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JUST DUCKY! Lee sailed his first Windjammers Race, from San Francisco Bay to Santa Cruz, in 1990. Last fall, sailing My Rubber Ducky, he won it overall! The races are as different as night and day - literally. The Windjammers is a downwind ocean race. The waves were big. The wind went aft. The sun went down. And Lee's new Pineapple “chicken chute” had him setting early and sailing fast, pulling ahead of bigger, faster boats. The Konocti Cup is lake sailing at it’s finest: the water was flat, the beginning was windy and the end was light. And the shape and stability of Lee’s new Kevlar main gave him the speed he needed to pull ahead of the fleet and stay there.

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Lee Garami raced his very first race in 1986: The Konocti Cup on Clear Lake in his O’Day 2-22. This spring he raced the race again, in My Rubber Ducky, his Hobie 33. And he won it!

Wherever ypu sail, Pineapple Sails provides the speed and versatility. Give us a call and let’s make your sailing absolutely ducky, too!

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Beat the Annual Price Increases ISLAND PACKET 320 Boat of the Year k Best Midsized < §L Cruiser M 1998

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The 320 combines all the quality and features, you’d expect from Island Packet. Check out the new 320 and you'll see why Cruising World selected the 320 as the 1998 Boat of the Year winner for best small cruiser. This is the ideal boat choice for those looking for good quality, roomy, comfortable accommodations and an easily managed yacht under 35 feet. Excellent sailing performance.

The Island Packet 45 is a remarkable yacht that simply does everything you could ask a cruiser to do with finesse. The boat is quick and well mannered with a roomy, elegantly appointed interior. The superior quality is readily apparent. This is the only boat ever to win Cruising World magazine’s Best Boat and Best Value awards.

Dehler 41 Deck Saloon

It is hard to believe that any one boat could possibly incorporate as much living area and as many innovative features. The Dehler 41 has amonolithic construction; there is no hull to deck joint. ALLof the boat's sailing control lines lead back to dual electric winches that the helms¬ man can operate from his seat. The 4IDS is fast, easy to sail and beautiful. This is one of the best sailing boats overall. Page 4

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RESERVE YOUR NEW ISLAND PACKET BY JUNE 7 AND SAVE THOUSANDS! The annual price increase on Island Packets goes into effect June 8. This is your final opportunity to secure price protection on a new Island Packet. Save 4% to 5% by acting now. If you have been procrastinating about actually having the boat of your dreams, the alarm is ringing loudly. If you snboze you lose.

A NEW ISLAND PACKET

We’re all awaiting the June 26 announcement about what the newest member of the Island Packet family will be. This new boat will benefit from the extensive hands-on design, building and sailing experience at Island Packet, along with input from owners with millions of miles of cruising experience around the globe. As with all new models introduced by Island Packet, the first 10 hulls for customers in the United States will be sold at a special introductory price with an additional pre-production discount of approximately 20%. A small refundable deposit will reserve one of these first 10 new boats for you. You will be able to inspect the boat before making your final decision. Once the first 10 boats are sold this special deal will be.gone. Historically these first 10 hulls are sold within three to fours weeks of the new boat's announcement. In addition, the price usually increases within the first few months of produc¬ tion as all builders usually underestimate the actual produc¬ tion costs of a new model. All of this means that if you act fast enough to get one of the first 10 hulls of this new model, you will probably actually make a few bucks if you ever resell the boat. Call June 27 for full details.

Join Us on June 6 Beneteau First 40.7

5 REASONS TO ATTEND OUR OPEN HOUSE ON JUNE 6 1- The First Bay Area Showing of the New Island Packet 320, the 1998 Midsize Boat of the Year 2- A Good Selection of Beneteau, Island Packet and Dehler Sailing Yachts 3- Free Food

The all new Beneteau First 40.7 combines a sleek and sophisticated racer with all the comforts of a luxurious cruiser. Her Bruce Farr designed hull and powerful rig provide excellent performance whether you're knocking the 'socks off your competition on the race course or if you just want to get to the next harbor a little more quickly than usual. Sailaway at only $174,900 with four Quantum Sails and Harken deck gear.

4- Your last opportunity to order a new Island Packet before the annual price increase 5- We're nice people

Beneteau 36 Center Cockpit

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With the room of a 40-footer and extreme ease of handling, the new 36 is a must see. Standard equipment such as furling main and jib makes this boat simple to handle. Her refined hull design makes her a swift and nimble cruiser. Below decks you’ll find a great aft stateroom, a large gourmet galley, comfortable forward stateroom and a large comfy saloon. All at a very reasonable price.

The new Oceanis 411 was love at first sight for me. The boat has a traditional look with raised teak bulwarks. The interior is elegant and roomy with a feel very similar to the larger 461. This may be all the boat you will ever need for extended or local cruising. A great liveaboard.

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Your catamaran experts on the West Coast. Here's a small list. Call for more! SOLARIS, '91 . . $124,000 LAGOON . ...from .$179,000 PRIVILEGE. ... from $159,000 DEAN, '97. . $280,000 NORSEMAN, '93 .. .$249,000 LAGOON, '91. .$229,000 CATANA, '91 . . $235,000 42’LAGOON. ... from $224,000 36' 37' 39’ 40' 40' 42' 42'

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One Sail. Three Sizes! DELTA 3 Philosophy: Here at Multi-Sail we have been building and designing sails for over. twenty-five years. In these 25 years we have developed many new innovative concepts. Our best known is our patented Multi-Sail "3 in one" adjustable sail system. And although there are the obvious price advantages that a "3 in 1" sail has to offer, we know that price alone is not enough. For the racer each size must give you the performance you'd expect from three high performance sails. For the cruiser each size must be strong, reliable and easy to change sail size. Our new Delta3 line of performance headsails reflects this commitment in new designs that are second to none. We are happy and proud to offer these new Delta3 designs to- you, the discerning sailing enthusiast.

History: Originally designed for Windsurfing, the Multi-Sail concept had to prove itself in this very high-performance sport. It; had to prove to the windsurfing sailor that a reefing system could give them the performance they demanded. Currently, ten years: after its introduction to the windsurfing market, the Delta3 windsurfing sail is flourishing. All the research and development fromi this high-performance industry advanced the Multi-Sail concept into other high-performance:, sailing craft. The Hobie Cat Corporation is known for their innovative and high quality products. Performance; and reliability is something that they demand from their products. Multi-Sail is pleased that they' chose to use the Multi-Sail system on their new Tri-Foiler hydro-foil trimaran (clocked over 50!: mph), the fastest production sailboat on the planet. The Tri-Foiler is a speed machine and needs sails that will not compromise sailshape, whether sailing at 10 knots or blazing across the water) at close to 50 knots. The Multi-Sail system satisfies the high performance needs of this; extraordinary machine. Hobie also builds boats for the entry level sailor. For this market, they need products that are durable, simple to use, and reliable. That's because entry level sailors tend to be tough on equipment. Again,; they chose Multi-Sail as an upgrade option on their new Hobie Wave 12' catamaran. Multi-Sail has been proving its performance benefits on the highest demanding sailing craft for over 10 years now. But what about conventional sailboats, like the one you sail...How about the Pardeys...ever hear of them? Larry and Lynn are considered cruising gurus and have written many articles for SAIL, Cruising World and other sailing magazines. They have years of experience and are very respected in the sailing community. Well, guess what... our Multi-Sail concept found itself onboard their bluewater cruising adventures, taking them all over the world! The Pardeys found the concept to be fast, strong, reliable and easy to use. The concept proved itself in the most extreme conditions with these bluewater experts. This combined heritage of satisfying both the high performance sailor and bluewater cruiser validates the Multi-Sail as a proven concept. Now it has found a place for you, the everyday sailor who enjoys sailing fast and safely. Whether you are a daysailer, weekend coastal cruiser or serious bluewater sailor, Multi-Sail's patÂŹ ented Delta3 performance headsail is for you.

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Design Concept: The Delta3 concept gives you three high perfor¬ Draft Stays Forward Leading Edge Clean

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mance sails from only one sail. It does this by zipping off lower foot panels safely, quickly and easily. Not only does the Delta3 change size, but it also changes sailshape by altering the luff length, luff curve, broadseaming, LP length, center of effort and camber of each new size. This changing of its sailshape gives you the superior performance over roller furled sails. The Delta3 sailshape is so fast it has even been used successfully around the race course. The Delta3 reefing system is comprised of one or two non-corrosive zippers that allow you to completely remove a foot panel. And although lightweight in design, this zipper system is stronger than the sail itself. That’s because we have a clever loadstrap system on the luff and leech of the sail where the zipper interacts. These loadstraps take all loads off the zipper. In five years of sailing we have never had a problem with the zipper system. Even the Pardeys, sailing around the clock in extreme conditions, found it to be safe, strong and reliable crossing bluewater oceans.

Delta3 with Furler: Although the Delta3 can be used without a roller furler, the Delta3 wasn't designed to replace roller furling. It was designed to give cruisers better performance and safety at sea. If you do not have or want the expense of a roller furler you can use the Delta3 alone either with hanks or a headfoil system. If you want to use the Delta3 with a roller furler that's fine. Combined with a roller furler unit you get the benefits of the Delta3's superior performance and the stowing advantages a roller furler can offer. Now roller furling can be used as it was originally designed for... stowing your sails in port and not reefing your sails at sea.

Reduceable Performance Cruising Sail as Used by Lynn & Larry Pardey

Reefing: Reducing sail with the Delta3 is as easy as jiffy reefing your mainsail. When properly set up, the Delta3 can be shortened easily from the cockpit. Once the sail is reduced the lower panel is simply removed and stored away. That's it! After reefing your sail you will be left with the correct sail shape for the conditions. Once you get the hang of it, sail changes can be as fast as 2-3 minutes!

Delta3 Features: The Delta3 can be designed to be any three sizes you need. It can be built heavy duty and economical or lightweight and high-tech. We look at each individual sailor and help him choose the right direction to go depending on his needs. Whether you sail in the strong winds of San Francisco or the light winds off San Diego we can design the correct sailshape for you and your area.

All Delta3 sails are built in close cooperation with Elliott/Pattison Sails of Newport Beach, CA. Building sails since 1971, Elliott/Pattison Sails has built full sail inventories for such great yachts as Vicki the new Alan Andrews 70 for A1 and Vicki Lawrence Schultz. Multi-Sail and Elliott/Pattison combined have over 75 years of sailmaking experience. This experience is reflected in our sails whether it’s a mainsail, spinnaker or new Delta3 headsail. So before summer really kicks in, call us now for your sail quote today! You’ll be glad

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“Hello Aquilon!" (Bye-bye Corsair)

The fully usable, 26' x 15' size of the Aquilon 26'cat gives you more room than the much more expensive F-31 trimaran. Full standing headroom in each hull means long-term cruising comfort. The furling genniker on the bowsprit guarantees top performance, even in the Northwest's light summer breezes. In heavier blows the Aquiloris a screamer (15-20 plus knots). And almost NO heeling. So, unlike trimarans, sailors can remain seated anywhere in the cockpit on either tack. The Aquilon 26'weighs only 1,900lbs, 500 lbs less than the F-28. After removing the 3 crossbars, the two 4' wide hulls slide together so that the boat's easily towed, even by this compact car. When towing, the spacious 7' x 12' rigid cockpit nestles under the hulls at the trailer's forward end (and it's a BIG cockpit - 230% larger than the F-28 trimaran.) The mast is stowed between the hulls.

AQuick Quizfor Sailors ■ Corsairvs. Aquilon Which Trailerable, Multihull Sailboat Is Better? To discover the right answer for you, check0 one choice per row below, then add up your check marks.

Feature

Corsair F-280 Aquilon 800 (26’)

Base price (boat, mainsail, jib

$66,255*

rotating mast & s/t winches)

Storm jib, portapotty, stove, sink,

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Number of separate living areas

This private, double-berth cabin is in the aft port hull. This hull contains 8 windows and 3 opening hatches! There's stowage under the berth and elsewhere. (And the comfortable Lshaped dining settee in the aft starboard hull converts into the same-size double berth.) A separate head/shower compartment with a closing door is in the midsection of the port hull (photo background). The steps lead up to the cockpit.

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LOCAL TALENT "With reports this month from the San Francisco Yacht Club, site of the 1998 Sabre Yachts West Coast Rendezvous; race results; and special acknowledgments.

Winners Bruce and Lynne Munro, members of the St. Francis Yacht Club, braved the wet and stormy morning on May

RACING/RENDEZVOUS Special Acknowledgments Lobo Dos, a Sabreline 36, performed beautifully as the race committee platform. Owners Bob and Lois Meredith skippered; Jerry and Karen Eaton were aboard as crew. Race committee never gets enough appreciation. Many thanks from the entire fleet for making the racing possible. Thank you as well to the 'pros' (you know who you are).

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Division I: 1) Fifty OneFifty, Owen & BJ \ Bramlett; 2) Moonlight ’ Lady, Jerry & Royanne Florence; DNS) Excaiibur, Jim & Lynne Poulakis; Sea Fever, Meeta & Dan King; Bufflehead, Jerry & Karen Eaton; Shred Betty, Duncan & Laura Phillips; Wind Cries Mary, Gary Lindquist & Barbara; Spree, Ron & Ruby Klawitter.

Division II: 1) Princess, Bruce & Lynne Munro; 2) Blow'n Away, Lloyd Smith; 3) SEAFOX, Larry & Joan Fox; 4) Sierra II, Paul & Elizabeth Eisenhardt; DNS) Fanny Pearl, Pamela & Wayne Cowens; Ganesha, Tom & Ellen Bauch, Lee Smith; Alicante, Randy Paulling.

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Why do sailors recommend to their friends?

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Choosing the right sailing school is more than just finding a place to take a class. Sailing opens up a whole new world for you, your friends and family. You want to find a facility that gives you the life style as well as the sport. OCSC knows this better than anyone! We pioneered the “club concept” 19 years ago. Our focus is to provide you with instant access to every phase of the sport without requiring boat ownership. At OCSC you learn from professionals. You choose from an excellent fleet of charter yachts. You are certified to bareboat charter anywhere irfthe world. And you connect with a great group of like minded enthusiasts at social activi¬ ties and special events.

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At OCSC we combine our extraor¬ dinary location, the smallest class sizes in the industry and state of the art equip¬ ment with a curriculum that is thorough and efficient. Our modular training pro¬ gram consists of a progressive ladder of individual classes, each dovetailed to the next with clearly defined expecta¬ tions and certifications. You may slip into the program at a level appropriate for your current skills. Everything nec¬ essary is included for your success: textbooks and collateral materials, spray gear and float vests, the right boat for each level, even your lunches with full day classes are provided. Bring your sunglasses and a sense of adventure; we supply the rest.

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(fewer than one in twenty instructor applicants make the grade). Then we thoroughly train them in the proven teaching methods OCSC has devel¬ oped. The twenty-five men and women who make up the OCSC instructional staff are simply the best qualified and most prepared teachers in the industry. They average at least 5 years with us. You will find them all to be patient, caring guides who will share your enthusiam and excitement about sail¬ ing and each new skill you master.

The Full Service Club OCSC offers a wide range of activi¬ ties to make your sailing easy, fun and economical. Regularly scheduled events include afternoon picnic sails, moonlight sails, weekend cruises, semi¬ nars, video nights, exciting vacation cruises around the world and more. These activities take full advan¬ tage of our world-class waterfront facil¬ ity, which includes a two story club¬ house with a commanding three bridge bay view, fully equipped classroom, and sunny outdoor deck, all set in a landscaped park, and all just a few steps from the forty yachts waiting at our docks. Please visit us anytime at your conve¬ nience. We'll take the time to show you our facility and discuss your goals. You will dis¬ cover that sailing is more than a sport - it's an exciting new life style!

Why Berkeley? Because sailing is a natural, sen¬ sual and intuitive activity, the pleasure you derive from it is inseparable from the environment in which you sail. OCSC’s central San Francisco Bay lo¬ cation places you in sailing conditions that are the envy of sailors worldwide. The steady, consistent winds on Berkeley's Olympic Circle create an ideal training environment for learning. At OCSC, your sailing backdrop is the beautiful San Francisco skyline, the Page 26 *

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CALENDAR GOLDEN GATE YC — Folkboat Wednesday Nights: 5/6-6/ 24 and 8/5-26. Ed Welch, 851-3800. ISLAND YC — Friday Nights on the Estuary: 6/5, 6/19, 7/ 31, 8/14, etc. Glen Krawiec, (510) 339-9451. LAKE WASHINGTON SC — Thursday Night Series, alter¬ nate weeks through 9/17. Dave Lemoine, (916) 753-6718. MONTEREY, PENINSULA YC — Wednesday Night Sunset Series through 10/21. John Ruck, (408) 647-1917. OAKLAND YC — Sweet 16 Series (Wednesday nights): 5/66/24 and 7/29-9/16. Fred Joyce, (510) 522-4320. OYSTER POINT YC — Friday Nights: 6/19, 7/17, 8/18, 8/ 21. David Marsiano, (209) 477-8926. PITTSBURG YC — Thursday Night Series, through the end of Daylight Savings Time. Vernon Huffer, (510) 432-0390. RICHMOND YC — Wednesday Night Series: 6/3, 6/17, 7/1, 7/15, 8/5, 8/19, etc. Paula Harris, (510) 237-6180. SANTA CRUZ YC — Wednesday Night Races, through 10/ 21. Larry Weaver, (408) 423-8 111. SAUSALITOYC—Tuesday Sunset Series: 6/9, 6/23, 7/28, 8/11, 8/25, etc. Ernie Lacey, 331-8203. 'SAUSALITO CRUISING CLUB — Friday nights: 6/12, 6/26, 7/10, 7/24, etc. Deborah Leanos, 499-9676. SIERRA POINT YC — Saturday Afternoons: 6/13, 8/8, 9/ 12, 10/10. John Felch, (408) 741-0880. SOUTH BEACH YC — Friday Nights: 6/5, 6/19, 6/26, 7/ 17, 7/24, etc. Kirk Kelsen. 255-9019. ST. FRANCIS YC/GOLDEN GATE YC — Friday Night Se¬ ries, through 9/4. Matt Jones, 563-6363. TIBURON YC — Friday Nights: 6/12, 6/26, 7/10, 7/24, 8/ 7, 8/21, 9/11. Free! Don Walder, 924-8689. VALLEJO YC — Wednesday Nights, through 9/16. Russ Taft, (510) 376-6723. Please send your calendar items by the 1 Oth of th& month to Latitude 38 (Attn: Calendar), 15 Locust Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941. Better yet, fax them to us at (415) 383-5816 or email them to us at editorial@latitude38.com. But please, no phoneins! Calendar listings are for marine-related events that are ei¬ ther free or don’t cost much to attend. The Calendar is not meant to support commercial enterprises. Unless otherwise noted, all phone numbers listed in the Calendar are in the 415 area code.

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Mi still like adventures and challenges Copies of a letter from your February issue — asking what I was up to — managed to make it all the way up here to my current home of Whistler, British Columbia. Basically I’m the same as I was 18 years ago when, at age 20, I singlehanded across the Atlantic and the following summer across the Pacific to Hawaii. 1 like adventures and challenges, and am always looking for new opportunities. In the winter, I'm a part-time trail guide for Tyax Heli Skiing. The rest of the time I teach skiing, snowboarding, rock-climb¬ ing, and work in the movie industry in mountain safety or coor¬ dinating logistics. Last summer I worked for the Eco-Challenge Adventure Race in Australia — where I ran into Ian Kiernan. Participants in the 1980 Singlehanded TransPac will remem¬ ber Ian as the Aussie who sailed all the way to San Francisco just to participate in the Singlehanded TransPac. Kiernan now ruhs a program called Clean Up Australia — but still finds time for singlehanded sailing. As for my own sailing activities, this coming January I’ll be skippering a yacht iji the Caribbean for some clients. In addi¬ tion I sail on friends' boats in Squamish — where Little Rascal, the Wilderness 21 1 singlehanded from England to the Canar¬ ies, the Canaries to Antigua, and later San Francisco to Hawaii — still does well in races for her new owner. Old friends can contact me at: amyb@whistlerweb.bc.ca Amy Boyer Whistler, BC Amy — It doesn't surprise us at all to learn that you haven't changed. Just for kicks, we pulled out the 1980 Singlehanded . TransPac entry list to see how many of the 38 starters we know to still be actively sailing: Last month we took some pictures of Lester Roberston doing the Doublehanded Farallones aboard Legs, the same-Moore 24. Rod Park did the last West Marine Pacific Cup with his son aboard True Blue, a BOC 50. Chuck Hawley is so busy being 'Mr. Tech' at West Marine that we're not sure he has much time for recre¬ ational sailing anymore. Last month we think we saw Hans Vielhauer aboard his Cal 40 Chaparral serving as a mother boat for the Bullship Race. Hans, as publicity shy as ever, recently completed a circumnavigation in something like 15 months. While up in Seattle last year we saw Doug Fryer's Custom 42. We were told that she and Fryer — who although in his 70s still practices law — had returned from Cape Horn the year before. Sam Vahey keeps his Ranger 37 Odysseus near his winter home in Lanai, but he also has a Santa Cruz 27 in Oregon. Linda Weber-Rettie, now Linda Newland, does yacht deliveries — among other things. Sam Crabtree is still very active with his Cal 39 Catch the Wind. Bob Counts, the only one to beat you in divi¬ sion, still has his Golden Gate 24 Sanderling — and, in fact, had a letter in the last issue. We think Frank Dinsmore still sails his Newland 368, a boat he developed with Dan Newland, winner of the SSS Singlehanded TransPac. Other veterans of that race may still be actively sailing without our knowledge — and it would be great if they checked in. We know of only two entries who have passed on. Mike Harting died of cancer a few years after the race at a young age. Dan Byrne, who completed a BOC Singlehanded Around the World Race, also died of cancer a few years later. Mbikes on boats Latitude asked for opinions on the wisdom of carrying bikes on cruising boats. My wife and I cruised for 12 years between '83 and '95. We started with four years of cruising the coasts of the United States as well as the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River. Then we crossed the Atlantic to spend five

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IT11 THE FIRST AMERICAN ENTRY ’i came across your February issue the other day — someone had it in the marina office at Las Hadas. I enjoyed the interview with Mark Rudiger, the navigator on Whitbread Race winner EF Language. It made for very interesting reading and gave, I thought, a good feel for the Whitbread and both the trials and thrills a participant experiences. I do, however, disagree with one of Rudiger's comments. When discussing which was more of an 'American' entry — EF Lan¬ guage, Toshiba or Chessie Racing — Rudiger says that he feels EF Language is the first "true American entry". At the very least, such a statement is misleading. I'm writing to be sure that credit is given where it is due — and that people not forget the efforts of previous Whitbread competitors. In 1981, Neil Bergt, a successful oil-related company CEO, adventurer, and sailor from Alaska, decided to live out a dream and compete in the Whitbread. The campaign went practically unnoticed in the United States, as the coverage of the Whit¬ bread was little to none in the States back then. Nonetheless, the British and other foreign press all recognized Alaska Eagle for what she was, "The First American Challenge!" Our program was well-funded and sponsored by Alaska In¬ ternational Industries, one of Bergt's companies. Alaska Eagle's hailing port was Anchorage and she flew the American flag. Prior to the race there were official receptions held in Anchor¬ age, Washington D.C., and at the New York YC. There was even an official proclamation from the U.S. Senate wishing "God speed to the Alaska Eagle in the Race". I was the Project Manager for Bergt’s endeavor, and can as¬ sure you that while our crew was not entirely American, the basic core indeed was. This core included such well-known sail¬ ors as Greg Gillette, Dick Seay, and Ted Allison (who had al¬ ready done a Whitbread and would go on to do others). It also consisted of an American living in England, Skip Novak, and two Englishmen who lived in America, Bob Thompson and 'Mugsey' Hancock. Among our 'foreign' crew on board was Roger Nilson, who is currently aboard Swedish Match. Even though Alaska Eagle had won class A in the Fastnet Race just prior to the start of the Whitbread, when we arrived in Cape Town at the finish of the first leg in fifth place, we knew we were too much lacking in boat speed to expect great results in the end. While we didn't set the world on fire, Alaska Eagle did finish a respectable 9th out of 29 entries in what will al¬ ways be remembered as a classic Whitbread. This was the time there was 10 dismastings. As I look back on that Whitbread, I often give thanks for having met up with Bergt and having had the opportunity to experience all that encompasses 'doing a Whitbread'. After all, it was not without a fair bit of pride that we sailed as the 'First American Challenge'. Today, years later, I would like for your readers to know of and not discount the dreams and efforts of

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had — even my toothbrush. Being a singlehander without funds, there wasn’t a thing I could do to prevent the looting. The thieves just hung out in the jungle until I had to leave the boat for supplies, at which time they moved in to disencumber me. In addition, my backpack was stolen from right under my feet in Puntarenas by a snatch and run artist. The pack con¬ tained a change of clothing and all my important papers: birth certificate, bank card, passport and boat documents. I should have been more on guard, but it was early in the day. As a result of this theft, I had to make my way — without money or identification — to San Jose for a replacement passport. I won’t burden you with a description of my encounters with the U.S. embassy in San Jose, but the bottom line was if you had no money, it was just too bad. You got no passport, no food, and no shelter (San Jose is up in the Central Plain where it gets cold at night.) During several visits to the embassy, I had occasion to visit many other Americans seeking replacement passports. The thirty or so that I met related a recurrent theme: they had visited a bar after dark. Upon leaving they had been jumped, beaten and robbed. There were bruises and black eyes allA around. Typical of my visits to other countries along the way, the people of Costa Rica weren't all bad. Several times, for example, the poor citizens of that country fed me. One lady beautifully washed and pressed my remaining shirt. After the embassy told me that I needed $65 for a temporary passport — money I didn't have (well, too bad!) — a Costa Rican gentleman came to me. Having been turned away by my own (wealthy) country, he handed me 15,000 colones — about $60 U.S. — a lot of money for down there. It was enough, with the $101 had, to purchase my I.D. How 1 scrounged up enough money to leave Costa Rica is another story. Costa Rica is a beautiful country with dazzling wildlife and clean air and water. Unfortunately, it is also a lawless country. If anybody wants to sail there, I would encourage them — as long as they're aware that it’s about as safe as Rio de Janeiro was before they hired some police to protect the public. Speak¬ ing of police, during my approximately two month stay in Costa Rica, I saw not one uniformed officer. For anybody visiting Costa Rica, I offer the following sugges¬ tions: — Never carry more cash than needed for the day. — Never visit bars after dark. If you must go, enter and de¬ part as part of a group. — Don’t walk alone, especially after dark. — Avoid carrying a backpack or shoulder bag. One lady I spoke with was dragged two blocks by'the shoulder strap of her handbag. Young motorcycle thugs had swooped down on her as she waited to cross the street, and they dragged her until the strap on her bag broke. There was nothing in the bag but cosmetics and Kleenex. Anyway, you want to avoid that. You take your chances when you venture into the wide world alone; people, but my advice is to do it anyway. Troubles can come in spades, but it’s better than sitting home in black igno¬ rance. So go sailing! Peter Wilkinson National City, CA

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LETTERS inch diameter threaded rod as a pin. I explained that this was potentially a dangerous thing to do and that what he really needed was to have a pin made out of stainless rod. He checked with the local machine shop, but all they had was steel. Enter the 'stupid Samaritan'. I scrounged around my boat and found a 3/4-inch forged stainless shackle. It could be can¬ nibalized to maKe the required pin. I also gave the Hans Chris¬ tian owner a USNF tap and bolts to replace the Profurl threaded nipples on the pin ends. After several consultations with the owner, 1 actually drew the part for the machine shop. The part was ultimately made successfully and even looks lovely. My 'thanks’, however, was a big 'no thanks'. Apparently this guy’s idea of help is that it’s his inviolate right to be bailed out of a serious jam. The odds that anyone else would have had the necessary part he could use, along with the expertise to design it and show him how to install it, were zip. After all, this was Nuku Hiva. On top of all that, I even took the furler and headstay down for him so he wouldn’t kill or maim himself. If my thanks are knowing that I did a good deed, then I ain’t doing any more of them. The cost to me — not counting the fact that if I need the4ap I haven’t seen it since — was well over $300. Counsel me if I’m off base here, but it seems like I'm out of touch with today's sailors. The second case involved a DownEast 32 whose owner had blown his old Farryman diesel and managed to reach Nuku Hiva the day before I arrived. By then his batteries were dead and he needed to get them charged. He had minimal solar pan¬ els and the weather had been lousy, so the charging wasn't coming along very fast. Chump that I am, I offered to loan him two solar panels for a day or two so that he might get his bat¬ teries back up. After four days, I went over to his boat and asked him when 1 could get my panels back. You’d have thought I had asked for his first born! He asked me whether I was planning onMeaving. I guess he thought my $ 1,400 worth of panels had only been on my boat for decoration. On the contrary, I'd been having to run my generator to compensate for not having the solar panels. My generator is one of those old fashioned kind that uses diesel fuel. Nonetheless, the fellow who used my solar panels didn't offer any 'thanks', nor any diesel — not one damn thing. So counsel me about this good Samaritan stuff again. If somebody does a favor for Latitude readers, I hope they'll be more appreciative of somebody’s efforts in bailing them out of serious trouble than these two people were. I would only ask them to remember that nobody has to help anybody. So it's probably best just to color me stupid and easily taken advan¬ tage of. There s an old saying that if you start using your spares to help people, you’ll shortly find yourself out of spares. It won't happen again. On a more pleasant topic — and as you can probably dis¬ cern, there aren t many here — I sure miss your magazine after a couple of months in Mexico and then down here in the South Pacific. W. M. Wochos Doc, 53-ft sloop

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W.M. — Having not gotten the 'other side of the story'from the other two boats, it’s hard for us to comment intelligently on the situation. In any event, there are some guidelines in providing help and loaning stuff that you should follow to prevent you from getting your strut bent. First off, make sure that other people really want to take ad¬ vantage of your expertise and/or farts. In the case of the guy with the Hans Christian, you might have mentioned that it's your educated opinion that a stainless pin is much better than a

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I found the proverbial cable at Clipper Cove. -.1 hail from Reno and keep my old Coronado 34 at the Port of Oakland. My friends Ted, retired, and his wife Nonda, retired, and our other regular hand Mike, who was starting a new job the following Monday, and I get down here about once a month to sail the Bay. We had a gorgeous sail around the Bay on Sat¬ urday the 25th, and ended it up with our first 'campout' of the year at Clipper Cove. Since the weather was perfect for overnight anchoring, the Cove started to get crowded. We edged up close to shore next to Yerba Buena Island and found a dinghy tied to a line in a choice inshore spot. So we went a little to the east and dropped our hook. \ After breakfast the next morning, we started the engine and my two trusty male crewmembers went forward to raise the ?muddy anchor up. No way. So I went up there and the three of us pulled — but again to no avail. I figured taking a run at it under power would puli it loose. Well, the boat shook, shud¬ dered and dipped — but stopped dead. By this time we had a pretty good audience composed of the crews of other boats. We were only in about six feet of water, and I told my crew that I would sooner lose the anchor — a good CQR — and 20 feet of chain rather than have to get in the water to try to re¬ trieve the anchor. But my crew was persistent; they noted that we weren t in a hurry and that if we put our heads together we could figure something out. So I told them how the old sailing ships actually used a smaller line around the windlass that was clipped to the anchor line. We already had a jib sheet run, so I told Mike to tie a series of half hitches around the anchor chain. Then Nonda and I went aft; I worked the winch handle while she tailed. After much effort, the crew shouted, "Hold it!" from the bow. I went forward and there caught on the anchor, as pretty as you please, was the six-inch diameter wire that obviously is used to keep Treasure Island from drifting away from Yerba Buena. After much discussion, we decided to drop the anchor rapidly, with the hope that the cable wouldn't follow so quickly and we'd be able to slip away. Not a chance! Based on what we now knew, we decided to hoist the anchor and cable again, tie.a line around, then swing our anchor clear. As it turned out, the next time we winched the anchor up, it was free of the cable and our little adventure had come to a close — except for all the mud on the crew. By the way, the dinghy anchored in the choice spot was still there the next day. I’d like to think that the guy who 'reserved'

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I did a classic double take after reading Capt. Petersen's let¬ ter to Governor Wilson et. al. in the April issue. In that letter Capt. Petersen blames the damage to his powerboat at Pebble Beach — after it became disabled as .a result of his hitting a submerged rock — on "gross negligence" on the part of the Coast Guard. I agree with Latitude's response, which basically is that if a captain can’t operate his vessel safely, he should stay ashore and avoid putting his crew, passengers — and potential rescuers in harms way. I also liked the comment that the Coast Guard's Semper Paratus motto doesn’t mean ’always there’. Af¬ ter all. Latitude would be filled with letters of objection if each of us had a Coast Guard helo or patrol boat shadowing our eveiy move on the water. I have no previous knowledge of the facts surrounding Capt. Petersen s misfortune, but his letter leaves many unanswered questions: First, his reported position two miles from the Coast Guard Station appears to put him either in the vicinity of Point Pinos which is northwest of the Coast Guard Station," or north north¬ west of Point Joe, which is over the hill due west from the Coast Guard Station. Charts of the area show that rocks extend a substantial distance from the shoreline. So what was Capt.

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Petersen doing operating his vessel so close to such a shore in conditions he described as including high winds, six-foot seas, and near darkness? Second, Capt. Petersen reports that he put out a general distress call on channel 16 at approximately 2030 — and that there was no response. Does he know that his transmitter was working? Did no other vessels respond to his distress call? Third, the qubted text of Capt. Petersen’s distress call fails to include a position. Did he give one? It's not clear from Capt. Petersen's letter how long after he lost power and steerage that he decided to abandon his boat. But from his own account, it appears he drifted approximately two miles in a southwesterly direction along a dark rocky lee shore before drifting approxi¬ mately another two miles in a southeasterly direction before the boat hit Pebble Beach. The way I see it, Capt. Petersen should consider himself extremely lucky that he is still around to com¬ plain about his perception that the Coast Guard is somehow responsible, for the damage to his boat and the fact that he didn't have insurance. \

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Steve — We'd like to clarify our position slightly. None of as are perfect, so from time we're all going to be in a position to benefit from outside help. So while we all would appreciate that help when needed, no one should ever leave port expecting it. 1U15 MINUTES, 30 MINUTES, 90 MINUTES With regard to Capt. Robert P. Peterson's April letter, Coast Guard Group San Francisco has no record of radio communi¬ cations with his vessel Tootsie on September 1, 1997. Coast Guard Station Monterey's live radio watch is secured daily at 2200, and is assumed by remote link from Group San Francisco's Communications Center using the same antenna 'high site'. As a result, there is no break in the continuous lis¬ tening watch, and no change in the Coast Guard's ability to hear and respond to radio calls in the Monterey area. We follow a similar procedure with all stations within Group San Francisco’s area of responsibility. VHF-FM radio coverage in the Monterey Bay area is extremely good. If someone in Capt. Petersen’s reported location were to transmit a Mayday’ on Channel 16 for 45 minutes, our com¬ munications watch would veiy probably have heard it. Other mariners in the area would also likely have heard and responded to it. We keep audio tapes of communications on Channel 16 for only one month, so it’s too late to review the tapes for any confirmation of Tootsie’s call for assistance. However, the Group's written communications log doesn’t mention any’contact with Capt. Petersen or a vessel named Tootsie. Despite Capt. Petersen s recollection of the information pro¬ vided to him by Lieutenant Commander Blanton, Commanding Officer of Station Monterey, I assure Latitude and its readers that our distress response standards are the same in Monterey as they are Coast Guard-wide: Make an initial response within five minutes of the call; launch an appropriate search and res¬ cue unit — boat or aircraft — within 30 minutes: and have that search and rescue unit on scene within 90 minutes of getting underway. The communications equipment, search and rescue resources, and people assigned to this area can easily meet these standards, and their response to distress calls has his¬ torically been much faster. In Capt. Peterson’s case, Station Monterey received initial notification from Monterey County at 2215 and a rescue boat was underway by 2225. I can t explain Capt. Peterson s inability to communicate with the Coast Guard. His radio or antenna may have been dam-

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Ken Brink's letter asking about Ericson designs by Carl Alberg sent me to the DeWitt sail plan museum that we inherited here at Quantum Sails. (These files became Sobstad property when Jim DeWitt sold the loft in ’83, and remained here along with everything else when the individual Sobstad lofts formed Quan¬ tum in 96.) Sure enough, there was an old and special Ericson 35 sail plan "drawn by Bruce King" in ’67 and marked, in Jim DeWitt’s handwriting; "old Alberg hull". There are added notes identify¬ ing it as "the original Ericson 35, taken from the Alberg 35". My recollection is that this early Ericson production boat was a thinly disguised Alberg 35 built on a mold obtained, one way or another, from Pearson Yachts. Richard Seales has one at Rich¬ mond YC named Escape. All the other Ericson sail plans clearly state "designed by Bruce King" — except for a little known 26-footer by W.B. Crealock. Prowling through old files reminded me of the amazing cast bf people who did time at DeWitt Sails before movingYm to add, in their own way, to the Bay Area's emergence as a spawning ground for world class sailors, Olympic medalists, and America's Cup contenders. DeWitt himself was the first Californian to win the North American Men's Sailing championship, and had an artist’s eye for talent. At one time or another he employed naval architects Bob Smith, Tom Wylie, Gary Mull and brilliant sailor/ engineer Rob Wade of Santa Cruz. Then there's Bill Green, who builds famous race boats at his yard in the United Kingdom, and Henry Jotz, Paul Kroll, Hal McCormack, Jim Warfield, Jake van Heekeren (before Pine¬ apples), delivery skipper Robert Flower man, Bill George, Jim Maloney, Jim Wondolleck, Kim Desenberg, Greg Paxton, Pat Vincent, Don Peters, Tom Alexander, Millie Biller of Richmond Boat Works, George and Frank Pedrick, Bruce Powell, John Kostecki, Howie Marion, Bill Sisteck (who went into windsurfing), Brian Kellog, Steve and Annie Lewis (Lewis Sails, Santa Cruz), Mike Herlihy, Lynn Wright, US Sailing Judge Vicki Gilmour, Vicki Sodaro, Liz Baylis, Gordy Nash, Russ Williams, Tom Erase and even Dee Smith. No wonder it's been so much fun. Jocelyn Nash, Archivist , Quantum Sail Design Group Brickyard Cove, Pt. Richmond M WINNING THE MILDEW BATTLE

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LETTERS basic liferaft supply. But if I remember correctly, most of his moisture came from plankton and krill collected with a silk ’straining net'. Kate Ford Durham, New Hampshire Kate —A number of readers have somewhat fractured recol¬ lections of what Bombard did and didn't do during his coura¬ geous experiment. His plan was to live on small amounts of sea water and fish juice', a liquid he obtained by crushing chunks of fish with a fruit press. As it turned out, after a relatively short period of time Bombard "nearly drowned" — his description — in rainwater. The catching of plankton with a straining net had nothing to do with getting moisture for his body. It was done specifically to get Vitamin C. the only bodily requirement — other than water — that wasn't available from fish. We covered the first half of Bombard's voyage in an April fea¬ ture story. The second half of his voyage is covered in this issue. Nonetheless, don't come to any conclusions about Bombard's theories until you read the May letterfrom Ronald J. Kallen. M.D.. a specialist who offered a detailed explanation of the human body's need for fluids. Doctor Kallen's conclusions: 1) Drinking fish juice' doesn't help at all because it has the same sodium content as human blood. 2] It's better not to drink anything than it is to drink saltwater. ffilTHE SOUTH BAY WRECK I'm a captain for the Marine Science Institute. We operate Inland Seas, an 85-foot former air/sea rescue boat remodeled as a school ship. Our mission is to take grade school to college age kids on four-hour trips in the South Bay between the San Mateo and Dumbarton Bridges for some basic hands-on ma¬ rine biology. The subject of the most questions? The 'Sduth Bay Wreck'. I had a copy of Latitude from some months ago that carried an extensive biography of that wreck — which I believe was identified as the former USS Thompson, a four-piper of the Clemson class. Unfortunately, that copy of Latitude has walked off the boat and now I must recall the ship's history from memoiy. Even more unfortunate is that my memory has walked off the boat also, so I'm forgetting the details of what was a very interesting tale. Would it be possible to obtain a copy of that story so I might have the facts once more at my neuron tips? Captain Ernest Queck Master, Research Vessel Inland Seas Alameda Capt. Queck — We don't have the staff to search through the archives, but you're in luck as the Managing Editor just happened to recall that the USS Thompson story appeared in the May '97 issue. Send $7 to Reprints, Latitude 38, 15 Locust. Mill Valley, 94941 if you'd like us to send you a copy. MCHANGES ONLINE? Recent copies of Latitude are hard to come by in New Zealand, so I've really enjoyed reading the parts you put online. And your website looks great. Any chance you'll be adding Changes in Latitude to your website? .

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nil LOST AND FOUND FROM SAIL EXPO Did you lose something at Sail Expo? On Monday you were at my booth talking about Mariner's Choice White rigging tape, and I believe that you left something of value on the carpet in front of my booth. This was the Mariner's Choice booth next to the IOD 35 booth. What was left is smaller than a breadbox. If you can identify it, I'll be happy to return it to you. Reach me at 800-551-8990. Kirk S. Brown Multiple Choice, Inc. lUlDON’T SEE HOW OIL COULD DO MUCH GOOD f have some comments on Max Ebb's April Oil On The Waters article. Oil has a higher, not lower, viscosity than water. This higher viscosity is what makes oil seem 'thicker' than water — despite the-fact it's really less dense. While I can't say for certain, that’s probably what Coles was referring to when he said that the oil should be "heavy". For some odd reason, my engineering texts don’t list the properties of sperm whale or porpoise oil, just the usual lubricants. Max and company didn’t read Coles carefully — perhaps this was for the sake of argument. I reviewed that section immedi¬ ately after recently finishing The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. "There seems little evidence to support the textbook theory that a thin film of oil seeping slowly from an oil bag will subdue really big breaking seas," Coles wrote, (pages 280-281, 3rd revised edition) While this isn’t really my field, given the energy in large waves, I still don't see how oil could do much good. Also, my under¬ standing of the mechanics of breaking waves is that they break due to size and shape, whereas oil only affects the surface. Greg Sweriduk Planet Earth Greg — Max responds as follows: "Well, Ijust report what I hear on the dock. It was my engineer friend with the "low viscosity" theory, but you'll remember that he was quickly corrected by another sailor with a "low friction" theory — who pointed out that oils are often more viscous than water. You're quite correct that all lubricating oils are much more viscous than water — otherwise they wouldn’t work so well as lubricants. The engineer must have been thinking of some light hydrocarbons with very low viscosities — although they're not normally thought of as 'oils'. The Coles quote appears in my 1967 edition of Heavy Weather Sailing — but it’s immediately followed by detailed recommen¬ dations of how and when to use oil. Coles even suggests that it might be useful when running a breaking inlet. I'll keep out of the argument, but Lee would seem to agree with you on the main point: the physics of breaking waves says that oil shouldn't have any measurable affect beyond the ap¬ pearance of the surface. As for the record, sperm oil's viscoisty at 15 degrees C is 42.0 centpoise — about 37 times that of water at the same tempera¬ ture. IIIIA HELL OF A TALISMAN This past Christmas I received the book Epic, edited by Clint Willis. It's a collection of riveting mountaineering stories — ex¬ cept for the last chapter titled Endurance, which is the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 17-month ordeal in the Antarctic in

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LETTERS fleet sailing out the Gate. It was a beautiful but wet sail on the beat up to Drake's Bay, and we were surprised to be the only sailboat there for the night. Large swells were called for on the next day's trip home, and sure enough, they were big. Fortunately, they were far enough apart to make it a really fun sail home. With the wind off our quarter, we got to surf down the big swells. Given the size of the swells, I decided nbt to try the Bonita Channel next to the Marin Headlands — especially when we could see what looked like about a mile-long stretch of waves breaking over Duxbuiy Reef. Playing it conservatively, we headed for the Lightship and planned on coming in the deep water channel at slack water just after an ebb. As we approached the San Francisco Bar, the waves — in just a matter of minutes — were suddenly a lot closer together, steeper — and breaking. It was actually terrify¬ ing to look back at them. "HOLY #@#%$!", I said to my wife, "I don't think we can do this!" She told me that I was doing fine and that I shouldn't look back. This seemed to work, as I just concentrated on steering the boat. For the first 10 minutes it was pretty scary, but I soon realized that we were going to be fine. By the time we reached Pt. Bonita, we were cool. We even shook out our reef before we passed under the Golden Gate. I guess the reason I’m writing is to reinforce the lessons learned from the unfortunate loss of Dos Lobos — and to con¬ firm that conditions outside the Gate can indeed suddenly go to shit. For just 20 minutes before we got into the scaiy swells, I'd been down below making cappuccinos and everything was lovely. Then, in just a matter of minutes, we were a broach away from disaster. It turned out to be a great experience for me, as I now know much more about what my boat can do, and my wife and I both upped our threshold of offshore experience. But there was high risk in gaining that experience. If f were to find myself simi¬ lar conditions again, I would either heave to and wait for the flood to calm things down, or just continue down to Half Moon Bay and wait for better conditions. Most of the sailing we've done is coastal, and we truly be¬ lieve that the entrance into San Francisco Bay is an area to be respected. We generally consider ourselves to be conservative sailors. P S. We read all the sailing publications, but Latitude is the best. We’ve bought three of our last four boats through the Classy Classifieds. We're hoping the Wanderer will still be do¬ ing the Baja Ha-Ha when we retire in four years and take off. Bob and Janet Griswold Scaramouche, Tanton 42 Carson City Bob & Janet — Assuming there's a medium to large swell running outside the Gate, the difference made by an ebb over a Jlood is something that has to be seen to be believed. Looking back at huge overtaking waves has scared helms¬ men throughout the ages. As a result, many clipper ships were equipped with curtains so the helmsman couldn't look aft even if he wanted to. Fortunately, most well-designed ocean boats are capable of handling even very large waves — as long as they aren't breaking — with aplomb. ft IIWHO IS AT FAULT WHEN BOATS COLLIDE?

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nection for e-mail. Such connections are now as common as dirt in Mexico. Most people are using those U.S. providers which have local numbers in Mexico — although some people sign up with one of the many local Mexican ISPs. We have a Mexican ISP and it's worked well, but we prefer another option which allows us to do our e-mail from the boat. While we do have VHF, SSB and Ham radios — and use the SSB for longer rartge communication needs — we also installed a cell phone before leaving Seattle. As it's turned out, the cell phone has been great for sending e-mail from Mexico. Initially we wondered if the cell phone would be worthwhile since we didn't know very many people with e-mail addresses. Boy, were we surprised on that count! Every day we hear from another person who has gotten e-mail, and nearly all our family — in¬ cluding our parents — have it, too. For people who want to stay in touch, e-mail is just great. Here's how we recommend doing it: * 1) Install a 'transportable' phone with 3 watts of power, a good cellular antenna, and a 'cellular connection' device. The cellular connection' box goes between your computer's modem and j:he phone. It provides dial tone to your modem and also allows the modem to dial the phone. The total cost for this hard¬ ware, back in '96, was $500. None of this was software, and none of it was difficult to install. However, be sure that the 'cellular connection' box is made for the particular phone you buy. We went with Motorola because the tech rep at AT&T Wireless in Seattle said the Motorola equipment was simple, designed to do exactly what we wanted it to do, and that it would work. It did. It's likely that other manufacturers besides Motorola have comparable equip¬ ment, but this set-up worked for us. You'll also need your computer and a modem. On the advice of the tech rep we installed a 'cheap' modem rather than one which was touted as 'cellular ready'. Apparently thess,fancier modems try to outsmart the cell phone and wind up not work¬ ing as well! We were also advised to avoid digital phones be¬ cause of the lack of digital service in Third World countries. 2) Sign up with a worldwide ISP — such as AOL, CompuServe or IBM. We use AOL and have found it to be fine. 3) Sign up with a local — in the U.S., before you leave — cellular service provider. We used a reseller of ATT Wireless and the service was fine on most places along the West Coast. Once you leave the U.S., you drop the cellular service provider. 4) Debug your system in the States. San Francisco was a great place for us to do this because the cell systems are mod¬ ern and, for us at least, AOL’s server was fast and rock solid. When you have the whole works running right, you’ll find that you use your onboard computer precisely as you would ashore. Once the communications software — such as AOL — dials the phone and makes the connection, bingo!, you're con¬ nected. 5) When you get to Mexico, sign up for a Mexican cellular provider. We used TelCel, an excellent Mexican cellular pro¬ vider with not only coverage all over Mexico, but with good roam¬ ing agreements in the U.S., Canada, and Central America. We signed up in Puerto Vallarta so that we would have local cover¬ age during our long stay in that area. When we got further away, such as Mazatlan, Baja, or south of Manzanillo, we were roam¬ ing', which cost a little more. The cost of Mexican cellular service was equivalent to U.S. cell service, plus you get voice mail, English-speaking customer service reps (when you ask for them), and other freebies. The hard part is trying to understand the recorded Spanish voice menus, but it s a great opportunity, tp brush up on your Span¬ ish. We pay for the service with an automatic credit card charge, and the billing has been exactly the same as our phone call log

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a body would have to be taken to Oregon where a funeral direc¬ tor would process the paperwork for $25. All you'd have to do then is find a boat that would take the body out to sea. Here's something many people don't know. If the body is a World War II — or any other U.S. war — veteran, the U.S. Navy will do the burial at sea for you. Being the Navy, there are many regulations pertainihg to embalming, a metal casket with fourinch holes drilled everywhere, and so forth. And the burial would be at the Navy's convenience. The best the Air Force and Coast Guard will do is scatter vet's ashes off the California coast. I’m trying to get California law changed so that any family can scatter their loved one’s ashes anywhere in California’s riv¬ ers, lakes, bays or private land, as well as state and federal parks. The law prohibiting it was passed a couple of years ago after it was discovered that the Neptune Society had dumped the ashes of 5,000 people in a field. Many readers may not know that the Neptune Society was sold to a multinational con¬ glomerate that now charges $1,300 for cremation and scatter¬ ing at sea. Your local independent funeral director charges hun¬ dreds Jess. John O’Conner Menlo Park

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fUlHIS NAME SHOULD HAVE BEEN NEPTUNE I read Ian Elliott's 'A Man As Tougfi As Willis' letter in the April issue — and Latitude's casual response — with great in¬ terest. That Elliott and Latitude might be ignorant of Wiljis is understandable, but I've been a staunch defender of his for the 30 years I've known about him. And I've tried to learn every¬ thing about him that I could. In the October 4, 1968 Life magazine article about Willis, Keith Wheeler wrote, "The man breathed joy of a fierce and special kind denied to most of us. He looked what he was ex¬ actly, lion-maned and tight braced against gale and wave, not defiant exactly but content with the” challenge he sought. His name should have been Neptune or Triton — but he was mun¬ danely called William Willis." The two full-page color picture of Willis on his raft, as he was departing Samoa for 2,500-mile distant Australia, is one of my lasting treasures. Wheeler went on to describe Willis' "dietary laws". He carried jars of whole wheat flour, tinned evaporated milk, olive oil and honey — plus lemon juice to fend off scurvy. He took no fresh water, believing that a thirsty man could make do with seawater if he kept his intake down to a quarter or eighth cup at a time. And, of course, "it would rain fresh water from time to time." Willis was an accomplished enough sketch artist that the editors of Life included three of his works in the article. He was also the last of a breed of poor man’s adventurer, as he made his rafts by hand from balsa trees. One of them was made from seven logs and hence called Sdven Little Sisters. Willis was a very accomplished man for his time, most of his sailing adven¬ tures taking place in his latter years with no state of the art technology. His likeness is that of Joshua Slocum. Willis never allowed his wife to venture with him, fearing that if ever she was lost he "could never go home." On June 22, 1968 — after two failed attempts — Willis left New York for England aboard Little One, an 11'6" wooden vessel named in tribute to his wife. Wheeler finished his article by writing, A fishing boat out of Liepaja, Latvia — it was reported --—----

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by Tass, the Russian news agency — had come upon a tiny sloop 400 miles west of Ireland, dismasted and half swamped. No living soul was aboard, but a passport, No. 22757, issued in the name of William Willis, was." I have searched the internet and other various libraries try¬ ing to get more information. (In fact, the last time I was able to find one of his books was from the San Francisco library, which shipped it down to the Santa Ana library in the early '70s at my request.) Willis' books are a good read. Did Willis survive on saltwater and life from the sea? It's doubtful. Was William Willis a true life adventurer with a strong zest for life? Find one of his books if you can, and tell me if you do. I'll leave the answer to you. Rick Schreiber Tustin, California t

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I'd always thought it was impossible to convey the enormity of large open ocean waves with a still camera. My own photos of the relatively small seas I’ve been in — 20 feet max — have been pitiful. But illustrations in books about storms such as Fastnet Force 1O, or Seamanship, Chapmans and the others, have done little better. And Latitude's article on the Queen’s Birthday Storm off New Zealand used a photo taken from the deck of a ship making a rescue that was also pretty low on the shudder meter. The con¬ ditions at the time — winds gusting as high as 80-90 knots and 40-foot seas, as I remember — were horrendous, yet the result¬ ing photo seemed to show a stretch of ocean in a moderate rainstorm. It's a conundrum. My thinking on the power of photography has been changed, however, by the 'double truck' photograph that accompanied the Max Ebb article. The photograph of the freighter in the Bay of Biscay made me realize that it's indeed possible to scare your friends — not to mention yourself — with a picture of an open ocean storm. I'd been calmly working my way through that issue of Lati¬ tude, feeling warm and diy and safe, when I turned the page to the picture in question. But when I saw the freighter —- wrapped in the prayers of its crew and running scared from monstrous vertical cliffs of water, one behind the other, and all of them hunting this splinter of steel on the breast of an angry ocean — it all changed. Suddenly, I no longer felt warm, dry or safe. I felt the way Adam must have felt when God asked him, "Who told thee that thou wast naked?" In other words, what a great picture! The point of my letter is two-fold. -First, congratulations on the best storm photo I’ve ever seen. And second, can I get a copy of it from Latitude — or did you buy it from a stock agency or copy it from a book? Please let me know becapse I need it on my wall as an antidote to complacency and egotism. Dave McDougal Skilligallee MacMahan Island, Maine Dave We got the photo from the National Maritime Museum in San Francisco — and had it kicking around the office for about 15 years. You might call them and see if the code number J7.30162N means anything to them. As for the nasty Queen's Birthday Storm, the conditions were terrible — but not quite as bad as you recall. ITHare additional navigation lights legal?

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Tragedy in Alameda. A 1-year-old girl drowned after falling from her parents’ boat into the waters of the Estuary on Saturday, April 16. The boat, a 70-ft trawler named Oregon Promise, was docked off Marina Village Parkway at the time. Jamie Buchanan was underwater for 10 minutes before she was recovered. Jamie’s father was on the boat at the time; her mother was working. The death was termed accidental. Showing the money. The feature front page article in the April 30 USA Today was on the astonishing demand for megayachts — which they de¬ fine as being over 80 feet in length. According to the newspaper's sources, there are 297 boats over 80 feet in length under con¬ struction around the world. Demand is so great that some folks are paying $19 million to buy somebody else's $15 million boat that still under construction! Why? All the yards capable of build¬ ing such boats are booked for years to come. But there's a downside, too. Many of these boats also char¬ ter for $50,000 to $250,000 a week, but with such a glut, the charter business is hurting bad. Actually, USA overstated the case, as 80 to 110 footers are so common they're reallyjust big boats. Megayachts might more properly be defined as between 110 and 200 feet. A true superyacht is 200 feet or more. In '96 there were two superyachts under construction; in '97 there were eight, and this year there are 11. "I've never seen anything like it," Bob Saxon of Saxon and Associates was quoted as saying. Indeed, times have never been as good as for those who can spend a mil or two a year just running their boats. Comforting thought: It's you folks with the 20 to 30-foot boats who are getting the big bang for the buck. Another take on the same subject. Always a popular stopping spot for yachts going to and from the Caribbean, Fort Lauderdale may soon experiencing a short¬ age of facilities and services. At least, that’s the projection of a marine economist who’s studying the ongoing megayacht phe¬ nomenon. “Local shortages in trained service employees, big boat slips and crews are likely if megayacht construction con¬ tinues to boom,” says Tom Murray, a private economist and member of the University of South Florida Business Center in Tampa. Industry observers estimate megayacht owners spend 10% of their boat’s value a year on maintenance and provisions, thus Fort Lauderdale’s concern in planning to accommodate all these big boats. As part of the long-range plan; a yacht crew training institute expected to open this year. The white ghost strikes again. Among the Coast Guard’s recent ‘scores’ was the

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LOOSE LIPS apprehension of a bunch of Iraqi smugglers aboard the 138-ft dhow Al Hanan. The action took place on April 18 in the Arabian Gulf from the decks of the cutter Chase, which gave chase at about 11 p.m. on a moonless night. Receiving no replies to their repeated radio hails, the Chase crew boarded the unlighted dhow by swarming ob-er the sides, swashbuckler-style, and apprehending the 17 crew aboard. Aboard was 1,800 gallons of petroleum products, but the real prize was at first overlooked — 400 metric tons of dates. Iraq, you see, isn’t supposed to export food; and it turns out that the dates were more valuable than the gas! The Al Hanan, whose ‘permanent crew’ included about 100 rats and an estimated half-ton of cockroaches, was escorted to a holding area where her cargo was sold. The proceeds went to a special United Nations account. And The White Ghost of the Arabian Coast’, as the Coasties have been dubbed, went back to work. The 1997 new boat market. Five years of growth ended with a thud in 1997, according to Sailing Market 1998, published earlier this year. Overall sailboat production fell from nearly 16,000 units in 1996 to 14,400, a 9.4% decline. In specific size ranges, boats under 20 feet declined 15%, and boats over 36 feet declined 12%. However, sales of boats in the mid-range sizes, 20 to 35 feet, rose a healthy 446 units, or 16%. Speculation as to the declines includes the observation that the five-year boom in new boat sales has created a flood of good-quality, late-model yachts in the used-boat market. The report also found that bareboat chartering is booming. The number of charter weeks booked rose to 37,600 in 1997, a big 23% gain over the 1996 figure of 31,000. Bareboat chartering is now a $76 million-a-year business, up $14 million from ‘96. The most popular chartering destinations? According to the report, they are the Caribbean (64%), U.S. (24%), Pacific countries (5%), and finally Europe and the Mediterranean (4% apiece). The report is compiled by the Sailing Co. division of the Miller Sports Group in Newport, R.I., and the New York Times Co. Magazine Group in New York City. It must be contagious. We don't have a 'society column', but if we did it Would be jammed full of wedding announcements this month. Seems like everyone we know is tying the knot lately, including J/35/Knarr sailor Chris Perkins, North Sails alumnus Roy Kutz, America True crewmember Greg Burrell, and occasional Latitude con¬ tributor Dobbs Davis. Multihuller and environmentalist Russell Long will go down the aisle next month, Blue Chip bowman and haberdasher Steve Marsh will do the deed in July, and on and on. Congratulations and best wishes to all. Foot in the mouth award of the month. In one of EF Education’s press releases following the Whitbread Race, the company's owner/founder Bertil Hult had this to say: "This Race has been a great adventure for our staff, our teachers and our students. It has been an experience of a lifetime for us. However, I have a certain amount of reservation with regard to the future of the race in Volvo's hands. A house¬ hold name, taking the title of this adventure, can only serve to destroy the future of the race in terms of sponsorship. For ex¬ ample, who would sponsor the America's Cup if it was called the Kodak Cup? I feel particularly sad for all the young sailors who have been inspired by this race as'Volvo's future involvement could lead to the potential collapse of this great sailing institu¬ tion."

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The primary responsibility of the U.S. Coast Guard is to those at sea. But mari¬ ners are certainly not their only concern. However, in trying to maintain a high level of customer responsiveness, sometimes they go too far. Take, for example, the now legendary Foghorn Incident' of May,

The hurlyburly's done, the battle's lost and won. . . and after nine leg's, 246 days, and some 31,600 miles around the world, the seventh Whitbread Race for the Volvo Trophy is finally a wrap. The winner, as surely evelyone who sails already knows, is Paul Cayard's Swedish entry EF Language. Cayard and a tough-as-nails crew that included two other Bay Area luminaries — navigator Mark Rudiger and watch captain Kimo Worthington — won the first leg by a huge 24-hour mar¬ gin, and never trailed in the standings from then on. Their 1,5,1, 4,1,2,3,6,2 record was a landslide victory, one which they essentially assured with another emphatic win in Leg V. For the first time in Whitbread history, the race was mathematically won with a leg to spare. And, also for the first time in Whitbread history, the race was won by an American skipper. Not bad for a 20-1 darkhorse entry, staffed by nine (out of twelve) Whitbread virgins. This was extra sweet," admitted Cayard in a recent San Francisco Examiner article. "We stepped out of our familiar sur¬ roundings, beat the odds and won the race. . . . Despite the bad food, lack of sleep and the fact that we were wet much of the time, I think we'll all miss it a lot. After a few weeks, we ll probably start thinking

1998. It all started when the Coast Guard got a complaint that the foghorn in Half Moon Bay was too loud. "I can't sleep!" said the caller. "It's like nails on a blackboard." Now, the coastal foghorns on the Cali¬ fornia Coast have 8 ports that cover 360°. After a quick review, the Coasties figured they could install 'sound asborbing ma¬ terial1 in the three ports ’pointed inland without degrading the seaward signal any. This is the technical equivalent of stuff-

that it was pretty cool living in that little-mmm—Sshoe box and floating around the planet. . . We have a huge sense of accomplish-

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ment — it's going to be difficult to dupli¬ cate the feeling." Going into Leg VIII, the 3,400-mile At¬ lantic crossing, EEL s mission was simple: sit on Swedish Match, the only boat left that still had a chance, albeit a slim one, to win overall. If E^L beat Match, the Whitbread victory was assured — so Cayard naturally covered Swedish Match like a cheap suit, letting Gunnar Krantz's team choose the way. EFL managed to stay between their rival and the La Roch¬ elle finish line, ending up sixth to Matchs seventh — and the celebration began. "It wasn't pretty, but we did what we had to do," acknowledged Cayard. Winner of the leg was Paul Standbridge's Toshiba, a minor consolation to that crew in the midst of an otherwise dreadful regatta. The last leg, a 465-mile jaunt across the English Channel to Southampton, was a 'victory lap' for EFL, which had to complete the race to collect overall hon¬ ors. With the pressure off and nothing to lose, Cayard pulled out all the stops, but fell 13 minutes short of winning. That dis¬ tinction went to Grant Dalton’s Merit Cup, which snatched second overall from Swedish Match on the strength of the ficontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS ing socks in a bullhorn. But it worked. The foghorn quieted right down. Two weeks later, the Coast Guard was under seige. They'd received 60 letters, many phone calls and a petition with 1,600 signatures — all pleading for the foghorn to be restored to its full baritone. , "I've been around a long time, and I’ve dealt with lots of requests to quiet down our equipment," notes Captain Larry Hall. "But this was the first time we'd ever en¬ countered a request to make anything

Whitbread finale — cont’d

The issue was all over the local news¬ paper. Citizens were accusing the Coast Guard of 'caving in to newcomers', and that the muffling of the beloved foghorn 'damaged the ambiance' of their pictur-

nal race. It must have been a bitter pill for the Match men, who had been entrenched in second through most of the regatta. The EFL victory marks the end of a three-year program for Team EF, the only syndicate to field two boats in the race. EF Education, a multinational conglomerate of nine companies and non-profit organi¬ zations, was the first entry in the '97-'98 race, probably the best-funded and easily the most organized of all the efforts. The Team EF campaign was run with Scandinavian precision and a no-stone-unturned ap¬ proach, one which initially bemused the veterans (the joke was that EF had meetings about when to have meetings). Skepticism turned to envy as the race wore on —Team EF's professional approach to the Whitbread, both on and off the water, simply ground down the other syndicates. Cayard, gracious in victory, tipped his hat to his competitors when it was all over: "A race isn't worth winning unless the people you have raced against are really good. They have made the victory worth win¬ ning —thanks." Our congratulations to Paul, Kimo, Rudi and the rest of the EFL

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Who’s steering? Paul Cayard (far right, ive think) and his Whitbread-win¬ ning ‘EFL’crew take a bow. They weren't quite this gung-ho in the actual race. Then again, if the water ballasting had ever broken...

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SIGHTINGS whitbread finale — cont’d gang. We look forward to catching up with all of them when they re¬ turn home, and will certainly be in the audience on Thursday, June 18, when Cayard holds his homecoming at the Hyatt Embarcadero (San Francisco) at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10, and can be purchased by calling (415) 353-0693. If the event resembles January’s 'Superbowl of Sailing' in any way, this is one show that you won’t want to miss.

built to last When shipwright Harry Cookson decided to build a boat on the Belvedere waterfront, he built it to last. But it’s doubtful he ever imag¬ ined the little yacht he named for his daughter would still be sailing the Bay 113 years later. continued on outside column of next sightings page

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sleepless esque coastal community. Many com¬ plained they couldn't sleep without the comforting drone. Captain Hall, several other Guardsmen and even a Stanford professor specializ¬ ing in sound propagation attended a town meeting over the issue in mid-May. They were greeted by one former mayor and 65 concerned citizens — 63 of which were adamantly in favor of restoring the fog¬ horn to its previous decibel level. Their plea was supplemented by another peti¬ tion with 900 additional signatures on it. But what really turned the tide was the

SIGHTINGS freda — cont’d

— cont’d observations of several fishermen that the foghorn didn't seem quite as loud, even though the seaward ports were not baffled. The outcome? With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer. . . Oh, somewhere in this favored land, the sun is shining bright; the band is play¬ ing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light. And somewhere men are laugh¬ ing, and somewhere children shout—And there’s once more joy in Half Moon Bay; the foghorn’s blaring out.

Freda turned out to be a fine boat for local waters from the day she was launched in 1885. A typical San Francisco Bay design of the pe¬ riod, she measures 33 feet on deck, and 44 feet LOA with her bowsprit. With a 12-foot beam, 5-foot draft and 13-ton displacement, she is, according to Captain A1 Lutz, skipper of the scow schooner Alma and member of the non-profit organization that now owns Freda, “one of the nicest sailing boats I have ever been on — smooth, steady and safe.”

Freda had a number of owners after Cookson, some more caring than others. In 1955, seventy years after she was built, she was bought by tugboat skipper and master shipwright Harold Sommers, who later became renowned for his restoration of the German pilot schooner Wanderbird. Sommers began a long restoration of Freda, and, even continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS freda — cont’d after acquiring Wanderbird, continued to keep the smaller boat in bristol fashion. After nearly 30 dedicated years of ownership, Sommers sold Freda in 1983 to two of her many admirers — wooden boat aficionados Jerry and Diane Brenden. The Brendens were no strangers to classic wooden boats. Former owners of the 1914 gaff cutter Flirt, they were the perfect match for a boat nearing the centuiy mark. Diane remembers fondly that Freda “became an intimate member of the family. ” They spent countless hours sailing her and, as needed, maintaining her. The level of their dedica¬ tion was such that at a 1980s boat show, Freda was mistaken for a recently-built replica of an old classic. Before the Brendens left the Bay Area in the mid-’90s, they tried to find as good a home for Freda as she had enjoyed under their and continued on outside column of next sightings page

coast guard We all occasionally have ‘one of those days.’ Even the Coast Guard. On May 9, Lt. Rick Evans was the duty officer at Coast Guard headquarters on Yerba Buena when the calls started coming in. Those of you who were out on that sec¬ ond Saturday of May will remember it as one of the windiest days so far this sea¬ son. No waiting til noon for the breeze that day — it was honkin’ right out of the blocks at 8. a.m. Almost all calls were somehow related to the wind. A vessel adrift south of the Dumbarton Bridge, another that lost

SIGHTINGS keeps busy power at Lover’s Point in Monterey and was drifting toward rocks. A third powerboat disabled and headed toward Baker Beach; a sailboat that had blown out its sails off Pier 39. One by one, Lt. Evans assigned units to go to the aid of each. The boats in trouble were either towed to safety or escorted in. At 2:05, the most serious call of the diy came in. Viking, a 30-ft Boy Scout whaleboat used for sail training, had cap¬ sized near Blossom Rock, dumping four young scouts and three adult supervisors

freda — cont’d Sommers' ownership. Despite their best efforts to “secure her future,” as Diane puts it, efforts to donate the boat to the San Francisco Mari¬ time Museum were unsuccessful. With their deadline for departure

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‘Freda’at the ‘89 Master Mariners — 104 years old and going strong. fast approaching, the Brendens found the Marin-based Sea Training Institute. The non-profit Institute, dedicated to maritime education pro¬ grams, agreed to adopt the boat. Freda officially changed hands in June, 1995. STI directors A1 and Greta Lutz wasted no time in taking her out for an inaugural sail. During the next several years, while the local wooden boat contingent . watched from the wings, STI tried to map out a strategy that would insure the boat's survival, while at the same time allow her to be used in the Institute’s programs. As anyone who’s owned one knows, an old wooden boat can be a demanding mistress. Freda was no exception, and since organizations like STI depend on grants and donations, funds were often in short supply. Although advice and sometimes even criticism were frequently offered, money seldom.was. It wasn’t long before Freda fell into disre¬ pair. While the local waterfront and some previous owners anguished over Fredas deteriorating condition, Sausalito waterfront activist and ‘ambassador-at-large’ Brooks Townes wasn t the type to sit on the side¬ lines when the fate of a wooden boat hung in the balance. Especially Freda. During Sommers’ tenure with the boat, Townes was one of many young salts who traded berth rent and maintenance for a warm bunk and sailing privileges. In Townes’ case, Freda was a house, as well as a home, for four years. Townes contacted Robert Darr of Sausalito’s Arques School of Tra¬ ditional Boatbuilding (see Sightings, June, 1996) with a plan. If the funding for Freda could be found, would the School take on the project as a teaching aid for student apprentices? Townes wrote the proposal, and Darr presented it to his board of directors. The School agreed to supply labor and materials, while haul-out expenses would come from donations and grants. It wasn’t long before the wheels were in motion. Darr mapped out a conditional survey and five-year restoration plan. The Brendens, assured of progress, offered funds. A haul-out date was set. ' In April, Freda was hauled for ‘first aid’ and immediate repairs. To some people's surprise, Darr found the vessel s inherent structure to be reasonably sound, despite her age. It was a good foundation, he points out, for the major restoration that he hopes will follow. To secure what structured integrity remained, Darr and his stu¬ dents replaced several planks and renewed the transom, all during only a seven day period that was allowed by the boatyard. While the brief haul-out was in progress, Darr thoroughly inspected Freda and continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS freda — cont’d planned future tasks. Within a week, Freda was back in the water, and a new spirit of enthusiasm was shared by all those involved. ST1 s A1 and Greta Lutz hope that they will be able to generate more funds in the future from Freda's many friends and benefactors. Al¬ ready, the Brendens have agreed to join STI’s Board of Directors to insure Freda's future. And at the Arques School, Darr hopes he will be able to continue the project they have already begun on the San Fran¬ cisco Bay’s oldest active sailing vessel. “Those who contribute,” Darr points out, will be able to share a living piece of Bay Area nautical history."

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channel cat set to prowl King Williams is an artist, a visionaiy and a dreamer. He is also a Santa Barbara-based urchin diver, crabber and commercial fisherman. Or at least he was, until he met Charlie. It’s certain that King had no idea what or whom he was dealing with when two elderly, casuallydressed gentlemen greeted him as he backed his 42-ft fishing boat into his slip not long ago, weary from a less-than-successful day’s outing. They introduced themselves as Charlie and Warren and asked if they could come aboard. A friendly sort, King welcomed them. A total stranger to the world of high-finance, King was not impressed by their last names; Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett. “Any kin to Jimmy Buffett?" asked King. No. Warren Buffett is much richer than that. In fact, he is one of the universe's wealthiest men, financial guru to the world and CEO of Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. King didn't know that only a few shares of company stock could easily buy his fishing boat. Nor did he know that Charlie Munger is vice-chairman of Warren’s investment firm, a noted philanthropist and multi-gazillionaire in Tiis own right. Among other things, Charlie asked King that evening what he would do if he had his choice of anything in the world. That’s when King blui ted out his dream. I d build the biggest f_ing catamaran in the world and sail off into the sunset!" ’That’s the craziest thing I've ever heard," Charlie replied. Six months later, Charlie showed up at King's slip again. "Remem¬ ber that damn crazy dream you told me about?” he said. “Let’s do it!” And they did. King’s djream and Charlie's money have produced one of the world s largest and most sophisticated catamarans. But instead of sailing off into the sunset, the plan is now to sail Channel Cat from his

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busy day into the Bay’s chilly waters. The incident was called in almost as it happened at 2:05 p.m. by the passing ferry boat Har¬

bor Queen. Powerboats out of gas are one thing, but the Coast Guard doesn’t mess around when lives hang, in the balance. Evans dispatched rescue boats from both Sta¬ tion Golden Gate (in Horseshoe Cove) and Station San Francisco (on Yerba Buena), as well as two 41-footers that were on training exercises in the East Bay. Though unable to assist the people in the water, the Harbor Queen stood by and relayed updates to the Coast Guard. All the people in the water were wearing lifejackets, they reported, and all were clinging to the overturned boat. 'They did everything right," says Evans. The scouts and their supervisors were pulled out of the water at 2:12 by oneof the 41-footers, and were soon on their way to Gas House Cove. In the meantime, Evans assigned the other boats to other calls that had come in. In fact, as soon as

■ Scary scene — the capsized Sea Scout boat ‘Viking’ cause quite a stir for passersby until it was towed home by another Scout boat. The crew of scouts and their 'V supervisors were treated for mild hypothermia and released.

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— cont’d the crew of the 41-footer loaded the slightly hypothermic scouts into an am¬ bulance at Gas House Cove, they, too, im¬ mediately took off on another call. In all, 11 incidents requiring Coast Guard as¬ sistance occurred within the 2 o’clock hour. Which brought to mind a question: the Coast Guard has a finite amount of boats on the main Bay (and on the Delta, Monterey, Lake Tahoe, etc.). What do they do if they ‘run out’? "You sometimes get into a triage situ¬ ation,” says Evans. "Fortunately, none of the other calls we got that day were dire emergencies.” “Also, as a clearing house for all search and rescue operations off Northern Cali¬ fornia, we have every rescue and response unit up and down the coast in our data base. In fact, a huge part of our training is dealing with assets other than our own — fire departments, police boats, ships at sea and other agencies. For example,

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SIGHTINGS

channel cat — cont’d The specs of the boat are impressive by any standard. Channel Cat is 85 feet long and 41 feet wide. It weighs 205,000 pounds, but draws less than 5 feet. The mast is 85 feet long, and will support about 2,250 square feet of upwind sail. Auxiliary power comes from twin 350-hp Cummins diesels which can push the big cat along at 14-16 knots. Fuel capacity is 2,300 gallons; water tankage totals 1,000 gallons. The boat is Coast Guard certified for 149 passengers. But the specs tell only part of the story. For example, the full-size kitchen located below decks sports a 6-foot grill, two ranges with con¬ vection ovens and microwaves, a commercial dishwasher and a dumb¬ waiter to convey food topsides. On the main level, the 30-foot long Bird's Eye maple bar comes complete with a 200-pound icemaker, a four-keg beer cooler and a wine vault. The 22 windows surrounding the air-conditioned and heated main salon are all at eye level so guests need not venture outside to appreci¬ ate the scenery. If they prefer a stroll around the cabin, 3-foot-wide walkways assure plenty of room. Aft, the 7 by 10-foot sliding glass doors were imported from Italy. Overhead, the ceiling height in the main salon is 10 feet. The amply-equipped $56,000 audio-visual sys¬ tem incorporates satellite communications, an automated movie screen, an overhead projector and three 35-inch televisions. In the fully-enclosed pilothouse, the high-back white leather captain’s chair faces an instrument panel resembling that of a 747 and contain¬ ing every type of navigation and communication instrument known to continued outside of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS channel cat — cont’d man. From here, the captain can raise, lower, reef and trim the sails, shift water and fuel from tank to tank and drop and weigh anchor, and monitor all the yacht’s shipboard systems. Changing oil in the twin diesels is no problem, mainly because it never needs changing. All water and liquid contaminants in the oil are cooked off thrbugh the purifier system. In other words, Channel Cat has a self-contained, onboard refinery. Pre-lube pumps on each en¬ gine bring the oil pressure up before the engines are started, and run an extra five minutes after shut down to cool the engines down slowly. King estimates the life of the engines should be 12,000 hours. Cruising range under power should be about 2,100 miles. All winches are electric with manual backup. The Lewmar halyard winches are doubly redundant, operated hydraulically as well as manu¬ ally, and come with a pricetag of roughly $52,000 — each. Mega Cats of St. Augustine took on the initial building, but after numerous delays. King took over the project, designing all of the sys¬ tems, hiring technicians, engineers and craftspeople, and overseeing all phases of construction. King had his own share of problems, in¬ cluding the embarassing discovery last winter that the boat sat five inches lower in the water than anticipated. So back out she caqne. the addition of five inches of struts, foam and fiberglass to the bottom of each hulj brought her back up to the design waterline. At a rumored cost of $5 million (King will neither confirm nor deny this figure), Channel Cat is certainly one of a kind. Just what King and his wife Rachel have dreamed of for so many years. Did they really think that someday they’d just meet one of the world’s richest men who would finance their dream? King and Rachel don’t answer; they just smile. . , —johnny carson

travails with charlie Charlie Mohn, Hank Easom's longtime Etchells crew, exhibits the latest craze in that class — hiking from the ‘man overboard’ position (right). Apparently, when you need a burst of speed, the crew pretends to fall overboard (wink, wink). But instead of clamoring back into the boat immediately, he lingers in this position for a minute or two — longer if he can get away with it. One of the early pioneers of this athletic move, Mohn exhibits perfect form — fully extended, yet with¬ out dragging too many unnecessary appendages in the water. In this photo, taken at last month’s Elite Keel Regatta, fellow Final Final crew¬ man Lawrence Pulgram is merely admiring the master’s style. When both ‘assume the position’, the boat fairly flies upwind.

Stanford sailing camp scholarships For all the deserving organizations and projects soliciting donations on these pages, we can't tell you how refreshing it is to learn about one that's trying to give something away. The giveaways are in the form of 27 scholarships to disadvantaged kids aged 9 to 15 who are interested in learning to sail. Those accepted will attend one of three 10-day sessions at the Stanford Summer Sailing Camp located at the Stanford Sailing Center at 450 Discovery Park¬ way in Redwood City. The sailing will take place aboard El Toros, FJs and 420s on the sheltered waters of the Redwood City turning basin and the surrounding sloughs. Instructors for the Camp are Steve Bourdow and Sam Studer. Steve is an Olympic Silver medalist and the head coach of the Stanford Sailing Team. Sam is a US Sailing Level 1 Certified Dinghy Instructor, an ASA Basic Keelboat instructor and, in ‘real life’, a middle school sci¬ ence teacher. Training runs the gamut from rigging and launching boats to right¬ ing a capsized boat. The first Friday of each session, students will continued on outside column of next sightings page

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busy day San Francisco airport has two fireboats on line in case a plane goes down in the water. We’ve called on them several times to assist boaters in trouble in the South Bay.” The frenzy of activity at Coast Guard headquarters tapered off as the day wore on. In all, on his noon til midnight watch, Lt. Evans responded to 17 incidents. That’s relatively high for this time of year, he notes. “But in the peak of summer it can be as high as 30.” The local office handles a total of about 1,000 cases a year, of which 250-300 are considered lifethreatening. Want to help insure that you don’t be-

SIGHTINGS — cont’d

sailing scholarships — cont’d participate in a regatta off Sequoia YC. Dates for the three camps: Session I —June 15-26; Session II —July 6-17; Session III —July 27August 7. (Note that these are all beginning courses for this first-year program. Depending on attendance and demand, an advanced course may be added next year.) Sixteen to 18 kids will attend each session. Now about the scholarships. They’re available to kids who other¬ wise could not afford to pay the $500 tuition fee for the program. The scholarships were created by the California Department of Boating and Waterways for distribution through the parks and recreation de¬ partments of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Redwood City and Menlo Park. If you live in these areas and your offspring are interested in learning our sport, please contact the Stanford Sailing Center at (650) 7232811. Note that this is a first-come, first-served deal, and that there is a paper trail your son or daughter must wade through to qualify. All in all, though, it’s a great opportunity — one we’d certainly like to see play a larger part in the fabric of local sailing.

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come part of those statistics? “Wear your lifejacket,” says Evans. ‘That was critical to the survival of the people in the whale¬ boat." “Also be aware that VHF Channel 16 is for monitoring, hailing and emergen¬ cies only. As soon as you make contact, go to another working frequency so 16 can stay clear. We’ve actually had a situation where a man was having a heart attack and people couldnt get through to us be¬ cause people were carrying on conversa¬ tions on Channel 16.” It’s going to be a busy summer, folks. Pay attention and be careful out there.

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SIGHTINGS baja ha-ha — taking the fifth "In the first 20 days we had 62 people send in for entiy packs for Baja Ha-Ha V," reports the Grand Poobah. "So it looks like it's going to happen again this year. And frankly, I'm happy about it, because I'm jacked about the possibility of this being the most fun Ha-Ha ever." The Ha-Ha, of course, is the fall cruiser rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, with stops at Turtle Bay and Mag Bay. The emphasis is more on camaraderie and safety than speed and competition. This year's event starts on October 27 and ends on November 7. The Ha-Ha is not an ocean going babysitting service, and nobody should consider entering unless they're prepared to sail to Cabo on their own. The Ha-Ha is open to boats 25 feet or longer that were built and have been maintained for open ocean sailing. There must be at least two crew. Ha-Ha participants are entitled to substantial discounts on things such as berthing before, during and after the Ha-Ha that more than cover the $139 entry fee. In addition, participants get free Tshirts, tote bags, hats, croakies and other souvenirs. It's not the worst deal in the world if you enjoy sailing offshore. If you're interested in participating in Ha-Ha V, please do the follow¬ ing: Clearly write or type your name, address, telephone number, boat name, boat type, and hailing port on a sheet of paper. Make out a continued on outside column of next sightings page

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keeping the home Whoa, you shoulda seen it — some poor guy's house got torched! Black smoke poured out, brilliant orange flames shot up to the heavens. . . It was so in¬ tense they had to call out the Army. Well, okay, it was actually the Army Corps of Engineers, but they were out in force, along with the Coast Guard and firefighters from the Marin County, Sausalito and Presidio Fire Departments. And, well, it wasn't actually a house, it was a tired old houseboat. Oh, and the owner, he actually asked them to torch it. In fact, they were doing him a favor. It seems that longtime houseboater Fleming Nielson of Waldo Point had been building himself a new floating home, but had no place to put it until he found a way to neatly dispose of his old one, a boxy hermaphrodite structure perched atop the remains of a powerboat that,

SIGHTINGS fires burning

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ironically, had been gutted by fire two years earlier. Anyway, he somehow struck a bargain with the Sausalito Fire Department: they, and the other agencies, got to practice their firefighting techniques on his float¬ ing 'incendiary device', and he was spared the hassle and expense of disposing of it. The deal was consummated on the morning of May 21. After the guts of the odd vessel had been stripped out, she was set afire. By all accounts the firefighters had a grand time taking turns putting out the blaze. In fact, a couple of guys in wetsuits even got into a water fight. We're told, however, that this was defi¬ nitely a one-time event. The agencies have now had all the practice they need, thank you very much. So don't even think about offering them your own personal rubbish to burn.

check for $10 to Baja Ha-Ha, Inc. Get an 9x12 self-addressed stamped envelope and put $1.01 in postage on it. Then send the whole schmear to Baja Ha-Ha, Inc., 21 Apollo Road, Tiburon CA 94920. In about a week you'll receive an entry package. While you wait for the package, practice smiling, because that's what the Ha-Ha is all about. Looking for a boat to sail on? Or for crew to help with your boat? Latitude's Fall Crew List Party — which will be bigger and better than ever this year — provides the perfect opportunity, as it's being trans¬ formed into a randy new combination Mexico Kick-Off Party, Ha-Ha Preview and Ha-Ha Reunion. In addition to lots of door prizes such as cruising guides and Tshirts, the party will feature Mexico experts such as author Geriy Cunningham, who will give a quick slide show and answer questions. In addition, we’ll have someone from Coast Guard Search & Rescue to explain how they respond to emergencies. Maybe we’ll even have an hour of mariachi music. Still not enough to tempt you? The Wanderer hopes to be there with Latitude 38s new charter catamaran Profligate. If all goes well, he hopes to take at least 100 people out for a little demo sail. Profligate will be the mother ship for the Ha-Ha again this year — and will also be available for charter opportunities in the Sea of Cortez and the mainland as far south as Z-town. If Mexico sounds like a warm thought for the coming winter, think about the Ha-Ha. But for sure plan to attend the Mexico Kick-Off Party at the Encinal YC in Alameda on October 6.

riding out cyclone alan I arrived back at French Polynesia's Raiatea — and aboard my Ti¬ buron YC-based Cal 39 MKII Dawn's Light — on April 6. I'd been away from the boat for seven months, and had work to do prior to sailing her up to Hawaii. However, I intentionally-delayed my launch date until the middle of May because it was obvious that the weather down here in French Polynesia was as screwy as it had been back in California. In normal years, French Polynesia is too far east to be hit by cy¬ clones — which is what they call hurricanes in this part of the world. But they'd already had three cyclones in the November to April season. Even though it was the end of April and theoretically the end of cyclone season, I didn’t trust the weather in this El Nino year. While I wanted to wait to launch Dawn's Light, I felt she was in a pretty good position to ride out any trouble. She on was the hard at Chantier Naval des lies Sous le Vent! in Raiatea, sitting on a well-built steel cradle. She'd already survived two moderate cyclones without

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SIGHTINGS cyclone alan — cont’d As there were no further wind warnings that day or evening from either the local French stations or WWV, we cruisers started to relax. But not completely, for at 2130 on Saturday night the wind on the lee side of the island started blowing from the southeast at 20 knots. About 15 minutes later, the first squalls hit with southeast winds of 25 to 35 knots. 1 started making log entries at 2200 — at which time I felt the wind had increased to between 75 and 100 knots! This was seriously stuff. So, I removed my V-berth filler, put a couple of sails under me, and cushions and pillows around me, and sat down on the sole. My dodger was still up, but there was no way I was going outside in that wind — which had now switched to the southwest. Debris powered by 100-knot winds is lethal. By 2215, the wind was screaming — no, it was roaring! I'd never continued on outside column of next sightings page

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a public service from your friendly For about two years, the Northern Cali¬ fornia PHRF Committee has been con¬ cerned about an apparent anomaly that has reared its head while rating a new crop of boats in the lower (faster) end of the handicap range. For one thing, the IMS velocity predictions (VPPs) between the J/35s/Express 37s (72-raters) and the J/44 (a 30-rater) showed a much larger speed difference than the PHRF numbers currently indicated. While com¬ paring IMS numbers of different styles of boats can be tricky, the comparison be¬ tween the J/35 and J/44 is between simi-

SIGHTINGS announcement phrf committee lar style and shape boats from the same designer. Furthermore, there has been a recent influx of boats, such as the Farr 40, believed to be faster than the J/44, but slower than the SC 50. There just wasn't enough rating spread to accurately place them. A NCPHRF subcommittee formed to in¬ vestigate the problem decided that a change was needed. The Northwest PHRF board handled a similar situation a few years ago by raising the handicap of all boats over 90 by 10%. Our committee continued middle of next sightings page

cyclone alan — cont’d been in wind over 70 knots before, so I couldn't estimate the strength. My anemometer was outside, so there was no chance I could look at that. However, other boats would later report that there had been 100 knots at 2200, with 130 knots at 2215. Dawn’s Light shook violently in the wind, and I was worried that she'd be knocked off her cradle. During the peak winds, the barometer surged up and down. Between surges it dropped — but nothing more than in previous days. In any event the cradle held out fine until 2230 — at which time the wind fell as rapidly as it had built. In a matter of a few more minutes, it was over. And quiet! The worst of the cyclone had come and gone in just 30 minutes. It had been more like a giant tornado — during which 16 more people were killed on Raiatea. Alan had hit Raiatea’s northwest side — the side I was on — dead center. Bora Bora and the southeast side of Raiatea had been buffeted by winds up to 80 knots. Alan then continued on 25 miles to the east to hit Huahine, where it reportedly destroyed 434 homes. Sixteen boats were knocked down at Raiatea Carenage and four at the yard I was in. We saw five boats on the reef here on the northwest side of Raiatea, and heard reports of several more on the reefs of Bora Bora, Huahine andTahaa. Some boats had been at anchor or on moor¬ ings. A few of them were dismasted at anchor. Some boats in the boatyards were also dismasted! One catamaran was blown upside down in the boatyard and destroyed. A 45-foot cruising catamaran on a moor¬ ing atTahaa was flipped upside down. Fortunately, nobody was aboard. The trees on our end of the island were decimated and many homes were totally destroyed. Power and telephone service was out for a week. At this writing — two weeks after the cyclone hit — all but one boat has been lifted upright in the yard and all boats have been pulled off the various reefs. Supplies — particularly fruits and vegetables — are in short supply. Many people on the island were without water, but for some reason the water at the boatyards was still pure. The locals came in cars to fill their jugs. The weather has been quite nice since Alan — the last cyclone I ever want to see! Two interesting things: First, some boats fell from the steel cradles after the 12-inch square pads punched right through the fiberglass, which would seem to indicate their hulls were weaker than the cradled boats that survived. At the boatyard where Dawn's Light was cradled, part of a shed blowing apart onto three boats was a contribtuing factor to their falling. Second, the level of the ocean seems to have permanently dropped 12 inches at any given tide. According to the locals, reefs that were never exposed before now are — even at high tide. One explanation I've heard is that the centers of high pressure have shifted and somehow caused a change in the water level. — ronn hill Readers — We’ve gotten second hand reports that Rob and Lorraine Coleman's classic Angleman Sea Witch went up on a reef at Tahaa and suffered damage to her ribs and rudder. The Colemans left Berkeley many years ago for Mexico aboard their Colombia 30 Samba Pa Ti, re¬ turned to San Diego to work for a couple of years, then took off in the Sea Witch. We also heard that Greg Gillette, a long time racer, and cruiser based in Hawaii had his Farr 58 Spellbound get "totalled" by Alan. The boat was originally built in New Zealand for Jim Hill of Palo Alto and spent a few years in the Bay. We have no idea if "totalled" means destroyed or just really beat up. Changing water levels? After hurricane Hugo battered Antigua, the locals were surprised to discover that Cades Reef one of the big land¬ marks on.the leeward side of the island — had several more feet above water than prior to the hurricane. Finally, John Connelly, director of Modern Sailing Academy in Sausalito, was in Bora Bora with a group of student/adventure sailors when Alan hit. We’ll have student Don McGreevy's report of what happened to them in the July issue. June, 1998 • UMtdtVl • Page 119

SIGHTINGS balclutha homecoming Sailors intimate with the waters of the Cityfront, particularly Aquatic Park, have been feeling a large absence, lo these many months past. That long area of empty dock at the Hyde Street Pier belongs to the 301-ft full-rigger Balcuthcc centerpiece of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park's historic ship collection. Balclutha has been gone the better part of a year. In October of '97, she continued on outside column Of next sightings page

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phrf announcment decided on the politically more difficult, but less disruptive, approach of lowering the handicaps of the fast boats. First, the handicap of the 30-raters was lowered 9 seconds/mile. The spread is still not as great as the IMS numbers would . indicate, but it is much closer and we feel

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was towed over to Bay Ship & Yacht Company in Alameda for dry-docking, her first haulout in 10 years. Work performed in the months since has been extensive. Major projects include replacement of some of the ship's steel hull plates, replacement of the entire fir and teak deck (along with several of its steel beams) and removal, repair and restepping of the foremast — the first time that spar has come out of the ship since it slid down the ways in Glasgow in 1886. The list of additional 'minor' repairs would fill half the magazine. The $1.3 million restoration re¬ sulted from a partnership between a national organization, the Na¬ tional Park Service, and a local non¬ profit, the National Maritime Mu¬ seum Association (NMMA). The National Park Service ponied up $500,000 of federal money as part of their ongoing effort to help maintain the many historic ships in various museums around the na¬ tion. The NPS money was specifi¬ cally earmarked for the work on the foremast and the usual 'shave and haircut' (bottom cleaning and paint¬ ing) of any haulout., ■, The remaining $800,000 for the deck replacement and other work came from NMMA. About $500,000 derived from successful manage¬ ment of its various programs, and $300,000 arose through private do¬ nations. Established in 1950, Carrying a big stick: ‘Balclutha’s foremast NMMA is dedicated to preserving comes out for the first time since she was maritime history and encouraging built. Left, the shape of speed, 1886. public appreciation of the same They are^the supporting 'friends' of the San Francisco Maritime National

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is as accurate as we can get at this time. All the boats between 72 and 30 were dropped proportionately, keeping with 3second increments. Next, the spread be¬ tween the 30-raters and the 12-raters (SC 50s) was increased by 9 more seconds per

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Historical Park. > According to Kathy Lohan, executive director of NMMA, this is not the first such collaboration between public and private agencies for the preser¬ vation of historic ships, but it may be orte of the largest. "It's the first major ship to benefit," she notes. "We hope it's a model for many more to come." By the time you read this, Balclutha will have received the 'final touches' of new bottom and topsides paint — and will be ready to rejoin her historic sisterships at the Hyde Street Pier. The big day is Friday, June 12. If you're able to get away in the morning, we can't think of anything cooler than forming a little flotilla of yachts at the entrance to the Estuary and escorting the big lady home. She's scheduled to leave the shipyard at about 8 a.m. and dock at Hyde Street at around 11-noon. For the latest updates on that schedule, call the NMMA at (415) 5616662.

charting a new course There have been rumors and mild panic in some quarters recently re¬ garding the future of paper charts. Here’s the situation as we understand it. Some months ago, NOAA announced — to the surprise of approximately 1,300 chart agents (sellers) around the country — that it planned to stop producing nautical charts in the way it has since, well, forever. Instead of printing the charts in bulk and distributing them to agents to sell to boaters, the charts would be printed individually. Whenever John Q. Public walked continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS charts — cont’d in and ordered a chart, that’s when it would be made. The desired chart would then arrive at the chart agent’s store two days later. You can imagine how well this went over. "Imagine being lost on a car trip and having the local gas station inform you that they'll have to order you a roadmap, “ was one pertinent observation by a local chart agent. In March, NOAA flew about 15 of the top U.S. chart agents to Wash¬ ington for a meeting. After airing their opinions on the proposed plan, the agents were reportedly told by a NOAA representative that NOAA didn't care what they thought, and was going ahead with the plan anyway. According to later reports, that person was subsequently re¬ moved from his position of authority and NOAA is indeed addressing the concerns of agents as part of their CRADA (Collaborative Research and Development Agreement) program. For all their bumbling in the implementation process, NOAA’s idea appears to be a sound one, at least from the user point of view. The POD — ’print on demand’ — program will offer mariners charts with the most up-to-date corrections on them. This would obviate the need continued on outside column of next sightings page

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phrf announcment mile, a total drop of 18. This allows for better handicapping of the new group of 40 to 45-footers, most of which are light boats with long waterlines. Naturally, boats with handicaps under 12 were also lowered. Twenty years ago, there was a resis¬ tance to using negative numbers for handicaps. This meant that some boats like the SC 50 that should have had a negative number were kept on the posi-

the beer can By now, the summer beer can series are in full swing. And judging by the 22 separate once listed in Calendar, they are more popular than ever. There’s probably even a few more lurking around the Bay

SIGHTINGS — cont’d tive side. Once you realize there's no magic to the PHRF number, and that it's the comparison between boats that is impor¬ tant, more accurate handicaps can result. Only time will tell if this change will 'work'. If future race results show it doesn't, we will revise or reverse it. If you look closely, most boats — but not all — stayed the same relative to the boats im¬ mediately around them. — carl schumacher

challenge that we haven’t heard about yet. All of which points to one thing: It's time to re¬ issue our annual Beer Can Challenge. The rules are simple: be the first to do continued middle ot next sightings page

charts — cont’d to constantly update your old charts with corrections from Local Notice to Mariners — like any of us do it anyway. The charts may also include extra information, such as light tables, a Coast Pilot, and official waypoints for the particular chart. The POD charts would resemble current charts in all apects (color, detail, etc.) except paper quality. To keep the POD chart prices consis¬ tent with those of present charts — at least to start with — the new charts would be printed on “media of comparable quality" says a NOAA release. Then again, the paper quality shouldn’t matter much if the chart is meant to be discarded whenever a newer version becomes available. What is all this going to mean at the consumer level? For all practi¬ cal purposes, not much. Obviously, you're not going to have to wait two days for most popular charts because your local chart agent is going to keep copies of the latest ones on hand. Of course, if you want charts of Greenland, you might have to wait the requisite 48 hours. It’s still better than the present two to three-week turnaround for some special orders. Furthermore, you’re likely going to have a choice of buying the chart the seller has on hand, or ordering the most up-todate version from NOAA. A subscription program is even planned, wherein, for a fee, you are sent updated charts on a regular basis. Note that John Q will also continue to enjoy the fact that charts are in the public domain, which means it’s legal to copy them. If you don’t want to pay the $14 to $16 for a ‘real’ chart, most suppliers can make you a nice, clear, like-size copy for about $6.95. If the lack of color in the copy bothers you, get a couple of felt tip markers do it yourself. At the agent level, there are still bugs in the new POD system that have to be worked out. Just one example is credit for out-of-date charts. Now, when new versions of charts are introduced, agents can get credit for the old ones they return. Whether or not that will continue with the POD versions has yet to be decided. From whichever side of the counter you interpret the above infor¬ mation, there’s no reason to get excited just yet. The first POD charts are still probably 12 months away. As for those of you who decide to go electronic and forego paper charts altogether'— even as a backup — we humbly reniind you of the Great Pager Blackout of 1998. Admittedly, there are a lot more satel¬ lites in the GPS constellation, but neither they nor the people that operate them are infallible. For more on the POD chart plan, check out NOAA’s chartmaker website, which was set up specifically .to answer agent questions. You can find it at http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/ocs/pod/pod.htm.

things that go bump If you thought you werq the only bonehead sailor that ever made a foolhardy blunder, take heart. Last month the (now ex-) skipper of our state’s official tall ship, the (formerly) 145-ft Californian, piloted the 100-foot masts of his vessel smack dab into the unforgiving steel gird¬ ers of the Benicia Railroad bridge — which ride a mere 70 feet off the water. Needless to say, the bridge won the altercation. Luckily, the ship had no passengers on board and none of her crew was hurt when sections of her masts came crashing down. Both the bow sprit and jib boom (a spar extending forward from the sprit) were also snapped by the force exerted ojq the forestay and jib stays at¬ tached to them. We bring this tale to your attention not to beat up on the unfortu¬ nate skipper (who shall remain nameless), but to point out that even pros can make costly mistakes — even in broad daylight on flat water. Had it been a modern mast that whacked the bridge — that of a maxi yacht for instance — the entire rig probably would have come down. But due to her traditional design, the Californian got off rela¬ tively easy. Like most square riggers and schooners, she carries 'topcontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS bump — cont’d masts' which are independent spars attached to the top of the main mast and foremast. "For hundreds of years," explains Steve Chrisman of the Nautical Heritage Society (the Californian!s parent organization), "ships carried topmasts which were designed to be removable — al¬ though not in this manner!" This system allowed seamen ofyesteiyear to reduce weight aloft in extreme weather and shorten their overall height during inland navigation, while allowing smaller trees to be used for lower masts. "Ships like the USS Constitution," Chrisman points out, "were actually fitted out with a three-part mast." (The upper sec¬ tion in such a rig is called a topgallant.) Shipwrights at Bay Ship & Yacht of Alameda quickly crafted and fitted a new bowsprit, which allowed the Californian to get back into continued outside column ot next sightings page

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beer a full week on the Suds Circuit and you win. The hardest part may be proving it. Not that we don't believe our readers tell us, but you must somehow document that you indeed raced five different beer can series on five separate nights. Photos work good. So does bribery. Anyway, send us your claim, let us know boat names, and we ll send you a T-shirt, put your mug shot in the mag and guarantee at least 15 minutes of enduring fame. Few people have conquered this Everest of yacht racing. If memory serves

SIGHTINGS us, Renee Wilmeth was the first 'winner' back in 1996. The same year, her accom¬ plishment was eclipsed by four intrepid warriors out of BVBC — Joe Spronz, Tom Collins, Arjan Bok and Dan Bjork — who sailed the same boat, an Ericson 27 called Bad Dog, at five different venues five nights on a row. Their feat must have demoralized mere mortals, because no one has attempted to the Challenge since. The gauntlet for 1998 has been thrown. Anybody gonna play?

bump — cont’d action without a lengthy delay — albeit with an incomplete sail plan. Good thing, too, since she, like most other tall ships and sail training vessels could hardly afford to be in limbo at a boatyard at the begin-

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Nose job: ‘Californian’s massive bowsprit and jibboom get replaced. ning of her prime sailing season. As we go to press her topmasts are being scarfed back together, which should make them stronger than ever. Californian wasn't the only vessel to get clobbered in May. In the Whitbread, the all-woman crew on EE Education hit a whale. Earlier, Paul Cayard and crew on EF Language hit a shark so hard they had to stop the boat and back down to unwrap it from the keel. Closer to home, the Wylie 78 Jelik whacked a submerged cofferdam somewhere up in the Northwest. The damage will prevent her from competing in the Pacific Cup as planned. Even closer to home, there have been fender benders right and left in several evening beer can senes, and at least one good crunch during the Master Mariners. Take it easy out there, people. This is' supposed to be fun.

short sightings FRANCE — Imagine, if you will, a 60 by 60-ft trimaran charging along at 40 knots. It’s not so far-fetched if you’re Alain Thebauld and the boat is L'Hedroptere. Inspired by Eric Tabarly’s foil-assisted trimaran Paul Ricard, Thebauld has taken the concept one giant step beyond. At low speeds, his boat sails like a conventional trimaran. At 15 knots of true wind, her three foils lift her completely clear of the water, at which point she really starts to move. Thebauld and a small crew — who control the boat from the center crossbeam — can pump 200 gallons of water into each hull, as well as a ton of water fore and aft, for trim. This isn’t pushing the envelope, it’s a whole new mail system. In early runs, the boat came apart. Now rebuilt, she’s being sailed more con¬ servatively to test her limits. June, 1998 • UWwkJ? • Page 125

MASTER MARINERS '98 Anl

tique collectors are an eclectic lot. Owners of Lalique rarely touch that deli¬ cate glassware except for periodic dust¬ ing. Classic doll collectors keep the ob¬ jects of their passion under lock and key. Some historic autos roll out of their ga¬ rages only to be polished and admired. Then there are the owners of vintage sailing yachts, who take their boats out every Memorial Day weekend and beat the hell out of them. They call this event the Master Mariners Regatta. The regatta itself is as steeped in his¬ tory as its pre-World War II wooden par¬ ticipants. Inaugurated more than 100 years ago, it originally pitted working ships of the line in a race around the Bay. , Money raised through sponsorship of boats went to the Master Mariners BeA | nevolent Association, which in those days cared for retired seamen, and the widows and orphans of those lost at sea. Prizes for .the winners came in the form of opera glasses, a cord of wood, or a ton of pota¬ toes — again all donated by local mer¬ chants. In the days before TV, the regatta was one of the biggest spectator events of the year in San Francisco. The Master Mariners returned in the mid-1960s as a regatta for classic yachts, and has been going strong ever since. Trophies have replaced the mostly utili¬ tarian awards of old, with one significant l||| exception: the most coveted prize then and lllll now is a golden banner with a strutting |||| gamecock and the word 'Champion' em¬ blazoned on it. One of these is awarded to the winning yacht in each division, lllll Potatoes returned to the regatta this I year in another carry-over from the old 5 days. Most big schooners don't exactly point like ILC maxis, and sometimes they have trouble rounding marks. So this | year, if you could hit the mark with a | thrown potato, it counted as a rounding. Our cameras were poised, but alas, no flying spuds. The ebb and a healthy sum¬ mer zephyr allowed the big boys to round their marks handily. Maybe next year.

he Master Mariners Regatta always seems to enjoy good wind, and this May 23 was no exception. Shortly before the noon starts off the Golden Gate YC, the wind machine served up 25 knots of 'clas¬ sic' afternoon breeze. This allowed even the most buxom of old woodies to pick up their skirts and fly around courses rang¬ ing from 13 miles for the smaller boats to almost 17 for the Ocean classes. Sixtyeight boats crossed the starting line off

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Golden Gate YC in reverse handicap or¬ der. That means the handicaps were built into the start and whoever finished first in their class won. As always, there were some spectacular drag races down the homestretch below Treasure Island. The finish was right off China Cove.

few highlights of this year's race: Terry Klaus and the crew of the lovely

Brigadoon celebrated a second in division — and their 20th year racing the Master Mariners under Klaus' ownership. Briga¬ doon herself participated in the original rebirth of the regatta 30-some years ago. • Considering the industrial-strength breeze, damage was amazingly light be¬ yond the usual blown-out sails. Peter English's bright-finished Kettenburg 38 may have got the worst of it. A collision with an unidentified boat near Blossom

Rock broke the stern pulpit loose. Terry Smith and his crew made repairs and kept racing. As Race Committee Chairman, Chorus owner English had the unique perspective of watching his boat blast across the finish line on a boom-dragging reach without him. "I was whooping and hollering so loud somebody else had to take their finish time!" he says. • The Master Mariners is a race of many boats and many prizes. This year, the big-

Rollin' thunder: 'Valkyrien'—all58 feet, 70years and 44 tons of her — charges toward the finish line below Treasure Island. Inset, Chorus' on the edge of control. gest cheer at the awards presentation went to Captain A1 Lutz and the mighty crew of Alma. For the first time in years, the Maritime Museum's historic 1891 scow schooner not only completed the Big Schooner course, she actually placed for the first time in recent memory, taking

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and to make certain that every inch of space is put to proper use. Once the preliminary draw¬ ings are created, the new project is presented to their worldwide network of Swan Agents and select clients as a final 'sounding board'. After this feed¬ back is received, it’s then incorpo¬ rated into the prototype design. From this point, exterior and inte¬ rior mockups are built which are then thoroughly tested. Not until after every detail is designed, ana¬ lyzed and then reviewed again, does a Swan even start to become a Swan. From this point the building of a Swan becomes a massive team effort involving a myriad of highly

skilled workers. From the master craftsmen who build the exquisite teak furniture to the artisans in the welding and metal fabrication department, every aspect of building a Swan requires com¬ plete dedication. This Finnish company believes there is no such thing as compromise when it comes to the building of the world’s finest sail¬ ing yacht, and every detail is looked upon with a critical eye. Nothing is considered too trivial to the yacht’s final overall function and look. While a Swan is built from plans, molds, and jigs, it does not mean the boat is ’mass-produced’; quite the contrary. Each year Nautor's team of craftsmen will ship a select number of boats, each one built specifically for their owner, never a boat for 'dealer stock'. Every aspect of the boat will have been purposely constructed for that particu¬ lar owner’s needs and desires. With such capability of customization there must be one concession, and that is time. Build¬ ing a yacht to such precise specifications takes planning and a bit of patience. While the process of ordering and ultimately taking of delivery of a new Swan may involve many months, it is with¬ out a doubt well worth the wait. For what makes a Swan a Swan is not just its exquisite teak deck. A Swan’s interior is finished like no other, but this alone does not define what a Swan is either. It is actually none of the countless, yet individual details that are incorporated into a magnificent sailing vessel, but clearly the sum thereof. A Swan is designed, engineered, constructed, fin¬ ished and above all sails, like no other sailing yacht in the world. It is the type of sailing yacht, whether at the boat show today or some distant anchorage years from now, when guests come aboard they will always say, “Wow, what a beau¬ tiful boat”.

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first designs was a boat by that name ... I always liked that name and the simple notion itself. As we navigate our way through life we learn that it’s possible to take those simple notions, those dreams ... and make them come true. For example. Bay Area sailor Paul Cayard has done more than just dream. Last summer Paul s dream became that of winning the Whitbread Around the World Race. A dream ... yes, certainly it started out that way. If you had asked Paul at KKMI’s yard party last September, the day before he left on the race, what his chances were ... he would have given you the clas¬ sic Cayard optimistic smile. A look that conveys that anything can become a reality ... if you're willing to work hard for your dream. While part of America last month was focused on Seinfield . . . millions of people around the world were watching via the WWW to see how Paul and Company were doing in their final epi¬ sode. Fortunately for Team EF Language they fared bet¬ ter than Jerry! Congratulations to the crew of EF Lan¬ guage. .. we're very impressed and proud as can be!

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SUMMERTIME REALITY: In Europe sailing receives more media attention than it does in the U. S., but that's about to change . . . particularly in the Bay Area. With local tourism being a major industry and the Bay itself

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A classic day (clockwise from below): ‘Polaris ’ seconds away from her third place finish; ‘Nightwatcher’ leans into a gust; hiking out, schooner style; ‘Brigadoon’ and ‘Barbara' go mano-a-mano; heavy wave action aboard ‘Irolita’; ‘Radiant’blasts down the Cityfront.

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Masterpiece theater (clockwise from below): Changing head sails on ‘Sea Bird; Bagheera is the new schooner on the block; rail-down and bookin’ on ‘Wizard of Bristol’; ‘Sugarfoot Bear-dancing down the homestretch; ‘Curlew’ and ‘Oriole’ who says Bird-watching isn’t exciting?; ‘Bounty’ and ‘Kaiulani’ on the clubhouse reach; ‘Regulus’ dips a rail on the way to second in division.

MASTER MARINERS '98

RESULTS BIG SCHOONER — 1) Valkyrien, Bailey 58, Dean Gurke; 2) Kaiulani, Crealock 65, Rob Michaan; 3) Alma, 80' hay scow, Al Lute. (4 boats) GAFF 1 — 1) Nightwatcher, 50' Chapelle schoo¬ ner, Ken Godshalk. (3 boats) GAFF 11—1) Makani Kai, 40' Angleman ketch, Ken Inouye; 2) Regulus, 36' Crocker schooner, Ed Witt; 3) Polaris, Custom 34, Tom List; 4) Bull Frog, 30' Garden cutter, Robert Briscoe. (8 boats) MARCONI I — 1) Elizabeth Muir, EldridgeMclnnis 50 schooner, David Hamilton; 2) Daydreamer, 40' Hinckley cutter, Charles Richard; 3) Radiant, 40' Hinckley cutter, Jonathan Kitchen; 4) Danzante, Lapworth 40, Barry Herman. (7 boats) MARCONI II —• 1) Sea Biscuit, 36' Crocker ketch, Philip Gale; 2) Holganza, 36' Popoff yawl, Frank Ecker; 3) M'Lady, Ullstrup 38.5, Yasuko Tomizawa; 4) Wan¬ derer II, 38' Stone schooner, Roy Sobert. (8 boats) MARCONI III — 1) Simpatico, Garden 35 ketch, Tom McGowan; 2) Pampero, Rhodes 33, Bill Owen/ Chris Newell; 3) Kiai, 34' Atkins ketch, Alan Langmuir; 4) Salty Dog, 30' Hana, Thomas Bamberger. (8 boats) MARCONI IV — 1) Biscuit, Custom 26, Bill Rickman; 2) Pisces, 28' Ashbridge, Kurt Eichstaedt; 3) Honalee, Herreshoff Rozinante, Sally Lindsay Honey; 4) Wizard of Bristol, Herreshoff 28, Mark Sange; 5) Ragnarok, 30' Herreshoff ketch, Richard Ponzin; 6) May Yan, Cheoy Lee 25, Bruno Heidrich;

Elizabeth Muir. The familiar white hat was gone, but Babe was there in spirit. 7) Westerly, S&S 30, Noel Duckett. (12 boats) OCEAN I — 1) Cock Robin, 62' Alden yawl, Bruce Fowler; 2) Pegasus, 51'Alden ketch, Paul Kassatkin. (4 boats) OCEAN 11 — 1) Ouessant, Farallone Clipper, Gene Buck; 2) Leda II, Lapworth 36, David James. (5 boats) BEAR — 1) Sugarfoot, Marty Zwick. (2 boats) BIRD — 1) Petrel, Pierre Josephs. (3 boats)

SPECIAL AWARDS: BARUNA (first place, ocean) — Cock Robin. BILLIKEN (fastest gaff) — Brigadoon, Herreshoff 65 schooner, Terry Klaus. DEADEYE (fastest marconi) — Elizabeth Muir. ALONA (fastest small marconi) — M'Lady. LYLE GALLOWAY (fastest < 30') — Honalee. KERMIT PARKER (fastest G-ll) — Makani Kai. STONE (best condition) — Polaris. v — -■ ■■

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Classic Boat Repair - Terminology and Application

Tools of the trade.

A "dutchman" replaces a damaged section of wood as an inlay. In the finest examples the wood grain is matched in such a way that the repair is practically undetectable. Many of today's sailing classics, well advanced in years, will have dutchmen throughout their woodwork. Often on cap rails, you’ll find well crafted dutchmen have maintained the aesthetic quality as well as the physical strength found in the original piece. They can be a lovely patina of age. They are also called "gravings". A boatwright will carve out the damaged portion of wood in such a way as to leave a void for a perfectly matched piece of wood to replace it. The replacement piece needs to have matching grain and be carefully fit so that the seams are minimized and perhaps invisible. The new piece is sealed in with glue. Sometimes a hole is drilled in the middle for the excess glue to escape and is later filled with a bung. The Australian habit of adding an "o" to everything will have them looking at a dutchman and calling it a "gravo". We may be-able to explain a dutchman but can't do the same for Australians... Aboard Fair Sarae, currently being restored at Stone Boat Yard, numerous dutchmen have been employed to repair damage from her many years of sailing. It s a craft and skill that is somewhat rare to find today and rarer still to find it done well. For 145 years the people at Stone Boat Yard have worked to keep this and other repair techniques alive.

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MOONSHADOW: GOOD TIMES T*

here is only one word that can de¬ scribe the last four months aboard my Sausalito-based Deerfoot 62, Moonshadow — unbelievable! They have in¬ cluded the best of times — two wonderful months in Z-town, a delightful and safe 16.5 day passage from Mexico to the Mar¬ quesas, the most beautiful landfall ever

One. This is not a test, as Cort, Eric, Fred, MaiTai — my faithful cat — are headed for the Marquesas. As much as I hate to leave Mexico, the smog, glitz, congestion, violence and high prices of Acapulco made^ it easy to say adios — at least for now. After a couple hours of motorsailing, a northwesterly wind filled in and we're now fully canvased and averaging eight knots to the southwest. The last week in port was hectic, tak¬ ing care of last minute repairs, provision¬ ing, customs, provisioning, maintenance and provisioning. We put some 360 meals aboard plus staples to last for six months. Imagine figuring out how much of virtu¬ ally everything — toothpaste, shaving cream, plastic bags, kitty litter, band-aids, etc — you need to live for hallf a year and having to buy it all at once! It wasn't fun. Thank God Acapulco has a WalMart and a Sam's Club — or they could have left it off the chart. March 29. 14° 35'N / 101° 35'W. Day Two. It’s a beautiful day and a gr^up of

Modern cruising means you can eat tike kings. 'Moonshadow' chef Fred Miley presents the mag¬ nificent turkey. Cigars and brandy to follow. at Fatu Hiva, and some experiences with the people of the Tuamotus that were nothing short of incredible. The last four months also included the worst of times. Specifically, running headon into the reef of a remote atoll in the Tuamotus at near hull speed in the middle of the night. Then being shipwrecked on the reef. This month, the good times to the Marquesas.

January and February, 1998 — I spent most of these two months at 'Camp Zihuatanejo', hanging out with some won¬ derful people — cruisers and locals. What a great place! After a daysail to Acapulco, I received first class treatment at the Acapulco YC where I also met my crew for the passage across the Pacific: Cort de Peyster, a 747 pilot who would be our navigator; Eric Strasser, a former Club Nautique student of mine, who would be the bosun; and Fred Miley, veteran ’Moo' crew and 'snacktician'. While I'd sailed the Moonshadow — which had been built by Skandi in Fin¬ land in '86 — from Florida to California, California to Hawaii, Hawaii back to Cali¬ fornia, and California to Acapulco, the 2,820-mile passage to the Marquesas would be my longest ever.

March 28. 16°4'N/100o12W. Day

dolphins came by to welcome us just af¬ ter sunrise. Our noon position was 162 nautical miles southwest of Acapulco, and we've been close reaching in one to 12 knots of wind, using the motor for an hour or so during the lulls. We hope to find the northeast trades in a few days so we can really get moving. The seas are gently roll¬ ing and we're adjusting to the routine. With no good restaurants along the way, last night Fred whipped up a great chicken cuny. Today we got into the spirit with cheeseburgers — in paradise, of . course — for lunch. The fishing has been lousy. We had a good one on the line yes¬ terday, but a shark beat us to our dinner — and stole our lure, too! MaiTai is not liking Eric, and has been grouchy to the rest of us. I guess she hasn’t gotten her sea paws yet. With lots to read and do, and much sleep to catch up on, the hours pass quickly. We hope everyone back home is thinking about us as they commute to work.

March 30. 13°15'N/103°59'W. Day Three. Eric and I just woke up from our afternoon nap. We get sleep whenever we can. Fred is still fishing. Six lures but still no luck. I guess we'll have to settle for steak. Cort says we covered 148 miles noon to noon, and that if we divert course a few degrees to port we can do a low pass by remote Clipperton Island. We were plagued by ghosterlies' last night and had to motorsail for seven hours. The wind came up in the morning, so — after a lunch of guacamole and tamales — we

set the chute. We're now making six to seven knots in 10 to 12 knots of breeze. There's a four to six foot swell but the seas are calm. There's not much sea life other than occasional flocks of sea terns and flying fish. Each day we use the SSB radio to speak with other boats making the same passage. They report a mixed bag of con¬ ditions, from calms to gales. MaiTai has a better disposition now and Eric's scratches are healing. The cervezas are chilling for happy hour, and we've got plenty of time to wonder how the stock market is doing and who might be Slick Willie’s latest girlfriend.

March 31. 12°20'N/104°44'W. Day Four. We've now fallen into the 'at sea' routine; Eat, sleep, read, stand watch, and so forth. It's different for MaiTai, who eats, ' sleeps, rests, eats, sleeps and rests. No¬ body seems to be having any trouble re¬ laxing and the hours race by. The breeze continues to be light; four to 12 knots from the north with a gentle swell undulating the blue water. We re making between 2.5 knots to 8 knots, and

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Spread: There's nothing like a South Pacific sun¬ set from the deck of a sailboat. Insets, from top; Owner George Backhus; Eric Strasser. covered 144 miles yesterday. Even though we see the tradewind clouds, the trades themselves — based on reports from other boats — are another 36 hours ahead. As we close in on the equator, it's get¬ ting much warmer. Today it was in the low '90s. We heard there was snow on Bay Area hills. What is snow? Having not caught any fish yet, we're having to resort to canned tuna for lunch. Keep changing the lures, Fred! Eric is reading the The Perfect Storm. Every boat needs someone to worry, I guess. Cort heard that there are still some pigs on Clipperton and wants to stop at Clipperton for a luau. Alas, we'll probably pass in the middle of the night. April Fool's Day. 11°41'N/108°14'W. Day Five. We were too lazy to play any April Fool's jokes, but the fact that no¬ body needs to wear anything but a swim¬ suit and sunglasses should be enough. We covered a lazy 138 miles in light winds, but HOORAY!, we re now in 10 to 15 knot

trades. We set the 3/4 ounce spinnaker this afternoon so we could hold a better angle toward our waypoint at the equator — 132°W — and picked up some nice boat speed. Fred cooked up a killer dinner of pork loin, black beans and rice last evening. Eric finished The Perfect Storm and is now reading And the Sea Will Tell I detect a trend in his reading material, but I don't think there's a copy of Dead Calm aboard. The coffee Cort makes in the morning is strong enough to raise the dead and corrode the stainless steel mugs. Mean¬ while, Fred is very frustrated, as fish swim next to the boat but don’t bite his lures. He's wondering where the net is while MaiTai waits patiently for a fresh meal. 1 pull out the drag generator and hook it up. I'm happy when it’s working because it cuts genset use in half. With diesel sell¬ ing for $1 /litre in the Marquesas, fuel economy is a consideration. We're all caught up on our sleep and are now in a state of bliss. April 2. 10° 18'N/110°39'W. Day Six. It's a clow commute this morning — eight to 10 knots. The sea is congested with flying fish and we almost hit a sea turtle.

How was your commute? Cort, the Naviguesser, says the day's run was 188 miles and that we're 721 miles from Acapulco or a quarter of the way to Hiva Oa. Fresh northeast tradewinds are pushing us at eight to 11 knots when we fly the big spinnaker. The crew is getting along well — in part be¬ cause Cort, Fred and George can all use the same reading glasses. Bad news: The drag generator popped out of its mount this morning and hit the barbecue! As a result, we lost the drive prop, torque line, and BBQ grill. How will we be able to survive two weeks without a BBQ?! April 3. 08°29'N/113°46'W. Day Seven. There's nothing like tradewind sailing! Cort says that our noon-to-noon run was 218 nautical miles — or a 9+ knot average. Today was wash day, and I'm sure that all those sheets, shirts and shorts hanging from the windward life¬ lines added to our boat speed. Eric had the 0200 to 0400 watch and saw bioluminescent trails, a dozen shoot¬ ing stars, a few satellites and a huge elec¬ tric storm 20 miles to the south. He thinks he'll try to choreograph music to it tonight for a light and sound show. Meanwhile, Fred continues to take much abuse over his lack of success fishing. He's still had no luck and the crew and MaiTai are get¬ ting antsy for sushi. Fred sort of made up for it last evening by laying out a killer pasta dish for dinner. Yesterday afternoon — while at 10°N/ 111°W — we found a new Starbuck's. Naturally we popped in for an iced cafe latte. Yum yum. I wonder if cruising was as luxurious 20 years ago? One of the Marquesan cruising guides reports that the great French painter Paul Gauguin Sixteen days out of Acapulco, the 'Moonshadow' crew scanned the horizon for land. Motane was the first of the Marquesas they spotted.

MOONSHADOW: GOOD TIMES traded an old Singer sewing machine to the parents of a 13-year-old Polynesian girl for the right to live with her. I've got a brand new electric sewing machine; I wonder what I can get for it? MaiTai is enjoying the occasional fly¬ ing fish that lands on board, but she only eats the heads. What's up with this cat? April 4. 06°27'N/117°26'W. Day Eight. We've been out just over a week, and after yesterday's 214-mile run, Cort says we can expect to cross the halfway mark tomorrow afternoon. The weather has been squally since 0230. At least the rain has washed the decks and sails, and has also given us a bit of relief from the sun and heat. But with the passing of each squall, we're left with light winds and lumpy seas. We're following the weather reports closely to find the best place to cross the equator and InterTropical Con¬ vergence Zone — doldrums — without get¬ ting hammered by too many thunder¬ storms. Fred reports that a large fish has sto¬ len a second lure. Now there are two fish out there with hook-in-mouth disease. But we continue to eat well, as last night we enjoyed a delicious lentil soup. Cort and I finished the evening with snifters of rum and cigars on the aft deck. Tonight is Mexican night — chicken mole poblano, rice and beans, and flan for dessert. Natu¬ rally, we'll wash it down with cold cerveza. The biggest excitement today was a dol¬ phin sighting this afternoon. You should have seen the acrobatics — they were ter¬ rific. Eric, on the other hand, is still get¬ ting lots of sack time as he tries to wean himself of seasick medication. April 5. 05°120N/30°0'W. Day Nine. Cort the navigator reports we'll reach our halfway point —1,410 nautical miles from both Acapulco and Hiva Oa — around happy hour. The cervezas are chilling. The day's run was 237 nautical miles, which puts us about 2,243 miles due south of San Francisco — and there¬ fore back in Pacific Standard Time. If any¬ body can stop by for our 'halfway party’, there will be plenty of beer, wine and vittles. Last night was comedy of errors night. Squally conditions and a number of 'op¬ erator errors' resulted in a shredded spin¬ naker and not much sleep for the crew. Everything's going much better today, however, as we're averaging 10 knots with the white sails and trying to pick the best place to drop through the equator below the squall lines. Eric and MaiTai both had mild cases of mal de mer yesterday as a result of lumpy seas, but there's evidence that their appetites are returning. Eric scarfed panPage 138

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cakes and bacon for brunch while MaiTai devoured an entire flying fish. Speaking of food, Fred is preparing a turkey dinner with apple crisp for tonight. April 6. 02°55’N/123°24'W. Day Ten. Greetings from the doldrums — a word that doesn't adequately describe what we've experienced. We started the morn¬ ing with rain and 20 knots of wind at our back. Then we had to motorslog into driv¬ ing rain and 25 knot noserlies'. We just popped out the other side and, thank you, have 17 knots on our beam. Yesterday's run was 217 wet miles, but after four sunless days it looks as if clear skies are on the horizon. We're eagerly looking for¬ ward to opening the hatches and ports in order to dry things out and to resume outdoor living. We were teased by a school of tuna yes¬ terday afternoon. We hooked at least four fish, but with the boat sailing at between nine and 11 knots, we were unable to pull them aboard.

George Backhus has been to many anchorages with his Deerfoot 62, but none as beautiful as Fatu Hiva's moody Virgin's Bay. We're all feeling well and getting enough — although not too much — rest. Thanks to Fred's cooking, we're eating well. And thanks to Ever Fresh Bags, we still have crisp lettuce and delicious fruits and veggies after 10 days. Tomorrow'night — the equator! April 7. 01°33'N/126°29'W. Day Eleven. I awoke to a gorgeous, sunny day, with blue skies, gentle breezes and smooth seas. We gybed — intentionally, for a change — over to port tack and headed due south toward 'the big E'. Within a couple of hours the boat re¬ sembled a garage sale, with gear drying out all over the deck. With the spinnaker set and the wind and waves behind us, we are enjoying tradewind sailing‘at its finest! Cort reports that our day's run was 190 nautical miles, and that tomorrow—while the rest pfyou are enjoying your morning coffee — we'll be stopping for a swim at

ACROSS THE PACIFIC

the equator. We ll also take time to pho¬ tograph the goose eggs' on the GPS. Last night we saw another vessel — the first one in over a week. Eric, our on¬ board Sherlock Holmes, is searching for a small and elusive source of freshwater that keeps finding its way into the bilge. With the boom vang being added to the list of broken gear and the SSB radio on the blink. I feel like I’m standing in the shower in my raincoat tearing up $100 bills. With just over 1,000 miles left to Hiva Oa, Fred is desperately trying not to make this a fishless passage. It must be El Nino's fault, not his. April 8. 00°39’S/126°06'W.Day Twelve. Greetings from the southern hemisphere! I awoke this morning at 0630 excited to cross the equator for the first time aboard a sailboat. As I walked across the salon, I heard the sound of small metal parts hitting the deck overhead. That's never a good thing. On deck. I discovered that the nut for the gooseneck — which holds the boom to the mast — had come

off, and the bolt was about to fall out as well. It could have been ugly! Some quick teamwork corrected the problem, which allowed us to avert disaster just in time for the equatorial crossing. We dropped the sails at the equator and took a swim. The water was too deep — over 14,000 feet — to see the bottom, however. Eric did see a group of fishing boats last night off to port. We wonder if they're having better luck fishing than we are. Ahoy there, what are you using for bait? We had another lure swiped by a large fish today, so the teasing doesn’t stop. Because of light winds, our day's run was only 146 miles. The quote of the day came from Cort, who was asked if we should check the radar to see what the weather was like ahead. "Why bother?" he responded, "we're going there anyway." We sailed through a very rainy squall and now are motor sailing in calm seas and very light winds. Since we're ahead of schedule, we've decided to make landfall at Fatu Hiva. Despite being one of the mogt beautiful islands, Fatu Hiva is seldom visited be¬ cause,its too far'to windward of the oth¬ ers. Equator party tonight! April 9. 02°30'S/130°15W. Day Thir¬ teen. We weren't out of the doldrums af¬ ter all, because we found them a few hun¬ dred miles south of where they were sup¬ posed to be. Could it be because this is our 13th day at sea? Anyway, we've been motoring on and off for 26 hours in two to five knot winds, but we're sailing in the squalls if the wind gets up to eight or nine knots. We get wet in the squalls, but they’re 'free' miles. The weather report is calling for 15 to 20 knots from the east to northeast. Sure! Graybeard’, our navigator, says our day's run was 195 nautical miles, put¬ ting us less than 700 miles from Fatu Hiva. Help us pray to Aoelus, the wind god, to get us there. The good news is that the watches are easy and we can steer straight toward our destination. After a round of rum punches last evening, Fred served up a great Tuscan minestrone soup and a dessert of spice cake with pears and ginger custard. We finished with rum and cigars on the aft deck — making the best of a tough situation. We're now four shellbacks and one furback. April 10. 04°20’S/132°21'W. Day Fourteen. Geez, the time really flies on these passages! None of us can believe

that we've already been out here for two weeks! We continue to motorsail in 'ghosterlies', which is what we call winds of five knots and under. When we hit an occasional squall or the wind picks up for an hour or two, we sail. The quote of the day belongs to George: "We ain't goin' no¬ where, but we ain't burnin any diesel"! Cort reports the day’s run at 161 nauti¬ cal miles. He had a quote of the day a few days later: "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire". With over 500 miles to go and little prospect of wind, fuel may become an issue. This morning we got word that Levia¬ than, a 32 foot sailboat, is stranded in calm conditions 200 miles ahead with a blown engine. We diverted to assist and probably will tow her to Nuka Hiva. Just when you think you've got problems, something happens to make you realize how lucky you are. We finally caught a fish! A very small bonito that we released in the hopes of better luck. Reading is popular. Eric is enjoying And the Sea Will Tell, Cort devoured Dove and is into Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World , and I just dove into The Partner. Fred is reveling in the sale of his most recent remodeling of a house in San Francisco. MaiTai is catching up on her sleep. April 11. 05°43'S/134°34'W. Day Fif¬ teen. Hooray, we're sailing again! The tradewinds filled in early this morning and we've been reaching in 10 knot easterlies ever since. The trades are just what we wanted for Easter. Having received the same wind, our friends on Leviathan — the boat with the engine problem — are The population of the Marquesas is quite small, but there are plenty of curious kids, so you never have to worry about meeting the locals.

MOONSHADOW sailing on without our assistance. Last evening was the most beautiful of the passage, as the sun setting amidst puffy cumulus tradewind clouds, which left an intense crimson glow on the hori¬ zon. You can only experience these breathtaking sunsets at sea! The glassy sea reflected the clouds above. It looked more like Lake Tahoe than the ocean — not a Welcome sight for sailors. On my watch, the clouds parted to reveal the Southern Cross constellation — the southern hemisphere's version of the North Star. On his 0400 - 0600 watch, Eric -saw a simultaneous sunrise and moonset. The navigator's report is that the day's run was 162 miles and we are now less than 400 miles from our planned landfall at Fatu Hiva. Having run out of Bimbo brand bread — the Mexican stuff that never seemed to go stale — Fred is mak¬ ing some killer breads from scratch. It looks like we won't starve before we get to paradise. April 12. 08°03'S/136°29'W. Day Six¬ teen. Happy Easter! While you were out looking for Easter Eggs, we've been blast¬

ing across the South Pacific Ocean like a freight train — except we're rolling 20° in the beam swell. The trades have come in spades, blowing up to 25 knots, and we!re broad reaching at up to 13 knots. At this rate we'll be at anchor in Baie de Vierge — Virgin's Bay — by midday tomorrow! FISH ON!!! We've just boarded a six foot long, 50-lb spearfish — which is related to swordfish and is good eating. In fact, he tried to spear me in the leg, leaving a little bruise. We've put the pork loin back in the freezer and we're having sushi and fresh fish for dinner. Delicious! Did any¬ one bring sake? MaiTai is in a food coma from the scraps. We'd better start fishing again — it could be another fifteen days before we catch anything* April 13th, 1998. Virgin's Bay, Fatu Hiva, Marquesas. Day Seventeen. Bonjour! As the sun rose this morning, we started seeing coconuts floating by and increasing numbers of birds. These are good signs of landfall. At 0700 I spotted

the island of Motane. Two hours later we had Fatu Hiva right off the bow. Yahoo all this electronic stuff really works! As we got close to land, we realized that we were in a very different world than we had left 16 days ago. The water is bluer and the young volcanic island before us is cov¬ ered in palm trees and dense fqliage. As we approached Virgin’s Bay, it looked just like in the book — except the photo in the book had been reversed! As we slowly approached we were all in awe of the topography: steep cliffs plunging to the sea, numerous spires — with goats on them —jutting out, and greenery ev¬ erywhere. All that was missing was some¬ one singing Bali Hai. At 1330 — exactly 16.5 days after we left Acapulco, we set the hook in the most beautiful anchorage I've ever laid eyes on. On a scale of 1 to 10, our crossing — and the next few weeks in the Marquesas and the Tuamotus — were a 12! I'll tell you about it next month — along with going up on the reef, setting up camp on a re¬ mote atoll, salvaging the boat, and sail¬ ing her to Papeete. — george backhus

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jmer sailing season actually are more I splendid than any that have gone before, But one thing is certain: it’s sure great to Ibe out on the water again. As you can see on the following pages, j lots of boats have come out of hibernaj tion to join the fun. For some, like the | hardy souls on the International Folkboat blasting across our opening spread, fun | means reefing down and pounding into j the teeth of a 25-knot westerly — the same two-fisted breeze that shadow-boxed the crewed Farallones Race on May 9. For others, it meant finding gentler breeze and flatter water. Still others brushed the rust j and spiderwebs out of their Magma bar! becues for intimate dinners at anchor with old wine and new friends. Or vice versa.

Above, little cable cars aren't the only convey- j ances around San Francisco to climb halfway j to the stars. Spread, duking it out with ebb chop, f Right, shredding a ferry wake. As you'll also notice, the boardheadsf are back in force. On that windy May 9, J we estimate around 100 of them were zip¬ ping back and forth on the popular! Cityfront reach, with a handful braving! the big swells wrapping around Fort Point | for some really thrilling rides. No matter what type of sailing you like! to do, San Francisco Bay offers it. We've I said it before and we'll doubtless say it I many more times, but this year — it must* be El Nino — we really feel it more than! most: This is the greatest place to sail inj the world. Get out and enjoy it!

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CRUISING L/ast month, we highlighted some of our favorite Bay Area cruising destina¬ tions for sailors new to Northern Califor¬ nia, and old salts who have probably for¬ gotten half the great places you can 'get away' hereabouts. This rhonth, we're ven¬ turing out the Golden Gate with the same group for a little local ocean cruising: As part of last month's article, we also noted the 'perfect daysail’ for cruisers inside the Bay. This month, we'll impart a little more local knowledge for those planning an cruise outside. Here are the salient points to remember. • Cruising in the ocean off Northern California bears little resemblance to cruising off Southern California. In the former, there's always somewhere to run for shelter if the wind pipes up. Lee shores are generally not a big issue, and neither are reefs and shoals. Off Northern Cali¬ fornia, lee shores, fog, shoals and reefs have claimed hundreds of vessels since the time of the Gold Rush. And, depend¬ ing on where you are and the time of day, shelter can be scarce. So the first thing you have to know to cruise out local waters outside the Golden Gate is your boat and crew. The former should be well-found, with all systems in working order, and the latter should have at least some ocean experience among them, as well as be intimate with such maneuvers as real anchoring, and reef¬ ing sails in a blow. • The second thing you should know is that the Potato Patch and South Bar are no place to be when the wind is blow¬ ing. A quick look on a chart of the en¬ trance to the Bay will show that these shallow areas extend for several miles on either side of the main shipping channel into the Bay. During the winter, the bars are the breeding ground of huge sneaker waves that have claimed many yachts over the years. In the summer, the Potato Patch and South Bar are not quite as deadly, but can still toss a boat and crew7 around like a huge runaway Maytag. The bars are most dangerous during times of big swells, strong ebb and high winds — which usually means late afternoon. • So the best plan of action is as fol¬ lows: If you're heading north to Bodega Bay or Drakes, leave the sails stowed. Start early and motor like mad to where you're going before the wind comes up. And by early, we mean at the crack of dawn or before. Some people even leave at midnight; the thinking being, 'if you're going to motor anyway, why not do it when the conditions are calmest?" Sounds like sound advice to us. If you're really hard-core, you can sail Page 146 •

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to northern destinations, but your crew may never go out with you again. In any case, avoid trying to sail or motor across the Potato Patch in mid-afternoon if the aforementioned conditions exist. You can also pass to oceanward of the Potato Patch (or South Bar). Proceed down the shipping channel until at least the Lightbucket, then turn north or south. If you’re headed south, we'd plan to pass under the Golden Gate before noon. By the time you reach Land's End and turn left, you'll enjoy the best of the af¬ ternoon breeze for the run down the coast. Naturally, you'll want to reverse these procedures for the trip home: leave early and motor like mad from southern desti¬ nations. From up north, enjoy a leisurely brunch, then set the kite and boogie home on the afternoon westerly. • You can get away with no charts and no radio in the Bay, but don't try cruis¬ ing the ocean without either of these items. If your charts crumble at the touch or show dates earlier than 1950, consider getting up-to-date versions. Working VHF radios — preferably a shipboard unit with masthead antenna and a handheld backup — will come in handy for every¬ thing from contacting harbor-masters (they almost all monitor Channel 16) to calling for aid if you've gotten in over your head. Cellphones are also increasingly popular items on cruises. But our advice is to use yours for outgoing calls only. Remember, they don't call them 'getaways’ for nothing. • One last tip: if it's your first time or you're unsure of yourself, for the first one

If you don't catch any fish yourself on your ocean sails, you can still buy them fresh from the fish¬ ermen at Pillar Point. or two trips 'out there,' plan your cruise for a time you know other yachts will be making the same trip. For example, as part of yacht club or fleet cruise^or when a racing fleet is headed in the same di¬ rection. Pay attention to the caveats, and the rewards are plentiful. From the hustle and bustle of Santa Cruz or Monterey to the isolation and rugged beauty of Drakes Bay, cruising outside the Golden Gate offers many happy returns, not the least of which is a sense of accomplishment. It's also a great way to keep alive the dream of the 'Big Cruise' — and great practice for that cruise. There’s a lot to the oft-heard notion that if you can 'sail San Francisco', you can sail anywhere in the world. And 'sailing San Francisco’ most definitely means outside the Gate. Here are a few of our favorite stops. As with last month, this is not meant to be a definitive list. There are plenty of desti¬ nations beyond these both north and south. Generally speaking, the farther south you get, the more civilized the stops get and the more you can relax. The far¬ ther north, the more isolated and remote the small coves and harbors. Cruising north beyond Bodega Bay is hardball stuff. Please don't try it unless you have a very solid boat and crew.

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DESTINATIONS —PART II be invited to take part in the globally-famous Wet Wednesday evening races held just outside the yacht harbor. Another nearby option is the Capitola

excellent training. You'll likely be exposed to strong wind, big seas and fog. On the other hand, if the weather is mild, it can be a beautiful sail with great views of a rugged and unpopulated coastline. There are three marinas at Bodega Bay, but your best bet is the 244-berth Spud Point Marina (707-875-3535). Pull into any open berth marked T (for tran¬ sient) and let the Harbormaster know you're there. Bodega has all services and facilities — as well as considerable charm. Since it's a bit of a voyage, though, we'd set aside at least four days to enjoy it. Not quite up to such a varsity outing? No problem. Drakes Bay, only half the distance from the Gate, offers the same ocean and weather challenges of Bodega and,but it's a lot closer. And unlike Bodega, which has a complicated ap¬ proach and lots of shoal areas, Drakes is wide open from tfie southeast. You an¬ chor in sand in three to six fathoms of water. While often windy, this anchorage is well protected from the prevailing winds. There are no moorings or other yacht facilities, which means you're pretty much restricted to your boat. Hardy souls can dinghy ashore for hiking, but most of the rest of us will be content to hunker down with a good book and wonder if Sir Francis Drake really stop here or not. The debate continues. # (Many one-design, yacht club and as¬ sociation cruises descend on Drakes Bay every year, and the Corinthian YC Drakes Bay Race in mid-September overnights there. Ifyou believe in safety in numbers,' keep an eye on Calendar.)

Among the best parts of visiting Bodega or Drakes Bays is the ride home — it's downwind all the way. Half Moon Bay — Just a quick 20 miles south of the Golden Gate, Half Moon Bay — more properly Pillar Point Harbor (415-726-5727) — is a popular weekend destination for racers and cruisers. It nonetheless involves open ocean sailing, a somewhat tricky approach, and an un¬ usual double breakwater. If you get con¬ fused, the harbormaster can talk you in' if you call on Channel 16. You won't be the first. Avoid the temptation to cut the west corner if coming from the north, as it's both rocky and you'll cross Mavericks, a legendary surfing beach home to 30-foot waves in the winter. A final possible dan¬ ger: nearby Montara is the fog capital of the universe, and in comes in quickly. Don't enter Pillar Point for the first time in a fog. Once inside the outer breakwater, you can drop your hook in a sand bottom and dinghy to shore or the boat hafbor. If you want a berth — all end-ties with the ex¬ ceptions of docks D and E —just let the friendly harbormaster know and he'll set you up. Pillar Point, home to a large fish¬ ing fleet, has eveiything a mariner needs, including some great restaurants just a short distance way. The area offers some nice hiking and, for those with wetsuits, body and boardsurfing. If you're in search of the warmest off¬ shore destination in Northern California, look no farther than Santa Cruz. Seventy miles from the Golden Gate, the 950-berth marina is home to some of the finest boats and sailors in the state. End-Lies are re¬ served for transients on a first-come, firstserved basis, but be prepared for raft-ups. Call the Harbormaster on VHF Channel 16 or cellphone (408-475-6161) for other options — and to make sure the harbor isn't shoaled up. It's also possible to an¬ chor offshore in 18 feet or more — as long as you don't mess with Wharf operations or swimmers and surfers. Last time we checked, guest dockage ran 604 a foot per night, which includes water and power. Mellow Santa Cruz has all the services and facilities you might want and plenty of attractions ashore — including fine beaches, the Boardwalk, and great hik¬ ing in the redwoods. Figure on at least three days for such a trip, including the possibility you may want to wait out some weather before coming back north. If you're there on Wednesday, you'll likely

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NORCAL CRUISING DESTINATIONS day. Call them on Channel 11 or at (408) 462-2208 for reservations. Capitola is a fun little place with lots of places to eat and drink — and close by surfing. If you have four days or so to spare — a week is better — consider the 'south¬ ernmost' NorCal destinations: Moss Land¬ ing, Monterey, and Stillwater Cove — ap¬ proximately 80, 90 and 100 miles, respec¬ tively, from the Golden Gate. Moss Landing has the Elkhorn YC (408-724-3875) in the north harbor and the Moss Landing Harbor (408-633-2461) in the south. The entrance can have surge and shoaling, as can the approach to the Elkhorn YC, so it's advisable to contact the Harbormaster by radio — before he goes home at 4:30. Both should have spots for transient vessels. While not a garden spot of the world, Elkhorn Slough is an ecological reserve with lots of marsh areas. Both it and Moss Landing, home mostly to fishing boats, have all the fa¬ cilities you'll need, plus some nice res¬ taurants. Monterey has an anchorage, two ma¬ rinas with transient slips, tremendous history, great things to do ashore, and lots

put the pedal to the metal, a mid-size boat should be able to make it back under the Golden Gate by early afternoon. If you've stuck your toe out under the Gate and summer is just too boisterous out there for you, consider planning your first short ocean trip in late summer and early fall (September/October) when there is generally less fog, lighter breeze and warmer temperatures. Past October, you might get a window of good weather for a couple of days. But unless you're headed south for Mexico, our advice is to confine your sailing to inside the Bay for the winter. From No¬ vember until late April or early May, the ocean off Northern California is no place for recreational sailing. Whether you're staying close to home this summer, cruising locally or finally taking off on that big cruise, we wish you all fair winds. And we invite each of you to drop us a line to share a good anchor¬ age, a hard passage or memorable mo¬ ment — anything you think might help or entertain your fellow readers. And, if you insist, we’ll keep some tid¬ bits our little secret.

of places to spend money. The 425-slip Monterey Marina (408-646-3950) moni¬ tors 16, while Breakwater Cove Marina (408-373-7857) monitors 67. It's also pos¬ sible to anchor out. Stillwater Cove has unsurpassed beauty, or so we’ve heard. The truth is; we've yet to go there and don't know any¬ thing more about it than we did the last time we asked readers to tell us about the place. A couple of you sent in 'let's keep it our little secret' letters, but honest, we have really never been there. We’d like to hear from you. . . then we'll keep it our little secret. t

While it's impossible to predict the weather, Northern California ocean con¬ ditions tend to be most boisterous in the spring and early summer, with the stron¬ gest winds in the late afternoon. And the least wind and swell in the wee hours. Once again, if you want to make the best time with the least hardship, take off un¬ der power from any Monterey Bay desti¬ nation at midnight.' It’s easiest to stop overnight at Half Moon Bay, but if you

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FARALLONES RACE

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hen it comes to ocean racing, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. San Francisco YC's crewed Farallones Race on May 9 was a case in point. "It/was a beautiful sail, a gorgeous day in the ocean," claimed Whitbread veteran Dee Smith, who sailed on the new-to-theBay Area N/M 49 Bullseye (ex-Infinity). "Other than a broken spinnaker pole fit¬ ting and a ripped kite, we didn’t have any problems. Bob (Garvie) took along two of his young kids, and I brought my two brothers sailing with me for the first time in over 25 years. We were first to the is¬ land, first to finish, won the race overall, and had a great time!" Not everyone saw it that way: high winds, bumpy seas and bone-chilling cold took its toll on the 57-boat fleet, causing 24 dropouts and a fair amount of carnage. A lot of breakfasts also went over the side, as did the mast of Peter Isler's DynaFlyer 40 Red Hornet, which tumbled at the top spreaders a mile off Point Bonita while

noted Isler. All kinds of other boats broke gear in winds that averaged 25-30 knots, with gusts approaching 40. A sampling of the 'disabled list' included steering failures on the J /44 Acey Deucy and the Cal 39 Si¬ ren; the Newland 368 Pegasus XTVturned back early with a broken runner; the Farr 40 Blue Chip blew out both kites and limped home under white sails, and so J on. The damage reports are still filtering 1| back to us — suffice it to say that it was Sj an expensive afternoon in the Gulf of the | Farallones.

Spread, the new SC 52 Rosebud' struts her stuff. Above, 'Red Hornet's rig collapsed after their only round-up. Photos by 'latitude'/jr. hitting warp speeds on the way home. The Hornet managed to finish despite their 'aluminum reef, still going 7 or 8 knots. "We were going that direction anyway,"

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handful of boats tacked up the exposed East face of the barren island — straight into the bumps — and left the mark to port, which seemed to be the wrong strat¬ egy. As Smith noted, the first boat to the rocks was Bullseye, which reveled in the heavy upwind work and rounded to star¬ board some 20 minutes ahead of the new SC 52 Rosebud, which opted for a port rounding. Bullseye went on to claim line honors after 5 hours and 54 minutes on Are we having fun yet? Slipping and sliding home on 'Surprise' with designer Carl Schum¬ acher at the wheel. Photo by iatitude'/rob.

the course. Rosebud came in just seven minutes later. "The 52 gained on us the whole way in," reported Dee. "That's a really fast boat off the breeze." We had the pleasure of sailing the race with Steve and Susan Chamberlin on their new Schumacher 46 Surprise. Other than a broken lower lifeline fitting and a spin¬ naker sheet which sawed through near Mile Rock, we came through unscathed, though out of the winner's circle. No one ate much, and everyone was frozen to their spot on the rail by the time we rounded the islands, but as always, the ride home made the whole trip worth-

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Schumacher, Sally Lindsay, Will Paxton and Melinda Erkelens — took turns steering. with Melinda posting the highest | speed — 24 knots during a 36-knot puff!

Schumacher. "It has a pretty flat bottom, but it didn't pound upwind — and it flies downwind! It's faster for its size than Heart of Gold, the boat it was loosely pat-

terned after." We figure anyone who finished this rather brutal race deserves to be recog¬ nized, which is why — for a change — we're running full results on the follow¬ ing page. We ll let the accompanying pic¬ tures tell the rest of the story. i — latitude /rkm

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PHRO-1A— 1) Bullseye, N/M 49, Bob Garvie; 2) Rosebud, SC 52, Roger Sturgeon; 3) Blue Chip, Farr 40, Walt Logan; 4) Peregrine, Mumm 30, David Thomson; 5) Surprise, Schumacher 46, Steve & Su¬ san Chamberlin; 6) Red Hornet, DynaFlyer40, Peter Isler. (10 boats; 4 DNF) PHRO-IB — 1) Eclipse, Express 37, Mark Dowdy; 2) Punk Dolphin, Wylie 39, Jonathan Livingston; 3) Petard, Farr 36, Keith Buck; 4) Spindrift V, Express 37, Larry & Lynn Wright; 5) Mariposa, C&C 40-2, Jim Casciani; 6) Stop Making Sense, Soverel 33, Dean Briggs. (7 boats; 1 DNF) PHRO-IIA — 1) Ice Nine, Santana 35, Brenden Busch; 2) Grey Ghost, Zaal 38, Doug Grant. (3 boats;

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PHRO-IIB — 1) Island Girl, Islander 36, Frank Burkhart; 2) Scotch Mist, Cal 39, Ray Minehan; 3) Copernicus, Ohlson 38, Scott Hancock. (7 boats- 4 DNF) J/35 — 1) Jarlen, Bob Bloom; 2) Jabiru, Brian Dunn; 3) Friday Harbor, Ryle Radke. (4 boats; 1 DNF) MORA-I — 1) Baffett, Express 27, Forest Baskett/ Tom Baffico; 2) Swamp Donkey, Express 27, Scott Sellers; 3) New Wave, Express 27, Buzz Blackett; 4)

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BOMBARD, PART II: In the April issue, we began telling you the story of Dr. Alain Bombard and his 1952 attempt to sail/drift across the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in a 15-foot inflatable rubber boat. By not taking any food or water, the French phy¬ sician intended to prove his controversial theory that castaways — of which he claimed there were at least 200,000 a year during peacetime — could survive on nothing but what the ocean provided. Bombard hypothesized that castaways needed three things for survival: 1) Wa¬ ter, 2) Food, and 3) Hope. He suggested that castaways could get life-sustaining water two ways: by drinking limited amounts of seawater and unlimited amounts of 'fish juice' — the liquid ob¬ tained from squeezing chunks of fish with a fruit press. Except for plankton, the source of Vitamin C, fish was going to be the only source of food. As for hope, Bom¬ bard would provide that himself by suc¬ cessfully drifting all the way across an ocean and a sea. Bombard ignored entirely the subject of hypothermia, the greatest killer of cast¬ aways. On May 25, 1952, Bombard and En¬ glishman Jack Palmer set off from Mo¬ naco aboard a 15-foot horseshoe-shaped rubber boat L'Heretique. The little boat was similar to the inflatable dinghies of today — except that it carried a single mast with a 'window-shade' style sail. As reported in our April issue, the duo had mixed results crossing the Med to Tangiers, their prelude to crossing the Atlantic. On the positive side of their Mediter¬ ranean adventure, they drank small amounts of seawater without*'ili effects; they ate both plankton and raw fish; and they didn't die. On the negative side, they'd drifted in circles; had their inflat¬ able flip while being towed; accepted food and water from a passing ship; and fi¬ nally resorted to shipping their boat to Tangiers. Bombard was disgusted by ongoing reports in the press that characterized his experiment as either a foolish stunt or sui¬ cidal madness. And he was furious with those who mocked him for accepting food and water from the passing ship — al¬ though he never properly explained, that violation of his experiment. As details for the crossing of the At¬ lantic were being worked out, several sponsors got cold feet and withdrew. As if that weren't bad enough, it became ob¬ vious that Palmer, Bombard's shipmate, no longer had his heart in the bold en¬ deavor. A defiant man. Bombard left Palmer a short note and impulsively took Page 168 • UuxUtZi • June. 1998

off for Casablanca on his own.

^IBombard's trip to Casablanca took seven days and went reasonably well, as did his 11-day crossing to the Canaiy Is¬ lands. He caught plenty of fish and noted that the Atlantic water tasted "absolutely delicious compared to that of the Med. It was much less salty and quenches my thirst perfectly." Upon arrival at each port, he was the subject of tremendous publicity — most of it negative. Several newspapers had headlines reporting that he'd died in the Gulf of Cadiz. While the overwhelming majority of experts assured Bombard that he was committing suicide^ a few offered him welcome encouragement. Bombard harbored many fears: On the way from Tangiers to Casablanca and Casablanca to the Canaries, for instance, he promised himself he would abandon the silly experiment when he reached land. But he was also a stubborn man who was energized by criticism. It's also noteworthy that Bombard began his risky 2.700-mile voyage without seeing his first child, Natalie, born only days before he left. A few days into his Atlantic voyage, Bombard gained considerable confidence in L'Heretique, as she was proving to be surprisingly seaworthy. "L'Heretique was never going to capsize," he wrote. "The dinghy behaved exactly as 1 hoped, like an aquaplane or floating platform, slid¬ ing over the crests of the waves without offering any resistance." When Columbus set off in 1492, skep¬ tics told him he’d sail off the edge of the world. When Bombard set off from the Ca¬ naries, skeptics said he wouldn't find any fish beyond the continental shelf. In both cases the skeptics were badly mistaken. "After wounding a couple of fish," wrote Bombard, "I managed to catch my first dorado — and was saved. For not only did I have food and drink, but bait and hook as well. Behind the gill cover there is a perfect natural bone hook such as has been found in the tombs of prehis¬ toric men — and which I think I can claim to have adapted to modern use. From then on 1 had all the food and liquid I needed, and was never in danger of starving." Bombard saw plenty of fish and bird life — and actually got to know many of them. "Relations with my marine neigh¬ bors assumed a definite pattern and they became almost like family friends. There

was a petrel which paid me a flying visit every day at four o'clock. It baffled me how it managed to cover such distances to seek its sustenance in the middle of the ocean." After 50 days, the petrel didn't return. 'The dolphins [meaning dorado] were much more faithful than the petrel, and stayed with me 24 hours a day. They were easy to recognize, for in trying to catch them with my bent knife the first day, I had wounded them and the marks still showed. There were five or six dolphins I recognized by their wounds, the latest of which I called Dora. She never left me — but took good care not to come near enough for a second thrust. When the wind was light, the dolphins used to take quick runs at the dinghy and smack the floats with their tails, as if to ask why I was lagging." "These dolphins were joined regularly by newcomers,” observed Bombard, "and these were the ones I managed to catch. All I needed was my bone hook baited with a flying fish I picked up every morning and a length of string. I pulled the bait rapidly across the surface of the water, as if it were a flying fish skidding over the surface. The dolphins fairly fought for it, like dogs for a bone. All the new arrivals fell for this trick, but my old frieiifls never moved from their tracks." As Bombard progressed on his voyage, barnacles accumulated on the bottom of his boat and there were even more fish. "The fish must have found the dinghy a useful companion," Bombard noted, "as I was now surrounded by a veritable aquarium. I had never seen so many fish in my life. As for those who predicted I would never catch a thing, I hope their faces are red." For a short period in the early stages of the trip. Bombard caught fewer but larger fish. "I can'now drink from the fish daily by cutting slits in the flesh without have to chuck them into pieces and put them in the fruit press," he noted. While eating raw fish has, of course, become an international dining phenomenon, drink¬ ing 'fish juice1 has been a little slow catch¬ ing on.

Xl.s Bombard predicted from the moment he proposed the trip, the most serious problem he and other castaways would face is not the lack of food or wa¬ ter, but despair. "The day the tow was dropped off Las Palmas," Bombard re¬ members, "I thought solitude was some¬ thing I would be able to master once I became accustomed to its presence. But

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I had been too presumptuous. It was not something I had carried with me, and it could not be measured by the confines of myself or the boat. It was a vast presence which engulfed me, its spell something I could not escape from. When I talked to hear my own voice, I felt even more alone." As the weeks went on, the solitude and despair resulted in some increasingly odd behavior. 'The little doll mascot my friends had given me on leaving the Canaries began to acquire a tangible personality. I used to look at her and start a conversa¬ tion, describing exactly the next thing I was going to do. It was not yet a dialogue — although that would come in time." Bombard later decided that the number of matches it took to light his damp ciga¬ rettes would equal the number of days before he would see land again. During the second week of his cross¬ ing, Bombard turned 28 years of age. As a 'present', he caught a shearwater with his fishing line. "I was a little worried he might peck holes in my inflatable, but no sooner did I have him in the dinghy than he seemed to have an attack of seasick¬ ness, vomiting all over the deck. The crea¬ ture was only half-conscious, and with a slight feeling of repugnance, I wrung its neck. I have never eaten raw bird meat in my life, but considering that steak tartar is a delicacy, why not the flesh of bird?" The bird was to give Bombard two nasty surprises. First, to the doctor's dis¬ may, the bird had the aftertaste of fish. Secondly, it glowed in the dark. "During the night I received something of a shock as I noted a curious light through my tent. At first I thought the raft had somehow caught fire, but it was only my half shearwater — I'd already eaten the other half — giving out such a strong phospho¬ rescent light that it reflected on the sail, giving it a ghostly appearance." What's odd about the early part of the, trip is that Bombard, a trained scientist on a scientific expedition, didn’t seem to record how much of what he drank and ate. And it's not as though he didn't have time, for he found plenty of opportunities to smoke, read classics, medical texts and music scores, and listen to music — in¬ cluding six playings of Schubert's Seventh Symphony. Indeed, there probably hasn t been as culturally equipped a 15-footer in history. Afternoons were the "longest and most difficult" part of the day. At 2 p.m., he would give himself a physical check-up that included things like taking his blood pressure and checking the condition of his skin and mucous membranes. Finally,

he'd try to evaluate his state of mind and morale.

_ counting the days became a source of immense discouragement for Bombard, as it made the time pass more slowly. For some reason, he had estimated that he could make the 2,700-mile great circle passage in a mere 20 days. "Not to alarm anyone," he had told his wife and others that it might take as much as 35 days. What’s worse, Bombard was perpetu¬ ally lost. First, he made some basic er¬ rors in his celestial calculations. He later lost his watch, preventing him from be¬ ing able to determine longitude — the one thing he needed to know to calculate how fast and far he'd traveled. Bombard wildly overestimated his speed, which ultimately caused him terrible mental anguish. As the weeks passed, a certain com¬ placency set in. One afternoon, after no¬ ticing that his favorite seat cushion had fallen overboard and drifted astern, Bom¬ bard lowered the sail, set the sea anchor, and swam back to retrieve ,the cushion. When tie reached it, the sea anchor some¬ how got fouled, allowing L'Heretique to take off toward Martinique without him! Bombard was an excellent swimmer, having once swam nonstop for 21 hours and on another occasion having swam the English Channel. Despite swimming faster than he ever had in his life, his rub¬ ber boat was pulling away. Bombard car¬ ried barbiturates for the specific purpose of killing himself if he became separated from his dingtiy, "I wasn't going to swim for 30 hours before dying," he said. For¬ tunately he didn't pop the downers pre¬ maturely, because L'Heretique's sea an¬ chor suddenly reopened, allowing Bom¬ bard to catch up. "1 swore it was the last dip I would take on the voyage."

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_fter what Bombard claims was three weeks of living off 'fish juice' — he apparently drank no seawater — the first of the rain squalls arrived. "I was drenched in a tropical downpour, which rapidly filled the tent sheet and made it sag. I plunged my head in and as quickly spat the water out; it was full of salt. At second fill the freshwater was like nectar — although it tasted of rubber. The squall didn't last long, but the rainfall was tre¬ mendous. I not only drank my fill, but was also able to store three or four gal¬ lons in my rubber mattress." _

Bombard claimed to be in fine health at the time the fresh water arrived. "My reactions were perfectly normal, includ¬ ing the marvelous sensation of at last swallowing a real drink. My skin was still in perfect order, my mucous membranes had not dried, and my urine had remained normal in quantity, odor and color. I had proved conclusively that a castaway could live for three weeks — and even longer — without fresh water. It's true that Provi¬ dence was to spare me the ordeal of hav¬ ing to rely again on the flat insipid fish juice, for from that day on I always had sufficient rainwater to slake my ttiirst." Had Bombard really survived for three weeks drinking nothing but 'fish juice'? Many experts are skeptical. While Bom¬ bard claimed that 'fish juice' isn't salty, experts point out that it has exactly ttie same salt content as human blood. As a result, 'fish juice' wouldn't have provided him with any 'free water'. Based on many other experiments, experts doubt a nor¬ mal person could remain in good health after drinking 'fish juice' for three weeks. In any event, from the third week on, freshwater was plentiful. It rained so hard one night that Bombard jokingly said, "It would really be too much if I drowned in fresh water — but that's what's going to happen if this downpour goes on." With plenty of fresh water to drink, plenty of fish to eat, and enough warmth provided by the temperature climate, the last seven weeks of Bombard's trip be¬ came an almost routine battle for survival such as a number of mariners have faced. This is not to suggest that it wasn't a ter¬ rible struggle, for he had the following problems: — A large shark he fought for 12 hours. — Numerous swordfish that threat¬ ened to puncture his inflatable. — Terrible depression he suffered when he didn't get enough sleep. — Perhaps worst of all, the mind games. "I began to believe in the active hostility of certain inanimate objects," Bombard wrote. "I might decide to write up my log or work out some calculation. I would sit down with a pencil, and I needed only to turn around for 10 seconds be¬ fore the pencil would disappear! It was Jike a mild form of persecution mania." L'Heretique, however, continued to per¬ form marvelously. During storms, her sea anchors allowed her to set to the seas beautifully. And having spent so much time so close to the water, Bombard was becoming an expert on the sea. "Curi¬ ously, the sea is not at its most danger¬ ous when the waves are high," he ob¬ served, "but only when it is not controlled by the wind. It is dangerous when a storm June, 1998 •

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BOMBARD, PART II: is gathering, because the waves are not yet under control. And also when the storm has blown out and there is no longer a rhythm." For someone who claimed to have been in such good health after three weeks of drinking 'fish juice', the fresh water al¬ most seemed to do Bombard harm. He began to note some serious health prob¬ lems. His body was eventually covered in pustules, which caused him "unbearable pain". And little abrasions turned septic in the constantly damp environment. The skin under his nails became inflamed with painful pockets of pus that he had to lance without anesthetic. And were it not for the inflatable's wooden deck — which turned blessedly soft from being exposed to so much water — Bombard is con¬ vinced he would have developed "gangrene or serious arterial trouble." And there were mental health issues, too. "The best advice I can give." Bom¬ bard wrote in a more lucid moment, "is that whethe? things go well or ill, the cast¬ away must tiy to maintain a measure of detachment." If Bombard could no longer count on his health and morale, he could at least

count on his fish friends. Every morning the 'original' dorado would rise out of the depths to visit him with new and seem¬ ingly less intelligent fish. "My larder fol¬ lowed me wherever I went," Bombard’ mused. And the dorado never failed to impress him with their skill and ingenu¬ ity. They would frighten flying fish into flight, then be 100 yards away with open mouths when the flying fish landed. At the end of a month, Bombard fig¬ ured he was probably no more than six days from land — when in fact he was more than 30 days out. Nonetheless, he made a list of the first things he wanted upon landfall: 1) Hot bath, 2) Watertight shoes, 3) Dry bed, 4) Roast chicken, and 5) A quart of beer. After 40 days at sea. Bombard scanned the horizon constantly, certain that he would spot land at any minute. Search¬ ing the horizon, particularly in the direc¬ tion of a setting tropical sun, was ex¬ tremely hard on his eyes because he hadn't brought any sunglasses.

-Z~Vs he neared 50 days at sea. Bombard's flawed calculations, plus what seemed like indications of imminent land¬ fall — catching a fly, seeing a light bulb and gossamer of a spider drift by, and seeing what guides called 'land birds' — tortured his mind. Then there were eight days of infuriating calm; diarrhea that caused him to "squat over the side 20 times a day"; and blood in his stool. ' With a weakened mind and body, Bom¬ bard began to engage in fantasy. "Please God, let me live long enough to drink — at one gulp — two quarts of milk." A few days later, he mused — in great detail — over the perfect meal. "Either foie gras truffee, souffle aux crevettes, canard au sang, pommes paille.Jromages varies, omelette Jlambee a la confiture, and fruits rafraichis au champagne. Or else, homard Thermidor, perdreau truffee sur canape, haricots verts, fromages varies, crepes Suzette (a dozen) fruits rafraichis au cham¬ pagne. Or even better, bouquet d'ecrevisses, a dozen escargots, lievre a royale, pommes vapeur. Or, cuissot de chevreuil, fromages varies, omelette Jlambee aux confitures, ananas au kirsch

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A THIRST FOR THE OCEAN a la creme. For wine: Muscadet, Pommard 1928, Vosne-Romanee 1930, MoutonRothchild 1947, Chateau-Yquem 1929, Vielle Cure, and a cigar." There's nothing like a little deprivation to sharpen the palate, is there? Soon Bombard's thinking was domi¬ nated by the possibility he might die. "If the dinghy is thrown up on land with me as a corpse, I have only one request, that someone box the ears of the author of the Castaways Handbook. It is wrong and only serves to demoralize the readers. Wind is wrong, birds are wrong, other evidence of land is all wrong." Then there was more paranoia. "If I fail, it will be because everything has turned against me. Definition of a tradewind ar¬ ea: a region where there is practically never any wind." And minor annoyances got blown out of proportion. "I cannot stand the noise of the flapping sail. I would prefer a good storm. This is the worst day of them all." As his despair increased, Bombard began to formulate his last wishes. Num¬ ber two was, "Steps must be taken to pre¬ vent the death of other castaways whose morale has been shattered by authors of

handbooks giving false information about the proximity of land. I hold responsible for my death those who prevented me from having the radio transmitter I so badly need at tbe moment." Realizing he might be nearing death, Bombard began to think of his legacy. He decided that although he might die, he had at least proven his theories, for he had survived for 50 days. Fortunately, he wasn't yet ready to die.

The most revealing moment of the trip occurred on the 53rd day when Bom¬ bard was picked up by the Arakaka, a large passenger ship bound for British Guiana. Bombard immediately — and wrongly — assumed that he must have been within just a few miles of some Car¬ ibbean port. "When the captain told me I was still 600 miles from land," remembers Bom¬ bard, "I felt as though I had been hit over the head with a hammer!" As he walked

the deck of the ship in a daze, he told himself that 53 days was too much, that another 600 miles would be impossible, that he'd already proved his point. Then he heard an English officer mumble — "You have to hand it to the French, they'll try anything" — behind his back." "That did it!" wrote Bombard. The hell with his health problems, the hell with the despair and solitude, the only way to respond to the perceived insult was to get back in L'Heretique and finish the voy¬ age. The captain insisted that Bombard at least eat a meal before he rejoin L'Heretique. So Bombard dined on a fried egg, a little piece of liver, a spoonful of cabbage and some fruit. The meal nearly killed him, as his body was no longer ac¬ customed to normal food. When the captain asked if he had any requests, Bombard asked that the BBC broadcast the Sixth Brandenburg Con¬ certo on Christmas Night. The BBC com¬ plied with the request, although by that time Bombard had reached land. After various adventures with a terribly upset stomach, whales, a six-hour

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BOMBARD, PART II game of chicken with some huge sea beast that resulted in a hole and bailing every six hours, and four involuntary swampings, "remembering eveiy meal he'd ever eaten in his life", and about eight more days, there came Another ship. Bombard discovered the Dutch cargo ship after it had steamed by. He got off a flare just in time lor them to see it in the daylight and turn around. "Captain," Bombard asked, "how did you manage to pass so close without seeing me?" "But we did see you," the captain re¬ plied. "We passed quite close, circled right around you, and not seeing any sign of life, assumed that it was an abandoned dinghy and continued on our way." Bom¬ bard exploded: "No sign of life, sir? My sail was set, the rudder fixed, the wire¬ less aerial was up. How can you call that no sign ol life? Supposing I had been a real castaway, hall dead and incapable of making any signal, would you have aban¬ doned me to rrn^ fate?" By this time. Bombard was just 70 miles from Barbados and had a new worry — the treachery of humans. "During the 18th century, it was on the section of coast that I would land that the notori¬

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SVEND SVENDSEN A

xxfter 35 years of running a boatyard on the banks of the Oakland Estuaiy, Alameda's Svend Svendsen has become somewhat of an institution in the local boating community. If someone tells you their boat is "at Svend-’s," for example,

Dear oi Dad: Svend Svendsen with his daugh¬ ter Sabrina. there's no question about what they mean. Housed in several buildings in the Alameda Marina, Svendsen's Boat Works specializes in soup-to-nuts boat care where you can get your bottom done, in¬ stall a new mast or buy that missing piece of hardware. Located in the corner of the large shed that houses several of the yard's differ¬ ent enterprises is Svend's office. On the walls of the wood-paneled space are vari¬ ous clues to the boss's multiple person¬ alities: boatbuilder, racing sailor, father, golfer, marine industiy leader and inno¬

how the 65-year-old Svend, whose blond hair is now snowy white but whose blue eyes still dance, goes about his business. Arne Jonsson has known Svend foh 18 years and they're currently business partners in the Azzura 310 sport sailboat. "Svend is, above all, a boatbuilder, and he knows all the pieces that go into a boat," says Arne. "Even if he's not doing the work himself in the yard, he has his eye on everything." In fact, Svend is a master boatbuilder, just like his Danish father, grandfather and great grandfather. Like many other young Danes, he chose to enter the boatbuilding apprenticeship program at the age of 14 in his hometown just north of Copenhagen. He spent five years work¬ ing days in a boatyard and nights going to school to study principles of construc¬ tion, drafting and other academic sub¬ jects. His final exam was the design and fabrication of a keel, stem and transom for a 15-foot rowboat, plus the demon¬ strated ability to maintain all the tools needed at the time to construct wooden boats. "It was kind of nerve-wracking to have these guys looking over your shoul¬ ders," says Svend with more than a hint of a Danish accent. Although he was around boats all the time, sailing wasn't really a big part of his youth. He does recall racing a bit with his grandfather, who had an old rowing boat in which he had stuck a mast and a gaff-rigged sail. The boat had no keel, however. Svend’s job was to move the The Competition 1000. Svendsen's built a hand¬ ful of these handsome IOR half-tonners in the early 70s.

After completing his apprenticeship in the early 1950s, Svend served a year and a half in the Danish Army Corps of Engi¬ neers, where his specialty was explosives. He blew up lots of things for practice and spent a year touring northern Germany. His job was to measure and make draw¬ ings of all the bridges and determine where to place explosives on those struc¬ tures in order to knock them down. For¬ tunately, he never had to put any of his plans into operation.

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.small hooked leads from one side of the boat to the other after each tack to keep the boat level.

see the world, Svend hired himself out to Robert Derecktor, the legendary boatyard operator in Mamaroneck, New York, for $1.50 an hour. "I lasted there about five months and then found another yard that paid me $4 an hour," he remembers. Af¬ ter a while, he and a couple of other young Danes drove across the country to San Francisco late in 1956. Svend hadn't a penny to his name, but he was able to hock his camera and get a room at the old YMCA on Turk Street. The next day he found a job building Bounty fiberglass sloops over in Sausalito. That operation ran out of money about a month later. Svend was ready to head back east when he got a call from a Mr. Murphy,

MVP OF BAY AREA SAILING Pacific Marina near the Galleon (now the Tied House) Restaurant. It wasn't much to look at, "just rocks and dirt," accord¬ ing to Svend. Nevertheless, it was a start. He worked for the fellow who ran the chandlery next door. His biggest job was commissioning Rawson 30s, the big, roomy sloops built in Seattle which en¬ joyed considerable popularity in the Bay Area.

Sven's latest project, with partner Arne Jonsson, is building and refining the sporty Azzura 310. __

ting around on their tool boxes and looking like life had really passed them by. Svend didn't want to add himself to that

one of the contractors who built the Richmond-San Rafael bridge. The fellow had a passion for unlimited hydroplane powerboat racing and wanted to know if Svend could build him one. "I told him sure, I could build anything, but then I had to ask him what was an unlimited hydroplane!" Svend laughs. A boat is a boat is a boat, and Svend spent the next couple of years building and maintaining these 30-foot, aircraft engine-driven speedboats that hit 200 mph on the straightaways. Mr. Murphy had Svend travel around the country on the racing circuit and also sent him up to Lake Tahoe to test his boats.

hen Mr. Murphy's com¬ petitive fires waned, Svend went back to boatyard work. While at Ciyer & Son boatworks in Oak-, land, he built a 35-foot ketch for the owner of Mother's Cookies and repaired old boats. Everything was fine until the morning when Svend came to work and saw the rest of the guys in the yard, most of them in their 50s and 60s, sit-

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In 1963, Svend went into business for himself at the same location. Five years later, Alameda Marina opened up for de¬ velopment and he got the lease for his current location. Somewhere between two and three acres, the yard overwhelmed Svend at first. "I wondered what the heck I was going to do with all this land," he recalls. 'Then I got the bright idea that maybe I would let people park their boats there and they could do the work them¬ selves if they wanted, or they could hire us. It turned out to be a very popular idea, and it was the only way I could justify the big rent I was paying." In the early 1970s, the local Chris Craft dealership became available and Svend thought he'd try his hand at selling boats. Things went okay until the gas crunch hit in 1974 and powerboats were last on the list of consumer demands. "That pe¬ riod almost busted me," says Svend, who offered the boats at any reasonable price and unloaded enough of them to make

"I need a challenge like this to keep my sanity.. lineup and told his boss that he was go¬ ing to find something better. A short time later Svendsen got a job managing his own boatyard in Alameda's One of the hydroplanes Svend worked on in the 1950s. And we do mean worked.

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ends meet. He shifted over to the sailing market, selling O'Day boats for a while. He even had another sales office in Stockton, but gave it up when he tired of driv¬ ing to the San Joaquin Valley every week¬ end. "At heart, I'm just not someone who enjoys selling a product," he admits. "I enjoy talking to some¬ one about how to fix their boat, but that's selling my knowledge."

he boatyard business has been good to Svend, and he has expanded into different arenas, such as his chandleiy, rigging shop and the recently-added met¬ alwork division. He's also dabbling in selling boats again, having

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bought up the remains of Seabird Sailing and offering dinghies like the Laser and Optimist Pram. He's also kept his hand in boatbuilding over the years, although he's the first to admit that this endeavor is one of the

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY SVEND SVENDSEN EXCEPT AS NOTED his interests and activities led him to be¬ come involved in ways beyond just par¬ ticipating. One of the first organizations

in producing a boat that eventually 'passed a set of rigid tests by class offi¬ cials. He churned out about a dozen more

7 have to keep track of every gallon of paint we use. That's just part of doing business now." he joined upon arriving in San Francisco was the Young Scandinavians Club, which had about 45 members in the 1950s. Svend devoted tremendous energy to the club's activities, such as ski trips to the Sierras on weekends, and to its growth. He's still involved with the group, which now has a membership in the 700s.

Behind every successful man... Svend and his wife Suzanne. quickest ways to subtract from his bot¬ tom line. In the early 1960s, he became interested in the Nordic Folkboat. He struck up a friendship with one of his cli¬ ents, Gordon Waldear, who at the time owned and raced the very first Folkboat ever built. The two had fun keeping the old wooden sloop on the water and Svend bought another hull and began racing himself. "Svend has always been a very good tactical sailor," says Waldear, "and, of course, he always had a fast boat."

Xn the Folkboat class, Svend gets similar credit. Waldear says the two of them initiated the biennial San Francisco International Folkboat regatta, which draws top helmsmen from Denmark, Swe¬ den and Germany. In the mid-1970s, Svend undertook the task of building the first fiberglass Folkboat. The project lasted a year and a half, during which time Svend carefully measured every inch of Waldear's new boat and calculated how to distribute the glass in the hull to repliDespite naysayers that said it couldn't be done, Svend engineered the first successful line of fi¬ berglass Folkboats.

before tiring of the project and selling the molds. Other boatbuilding efforts have in¬ cluded a series of Half Tonners called the Competition 1000, of which Svend built a handful in the early 1970s, and the more recent Azzura 310. He and Jonsson have been refining the ultralight sloop designed by Hakan Sodergren for the past couple of years. Recent results, such as wins in the Farallones singlehanded and doublehanded races, indicate they're on the right track. Svend says they're working on their third keel bulb design right now, a fact that doesn't discourage him at all. "I need a challenge like this to keep my sanity," he says emphatically. "I can't just repair other people's boats all the time. Even if the Azzura doesn't make me any money, it keeps my enthusiasm going. It also gets other people around here involved in our progress." Svend's other major passion these days, as it has been for almost 15 years, is golf. He gets out on the links two or three times a week and takes off on golf¬ ing trips with buddies to places like Stockton and Monterey every few months. His big adventure is the annual Lincoln Mer¬ cury Kapalua Pro-Am Invitational in Ha¬ waii, where he trades putts with pros like Fred Couples and Jack Nicklaus. "It's a golfer's dream come true!" he says. He also .participates a couple of times a year in marine industry golf tournaments, like the one that always takes place before the Northern California Marine Association (NCMA) boatshow at Jack London Square.

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cate the wooden version. Others in the Folkboat fleet were skeptical that the glass model would work, but Svend succeeded

V^/vend’s involvement with NCMA, other than golf, shouldn't be overlooked. He was, in fact, one of the founders of the association almost three decades ago. Like the Young Scandinavian Club, NCMA be¬ came one of Svend's favorite volunteer activities. He's served as president several times and was one of the champions

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of the all-marine boat shows at the San Francisco Moscone Convention Center back in the 1980s. "I felt the industry was big enough for its own show and not part of tile Cow Palace show, where we get mixed in with guns and fishing," he says. The Moscone idea never quite worked out to his satisfaction, but he did con¬ tinue his involvement with NCMA. Over the past nine years, he's taken the lead in boatyards becoming more responsible in the area of pollution. "Svend's definitely been an activist in this regard, and he's also been there to get things done," notes Bob Gorman, the current executive direc¬ tor of the NCMA. In 1996, Svend received the Boating Facilities Environmental Responsibility Award from the National Marine Manu¬ facturers Association (NMMA) for his in¬ novative boat wash wastewater treatment system. Instead of being carried off into the Estuary, boat wash and even rainwa¬ ter is collected at various spots around

"Many of us in the marine industry kicked and screamed when air and water pollution issues became a big deal," he says. "I have to have a license to do just about anything these days, and I have to keep track of every gallon of paint we use. That's just part of doing business now. Most boatyards are much more conscious about pollution than we were just 10 years ago. We just don't want to see the regula¬ tions go out of control — and we still worry that might happen."

the age of 65, Svend doesn't have to do quite as much worrying as he once did. From all appearances, his boatyard is going great guns. His son Sean, who's also an active racer, has joined the busi¬ ness with the idea of taking over the reins in the future. Both Sean and his sister Sabrina have plans to marry this year. With all those milestones accomplished, Sven should be able to carve out more time for his favorite activities, like hold¬ ing a tiller and gripping his driving irons. You can't say he hasn't earned it. — shimon van collie

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ANTIGUA SAILING WEEK'98 I've been traveling to major regattas around the country for well over three decades. I've raced in most of California's big events; in national, North American and international championships in all

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Above, 'Sayonara' navigator Stan Honey and boat captain Billy Erketens. Spread, 'Emeraude' leads the charge at a Big Boat Division start. parts of the countiy; at Key West Race Week; in international offshore races and in the TransPac. However, none of that prepared me for Antigua Sailing Week. This event was truly different. With 247 boats competing, this year's Antigua Sailing Week has roughly the same number of boats as Key West Race Week. But there is one huge difference — tonnage. At KWRW, a 40-footer is a pretty big boat. At Antigua, the 40-footers are the little guys, dwarfed by the 70, 80 and 90-footers that seem absolutely ubiqui¬ tous. Antigua Sailing Week is more than just a regatta — this is a boat show the likes of which we never see on the West Coast. You get your first indication of how spe¬ cial these yachts are when you realize Elizebeth Myer’s magnificently restored JBoat Endeavour does not have the tallest stick in the harbor. In fact, Endeavour wasn't even the prettiest J-Boat there. That honor went to Valsheda — but it too was just one of many flawless mega¬ yachts. In fact, most people seemed to pay more attention to a huge blue cruising ketch with an unprecedented six-spreader mainmast. Understandably, each night the docks were alive with people who strolled slowly past this ostentatious display of wealth. Many of us came back night after night to look at the 100, 200 and 300-footers — you just don't get tired of admiring these magnificent creations. And big boats mean big crowds — real big crowds. An Page 168 •

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extra 5,000 people descended on this small Caribbean Island for this regatta, which certainly added an element of chaos. It's a happy, fun-loving chaos, but chaos nonetheless. Every night there was an official party

— plus several non-official parties — where the rum is poured freely (double meaning intended). A rain squall ripped through the Mount Gay party at Galleon Beach, but none of the thousands of party goers even seemed to notice or care. There

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Everyone loves Sailing Week — especially the local boatyards! (Tim Wright photo)

was free rum and a steel band, so how can you get agitated about a little rain? Rain or not, the line to claim a free Mount Gay baseball hat snaked around the beach almost endlessly. Amazingly, own¬ ers of multimillion-dollar yachts waited

patiently in line for 15-20 minutes to get their hat. Maybe it wasn't all that amaz¬ ing — sipping a glass or two of rum and OJ with your crewmates made the wait pretty tolerable. Understandably, the huge crowds ev¬

erywhere taxed the facilities of the res¬ taurants and watering holes on the island. But not to worry — local families jumped into the void and set up portable barbe¬ cue grills and outdoor bars that lined the streets and beaches, and took over the June, 1998 • UiUu/i39 • Page 169

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the racing was pretty wonderful. The air temperature was generally in the low 90s and the ocean wasn't much cooler. Each

pretty well together. The regatta sched¬ ule had five days of racing, which included a couple of point-to-point races that gave

For many of the 5,000 sailors this was party time — the racing was just a means to that end.

'Kookaburra' owner Peter Moss pumping iron at the ASWawards banquet. Trophies included first in division, first overall in the racer/cruiser fleet and 'best Swan' of the regatta. parking lots in the areas where the boats were concentrated. Visitors were never more than a few steps away from a hot chicken breast or a cold cocktail. Skippers, crews and boats came from 31 countries to race in this event, with the largest number of competitors from Germany. The German presence was par¬ ticularly noticeable in the bareboat char¬ ter classes. The next largest racing con¬ tingent came from the UK followed by Americans, Italians and French. While communicating with the Europeans was not always easy, the hardest people to talk with were the locals from Antigua. En¬ glish is the official language of this island nation, but as spoken by many of the resi¬ dents, it's almost totally unintelligible. One of the biggest social events took place on the regatta's lay day at the Antigua Yacht Club. Thousands of visi¬ tors spent a day in the sun, eating, drink¬ ing, and cheering on the contestants in the tug-of-war, beer drinking contests — and, yes, the wet tee shirt contest. The howls, taunts, whistles and cheers grew louder and louder as the finalists were selected. By that time however, the basic premise of the contest was discarded — along with the contestant's tee shirts. It took skin to win. Interestingly, at Pigeon Beach, less than a mile away from the yacht club, there are always a number of attractive topless female Europeans who swim, sun¬ bathe and have cocktails and lunch at Bumbkins Bar & Grill. At Pigeon Beach there are no howls, taunts, whistles or cheers — only 'sneak peaks' and approv¬ ing smiles from the male visitors. For many of the 5,000 sailors this was party time — the racing was just a means to that end. Still, no one could deny that Page 170 •

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day there were solid easterly tradewinds blowing in the mid-teens, and there were always enough shifts and changes caused by rain squalls and geographic influences to make the races challenging and fun. While it was physically demanding, it would be hard to find better sailing any¬ where.

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247 boats were divided into 4 classes, which were grouped in four divi¬ sions — Racing, Racer/Cruiser, Cruiser and Bareboat Charters. The bareboat group had the biggest division with four separate classes. While there were a few highly focused racing programs in each of the 14 classes, the reality was that win¬ ning was probably not the top priority for most of the crews at this event. This year was the 31 st running of ASW, and the race organizers had their stuff

the crews a chance to see a number of the great harbors on the island. And there were also some buoy races that provided interesting variations on the usual wind¬ ward/leeward format. The races were generally 20-28 miles, which kept the boats on the course for three to four hours. However, they started at 9:00 each morning; so everyone had time for an afternoon nap to 'recharge' before the parties got cranked up. Although ASW is run mostly by volun¬ teers, the event has a $500,000 budget which shows up in lots of little ways. Im¬ pressively, the race committee always posted preliminary results before most crews had their boats put away. Occa¬ sionally gremlins would sneak i^ito those results, and the positions frequently changed after competitors made 'inquir¬ ies.' The Caribbean Handicapping System

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is used to score all classes in the regatta. This is a measurement rule that uses time-on-time calculations. It seems to work just fine and. unlike big PHRF re¬ gattas I’ve attended, no one seemed to grumble about the results. Race committee work was generally excellent. The eight classes were started on two separate lines with ten-minute in¬ tervals, which eliminated any congestion during the starting sequence. After that, however, all bets were off. Imagine, if you can, Lariy Ellison's 80-foot Farr maxi Sayonara spinnaker-reaching at warp speed through a parade of rental boats with round, blown-out jibs. It happened — and while no one was injured, it surely caused some folks to soil their undies. The real ugly incidents however, gen¬ erally took place near the finish line. All 247 boats finished on the same line, and at times the congestion was downright awful. Trying to find a hole big enough to drive a port-tack Swan 65 through an unbroken line of bareboat charters on starboard tack was just plain scaiy. Col¬ lisions near the finish line were both dra¬ matic and frequent. Fortunately, there were two panels of international judges to sort out the subsequent protests. They Next stop for the all-conquering Sayonara' is the Maxi Worlds (including the Bermuda Race) this month in Newport, Rl.

£ | 5 p Finishing was almost scarier than starting, as boats of all sizes converged on the small line. were busy.

The star of this year's regatta was once again Larry Ellison's Sayonara. To say this no-nonsense Farr ILC maxi over¬ powered the racing division would be an enormous understatement. Racing Say¬ onara at ASW this year was a bit like tak¬ ing a Sherman tank to a street fight. Sayonara scored five straight bullets in the Big Boat Racing Class and was also the overall winner in the Racing Division in all but one race. Not too bad consider¬ ing Sayonara was socked with a last

minute rating 'adjustment'just before the first race. Race organizers decided Sayonara’s new keel was more bitchin' than their old keel, so they penalized it. Ap¬ parently the Caribbean Handicap System has an arbitrary "keel coolness coefficient" — or something equivalent to that. Stan Honey, Sayonara's navigator, explained that all keels are graded with a factor from 1 to 12, with 12 reserved for the most so¬ phisticated. The Melges 24 keel is a 12, and Sayonarcis keel must be pretty spe¬ cial because it was upgraded to an 11. As it turned out, it didn't make any differ¬ ence whatsoever. Clearly, no boat at ASW this year could match Ellison's profes¬ sional racing program. Ellison steered Sayonara for every start and at least half of each race — but he also had rockstar Chris Dickson stand¬ ing nearby to help out. His crew had a lot of Qalifornians including Mike Herlihey, Aimee Hess, Stan and Sally Honey, Mike Howard, Bobo Larson, Greg Prussia, plus Bill and Melinda Erkelens, who run the Sayonara program. Each day after Sayonara finished the race, Ellison was picked up by a tender from his mother ship, the 200-foot motor yacht, Sakura. As soon as Ellison was aboard, Sakura took off for Green Island or some other undisclosed spot where they spent the evening. And magically the next morning, Sakura would appear again and launch its tender to transport Ellison bajk to Sayonara just before the warn¬ ing signal. It looked like a very comfort¬ able way to do a regatta. Second place in the Big Boat Racing Class went to the Holland-based Swan 68 Defiance, steered by Dee Smith. Defiance scored a 2-3-2-3-3 in class to nose out the Reichel/Pugh 79 Alexia [ex-Windquest) from the United Kingdom. Alexia was the hard luck boat of this class. They were actually ahead of Sayonara during

ANTIGUA SAILING WEEK '98 the first race when they hooked a crab pot on their keel and dragged it down the entire leeward leg. That was slow — real slow. Ultimately the crew had to back down the boat to clear-the keel and get back into the race, which they finished in third. But that wasn't the end of Alexias troubles. In the third race they broke a running backstay and had to retire. For¬ tunately, the following day was the lay day, which gave them time to fly a crewmember to Newport, RI to pick up a replacement. Alexia will probably take a few more spares to their next regatta.

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ANTIGUA SAILING WEEK RESULTS RACING BIG BOATS — 1) Sayonara, Farr 80, USA; 2) Defiance, Swan 65, NED; 3) Alexia, R/P 79, ARG. (11 boats) RACING I — 1) Aera, BH 41, GBR; 2) Caccia Alla Volpe, Vallicelli 44, ANT; 3) Australian Maid, Cassidy 55, AUS. (13 boats) RACING 11 — 1) Magnificent 7, J/27, ISV; 2) Dracius Batteaux, 'Sprint Sloop’, MAR; 3) Carib Matra, Melges 2’4, STM. (16 boats) RACER/CRUISER 1 — 1) Ain't Misbehavin', Lavranos 47, SAF; 2) Saga, S&S 57, ARG; 3) (tie) Servisen, Beneteau First 53, SWE, and Caliente, At¬ lantic 50, USA. (21 boats) RACER/CRUISER II — 1) Kookaburra, Swan 46, USA; 2) HuGo, Beneteau 435, ANT; 3) Mary Blair, Swan 45 Mk. II, USA. (12 boats) RACER/CRUISER 111 — 1) Flechette, Frers 39, ANT; 2) Morning Mist, Swan 37, BAR; 3) Comix II, Sigma 38, GBR. (12 boats) RACER/CRUISER (non-spinnaker) — 1) Starr Trail, Farr 72, BER;2) Huey Too, Lapworth 39.5, ANT; 3) Bravo, Swan 57 ketch, USA. (16 boats)

boat — Peter Moss's Swan 46 Kookaburra. Last year Moss sailed the regatta as a crewmember of a Swan 61. He had such

CRUISING 1 — 1) Bristolian, Frers 92, GBR; 2) Pamir, Swan 55, USA; 3) Dione, Bowman 66, ANT. (11 boats) CRUISING II — 1) Esprit du Nord, Beneteau 50, GBR; 2) Modigliani, Beneteau First 42s7, UNK; 3) Tresco VI, Beneteau First 38, FRA. (26 boats) CRUISING III — 1) Sirius, Dufour 45, GER; 2) Pumkin, Trapper 50, ANT; 3) Bermuda Oyster, Oys¬ ter 45, BER. (21 boats) BAREBOAT 1 — 1) Altair, Dufour 48, GER; 2) Malanga, Oceanis 400, GER; 3) Dire Straights, Beneteau 50, GER. (27 boats) BAREBOAT 11 — 1) Kalaou, Dufour 45, GER; 2) Clipper, Oceanis 510, USA; 3) Deimos, Dufour 45, GER. (26 boats) BAREBOAT III — 1) Tinos, Moorings 440, SWE; 2) Tchincho, Oceanis 440, AUT; 3) Pissaro, Beneteau First 42s7, AUT. (24 boats) BAREBOAT IV — 1) Citizen Kane, Oceanis 400; UNK; 2) Organdi, Oceanis 400, FRA; 3) Rubens, Oceanis 400, FRA. (26 boats)

a good time that he decided to have his own Swan delivered from the California Yacht Club in Marina del Rey to Antigua

specifically for the event. He invited his California crew to join him, and naturally they all jumped at the chance. That crew included Robin Sodaro from Hood Sails in Sausalito, plus Tom Leweck, George Steinemann and Greg Nelson from Southern California. This team had sailed to¬ gether a lot, and it showed. They com¬ piled a 1-1-1-1-2 record in the Racer/ Cruiser II Class and also won the 45-boat Racer/Cruiser Division overall by two points. Additionally, Kookaburra picked up another important perpetual trophy for being the best Swan in the regatta.

xlntigua Sailing Week marks the un¬ official end of the cruising seasgn in this part of the Caribbean Sea. During the days following the regatta, boats were being readied for their deliveries back home to Europe or to New England. From time to time, the peacefulness of the is¬ land was shattered by blasts from mighty air horns and the whining of bow thrust¬ ers as the mega-yachts began those jour¬ neys. Apparently within two weeks the harbor will be virtually empty, and will remain that way until the cruising crowd returns again around Thanksgiving — and the circus' comes back to town. — tom leweck

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MAX EBB The boat yard had done it again. They promised I'd be out by noon, but it was 12:05 and my boat was still floating at the dock next to the travelift. Of course the lift driver was gone, for lunch. So I wandered over to the deli by the launch¬ ing ramp for a bite to eat. A few minutes later I emerged with a sandwich, found a table with a nice view, and let the spring air and sunshine cancel out my aggravation with the boatyard. That's when my eye caught an unusual¬ looking trimaran reaching back and forth across the har¬ bor in the 10-knot westerly. It was under 20 feet long and had a big modern rig. What was unusual about it was that the two crew each sat in their own little cock¬ pits in the center hull, kayak style. And there was no tiller or wheel in evidence — I concluded they were steering with foot pedals. My eye caught the driver of this boat, too. An attractive young woman, long hair in a pony tail, but with most of her face obscured by a visor and wrap-around sunglasses. I *admired both machine and driver as they slowly drifted through a tack on my side of the channel. She asked the crew in the forward cockpit for Cunningham adjustment, and suddenly I recognized both voice and face. It was Lee Helm, a naval architecture graduate stu¬ dent who can sometimes be talked into crewing for me when she doesn't have a more exciting boat to sail on, or when the wind isn’t strong enough for wind-surf¬ ing. My sandwich was just about done when she started her final approach to the dock, so I got up and walked down the gangway to take whatever they had for a dock line. "Yo, Max!" she greeted me as the boat coasted up to the dock. "Imagine running into you here," I said. "Nice looking contraption." "But like, it's not doing its thing to¬ day," she complained as her leeward ama gently bumped the dock. 'You seemed to be moving right along out there," I observed, taking hold of a shroud wire. My plan was to let the boat drift forward some more, then move it all the way up to the forward end of the dock making room for another boat to tie up behind it. But this required passing it around a piling that was only partially recessed in the dock edge. "Stop!" yelled Lee suddenly. "Be care¬ ful of the foils!"

"Foils?" I said, looking confused but arresting the motion of the boat just the same. ■:•.: \i -f-

'The foil struts are just daggerboards, and the foils themselves are fully sub¬ merged high aspect ratio untapered alu¬ minum T foils on ‘ fi] W: the bottom," she / ■■ / said. "That means the daggerboard and foil looks like an upside-down T viewed from ahead. The foils have a full-span camber flap along the trailing edge, and the linkage is set so the angle of the height sensing staff controls the angle of the flap. When we go down, the wave sensor is pushed aft, it increases the angle of the camber flap, and the foil lifts more so we come up." She demonstrated the action of the sensor. "You can also change the flap angle with this control that pulls on the bell crank on top of each foil. With the control slack the foils lift up inside thenhousings in the amas, like this." She released port and starboard foil controls and the daggerboards — actu¬ ally the foil struts — floated up t,o the top of their range of travel. The boat speed increased noticeably in response to the reduced wetted surface, as Lee explained. "Or I can pull down on the lines, mov¬ ing the sensors forward as if they were out of the water and moving the flaps up, and the foils go down." She pulled the ropes, the foils slid down, and the boat was suddenly slug¬ gish in comparison. "The big problem with this thing," she said, "is that there's no way to get the foils completely out of the water for light air. I know it doesn't seem that way to you, but this boat is like really, really slow com¬ pared to a normal cat in this range of wind speed." All the while, I found a disconcerting absence of anything to do with my hands. Sheets, steering, and the foil controls all led aft. After a few more unsuccessful at¬ tempts at getting foil-borne, I asked Lee if we could swap places. "Sure," she said, "but let's do it on the other side of the channel where the guy from the factory won't see. I think he sort of trusts me, ‘but I don't know about you." After we sailed almost out of sight, Lee got on the vestigial trampoline, and I tenu¬ ously crawled back to the driver's cock¬ pit. "It steers like an airplane, not a sled,"

"Blame it on Orville Wright," said Lee. "This is how airplane rudders are wired up."

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* "Foils. This thing has T-foils under each ama, and at the bottom of the rud¬ der blade." v "Oh, so that's what that complicated stuff on top of each daggerboard is all about," I said. "How far out do they go on each side?" "Like, almost two feet beyond the ama. Total beam is 17 feet, foil tip to foil tip. And this thing is only 16 feet long." I steadied the boat as the occupant of the forward cockpit, who turned out to be the factory representative for this new sailing machine, carefully moved out to the ama and then stepped onto the dock. "Not quite enough wind for flying to¬ day," he sighed. "Needs at least ten knots — that is, with 160 pounds total crew weight. More like 12 with both of us." But he handed me a brochure and identified the boat as a prototype of the Rave, a production hydrofoil sailboat to be built by Windrider. "Come on out for spin, Max," beckoned Lee. "I think the factory will trust us with this thing as long as the wind is down."

The factory rep was obviously un¬ comfortable with this suggestion, and I tried to politely decline, but Lee asked again and he finally told me to hop in. I slid into the forward cockpit; he pushed us off, and we were sailing. "Hey, this is pretty lively!" I said as we gained speed reaching across the harbor. "Forget it, Max — this is nothing compared to a boat that doesn't have to drag foils everywhere it goes. But like, what do you know — you only sail leadmines." She demonstrated some tacks and jibes, and we tried to find the fastest pos¬ sible reaching angle, hoping that a lucky puff would get us airborne. No luck, but she did have time to explain the ingenious mechanism that combines the height sen¬ sor/adjuster with the foil retraction sys¬ tem.

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Lee advised. I didn't know what she meant by that until I tried the first turn. My old flexible flyer — and for that matter, my bicycle when I had my feet up on the handlebars — turned away from the foot that went forward on the steering bar or handlebars. Not with this contraption — it turned towards the forward foot, and it seemed counter-intuitive. "Blame it on Orville Wright," she said. "This is how airplane rudders are wired up, probably because it’s a more direct mechanical connection." *

Fortunately it only took a few min¬ utes for the rudder arrangement to begin to feel natural. It was actually kind of nice to sail from a bucket seat — although I

still wondered how we were going to hike if the wind came up. "The manufacturer is mainly in the kayak business," explained Lee. "So they like the cockpit operator geometry, and they're good with rotomolded construc¬ tion. Price of this thing is going to be about 1 OK with trailer, compared to something over 14 for the Hobie Trifoiler." "I was wondering how the two com¬ pared," I said. "I stumbled onto the Trifoiler email mailing list once, and they were talking about getting up on foils in only eight knots of wind. In a blow they were talking about speeds over 40 knots. Terrible tales of handling problems in light air, though. And lots of things breaking at inconvenient times." "The Trifoiler's definitely the more so¬ phisticated machine," confirmed Lee. 'The J-foils with no flaps are hydrodynamically

cleaner — I mean, like less root turbu¬ lence and no flap interface. And the bi¬ plane rig of the Trifoiler is perfect for high power and high speed at low angles of attack. "Plus the control system, with forwardplaced sensors, is better able to follow wave slope instead of just height, which might be important in swells. Although, like, we won't really know how important that is 'til they have some of the Raves in production and get some better compari¬ sons. Same with the breakage — no one really knows if the Rave will be any better than the Trifoiler when a bunch of only partly reformed jetskiiers start buying them and bashing them around at high speed. Even still, this seems like the more practical of the two designs, because it's much more maneuverable in light air — even if the claimed top end is only in the mid-thirties." Lee kept talking about the subtle and not-so-subtle differences between the Rave and the Trifoiler, and I don't think either of us noticed the dark wind line approaching as the afternoon seabreeze filled in. If we had, we probably would have switched seats again while we still had a chance. Meanwhile I kept slowly turning down to a deeper reach, playing with sail controls, inadvertently making it hard to notice the gradual wind increase or see the visual cues to the new wind that was about to hit. "I guess there's nothing to prevent making up an alternate set of daggerboards and rudders with no foils, for light air," I suggested. "Should work," she agreed. "It wouldn't be a,bad light-air daysailer like that. Also needs some better twist control on the main. With no boom, see how there's way too much twist as soon as you sheet out a little?" I agreed with her assessment, then decided to try going upwind again. I rounded up into the wind, intending to begin the leisurely beat back up to the dock. Instead, the boat surged forward and the leeward araas seemed to start to submerge. "Yikes!" shouted Lee. "Foils down and locked!" \ didn't know what to do with my feet, but my "release the mainsheet" reflex still worked, and the big mainsail luffed be¬ fore anything went seriously wrong. This gave me time to remember which lines controlled the foil height and how to lock them in place. I sheeted in again, and the boat seemed to jump into the air and ac¬ celerate to a speed I had never thought possible in a sailboat. "Now what?" I yelled to Lee over the June, 1998

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MAX EBB noise of the wind and spray. "Beats me!" she said. "But I'd jibe rather than try to tack, if it's anything like a sailboard."

I took her advice, and was able to get us around on the other tack. We dropped off the foils while aimed downwind, but popped up again as soon as we were back on a reach. The ride was amazingly fast and smooth, and it answered my ques¬ tion about the need to hike: you just don't have to, with foils able to pull up or down as required on a 17-foot moment arm. We made some more scorching runs across the harbor, which suddenly seemed very small. I even managed to complete some tacks. Each run was faster as the wind continued to build into the mid-teens, but then suddenly the whole boat started to slam up and down. It felt like we were driving over railroad ties. "Sensor is coming out of the water!" shouted Lee. "Try some more tension in the foil downhauls." I did as instructed, and it helped a little but didn't solve the problem. Every time we were up to a certain speed, the boat would lift off just a little too high, the sen¬ sor tip would come clear of the water, and we'd slam down till the sensor swept back and pushed us up again, with the cycle repeating about twice every second. So we sailed cautiously back to the dock, and with a slow luffing approach I was able to come alongside without fur¬ ther embarrassing myself. "Hope we didn't break anything," I said to the factory rep. ."Nah, I know exactly wha<t it is," he said. "They set the angle of attack too high. Usually we rig at 2.5 degrees, but we thought we'd try four this time." "I guess the four degrees was for a quicker lift-off in light air," said Lee. "But it ends up being too much at higher speeds." "Remember, this is still the prototype," said the factory rep. "Still some details to work out." "For sure," said Lee as she climbed out after me.

I thanked him for the opportunity to experience an amazing ride, and offered to help with the launch ramp operations. As we eased the boat on the trailer, a fair size crowd gathered around the launch ramp to see what this beast really was. A couple of fish boats were launch¬ ing, and two jetskiiers were pulling out. Suddenly eveiyone was an expert at fully submerged hydrofoils and their stability Page 176 • LtMiUtZU * June, 1998

"Actually," said the factoiy rep, "we've experimented with a flap on the rudder that would do that." "No, the idea is to keep the flap angles as small as possible," interrupted another expert who had never even seen the boat until that day. "The tailplane adjustment would effectively set the A-O-A appropri¬ ate for the speed, and the flaps would just be for fine trim. So the pitch adjustment of the rudder foils should be at the gud¬ geons, not down at the foil." We continued to verbally redesign the boat as we were directed into position to help lower the mast. "It should also have a smaller set of foils for high wind sailing," said one more potential customer. "And a set of daggerboards and rud¬ der with no foils, for light air," I added. "It would be easy to install dual controls for the forward cockpit," said another critic as he examined the cable system that linked the pedals to the rudder. "Just another set o/ pedals, and some doubleended controls." Rube Goldberg lives! — the sensor and mecha¬ nism that 'tells' the foils what angle to present to the water as the Rave gains speed. and control systems. "Those surface sensors are too short," said Lee. "They come out of the water com¬ pletely when the foils are still lifting, which makes the control function unstable around this discontinuity. All you really need to do is make the sensors longer, and taper them so the change in sensor force is more gradual near the tip." "That might work," said another on¬ looker, "but the real problem is using those flaps instead of adjusting the angle of the whole foil. You can't get enough upflap get to zero lift at the four degree angle, so you can't prevent the boat from lifting out too high." "But then why." responded Lee, "does it slam right back down whenever the sen¬ sor is clear of the water? All it needs is a more gradual transition at the sensor tip." "What about more tension in the foil control lines?" asked another onlooker. "That would do the same thing." "Except that would make lift-off more difficult," said someone else. "What you really need is a controllable-pitch aft foil. The angle of attack of the main foils rela¬ tive to the hull is of very little significance — it's all in the angle between the rudder foil and the main foils, like the angle be¬ tween the tail and the wings on a model airplane."

nee the mast was down, the rest of the operation could be complied with¬ out help, so the factoiy rep discreetly moved away from the crowd that sur¬ rounded the boat. Lee and I moved with him. "When does this thing go into produc¬ tion?" I asked. "Next month," he answered. "And the production versions should be lighter than the prototype, by the way, which should help with light-air lift-off." "Still not quite as good as the Trifoiler," Lee reminded him. "But I think you have the edge in versatility and light-air per¬ formance." "We think we're going to outsell them by a big margin," he allowed. "For sure," agreed Lee. "What about a one design fleet?" I asked. "That's in the works too. Once the pro¬ duction boats are out, we'll fix the class rules and support local fleets." "I'd be surprised if this is ever very popular as a race boat," said Lee. "It's way too fast." "Too fast for a race boat? What do you mean by that?" 'The game isn't that interesting at high speeds," she explained. "Too much of a drag race, not enough interesting stuff with tactics and wind strategy. It's like the same problem in sailboard racing: The

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difference in speed between a well-sailed sailboard and an expertly-sailed sailboard is humongous. So humongous that the good sailors don't have a chance against the even better sailors. Which makes rac¬ ing less than satisfying on anything be¬ low the pro level." "Well, we're going to try to get fleets going anyway,” said the rep. "Okay, but note that none of the sailboard shops seem to be able to sup¬ port regular racing for non-pros. I think you'll have problems for exactly the same reason — it's much more fun to daysail these things. Plus you'll want to be able to incorporate improvements, which you can't do in a strict one-design. I’d forget about formulating any class rules for now, if it were up to me." Then a couple more potential custom¬ ers found us, and wanted to discuss modi¬ fications to the foil control system. The factory rep listened to a long explanation of control theory (which clearly sailed right over his head), and then said, "You're ab¬ solutely right, we should do that." Then

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We moved back to the boat to an¬ swer more questions and finish putting it away, but I heard a diesel engine firing up over in the boat yard and could see the travelift starting to crawl towards the haulout dock. Time to run back and see how my boat bottom had survived the last 18 months of immersion. That's when one of the jetski drivers, who had been inspecting the foiler while he waited for space on the ramp, walked up to the factory rep. "Hey, has anyone tried putting a mo¬ tor on one of these things?" he asked.

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PETER HOLMBERG Hailing from a Caribbean territory with only 100,000 people and few large potential sponsors, the America's Cup campaign of native U.S. Virgin Islander Peter Holmberg has got to be the ultimate longshot. Or is it? When Holmberg showed up in Korea for the '88 Olympic Games, skeptics fig¬ ured he had about as much of a chance of capturing a medal as Jamaica's 'Cool

■ grandest arena, the America's Cup. Now 38 years old, Holmberg is currently ranked 4th in the world by the Omega World Match Racing Union'— up from 10th a year ago. Born and raised on St. Thomas, Holmberg, who is white, was introduced

"This is like David against Goliath, so you've got to have the grass roots." to the joys of sailing and racing by his Runnings' bobsled team had at the Win¬ mother Louise, who was a fine sailor in ter Games earlier that year. But as his detractors soon found out, Holmberg's her own right. But while Peter and his younger brother racing skills are no joke. He captured John grew up en¬ joying water sports, the silver medal in they were conthe Finn class — ar¬ ■stantiyremmded of guably one of the most physically de¬ the societal rifts be¬ manding designs in tween white expats the sport — and and black West In¬ narrowly piissed dians, especially in bringing home the regard to the use gold. and appreciation of At age 29 he then the territory's great¬ joined the Grand est asset: it's phe¬ Prix circuit, driving nomenally beautiful Bill Koch's Matador waters. In a region II to win the Maxi where water-ori¬ World Champion¬ ented tourism is the ships in '89. The fol¬ largest cash crop, it lowing year he drove is sadly ironic that Carat to win the 50most black West In¬ Foot Worlds. In '91 dians in the U.S. he became seriously Virgins do not involved with match For the last decade Holmberg has been a regular swim, let alone sail, racing. Since then, at international match racing events. He's seen here windsurf or scuba at the St. Thomas invitational last December. he’s raced against dive. As a result, most of the heavy hitters — like Cayard, few find careers in the marine industry Coutts, Gilmour, Baird and Dickson — (unlike in the BV1 and Antigua where the whom he'll soon face in match racing's opposite is true). To hear him tell it,

Ten Years After The name Peter Holmberg was virtually unknown on the international racing scene until he made headlines by taking a silver medal in the Finn class at the '88 Olym¬ pics. Needless to say. it was a pivotal point in Holmberg's life, which laid the ground¬ work for his current renown as a worldclass match racer. We'll revisit those glory days here, with an excerpt from an '88 in¬ terview we unearthedfrom deep within our archives.

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people were within a few points behind me and the Spanish boat was about five points ahead. In order to win the gold I would have had to finish first or second and put one boat between myself and Spain. "We were an hour's sail out in the Sea of Japan, with 12 to 15-foot seas. You'd go down troughs where you'd have lighter spells, then you'd get to the top and get hit by a big blast. "On this race it was blowin' like shit — about 35 knots. Boats were turning over and people were swimming. I was lying

Holmberg's campaign was launched largely as a result of his long-held frustrations with the territory's social ills.

all started at Carnival Village while I . was having a rum with ■ my lifelong friend WMmm Michael Bornn," recalls Holmberg with a smile. "I was pretty frustrated at the time; you know, the years go by and you can't personally help solve the islands' racial and social problems." "Why don't we do this America's Cup thing?" queried Bornn, who is a high-energy community activist from a long-es¬ tablished black West In¬ dian family. "I'll help you get the funding." And that he did. By the end of their first meeting with key community leaders, the would-be campaign had half the initial seed money it needed to get started. "As crazy as the idea was at first," Holmberg said last year, "I now be¬ lieve this campaign is just what the V.I. needs: to go after a common goal and let racial issues become secondary." When a well-respected radio host rallied the masses in a tele¬ thon fund-raising campaign, common folks like taxi drivers, school teachers, ice cream vendors and others called in to

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about 10th for the first half of the race with the other contenders close around me — and I was nervous as hell. Then I woke up and said to myself, 'Hey wait a minute, you're sitting here being conser¬ vative!’ So on the dead downwind run — which is hairy as hell with 35 knots on a Finn — I went for it and passed about seven boats. I went around the leeward mark in third behind New Zealand and Spain, and had pulled away a little bit from the rest of the fleet. "Gybing is critical because your boom is so low to the water. The trick is to get

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THE A-CUP WILD CARD time last year they'd signed designer Dave Pedrick, whose boats have twice won the Cup, and John Cutler, a longtime New Zealand resident who's a veteran of sev¬ eral Cup campaigns. A world-class tactitian, Cutler met Holmberg in Seoul, when he took the bronze medal in the Finn class — just behind the then-unknown Virgin Islander. (Cutler has since jumped ship, however, to join Dawn Riley's

"We're going to have a multiracial team, and that's a fact." America True campaign.) About the same time, the V.I. Challenge became only the second campaign to ac¬ quire a practice boat when it purchased Dennis Connor's Stars and Stripes (which was also designed by Pedrick), hauling her across country from San Diego in a threetruck caravan, then shipping her to St. Thomas from Florida. "From the beginning we were sure our biggest hurdle was going to be credibil¬ ity," recalls Holmberg. "So we decided that rather than concentrating on just amass¬ ing a huge pile of money, the best way to get the next little pile was to show what we've got so people would realize we weren't just kidding."

pledge part of their wages to the cause." The campaign's parallel goal was to "wake up" the V.I. population to the recreational and career opportunities of their marine

environment. In February, 1995, Holmberg and Bornn filed their challenge under the ban¬ ner of the St. Thomas Yacht Club. By this

L/ast December the V.I. Challenge becamp Team Caribbean as its base of sup¬ port expanded to include Puerto Rico. Holmberg is hopeful that other Eastern Caribbean nations will also join the cam¬ paign. 'We're going to be the 'people’s chal¬ lenge'," says Holmberg. "This is like David against Goliath, so you've got to have the grass roots." With help from Puerto Rico, a U.S. ter¬ ritory with a gross domestic product of $25 billion, the team met January's put-

surfing down the biggest wave you can going full speed, grab the sail and throw it over. "So away we went on the final triangle, and I was solidly in position to earn the silver. We went down the first reach, gybed, and were on the second reach when the wind picked up to the highest intensity of the whole series. It was to the • point that masts were going to break and we were all on the verge of capsizing. I was*having to sail high of the mark be¬ cause if I went down to course I couldn't let my sail out enough to spill wind.

About halfway down, I got hit by a big gust and the boat went over, but I kept one foot in the back strap. Suddenly, I felt the boat stop for a second; the mast hit the water but didn’t go under. I gave a big yank and the boat came back up. As I took off, out of the corner of my eye I saw Spain capsize, so I just prayed, rounded the leeward mark and started beating. As I looked back a few minutes later, Spain was rounding with the U.S. boat right in front of him — there was my "boat in be¬ tween1. I started thinking about gold! "But about halfway up that final beat

to the finish, U.S. tacked away — stopped covering Spain — and went on a flyer over to tjie left side of the course. I crossed the line first and then it just became a pray¬ ing game: if the U.S. finished in front of Spain I'd have the gold. But when they converged about 100 feet from the finish, the U.S. had to duck behind Spain — so I lost the gold by about a boat length. "Still, winning that silver medal was the best experience of my life," concluded Holmberg in ’88. "Now it's on to the next page of my life. . ." — latifrude/aet June, 1998 •

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PETER HOLMBERG up-or-shut-up deadline, posting the re¬ quired $250,000 performance bond with the IACC. With a year and a half remaining until the Challenger Competition begins in the fall of '99, crew selection and training is as important as fund-raising and boat¬ building. "This boat is going to be a mix of Caribbean people, Americans and for¬ eigners. We're going to go after winning it, but we're going to have a multiracial team, and that’s a fact." While Pedrick stays busy designing a boat that's competitive in the anticipated wind range of 5 to 25 knots, Team Caribbean's financial health will depend — like the three other U.S. campaigns —on large corporate sponsorships. GANT U.S.A. has recently come on board and many other big players have been courted, including Richard Branson of Virgin Air who has extensive holdings in the Carib¬ bean. The fund-raising budget for the next two years is $20 million for a two-boat campaign; $10 million for a minimal oneboat campaign, in which case, laughs Holmberg, "We might have to sleep aboard."

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Just as Holmberg's background is atypical of Cup competitors, so is his over¬ all program. While he's out fund-raising and making headlines — such as winning the Congressional Cup here in March, and the Golden Gate Invitational last month — the other arm of the effort is also going strong; Marine programs have been es¬ tablished to teach local kids to swim and sail, while fostering a preservationist at¬ titude toward the marine environment. A kit boat-building project is the latest de¬ velopment. With obvious pride in his campaign's educational arm, Holmberg says, "This campaign is already successful no mat¬ ter what happens from here on out. I'm not saying we're backing off, but if we had to shut down next month for lack of money, we've started a great thing here which will continue." The odds are definitely stacked against Team Caribbean, but if they do make it to Auckland they'll undoubtedly garner plenty of press attention. And win or lose, this longshot campaign is apt to earn the silent praise of sailors around the world. — latitude/ aet

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hroughout man's long history of seafaring, ’going with a group’ has been the preference of an overwhelming ma¬ jority of sailors. Nevertheless, there have long been a minority of rugged individu¬ alists who've chosen to go it alone. From Joshua Slocum, who completed the first recorded solo circumnavigation in 1895, to Robin Knox-Johnson, who was the first singlehander to circle the globe nonstop, sailors of vastly different backgrounds, with vastly different goals have embraced the challenge of solo sailing, while the un¬ initiated are left asking, "Why?" The Singlehanded TransPac celebrates the spirit of adventure that is the com¬ mon bond between all solo sailors. Now in it's 11th incarnation, a fleet of 12 dra¬ matically different vessels is poised to set sail for Kauai on June 27. Some skippers, like millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett,

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in one piece will be prize enough an intangible badge of achievement they can wear ontheir chests forever. Three of this year's com¬ petitors are vet¬ erans of previ¬ ous races who will attempt to better past per¬ formances — one guy you'll meet in the fol¬ lowing pages is putting himself to the test for the sixth time! The stable of boats this1 year ranges from Fossett's purposebuilt 60-ft trimaran to thirdtimer Greg Morris’ 19-yearold Moore 24. But despite dif¬ ferences in each boat's water¬ line length, surfing ability and creature comforts, each skip¬ per will suffer similar discom¬ forts, will be solely responsible for navigation, sail handling, gear maintenance, fleet com¬ munications and cooking, and each will endeavor to make co¬ herent decisions despite the unavoidable sleep deprivation that is inherent in solo voyag¬ ing.

When the first race was run in 78, an army of cynics dubbed it "crazy."

Although improvements in nav gear, autopilots, windvane steering devices, solar panels and communications gadgetry has lightened the enormity of the task over the years, the 2,120-mile crossing still transits the same vast, unpredictable ocean. And the organization of & the event is still essentially the same as always: totally unspon¬ sored and administered by an all- § volunteer staff. 8 When the first race was run in '78, an army of cynics dubbed it "crazy" — some even said "sui¬ cidal". But dozens of proud sail¬ ors — both men and women — have completed it safely over the years, and dozens more dream of accepting the challenge. . . someday. We urge you to rally 'round the starting line, at mid-day, June 27, off the Corinthian Yacht Club, applaud the fearlessness of these 12 sailors, and let 'em know you hardily approve of their brand of 'crazy' behavior.

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Lakota's incredible speed potential may well propel ad¬ venturer Steve Fossett into the record books once again. He's poised to beat the current mark, set by Bay Area sailor Peter Hogg aboard 'Aotea' in the windy SSS TransPac of 1994 (8 days, 20 hours, 3 minutes, elapsed time). Stan Honey set a new monohull record the same year aboard his Cal 40 'Illusion' (11:10:52 elapsed; 08:07:29 corrected).

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1998 SINGLEHANDED Bruce Nesbit Razzberries — Olson 34, 1988 • • • • •

PHRF rating: 105 Yacht Club: Richmond Y.C. Homeport: Richmond Y.C. Occupation: Retired from PG&E Age: 58

'The thing I look forward to most," says Bruce "is flying the spinnaker in the tradewinds." No doubt he still has fond memories of crewing on a passage to the Marquesas a decade ago aboard the Norseman 447 Denouement—skippered, ironically enough, by SSS Transpac competitor, Dale Parshall. This time, though, he'll play the roles of captain, crew and cook all rolled into one. During his 24-year sailing career, Bruce has done a gre^t deal of ocean and Bay racing in a wide variety of boat types — from his first boat. Windy, a Columbia 22, to the Santa Cruz 70 Mon¬ goose. He’s also played key organizational roles like serving as president of the One Design Association and as a YRA race of¬ ficer and member of the YRA Board of Di¬ rectors. Last year he added the title of U.S. Sailing instuctor to his long list of cre¬ dentials. Bruce bought this Olson 34 six years ago and since then has been perfecting his singlehanded sailing skills and tack¬ ling boat projects right and left — roughly fifty at last count. With four spinnakers in his sail locker, Razzberries^has more sail options than most — which is wise, since at least one competitor blew out three kites during the ’96 event. Bruce's wife, Lina, who is a member of the SSS race committee, will meet him in Hanalei, and they'll sail back together during the month of August. Navigation: Garmin GPS 120, Garmin GPS II, Kenyon C100 Loran, Davis Mark 3 sextant. Steering: primary: Sailomat 601 windvane; secondary: Autohelm 2000, Tillerpilot 2500. Food: Soups, en¬ ergy bars, instant meals, crackers. . . Special thanks to: His wife, Lina.

Jay Capell Leilarxi Too — Catalina 36, 1985 • PHRF rating: 153 • Yacht Club: San Francisco Y.C. & SSS • Homeport: Sausalito • Occupation: Manufacturer's repre¬ sentative •Age: 50 Page 184 • UkuJiW • June, 1998

Competing in the TransPac is not only a great challenge for Jay Capell, but it's also a homecoming of sorts. The north shore of Kauai holds a special place in the hearts of Jay and his family, as they’ve spent a total of six months vacationing there since the early '80s — previously,, though, they've always arrived by air. Jay, like one or two other competitors this year, grew up sailing, but effectively gave it up for 15 years due to the demands of work and family. Then, in 95, he de¬ cided it was time to get back out on the water and bought his comfort¬ able Catalina 36, Leilani Too. With his renewed enthusiasm, he began attending the lecture ^series put on by the Singlehanded Sailing Society which led up to the '96 SSS TransPac and the seed of his own personal challenge to race in '98 grew into a formidable goal. Jay and hi^ brother Jeff have competed as a doublehanded team in lots of Bay Area races, but Jay's actual singlehanding experience consists only of one Farallones Race and completion of the 400-mile LongPac, which qualified him to enter this jaunt to Hawaii. "After four days I was getting a little stir crazy," Jay re¬ calls. On this trip he’ll keep himself oc¬ cupied with music — like Clapton and the Stones — and reading, including one of his dad's favorite novels, The Broad

Highway. Despite being a relative new¬ comer to singlehanding, Jay has al¬ ways had sailing in his blood. "I was practically born on my dad's boat," Jay recalls fondly. His father, Jeff Sr. built one of the original (Myron) Spaulding 33s which were long¬ time competitors on the Bay racing scene. Now in his 50th year, Jay is happy to be following in his father s footsteps — or should we say along his rhumbline. After a lifetime of sailing, Jeff Sr.'s participation in the 1963 TransPac aboard Emmett Rixford's Annie Too was the highlight of his sailing career. Jay hopes to do well in the competi¬ tion, but also intends to have fun: "After working so hard to prepare for this, I'm going to tiy like the dickens to enjoy it!" His wife, Mary, son Jeff, 18, and daughterVVnnie, 16, will be waiting for him in Bay. Longtime friend and busiU^Ptpartner Steve Mason will also be "He loaned me half the gear on i^Boat," Jay admits. As a thank-you, Steve gets to use Leilani Too for his own Hawaiian vacation before she is sailed

home by a delivery crew. Navigation: GPS, SatNav, Sextant. Steering: primary: Monitor windvane: secondary: Autohelm. Food: Canned stews, pastas, crackers. .. Special thanks to: his wife, Mary, Steve Mason, J.P. Plumley and brother Jeff.

DeLayne Brink At Last — Sabre 38 Mk I, 1984 • PHRF rating: 160 •Yacht Club: Corinthian Y.C. of Bellingham • Homeport: Bellingham, WA • Occupation: School teacher • Age: 48 Ask a dozen singlehanders how they got into solo sailing and you're likely to get a dozen different answers. But middle school teacher DeLayne Brink's reason¬ ing was simply pragmatic: he realized if he expected his wife and two daughters to accompany him on cruising adven¬ tures, he’d have to be prepared to go it alone on the rough parts. They cruised as a family aboard At Last all the way from Washington to Alaska, gunkholing up the spectacular Inside Passage. But when it came time to take the boat back, of Dad made the two-week solo run from Prince Rupert, B.C., back to Bellingham. In recent years DeLayne has often sailed solo in the waters of Puget Sound and occasionally makes a pil¬ grimage around the rough and rowdy backside of Vancouver Island to Barclay Sound. Singlehanding to Kauai will be one of the most challenging feats DeLayne has ever undertaken, but it's certainly not his only ambitious adventure. He's run a marathon, biked from Washington to Cali¬ fornia ("before it was fashionable") and took his family car-camping through ev¬ ery state in the union — except Ohio, for some reason — over two summers. Although he's a self-described "rookie", he has developed his own unique philoso¬ phy. "She's not a fast boat; but I’m going to try to beat them all mentally," he ex¬ plains. If he hears complaints over the net about the lack of creature comforts, he plans to talk about how wonderful his hot shower was. When someone mentions the K-rations they've just had for dinner, he'll chime in a description of the ice cream

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he's just taken from his freezer! And if the wind goes light, causing oth¬ ers frustration, he'll just pop in one of the 40 action videos he plans to take along. DeLayne's wife, Pam DeLayne Brink and daughters Krista, 19, and DeLayne Marie, 15, will meet him after the race for a Hawaiian respite, after which he'll sail At Last home with a couple of friends. Be¬ ing a teacher, he'll have the rest of the summer to get there. Navigation: Magellan 5000D GPS, Garmin II GPS, sextant. Steering: pri¬ mary: Monitor Windvane; secondary: Autohelm 5000 ST+. Food: Frozen pre¬ made meals, snacks, PBJ with frozen strawberry and raspberry jams. Special thanks to: Pam, Krista, DeLayne Marie, Rodney, Dan, Mike2, Tim, Roger and Dave.

Mike Dranginis Compass Rose — Erikson 30+, 1984

On the long haul to Kauai he plans to keep himself occupied in much the same way others do: "I'm bringing an eclectic sup¬ • PHRF rating: 171 ply of books and music." In addition to • Yacht Club: Marina Bay Y.C. keeping in touch with the fleet by SSB, • Homeport: Richmond Mike plans to check in with land-bound • Occupation: Employee benefits spe¬ friends by Ham radio. cialist Like others who attended a recent lec¬ • Age: 49 ture in the SSS's preparatory series, Mike plans to adopt the sleeping regimine ad¬ _ "Although this is a 'race'," says Mike, vocated by sleep deprivation experts: he'll "I'm looking forward to slowing down to a try to sleep between 1500 and 1800 and again between midnight and 0300, times 6-knot pace." He claims to be more inter¬ when the body supposedly gets the best ested in achieving a personal goal than quality sleep. We ll check in winning, and in a 3Q-ft, non-plan¬ with him on the back end ing boat, that's probably the right to see how it worked out. attitude to adopt. As we go to press, Mike Mike's been sailing since the is looking for a delivery early '80s, and has been singlecrew to sail Compass Rose handing nearly as long. "I actually back to the mainland, but find it easier to sail by myself them if he has to, he's prepared with crew," he explains. Until re¬ to go it alone. "It's easy to cently, however, most of his single¬ find crew to sail back a handing was inshore, but he didn't $100,000 boat, but mine find the LongPac qualifying race last is the nautical equivilent year to be that difficult. "I actually Mike Dranginis_ got more sleep than I do at home," he confides with a laugh. "If your boat's properfy set up, there’s really not much to do."

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turn trips? Easy, he re¬ tired 21 years ago (1977) having served two tours in Vietnam, where he flew "anything with wings or rotors." His final rank was ken Roper brigadier general, hence, the nickname. Ken has become an icon of this event: an affable old salt who endears himself to his competitors with tall tales and a well-oiled sense of humor. We can't recall him ever winning the darned race, but clearly, it's more about the adventure and post-race camaraderie for Ken. He's kept in touch with many of his former 'adver¬ saries' and looks forward to getting to know this year’s batch. "I usually spend time each day on sev¬ eral Ham nets. It's always entertaining, and I get to chat with lots of old friends.” In addition, he'll croon along with his fa¬ vorite bluegrass and country tunes to pass the time and may read a couple of Patrick O'Brien novels.

Ken Roper Harrier— Finn Flyer 31, 1981 • • • • •

PHRF rating: 162 Yacht Club: Hawaii Homeport: San Pedro Occupation: Retired U.S. Army officer Age: 68

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• Homeport: Richmond Y.C. • Occupation: Retired • Age: 60 “I’ve never done passage singlehanded before," admits Dale Parshall, but he's certainly no Dale stranger to ocean racing. He began his 39-year sailing career on Lake Michigan, where he participated in eight Chicago to Mackinaw races — among others — once winning his class in the worst weather on record. v In 1971 Dale moved to the Bay Area and soon after became an avid Bay and ocean racer. He's tallied up 30,000 miles of ocean sailing over the years, including a grand year-and-a-half cruise of the South Pacific which took him as far 'out there' as New Zealand before returning to the Bay via Hawaii. On another occa¬ sion he delivered a Frers 41 from the is¬ lands back to the Bay. When Dale went boat hunting a year and a half ago, he was looking for a ves¬

sel that would be com¬ fortable to cruise in, but small enough to single¬ hand. This comfy Baltic 38 fit the bill. After re¬ turning to California, he Parshali - - posing plans to cruise "where the wind blows." It's interesting that a guy with his ex¬ perience is hopeful his Robertson autopi¬ lot will steer Giggles "100% of the time." You mean hand steering across an ocean isn't fun? Dale's backup is a Monitor windvane. One of his concerns is handling big spinnakers singlehanded, so he in¬ vested in a second pole for gybing. Dale's been an active member of the Richmond Y.C. for 16 years, during which time he's held a variety of posts including that of Junior Sailing instructor, race committee member and Board member. He's also got some very pragmatic ideas about offshore meal prep, as evidenced by the fact that he was asked to author the "Cooking at Sea" article for the sail¬

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1998 SINGLEHANDED tine behavior, however. You see, for years he's secretly been preparing for this race — and an indefinite period of cruising afterwards. But as we go to press, he has yet to announce to his workmates that he will soon be clearing out his desk and — literally —sailing off into Mystery Man the sunset. We agreed to go along with his ano¬ nymity, but insisted on interviewing him anyway. "Fine," said Mystery Man. "You want answers, I'll give you answers." "What course stategy will you follow? Rhumbline? 1020 Mb line?" "A combination," replied Mystery Man. "Upon arrival at each minute of longitude, I will mix a rum drink with the propor¬ tion of juice to rum dictated by the milli¬ bars on my ^barometer (i.e. at the 1020 Mb line I would mix 10 parts juice with 20 parts rum). "As for navigation, I believe today's sail¬ ors rely too heavily on electronics, which are prone to failure. Even sextants are typically used in conjunction with a bat¬

• PHRF rating: 63 tery-operated watch, which also • Yacht Club: Oakland Y. C. can fail. I feel the only logical, fool¬ • Homeport: Oakland proof choice is an organic solus tion: homing pigeons." • Occupation: Retired Police Sargeant • Age: 55 A strong spirit of individualism has always been inherent in the Steve Faustina completed the '94 race _SSS TransPac, so who are we to aboard his Orion 27 Magic Moments, but doubt Mystery Man's methods. His true identity will be revealed, of course, in our only after having to turn back on day one post-race report (August issue). due to a falty roller furling system and Navigation: homing pi¬ restarting three days later. He then geons. Steering: primary: had to suffer the indignity of receiv¬ hands: secondary: feet. Food: ing an "FAD" in the score box (fin¬ a high fiber diet; primarily ished after deadline). Nevertheless, baked beans, refried beans, 6 he's back again this year aboard a bean salad, bean gumbo, sleek 42-footer that was purposesteamed beans, bean sohp, built for singlehanded offshore rac¬ barbecued beans and deep ing. For the past three years he's fried beans. Special thanks been preparing the aptly-named Soli¬ to: Jimmy Buffet, Bacardi and taire for this year's contest, adding Pussers Rum distilleries and everything from radar to running Stephen Faustina the SSS. backs.

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has an open agenda at the end of his voyage. He may sail back singlehanded, as he did in '94, or he may opt to continue on into the Pacific. After paying his dues policing the (some- Bob Gay times mean) streets of Oakland, it must be comforting to know that either option will involve wide open spaces and plenty of time to commune with nature. Navigation: Garmin GPS, Traxar GPS; Freiberger and Davis sextants. Steering: primaiy: self-steering; secondaiy: Alpha 3000 autopilot. Food: freeze-dried. Spe¬ cial thanks to: his father, Leonard Faustina, Steve Keefe, Bruce Swartz, Mike Nood.

Bob Gay Bravo

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1 PHRF rating: 138 1 Yacht Club: Oakland Y.C. 1 Homeport: Alameda

Although Bob Gay learned to sail as a kid in Boston, he suffered a long 'dry spell' while his career in the computer biz moved him all over the country. When he relocated to _the Bay Area from North Carolina in '96, however, he quickly rekindled his love of sailing, and soon decided to buy a boat that he could live aboard. As fate would have it, the first boat he looked at was Bravo, which had recently returned from doing the '96 SSS TransPac with then-owner Fred Hess at the helm. Bob perused dozens of other boats, but finally decided Bravo was the one'. He and his wife Cindy moved aboard and before long he announced his intentions to do the TransPac. Fred Hess became a close friend and mentor, without whom, says Bob, he would never have mounted this campaign. Like just about everyone else, he'll race Bravo to win, but he is also attracted to the idea of completing a personal chal-

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1998 SINGLEHANDED lenge. 'The boat has the poten¬ tial to do well," says Bob, "but winning isn't eveiything. Still, I'd like to show up while some of the other racers are still in Hawaii!" Since this will be Bob's first singlehanded ocean passage, we asked if he worries about all that time alone with himself — and his_ own thoughts: "Oh no. I hear John Guzzwell those voices talking in my head normally!" Besides his own intracranial chatter, Bob plans to entertain himself by read¬ ing novels and listening to lots of good music — including Jimmy Buffet and the Grateful Dead. Since he travels constantly for his job with Sun Microsystems, you might think Bob’s idea of a break would be to just stay home. But as he puts it, 'This race is the perfect excuse to take Bravo on a long ride in blue water. . . with no planes, phones or e-mails." That being said, however, Bob has volunteered to act as fleet communi¬ cations liaison using his onboard com¬ puter via SSB. Navigation: Magellan Nav 6500 GPS, Micrologic GPS. Steering: primary: Alpha

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3000 autopilot; secondary: Monitor windvane. Food: Simple stuff: canned dishes, fruits, canned fruits. . . Spe¬ cial thanks to: Fred Hess, his wife Cindy and the folks as SSS.

John Guzzwell Endangered Species Custom 30-footer, 1987

• PHRF rating: 69 • Yacht Club: Shilshole Bay Y.C. • Homeport: Seattle • Occupation: Boatbuilder • Age: young at heart >

During the 10 previous runnings of the Singlehanded TransPac there's been no shortage of interesting nautical charac¬ ters. This year, lifelong voyager and boatbuilder John Guzzwell should cer¬ tainly be added to that list. If the name rings a bell, it's probably

because of the famous book he authored 30-odd years ago, Trekka Round the World, which tells of his then-remarkable four-year circumnavigation (1955 to '59) aboard the 21-ft, fin-keeled yawl which he built himself to a Laurent Giles design. Those who've read it will recall the gritti¬ est part, when he temporarily laid up Trekka in New Zealand and joined Miles and Beryl Smeeton aboard Tzu Hang for a Cape Horn rounding. They got caught in a monstrous storm, pitchpoled and were dismasted in the Southern Ocean, finally arriving in Chile after 87 days at sea. Trekka!s lightweight wooden design was contrary to the heavy displacement cruising boats of its day, and you might say Guzzwell has taken a 'contrarian' outlook on boatbuilding ever since. His latest creation, launched at Seattle last year, is Endangered Species, whose 30-ft laminated wood hull closely resembles a scaled down BOC boat of the Open 60 class. She employs water ballast, and

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carries her ample beam all the way to her transom. Her hull is constructed from four layers of 1/8" spruce, stapled and laid up in alternating diagonals and an outer layer of teak run fore and aft. The result¬ ing structure is so strong that no ribs are needed. She’s counterbalanced by a simple, foil-shaped keel, has beautiful teak decks and carries a laminated spruce mast, stiffened by four 1/2" x 1/8” car¬ bon-fibre splines. Before emigrating to Canada as a young man, John's childhood in England included a voyage to South Africa on the family’s 52-ft ketch. We're told his father taught him the principles of celestial navi¬ gation and woodworking while the family was held in a German prison camp dur¬ ing WWII. During his long career as a profes¬ sional boatbuilder, he has built a variety of sailing craft, including the 133-ft Zeus, the 65-ft Farr-designed Lively, the 158-ft topsail schooner Tole Mour, and his own 46-ft pilothouse cutter, Treasure, also

of you who don’t read the newspa¬ pers, Fossett has made headlines in recent years for his record-breaking built to a Giles design. attempts in both sailing and long-dis¬ He and his family tance ballooning. cruised the Pacific sev¬ Earlier this year, he was forced to eral times on this boat abort his attempt to fly his balloon, and in '94 he entered her Solo Spirit, around the world non-stop mmxm'A. m in the Pan Pacific Yacht after 5,802 miles of flight. In the win¬ Steve Fossett ter of '97, however, he accomplished then returned via the Aleutians and main¬ the longest balloon flight in aviation hisland Alaska. toiy — 10,361 miles — flying solo from Think this guy has a yarn or two to St. Louis to India. spin? Oh, yeah. Steve holds seven world's records in the realm of sailing. After buying Lakota from Florence Arthaud in the early '90s Steve Fossett and modifying her, he broke the transpa¬ Lakota — 60-ft Grand Prix Tri cific record from Japan to San Francisco • PHRF rating: -160 in ’95 with crew, then set the solo record • Yacht Club: San Diego, Y.C. on the same route the next year. • Homeport: Rehoboth Bay, DEL His obvious goal in entering the SSS TransPac is to smash the existing (un¬ • Occupation: Adventurer/Business¬ man corrected) multihull record of 8 days, 20 • Age: 54 hours and 3 minutes set by Peter Hogg aboard Aotea in ’94 — after several at¬ tempts. Unfortunately, Fossett will be in Needless to say, both Steve Fossett and a race of his own, as Lakota is the sole his 60-ft speed machine, Lakota, bring multihull entry — not to mention the fact star power to this year's event, For those

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Greg Morris Color Blind — Moore 24, 1979 • PHRF rating: 150 •Yacht Club* N/A • Homeport: Alameda • Occupation: Writer • Age: 44

A veteran of both the '94 and '96 races, Greg Morris is regarded by his contemporaries as a very fun guy, and a bit of a wild man. His idea of a good time is hand-steering for hours on end. Greg finished third in class on both of his previous attempts, aboard his Farr 33 Slipsiream. This year he's downgraded in waterline length, but upgraded his rating by entering his recently acquired Moore 24, Color Blind, which is appropriately named due to its lavendar-colored hull with a bright orange boot stripe, and green bottom paint. Who needs a radar reflec¬ tor with that combination? He'll race to win, but his most important challenge is a personal one: to beat his best previous time of 12 days, 21 hours and 37 min¬ utes set in '94 (10:02:29 corrected). Again this year his game plan will be to self-steer 80% of the time, taking peri¬ odic 15 minute naps regulated by his

trusty egg timer (while napping he'll let his autopilot do the driving). "I plan to run black at night so I can trim," says Steve. "I’ll be up all night and cat nap in the morning." And what does this two-time veteran look forward to most upon arrival? Party time at the Tahiti Nui bar! On board, however, he claims he’ll be too busy to worry about entertainment: "No music and no books," says Steve. After the race, he'll take the sensible approach, however, and will opt to ship Color Blind home via a Matson freighter. Navigation: GPSs. Steering: primary: self: secondary: Autohelm. Food: Power Bars and canned food; "My favorite is chili." Special thanks to: Hal Wright, Dan and Darin Dowd, Bob Comir and Eric Jungemann.

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With reports this month on the Golden Gate Invitational; the Spring Citibank Cup; the Vallejo Race; more Olympic Sailing Team announcements; the record-breaking Ensenada Race; some Whitbread Race afterthoughts; the inaugural Monterey Spinnaker Cup; and, as usual, a healthy dose of box scores and race notes at the end.

Golden Gate Invitational To no one's surprise, Peter Holmberg of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, led his Team Caribbean America's Cup crew to a decisive victory in St. Francis YC's sixth annual Golden Gate Invitational Match Race Series. Sailed in borrowed J/24s in moderate wind on the Cityfront on May 15-17, the event pitted three local teams (Jeff Madrigali, Melissa Purdy and match racing newcomer Will Benedict) against five out-of-towners. Four of the teams have current America's Cup connections. Holmberg, the sixth-ranked match racer in the world and winner of the '98 Congressiohal Cup, sliced through the two round robins with his regular crew of tactician John Cutler (who defected from Team Caribbean to America True after the regatta), bowman Ben Beer, and trimmer Morgan Avery. Holmberg's squad corn-

battles," admitted Holmberg, who joins a distinguished list of Golden Gate Invita¬ tional winners: John Bertrand ('93), Paul Cayard ('94 and '97), Roy Heiner ('95) and Russell Coutts (’96). v "My hat's off to Holmberg," stated Madrigali, who sailed with Dawn Riley, Craig Healy and Shawn Bennett. "He sailed well. We came close, but just missed by a few inches here and a few feet there. Anyway, it was good racing." Without prize money, sponsorship and Grade One status, this year's Invitational wasn't nearly up to the lofty standards it set in previous years. Still, the 'downsized' regatta was entertaining for the partici¬ pants, as well as the few spectators who watched from the comfort of the club¬ house.

piled the best record (11 wins), allowing them to choose their opponent in the semi-finals. They elected to sail against Andy Green, a British up-and-coming match racer, dispatching him 2-1. Meanwhile, Madro put away Tony Rey, one of Ed Baird's PACT 2000 key players, 2-0, setting the stage for the finals. Ris¬ ing to the occasion, Holmberg took Madro out 2-0 by slim margins of 10 and 22 sec¬ onds. "Both of those races were true

Winner Peter Holmberg, at the helm of Color¬ blind', waves to the crowd. More likely he's pro¬ testing opponent Cameron Appleton.

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1) Peter Holmberg, ISV; 2) Jeff Madrigali, San

Francisco; 3) Tony Rey, New York; 4) Andy Green, GBR; 5) Melissa Purdy, San Francisco; 6) Dave Clark, AUS; 7) Cameron Appleton, N2L; 8) Will Benedict, San Francisco.

Spring Citibank Cup There we were on Saturday, May 2, standing on the end of Pier 39, watching

the bulk of the Vallejo fleet pointing to¬ wards the Richmond Bridge and their ul¬ timate destination. . . but making time towards SFO. The breeze was & little late filling in that day, but things finally got underway for the ninth Citibank Cup. In mostly light-to-moderate breezes, the ten

11 :Metres sailed five quick windward/lee¬ ward races. At the end of the day, Russ Silvestri's Pier 23 had a one-point lead over Seadon Wijsen’s Team Kodak and Morgan Larson's Black Star Beer. Defend¬ ing champion and four-time winner Jeff Madrigali, sailing Team Citibank, was an¬ other point back with 17 points. Things couldn't have been much tighter. Sunday rolled around, and the El Nino restrained winds were again doing their

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thing. . . it was 3 p.m. before racing got going. The first race was marred by the event’s first-ever general recall — unfor¬ tunately, a few competitors had their heads in the bilge and were late to the new start. However, Russ had a bead on it and won the race, followed closely by Annie Nelson on Team Smint. Annie was filling in for Chris Shining, who was in the ER trying to remedy an aching back from the previous day's activities. After eight races, Silvestri and his Pier 23 crew (Brian Ledbetter, Hogan Beatie, John Bond) had what appeared to be a comfy six-point lead. But race nine found them in a relatively deep fifth place, while the surging Team Citibank (Madro, Tom Dinkel, Peter Stoneberg, Gary Sadamori) won the race to enter the finale only two points back — with the added advantage of the winning record for tiebreakers. So about four hours after Paul Cayard and EFLwere starting their 3,500-mile match race with Swedish Match, Madro and Russ were starting their own 3,500-foot match race to see who would claim the first place prize of $5,000. Madro had his work cut out for him, as he had to put at least one boat between him and Russ to win. At the first upwind turning mark, fol¬ lowing the downwind start, Jeff was lead¬ ing, with Kodak (Wijsen, Tim Duffy, Ben Wells, Dennis George) rounding second, Russ in third. Team Kodak had an excel¬ lent set, only to have the kite come un-

Spring Citibank Cup action. Inset, Russ Silvestri (left) and repeat winner Jeff Madrigaii (right) took home the majority of the loot. shackled, leaving the door wide open for Pier 23 to take over second position. But it was not to be, as Pier 23 had a major league wrap in their kite, letting Chris Perkins and his Skiers on Holidays (Matt Ciesicki, Steve Marsh, Ralph Silverman) into the hunt. The Skiers schussed on to win the race, while Madro held back a bit and successfully put Team Altoids be¬ tween Russ and himself. After ten races, Madro and Russ were tied .at 30 points apiece, with the nod going to. the former on the tiebreaker — again (he won the last one on a tiebreaker, too). Meanwhile, Black Star Beer (Larson, Tim Wells, Hart¬ well Jordan, Jim Barton) and the Skiers were also tied at 38 points, with Morgan taking the bronze after the tiebreaker was applied. Madrigaii, the winningest skipper in Citibank history, claimed, "It was gratify¬ ing to sail a different boat with a different group of guys — and come up with the same result. We'll be sailing together for the rest of the year, so I'd say we're off to a good start." The fall edition of the Citibank Cup is scheduled for October 3-4, the weekend before the ll:Metre World Champion¬ ships. Supposedly, as many as 25-30 boats are planning to make both events. Get a ride! Everyone who participates in Citibank Cups really enjoys the wham-

bam, collegiate-style format. If you can't find a seat on an 1 l:Metre, plan to come down to Pier 39 — the entire race course is viewable from the head of the pier, and the closest turning mark is just 15 yards from where you're standing.

—jim taylor 1) Citibank, Jeff Madrigaii, 30 points, $5,000; 2) Pier 23, Russ Silvestri, 30, $2,500; 3) Black Star Beer, Morgan Larson, 38, $1,000; 4) Skiers on Holiday, Chris Perkins, 38, $750; 5) Kodak, Seadon Wijsen, 41, $500; 6) Altoids, John Sweeney, 43, $250; 7) Smint, Chris Shining/Annie Nelson, 75; 8) E-Motion, Will Paxton, 77; 9) Citibank Women, Carisa Harris, 85; 10) Ruf, Hans Streuli, 94. (10 boats)

98th Vallejo Race Another yachting season got underway on the overcast weekend of May 2-3, as 294 boats in 31 divisions competed in the 98th annual Vallejo Race. Intermittent rain, gray skies, a roaring ebb and ane¬ mic winds made for less than stellar rac¬ ing, but then this.-has always been more Of a community 'road trip' than a serious yacht race. The 22- mile race up was typi¬ cal Vallejo fare, a light-air spinnaker run against the ebb. Sunday's 14.5-mile race home, however, was a weird one — a patchy easterly and more ebb sent the; fleet limping home under half ounce spin¬ nakers again, with about 50 boats DNFing when swept into the forbidden zone north of the San Pablo Bay channel markers. The last hour of the race was more nor¬ mal, with a moderate westerly kicking in June, 1998 • U&lUili • Page 195

to end the race upwind. The redeeming quality of the weekend was — and always has been — the mel¬ low party that runs non-stop from the Sat¬ urday afternoon finish until the racing commences again on Sunday morning. The hospitable Vallejo YC rolled out the red carpet once again, serving up hun¬ dreds of dinners and breakfasts, live mu¬ sic and an untold number of cocktails. Page 196 •

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One hundred and fifty volunteers, seven rent-a-cops, 22 porta-potties, 12 dump¬ sters and one and a half tons of ice were all part of the winning formula. "It's a gi¬ gantic undertaking," said race chairman Russ Taft. "In fact, we're still cleaning up the mess!" Taft was also still cleaning up the race results, which were also a mess, three weeks later. "It was worse than ever this

year," he moaned. "We had 80 discrepencies to clear up, plus our program crashed and we had to re-input everything. You never really know how much you depend on computers until something goes wrong. Thank god for pencils!" Preliminary results follow, compiled as they were given to us without any attempt at breaking ties:

DIV. F (multihulls) —1) Erin, Antrim 30+, Dan Buhler, 2 points; 2) (tie) Variable Speed, Tornado, Ken Mclntire, and Donnybrook, F-24, John Brady, and Ja Mon, F-25c, John Kocol, 10. (9 boats) , DIV, G (0-84) — 1) Blue Chip, Farr 40, Walt Lo¬ gan, 3 points; 2) China Cloud, J/40, Leigh Brite, 7; 3) Eos, J/130, Jim Cascino, 8. (10 boats) DIV. H (85-110)— 1) SavoirFaire, Beneteau 42, Dale Williams, 3 points; 2) Bloom County, Mancebo 31, The Ondrys, 10; 3) (tie) Stop Making Sense, Soverel 33, Dean Briggs, and My Rubber Ducky,

Still life at theVallejo Race, including a shot of the Bullseye' gang celebrating their first sail on the new boat. All photos 'latitude'/rob & richard. Hobie 33, Lee Garami, 12; 5) Razzberries, Olson 34, The Nesbits, 13. (18 boats) DIV. J (111-143) — 1) Tinsley Light V, WylieCat 30, Hank Grandin, 3 points; 2) Silkye, WylieCat 30, Larry Riley, 4; 3) Zilla, B-25, Brent Draney, 6; 4) Mintaka, C&C 36, Gerry Brown, 9; 5) Seramis, SC 27, Jeff Kearney, 13. (20 boats) DIV. K (144-163) — 1) Gruntled, Moore 24, Simon

Winer, 5 points; 2) Half Off, Moore 24, Tom Carlon, 6; 3) Sorcerer, C&C Half Tonner, Greg Cody, 7; 5) Derf, Soling, Pete Rowland, 10. (22 boats) DIV. L (164-182) — 1) (tie) Talisman, J/22, Gary Albright, and Savage Sally, J/24, John Scarborough, 4 points; 3) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair, 11; 4) Pocket Rocket, Mull 22, Juriaan Blok, 12. (16 boats) DIV. M (183-up) — 1) Antares, Islander 30 Mk. II, Larry Telford, 3 points; 2) Spridle, Catalina 22, Mike Faber, 9; 3) (tie) Cinnabar, SJ 24, Harry Hemsley, and Risky Business, Santana 22, Ed Barrell, 10. (17

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THE RACING boats) PHRO — 1) (tie) Raven, N/M 39, Mark Thomas, and Bullseye, N/M 49, Bob Garvie, 3 points; 2) (tie) Cha-Ching, BH 41, Scooter Simmons, and JackRabbit, N/M 39, 8; 4) Rosebud, SC 52, Roger Sturgeon, 9. (17 boats) SPORTBOATS — 1) (tie) Peregrine, Mumm 30, David Thomson, and Always Friday, Antrim 27, John Liebenberg, and Abracadabra II, Antrim 27, Dennis Surtees, 4 points. (7 boats) SF 30-FOOTERS (117-141) — 1) (tie) Legacy, Gemini Twin, John Melder, and Insufferable, N/M 30, Peter Rookard, 4 points; 3) (tie) Jane Doe, Olson 911S, Bob Izmarian, and Enigma, Capo 30, Robert Hultman, 9. (15 boats) NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Moonshine, O'Day 34, Mick Coleman, 3 points. (2 boats) EXPRESS 37 — 1) Bliss, Mike Grisham, 2 points; 2) (tie) Expeditious, Bartz Schneider, and Spindrift V, The Wrights, 6. (6 boats) ISLANDER 36 — 1) Absolute, Steve Schneider, 2 points; 2) Blue Streak, D.R. Schumacher, 5. (6 boats) J/35 — 1) Kiri, Bob George, 3 points; 2) Jarlen, Bob Bloom, 4. (4 boats) SANTANA 35 — 1) Ice Nine, Brendan Busch, 2 points; 2) Spirit of Elvis, Martin Cunningham, 5. (4 boats) J/105 — 1) Sales Call, Ian Charles, 4 points; 2) Advantage 3, Pat Benedict, 5; 3) Walloping Swede, Tom Kassberg, 10; 4) Thrasher, Steve Podell, 11. (3 boats) CATALINA 30—1) Mona Too, David Halby, 3 points; 2) Irish Lady, D. Mahoney, 4; 3) Eurydice, Kenneth O'Donnell, 9. (9 boats) OLSON 30'—1) (tie) Speedy Gonzales, David Carrel, and White Knuckles, Dan Benjamin, 4. (4 boats) NEWPORT 30 — 1) Mariner, Bruce Darby, 3 points; 2) (tie) Hot Chocolate, Don Oliver, and Zarpa,

49er fan Morgan Larson was named to the US Olympic Sailing Team again. He recently came in third at the 49er Worlds in the Med. George Gurrola, and Noble Prize, Noble Griswold, 7. (11 boats) J/29 — 1) (tie) 5150, Hans Bigall, and Power Play, Gordon Smith, 3 points; 3) Wave Dancer, Richard Leevey, 6. (8 boats) CAL 29 — 1) Bravada, Lucy Miller, 3 ; 2) (tie) Ar¬

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gonaut, Jim Garvine, and Serendipity, Tom Bruce, 6. (6 boats) TRITON — 1) Bolero, Ely Gilliam, 2 points; 2) Sleepy Head, James Kuyendall, 8 points. (6 boats} LEVEL 198—1) Alliance, Cal 2-27, Whit Conley, 5 points; 2) Challenge, Islander 28, Peter Schoen, 7; 3) (tie) Checkout, Cal 2-27, Misha Orloff, and Sea¬ bird, Thunderbird, Vern Wallace, 10. (12 boats) HAWKFARM —1) Predator, Jim Wheeler, 2 points; 2) (tie) Roadhouse Blues, Torben Bentsen, and El Gavilan, Jocelyn Nash, 5. (5 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Shenanigans, Nick Gibbens, 3 points; 2) Peaches, John Rivlin, 6; 3) Pangaea, Sean Jones, 10; 4) Graeagle, George Koch, 12; 5) Opus, Rich Sjoberg, 14. (16 boats) OLSON 25 — 1) (tie) Baleineau, Charles Brochard, and Barking Dog, Jeffrey Kroeber, 5 points; 3) Three Ring Circus, Dave McMurtry, 7. (10 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Holy Sheet, Robert Dreyer, 2 points. (2 boats) ' CHALLENGER — 1) Gunga Din, Jan Grygier, 2 points. (3 boats) RANGER 23— 1) Impossible, Gary Kneeland, 2 points. (3 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) (tie) Mizzen, Mike Murrison, and Carlos, Robert Ward, and Soliton, Mark Lowry, 5 points. (8 boats) ARIEL — 1) Parranda, Hugh Davis, 2 points. (3 boats)

Olympic Sailing Team, Cont'd The Olympic Sailing Committee of US Sailing recently announced members of the 1998 US Sailing Team in the 49er, Soling and Star classes. The rest of the team was announced two months ago, with only the Laser line-up still undeter¬ mined. Created to recruit and develop athletes for upcoming Olympiads, the US Sailing Team annually distinguishes top-five ranked sailors in each of nine Olympic classes (11 divisions) — Europe (women), Finn (men), 470 (men and women), Laser (open). Mistral (men and women), 49er, Soling, Star and Tornado (all open). US Sailing Team rankings are based on at¬ tendance and performance at a series of qualifying regattas with each class hav¬ ing its own ranking system. The following members of the 1998 US Sailing Team are listed in ranking order one through five; Named by the 49er class (skipper and crew): 1997 49er Worlds silver medalists Jonathan McKee and brother Charlie McKee (Seattle/Shoreline, WA); 1997 49er Worlds bronze medalists Morgan Larson and Kevin Hall (Capitola/Ventura, CA); 1998 49er National Champions Jay Renehan and Chris Lanzinger (Seattle/ Medina, WA); Andy Mack and Fritz Lanzinger (Mercer Island/Medina, WA); and Derek Campbell and Scott Smith (Se¬ attle/Edmonds, WA). Named by the Soling class (skipper and

two crew): 1998 national champions Dave Curtis, Moose McClintock and Karl Anderson (Marblehead, MA/Ne^vport, RI/ Barnstable, MA); Tony Rey, Dean Brenner and Tom Burnham (Newport, RI/Watch Hill, RI/Newport, RI); Kent Heitziner, Wally Corwin and Ezra Culver (Wilmette,IL/ Northboro, MA/Huntington Beach, CA); 1972 Dragon Olympic bronze medalist Don Cohan, Tom Olsen and Bill Fortenberry (Wyndmoor, PA/East Dennis, MA/Jamestown, RI); John Horsch, Matt Tym and Vytas Kasniunas (Berkeley, CA/ Chicago, IL/Chicago,IL). Named by the Star class: 1997 Euro¬ pean champions Mark Reynolds and Magnus Liljedahl (San Diego, CA/Miami, FL); John MacCausland and Phil Trinter (Cherry Hill, NJ/Lorain, OH); Eric Doyle and Brian Terhaar (both San Diego, CA); Peter Vessella and Mike Dorgan (Bur¬ lingame/San Diego, CA); and Howie Shiebler and George Iverson (San Fran¬ cisco, CA/Marblehead, MA). Four Bay Area sailors made the pres¬ tigious team: native son Morgan Larson (49er); Chicago transplant and UC Ber¬ keley alum John Horsch (Soling); recent Rhode Island refugee Peter Vessella (Star), who also sails Lasers and Mumm 36s; and 11: Metre and long-time Star campaigner Howie Shiebler (Star), who has apparently come to his senses and moved back to the Bay Area. Conspicuous by their ab¬ sence on the Team are top Soling candi-

SHEET south of the finish line, snapping off its keel in the , process. Another more life-threat¬ ening disaster was narrowly / averted on the SC 70 Evolution. According to Scott Easom, who was driving at the time, "It was pitch dark and we were about three miles from the finish line when our bowman, Neil Fraser, fell overboard. He was out on a halyard at the spinnaker clew, swapping the 'real' sheet and / guy back on after a peel. Somehow, he opened the wrong shackle — kind of like those cartoons where the guy saws the tree limb off with him on the wrong side! "Neil was still connected to the boat by the sheet and guy, which were clipped to his harness, so we just about drowned him and keelhauled him before someone cut the lines. I threw the boat into the wind, letting the spinnaker blow back¬ wards as we dropped it. Then we sailed back to Neil, who was struggling without flotation. He did, however, have a personal strobe light, which may have saved his life. We got him in one pass — a good thing, as he was exhausted. The vftiole thing only took maybe 6-7 minutes, but it scared the bejesus out of us!" ‘ As far as we can tell, no Northern Cali¬ fornia boats sailed in the race, but there were a fair number of Bay Area sailors spread out around the fleet. Two of the more successful ones, Jim Antrim and Dan Newland, were 50% of the crew on Barry and Sue Senescu's new Antrim 27 Rattle and Hum. They pounded their class, correcting out fifth overall in PHRF. "Con¬ ditions were ideal for boats with assymetrical kites," reported Antrim. Overall PHRF winner was Ernie Minney's beautiful wooden schooner Samarang. Another boat deserving men¬ tion was David and Donna James's J /120 J-Bird, which won the 28-boat ULDB class. In the process, J-Bird nipped five sisterships, all of which finished within 20 minutes of each other. "It was the most fun I've ever had sailing," said David. "I'm really pumped!"

Roy Disney's 'Pyewacket' is on a roll, recently adding the Ensenada Race to her growing list of course records. Next, the Pacific Cup? dates Jeff Madrigali and John Kostecki, neither of whom has sailed enough regat¬ tas to get ranked yet. Membership on the US Sailing Team identifies sailors as strong contenders for an Olympic berth and provides them with coaching, training opportunities and fi¬ nancial assistance in addition to national recognition. The US SailingTeam is spon¬ sored by Rolex Watch U.S.A. and Sperry Top-Sider. Douglas Gill and Team McLube are suppliers. The Olympic regatta is scheduled for September 16 through October 1, 2000, in Sydney, Australia.

51st Ensenada Race After doing the last three Enchilada Derbies in a row, we decided to take a break from the race this year. Bad idea! Our first notion that we might have blown •it was a Friday evening phone call from Mexico, informing us that Steve Fossett and his Stars & Stripes gang (Ben Wright, Brian Thompson, Peter Hogg, Gino Morelli, John Gladstone) had finished !he 125-mile race in just 6 hours, 46 min¬ utes — an 18.5-knot average! That knock¬ ed one hour, 43 minutes off the previous record, set by Dennis Conner in the same boat a few years ago. "The start and the finish were a bit odd,

but everything in between was great — easy sailing down the rhumbline, one jibe and finish," claimed Hogg. "We lost about 12-15 minutes restarting the race be¬ cause of a race committee error — the shapes and the guns were out of synch with the time. If we'd lost the record’ by that much we'd have been pretty ticked off. Then, when we got to Ensenada, we had to take our own time because we beat the race committee to the finish line!" Another record fell around midnight when Roy Disney's SC 70+ Pyewacket pulled into town after 11 hours, 49 min¬ utes — good enough to knock 21 min¬ utes off Christine's ancient 1983 record. Doug Baker's Andrew 70+ Magnitude crossed the line six minutes later, also bettering the old milestone. Pyewacket''s winning crew consisted of Roy Disney, son Roy Pat Disney, Robbie Haines, son Brian Haines, Ben Mitchell, Dan Crowley, Gregg Hedrick, Jim Elliott, Rick Brent, Jim Slaughter and Zan Drejes. Given the perfect winds — a 15-20 knot westerly that for once didn't die at night — the collective time for the 438boat fleet was one of the fastest ever. Amost every boat in the fleet set a new ’personal best' time, which was cause for celebration throughout the rest of the weekend. Other than some blown-out kites, the only real damage occurred to the Olson 40 Fast Break. That boat some¬ how went up on the beach a few miles

ULDB 70 — 1) Taxi Dancer, R/P 68; 2) Mongoose, SC70; 3) Grand Illusion, SC 70. (6 boats) ULDB — 1) J-Bird, J/120; 2) Leading Lady, Olson 40; 3) Pythagoras, Olson 40. (28 boats) PHRF-A — 1) Iceman, Melges 24; 2) Paladin, 45' sloop; 3) Voodoo, Tripp 40. (25 boats) SCHOCK 35 — 1) Mischief; 2) Piranha; 3) Slip¬ pery When Wet. (7 boats) PHRF-B — 1) Rattle & Hum, Antrim 27; 2) Kiwi Santuary, Hobie 33; 3). Star Duster, Hobie 33. (32 boats) J/35 — 1) Diablo; 2) Great Scot; 3) Bretwalda. (6 boats) AMERICAP — 1) Passages, Ranger 29; 2) Suivez

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THE RACING Moi III, Santana 30/30 GP; 3) Indian Summer, Ericson 35. (16 boats) PHRF-C — 1) Speedy Gonzales, J/92; 2) XS, Mull 30; 3) Salsipuedes, Tayana 52. (9 boats) PHRF-D — 1) Howling, Olson 30; 2) Von Voy¬ age, Catalina 42; 3) Blue Star, Olson 30. (11 boats) PHRF-E — 1) Wind Dancer, Catalina 42; 2) Sirena, Cardinal 46; 3) Novia del Mar, Beneteau 405F. (29 boats) PHRF-F — 1) Whippet, J/80; 2) Foggy Notion, Catalina 38; 3) Zipper, J/29. (23 boats) PFIRF-G — 1) B Hoppy, Cheoy Lee 38; 2) Arrakis, Swan 40; 3) Ferae Naturae, Peterson 44. (27 boats) PFIRF-H — 1) Fantasia, Catalina 36; 2) Cross Fire, Cal 36; 3) Cherokee Woman, Catalina 36. (23 boats) PFIRF-I — 1) Slithergadee, CF 27; 2) Nemesis, CF 27; 3) Tristan, Catalina 32. (14 boats) PPIRF-J — 1) Day Tripper, Cal 29; 2) Sea Hawk, Islander 30; 3) Prime Time, Hunter 31. (13 boats) PHRF-K — 1) Wahine, Catalina 30; 2) Pisces, Catalina 30; 3) Elusive, Columbia 30. (21 boats) PHRF-L— 1) Samarang, 53' schooner; 2) Aphro¬ dite, Catalina 27; 3) Serena, Catalina 27. (14 boats) S-CRUZ— 1) Blue-Bell, 35'sloop; 2) Lagniappe, Beneteau 51 -Cy 3) Willow Wind, Cal 40. (33 boats) G-CRUZ-A — 1) Mirage, Beneteau 50; 2) Everfit, Catalina 36; 3) Mahalo III, Hunter 40.5. (27 boats) G-CRUZ-B — 1) Invictus, Islander 36; 2) Tara, Columbia 29-2; 3) Thriller, C&C 29. (25 boats) N-CRUZ- 1) Fanfare, Cheoy Lee 48; 2) Piekin, Ericosn 35-3; 3) Sloop du Jour, Catalina 30. (23 boats) ORCA (multihull) — 1) Lani Kai, Custom 46; 2) Delta Vee, F-31; 3) Imi Loa, CSK 40. (20 boats) ANCIENT MARINER — I) South Pacific, Alden 37; 2) Vignette II, 39' sloop; 3) Kelpie, 'custom1. (9 boats)

Whitbread Afterthoughts La Rochelle, France — Shortly after EF Language made Whitbread histoiy by wrapping up the Race with a leg to spare, the victorious crew stopped, momentarily, for the obligatory press conference. After making a few comments of his own, Cayard then turned to his crew and asked each of them if they would do the race again. The complete transcript can be found on the race's wonderfpl website, www.whitbread.org. Paul Cayard— "I really feel good about winning The Whitbread. . . I know I am lucky to win this first time out. I have a great crew and a great boat. We do know how to sail even though we are novices at ocean racing. . . I have really enjoyed this thing, but 1 know it would be hard to du¬ plicate if. You have to know when enough is enough. You have to feel you can walk away from something as a winner. The big issue is my family. Whether I will do the race again is a question I can't an¬ swer right now. Curtis Blewett — "Yes, I would do it again." Kimo Worthington,— "No, it's too long. I would like to be involved in another project. You (Cayard) and I are getting too old for this." Page 200 •

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Magnus Olsson — "Of course! You will see in four years. I think this win will sink in in Southampton." Curt Oetking — "It is a pretty interest¬ ing experience but the age factor, for sure, comes into it, and you have to be young. My hat's off to those guys at the pointy end of the boat." Justin Clougher — "1 wouldn't miss it for the world. If you go, I will follow. I will do it again." Mark Christensen— "Maybe. I would like to say that it takes 12 people to make a team. These 12 you see here would be the best on any team. To see what it takes to win this is an eye opener. I shall have to see — I have a wife, and we are about to have a third member of the family." JoshBelsky — "I am going to fall asleep and not worry about the rig coming down. I took a look at our group of people last September in Southampton — physically a motley crew and mentally twisted. I re¬ ally wasn’t sure what we were getting into. I knew that we would turn out best and give our all. This group of motley guys is a pretty together unit. To be able to sail 130 days and get off the boat and talk to each other is pretty special." Steve Erickson— "Paul and I come from a sailing background. We like to play and have spent many years being professional

Best in the world — congratulations to Paul. Cayard (right) and the 'EFL' crew for hitting a grand slam in their first Whitbread at-bat.

yachtsmen. It can become mundane. My overall impression of The Whitbread is that every day is dynamic. It .was really entertaining and psychologically stimu¬ lating and I will do another one." Klas Nylof— "Like most of the guys I think it has been a very good race. A little bit harder than I thought it would be. The Whitbread is longer and tougher than I thought. I am .definitely going to do an¬ other one. Most of the stuff has been said but I have enjoyed it. I am one of the lucky ones to win the first time." Paul Murray — "I will do my darndest to get on a boat. It was a great ppportunity to get off the shore team and get on a boat. 1 would like to say a word for Marco (Constant, who broke his arm on the last leg). It was all his hard work repairing sails in the bilges that got the team here." Mark Rudiger — "When I get ashore I don't know my right from my left! This was the race of my life. I have been in this craziness for 20 to 25 years. The Whitbread is definitely a climax in any sailor’s life. The win we have here is due to these 11 'heroes. As navigator, I was able to watch and it was a pleasure. I hope I get a chance to experience it again."

SHEET

FLEET I — 1) Desperado, Express 27, Mike Bruzzone; 2) Salty Hotel, Express 27, Mark Halman; 3) Extosea, Express 27, Bill Wheatley. (6 boats) FLEET 2 — 1) Grey Eagle, Valiant 40, Bill Stephens; 2) Island Girl, Islander 36, Frank Burkhart. (5 boats) FLEET 3 — 1) Two Scoops, Express 34, Chris Longaker; 2) Red Sky, Olson 34, Brian Boschma; 3) Grey Ghost, Zaal 38, Doug Grant. (7 boats) FLEET 4 — 1) Puff, J/120, Todd Hedin; 2) XDream, Jeppesen 39, Steen Moller. (5 boats) FLEET 5 — 1) Surprise, Schumacher 46, The Chamberlains; 2) Oaxaca, SC 50, The Cranorg. (4 boats) OVERALL— 1) Desperado; 2) Puff; 3) Surprise. (27 boats)

Box Scores Following are results of various races we didn't have the time, space or motiva¬ tion to cover in more detail. (Hint: XL tee shirts and the random free lunch have been known to buy additional coverage in this column.) As always, read at your own peril — or hit the 'fast forward' but¬ ton to Race Notes.

Monterey Spinnaker Cup The revived race to Monterey, which began at 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon, May 22, attracted 27 boats — a great show¬ ing! Though not a 'counter' on the OYRA schedule, the race obviously appealed to lots of sailors for a variety of reasons. "Some boats used it as practice for the Pacific Cup or the Coastal Cup, while oth¬ ers just looked at it as a good excuse to sail down to Monterey for the holiday weekend," said race promoter Don Lessley. "Golden Gate YC and Monterey Pen¬ insula YC did a terrific job of helping us get this new event off the ground." The race turned out to be a quick one, with almost all boats finishing by break¬ fast. First to Cannery Row was Roger Sturgeon's hot new SC 52 Rosebud, which set a de facto course record of 9 hours, 41 minutes and 39 seconds over the 86.4mile race track. Mike Bruzzone's Express 27 Desperado was the overall corrected time winner, apparently taking the inside track and minimizing the extra miles. "It was challenging getting out The Gate," noted Don. "But after that, it was a beautiful sail down the coast in moder¬ ate to heavy winds. My gut feel is that Rosebud's record may stand a long time — it was a much faster race than anyone figured on."

OYRA DUXSHIP RACE (RYC: April 25:31.8 miles): PHRO lA— 1) Recidivist, Schumacher 39, Colin Case; 2) Raven, N/M 3,9, Mark Thomas; 3) Cha Ching, BH .41, Scooter Simmons. (7 boats) ' PHRO IB— 1) Eclipse, Express 37, Mark Dowdy; 2) Punk Dolphin, Wylie 39, Jonathan Livingston; 3) Petard, Farr 36, Keith Buck; 4) X-Dream, Jeppesen 39, Steen Molier. (9 boats) PHRO IIA — 1) Ice Nine, Santana 35, Brenden Busch; 2) Dance Away, Santana 35, Doug Storkovich. (3 boats) PHRO 113 — 1) Scotch Mist, Cal 39, Ray Minehan; 2) Trial Run, Passport 40, Jack Bieda; 3) Escapade, Nordic 40, Silver/Karpenco/Mill, (7 boats) MORA I — 1) Baffett, Express 27, Forest Baskett/ Tom Baffico; 2) Swamp Donkey, Express 27, Scott Sellers; 3) Jaded Lover, Express 27, Richard Bryant. (7 boats) MORA II — 1) Go Dog Go, Santana 22, Bill Vanderslice; 2) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman. (5 boats) SHS — 1) Tinsley Light V, WylieCat 30, Hank Grandin; 2) Salty Hotel, Express 27, Mark Halman; 3) Sparky, Mumm 30, Bill Hoffman. (6 boats) MULTIHULL—No starters. LASER NQRCAL/505 OPEN fSCYC: April 25-26): 505 — 1) Howie Hamlin/Mike Martin, 5 points; 2) Bruce Edwards/Dave Shelton, 14; 3) Jeff Miller/Jim Maloney, 15; 4) Steve Bartz/Andy Gooding, 26; 5) Nick Adamson/Ben Franklin, 28; 6) Alan Norman/Larry Tuttle, 30; 7) Robin Brown/Rich Lionhearted, 31; 8) Bruce Tilley/Paul Revere, 34; 9) Bruce Springsteen/ Steve Andresen, 50. (15 boats) LASER — 1) Matt McQueen, 6 points; 2) Charles Meade, 10; 3) ChuckAsper, 25; 4)Andrew Holdsworth, 25; 5) Alex Mehran, 36; 6) Peter Phelan, 39; 7) Tracy Usher, 42; 8) Simon Bell, 45; 9) Chad Freitas, 52; 10) Jonathan Howell, 54. (20 boats) (5 races; no throwouts)

WOODY SEASON OPENER tGGYC: 4/25:2 races): FOLKBOAT — 1) Polperro, Peter Jeal, 4 points; 2) Freya, Ed Welch, 5; 3) Galante, Otto Schreier, 7. (10 boats) BEAR — 1) (tie) Smokey, Steve Robertson, and Trigger, Scott Cauchois, 3 points; 3) Little Dipper, Massey/Bambara, 6. (7 boats) KNARR — 1) Benino, Terry Anderlini, 2 points; 2) Sugar, Mark Heer, 6; 3) Sophia, Tom Reed, 8; 4) Se¬ quoia II, Chris Perkins, 13; 5) Whistler, Craig McCabe, 19; 6) Flyer, Chris Kelly, 20; 7) (tie) Wintersmoon, Bryan Kemnitzer, and Cardinal Sagehen, George Sayre, 20. (22 boats) BIRD, IOD— No races scheduled. KONOCTI CUP (KBSC: April 25: 22.6 miles): DIV. I — 1) My Rubber Ducky, Hobie 33, Lee Garami; 2) Fang, Viper 640, John Hartman; 3) Fam¬ ily Hour, Olson 30, Bilafer Family; 4) Rookie, Hobie 33, Chris Johnson; 5) Barking Dog, Olson 25, Jeffrey Kroeber. (10 boats) DIV. II — 1) Resolution, Venture 21 MH, Jim Chris¬ topher; 2) No Cat Hare, Catalina 22, Jim Hare; 3) Rubicon, Cal 25-2, Chase Colborn. (5 boats) HALF CUP (13.4 miles) — 1) Mountain Mist, SJ 24, Vic Carder; 2) Lusty, Balboa 26, Ray Proffitt; 3) Sante, Capri 26 WK, Jim Westman; 4) #2839, Catalina 25 FK, Peter Nolasco; 5) Pick, Catalina 25 SK, Bill Pickering. (13 boats) RONSTAN YOUTH REGATTA (EYC: Apr. 25-26): EL TORO — 1) Tim Armstrong; 2) Brendan Daly; 3) Mallory McCullom. (9 boats) CFJ — 1) Justin Scott/Courtney Pelletier; 2) Evan Lyons/Rosie Lyons. (4 boats) LASER —-1) Patrick Brown; 2) Bradley Nieuwstad. (5 boats) OPTI — 1) Hannah Gallup. (1 boat) LASER RADIAL — 1) Jesse Corlett. (1 boat) LASER II — 1) Casey Pelletier/Nicole Wyrick. (1 boat) (11 races) YACHTING CUP (San Dieao YC: May 2-3): ULDB 70 — 1) Evolution, SC 70, Brack Duker, 8 poirjts; 2) Alchemy, Andrews 70, Mary & Dick Compton, 14. (5 boats) PHRF I (under 15) — 1) Elyxir, SC 52, Paul Ely, 12 points; 2) Pressure Cooker, SC 52, Tempesta/ Shampain, 14; 3) Margaritaville, Farr 50, Jay Stein¬ beck, 16. (8 boats) PHRF II (16-66) — 1) Tabasco, N/M 39, John Wylie, 10 points; 2) It's OKI, Andrews 43, Lew Beery, 10; 3) High 5, Farr 40, Ross Ritto, 14; 4) B-32 Again, B-32, Aaron Hall, 34; 5) B Nasty, B-32, Doug Mongeon, 42. (16 boats) J/120 — 1) Impact Player, Jeff Brown, 12 points; 2) Hot Tamale, Doug Jorgensen, 17; 3) Indigo, Scott Birnberg, 17; 4) J/Bird, Janes/Willke, 20. (9 boats) SCHOCK 35 — 1) Wings, Doug Case, 13 points; 2) Whistler, JohnstorlM/ainer, 17; 3) Wild Thing, Scott Harris, 17; 4) Outlier, Dick Schmidt, 24; 5) Piranha, Da^e Voss, 26. (18 boats) J/35 — 1) Fast Lane, B. & K. Peterson, 7 points; 2) Incisor, Dwire/Plander, 11; 3) Rag Tag, Scott & Chuck Burns, 14. (8 boats) PHRF III (63-132) — 1) Sorcerer, NY36, Rosene/ McKeever, 9 points; 2) Vortex, C&C 41, Scott Gra¬ ham, 15; 3) White Knight, Farr 40, Phil Friedman, 22; 4) French Bred, Beneteau 42, Ron & Bev Coalson, 28; 5) Blue Moon, NY 36, Don Prince, 29. (15 boats) PHRF IV (78-126) — 1) Nitro, J/33, John Mes¬ senger, 8 points; 2) Miss Ali, Adhara 30, Dan Harlan, 14; 3) Snoopy, J/105, Dick Roberts, 22; 4) Speedy

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THE RACING Gonzales, J/92, Steen/Winnard, 23. (14 boats) MELGES 24— 1) Rush, Vince Brun, 5 points; 2) #6, S. & B. Flam, 17; 3) Hard Core, Steve Meseda, 20. (10 boats) PHRF V (24-33 feet, PHRF 129-up) — 1) Nem¬ esis, CF 27, Geoff Longnecker/12 points 2) Midnight Express, SC 27, Peter Senft, 15.5; 3) Amourous, Capo 26, Chuck Holland, 22; 4) Thunderbox, Andrews 26, Ron & Ian Trotter, 26; 5) Scooter, Capo 26, An¬ drea Cabito, 26. (18 boats) (5 races; no throwouts) ELVSTROM-ZELLERBACH (StFYC: May 2-3): EUROPE — 1) Sam Barnes, 8 points; 2) Roberta Holden, 9; 3) Lynn Olinger, 10. (7 boats) FINN — 1) Mo Hart, 9 points; 2) John Callahan, 9; 3) Andrew Kern, 11. (8 boats) IMCO — 1) Ted Huang, 5 points; 2) Peter Wells, 9; 3) Jessica Crisp, 15. (10 boards) LASER — 1) Charles Meade, 10 points; 2) Matt McQueen, 10; 3) Marc Jacobi, 13; 4) Andrew Holdsworth, 28; 5) Peter Vessella, 31; 6) Tracy Usher, 34; 7) Eric Holden, 35. (21 boats) LASER RADIAL— 1) Jim Christopher, 7.5 points; 2) Kris Greenough, 12. (5 boats) (6 races; no throwouts) SCORE #2 (Santa Cruz YC: May 3): 'A' FLEET — 1) Ingrid, SC 52, Bill Turpin; 2) Red Hawk, SC 40, Lou Pambianco; 3) Tacos Pescados, Olson 30, Tim McTighe. (6 boats; 26.2 miles) B' FLEET — 1) California Zephyr, SC 27, Peter Dalton; 2) Wild Thing, Express 27, Phil Meyers; 3)

Gandalf, Santana 35, Carl Quitzau. (6 boats; 23 miles) ISAF WORLD MATCH RACE RANKINGS (May 5): 1) Peter Gilmour (AUS), 11778 points; 2) Ed Baird (USA), 11182; 3) Bertrand Pace (FRA), 10771; 4) Pe¬ ter Holmberg (ISV), 10602; 5) Chris Law (GBR), 10591; 6) Jochen Schumann (GER), 10118; 7) Russell Coutfc§ (NZL), 9995; 8) Sten Mohr (DEN), 9959; 9) Thierry Peponnet (FRA), 9739; 10) Morten Henriksen (DEN), 9681. (top 10 out of 100 ranked sailors) USSA CHAMP OF CHAMPIONS fNHYC. May 7-9): 1) George Szabo/Stacey Dumain, Lido 14/Snipe, San Diego, 20 points; 2) Mike Ingham/Bobby Bryant, Thistle, Rochester, NY, 24; 3) Mark Gaudio/Chuck Sinks, Sabot, Newport Beach, 26; 4) John Drayton/ Steve Schupak, Lehman 12, Newport Beach, 33; 5) Alex Cam'et/Diane Beck, Laser, Sari Diego, 35; 6) Jess Cote/Gary Christensen, X-Boat, Wayzata, MN, 63; 7) Russell Robinson/Bill Donald, 210, Hingham, MA, 69; 8) Tom Schock/Tom Garrett, Santana 20, Newport Beach, 72; 9) Jim Bradley/Greg Melanson, Mercury, San Francisco, 76; 10) Chris Johnson/Chuck Skewes, SJ 24, Seattle, 88. (18 entrants; 11 races/1 throwout; Harbor 20s) JESTERS MOTHERS DAY REGATTA (May 9-10): OVERALL — 1) Loretta & Jim Maloney, 39 points; 2) Joe Francis, 64; 3) Chris Watts, 65; 4) Ian Klitza, 73; 5) Jot Fisher-Smith, 8CL(18 boats) LIGHTWEIGHT — Joe Francis.

HEAVYWEIGHT — Gary Tracey. WOMEN — Loretta Maloney. (14 races on Woodward Reservoir) SPRING ONE DESIGN (SCYC: May 16): SC 27 — 1) Jersey Girl, Greg Miller, 12 points; 2) Hanalei Express, Rob Schuyler, 20; 3) Ciao, Andy Carson, 24; 4) (tie) Kurzweile, Brett Gripsenstraw, and Cruzin, Barry Hopkins, 25. (14 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Moorgasm, Chris Watts, 9 points; 2) Gelifetch, Shana Rosenfeld, 15; 3) Mercedes, Joel Verutti, 16. (8 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Tara, Jim Samuels, 5 points. (3 boats) (cumulative after 5 races) ELITE KEEL REGATTA fSFYC: May 16-17: 4 races) ETCHELLS — 1) Mr. Natural, Tim Parsons/Bill Barton, 8 points; 2) Celebration, H. Fischer/D. Morss, 8; )3) #860, Bob Park, 20; 4) Final Final, Hank Eason, 21; 5) Ice Cubed, John Jansheski, 28; 6) Hyper, Tom Oiler, 30; 7) Air Tuna, Jim Gregory, 34. (15 boats) IOD — 1) US 100, Lacey/Dailey/etc., 9 points; 2) Quickstep II, Rich Pearce, 11. (5 boats) KNARR — 1) Sophia, Tom Reed, 18 points; 2) Snaps III, Knud Wibroe, 18; 3) Whistler, Craig McCabe, 21; 4) Peerless, Larry Drew, 22; 5) Murano, Bill Kreysier, 27; 6) Huttetu, George Rygg, 34; .7) Benino, Terry Anderlini, 36; 8) Shadow, Steve Wegner, 43; 9) Flyer, Chris Kelly, 55. (22 boats)

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SHEET Joel Verutti, 44; 7) Kamikaze, Mike Fink/George Wheeler, 45; 8) Bruzer, GaryTracey, 49; 9) Cadenza, Bruce Donald, 63; 10) Techno Trousers, Roger Ivie, 66. (22 boats) Winning crew — Seadon Wijsen (driver), John Collins (owner), Steve Marsh, Dennis George, Bran¬ don Paine.

2) Majic, D. Klatt/J. Phillips, 10; 3) Air, Tim Duffy/Susie Gregory, 12. (8 boats)

INTERCLUB SERIES #2 (EYC: May 16: 10.2 miles): MERIT 25 — 1) Usual Suspects, Steve Zevanove; 2) Double Agent, R. Ollivier. (4 boats) SPIN. B (0-173) — 1) Carlene, WylieCat 30, F. Saltero; 2) Mistral, Concubine 38, Bob Becker. (4 boats) LEVEL 180 — 1) Zarpa, Newport 30-2, George Gurrola; 2) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles; 3) Voyager, Ranger 29, Don Pruzan. (6 boats) SPIN. D (180-up) — 1) Dulcinea, Killerwhale, Mike Mathiasen; 2) Sequel, Catalina 27, S. Hester; 3) Lyric, T-Bird, Jim Newport. (7 boats) NON-SPIN. E — 1) It's Jazz, Ranger 33, Joanne McFee; 2) Blue Fox, Hunter Cutter, J. Hanek; 3) Ar¬ ies, Catalina 42, D. Beckett. (10 boats) NON-SPIN. F — 1) MeMe, Newport 30-3, Norm Guest. (3 boats) MULTIHULL— 1) Donnybrook, F-28, John Brady. (3 boats)

MOORE24 PCCs (SCYC: May 16-17: 6 races): 1) Conococheague, John Collins/Seadon Wijsen, 16 points; 2) Great Pumpkin, Loretta & Jim Maloney, 16; 3) Fatuity, Dave Hodges, 17; 4) Moorgasm, Hank Niles, 31; 5) Adios, Scott Walecka, 31; 6) Mercedes,

MEMORIAL DAY (StFYC: May 23-24: 4 races): J/35 — 1) Major Damage, PerkinsAA/ilson, 8 points; 2) Kiri, Bob George, 9. (4 boats) SANTANA 35 — 1) Swell Dancer, Jim Graham, 7 points; 2) 50/50, Mark Sloane, 9; 3) AWB, Darrel Louis,

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THE RACING 11. (6 boats) 11 :METRE — 1) Altoids, Tina Kleinman, 6 points; 2) Ratracers, Mike Ratiani, 12. (5 boats) J/105— 1) Bella Rosa, DaveTambellini, 4 points; 2) (tie) Sails Call, Ian Charles, and Walloping Swede, Tom Kassberg, 15. (4 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Mad House, Mike DeVries, 7 points; 2) Baffett, Baffico/Bgskett, 12; 3) New Moon, Franklin/Schumacher, 13; 4) Swamp Donkey, Scott Sellers, 14. (9 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Sea Monster, John Oldham, 5 points; 2) Casey Jones, Don Jesberg, 7; 3) Agent 99. Dimitrios Dimitrelis, 14; 4) Tropical Storm, Doug Forster, 24; 5) Not the Family Buick, Bennett/Stone, 29. (12 boats) J/24 — 1) Tundra Rose, Keith Whittemore, 5 points; 2) Wahine, Chris Snow, 13; 3) Air, Duffy/Gre¬ gory, 19; 4) Rail to Rail, Rich Jepsen, 23; 5) Grinder, Jeff Littfin, 27. (13 boats)

Race Notes Sale boats'of the month: Walt Logan's 'old' Blue Chip, the Mumm 36, has found a new home in Seattle. . . Eric Sultan just bought Moore 24 # 100 with intentions of joining that active and fun fleet. Sultan's other boat, the Wilderness 30 Special Edition, has often been likened to a 30foot version of the Moore 24. . . The vet¬ eran Andrews 43 It's OK! is seriously for sale, as owner Lew Beery has commis¬ sioned a new custom Andrews 50-footer (the biggest size allowed in the Newport

Harbor beer can series). . . South Beach YC member Richard Smith also needs to sell his boat, the Catalina 30 Luna Sea. Smith is stepping up to a used J/105 named Penumbra, which formerly lived in the Ventura area. This brings the local J/105 fleet up to 24 boats — easily the most exciting one design story on the Bay. Tony Luttmann, a German coffee grower who lives in Mexico, will be the first owner of a Schock 40, the CBTF-outfitted progeny of Red Hornet. Luttmann will take delivery of hull #2 this fall, and if all goes according to plan he'll do the PV Race in February, then MEXORC, and then sail it home to Acapulco. Meanwhile, Schock 40 hull #1 will be finished in time for October's Annapolis Boat Show. . . Speak¬ ing of Mexican races, the March Cabo Race has been canceled due to lack of interest. This leaves only three Mexican races over a three-year bycle (two to PV and one to Mazatlan). With the number of Mexican races shrinking, it'll be hard for anyone to ever surpass Tom Leweck's amazing record of 51 races (and still counting). Kostecki uber alles: 70-year-old Ger¬

man plastics magnate and veteran off¬ shore sailor Willi Illbruck is the first owner to announce a Volvo Ocean Race Around the World 2001-2002 campaign. John Kostecki has been hired to skipper the 60-footer, which will be named illbruckPinta. The team will spend the three years leading up to the next Whitbread, er Volvo, Race training on various boats including their newly-chartered One De¬ sign 48, which they'll debut in the New¬ port Manhattan Series on May 29-June 3. Illbruck knows how to put together a winning program — he’s previously won the Admiral's Cup, Sardinia Cup and One Ton Cup with a series of boats named Pinta. , Countdown to K,-Cup: Just 31 boats are signed up so far for the Kenwood Cup, scheduled for August 3-14 in the sparkling blue waters off Diamond Head. "A few more may come out of the wordwork," said race director Ken Morrison, "but it's not going to be as big as we had originally hoped. The Far East economy has taken a real toll on Japa¬ nese entries, in particular." The stars of the show will be the One Design 48s,

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stop for the women is the finals, to be held in Santana 20s on Fern Ridge Reservoir (Oregon) in late August. Just the facts, ma'am: 18-year-old Mikey Murrison and crew Doug Kent, who ostensibly sailed their Santana 22 Mizzen to a class victory in the Doublehanded Farallones Race in April, have relin¬ quished their title. Their ill-advised deci¬ sion to sail between a tug and a barge in the final miles of the race drew so much flack from the sailing community that the duo ultimately withdrew, saving race chairman Peter Hogg the chore of reopen¬ ing the case and more than likely DSQing them. Murrison rebounded nicely, how¬ ever, winning Santana 22 honors in the Vallejo Race. . . John Liebenberg's new Antrim 27 Always Friday dropped off the hoist at Richmond YC on May 10, plum¬ meting about 12-15 feet back into the water when a knot slipped on the lifting sling. Fortunately, no one was injured, but the boat suffered some hull delamination and apparently may also need a new keel. Through the grapevine: The StFYChosted International Masters Regatta, held each October in J/24s, will appar¬

ently switch up to J/ 105s this year, giv¬ ing the event a much-needed shot in the arm. . . We keep hearing rumors that two of the six US America's Cup syndicates are on the verge of dropping out. With the Cup now only a bit over two years away, it's time to start facing reality. . . Who will win Pacific Cup line honors now that Jelik, the new Wylie 77, has withdrawn? Smart money seems to be on Pyewacket at the moment — they have the momen¬ tum, the navigator (Stan Honey) and some kind of water ballast system that should make them fast on the top end of the course. Look for a feature-length Pacific Cup preview in next month's issue. Lonely days, lonely nights: Ten skip¬ pers from seven countries are entered in the July 5th Atlantic Alone Race, a 3,500-mile dash from Falmbuth, England, to Charleston, SC. Each sailor is also pro¬ visionally entered in September's 27,000mile Around Alone Race, and will be us¬ ing the Atlantic Race as their 2,000-mile qualifier. Currently entered are Thanos Andronikos (TBA, Greece), Mike Golding

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With reports this month on A Pair of Lady Charter Skippers, a longtime cruiser's insights into Chartering Along the Turkish Coast, and miscellaneous Charter Notes.

"Just Like One of the Guys": Lady Skippers in the Charter Biz

These days, women account for roughly half of all new sailing school stu¬ dents in the Bay Area, more and more females are playing key roles in local and offshore racing campaigns, and — thank God — an increasing number of gals catch the cruising bug each year. So it's no sur¬ prise that a number of lady sailors have found careers within the Bay Area's char¬ ter industry. We'll profile two of the busi¬ est this month. Both Pam Powers and Regina Kaler draw their paychecks from Rendezvous Charters, which operates the largest fleet of crewed charter sailboats on the Bay. On a busy day, the company's three pri¬ mary charter vessels, the 78-ft schooner Rendezvous, the 65-ft catamaran Sea Regina Kaler is a good-looking woman, but she'd much rather be thought of as a competent boat captain than a 'babe'.

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Coast Guard 'certified passenger vessels' carry 49, 49 and 25 passengers respec¬ tively. In addition to captaining, Pam Powers serves as Port Captain of the Rendezvous fleet which gives her the added responsi¬ bilities of chatting with potential clients, scheduling charters and crew, coordinat¬ ing food and beverage needs with off-site caterers, hiring and training new crew and overseeing maintenance of all three boats — it's a full-time job, and then some. Ironically, this hardy, sailing pro grew up far from the ocean — in Arizona. Nev¬ ertheless she developed a love of sailing at an early age while on summer trips with her family to the Lake Country of Minne¬ sota. Now 30-something, she's come a long way from the Sunfish and sailing din¬ ghies she started out on. Pam moved to the Bay Area in 1989 and got into sailing here shortly thereaf¬ ter. Her wanderlust got the best of her in the early '90s when she linked up with the classic schooner Chanted, whose skipper had ambitious cruising plans. When she sailed out the Gate on that open-ended ad¬ venture her primary nautical skill was as the ship's dive master. But over the next four years, her sail¬ ing knowledge and expertise in¬ creased exponentially as Chantal sailed south along the Central American mainland, then through¬ out the Caribbean. Pam still has a head full of fond memories from those relatively carefree days: "We kept the boat almost constantly on the move." After returning to the Bay Area, she put her experience to practical use by sitting for her U.S. Coast Guard captain's license — she now holds a 100 Ton Master's 'ticket'. About a year ago she landed her job with Rendezvous Charters. Pam and Regina both feel fortu¬ nate to be working at something they love — fortunate not because they are women, but because there are a limited number of captaining jobs on the Bay. 'Tradition¬

ally, you find more men than women in this profession, but there's no reason a woman couldn't do just as good a job." "Once in a while a passenger will be a little shocked to learn that a woman like me (she's 5'7" and weighs only 115 pounds) is their captain. I guess they'd been expecting a salty old guy with a long gray beard." Having sailed with plenty of grumpy old salts ourselves, we'd say find¬ ing a gal like Pam at the helm would be a refreshing change. "One of my favorite parts of this job is getting people involved in the sailing," says Pam. "Sometimes people will ride with us on a scheduled daysail and enjoy it so much they come back later and char¬ ter the whole boat for a private party."

OF CHARTERING

Salty, gray-bearded sea captains are fine, but there's also room in the charter industry for lady skippers like Regina and Pam (below).

Regina worked as a yacht broker, did boat deliveries and gave sailing lessons before joining Rendezvous Charters in 1990. She's skippered boats for the com¬ pany on a part-time basis ever since, fill¬ ing in the gaps with bookkeeping gigs. "My favorite charter guests are local sailors," she confides. "Folks who know that it's going to be windy and chilly, and are prepared for it. We've had some great sailing parties with locals who want to go for speed even if they get a little wet. The worst guests are tourists who arrive in shorts and refuse to believe it gets cold out there." Another aspect of the job she enjoys is skippering the Maritime Education pro¬ grams that Rendezvous puts on for gradeschool kids. And to keep a fresh outlook, she usually takes off and does a delivery or charter outside the Bay. Last summer, in fact, she skippered 'windjammer' schooners in Maine. "It’s not easy to get burned out if I do a variety of things," says Regina, knowingly. In the future she'd like to try her hand at ocean racing and someday. . . maybe go off cruising. In addition to Pam and Regina, there are female sailing instructors in virtually every sailing club on the Bay, many of whom occasionally skipper six-passenger charters on club boats. We're told there is also a female skipper or two who drive Over the years, thousands of newcomers to the Bay have been introduced to the joys of sailing by taking a ride on the 'Rendezvous'.

which boat does she like to drive best? "Well, the Rendezvous really has a lot of character — she was used in the filming of John Wayne's Wake of the Red Witch, you know. But then, other times when we're screaming along at 12 knots on Yukon Jack. . . well, that's pretty great too." Regina Kaler was mildly flattered when we asked to interview her, but she was also a bit reluctant. "There’s one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. . . I just don't want to be portrayed, well ..." "As a 'babe'?" , "Well, yeah. I like to think I'm just like one of the guys." In terms of the job she does, she cer¬ tainly is. Regina also captains all three

vessels, but can most often be found skip¬ pering the most luxuriously appointed boat in the fleet, Sea Raven. Regina grew up in New York and be¬ gan her nautical career sailing small boats in local waters. But when she earned her captain’s license in '82, it wasn't with the idea of making a career out of captaining — the plan was to help her work her way through college. After graduating, how¬ ever, she realized it would be hard to put bread bn the table by utilizing her major fields of study — Psych and music. "I couldn't do anything with Bach," she jokes, "so I went back to driving boats." She worked for several East Coast charter outfits, then moved to the Bay Area in the late '80s when her husband, who’s a pilot, accepted a job here doing aerial surveying. _

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A Modern Trip to Ancient Troy

The Turkish coastline is in many re¬ spects a sailor's paradise, with miles of unspoiled beauty, inexpensive and good food, rollicking winds, and most of all, friendly people. Roman ruins are common and are seldom more than two day's sail from anywhere. Although we explored the Turkish Coast in our own boat, Isobar, bareboat chartering is affordable for those who want a taste of cruising in this part of the world without taking their own boat 5000 miles to do so. For some reason the presence of sub¬ stantial Roman and Greek ruins was a surprise, notwithstanding the fact that Troy, Mycenae, Kniddos, and other an¬ cient cities are located in Turkey. A typi¬ cal anchorage i£ a small sheltered bay with crystal clear waters surrounded by bold mountains, often with one or more Turkish restaurants ashore. Even at the height of the season in August there is little competition for space — at least by West Coast standards. There are a number of yacht charter companies in Turkey. They all have bare¬ boat charter boats varying from 30-60 feet which cost roughly $50-75 per day per person. A 50-ft yacht which carries 8 people costs about twice that of a 30-ft yacht cariying 4 people, so the cost per person varies in a relatively narrow range. Meet the brooding goddess of Didim. Relics of ancient times can be found within an hour of almost every anchorage.

Traditional wooden vessels called gullets can also be chartered with crew. While they do carry sails, they are essentially motorboats which virtually never sail. However, they do provide good value for sightseeing and are quite cheap — but real sailors should avoid them. We spent a year in Turkey and took two cruises of three months each along the coastline between Kusadasi, where the famed ruins of Ephesus are located, and Marmaris in the South. Marmaris is the most popular starting point for bareboat chartering in Turkey. It is somewhat shel¬ tered from the notorious Meltim winds (known in Greece as Meltemi) and is near exciting anchorages. The Meltim is the strong northerly summer wind which sometimes blows several days at a time, often around 30 knots. Turkey is a cruisers delight with sur-

Except for periods when the Meltemis kick up, sailing along Turkey's 'Turquoise Coast' is often sunny and sweet.

prises around every corner and more than equal to the Greece of 20 years ago — which, alas, no longer exists. We sailed using a wonderful pilot, The Turquoise Coasts of Turkey, written almost 10 years earlier by Marcia Davock. While not usu¬ ally a total fan of such books, this one is great. Apparently Roman ruins don't change much and 'villages' with one res¬ taurant, although doubling in size, still only have two. We started our trip after a quick and easy provisioning of enough meats and vegetables to last three days and boxed fruit juice and milk to last for several weeks. Sterilized milk is available every¬ where in Turkey and nicely solves the fresh milk problem. With cereal and vine ripened strawberries one can hardly com¬ plain. Vegetables and simple lamb and

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25-30 knot winds and a greater variety of scenery can be covered. The three major towns we stopped at, Kusadasi, Bodrum and Marmaris, each seem to have a bazaar, a shopping dis¬ trict, a restaurant row, and a bar street. The bazaars are full of rug merchants with rug-like tentacles that ensnare the un¬ wary. Few who can afford the $300-3,000 rugs come home without one. The bar streets are collections of discos blaring their sound out over the water, which seems to attract plenty of tourists. We found some Turkish music played with a multi-stringed instrument and a Turkish flute which provides the 'snake charmer' aspect to the music. The tourists seemed to prefer rock music played at ear-splitting volume, so that the local music defi¬ nitely took a back seat. Perhaps the only down side to cruising in Turkey takes place when one visits the seacoast towns and experiences the English and German influence. Americans are there in such small numbers that they have no impact. Get used to the idea that you carhe to Turkey for small isolated anchorages — not charming cities. Plan a two-day visit to Istanbul on the way to your destina¬ tion, and leave it at that. Tourism has overwhelmed Bodrum and Marmaris, with Kusadasi feeling the effects as well. The small anchorages are still unspoiled and the rewards for seeking them out are many. In the second installment of my report chicken are available from the small res¬ taurants which abound so that three-day provisioning is plenty. Wine is $3-6 per bottle and the quality is equal to wines of about $6 in California. I have never had a great Turkish wine, but never a hor¬ rible one either. Beer is about 50<t per can. Eggplant, olive oil, yogurt, cucumbers and the best tomatoes outside of your own garden form the staples. Being a vegetar¬ ian in Turkey is not impossible by any means, but there are temptations. Each town has a market day where produce is brought in from the countryside to sell. Vegetables are fresher than fresh and al¬ most every cruising yacht shops on mar¬ ket day. , Major parts of the route that is laid out in the following are definitely do-able in a two to three week charter period. If a pick¬ up in Kusadasi and drop-off in Marmaris to the South can be arranged, the trip can be done without the tiring beat against

Since he is dedicated to being young at heart, Richard knows that kids are generally more fun than adults.

— which will appear in the coming months — I'll profile a few favorite anchorages along the wonderful Turkish coast. — richard steinke isobar Ed. note — Isobar’s home port is Sausalito: she has been cruising the past Jew years in Russia. Scandinavia. Eng¬ land. Portugal and various areas of the Med. Charter Notes Fifteen years ago cruising sailors and charterers who made landfalls in the Grenadines Islands (of the Southern Car¬ ibbean) were often pleased to be greeted by one or two enterprising adolescents who'd row out — often in home-built skiffs — to offer a variety of useful services. They'd cheerfully offer to take trash ashore, shuttle ice or water out to the anchorage and escort newcomers to the best shops in town — all for a pittance. Some also offered locally-made handi¬ crafts for sale. But as the bareboating industry evolved, and more and more cruisers de¬ scended on the lower Caribbean, things changed. Over time, what used to be a welcomed cultural exchange became an annoyance — in some cases driving visi¬ tors away in fear and frustration at the 'capitalistic corruption of paradise', as they saw it. In recent years reports came back from these tranquil isles of visiting boats being harassed by swarms of rude and aggressive 'boat boys' who wouldn't take no for an answer. The new genera-

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M AT coy tion of adolescent entrepreneurs had ap¬ parently taken the game to an unwelcome level, which, in some areas, was threat¬ ening to severely impact yachting tour¬ ism. Hopefully, however,'a new trend may now be emerging. According to a recent article in the excellent Southern Carib¬ bean boating newspaper out of Bequia, the Caribbean Compass, an official Boat Boy Association has been formed in Wallilabou Bay, St. Vincent, with the in¬ tent of licensing would-be boat boys only after they have been given training in 'cus¬ tomer relations'. The program seeks to standardize pricing and services, address issues of 'attitude' and, hopefully, regu¬ late the number of'service providers' in a given area. Upon completion of the train¬ ing program, the kids will be given an of¬ ficial I.D. card, complete with their pho¬ tograph. Although we're not normally champi¬ ons of government regulation, we applaud this fledgling program and hope other lo¬ calities in the Eastern Caribbean will fol¬ low suit. We've always respected the kids' initiative in trying to earn a buck in their

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charter boat in any of the prime summer sailing destinations. The Pacific Northwest is just coming into its peak season as is the coast of Maine. Although it can actually be sunny out at the Channel Islands any time during the summer, you're less likely to have a fog shrouded crossing in August or Sep¬ tember. It's less than 30 miles out to Santa Cruz Island from either Oxnard or Santa Barbara where bareboats are readily available. The Monterey Bay has a simi¬ lar pattern, although if you just resolve to sleep late, you may never even notice early summer fog. We like late summer in Greece and Turkey — mid-September is ideal — when it's not so hot and those nasty Meltemis tend to be rare. And don't forget the Caribbean, despite its summer hurricane season. Unless you are chronically unlucky, the advantage of bargain summer prices will probably far outweigh any inconvenience caused by passing tropical storms or depressions. Remember, the chance of a direct hit by a full blown hurricane on any given island is about 100 to one.

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With reports on next spring's Transcaribes des Passionnes rally from Martinique to Cuba; from Wings on the many pleasures of Acap¬ ulco and the Acapuclo YC; from St. Jude on cruising from Seattle to Berkeley to Australia on a $3,000 boat; from Glory Days on the les¬ sons learned during a season in Mexico; from Teresa J on learning to love Costa Rica; from Malabar XIII on. cruising a 50-year-old wooden boat to Pedregal, Panama; and Cruise Notes.

Transcaribes des Passionnes Foie Gras For Fidel Martinique To Havana Anyone planning to have their boat in the Caribbean in the spring of’99 should give some serious consideration to the Transcaribes des Passionnes, a cruisers rally from Martinique to Havana, Cuba. The event — to be jointly sponsored by Hemingway International YC, the Cuban Ministiy of Tourism, the Club des Pas¬ sionnes, and the Martinique Office of Tourism — is ostensibly intended to re¬ inforce the bonds between the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Cuba. But it’s actually a fabulous opportunity for an in¬ ternational group of sailors to enjoy the carnal life to the utmost while sailing to a strange and curious destination. The French didn't get their joie de vive reputation without working for it — and we’re happy to report that they're not rest¬ ing on their laurels. The Passionnes, which starts on March 12th, will take the fleet on 1,500 miles of what almost as¬ suredly will be non-stop downwind tropi¬ cal sailing. It will take 12 days, but only because there will be stops at lies de Pain de Sucre, a sweet anchorage it tiny lies de Saintes, one of the irresistabie stops on the 'Passion' rally from Martinique to Cuba

Saintes, Antigua, St. Barts, Varadero (Cuba), and finally Havana for social ac¬ tivities. St. Barts is the Wanderer's favor¬ ite place in the world, Isles de Saintes (a few miles off Guadeloupe) is a mini ver¬ sion of St. Barts, Antigua is no slouch, and Veradero and Havana -— like the rest of Cuba — are places everyone should ex¬ perience before the embargo ends and the McDonalds and KFCs move in. (Did you hear that Senator Strom Thurmond, nor¬ mally to the right of Marie Antoinette, re¬ cently proposed that the U.S. give millions in food and medicine to the Cuban people? Talk about a major windshift!) Upon the fleet's arrival in Cuba, there will be eight days of Franco-Cuban fes¬ tivities — which will mean great looks, exotic tastes and unusual smells. Each participating vessel will be given a 'Yacht¬ ing Passport’, which supposedly will al¬ low the boat to enjoy Cuban waters with¬ out restriction. Such a passport would be invaluable, as many Guardia Frontera officials are paranoid that the U.S. is about to re-invade at any time, and re¬ strict where cruisers can visit and anchor. The Club des Passionnes is a veteran organization. In June of'99, for example, they'll be hosting their 10th annual TransMmediteranee between the French Rivi¬ era and Tunisia, and in November of '99 they'll be hosting the 5th running of the Transat des Passionnes between France and the French West Indies. Folks look¬ ing to have sailing fun in the French fash¬ ion should fax 33 494 40 37 98 But we ll keep you posted. *

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Wings — Serendipity 43 Fred Roswold & Judy Jensen Acapulco, Mexico (Seattle) "There’s no reason to visit Acapulco," several people told us as we cruised south along the coast of mainland Mexico. These people described Acapulco as nothing but a dirty, noisy city with high prices and too many tourists. Their description may be accurate — but we disagree with their conclusion. We love Acapulco — and don't

believe any cruiser should bypass this spectacular and exciting city! A city of 1.5 million and counting, Acapulco has long been linked with sail¬ ing. There is, for example, evidence that early Polynesians and/or Asians reached the area about the time of Christ. In 1528, shortly after Cortez conquered the Aztecs, Acapulco was claimed for the Spanish Crown. It was from her. well-protected bay that voyages of exploration departed for Peru, the Sea of Cortez and Asia. The dis¬ covery of the North Pacific trades in 1565 marked the beginning of 200 years of annual trade between the Philippines and Mexico. Once a year Manila Galleons would sail east to Manila with gold and silver, and return with silks, porcelain, ivory and lacquerware — setting off an annual merchant fair. Acapulco was threatened by Sir Francis Drake in 1579 and the Dutch invaded in 1615, but it was the Mexican War of Independence of 18101821 that did in both the Manila Galle¬ ons and the importance of the city. Acapulco's comeback started with a paved road from Mexico City in 1927 and

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sive. It’s the first Mexican marina we’ve visited where we felt we could afford to have our hull waxed! The club features a very nice pool — which can be a lifesaver in hot and hu¬ mid Acapulco. The pool is primarily used by visiting cruisers, who alternately swim, sun and sip margaritas at the poolside bar. As you might expect of such a club, the restrooms are great and there are free

The two sides of Acapulco. Spread; the tranquil pool at the Acapulco YC. Inset; the high-rise hotel-lined beach in the main tourist district. a luxury hotel in 1933. When President Aleman fell in love with the city after World War II, he saw to it that a superhighway from Mexico City, powerplants, and wide boulevards were built. Soon more luxury hotels were erected along the sandy beaches and on the hillsides surround¬ ing the bay. Acapulco really arrived on the map in '59 when Presidents Eisenhower and Mateos held a summit there; they were soon followed by flocks of stars from Hollywood. While no longer one of the most chic spots in the world, Acapulco remains an extremely popular resort city permeated by a year-round festive atmosphere. The greatest thing about Acapulco is its stunning setting. It's located on a beau¬ tiful three-mile by two-mile protected bay, surrounded by hills and mountains. It reminds us of a smaller, tropical version of the Bay Area. The city starts at sea level, where waves crash on golden beaches, and climbs halfway up the surrounding

mountains. It doesn’t matter in which di¬ rection you look or if it’s day or night, Acapulco is gorgeous, from the huge ho¬ tels on the sandy beaches to the hillside mansions of the rich and famous. Fur¬ thermore, many parts of Acapulco have wide avenues and huge shade trees. And hidden away from the big city bustle are some serene old neighborhoods, which retain their charm and rich history from the '40s. We and Wings arrived in Acapulco on March 15, and Med-tied to the Club de Yates de Acapulco's new floating dock. This historic yacht club is as opulent as many of the finer clubs in the United States, and is well-maintained. Its docks are peppered with some magnificent yachts with hailing ports such as Guern¬ sey, Georgetown, and Capetown. One nice thing about the club is that it's located in the out-of-the-way and quiet southwest¬ ern corner of Acapulco Bay. Although mega-yachts are not in short supply, the club still makes visiting cruis¬ ers with average boats feel completely welcome. The plentiful staff is professional and helpful. Most surprising of all, the workers around the docks aren’t expen¬

showers. The Acapulco YC has an active racing program, with competition in everything from Optimists to a couple of dozen 40 to 50-foot dry-sailed racing boats. It’s not unusual for members to fly sailors down from California for weekend regattas. It's fun to check out the racing boats, both in the yard and as they race across the blue waters of Acapulco Bay. With all the obvious wealth, you would expect the club to be expensive. And it is. What little dock space there is runs $.62 foot/day — although with reciprocal yacht club privileges you might get two free days. The nearby Acapulco Marina is $.75 per foot per day, but they have side-ties and lots of free services and amenities. Renting a mooring buoy is less expensive, and anchoring out is a possibility — but watch out for debris on the bottom that will snag and/or foul your anchor. There may be other low cost berthing possibilities, but we were enjoying the luxury of Acapulco is full-on tropical, so the grounds of the yacht club are spotted with a wide variety of beautiful palms displaying wonderful symmetry.

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the yacht club too much to investigate any further. By the way, although the harbor bottom is foul, the water is remarkably clear and clean. What's more, the city has guys on outboard-powered Hobie Cats patrolling the bay picking up trash. After checking in with Marcus the harbormaster, we headed downtown to handle our own paperwork. We could have paid $40 to have it done, but by doing it ourselves we saved enough money for another night's berthing at the club. Just 100 feet from the club gate we were able to catch a bus to the main part of town. After just a few minutes' ride from the quiet neighborhood of the yacht club, our heads spun as we were confronted with the urbanity of Old Town Acapulco. There were broad avenues lined with palms, six lanes of charging traffic, numerous highrise hotels along the beach, throngs of people in motion, and countless blue & white Volkswagen Beetle taxi cabs. The ubiquitous old-style Beetle taxis clog the intersections like a swarm of in¬ sects. We saw some of them carrying as many as eight passengers — enough to splay the rear wheels out at a 45° angle. A taxi ride to just about anywhere but the airport is 20 pesos — which at the cur¬ rent exchange rate of eight pesos to the dollar is about $2.50 U.S. The buses — which unlike the S.F. Muni, come by about every two minutes — are just 2.50 pesos or 30 cents. After completing our check-in, we did some shopping and sightseeing before winding up at the Gran Plaza Mall — an amazing high gloss shopping emporium with spectacular interior architecture. We had a fast food lunch for 12 pesos and then visited the 10-screen movie complex where we saw As Good as it Gets starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt. Tickets for the movie — which was in English with Spanish sub-titles — were 20 pesos. So while berthing in Acapulco was expensive, everything else was quite reasonable. The next day — after morning chores and a refreshing dip in the pool — we decided to take a taxi back to the Old Town, to the mercado, and to see some other sights. The cab was waiting right outside the club gate, and in minutes we passed the roadside cruise ship terminal where the Xenia towered over the tour buses and taxi stands. Then we hung a right — which curved back to cross over the main drag — onto an elevated divided highway with the unlikely name of Prof. Page218 • LtZUtW * June. 1998

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. It made for long street signs. After travelling north a few blocks in the fast lane, the driver pulled off onto a parallel access road that was packed with buses, taxis, and people on foot. The smell from the sidewalk fish stalls was overpow¬ ering! After paying for the cab and walk¬ ing a block, we entered the cavernous Centro Mercado building. This is a typi¬ cal Mexican market, with endless stalls featuring eveiything from fruits and veg¬ gies, to pihatas, to wood chips. There were health foods, herbs in small bottles, sacks with huge chunks of meat or cheese, and — of course — there was row upon row of every kind of bean being sold in bulk. It was oddly sterile, however, as the concrete floors were clean and the concrete and tile vendor stalls were unusually tidy. Ob¬ viously this was a new mercado building as it didn’t look 'lived in’. After stepping out a side door, we found ourselves in the old mercado. This con¬ sisted of blocks of crowded and windy al¬ leys filled with stands selling eveiy kind of product you can imagine, from food to

Spread; there are few big cities in the world whose beaches can rival those of Acapulco. Inset; the dry storage area at the Acapulco YC. clothes, to hardware, to cow dung. And it was crowded to capacity with people, sights, sounds and smells. This old mar¬ ket seemed to go on forever in all direc¬ tions! Completely lost, Judy bought some mangos while I looked at shoes. Finally, we popped out onto a street — or at least it seemed like a street, as there were taxis honking their way through the crowds. In a few minutes we were back down on the Av. Costera Aleman, the main drag along the waterfront. We hopped a bus back to the grand mall, where I dropped in at the Internet Cafe to get a weather picture of El Nino. Then we hailed another cab and told him, RestauranteTlaquepaque". He drove into Old Town and past Woolworth's and Sears, all the while with the din of police whistles and honking horns ringing in our ears. It was now dusk and the air was thick with the smoke of rotisseried chicken — which seems like Mexico's national meal. . N-

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in second gear up a long steep hill into the high neighborhoods of Acapulco. There were no lanes painted on the road, so all the taxis swerved back and forth, trying to pass one taxi, block another, and miss a pothole — all at the same time. From high in the hills, the cruise ship down below looked like a toy. The lights around the waterfront sparkled like jew¬ els. After a counle of more turns, we were

on a quiet side street and at the restau¬ rant. We enjoyed a long languorous meal and spoke with the owner — who is flu¬ ent in four languages and owns a quail ranch where they 'harvest' 4,000 birds a day — for nearly an hour. It turns out he grew up in Ajijic, which is just outside Guadalajara and where my Dad now lives. Finally, at 9:00 p.m., we wound our way back down to the boat, thankful to be 'home' again. We slept well that night. Today we walked a few blocks from the yacht club and over the Peninsula de Las Playas — a district of mansions — to Caleta, an old seaside resort area. There were beachside restaurants, old hotels, and small neighborhood stores — but no T-shirt shops. Caleta is where many Mexi¬ cans vacation, and affords great views across the Canal Boca Chica to Isla Roqueta and La Yerba Buena. There was a traffic jam where we saw a crowd watch¬ ing the police qnd emergency people deal with some sort of accident or crime scene. The news photographers a.nd all were there, so, we skirted the commotion, bought some creme of coconut, and headed back to the boat to make Pina Coladas. Wonderful Acapulco! We left Acapulco briefly to make the several hundred mile trip down the coast to Huatulco, which was beautiful. None¬ theless, we returned to Acapulco for final provisioning and boat projects prior to heading across to French Polynesia. Acap¬ ulco has all the shopping you can imag¬ ine, including huge warehouses they call bodegas to American outfits such as the Price Club and Sam's Club. Based on reGieber's 'St. Jude' may not be a typical cruising boat, but she has safely taken him across the Pacific to Australia. Well done, Stephen!

ports that everything is so expensive in the South Pacific, we plan to take on plenty of supplies. But while we're doing it, we’ll continue to enjoy the big city life — as well as the luxury of the Club de Yates de Acapulco. —Jred&judy 3/26/98 Readers — Cruisers have divided opin¬ ions about Acapulco. George.Backhus.for example, who provisioned there before heading off to the Marquesas, didn't care for it much. But when the Wanderer vis¬ ited with Big Oseveral years ago, he thought it was terrific. He particularly liked the spectacular geography of the city, the festive atmosphere, the authentic Mexican ambience, and the genuine hospitality shown by the yacht club. He looks forward to visiting Acapulco again next year. St. Jude — Bristol Bay 29 Stephen Gieber Low Cost Cruising (Berkeley) Not everybody can take off on a long cruise when they’re young — and it's just not a matter of getting up the guts to cut loose. It takes quite a bit of money to buy and outfit a modern cruising boat, and then you still need money in the kitty to live on. I didn't have much money, but I wanted to live my cruising dream before I got too old or tied down by life's obliga¬ tions. My solution was to make sacrifices and cruise very simply. Rather than save up to buy a more luxurious cruising boat, in 1981 I spent $3,000 to. acquire St. Jude, a Bristol Bay (Alaska) sail drift-net boat. She was built in 1931 and was subsequently converted to a yacht'. She's shoal draft, has a Ta-

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hiti ketch gaff rig, and has been com¬ pletely fiberglassed over. After owning her for five years in Seattle, I decided to singlehand her south to the Bay. St. Jude didn't have an engine, so if took me 18 days to reach Cape Flatteiy, which was less than 100 miles away. The rest of the trip only took 19 days. I then spent nine springs and summers working on tenders in Alaska buying fish. During the winters. I'd return to my boat on the Bay and sail, make a new mast, buy an outboard, and otherwise prepare myself for cruising. 1 finally cut loose in November of '95. I cruised the coast of Mexico as far south as Huatulco before making the 3,000-mile ^ump to the Marquesas. My outboard drowned in some chop during otherwise calm conditions just a mile from my destination. I was saved by the sweeps I cariy — and my determination to carry on. (1 would use the sweeps five times for a total of six miles during my San Fran¬ cisco to Australia crossing.) Unlike most cruisers, I sailed almost the entire way across the Pacific. I couldn't afford a windvane — which would have cost more than I originally paid for my boat. An autopilot wasn't in my budget either. With necessity being the mother of invention, I was able to work out a sheet to tiller self-steering system. Thus I was able to spend most of the cruise doing what other cruisers do: lie on my bunk reading, eating, or sleeping. Money isn’t always the solution. k By the time I reached Fiji, both my boat and I needed a convalescence. .We found it at Neisau Marine in Lautoka, a small yard with a 70-ton Travel-Lift. There I got the chance to address my problems: flea market headsails trashed; new in '91 main beaten up by running backstays; loose Close, but no cigar! Gieber's outboard made it 2,999/3,000ths of the way to the Marquesas be¬ fore getting done in by a wave.

rudder fittings; and mizzen chainplates flexing. And having been alone for a yekr in a seven-foot long cabin without stand¬ ing headroom, I needed to be with people and to stand up. I worked on the boat for three months, replacing the bow stem and fairing the topsides and getting them LP'd for 33% less than it would have cost in the States. I also got new chainplates, new rudder fittings, and removed'both masts. Marshall Sails restitched my main. You can leave your boat in Fiji for 18 months without being charged import duty — but you do have £o worry about tropical cyclones. At Neisau, modern deep keel yachts are set on tires in deep trenches so they won't blow over in a cy¬ clone. Since St. Jude is shallow draft with a flat bottom, we put her on a cradle of eleven 55-gallon drums filled with water. She survived winds of up to 120 knots without damage. As for myself, I was flown home so fast aboard a 747 that I thought I was in a time warp. I put in another sea¬ son working in Alaska before returning to Fiji. I left Fiji again at dawn on November 1, 1997. With the tide just starting to ebb and the wind calm, I had to row out the half-mile long channel before catching a land breeze. I was nervous, as it was al¬ ready well into cyclone season. Two weeks before, in fact, Fiji had been hit with 60 knot winds. I listened carefully to WWV for weather warnings, but nonetheless had 10 days of pleasant tradewind sail¬ ing. It’s good to plan ahead — which I don't always do. Unsure of whether to sail north or south of New Caledonia, I decided to sail north after the pilot charts indicated a greater chance of wind in the Coral Sea. It wasn't until 1 was just 30 miles from Grande Pass before I noticed the chart said the area was "uncharted". I was lucky enough to have hit the pass at mid-morn¬ ing when the light was the best. I kept a lookout for breakers, but saw nothing. Once in the Coral Sea the wind went so light that I had to ghost for seven days. At the end of this period, there was a tropi¬ cal depression brewing to the northeast, a depression that became a Category One cyclone just 600 miles away. And we were on a collision course! The next day I had a nice sail, averag¬ ing 6.5 knots in 20 knots of wind. A 40knot squall hit while I still had the top¬ sail up, but fortunately Sheet Line and

Bungie, who are my imaginary deckhands, were still steering. We had a wild roller-coaster ride, but after round¬ ing up once, I slammed down all sail and hoisted the storm jib. There was still a lot of wind and 15 foot seas, but at least I got the boat under control and moving again. No longer scared, I relaxed in my bunk. The wind went light the next day, then blew steady at 40 knots as the eye of the . storm passed within 280 miles. I made for Lady Musgrave Island, the second most southerly in the Great Barrier Reef National Park. It's one of the few islands in the park system with a navigable la¬ goon, so that's where I dropped my hook. It was still blowing 30 knots, however, which is why it took me six hours to get my 50-lb fisherman anchor off the bot¬ tom three days later. And I was using a come-along, too! I made my mainland Australia land¬ fall at the coaling port of Gladstone, ar¬ riving with a three knot flood and light air out of the east. It was still dark, the channel was only 30 yards wide and had boats on pile moorings on either side, but

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Folks who gathered at the Yukon Jack restaurant in P. V., but have since headed to the Marquesas, from front row left: Eileen Anderson of 'Max Crody II'; John Allen of 'Glory Days'; Noel and Val Par¬ sons of 'Boundless'; Julie and Graham Sanders of 'Phase III'. Middle row: Peter Anderson of 'Max Grody II'; Rod Butcher of 'Glory Days'; Mick and Christel Spitzer of 'Ariel'; Thane Roberts of 'Shakti'. Top row: Bob Moore of 'Bandit'; Boris and Judy Dobotin of 'Our Pleasure'; Skip Labsch of 'Sara'; and Phil Anthony of 'Distant Beat'. I made it. After a dozen tacks, I dropped ray sail a little too early to grab the Cus¬ toms Dock and had to scull the rudder like a madman to be able to grab a piling. If I hadn't been successful, the tide would ‘have swept me into, a drawbridge 100 feet further upstream. The Customs and Quarantine folks were friendly. Quarantine charged $114 Aussie and wanted to see all the food on my boat. The fruit, veggies, eggs, daily products and beef were all tabu. The Aussies are a real friendly people, but like everyone else they think I'm either a lu¬ natic or have big balls to cross the ocean alone on a boat with freeboard as low as St. Jude's. It was during my attempted 95-rpile passage to Bundaberg — in what was supposed to be 20 knots — that I saw my worst sailing conditions since Northern California. Just 25 miles short of my goal.

I was hit by a dark squall with 60 knots of wind and rain that seemed like it was being shot out of a firehose! Once I got the storm jib up, St. Jude steered herself, slowing gaining sea room. Trawlers later reported nearly 20 foot seas, but they were so close together and steep that I would have called them 'chop'. My boat would slide down the face of the waves and slam into the troughs, taking lots of water over the deck and house. By dawn the wind eased off to 30 knots and the rain stopped. With a reefed main I had an exhilarating sail back to Gladstone. I eventually made Bundaberg, where I left St. Jude on the hard at Burnett Heads Marina. I have come home to face another adventure aboard Tebenkof, an 80-foot rust bucket power scow, where I'll be buy¬ ing herring and salmon in the waters of Bristol Bay — where St. Jude fished 45 years before! — Stephen 2/15/98

Glory Days — Gulfstar 50 Rod & Brenda Mora Bulcher Lessons From Mexico (Northern California) We've been cruising Mexico since De¬ cember of '96, and have been making fi¬ nal preparations for our great adventure to the South Pacific. As such, it's an ap¬ propriate time to say 'hi' to all our Bay Area friends and to share some of the 'learnings' pined from our 16 months cruising Mexico. We signed up for the '96 Ha-Ha but had to forgo that pleasure as our boat wasn't nearly ready enough. We ended up leaving San Francisco on November 30, which left us to dodge storm systems down the California coast. After a dental problem dictated a 10-day layover in San Diego, we enjoyed a quick trip down the Baja coast with our good friends Dave Sallows of the Santa Cruz 50 Dolphin Dance and Anna Stockel. We celebrated Christmas Eve and Day in Turtle Bay, and unlike so many cruisers, didn't get to en¬ joy the local langosta at $2 per tail. We also initiated our fishing lures by hook¬ ing four dorado at the same time! We spent '97 cruising the waters of Mexico, our favorite area being the Sea of Cortez. With such beautiful views both above and below the water, and such a smorgasbord of sea life just waiting to be harvested, how could anyone not like the Sea? We put Glory Days on the hard at San Carlos during the summer months. Those cruisers who stayed in the Sea during this past El Nino summer sweltered in the heat. By leaving at the end of June and Two dollar lobsters at Turtle Bay. Everybody hears about them, but 'Glory Days'and the Wan¬ derer haven't been able to buy them at that price.

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returning during September, we seemed to avoid the worst of the heat and chubascos. Our focus this cruising year has been to complete our preparations for our trip to the South Pacific. To that end we've had weekly meetings with others bound for the South Pacific. The meetings have been held at the Yukon Jack restaurant in Marina Vallarta, where we’d address common issues and share information. We also established a Marquesas Net to track boats headed across the pond and share weather information. Although the winds have been light up to this point, the vessels that have already left are pro¬ gressing well and spirits are high. Very high! The following our the five most valu¬ able lessons we learned during our year in Mexico: 1) Don't skimp on ground tackle. The first time it blows hard in an anchorage, your ground tackle becomes the most important gear on your boat. Most an¬ chorages in, Mexico are shallow, so 150 feet of chain is sufficient. Anchorages are deep in the South Pacific, however, so we've been carrying 250 feet. 2) Have a good downwind sail. There's lots of light air off-the-wind sailing in Mexico, and a spinnaker and/or genniker will allow you to sail rather than motor. Since most passages between anchorages in Mexico are short, a good downwind sail means you can sail rather than have to listen to the diesel all day. And in our opinion, a slow and pleasant daysail un¬ der a spinnaker is much better than a noisy run under diesel. 3) Get a Ham radio license. It makes communications easy, both within Mexico, and more importantly to make phone patches back to loved ones in the States. All you have to do is pass two writ¬ ten exams to earn a Tech No Code license in the U.S., after which Mexico will pro¬ vide the frequency privileges most cruis¬ ers want to use. We didn't do this, but wish we had. 4) Don't assume that you can get top quality boat work done in Mexico without constant supervision. The bottom paint Marina San Carlos Diy Storage applied to our boat seems to encourage rather than discourage the growth of barnacles. Supposedly it was a "bad batch" of a cer¬ tain kind of Woolsey paint, as everyone who put it on got the same result. According to the boatyard, Woolsey has of¬ Page 222 • IxKUJiJi • June. 1998

fered to replace the paint with Trinidad — but it’s been two months and it hasn't arrived yet. Even though it will be too late for us to apply new paint, we hope they'll stand behind their product. We also had to redo about 90% of the work done by Baja Naval — including stripping and refinishing the exterior brightwork. Their recommendation for premium results was to apply two coats of epoxy to the wood and then three coats of varnish. The epoxy turned a cloudy white, so we had to remove it. The muf¬ fler Baja Naval made leaked at the welds after less than one year, the holding tank they installed leaked at every hose clamp, and the manual discharge pump didn't work the first time because there was a piece of metal in it. We did meet some cruisers, however, who were happy with the work they got at San Carlos Dry Storage and Baja Na¬ val. Nonetheless, our recommendation is that people don't have work done at ei¬ ther place without monitoring it very closely. 5) Our very best cruising memories are

Costa Rica is a great country for hiking and ex¬ ploring. Jack and John check out the driftwood at the mouth of the Rio Claro. of all the truly wonderful people we've met. We initially felt a void in our lives as a result of leaving our Bay Area friends be¬ hind, but we now still have those friends plus dozens of new ones with whom we share everyday friendship. It doesn't get any better than this. , We leave for the Marquesas — barring any problems — on April 6. — rod & brenda 3/29/98 Teresa J — Crealock 37 Jack, Linda & John Martin Costa Rica (Port Hadlock, WA) Other than two brief stops for respite from the Papagayo winds, we and Teresa J sailed quickly from Mexico to the 'prom¬ ised land' of Costa Rica. Our two stops were at Astilleros, the actual name for Gershuna Ws unnamed anchorage in their Forgotten Middle cruising guide, and San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. About those Papagayo winds. When you head south from Mexico, everybody warns you about the terrible

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'Tehuantepec’ers' that scream across the 235-mile wide Golfo de Tehuantepec. There is some mention of Papagayos, but when you look at the chart and see that the Golfo de Papagayo is only 35 miles across, you wonder how bad it can be. What we weren't told is that ’Papagayos' begin as far north as Corinto, Nicaragua, and continue as far south as Cabo Santa Elena, Costa Rica — a distance of 150 miles along a rugged coastline with few sheltered harbors. The trick is to stay close to shore. If you need rest, take it at Astilleros. Or, since the wind will be offshore, just an¬ chor anywhere close enough to shore for your anchor to grab. If the wind drops below 25 knots, consider yourself fortu¬ nate. We know one cruiser who tried to avoid the Papagayo winds by sailing 150 miles offshore. He ended up having to heave to for five days during which time he was blown 350 miles off course. Whenever you hear other cruisers round Cabo Santa Elena and sail into Bahia Papagayo — where the winds actually diminish — it's a happy occasion. For some reason, we'd expected Costa

Rica to be a verdant cruisers' paradise, with plenty of access to modern conve¬ niences such as showers and coin-op laundries, and with well-stocked grocery stores packed with interesting foods. Wrong! At least along the coast. Costa Rica is a surprisingly small country, only about an eighth the size of California, and its Pacific coast is about the same distance as from Point Concep¬ tion to the Mexican border. Costa Rica has a population of just over three million, most of whom live in one of the four big cities on the Central Plain. Unlike Cali¬ fornians, Costa Ricans prefer to live in the mountains rather than along the coast. So along the coast, cities, as well as showers and laundries, are almost non¬ existent. And what grocery stores there are along the coast are poorly stocked. If you were to buy six 80-gram packages of salted peanuts, you'd have bought the store's entire supply. By the way, every¬ thing in Costa Rica cortres in v^ry small packages. As for Costa Rioan cuisine, the national meal is the casado — which is a bland combination of white rice, beans, stewed meat, a little lettuce and tomato, and per¬ haps a fried platano. It's anything but hot or spicy. When you sit down at a restau¬ rant and look at the menu, meals seem reasonably priced — until they tack an¬ other 10% for service and yet another 13% for tax. Other goods and services in Costa Rica are taxed at 13%. We're not really complaining, we just want those in our wake to know what to expect. Based on the number of foreign surf¬ ers in Costa Rica, it's obvious that the waves don't disappoint. John, our 16year-old surfing son agrees that the waves are terrific. He also enjoyed visiting the surf shops at Jaco. If you think of Costa Rica as being green and lush, you're only half correct. The northern half of Costa Rica is classi¬ fied as dry tropical' — which means dur¬ ing the dry season' it's reminiscent of Baja. (The dry season is from December to April — and the Costa Ricans refer to it as 'summer'.) The Murcielagos Islands are a good example of northern Costa Rica; they were brown and bone dry when we visited. In fact, it wasn't until we were south of Bahia Herradura — nearly half¬ way down the coast of Costa Rica — that we got to the 'wet tropical1 part of Costa

Rica and finally saw jungle. As for all the marinas we somehow expected to find, there are only three: Marina Flamingo, the Puntarenas YC, and Banana Bay in Golfito. Marina Flamingo’s docks are well-aged and the space — all stern-to — is almost exclusively reserved for the charter fish¬ ing boats. While the marina offers power and water, it has no restrooms, showers or laundiy facilities. Hearing that Pun¬ tarenas was dirty, industrial, and not worth the trip into the Golfo de Nicoya, we passed right by. After reading about Rose'l's experience there in the March Latitude, we’re glad we did. Golfito — perhaps because of numer¬ ous tales of stolen dinghies and outboards — has become less of a cruiser hangout than ever. Expecting a jewel, we found a lump of coal. While the sight of lush jungle across the bay and on the surrounding hills is wonderful, nobody in their right mind would walk the beaches. Why? Low tide reveals the shore to be covered with beached hulks, large pieces of discarded metal and other miscellaneous debris. To top it off, the turn-of-the-centuiy shan¬ ties built on stilts that line the bay and hang over the harbor have 'direct access' plumbing to the bay. We had expected to find an assortment of places to anchor or dock in Golfito, but it was limited. The Jungle Club closed a American Bruce Bleven and his crew at Banana Bay Marina in Golfito are doing their best to pro¬ vide a clean, secure, yachtie-friendly facility.

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few years ago, the Golfito YC is for sale, and Eagle’s Roost is gone. Las Gaviotas Hotel’s dock has fallen down and the in¬ side showers don't work anymore. The pool is still there, however, and we spent many a hot, steamy afternoon in the pool and cooling off under their outdoor shower. If cruisers purchase lunch at Las Gaviotas, they're allowed to use the fa¬ cilities for free. Nobody anchors at the south end of the bay, which is quite shal¬ low. There are a couple of bright spots in Golfito, however. The recently opened Banana Bay Marina — located between Hotel Las Gaviotas and Samoa del Sur — is one. Managed by former American yacht captain Bruce Blevens, two of the top priorities are security and a spic-andspan facility. About a dozen boats can be stern-tied off the new docks, which offer water, power, and cable T.V. Banana Bay does have a shower, but there is no laun¬ dry or laundry services. If you need e-mail or fax facilities, Kathy at the travel agency next door can take care of you. The ma¬ rina rate is $.50/ft/day, with a lesser charge for anchor-outs. Another reasonable option is Samoa del Sur, a motel/restaurant/bar — with the two biggest, most beautiful palapa roofs we’ve ever seen. The place was founded 12 years ago by some French cruisers who allow anchor-outs access to their dinghy dock, unlimited water, gar¬ bage removal, and a guard at night — all at no charge! The use of their concrete laundry tubs and a barebones shower at the head of the dock is also free. Samoa del Sur also offers fax, e-mail, book ex¬ change and laundry service. The only way to enjoy Costa Rica is to overlook the shortcomings for cruisers and concentrate on the fact that it truly is an ecological promised land. Once we got into the fact that Costa Rica has one of the greatest biodiversities in the world, we forgot about the lack of cleanliness and amenities and began to relax — and do our laundry by hand whenever we found fresh water. Check out these 'eco numbers'. Costa Rica has 850 species of birds, including 50 species of hummingbirds. It also has 200 species of mammals, 35,000 species of insects, 150 species of amphibians, 200 species of reptiles, and 10,000 species of vascular plants. For beauty and adventure, Drake’s Bay — yes, Sir Francis dropped by nearly 500 Page 224 •

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years ago — on the Osa Peninsula was our overall favorite. As you go to the west and south, there are several wilderness camps, including Agujitas, Drake's Bay. La Palma, Cocalito, Caletas, and two Marenco camps — one on the beach and one in the hills. The camps are rustic and set into either the jungle-covered hills or along the lava rock strewn beaches. Drake's Bay Wilderness Camp (DBWC) allowed us to tie our dinghy to their dock, to walk their grounds — where we de¬ lighted in red squirrel monkeys and their antics — and gave us a map of the jungle trail. We also enjoyed DBWC’s bar, where we met world travelers and fellow cruis¬ ers — and with advance notice were able to enjoy a family-style dinner in their din¬ ing hall. When you get far enough south on the Osa Peninsula, you come to the worldfamous Corcovado Biological Station. Because it's isolated the Corcovado Na¬ tional Park remains pristine — and is home to hundreds of species of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles.

Spread; The full dock at Pedregal may not look like much, but it gets the job done. Inset; There's quality and selection at the stores in David. The highlight of our Drake’s Bay stay, however, was our five-mile hike through the jungle and along the shore to the Rio Claro — where we swam half a mile up the river. During this excursion, we saw red macaws, a toucan, and a canopy tree filled with over a dozen carablanca mon¬ keys. The monkeys bared their teeth at us while raining branches, leaves, and fruits down on us. Apparently, we'd in¬ vaded their home. We also met Shelley, a guide, and Lutz, a guest from Hanover, Germany, at the Marenco camp on the hillside. On our return hike, we were in¬ vited to visit the Marenco camp to enjoy cold drinks, a breeze, and view of Isla Cano. Although lacking the cruising ameni¬ ties common in Mexico, we're still glad we took the time to visit Costa Rica. Although not as outgoing as Mexicans, once the ice is broken the Costa Ricans are very friendly and helpful. P S. We were fortunate to have the op¬ portunity to visit Mauiy Gladson, cruis-

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ing pioneer and founder of the Central American Breakfast Net, just before he passed away at age 93. Maury was the cruiser’s friend, and like everyone else we got the invite to his home in Playas del Coco where we spent a wonderful after¬ noon during which time he shared his cruising slides from the 1950’s, his ham shack, and his swimming pool. What a generous soul he was! Maury's son, Jim Gladson, is the director of the Los Ange¬ les Maritime Museum. If you knew Maury, you might stop by and say 'hello' to Jim. As Maury (TI7MEG) used to say, "How now, brown cow." —jack, linda&john 4/21/98 Jack, Linda & John — While the best thing about Puntarenas may be that it's only 90 minutes to the capital of San Jose, the GulfofNicoya is also well worth visit¬ ing for places such as Isla Muertos, Islas Tortugas and'Bahia Ballena. Malabar XIII — Alden 50 Ketch David & Birgitta Costa Pedregal, Republic of Panama (Alameda)

After retiring from the Fire Service and renting out our house, we took off cruis¬ ing in September of '94. We hit all the cruising spots we'd read about in Latitude. It wasn't until we got to Isla Parida in northern Panama that we heard about a new one: Pedregal, Panama. It's 20 miles upriver, so we had a guide pilot us up the river for four hours to Marina Pedregal. The Port Captain, Customs and the Treasury offices are all at the dock, but Immigration is in town so you have to take a bus or taxi. A three month cruising per¬ mit for our 50-foot boat — which we're proud to say, is more than 50 years old — was $98. It cost another $10 to get our passports stamped. Panama — like Costa Rica — has a funny rule: after being in the country for three months, you have to leave for three days. We didn't want to leave our boat for three days, so we went to David to talk to the Immigration officer. He said the rules will soon be changed for cruisers, but meantime he instituted a program which, after some paperwork, requires that you only leave the country and walk right back in. The whole process — including the trip to the border — only took three hours. The Whole process has been put down in writing so other cruisers will know how to do it. There isn’t sufficient water depth in the marina for keelboats, so we and the other cruisers had to anchor out. It was safe, however, because the Port Authority’s Marine Police watched the boats 24 hours a day. After we were there for a while, the marina owners asked us what cruisers were looking for in a marina. After we told them, they built laundry and shower fa¬ cilities! On the way are a telephone for email, moorings, a marine way for sail¬ boats, and other goodies. The folks at the marina, many of whom speak English, really like cruisers. Here's an example. Without any prompting by cruisers, the marina folks informed us there was going to be a Fourth of July BBQ for the 10 or so American cruisers in residence! They set up a large tent in the parking lot, hired a band, and put on a great BBQ! David, the second biggest city in Panama, is just eight miles from Pedregal. That's $2 by taxi or 25 cents by bus. David is an agricultural center and provides all

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the food for Panama. David also has lots of banks, most of which have ATM ma¬ chines that dispense U.S. dollars — the official paper currency of Panama. The big thing in David? Low prices! Last summer we bought a super Compaq laptop computer with all kinds of pro¬ grams for $1,600. The Canon jet color laser printer was $250. We bought a new Yamaha 15 hp for $1,600 and a Yamaha 4 KW gas generator for $1,000. There's more! At $2.50/hour, l^bor is more than reasonable. A steak dinner at a new hotel runs about $6.50. A single room with TV and air-conditioning is $25. The latest movies, in English, show on one of five screens for no more than $3. It’s safe to walk the streets at night, too, as police are all around. When cruisers leave Mexico they pretty much drop out of the Southbound Net, but when they do, they should tune into the Papagayo Net — of which we’ve re¬ cently been the managers. The net meets at 1400 Zulu each day on 4.030 KZT up¬ per sideband with a second one on 4.024. We give weather reports and pass on info. We don’t have the best memories, but here are some of the boats and people who've enjoyed Pedregal in recent months: Bruce and Button Lombardi of Misty Dawn II; Johnny and Mai Short of Enigma; Ted and Heather of Tether, Dave and Carol of Colombia; JoAnn and Brian of Renew; Dennis and Casy of Anatansicr, Harry and Who,are these ‘kids' and how have they man¬ aged to buy and cruise their own Petersen 44 since they were 26? See ‘Cruise Notes'.

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CHANGES Melly of Bigfoot TV; Kirk and Lisa of Mali B\ Ben and friend aboard Exasty; John and friend of Encourager, Jim and Jesse of Bivwack; Robert and Barbara of Chero¬ kee Rose; Rick and Susan of Windbird; and Pete and Dawn of Amadon Light I hope we got some of the names and spell¬ ings right! We purchased Malabar XIII through Latitude in 1988 from San Francisco Boat Works — which was Jock McLean, Stu Riley and Jeff Madrigali. After six years of reconditioning her, she has served us well and we're trying to keep her as fit as possible. When we bought her, she still had copies of her previous survey by James C. Jessie, Inc. What fun it was to meet Jim aboard fiis NaluW in Z-town in '95. He seemed as glad as we that Malabar was still about.

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footer Beau Soleil.) Back in the '60s there were three main stops along the 'Hippie Highway': San Francisco, the Balearic island of Ibiza, and Goa, India. The latter is supposedly a former Portuguese trading post and quite lovely. Can we get an update from some¬ body? It's about time we got around to re¬ porting that Jim and Diana Jessie of the Alameda-based Lapworth 48 Nalu IV won the recent Acapulco to Manila Galleon Commemorative Regatta — and with it a cash prize of $25,000 U.S. "The race — part of the Philippine Cel¬ ebration of Independence — had five legs," reports Keith Buck, a San Francisco mem¬ ber of the crew. "Acapulco to Honolulu, Honolulu to Guam, Guam to Cebu, Boracay to Puerto Galera, and Puerto Galera to Manila Bay. Only two boats entered the race: Karakoa (ex-Persuasion), an Andrews 53 purchased earlier in the year by Rey Ovdoveza of the Ma¬ nila YC and skippered by Walter Johnson of Long Beach; and Nalu IV, owned and raced by liveaboards Jim and Diana Jessie — who already have a circumnavi¬ gation to their credit.

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CHANGES "All five legs had a distinct tortoise and hare element. Karakoa is a lean and mod¬ ern boat with high tech gear and sails. Nalu FVhas an impressive racing record, but is getting on in years — almost 30 — and had spent the last two summers cruising Mexico. Following every start, Karakoa would barely be visible by the end of the day, and took line honors in all five legs. But through a combination of fewer breakdowns, better routing and luck, Nalu IV corrected out on four of the five legs and was thus the overall winner. The race had significance beyond a sport¬ ing event in the Philippines, as the coun¬ try wanted to remind themselves and the world that during the period of the Ma¬ nila Galleons, Manila was the hub of EastWest trade. Manila wants to regain that role, and the last leg of the race was across Manila Bay to a new harbor facility that will hopefully lure commercial traffic to the area." The Jessies know how to schmooze! Presented with the winner's trophy by President Fidel Ramos, Jim mentioned that their 29 year old boat was built of Philippine's wood before being covered in fiberglass. "She's a real Filipino boat," said

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MexWX — Mexico Weather For Boat¬ ers. Rains has been delivering boats along these coasts for more than two decades and combines practical experience with theory. It's the most comprehensive weather guide we've seen for the coast of Mexico and south. Besides, how could you not spend $20 on a weather book written by a guy named Rains? Anybody in the East Bay recall Ami Clifford, who managed the soft goods de¬ partment at the Oakland West Marine Store? Ami reports that she and Jim Haagenson left the Oakland Estuary in October of'94 aboard their Force 50 ketch Illusion, and have since visited Mexico,

John Rain's book may not have the most sophis¬ ticated illustrations, but he has a good idea when to watch out for Tehuantepec'ers. So should you. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nica¬ ragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Easter Island, Pitcairn Island, the Gambiers, French Polynesia, American Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand,

and Tasmania. "We plan to complete our circumnavigation in three years." We hope to have a Changes from Ami for the July issue. With the instability in Indonesia, au¬ thorities warn of increasing danger of pi¬ rates in the Malacca Straits and between the islands of Bali and Lombok. The former sees 400 ships a week and carry¬ ing most of the petroleum bound for Ja¬ pan. Piracy is a centuries old tradition in this part of the world, one that shows no sign of dying. For yachties, the good news is that pirates are going after increasingly large victims. So far this year, for example, 12 oil tankers have been hijacked, the most recent being the Malaysian flagged Petro Ranger with $1.5 million in diesel. She was boarded just outside of Singapore in April by 12 armed Indonesians — who destroyed all communications equipment and renamed her Wilby; She was found two weeks later off China's southern coast, where pirates were trying to sell the fuel. All this according to the Regional Piracy Center — yes, there is such a thing — in Kuala Lampur. Don't stop thinking about tomor¬ row. John McVie, honcho of Fleetwood

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'Challenge', John McVie's classic S&S 64, is off the market and on her way to Hawaii. Wecouldn't be happier for the boat — and the owner. member of the band pocketing what must have been at least several million each. We don't know if there's a connection, but McVie took his old girl off the market last month to sail her to Hawaii for the sum¬ mer.

'We just got back from the Loreto Fest and checking on our boat Free Fall,’1 write Kevin and Amy. "Over 200 people at¬ tended the fest and our boat was in great shape. A couple of quick observations on 'paradise': The prices are much higher than three years ago; the parking lot in Puerto Escondido has been moved over by the old Moorings building under the light, which should resolve the car theft problem: and the 'techno chat' has moved on from solar panels and refrigeration to e-mail by Ham and SSB. In fact Dennis of Backstreets held a seminar on the lat¬ ter topic, and it was the best attended. "Folks thinking about driving down to their boats in Baja," continue Kevin and Amy, "might be interested to know that there were five military checkpoints be¬ tween Ensenada and Loreto. It's our opin¬ ion that the less Spanish you speak, the better off you are. We were searched on the way back home, but it was cool as the soldiers were polite and professional. In any event, the Fest was a big success as everyone had a great time. We can't wait until we get back — fingers crossed — next season. Carpe diernl"

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DINGHIES, LIFERAFTS AND ROWBOATS 8-FT AVON REDCRESTINFLATABLE&Seagull

3-1/2 hp. Both excellent condition, spare parts with manuals & tools, seats, pump, oars & storage bag. Both $550. (916) 777-6150. PACIFIC CUP, BAJA HA-HA, SANTA Barbara? Liferaft, Givens 6 persons deluxe ocean, their top otthe line, serious offshore raft. Has been stored in hard canister & in excellent condition. See raft inflated now at Sals in Alameda. $1,800, you repack with your custom gear or $2,200 after I repack. Call (916) 669-1172,1 will call you right back. LASER complete with trailer & current registra¬ tion. Very clean & fun to sail. Fast & in great shape. $1,400obo. Mercury 7.5 longshaft outboard. Runs very well & in good shape. $375 obo. Darren, (408) 996-1386. LASER, 1982. White with cover, new custom, trailer with mast rack, new sail, inspection port, clean mast step, excellent condition. $1,800 firm. Call Eric or Tim at (408) 448-7033. 8-FT AVON REDCREST 4 PERSON DINGHY with engine mount. Must sell. Make offer. Call (650) 723-0923.

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HUNTER 23. Easy handling water ballasted swing keel boat. Great condition, ready to sail. Pop-top with enclosure for standing headroom. Sleeps 4. Main, 2 jibs, depth, VHF, 2 anchors, Porta-Potti, 5 hpTohatsu outboard. Trailer with brakes. $7,500 obo. (707) 829-0163.

AVON ROLL-UP 3.50. Never used, white (now unavailable), new $2,895, asking $1,950. Nissan 15hp short. Never used, list$2,560, asking$1,800. Dyer Dhow. Classic 9 ft sailing/rowing dinghy, good condition. Asking $500. Please call Rick, (415) 884-2812 or (415) 789-5060.

CATALINA CAPRI 13. Only 3 yrs old. Sail & rigging in mint condition, stored indoors. Used little due to serious illness. Boat cover included. Excellent for young sailors. A great bargain at $1,795 obo. Stinson Beach. (415) 868-2652.

23-FT MacGREGOR VENTURE OF NEWPORT, 1982. Pilot cutter. Great 1st boat for bay or lake sailing. Comes complete with solid trailer, potty, galley with stove, Navico AP, 3 sails, etc. $2,900. Currently on trailer at Oyster Point ($65/mo. stor¬ age). Please call (415) 826-1026.

8-FT SAILING DINGHY. New with trailer. Kick-up rudder, retractable centerboard, motor mount. Epoxy, glass over mahogany. $895/offer. 12’6" new handcrafted custom Glen “L" classy sailboat. Mahogany deck & trim. $2,500. (925) 458-4862.

13-FT OK DINGHY. Singlehanded cat rigged dinghy, Sidney fiberglass foam core hull, com¬ plete professional refinishing, all new hardware, trailer. Must go! I own 5 boats & 3 sailboards. $600. Gary, (408) 475-4396.

SEARANGER DOUBLE OR SINGLE 19-FT clas¬ sic rowing wherry. Fiberglass with oak & teak trim & 4 wooden sculpted oars & 2 sliding seats. $1,495 or trade for canoe or single shell. Please call (707) 557-5700.

13-FT BOSTON WHALER SPORT with 1983 Mercury 25hp electric start, recently tuned with records. Includes trailer. $2,999 obo. Call Chuck, (415) 331-1241.

AVON REDCREST WITH O/B BRACKET. $650. Seagull o/b, $164. CNG regulator & 2 tanks, $135. Asymetrical spinnaker w/snuffer for 27 ft boat, $200. Custom v-berth futon pad, 84” x 72”, $70.1/ 4” wire (55’) to 9/16” rope (64') halyard, $110. Jay at (415) 332-0334.

AQUAPRO INFLATABLE, 1997. 8 6” Aquapro (white) aluminum hard bottom inflatable. Excel¬ lent condition, light weight (50 lbs) includes all accessories. $1,700. Call (408) 249-1386.

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ZODIAC TENDER/COASTAL LIFERAFT. This Hypalon boat with its C02 bottle, wood floor¬ boards, inflatable keel & special attachments, that certified it as a coastal raft, is perfect for the smaller cruising boat. Also motor mount & wood oars. $575. (510)814-9390.

24 FEET & UNDER CORONADO 15 WITH TRAILER. Sailed only a few times, like new, always garaged. White hull with teak trim. Compare new at $5,600, now $1,850. Call Tony, (707) 442-1741 weekdays or (707) 677-0505.

J/24, 1978. New 5 hp Nissan,Jpew sails, full equipment, good shape. $4,500. (415) 722-2661. PEARSON 23C, 1982. Cat rigged, 8 hp outboard, new halyard & lazy jacks, Porta-Potti, USCG equipment, marine battery, battery charger, shore power cord, Tiller Master, Windex, compass. Ex¬ cellent condition. Terrific single handed day sailer. $4,900 obo. (650) 574-3958. TANZER 22. Fun pocket cruiser built to sail. Nice interior w/sink, stove. Sleeps 4. 6 hp Johnson, new battery, fresh bottom, main, jib & genoa. Anchor & rode. 1st $1,950 takes it. Call Dave, (415) 543-7333. CATALINA 22,1981. Excellent condition. New epoxy bottom & paint. Swing keel, pop-top, 3 sails, trailer, Merc 7.5. Must sell. $3,150 obo. Please call (408) 899-5187 hm or (408) 761-4203 wrk. 23-FT MONTGOMERY, 1 of 20 made, Lyle Hess design, lapstrake hull, 6 ft headroom, quality off¬ shore cruiser. 3 North sails, tandem axle trailer, VHF, depthsounder. Excellent condition. $15,500, trades considered, video available. Please call (619) 979-7421.

SEAL'S SPARS & RIGGING For 28 yrs specializing in Quality replacement Aluminum Masts & Booms for 20 ft to 35 ft. "Plastic Classics". We stock aluminum extrusions and parts that are available nowhwere else. STEVE SEAL (Rigger at Cal Boats 1964-1969) (510) 521-7730 • www.tenthmuse.com/seals/c20.html

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PLASTIMO 6 MAN OFFSHORE LIFERAFT can¬ ister. About 6 yrs old, kept indoors. $1,950 includ¬ ing certification. ITT 150 Nightmariner, like new, $825. Tahiti double kayak, used 4-5 times. Litton 406 EPIRB, in box, $675. Misc hardware & boat stuff. (510) 655-8800 or utkan@ccnet.com

LASER II WITH TRAILER, 1991. Used little, in very good condition (including sails). Rigged for trapeze & spinnaker. Trapeze equipment inclOded, spinnaker sail lost. $2,500. Ken, (408) 688-1767 Fri-Mon, (415) 252-2163 Tues-Thurs.

14-FT SUNFISH, easy sailing, great fun, ready to go! White hull with yellow deck. Also used once, galv Calkins trailer. All for $525. Please call Dave at (530) 753-3463. Will consider possible trades.

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NESTING DINGHY. Fiberglass covered wood, 9.5 ft overall, 5 ft when nested. Includes sailing rig & sail, $550. Also, 4hp Johnson o/b with fuel tank & lots of spares, exc cond. $400. (650) 952-3430.

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J/24,1978 TP, trailer, old outboard, 3 suits sails

SANTANA 20. Has all one-design class legal

plus mylar 150% & 170% genoas, 3 chutes. $6,000 or any reasonable offer. Time to move on. Call Rob at (209) 943-7294 or email: cmccormick@chw.edu

modifications for racing. Faired. Nice sails. Trailer & outboard. Located Eureka. $4,000 obo, Please call (707) 443-1258 dys or (707) 445-2285 eves. WAVELENGTH 24, SCHOCK ‘83. Freshwater,

FREEDOM 21,1984. (Duckman) Sharp, dean,

cat rigged carbon fiber free standing mast & Hoyt gun mount spinnaker. Lazy jacks, single line reef¬ ing, all lines led aft. New Hogan full battened main with batt slides, 2 yr old 5 hp Yamaha, complete rebuild on electrical system, new depthsounder & many more upgrades. Bottom job 1/98. Have survey & yard bills. We're talkin' turnkey here. Buy it & sail it, the work's been done. $6,700. Please call (925) 933-2448.

trailer, lifting ring, full race rigged, double spreader, open transom, Teflon bottom, new main, 4 spinny’s, 4 headsails, new running rigging, 5hp Nissan, VHF, AM/FM cassette. Great interior, very clean' $8,500. (530) 644-8238. J/24, 1978. 8hp Mercury longshaft, stored on

trailer since it was built, new dual axle trailer purchased in '92,6 North sails, 1 Pineapple spin¬ naker, new paint in '93. Fast 8 fun boat in good condition. $7,900 obo. (916) 485-3034.

VENTURE 21, outboard, 3 sails & chute, cubby.

Great lakte or Bay sailer. Swing keel, trailer, in good condition, ready to sail. $2,000 obo. Great family boat. Call (916) 331-5944. MERMAID 20. Lovely Bay boat, built 1963 in

Denmark. Pine on oak hull. Well maintained, new rigging, Mariner outboard. Asking $1,200. Call Paul at (650) 355-4383. MacGREGOR 19-FT POWERSAILER, 1993. With

trailer, 40 hp o/b & sails. Water-ski or sail any¬ where, sleeps 4. Always fresh water sailed. Tow¬ ing weight 1,600 lbs, sailing weight 2,050 lbs water ballast. Like new, excellent condition. Sac¬ rifice $7,900. Call (510) 228-7348 or page me at (510) 279-8367.

RANGER 23,1976. Tall rig. Great condition. New standing rigging, new compass, New VHF, Inter¬ phase Loran. 1991 8hp Johnson, 6 winches, 3 mains, 6 headsails, 2 spinnakers, tabernacled mast, spinnaker & whisker poles. Sail & winch covers. Boom tent. 2 anchors. Moving to larger boat. $6,400. (408) 475-6222. SAN JUAN 24,1977. Proven racer, 2 time Mexico vet. 8 bags of sails, 2 outbaords, all lines led aft. New bottom, cushions, lifelines. Tandem axle trailer. $9,500. Eric, (702) 588-0351. 49ER, 1996 RACE READY. Australian hull. Good

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24. Mainsail & 2 jibs

sails & chute. Includes 1 custom trailer 8 1 launch dolly. 2 trapeze harnesses, 4 tiller extensions. Olympic trials are coming. $11,500 obo. Please call (415) 751-7040. No calls after 9 pm please.

(selftending & standard lapper). 6 hp outboard. $1,000 obo. (510) 524-7296.

SANTANA 21 ON TRAILER. Needs mast re¬

CATALINA 22,1971. Spotless, 2 sets sails plus

spinnaker, 6 hp Evinrude, fixed keel, sleeps 4. Great Bay sailing class, many extras, dock box, upwind berth in Oakland Estuary. $2,250. Please call (510) 653-9928 or (510) 834-9816. 1/4 TONNER OCEAN RACER. 24'3". Rigged for

singlehanding. Tons of sails & gear. Inboard w/ small kicker. Needs haulout & small amount of TLC. Easy Transpac ready. Owner will carry part OAC. $7,200. Lynn, (415) 522-2933.

paired & cosmetics. Hull sound, sails in decent shape. Trailer in good condition. Needs registra¬ tion updated. First $1,000 takes it. Please call Erik, (510) 237-2099 or (510) 223-8310. , O’DAY 22 WITH TRAILER, 1974. Mainsail, 2 jibs,

7.5hp Mercury outboard, sleeps 4, sink 8 water' tank. Propane stove, Porta-Potti, new hull paint, lifejackets. $3,000. Berthed in Alameda. Please call (415) 768-1825 dys or (510) 523-3997 dys & nights. MX-RAY SHOWBOAT, 13 ft, 115 lbs, carbon

24-FT QUICKSTEP SLOOP, 1990. Canoe stern,

navy hull. 9.9 hp Yamaha. Head, depthmeter, knotmeter, fully equipped. Getting out of sailing. $15,000. (650) 933-2244 wrk, (408) 736-2257 home. 24-FT ISLANDER BAHAMA. Fixed keel. Fair

condition. Berth at Vallejo Marina. $1,200 obo. Call (916) 374-8637. CATALINA 22, 1986. Swing keel, 5 hp Honda outboard, all stock Catalina outfitting. No electron¬ ics, fresh water use only. Interior excellent, condi¬ tion very good overall. No trailer. $4,500 firm. Original owner. Contact (707) 527-8716 or boboc@sonic.net

mast, spinnaker, pianos in 6 knots, capable of 20 knots, cartopable, Seitech trailer. $3,750. Please call (415y 661-9729 or fax (415) 753-5969. PEARSON 22, 1971. Fixed keel, very sturdy, good sails, new paint, compass, sink & water tank, 12 hrs on 11 hp Evinrude, 2 gas tanks. Lots of storage, trailer 8 more. 14 yrs in storage, good condition. $2,500 obo. (650) 347-4817. LEISURE 17. Twin keel, 6hp OBM, main, jib, storm jib, VHF, lights, water, pottie, anchor, chain, rode, new bottom paint, bimini. Sweetheart of a pocket cruiser, stiff sailer, clean as a pin. A must see. $3,500. (510) 516-2877.

24-FT SEAFORTH, 1981. Full keel classic off¬ shore cruiser, 8hp inboard needs work, 2 batt full cover, sink, stove, VHF, cassette radio, plus many other extras. $3,500 obo, also will trade forsmaller trailerable. (408) 640-0422 dys or (209) 661-8872 eves.

SANTANA 25,1/4 TON. Tandem wheel trailer w/ surge brakes', 1 spinnaker & equipment, 3 headsails, main, o/b, new hull 8 bottom paint, knotmeter, depth gauge, extras. Sailed freshwa¬ ter. $7,000 or trade for Beneteau 23.5. Brandon or Nanci, (916) 283-1361.

YOU CHOOSE: PARCAMAR 22 OR CAL 20, $1,500.1982 Hobicat 18 or Prindle 16 with trail¬ ers, $1,800. Hobicat 16 w/trailer or Livingston whaler, $1,200. Paddle boat or El Toro, $1,000. McGregor 14 catamaran, Luger 15 daysailer w/ trailer or sloop rigged dinghy, $500. Please call (415) 956-5700 ext 140,

SANTA CRUZ 27,1974. Faired epoxy bottom, 155% genoa, blade, 2 spinnakers, 1 new North 3/ 4 oz spinnaker, 4 hp Evinrude outboard. $6,000. Ask for Pat, (714) 369-9126 eves.

SAIL A BEAR. One design racing, camaraderie, colorful history, affordable fun. A great Bay boat for over 66 years. The SF Bay Bear Boat Associa¬ tion can put you in touch with a few good Bears. Marty Zwick, (415) 289-0303. COLUMBIA 22,1971. Fixed keel Excellent condi¬ tion equipment: new Pineapple main, jib, 8hp Nissan o/b w/low hrs, AP, Genoa, whisker pole, all lines led aft, new running rigging, compass, alco¬ hol stove & many other extras. $3,600 obo. For more info: Bruce, (925) 846-3947. CATALINA 22,1983, in excellent o*ndition. Swing keel, new motor, new bottom 11/97, roller furler, galley, stove, Porta-Potti, anchor, main, 110%, 155%, spinnaker. Berthed in Sasualito. $4,400. (415) 647-1084. (415) 647-1084 or http:// home.earthlink.net/~wquigs/Sailing/sailing1.html FLICKA 20,1979. PSC. Outboard ‘94, custom interior with lots of storage. Complete new bottom in '94, dark green hull, tanbark sails, compass, knot, depth. $21,500. (916) 722-6300. WEST WIGHT POTTER P-15,1996. Garaged, , little use, almost as new. Dark green hull, tanbark sails. All the extras incl self-furling jib, jiffy reefing, - 3.5 Tohatsu oM, custom boom tenet, trailer, lines led aft. 1/2 original cosf. $4,500. (415) 388-4635. TWO J/24’S FOR SALE. 1980 main, 100%, 150%, spinnaker. New halyards, new running rigging, new winches, new o/b bracket, mast painted, deck painted, 5 hp o/b. Good condition. $4,000. 1980 with main, 100%, 150%, spinnaker, 6 hp motor, nice interior. Good condition. $4,500. Must make room for new boats. Please call Rich at (650) 363-1390. MAYFARER 24,1966. Full keel, main, spinnaker w/pole, genoa, 2 jibs, all lines led aft, toilet, counter 8 sink, sleeps 4. 7hp Evinrude in aft coqkpit. Battery charger, VHF radio, safety equip, safety railing. Good condition. Great for the Bay. $3,000. Lindsay, (415) 331 -3660 or Joe, (415) 331 -1881. RANGER 23. Fun, excellent racer/cruiser, loaded. 7 bags, all lines lead aft, selftacking jib system. Will consider all property trade proposals. Prefer Contra Costa or Sierra foothills or $4,400 cash (over $8,000 invested). Calf (510) 439-3632.

RANGER 23, 1977. Great condition. Ready to GLASSMASTER18,1987. Bowriderwith 150hp

Mercury Black Max XR2 outboard & trailer. Used a total of 4 summers in fresh water. Hull needs work, but engine was recently overhauled & is in excellent condition. $4,500 negotiable. Please call (650) 367-8353.

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

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PEARSON 26. Main, jib, spin, new 9.9 Honda electric start. $5,000 obo. Mike, (650) 943-0770 pager. O’DAY 27,1975. Atomic 4, rollerfurling jib, radio, depthsounder, autopilot. Had a stroke, must sell. $7,000 obo. Call after 6/14/98, (707) 224-5471. CATALINA27,1982. Clean&comfortable. 11 hp Atomic Universal diesel, 3 sails, head, compass, knotmeter, depthsounder, wind/speed indicator, roller stay furl, alcohol stove, microwave. New rigging ‘93. Berkeley Marina. $12,000. Please call (530) 626-0238. ERICSON 25+, 1979. Fixed keel, spinlock rigid vang, Harken one line reefing, VHF, complete galley, teak interior, shorepower, new bottom job, Johnson 9.9 electric outboard. Much more. Never in salt water. Sitting on new custom $5,000 trailer. Steal for $14,000. (520) 768-8048. BALBOA 27. Tandem wheel trailer, 7 knot diesel inboard with alternator, Schaefer furling for jib 8 genoa, cockpit cushions, solar panel, ready to go. Over $2,000 in new equipment. Change of plans forces sale. $13,500. (530) 626-5848. 26- FT ANDREWS CUSTOM SAILBOAT, Perfect Timing. Race ready, Sailcomp, outboard, rebuilt 1996, Santa Barbara slip available at additional cost, $16,000. (805) 967-2815. SAN JAUN 28, 1978. Fresh water boat, 20 hp Yanmar, 3 headsails, selftending jib, depth, knot, AP, propane stove. Legal head. Bimini, VHF, AM/ FM, cockpit cushions. Full headroom. Very clean. $12,000.(510)797-8536. 27- FT CATALINA, 1980. 4 sails, new rigging in '94,15hp Evinrude, 2 batteries, solar charger, 2 anchors, Porta-Potti, new VHF, depthfinder 8 more. Bottom in excellent condition. Trinidad paint included. Tomales Bay. $10,000. (707) 878-2076. CATALINA 25,1981. Clean! Traditional layout, fixed keel, all lines led aft, 85% 8110% jibs, jiffy reefing, pop-top with enclosure, new standing 8 running rigging ‘93, adjustable backstay, solar panel, battery charger, gel cell, Mercury 7.5 longshaft. Loran, Navico AP, KM, DS, VHF, com¬ pass, shorepower, 2 anchors, Origo stove, BBQ, elec cabin heater, 4 speaker AM/FM cassette, full carpeting, cockpit cushions, lots more! Great for families or singlehanders. $8,650. Please call (510) 208-1906 anytime. CATALINA 27,1981. Traditional interior, Atomic 4 with new fuel line, Harken roller furling jib, new standing rigging 8 lifelines in '95, ready for haulout. Very clean. $11,500. (707) 542-5817.

CATALINA 28,1991. Very clean, diesel, stereo, spinnaker, propane. Freshwater only. Trailer. $42,000. (530) 244-5702. „

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MacGREGOR 26,1990. Water ballast, mainsail, 2 jibs, 9.94-stroke Honda outboard. Depthsounder & compass. Sleeps 6, fully enclosed head. 4 coats epoxy done in '91,2 coats bottom paint applied 11/97. $6,200 obo. (408) 263-6174 or Jimcassidtaol.com

25- FT NORDIC FOLKBOAT, wooden classic.

28’6" PEARSON TRITON, 1962. Handlayed fi¬ berglass. excellent condition. Hull & interior re¬ cently repainted. 5 winches, 5 sails including spinnaker, Atomic 4, radio, instruments, anchor. Ready to sail away. Berthed in Sausalito. $7,500. (415) 897-6168, ask for Ralph.

CATALINA 27,1984.11 hp diesel, batt charger,

dock power, 2 burner stove, 2 man inflatable, radio, adj backstay, boarding ladder, double life¬ lines, lifesling, main, 130% genoa, holding tank, Y valve, auto bilge pump, Tillermaster, traditional interior, tiller steering. $12,000. (408) 778-0047.

LUGER 26 TRADEWINDS SLOOP w/sails, 15hp outboard engine, all electric, VHF, Audiovox AM/ FM/CD, w/trailer, $8,000. 1972 Cal 27 w/sails, $5,000. Ericson 26 or Monterey fishing boat, $2,500. 1961 Okamoto flare blue 25 ft wooden sloop w/sails, including spinnaker, $1,500. Please call (415) 956-5700 ext 140.

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HUNTER 26.5, 1987. New 8 hp Nissan, Tiller

LANCER 28,1979. Tiller, autopilot, very clean,

dar, autopilot, galley, enclosed marine head, poptop, traditional layout, 9.8hp Mercury w/elec start/ alternator, spinnaker. Berthed Oxnard. Asking $6,500. Phone/fax: (805) 643-5710 or email: BRayBeach@aol.com

Pilot, 2 jibs, 2 batteries w/charger, cushions, VHF, GPS, cassette, propane grill. New halyard, teak & holly sole, custom interior, clean & dry boat. Fast & fun. Ready for Bay & Delta. $12,500 obo or partial trade on bigger boat? Talk to me. Please call (415) 298-6242.

batt charger, BBQ, new halyards,-1 Ohp outboard, Porta-Potti, AM/FM cassette, dodger& other can¬ vas, 2 headsails, VHF radio, alcohol stove, new battery. Need to sell. $9,500. Call (510) 658-5519.

Actively raced for many years. Everything is in good repair, just needs a little Spring TLC. 2 sets of sails. A great boat for the right owner. $3,000 obo. Call (510) 215-0542 or email: EAAshcroff@aol.com

27-FT ERICSON, 1975, with SF Marina berth

(Gashouse Cove). Fiberglass sloop, gas inboard, mainsail, jib, radio, manual bilge pump. Cabin sleeps 5, v-berth, separate head, folding center table, sink, 2 burner alcohol stove. Priced to sell! $10,000 obo. (415) 386-1093.

US-25,1981. North sails (furling jib with Harken

roller furling & main), spinnaker, 2 genoas, extra main, Johnson 9.9hp, electric start, enclosed headPorta-Potti, stove & sink, trailer. $7,000. Located Lake Tahoe. Ralph, (916) 525-7245. CATALINA 25,1984. Excellent condition, very

clean, fixed keel, 8 hp Suzuki outboard, 2 mains (1 new), jib, genoa, spinnaker, VHF, compass, en¬ closed head, holding tank, gimbaled galley stove, liferaft, battery charger, 2 anchors, many extras. $9,900. (925) 672-9972.

0 NEWPORT 27. Dodger, rollerfurling, Loran, VHF,

holding tank, jib (3 yr), main with Lazymate (2 yr), rebuilt Atomic 4, autopilot, anchor, chain & rode. Oversized rigging 8/90, bottom 9/96, non-pres¬ sure alcohol stove, all. lines lead aft. $8,000. Please call (510) 865-6648. COLUMBIA 26. Good condition, clean & comfort¬

able, with slip. Adequately equipped & service¬ able for Bay sailing and/or spartan liveaboard. $3,600 negotiable. Please leave message for Chris, (415) 453-5259.

ISLANDER 28,1977. Land stored 8 years La Paz,

upgraded interior, rebuilt Atomic-4 w/zero hrs, much cruising equipment, now in water at Marina La Paz. Start your cruising here. $12,000. Phone: (Oil) 52-112-2164fe days or facsimile number: (011) 52-112-55900 or email: villas @ baja.net.mx contact Mac.

MORGAN 27, 1972. Immaculate throughout. Atomic 4, keel stepped, fast, stiff, beamy, bahama blue hull. Extensively refitted above & below deck. The numbers: 27’6” x 25'0" x 9'10” x 4'6”, displ 7,000, ballast 3,400. Fast! $13,700 obo. Grand Marina F-5. (510)749-9946.

CAL 2-27. Spinnaker rigged, 90%, 130%, 155%

CAL 28 SLOOP. F/G. New diesel engine. 3 H

jibs, knotmeter, depthmeter, head with holding tank, lifesling, horseshoe, 2 anchors. Clean, roomy interior. Located Berkeley. 2 boat owner. $9,000 obo. Steve, (510) 526-3542.

sails. Like new, fully battened mainsail. 1 gennaker, teak decks, 2 anchors, 3 props. $7,950 obo. 26 ft cedar on oak sloop. 7.5 Evinrude. 3 sails. $2,450 obo. Call (510) 251-9536.

27-FT ERICSON. Deep V hull, toilet, new sail

26- FT LOA PACIFIC CLIPPER (Cheoy Lee

covers, Nissan outboard engine, berthed Ballena Bay. $9,000 obo. (510) 833-8575. v

Folkboat). Teak hull, bristol condition with too many improvements & extras to list. A must see for the serious buyer. $10,495. (415) 924-0554.

BALBOA 27 WITH TRAILER. Extensive cruising inventory, diesel i/b. SF Bay, Tahoe, San Juans, Can. Gulf Islands, Catalina, Mexico, Florida, Ba¬ hamas. Take “Me” back. You don't have to be stuck in the Bay! $13,900, Worth a call. Phone: (530) 268-9311. ALBIN VEGA, 1977. Rebuilt diesel. Ocean ca¬

SAMANTHA, (fea¬

tured Latitude, April '97). Yanmar2GM20F diesel, 500 hrs. Beautiful etched glass ports, roller reef¬ ing, compass, KM, DS, ground tackle. Teak decks, cabin. A wonderful pocket cruiser/liveaboard. Needs love again. $5,000 firm. Please call Tim, (408) 406-7372.

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PEARSON 26. Sleeps 4, lifelines, large cockpit

with cushions, main, 2 jibs, VHF, head, sink, 7.5 Honda outboard. Great Bay boat. $5,995. Please call (408) 534-1361. PEARSON 27 RENEGADE, 1969. Blgewater cruiser. Atomic 4 inboard, 6 new bomb proof sails, Hassler windvane, 35 lb CQR, 2 Danforths, new sail cover. Propane stove/oven, woodburning heaters, depthsounder, compass, windspeed/direction, Porta-Potti. $6,900. (415) 339-8817. OLSON 25, HULL #44, BUILT 1984. Lightly used

0-25 from So. Cal, currently dry stored in Sausalito. Many upgrades, 6 sails (no spinnaker), lots of electronics, good trailer. Excellent shape, sail away for only $13,750. Please contact Rob at, (415) 383-8200 ext 109. YANKEE 26,1974. Sparkman & Stephens fiber¬

glass design. Bluewater cruiser, singlehanded sailing, Autohelm, feathering prop, 2 batteries & charger, rollerfurling, spinnaker, extra sails, VHF, Loran, Kenwood stereo, microwave, propane stove, new carpet & paint. $10,500. Please call (650)871-2826 or (408) 798-3539. 27-FT VIRTUE. Teak & mahogany, built Holland

1952. Beautiful, complete professionally rebuilt '97. $36,000 invested. Yanmar diesel, new gear. Ready for Cape Horn or distant latitudes. Illness forces sale. $21,000 obo. (510) 893-1051. CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27,1968. Volvo MD1 diesel, VHF, depth, Avon Redcrestdinghy & more. Great coastal cruising & Bay boat. Located in Humboldt Bay, Eurlka, CA. $8,800. Please call Eric at (707) 268-0428, 25-FT CORONADO, 1967. Sleeps 6, head, stove,

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27,

pable. Great buy at $10,000. (510) 928-9219.

EXPRESS 27, HULL #21. BRAND NEW set of

Santa Cruz sails. New running rigging, standing rigging & deck hardware. Faired keel & rudder. All OYRA ocean gear. New GPS & SailComp, o/b. Not a project boat. $19,700. (510) 236-3606. CONTEST 27. Classic fiberglass half tonner, solid & fast. Mahogany, teak & holly below. 5 good sails, newly serviced outboard, documented ves¬ sel. Loran, Porta-Potti, stove. Everything you need to sail the Bay in style & speed. $6,900 obo. Fred, (707)965-9165. MacGREGOR 26, 1988. Water ballast, VHF,

“THE NEWPORT 28 WITH HER LOW PROFILE,

sleek lines & ease of handling definitely add to the beauty of Bay Area sailing”. 1976 sloop rigged, in good condition, just hauled. Good running Atomic 4 (and spare) & a Nissan 5hp outboard. $9,000. (650) 631-6675.

ERICSON 27,1971, with best Coyote Point berth! One owner, 30hp Atomic 4 gas inboard, mainsail, 2 jibs. 6T interior, very clean, sleeps 5, stove, foldout table, well decorated, new carpet & drapes. Ready to sail. $8,800. (650) 579-2800.

6-1/2 Yam., good sails, extras. Excellent condi¬ tion. Great Bay boat. Tiburon docked. $4,750 (415) 389-1257. 27-FT PACIFIC SEACRAFT ORION. A great buy

knotmeter, depthsounder, pop-top & cover, '94 trailer, '95 Honda 9.9 electric start o/b. Clean. $9,500. (408) 287-2682. CATALINA27,1976. Tall rig,outboard,upgraded

running rigging, Harken traveler forward, lines led aft. Rerigged '95. New VHF, Porta-Potti, com¬ pass. Depth, knotmeter, 2 anchors, safety gear, sleeps 5. Santa Cruz sublet available. Reduced, $7,700 obo. Randy, (408) 464-8056. RESTORED CAL 25 WITH SLIP in Sausalito. The Cal has a new 5hp motor, $1,200+ in electron¬ ics, including GPS, fishfinder, depthfinder, weather station & stereo. $1,600+ in custom canvas, in¬ cluding mainsail, headsail, hatch, motor, BBQ, tiller, winch & bimini covers & side curtains for the pop-top giving fully enclosed standing headroom. Also comes with BBQ, stove, CG safety equip¬ ment, West Marine inflatable, 2 anchors, batteries & much more. Must sell, need the money for school. $5,500. (707) 573-9802. OCEAN & TRAILER CRUISE THIS HAIDA 26 to

San Juans or Baja. Bluewater capable, spacious & stiff. Fiberglass Ray Richards design. Major refit includes rudder, diesel, sails, teak interior, rig¬ ging, winches & traveler, etc. Trailer available. $10,500 obo. (415) 331-7576. TARTAN 26, 1973. Good sails, Yanmar 10hp

diesel, low hrs. Solid boat. Stove, VHF, DS, KM. Sleeps 4. Ready to sails the Bay or cruise the coast. $6,900 obo. (415) 310-2885 eves. COLUMBIA 28,1972. Crealock designed. Turn key sailboat. Clean & well kept. New diesel, rig¬ ging, sails & interior. Enclosed head, propane stove, tiller, 6 ft headroom. Just add beer, ice, food. Sleep at Angel Island tomorrow. $8,900 obo. (415) 331-5067. NONSUCH 26 ULTRA, 1989.26 ft LOA, excellent condition, 420 sq sail w/2 reef points. 3cyl 23 hp diesel. New bottom paint 2/98, all new lines 11/97 lead to cockpit. Dodger, bimini, screens for all openings. H/c pressured water. Datamarine knot/ log, fathometer, VHF, AM/FM/CD w/4 speakers, 2 group 27 batteries 6/97.25 lb plow about 150 line. $49,000. (510) 530-0460 or email: robteri@ix.netcom.com

for the right person. Call for a photo portfolio & detail sheet. $29,000. (910) 793-9208.

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double spreader Ballinger mast, Moore elliptical rudder, original rudder also, 1993 Nissan 5 hp, 1993 Trailrite trailer. Very stock, very clean, lim¬ ited Santa Cruz berth possible. $14,000. Call (408) 722-6909. 31-FT PACIFIC SEACRAR, 1988. Cutter rigged,

cruise ready, deck mounted liferaft, Raytheon R10XX radar, Raychart chartplotter, Autohelm AP, whisker pole. Dark green hull, bronze Lewmar winches, Yanmar diesel with very low hrs. Kept under full covers professionally maintained, pre¬ sents as new. $103,000. (702) 345-7307.

HUNTER 30,1990. Bluewater ready: watermaker, water/wind generator, Autohelm 4000 (and com¬ plete spare) with GPS interface, jury rudder, ParaAnchor, dorades, EPIRB, 3 stage regulator, full electronics, SWS WEFAX, cruising chute, dodger, awnings, 500+ item inventory, max redundancy, fully found. $52,000. (707) 869-1038. ISLANDER 30,1984. Excellent condition. Teak

interior, wheel steering 4000 Autohelm, Yanmar diesel, club jib, CNG stove w/oven, VHF, AM/FM w/cassette stereo. Plus many other extras. Has had a lot of TLC. $31,500. Please call Edwin at (415) 661-2182.

1979. Volvo diesel. Original owner. Boat has been recently hauled. Sleeps 6, TV, AM/FM stereo radio, full head, full galley. Must sell, best offer. (925) 676-7611. OLSON 30, MOUSTACHE. 3 time national cham¬

SANTANA 30/30 GP, 1984. Excellent condition.

pion while on coast. Bottom faired. New Quantum racing main, genoa, spinnaker plus many more sails. New outboard. Electronics include VHF, Loran, Signet System 6000, solar panel, etc. Excellent condition. (801) 298-8838.

Great boat for Bay or offshore, singlehanded or crewed. Located at Fortman Marina, G18, Alameda. (408) 354-4729 or email: TheJunges@aol.com

main, 80% jib, 110% jib, 110% Kevlar, 130 % jib . & spinnaker. New cabin sole & main winches. Excellent condition. Located Kaneohe Yacht Club, Hawaii. Asking $27,000 obo. Please call Jim at (808) 488-5706. BUCCANEER 2930, 30-FT CRUISER, built in

J/29, with all the goodies. Inboard (Yanmar die¬ COLUMBIA 30, 1972. Atomic 4 with low hrs,

vangs. New: curtains, cushions, dockside plumb¬ ing, keel bolts, bottom, water heater, winches, rodes, stereo, etc. Full cockpit covers, shower, gimballed stove, micro, hard sail dinghy, charger, reinforced bulkheads. Fresh survey, travel ready, complete liveaboard. $17,000 obo. Please call (916) 673-0394. CATALINA 30,1981. Diesel, wheel steering, roller

furling, depth, radio, refrig, stove, etc. In slip in La Paz, Mexico. Ready to go. $20,000. Please call (310) 470-0597. PEARSON 30,1975. Very clean, good looking,

great sailing. Rebuilt A-4 engine with 70 hrs. Refrig, 2 batteries with monitors new Mar charger. 30 amp shorepower, wheel with provision for S including tiller, DS, KM, compass, VHF, tape AM/ FM stereo with cockpit speakers. Telephone jack/ cord, 2 anchors, engineroom extinguisher, manual S auto bilge pumps, hauled 6/97. Yellow with black trim S canvas. Shop S compare. First $12,000 takes her. (510) 865-8901, before 7pm.

31 -R PACIFIC SEACRAR, 1988. Cutter rigged,

by Far East Yachts. Hand laid-up hull w/insulation. Full keel cut away forefoot. Wheel steering (worm drive), interior redone '95, sails like new (90 & 92). Full galley, pressure water, new head (elec), mahogany interior, new cabin cushions, winter cover, summer awning, weather cloths w/ pockets, cockpit cushions, lots of storage space. 120 hrs on recently overhauled Perkins 4-107 diesel, recent upgrades on electronics, masts, etc. Excellent Bay & coastal cruiser/liveaboard. 2 boat owner. Asking $21,500. Please call Dennis at (408) 659-8104 or (408) 646-6511 wkdys.

cruise ready, deck mounted liferaft, Raytheon R10XX radar, Raychart chartplotter, Autohelm AP, whisker pole. Dark green hull, bronze Lewmar winches, Yanmar diesel with very low hrs. Kept under full cover & professionally maintained, pre¬ sents as new. $103,000. (702) 345-7307.

sel), fractional rig, Spectra halyards & sheets, Spinlock, QuickVang, faired hull, good inventory. Fast & immaculately maintained. Excellent Value qt $24,500. (510) 845-3565. 30-FT WILLIAM GARDEN DOUBLE ENDED

sloop, built 1959, lllwaco, WA. Cedar on oak, Universal utility 4, 3 sails, full boat cover, depth, knot, Danforth anchor, original boat plans. Cus¬ tom built for Alaska passage. Asking $9,000 obo/ trade. (707) 258-0671.

6 ft headroom, new bottom paint. Gas House Cove berth possible. $5,600.18 ft Mercury with galv trailer. $500. Please call (650) 375-4720 dys or (415) 759-6923 eves.

tiller, Atomic 4, CNG stove, shorepower, set up for liveaboard. OysterCoveliveaboard slip available. $21,000. Call after 6 pm. (650) 589-2248.

ready. Reconditioned/repainted '96 with Awlgrip. New Harken hardware, Ronstan tumbuckles, new Ontario rudder. Australian boom. Great sail inven¬ tory. Open '98 sail card. Single axle trailer. $11,000 obo. (415) 751-7040. No calls after 9 pm.

diesel engine. All new wiring & electronics (new batteries, VHF, AM/FM radio, battery meter). All brand new canvas cushions. Solar panel, autopi¬ lot, dinghy w/outboard. Located in SF Marina. $16,995. (415) 643-1131. 30-FT CUSTOM FIBERGLASS cutter rigged

30-R AMERICAN KNARR. Beautiful bright ma¬

sloop. Circumnavigated 1984-93 (see Latitude article 9/95). Recommissioned '97.7 sails, 4 an¬ chors, Maxwell-Nilsson windlass, Yanmar diesel (major overhaul 11/97), hull refinished '95, epoxied bottom, Goiot portholes. Mast steps, VHF, DS, AP, 6 winches, custom hard dodger, Edson wheel steering (upgraded '95), refrig, propane stove. Mahogany interior, newer Irish upholstery. Well maintained, clean. Able passagemaker. Liveaboard slip available, Winchester Bay, OR. Growing family & completion of new boat decree sale. $28,000. (541) 271-2566 or quell@harborside.com

hogany on oak. Full custom cover to waterline for sunlight protection. Sleeps 4, Danish built, spin¬ naker. New 3.5hp Nissan outboard. Ready for Bay sailing. $6,001(415)441-1147.

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ERICSON 29,1972. A little cash & TLC get you a

great boat. Rebuilt Atomic 4, runs great. Bottom painted last August (no blisters). Spinnaker gear & 2 spinnakers, good condition. 3 jibs, fair condi¬ tion. Barient 22 primaries & Barient 10 secondar¬ ies. Center boom traveler. Fuel tank & lines re¬ placed in '94. Much better than a project boat, but needs some work. $8,500 obo. Please call Bill at (925) 426-8181 eves or (408) 616-7845 dys.

launched in '93. Perkins diesel, crispy sails, over¬ sized windlass. Rock solid cruiser, needs some TLC. $37,000. (650) 568-1827 eves.

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ETCHELLS 22, HULL #170, complete with mast,

boom, sails & trailer. $6,000 obo, must sell. Call (415) 332-4205. 30-R CHEOY LEE BERMUDA KETCH, 1961,

Ventosa. Lovingly restored & maintained. Pier 39. All teak. Knotmeter, DPS, VHF, 5 sails. New rig, Atomic4, small inflatable. Everything works, looks good. Just tinker, maintain paint & varnish, go sailing. $19,500. (415) 222-1817. HUNTER 29.5,1996. Roller furling jib, full batten

CAPE DORY 30, CUTTER RIG, 1983. Rigged for

singlehanding by little old lady (70+) who sailed Wednesday afternoons. Very clean. Profession¬ ally maintained, recent Hood upgrades: full batten main w/Dutchman, jib w/Profurl furler. New dodger w/handgrips, Volvo diesel. Large holding tank, stove/oven, VHF radio, other electronics, headroom. A quality built, handsome, swift sailing boat, great for SF Bay & coastal cruising. $37,500. (650) 328-5031 before 9pm or (650) 343-5957 anytime.

CAL 29. Cruiser/one-design racing fleet on SF

Bay. Full standing headroom, sleeps 6, ample storage space, large cockpit with tiller. Full batten loose footed main, 133% roller furling jib or ability to convert to traditional headsails, 2 spinnakers. New sail cover, 20 gal holding tank, water tank, gas tank. Atomic 4 gas engine, legal head, two 12 volt batteries, windspeed, KM, windpoint, moni¬ tor, DS, compass, VHF. Located at Berkeley Ma¬ rina. $13,900. Contact Don at (925) 284-2220 or email: jenxl@aol.com

CAL 29, 1972. Rebuilt Atomic 4, roller furling,

main, 90%, 120% & 155% jibs, cruising spinna¬ ker. Lines led aft, new main cover, lifesling, speed/ depth, GPS, Tillerpilot, legal head. $10,000 obo. Also, 1981 Sunfish & trailer, $400 obo. Contact (707) 427-1956orTurkey9186@aol.com ’ PYRAMID 30. Carl Schumacher ultra-light. Never in water. 3,800 lbs, 400 Sq ft sail area. New jib & full batten main, new Ballenger custom rig. You finish, $6,000 obo, (510) 836-4396.

30-FT STEEL CUTTER, Bruce Roberts design, CATALINA 30,1978. Dodger S cockpit canvas,

ETCHELLS DRISCOLL, HULL #448,1978. Race

COLUMBIA 29. Atomic 4, new interior cushions, CATALINA 30, CALLIOPE. Sleeps 6, wheel steer¬

ing, Autohelm 4000, knotmeter, depthmeter, VHF radio, Loran, roller furling jiffy reefing, all lines led aft, cockpit cushions, automatic bilge pump, h/c pressure water. Shower, clock, barometer, shorepower, 2 autocharge marine batteries. Oiled teak, 2 speed winches, microwave, TV/VCR, car¬ peted, lifejackets, stove & oven, cabin exhaust blower, equipped for spinnaker, anchor, chain & line, canvas covers for sail, binnacle & teak & much more! Beautifully & meticulously maintained by 1st & 2nd (present) owners. Ready to sail or liveaboard. Berthed at Sierra Point Marina, Brisbane, CA., dock 5, slip #10. $20,900. Owner: (702) 786-5292 or (702) 786-8797 or owner's rep at (408) 243-4342 for appt to see.

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glass. Fresh epoxy primer, mid-60's model, need minor work. Only $6,995. May take 24 ft & up Coronado, etc trade in. (415) 258-5709, Iv msg.

main, wheel, Yanmar diesel, dodger, marine ste¬ reo, VHF, GPS, Raytheon radar, Raychart/Seatalk/ C-Map, AP, wind, knot, depth, refrig, 2 burner propane with oven, teak interior, h/c pressure water. $56,700. (541)469-6812.

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CATALINA 30,1981. Full batten main, 155% (NS 3DL), 145% genoas & 110% blade. Tuff Luff twin groove headstay luff system, Harken windward sheeting system, Harken single line reef system, standard & asymetrical spinnakers, Universal 10hp 2 cyl diesel, dual battery system, Onan charging, house power system. Autohelm wind & speed, race timer package, mast mount speed/timer re¬ peater, Signet depth, VHF.Garmin rail mountGPS antenna. $24,000. Richard Smith, (650) 343-0946 or fax: (650) 344-7964 or richardssmith @ msn.com

ing jib, roller reefing main, 170% genoa, shoal keel, 16,000 btu heat/air, head with shower, hold¬ ing tank, full galley, tiled counters, documented vessel in legal liveaboard slip, Peninsula marina, Redwood City. $24,500 obo. (209) 732-9853.

COLUMBIA 29. Classic, Sparkman Stevens de¬

CAL 34 III, 1978. Bullet proof, beautiful condition.

sign. Comfortable, forgiving boat for Bay & coastal cruising. New main, selftending jib. New, large, open interior. 6 ft headroom. Great liveaboard. Must sell. $5,500 obo. (408) 738-2948.

Westerbeke diesel with only 700 hrs, roller furling, new instruments, stereo, Autohelm, new interior, many extras. $34,000. (415) 435-1602 or email: tripok@aol.com

32 TO 35 FEET AT EASE. Racer/cruiser, well maintained, well equipped, diesel, forced air heating, water heater, Loran, hydraulics, dodger, full instruments. Marina Village berth. $33,950. (510)769-1201. SANTANA 35,1981,

33-FT STEEL, 1988. Offshore cutter. Mexico,

Hawaii, Marquesas & Alaska vet. 7 sails, new 30 hp Perkins, Monitor windvane, 11 ’2” beam, two chine heavy displacement full keel. Insulated with sprayed foam, USCG documented. $36,000.Please call (503)234-6791. 33-FT APHRODITE 101. Denmark built

singlehanded racer/weekender. Micrpn-epoxy bottom. New sail inventory & running rigging. Loaded with electronic navigation, safety gear, ground tackle. Volvo diesel. Avon 4 man liferaft. Pt Richmond, CA berth. Reduced to $19,500. Call (425) 290-8580 after 4 pm.

33- FT HUNTER, 1980. Excellent condition. Fast,

easy to sail. Owner motivated. Asking $27,000 obo. Call (415) 421-8657 or (415) 675-5731, Iv message.

32- FT FUJI KETCH, 1977. Beautiful, clean, clas¬ sic Alden clipper lines. Does great in Bay condi¬ tions. Cruised. Many upgrades, newcanvas, roller furling jib, 40 hp Pisces diesel. $36,500 nego¬ tiable. (650) 598-5021.

32-FT CHALLENGER. Ready for cruising. Die¬ sel, wheel, below deck autopilot, elec windlass, radar, new sails, ref. $31,000. (510) 769-9350. HUNTER 33, 1980. Excellent condition. Fast,

CORONADO 35 CENTER COCKPIT. Roller furl¬

CALIBER 33,1989. Bristol, Profurl, Hood sails, Autohelm 4000, Loran, Datamarine instruments, ICOM VHF, propane stove w/oven, h/c pressure water. Yanmar3GM-30, dodger, full batten main, lazy jacks, all lines to cockpit. $69,000. Please call (650) 325-7135. 34- FT FORMOSA AFT CABIN SLOOP, 1970.

Center cockpit, 7 sails, spinnaker, Volvo Penta diesel, 5 anchors, winch, heavy fiberglass. Teak decks & interior. Water heater, sleeps 6, great liveaboard. Color depthsounder, VHF, etc. $27,500/offer. (415) 884-2405. VALIANT 32,1978.25 hp diesel w/510 hrs, 6 sails

(good to new condition), new Fleming vane, wind¬ lass, AP, h/c pressure water, full covers, epoxy bottom, refrig, upgrades '96-’97. Fresh water boat 78- 96. $48,000. Chris, (408) 423-4076.

of upgrades & full batten main modified to the Harken batten traveler system, rigid vang& 100% furling jib. Lewmar selftailing winches, lines led aft to clutches. Universal diesel, dodger, DC refrig/ freezer, CNG stove with oven, microwave & Force 10 heater. Hot & cold pressure water with shower. Knotmeter, depthsounder, windspeed with wind direction meter, VHF, LorabA Autohelm. Beauti¬ ful teak interior & holly cabin sole: $58,500. Hes, (408) 736-2312.

MASON 33. This beautifully maintained Mexico vet looks like a new boat. Cutter rig, vane, autopi¬ lot, solar, near new Achilles & outboard, gallows, dodger, new upholstery. Needs nothing. Original owner, must sell this summer. San Diego. Please call (760) 942-8009. PEARSON 34,1984. Quality performance sloop.

New dodger, canvas, bottom paint 8/97. Beautiful teak interior including teak/holly sole, stereo, range with oven, h/c pressure water, roller furling, VHF, STW, DS, KM. Great sailing cruiser. $45,000 obo. (916) 484-3016 or http://www.lanset.com/ herrigstad

NEWPORT 33, TIGER BEETLE, 1985. Tall rig, deep keel, solid coastal cruiser & competitive offshore racer. '96 Singlehanded TransPac com¬ petitor, 3 jibs, spinnaker, main (other inventory available), autopilot, Haiken roller furling, wheel steering, custom boom & rudder, transom steps, Force 10 heater, 21 hp Universal diesel, Martec prop, propane stove, many extras. Berthed Alameda. $37,000. Please call Rob Macfarlane at (510) 864-2839 for complete spec sheet.

33.5- FT PEARSON VANGUARD. Fiberglassclassic in great shape with beautiful lines & ma¬ hogany/teak trim. Gone through completely 3 yrs ago & kept up with TLC since. Sturdy but quick. Ready to cruise the Bay & beyond. Berthed in San Francisco. Asking $20,000. (415) 771-7312.

WESTSAIL 32. Ready for cruising/liveaboard.

Factory built, recently refurbished. Beautiful inte¬ rior, electric head, shower, pressure water, much more! $58,900. Call (510) 787-4700. Details, pho¬ tos, Westsail history: www.moonbase.com/ccc/ wings/

WESTSAIL 32. Major refit in '97. New: Yanmar

4JH2E, water & fuel tanks, charger, panels, wir¬ ing, h/c pressure, AP, vane, dodger, varnished interior & more. $48,500. (916) 966-7007. PEARSON 323, 1979. Roller furling genoa, selftailing winches, dodger, rail covers, autopilot, Loran, windspeed, windpoint, DS, KM, VHF, h/c pressure water, shower, LPU paint, Volvo diesel engine, etc. Well maintained cruiser. $39,750. (650) 593-0170.

WESTSAIL 32,1974. Factory finished, well main¬

factory, not a kit. New Yanmar diesel, full keel, roller furling. Tastefully decorated & meticulously maintained. San Diego. $35,000. (619) 298-3278.

tained & loved. Volvo 35 hp, VHF, depthsounder, rigged for singlehandling, all lines lead aft to cockpit. Good sails, great liveaboard. Diesel cabin heater. $44,000. Call Naf, (415) 636-9324 or email: nfurman@jps.net

35-FT DOUBLE ENDED CUTTER, ferro cement

CAMPER-NICHOLSON 32, 1974. Serious

ERICSON 35. Passagemaker, ready to sail to

hull. Jay R. Benford design. Includes plans, bal¬ last, bulkheads & steel cradle. Presently located in Oakland, CA. Must sell. $1,500 obo. Call Frank eves at (510) 758-2431, Iv message.

bluewater cruiser. Hydrovane, dodger, rebuiltdiesel, windlass, radar, GPS, VHF, DS, log, 7 sails, legal head & cabin heat. Excellent condition. $39,500. (503) 738-0410.

BOAT IN PARADISE. Own a 35-ft Beneteau

HUNTER LEGEND 35.5,1992. Immaculate, bet-

Hawaii, cutter rig, diesel, custom interior, gallows, spinnaker, windlass, CQR, Aries windvane, wheel pilot, solar panels, propane shipmate & heater. Pressure water, Wohlerhotwater, refrig, dodgers, tropical awning, more. Original owner. $33,000. (707) 374-6364.

Oceanis 352..Is 4 yrs old & in great-condition. Coming out of Moorings fleet, BVI. Put it in a charter operation & let it pay for itself, while you get to use it in the Caribbean with terrific tax advan¬ tages. This boat is completely equipped. 30 hp Perkins diesel recently overhauled & low hrs. Refrig, stereo/CD/tape, Autohelm instruments, full galley & all accessories, VHF, anchors (Bmce^& CQR), chain rodes, Lofrans windlass. Call for further info. (702) 825*3914.

terthan new. Save $50,000+ over new boat same size. Exterior/interior spotless. Hull & topsides waxed twice a year. One owner. Too many cus¬ tom features to list all: dodger, built-in GPS, Autohelm AP, extra sails, custom backstay, downhaul. Motivated, owner bought new, larger boat. $75,000. (510) 945-7910.

33-FT YORKTOWN, 1980. Custom built by the

easy to sail. Owner motivated. $28,500 obo. Call (415) 421-8657 Iv msg, (415) 675-5731.

CATALINA 34. Bristol, comfortable, fast boat, lots

TARTAN 33,1980. Scheel keel 4'5” draft, Univer¬

BRISTOL 35.5, 1981. Bluewater performance cruiser by Ted Hood. Affordable quality. Recent refit, ready to voyage safely to distant horizons. Diesel, 2 AP's, Ham/SSB, liferaft, dinghy, solar, dodger, 110 gal water, good sail inventory, 3 anchors, windlass. $55,000. (530) 268-6467 or trueblue@jps.net

33-FT GLEN, L, LORD NELSON, built 1990.

MD2 Volvo diesel, 3 burner Shipmate stove, 3 winches, sails, 10 ft dinghy with Seagull outboard. Needs TLC, illness reason for quick sale. $7,000, open to offer. (510) 276-7830.

32.5- FT OF FIBERGLASS BEAUTY & SPEED.

1963 5.5 meter racing sloop rebuilt & refinished ‘96-'97. New LPU paint &structure rebuild. Vessel is in top condition. Active racing class in East Bay. Ready to go now. $9,800. (510) 653-1724.

33- FT RHODES SWIFTSURE FIBERGLASS

sloop, built 1960.10 ft beam, keel/centerboard, draft 3.5 up, 6.5 down. Atomic 4, windvane, wheel steering, elegant lines. $25,000 obo. Please call (916)488-3032.

ERICSON 35,1975. Diesel, wheel, pressure wa¬ ter, refrig, swim ladder, main, 90%, 110%, 150% & spinnaker, radio, instruments, stereo w/cabin & cockpit speakers. Refurbished. Excellent condi¬ tion. Corinthian Yacht Club, B-3. $26,000. Con¬ tact Joe, (415) 824-0466 or (415) 456-6909.

ERICSON 35,1976. Newly rebuilt Atomic 4, re¬ cent haul, pressure hot water, tiller steering, ma¬ hogany interior, teak exterior, SS Barients. Great boat, good liveaboard, Priced to sell. $22,500. Jeff, (510) 420-8836.

CT 35 KETCH, SELL OR TRADE. Asking $37,500

forthis 1973 PH with radar, Loran, DS, AP, dodger, davits & refrig, or trade even for center cockpit sailboat, trawler, diesel houseboat. Please call Kitty at (408) 446-9363 or (510) 522-5461.

ERICSON 32,1971. Set up for racing or cruising. 33-FT STEEL CUTTER. New sails, 10 hp diesel

w/low miles, needs work. Located at Harris Yacht Harbor, Bay Point, CA. $10,000 obo. Please call (209) 323-0655.

7 sails including fully battened main & 2 spinna¬ kers, wheel steering, low hr diesel, spray dodger & autopilot. No blisters. Located Ventura. $18,500 obo. (805) 644-0949 or (805) 642-6583.

MAIL...and MUCH MORE A

sal FWC 24hp diesel, new main, like new spinna¬ ker & gear, 155%, 110% & storm, h/c pressure water, 8 new opening ports. Great boat. $39,000. Long Beach. (562)596-8499.

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MARINE ENGINE CO. Complete Engine Services • Gas & Diesel 30 Years Experience • Reasonable Rates Tune-Ups • Oil Changes • Engine Rebuilding, etc. (415) 332-0455

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CLEANEST, NEWEST 1963/98 ALBERG 35 on

CATALINA 38,1983. Health forces a great sav¬

planet! Extensive refurbishment. Redone/new: Yanmar diesel w/100 hrs, shaft, cutlass bearing, prop, stuffing box. Refabbed 50 gal fuel tank. All oversized standing rigging, turnbuckles, chain plates. Mast pulled, stripped, treated, white LPU, refabbed masthead/spreaders, spreader lights, all mast electrical wires. Jib track bolts, oversized 2 speed Barient winches. Tiller, refabbed rudder shoe. Fresh paint, cabin LPU Hatteras off-white, white nonskid, topsides rolled/brushed Hatteras off-white. Tinted Lexan ports. SS through bolted handrails. Refabbed companionway tracks, hatch slide & teak. Fresh Cetol finish on all exterior teak. All through hulls/valves. Toilet. All interior cush¬ ions, pillows, curtains, formica. Horizon VHF, ste¬ reo. Sails: main, 2 spinnakers, 2 working jibs, genoa. $34,000. Walter, (650) 286-9963 or skylonda@aol.com or www.latitudemedia.com/ alberg

ings sale. Boat is in great shape, a cruising vet¬ eran with all the best gear. Over $25,000 in new equipment & improvements in the last 2 yrs. Boat sale will include a slip in Monterey, CA. Boat is in fresh water at Pedro Miguel, Panama. Call or fax for list of equipment & improvements. $40,000 obo with slip. Phone: (Oil) 507-232-4509 or fax: (011)507-272-8105.

35-FT CHALLENGER KETCH, 1974, Perkins

107 w/450 hrs. Pro-furl jibs 85%, 135%, full batten main, cruising chute, all nearly new. Lewmar selftailing winches, new epoxy bottom, bronze seacocks, VHF, AP, stereo, cabin/cockpit speak¬ ers, heavy Plexiglas windows, security system, new wiring. Extra heavy duty rigging. Extensive interior & exterior woodwork renovation, teak & mahogany. A beefed up, solid, safe, secure bluewater cruiser. In many ways better than new. $36,000 firm. Larry, (415) 864-1194. CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 35, 1979. Perry de¬

sign, recent refit, Pro-furl, electric windlass, Awlgrip spars, new ST winches, radar, GPS, AP, windvane, solar panels, new canvas & cushions, many ex¬ tras. $51,700. Principals only. Please call Rick, (510) 522-2886 wrk.

CATALINA 36,1994. 2 reefs, spinnaker, 150%,

115%, inverter, GPS interlaced with Autohelm. Batt 400 amps 50 amps charger, walk thru tran¬ som, better than new! Just back from Mexico. Too many goodies to list. $98,000. Please call for list. (702) 588-8957 or fax (702) 588-0149. BENETEAU FIRST 38S5,1992. Immaculate con¬

dition & meticulously maintained. Sleek&fastwith 7 ft keel, 43 hp diesel, rod rigging, boomvang, dodger, radar, VHF, GPS. Roomy cherry interior with AM/FM/CD stereo. New bottom paint. $119,800 obo. (510)652-3222. CHEOY LEE 38, 1985. Contemporary Pedrick

design, race/cruise equipped, sloop rig, great inventory. Roomy 2 stateroom layout, fine teak cabinetry. Excellent condition throughout. Fast, comfortable & no sales tax! Call for details. Lo¬ cated in San Diego. $81,500 obo. Please call Lee at (800) 961-7894. PEARSON 38.5,1984. C.C., 2staterooms, dodger, full cockpit cover, Perkins 4-108, roller furling main & jib, heat, radar, GPS, WSD, DS, 285 ft chain, 2 anchors, inverter, diesel charger, Autohelm. Dry stored San Carlos, Mexico. $75,000. Call Tucson, (520) 320-0194.

Big winches, 2 genoas, 2 spinnakers, electric windlass, mahogany Steak interior S more. Priced for quick sale. Prime Sausalito berth. $28,000, obo. Michel, (415) 332-7447, for pictures: http.www.greendolphin.com/boats.html 32-FT IRWIN SLOOP, 1972. Club footed jib, extra

sails, Atomic 4. Needs some clean-up, minor work. Call to see at Oyster Point Marina in South San Francisco. Priced for quick sale at $12,500. (415) 256-1921.

36 TO 39 FEET 36-FT CUTTER RIGGED, FIN KEEL, balsa core,

FG. In Oakland. Fully equipped world cruising, 24 persons. Due to heart S glaucoma, bargain: $45,000. Consider all offers/trades. Serious seller. (408) 476-8537. CATALINA 36,1992. Like new, must see. Nicely

equipped, GPS, dodger, VHF, Adler-Barbour. $79,500. Please call days (916) 369-0500 or (916) 351-0413 after 6pm or (510) 849-9977 wkends.

KETTENBERG 38. Mahogany on oak. Sound hull, 1955 classic sloop. Two for sale: K-38 #14 & K-38 #30. $8,500 obo. Call (415) 512-1771 wkor (415) 331-6930 hm.

LOOKING FOR LIVEABOARD? Roomy 39 ft

Pearson center cockpit sloop with bluewater po¬ tential. 53hp Westerbeke diesel. RecentdodgerS full cockpit enclosure. Radar, new instruments, electric windlass, gallows, AP. New exhaust, mounts, most accessories rebuilt. Interior remodel almost complete. Vacuflush heads, shower, pro¬ pane stove & heaters, 2 holding plates, new water heater. All furling rig easy to singlehand. Ideally set-up for comfortably living aboard. Bring your toothbrush & move on! Listing with broker 7/1/98. Act now. $44,900. (650) 869-5095.

36-FT KETCH, 40-FT LOA. Excellent liveaboard.

Steel hull, 50hp Perkins diesel, head, shower, hardwood floors, propane, TV, etc. Excellent shape & very spacious. $20,000 obo. Email me & I 'll send digital pictures & boat description. roberts@nuc.berkeley.edu or (510) 658-3976.

37-FT CUTTER RIGGED SAILBOAT, built by

38-FT ERICSON, 1982. Awesome equipped cruis¬

ISLANDER 36,1980. 50 hp Pathfinder, rebuilt

ing boat. All new Cetrek wind, speed, depth, AP. New windlass, remote w/300 ft hi-test 5/16 chain. Sun awning for cockpit, whole boat. 5 batteries total 650 amps. 6 solar panels, Fourwinds wind generator, Balmar high output alternator w/rebuild kit, Heart 2-5 kw charger/inverter w/Link 2000R w/back-up cruising equip regulator. Moni¬ tor windvane w/rebuild kit. 10 ft dink w/9 hp motor. 4 person offshore liferaft. 3 main sails w/jiffy reef/ lazy jacks, 2 jibs, 1 drifter & storm tri-sail. ICOM SSB w/backstay antenna/tuner, VHF, GPS w/ external antenna. 3 burner propane stove w/oven. Propane BBQ, Adler-Barbour refer. Watermaker. $95,000/offer. Write/call for info: Walt Lindsay, Calf Yacht Marina, Berth 202 #131, Wilmington, CA 90744. (310) 816 2959 or email: proteus1@pacbell.net.

1997. Immaculate teak interior fully refinished ‘97. New furler ‘98, new lifelines ‘97. Rerig, inverter, Autohelm, VHF, DS, KM, wind, h/c pressure wa¬ ter, 130%, 110%, gennaker. Beautiful, roomy, fast and seaworthy. $49,900 or b/o. (415) 661 -4852.

Excel shipyard 1976. Ultimate liveaboard/cruiser, aft cabin, large salon, fully equipped, great sailing. Asking $36,000. Please call owner direct now. (415)902-0186.

37-FT PHILIP RHODES SLOOP. Documented

vessel. Good sail inventory, Yanmar diesel, pro¬ pane stove, CG approved holding tank, wheel steering. Winner Master Mariners Race. Cedar on oak. $19,000. Sausalito berth. (707) 645-8099. COLUMBIA 36,1968. Crealock design, seawor¬

thy, well equipped boat not being used enough. Many extras. SFsIip. $40,000 or possible partner¬ ship or charter. Also, baby sister Columbia 28 with SF slip. Bargain, $7,500. Peter, (415) 563-4421.

BENETEAU M-38,1991.2 staterooms, 2 heads, 36-FT UNION POLARIS. Fiberglass double-

ERICSON 35. Excellent boat, strong, tall rigging.

FREEDOM 38,1992. Like new, new UK sails, new spinnaker, Antal system for main, Autohelm in¬ struments (AP, nav center, wind, speed, VMG, depth, compass, GPS), Maxi Prop, strobe, new bottom. $125,000. Courtesy to brokers. Please call (209) 374-3355.

ender, completely outfitted for cruising, 5’6” draft, Isuzu diesel, liferaft, 8hp Nissan, & dinghy, 406 EPIRB, 3 solar, AP, Aries, GPS, plotter, radar,, 6 gph watermaker, 12 volt frig, dodger, full Sunbrella canvas, cockpit cushions. Electric windlass, h & c water, propane waterheater & stove/oven, beau¬ tiful teak interior, enclosed aft cabin. She is in excellent condition & is currently in Brisbane, Australia. $79,000 or trade for? Please contact (909) 337-5164 or fax (909) 337-6975 for inven¬ tory list or video.

all new Autohelm electronics, Autohelm 4000 pilot, rod rigging, electric windlass, refrig, bimini, dodger, cockpit enclosure. Total refit Fall ‘97. Located Bay Area. Excellent shape. $96,000. Please contact (707) 751-0593. For photos: vcowles@hotmail.com PAT COTTON CUTTER. Ferro cement. 37 LOD, 44 LOA. Tanbark sails, Simla electric windlass, Perkins 4-107,350 ft 5/16 high test chain, 45 & 60 lb CQR type anchors. Lying La Paz, Baja, Mexico. $15,000. Call Mick at (650) 631-7742 or email: 3fritzs@sprynet.com

LAPWORTH 36. Excellent condition, perfect Bay

■ boat, ready to sail or liveaboard. Documented, new Perkins diesel, new cabin cushions, new cockpit cushions, full boat cover, Loran, VHF, depthmeter, autopilot, club footed jib, microwave. $18,500.(707) 584-0311 eves.

38-FT INGRID, BLUEWATER BOATS hull &

deck, ballast in, tanksin, interior partly roughed in, have chain plates, spruce mast & wood for other spars. Yanmar diesel also avail. (415) 868-2401. MORGAN 36T, 1975. Racer/cruiSer. Westerbeke

ISLANDER 36, 1978. Excellent condition, well

maintained sloop cruiser/racer. 150%, 130%, 90% sails, Harken roller furling, spinnaker sail/pole & strut. Dodger, sun awning, wind speed/pointer, knotmeter, depth, running rigging, VHF, Loran, AP & many more accessories. Selling for family reasons. $43,000. Call (408) 521-3081 & leave clear msg. See at http://members.home.net/ baldridge/boat for further info.

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DIESEL MARINE ENGINES New - Complete - FWC BHP Range 10 to 125 Reasonable Rates - 35 Years Experience (415) 332-0455

BOAT REPAIR Renew your brightwork & decks. Build-in seats, bunks & cabinets. Expenenced woodworker will restore your boat to like-new condition or remodel it to suit your cruising lifestyle.

4-107 diesel with new exhaust system, fuel tank, boom, batteries & holding tank. Currently berthed near St. Francis YC. Well balanced, lots of extras. $40,000. (415) 274-0513.

40 TO 50 FEET CHEOY LEE 40,1969. Rhodes design, bluewater

cruiser, radar, Plastimo raft, GPS, dinghy, out¬ board, windlass, heavy ground tackle, autopilot, watermaker, windvane. Insulated backstay, heater, Hooka, roller furling, USCG documented, liveaboard. $59,000. Contact Phil, (602)821-0896 or email: michaeldesper@msn.com 43-FT HANS CHRISTIAN CUTTER, 1988-Telstar,

lead keel, Espar, Alpha pilot, Force 10 with broiler, Yanmar turbo, full cover, dodger, Adler Barbour, tri-cabin. $175,000. (360) 379-4818 or email: avsupply@olypen.com 40-FT BLUEWATER CRUISER, CHEOY LEE,

1970. Yawl rig, 8 sails, new thru hull fittings & valves, tri-cab ladder to galley on port side, 49 hp Perkins, teak wood deck, OK. $53,000. Please call (707) 826-7448 or (317) 329-9719. OLSON 40, SPELLBOUND. Extensive sail in¬

ventory, safety gear, rod rigging, hydraulic vang, backstay & babystay, SSB, autopilot, GPS, major league stereo. Sausalito berth. Asking $90,000. (415) 252-5555 dys or (415) 388-6686 eves & wkends.

ADVANCED UPHOLSTERY & CARPET CLEANING FOR SAILBOATS, YACHTS OR MOTOR CRAFT. Specializing in stain removal, mildew odor removal, fabric protection For free quote call: (415) 467-5204

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1984 NORSEMAN CENTER COCKPIT. Exten¬ sive refit 1997-98. $220,000. For details & video call (714) 740-7730 dys or (714) 273-1529. Bro¬ kers protected. 1982 MULL 45, located in South East Asia ready to go. For sale or will trade for racer/cruiser/one design on West Coast USA. Moving to SF, no time to sail it. Email: kjm@pc.jaring.my or phone/fax: (60) 3-248-2036. PASSPORT 42,1981. A great world cruiser. One owner. Meticulously maintained since launching. Impressive inventory of modern electronic equip¬ ment including GPS, Loran, radar, autopilot, VHF, SSB/Ham, depthsounder, windspeed/direction, inverter, etc. $168,500. On the web at Http:// www.klatu.com/yacht. (250) 656-5832. 42- FT COLVIN GAZELLE, BUILT 1994 by certi¬

fied welder. Steel, full keel, schooner junk rig, 20 hp diesel, 4 ft draft. A popular & well liked cruising boat. $45,000. Jerry, (415) 331-8356. CAL 2-46 SLOOP. Full keel, 5 ft draft, 380 gal fuel,

170 gal water, range 1,800 miles. Perkins 4-236 diesel, 2 staterooms, 7 ft bunks, 6 ft headroom, stand up engineroom, roller furling main & jib. All elec galley, microwave, 13 cu ft refer/freezer, full electronics, elec windlass. 1997 survey at $350,000 replacement, $135,000 market value, $130,000 sale price. (907) 747-3366, Sitka, Alaska.

KINGS LEGEND 41, 1985. Flush deck, pilot¬ house cutter. 44hp Yanmar, 110 gal water, 120 gal diesel. Fwd & aft cabins w/head & shower each, h/c pressure water. Edson davits, Vetus elect windlass, Heart inverter, Autohelm 4000, Furuno 16 mile radar, Horizon VHF, Sony AM/FM cassette, 3 burner stove & oven, cold plate refer, cable steering outside, hydraulic inside & emer¬ gency tiller. Standard brand wind, KM, depth instruments, 9 ft inflatable dinghy. $107,500. Lo¬ cated Marina Village, Alameda. (602) 610-8706 or email: kokomo@Sprintmail.com 41-FT MORGAN CLASSIC, 1989. Liveaboard.

33,000 BTU central heat, Sat TV, VCR, Bos el Denon/Sony stereo, HAM, SSB, email, dual VHFs, GPS, Loran, Autohelm ST-50s, ST-7000 AP, dodger, furling jib/main, Yanmar w/200 hrs, 215 miles on log. $134,900. (805) 642-0808. See her at http://www.anacapa.net/~mtryon/

45-FT LOD (51-FT LOA) ATKINS INGRID, big

interior, king size berth aft, party size cockpit. Has office so you can even telecommute from home aboard. Biggestboatforthebuck! $55,000. Please call (510) 522-7471 or (510) 429-6873.

GARY MULLNEWZEALAND45 SLOOP. Beau¬ tiful interior with captains aft cabin, new sails (main & jib), rod rigging, teak decks, strong New Zealand construction under legendary Bay Area designer Gary Mull. Hawaii vet, bulb keel, perfor¬ mance sailing with great comfort. Call for informa¬ tion & brochure. Awesome shape. Owner moving back ashore. Built 1981. $129,000 obo. Please call (415) 331-0715.

CT 41 KETCH. Fiberglass hull. Teak house &

43 STEEL, PRIZE WINNING, boat of the month,

interior, Perkins diesel, radar, inverter, solar, AP, windvane, fireplace. Beautiful, strong world cruiser at a very low price. $59,000. Now lying SF Bay Area. Fax address to D.W., Content, do Kinkos for list of extras. (510) 644-9704.

National Fisherman. Pilothouse hard chine ketch.

CORONADO 41. Great liveaboard & sailer. Warm

IRVING JOHNSON’S LAST YANKEE. 65 ft LOA. Sparkman & Stephens design, Dutch built, Corten steel. New rigging, wiring, teak decks. Extensive update. Circumnavigation ready. Best offer, trade. Information package, $10. Include your phone. Jim Friedlander, 3389 Sheridan #471, Hollywood, FL 33021.

sisterto Aljuhala 38. Finish interior & rig on this full keeled cruiser& head south. Respected designer & classic lines. Strongly built of ferro-epoxy. Rig as cutter or ketch, however you like it. Has all bulkheads (including watertight between engine compartment & living quarters), galley, Force 10 stove, ice box, Raritan head, two 50 gal fuel tanks, v-berth, aft cabin. Has, but not installed, rebuilt Perkins 4-107 zero hrs, Borg-Warner transmis¬ sion. Needs electrical, plumbing, lighting, etc. A reasonable investment in time & money gives you a fast, roomy cruising boat that can take you anywhere & last a lifetime. In water in San Diego. Will consider financing. Worth SI 4,000. Call Stephen at (619) 222-6329.

60-FT HUNTER’S CHILD. Singlehand offshore

racer. Finished 2nd in last BOC Challenge. Exc condition & stored at St. Augustine, FI. $325,000. Ph: (904) 462-3077, fx: (904) 462-4077, email: huntermarine@worldnet.att.net. TAYANA 52, 1997. Aft cockpit world cruiser.

Exquisitely crafted, custom, 3 cabin layout, solid teak interior, loaded with most factory options, rigged for single-handling. Will consider smaller, 40-42 ft quality cruising boat in trade. $385,000. (360) 452-9940 or fax (360) 457-5952. Email: tbeard@olympus.net 53-FT GARDEN KETCH, 1961. Cedar plank, new paint, nice condition. Roomy 6’5" headroom. 2-1/ 2 staterooms, 2 heads, 400 gal fuel, 400 gal water, freezer/refrig, Detroit diesel, GPS, depthfinder, AP, stove, microwave. Must sell. $79,500. Call (310) 732-1615.

Designer Charles Wittholz. Documented fishing boat, liveaboard. Sails well on all headings. Range 1,800 miles^Still fitting out. Still improving. Cur¬ rently asking $80,000. (916) 974-1886.

island queen, forward cabin v-berth, 2 heads & showers. 44 hp Yanmardiesel 4 cylinder less than 400 hrs. Runs great! Main, 150% & 110%, very good condition. New batteries. Many extras. $63,000 obo. (415) 602-3406.

FORMOSA 51 KETCH, 1981. Black fiberglass hull, teak decks & trim, Sitka spruce spars (’91), stainless steel crow's nest. Roller furling main (boomless) & staysail. Benmar autopilot, 80hp Ford Lehman diesel (rebuilt Jan ’98), Dickinson diesel heater, 4 burner propane stove w/oven. Paloma propane water heater, cold plate freezer/ refrig, 160 gal fuel, 220 gal water, 3 staterooms, 2 heads. Set up to singlehand. Great liveaboard, great cruiser, great character. $139,000. Contact (650) 326-1430 or email: captted@pacbell.net

40-FT CHALLENGEFLSLOOP, 1974. Full keel, in

excellent condition & presently located in La Paz, Mexico. Fully equipped for cruising Mexico & beyond. We fulfilled our dream, nowyou can fulfill yours. Price negotiable, $65,000. Faxes to Alegria at (Oil) 52-112-5-59-00, for equipment list & further info. 45-FT LOA NZ CUTTER. Good condition. Triple

planked Kauri. New rigging, rebuilt 4-107 Perkins. In Hawaii. $20,000. Write: Derrick Chesterten, 348 Puuhale Rd #277, Honolulu, HI, 96819.

CUSTOM CASCADE 44, 1991. Excellent bluewater cruising boat. Professionally built using top of the line equipment. Mexico vet. Provision & sail away. Must see to appreciate. Quality & value. $129,000. (503) 640-9053. PASSPORT 42, 1981. Outstanding liveaboard, rugged world cruiser. Lovingly maintained. Cruise equipped. Much new gear. Zero hrs on rebuilt engine. This boat is loaded. $159,500. For exten¬ sive inventory contact (604) 488-1096 or Net: http://www.sentimentalflowers.com/passport

45-FT EXPLORER CUTTER KETCH. New Navico

55-FT VALEO. Genoa ketch motorsailer. Over

autopilot, new Loran C, excellent bluewater cruis¬ ing boat. Almost ready, needs you. Information flyer available. Asking $90,000. Contact owner, (925) 229-4608 or pager (510) 677-6701.

44-FT BOMBAY EXPLORER, 1978. Well

CAL 2-46 SLOOP. Perfect Mexico cruiser. New

equipped. Perkins 4-108 diesel, h/c pressure water, radar, VHF, DS, roller furling jib, cruising spinna¬ ker, new head, holding tanks. Shoal draft, fiber¬ glass, aft cockpit. Very good condition. $65,000. See at Berkeley Marina, K-113, Southern Star. (510)644-1217.

last 6 months: Vacuflush, Skycell, davits, Avon RIB with 15 hp, AP, Harken RF jib & main, beau¬ tiful hard dodger, bimini, inverter. Like new Perkins. Fun, comfortable & roomy. $125,000. Call Mark, (619)541-2028.

$100,000 in upgrades, from dinghy on davits to washer/dryer. Perfect for local, long range or liveaboard. 200 hpturbocharged Volvo. 9 knots at approximately 2 gal per hr. 800 gal fuel. 12-1/2 & 6 kw generators. Roller furled geno^ & main. Single-handable. Remote controlled centerboard, stainless rigging, air-conditioned, gourmet galley, ice maker, wet bar, 3 showers, bath tub, full electronics. Located Marin County. Reduced to $199,000. (415) 453-6127.

47-FT FLUSH DECK CENTER COCKPIT perfor¬

51 FEET & OVER

43- FT BENETEAU, 1988. Clean, open, light &

airy, loaded & pampered performance cruiser. 3 cabin layout, lots of goodies. Asking $114,000, may fake trade. (800) 820-2375. CATALINA42,1991.3cabin model, over$25,000 spent upgrading in ‘96-97, including a Profurl electric furling system for the genoa, Autoprop, new sails & Alpha 3000 autopilot. Located Chan¬ nel Island Harbor, Oxnard. $119,000. Call for detailed report. (805) 985-4650. CT 41 KETCH, 1974. Bluewater sailer. Super deluxe interior. Forced air heat throughout, h/c water to shower & galley, refrig & freezer, all electronics including R20 radar. Chrysler 60hp diesel, 400 hrs since new. teak decks. Full race ready. $68,500. (805) 235-5442.

40-FT HUNTER, 1986, SLOOP. Owners cabin aft

mance cruising cutter, 1971. Charierable US built mahogany hull. Decks & cabins of marine ply¬ wood covered with fiberglass, epoxy & LPU for very low maintenance. Varnished teak trim. No nonsense design & construction. Total refit '93'94 with best of everything. Beautiful bright interior by master cabinetmaker with raised dinette & large galley. This is a very well built, very strong, true seagoing beauty in perfect condition. A real standout in any anchorage. $135,000. Please call (760) 741-6285.

HARDIN FIBERGLASS KETCH, 51 LOD, 60

LOA, Roomy liveaboard, world cruiser. 2 stations, all furling, double salon plus 3 staterooms. Heavy glass hull & decks. Watermaker, generator, SSB, radar, coldplates, inverter, etc. Many extras & spares. Some trades (property or boat) or financ¬ ing considered. Asking $122,000. Motivated. Please call (415) 331-5251.

ENCANTO, 60-FT STEEL SLOOP, built in ‘92 by Serge Testa. Strong, stable, comfortable, well equipped & proven circumnavigator. 12 bunks in 4 cabins. 2 heads with showers, 360 gal water, 160 gal fuel. lOOhp Nissan diesel. Stern cockpit with dive platform, 12 ft dinghy, liferaft, radar, GPS, weather fax, SSB, wind self steering, etc. $165,000. Consider trade of small boat or real estate. (510) 883-1337.

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CLASSICS 40-FT ALDEN YAWL. This stylish beauty was

built in 1956 to high standards: mahogany, oak, bronze, lead, 1-1/8 teakdecks. Extensively re¬ stored & upgraded in ‘95r%. Lived aboard, cruised Caribbean & West Coast last 5 yrs. Not a project! $49,000. (619) 793-3565.

28-FT CRUISING TRIMARAN. Sloop. Well built &

37-FT SEARUNNER, well built, launched 1983.

25-FT BERTRAM, 1965. Bahia/Mar twin out¬

maintained. Great performer. Inboard w/Saildrive & SS folding prop. Spacious cabin w/twin double bunks plus settee, heater/fireplace. Autopilot, VHF, Loran, knotmeter, depth. Documented. Main & 3 jibs. This seaworthy centerboard cruiseravailable w/limited Santa Cruz slip (6 months). $7,900. Contact Steve Reed at (408) 457-2734 Iv msg or email: steve_reedtmonterey.edu. See vessel at slip Q-24 Santa Cruz Harbor or on the internet at http://orca.monterey.edu/trimaran.

Oversized rigging in perfect condition. All Barients. Sparcraft tapered mast. Complete sails, including spinnaker. Rebuilt Atomic 4, propane stove, Fatty Knees, interior just repainted. Nice boat, needs cosmetics. $29,000. Donald, (650) 359-5742 or dichroic@aol.com

boards. Great condition, must see. $16,000. Call (510) 382-6961.

STEAL MY DREAM. My beautiful 42 ft wooden 33-FT PIVER TRI, in excellent condition. Rebuilt

English pilot ketch has received major renovation & is nearly ready for a world cruise. My loss is your gain. $19,500 obo. Located S.F. Bay. Call Dave, (925) 370-8446 for info & pictures.

in ‘96. Sitting in Conception Bay, Baja. Fully equipped, many extras. Was $29,000, now $19,500. For information please contact: T. Millard, Listas de Correos, Mulege, BCS, Mexico or fax: (011)52-115-30190.

HERRESHOFF H-28 KETCH, 1949. Rebuilt ‘97-

'98, fir bn oak, new paint in & out, New Honduran mahogany interior, new electronics, propane stove, very good sails, Yanmar diesel, clean! $20,000. (805) 965-1675.

F-27 TRIMARAN, HULL #104. New nets & stand¬

ing rigging, head, solar panel, autopilot, double water tanks, epoxied hull, trailer, many extras. Set-up for cruising, well maintained, documented. Please call Randy at (408) 353-2242 or <randall@alink.net> for details.

26-FT CLASSIC FOLKBOAT, 1957. A real

beauty! Renovated hull '97, new running rig & hardware. 2 sets of sails, 8hp Honda o/b. Asking $5,000 obo. Call (415) 507-8466.

44-FT ST. FRANCIS CATAMARAN, production

performance cruiser from South Africa. Sexy, beautiful, spacious. Thoroughly & absolutely equipped & outfitted for world cruising. Launched Nov. '96. Compulsively maintained. Like new! Sitting Ventura, CA. $450,000. Please call for complete spec/extras list. (805) 644-4407.

43-FT STEPHENS, 1929. Top condition, '96 out

of water survey, restored antique interior, stain¬ less galley, propane oven, 110 refrig, shower, aft stateroom. Espbr heating, fireplace, twin Chrysler Crown engines, much more. Classy mobile liveaboard, rare find. $79,000. (415) 331-6137.

CROSS 42 MKII TRIMARAN extended 45.5. New:

LPU, West water barrier, bottom paint, VHF, refer, Lexan windows, Lewmarports, trampolines, depth & speed, cushions w/ltalian upholstery, etc. Ra¬ dar, inverter, full batten sails, roller furling, AP, windlass, Perkins 48hp w/low hrs. $107,000/neg. Call for more info. (707) 226-6842. 45-FT APACHE CATAMARAN, 1976/97. Haha

& Mexico vet, 20 ft beam, 3'676'9” draft, docu¬ mented, 3 staterooms, 2 heads w/showers, new systems added in ‘97 or '98 include: all elec, water & propane systems, girls head, Force 10 stove/ oven & microwave, freezer, water heater, Heart inverter/charger/660 ah golf cart batteries, 4 KC60 solar panels w/controller, Autohelm 6000+ AP, Furuno radar, plotter, GPS, EPIRB 406, Caribe 10X RIB w/15 Evinrude, davits. Other features include elec/propane refrig, low hr Yanmar diesel, PUR 35 watermaker, 6 sails incl roller furling, 2 GPS, 2 VHF, 2 inflatables with o/bs, windlass, 3 anchors, sun shades, 14 opening hatches. New bottom paint 6/98, many spares. $168,000. Lo¬ cated in San Carlos, Mexico after 6/98. Call after 6/12/98. (602) 899-2993 or email: tsailcats@aol.com

New diesel, solid boat. I dock, Berkeley Marina. Please go see first, please buy this boat! $8,500 obo. Gary, (415)474-6593.

MULTIHULLS FITZMAURICE47.5TRIMARAN, 1988. Designed & built by English yacht designer Sebastian Fitzmaurice. A truly unique, proven offshore cruis¬ ing ketch, fully equipped & ready to go. A short list of the many amenities: fiberglass foam core hull, Burmese teak decks, Honduras mahogany inte¬ rior, Bomar hatches, Crosby refrig with 300 lb freezer, Lewmar winches, Nilsson electric wind¬ lass, Yanmar main engine, Yanmar generator, radar, GPS, 400 gpd watermaker, autopilot, etc. 3 double staterooms with large master aft cabin, 4 heads, 2 quarter berths. In San Diego. $155,000 US. (250)851-0972. 50-FT CROSS 46 MKIIB SUGARSCOOP KETCH.

‘93-'98 around the world, couple with 3 young children. All roller furling, new sails, 60hp Isuzu. Hydraulic: drive, inside/outside steering, winch, NMEA AP. GPS map, radar, 2 VHF, SSB, wefax, solar, wind, multi sys TV/VCR, AC, washer/diyer, sleeps 8,234 gal water, 208 gal fuel. Lots more equipment, charts, spares, etc. Fast, safe, roomy, comfortable. Great boat for family or charter! $149,000. Ft. Lauderdale, (954) 817-3879.

blister hull. Spacious entertainment & fishing cock¬ pit, twin 300hp gas (1,200 hrs), recently redeco¬ rated salon, with on deck full galley, VHF, fishfinder, 2 staterooms & head forward. Located Coyote Point. $36,000. (408) 739-1083. 30-FT MONTEREY CLIPPER, 1939. Built in SF,

Salmon permit, 271 Jimmy with hyd tranny, low hrs, full electronics, complete major in '95. Deck pumps & hydraulics. Best Monterey on West Coast, lean mean killin’ machine. $10,000 obo. (415) 674-9385. 600SQ FT, ONE BEDROOM, REDWOOD house¬

boat, Redwood City. 10 skylites, stained grass front door, apt size kitchen, built-in davenport, loveseat. Quenn bed on huge pedestal dresser, french windows. Berth fee includes utilities. $25,000 firm. (650) 568-3260. CLASSIC 36-FT CHRIS CRAFT EXPRESS, 1960.

Twin Chevy 350hp engines, low hrs. New deck, new wooden cockpit canopy. New electric head, shower, 4 burner stove w/oven, new refrig. Hull in vety good condition. Good liveaboard, Sausalito berth. Asking$15,000. Contact (510) 236-2336 or (415) 331-9024. CRUISE-A-HOME. 40-FT FIBERGLASS motor-

sel, Hood roller furling, lull batt mainsail, Autohelm windvane, solar panel, Navico AP, DS, VHF, dodger, 9 ft dinghy with sailing rig. Hauled out in San Carlos, Mexico. $25,000. Please contact Glen, (619) 659-1359 or mithril@hotmail.com

CRUISING CAT PARTNERSHIP. Seeking 1-4

partners to share 30-35 ft cat on SF Bay & Delta, berthed Sausalito. Comfy accommodations for family or 2 couples. Charter income possible. Call Russ at (415) 924-9402.

boat. V-drive, twin screws, Chrysler-Nissan die¬ sel, low hrs. Spacious liveaboard, separate bed¬ room, lots of closets, h/c water, shower/tub. Refrig, gas stove w/oven, VHF, depth, propane heater, twin nav stations. Great condition. $33,000. Call eves, (415) 460-0349.

WARRIOR 29 CATAMARAN, 1981. Tramps &

40-FT TRIMARAN Piver, 100 hrs of use since it

ROUGHWATER 35 SEDAN CRUISER, 1979.

bottom paint only 18 months old. 15hp electric start Johnson with remote control. Full batten - mainsail, 2 jibs, genoa, spinnaker. $10,000. Nacra 5.2 (17 ft), 1982 with trailer. $500. (925) 937-6516.

was built. Sails are like new. 27 hp Isuzu diesel. NACA fgil keel. Bottom painted 12/97. $24,900. Reynolds i 1 catamaran similar to Stiletto 27.20+ kts. With trailer. $7,900. Call (408) 294-8158.

37-FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN. New interior,

HOBIE16. Good tramp, lots of spare parts & roof

Sailors powerboat. Low CG. Nice Monk, Sr de¬ sign. Economical turbo 185hp Perkins, cruise 9.5 knots. Sleeps 6, refer, range, h/c water, shower, fireplace, 100 gal water, 200 gal diesel. Great Salmon, seaboat, liveaboard. $44,900. Contact (415) 331-5882 or SOLSTICE99@aol.com

LP hull & deck paint, 4 sails, 27hp Yanmar, pro¬ pane stove. Great electronics, holding tank & much more. $45,000 US or trade for trailerable trimaran. Serious inquiries only please. Please call (604) 530-1046.

rack for van. $850. (650) 363-2224, eves.

37-FT SEARUNNER TRIMARAN. Yanmar die¬

38-FT KETTENBERG CLASSIC SLOOP, 1950.

UNIFLITE 36,1971. Sport sedan flybridge, pre¬

SEAWIND, 24-FT X16-FT, Kelgecell/epoxy deck

with spruce/epoxy cabin. Sleeps 6 with head, sink, 12v refrig. Trailer, full batten main, jib & genoa. Over 20+ knots, $22,000. SF, CA. Please call (415) 460-9966. CORSAIR F27,1989. Trailer, 6 sails, Yamaha 9.9 4-stroke, VHF, AP, pop-top cover, solar panel, propane stove, Sony AM/FM/CD stereo, instru¬ ments including KVH fluxgate compass, recently refinished mast & bottom. $46,000. Contact Mike, (800) 653-3832 M-F, cell (253) 606-7617 or susanns9@idt.net

GRAND BANKS 36,1968. New diesels, paint, PROUT SNOWGOOSE 37,1978/97. Solid, fiber¬

glass production catamaran. Sleek, fast, world cruiser, gorgeous teak interior, 3 private state¬ rooms & queen size berth, many upgrades. Com¬ fortable, easily handled, cozy cockpit, Yanmar diesel, wind generator, AP, windlass, GPS, VHF, etc. $99,500. (415) 331-8858. Bagoose!

varnish & bottom. Completely serviced & ready for cruising or liveaboard. $63,000 obo. Please call (510) 522-2705. 34-FT CHB TRAWLER. Single Volvo diesel. 2

staterooms with en-suite heads. A very nice, well kept yacht for Bay & coastal cruising. Asking $54,000 & will consider trades. Call Chrissy Kaplan, (415) 567-8880.

POWER & HOUSEBOATS 33-FT LUHRS FB SPORTFISHER, 1972. 13 ft

beam, glass hull, 10 hrs on fully rebuilt FWC 318 Chryslers ($10,000, receipts). Swim platform, wind¬ lass, bow pulpit, new VHF, GPS, FF. Sleeps 4, spacious teak cabin/galley. Fish, cruise, liveaboard. $24,750. (415) 332-2962.

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ERICSON 35. South Beach Harbor, 1/3 owner¬ ship, very well equipped. $2,000 in, $225 per month. Call & I'll fax or mail boat equipment inventory & intentions. Robert, (408) 265-5133.

LET’S MAKE A DEAL. Do you own a 32 ft to 36 ft sail or powerboat? Do you want to sell your present boat so you can buy another which is newer & runs better? Well, let’s make a deal. We’ve got a very nice 34 ft CHB diesel trawler for sale & will consider a trade-in as part payment. In fact, if you've got a boat that needs work or doesn't run, that’s the type of boat we want to take in trade. Call Chrissy Kaplan at (415) 567-8880 & let's hear what’s behind door #1.

EXPERIENCED SAILOR, BUT BOATLESS.

Would like a partnership, equity or non-equity in a 30-36 ft sailboat for Bay sailing. East Bay berth preferred. Please call Don at (510) 339-8963 or wrk (510) 540-0735. COLUMBIA 36 IN CLIPPER Y.H. Must sell 1/3

partnership, $7,000. Partners rarely use, but want help with maintenance & share expenses. Rent share is $95/month. Boat sleeps 6, Albin diesel, sloop rig, well maintained, sail the Bay cheap. (415) 382-7725 eves.

WANTED

NON-EQUITY BOAT PARTNERSHIP. Experi¬

VANE GEAR (SAYE’S RIG) for 52 ft ketch. For specs contact: E. Hoft, Marina San Carlos, Apart Postal 565, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. Or fax: (011)52-622-60-565.

enced sailing partner (maleorfemale) for Contessa 35,1976. High performance IOR boat in very good shape with brand new mast, standing rigging, many sails & still fresh bottom paint. Would like to start local coastal trips & race to Hawaii in a couple of yrs. Call Michael at (650) 324-2707.

SERIOUS BUYER NEEDS AN ALUMINUM mast for 42 ft Cross trimaran. Approximately 45 ft tall, 41/2 inches by 8 inches, external track preferred. Close dimensions acceptable. Call Tom or Judy, (530) 647-8824.

RANGER 29. Alameda berth, 1/2 ownership, well equipped with spinnaker, hydraulic backstay. All lines led aft, new rigging. Strong Atomic 4 gas engine. Recent survey, beautifully maintained in¬ terior, new upholstery. $5,500. Please contact (510) 337-3251, msg. BOMBAY EXPLORER 44, 1978. Sole owner seeks 1 or2 equity partners. Berkeley berth. Great boat, Perkins diesel, roller furling, h/c water, ra¬ dar, DS, GPS, VHF, CB. Aft cockpit. 50% share $35,000. See at K-113, Southern Star.

USED GEAR

37-FT PHILIP RHODES SLOOP. Documented vessel. 50% equity partnership. Good sail inven¬ tory, Yanmar diesel, propane stove, CG approved holding tank, wheel steering. Winner Master Mari¬ ners Race. Cedar on oak. $9,500. Sausalito berth. (707) 645-8099. BENETEAU F305. Sausalito berth, loaded with equip, 4 sails, spin, new diesel, great condition. Non-equity 1/2 time use for $400/mo. We daysail, Bay cruise & club race. Please contact Greg at (415) 289-8680.

FURLEX ROLLER FURLING MAIN FOR 55-FT

or smaller mast, $4,000. Fits any mast. $10,000 new. 1987 Avon 6 man coastal liferaft, $1,200. Documentation available, guaranteed money at certification. Heads: 2 each Wilcox Crittenden, $50. (425) 228-6320.

HARKEN SMALLBOAT TRAVELER kit #139, ANCHORS: New 35 lb CQR, 20 ft 3/8” chain,

shackles, 200 ft 5/8” nylon line, $400. New 3 piece, 55 lb bronze storm anchor, 20 ft 5/8” chain, shackles, 300 ft 3/4" nylon line,'$500.2hp Johnson outboard, like new, $200. New head, $50. Please call (925) 672-9972. INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINES (2) for sale. Consew 146RBL-1A zig-zag walking foot long arm, good for sailmaking. $1,200. Consew 255, large bobbin straight stitch walking foot, good for canvas. $500. Both in excellent working condition. Call (650) 858-1544. VOLVO PENTA TAMD 30, 105HP. Less than

3,000 hrs. Removed from a Swan 61. Was run¬ ning good but needed to be rebuilt so we replaced it. Will take best offer. Can be seen at Richmond Boat Works. Please call Rick, (415) 884-2812 or (415) 789-5060.

MAST, BOOM, SPREADERS. Sitka spruce, deck stepped, box mast, 48’9", section 8 -1/4”x 6 -3/4”, track, tangs for staysail, running backs. Stainless step with bails. Boom 16 ft, 3 reefs. Spreaders 4’2”. All in good condition. $1,500. Please call (510) 235-2214. BRAND NEW LEWMAR 1000 electric windlass with control box for 3/8” chain. $1,000 obo. 75 lb CQR, $400 obo. ICOM IC-745 SSB, $400 obo. (510) 535-2134.

nator, regulator, 50 lb Luke anchor, 12 ft para¬ chute sea anchor, dinghy wheels, misc stuff. For list of prices call (510) 220-4252 or email: EMKeech@AOL

ATLAS LIL’ SKIPPER, 4 cyl gas complete power

ATOMIC 4 ENGINE. Complete, runs, out of 1972

on display at Peninsula Marine Services, $7,000. Roberts 44RC steel bare hull, 80% complete, $4,000. Gantry & 50 ft tracks, $1,000. Sacrifice all for $10,000. Please call Dan, (209) 664-0205 or (209) 525-4112.

pack. Water pump, exhaust, trans, ready to bolt in. 20 hp Mercury outboard, short shaft. Runs strong. Call Mike, (510) 769-1720.

Ericson 35, new engine elec. Tranny locked in fwd. $400 obo. (209) 667-0252.

MONITOR WINDVANE, $1,950. Bottom peeler.

DANFORTH 125 LB ANCHOR, $295. Johnson

$200. ICOM 725 w/tuner, $1,100. Heir Dual batt reg, (list $700) new $150. (510) 521-1207.

MONITOR WINDVANE with wheel adapter, 2 blades, complete cruising spares. Excellent con¬ dition. Purchased from Scanmar in '94, $2,500. Navico 5000 wheel pilot with pedestal bracket & spare drive belts, $500. Engine driven watermaker, 18 gal/hr, many spares, $3,000. (925) 327-7670.

lOhp I/s remote, $175. Mercury lOhp I/s, $450. Yamaha 8hp I/s, $650. Evinrude 35hp s/s, $200. Atomic 4 engine, $950. Volvo 10hp diesel, $1,250. Old 29 ft wooden boat, $2,500. Seagull engine parts. (510)532-1332.

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSAL SURVIVAL SUIT

in great condition. 110-330 lb size. Never used. $200. Marine 3 burner Kerosene stove/oven with tank. $95. (800) 289-2537. SAILS: NEWPORT 33,1:43, J:12.8, P:37, E:10.3. Hood 155% genoa, 5.5 oz Mylar/Dacron tri-radial, foam luff # 6 tape, excellent, $900. North storm jib, K 9 oz cross cut Dacron, hanks, $350.110%, cross cut Dacron double headsail for wing on wing downwind, #6 tape, used for singlehanded TransPac, $400. North 112 oz nylon tri-radial spin, 3/4 oz, leaches good, $500. Hood 1.5 oz nylon triradial spinnaker, excellent, $1,100. North 1.5 oz radial head shy kite, fair, $500. ATN spinnaker sock, $250. North spinnaker sock, $100. 1986 original cruising main, 3 reefs Cunningham, poor, $200. F-27 trimaran. Smythe Screacher, Mylar/ Kevlar, Harken furling, wire luff, excellent, $1,500. Smythe tri-radial Kevlar racing main, full length Ratt battens, excellent, $1,500. Call Rob Macfarlane, (510) 864-2839.

66 HP YANMAR DIESEL ENGINE, almost new,

TRAILERS TRAILER FOR FIXED KEEL BOAT up to 3,000

ATOMIC 4 ENGINES. One completely rebuilt, in

crate, ready to drop into your boat, $1,950 obo. Also have Atomic 4 to use for parts, $550, or both for $2,500. Please call Dick, (650) 859-1958 or (650) 355-6080. SOBSTAD 3/4 OZ ASYMMETRICAL CRUISING

spinnaker with ATN sock, 1:57, J: 17, 57’x48.45’x28.87’, 1,266 sq ft, $1,900. Charts & cruising guides to Mexico, Caribbean, South Pa¬ cific, $600 for all or make offer. Cruising medical kit with extensive inventory, professionally as¬ sembled, $450. Electrical lift pump for diesel en¬ gine, $80.(916) 485-2217. EDSON DAVITS. Like new, heavy duty units with bases. Previous owner of our boat paid $1,876 for these units in ’95 according to invoice. We’ll take $985 obo cash. Contact Dave at (650) 869-5095 or email dave@optimalsolutions.com 7.5 HP HONDA & 6 HP JOHNSON. Both engines

good condition. Longshaft. Includes tanks. 7.5 hp, $900. 6 hp, $350. (510) 232-7999.

lbs, 25 ft & 5 ft draft. Single axle but heavy duty construction, 15” wheels, $900 firm. Trailer can be seen in Alameda anytime. Dry storage. Repair work. Sail Lake Tahoe! (650) 364-1589.

MISCELLANEOUS ATTENTION BAJA HA-HA CLASS OF ‘96! We’ve

run across some of the official burgees given to the fleet, so if yours is looking old & faded, here’s a rare opportunity to replace it. Supply is limited, so rush a $5.00 check or money order to cover postage & handling to: Latitude 38, attn: Colleen. 15 Locust Ave, Mill Valley, CA. 94941. BALBOA 26 SWING KEEL, 15 hp gas saildrive. 3 sails, VHF, depth, tandem trailer, Alaska vet. $7,500 obo. 15 ft Chrysler sailboat, good condi¬ tion, $800.2 fiberglass dinghies, $250 each. 18 ft wood & fiberglass dory w/trailer, $350. Wilder¬ ness travel trailer, self contained, very good con¬ dition. $3,500. (209) 874-2754.

MARINE RECYCLE HAS USED BOAT STUFF!

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$220. Harken mid-range traveler kit #1536, $285. 600’ x 1/2” dia spool Yale ultralow stretch line, $650.600’ x 7/16” dia spool Yale ultralow stretch line, $500. 600’ x 1/4" dia spool Yale maxibraid spectra line, $475.11 each 5/8” chromed bronze tumbuckles, less swage stud for 5/16” or 3/8” wire, $45 each. 10 each 3/8”x 5/8” Norseman swageless studs, $50 each. All items new in box. Please call (415) 332-4205.

48’6". Main 37’ x 14’ x 39’. Jib 52' x 18’ x 42’. Staysail 41’6” x 14' x 36'. All or part. Call for price, (760) 731-2907.

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. (650) 588-4678

ICOM Ml 5 HANDHELD VHF, $275. Sony 2010 worldband radio, $275. Wet suit, farmer john, 2 pc, mens medium, $125. Cavalero spear gun (never used), $75. Magellian 3000GPS with AC adapter, $175. Black Diamond climbing harness, great bosun chair, $35. Classic brass anchor light, $50. Slicing gear, Baja cruising guides, Ocean Pas¬ sages of the World, $70. Compact 486, Contura laptop computer, $500 with PC HF fax software. Please call (510) 841-3190.

WATERMAKERS, WIND TURBINE, 75A alter¬ SAVE $$. NEW LEE SAILS, main 44 6” x 21’ x

CRUISING CAT PARTNERSHIP. Seeking 1-4

partners to share 30-35 ft cat on SF Bay & Delta, berthed Sausalito. Comfy accommodations for family or 2 couples. Charter income possible. Call Russ at (415) 924-9402.

condition, $250. Also, black canvas covers for wheel & boom, $75 for both, used 2 yrs, very good condition. Call (209) 522-1508 or (510) 523-6602.

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Masts, booms, sails, winches, cleats, blocks, anchors, chain, line, outboard motors, heat exchangers, thru-hulls, exhaust manifolds/mufflers, electronics pulpits, swim platforms, stoves, sinks, portholes, dsl heaters, much morel 60 Llbertyshlp Way #C, Sausalito, CA. 94965. Open: Tues-Sat, 11 am-6pm (415)332-3774.

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BEAUTIFULSOLIDTEAK DROP leaf table. Wine

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rack below with storage for 6 bottles. Additional storage for napkins, utensils, etc. 40" long x 33,5” wide x 28” high. Only 9” wide folded. $500. Please Call (510) 531-8400.

bership. Learn to sail & have a great time doing it before you get a boat. Alameda & Sausalito fleets. $2,100. Dave, (510) 636-3512.

active, adventurous, attractive & funny to boot! Seeks attractive, fit, intelligent sailing/outdoor SM 30-46, for friendship/more? Winters in tropics? Letter & photo: LTMS, 1034 Emerald Bay Rd #401, S.LT.CA. 96150.

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In storage 9+ yrs, 3 cyl, $1,000. 4 cyl, $1,500, Alberg 30 ft molds, hull & deck laid up, must go, make offer. (707) 747-0530.

SAILBOATS AND POWERBOATS FOR SALE.

YARD SALE! 28 ft 1966 glass sportfisher, twin V-

All makes and models. Priced to sell. Call now. (510) 464-4617.

members needed to help exercise my Hunter 30, San Francisco Bay. Experience is not necessary. Seniors are especially welcome. Please call Bob, (209) 795-7554 wkdys.

IRS TAX DEDUCTION. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

SAIL WITH ORCAS, SOAR WITH AN EAGLE.

By donating your boat in any condition, you help homeless children and their families. Get full book value. Running or not. Call now for more info. (800) 414-HAUL (4285).

NW author & avid sailor, DWF, young 54, Ph.D., green eyed, smart, attractive, enjoys dancing, skiing, outdoors, ISO 50-something, tall, single male who is a competent sailor, successful, con¬ tented & seriously ISO a devoted LTR. Pacific NW cruising summers, tropics in winter. Photo/bio to: C. MacLeod, EWSF, 684 Spring St. #174, Friday Harbor, WA. 98250-8058.

8's, flybridge, $6,000. 25 ft plywood Chris Craft cabin cruiser, single V-8, $2,500. 28 ft Pearson Triton, hull & deck, $2,500. 22 ft Tempest sloop, trailer, $350. O’Day 19 ft sloop, hull, mast, $250. . 6 cyl Chrysler Crown, tranny, $1,200. lOhp Sabb diesel, $800. Universal twin gas, $200. 270 hp Crusader V-8's, 1 ;>1 trannies, $1,600 each. 6 x 4’ dinghy mold, $400. 6’ x 4' dinghy, $300. 32 ft spruce mast, boom, rigging, $1,200.30' x 6” solid spruce mast, $250.13’ x 6" round hollow spruce boom, $250. Proctor Fireball dinghy rig, $350.225 amp welder, $125. Celestaire Mark U sextant, $500.(650) 369-0150, M-F, 8-5.

BAADS, the Bay Area Association of Disabled

Sailors, offers safe, exciting recreational opportu¬ nities on San Francisco Bay for the physically disabled sailors & able-bodied volunteers. No sailing experience necessary, adaptive equip¬ ment available. Cash & other tax deductible dona¬ tions welcomed. (415) 281-0212.

20 HP ISUZU ENGINE. New, 1 hour. $1,500.

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NORTHWEST WATERFRONT PROPERTY, 40 x 16 deep water dock, picturesque Gig Harbor, WA bay. Cozy 2+ bdrm, 2 bath, 1,650 sq ft, new decks face beautiful sunsets, best buy $299,000. Adjacent 3 bdrm 1,825 sq ft, updated kitchen, new paint, carpets, fixed pier, protected moorage, su¬ perb value $339,000. Combine two, build new on expansive western exposure site. Quality NW life in friendly community, good schools, popular Puget Sound boating destination. (360) 697-1491 or email: jsprouse@soundcom.net 2 ACRES OF WATERFRONT PEACE. Moor your boat at one of the few secure, private, deep water wharfs on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Then rest in the main house. 4 bedroom, 2112 bath & full unfinished lower level, 3 car garage. Enjoy the Eastern views of Sooke Basin & hills. The Western panorama is even more tranquil, the cove (with your private dock), the wooded hills of the regional Park & the snowcapped Olympic Mountains in the distance. Bonus: red cottage, sleeps 2 & A-frame by the large dock, sleeps 4! These 2 acres of peace are the perfect place for nautical nature lovers. Victoria BC is only 45 min away with fine dining, shopping & education, all on an international level. Price: Canadian $439,000 (exchange rate US$ approx 72%). Please contact (415) 381-4319.

SEEK FEMALE SAILING COMPANION (40-

50’s). Me: widower, educated, caring, aboveaverage looking, fit, financially secure, 54 yrs young, owner of 38 ft Ericson. Enjoy quiet dinners, fine wine, plays, music, sail on moon-lit nights. Please call (925) 422-2189 w. FROLICKING INTHE OCEAN BLUE, alert, atthe

Sausalito. Sound good? Single person only. Call for details. Available June 1st. (530) 577-6784.

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Pillar Point Harbor. Danforth anchor 300 lbs. Lease or rent $60 per month to 30 feet, $2 per ft over. Immediately available. Please call Bill Andersen, (408) 733-6300.

ready, depending on providence, skill, muscle, humor & a good boat. Constant uncertainty, in awe of the magnitude & matchless beauty of nature, how fortunate are we. I’ll crew anywhere. (415) 455-9460 or nancyjai@aol.com

SAN FRANCISCO, PIER 39. 50 ft slip for sale.

CREW WANTED- Caribbean, St Martin. Cruise

$30,000. (415) 956-7422 or (510) 769-0337.

50 ft luxury sloop, July 6 - July 16. Enjoy world’s best shopping & exotic getaways. Shareexpenses. No experience required. Please call Craig Miott, (310) 209-5007 or cmiott@Anderson.ucla.edu

Restored, roomy, reliable, economical. $13,500 obo. (415) 479-5656.

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Oceanic Crew Group invites skippers, crew & apprentices to join one of SF Bay’s most active sailing groups. Participate in service, skill-improve¬ ment sails & fun sails. For more information call (415) 979-4866. SINGLE SAILORS. Skippers, mates, crew (ad¬ vance or novice). Group sails, raft-ups. Join us at our social and meeting held at the Oakland Yacht Club in Alameda on the second Thursday every month. Social starts at 7 p.m. For details call Single Sailors Assoc. (SSA) (510) 273-9763. CHRISTIAN BOATERS WISHING TO have a

Sunday worship on the Bay, and enjoy fellowship before sailing, meet at Clipper Cove at Treasure Island on the 2nd & 3rd Sundays at 1100. We monitor channel 68 & 16. Contact (510) 521 -8191 or email: xizo@pacbell.net. CLUB NAUTIQUE UNLIMITED INDIVIDUAL

membership. Includes unlimited multilevel ASA certified training, review & checkouts. Well quali¬ fied instructors, top of the line boats, yacht club privileges, social, etc. (510) 531-8662. CLUB NAUTIQUE UNLIMITED INDIVIDUAL

membership. Includes unlimited multilevel ASA certified training, review & checkouts. Well quali¬ fied instructors, top of the line boats, well main¬ tained, yacht club privileges, etc. For sale at a $750 discount. (916) 434-2275.

Francisco. Close to Pier on E dock. $360 month + electricity. (415) 282-2914.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES MEN AND WOMEN SAILORS! Join our team of

SEEKING MALE CAPTAIN WITH seaworthy boat 50-FT SIDE TIE, EMERY COVE Yacht Harbor,

Emeryville. Excellentfor amulti-hull. $340/month. Call (510) 654-3754.

CREW SAILING PARTNER WANTED FOR Melbourne-

Osaka race. Experienced & seasoned sailor would like to sail with a single female sailor in the Melbourne -Osaka doublehanded yacht race that starts April '99. Itinerary: San Diego, Melbourne, Osaka, Florida. Depart San Diego Dec ‘98. Share food costs & boat work, NS/ND. Freshly refit 39 ft cutter. Please.contact Craig Johnson (agent), (360) 394-1856 or email: pacrim@telebyte.net or snail mail: 15146 Salt Air Dr, Poulsbo, WA 98370.

& retired executive, 58 yrs old, a widower, seeks committed relationship with accomplished & attractive 40-50 yr old woman. Independence, humor & sense of adventure are evident in your life. 2 yr cruise of Baja, Central America & Caribbean on my 51 ft M/ V to be a shared near term goal. Smoke/drink okay. Send letter/resume & photo to: “The Shores”, 129 Lakeshore court, Richmond, CA. 94804. Due to boat lay up in Ensenada & transit to Bay Area, I can’t respond until after 7/15/98.

CRUISING & LIFE PARTNER. Active

BLUEWATER DELIVERY Delta • Coastal • Global Sail or Power 20 years Experience • References • USCG Skipper

for Bay sailing, warm water cruising, love & com¬ panionship. I’m 5 ft tall, 110 lbs with blue eyes & a big happy smile. Lets have fun exploring together. Call for more info, (510) 869-4666. LIKE TO MEET FEMALE, 40’S, attractive, for sailing & companionship. Enjoy sailboat charter¬ ing & cruising, scuba diving, hiking, etc. Consider¬ ing cruising lifestyle. Divorced male, professional, attractive, 6'1”, fit, 55. Let's exchange letter & photo. Joe, PO Box 894, Saratoga, CA 95071.

PROPERTY SALE/RENT

27 professionals at OCSC, S.F. Bay. Best teach¬ ing and sailing location on the Olympic Circle; large and extremely well maintained fleet; flexible schedule, well organized syllabuses and curricu¬ lum, great shoreside facility. There are only three students per class and certification standards that make you proud to be an instructor. It’s exciting work with motivated students and a great team atmosphere with top pay and liberal boat use and privileges. If you have great communication skills, an interest in teaching and excellent sailing and seamanship sills, we would like to talk to you. We will help with Coast Guard licensing and U$ Sail¬ ing Instructor Certification. Please call Eamon at (510) 843-‘4200. CAPTAINS, FIRST OFFICERS & CREW. Ren¬

dezvous Charters is hiring ships crew & licensed masters to sail our fleet of certified vessels. Part time or full tiipe. Excellent wages/benefits. Join this rapidly growing company! Pis fax resume to (415) 543-7405 or Pam Power at (415) 543-7333. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT POSITION. Of¬

BOATERS DREAM HOME, with private deep

water dock, 10 minutes to BART on the Delta’s doorstep. 4 bdrm, 2.5 bath, large master bedroom suite with balcony, luxurious floor coverings, for¬ mal diningroom, redwood deck, 2 car garage. Just $310,000. Please call for color brochure. Homer at (925) 254-0440. HOUSE WITH DEEP WATER DOCK on Napa

River, Cameras Wine District. Lindal cedar home built in 1989. 3-1/2 bedrooms, 2 bath, jacuzzi, fireplace, beam ceilings, skylights, views, decks & lovely gardens, flood safe. For sale by owner. $339,000.(707)224-1576.

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fice assistant. Spinnaker Sailing of San Francisco is now hiring. Responsibilities include customer service, updating data base, maintenance sched¬ uling & can include crewing aboard our certified fleet. Excellent wages/benefits including boat use & lessons. Fax resume to (415) 543-7405 or call Charles Barnard at (415) 543-7333. 6-PAK CAPTAINS & SAILING INSTRUCTORS.

Spinnaker Sailing, in San Francisco, is hiring sail¬ ing instructors & captains for part time or full time work in the City aboard our fleet of 22-44 ft sail¬ ing yachts. Excellent wages & benefits. Fax re¬ sume to (415) 543-7405 or call Dave Peterman _ at (415) 543-7333.

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TIBURON WATERFRONT: BUY A GREAT LIFESTYLE Beautiful 3 bdrm, 3-1/2 bath home.Open space design with towering ceilings. Kitchen/familyroom, livinqroom/diningroom, master bdrm suite. Pool, 2 fireplaces, gardens & moJeA 60 ft deep water dock. Priced at $850,000. For info call Marcia Sullivan Coldwell Banker, (415) 388-5060 or (415) 785-1011 or email: resull@pacbell.net

NEED LICENSED CG CAPTAIN with Masters’ License (100 ton). Beqinninq May 1998 for water taxi operation on Sacramento River. Full or part-time. Call Susan at (916) 481-6300 June, 1998 •

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YACHT BROKERAGE IN SAUSAUTO needs experienced salesperson for used & new boat sales. The office is a branch of a 25 yr old broker¬ age in So. Cal. Call Gerry, (310) 823-2040.

Point Marina in San Mateo. Salary: $2,571 to $3,214/mo. Application deadline: June 12. Call Harbormaster for info at (650) 573-2594.

SAN FRANCISCO BOAT WORKS. Good work¬

SAILING INSTRUCTORS. We are looking for

ing team needs help with new season. Accepting full time employee applications for rigger, sys¬ tems/plumber, welder/fabricator, spray painter, gel coat X glass repair, bottom painter, assist travel X fork lift operator. Year round employment, good wages X benefits. Fax: (415) 626-9172 or phone: (415) 626-3275. SAILING INSTRUCTORS. Have fun teaching

adults in small keelboats on the Alameda Estuary. Salary $10-$14/hr, DOE & includes boat use privileges. Fax resume: (510) 769-0221 or mail to EYC, 1251 Pacific Marina, Alameda, CA 94501 or call (510) 769-0221 for more info. FABRIC CUTTER/PATTERN MAKER for indus¬

trial sewing shop in Palo Alto. Meticulous person with professional attitude for long-term employ¬ ment in dynamic & rewarding work environment. Great opportunity & benefits for the right person. Some experience required. Call (650) 856-2128. TWO POSITIONS OPEN: need experienced

marine technician with knowledge of metering systems, watermakers, heating systems. Must have own tools. Also part-time office manager, need Mac computer skills & some accounting background. Call Jim, (510) 521-9968.

FULL-TIME JOB OPPORTUNITY AT Coyote

qualified sailing instructors who would like to teach in the best all round teaching atmosphere in the Bay. We are the oldest sailing school in California and are located in Pt. Richmond, right next to the Richmond Yacht Club where no foul weather gear is needed for sailing. We offer top pay for teaching , very liberal boat usage program and tropical sailing for our instructors. If you love sailing, have good teaching skills and would like to teach sailing either full or part time in the best sailing area in the Bay, call Kirk. (510)232-8251. *

BOAT RIGGERS! EXPANDING SHOP needs another rigger! We offer a fun & challenging work environment with ocean views. Must be experienced. Excellent salary X benefits for the right person. Call or fax Tom at South Beach Riggers. Phone: (415) 974-6063 or fax: (415) 974-6064.

GREAT MONTEREY BAY BUSINESS opportunity. Well established commercial dive business . in the Santa Cruz harbor with 250+ clients. Ineludes dive boat, new motor, dive kayaks, SCUBA tanks, hooka rigs, office computer, desk X more. Asking $55,000. Call (408) 479-0981.

OPENING FOR AN EXPERIENCED Travelift

operator. Full-time position with benefits. Please call all Rick Kreps at Svendsen's Boat Works, (510) 522-2286.

Classified Rates:

KKMI IS LOOKING FOR A PARTS EXPEDITER.

The requirements are clean DMV record, basic knowledge of.boat parts, organizational skills X the ability to circumvent traffic grid lock. Lots of growth potential X be part of a fun company. Call Ralf Morgan for more info, (510) 235-5564.

PERSONAL AD.Q:

SMALL BOAT SAILING INSTRUCTORS wanted

for the '98 season. Full-time & part-time, week¬ ends, eves. Prior teaching experience a must. Pay based on experience & certification. Call Rich at (415) 363-1390 or (415) 965-7474. SAILING INSTRUCTORS WANTED for the '98 sailingseason. Part-time, flexibleschedules. Good pay & liberal boat usage. Call Bob at Spinnaker Sailing School, Redwood City, (415) 363-1390. YACHT SALESPERSON WANTED FOR

Alameda brokerage. Preferably an experienced offshore sailor with enthusiasm for sales. Phone Jill, (510) 534-4317.

MARINE CANVAS, DODGER MAKER wanted.

Experienced only, full-time, permanent, benefits. Contact Bob or Kurt at (408) 476-3009.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES COYOTE POINT MARINA fuel dock, building space X connecting berths available now for lease. Suitable for brokerage or other boating related business. Deadline for proposals forthis business location is June 19. For info, call Harbormaster at (650) 573-2594.

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27' NOR'SEA. Dodger. Hess design. Wonderful pocket cruiser for Bay or offshore use. Drastic reduction. $39,500.

ISLANDER 32 Roller furling, GPS, dodger. Teak and holly floor, pressure H&C. Unquestionably the best 32 on the market. A great value at

$24,900

TARTAN 10. Diesel with low hours. High performance Boy boot. Sausalito slip. $19,000. (sistership)

50' CORTEN STEEL. Garden Porpoise design. Wonder¬ ful possibility for long range cruising. $84,000.

COLUMBIA 34. Huge amount of headroom.

ERICSON 35,76. Great family cruiser, large cockpit. Reduced $25,000. (sisiership)

ARIES 32,76. New Harken roller furler, new spar,

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rigging. Finest on market. Sausalito slip. $36,500. June. 1998

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58' ALDEN. Built in 1975 this Boothbay yawl has always been kept in yacht condition. Recent upgrades include sails and electronics. A true bluewater world class yacht. 43' STAN HOLDER, '51. Strong wood const., full keel, generator, solar panels, sat nav, AP, radar, GPS w/plotter, new rig '96, 7 sails. TV/ stereo/CD cabinet, lead stain glass, cedar lined hanging lockers. Must see! $69,000.

49' TASWELL, '92. Commissioned in 1992, this quality peri, cruiser is in excellent condition w/3 SIRs, 2 heads, spacious salon, extensive electronics. Priced well below market.

47' WAUQUIEZ. Built in 1984, this is an outstanding example of this quality performance cruiser. 3 staterooms including 2 doubles, many recent updates.

471 SWAN, '78. Launched in 1979, this popular S&S design features refurbished decks, full race & cruise inventories, 12 sails, complete electronics. Very aggressively priced,

63' CHEOY LEE MS. Commissioned in 1983, this ketch features twin Cat 3208s, 2 gens, air cond., new updated galley, HoodStowayelect. furling. Great long range vessel.

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life ...;> "SM: ' NANTUCKET, ‘84. 2 S/Rs, solid teak/ holly sole. Major refit '97 incl. new head, new Gorian counters, new stove w/convect oven, new washer/dryer. S/t winches, lots of sails. Exc. livabrd. In San Francisco. $94,000.

37' HUNTER, '85. Cutter rig, 710 sq. ft. of sail, roller furl, club foot staysail, s/t winches. Teak & holly sole, large private aft master S/R, head w/separate shower, vanity. Roomy salon, nav station. Light use, well maintained. $59,000.

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44' NORDIC. Built in 1981, this Robert Perry designed racer/cruiser has seen most of her life in the fresh water of the Great Lakes. She has full cruising amenities. A must see boat!

SWAN 441. Built in 1979, this popular Ron Holland design is equipped to race/cruise with AP, radar and roller furling. New diesel with only 3 hours. New Espar & new inverter.

45' CUSTOM CUTTER. Commissioned in 1988 as a one-off long range cruser, Shang¬ hai has undergone a complete refit for blue water, available due to a change of plans.

46' BREWER. Commissioned in 1983, this Brewer 46 has an enclosed PH, cutaway keel wi(h keel attached rudder. Dual steering stations and lovely teak/mahogany interior.

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:& 43' BENETEAU. Built in 1989, this Beneteau. 432 features 3 S/Rs, 3 heads, rebuilt Perkins, new sails, dodger and much more. Always professionally maintained. Lots of storage.

35' ERICSON. Built in 1975, this Ericson 35 shows great pride of ownership. She features a spacious interior, new Volvo diesel and wheel steering. Tremendous value.

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BENETEAU, '94, this boat is a "10" in every way.$258,000

25' YANKEE DOLPHIN, '68,2'1 O' draft, board up, classic/Weatherly.$7,500 24' FLICKA, '82, new O/B, lots of upgrades and a trailer too.$22,500

37'

BANJER, '69, lots of gear.$110,000

POWER

35'

RAFIKI, '77/78, diesel (rebuilt), AP plus windvane, more.$52,000

34'

CATALINA, '89, diesel, RF, good condition, lots of room .$49,950

33'

INT'L ONE DESIGN, '61, beautiful & tradiitonal. Great on Bay.$16,450

32'

ISLANDER, 77, dsl engine, RF headsail, very clean.$27,500

58' 45' 44' 43' 42' 40’ 37' 37' 36' 32' 31' 28' 27' 24' 23'

32'

BENETEAU 32 R/C, '84, original owner, very clean, exc. sail invent.$38,750

31'

SOUTHERN CROSS, '82, very nice offshore double-ender, Airex core.$47,500

30'

LANCER, 79, new bottom paint '97.$14,500

30'

CATALINA, '80, dodger.$19,000

30‘

ISLANDER, '84, clean, one-owner, diesel.$29,000

30'

LANCER, '84, diesel and three bags of sails.$21,565

29'

CAL, 74, lots of sails, lines led to cockpit.$12,900

28'

ISLANDER, 77, epoxy bottom, new rig + LPU, new North sails.$18,950

28'

LANCER, lots of gear, clean..$9,500

27'

CATALINA, 74, inboard engine, main w/2 reef points, very clean.$9,400

26'

BALBOA, 72, very clean Bay & coastal cruiser.$9,500

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HATTERAS, 72, twin diesel.OFFER/$299,000 PILOTHOUSE TRAWLER, 79, twin Volvo turbo diesels.$149,000 SEA RAY, '89, twin 3208 Caterpillars.$184,500 HATTERAS, 72, new bottom.$79,500 TROJAN FLYBRIDGE MY, '69 . $69,500 REGAL EXPRESS, '94, twin 454s, Kenwood CD sound sys., +.$165,000 BAYLINER,'69.$110,000 DEFEVER, 77, diesel.$74,500 UNIFLITE, 75, double cabin, air, generator, full canvas.$52,000 REGAL 322, '95, twin 7.4 Mags, air, 5 kw gen., TV, VCR, CD, +.$94,900 CHRIS CRAFT, '61, twin GM V-8, full Delta canvas & more.$11,500 BAYLINER 2850, '89, King Cobra 460, radar, video depth & more.$28,500 CHRIS CROWN, 252, '92, single 285 hp Cobra I/O.$37,500 CABO , '91,454, lives wells.$44,500 REGAL CLASSIC, '95, single Volvo Penta, with trailer, full canvas.$29,950

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can buy. Well below replacement. Two from. $399,000

54 CT, 79.195,000 46' KELLY-PETERSON, '84 208,000 41 ’FORMOSA, '73.69,500 38'ENDEAVOUR,'85.95,000 38' ROBERTS, '87.78,000 37'ENDEAVOUR, 79.59,995

48' CELESTIAL, '85.175,000 43'HANS CHRISTIAN,'87 .242,000 39'CAL, 77 .49,900 38'MORGAN 382,78.69,900 37'TAYANA, 76.65,000 36'ISL. FREEPORT,'80.79,500

PERFORMANCE SAILBOATS 51' BENETEAU FIRST, '89 .230,000 43' BENETEAU IDYLLE, '85 . 99,000 41 ’ JEANNEAU, ’86.109,500

43' BENETEAU 432, 88.114,000 42' HYLAS, '88 . 169,000 37'OF, 74 .34,900

RACING SAILBOATS

Morgan 45. Center cockpit, great aft cabin, dodger, bimini, davits, watermaker, genset. $229,000 68' Turbo Sled, super fast.. $795,000 55' New Carbon Fiber cruiser 525,000 68' Santa Cruz 70.495,000 MERLIN, Turbo/Rig/canting keel. 275,000 54' Fishing Schooner.269,000 50' BOC, past winner, sleeps one 249,000 42' Ketch, salty cruiser, ready 79,000

Santa Cruz 50. Highly modified,new interior, J-sprit, water ballast, set up for"short handing.$129,000 36' Nelson Merek, aluminum $59,500 30' Mini turbo sled, carbon rig 48,900 40' Bill Lee ULDB.49,000 33' Contessa, Race or cruise . 40,000 33' Buccaneer Tri, rotating mast.... 29,000 33' Hobie - Good sails & equip 22,000 39' 30 Square Meter, unique .. 22,500

45'CUSTOM S&S, '81 .99,900 37'EXPRESS,'86 . 99,000 35'J/105. 95.. 140,000 35'J/35.2 available from 65,000 33 S0VEREL, 86 . 29,000

39 C&C, 40XL/37+, '90 . 149,000 36 C&C XL,'96 . 129,000 35'SCH0CK.2 from 39,500 34' PETERSON, '80.39,990 SANTANA 30/30, '84.24,900

BROKERAGE MULTIHULLS 37' MARPLES TRI, '87 !. 89,000 47' FITZMAURICE TRI, '88 149,000

40’ OFFSHORE CAT, '87 .... 150,000 57'SERENITE CAT,'94.575,000

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46'SEA STAR, 1982 Terrific Brewer designed cruising machine. Excellently maintained. Inside and outside steering. Asking $149,900.

(415) 332-7245 Fox 332-4530

m 43' HANS CHRISTIAN 43T, 1978. Performonce underbody. Ketch rig. Enclosed oft cobin ond v-berth. Needs TIC. Asking $135,000.

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uslom ; 44' NAUT1C SAINTONGE, 78. Perkins 1 -54 Mojor 39' WISTSAIW '81. Close to a 10'. Many custom features. Sislership to Fairweather 39. | J refit in 1990. Great occommodolions down below. Excel $115,000. lent bluewoler performance cruiser. Asking$l 14,500.

TWO HUNTER 37s, 1979 and 1982. Greot boots for cruising ond liveaboord. Great prices ..$38,000 ond $45,900.

SELECTED CRUISING YACHTS

37' IRWIN, '80. Great liveaboord. Autopilot; rodor on leveling mount. Great liveoboard ond cruiser. Reduced to $56,000.

36'ISLANDER, 78. Perkins 4108. Greot racing ond cruising equipment. Autohelm 4000 A/P. Greot boot for the Boy, Asking $39,900. tsislership)

SAIL LOD BUILDER.YR PRICE 60' OCEAN.'81 $375 000 52’ TAYANA.'83 $185,000 511 PASSPORT.'84 $275,000 50' CAMPERNICOLSON.'67 $62,000 50' FORCE.73 $129,000 48 MAPLE LEAF , S.Cal. 72 $133,000 45' COLUMBIA.72 $59,950 44’ HARDIN.77 $119,000 43' YOUNGSUN.79 $129,000 43' STEEL PH.:.'88 $80,000 42’ GARDEN.'67 $75,000 41' MORGAN. $61 500 41' RHODES.'60 $56,000 41' CORONADO.72 $55,000 41' ISLANDER FREEPORT, avail. 7/1798 ...78 $99,000 41’ SCEPTRE.'86 $198,000 40' GREBE.'38 $39,000 40' SLOOP WOODIE.90 $100,000 39' WESTSAIL. $115 000 38' TAHITI.76 $22,500 38' MORGAN.79 $69,000 38' CATALINA (2).79780 Inquire 38' ERICSON.'84 $72500 37' ESPRIT.78 $84,000 37' ENDEAVOUR.79 $55,000 37’ IRWIN CC.'80 $56,000 37' HUNTER.82 $45,900 37' HUNTER LEGEND.'88 Inquire 37' O'DAY.78 $44,800 37' HUNTER.79 $38,000 37' EXCELL CUTTER.76 $36,000

S2 11 METER, ISLANDER . PEARSON NIAGARA ERCSON. ERICSON MORGAN ROBB FANTASIA FUJI. ERICSON

$62,000 $39,900 $44,000 $67,000 $31,000 $29,000 $16,900 $49,500 $61,000 $39,900 $62,000 etc. $41,000 SAN JUAN . '82 $45,000 ’ TARTAN TEN .79 $19,500 ’ BRISTOL. $26,500 GURNEY HUISMAN $35,000 PETERSON. $35,000 CONTESSA . $29,900 ERICSON. $18,999 WESTSAIL . $45,000 WESTSAIL . $49,500 WESTSAIL. $43,995 SLOOP WOODIE $20,000 ERICSON. $19,500 HUNTER . $60,000 BABA. $59,000 CAPE DORY MIS $89,000 CATALINA. $19,400 5' hunter, loaded $64,000 CAL. $10,000 ERICSON. $14,000 RANGER, nice. -$22,000 HERESHOFF. $13,000

27' CATALINA 27' MORGAN. 27' CORONADO 26' HAIDA. 25' PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25' CATALINA POWER 52' OfTMAR 49' HYUNDAI. 45' HAWTHORNE 42' HATTERAS 42' MATTHEWS 42' CHRIS CRAFT 40 MARINE TRADER 40' MONK 40' OWENS 36 CROWN CUSTOM 34' SEA RAY. 33' CARVER . 33' SEA RAY. 31' CHRIS CRAFT 30' TOLLYCRAFT. 29' BAYLINER 28' FIBREFORM 28' BAYLINER. 27' SEA RAY. 270/290 SEA RAY 24' SEA RAY. 24 BAYLINER. 24' BAYLINER 22' BAYLINER 19 FOUR WINNS 19' BOSTON WHALER

. $11,500 71 $13 777 73 $5,900 69 $11,950 78 $26,500 80 $9,500 '68 '86 71 80 56 '69 79 « 80 '85 76 97 89 72 80 79 84 88 90 86 ■88 85 93 95

$110,000 $210,000 $129,500 $144,900 565.000 $59,000 580.000 $23,000 $45,000 $48,500 $52,000 $42,000 $149,900 $28,500 $26,000 $19,995 $14,000 326.500 $38,000 $42,900 $13,500 $19,500 $12,500 515000 $15,000 517.850

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37’ ESPRIT, 78. Just back from Mexico. Perry design. Fully equipped. New full batten moin. New upholstery. Greot cruiser! Asking $84,000.

ERICSON 35, *69. Great boot for the Bay. New listing. Recent houlout, custom interior. Isislership) $29,000.

KLv RHODES 41, 1960. Built here in Sousolito. Every j | owner hos mode o passage - who's next? Over| equipped, fabulous interior. $56/000.

30' HUNTER, 1993/29' HUNTER, 1996. Both exceptionally nice boats. Both odverlised in the low $60,000$.

37' ENDEAVOUR, 79. Perkins 4108. liferoft, dodger, windvone, solor panels, SSB, Ham, CB, autopi¬ lot, radar, +++. Asking $55,000.

CATALINA 36, 1983. Complete dodger and l„u»enclo 1 sure. Electric windlass. Roller furling. ST winches. Autoj pilot. 2 separate sloterooms. Asking $55,000.

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THREE WESTSAU 32s 32' WESTSAI1, 74, Sunseeker. Factory finish with cus tom interior. Seller moved outof slate. $43,995 Solstrand, 1975. Yonmor, low hours, SSB, roller furling. $45,000 Christa, 1975. Yonmor, low hours, windvone, new tanks. Best looking interior of any Westsail! $49,500

GARY MULL 45, 1981 Cruiser or PHRF racer with comfort. SF-Hawaii 12 doys in 1995. Let's go ogoin! Asking $127,000.

ISLANDER FREEPORT 41, 1 OTltodtriJl» keel. Huge owners strm oft w/queen, en suite head S shower. Avoiloble July 1. Asking $99,000. s

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147' ALDEN OCEAN CRUISING CUTTER KETCH. Dsl L I just rigged, many recent upgrades, Design#777-E. Lost of I I the Molabars. A world-doss classic. $65,000/offers I SAIL 62' MTRSAIl, Gardener, dsl. 225,000 S3' CHAS. MOWER YWL, dossicol beauty in exc. cond. 60' 10A.42,000 50' CAMPER NICHOLSON perf. cruiser, outstanding condition... Ask 65,000 41'CORONADO, clr cockpit. 32,500/ofr 40'PH CUSTOM OR, dsl,'91 ..100,000 38'CHANNEL CUTTER sip, dsl. 22,500 38' KETTENBERG.2 storting <@ 9,500 36'CHEOY LEE ROBB sip, dsl. 49,500 36' 0HLS0N, inboard, Master Mariner. winner ... 18,500/olr 35'SSS CANOE STERN sip, dsl... 39,500 35'MARINER, dsl, new sails. 28,000 34' HANS CHRISTIAN HANSA. 69,500 33'51NT'L ONE DESIGN Sip.12,500 33' TRADEWINDS M/S, teak, dsl AR/Howoii vet.Try 11,500 32.5 GU51AM5.5M racing sip.. 12,800 32'ROYAL Cruiser, l/B, classic.... 8,500 32' WESTSAIL, dsl, dinghy,*. 39,500 32'LOD MCINTOSH Clr, loaded. 15,500 32' ATKINS SCHOONER, dsl ..Only 7,000 31' COLUMBIA, swing keel, 1/8... 5,900 31' CHE0Y LEE, Luders, dsl, sip .48,000 30'CSTM RAWS0N PH dr, best.. 59,000

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48’ STEPHENS FLYBRIDGE MOTORYACHT. Ira dilional tri-cabin design by top west coast yard. Twins, elect, winch, swim step, lots more. Asking $65,000.

Bullfrog Reduced!

I 28’x 13.5' CATFISHER. Catamaran passaaemaker. I M/B dsl, full elect., 2 wheels, shower, 2 full double S/ Rs. Huge space on deck & below. Asking $59,500. |

[ 62 LOA, 57 l6d JOHN G. ALDEN YAWL by I Dauntless,' 31. Lrg sail inventory, low hrs on dsl, new I rig, full cover, full elect., more. Asking $180,0001

30' ISLANDER MKII, l/B, loaded 12,500 30' BIRD sip, rebuilt classic race.. 8,500 30'SEABIRD Yowl..7,500 30' BALTIC sip, Dutch built, great 9,500 30' GARDEN classic dbl-end sip.. 10,500 30* KNUDSON PH Ip, l/B.12,000 29'CAL 229, very clean.15,500 28’ FELLOWS 8 STEWART Golf klch 20k 28' HERRESHOFF ROZINANTE.... 23,000 27' CANADIAN SAILCRAFT sip, dsl 14,000 27'CATALINA, dsl, loaded.10,500 27' NEWPORT S, l/B.12,500 27'CHE0Y LEE LUDDERS sip.18,000 26'MERLE DAVIS sip Ml, l/B... 12,750 26'TARTAN sip, dsl, well equipd.. 8,500 26' EXCALIBUR sip, O/B, nice.6,800 26'PEARSON COMMANDER,nice. 6,500 25'CHEOY LEEPAC. CLIPPER.7,250 23' BEAR sip by Nunes, exc cond. 5,000 23'HERRESHOFF sip, dsl. 5,000/ofr POWER 65'CHARTER YACHT. 275,000/ofr 65'WHEELER MA, '31 . 95,000/ofr 52' STEPHENS, Iwn dsl MY. 34,500/olr 43' STEPHENS, '31, raised deck, tri-cabin, plumb bow, perfed, twins.. Ask 65,000 43' MATTHEWS F/8 . 35,000/ofr

40'SALMON Trwlr a giveaway at 2,400 39'MEDITERRANEAN Sf,'92, twin dsl,. as new...Asking 185,000 38'CHRIS CRAFT Splfsh, twins. 16,000 36'STEPHENS sdn,'39, restored 30,000 34' STRIKER, steel, Iwn w/commerciol crab/salmon license.Ask 60,000 34'JEFFRIES EXPRESS, twins.... 32,500 33' CRUISERS Inc., Iwn, Ik new.. 48,500 32'STEPHENS, '47, sed. cruise ..15,000 31'RICHARDSON, cruiser, clean 18,000 30'TOLLYCRAFTE/B, twins, fg.. 24,000 30' MORSE COM'l TWER w/gear, various lie's available.. 17,500 30'CHRIS CAVALIER, exc cond... 12,750 28' PENN YAN EXPRESS FB sdn.. 32,000 27' REGAL Classic 233 w/trlr. 45,000 27'CHRIS Sed Skiff, V8, nice.12,500 26'REGAL 255 XL.18,000/ofr 24' BAYLINER TROPHY w/trlr, V812,500 24' MARIAN CUDDY, 1976, i/o . 28,500 23’ CHINOOK PH, Irlr, I/O, rdr.. 29,500 22’BAYLINER EXPLORER, Irlr, i/ol 4,500 22'FORMULA 3LS, I/O...15,000 20' SKIPJACK, V8, I/O, Irlr.13,250 THESE AND HOKl AT OUK DOCKS AND ELSEWHERE

133' DONZI Z-33 CROSSBOW Twin 360hp 454C11 | Merc 0/Bs. Low hrs, 2 custom covers, cuddy w/heod, it on Hydro Hoist in cov'd berth. Asking $64,500. |

I 52' BAGLIETTO Flybridge high speed motor yacht. I Twit turbo 8V71 dsls, well eguipped. Rare, high perfor¬ mance coastal cruiser. Mexico? Alaska? $49,500.

25' ALBIN MOTORSAILER. Center cockpit, dsl, fireplace, galley, double aft S/R, all FG. These are great pocket coasters. Asking $15,000.

40' Aluminum IOR Sloop I 32' TARGA Sloop. Finland buill. Diesel, dedger, new large sail inventory, roller furl., teak decks, center | cockpit, wheel, vane and lots more. Asking $39,500.

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^yacht assn. 130' 1937 STEPHENS SEDAN CRUISER. l/B Pori Orford cedar over oak w/bronze fastenings. VHF, depth, I galley down. Very nice condition. Asking $18,950. |

40' DOUG PETERSON DESIGN by EICHENLAUB In aluminum Larqe sail inventory, diesel, rod rigging and much more. This vessel is in good condition and is IDEAL FOR PERFORMANCE CRUISER CONVERSION.

Asking $42,250. 43VSTEEL DUTCH-BUILT PH ketch. Dual helm, rtl dsl, just replated & re-rigged; now finishing int. Strong I | world cruiser by Valentin-Zonen. Asking $79,000.J

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