5 unit, 1993 model, excellent condition, off 36’ S-2, complete. Best offer. (415) 952-3423. SAYES WINDVANE, $1200, 3 1/2 hp Yamaha,

$450. Complete refrigeration system with cold plate, spares, $1200. PUR watermaker, $1100. Offshore EPIRB, $350. Rutland wind generator, $300.35# fisherman anchor, $100. (510) 601 -8071 days; (510) 601-6239 evenings.

Mercury. Excellent condition! Practically brand new - only 12 hours! Includes fuel tank, accesso¬ ries and manual. $815. Why buy new? Steve (415) 349-2232. VOLVO DIESEL MD17 C, 3 cyl, 35 hp, complete

ACHILLES INFLATABLE DINGHY, 9’6" with 3.5

Nissan o/b, marine plywood 3-piece floor, two wooden seats, aluminum detachable oars, two one-gallon plastic gas cans, patch kit, tool kit, engine safety shutoff, instruction manual. Used only once. $1,495. Jerry (619) 222-7664.

with reduction gear, instrument panel, shaft, ex¬ haust system, prop. 1700 hours. Runs well. $1800 or offer. Stainless rigging for 35’ cruising boat. Stainless 5 foot engine room ladder. Call (415) 435-3006. SPAR. Kenyon 4270-section, aluminum, tapered,

HONDA 7.5 OUTBOARD MOTOR. Long shaft,

AUTOPILOT AT 50% OF LIST PRICE. Benmar

dbl-sprdr masthead rig. 41 ’8” tall, XS + 7"x4.25”, Ml + 19.21 x 7.3. Stripped, no spreaders. Exfctiange for heavier offshore type spar, min 35’ tall, or tell $525. Jim (408) 476-0877 or Doug (408) 427-1289.

PHC 21R $600. Model M drive unit, $850. Remote control handset, $110. (510) 846-9562..

40-FT MAST AND HOOD ROLLER FURLING

QUIK-VANG ‘C’ (24:1). Never used. Optimum

system from 36’ cruising boat. Make offer. Steve (415) 299-1709.

regularly serviced. Most recent service March ’96. ■Reliable, well-built. $750 obo. Bill (408) 736-5940.

use: 14-16’ boom, or about 36-43’ sloop. 78” pin to pin. Sold without mast & boom fittings. List$1,035. Asking $575. Steve (415) 854-6530. NISSAN MARINE DIESEL. Fresh water cooled.

WOOD SCREWS, silicone bronze, flat head,

Frearson, new, 3000 @ 32® ea. (619) 226-1727.

MARINE RECYCLE HAS USED BOAT STUFF! Masts, booms, sails, rigging, winches, cleats, blocks, anchors, chain, line, gauges, deck hardware, outboard motors, heat exchangers, thru-hull fittings, exhaust manifolds/mufflers, electronics, bow-stern pulpits, swim platforms, isanoih"^treasure stoves, sinks, podholes, dsl heaters, 12 v fridges. Much more! (415) 332-3774.

HAPPY BOAT COMPANY Marine carpentry & finishing • Bright Work • Deck Repair and Sealing Custom Cabinet Work & Design • Fiberglass Repair • Marine Plumbing 30 Years U.S. & European Experience Call Tony & Yvonne, (510) 370-7911

SAILBOAT TRAILER. Heavy duty, tandem ax¬

mission and few minor pads was running, $150. Also 3 hp Seagull outboard and spare pads, runs, $75 obo. Ron or Carol (916) 721-6,904.

8 HP OUTBOARD MOTOR. Long shaft, 1988 SEA KETTLE, TILLER, O/B motor mount for

SPRUCE SPAR, 46’ dbl spreader, hollow oval with 16’ boom. New battenless main 36’ x 15’. Misc used jibs. Shipmate 2-burner kerosene w/t oven. Paloma water heater. Double sink. Anchors & chain 5/16”, Merriman wood blocks, 1/8” cedar veneer. 33’ male mold. Offers. (408) 659-0922.

les. Will handle up to 30’ long sailboats. 7000 pounds rated, adjustable pads, brakes, built from specification 6/95. Excellent condition, ready to towyourboat now. $1,800. (916) 763-9826, please leave message.

MD3B VOLVO DIESEL ENGINE, minus trans¬

CAT BOAT 20 FT glass or wood gaff or marconi

Rebuilt sleeves, pistons, rings, bearings, etc., 0 hours, 4 cylinder, 62 hp. $1,500 in pads, make offer. (707) 938-4309.

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RANGER 33 RUDDER, excellent condition. I have this rudder available because I installed a custom designed and built rudder. $750 plus freight. (206) 789-1369, email: spectrum@wolfenet.com.

120% JIB VERY GOOD CONDITION. Luff 47.5’,

foot 20’, leech 43.8’. #5 foil tape for roller furler. Was on Ericson 38. Located at loft for easy in¬ spection. $849 obo. Class 1 &2 PFDs, offer. (510) 516-5665.

STOVE. Force 10 kerosene/alcohol, 3 burner w/

oven griddle, pressure tank, new spares, all in good condition. $225 obo. See it on my boat at Brickyard Cove Marina. Call Al weekdays at (707) 546-8181, etc. 338. COLD PLATE for freezer, by Fleming Marine, excellent condition, approx. 2-1/2 years old. Plate measures 22” x 8” x 3”. New $600, sell for $195. Call pager anytime (619) 502-6202, or evenings (619) 222-9856. 26’ TRIPLE AXLE TRAILER custom built for upto

30ft. & 10,000lbs. $2,500obo. North Sails: Never used, 3/4 oz. Spinnaker, 3/4 oz. Blooper, 2.2 oz. 170% Genoa, 4.75 oz. 170% Genoa, & 6.5 oz. main. Sails for a Cal 29. (510) 845-5676. PERSONAL EQUIPMENT AT BARGAIN Prices:

Foul weather gear, two complete suits, $60 each. Safety harness, two, $15 each. Boots, two pair, $12 each. Avon 9’ with air pump and oars, $285. Floatation vests, 5, $7.50 each. Floatation coats, 5, $45 each. Bosun chair, $40. Dishes, set, $15. Pots and pans, set, $20. Matress cover, blankets and sleeping bag for V-berth, $45. Heat lamp, $12. 12 volt portable fan, $12.12 volt portable water pump, $25. Sea anchor $10. Lead line with fathometer, $10. Monkey’s fist heaving line, $7.50. Parallel ruler and P-51 course protractor, $15. Misc. marine hardware, mostly stainless. Mike (415) 664-7777.

MISCELLANEOUS NAUTICAL QUARTERLIES. Complete collec¬ tion, 50 issues with rare index. $650 firm. John (415) 435-8476. MOORING FOR RENT in Monterey Outer Harbor for summer. Available after June 1. Up To 37’ boat. $375 for 4 months. (510) 769-9377.

BIG SAILS! CHEAPI CHEAP! Main L.49’ F.13.3’

New $750. 5 Genoa’s L. 50 to 56’. F. 20 to 30’. Priced from $350 to $650. Call (510) 372-0321. Except Tuesday (510) 783-5342.

400’ OFFICE-STUDIO next to Alameda Marina.

Fully carpeted, bath, closet, secure and bright. $550 incl. utilities. (510) 522-2705.

SURPLUS BOTTOM BOAT PAINT Hard red vinyl anti-fouling paint. Mfg. Woolsey. 72% copper. Reg. price: $180/gal. Our price $50/gal. Also black vinyl and other mfg. available. Ablading paint, 50% copper, $50/gal. Primer & other epoxies. $10-$15/gal. Polyurethane. $20/gal. (415) 588-4678

ALTA YACHT TRANSPORT • 800-475-3702

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

25’-30’ SAILBOAT TRAILER/TRAIL-RITE 10,000

FEMALE CRUISING COMPANION WANTED.

lb. G.V.W., 6 adjustable stands, tandem axle, 4wheel hydraulic brakes w/washouts, trailer and wheels hot dipped galv. Brand new. $5,500. (707) 542-7245.

NON-PROFIT DONATE YOUR BOAT! Tax deductible SJSU

SAILRITE BROTHER TZ1-B652 portable indus¬

trial sewing machine. A cruisers dream! Excellent condition! Geared down for added power, extra heavy flywheel, accessories included. $900. Must sell. Celeste (510) 234-8086.

sailing team needs the donation of your power or sailboat to support our plans to vanquish Cal and Stanford and go on to the nationals. Fast process¬ ing and free delivery. Call Sam at 415-962-9488. DONATION WANTED: Non-profit community sailing program needs Boston Whaler-type power boat or other flat-bottomed skiff to be used as safety boat in teaching program for children and adults. Call Sailing Education Adventures at (415) 775-8779.

CLUBS/MEMBERSHIPS SAIL-SERVICE-SOCIALIZE. San Francisco Bay

Oceanic Crew Group invites skippers, crew and apprentices to join one of San Francisco Bay's most active sailing groups. Participate in service, skill-improvement sails and fun sails. For more information call (415) 979-4866.

36-FT SLIP SAN FRANCISCO MARINA, near St.

CLUB NAUTIQUE UNLIMITED COUPLE valued at $4,425, for $3,700. We’ve moved and want a fast sale. Call David at (209) 474-0311.

Francis YC starting buoy. Long or short term lease option anytime from June through October. Easy access to Bay and City for racers or cruisers. Very reasonable rates. Dave (415) 331-8165.

BERTHS & SLIPS

CLUB NAUTIQUE UNLIMITED COUPLE mem¬

bership. ASA sailing school of the year, reciprocal yacht club privileges. Modem fleet berthed in Alameda and Sausalito. Complete sailing instruc¬ tion andfun social events. $4,425 value for $3,800. Ken (707) 745-7824. CLUB NAUTIQUE UNLIMITED INDIVIDUAL

membership, 1994 ASA sailing school of the year. Instruction, beginners though advanced offshore. Social activities. Reciprocal privileges Bailena Bay Yacht Club. Over 40 boats in Sausalito & Alameda. $2,950 value, asking $2,000. Don (707) 528-6630. CLUB NAUTIQUE, 20-hour sailing course for two. $750. Call the (seasick prone) KQED sweepstakes winner at (415) 552-5355 for details. Leave message. BARBARY COAST BOATING CLUB, Northern California's gay boating club, now in its 14th year, with monthly meetings and water events. Sail and power boaters welcome. Call our voice mail at (415) 905-6267 for more details. CLUB NAUTIQUE UNLIMITED COUPLE mem¬

bership. $4,755 value for only $3,800. Monthly dues paid through 1996. Outstanding sailing in¬ struction at all levels. Dedicated and fun instruc¬ tors. Large fleet of new, clean, very well main¬ tained boats in Alameda and Sausalito. Call (916) 451-5642.

CREW GWM

SEEKS

CRUISING

PARTNER.

Decent-looking, down-to-earth guy, 46, ready for open-ended adventure; have good, safe boat, need an honest, bright masculine, healthy, emo¬ tionally and financially stable partner. Offshore/ navigation experience a big plus, sense of humor absolutely required. Hope to leave nodhwest late summer, with no fixed itinerary. No tempers, to¬ bacco, dogma, email: teag@rockisland.com, phone: (360) 378-5446. SINGLE SAILORS ASSOCIATION is growing.

Join in the fun. Many opportunities to sail and learn. Beginners welcome. Our members enjoy cruising, racing, socials and other activities yearround. Forinformation c^ll: (510) 273-9763. Singles only, please. DO YOU WANT TO SAIL? Male / female crew members needed to help exercise my Hunter 30, San Francisco Bay. Experience is not necessary. Seniors are especially welcome. Call Bob (209) 795-7554 wkdys, (510) 215-7228, wkends. PACIFIC CUP RETURN CREW AVAILABLE.

Intermediate sailor, congenial, mechanically adept, available to crew on return from Hawaii late July/ early August. Call Will at (510) 528-9365.

CALSAILING CLUB offers Race Accociate Mem¬

TWO CREW AVAILABLE FOR EXTENDED Trip.

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

Couple, 25. Beginning September 1996, year or so. He: mechanical engineer; experienced keelboater. She: skipper and instructor on Santa Cruz 33, O'Day 23. Good cooks, enthusiastic, friendly. (608) 256-2540.1303 Vilas Ave., Madi¬ son, Wl 53715.

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RETIRED PROFESSIONAL seeks female companion for cruising fifty foot ketch on day sails, overnight, off-shore, Mexico, Tahiti, etc. (916) 447-6104.

DOGG

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MARINE SURVEYOR

MEMBER OF N.A.M.S.

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P.O. Box 121, El Cerrito, CA 94530

BOAT lettering Beautiful, long lasting & reasonably priced. ^Ca// for our convenient order form.

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SWM 39 non-smoker, attractive, adventurous, athletic, easy going, emotionally and financially secure with USCG 1600 ton Master Oceans li¬ cense and 20 yrs sea experience looking for attractive, adventurous, athletic, easy going SF 20s-30s,non-smokerwiththewillingnesstoleam. Must love seafood. To cruise Sea of Cortez and Mainland Mexico. Nov. 96-? aboard HC38 al¬ ready in Mexico. Attitude counts more than expe¬ rience. Write Jim, Box M380, Suite A, 15414 Smoky Pt. Rd., Arlington, WA 98223. WOMEN SAILORS: Single GWF skipper/owner,

54 years of well-equipped 34 ft. cruising. Sailboat located on Guam seeks GWF sailing partner 4555 years to sail Micronesia, Palau, S.E. Asia or So. Pacific & Australia. I’ve sailed the Pacific for several years but now am without a sailing com¬ panion. Also, would like to contact any women who would like to sail on different legs of the above cruise. Experience not necessary. I will be on Pacific Coast this June-August to meet. Leave Spring '97. Fax to J. Smith, Box 115 (011) (671) 565-4873 or 649-2919. E-mail: jbbanshee@kuentos.guam. net. Write: J. Smith, P.0.8135, Agat, GU 96928. All faxes/mail/E-mail will be forwarded to me on the mainland this summer. ‘96 BAJA HA-HA AND BEYOND. Experienced sailor with lavishly outfitted cutter, seeks knowl¬ edgeable blue water crew. Intention is to cruise Mexican Riviera this winter. Cruise Costa Rica, Panama in spring; and on to Trinidad and Venezu¬ ela during hurricane season; Caribbean afterthat! Non smokers, willing to share modest expenses only, please. Reply with background info to: Box 132, 2907 Shelter Island Drive, Suite 105, Sah Diego, CA 92106.

PROPERTY SALE/RENT CITY FRONT FLAT. Roommate wanted for newly renovated North Beach/Wharf area flat. Great for sailors; walking distance to Pier 39, SF Marina, downtown; easy Bay Bridge access, easy street parking. $400. Available 6/31. (415) 622-3995.

JOBS WANTED EXPERIENCED WOODWORKER AVAILABLE

for all types of boat repairs. Hatches, windows, doors repaired or replaced. Leaky cabins and decks sealed. Wood hull and deck surfaces re¬ newed and varnished. Bottoms cleaned and coated. Some mechanical work. References. John Shinnick (415) 824-1278.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES CAPTAIN WITH MASTERS LICENSE with sail endorsement to run a days sail charier business In Newport, Oregon. Must be energetic, a good

sailor, personable with the public and have mar¬ keting skills. Resume required. (503) 472-4009 or fax (503) 472-5810 EXPERIENCED MANAGER needed immediately for major British Virgin Islands yacht charter com¬ pany and marina. Send resume with cover letter to Sun Yacht Charters, P.O. Box 737, Camden ME 04843. Fax (207) 236-3972. No phone calls please. EXPERIENCED SEWER FOR SAIL REPAIR. Pad time possible. Hogin Sails. (510) 523-4388. SAILING INSTRUCTORS: CLUB NAUTIQUE, SF Bay’s largest and best sailing school, having

the Bay's newest fleet, is currently seeking pad-time sailing Instructors. Should have exten¬ sive sailing skills, USCG license, good communi¬ cation and people skills. Call Beth (510) 865-4700. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR MARINE Railmaker and fabricator. Individual must have four years experience in layout, bending and

fabricating of marine rails and hardware. San Francisco Bay Area. Excellent pay and benefits. Send resume and salary requirements to: Yard Manager, Svendsen's Marine, 1851 Clement Av¬ enue, Alameda, CA 94501. SEWER / SEAMSTRESS WANTED. Growing,

busy Nodhem California marine canvas shop needs help from experienced marine canvas worker. Pad time to full time. Work at home or our facility. Pay commensurate with experience. Call Scott at (510)522-0311. MARINE MACHINIST. Basic machinist skills on mill, lathe, press. Candidate should have one or all of the following skills: single point, tapers, fly cut,

keying, broaching, boring, reaming, etc. Fax re¬ sume to (510) 522-4984. SAILBOAT MAINTENANCE. Club Nautique is looking for individuals with strong sailboat repair and maintenance skills to tend to our busy charier

fleet. Openings in Sausalito and Alameda! Hard working, dedicated, and self stader type individu¬ als should apply if interested in free use of boats, free lessons, health, profit sharing, paid vaca¬ tions, and friendly atmosphere. Call Sean (510) 865-4700. BOATWRIGHT POSITION! We have a full-time opening for a Sub-Contractor Boatwright. Must have own tools. Should be experienced in aU aspects of boat repair, most of work will be fiber¬ glass & gelcoat. Our shop is located in Alameda, at Grand Marina, in the Boat Yard. Please send resume to Stem to Stern Marine Services, 2021 Alaska Packer Place, Alameda, CA 94501, (510) 865-2801.

YACHT DELIVERY ... and pilotage services by professional captain lie. to 350 tons. More than 200,000 miles experience woridwide, sail and power. Specializing Alaska to Panama, Caribbean and Mediterranean. Owners welcdfne. Stan Gauthier, Victoria, fax/phone 604-954-0427.

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ADVERTISERS' INDEX ABC Yachts.230 Able Marine.206 Adventure Cat.48 Alameda Prop & Machine ... 62 Albatross Charters. 174 Allemand Bros. Boat Repair..221 Allied Ropes Company.38 Alpha Systems.85 American Omnitech.68 Arena Yacht Sales.33 Atlantis Yacht Charters.172 Autohelm.63 Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers . 228 Ballena Isle Marina. 39 Ballenger Spars. 189

Barnett Yacht Insurance.205 Bay Island Yachts.6,7 Bay Riggers.74 Bay Ship & Yacht Co. 11 Bay Wind Yacht Sales.229 Beckwith, Craig Yacht Sales.226 Bellhaven Charters. 172 Bellhaven Marine.226 Berkeley Marina. 104 Berkeley Marine Center.25 Blue Pacific Yacht Charters. 174 Bosun's Charters. 174 Boy Scouts Pacific Harbor. 219

Boy Scouts - Pacific Skyline 223 Boy Scouts San Francisco. 228 Brisbane Marina. 196 British Marine. 142 C.E.C.0. 24 C.M. Wasson Company.38 Cabrillo Yacht Sales.225 Cal-Marine Electronics.67 Cal State Universtiy Monterey Bay. 20 Caliber Yachts.224 California Custom Canvas ... 81 California Maritime Academy. 206

Caribbean Yacht Charters . 173 Cass'Marina. 18 Celestial In A Day.32 Charter 'Yukon Jack'. 188 Chula Vista Marina.206 Cityachts. 19 Club Nautique. 42 Conch Charters. 174 Coyote Point Marina.222 Crisis at Home Intervention Center.20 Cruising Cats, USA. 17,40 Custom Yachts. 32 De-Bug .20 Defender... 105 Desolation Sound Yacht Charters. 172, 174 Detco.219

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Hackworth Insurance.44 Halsey Sailmakers. 67 Handcraft Mattress Co.207 Harken.149 Hawaiian Chieftain. 105 Haynes Sails.222 Hefmut's Marine Service .... 228 Hewett Marine. 104 Hidden Harbor Marina. 197 Hogin Sails. 64 Hood Sailmakers . 32, 60 In Harbor Electric.8 Island Girl Products.73 Island Yacht Club.32 J/World.61 KKMI.116, 117 Kappas Marina . 205 Karmin, Captain Jerrold .... 105 Kensington Yachts. 12, 13

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Kevin's Quality Marine.207 Kilian Props. 165 Kissinger Canvas.44 Kopper's. 143 Lager Yacht Brokerage 189, 225 Larsen Sails. 91 Leading Edge Sails.28 Lee Sails.207 Leech & Rudiger Sails.53 List Marine. 220 MacDonald Yacht Brokers.. 228 Marin Yacht Sales.49 Marina Village Yacht Harbor.43 Mariner Boat Yard.75 Mariners General Insurance. 81 Maritime Electronics. 17 McGinnis Insurance. 18

Meridian Yacht Sales. 124 Mission Bay Marina. 135 Modern Sailing Academy .... 72 Monterey Bay Fiberglass.... 104 Moorings, The. 171 Mariners Choice. 149 Nautical Te«hnologies. 134 Napa Valley Marina.223 Nautor Swan - Pacific Southwest. 77 Nautor Swan San Francisco. 116, 117 Nelson's Marine.232 Nor Cal Yachts.35 Nor Pac Yachts. 231 North Beach Canvas. 124 North Sails San Francisco.9 O'Neill Yacht Center.8

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Oakland Yacht Club.89 Offshore Cruising Consultants 36 Olympic Circle Sailing Club . 57 Outboard Motor Shop. 143 Owl Harbor Marina.48 Oyster Cove Marina.82 Oyster Point Marina.219 PDQ.129 Pacific Coast Canvas.48 Pacific Yachting Unlimited.. 148 Pacifik Partners. 81 Passage Yachts.4,5 PetroOean.29 Pettit-Morry Co. Insurance. 196 Pineapple Sails.3 Premier Yachts.224 (Index cont. next page)

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San Diego Yacht Charters.... 28 San Francisco Boat Works... 16 San Leandro Marina. 21 Sanford-Wood.59 Sausalito Yacht Brokerage . 227 Sausalito Yacht Club.26 Scan Marine Equipment. 110 Scanmar Marine Products.... 87 Schooner Expeditions. 174 Schoonmaker Point Marina 220 Scullion, Jack D., Yacht Ser/ices.205 Seapower. 56 Sea Winds.44 Second Life Charters. 172 Sierra Children's Home. 110 Signet.16 Sobstad Sails.47

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Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors. Ill South Beach Harbor. 23 Sparky Marine Electrics. 148 Spartite. 125 Spinnaker Sailing of Redwood City. 28 Spinnaker Sailing San Francisco.76 Spinnaker Shop, The. 189 Spurs.143 Starbuck Canvas Works.67 Stardust Yacht Charters. 175 Stem to Stern. 222 Stockdale Marine & Navigation Center.55 Sunsail Charters. 170 Sutter Sails. 84

Svendsen's Boat Works ....... 41 Swedish Marine. 12 Swift Instruments. 11 TAP Plastics.38 Tahoe Sail Week.34 Tahoe Yacht Club. 22 Tedrick-Higbee. 33 The Sailing Life. 25 Tim's Zodiac Marine. 10 Tinker Marine. 149 Tradewinds Sailing Center50,51 Transpak Insurance.36 Trimble Navigation . 80 UK Sailmakers. 37 Uni-Solar. 196 Valiant Yachts . 124 Vallejo Marina.8 Vance Marine. 24

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40' CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE YAWL Mint condition, new teak decks, hatches and rigging. Asking $65,000.

35' MARINER. Garden designed ketch, Perkins diesel, liveaboard/ cruise, Sausalito berth. Asking $24,500.

37' FISHER. Duality att-cabin motorsailer. Low hours on rebuilt die¬ sel. Loaded w/gear. Try $70,000.

35' CHRIS CRAFT F/G SLOOP. Unique center cockpit, fully equipped for cruising, custom in¬ terior. Asking $35,000.

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35' CLASSIC YAWL Well main¬ tained, mahogany hull, BMC diesel, join the classic fleet. Try $25,000.

30' CATALINA 1987 Diesel, wheel, dodger, roller furling, new refrigeration. Asking $34,900/offers.

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45' Explorer, 1978* Aft cabin, aft cockpit cruising cutter loaded with cruising gear. $119,000.

70* Schooner Tolofa, 1943 90' overall, 18' beam. New rebuilt 671 Detroit Diesel. US built hull, great accommodations, huge deck spaces. Many upgrades. Asking $175,000.

37 Endeavour Sloop,19rr Perkins 50hp diesel, equipped. Mid-galley, vane, dodger, roller furling, 5 sails. $52,900.

321 Downeast Cutter, 76 Yanmar diesel. Super pocket cruiser, roomy liveaboard. Equipped for cruising, dinghy. $39,500.

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35' Bristol, 78, dsl, RF. 45,000

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33' Roughwater Cutter, 76.37,000

44' Gulfstar MY, 78.144,500

30' Yamaha, '80.25,000

40’ Silverton 40X Express, '90 .... 89,000

37'Endeavour, 77 equipd cruisr 52,900

30' Islander, '84, new bottom.29,500

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36' Islander, 1978 Perkins diesel, CNG stove, roller furling, ST winches. $39,500.

30' SeaRay Weekender, '87.37,500 10M Cooper Prowler, aft cabin ... 79,500 28' Fairliner, '62, twin 305s.14,000 26' Toliycraft, '85.32,500

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Allegro - Hinckley Pilot 35 One of Sparkman & Stephens' most beautiful designs in immaculate condition. Hinckley quality construction and fit. Fast. Seakindly motion. Easily short/single-handed. Modem rig with aluminum spars, Harken, Barient selftailers, Hood roller furling. 2 mains, 120% & 160% jibs, asymmetrical spinnaker. Strongly built with mahogany over oak, bronze floors & strapping. Beautiful accommo¬ dations for two couples, H&C pressure water, CNG, plenty of stowage. 1986 Westerbeke diesel. ICOM, Datamarine, Autohelm, Jensen. Strong, gorgeous, sails beautifully.'One of the world's best built, most beautiful, classic yachts in museum condition. $55,000. Serious buyers only, please. (415) 381-1761.

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43' BALTIC '87 Vrojlik design. Every electronic, incredible inventory. All cruising amenities. Mint condition!

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SELECT SAIL BROKERAGE LIST 33' RANGER, 73.,$21,900

41' SCEPTRE,'86.$195,000

35' J/35, '84.$62,500

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44' J/44,'89...$229,000

38' MORGAN, 79.$68,000

46' CHOATE, '80.$79,000

38’ SWAN, 74.$95,000

54' R0BERTS/KANT0R,'90$200,000

39' CM1200,'95.Inquire

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36' ALLIED PRINCESS Serious, roomy bluewater ketch.

33' HANS CHRISTIAN Welf maintained, loads of gear.

SELECTED SAIL LISTINGS 49' CT/Kaufman, '86 ... $209,000 43' 42' 40' 39' 37'

Gulf star, 76.$79,950 Golden Wave, '82 .. $119,000 Swift.$129,000 Fairweather Mariner. $129,000 Flying Dutchman, 78.. $48,900

37' Hunter, '83.$43,000

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36' Allied, 78.. $45,900 36' Islander, 73..$35,500 36' Cape Dory, '80 .$115,000 35' Ericson, 78. .$34,900 35' Fast 345, '84 ... .$36,500 34' Shock, '86. . $45,000

34' 33' 33' 32' 32' 30'

Catalina, '89. . $54,900 Hans Christian, '86 $109,500 Hankinsen (custom) $49,950 Dreadnought, '80.... . $79,000 Beneteau 32 R/C,'84 .. $39,900 Ericson 30+. . $39,900

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O'Day, 78.$19,950 Catalina, 75.$19,500 Islndr Bahama, '83 .. $21,900 Pearson, 77.$12,900 Coronado, 72.$7,995 Catalina, '80.$9,900 Cal 2-25, 78.$6,995

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39' WESTSAIL 11.8 METER. Bob Perry $115,000. irmance cruiser.

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40' CHEOY LEE MIDSHIPMAN. Roomy center

44' ISLANDER. Lapworth design, recent engine & rig

cockpit ketch. Beautiful teak decks and spars. Perkins dsl. Reduced to $69,500.

survey, sailing dinghy, Perkins diesel, clean.

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40' FISHING VESSEL. New in '95. 1947 design rebuilt. All new electronics, looded, bristol, "10".

Only $75,000.

36.5 PEARSON.'80 $49,500 36.5’ PEARSON..,..79 $59,500

50' FORCE 50.78 $129,000

36' C&L.77 $25,000

49' CT.'86 $209,000

36' COLUMBIA.71 Let's talk

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45' COLUMBIA.73 $62,000

36' ISLANDER.2 from $29,000

60' STEPHENS.'66 $350,000

44' ISLANDER...74 $49,900

36' WATKINS.....'81

56' FELLOWS & STEWART

44' HARDEN.78 $115,000

35’ CHALLENGER.77 $28,500

53' HATTERAS.79 $345,000

43' HANS CHRISTIAN ..'80 $135,000

35' ERICSON.2 from $31,000

50' STEPHENS.'43 $43,700

42' PEARSON 424 .'80 $118,500

35' NIAGARA.'81

$67,000

49' ALBIN TRAWLER ....'80 $139,000

41' MORGAN.

$61,500

33' ALUMINUM.'68 $35,000

46' CHRIS CRAFT... 2 from $69,000

39' WESTSAIL 11.8M. $115,000

33' HUNTER.79 $29,000

44' LUHRS.70 $72,500

39' IRWIN.79 $56,400

33' MORGAN.75 $24,700

42' CHRIS CRAFT.'69 $62,000

38' ENDEAVOUR.'84

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32' FUJI.77 $39,900

42' HATTERAS LR. $189,000

38' CABO RICO.78 $79,000

31' CHEOYLEE.2from $19,900

41' PRESIDENT FDMY .'81

37 ENDEAVOUR.77 $54,000

30' ERICSON..;.'80 $26,900

40' CHRIS CRAFT.'68 $35,000

37 FISHER.2 from $80,000

30' CAPE DORY M/S ....'87 $89,900

32' UNIFLITE.79 $49,500

37’ HUNTER.79 $39,900

30' CATALINA.'88 $33,000

30' TOLLYCRAFT.72 $28,500

37 HUNTER LEGEND ..'88 $69,500

30' CATALINA....2from $16,900

27 OWENS.70 $20,500

ERICSON 35, '80. Westerbeke diesel, very clean. All new rigging, spar & Harken furling. $39,900.

Teok interior like new. New self-furling main, new furling jib. Bristol. $32,900.

promise 3 staterm cruiser. Bright light oak interior. Gleaming blue LPU hull. Teak decks. New engine, more.

$305,000.

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43 HANS CHRISTIAN, '80. Beautiful example of a full keel. Classic, beautiful woodwork. Perfect for liveoboard. Well maintained!! $135,000 sistership

POWER

$49,500

PRICE

$69,900

42' HATTERAS, '80. Perfectly maintained long range cruiser. Flush deck for exceptional room. Air conditioned. Twin Detroit 4-53 diesels. $189,000.

$95,000

39' IRWIN. New dodger/sail covers/cushions, Yonmor diesel, full batten main, roller furling heodsoil. $56,400.

42v PORPOISE KETCH, by Gorden. Solid teok, Volvo 75 hp, fresh water cooled, greot cruiser.

$74,000.

31’ CHEOY LEE, 70. Classic Herreshoff design, full keel, gleaming green hull, diesel engine, newer rig¬ ging. $18,500.

35' CHALLENGER, 77. Perkins diesel, perfect liveoboard/cruiser, bright & roomy. $28,500.

39' CAVALIER, '80. New Zealand-built, cruise equipped, beautiful Kauri wood interior. $82,500.

54' ROBERTS STEEL KETCH, '83. No com¬

Fahy

PRICE

NEWPORT 30 III, 1982. Very comfortable boot.

Michael

2 from $19,000

54' ROBERTS STEEL ...75 $305,000

LOD BUILDER.YR

Reduced ta $45,000.

Gardella

see the experts of ABC Yachts.

37' O'DAY.79 $44,000

boot, extensive list of new and rebuilt gear.

Fax 332-458

ISLANDERS — We have several available: 44,36,28s. If you're buying or selling an Islander,

LOD BUILDER..YR

PEARSON 36.5. Completely refurbished. One owner

(415)332-72

49' CT CUTTER, '86. Immaculate &

1 Gate 5 Road

SAUSALITO CA

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well equipped cruising cutter, with YACHT SALES NETWORK-

recently installed electronics. Teak decks, Dodger/enclosure. $209,000.

34' 1952 JEFFRIES EXPRESS CRUISER. Perfect, perfect, perfect & beautiful. A work of art for the discriminating owner. Don't miss this one. $45,900.

70’ CLASSIC FANTAIL MY by Callis. Twin 671 diesels, 4.4kw genset, flybridge, full cover & much more. A magnificent yacht. Asking $149,500.

CLASSIC 50' STEPHENS. Full elect., perfect condi¬ tion, palatial decor, flybridge, gourmetgolley,covered Morin berth. Must be seen! Asking $115,000. SAIL 20'BALBOA.1,800 22'COLUMBIA 22, new 0/8.4,000 23' CLIPPER w/9.9hp 0/8 8, trlr 4,900 24'COLUMBIA, new O/B.4,000 25'CORONADO Sip, 0/8. 4,000 26‘COLUMBIA, 0/B, Hawaii vet, full keel, nice. 5,500 obo 27BRIST0L, O/B, clean.6,650 28'M0RGAN 0/1, nice.11,950 28'P-28, Danish sip, full kl Try 2,900 30'C&C MEGA 30.12,900 30'NEWPORT, l/B, nice.... Try 10,900 31'HERRESHOFF,sip,dsl. Ask 14,500 32'ROYAL CRUISER, sip, 1/8 ..10,000 34'TANCOOK, dsl, excel.. Ask 16,000 40'IRWINMKII,loaded. Ask 579,500 40'SEABIRD YWL, Corten steel 36,000 —

INGRID 38'. Heavy fiberglass bull, strong world

HANS CHRISTIAN HANSA 33. Cutter rig. Tradi¬

cruising ketch by Blue Water Yachts. Dsl, lots of teak, comfort & safety at sea. 44' LOA. Asking $72,000,

tional, glass. Radar, VHF, depth, log, TV-VCR Volvo dsl, dodger & more. Asking $75,000.

41'GARDENKTCH, new dsl Ask 75,000 42'RHODES Sip, 80% restored 44,000 SO'COLUMBIA, So. Pac. vet ....79,000 50'CAMPER NICHOLSON...Try47,000 POWER 18'GLASTRON, '84, w/lrlr.7,500 19' MARQUE, 1/0 ski bool, like new with trailer. 6,900 obo 20'SEARAY, 1350/B, nice.11,500 23'GLASS PLY, ht-cuddy, 1/0.10,500 23'SANGER Pickle Fork.16,000 24'REINELL, 1/0, trlr.10,500 24'REINELL CUDDY, '95. 18,900 26’BARTENDER, I/B.V8.10,000 28' HUNTER, '41, classic, l/B, very, very nice. 12,750/offer 28'MONTEREY TRAWLER.Try 7,900

THESE AHD MORE AT OUR DOCKS —

28'OWENS, sed, V8, 70.8,500 30'CHRIS CAVALIER, elt cond. 22,500 30"TOLLY, dbl cbn, twin, nice. 23,500 33' AVANTI EXPRESS, twins, more. 55,000 36'CUSSIC STEPHENS.Ask 14,900 37'CHRIS CRAFT, twin, '64Try 14,000 38' FEU0WS8STEWART/31 Try 23,000 38'CKRISSdnDlx, perfect.45,000 39'STEPHENS Sdn, '39 . 28,500 40NUNES CLASSIC. 67,000 42' EXCALIBER, '86, hot. 95,000 43'MATTHEWS, F/B, '65, V8s 57,500 46'CHRIS CONNIE, dsl, loaded 75,000 50'SALM0N Twl w/permit. 65,000 52'STERNWHEELER, Ivbrd.76,000 56 FELL0WS & STEWART. Ask 75,000 65'CHARTER YACHT. 275,000/ofr 65'WHEEIER MA, '31.. 109,000/ofr HO' CLASSIC CHARTERBOAT. . New Orleans needs partner

TOLLYCRAFT LONG RANGE PILOTHOUSE. Twin diesels, lowhours, gen, full elect, etc. 41' LOA, 37'4"on deck. Very comfortable cruiser. Asking $119,000.

36' C&L PETERSON SLOOP. Performance cruiser dsl wheel, Avon & O/B, cruise equipped. Motivated seller! Try $24,500/obo.

CLASSIC STAYS!SCHOONER BY ANGELMAN.

People say it's fun to do business at

Soiloway condition, dsl, 46' on deck, good inventory, more. Rare offering, great buy. Asking $69,000.

The Old Kermit Parker Brokerage Serving the Boating Community at This Lotation since 1950.

We Must Be Doing Something Right!

ISLANDER FREEPORT 41 " KETCH. Diesel, center cockpit, oft cobin room/comfort/cruise/live. Very at¬ tractive price for this popular modelAsking $69,500.

49' ALBIN TRAWLER/SEDAN. Twin dsls, F/G, flybridge, Onon, full elec, galley up, radar, VHF, Po¬ laris, Loron, etc. Fine vessel. Asking $139,000.

- Glenn

34' CHRIS CRAFT CLASSIC SEDAN. Twin 105 hp 6s. Looks/runs like o new boat. Varnished beauty. Maintained right: original. Reduced $19,900.

ANGELMAN "SEAWITCH" KETCH. 30' L0D, 36'

42' TROJAN SEDAN CRUISER. Twins, radar, RDF,

CONTESSA 26. Exceptional pocket world cruiser.

LOA, dsl, just refit, excellent condition, dinghy ond more. Beautiful trad'l goffer. $19,500/Offers.

New rebuilt dsl, vane, GPS, VHF, pilot, jiffy reef +++, perf. cond. Ready to cruise! Asking $13,500.

depth, pilot, VHF, spacious, full galley, cruise/live, Asking $47,500. great entertainer, nice.

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WELLCRAFT MONACO EXPRESS CRUISER, 1990. Low hrs, twin 275 hp I/Os. Comfort, well equipped, looks & smells new. Fast & fun. $54,800.

27' OWENS CONCORDE. Flybridge, spt fisher/

38' FARALLON CLIPPER BY STEPHENS. Great

cruiser, new twin eng's, 30 mpn, Irg aft deck, full elect, inch radar, very dean. Asking $ 14,0OO,

SF 8ay-built classic cruising sloop, 1940, Volvo dsl, greot rig & inventory. Asking $25,000.

riveted, looded. 7' headroom. Mex-AK-HI vet. Great boat, great cruiser._Asking $2 5,000.

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