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PEARSON 40, 1981 $67,500 A Pacific Cup veteran and great liveaboard.

Come see us at the Boat Show

Models on The Model Year 2000 for most boat builders kicks off at the Annapolis, Maryland, Boat Show Oct.7-11. All new models for 2000 will be on display at this show. Passage Yachts personnel with be there and available by appoint¬ ment to show you any of the Beneteau, Dehler, Island Packet, Wauquiez or X-Yachts. If you purchase a boat from us in Annapolis, we will reimburse your airfare. Call for an appointment.

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The Pacific Coast's Largest Catamaran Dealer NEWS FLASH! "EURO DOLLAR" CRIPPLED BY ONGOING BALKAN CRISIS BOAT PRICES DROP DRAMATICALLY Prices for the Lagoon 380 and 410 have plummeted a whopping $30,000 in just three months. Reserve your production slot now before the Euro's recovery.

Some of the 30 Other Sail & Power Cruising Cat Models We Represent Best value & most popular of all 40 cats we offer (34' x 14' x 18").

$116,000 new FOB.

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Lagoon offers the most luxurious and modern cruising-cat designs available today. The upcoming 380 - "little sister" to the ocean-proven 410 - is only 9% smaller, yet $90,000 cheaper! Same luxurious inte¬ rior. Same excellent twin-diesel maneuverability.

(42’ x 23' x 3'6'j Still the world's most popular 42-foot ocean-cruising cat. Twin diesels. 2 heads & 3 or 4 dbl. cabins. $290,000 FOB. VENEZIA 42

Same bluewater capability. And an even higher sail-

Fountaine Pajot. (56'x 27'x 4'6"). Queen of FP's fleet. 12-18 kts sailing, up to 18 kts powering. World cruiser.

area-to-weight ratio! (Below) Check out this special Owner's Version of the Lagoon 380. The entire starboard hull is the owner's suite, including a large head with separate

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shower. And the port hull includes a guest state¬ room, head and "bonus cabin" forward.

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• (Shown) A third double berth sleeping cabin, or...

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Rod Gibbons' Meanwhile, the large salon offers (a) a chart table, (b) dining for six, (c) optional full-function inside helm station, (d) L-shaped galley with sliding window and fold-down counter for direct cockpit serving.

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Schumacher design for performance & Oyster built for luxury. Our dock. $279,500.

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Home Page: http://yachtworId.com/bayisland NEW LISTING. Late model performance cruiser, coming to our dock. $124,999.

Race ready and well taken care of. At our dock and asking $32,900.

Monohull Brokerage 28’ ISLANDER, '77 . $17,900

38' BENETEAU s5, '94 .. $124,000

28’ PEARSON, '79. $13,950

38' SCHOCK CAT. $70,000

29' FARALLON, '76. $24,500

41' NEWPORT, 79. $49,500

30' ISLANDER Mkll, '74 .. $14,500

42' CROSS TRI. $104,500

30' TARTAN. $19,900

43' GULFSTAR, 76. $95,000

32' CHALLENGER, '76 ... Just Listed

44' HYLAS, '84. $179,500

32' CHALLENGER, 75..2frm31,000

45' LANCER motor yacht $125,000

32’ DOWNEAST. 34,500

45’ KRONOS CAT. $298,500

32’ VALIANT, 76.46,500

45' CUSTOM CRUISING TRI. . $125,000

34' CUSTOM STEEL , '87 $45,000 35’ SANTANA. $32,900

48' LIGHTWAVE, '90.... $279,500 50' GULFSTAR, 77. $129,500

lot a better boat offered at this price for the size and cruisability. Our dock. $89,950.

inish the interior and sail away. Not much to do but you save $$$. Asking $45,000.

32' DOWNEAST

NEW LISTING. Great reputation as one of the best 32' cruising boats. At our dock. $46,500.

ust listed. We have 2 of these very afford¬ able liveaboard/cruisers from $31,000.

Well built offshore cruiser with lots of room in 32 feet. At our dock. $34,500.

Two double staterooms plus a dodger, furl¬ ing & diesel. New bottom. Asking $26,500.

Multihulls 31' 32' 37' 37' 37’ 38' 40' 42' 42' 45'

CORSAIR F31, '98.$113,500 GEMINI 3200.New Listing EDEL.$64,500 PROUT, '84.$94,000 LAGOON, ’95.$149,500 SCHOCK, our dock.$70,000 NORSEMAN, '93.$195,000 CATANA 42S, '91.$249,000 PRIVILEGE.$209,000 KRONOS, '92.$298,500

Great Cruising Yachts in the Caribbean

53' CAROFF CAT, 1988 Galley up, full electronics and all the gear for comfortable cruising. Asking $329,000.

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MAYOTTE, '96.$590,000 PRIVILEGE 14.7 .. from $239,500 KELSALL, ’89.$264,000 HELLMAN STEEL, '96 .. $647,000

COMING OUR AT GREAT PRICES: 37'LAGOON • 42’PRIVILEGE Call Neil for details.

She is in top condition and is located at our dock. Take a look. Asking $104,500.

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VAN DE STADT steel.$189,000 OCEANIS, '95.$139,000 BALTIC MAGNUM, '88.$174,000 OYSTER, '82 .$195,000 JEANNEAU, '90.$117,000 DUDLEY DIX, '93.$279,000 BRUCE ROBERTS STEEL.$160,000 BENETEAU 456 .$159,000 JEANNEAU,'89.$126,000 JEANNEAU SUN KISS .$126,000 CELESTIAL,'85.$170,000 BOWMAN,'80.$195,000

Wauquiez quality in a cat is a combination you have to see. Our dock. Asking $298,500.

St Maarten 51' BENETEAU OCEANIS.$229,000 52' GRAND SOLEIL, '91 .$420,000 54' SOVEREIGN, '93.$289,000 55' SWAN, 70. $379,000 59' JONGERT, 72.$495,000 62' NAUTICAL, '85.$375,000 78' SCHOONER.$298,000 80' FEADSHIPMS.$197,000 82' VATON 25M, '90.$1,200,000 87’ RON HOLLAND aluminum $ 1,250,000 178'CUSTOM SCHOONER.... $1,500,000

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The Antioch Marina, built in 1988, is at the foot of L Street in Antioch. The Marina features berths from 24 to 70 feet. All berths are constructed of concrete, providing even flotation with clean, smooth dock surfaces.

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In addition to the above rebates we are offering up to $2,000 in commission¬ ing allowances (depending on the model) from the Stockdale Marine Chandlery for the purchase of any ComPac yacht. Our stock is limited, call today to reserve your new ComPac. Other models from 15' to 35' are available by special order.

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THE MOGUL SAYS... Stockdale Marine is the exclu¬ sive West Coast dealer for ComPac Yachts. We selected these beautiful vessels as we were looking for a great pocket cruiser that would handle conditions found on San Francisco Bay and coastal waters. The ComPacs have not disappointed us. They are not only good sailors, below decks you will find an inviting atmosphere, rich with teak and bronze with the warmth and comfort you would expect from a fine yacht. ComPacs are built by Hutchins Yachts, quality is second to none, and the pricing may never be this competitive again. ‘

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"Everyone Needs a Bigger Boat"

KENSINGTON YACHT & SHIP BROKERS Fortman Marina

Sausalito

1535 Buena Vista, Alameda, CA 94501 (510) 865-1777 Fax (510) 865-8789 e-mail: noahfox@aol.com

(415) 332-1707 e-mail: kenyacht@aol.com website: http://yachtworld.com/kensington

42' PASSPORT CUTTER, 1981 Outfitted for world cruise, beautiful. Reduced to $120,000.

49' BOWMAN KETCH, 1980 Top of the line British construction. Cruise ready. Listing agent: Jill. Alameda. Asking $195,000.

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WAUQUIEZ 47,1987 Best priced, best equipped, best condition on market. $229,000. Listing Agent Jill, (sistership)

40' WECO SLOOP, 1985 NZ's steel-hulled pride. Extensive cruising inventory. $129,000.

37’ CUSTOM COLD-MOLDED SLOOP, 1970. Beautiful English high-tech epoxy/mahogany laminate. Bluewater vet. A steal at $45,000.

PRETORIAN 35 by Wauquiez, 1983 Recommended by Practical Sailor for quality offshore. Listing Agent Jill. $82,000. (sistership)

43' SAGA TWIN JIB SLOOP, 1997 Equipped for round trip to Mars. Less than two years old, looks brand new. Asking $275,000.

36' PEARSON 365, 1979 In excellent condition. Asking $56,900. (sistership)

47' ALEXANDER MARINE CUTTER, 1986 Comfortable cruiser loaded with electronics & stuff. Shows owner's pride. Asking $199,000.

3r CASCADE, 1982 Custom-built cutter, for passagemaking. Asking $67,500.

43’ OYSTER 435,1985 Center cockpit. Loaded for cruising. Asking $200,000.

51' BENETEAU OCEANIS 510,1993 4 double staterooms w/heads. A true performance cruiser. Asking $259,000.

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CALENDAR Nonrace Sept. 4 — Jeff Trask is 40 years old! Sept. 7, 1989 — Ten Years After, from a Latitude article titled Tom Blackaller — Long Live the King: The sailing world lost one of its most colorful and respected figures last month. On September 7, while running qualifying laps at Sears Point for his other love, auto racing, Thomas D. Blackaller, Jr., suddenly pulled his car to a stop in the middle of turn seven, and waved once. By the time the track crew ran out to him, San Francisco's most famous sailing personality was dead of a heart attack. He was 40. The news shook the Bay Area sailing community like an earthquake, one whose aftershocks are likely to be felt for years to come. The notion that someone so full of life, and so much bigger than life, wasn’t immortal after all was a sobering one. Sailors spent the week remembering that brash, boisterous life; one we often likened to the human equivalent of a small craft warning. Everybody who sailed knew the famous Blackaller name and most knew the man — at least from the back as he sailed by. For nearly four decades, from the time he first learned to sail on El Toros at the Inverness YC at age 11, Tom was as much a part of Bay sailing as the summer breeze itself. In many ways, Tom Blackaller was San Francisco sailing. Friends estimate he competed in more than 4,000 regattas, sailing everything from Star boats to ProSail 40 catamarans, including three America’s Cup campaigns. He won the presti¬ gious Star boat world championship twice (and likely would have won Olympic gold in the class were it not for the 1980 boycott), and successfully defended the Australian-American Challenge Cup (raced in 6-Meters) four times. His last major victory came in August when he drove the American team's Farr 50 Great News to a runaway victory in the Fastnet Race during the Admiral's Cup competition. Blackaller considered this win especially important, his "come¬ back", if you will, into the International Ocean Racing circuit. There were countless other victories and awards in between. Whether it was in 12-Meters or Millimeters, Blackaller raced to win. Sept. 10-12 — 23rd Annual Wooden Boat Festival at Port Townsend, WA. Billed as the largest gathering of wooden boat enthusiasts on the West Coast, this festival features workshops, lectures, demos, food, music, etc. WoodenBoat Foundation, (360) 385-3628. Sept. 10-12 — Fourth Hunter Rendezvous at the Isthmus on Catalina Island. A big bash for all SoCal Hunter owners. Bob Beck, (949) 642-4786. Sept. 11 — Nautical Flea Market at Encinal YC in Alameda. Info, (510) 522-3272. Sept. 11 — Free Ham Radio license testing at H.F. Radio in Alameda. Held the second Saturday of every month. Call H. F. Radio in advance for reservations at (510) 814-8888. Sept. 11-12 — Open Boat Weekend at Marina Village (Alameda). For more info, call any Marina Village yacht broker or the harbormaster, (510) 521-0905. Sept. 11-12 & 15-19 — 28th NCMA Fall Boat Show at Jack London Square. Closed Monday and Tuesday for the first time. Hundreds of new and used sailboats and stinkpots on display. Info, (800) 698-5777. Sept. 18 — Richmond Marina Bay Boat Fest, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Classic boats and more. Info, (510) 236-1013. Sept. 21 — Free five-week USCG Auxiliary "Sailing Funda¬ mentals" course. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Sausalito Cruising Club. Call after Sept. 1 for more information. Jerry, 455-8671. Sept. 21 — SF Bay Oceanic Crew Group monthly meeting. Guest speaker Dale Parshall explains the Chip Log Navigation

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CALENDAR Contest to be held September 25. Fort Mason Center, Room C210, 7 p.m., free. Info, 979-4866. Sept. 25 — Full moon, Saturday night! Sept. 25 — Third Annual Wheelchair Regatta. Last year, vol¬ unteers took 138 guests out for a day on the Bay. This year promises to be even bigger. PICYA/Encinal YC; Margot Brown, (510) 523-2098. v Sept. 25 — SF Oceanic Crew Group's Chip Log Navigation Contest. Free and open to all boats. Info, 979-4866. Sept. 25-26 — 20th Annual Festival of the Sea at Hyde Street Pier, celebrating the Gold Rush. A free weekend of maritime fun, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Boat rides, living histoiy dem¬ onstrations, contests, exhibits, food and drink, music, the whole shebang. Info, 561-6662, ext. 19. Oct. 2 — Master Mariners Cruise to Drake's Bay, with de¬ luxe (^yster BBQ. Gene and Pat Buck, 435-0936. Oct. 2 — Nautical Flea Market at Peninsula YC (Redwood City), 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sellers $10, buyers free. PYC, (650) 3694410. Oct. 5 — Mexico-Only Crew List and Baja Ha-Ha Party at Encirtal YC, 6-9 p.m. Get a ride for the sixth annual Ha-Ha Cruisers Rally, which takes off from San Diego on October 26. Latitude 38, 383-8200. Oct. 6 — "Cruising Baja," a film and slide presentation by Ed and Mary Ann Tschernoscha, 7 p.m., at the Oakland West Marine. Show is repeated the next night at the Sausalito West Marine. Free! Gail Jones, (831) 761-4408. Oct. 8-10 — Fleet Week, the Blue Angels Airshow and other patriot games. Navy Public Affairs, (510) 263-1803. Oct. 9 — "Parade of Banners," a boat parade between Monterey and Pacific Grove celebrating California's sesquicentennial. MPYC, (831) 645-1980. Oct. 17 — Marina Madness/Flea Market at Brisbane Ma¬ rine, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mark Chappell, (650) 952-2269. Oct. 24 — The bad news: Daylight Savings Time ends. The good news: as you read this, there are still seven more weeks of daylight to enjoy after work! Racing Sept. 3 — Windjammers Race, the fun way to get to Santa Cruz. Classes for PHRF, doublehanded, motor allowance (20 miles) and possibly one designs. Windjammers YC; YRA, 7719500. Sept. 4 — 11th Annual Jazz Cup, 24.8 miles from Treasure Island to Benicia. Co-hosted by South Beach YC and Benicia YC; Dan Pingaro, 744-2129. Sept. 4 — Chickenship Regatta, a low-key race for Master Mariner boats up to Petaluma YC. Dee Dee Lozier, (510) 6538820. Sept. 4-5 — Yukon GMC/Sailing World NOOD Regatta. In¬ vited classes are Moore 24, J/24, Melges 24, Olson 25, Antrim 27, SC 27, Express 27, J/29, Olson 30, 1 l:Metre, J/105, WylieCat 30 and Farr 40. Doubles as the Nationals for Olson 25s, Antrims and SC 27s. StFYC, 563-6363. Sept. 5 — Tour Du Lac, a 20-mile race on Lake Almanor. Butte Sailing Club: Ben, (530) 893-1286. Sept. 5-11 — Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and ILC Maxi Worlds, just in case you're in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, this week. The Rolex Offshore World Championship (for big IMS boats) follows on September 12-19. Sept. 9-14 — Farr 40 Worlds, with 18 boats now expected for what promises to be the highest level of big boat competition seen around here in years. Eight scheduled windward/leewards with no throwouts. StFYC, 563-636$. Sept. 10-16, 1979 — It Was Twenty Years Ago Today, from a Latitude article called The Little Big Boat Series:

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feet last year. x It was also a ’little' Big Boat Series because many of the ablest crew and helmsmen were elsewhere. Many semi-pros were just getting back from the Fastnet Race in England or the pre-Olym¬ pics in Russia. The endless summer of Six Metres was holding forth in Seattle, obligating a solid core of top sailors. Without the charismatic maxis and all the top-flight crews, the Big Boat Series was something of an anti-climax. . . Both the weather and the racing generally matched the more relaxed atmosphere. Winds were light to moderate, the sun pleasantly warm and bright. Of the four perpetual cups raced for, two of the series were routs, and only two were tight battles right to the finish. (Class winners were Hawkeye, the Peterson 46 Ghost the Peterson 40 Leading Lady, and the S&S 45 Inca.) Sept. 11 — Ong Regatta for Cal 20s. RYC, (510) 237-2821. Sept. 11-12 — Encinal YC Invitational Regatta. Four races for Moore 24s, Antrim 27s, Express 27s and the SF 30-Footers. Joseph Melino, (408) 275-1955. Sept. 11-12 — Quick Boat Series, a new Big Boat Series tune-up. Four races on the Berkeley Circle for PHRF boats, with one design classes offered if five or more sisterships show up. San Francisco YC, 789-5647. Sept. 11-12 — Drake's Bay Race, OYRA/CYC’s annual sce¬ nic tour north of the Gate. YRA, 771-9500. Sept. 11-12 — 19th Annual SharkFeed Regatta, an aptlynamed beach cat event held on Bodega Bay. Hobie Cat Fleet 281, (707) 938-0824. Sept. 11-12 — Dolphin Cup for SC 50s and SC 52s on Monterey Bay. MPYC, (831) 372-9686. Sept. 12 — Fall SCORE #2. Santa Cruz YC, (831) 425-0690. Sept. 16-19 — St. Francis YC Big Boat Series, the 36th an¬ nual gathering of the West Coast clan. All systems are 'go' for another fine series, this year featuring ULDB 70s, SC 52s, Farr 40s, Express 37s, lD-35s, the ubiquitous J/105s and three classes of PHRF. Info, 563-6363 or www.stjyc.com. Sept. 18 — South Bay YRA race #6, hosted by Coyote Point YC. Mike Dixon, (510) 635-5878. Sept. 18 — North Bay Series #3, hosted by Vallejo YC. Chris Kim, (530) 756-5374. Sept. 18 — SSS East Bay/Estuary Race for the shorthanded set: Pat Broderick, (707) 528-2109. . Sept. 18-19 — West Marine Fun Regatta at Santa Cruz YC. Chuck Buchanan, (831) 471-2314. Sept. 19-25 — Rolex International Women's Keelboat Re¬ gatta, the biennial J/24 series in Newport, RI. Tiburon Soccer Mom (aka Vicki Sodaro) will represent the Bay Area. Denise, (401) 849-5492. Sept. 24-26 — Catalina 34 Nationals/Cruise at Golden Gate YC. Bill Eddy, (925) 820-7370. Sept. 25 — Interclub Series race #6. Low-key fun in the South Bay for members of Estuary clubs. M.L. Higgins, (510) 7480289. Sept. 25-26 — Folsom Lake Fall Regatta. FLYC; Gary Preston, (916) 979-9819. Sept. 25-26 — Fall One Design Regatta. Four races for Melges 24s, J/24s, J/29s (PCCs), ll:Metres, Wabbits. San Francicso YC, 789-5647. Sept. 27-Oct. 1 — IOD Worlds'/Folkboat SF Cup. Knock on wood! StFYC, 563-6363. Oct. 1-3 —St. Francis YC 21st International Masters Re-

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gatta. Some of the legends of sailing— Dick Deaver, Lowell North, Bruce Kirby, Roy Dickson and The Curmudgeon — will go at it again in J/I05s. StFYC, 563-6363. Oct. 1-10 — Melges 24 Worlds in Long Beach, a big-time event hosted by1 Alamitos Bay YC, (562) 434-9955. Oct. 2 — Wallace Cup, an East Bay invitational for PHRF boats (no rating band this year). Oakland YC, (510) 522-6868. Oct. 2 — Paisano Regatta for El Toros. Monterey Peninsula YC, (831) 372-9686. Oct. 2 — ODCA Champion of Champions, a completely new format. Winners of the 15 ODCA classes will sail a five-race one design series in DeWitt Dinghies, with Richmond YC firing the guns. This should be really entertaining! YRA, 771-9500. Oct. 2-3 — HDA Yankee Cup, hosted by the Golden Gate YC.tWho has the best PHRF ratings for the conditions? YRA, 771-9500. Oct. 2-3 — Barth Race, hosted by CPYC and Sequoia YC. Coyote Point to Redwood City on Saturday, reverse on Sunday. Laurelyn Taylor, (408) 244-8620. 6ct. 2-3 — Easom Founders Regatta. Etchells racing on the Berkeley Circle honoring one of the original 'good guys’, Hank Easom. San Francisco YC, 789-5647. Oct. 2-3 — Sixth Annual Fall Cup Regatta. Once again, the 11 :Metre fleet will vie for a money purse in this fast-paced se¬ ries off Pier 39. Alicia Vargas, 705-5500. Oct. 9 — El Toro Stampede. Richmond YC, (510) 237-2821. Oct. 9 — OYRA/RYC Waterhouse Race, the last ocean race of the season. YRA, 771-9500. Oct. 9 — 24th Annual Woman Skipper's Race, sponsored by Berkeley YC. A woman must steer, but no other crew restric¬ tions. "The best time of year to be on the water." Berkeley YC; BobbiTosse, (925) 939-9885. Oct. 9-10 — Schock Regatta for Santana 20s and Lido 14s (Western Regionals for both), Santana 22s (Mull Cappuccino Cup), Santana 35s and Wavelength 24s (Nationals for both) and PHRF for all Schock-built boats. San Francisco YC, 789-5647. Oct. 9-10 — J/Fest South at Newport Beach. One design and PHRF racing for all flavors of J/Boats. Jeff Trask, (949) 675-8053. Oct. 15-17 — Joe Logan/Calvin Paige Regattas. StFYC, 5636363, Oct. 16-17 — Eighth Annual Women's One Design Regatta, an all-female series in Long Beach YC's Catalina 37s. Women's Sailing Association; Melinda McCoy, (714) 567-2588. Oct. 18-23 — Louis Vuitton Cup Series, Round One, down in Auckland. Look for 12 challenger syndicates on the line: five from the U.S., two from France, and one each from Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Australia and Spain. Great Britain withdrew last month for lack of financing, and the Russians are expected to fold their hand any day now. Let the games begin! Oct. 23 — Jessica Cup, a fleet race for big woodies. StFYC, 563-6363. Oct. 23-24 — SSS Vallejo 1-2, the conclusion of the shorthanded sailing season. Pat Broderick, (707) 528-2109. Nov. 7 — Golden Gate Midwinters #1, the official beginning of the winter sailing season. GGYC, 346-BOAT. Nov. 10-13 — Mazatlan Race. Long Beach YC, (562) 5989401. Remaining Beer Can Races BAY VIEW BC — Monday Night Madness, Fall Series: 9/6, 9/20, 9/27. John Super, 243-04.26. BENICIA YC — Thursday Race Series, through 9/30. Chris Tringali, (707) 746-7602. BERKELEY YC — Friday Night Races, every Friday night

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Anne — The sustained boom in the U.S. economy means that almost all the marinas in the San Diego area — as well as Cabc Isle Marina in Cabo San Lucas — are already operating at neai capacity. This is a major change fromjust a few years ago wher almost all Ha-Ha entries could be accommodated in slips or raftups. What this means is that most Ha-Ha people will get some early anchoring practice — and save some money on berths. Ii also means that some folks may not want to come all the waii down to San Diego — but rather stay at Marina del Rey, Catalina, Long Beach, Newport Beach, Oceanside or Mission Bay — unti right before the 24th. We just spoke to Chief Hall, who only three weeks ago re placed our friend Chief Hight as the head of the San Diego Har bor Police. When we told him that the Ha-Ha fleet is returning Chief— 'Call me Dave' — Hall laughed and said he rememberer the Ha-Ha. He said he was aware that open berths are almos non-existent, but that there are a number of anchorages open U transients, and that in addition, he'll open up a special eventi anchorage just for the Ha-Ha fleet. The first anchorage he recommends is A-9, which is locatei near the tip of Harbor Island adjacent to the floating paddle whee restaurant Rueben E. Lee. This is near the Coast Guard station The average depth is about 15 feet with good holding in a sane bottom. This anchorage is convenient to Ha-Ha headquarters a Cabrillo Isle Marina, to the airport, and to downtown San Diego 'Dave' also recommends the Glorietta Bay Golf Course Anchor age. After going under the Coronado Bridge, turn right along th shoreline. Go past the 5 mph buoy and a 'no anchoring buoy' and Ha-Ha entrants may anchor anywhere along the shorelin all the way down to where the channel turns to enter Glorietti Bay. The average depth is 15 feet and there is good holding in < sand bottom For this anchorage you'll need a pe/r mit saying you'r part of the Ha-Ha fieet. You ccmpick one up at Cabrillo Isle Ma rina, at the Ha-Ha Kick-Off Party at the Encinal YC in Alamedt on October 5, and probably at Downwind Marine in San Diego. J

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sure the screens on our opening ports and hatches will keep the beasties outside. Some people say that our existing stan¬ dard fly-screen material will be just fine. They say that not only does it keep out flies and mosquitoes, but also the no-see-ums. These people claim that no-see-ums aren't called what they are because they are small, but rather they fly silently. At the other end of the opinion spectrum are people who say that we need to ifse netting that is similar in mesh to pantyhose. These folks say the fine netting is needed because no-see-ums are extremely small and impossible to see. I’m positive that such screening material will keep the no-see-ums out, but it would also keep out most of any breeze that might be blowing? And why suffer from overkill? So we need to know what is the minimum size mesh that will do the job? Hopefully you guys or one of your readers has factual information. I personally wonder if those mysterious no-see-um bites may be due to more than one type of pest, with all bites of unknown origin being blamed on the unfortunate no-see-ums. Does any¬ one really know? In any event, thanks for producing a rag that is so interesting to read. I'm glad that you're able to laugh at yourselves as readily as you sometimes laugh at your readers. Jim and Pam McEntyre Aurora, Morgan 382 San Pedro Jim & Pam — Thanks for the kind words — and the great question. We're certainly eager to hear what others have to say about no-see-ums, because in more than 20 years of sailing in most of the popular cruising areas of the world — including many times to Mexico — we've never once used screens. In fact, we had screens for our Frey a 39 and Big O — but eventually threw them away because we never needed them. This is not to say we haven't been bothered by no-see-ums, because we have. The worst places we can remember were some of the islands in the Sea of Cortez, San Bias, which might well be the no-see-um capital of the universe, Moorea, Elba, and parts of Turkey. But we were always only bothered when ashore be¬ cause we made a point of anchoring our boat further offshore than the no-see-ums hop or fly. This isn't possible, of course, in the southeastern United States, where no-see-ums are rumored to be far worse than even at San Bias and screens are consid¬ ered mandatory. By the way, we use the term 'no-see-ums' in the most generic sense to include everything from the virtually invisible little guys in Moorea to the 'little bits of peppeT at San Bias. One thing we can say for sure: If you anchor close enough to shore, there are many places where a mesh designed to keep flies and mosqui¬ tos out will certainly not do the job against 'no-see-ums'. But please, can we get some opinions and advice from others who've had more trouble than we? M ONE OF THE FIRST RULES

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Now to some details: If the security guard was breaking into somebody's boat, why doesn't the boatownerfile charges against him or a lawsuit against his employer? If you are the organization's 'General Counsel', how come you don't know the difference between libel and slander? Does your member in ques¬ tion have a cat? If so, how do you know the cat hasn't shit on the dock and/ or peed on the member's boat? After all, many cats have been known to engage in such activities. We’re not saying we believe you or don’t believe you, it's just that you don't offer anything to support your barrage of accusations. Threatening to sue in every other paragraph over piddling issues doesn't do much for your cause either.

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may want to factor 101 gridlock into your berthing equation. After all. what good is a boat if you can't get to it? Wanting to liueaboard throws a wild card into your plans. It's illegal in some marinas, and some harbormasters try their best to prevent it. At other marinas where its illegal, the prohibition is not enforced and scores liueaboard. When it comes to finding a legal liueaboard slip, youjust have to ask around. In some popu¬ lar marinas with formal waiting lists, it may take five or 10 years for an opening to become available. In places without waiting lists, you might get right in if you have a nice boat or strike the harbormaster as being a person who won't cause trouble. You also need to realize that not many new marinas are be¬ ing built, and the most popular marinas are near or at capacity. Boaters are increasingly facing the situation where it's not a matter of chosing where they want to keep their boat, but where a mprina has a slip available. When signing up for most marinas, you pay first and last month's rent, plus a security deposit. Bay Area marina rates run anywhere from about $3/foot/month to $13/foot/ month. The average is probably about $6/foot/ month. Generally speaking, the tloser you are to the Central Bay, the more you pay. Simi¬ larly, the more crowded a marina is, the less likely they're going to want additional liveaboards. So here's what you need to do: Visit all the marinas in the area that's acceptable to you. Check out all the facilities, talk to the harbormaster, talk to the tenants. Find out the policy, stated and real, with regard to liveaboards. When you find the place you want, see if they have an opening. If they don't, try to get on a waiting list while seeing if there's an opening at your second choice. Good luck — and keep the faith because it's not quite as bad as it seems.

fill MANUAL FOR A 27-YEAR-OLD SAILBOAT I telephoned yesterday afternoon to ask a question. A mem¬ ber of your staff said the only way to get the info was to send an email. So here it is: Can you tell me how or where to get manu¬ als for the following two items: First, a 1995 Yamaha, 9.9 horse¬ power, 4-stroke outboard motor. Secondly, the manual for a 1972 Columbia sailboat. Mick Bunker Petaluma Mick—As much as we’d enjoy sitting around and answering telephone inquiries all day, we've got a magazine that takes up most of our time, so yes, your only chance is email. You can order the Yamaha outboard manual from your local Yamaha outboard dealer or on the net at yamaha.usa.com/. Retired surveyor Jack McKinley of San Lorenzo once told us he had the manual for every boat Columbia ever built. We're here to tell you — and everyone else who writes in asking where they can find manuals for boats built 30 years ago — that they were rarely worth the paper they were written on. Ftirthermore, on a boat as old as yours, many things have likely been changed or modified, so the manual might just lead you astray. Here's a great idea: Let's check out a review of a Columbia 26 atwww.sailnet.com/boatcheck/directory.cfm. Okay, aguy who identifies himself as a marine surveyor and a lifelong sailor calls the Columbia 26 "one of Bill T ripp’s finest designs" and "one of the best all around sailng vessels afloat. Going downwind with spinnaker flying, she’s fast, and when a gale blows, she's safe and dry with a storm main and storm trysail!" No wonder SailNet is careful to say that the reviews are not endorsed by them and they accept no liability for them. The Co¬ lumbia 26 might be a perfectly adequate boat, but we can't imag¬ ine even the most blue-skying used boat salesperson — let alone a marine surveyor — claiming it to be "one of the best all around

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If llANCHORING LIGHT CRUISING BOATS It's been my experience that most of the anchor manufac¬ turers recommend anchor sizes based on fairly heavy boats with lots of windage. Most cruisers — especially those in Mexico — sail boats that pretty much meet this description. But coming up with the best combination of ground tackle for a light — but not quite ultra-light — cruiser requires that you stray slightly from the norm. My wife and I spent a few months last season cruising a light boat between Seattle and Barra de Navidad, and think we got the ground tackle situation at least partly figured out. Hopefully this will be helpful for anyone preparing a light boat for cruising in Mexico. We own the Luffe 48 fractional sloop Wave Runner, which is 48 feet long and weighs about 22,000 pounds when loaded — with a bit more cruising junk than we'd take next time. Our primary anchor was a 45-pound Delta, which we usually de¬ ployed with 60 feet of 5/16-inch chain followed by 250 feet of 1/2-inch double-braid anchor line. We also carried a 22-pound Danforth, a 13-pound Danforth, three 20-foot sections of 3/8inch chain (which could be combined in various ways) and two additional triple-braid rodes. Our boat has a small bow roller, a stern fairlead for rode, but no windlass. The primary gear lived in a bracket near the mast step while under way. All the other stuff was either stored in a lazzarette or near the keel in bags when not in use. We found that the 45-pound Delta was so easy to set, and so secure once set, that we never used much else. True, it's quite a workout pulling the anchor back aboard without a windlass, but what the heck. The Delta worked' so well, as a matter of fact, that we wondered if a 35-pound Delta would have been sufficient most of the time. Page 64 • Ut&MJS? • September, 1999

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Although we pulled the rode up all the way to the thimble daily to check for chafe, we never saw any evidence that the rode had touched anything abrasive. As a result, I think 60-feet of chain is usually all right for Mexico. In any event, our pri¬ mary anchoring gear was great. Our secondary gear was less good. The 3/8-inch chain was a nuisance to deal with by hand — and even short lengths of it are very heavy. Next time, I would want another 60 feet and another 30 feet of 5/16-inch for the secondary anchors. These could also be combined with each other and/or the additional 60-foot length if necessary. The only time we used the Danforths was in mud or when we had two anchors out in tight spots. Even the 13-pounder with only 20 ft of 3/8" chain will easily hold Wave Runner in 35+ knots if set properly. Though we never needed the extra length, I would also recommend rodes that are at least 300 feet long. We wondered just how things would go without a windlass. It was fine, as it turned out. On the two occasions where the anchor got stuck, once at Isla San Benito and once at the Tres Marietas, we just led the rode to a sheet winch. We had planned to use a chain hook and a line to a winch if we ever had to grind the anchor and chain all the way up for any reason. Another useful set of devices were a pair of walkie talkies for the driver and the person handling the anchor on the bow. If the microphones (e.g. VOX), or the entire walkie talkie, are in a plastic bag then you get to hear your partner rather than just what the wind sounds like on the other end of the boat! The new little FM walkie talkies that all the radio manufacturers axe making turn out to be handy all over the place anyway. Here's another tip for cruising fxn-keelers. Wave Runner likes to sail at anchor just about as well as she likes to surf down swells. If we tied the helm such that the rudder was perpen¬ dicular to the keel, sailing at anchor is eliminated, though the boat does pivot back and forth a little—which can lead to the barbie blowing out, and means that you must not dally when you visit the stem pulpit in the middle of the night. I worried that in a storm, such an arrangement might lead to some de¬ structive loads on the rudder, so one night I tried turning on the autopilot at anchor and having it steer the boat into the wind. That also works great, though we were never in condi¬ tions that tempted us to actually try it for real. Obviously none of this is all that profound, or derived from particularly chal¬ lenging conditions, but it is one combination that works in Mexico for a light boat. Gavin Chilcott Wave Runner

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On Friday night, August 6, the sailing community around the world — and particularly in Honolulu — lost a fine sailor and a great friend. Captain Douglas C. Vann, skipper and owner of the Farr 44 Tiare, suffered heart failure and died despite the best efforts of his crew and the EMTs on shore to administer CPR. It looked to be yet another perfect Friday night race out of the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor in Waikiki. We had spent the afternoon with Doug, working on winches and installing a new stanchion to replace one that had failed. The trades were up and the boat was ready to go. As we prepared for our start at 5:36 p.m., there was no indication of the difficulties that lay ahead. Just after rounding the outer buoy, we hoisted the spinna¬ ker and headed for HH. Doug’s wife Sherry was driving while he was coordinating the foredeck to make sure everything went smoothly. A minute or two later, his internal defibrillator went off several times in rapid succession. He went below to lay down on the bunk and Melinda, one of our crewmembers, went with him. He hollered up that he was alright and we should keep racing. We carried on for a minute or so,, since this wasn’t the first time he had been shocked while on the boat. Then we decided it didn't make any sense to keep sailing further away from the dock. We doused the spinnaker, turned around, and headed for home. Shortly after that I went down below to join them. While we were making our way back in, Doug told me it didn’t make sense to give up the race since there wasn’t anything more we could do, and that he just needed some time to recover. After another minute or so he stopped breathing. I was quite shocked when his eyes became fixed and he didn’t respond. I watched him make the transition from this reality to the next. It didn’t seem real. We called 911 on the cell and asked for an ambulance to meet us. At 6:01 pm we started CPR. The EMTs met us at the dock and took him to the emergency room. The code 500 team did all they could, but were not able to get his heart to beat normally again. Doug’s web page, http://wWio.redboat.com, shows only a small portion of the sailing related things he was involved with. Outside of sailing, he did many other things. From his work as

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Although the following information is two years old, it might be of interest to anyone tiying to get to Turtle Bay to join the Baja Ha-Ha Rally"for the last two legs to Cabo San Lucas. There is — or at least was — a little Mexican air service that flies to Turtle Bay, Cedros Island, and a couple of other small towns in northern Baja. It's called something like Aviacsa and I think it is based out of Ensenada. They have flights several days a week, but I don't remember which days. You won't be able to find this outfit through a travel agency or even Vagabundos del Mar, but the Mexican Embassy in San Diego has their name and number. It's my understanding that there's a 'ticket office' for the air service in someone's house in Turtle Bay. In addition, there is a van that leaves Turtle Bay almost ev¬ ery day — well, every night — at 0200 to make the connection at the little coffee shop in the town of Vizcaino with the Cabo to Tijuana northbound bus. The same van returns, naturally enough, to Turtle Bay. I'm not sure of the schedule, but I don't think it's a quick turn around. When I was in Turtle Bay and inquired about the van, I was told that it wouldn't run for an¬ other three days. Then I was told there was another van that night operated by another family. Brant Calkin California HU SPAM TASTES LIKE CAPTAIN COOK I thought we had pretty well done the Spam story, but I note it came up again last month, so I decided to put in my two cents worth. The original question some months ago was why is Spam held in such high regard in Hawaii and throughout the South Pacific. I lived with Hawaiians for four years in the Pacific on some small islands and then for eight years in Hawaii. In addition to the idea that Spam tastes much like Captain Cook, Spam is regarded as a status symbol to this day. Canned meat was once something only available on ships and affordable to the rich. Refrigeration and ice were hard to come by, so when someone showed up with meat in a can, it was an occasion. Then along came Spam, which was both meat in a can and affordable. In¬ stant status! Since Hawaiians and other islanders were used to eating well, the secret was to make Spam taste good. One great way is as follows: Put some oil, garlic and chunks of onions in a frying pan. Stir them around and cook a little, then add some shoyu (soy sauce) and tabasco. Now add Spam, cut up in squares or strips. Stir again, cook some more, and then add some shred¬ ded cabbage, stir around again, put the lid on the pan for about a minute or two then serve with two scoops of steamed rice. Ono, onolicious! We used to wash it down with Primo, but that's long gone. However, I'm sure any beer will do. Gene Barrett Beaverton, Oregon Gene — It's common for adults to develop unnaturally strong desires for things they were denied in their youth—look at Hugh Hefner's life. But how do you explain young Hawaiians' taste for Spam? Or, for the love of god. Spam sushi!?

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LETTERS valid way to do a 'singlehanded circumnavigation' is unneces¬ sarily exclusionary — and anal. Just as there are more and less 'pure' ways to climb Mt. Everest — with or without assistance from sherpas and guides, with or without oxygen — we think there are different degrees in purity of circumnavigations. At the bottomjvould be someone who, for example, made 90% of the trip by themselves, used their engine occasionally, and who went by way of the canals. If we're not mistaken, Tania Abei would fit into this category. We'd call this a 'book and lec¬ ture tour flogged s solo circumnavigation'. A little higher up would be someone who made the whole voyage alone, used their engine occasionally, stopped as often as they wanted, and went by way of the canals. We think— but don’t know for sure — that Pat Henry would fit into this categqry. We’d call it a ’cruiser's solo circumnavigation'. Even higher on the scale would be someone who sailed all the way alone, never used the engine, never stopped, but did use the canals. Peter Johnson may disagree, but we'd call it a 'solo circumnavigation via the canals'. Right near the top of the purity scale would be someone who sailed all the way by themselves, never used the engine, didn't use the canals, but stopped at least once. 'We'd call it a 'semipure solo circumnavigation'. And at the very top would be someone who sailed all the way by themselves, never used the engine, never stopped, and didn't use the canals. We’d call this a 'pure singlehanded circumnavi¬ gation’ — and be the first to acknowledge that it, like the ’semipure’, are much more difficult circumnavigations to accomplish than those via the canals. Not to detract from her accomplishment, but we’re still not really sure what category Karen Thorndike belongs in. Her twoyear circumnavigation via the capes included eight stops, and also included a six-month layover (including a trip back to the States for medical care) after being rescued at sea off the Falklands due to a combination of ill health and storm condi¬ tions.

ftllBLIGH & BEAGLE I enjoyed the July Sightings titled A Worthy Endeavour. But could you check Sherman’s 'way-back machine' and see if Capt. Bligh was aboard as an officer and/or if he was aboard the Beagle?

Also, was Captain Bligh’s whaleboat trip a survival record, or does that belong to the captain and crew from Redjacket, which caught fire off the coast of South America? Edward Tadefa Delano Edward — The ’way back machine’ reports that Capt. Bligh did not serve aboard the Beagle. Indeed, he'd passed from this veil of tears 14 years before Darwin and the Beagle visited the Galapagos in 1831. Similarly, Bligh never served aboard Capt. Cook's Endeav¬ our. At age 22, however, he was appointed Master aboard Cook's Resolution during the great explorer's final voyage of discovery. Indeed, it was Bligh who courageously battled the Hawaiians to reclaim Cook's body. This was nine years before the mutiny on the Pounty. Bligh is an example of a man who 1ms been grossly maligned by Hollywood. He first went to sea at age nine, and had a long and brilliant career as a navigator, in battle, and in command of research vessels. His shortcoming was his inability to under¬ stand those who didn't have total devotion to their duty. It’s in¬ teresting to note that Bligh later found himself in the thick of a much bigger and bloodier uprising, the mutiny at the Nore in

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fr llTRUE YOUTH VENTURES Peer educators from Mission Neighborhood Health Center and Bay Area Venture Scouts were treated to a day on the Bay with America True on August 17. Jay Gardner, owner of the 55foot Adventure Cat, and Latitude 38, owner of the 63-foot Profli¬ gate, donated time and the use of their spacious catamarans for the occasion. America True representative Nikki Glass began the day on Adventure Cat by giving the Scouts, aged 13-18, a brief descrip¬ tion of the America's Cup and the America True challenge. Then the youngsters were divided up between the two boats for an afternoon of mock racing around the Bay. Each participant, as well as their chaperones, enjoyed time at the helm and received instruction regarding sail trim and navigation. Both boats began by beating upwind toward the Golden Gate during the chilly San Francisco summer day. When they reached the bridge, the Scouts shouted with joy, then listened for their voices to echo off the bottom of the span. After sail¬ ing downwind to the Bay Bridge, the boats tacked back in the di¬ rection of Angel Island, and shortly thereafter Adventure Cat was greeted with five toots on the horn from an ap¬ proaching container ship. After reaching across the Central Bay, everyone on the boats enjoyed the much warmer temperatures of the lee of Angel Island and Raccoon Strait, be¬ fore returning to Pier 39. America True would like to thank the owners of the two catamarans for hosting the successful True Youth event, and the crews and volunteers who made the day possible. Thanks, too, to the Mission Neighbor¬ hood Health Center and Bay Area Venture Scouts for partici¬ pating. Nika Coates America True, 'Rock the Boat'

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Deb and I, and one for an attorney in Florida who says he's going to buy a^boat. I read everything, while my wife just looks at the pictures. After paying $3,000 a month to live next to the beach anc $350 a month in rent in the mountains of Klamath, I asked Deb if she wanted to trying living on a sailboat. As a program¬ mer, I’ve worked from home for the better part of 20 years, and told my wife that if she liked the liveaboard lifestyle, we could dump the traffic jams and try cruising for the next 20 years. After all, I already have a job lined up playing piano on an is¬ land off the coast of France. Yahoo! As a result of a few years racing on SC 50s, a few more doing beer cans around Santa Barbara, and living with Deb on a Co¬ lumbia 26 — it can be done comfortably — things have worked out so well that I'm currently building a 46-foot catamaran. Out of steel. Why? Steel is so cheap. She should come in al about 11 tons which is, ugh, heavy, but at least the chines will be round and the hulls spacious. I’m praying she performs well in eight to 12 knots, and hits 20 knots in 30 knots of breeze — but we shall see. I worked out the hull shape with Mark and Kelly, who have some hydrodynamic tank testing experience, and did the math for the plate cuts with Abe, a physicist who designed boilerk foi the nuclear industry. The models — 50 in all — seemed to glide and plane well. Unlike typical steel hull construction — where the keel and frames are laid first and the plate is mounted to them — we're using a 'pattern' technique. In this method, the plates are laid out to make a flat sheet 23 feet by 50 feet, and then a pattern is lofted on it. It's then rolled up into a 'burrito' — which produces compound curves in three directions. Even though the lines came out better than expected, Deb still won’t allow me to call her — the boat — Dos Burritos. To make sail handling easier on my 110-lb wife, and to re¬ duce the chance of a stay, mast or sail failure at sea — I worked with a guy from NASA to create fixed metal wings. The problem with such wings is that the high pressure flat side needs to be reversed from port to starboard — or vice versa — when you tack. When dealing with 1,000+ pounds of metal overhead, that's no easy feat. I thought about flipping the wing over a centra! axis — like a propeller — but figured that would be a little toe exciting. I finally came up with a two-piece self-tacking desigr that simply rotates on a vertical axis in place. The weight aloft for a wing was still a bit scaiy, so I looked ai other rigs — including the 'crab claw' that was featured and advertised in Latitude. It sounds good. Once I got the rig's ownei on the line, he told me that windward performance is excellenl and — like Max Ebb a few months ago — recommended reading C.A. Marchja's Sail Performance to learn about the benefits. My question to Latitude readers is this: Has anyone boughl a crab claw rig, and if so, how does the windward performance compare with Bermuda and other rigs? As a multihull ownerto-be, I’m really concerned about being able to point. To be or the safe side. I’ve begun collecting a half dozen mains, jibs anc gennies —- I’ve got three kevlar sails so far —just in case I enc up going to a sloop, cutter or ketch rig. A geologist on our docks who has also done a bit of aerodynamic study, explained thai in light airs it's hard to beat a thin, high aspect wing — such as on sloops and cutters. After all, look at the rigs on hang gliders The debate for me rages on, as I'll sadly miss the Millenniun

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Pillar Point Harbor, El Granada Craig and Debra — We always admire the cojones of people who try to reinvent — or dramatically improve — the 'wheel'. We can't remember the last time we heard of somebody building a steel sailing catamaran. There are, of course, two problems: 1) Steel is heavy and weight is devastating to multihull performance, and 2) Unlike most multihulls, steel ones can sink. We have heard of aluminum catamarans. The new 140 ft sailing cat France II, which was drawn by van Peteghem and Prevost — who drew most of the Lagoons and many other pro¬ duction cats — is of aluminum. Like steel cats, those of alumi¬ num can sink, too. Two years ago, Aehi, a Waikiki beach cat, hit a whale shark near the Diamond Head buoy while carrying 20 passengers. Her owner tells Latitude that she went down in three minutes. Fortunately the water was warm and all the pas¬ sengers were quickly rescued by other cats and the Coast Guard. The outfit's replacement cat was built of theoretically unsinkable foam and epoxy. Of course, a steel cat might have sliced through the whale shark like a piece of salami, but its something to con¬ sider. An if we may, a word on multihull boat speed. Having sailed Profligate for 18 months now — and five times in the last seven days — we think we've learned a few basics about cats and speed. Basic #1 — Many multihull proponents continue to make out¬ rageously false and misleading claims about boatspeed. For in¬ stance, in a recent issue of one sailing magazine, a reviewer of a popular 32 foot cruising cat — and not a particularly light one at that — assured readers that the boat had hit 12 knots while sailing downwind in Just 15 knots of breeze. What rubbish! Our advice is to maintain a healthy skepticism of multihull speed claims until you experience them yourself. Basic #2 — There are speed limits that most sailors don't want to exceed in a recreational boat, monohull or multihull. We recently were sailing with Hans Korfin, who as skipper of the 55-foot Adventure Cat has probably sailed the Bay more in the last five years than any other individual. Despite his incredible number of hours — and hundreds of times of sailing in excess of 15 knots — Hans had this to say: "Fifteen knots is as fast as I ever need to go." What he means is that the stress and loads on the boat, rig, sails, and skipper are greater than they're worth for more than just a short time. We've also had Profligate sailing at more than 15 knots in the Bay a few times and know exactly what Hans means. Ten knots is really sweet, 12 knots is even better, but after a few minutes at 15 knots, it’s time to think about easing off the throttle. The point of all this, Craig and Debra? If your cat ever does hit 20 knots, you might not be pleased. fill HELP AROUND THE BOAT

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If we're lucky, at least once in our lifetime we'll befriend an individual as full of life as Peter Newell. Those of us that came to love 'Pete' gathered on July 16 at his 'home' — Lake Merritt — to honor him with a Friday night sail and BBQ — an El Toro Fleet No. 4 summer institution Newell had conceived for the Lake Merritt Sailing Club. Pete would have been 95 on July 16, had he not passed on in April of this year. I came to know Pete in '67 at the El Toro North American Championships at Green Lake, Washington. 1 was an awkward teenager at the time, and this was the biggest event in the El Toro one-design — a class Pete had been pivotal in developing in 1940. He encouraged me to become a skilled sailor — a com¬ mon experience to anyone who knew him. Newell won the cham¬ pionship that year, and in so doing inspired me to ask my fa¬ ther to purchase an El Toro so I could emulate my new friend. Simply put, Pete was a wizard and took on numerous appren¬ tices in the manner of the Pied Piper. Pete was worldy wise and enjoyed life. He lived through World War I, the Roaring '20s, Prohibition, the Depression and World War II — and shared many stories about these times with me. Although Pete was thankful for "modem conveniences" and understood "life in the fast lane", above all he valued people, integrity and nature. His friends will remember him for his ability to attract, cre¬ ate and build a community — as he did with the El Toro class and Lake Merritt Sailing Club — among others. We'll also re¬ member Pete for his charm, wit and openness to people of all walks of life. Patricia L. Nelson San Rafael fl USTUGERON CAN BE FOUND ACROSS THE BORDER

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After a lifetime of sailing and lots of cruising, too. I'd like 'share some thoughts on anchors and anchoring. It's my belief that any of the popular anchors will work m of the time — if they are big enough. Big enough' means large as your boat, your budget, and your anchor windlass e ^handle. I use a 75-lb CQR with 360 feet of 3/8-inch chain the main anchor on my Cheoy Lee 50. My main anchor only failed me once, in Papeete Harboi local sailor loaned me a 45-lb Danforth that held perfectly. T1 really pissed me off, because just before leaving California given my 45-lb Danforth away — because it was so hard stow and because I'd never needed it. I also carry a 60-lb CQR with 30 feet of chain and 300 fee line. In reserve, I have a folding stem anchor and an additio: 300 feet of line. Next time I'll also cany a large Fortress and — which can be dismantled for easy stowing. Often times more important than the type of anchor you i is how it's ultimately attached. The bitter end of the tackle sho not be fastened to the boat with a rusty shackle under seve hundred pounds of chain, but rather to a stout part of the b well above the chain. If your boat's hawse holes are large enor to pass a small shackle — as they are on my boat — a sh length of chain should be attached that will allow you to rele; the bitter end while you are on deck. In addition, a catenary weight should be used in conditic that cause an anchor chain to snap and jerk. The weight ser as a spring that gets stronger as the chain gets straighten a thereby softens the ride at anchor. Catenary weights are h; to find, but easy to make: Melt about 20 pounds of lead — I balance weights, old bullets, and such — and pour it into attractive mold. I used a small stainless steel bowl. Inser loop of stainless rod, an eye bolt, or a piece of strap with a h in it to attach a chain hook. Shape the insert so it will not p out. A small handle on top of the hook makes it easier to hant When anchoring, let most of the scope out, let the weight hi from the chain, then let out another 10 to 15 feet of scope. My next suggestion is a little more unusual — but it re£ adds to my sense of security. A frequent cause of anchor accidents is the shackle breaking or working loose. So I att£ a two-foot piece of chain alongside the main chain, and shac it to the anchor ring and back into the main chain. It require slightly smaller shackle to go in the inside link. This also gi a little extra weight where it is most needed. My last piece of anchor gear, while I seldom use it, is neec in crowded anchorages such as La Paz where the current shi It's an orange net float about the size of a football with adjr able — between 20 and 40 feet — length of polypro line. Us that as an anchor buoy helps me and others keep track of wh my anchor is. I have also used-iha couple of times when I thou there was a possibility that I might have to slip my anchor if wind changed. By the way, it's very important that all anchor lines £

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chains be marked in such a way that you can immediately tel how much scope you've put out and when you're nearing thf bitter end. In dicey situations, you need definite answers tc these questions. Visual marks are the easiest to put on anc maintain, but physical marks that can be felt in the dark are sometimes worth all of the trouble it takes to maintain them The physical marks can be tie-wraps, different numbers of knots tied in cordage, different numbers of cords, different materials — anything that works. Bud Thompson writes a regular series of very interesting 'old timer' articles in the Hawaii YC newsletter. I especially enjoyed his recent letter about Northill anchors — since I have beer using folding Northill stainless versions for a stem anchor foi the last 30 years. Everything Thompson said about the Northill was true, but 1 have two things to add. With its large flukes and light weight, your boat must be nearly stopped when you cast it, or the Northill will tend to sail around before it hits the bottom. Also, stainless does not always mean stainless. After being buried in the mud of the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor at the Hawaii YC for a month, the buried flukes on my anchor came up a lovely cross between orange and brown! It looked like it had been electroplated or anodized. It still has traces of the stain. I'd also like to describe another unusual anchor I've carried for the last 36 years. Perhaps some of your older readers can provide some more history on it, but the 45-pounder is a beau¬ tiful design of solid bronze that had been beautifully cast and precision machined. The shape is that of a refined version of the Fisherman in that the flukes are palm shaped and the stocks are at right angles to the flukes. Each pair of flukes and stocks pivot on a 3/4-inch .75" pin and are held either open or folded by a second pin. The machine work for the folding mechanism is precise with absolutely no slack nor any problems in placing or removing the pins. I believe the anchor was made during World War II for use on a wood — and therefore non-magnetic — minesweeper. If the entire ship was built to the same standards, it must have cost as much as a battleship. I carried the anchor as a spare for many years. I did use it once or twice, but worried so much about losing it that I quit bullshitting myself that I might use it more. So I took it off the boat to protect it like the piece of art that it is. I would appreciate hearing more about it if someone out there is familiar with this type of anchor. Ernie Copp

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We not only had a tilting card problem, but we had one of th Danforth Constellation compasses that had a 'pointer' that wa bent 90°, so when we headed on more northerly courses, th pointer would rub on the card and totally prevent it from rotat ing. Since I had an identical spare compass aboard, I reverse* the electrical contacts on the second compass so it could b put in the binhacle backwards — i.e. with the bent pin in th foreground rather in the background. So we ended up having; 'northbound compass' and a 'southbound compass'. It worked too, even though the cards tilted severely. We felt the tiltinj didn't cause any major problems — we used celestial in thos days before GPS. I understand that a service center can weight these cards t< compensate for the tilt. But I personally wouldn't go into th southern hemisphere with a bent-pin type of compass becausi it simply won't work on certain headings. By the way, this phe nomenon is referred to in Bowditch. My other comment is to mention that if one has heavy weathe problems when coming up the California coast and trying t< rQund Point Sur, mariners do not have to retreat all the way t< San Simeon to anchor. There is good anchorage available jus under Pt. Sur at Pfeiffer Cove. Mariners should have a detaile* chart of the area, but as I recall, we followed the 10 fathom lim north until it turned west, then anchored. We actually went ii at night without a radar, GPS, or sounder. Ronn Hi! Northern Californi;

Ronn — Thanks for the info. Commodore Tompkins tells us he sought refuge in the Pfeiffe Cove anchorage while delivering a Swan 57 up the coast thii spring. It was blowing 30 and gusting to 40, and he was avoid ing the current by motorsailing north within 250feet of the rocki shore. Commodore cautions that he would only do this with c heavy boat so that if the engine quit he could tack offshore U safety. After looking at the little anchorage — "considerably smallei than Ayala Cove" — Commodore and his crew decided to con tinue on. About two minutes later, the diesel did quit! After reach ing back and forth to give them time to get the anchor ready they sailed into the cove and dropped the hook between a thicl bed of seaweed and a lone fishing boat. It was still blowing 2Z knots inside the cove, but there was no sea. They slept well.

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The letter from Frank Gonzalez regarding the use of a Prus hitch for the safety harness — in order to shorten it up — rais an important point. Being a rather large man, I have always fi that, should I go overboard, I would not like to be at the bu: ness end of such an arrangement, as it would be as though the 'cracking' end of a whip. Consequently, I have two tethers on my harness. The nc mal six-foot one and a shorter three-foot one. When making r way about the deck, I always remain clipped on, clipping < ahead of me before undoing the one behind me. Kind of like deck monkey man. As time and conditions allow, it is alwa better if one of the secure clips is to a hard point. When I arri at my working position, I then secure the short tether, and cl the longer one as backup. Both tethers, of course, have clips i both ends so I can release myself in an emergency. If I recall correctly, a man overboard situation at the start the Pacific Cup race some years back involved a crewmemb being catapulted up through the companionway and into t ocean in rough seas, just as he was attempting to get on de and clip on. It’s a credit to that vessel and her crew that he w retrieved successfully. After all, a safe voyage is a fun voyagi Sherwin Han Haywa

till WHALES AND CARS In an earlier issue, there was an item about the large nui ber of gray whales that had died in the waters off Baja this ye; No specific reason has been given for the deaths, but they s probably not all related. As an official of the Mexican fisheri department said, "Whales do die." As with all other living thinj it does happens. With the large number of gray whales aroui now, it's not surprising to see more whales turning up dead, the February 8 issue of the New Yorker, there was an arti< called The Cancer Cluster Myth describing the fallacious stat tics used to 'prove' the myth. These kinds of misapplied stat tics might also be being used to describe the recent deaths the whales. The second thing that got my interest was Latitude’s ansv. to the letter about proposed landfill at SFO by Dexter Bailii Latitude's response included a comment about 100 million mi being driven every day in the Bay Area. I wonder if you real how large — and impossible — such a number of miles is? The metropolitan Bay Area — from Petaluma to Santa Cr — has about seven million people. Much of the driving done the people in this area cannot affect the Bay because of t distance from the Bay and the prevailing westerly winds. Fi thermore, of the seven million people, probably half of th< either don't drive or don't have cars. Of the 3.5 million left, tl would have to drive an average of nearly 30 miles a day eac Where did you get the 100 million miles anyway? It sour

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Star of the show. Star of India, the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship afloat and the oldest ‘active’ sailing ship still in operation, was honored once again last month. Already a National Historic Landmark, she was awarded State Historic Landmark designation, one of only a few ‘floating’ landmarks to be so honored. Built in 1863 and christened Euterpe, the ship circumnavi¬ gated 21 times and spent her last working days as a member of the Alaska Packers during 1902-’03. She now serves as a ‘work¬ ing’ exhibit at the San Diego Maritime Museum, featuring ev¬ erything from guided tours to banquets to the innovative ‘Mov¬ ies Before the Mast’ program in which seafaring-theme movies are shown on board, under the stars and projected high aloft on a specially unfurled ‘movie screens’l’. The fully functional ship also sails every few years, with her last Voyage’ being in company with the Gold Fleet tallships that visited San Diego in July. Alive and well — but the interview will have to wait. For many sailors, a cruise down the Pacific northwest coast would be an adventure of a lifetime. For Peter Freeman, it was a neat way to spend a peaceful three-week vacation with his wife earlier this summer. In 1984-1985, Freeman broke the world record for solo non-stop circumnavigation aboard his 32-ft Ri¬ chard Hartley RORC design Laivina. Peter and Maiy live on Vancouver Island, Canada, where he is very involved in triathalon training, cycling and track and field events when not sailing. Freeman has a website full of details about his sailing ad¬ ventures, including a diaiy about the circumnavigation, at http:/ / www. islandnet. com/ ~pfreeman/sports/sailing/sailing, htm. He built Laivina (LIE-vin-yah — a Latvian endearment term for little sailboat’) in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1979 and launched her April 30, 1980. She sailed 3,000 miles over a period of a year in New Zealand waters, then voyaged across the Tasman Sea to Brisbane. While in Australia, Freeman designed and built a self steering system and in July, 1982, sailed to Victoria, Brit¬ ish Columbia with a crew of two, taking 65 days for the Pacific crossing. On October 14, 1984, Freeman set sail from Victoria for a non-stop solo circumnavigation from west to east, rounding Cape Horn and running the easting down on the 50th parallel to Hobart, then across the Tasman sea to Dunedin, New Zealand, and across the Pacific back to Victoria. The non-stop portion was measured from Santa Barbara, California, to Santa Barbara and was completed in 236 days,

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breaking the existing world record. (Freeman’s record was bro¬ ken about six months later by Dodge Morgan who completed his voyage in 170 days.) According to "Knobby" Knobson, whc keeps the records for Guinness, Laivina still holds the record for vessels of her size. Peter and wife Mary visited the Sausalito Cruising Club in June, planning to show slides of the record-breaking journey on the weekend of SCC's 50th anniversary celebrations. Free¬ man, who is 47 but doesn't look a day over 35, said the most remarkable thing about the trip down the coast was the water temperature. "In Puget Sound the water averages somewhere around nine degrees (celsius)," he said. “We were surprised to find that the temperature kept dropping. Off of the Golden Gate we got readings in the sixes.” While he was in town, we hoped to catch up with him for an interview. But you know what they say about the best laid plans. On the week preceding the slide show, the Freemans sailed fop the Delta, wanting to spend a few quiet nights at anchor and perhaps warm up, while paying close attention to the weather for their trip back north. Should conditions deterio¬ rate, they planned to shorten their stay in order to make it home by July 5. The following weekend came and went with no sign of the Freemans or their slides other than a rumor that the weather had indeed turned for the worst. Upon inquiry, the following email appeared:

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I will be sailing off in the blue horizon over the next four weeks. During that time Pam Aarnoudse will be handling all Cemetery and Funeral Services issues and Lana Burns will be handling Motor Dealers. I will return to the office on July 5 at the latest., — end of message — Further inquiries went unanswered. At sea, where commu¬ nication can become a vital link, silence became a cause for concern. Or perhaps there had been a death in the family, which had prompted the desire for a three week trip as a healing ven¬ ture. Finally, two weeks later:

Just a quick note now to say that we made it safely. It took 12 days to get back, eight of which were tacking against 2535 knot winds all the way to the half way point of Cape Blanco. After Cape Blanco we had better weather and a southeasterly and it was more pleasant. Without knowing my employment status, it was no wonder that you were shocked. There have been no bereavements in the family. I happen to be the Registrar of Cemetery and Funeral Services and Motor Dealers for the Ministry of Attor¬ ney General and was directing the messages to my adminis¬ trators in each of the two areas. It was so thoughtful of you to express a concern. — Peter WHEW! With the lines of communication back open, apolo¬ gies and further explanations arrived. Impending bad weather had caused the Freemans to cut short their stay. It was a long, wet slog north. Maiy was so used to the rough motion that, “It took me three days to get over my landsickness.” “Please convey to the club our sincere appreciation for the hospitality that was shown,” she continued. ‘The final plate of fruit that was handed to us when we left epitomized the friend¬ liness that I felt during our short stay. Cheers and thanks for your concern.” — ethan hay

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Johnny the painter. John J. Bertonccini was more than a sailor and sea captair in the last days of sail. Known far and wide as ‘Johnny the Painter’, Bertonccini chronicled his life afloat with scores o paintings, photos and journals. Born in Stockholm, Bertonccini first shipped out, on an Arc tic voyage, in 1892. He thereafter sailed out of San Franciscc on a variety of fishing, whaling and cargo ships until the 1930s — including a stint as master of the Balclutha (then Star o Alaska) during the ‘25 salmon season. Johnny the Painter made his final landfall at Fiddler’s Green in 1947 at the age of 75. For awhile now, a dedicated group of friends of the San Fran cisco Maritime National Historical Park Library has been work ing to acquire this extensive memoir. Here’s just one smal sample of what it contains: We had about a hundred codfish and halibut when Mr. Frase hooked something heavy. Soon something greenish-brown ap peared and, recognizing our catch, with a yell of warning I cu the line. . . The monster ‘Octupus’ or ‘Devilfish’, after reaching the surface, at once proceeded to climb into the boat. . . The othe four men had crawled forward out of the way, but Mr. Frase and myself were instantly held prisoner by two of those terribli snaky arms. . . We were both fighting madly. . . The other men were jabbint away at the monster with our whaling lances (but) the Octupw soon got possession of both of them. Our bow oarsman venturer too close and was promptly seized, both arms being pinned fast Twice he was pulled out of the boat and returned and the thin time, thru some vagaries of the monster, he was flung more that twenty feet from the boat. ...” The collection’s importance to Pacific maritime histor spurred formation of the Bertonccini Collection Committee which has had the materials appraised and now seeks $150,00< to purchase it. Help is needed to make that possible. If you car to make a tax-deductible contribution toward this worthwhil endeavor, you may do so c/o The Bertonccini Collection Com mittee, Library, S.F. Maritime Nat’l Historical Park, Bldg. E Lower Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 94123-1394, or contac Committee Chair Linda Kahn (415-346-0643) or Principal Li brarian David Hull (415-556-9872).

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hail Columbia Hard on the heels — or perhaps sprinting out ahead — of the two San Francisco Bay America’s Clip syndicates, a group of 14 hardy, weathered and somewhat graying local sailors did the Bay Area proud last month. They were the Hole In One Syndicate, Knarr Fleet veterans who capped a year of planning and training with participation in the Sixth Annual Edgartown Yacht Club Classic 12-Meter Regatta on Au¬ gust 6-8. The icing on the cake: they won! As America's Cup followers will know, competitions for the Auld Mug were contested in 12-Meters from 1958 until 1987. And old 12Meters don’t die, they just go on racing in special events and thrilling anyone lucky enough to take part. Columbia, the Hole In One team’s steed, elicited more than the usual thrill factor. With Cornelius Shields at the helm, the Sparkman and Stephens-designed beauty won the ‘58 Cup 4-zip over the British 12 Sceptre. The rest of the Classic Division (characterized by full keels a fid at¬ tached rudders) was no less distinguished: Gleam (trial horse for both continued on outside column of next sightings page

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Reports weren’t in from all the ‘precincts’ as we went to press, but the End of Week rollover of the GPS system appears to have been pretty much of a non-event for boat¬ ers. (There was reportedly a glitch in auto¬ mobile-mounted units in Japan that sent people flocking to repair shops.) The End of Week (EOW) event was built into the GPS system from the start. Unlike the Y2K problem, EOW has been known about and planned for from the get-go. All it was was a cycle. The time-sensitive GPS sys¬ tem started counting weeks at its startup in January, 1980, and on midnight, August 2122, its alotted 1,024 weeks were up. Simple as that. According to most people who should know, all but the very oldest GPS units sim-

SIGHTINGS were you on 8/22? ply reset themselves to zero and started over. Please note that the EOW event has noth¬ ing to do with Y2K, the so-called ‘millenium bug’. That is an entirely separate issue. (Nothing new to report there, by the way. Most experts say newer GPS units should function properly after midnight, December 31, but the bottom line is that we’ll just have to wait and see.) The caution regarding EOW was that some older handheld units might restart back at January, 1980. This could result in an inability to locate satellites, delays in locat¬ ing satellites or the biggie: the appearance of working correctly while displaying inac¬ curate positions. continued middle of next sightings page

Columbia — cont’d challengers and defenders in 1958; built in 1937, she was the oldest boat in attendance), Northern Light (trial horse in the 1958, '62 and ’64 trials). Weatherly (though she lost defender trials to Columbia in '58,

Above, Hole-In-One gang with the spoils of victory. Left, taking care of business aboard ‘Courageous’. she came back to beat Columbia in 1962, and went on to defeat the Australian Gretel 4-1 in the America’s Cup), Easterner (competed in defender trials in ’58 and ‘62), Nejertiti, (competed in defender trials ‘62 and ‘64) and American Eagle (competed in defender trials in ‘64, latef campaigned successfully in non A-Cup 12-Meter events in the 1970s by Ted Turner). Over in the ‘Modern’ Division (separate rudders) were Intrepid (suc¬ cessfully defended the Cup in 1967 and 1970), Valiant (‘70 and '74 trial horse). Courageous (successfully defended in ‘74 and 77), Fiddler (built by NYYC to reclaim cup from Australia, lost defender trials to Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes) and Fury (ex-Kiwi Magic, the only fiberglass 12-Meter). The 14 Hole-In-One’ers — named for the Knarr Class insignia (a circle) and the growing predisposition of senior syndicate members to spend time on golf courses — arrived in Massachusetts with their spouses a day or two before the regatta. Columbia herself arrived on Friday morning from Newport and was greeted at the Edgartown Yacht Club by the syndicate crew, most with eyes wide as saucers at the beauty and size of the boat. Columbia is nearly 70 feet long, 12 feet in beam, 9 feet deep.and carries more than 1,800 square feet of sail. By contrast, a Knarr is 30 feet long, has a 4 foot draft and carries 242 square feet of sail. , Friday afternoon was the team’s only opportunity to practice on the boat. They were encouraged to hear syndicate helmsman Larry Drew — who was more used to tillers than Columbia’s giant wheel — an¬ nounce, "It’s just like steering a Knarr. . . a really giant Knarr!” A minor glitch occurred at day’s end when the headboard on the main detached from the mast slot. Repairs were completed only minutes before leav¬ ing the dock for the first race on Nantucket Sound on Saturday morn¬ ing. ESPN commentator Gary Jobson had won the ‘98 Regatta with Co¬ lumbia, so the pressure was on the HIO gang. And they rallied to the cause. The starting gun for Race One found Columbia pinching out American Eagle, after which tactician Mike Ratiani immediately broke with local knowledge. Columbia sailed over to the right side of the course while the entire rest of the fleet stayed to the left. Two hours later, Columbia finished — 8 minutes ahead of the second boat. She had outsailed both the Classic and Modem divisions! The cheers from Co¬ lumbia and much of the spectator fleet could be heard at least as far west as the Continental Divide. Race Two was sailed in brisk winds and featured close competition among the Classic Fleet. Initially unable to break away from tight cover by American Eagle, tactician Ratiani was finally able to get Columbia over to the right side of the course again — once more contrary to the rest of the fleet — and she went on to finish a close second to her historic nemesis Weatherly by less than a boatlength. continued on outside column of next sightings page

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Sunday dawned gray, bleak and cold with winds gusting above 35 knots. Rain began to fall at the start of the racing, and after some difficulty hoisting sails in the stormy conditions, Columbia had to take everyone’s stern on the first weather leg. But again, with the tactical magic of Mike Ratiani, the rock-steady steering of Larry Drew and herculean efforts from the entire crew, Columbia rounded the weather mark third, behind Weatherly and American Eagle. Despite sailing with a reefed main, while the hardened crews of Weatherly and ‘Eagle were carrying full mains, Columbia overhauled ‘Eagle on the run and rounded the leeward mark less than a boatlength behind Weatherly. At this point, the racers were hit by a mini-typhoon. An inch of rain fell in 15 minutes. Columbia had closed to an overlap of Weatherly

augering Back in our surfing days, pearling had nothing to do with oysters or jewelry. It meant unintentionally burying the nose of the board and the abrupt end of the ride. Pearling is still around, and, as you can

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in see from these photos, it doesn’t matter if you do it with a surfboard or a boat. The results are pretty much the same. As with any hardy waterman, though, this competi¬ tor was up and going again in short order.

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when a loud crack signaled not only the arrival of a violent thunder¬ storm over the race course, but the parting of Columbia’s main halyard and the immediate collapse of the mainsail. In true San Francisco tradition, the Hole-In-One gang got the sail under control and eventually raised it again using the spinnaker top¬ ping lift. It’s in such moments that the stuff of legends is bom. Just as the main was going back up, the race committee called on the VHF to ask if Columbia was retiring. Without hesitation, and in a voice that could only be described as ‘booming’, Mike Ratiani bellowed “Abso¬ lutely not!” into the radio. “Columbia is not retiring. We will complete the race!” And finish they did, out of the money, of course, but with a special reward. As Columbia passed through the finish line, the entire race committee lined up on the rail of the committee boat in their ties and blazers, in the pouring rain, and applauded! A further deterioration of the weather caused the committee to aban¬ don the rest of the regatta, ensuring that no serious damage would befoul this remarkable fleet of boats. Conditions were so severe that the fleet was restricted to mooring buoys in Edgartown Harbor, as any attempt to dock at the yacht club was simply too dangerous. Despite the equipment failure, Columbia had accumu¬ lated sufficient points to take home the Classic Fleet Cham¬ pionship silver bowl. The entire crew came forward to accept and, led by crewmember Rosalind Colver, serenaded the large crowd with a slight rewrite of San Francisco, Open Up Your Golden Gate. Rousing rounds of applause signaled respect from locals for the team from the ‘left coast,’ and eveiyone left for home savoring the sailing, the boats and the victory. And it didn’t stop there. According to recent correspon¬ dence from Edgartown, “The entire town is still talking about the performance of Columbia and the remarkable presenta¬ tion by the crew at Edgartown YC. You all ratcheted up the style quo¬ tient quite a lot. It’s a hard act to follow!” Yes, plans are already underway for a repeat performance. Congratulations to the Hole In One syndicate, all of whom, as men¬ tioned, are veteran Knarr skippers or crew: Jo Ayres, A1 Blair, John and Rosalind Colver, Lariy Drew, John Heath, Ray Palmer, Mike Ratiani, Mike Roy, George Rygg, Steve Shaffer, Jim Tull, Mike Walsh and Steve Wear.

bajaribbean by the bay If you love sailing the Bay but wish it were warmer, September and October are your months. While the wind can still blow hard and cold, the chances are that it will be lighter and warmer then any other time of year. And if you seek out the right places, you can often find — gasp — hot wind on the Bay! On Saturday, August 21, for instance, we skipped out of work early to take our niece and some of her university frien.ds out sailing. After reaching out across the face of Angel Island, we found ourselves in a typical 20 knots of cool Bay breeze. This wasn't going to cut it for this cruise, as the barefooted 'leaders of tomorrow' came dressed in noth¬ ing more than shorts and T-shirts. To keep them from getting hypoth¬ ermia, we gibed and headed down Raccoon Straits. The lighter breeze and lower apparent windspeed made it ideal T-shirt weather. And then we felt a couple of hot puffs off Angel Island. In late summer and fall, the land masses in the Bay get hotter and retain more heat than at any other time of year. When late summer and fall's lighter winds blow over them, it works like a gigantic heater. Sensing that this was one of those days, we turned to port after leaving continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS bajaribbean — cont’d Raccoon Straits to an area we call 'Bajarribean by the Bay’. The area is the roughly three miles between Bluff Point and Paradise Cay in the lee of the Tiburon Peninsula.

Sure enough, all the vegetation of the hilly Tiburon Peninsula, com¬ bined with the heat given off by the newly minted billionaires shuffling their stock options, resulted in 10 to 18 knots of not just any wind, but hot wind. While we didn't have a thermometer, our group estimated the relative temperature to be in the mid-80s. It was fantastic! The wind didn't carry much more than a half mile or so offshore, and if we went too far to the northwest or southeast we'd get back into cold air, so we kept reaching back and forth along this three-mile stretch of particularly smooth water. After somebody put on some reggae, all we'd have needed was a Pusser's Pain Killer and we’d have been transported back to the per¬ fect sailing conditions of the sunny Caribbean. And when the trum¬ peted sounds of mariachi music came on, we might as well have been back in the Sea of Cortez sipping margaritas with cruising friends. What made the day all the more 'Bajaribbean-ish' is the fact that the slanted rays of the late afternoon sun made the Bay — which normally is a dull green at best and a mud brown at worst — appear bright blue. Oh yeah, baby! For whatever reason, we've been sailing the Bay more frequently in the last two months than we have anytime in the past 25 years. And we're here to tell you that if you're a Bay sailor, you're one of the lucki¬ est sailors in the world. For there is nowhere where you're going to find so many great and varied sailing conditions, so many mini destina¬ tions and mini climates, and so much natural and urban beauty. With the Bay Area's best sailing weather upon us, we can't help but recom¬ mend that you take advantage of it.

a youthful odyssey “Okay, you guys, listen up. You’re going to learn to coil rope today, so watch carefully. ...” The new crewmembers listened intently as the instructor quickly flaked out a length of rope. But showing the guys ‘the ropes’ in this case was not some crusty old salt, but rather a pretty young lady named Sophia. And the ship was not a military vessel, but the beautiful Sea continued on outside column of next sightings page

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hearts of Heart attack is something we are — so far — only tacitly familiar with personally. We’ve never been in the presence of some¬ one having a coronary ‘event.’ But we think about it more as our friends and family get older. Especially since we take so many folks out sailing. We don’t have any hard statis¬ tics on it, but over the years we’ve come to realize that heart attacks occur with some frequency on boats. Would you know what to do if a loved one

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suddenly clutched his or her chest and col¬ lapsed? Would you know what to tell them to do? Dr. Richard Austin would. This Caribbean physician/boater has been on both ends of the scalpel, so to speak. As well as treating victims of heart attack, he's had three of them himself, as well as one bypass and four angio-plasties! He’s still here, though, and is proud to say, “I’m still boating!”

Scout training yawl Odyssey. “Now you guys try it, one at a time,” continued Sophia, easily han¬ dling a coil of rope nearly her size. One by one, the new ‘guys’ caught on, and she nodded approval as her novices practiced their newly learned skills. To become crew aboard the 90-ft classic, they’d need them. Sixteen-year-old Sophia Nyberg is one of many young Sea Explor¬ ers, both male and female, that form the backbone of Odyssey’s crew. For more than 21 years, the yacht has been owned and operated as a Scout training vessel by the Pacific Harbors Council of the Boy Scouts

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SIGHTINGS odyssey — cont’d of America. Since procuring the vessel in 1978, thousands of Sea Scouts have learned the traditional arts of seamanship, navigation and boat handling aboard. A large number have graduated to careers in the maritime industries, and many have become business executives. The program seems to bring out the best in those who step aboard — few if any crew members have ever become gang members or landed in jail. Odyssey was designed by Sparkman and Stephens along the lines of their famous Dorade. She was built by the well-respected Nevins Boatyard in New York for Mrs. Barklie Vanderbilt Henry as a birthday present for her husband. The boat was launched in 1938 and enjoyed by the family during numerous cruises, including a visit to the Galapagos Islands in 1939. Like many other boats, Odyssey was pressed into wartime patrol service. The Navy took her over in 1942 and commissioned her Saluda. After the war, the family declined their now well-used and worn vqssel. She was subsequently used for a variety of experimental programs, including dolphin research, on both the East and West Coasts. In 1950, an inexperienced Navy crew using borrowed sails was able to win the Newport to Ensenada Race. Under the name Saluda she continued to enter that classic west coast event, participating a total of twenty-live times. In 1974, she was reassigned to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington and designated for recreational use. Unfortunately, a lim¬ ited amount of money was available, and when it came down to a choice between maintaining a classic wooden yawl or improving the golf course, the base commander chose golf. Odyssey was put out to pasture on a mooring until 1978 when she was rescued by the Scouts. They paid the Navy $ 1.00 for the nearly derelict vessel. With the assistance of the local maritime community, some gener¬ ous donors, and thousands of man hours of labor, the grand yacht was refit for Sea Scout training purposes — and rechristened with her origi¬ nal name. Since then, the big yawl has been maintained in Bristol condition by the Pacific Harbors Council and a group of dedicated volunteers. She operates as a Coast Guard certified charter vessel. She has a ro¬ tating group of 10 licensed volunteer captains, as well as an active contingent of adults — many former crewmembers — who pitch in. During fall, winter and spring, she sails every Thursday evening from her berth on Tacoma’s Commencement Bay, and newcomers are al¬ ways welcome. When not involved in training sails, Odyssey helps pay her way by offering private charters. But for nine weeks every summer, she be¬ longs to the Sea Scouts. Sailing out of Friday Harbor in Washington’s San Juan Islands, the boat is home to a crew of 10 Scouts for a week of nautical ‘summer camp.' Instead of archery, backpacking and tents, the Scouts learn rope handling, seamanship, navigation and how to sail a large classic vessel. Instead of nights around the campfire, they sit around the cock¬ pit, listening to seas stories and singing chanteys. They cook, clean, scrub, sail and sleep aboard Odyssey under the careful guidance of a senior skipper. Along the way, the Scouts learn self-reliance, team¬ building and cooperation. Berths for the summer cruises are $375 per scout, and are avail¬ able to Scout Troops from all over the country. The program is so popular that berths are often sold out far in advance. So next time you wonder what happens with those donated boats, think of Sea Scout training vessels like Odyssey. They give young boys and girls the opportunity to learn important skills and how to work as a team before they become ‘at risk.’ And who knows, maybe they’ll even be lucky enough to have Sophia show them the ropes. —John d. skoriak For information about Odyssey and other Sea Scout programs, con¬ tact the Pacific Harbors Council, Boy Scouts of America at (800) 3336599 or contact BSAboats@aol.com on the internet. Page 114 • IMUmU Zi • September. 1999

hearts Austin wrote a very interesting article entitled Heart Attacks At Sea for the Carib¬ bean sailing publication All At Sea. We here¬ with share his observations about what to do if you ever find yourself, or someone on your boat, in this life-or-death situation. ■ Heart attacks are usually signalled by severe chest pain that sometimes radiates into your left arm and jaw. Your heart stops beating properly and you begin to feel faint. At that point, says Austin, “You have about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.” The first thing you should do — or tell someone to do — is to cough repeatedly and vigorously. Victims should take a deep breath before each cough and the cough must be

SIGHTINGS — cont’d

3 years, 12 feet, 15,000 miles

deep and prolonged, as when you’re cough¬ ing up phlegm during illness. The breath and-cough must be repeated about every two seconds without letting up until help arrives or the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeez¬ ing can also help the heart regain its normal rhythm. The next course of action is to call for help: 911 if you have a cellphone, “mayday" on channel 16 if you have a VHF — or other appropriate emergency contacts for Ham, SSB, Inmarsat, whatever. Austin stresses

There are few unique voyages on Earth’s waterways anymore. At first glance, it seems like every navigable gallon of H20 in the world has ‘been done’ at one time or another in everything from log rafts to air¬ craft carriers. On second glance — or is it ‘double-take?’ — you meet a guy like Steve Ladd and all the preconceptions go out the window. Between 1990 and 1993, the Washington native navigated his self-designed, self-built 12-ftboat Squeak on a 15.000-mile journey that ranged from the Canadian border to the Caribbean. He crossed the breadth of the U.S. and South America, hopped rides on freighters and island-hopped up the Caribbean to complete the voyage of wanderlust in Miami. He kept copious journals along the way. This year, he finally completed the last ‘phase’ of the adventure: self-publishing a book about the ex¬ perience. It was well worth the wait. Three Years in a 12-Foot Boat is one of the most fascinating, well-written voyage accounts we’ve ever

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SIGHTINGS 3, 12, 15K — cont’d read, easily on a par with the best of the Hiscocks, Pardeys and even old Josh Slocum himself. As fun as it is to read about, the voyage itself wasn’t exactly everyone’s cup of tea. In the late ‘80s, Ladd’s familiar dreams of going cruising got sidetracked front the norm when he started figuring out how small he could go, rather than how big. Much to the concern of his then-girlfriend (who thought she was going), he settled on a one-man sail /row boat. He arrived at the 12-ft LOA by scaling down a full-size design until it weighed about 250 pounds — the most he could drag up a beach. (The design was based on ideas from Chuck Paine, Phil Bolger and a shallow-draft devotee named Commodore Munroe.) Squeak was cold-molded of two layers of 1/8-inch fir, then sheathed with fiber¬ glass. The rig consisted of two windsurfer masts and a small main and mizzen fashioned by a local Puget Sound sailmaker. Instead of sailing across oceans. Squeak — named for a dearly de¬ parted cat — lent herself more to river and coastal travel. So when the time came to go, he had a friend drive him across the Cascades to the headwaters of the Milk River, just half a mile south of the Canadian border in Montana. As soon as they found water deep enough,^they launched Squeak, and Steve was on his way. He eventually sailed, rowed and drifted all the way down the Milk, the Missouri and finally Mississippi Rivers. From New Orleans, he traded a week and a half of work on a freighter for a ride to Panama. From there, he navigated a short stretch of Pacific, got capsized, made it to Buenaventura, Columbia, got trucked across the Andes, got robbed at knifepoint and spent the next nine months traversing the breadth of South America on the Meta and Orinoco Rivers — the former almost entirely at night to avoid guerillas. From there he island hopped the tiny ketch up the windward and leeward islands of the West Indies, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Cuba and finally to voyage’s end in Miami. In a somewhat fitting epilogue, he bought a trailer for Squeak and called up one of those AAMCO places where you drive someone elses’ car from point A to point B. He arrived back in Seattle towing the boat behind Paul Marriott’s (of Marriott Hotels) personal limosine. The people he met along the way evoke notions of Twain, Hemingway and Elmore Leonard. The difference, of course, is that Ladd’s oddball cast of characters were all real. The whole 3-year adventure cost $12,500, which included the $2,000 it cost to build the boat. Ladd says the journey satisfied his wander¬ lust (we hope to shout). He happily works today as a City Planner in Seattle. sLadd — with Squeak in tow (that’s them at right) — breezed through the Bay Area last month to promote his book. After he spoke at a lightly-attended gathering at the Berkeley YC, we shook his hand and told him how thoroughly we enjoyed Three Years On a 12-Foot Boat. When we got home, we peeked at what he’d written in the copy we’d asked him to sign. “Take your adventures where you find them,” he wrote. “And enrich other’s lives by sharing them — Steve.” Editor’s Note — Three Years On a 12-Foot Boat should be available at Bay Area bookstores soon after this issue goes to press. If you can’t find it locally, you can get it by mail for $15.95 plus $4 shipping from Seekers Press, 2520 NW 195th Place, Seattle, WA 98177.

countdown to the millennium ha-ha As this issue hits the street, it's just 10 days until the September 10 entry deadline for the Millennium Ha-Ha Rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas and just 56 days until the start itself. Because procrasti¬ nation is a primary component of the human condition, the Grand Poobah of Baja Ha-Ha, Inc., tells us that even in late August they were still getting more requests for entry packets than actual entries. While continued on outside column ot next sightings page

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hearts that emergency contacts should be right at hand near the radio or phone so anyone can make the call. If you’re cruising in a foreign locale, it’s particularly important to find out those emergency contacts beforehand, and have them posted and ready for use. Other actions that will help: • Take aspirin. Austin notes this is still controversial, but his feeling is that all heart patients should take an aspirin every day. • Before leaving port, get a prescription for nitroglycerine sublingual spray and keep some of it on board. The pressurized, sealed container lasts longer than the tablets and is readily absorbed. All it takes is two spritzes under the tongue. • If you’re alone, or with someone who is

SIGHTINGS unable to help, or if you are the person who is unable to help, tiy to attract the attention of other boaters. • A heart attack patient who gets CPR increases his chances of survival from 4% to 40%. If you have a friend or family mem¬ ber who is getting to that place in life where heart attack is a possibility, maybe it’s time you signed up for a refresher course in Cardio-Pulmonary Rescusitation. While all Dr. Austin’s suggestions sound like good ones, it’s important for anyone with any medical concern to consult their per¬ sonal physician before they go on any long trips. Explain your plans, and get his or her advice on what you — and your crew — should do if you have trouble far from help.

millennium ha-ha — cont’d it's impossible to know how many boats will actually participate in the Ha-Ha, 96 have already paid in full, so it won't be lonely. The one thing that's going to be different from previous Ha-Ha,s is the dearth of berths available before the start in San Diego and after the finish in Cabo San Lucas. The problem is simple: People are mak¬ ing more money than ever, and when they do, they buy boats and fill marinas. The following are the options for accommodations prior to the HaHa: 1) Call all the marinas in San Diego and ask about space. The chances are slim, but a few will probably get lucky. 2) Call the yacht clubs and see if you can reserve space at their docks. If they're openminded, they might even allow a little rafting to help accommodate more boats. 3) Hope for a "transient slip" adjacent to the San Diego Police Dock on the SW tip of Shelter Island. They can accommodate 23 boats, it's inexpensive, but it's first-come, first-served. 4) Stay further north until just before the event. Catalina, for example, will have uncontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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The horrendous earthquake in Turkey last month may have changed the face of that country's western cruising grounds forever. While tens of thousands of bodies and a few miraculous survivors continued to be pulled from the rubble as this issue went to press, reports were just starting to filter in about what happened at seaside when the 7.4 mag¬ nitude temblor hit at 3 a.m. on April 18. In the seaside resort town of Golcuk, on the Marmara sea, witnesses said the water receded, then thundered ashore, sweeping over the promenade and flooding half a dozen seafront buildings — some up to the third floor! Three of the buildings, including a seven-story apartment complex with a cof¬ feehouse on the ground floor, collapsed.

limited space at the seven nights for the price of two rate — it's lovely in October and just 75 miles from San Diego. Long Beach usually has a lot of end-ties where you can stay for two weeks. There are also yachts clubs, moorings, and slips in Newport Beach, Dana Point, Oceanside, Mission Bay and Ensenada. The fifth and probably the easiest option will be anchoring in San Diego Bay. There are a number of good anchorages within the Bay and a few days on the hook there will be a good 'baby step' toward all the anchoring most participants will do during the rest of the season. In addition, the San Diego Harbor Police are working with the Ha-Ha to make it as painless as possible. For instance, they've provided Latitude with two big boxes of fat 'Welcome to San Diego Bay1 packets, which are stuffed with all the information and phone numbers any mariner would need in San Diego Bay. In addition, they are setting aside two 'special use' anchorages specifically for the Ha-Ha fleet —just as they did last year: continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS “like atlantis” The casualties, which included two po¬ lice officers whose car was swept away, were among 1,000 dead in Golcuk alone. Part of Golcuk’s waterfront never came back up. A 200-yard strip of seafront sev¬ eral blocks long — part of a reclaimed swamp that apparently ‘sank' — remains underwa¬ ter. An Associated Press writer who was rowed around described how the tips of trees and lampposts poked above the surface. And how, looking down into slowly-clearing wa¬ ters still being searched by divers, you could see benches, cars, the cobblestones of the promenade — and the brightly colored hulls of pleasure boats that had been moored at the town dock only a few nights before.

ha-ha — cont’d • A-9 Anchorage — located at the eastern tip of Harbor Island, near the Coast Guard station and adjacent to the floating paddle wheel res¬ taurant, Rueben E. Lee. • Glorietta Bay Golf Course Anchorage — traveling west from Harbor Island, pass under the Coronado Bridge and turn right along the shore¬ line. Go past a “5mph buoy” and a “no anchoring buoy" and anchor anywhere along the shoreline (all the way down to where the channel turns to enter Glorietta Bay). Additionally, the Grand Poobah recommends the following anchor¬ ages: La Playa Cove, between the San Diego and Southwestern YCs, which is great for access to Downwind Marine, West Marine and other marine merchants (weekends only, permit required); the Shelter Is¬ land anchorage which is close to most marine businesses and not too far from the Harbor Island Ha-Ha headquarters at Cabrillo Isle Ma¬ rina; and the Glorietta Bay anchorage (72 hours only), a little out of the way, but quiet and close to Coronado's lovely beach. If necessary, call the San Diego Police officers Mount or Martinez for clarifications at (619) 686-6277. 'Welcome to San Diego Bay' Packets — while they last — can be picked up at the Latitude 38 office in Mill Valley or at the Mexico KickOff Party at the Encinal YC on October 5. If you are a registered en¬ trant a permit for the special anchorages can be picked up after Sep¬ tember 10 at Latitude 38, at the Kick-Off Party in Alameda, or in San Diego at either Downwind Marine (2804 Canon St.), or at Cabrillo Isle Marina on Harbor Island. New San Diego Harbor Police Chief Dave Hall says his officers un¬ derstand that a lot of boats will be in port from out of the area, and if people get confused and anchor in the wrong place the officers will simply direct them to an appropriate spot. Be warned, however: If you're going to be using your dinghy, make sure it's legal. This means CF numbers, running lights at night, and observing the speed limits. The berthing situation in Cabo San Lucas is going to be equally tight. Raft-ups at end ties and anchoring out are going to be the order of the day — although the Rally Committee says they are working with the Cabo Port Captain to see if they can get permission for fleet mem¬ bers to anchor inside the harbor. Unfortunately, the Mexican govern¬ ment is building a 150-foot pier in the Inner Harbor, eliminating even more space than before. The best move will be to get out of Cabo quickly. The Ha-Ha awards ceremony is November 6, and the Grand Poobah highly recommends that most boats leave Cabo by Monday the 8th. To that end, the folks at Marina Palmira in La Paz, 120 miles to the north, are starting to organize an La Paz Ha-Ha follow-up' event. They are still working out the details, but it should include stops at Los Frailes, Muertos and a big party at Marina Palmira. Cruising in the southern Sea of Cortez is usually sensational through the end of November and into early De¬ cember. More Ha-Ha news next month.

bar raising — tyc makes the move We’ve been hearing about Tiburon Yacht Club’s impending move to new quarters for what seems like about a century now. But when they moved the bar out at the end of July, <ve knew it was finally happening for real. TYC vacated their old clubhouse in Paradise Cay — home of the club since its founding in 1965 — on July 31. Under the Paradise Cay Development Plan, new condos will eventually occupy the old site. (The Plan also includes a new park, and the expansion and modernization of the marina.) For TYC, the best part of the Plan is the site of their new clubhouse at the end of the Peninsula. ‘The view from there is just spectacular," says Commodore Trip Ames. “You Gan even see Mount Tam.” continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS tyc — cont’d TYC has long been one of the more active sailing clubs on the Bay. But what really sets them apart is the size and enthusiasm of their work parties. A few years ago, a veritable army of volunteers rebuilt and expanded the old clubhouse from top to bottbm. On moving day, 40 or so members — more than a quar¬ ter of the total membership — appeared with rolled up sleeves and got to work, emptying the club of 35 years worth of accu¬ mulated stuff in about six hours. That included the club’s beauti¬ ful 25-ft bar, built by longtime member Lon Wood-rum. Appar¬ ently quite a bit of discussion went into the best way to move this all-important fixture. Every¬ one agreed that it should be moved intact, but with every nickel needed for the new club¬ house, renting a mechanical lift¬ ing device was voted down. As Harry Blake put it, “We finally reasoned that if the Egyptians could build the pyramids without a towmotor, we could, move a 25-ft bar.” So it was that the bar where so many rum & OJs had been hoisted was itself hoisted by 25 or 30 able-bodied guys. Along with everything else, it went into one of two donated containers to await the completion of the new quarters. To raise a few more nickels, at the end of the day, all the bar in¬ ventory was auctioned off to the work party, with all money going into the building fund. The new clubhouse will be quite a departure from the folksy little building most sailors are familiar with. Modeled somewhat after the Above, the TYC bar gets hoisted. Above right, the new club gets poured.

Edgartown YC building in Martha's Vineyard, it will afford about 50% more space (Ames es¬ timates 3,500 square feet) than the old facility — all the better to host those awesome Red Rock Regatta costume parties and the many other club functions throughout the year. As you can see from the photos, however, the new clubhouse has quite a ways to go. Depending on who we talked to, the club will be habitable sometime next spring, summer or fall. The major construc¬ tion is being handled by professional contractors; volunteers (several of whom are contractors themselves) will do most of the interior and finish work. So where are the club’s 135 members going to hang out between now and next year? “Good question,” says Ames. “We’re doing our annual dinner at the new Servino’s, and we’re going to be holding our general meetings at member’s houses. We’re also talking to other clubs who might let us use their facilities. “I will tell you, though, that our Red Rock Party will be held at the new club, even though it will probably just be at the frame-up stage.” Amid the chaos, TYC is having a membership drive. For the next few months, you can join for a $500 initiation fee and $20 a month thereafter. Be aware that the monthly fee may escalate a bit if the building budget needs augmenting. If you’re interested in finding out more, call Commodore Trip Ames at 435-1602 or Membership Chair¬ man Mac Coffey at 789-9522. And be sure to stock up on knee pads and Ben Gay for your first few visits. Page 1?2 •

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sfyc rallies to The Indonesian tall ship Dewaruci sailed over 10,000 miles to participate in the San Francisco Gold Rush Sail which took place over the Fourth of July weekend. When they set sail in Indonesia, they feared they might not have enough supplies to last them through their journey, but felt it was impor¬ tant enough to go anyway. They arrived in San Francisco only to re¬ alize that, like most of the Tall Ships partici¬ pating in the celebration, they would not be provided with the food they had hoped to receive. According to Alison Healy, Producer for the Gold Rush Sail, the State of California originally promised financial support to buy food for the tall ships, especially since the event was part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the State of California. "The State was unsuccessful in raising the money, so they withdrew their commitment in March," said Healy. "But the Indonesians

fast On the 20th anniversary of the ill-fated ’79 Fastnet Race — still the worst disaster in the history of yacht racing — the only dam¬ age done in England last month was to the record books. With little upwind work in the '99 Fastnet, all previous milestones were smashed. In fact, 14 monohulls eclipsed the 80-footer NirvancCs 1985 course record. The 215-boat fleet zoomed around the classic 610-mile course, led by Loick Peyron’s green 60-foot trimaran Fujicolor. Peyron and five French crew finished in just 40 hours and 27 minutes, averaging a tad over 15 knots. That was good enough to beat the old course record (which was based on 635 miles, but who's counting?) by a little more than 3.5 hours. Fujicolor hit speeds over 30 knots during the race — "We had the needle in the glove box," claimed Peyron in a quote which must have lost something in the trans¬ lation. The first ’real1 boat home was Ross Field’s 80-ft Maxi One Design RF Yachting, which finished in 53 hours, 8 minutes to set a new ultimate monohull record. Their wild, wet ride shaved over 7.5 hours off Nirvana's old record. Next in was the bright yellow Open 60 Whirlpool-Europe 2, a state-of-the-art canting-keeled boat which normally com¬ petes as a singlehander. For this race, French skipper Catherine Chabaud took along five crew and got rated to sail with the ILC maxis, which included the much ballyhooed Larry Ellison/Ted Turner collaboration on Sayonara. That joint effort, which began well with wins at Cowes Week, fizzled when the after guard short-circuited early in the race, fail-

SIGHTINGS help tallship felt it was important to participate in the event to boost the morale of their Navy crew. They also wanted to strengthen their rela¬ tionship with the US and display their cul¬ ture to America." The San Francisco Yacht Club heard about the dilemma and came to the rescue. They adopted the Dewarlici and provided them with a truckload of food, including meats and produce. The yacht club also bused the crew from Pier 27 to the San Francisco Yacht Club where dinner of their choice — hamburgers, French fries and ice cream — awaited them. "The food was very, very helpful to the crew," said Nugroho Setyadie, Head of In¬ formation for the Consul General of Indone¬ sia. 'We appreciate what the yacht club has done for the ship." The Dewaruci hopes to arrive home to Indonesia by the end of September. — sharael feist

fastnet ing to cover playmates Boomerang, Alexia (exWindquest) and Sagamore. "The thinking part of the boat wasn't in tune," Turner admitted to the local newspapers. Boomerang went on to finish first among the ILC maxis, setting a new non-waterballasted course record of 2 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes. However, all six of the waterballasted Maxi One Designs beat that time, and Alexia finished close enough behind Boomerang to take her on corrected time. John Kostecki and his illbruck 2 (ex-EF Language) crew posted the fifth fastest time, pounding two other Volvo 60s by almost two hours. It was the speediest Fastnet ever for a Whitbread/Volvo 60, a nice debut by the illbruck program as they train for the Volvo Ocean Race Round the World, 2001-2002. The wind dropped out after the big boats finished, which naturally benefitted them in the overall standings. Despite dropping Whirlpools rating after a post-race investi¬ gation (something about their fore-and-aft water ballast system had been overlooked), Chabaud still corrected out first among the IRC (monohull handicap) fleet, earning the coveted Fastnet Challenge Cup. Naturally, the 'apples vs. oranges' rating controveiy swirls on. If nothing else, this year's Fastnet pro¬ vided a quasi-scientific answer to the ques¬ tion of pecking order among the various modern ocean racing designs. Multihulls are obviously still fastest, followed by the longwaterlined Maxi One Designs, Open 60s, Volvo 60s and ILC Maxis. For the full story and pictures, check out http://fastnet.org.

coast watch Here are Coast Guard Group San Francisco's significant search and rescue cases that occurred between mid-July and mid-August: July 24 — Station Bodega Bay responded to a report of a 20-ft powerboat taking on water. When the 44-ft Motor Lifeboat (MLB) ar¬ rived on scene, the crew determined that they could not dewater the vessel. They transferred the two persons from the fishing boat to the MLB. The powerboat capsized moments later. The vessel was subse¬ quently towed back to the Station, re-righted and dewatered. As it turned out, the vessel was fishing in a following sea and shipped some water over the transom. It didn’t have adequate drainage and its bilge pump was not designed to deal with this amount of water. The lowered freeboard from the additional weight caused the vessel to continue taking on water as waves continued to roll in over the transom. Be aware of the sea conditions and your boat’s handling character¬ istics, especially in a following sea. Know how to use your boat’s drain¬ age system and pumps. Get Information on boat handling and dewa¬ tering from the Boating Customer Information Hotline at (800) 3685647 and the Boater Education Hotline, (800) 336-2628. July 26 — At 4:49 p.m., we received notification of a 121.5 MHz Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) located 6NM west of Santa Cruz. A helicopter from traced the signal to Santa Cruz harbor. The EPIRB halted transmission several minutes after the heli¬ copter arrived on-scene. Follow-up with the Santa Cruz Harbor-mas¬ ter indicated that a fishing vessel had purchased a new EPIRB earlier in the day and discarded the old ‘nonworking’ one in the trash. The SARSAT satellite detection system cannot accurately determine the position of 121.5 MHz EPIRBs. In this case, the position was off by 6 miles. The newer generation 406 MHz EPIRBs are much better. Be¬ sides providing crucial identification information that allows us to con¬ firm the registered EPIRB owner’s situation, the positional accuracy is as good as one-half mile! Also, please dispose of old EPIRBs properly by disabling the device. Dispose of batteries in accordance with local regulations. If you have recently purchased a new or used 406 MHz EPIRB and need information, consult http://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/ beacon.html for information on updating the registration information. July 31 — At 10 p.m. we received a call from a boater on the San Joaquin River. He was relaying a request for assistance from four people who were stranded on Venice Island following their boat’s sinking. Sta¬ tion Rio Vista dispatched a boat, which was unable to quickly locate the four people and started a search- As midnight approached, the Coast Guard crew came across a third boater who had seen the four people transported to a nearby marina by a good Samaritan. If you request assistance from the Coast Guard, please let us know immediately once you no longer require that assistance. Save our use of your tax dollars for folks really in trouble! August 1 — At 4 p.m., Station Carquinez received a report of a child in a lifejacket found floating down the Carquinez Strait. The Sta¬ tion immediately launched a boat, which transferred the young boy from the good Samaritan boat back to his parents’ boat. The parents hadn’t realized that he was missing. Folks, we really didn’t make this one up. The parents had com¬ pletely lost track of one of their kids who had fallen overboard! The good news is that he was wearing a life jacket, and it worked. We’ll remind you that in California, childj-en 6 years of age or younger are required to wear life jackets while on boats 26 feet or less in length. (Certain exceptions exist for children tethered to a sailboat and chil¬ dren located inside an enclosed cabin — see http://www.dbw.ca.gov for the specific requirements of California Sate Code). As for you adults — please set a positive example for your children by wearing a lifejacket yourselves while out on the water. We require all Coast Guard boat crews to do the same. You never know the reason why you might end up in the water, but by wearing a lifejacket, you can tremendously improve the likelihood of a happy ending to the story. August 11 — At about 2 p.m. we heard the following call on VHF continued on outside column of next sightings page

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coast watch — cont’d Ch 16: “Anybody out there? We’re in trouble 5 miles off Capitola.” De¬ spite repeated replies, this was the last transmission we heard. We sent an Air Station San Francisco helicopter and the 47-ft MLB from Station Monterey to investigate. A half-hour into its search, the heli¬ copter observed a small boat launch two flares. They vectored the MLB to the boat an 18-ft open boat with two persons aboard and a dead battery. They were in fact the ones who had made the distress call. The MLB towed the boat into Santa Cruz harbor. This boater did two very important things right. First, he used his limited battery power to broadcast his position. He then wisely used his flares to draw attention to himself when rescuers were in the area, greatly speeding his recovery. (By the way, please don’t aim flares at the helicopter!) The most important information to broadcast when in need of assistance (following the words “mayday mayday mayday ” in an emergency, of course) are: your location (either geographic or lati¬ tude/longitude), your situation (such as “taking on water”), number of

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SIGHTINGS water boat show Wizard himself. Bill Lee. Icing on the cake for this year’s show: it’s running concurrently with the annual Ital¬ ian Festival and Farmer’s Market. So whether it’s boats, gear, eating — or all three — that rings your bell, make plans to be in Oakland in mid-September. Fall Boat Show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily on September 11-12 and 15-19. Admission is $8.50 for adults, $3.50 for kids to 12 and free to the little ones. Discounts abound. There's a $2-off coupon in the boat show ad in this very issue (behind the first page of Sightings). Discounts can also be found at many marine outlets, by calling (800) 698-5777, or by logging onto www. ncma.org.

coast watch — cont’d people on board, and vessel description. August 12 — At 12:25 p.m.. Group Los Angeles/Long Beach re¬ ceived a mayday call on VHF Channel 16 from the motor vessel Garde¬ nia Ace. The 570-ft car carrier was disabled 80 nm southwest of Point Sur after expending its fixed C02 fire-fighting system to extinguish an engine-room fire. Numerous commercial vessels in the area diverted to assist, as did a U. S. Navy battle group that was conducting exer¬ cises off the California coast. The 82-ft Coast Guard Cutter Point Chico also got underway from Bodega Bay to assist. A rescue and assistance team from the guided missile destroyer USS Bunker Hill went aboard the Gardenia Ace to insure the fire was out. They remained on-scene until the Point Chico arrived at 11 p.m., having made the 180 nm tran¬ sit at full speed (we just love it when our 82-ft patrol boats rush to relieve 567-ft Navy ships!). The Point Chico remained on-scene until a sea-going commercial tug took the Gardenia Ace in tow to a San Fran¬ cisco shipyard for repairs. — captain larry hall, uscg

see you in September Just a quick heads-up to remind everyone that the grand finale of the San Francisco Bay summer sailboat racing season occurs next month. September is usually the best time of year weather-wise for sailing on the Bay, and the calendar is accordingly packed for the next month. The festivities kick off with the traditional Big Three on Labor Day Weekend: the 65-mile Windjammer Race on Friday, September 3; the easy Jazz Cup on Saturday; and the concurrent GMC Yukon Yachting NOOD Regatta on both Saturday and Sunday. The latter event will feature 13 classes this year, including Farr 40s and Antrim 27s for the first time. Mercifully, there’s no racing on Monday. As usual, anyone who ’goes for the Iron’ by competing in all three of these Labor Day events will receive a spiffy Latitude t-shirt, a couple inches of ink in the magazine, and the undying adulation of sailors everywhere. To date, six sailors have completed this grueling triathalon. (Why is that most of the winners’ of the Beer Can and Iron Woman/Man challenges come from Berkeley YC?) The local racing highlight of the year will occur on September 1114, when about 18 or 19 Farr 40s will compete for their World Cham¬ pionship. St. Francis YC will host this eight-race hardball series, which will consist entirely of windward/leewards on the edge of the Berkeley Circle. This promises to be the highest level of racing we’ve seen around here in years, with lots of hot boats already rolling into KKMI and Anderson's. Our local Farr 40 fleet — recendy augmented by Philippe Kahn's newly-acquired Hissar and Peter Stoneberg's Shadow — will have its hands full defending the Bay Area honor against the likes of Solution, Southern Star, Samba Pa Ti and Flash Gordon. Anyone want¬ ing to rub shoulders with the rockstars should show up for the regatta's big bash at the clubhouse on Saturday night, September 11. Whatever Farr 40s are burned out or broken will then get one day off before the start of the 36th Big Boat Series. The St. Francis YChosted seven-race series will occur September 16-19, once again using the two by-now familiar race course's. "It's shaping up just great!" claimed race developer Norman Davant, who predicts a record-break¬ ing 90+ boat fleet. This year's fleet will feature the ULDB 70s (5-6 boats expected for their usual abbreviated three-day series), SC 52s (between 8 and 10) Farr 40s (about 12), lD-35s (about 10, most of which are competing at their NAs in Michigan right now), Express 37s (the usual six), J/105s (as many as 25, which would make it the biggest 105 event ever), and three classes of PHRF. "We decided to ditch the 'freak show' this time," noted Davant, referring to the mismatched exhibition class of years past. continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS September — cont’d The PHRF classes will again sail with customized ratings, relying heavily on NorCal PHRF ratings but with input from the US Sailing ratings gurus back in Rhode Island this year. Look for about a dozen boats in the 40-toot group, another 10 or so in the 45-footers (includ¬ ing a Schock 40, a J/125 and a few J/120s, all of which Davant opti¬ mistically feels can be rated fairly now), and a half dozen 50-footers. The big boats will include Wasabi, Bullseye, Swiftsure II, M-Project, the new PencLragon and possibly others. There's still an outside chance of a Swan class, though at present only three boats have signed up. Though the Big Boat Series is justifiably the climax of the summer season, St. Francis will be jumping for two more weeks. On September 27-October 1, the IOD Worlds and San Francisco Cup (for Folkboats) will bring in lots of out-of-towners for some high level woody racing. Then, on October 1-3, it’s the annual Masters Invitational, which prom¬ ises to be another epic J/105 tussle among 18 older skippers (over 55) and their crew (over 45). The guest list, which includes defending champ Dick Deaver, once again reads like a whos-who of sailing (see Race Notes for the full roster). Whew! We're exhausted just contemplating all this upcoming, rac¬ ing — but also excited about watching, sailing in, and reporting on some of the best regattas in the country next month. See you on the water!

ralph’s If you’re traveling along the west shore of Lake Tahoe on Highway 89, you might miss Ralph’s Sailboat Services unless you know

mexico crew list We know it’s hard for most of you to believe, but we were once illbehaved goof-offs. If we had a dime for every time Mom said, “You have one more chance, buster, so you better shape up!” — we’d be off cruis¬ ing around in our mega-yacht. Now we’re not saying any of you are anything but well-behaved goofoffs, but it’s time to invoke Mom: You have one more chance to partici¬ pate in this year's Mexico-Only Crew List, so you’d better get going and take advantage of it! For those of you new to the Crew List (yeah, sure, you’ve never seen one before — we remember trying that line on Mom a few times), this is a decades-old, ongoing attempt to get as many Mexico-bound boat own¬ ers together with Mexico-desirous crew, and vice versa, as possible. Time was, crew and boat owners had to find each other through all sorts of inefficient means. And it was hard enough just to set some¬ thing up, much less find a decent match of personalities, lifestyles and goals, Now, in addition to the Latitude Crew Lists, there are other lists put together by yacht clubs, chandleries, and various other fleets and organizations. Some are even on the Internet. If you can’t find a boat or crew after all that, maybe it just wasn’t meant to happen. If you want to do it with us, here’s how it works: fill out the appro¬ priate form and send it to us with the proper fee. In the October issue, we’ll run a list of all names in two categories — Boat Owners LooJcing for Crew and Crew Looking for Boats. All names will be followed by information about the individual, including skill level, desires, special talents, experience, a contact number and, in the case of boat owners, the size and type of boat. All you do then is go down the appropriate list and call up the most appealing prospects. Through the Crew List, lots of people have had lots of neat adven¬ tures. But there are risks, which is why we insist that, ultimately, you must take responsibility for your own actions. Let’s face it, sailing is an inherently dangerous sport. And sailing long distances with people you haven’t known that long on boats you don’t know that well is a whole other can of worms. So, for the record, the Latitude 38 Crew List is an advertising supplement intended for informational purposes only. Latitude 38 does not make or imply any guarantee, warranty or recom¬ mendation as to the character of individuals participating in the Crew List or the conditions of the boats or equipment. You must judge those things for yourself. continued on outside column of next sightings page

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Ralph (center) with Hershey and Leo. where to look. Tucked in behind the big red Obexer’s Marine building is the modest, eld¬ erly cottage that headquarters Tahoe’s only boatyard specializing in sailboats. The town itself is one you could easily miss. Homewood

are we crazy? A couple of weeks ago, a guy walked into our office and told us the following: My wife and I are divorced. We have chil¬ dren nine and six years of age. I'm a long time sailor with a wealth of experience. I've got a brand new 11-foot Avon dinghy and a two-year-old 15 hp outboard that's in per¬ fect condition. I want to be able to use this dinghy and outboard to take my kids on Richardson Bay and, if the weather is per¬ fect, around the corner into Raccoon Strait and in a straight line to Hospital Cove on Angel Island. Those would be the total navi¬ gation limits. I'd be carrying a VHF radio and the kids would be wearing lifejackets. My problem is this: My ex-wife and her new husband are seeking an injunction to pre¬ vent me from being able to do this with my kids — on the grounds that it would put the kids at high risk of injury or death. He then asked if we'd write a letter to the court on his behalf. We didn't know the guy

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is known mostly for the ski resort of the same name and lies between Tahoe City and Tahoma, which is — well, never mind. The little villages are part of Tahoe’s charm. Once you find Ralph’s, you’ll find Ralph Silverman. You’ll also find Hershey (a retired Advanced Search and Rescue dog), her buddy Leo (known for fetching beer from the fridge), a boatyard and rigging shop and a row of cute little sailboats on the beach. The sailboats aren’t for rent, however. They are the fleet of Sail Tahoe!, a junior sailing day camp for kids ages 8-17. Sessions run most weeks starting in late June and ending in late August. The students receive four full days of instruction for around $200. The Sail Tahoe! fleet includes Vanguard 15s, Optimists, Lasers and Picos. The latter are versatile 11 1/2-ft dinghies imported from Europe by Vanguard. The Pico’s rotomolded plastic hulls can be beached, very practical on Tahoe’s pebbly shores, and the rig features a reefable main that can be sailed with or without a jib. Besides running his business and the Ski Tahoe! program, Silverman has a hand in planning most Lake Tahoe sailing events, including the Ski-Sail Championships in April, a combination plate featuring skiing competition at Squaw Valley followed by rac¬ ing in Melges 24s, Vanguard 15s and Lasers. For information on any of the above, or pretty much anything to do with sailing on Lake Tahoe, contact Ralph Silverman at (530) 525-SAIL (7245), or find him on the web at

Still with us? Bueno! Here are the ground rules. 1) We must receive all Crew List forms by September 15. That doesnt mean ‘postmarked by.’ It means in our sweaty little palms. No

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you be the judge from Adam — and still don't — so we didn't have any prejudices in the case. We basi¬ cally kicked him out of the office for a few minutes so we could carefully form an opin¬ ion on the question. Having spent 20 years using a variety of inflatable-outboard combinations, and hav¬ ing spent 30 years in, on and around all sides of Richardson Bay and Raccoon Straits, we decided this his was a perfectly reasonable request for an even half competent mariner. After all, the Avon inflatable is very seawor¬ thy, rugged and has multiple chambers, and the nearly new engine is backed by a VHF radio. Furthermore, Richardson Bay is bounded by terra firma on three sides where it s easy to land, and the furthest you can get from shore is about half a mile — or two minutes in a dinghy that does 15 knots. It seemed to us that if you were going to prohibit something as reasonably safe as continued middle of next sightings page

1]-Enthusiasm — experience is not all that important _ Moderately experienced sailor to share normal crew responsibilities 3) _ Experienced sailor who can a) share navigation and/or mechanical skills; b) who can show me the ropes 4) . - T°0king’ provisioning or other food-related skills 5) . . Local knowledge’: someone who has a) been to Mexico before; b) speaks passable Spanish 6) . . Someone to help me bring the boat back up the coast 7) . Someone to help me trailer boat back up/down the coast 8) _ Someone who might stick around if I decide to keep going beyond Mexico .;«• 9)_Other 2)

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exceptions. 2) All forms must be accompanied by the appropriate fee. For crew looking for boats, that’s $5 apiece. For boat owners — who we figure spend enough money putting the boat together — that’s $1. And continued on outside column of next sightings page

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crew list — cont’d don't fax the forms to us. We have to receive the fee with the form. 3) One form per person, please — unless you and a friend want to go only if you can go together. Whether you’re a couple or just S':

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friends, applying for a ‘group rate’ does diminish your chances of find¬ ing a boat somewhat. But holding out for a skipper who will take you both will certainly enhance the adventure. In these situations, both parties should fill out one Crew List form and send in one fee. If you think you’ll need additional forms, or want to send some to friends, simply make copies of the ones on these pages. 4) Be honest. The simplest rule of all. In this case, being honest means not inflating your experience or skill level because you think it’s what someone wants to hear. In sailing, perhaps more than any other continued on outside column of next sightings page Page 128 •

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that, you’d also have to prohibit really dan¬ gerous stuff— such as crossing streets, go¬ ing to school, riding bikes, swimming, play¬ ing baseball or eating. So we wrote a letter in favor of the guy’s request — and he left. The guy returned a couple of days later and said there had been a continuance. But he briefly showed us a letter of 'expert opin¬ ion’ by a local marine surveyor — who stated that allowing the father to take his nine and six year old kids on Richardson Bay with the new Avon, the near new outboard, the lifejackets, and the VHF would be, in his opinion, child endangerment or an extreme risk to the welfare of the kids or something to that effect. Frankly, we were so flabber¬ gasted by his conclusion we can’t remember his exact wording or reasoning. Just that it was a terribly reckless idea. As we go to press, no decision has been rendered, so it occurred to us that it was a

I have a Garmin 45, purchased in 1996.1 read in a recent issue of Latitude 38 that there may be a Y2K-type problem with cer¬ tain GPSs, particularly on August 22, 1999, when the GPS End of Week (EOW) rollover would occur. I immediately went to the Garmin website (www. garmin.com) and linked to their Y2K page, which had a com¬ plete list of all affected Garmin models af¬ fected by EOW (including mine) and instruc¬ tions on how to deal with the rollover on or after August 22. “No problem,” I thought, “Next time I use it. I’ll simply press the ‘page’ and ‘on’ buttons simultaneously, as in¬ structed, the GPS will tell me it is ‘searching the sky’ and, within an hour, I will have my fixes.” Good as new, simple as that, no prob¬ lem — according to the website. Well, yesterday was Sunday, August 22, a warm, sunny day on the Monterey Bay, with light winds. We left Santa Cruz harbor at noon, headed for Capitola where we an¬ chored about 300 yards off the pier and barbequed some Albacore. At about 3 o’clock, we noticed a finger of fog rolling in. Not to worry. By 5, we were completely socked in, our friend noting with delight that we couldn’t even see the pier. “It’s as if we’re floating on our own little is¬ land.” Still no problem. The fog will lift some¬ what and we will take off at about 6. Well, the fog didn't lift and by about 7, we decided we should pull anchor and get back before dark. I would use the GPS, following pre-set waypoints I used to get to the Capitola area during foggy, early-morning Fishing trips. As we weighed anchor and began the re¬ turn trip, I turned on the GPS, which nor-

SIGHTINGS — cont. perfect opportunity to let you, our readers, play Judge Judy, Judge Lane or Judge Koch whoever you want. Originally, we weren't going to say whether it was the father or mother who wanted to take the kids in the inflatable, but you'd have known it was the guy anyway. And while it would be much better if we could have presented the surveyor's line ot reasoning, as we said, we were too stunned for it to register. In any event, if you have any significant experience with an inflatable and an out¬ board — and kids riding in them — please let us know what you think. And don't worry if you disagree with us, you won't hurt our feelings. But please include a word or two of why you believe the way you do. While we will never reveal the names of any of the parties involved, if we ever find out what the court decides, we ll let you know.

in the fog mally takes only moments to acquire a fix. Nothing. “Oh yeah,” I thought, “today’s Au¬ gust 22 and it needs to be re-set.” I quickly pressed the ‘page’ and ‘on’ buttons and waited. And waited. Meanwhile, it was start¬ ing to get dark, the fog eliminating any po¬ tential twilight. We had to get back. None¬ theless, I set the GPS courses, should it be able to acquire quickly enough — or at all. I had no idea, I was only going by what the website said should happen. Because we know the area well, we knew we could skirt along the outside of the kelp bed to get around Soquel Point, then stay far enough out, listening for the fog horn at the harbor entrance. Slowly we went, check¬ ing depth and listening. As many know, navi¬ gating in the fog can be stressful, especially in unknown territory. Had we not been so familiar with the area, we would not have (nor should have) attempted to return to the harbor. Finally, after a long, vigilant hour in rapidly approaching dark, we heard the horn, found Black Point, then the harbor entrance in the shadows. As we approached the entrance, the GPS beeped: “Approaching SantOO” (my delinea¬ tion for the harbor mouth). Well, when we needed it most, it wasn’t available, but as we entered the harbor safely, its beep reas¬ sured us that our GPS finally knew what it was doing, too. In short, the EOW adjust¬ ment worked, and not a moment too soon. I’ve since checked the GPS out again and it works fine—acquiring fixes rapidly, as usual. No problem. ... —- scott valor and rachel dinno northstar (cheoy-lee 41)

crew list — cont’d sport, if you don t know what you’re talking about, people who do can recognize it instantly. BS’ers don’t get rides. Contrary to what you might think, honest folks of little or no expe¬ rience often get rides. It has to do with some experienced skippers preferring to train people in their way of doing things. 5) Women can use first names only. If you are female, you will get calls. Possibly lots of them. We’ve talked to women who say they have gotten hundreds of calls, some months or even years after the Crew List is published. For this reason, we recommend that women use first names only, and that they not use a home phone number as a contact. Instead, use a P.O. Box, answering service, fax number, email or other contact that insulates you a bit. It also makes screening easier. Finally — guys and women — please keep the hormone thing out of the Crew List process. Once your crewing situation is worked out, if you like what you see, then let nature take its course. But please, not before. Thanks. 6) If you take part in the Crew List, you get into the Crew List party free! Back in the old days, the Crew List party used to be a relatively low-key affair. It has now grown into a Mexico cruising event of epic proportions, complete with T-shirt giveaways, seminars and all kinds of other neat stuff. And it’s not just for Crew Listers anymore, but serves as a rendezvous point and reunion for Baja Ha-Ha Rally participants past and present. This year’s party is October 5 at the Encinal YC. If you haven’t lined up a boat or crew by then, come on by for a last chance at the party itself (everyone wears color-coded nametags, so spotting crew or boat owners is easy). As the party is once again a combination plate for Baja Ha-Ha participants, too, you’ll meet a whole bunch of enthusiastic, like-minded people heading south. In fact, even if you have a boat/ crew spot, plan on coming by anyway for an enjoyable evening. We’ll have more on the Crew List/Ha-Ha party in the next issue. For now, get those forms in. Don’t blow it on the “one more chance” thing as we so often did as young ‘uns. Thank goodness we found something grown up goof-offs can do for a living.

short sightings VANCOUVER — Five people, including an 5-year-old boy, were killed when a Bellevue, Washington-based 40-ft powerboat got between a tug and its tow early last month. The incident happened after dark as the Sun Boy (Sunny Boy in some reports) was apparently maneuvering to get a good spot to watch the August 5 Symphony of Fireworks show in English Bay. Witnesses were reportedly aghast when the Bayliner started to cross aft of a tug showing three vertically-stacked white lights -— the universal signal for a ship with a tow. Pending an investigation of the accident, it’s unclear exactly what happened next, but the net result is that the Sun Boy either struck or was struck by the tow cable, holing and capsizing it. The next thing nearby boaters knew, Sun Boy’s occupants were flailing around in the 52-degree water. Heads-up boat¬ ers —- including one brave soul who reportedly jumped into the cabin of the sinking boat — retrieved nine of the boat’s 14'passengers. Only one was wearing a lifejacket. The tug glso helped rescue survivors. The Coast Guard raised the wreck of Sun Boy and is investigating allegations that the unidentified owner/operator (who survived) ap¬ peared to be inexperienced. The incident has renewed a cry in Wash¬ ington for mandatory boating instruction and licensing. THE BAY — Meet the new boss. . . On Wednesday, August 24, literally hours before this issue went to press, the Coast Guard launched the first new 47-ft motor lifeboat assigned to the Bay. The new boats — faster, more powerful and able to negotiate bigger and rougher seas than their forerunners — have been undergoing testing for several years. continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS shorts — cont’d Now the $883,000 craft are finally being doled out to stations all over the country. There are three others in California and 35 now operating nationwide. The Coast Guard eventually plans to put upwards of 200

Coast Guard San Francisco’s new 47-ft motor lifeboat will be on active duty by the time this issue comes out. aluminum-hulled 47s in service. The new boats replace the venerable 44-foot steel motor lifeboats that have been in service since about the Pleistocene Epoch. The new boats can reach 25 knots in flat seas and 13 knots in 15-foot seas, twice as fast as the 44s. They are self-bailing, and if capsized can re¬ turn to an upright position in eight seconds or less, more than three times faster than the 44. In celebration of this momentous event, we’ll give a T-shirt to the first three skippers boarded for safety inspections by the new 47. KEY WEST — We're always hearing about Cuban refugees being intercepted by Coast Guard vessels off Florida. Most of the people who survive the 90-mile crossing in rickety boats are 'repatriated’. But what happens to the boats? Turns out the Coasties usually sink them, a practice which has drawn fire — no pun intended — from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, as well as the state. According to representatives of both those official bodies, scuttling can damage sea life arid endanger other boaters as navigational hazards. (Weren’t these same folks for artificial reefs last time we checked?) The Coasties coun¬ tered with the assertion that they don’t have the time or resources to tow every piece of junk boat into harbor — which can itself be danger¬ ous — and then pay to store or dispose of it. They also claim that they strip each boat clean of potential toxic items, including pumping out appreciable amounts of fuel, and that they tow most of the derelicts out beyond the state (and sanctuary’s) three-mile limit before burning them or shooting them full of holes. By sinking in deep water, of course, the wrecks pose no threat to navigation except perhaps to submarines. By the way, the INS has so far remained mute in the dispute, ap¬ parently hoping nobody thinks to send them the bill. FLORIDA AGAIN — In two separate boating accidents within as many months, the Coasties rescued boaters who survived more than half a day in the water. In the first incident, 80-year-old Jim McVeigh spent 13 hours in the waters off Nokomis when the 17-ft runabout occupied by he and son Don sank on July 28. Don, 50, who had started swimming to shore from about 19 miles out, was recovered after 10 hours. It took three more hours to find the elder McVeigh. Both were wearing lifejackets. Father and son were treated at a local hospital and released. In the other incident, Anna Goodwyn, 50, daughter Vicky Goodwyn, 32 and friend Daniel Hernandez, 32, spent a night in the ocean off Elliott Key when their 15-ft boat sank about 3 p.m. on August 2. The Coasties didn’t even know about the mishap until a good Samaritan continued on outside Column ot next sightings page

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high seas radio After several near-death experiences, KMI High Seas Radio is finally going off the air for good on October 9. Original closure dates of December, 1998, then June, 1999, came and went largely on the strength of protests against the closure by a small but vocal core of faithful. The bottom line, as parent com¬ pany AT&T pointed out repeatedly to the FCC, was that KMI and sister stations WOM in Florida and WOO in New Jersey, are no longer economically viable. AT&T claims High Seas Radio lost nearly $5 million in 1998, and 1999 projections are even grimmer. The steady decline in usage of High Seas Radio is due to all the new communications tech-

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nologies that have drawn customers away. Don’t throw the SSB away just yet, though. In a recent press release, AT&T “is committed to working with our customers to ensure a smooth transition. . . to another radiotelephone provider.” HF stations on the west coast providing comparable service to AT&T are WLO in Mobile, Alabama (334-6665110), TELSTRA in Queensland, Australia (Oil 617 5490 9090) and XDA, Radiomex Radio, Mexico (011 525 629 1613, x4426). If you have any questions or need assistance in arranging for alternative service, contact your AT&T service representative at (800) SEA-CALL, prompt 2,1).

radioed that he had picked up Hernandez — who also tried to swim ashore to get help — the next morning. Although the Coast Guard dispatched a boat and helicopter, the two lifejacket-clad women were spotted by a TV news helicopter. A Park Service ranger boat pulled the two out of the water after almost 20 hours. All three suffered mild hypothermia and jellyfish stings, but were otherwise okay. ATLANTIC OFF NANTUCKET — Fifty-two souls went down with the Italian luxuiy liner Andrea Doria after her collision with the liner Stockholm in thick fog off Nantucket in late July, 1956. But the illfated ship continues to claim more victims. The third diver in as many months perished on the wreck in August, prompting many to consider banning the wreck from future commercial dives. At 180 to 250 feet deep, the Doria is considered in many circles to be the “Everest of diving."

The lovely Chapelle schooner ‘Nightwatcher’ cuts smartly across the Bay on a brisk after¬ noon. Though there was a group of friends aboard this day, we’ve often seen this actively sailed classic being singlehanded. Crewed or solo, she’s always looking good. =1'1

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A RUDDERLESS PASSAGE JL)y

the third day of the storm, con¬ ditions had become so intense that the two lone shipmates aboard Nicole wei^e forced to heave-to and simply wait out the tempest below decks. Winds were howling up to 60 knots, and steep, breaking waves were crashing into the fiberglass hull in quick succession. German-born Kurt Schmidt and his young Spanish girlfriend Helena Serrano had set out from Hanalei Bay, Kauai two weeks earlier on a 2.500 mile, nonstop passage to Sitka, Alaska. The first 10 days out they'd experi enced fine weather and steady winds of 25 knots or less, just as they’d an ticipated after consulting the pilot charts and a variety of bluewater cruis ers. Then they learned through HF Ra dio contacts with two Canadian boats up ahead of them that a large storm was brewing to the north. Although Nicole's crew adjusted their course to the east to avoid it. the storm’s full fury was soon upon them It was during that third day that the 42-ft sloop took her first knock down. A huge

on her side, where she laid a long while before finally righting herself again. In the process, the Aries wind-vane was ripped loose and a window on the hard doelger was popped out by the wave's tremendous pressure. After sailing halfway around the world during the past 12 years — all but the last year singlehanded Kurt had weathered plenty of storms. But most of them were in the Atlantie, where he recalled that big blows

only

RUDDERLESS PASSAGE

Kurt's guitar playing and singing always helped him make new friends wherever he sailed. north of Hawaii and 1,700 miles from the West Coast, was different — its duration made it more violent and unpredictable than anything he'd experienced. The storm roared on into a fourth day. Seas remained raucous and winds hov¬ ered in the 50 to 60-knot range. And again Nicole took a knockdown, with her mast slamming into the raging seas. Much to Kurt and Helena's relief, it held on, forti¬

fied by running backstays and a baby stay. But while they took momentary so¬ lace in knowing that their rig and mast¬ head communications hardware re¬ mained intact, they would soon become aware of the crippling damage sustained by their steering system. Kurt spent most of the night and vir¬ tually all of the next day hanging upside down in the lazarette, contorting his 62year-old frame while trying to repair his mechanical steering system. "When you are fighting for your life," he would later remark, "you get very creative." But de¬ spite his best efforts at improvising, a metal steering arm that was integral to the assembly was damaged beyond the capabilities of the tools he had on board. The good news, however, was that the storm was finally beginning to dissipate. The next morning the monotony of

The stout Spanish-built 42-footer, 'Nicole', hat more than 20,000 miles under her keel.

storm-tossed waves sloshing againsl Nicole's hull was suddenly interrupted by the drone of airplane propellers overhead. Knowing they were more than a thousand miles from the nearest patch of land, Kurl and Helena were astonished to learn that it was a U.S. Coast Guard search-andrescue crew who now hailed them on the VHF. The crewmen, flying a C-130 Hercules aircraft, some 1,800 miles out from hei Sacramento base, were probably equally

EXPLORING PATAGONIA UNDER SAIL irt Schmidt is the type of world cruiser who prefers to take it slow. When he

After 12 years of voyaging, he says, "So far, the inner chan¬ nels of Chile and

finds a place that really enchants him, he tends to linger awhile and soak in its beauty. Patagonia was just such a place. Although few sailors venture to those largely uninhabited latitudes, Kurt found the intricate maze of coastal waterways there to be absolutely fascinating — he spent two years there.

Kurt Schmidt (ctr) chats with lonely Chileans at the Cape Horn lookout station. Argentina are the nicest places for sailing in the world." The 1,000-mile sail from Cape Horn {57°S} to Puerto Montt, at the end of the Chilean Road (42°S), takes you through a rugged, primeval dreamworld of glaciers, fiords and

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oun reliance is the ultimate watchword. There is virtually no human habitation except on the island

of Chiloe and in less than a half-dozen settlements around the Strait of Magellan; yet fish and other sealife are extremely abundant.

ON A BIG OCEAN

surprised to find Nicole. They had been searching for survivors of a capsized fish¬ ing vessel and had no idea Nicole was even in the vicinity. "What is your situation?" they asked. "We've had two knockdowns and the second one took out our steering," ex¬ plained Kurt (who speaks six languages). "But otheiwise we are okay." Kurt was accustomed to being com¬ pletely self-reliant. Since setting sail from Spain in 1987, he had singlehanded throughout the Mediterranean; he'd been one of the first 'yachtsmen' to explore the Black Sea after the Iron Curtain was lifted; he'd journeyed up wild rivers in West Af¬ rica; he’d battled his way around Cape Horn alone and had spent two seasons in solitary exploration of the Patagonian fiords. So the idea of an American 'angel' suddenly appearing in the skies overhead

^Although Nicole was sailing in the area of 42°N, 145°W, as much 'in the middle of nowhere' as one can get in the North Pacific, Coast Guard shore stations had been monitoring the movements of several vessels in that region since the be¬ ginning of the storm, and the C-130 had been flying reconnaissance missions in the area for several days. Since the storm started, Guardsmen had been getting updates on the status of an American sailboat out of Pearl Har¬ bor which bore the ironic name Bon

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Temps (meaning "good weather"). She’d lost her main, had engine trouble and her two-man crew was having a hard time bat¬ tling the horrific weather. The C-130 even¬ tually dropped two survival suits to Bon Temps, but luckily her crew never needed them. Meanwhile, another drama was being played out farther north. The American tuna boat Billy Marie, which was one of a half-dozen vessels fishing in the same vi¬ cinity, had turned turtle and never came back up. In the early morning hours of June 11, a Coast Guard listening post re¬ ceived a brief, desperate mayday in which

A PATH LESS TRAVELED

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RUDDERLESS PASSAGE the caller only had time to give a position — no boat name — and was not heard from again. A radio roll call of the six known boats in the area revealed that the mayday must have come from Billy Marie. Immediately, the five companion vessels pulled their lines — amazingly, they'd con¬ tinued to fish despite the monstrous con¬ ditions — and steamed off in search of Billy Marie. Five hours later, at 8:30 a.m., the ves¬ sel Traci Cheri II found Billy Marie over¬ turned with no sign of survivors, and shortly afterwards another sistership, One and All, found Billy Marie's liferaft, over¬ turned and empty. The Billy Marie sank shortly before the C-130 first arrived on scene and began flying search patterns for the missing fishermen. It was during one of those sweeps that they chanced upon Nicole.

XAjiother member of the fishing flo¬ tilla, Ghost, out of Seattle, was eventually requested to steam to Nicole's assistance. When she arrived two days later, her crew made no mention of the loss of the Billy Marie, but offered their full assistance. In

a delicate operation between the two dis¬ similar vessels, Kurt lashed his damaged steering part onto a fender and floated it across the swells to Cap'n Bob of Ghost. The fishermen fabricated a new piece and sent it back the same way. Thankful as he was, though, Kurt had little faith that this improvised part would permanently solve his problem. So he and Helena were faced with a very weighty decision: "If you want to abandon ship and come to my boat, you'll be safe," offered Cap'n Bob. "If it had been just me," Kurt reflected

They used buckets and warps of line to adjust their course. later, "I wouldn't have even considered do¬ ing so." He'd commissioned Nicole in Spain, watched her being built and had sailed thousands of ocean miles aboard her. But now he had more than his own life and his boat to think about. He'd met 29-year-old Helena while on a trip to

Spain a year ago when his boat was la up in the south of Chile. Working in a insurance firm, she'd never been sailir before, but was. eager for adventure. T< gether they'd sailed from Patagonia i Robinson Crusoe's Island (Jua Fernandez), then on to Hawaii. "Let's give it a try!" she said, having r idea how they were going to cross a ocean if the quick-fit didn't solve the steering problems. When they wave goodbye to Ghost it was with some trep dation: "The fishing boat got smaller an smaller," recalls Kurt. "It was our last hof that there would be anyone to assist us With Nicole alone on the ocean agaii Kurt painstakingly installed the ne steering arm. Although it fit, he then di: covered an even greater problem: th blade of the boat's spade rudder ha cracked loose from its steel shaft. Neec less to say, Kurt and Helena were no more dejected than ever. They did, however, still have contai with the Coast Guard, and Kurt had yeaj of bluewater experience to draw from. F figured he could sail more or less straigl downwind, steering with his sheets. A: sessing the wind and current angles, t±

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ON A BIG OCEAN -oast Guard dispatcher adrised Nicole to set a course for jan Francisco Bay. It was on i good line, and if they could Jet close, they could easily get owed in. And so they did. In addition o sheeting in and out, they ised buckets and warps of line o adjust their course from one side or he other, putting in 14 hours a day with he wind consistently above 30 knots. Cach night they took everything down and limply collapsed with exhaustion. "The irst day was terrible. We went all over the nap. The second day we could more or ess hold our course, and by the third day ve had our system down pretty well," re:alls Kurt. Three weeks later, July 2, they dropped he hook at Drake's Bay after completing i 1,700-mile 'rudderless' passage — hey'd averaged 80 miles a day. Along the ray, having daily contact with the Coast iuard — first by HF Radio, then by enail — gave them great peace of mind. We were really extremely impressed with heir professionalism and courtesy," Kurt nnfided later. Because he uses a popu¬

lar European email service called Pinoak, his messages were actually bounced from mid-Pacific to Europe, then back to the West Coast. Pinoak staffers also monitored Nicole's progress, and when she got close to port they reserved her a slip at Schoonmaker Marina in Sausalito and consulted with Anderson’s Boatyard about needed repairs.

^Saturday, July 3, was a gorgeous, sunny day on the Bay. The Gold Rush Tall Ships were in port, and the local Coasties knew there was going to be plenty of traf¬ fic, so they offered Nicole a tow in. "I said no, thank you," recalls Kurt. "After 2,000 miles, I figured we could handle it our¬ selves. To play it safe, though, they kicked on their engine for the first time since the mishap and reversed all the way in to Schoonmaker (since it was more stable), using buckets and warps to augment their

mushy rudder. "We're lucky to be alive," was Kurt's reply when we first asked him about his ordeal. But this challenging experience hasn't dampened either his or Helena's enthusiasm for bluewater voyaging. As we go to press Nicole is making her way south via the Channel Islands with her brand new rudder, built at Anderson's, and a new Monitor Windvane equipped with a in-water blade that can be used as an emergency rudder if the occasion should ever arise again. Plan 'A' is to cruise Mexico until April, then head back to Hawaii, and eventu¬ ally set off to Alaska again. After reveling in the beauty of Patagonia, Kurt is deter¬ mined to see its North American coun¬ terpart. "After 12 years of cruising, I think that as long as I can hoist my sails with my own arms and can climb my own mast, I will be on this boat,” he says. As for bright¬ eyed Helena, the fun is just beginning as they head for the calmer waters of South¬ ern California — she's made Kurt prom¬ ise to show her Hollywood as a change of pace! — latitude/aet

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J/105 NORTH AMERICANS

‘tarting a regatta on Friday the 13th was anything but bad luck for Bob Tay¬ lor and his veteran HiJinx crew, who clob¬ bered the 18-boat fleet in the fifth edition of the J/105 North Americans. Hosted by St. Francis YC on August 13-15, the three-day, six-race, no-throwout regatta featured superb weather, great race man¬ agement and fierce competition — for ev¬ erything but first place. That honor went to Taylor, a dentist who sails out of Jamestown, RI, for the second year in a row. Sailing a chartered boat, Tom Coates' blue Charade, with his regular crew (helmsman Todd Berman, Tim Kohl, Larry Lombardo and Glenn

Jaren Leet's 'Irrational Again' takes a bunch of transoms at the start of race five. Hunter), Taylor just kept improving as the regatta went on, posting a stellar 4.4,3,1,1,1 record. The 'Taylor -made' vic¬ tory was attributable to the sum of many little things — good starts, good tactics and good boatspeed (achieved with Banks white sails and a Quantum kite). "This is our fourth year together in J/ 105s, and we've really got the communi¬ cation and crew work down," said Bob, who buys and sells J/105s like Lasers (HiJinx, his current 105, is his third one!). Previously, the same group came in sec¬ ond at the J/105 North Americans twice

(Annapolis in '96; Chicago in ’97) and won it in a squeaker last year in Newport, RI. They've been together longer and travelled more than any other crew in the class, and their depth was immediately obvious. With just one day of practice and orienta¬ tion, they quickly figured out the quirks of the Bay, going on to pummel our local heroes. "Team Taylor gave the rest of the fleet a good old-fashioned butt-kicking in tricky foreign territory using a chartered boat," noted observer Nelson Weiderman, also a Rhode Island J/105 sailor as well as the J/105 national website editor. "They were better at every aspect of the game. If any-

THE USUAL HIJINX

one wants to prevent a three:peat at next year's North Americans in Annapolis, they'd better start building and training a team like Bob's."

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• September, 1999

forever the local 'wisdom' that only white 105s win regattas. The DiLorenzos put together a choppy 2,1,1-2,13,3,2 series, sandwiching an awful day on Saturday between two fabulous efforts on Friday and Sunday. DiLorenzo seemingly came out of nowhere, as Ultimatum had barely qualified for the regatta, currently run¬ ning 12th in the local fleet (only the top

ten were guaranteed a berth in the NAs, but this cutoff was raised to the top fif¬ teen a few weeks before the regatta). "We surprised everyone, including ourselves!" said Vince, who was thrilled to earn a podium finish. "Our tactician, Tim Russel), made a bunch of good calls and our crew did a fine job. The boat was really quiet when we were doing well, but

5cenes from the J/105 North Americans, clockwise from upper left: 'Hokulele' at the leeward mark; We Be Jammin' chases the pack towards Blackaller; Bob Taylor, on right, with his victorious 'Hijinx' :rew; the 'Hijinxers' in action (note all weight out of the cockpit); a typical start; various angles from he StFYC race deck, including a view that many boats saw — the back end of 'Ultimatum'. really noisy on Saturday!" The top five boats all received trophies. Blackhawk, Dean Dietrich's veteran 105, vas third, while Brandon Colgan’s Newrort Harbor-based Belly Dancer fell to

fourth after showing earlier promise. Fifth went to hull #268, the brand new Juxta¬ pose, owned by Tom Thayer and Dick Watts. The duo just replaced their per¬ fectly good '98 season champion Speed¬

well in mid-season ("The ashtrays were full," quipped someone), allowed by the class to purchase crispy new sails and transfer their season points. Juxtapose started strong with a 1,3, but then fell victim to teething problems, including a stuck jib roller at a leeward mark, that forced them to eat a pair of lowly 16s. Local boats populated the middle September, 1999 • UtUoM ¥& • Page 143

J/105 NORTH AMERICANS

nor could local J/Boat dealer, class me? surer and regatta organizer Don Trasl "This fleet has come a long way," sai Trask, noting the lack of collisions, ger eral recalls and protests in the series. 'Th level of sailing and sportsmanship at th: regatta was just fantastic!" Come to think of it, eveiyone was smi ing — regatta chairman Tony Chargii race manager John Craig, local class pres ident Tom Kassberg (Walloping Swedt and, most importantly, all the skippei and crews. Check out www.sffl05.org fc lots of pictures, daily results and furthe insights into this excellent regatta. — latitude /rki

ranks, including Bruce Stone and Neil Weintraut's newly-acquired Arbitrage (exSnoopy from San Diego) in 10th. A trio of out-of-towners pulled up the rear: Wet Paint, which was trailed out from Narragansett Bay, was 13th, while two char¬ ter boats, Hele On (representing Chesa¬ peake Bay) and Soldini (Long Island Sound), were 16th and 18th. The Bay, it seems, is still a tough stage for new ac¬ tors to excel on — but don't tell that to Bob Taylor and his HiJinx crew!

The J/105 phenomenon keeps roll¬ ing on, with 270 of these lively 34-foot spritpolers now sailing and about 50 more on order. "We're building five 105s a month, and about to add a second shift to double our capacity," explained J/Boat president Jeff Johnstone, who flew out from Rhode Island to help oversee the re¬ gatta. "It’s the biggest backlog we've had in over ten years. We designed this boat back in '92, but it didn't really catch on until the last two years. Annapolis now has over 40 J/105s, San Francisco is al¬ most at 40, and the waters between New

Joyce and Vince DiLorenzo of 'Ultimatum'. They ended up second overall and top SF Bay boat.

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TRYING TO REASON Last hurricane season, I had a great time. I singlehanded our 38-ft sloop Wild Card down to Trinidad from the Virgins, while my wife — finally! — ditched our kid at some unsuspecting university in the U.S. The first few weeks after she rejoined me is kinda lost in a sensuous haze of erotic remembrance. . . after all, we were suddenly 'empty-nesters' after 18 years of raising a highly energetic child on a veiy small boat. But eventually we were forced to put our clothes back on, and crawl out

his many watery-eyed friends. "Storms don’t like Trini," he’d saj slowly, with a sly, self-satisfied smile. "Dej

There, the terrible truth is out! I'll admit it I did it. And I eryoye(l it, too! In fact, there are few things in life as fine as sitting on a barstool at a notori¬ ous Trini bar like the Crews Inn, Sailors or the Bight at Peakes, and watching the island on which you normally keep your vessel being blown away palm tree by palm tree, by a category five hurricane —

Frankly; / couldn't help but gloat as every large tropical wave slinked menacingly off the coast of Africa.' of the sweltering forepeak to face reality. Reality is very weird, very strange in Trinidad. Let’s explode one myth right off. Ev¬ eryone goes down to Trinidad claiming they’re going to "haul their boat and get some work done." While this does occasionally happen, working on boats is not the primary ac¬ tivity of the Trini marine community in September. The primary activity of the marine com¬ munity of Trinidad is — and I hate to ad¬ mit this on the pages of a family maga¬ zine — watching other Caribbean Islands get wacked by hurricanes.

broadcast 'live' on CNN. I know, I know . . . this is sick, really sick. This is utterly contemptible behav¬ ior, but it is also absolutely true. Frankly, I couldn't help but gloat as every large tropical wave slinked menac¬ ingly off the coast of Africa. "Here comes another one," I’d laugh to myself, "Maybe this is the one which will wipe 'em all out!" In fact, every time a named storm came swooping down on the Lesser Antilles, I’d make a point to wander over to the Cir¬ cumnavigators Bar at Hummingbird Ma¬ rine to chat with Cape Horn veteran and serial circumnavigator Harold LaBord and

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always curve north jus' before dey hit us." What was the general consensus at the bar concerning the storm-terrorized sail-

ors holed up in the Leewards? "Dem people crazy up dere!" I wish I was kidding about my own per-

sonal callousness, but I’m not. When I was in Trini, I felt morally superior to my fel¬ low sailors who were stuck in the Virgins, Puerto Rico, and/or Sint Maarten. Even the rotund waitress at the Roti Shop atTardieu Marine once told me hap¬ pily, "I tink dis gonna be a very bad year for de storms. .

Or I’d saunter over to see my ol’ buddy Fred at the Wood Shop in Powerboats. "I heard that Professor Gray

"I tink dis gonna be a very bad year for de storms..." said there'd be at least five major storms this season," he’d comment wisely while brushing teak sawdust and TT dollars out of his long sandy blond hair, "maybe more!" At the dinghy dock in front of the HiLo Supermarket in Chaguaramas, we Caribbean-boaters-in-exile would often ’highfive' each other with the latest ’they’re-all-gonna-die’ storm reports. We’d gleefully shout stuff like, "Hey, it’s an in¬ telligence test, and if you’re not south of 12°N in September, well, you deserve to be smitten! I mean, man, it’s like, hey man. . . it’s like. . . good for the gene pool, man!"

the 1,00-year average. How the heck does he know all this? It's very complicated science, but Gray account. W< should point out. however. to be consistently accurate in his predic¬ tions. and Gray is certainly no exception. So it may all be much a.do about nothfag. We'll have to wait arid see. David Jones, the Caribbean's own weather man extraordinaire, puts Gray s prediction method into layman's terms on his excellent website, www.caribwx.com,

apparently affects how fax north or south a storm will track. A healthy jet stream flow helps con¬ tain convection activity, while historic landfall data helps make logical predic¬ tions. We don’t know exactly what factors go into predicting Eastern Pacific storms, but the indicators for that area are no doubt similar to those studied in the Atlantic. Nowadays, if we plan to be out in the middle of any ocean during periods of potentially nasty weather, we can at least take comfort in the fact that there is an enormous amount of information at our fingertips — especially via the internet and weatherfax. The National Hurricane Cen¬ ter in Miami, for example, issues tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts four times a day for all storms in the north Atlantic and eastern north Pacific east of 140 W. Let's hope none of us ever need to dodge one. — latitude/aet

In a nutshell, the key factors that af¬ fect tropical storm formation in the At¬ lantic are (1) rainfall in the African Sahel region, (2) Atlantic sea surface tempera¬ tures, (3) the location of the North Atlan¬ tic High, (4) the strength of the jet stream and (5) landfall probability studies. The amount of moisture in the Sahel directly affects the amount of moisture present in 'tropical waves', and the greater that level, the greater the convection ac¬ tivity which spawns big storms. Extremely warm sea temperatures contribute greatly to storm development, and the location of the North Atlantic High ....

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tening to it on our SSB radio while hookec into a placid little Trinidadian harboi named Scotland Bay wasn’t stressful ai all. "You want more popcorn hon?" mj wife asked me just as I started receiving the first reports of boats yanking out theii moorings in the Virgins. "Sure," I said "and another beer, a Stag this time!"

Of course it wasn't just the folks at Chaguaramas who were so, er, insensi¬ tive. The people at TTYC and TTYA were quick to 'suck their teeth’ too. And Trinidad has a very large, very active group of amateur radio operators who are famous for ’helping out’ after ev¬ ery major Caribbean storm by repeatedly asking the question, "How many dead?" For a place which is almost stormless, Trinidad has a tremendous amount of the marine weather information floating around as well. Eric at the West Point Mini

Early one November in the mid-'80s, "Hurricane Klaus" clobbered the Virgin Islands after many a skipper had let his guard down. This scene is in Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas. Mart is the marine community's local weather guru in Trinidad. He knows where all the storms are headed. "Boy, I wouldn’t want to be in St. Kitts right now," I remember him saying in mid-September last year. "And St. Croix looks like its ly¬ ing right in the path of Georges too!" The sad truth is that Georges is the first Caribbean storm I sorta enjoyed. Lis¬

f course, such behavior carries £ heavy psychic price. It has to. Karma ex¬ ists. So does guilt. And everyone knows that 'paybacks are hell', which is why I’rr kinda nervous. This year I’m unable financially to heac south to Trinidad. So I’ll be stuck here ir the Virgins. . . like a rat in the proverbial hurricane trap. Literally, the object of m> own previous scorn. Oh, yes, I realize 1 deserve absolutely no mercy. None. And, yes, I realize hundreds of my friends will be down in Trinidad, gleefully watching the Weather Channel while drunkenly braying, 'That one looks like it's got Fatty's name on it!" Oh, Lordy! woe is me. . . — fatty goodlandei (previously published in All at Sea;

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The Latitude Interview:

Richard Steinke 38: We already know you’re from Sausalito and are 66 years old. Can you tell us about your sailing history? Steinke: I owned a 24-foot Golden Gate in the '50s and later a 30-foot Hurricane — which is another wooden boat one-design. My first cruise was in '65 when I took Figaro, my Hurricane, to Mexico — which was very different back then. For example, the only thing in Cabo was a cantina at the top of the hill. There was no inner harbor, and I remember bargaining over a beer with the Port Captain about fees. There were usually about a half dozen cruising boats in the anchorage, and we got water from a long hose that came out of the field, across the beach, and out to the boats in the anchorage! Back then my favorite Mexican anchorage was Yelapa, which was a hippie hangout in those days. I went back several times, the last about seven years ago, and it hasn’t changed all that much. From the very beginning, I was big on sailing rather than using the engine, and after I'd been to Yelapa a few times and understood the anchorage, we used to anchor under sail on the ledge just in front of the so-called 'yacht club'. It was pretty exciting threading through the pangas, and we could tell the fishermen treated us with a bit more respect for doing it. Once I rowed the crew of a fishing boat ashore and they reciprocated with a large bucket of prawns. After the trip to Mexico, I bought Isobar, a 45-ft wooden boat. She was designed by Les and Don Harlander, who used to own Cal Coast Marine in Richmond, and was built in '62 by Cheoy Lee in Hong Kong. Finisterre, the first of the new generation of wide boats, had won the Bermuda Race just before, and Isobar — with 12 feet of beam — followed in that thinking. I have now owned Isobar for over 25 years, and am still in love with her lines. She is always one of the prettiest boats wherever we go. 38: It’s common for local sailors to claim, 'If you can sail the Bay, you can sail anywhere in the world.' Is that true? Steinke: I remember hearing that statement 30 years ago — and it's still total B.S. It is good to sail the Bay because of the strong winds. The rigging and boat are stressed continually, and old sails and weak rigging simply don’t last long. Nonetheless, it is a different world offshore where 30 to 40 knot winds create nasty — and sometimes dangerous — seas and things can quickly get out of hand. The Bay teaches you to deal with the wind, but the wind isn't the problem, it's the seas. In the Red Sea, for example, 35-knot winds create 10 to 15 foot square’ seas that are much worse than you'd typically find between Pt. Conception and San Francisco. The claim that I would stand by is this: 'If you can sail from San Francisco to Trinidad Head — 200 miles north of San Francisco — in the middle of the summer, you can pretty much sail anywhere in the world." 38: Please continue with your sailing history. Steinke: In '76 we took Isobar down to Panama, through the Canal, and up through the Caribbean. Our worst sail was up the coast from Panama to Curasao. It’s only 720 miles, but as is often the case, we had to battle very strong winds — up to 50 knots — as well as huge seas and two knots of current. It was a real heartbreaker of a trip, as we pounded right into it for 12 days before making port. We broke a headstay in the process, but fortunately didn't lose the mast. By the way, we did the same passage in '92 with Isobar, but that time we deliberately sailed within 2 to 10 miles of the coast Page 150 •

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to avoid the current. We were apprehensive because of the tali of drug running off the coast of Colombia, but it was a mui easier trip. In his World Cruising Routes, Jimmy Cornell used write that you can’t sail from Panama to the 'ABC Islands', met him in England and convinced him to consider changii his phraseology to a possible, but not recommended' route l staying close to the shore. It can be a bitch if winds are on tl nose — as they usually are — but it's doable. We did the Caribbean — particularly the Grenadines — whic were gorgeous and uncrowded back then. We then crossed tl Atlantic and got caught by hurricane force winds just as v reached the continental shelf on the way to Ireland. Thanks i a combination of 70-knot winds and 50-foot seas, we rolle 180° — but Isobar righted herself with the mast still up. Sever hours later we were rolled again — and that time we did lo* the mast. We know that we rolled all of the way over becau: there were potatoes on the handrails! The stove miraculous ended up on the chart table with barely a scratch. One of tl tall ships, the Christian Radditch, took a terrible beating durir the same storm. The rollovers really hurt Isobar, which had been built light for racing. She is strip planked mahogany, edge nailed and glue with teak trim and decks. What was unusual about her origin; construction is that she had only bulkheads and no ribs. Sine I was going to be living in England for the next few years, decided to go all out and reconstruct the boat. I put son $45,000 into her in '76 — when dollars were much more valuab — even though she was only worth $35,000 at the time. I ha\ never regretted it. I took her to the Mashford Brothers Yard in Cremyl for th work. The yard was owned by five brothers who ran such traditional yard that they still used adzes to cut keelsons t hand. It was a perfect place to have Isobar rebuilt. They cut tv holes in the stern and inserted shelves all of the way to the bo of the boat. They then laminated ribs every 16 inches for th entire length of the boat. It really stiffened Isobar. Fortunatel1 the yard rate was only $4.50 U.S. at the time. Once Isobar was rebuilt, we sailed the coast of England ye£ 'round. Some of the toughest sailing that I have ever done we off the coast of England in the winter. 38: Don’t most people over there the wait for the bett< weather of summer?

Steinke: You have to sail in the bad stuff in England becaus you can rarely count on the weather to be good. And the Englis crews are really tough. I remember sailing from London i Cornwall one time and feeling something stinging my face, was hail! The good thing about England back then was thi you could anchor for free in almost every estuary or rive Nowadays you often have to pay — even for anchoring — an that really bothers me to have to pay for anchoring. In any even it was great sailing in England back in those days. Since I spent the next seven years working in England, I ha the opportunity to take Isobar across the Med to Greece. Eve then the Med was a little crowded for my taste. We sailed th boat back to California in '84. It was an uneventful trip — oth< than getting mixed up in a 55-knot tropical storm off Acapulci From '84 to '92,1 sailed locally and explored the north coa: of California from San Francisco to Trinidad Head. I think thi this area is one of the best cruising areas in the world, and yi

w people take advantage of it. It’s just a terrific place to sail. 38: When did you sail back to Europe? Steinke: The second time was in '92, and it was an easier p. As I mentioned, we hugged the shore on the way to Aruba id avoided the current. Secondly, we didn’t go up to 50°N in e Atlantic as we did the time we got rolled. We stayed below l°N and stopped at the Azores. Anybody who bypasses the ores is making a big mistake. I went ®n to spend the winter in ville, Spain, which is about 60 miles up the river across from Ldiz. I can’t speak highly enough about that city. As a jumping off place before crossing the Atlantic, we'd )pped in Bermuda — where we met a boatload of impoverished ilors from Russia. They'd come across from England in the )st basic of boats with only a charged set of batteries for power

and no engine. The Bermuda officials were going to give them the boot because they didn’t have the/equired $50 per person landing fee. The cruisers in the harbor were up in arms, and got the press involved, yhe result was they were able to stay and in the process they became good friends with us. They invited us to come to Russia and visit them, so we said, Why not?' A year later, we headed from Seville to Russia. By pushing the weather, we made it across the Bay of Biscay to England by April 1 — which is really still a transition month for weather. Then we went to Denmark and visited Copenhagen. Sweden’s 'Blue Coast' was much like the San Juan Islands, but even more beautiful. After a stop at Helsinki, where we picked up my daughter and her then-fiance, we sailed in to St. Petersburg, Russia. We spent six weeks — about as long as you September, 1999 • UtZUJilS • Page 151

interview: can in those high latitudes without getting trapped by spring on the one hand and winter on the other. It was really a great visit because Russia had just opened. The Russians loved Americans and the promise of capitalism, and treated us like kings. We stopped at Tallin, Estonia, on the

‘Isobar’ racing in Turkey

way back to England, and it turned out we were the first yacht to anchor in the 300-year-old funky commercial harbor — for as long as anyone could remember. The newspaper did a story on us, and the harbormaster had his picture taken with his arm around me and the American flag behind us. He said he was really moved, as he never imagined he'd live to see such a thing happen — with an American, no less! While in Russia, I met a submarine commander who asked if his 6-year-old daughter could come aboard and see Isobar. He told me that San Francisco had been his taiget'. Life is full of such reversals. We brought the boat back to London for the winter and somewhere along the line I came back to San Francisco to get a couple of knee implants. I later got hip implants, too. They work fine — although my balance isn’t as good as it used to be. Anyway, I hung around Seville for another few months recuperating, and then sailed to Barcelona in the dead of winter. Riding the tail end of southerly storms, we made 900 miles in about seven days — including some daysails. I spent four or five months in Barcelona, one of the more interesting cities that you can visit by boat. s As I continued east, I picked up a Spanish kid as a crewmember. It was a really bad arrangement because he couldn't speak English and my Spanish was too poor to communicate well in tight situations. As luck would have it, the engine transmission — a 30-year-old Paragon — failed on the way to Italy. So we had to sail into the harbor at Fiumicino — which is on the Tiber River and not that far from Rome. We arrived at night with moderately strong winds blowing, and elected to sail in. It was a bit hairy, but we made it with no problems and tied up to a tug. However, the next morning when we wanted a 200-yard tow into the harbor, they wanted $150! And they wouldn’t allow fellow cruisers to tow me. Italian sailors were actually afraid of repercussions from the local harbor mafia’. This completely pissed me offl So when I recovered, I decided to sail into a small tight marina — even though it was illegal — with no room for mistakes and with a crewmember that I couldn’t communicate with. We made it, but just barely. Once inside, everyone lent a hand in fending off. Despite the problem getting a tow, Fiumicino is a great place to stop, with free tie-ups along the riverbank and in the marina as well. The best spot is under the first bridge away from the chop. The Italians often dropped by with a bottle of wine and Page 152 • UVMJt.l'i • September, 1999

were really friendly and fun-loving. But now we had a big problem. The broken transmissior was no longer made, and remaking the insides wasn' economically feasible. The only replacements were off-centerlin< shafts that would have required raising the boat floor thre< inches! Fortunately, I had contacted my friend Pam, who hac contacted John Shuey, who remembered that Sausalitc mechanic Tom Hall had an old shed full of boat parts when h< died. It turned out that there was an identical transmission ir the shed with new gears! Pam, who was scheduled to meet rrn in Rome, brought the transmission as checked luggage, anc we had it installed and were off in two days. Sometimes things just work out no matter how bad they seem. 38: You seem to be taking more time than most cruisers tc circumnavigate? Is this due to your operations or what? tSteinke: You have just touched a nerve. I am continually moving faster than I would like or think that I should. Weathei is often a constraint. In the Red Sea, for example, I was faced with reaching Thailand before the rainy season and had to keep pushing on. But I still was taking twice as much time as fellow cruisers. For instance, many cruisers bypassed Petra in Jordan because they were impatient to reach the Med. It’s 180 miles out of the way — two easy days — but they bypass one of the wonders of the world to push on! It’s just hard for me to believe. I'm sure that I wall get a lot of flack for this, but I think many cruisers are Type A personalities who are just in a rush to get somewhere — and many of them seem to motor their way around the world. Personally, I still enjoy sailing at 1.5 knots — although this joy is not always shared by my crew. Sailors from San Francisco Bay seem to enjoy sailing in the Bay, but by the time they reach the Red Sea they seem to fall into bad motoring habits. Anyway, I can’t imagine sailing around the world in less than five years without missing a lot. 38: Are you too much of a purist to use an autopilot? Steinke: I am somewhat of a purist in that we never use the autopilot for routine steering. Don’t get me wrong, an autopilot is a very useful tool when you’re changing sails, eating dinner or checking the chart. But if we’re not doing something important, we hand steer. We sail with three and sometimes four aboard, so we have the crew to hand steer. Anyway, from Italy we continued on to Greece and Turkey. Isobar stayed in Turkey for two years, but I came back to the Bay Area for nine months of that. 38: Greece and Turkey are right next to each other, but lots of cruisers say there is a big difference between the two. Steinke: Almost every cruiser will say that it’s a pleasure to get to Turkey after Greece. The Greeks have entertained too many tourists for too many years — and remind me a bit of New York friendliness’ a number of years ago. Individual Greeks, like people eveiywhere, are great people. But by comparison, the Turks are more friendly. In addition, the Turkish coast is deeply indented and full of beautiful anchorages — and has good wind — so it’s one of the better cruising grounds in the world. It’s also very inexpensive. 38: We haven’t talked about money. Steinke: It doesn t cost much to cruise — especially if you have a new boat. But boat expenses do come home to roost. I must have spent close to $15,000 getting Isobar re-rigged and outfitted in Turkey. Otherwise my expenses are usually less than $1000 a month — in part because I don’t rent cars or eat at resort restaurants. But I live well, often dining out in countries where it’s reasonable. In places such as Thailand, it doesn’t cost much more to eat out than to cook on your boat. Anyway, I left Turkey in November of last year and arrived in Thailand on May 15th of this year.

richard steinke 38: Almost everyone circumnavigates from east to west. Are you intentionally going the opposite way? Steinke: Well, I wanted to return to the Med, so I started going east. When I got to the Med, I had some minor health problems, but when they cleared up I felt like visiting the Red Sea. One thing led to another and so I decided to continue around the world. Besides, if you check the wind patterns in the Indian Ocean in the spring, the prevailing wind is light and out of the northeast. As a result, if your boat points as well as Isobar, you can easily cross the Indian Ocean and lay Thailand with very few, if any, tacks. We left a bit late and ran out of wind, but that’s another story. Nonetheless, when the wind is light, it’s actually more fun to sail upwind than downwind — and considerably faster. So contrary to popular belief, I don't think it’s hard to circumnavigate from west to east — although I may regret that statement by the time I finish. 38: We’d like to hear more details on the trip from Turkey to Thailand, but first a lot of readers would be interested in knowing what kind of gear you have on your boat. Steinke: Since one of the biggest problems cruisers have is anchoring, I’ll start with ground tackle. I carry six anchors for my 25,000 pound boat: A 72-lb CQR; a 25-lb Danforth mounted on the stem; a lightweight stainless folding NorthilTtype anchor with large flukes; a Northill; a second Danforth as a spare; and a gigantic 100-lb Danforth which I’ve never used but which would be useful in equally gigantic winds. I keep meaning to get rid of the last anchor, but then you never know. Many people skimp on anchor size because of handling problems or because they have an undersized windlass. But when you anchor in 90 feet with all chain, it takes a big windlass to raise a big anchor. Mind you, that depth is uncommon, but it happens. The result of setting too small an anchor is a sleepless night when the wind really blows and the boat is surrounded by reefs. In some anchorages — especially Turkey — a favorite pastime is watching boats drag anchor. Another reason that anchors drag is that they weren’t set in the first place. One summer in Turkey, I snorkeled over maybe 50 anchors. At least half of these were just laying on the bottom; a quarter of them weren't well set. One reason that people don’t oack down on their anchors is that they're afraid that they will pull them loose and they will have to re-anchor! As a consequence they drag when the wind picks up. The reality is that different circumstances require different ypes and sizes of anchors. When in Turkey I would mention to cruisers coming from the South Pacific that their anchors were small for Turkey. Most would respond that they have used that mchor all through the South Pacific and Red Sea and never rad a problem. But Turkey is different because the usual inchors don’t hold on the grassy bottom. 38: We’ll say! We spent a whole afternoon trying to anchor Big O off the castle at Bodrum. Four times we tried with both he previously reliable CQR and Bruce anchors, but neither :ame close to holding. Ultimately we had to anchor in another jay. Steinke: You needed a Turkish' anchor — which is a big 'isherman-type anchor about four feet across with sharp flukes ind a three-foot crossbar. The gulets all use them and they lever drag. Additionally it’s common,to tie a line to shore. A grassy bottom isn’t the only problem in Turkey. One time I /as so proud of myself because I’d anchored Isobar right off the astle you referred to, and stem tied in what looked like the lerfect spot. But about midnight the noise and lights started — /e’d tied up behind the Halicarnassus disco — which played inbelievably loud music until almost dawn. I’m not exaggerating

when I say that Isobar’s hull reverberated to the beat. Of course, we drag from time to time also, but not as much as most boats. In addition, we sometimes set two bow anchors. You better not try that in many places in the Med as it is a very antisocial procedure when everyone else is on one anchor.

The fish, Marih and Richard — in the Red Sea.

38: Anchor windlass? Steinke: Cruising boats need a power windlass — period. In fact, I recommend buying the biggest one that will fit on the foredeck — and then treating it like a member of the family. There are those times when you have to drop the hook three or four times to get it right, and you can’t do that if you have to raise it manually. It’s especially important that singlehanders and older couples have power windlasses. Not infrequently I see older guys out there straining with a manual windlass — or sometimes none at all — in the hot sun. It seems like they are asking for a heart attack. I met an older couple in Thailand that were going up the Red Sea — where you have to anchor and re¬ anchor around the reefs all of the time. They didn't have an anchor winch. It just doesn't make sense to me. 38: How about roller furling? Steinke: I’ve never liked the shape of a roller furled sail when it’s reefed way down. But I’m getting to the age where I will have to give in to roller furling soon. There’s a new system from New Zealand which has modified hanks that roller furl. Sail changing is similar to hanked sqdls, yet for squalls and taking the jib down, it has the advantage of roller furling. It sounds good. 38: How about electronics? Steinke: I have two GPS units, which have always worked well. I also carry a sextant, but I haven’t done more than clean it in five years. I have an HF radio, which is really useful in getting weather and participating in the cruiser nets. I used to use a computer in conjunction with the radio to get weather faxes, but I didn’t like it. The last thing you want to do when you are thrashing around is to hook up a computer at the right time to the radio. I think having a dedicated weatherfax is the way to go. I have a Furuno unit that automatically gives me weather once or twice a day, and it’s great. 38: Radar? Steinke: Some people say that they can’t imagine sailing without radar. I can’t imagine sailing with it. 38: Sail Inventory? Steinke: Main, storm main, 165%, 150%, 135%, 110% and a storm jib. The smaller sails are in really good condition even though they are 10 years old because I rarely use them. My 165% is on its deathbed, and I am getting a new 150% for the King’s Cup Regatta in December. Most cruisers worry about heavy weather sailing, which is good, but most cruising is done in light winds. I put a veiy high priority on having a boat which sails well in light winds. But September, 1999 • U&uM J? • Page 153

interview: frankly, if I were sailing on many of the boats that are cruising today, I might motor a lot more, too. 38: What kind of engine do you have? Steinke: An old Perkins 4-108. It always has some little problem, but we pretty much always manage to keep it going. One suggestion for cruisers: Mount an electric fuel pump as a backup to the manual transfer pump. It makes priming after a filter change easier, and in an emergency will overcome the effect of a small air leak. It also makes it easier to spot air leaks. 38: Dinghy and outboard? Steinke: We have one of the smallest Avons — perhaps intended for three people. We cram four into it when necessary. I don't have an outboard and row. I am unusual in this regard, and I am told continually that such-and-such a

port is impossible without an outboard. But we always make i I obviously enjoy rowing, and in spite of my engine backgroum am not good with outboards. The ones I have had just sat fi months at a time without being used, and finally ju: deteriorated while still relatively new. 38: Isn’t it difficult to row an inflatable in stronger winds'; Steinke: Bteyond 20 knots it's pretty hard. We have a watermaker that we never use as well. Hopeful it won’t go the way of the outboards: not working when we final get around to using it. We just don’t use that much water, was so calm on the Indian Ocean, for example, that it took r 19 days from Oman to the Maldives. Three of us used less tha 40 gallons of water. Many — almost all — cruisers have hug water and fuel tanks, both of which hurt boat performance. By the way, I’d like to weigh in on the bottled versus tar Water dialogue. All of the cruisers in Marmaris, Turkey, drin the tap water. The charter people drink nothing but bottled wate taking on case after case of the one-litre plastic water bottle: They think they’ll die if they drink tap water. But all these litt \yater bottles end up on the beaches, overflowing the garbag cans — everywhere. I hate them with a passion. 38: How do you know if the water is good? Steinke: You ask cruisers who’ve been there. If no one g< sick, then it’s ok. This is one advantage of the HF radio nets. I didn’t get sick once from the water all of the way from Turke to Thailand. We drank the water in Egypt, Eritrea, Jordan, Yeme and Oman — a pretty good cross section of places where on might expect to have problems. We sometimes chlorinate an

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richard steinke Iways make sure someone is drinking the water. For example, le local water in Thailand is bad, so we buy five gallon jugs of ater just like the locals use. We drank well water in some places. 38: Are you too spartan to have refrigeration? Steinke: Actually we have two systems; one has a compressor lat works off the driveshaft, while the other is a 12-volt unit. ve had them for years and they just keep running. When it’s ilm, I usually motor an hour a day or so to keep the refrigerator Did and to charge the batteries. I also recently picked up a Duple of small solar panels, which pretty much handle all our ectric needs — except for refrigeration. 38: Do you have a liferaft? Steinke: Yes. It's inspected and repacked yearly. I also have to EPIRBS; one older type and one 406. 38: Do you require your crew to wear lifejackets? Steinke: Because of their bulkiness, crew seldom want to ear lifejackets. I urge people to buy floatcoats — and carry two ctra onboard. Most experienced sailors come with flotation ckets. We all wear personal strobes at night, and harnesses hen it's rough. 38: So when did you leave Turkey for Thailand? Steinke: In November, which is the beginning of the bad :ason in the Med and a good time to be in the Red Sea. We had ie usual problems with the Egyptians, who I am sure are nice - except the ones who come in contact with the tourists and ho are often real con artists. After seeing the pyramids and other sights from the yacht ichorage at Suez, we headed down the coast of Egypt —

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Sudan, which was some distance away? We finally decide against stopping, which is a shame, because Sudan has terrif reefs and diving. Many cruisers who could have stopped were in too much i a rush to enjoy the reefs and diving. When it's calm, the urge to charge forward under power and forget the diving. When it windy, you stay put — but the diving isn't as good. The solutic is to dive on the first calm day and move forward during t± second calm day. Believe it or not, there will be a second call day. When we reached the southern end of the Red Sea, thei was only about 15 feet of visibility underwater, and the reel had been burned out by the warm water of El Nino. 38: Are more Americans Type A cruisers? Steinke: It’s hard to say. The French are perhaps the bes cruisers. They aren’t the best sailors, but they really get int their surrounds and do stuff like grub food off the bottom. Bi everyone’s in a hurry. Other than a maxi racer — which brok its boom in a 50-knot gust — we were the only boat I know ( during this time period that sailed the entire length of the Re Sga. Maybe we are just Type A compulsive sailors! By the way, a popular misconception is that the wind blow like hell all of the way down the Red Sea. In reality, most of th year it blows from the north in the north, and from the south t the south. Unless you go east to west, there is no good way t do it. We had eight days of 30 to 40-knot headwinds from th south as we left the Red Sea, and at the same time boats in th north were getting trashed by north winds on their way out. 38: It doesn’t sound that fun.

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interview: home, her entire family present, with chickens being chased out of the living room. She roasted coffee beans over an open fire, then ground them, and made coffee for all of us — for the Eriterean version of cocktail hour. It's little experiences such as that which make the cruising life especially worthwhile. After leaving Eritrea"— Merih was still with us then — we thrashed our way across the bottom of the Red Sea to Yemen. It blew 35 knots for part or all of eight days. Isobar did well under a storm main and a small jib. I promised my crew, who were suffering from malaise' from the constant wind, that it would be better when we rounded the corner into the Indian Ocean. It was. It only blew 25 knots instead of 30, and the seas were six rather than 10 feet. They were not impressed. We stopped at two cities in Yemen — Aden and A1 Mukala — and had good experiences. A1 Mukala was especially nice as they had a great fruit and veggie market, and delivered good water and clean fuel right to the boat. The only problem was that the officials got terribly excited by Merih. In Yemen, women have little contact with the opposite sex and are almost completely covered up — in most cases with only slits for theneyes. So here came Merih, who in their eyes was sexy and vivacious — and had the same color skin, heritage and forefathers as they. She was their complete fantasy. Merih got so tired of answering questions about her relationship with me — obviously not her father — that she said I was her husband and we had three children. It didn’t seem to help, but it gave us a laugh. Although there was no vegetation, the coast of Yemen is one

of the more beautiful in the world, as it's lined with volcanos You could see a dozen at a time, and we sailed closer to shore t get a better view. Unfortunately, shelter was hard to find an the anchorages unprotected. Our next stop was oil-rich Oman. The annual per capit income in Eritrea is less than $200 a month; in Yemen it'$ abou $700; in Oman, it's over $10,000! The interesting thing abou Oman is that all the work is done by Indians, as the Omani are too well off to want to work much. 38: Did you have trouble with theft or people otherwise tryin to rip you off in poorer countries? Steinke: No — except for Egypt. Everyone was friend! wherever we went. And although we undoubtedly paid more fo fruits and vegetables than the locals, we didn’t feel as thoug] we were getting ripped off. Theft simply wasn't a problem — o a concern. 38: Then you started heading across the Indian Ocean? Steinke: It began with a very slow passage—19 days to cove 1,300 miles or so — to the Maldives. The winds were light ani we were often becalmed. But it gave us a chance to enjoy gooi conversation, read each others' books, dine well, and swim ii the ocean. Everyone — my crew was from Santa Cruz an< London — enjoyed the trip even though we had several 40-mil days. It was also plenty warm, but not unbearable. 38: Many people seem to like the Maldives. Steinke: It didn’t work out so well for us. We got there ir April, which is late in the season, and in contrast to our slot trip, the winds had started making it too windy to enjoy th

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richard steinke lormally fine diving. In addition, the officialdom is complex, so t's hard to visit the atolls without permits. For someone just massing through, this is a real drag. Things got worse when they confiscated my guns — and then showed me a new and unpublished law saying that they didn’t lave to give them back because they weren't registered. As is •outinely done, we had turned our guns over to them when we ;ntered. To find out that they then wouldn’t give them back vas more than I could take. After appealing to everybody in officialdom, I contacted the American Embassy in Sri Lanka, as ;hey are responsible for the Maldives. They wrote a very creative etter which said that such guns didn’t have to be registered in :he U.S., but that I had voluntarily registered them with the imbassy, and they considered them now duly registered. It vorked, as I got my guns back. Guns are a mixed blessing hough. I’m still not sure that it’s a good thing to carry guns, ["here are arguments to be made on both sides. 38: What kind of guns do you carry? Steinke: I cany an old 30-30 rifle and a shotgun. In any event, we then had a short sail to Sri Lanka, which is i beautiful island with high mountain plateaus, nice people ind lots to see. It’s a destination, not just a place to stop along he way. I’d been there before, however, so I didn’t travel around he island as much this time. But here's the peculiar thing: £ach night they close the Galle Harbor entrance with nets and :very few minutes — all night long — they set off underwater :xplosives to deter the Tamil rebels from sabotaging the harbor! sometimes they would detonate an explosive right next to my

boat at 0400 — which really got our attention. Surprisingly, after a week we hardly noticed it. 38: Frank Robben, who owned Kialoa II for many years, said that he met his wife there by advertising in the newspaper — as is commonly done there. Steinke: It’s a different culture over there. I met a girl in one of the temples and invited her to come to lunch the next day. She showed up — with a total of 11 brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles. While in Sri Lanka I picked up a new crew — a couple from Australia and New Zealand — for the trip to Thailand. They had never sailed before, but they were kayakers and looked like they would be good. 38: How did you find them? Steinke: I put out the word that I would give $50 to anyone who found me crew. In just a couple of days, word had reached them clear across the island 100 miles away. Anyway we started off in great style, going 162 miles in 20 hours. Then the boom broke during an accidental gybe — even though we were purposely sailing 30° off the wind to allow for their lack of experience. Those kinds of things are the down side of a green crew, and thank goodness nobody was hurt. So we had to sail the last 900 miles with a broken boom — and some days we still did 100 or even 125 miles. They were a wonderful crew to get along with — certainly among the best that I have ever had. We also had an Italian cook with us from London. 38: Is it hard finding crew? Steinke: Finding crew is always a bit of a problem. It's made

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I had the yard take all of the topsides paint off — six people worked with hand-sanders for a week — and paint the topsides and bottom. The bill came to $2000. The cost of paint and hauling the boat is about the same as in the U.S., but the labor is only $10 a day for a semi-experienced worker. So relative to the total cost, th& labor is almost free. And if you supervise the workers, they do a very good job. If they do something wrong — a common occurrence — they cheerfully do it over until you are satisfied. When they brushed on the final coat, it was just terrible — full of brush marks. I complained, and they sanded it off and sprayed a very professional final coat — at no extra cost. While we were hauled out, I hired a Thai girl named Meo to help out on the boat. She would arrive in the morning with food from the market, then she’d wash my clothes, clean the boat cleaner that it’s ever been, make my lunch — and then sand the varnish in the afternoon. Meo was a tremendous worker. I needed to bring some 40-pound bottles of water on deck when we were hauled out, and she insisted that she do it. In fact, she wouldn’t let me do any work which she considered 'women’s work'. Once I tried to wash my clothes, and she and the other Thai girls couldn’t stop giggling. They do it better by hand than we Westerners do with machines. Incidentally, many of the workers called me ‘Papa’ — a name that was common for me throughout the Red Sea as well. They have real respect for age in those countries, and calling me ‘Papa’ was not at all disrespectful. 38: Is there resentment on the part of the workers? Steinke: You mean because we have so much money? The

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richard steinke hai workers are happy to have a job nowadays, and I didn’t ense any resentment. Meo used to push an ice cream cart for 3 a day. I pay her $9 a day — and she is delighted and works ard. You’d like to do something for these people, but other lan on a one-to-one basis, there’s not much you can do. Mind you, the labor isn’t so cheap over at the posh Boat agoon where, for example, a cup of coffee is over a dollar and eer $2 a bottle. For example, you pay $5 an hour for varnishing t Boat Lagoon instead of the $ 10 to $ 15 per day at Ratanachai. urthermore, I was living on $2 a day for food at Ratanachai, rhich is the price of a beer at Boat Lagoon. However, when I left iobar for two months to return home, I put her into a slip at oat Lagoon — where she is safe from storms, and anchor¬ ragging. It costs $300 a month. My experience at Ratanachai was really great, because I had antact only with non-tourist oriented Thai people for three eeks. The yard took good care of me, and although at times I as really frustrated, they were great to work with. When they ere done painting, I could almost see my reflection in the apsides. And when they launched the boat, they set off recrackers in the Thai tradition. Speaking of tradition, I didn’t lention the Spirit House they had in the yard. It's a ceremonial loking area where the spirits who had been displaced by the reation of the boatyard stay! I haven’t had a chance to cruise Thailand, but it looks like a intastic cruising ground. I was there in the off-season when it lined three or four times a week. It was hot, too. Not as bad as urkey or the Red Sea, but the humidity is much worse. Come

December, the rain stops and nights become a little cooler. The wind also shifts from the southeast to the northeast. There are lots of resorts and tourists on Phuket, but you don’t have to have anything to do with them. Tourists mostly stay in the resorts and on the beaches, and there are many places to get away on a boat. I'm really looking forward to going back. When I return to Thailand, there is a 23-year-old Thai girl nicknamed Louise who may help me out sailing — and if she does I may do a bit of chartering. She’s fluent in English and computers, and sets up web sites — not the usual Thai girl. I hope she will sail with me, because after the knee and hip operations, I no longer feel quite as capable of singlehanding safely. I’ve offered to pay Louise $250 a month, but probably wouldn’t have to pay that much. 38: Do all of the cruisers have Thai girls for crew? Steinke: Far from it. To start with, most cruisers are couples, and taking on a foreign crew presents visa complications and such. One fellow has a Burmese guy as a crew, but he can’t easily go border-hopping. Besides, Thai girls are not generally water people and often get seasick. Meo, for example, got seasick with me on a flat calm day and wants nothing to do with the sea. 38: On an entirely different subject, do you hear of many cruising boats being lost? Steinke: I personally don’t, but one recently went aground on a reef in the Red Sea and had to be towed to port. What is common, however, is for cruisers — particularly couples — to get into situations that are over their heads. Maybe they have

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interview: to take down a blown out sail at night, or re-anchor during a blow, or other such things. The wife gets shouted at and panics, and then the husband panics. You hear about these things frequently. Although both, of course, survive, their cruising experience isn’t that enjoyable. In Marmaris, I'm told that the women who've been through the Red Sea gather to discuss how much they dislike sailing. Some of the men want to quit as well. The truth is, it’s best if people learn to sail when they're young. Buying one's first boat on retirement can be a recipe for disaster — especially if someone experienced isn't taken along as crew. But couples normally don’t like to bring someone else along. What a lot of couples won’t accept is that it can be tough for just two of them — particularly if they only recently learned how to sail — to make passages. Fatigue can be a real problem. Even though I'm no longer a kid. I’m a pretty tough person and more importantly — have been sailing for 45 years. I can usually outlast my crew. Experience really does count. Couples who are new to sailing would do well to start their cruise with someone who could be their mentor. If they don’t, they may find they don't enjoy themselves as much as they should. On the other hand. I'm always reminded of Bo and Annie Hudson of Northern California, a not-so-young couple who sailed their Freya 39 Lionwing around the world without ruffling a feather. But they had loads of experience, and cruising is just so much more relaxing if you have the experience to be confident that you know what you’re doing. 38: So what if a 50-year-old couple really wants to learn how to sail and get experience. How do they do it?

Steinke: Taking a mentor is one way. But I think that th first thing potential cruisers should do is to test and improvi their skills. Sail up to Drakes Bay a couple of times. Anchor of the Estero, land a dingy in the surf, and go for a delightful wall in the Estero. Then sail up to Tomales Bay. You have to negotiati the bar at high-water, but it’s not an insurmountable problem And Tomales Bay has great sailing and gunkholing. Nex continue up to Fort Ross, Fish Rocks, Mendocino — anchoring in a few spots. If you do that, all your basic skills will be tested from sailing in high winds and big seas, to your navigation. 38: Frankly, that would probably kill most cruising dreams before they got started. Is cruising always fun for you? Steinke: A friend once reminded me that I was out cruising to have fun, so whenever I find I am not having fun, I stop anc say to myself, 'Hey, let’s start having fun.' And believe me, i usually works! Sailing from Turkey to Thailand may not have been fun eveiy minute of every day, but it certainly was one o the great experiences of my life: you get to meet so many greai new people, see entirely different scenery, and enjoy unusua adventures. It was really fun. 38: What’s next? Steinke: As soon as I get back to Thailand, I — along wit! some crew primarily from the Bay Area — are going to try tc win the King’s Cup in Thailand. Then I’m going to cruise Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and then sail over to Australk and New Zealand. I plan to return to Sausalito in five years — but at the rate I am going, who knows? 38: Thank you.

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The El Toro fleet celebrated its 60th North Americans on August 2-5, a pretty amazing milestone for any class if you think about it. Appropri¬ ately, the six-race regatta and attendant celebration was held at the club that invented' these enduring little 8footers back in '30s, the Richmond YC. Though the regatta was somewhat sparsely attended and the weather was rather gray, spirits were quite high. "The class is still going strong, with all the top guys buying new boats," explained El Toro stalwart John Amen. "Meanwhile, the older boats are finding new life with the juniors." Usually at the El Toro NAs, there are more seniors than juniors. This time, it was the other way around as some adults (like young powerhouse Will Paxton and Bullship winner Vaughn Seifers) couldn't spare or justify the vacation

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days to go sailing in their backyard. Outof-towners, like

■ eight-time NA winner Kui Lim of Hawaii ("the Michael Jordan ofTorodom," accord¬ ing to Tom Burden), were conspicuous by their absence, perhaps saving their vacation funds for less industrial venues. But the rest of the clan was there, including gurus like Hank Jotz, Jim Warfield, Dave Vickland and Tom Burden. There were 22 boats in the senior division — not enough to necessitate break¬ ing them into gold and silver fleets — but a qualifying round of three races were held on Monday anyway. Six counting races were then sailed in moderate to heavy air and choppy water in Keller Cove, just outside the Richmond breakwater. After Tuesday's first two races, three of the usual suspects were tied with four points — Jotz, Burden and Dave Vickland. On Wednesday, Jotz got serious, firing off double bullets. Weighing in at just

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130 pounds, Hank's forte is planing downwind, which he did masterfully to open up a monstrous 100-yard lead in winning the second race that day. On Thurs¬ day, the final day of racing, Jotz finished the job off with a 2,(8). having already won the series mathematically in five races but choosing to sail the sixth race anyway. This was the fifth North American title for Jotz, with previous wins spread out between '70, '77, '93 and '95. "I’ve also come in second more often than I want to count, maybe a dozen times!" laughed Jotz, a popular 60-year-old sailmaker who 'retired' to Weavervflle, up in the Trinity Alps, 20 years ago. He lives there quite happily on ten acres of land without electricity (though he has a generator) or phone

lines (his cell phone doesn't work well in the mountains, either). A couple times a month, he still pushes back the

furniture in his living room and builds El Toro sails. "I have everything I need up there," claimed Jotz. "It's a great life!"

he intermediate fleet, which only attracted seven boats (and may be dis¬ banded in the future), sailed the same course as the seniors.

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becoming a one design class (as opposed to the developmental class it technically still is) as eveiyone switches to the fast new Ron

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Defending champion Andy Goodman of Stockton came out swinging with two bullets, but stumbled on day two while Tim Armstrong sailed well to tie up the series. Goodman regained his form on the last day, posting two more bullets to ice the

series. Goodman has one more year in the intermediate fleet (for 15 to 19-year-olds) before being turned loose on his elders. The juniors (14 and under), all 34 of them, sailed inside the Richmond breakwater under the watchful eyes of multiple crash boats. As opposed to their polished senior

Two RYC junior members, George Granelli of Oakland and J.V. Gilmour of Pt. Richmond, were clearly a cut above the others. Going into the finale, which was sailed in a building breeze, Gilmour held a precarious lead. Granelli, however, excelled in the blustery conditions, winning the race while Gilmour took third. Granelli, who dyed his hair crimson for the Nation¬ als, ended up winning by a point.

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Quantum), tops out at about $4,400. "It’s relatively cheap fun and they'll last almost forever," points out John Amen, "A Laser, on the other hand, costs about $4,800 and will be used up after a few sea¬ sons." Speaking of lasting almost forever, one of the original surviving El Toros — 60year-old hull #4 — was on exhibit at the North Americans. On the last day of the regatta, this heirloom was reverently launched and 90ish-yearold Gordy Miller, one of RYC's founding members, was given the igg - ■•* honor of „,.v piloting the famous craft. Apparently it leaked like a sieve, and after a minute or so Miller gradually tipped over — with

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cameras rolling — in one of the slowest capsizes ever re¬ corded. Boat and sailor were both promptly retrieved, neither worse for the wear. "Another great moment in El Toro lore and legend," laughed observer Duncan Carter.

age 60, both overall winner Hank Jotz and the El Toro fleet are healthy, young at heart and show no signs of slowing down. We should all be so lucky! Next year's El Toro NAs will be sailed in sunny San Diego. — latitude /rkm

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BAJA HA-HA VI PREVIEW, PT. I Yup, it's that time again. As you read this, nearly a hundred boats have already registered for this year's romp from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas — the Millennium Ha-Ha — which begins October 26. As with the five previous Ha-Ha fleets, this year's group is made up of a wide variety of sailing craft, from a replica of Joshua Slocum's Spray to a sleek, sexy Swan 65. The crews come from wildly varied backgrounds, but all share the

Meet Ron and Karen of 'Aegean Odyssey' who are bailing out while still 50-years-young.

common dream of trading the shackles of the workaday world for the freedom of life on the water. For most of the lucky folks listed here, the run to the cape is just the beginning. At least half of this year's crews seem to have set their sights on the western hori¬ zon, with long-range plans to follow the tradewinds through the South. Pacific and circle the globe at a leisurely pace. If you can’t be there with them, you can at least hold out hope that someday it might be your turn. With that in mind, we introduce you to the Class of '99. (See page 118 for a complete entry list.)

Adia — Lagoon 37 Peter Lange, Mill Valley How could we forget Peter? He was one of those crazy crewmen on Dan Carrico's Aria in '97 who pierced their tongues on a dare just to show. . . ah. . . crew soli¬ darity. This year he's back with his own boat, a Lagoon 37 catamaran. While working as a computer consult¬ ant, Peter, a.k.a. Captain Pepe, admits he's been "your basic frustrated cruiser wannabe." But all that’s changing now. Having just turned 35, he'll use the HaHa as a shakedown for future longterm cruising. Even if you don't see this cat coming, you'll probably hear her: "With over 200 Page 168 • Ls&We?? • September, 1999

CDs aboard, there are always great tunes emanating from Adia" claims Pepe. His planned crew is similarly youthful, coed and multinational. Aegean Odyssey — Island Packet 35 Ron & Karen Pullen, Sparks, NV

"The dream finally begins!" says Ron, a retired college math teacher, and Karen, a former banker. The boat's name will give you a clue about what theif longterm goal is: After sailing west around the world, they plan to live aboard in Greece. Sounds like a nice fantasy. But in this case it's a dream that's been well re¬ searched. Over the past 15'years, Ron and Karen have traveled extensively all over the world, and now, after early retirement, they're turning their hobby into a full-time avocation. Having run an offshore fishing busi¬ ness during summers in their former home of Coos Bay, OR, Ron has had a Coast Guard captain's license for almost 25 years, but he and Karen only started sailing five years ago in the San Juans. In '97 they bought their beautiful Island Packet 35 — an apt boat for their plans.

Brent and Susan of ’Akauahelo’ were wise to bone up on their Spanish before heading south.

a couple seasons in Mexico and Central America, then island-hop across the South Pacific. The name Akauahelo, by the way, is Hawtaiian for 'traveler'. They've both been sailing for a decade and have been dreaming of this adven¬ ture for half that time. "Five years ago we set an objective to be anchored off some small beach in Mexico for the millennium. And we're going to do it." John and Chris Erickson will round out the crew.

Aequanimitas — Island Packet 40 Bob & Nancy Leasure, Alameda

Do these folks have the right last name or what? Yeah, we know 'leisure' is spelled 1-e-i. . . but you get our drift. Aboard their sweet ocean cruiser, they plan to pursue the cruising lifestyle indefinitely — they just aren't sure where yet. They've both been sailing since their early teens. In fact, when Bob was 12, he, his brother and his dad built their first boat using plans out of a Boy's Life maga¬ zine. Now retired, Bob, a former physician, and Nancy, a former executive assistant for a software firm, have paid their dues. Now it's time to have some fun: 'We've been talking about going cruising for 40 years, and decided it was time to put up or shut up." Akauahelo — Royal Passport 47 Brent & Susan Lowe, Walnut Creek We've never met Brent and Susan, but they've already impressed us. Wisely, they just got back from a month of Spanish lessons in Guatemala. Boning up on Spanish is the one thing almost all cruis¬ ers forget to do before heading south. When asked to describe their attitude toward the Ha-Ha, Brent and Susan stole a line from Jimmy Buffet: "If your phone doesn't ring, it’s me." They plan to spend

1 seaworthy vessels over 27 feet are wel\ come to join the Ha-Ha. Well. . . almost all vessels. When this U.S. Navy sub showed up j at the starting line of the 1997Ha-Ha, the Rally \ Committee apologetically turned her away. | No doubt her crew was deeply disappointed.

CRUISIN'TO THE CAPE a party, they're going to have a full social calendar in Mexico. Amadan — Hallberg Rassy 38 Paul & Linda Murphy, Pescadero

Amante — Valiant 32 Michael DiBenedetti, Emeryville

After reading Paul and Linda's accu¬ Every year we lure some unsuspect¬ sations, all we can say is, "It's not our fault ing applicant into revealing more than — really." they should, when we ask about their goThey write: "Linda and I have been led slow gear'. Through Michael s candor we down the path by the Lat 38 thing. At first learned that he and his sailing partner it was just a few magazines, then a Brian Keeney will be bringing along "an overabundance of beer and good liquor." Coronado 25, then a couple of charters in Tonga, then the big boat thing! Lat 38 Hmmm. . . Now the Rally Committee will know where to go when they're feeling a is creating anarchy in minds trained since youth to work!" bit parched. Why are Mike and Brian making the Both forty-something, Paul and Linda trip? "We hate to are not retired, but miss a party," they are simply taking a say. Both make their break from the rat When Bob was 12, he, his living bartending in race on this jaunt brother and his dad built their order to support through Mexican wa¬ first boat using plans out of a their mutual hobby, ters. playing music. We One of their big¬ Boy's Life magazine. look forward to hear¬ gest goals for the trip ing them at the an¬ is to perfect their fish¬ nual Ha-Ha jam sessions. ing skills, offering the ominous threat: As you might imagine, Amante's future "Beware pelagics, we are coming to eat cruising schedule is as yet only loosely you!" defined. If these two rogues hate to miss

Amnesia — Aleutian 51 Ketch The Goguen family, Chula Vista This may be the first Ha-Ha boat ever

The Goguen family is taking a big 'time out’ for some family bonding on the high seas.

to carry a Nintendo 64 rig on board. But then this big motorsailer has just about eveiy other comfort that you'd typically find in a suburban home: washer/dryer, garbage disposal, air conditioning. . . Having retired from a career in the Merchant Marine at the ripe old age of 44 — he holds a 1600 ton Master's License — Captain Ken has shifted his focus to¬ ward spending quality time' afloat with his wife Priscilla, and their two kids, Christine (9) and Kyle (8). Mom normally makes her living as an English teacher, so she'll be in charge of homeschooling the kids as they cruise Mexico, Central America, then probably the Caribbean. Both Ken and Priscilla have been sail¬ ing since they were kids, and they're pass¬ ing along the tradition in a big way. The fifth member of Amnesia's crew is Penny, a perky West Highland Terrier. Arahina — Hallberg-Rassy 42 Dan & Sandy Elkins, Cour d’Alene, ID Now here's a first. Arahina is probably the first Ha-Ha boat with a Cape Horn rounding in her pedigree. Dan and Sandy weren’t aboard at the time, but the boat's track record as a successful ocean cruiser had a lot to do with their decision to buy her. Arahina used to belong to offshore sailing instructor John Neal. And it was when Dan took a trip through the Fijian islands with Neal in '94 that his interest in ocean voyaging really took off. He and Sandy bought her four years ago. Although they're only in their early 50s, the Elkins have been married for 32 years September, 1999

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BAJA HA-HA VI PREVIEW, PT. I — and have known each other since Jun¬ ior High days in Cour d’Alene. During that time, they've shared many adventures on land and sea including wilderness horse¬ back riding, scuba diving, snowmobiling, and back packing. They sold their handbuilt home to pursue their dream of cir¬ cumnavigating. "I love the freedom of the sea and the challenge of sailing," says Dan. They plan to spend the winter in Mexico, then head off to the South Pa¬ cific — Arahina's old stompin' grounds. Best of Times — Beneteau 411 Bob & Mary Krambeck, San Francisco Bob and Mary are just beginning their life as full-time cruisers, but they've al¬ ready done a lot of boating in exotic for¬ eign destinations. After learning to sail 20 years ago aboard a Sunfish at a Girl Scout camp where they were leaders, they be¬ gan chartering bareboats. Living in Penn¬ sylvania at the time, they first chartered in the Cheseapeake, then went on to char¬ ter from every Moorings base in the Car¬ ibbean — and there are a lot of them. They then rented boats from The Moor¬ ings in Tahiti and Tonga, where they even-

Candide — Baba 30 Michael Lee & Eliot Ninburg, Seattle "We were roommates at the Californi Maritime Academy and decided to casl out and go cruising before the wife-and kids syndrome set in," explains Michael This is Mike's first boat — he's owne it four years — but neither he nor Eliot i a newcomer to ocean voyaging. Mike (3C has cruised from the West Coast to Ant arctica and Eliot (also 30) has made a rui from Alaska to Chile — both on ships, w presume. Even more interesting is the applica tion note that Eliot has captained a smal cruise ship in Baja. Now that's unique. Together these two buds plan to cir cumnavigate. We applaud them for doinj it while they're still young, and, we pre sume, a bit crazy.

Whyis Diane of 'Cantamar' sailing away? Maybe Jon's got his electric bass cranked too loud.

tually put a boat in fleet. They moved to the Bay Area about the time the boat was due to come out of the fleet, so they had her shipped to the Bay, where they sailed her extensively. "Sailing has provided some of the most enjoyable times of our lives," say the Krambecks. Last year they decided cruising sounded like more fun than work — Bob was a circuit and computer designer — so they ordered a Beneteau 411, which was christened Best of Times when they took delivery in May. Now, as they head off to Mexico, Central America, Panama and the Caribbean, they proclaim, "The best of times has begun!"

Cantamar — Hughes 40 Jon & Diane Maloney, Davis Well, it looks like the Ha-Ha jam ses sions might be pretty lively this year. Joi brought his electric bass and his am] along. In addition to being a teacher, a: was Diane, he is also a professional mu sician, who played with the Sacramenti

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CRUISIN' TO THE CAPE ymphony. They both began sailing in ’72 and have wned seven boats over the years. They ought Cantamar in ’91 and have recently een pouring money into her in anticipaon of a long, open-ended cruise. Jon's ocean sailing experience includes passage from the Bay to Hawaii in 1997, rhile Diane's longest cruise to date is from an Francisco to Desolation Sound, BC, nd back. As to future plans, they'll win;r in the Sea of Cortez, then. . . Who nows? Cassiopeia — Swan 65 Rennie Waxlax & Anne Blunden, San Clemente One of the classier entries this year is ae sleek Swan 65, Cassiopeia. "She's wned us," says Rennie, an airline pilot, md had us slaving away on her since larch." The fact that he and Anne, a rered-for-the-winter mechanical engineer, re still engaged after doing a major refit igether bodes well for their future. Although Swans are often hard in puruit of racing honors, Rennie and Anne, lan to "sail safe, conservative and comirtable." This will be the first ocean pas-

the '97 Ha-Ha, but when that boat lost her rig and couldn't be repaired in time, Hall made a last minute deal with Clark to charter Champagne for the event. This year, Clark and Hall are combin¬ ing their talents to take this Frers-designed Beneteau south once again. Clark's wife, Marge Barker, and Chris Maher of U.K. Sailmakers (a three-time Ha-Ha vet) will complete the crew. When asked about his attitude toward the event, Clark borrowed a phrase from Helen Keller, "Life is either a daring ad¬ venture, or nothing at all."

Rennie and Anne will be cruisin' in comfort aboard their sleek Swan 65 Cassiopeia'. sage for either of them — on a boat, that is. Rennie’s been sailing for 25 years and has owned two previous boats, while Anne first got turned on to sailing in '95. They plan to cruise Mexico until Feb¬ ruary, then park her in La Paz for a few months before doing the northbound 'Baja Bash’ back home in the spring. Theo Glorie will round out the crew.

Chez Moi — Spray 48 Ketch John & Victoria Guimont, San Jose Knowing the mischievous nature of many Ha-Ha participants, we weren't quite sure whether or not to believe John’s application when he listed his occupation as "rocket scientist." But, what the heck, over the past six years we've seen just about every profession you could name represented in the Ha-Ha, including banking officers, salmon fishermen, re¬ tired cops, ex-Navy Seals and kindergar¬ ten teachers. You might say he and his wife of eight

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BAJA HA-HA VI PREVIEW, PT. I years, Victoria, have an explosive relation¬ ship — she's a 'materials manger' in the aerospace industry. Ever since they first got together, they've been dreaming of buying a boat and goings off cruising. So now, they, like many other Ha-Ha couples, are ecstatic to finally be doing it. The final member of Chez Moi's crew is Windy another West Highland Terrier (Amnesia also has one) who has been aboard since she was a puppy. "She has better sea legs than we do." Aboard their Spray replica (with a modern rig), the threesome plans to do a full circumnavi¬ gation. Cloud 9 — Island Packet 45 Jack & Naomi Osborne, San Francisco Jack and Naomi admit they surren¬ dered to the "group flocking instinct" when they entered the Ha-Ha. Although the Osbornes started sailing 10 years ago, this will be the first big voyage for both the boat and her crew. Nevertheless, they plan to do a complete westward lap around the planet via the South Pacific, after first dip¬ ping into the Caribbean for awhile. Jack, a Silicon Valley engineer, and Naomi, an elementary school teacher will

Jack and Naomi of 'Cloud 9' claim they're sim¬ ply following the "group flocking instinct."

be joined on the trek south by Jim Hanck (listed as "chief strategist") who has made the trip many times before. Also along for the ride will be young Ben Jpans will holds the enviable position of "chief grunt." Coconut Express — Lagoon 410 Cat Howard & Pam Klein, Pleasanton Every year the monohifll fleet seems to get a bit spiffier and this year the multihulls are following suit. This oneyear-old 41-footer benefits from recent design innovations such as her "galley up" cabin layout (meaning galley on the bridge deck), which is ideal for the tropics. And the tropical latitudes are precisely where Howard and Pam plan to do most of their post-Ha-Ha sailing. "The water

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CRUISIN'TO THE CAPE lot button-down corporate types. Like several other Ha-Ha’ers this year, he Deanes both improved their cruising (kills on trips with John Neal and Amanda Swan; Nina in Fiji and George in Tahiti >n a trip shared with their Ha-Ha crewnan Bob Blain. After the event Convicion will cruise Central America, the Carbbean and the Eastern Seaboard. Dalliance — Lancer 36 George & Ginger Robinson, Stockton

'We're going to do this on our own two eet!" is the battle cry of the Robinsons. It akes on a whole new meaning when they :asually add that that's all they have beween them: two feet. Both George and finger are amputees. The story of their meeting (in a parkng lot as he was trying to foist brochures or handicapped skiing on her) up through heir first few boats are filled with fun and lilarity, so we know we'll like these folks i lot. But for now, we'll leave you with feorge and Ginger returning from the )elta aboard their last boat, a Catalina 17. "Suisun Bay was calm but I knew that wouldn't last. I went below, put on my

George and Ginger of 'Dalliance' have certainly got the right spirit.

foulies and just as I started up the com¬ panionway, the first greenie broke over the bow and thoroughly soaked the lady of the boat. She went below and I didn't hear a word out of her for the rest of the trip. While tying up the boat, 1 wondered if it was all over. When I stuck my head below, she was reading a Latitude 38. 'What are you doing, honey?’ I asked. "Looking for a boat with a dodger,' she replied." Day Dreamer — Challenger 32 John, Kathy & Dick Derby, Alameda John, a retired newspaper owner, has been a sailing nut most of his life. The highly-contagious affliction was passed on to wife Kathy and brother Dick; who are

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In fact, Mike and his crew, Ron Poplawski, didn't waste much time get¬ ting out. They're currently living in Mexico and will come north for the start of the Ha-Ha. Although Wasco has only owned Donna Rose for a few months, she's already well outfitted for the Ha-Ha with trolling gear, 30 cases of beer and "enough spare parts to service the fleet." Dragon Lady — Cheoy Lee Boblet family, San Francisco Darwin and Mary Boblet met while sailing and crewed together on the Bay for almost a year before they realized they were falling in love. It wasn't long after that they were married in a 'sail-in' wed¬ ding at Angel Island’s Ayala Cove, and took off on a 'honeymoon cruise' in their Pearson 30 to Bodega Bay in a 50-knot gale. They loved every minute of it and de¬ cided to commit to Darwin's lifelong dream of circumnavigating. They discovered they were 'pregnant' the same day they found Dragon Lady. Son Tristan, now 3 1 /2, was born in the aft cabin with midwives in attendance. Both he and brother Colin,

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born 18 months later, have only known living aboard. As if this fairy tale wasn't good enough as is (Julia Roberts and Richard Gere will likely do the movie), upon Darwin's re¬ turn from delivering a boat back from last year's Pacific Cup, the 50-year-old engi¬ neer learned that his billet at Hewlett Packard was being moved to Singapore and he was being offered early retirement. So the Bob lets get to start cruising 10 years earlier than expected, and will take probably that long to casually circumnavi¬ gate and watch their kids grow up along

Steve and Nancy Miner, Sacramento The Miners were high school sweet¬ hearts who settled in Sacramento anc began their boating by waterskiing the Delta waters. They progressed to 'daw¬ dling on the Delta' on sailboats, then ex¬ ploring the Bay and finally sailing out the Gate to Monterey. As a 25th anniversary present to themselves, they bought the aptly-named Dream Catcher new, taking delivery in Seattle a year ago March and shaking her down with a circumnaviga¬ tion of Vancouver Island. ("Beautiful Fabulous! Cold!" says Nancy.) Now in their mid-40s and retired from jobs as a mechanical engineer (Steve) anc teacher (Nancy), they are eager to begin the Ha-Ha. "Chartering in the BVI anc Tonga and making a passage from Ha¬ waii to Juneau whetted our appetites,' says Nancy. "When the Baja Ha-Ha be¬ gins, the cruising will be real."

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among go-slow gear aboard Esprit is "equipment for hooking (rugs, that is) and 50 pounds of trashy women's novels — or women's trashy novels," writes Bob.

Longtime lovers Jerry and Barbara of Free Spirit' plan to cruise for three to five years.

Esprit de Mer — Islander Freeport 36 Bob and Jean Ley, San Diego "I promised my wife an ocean cruise for our 43rd wedding anniversary (on October 27), and that's what she's going to get!" says Bob. Three days after the anniversary — and four days after the October 26 start of Ha-Ha VI — Bob also celebrates his 65th birthday. He doesn't retire from his career as an electrical es¬ timator/project manager until March of '00, but by that time, Esprit de Mer will be waiting in the Sea of Cortez. Along for the Ha-Ha will be friends Stan and Rhea Strebig. We're not sure whose hobby is whose among that crowd, but

Edelweiss III — Sabre 402 Edelweiss Sailing, Inc., San Francisco Albert ’Pete’ Boyce, Jr. is a semiretired rancher and oil producer, and president of Edelweiss Sailing. Actually, says Pete, his semi-retirement starts as soon as the gun signaling the start of the Ha-Ha fires. For Pete (and crew Tom Harrington, Pete Hine and Ron Gazzano), the Ha-Ha marks the beginning of a 2-year cruise "with some necessary home time via the big birds." Edelweiss III, launched last December, is Pete's first new boat in 25 years. "It's been fun outfitting it and learning all of the new equipment — and especially rig¬ ging it for cruising," notes Pete. But don’t expect to see any lollygagging by the Edel crew on the way down. Pete has been sail¬ ing since 1964 and has done "too many ocean races to count in the Pacific, At¬ lantic and Caribbean." He didn't note if he was semi-retiring from that or not.

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BAJA HA-HA VI PREVIEW, PT. I Free Spirit — Pearson 424 Jerry & Barbara Phillips, San Francisco Lots of things were new for Jerry Phillips back in 1967. He'd bought the first production Ericson„30, docked it in the new Marina del Rey yacht harbor (for¬ mally dedicated in 1965) and met a lovely new acquaintance named Barbara. The Ericson is a dim memory, but Bar¬ bara and Jerry are still together. Having both just retired, they're looking forward to some more new adventures. Like sev¬ eral others participants, the Phillips are using the Ha-Ha as a springboard for three to five years of cruising. They've had plenty of 'practice.' Hav¬ ing both sailed for more than 30 years, Jerry and Barbara have cruised all over the U.S. — including a 14-month voyage down the Mississippi with their 3-yearold daughter. In Free Spirit, which they've owned for 11 years, the former lighting store manager and nurse educator have already been to Ensenada, British Colum¬ bia, Alaska and Hawaii. Far Niente — Lagoon 410 Bob & Tina Mongrain, San Francisco Bob and Tina caught the highly con-

home barbecue ribs at one of the Rally's stops, that'll be Bob at work at Far Niente'£ huge barbecue grill. "To justify it, we maj sell ribs off the stern," he jokes. "We fig¬ ure that will replenish our cruising kitty to last a couple of years!"

Bob and Tina will have a "small crew" aboard 'Far Niente', their seven-year-old grandson Seth.

tagious sailing 'bug' in the Virgin Islands in 1983, "and have been planning to go cruising ever since." A stint at Club Nautique in 1992 impartec) the necessary skills, and Far Niente, their first boat, has supplied the means. The Mongrains will have a small crew aboard their catamaran, but only one had signed on for sure as we Went to press. That was Seth, their 7-year-old grandson. Already nicknamed 'Captain', Seth wants to go to the Galapagos Islands (possible, says Grandpa), and to China, where the Beanie Babies are born (that one is de¬ batable). As for the rest of the potential crew, 'They haven't finished fighting over it yet," says Bob. "We'll let you know." By the way, if you get a whiff of down-

The Great Escape — Catalina 400 Jerry & Nancy Maddox, Marina del Rey "Everybody has to be somewhere at the turn of the century, so why not Cabo Sar Lucas?" says Jerry, a retired aerospace engineer. Maddox has raced this and other boats to Mexico a number of times, bui now that he's retired, life in general has taken on a less frenetic pace. Showing he's well plugged into the yinyang thing of cruising, Jerry notes, 'The boat has two wheels but only one rudder so most of the time, we (my wife, I and the boat) are going in the same direction!"

HMS Myra — Pacific Seacraft 34 Dick Hackett & family, Alameda Dick lists among his 'go-slow' gear (from which a more favorable rating might be derived) an "all Irish crew." That woulc be daughter Andrea Quinn, her husbanc Patrick and their 2-year-old son Then

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CRUISIN'TO THE CAPE hich grandpa lists as "foredeck crew." ell, maybe not quite yet, but his favor e word is 'boat.' Hackett's way to the sea was a convo¬ ked one. He was born and raised in coal )untry: Scranton, Pennsylvania. But irly on. Jack London filled his head with reams of bluer horizons. He migrated west to Arizona, where he udied archeology and anthropology, and iet his future wife — "the other 'Myra' in ly life" — in Mexico during a 'dig' near axaca. He finally landed in the Bay Area, here he ended up teaching high school nglish. With retirement came a renewal 7 the dreams to sail away and, Irish goowers or not, that's what he's doing. He’s ot sure where Myra will end up after the a-Ha — "but it'll be somewhere way west 7 here," he says. Halcyon — Catalina 42 Larry & Carolyn Dunn, Alameda "After spending 12 years standing on le dock waving good-bye to our friends 3 they sailed away, it's finally our turn!" ty Larry and Carolyn, who retired last tar from their printing business. Originally from the Puget Sound area.

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work required the Dunns to relocate to the Bay Area, where they decided to "use a sailboat as our apartment." Halcyon proved to be so fun to take sailing, though, that the dreams quickly expanded to vis¬ tas beyond the Golden Gate. Larry and Carolyn cut their Ha-Ha teeth last year when they crewed on Bob and Judy Lyon's Lyon Around. This time, they’ll be going with 15-year-old grand¬ son Jason Dunn, as well as family friends John and KT Baker. Like so many in this year’s group, the Dunn’s don't plan on returning home any time soon after the rally. "We'll have plenty of time to think about it when we're anchored in para¬ dise," says Carolyn.

Happy Destiny — S-2 9.1 Steve Etling, Tigard, Oregon Steve has been sailing 30 years around the Pacific Northwest, and as far north as Alaska. But the Ha-Ha will mark his first foray into Southern waters. He’s got the right attitude already, though: "The only way to enjoy a nice long winter in Oregon is to go to Mexico," says the farmer/truck driver. Steve hasn't lined up crew yet, but between the various Crew Lists and crew parties up and down the coast, he shouldn't have too much trouble in that department. Alas, at 48 Steve is too young to head off with the rest of the retiree cruisers. After wintering in Mexico, he'll head the boat back home.

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT What better way to break up the monotony of the work week than a Wednesday night beer can race? This seems to be the most popular night for these low-key romps around the cans, with no less than eight Wednesday night venues listed in the Latitude calendar: Santa Cruz, the Citifront, the Richmond Riviera, Coyote Point, Folsom Lake, Clear Lake, Vallejo and the Alameda Estuary. Last month, on August 18, we decided to brave the gridlock in The Maze to photograph the latter series, Oak¬ land YC's mellow Sweet Sixteen Series. With both Latitude's old and new photoboats out of commis¬ sion, we were reduced to begging a ride. Happily, the unofficial mayor of the Estuary. Marina Village harbormaster Alan Weaver, came through with a Grady White 26 for us. Because Alan was racing his Columbia 5.5 that night, he lined up multiple Ha-Ha veteran and UK Sails co-owner Chris Maher to drive the boat. Chris brought along his young boys, Patrick and Thomas, as well as a cooler of food and drink. Such service! Maher got us up close and personal with the 30-boat fleet.

enough to cause at least one young 5.5 crew to enthusiastically en¬ courage us to get lost. Naturally, we congratulated Maher on this ac¬ complishment, referencing our Latitude photo-shoot credo of "If you don’t get yelled at by someone, you're just not close enough!" The double lap up and down the Estu¬ ary provided lots of great photo opps, and it was entertaining to watch a new (to us) bunch of boats pose for our lens. tyith the Maher boy's mom -—^ Sheila sailing on the all-women crew of J/80 Next Week, we natu¬ rally spent some time following that boat. The six-boat Colum¬ bia 5.5 fleet, however, was the main attraction. The elegant 5.5s — which Weaver has helped assemble and grow over the last few

ON THE ESTUARY years — occasionally gets up to eight boats on the line for the Sweet Sixteen Series, with rumors of 11 or 12 this winter when the Stockton contingent returns for the OYC Brunch Series. "It's the best scene on the Estuary at the moment," claimed yacht broker Adam Sadeg, who sails with Weaver and Warren Sankey on Drummer. "It's good competition with nice people. They're a lot of fun for a cheap price, and Alan can always manage to find a slip for another 5.5, even when the marina is full!” The winning 5.5 skipper that night was Chris Corlett, sail¬ ing his beautiful green Jaguar with 15-year-old son Jesse and rigger Glenn Hansen. Winning the other four classes were the Express 37 Elan, the J/24 Cosmic Charlie, the Santana 30 Snow Goose, and the Ariel Lickety-Split. As usual, most of the racers went back to the Oakland YG"Ss>. Spread, beating towards Mt. Tam and the Imperial Walkers'. Insets, 'Lickety-SpUt' crew concentrating hard, and 'Saltshaker' catches a puff.

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clubhouse for the barbecue dinner, drinks and daily prizes, which are generally items like hats, flashlights, or T-shirts. "Our series isn't as large or as competitive as the Encinal YC Friday nighters," explained race official George Gurrola. "But it's fun and low-key, basically just a chance to get out of the house, go sailing, see friends and maybe drink a few beers." The Sweet Sixteen Series — which despite the name is a 14-race series — goes on until September 15. Check it out, especially if you can figure out a way around the commute traffic, which seems to be getting geometrically worse throughout the Bay Area. At very least, we encourage everyone to support their local beer can series at once o# twice more before the summer ends which, come to ^fink of it, isn't that far away. — latitude/ rkm

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SWEET SIXTEEN SERIES (clockwise from upper left) — 'Lelo Too' at the Ninth Avenue exit; a gaggle of 5.5s with the pink 'Maverik' (ft35) to weather; 'Nice Turn' creeps up on Tunnel Vision'; 'Next Week' rolls 'Double Agent'; the newly-painted 'Elan' at the weather mark; downhill racers; Jesse Corlett rides the bow on Jaguar'; 'Bewitched' looking patriotic. All photos 'latitude'/rob.

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YACHTING AND SUCH When we turned 50 a little more than a year ago, we made a pact with our¬ selves: When it comes to the nastier boat jobs — such as those that involve grind¬ ing fiberglass — we were going to leave the work to professionals. We felt guilty

Big yachts, small harbor — no wonder they're going to expand the harbor at Monte Carlo. about not doing those jobs ourselves when we were younger, but apparently we've acquired a little wisdom with age. The next worst thing to actually doing grotty boat jobs is watching others do them. So when an unexpected and un¬ pleasant boat project presented itself in June, we decided the only intelligent thing to do was to use all our frequent flyer miles

We began our research in London, which for being 30 miles up the Thames River from the sea, has a magnificent sail¬ ing history. And how could it not, for at one time the little island-country of En¬ gland had an empire that included half the world. And most of it had been ac¬ quired and maintained through sailing prowess. Unfortunately, all of the historical docks that once made London the center of world trade have long been torn down in favor of expensive flats and other real estate projects. Nonetheless, who towers above everyone in London at Trafalgar Square on his own column but England's greatest sailing hero, one-eyed, onearmed Lord Nelson, who died in glory while defeating the Spanish at Trafalgar. The nearby Admiralty Arch on the way to Buckingham Palace reminds one that many of the great voyages of discovery — think of Captain Cook — were commis¬ sioned out of London. Just outside of London is the lovely village of Greenwich, home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian. Yes, they even painted a white line on the ground to mark the prime meridian, so you can step on it or hop over it depend¬ ing on your sense of whimsy. At the stroke of each hour, a white ball descends from the roof of an unpretentious little build¬ ing, giving everyone a thrill. And on the hard not far away are the famous clipper ship Cutty Sark and Sir Francis Chichester's Gypsy Moth IV, which he singlehanded around the world into knighthood. London, of course, is also home to a number of yacht brokerages, yachting magazines and keen sailors. While most English mariners keep their yachts on the South Coast or in the Med, there are al¬ ways a few — primarily powerboaters — who bring their vessels all the way up the Thames to show them off to friends, busi¬ ness associates and mistresses. One of the strangest structures in England is the Lloyds of London building in the city of London. Fittingly, the society is so secu¬ rity conscious that they won't even let visi¬ tors in to see the famous bell they used to ring whenever they had to announce the loss of a ship.

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Clowes, on the Isle of Wight, has been the center of yachting in England ever since the first America's Cup was held there more than 150 years ago. For many years, the Cowes-based Admiral's Cup

was the world’s most prestigious inter¬ national racing competition — and at¬ tracted such Northern California standouts as Dave Allen and Imp, Randy Short and his Sidewinders, Irv Loube and his Bravuras, and Monroe Wingate's Scarlett O'Hara. While the Admiral's Cup no longer has quite the same status it once did, Cowes remains the host to an incredible number and variety of presti¬ gious sailing events — including the start and finish of the Fastnet Race. What surprised us about Cowes — 55 minutes from London's Victoria Station by train and another half hour by cata¬ maran — is that it's so small. Located just across the Solent from the sailing centers of Portsmouth and Southampton, it's not much larger than downtown Tiburon — and is downright puny when compared to a metropolis such as Sausalito. None¬ theless, Cowes is virtually all sailing — and home to the likes of Beken of Cowes, the most famous yacht photographers in the world. The primary sailing area off Cowes is If you're looking for a lovely and romantic place to bring or find crew, it would be hard to top Vernazza.

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the Solent, which is roughly the size of San Francisco Bay and features similarly strong winds, strong currents, and shal¬ low areas. Indeed, the wind is often so strong that eveiyone in England and on the Continent refers to a small jib as a 'Solent' rather than a 'yankee'. It was sunny and calm the morning we strolled around Cowes, and at 0800 there were no less than a dozen mom and pop yachts out sailing — half of them car¬ rying chutes. And this was a Monday! If nothing else, it proved that the English are mad for sailing. It wasn't so sunny or calm two days later at nearby Weymouth Bay, however, when all 77 Dart Catama¬ rans — 15 footers — flipped during their championships as a result of 60-knot winds and huge seas brought on by a freak storm. The English have a superb volunteer lifeboat service, however, and all of the competitors were rescued with¬ out injury. While Cowes Week is the mainstay of dyed-in-the-wool English racers, it's but one event in the season' — along with horse racing at Ascot, rowing at Henley, and who knows what else — for English aristocrats. As such, it's nearly obligatory

for the upper crust to take a house in Cowes for the event and do a little yacht¬ ing. The Queen used to show up aboard her yacht Brittania to lend a royal en¬ dorsement. For the lower classes, it's quite different. "Two young girls looking for place to pitch tent for Cowes Week" read a handwritten advert on a restaurant win¬ dow. Chances are the birds had no trouble getting nested. But who knows how much sleep they got, for in June the sun was

The most beautiful little port in the world? It would be very hard to vote against Portofino. But it's almost impossible to get a spot. up and shining brightly at 0430 — not long after the last drunks had stumbled off to bed. Every visitor to Cowes — indeed, to all of England — should be given a health advisory for the food. The complimentary breakfast served at our B&B consisted of a fried egg, three strips of bacon, three gray sausages, a hamburger-shaped greasy meat product, and white toast saturated with butter. Based on what we observed being served at other local es¬ tablishments, the 'heart attack on a plate' passes for local fare. When you travel to Cowes and the river estuaries on the south coast of England, ybu notice that there are countless boats riding to moorings that are set out in an orderly manner. Unlike our local Bay Con¬ servation and Development Commission (BCDC), the English don't consider boats to be 'fill'.

We next took the train to Holystone in Wales for the feny across the Irish Sea. While passing Oxford, we looked out the train windows to view the canals and ca¬ nal boats. Unlike their counterparts in France, England's canals are as skinny ds a young model. As a result, they have peculiar looking craft that are as much as 60 feet long but only about six feet wide. For those seeking respite from the sometimes wild waters of the Solent, the canals are perfect. The further we travelled into northwest Wales, the more it seemed as though we were slipping into a twilight zone. Slowly but surely the blue skies turned gray and bleak, the wind blew cold, and fortressSeptember, 1999 • LrttWtJ? • Page 183

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Liffey. Alas, low bridges such as the fa¬ mous Ha' Penny Bridge mean you could barely sail an El Toro beneath them. While the Irish might enjoy sailing, from what we observed, the Dubliners prefer drink¬ ing Guinness, making music and quar¬ reling.

like castles appeared on the rocky hill¬ sides. Worst of all, everyone but us seemed to be disembarking the train at increas¬ ingly desolate stations. We arrived in Holystone just in time to see the last ferry of the day pull away from the dock, stranding us in this stony and forbidding outpost. As gloomy as it was and as exposed to rough winter storms as it surely must be, there were hundreds of boats at orderly moorings (check it out, BCDC) behind a monstrously huge break¬ water. Laying to the moorings were a wide variety of boats, large and small, from tra¬ ditional craft to modern racing machines. The area is said to have lots of active sail¬ ors and some great cruising grounds — although nobody is going to mistake it for the tropics. v

The following morning we had to be up early to catch the Stena high speed ferry, which is the world's largest cata¬ maran. The three-story tall football fieldsize rectangle has the capacity for some¬ thing like 100 trucks, 150 cars, and 400 passengers. In addition, it's equipped with a casino, a full size McDonalds and an¬ other fast food joint, children's play ar¬ eas and cinemas, and numerous duty free shops. Despite the vessel's enormous size, she still cruises at 37 knots, making her McDonalds the fastest in the world. The ferry was hobbled by a faulty turbine the day we were aboard, however, and limped along at a mere 28 knots. After a two-hour crossing of the mel¬ low Irish Sea, we disembarked at Dun Laoghaire — which is pronounced some¬ thing like Dun Leary. The huge ferry docked in a harbor that was largely occu¬ pied by (BCDC take note again) moorings with pleasure boats. The small boats Page 184 • UhXmU-39 • September, 1999

Two great places in just one photograph: Beaulieu sur Mer and St. Jean Cap Ferret. It's quiet and there are several fine anchorages. added a human aspect to the otherwise stony harbor. We were told that despite the frequent rain that makes the Emer¬ ald Isle so green, the Irish are enthusias¬ tic sailors. Indeed, Roy Disney is taking his latest Pyewacket to Cork Sailing Week next summer. We took a short train ride to Dublin to check out the sailing scene on the River

'What strange impulse prompted us to continue north to Belfast, Northern Ire¬ land, remains a mystery. The colorless city is known more for religious strife than for yachting or for being where the Titanic was built. The best thing about Belfast — known as the Bible Belt of Ireland' — is not the wild nightlife, of which there is none, but the early morning high speed catamaran to Troon, Scotland — with bus and train connections to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Although not much more than a village, Troon also had an area of the ferry harbor set aside for recreational boats on moorings. Glasgow, Scotland's largest seaport, is located on the River Clyde at the inner¬ most tip of the Firth of Clyde. A firth', by It's hard to think of a less efficient shape for a marina than round, but it works for us at Port Vaubon, Antibes.

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the way, is 'an arm of water'. Many of the great cargo ships of the world were either built in Glasgow or called there, because the city was a center of manufacturing brought on by the industrial revolution. When manufacturing rusted, the city of one million faltered briefly before reinvent¬ ing itself as a thriving center of the ser¬ vice industry. The River Clyde, once the home to shipbuilding, is now primarily used for recreation — sailing included. Glasgow struck us as a really happening place — and had an alarming number of attractive and stylish women. Edinburgh, the capital and cultural center of Scotland, lies on the funny¬ sounding Firth of Forth on the east coast of Scotland. It's said that the Scots are incredibly cheap, or thrifty — you pick the adjective. And it may be true. In most strongholds of the British Empire, 12 can¬ nons were fired from the town center each day at noon to let the ships at anchor set their clocks. But in Edinburgh, the par¬ simonious Scots came up with a thriftier way to get the job done. They fired their cannons at 1:00 p.m. — thereby saving 11 cannonballs a day. Two of Edinburgh's many accom¬ plished native sons are Thomas Edison

and Robert Louis Stevenson. Edison, of course invented the light bulb, the CD player and the large screen television.

while Stevenson wrote The Wrecker, our favorite sailing and adventure tale, which takes place in San Francisco, Sausalito, Paris, Midway — and Edinburgh.

ne of the primary goals of our trip was to investigate the ocean sailing scene in Berlin, Germany. After all, Germans are enthusiastic sailors, traditionally field¬ ing more entries than any other country for the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. Ger¬ many is also home to the biggest sailboat show in the world. Having visited, we can now report that Berlin not only doesn't have an ocean rac¬ ing scene, it doesn't even have an ocean. Frankly, we were more disappointed with Berlin than just about any major city we've been to — and it’s just not that it doesn't have an ocean. It was just plain boring. Part of it is because the last 70 years of its history has been eliminated to prevent Nazi revivals, and part of it is because there is no grandeur. The sculp¬ ture atop the famous Brandenburg Gate, for example, looked like a miniature — sort of like the Stonehenge stage prop that was built for Spinal Tap. Furthermore, the people are dreary — at least compared to the more fun-loving Bavarians down in Munich.

When you fly from Berlin to Rome, you pass directly over the Kvarneric Is¬ lands of Croatia. From the air, these many spectacular islands almost look as though they belong in the South Pacific — al¬ though the green comes from pines rather than palms. There were scores of islands

and many looked as though they had more sailboats than people. From time to time, we've published Changes from cruis¬ ers who've raved about the area. Based on those and what we saw from 30,000 feet, we re putting the east coast of the

Villefranche, around the comer from Nice, used to be the home to the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet. It's now home to an armada of private yachts. Aegean near the top of our 'to cruise' list. When in Rome, do what the tourists do — which is go to the Coliseum. What's that got to do with sailing? Well, the guide¬ book reported that the historic structure was not only home to the lions versus the Christians, but was flooded and used to hold small scale naval battles. It was only the lack of time that pre¬ vented a much-desired return to Capri, which is about 20 miles south of Naples, the world's most chaotic city. The Blue Inland of Capri is spectacular, with a long list of things to recommend it. In fact, we played out a Capri versus Catalina death match' in our mind, and Catalina Island got thrashed. We're not in favor of hyper develop¬ ment, but we think if the folks from Catalina Company and the Santa Cruz Island Conservancy visited Capri, they'd realize that the islands off the coast of California are grossly underappreciated and underutilized. No, they don't need cheesy development or palatial houses, but people ought to be able to enjoy more Of them. A1 Gore is campaigning to stop the Navy from bombing Vieques so the Puerto Ricans can enjoy that island. Let's hope he'll also campaign to get the Navy to stop bombing San Clemente Island so we Californians can enjoy it.

When people refer to the Riviera’, they're usually talking about the 120 miles of Italian coast from La Spezia to Ventimiglia, and/or the 80 miles of French September. 1999

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YACHTING AND SUCH coast from Menton to St. Tropez. If we could astral project our boat anywhere in the world for the next two months, it would be to this warm and sunny corner of the Med. True, the sailing conditions may not be ideal, but for culture — high and low — it would be perfect. There are a good number of marinas along the coast of Italy — and plenty of little municipal ports, too. Some cruisers have told us that by Italian law, each municipal port has to set aside a few free spots each day for transients. And if you arrive before noon, you'll almost surely get one. But don't expect such largesse from private marinas. A couple of years ago, the marina at Puerto Ercole wanted $350 a night for a 70-footer to Med tie! The most well-known spots along the Italian Riviera are places such as La Spezia, Portofino, Camogli, Genoa and San Remo. Some are urban, some are relatively isolated. For normal cruisers, one of the most fun stops would be at Cinq-A-Terre, a group of five little towns nestled in the mountain crevices along a five-mile stretch just up the coast from La Spezia. What makes the group of little

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F'or those requiring an upscale rachting experience, there's nothing quite ike Santa Margherita and especially ’ortofino. These places are Old Money — >ut still have a pretty good pulse and coninue to attract 'the young and the beauiful'. The thing you have to remember Lbout all the Riviera is that it's very sealonal. July and September are high seaion, August is the ultra high season plus, ind the rest of the year is the off-season. Depending on your outlook, you may want o visit in the high season or the off seaion, but you never want to visit during lugust — unless you enjoy ferocious rowds, standstill traffic, and ruthless nice gouging. When we visited Santa Margherita in nid-June, it was like a ghost town depite the perfect weather. The hotels were ither nearly empty or still shut down, the >ars were quiet, and almost all of the resaurants were closed. We did manage to ind one terrific place to eat: half of the estaurant was in a waterfront building,

the other half was on a barge floating in the marina. Thank goodness the BCDC doesn't have jurisdiction over there. Any¬ way, it was a meal and a setting to re¬ member — and it was topped off by the most vivid sunset we’ve ever seen. At 9:30, the sky turned what could only be de¬ scribed as 'Armageddon yellow'. There are a number of unusual things about the boating scene in Santa Margherita: 1) Most of the boats — even if they are 30 years old — are in flawless condition. 2) Many of them are Bertram 25s and 31s — which apparently had been built under license to Riva. 3) An unusually large number of these Italian boats have distinctly American names: Hot Dog, Little Margie, Little Scout, Stress, and Rapid Transit. What's that about? 4) There is so little sea life in the Med that none of the boats — or the pilings — had much growth. 5) All the ramps leading to marina fingers have well-appointed can¬

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vas-covered 'boat boy' stations — all of which feature large mirrors. After all, when you arrive to go yachting in flam¬ boyant Italy, you need to look perfect for that first impression. It's just a couple of miles — and about a billion lira — taxi ride down a two-lane road to Portofino, perhaps the most up¬ scale and photographed little harbor in the world. In order to not feel out of place, you must be dressed in either expensive yachting togs or designer fashions. As for our backpack, there was no danger of it being stolen. Although Portofino is mostly about la dolce vita, some things were surprisingly affordable. Drinks at the American Bar on the waterfront were expensive, but not outrageous. And decent quality souvenir T-shirts at the shop next door were sell¬ ing for $16. They probably double the prices in August. Portofino is an undeniably beautiful little port in a magnificent setting. Unfor¬ tunately, it only has room for a couple of large boats, and they certainly pay dearly for taking center stage. As such, it's not a very functional harbor. But one of the cool

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YACHTING AND SUCH things when visiting a harbor on the other side of the world is seeing a boat you know. And anchored just offshore was the Farr 80 Morgana, whose crew we'd be¬ come friends with when crossing the At¬ lantic. Even though nobody was around, it made us feel as though we had a friend in Portofino.

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time running short, we took a train to France. While in transit, we read George ’Suntan' Hamilton's Wall Street Journal guide to the great tanning beaches of the world. When it came to France, 'Suntan' advised Journal readers to dump the kids off at St. Tropez and then stay in St. Jean Cap Ferret, which is just three miles east of Nice. While Hamilton no doubt stays as a house guest in this wealthy enclave that looks like Belvedere on steroids, we'd been to St. Jean before with Big O — and think it's wonderful for those on boats and bud¬ gets, too. There are several fine places to anchor with great views, there's a small town with a marina and a couple of fun bistros, and it's just a dinghy ride to ei¬

ther Villefranche, Beaulieu sur Mer (where they filmed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), and a very long but doable dinghy ride to Monte Carlo. While passing a marinafront restau¬ rant, Dona de Mallorca — who had joined the Wanderer — noticed Dan and Esther Carrico of the Corinthian YC sharing a meal with some of their crew from a French canal trip! Over a glass of wine, they explained that Christopher Schroll of the St. Francis YC had just relocated his 63-foot yawl Athene from San Fran¬ cisco Bay to St. Jean Cap Ferret, and that the boat would be based out of there for several years. It's a small world — and the sailing world is smaller still.

ext we backtracked to Fonteville, the newer marina in Monte Carlo. Sidetied. at Fonteville was George Hinman's 176-foot Adela from the New York YC, a

beautifully restored schooner that ha won the Transatlantic Race two years age We remembered her well because we' sailed against her in our last race wit Big O. Stern-tied in the main harbor a Monte Carlo were a couple of other bi boats we’d known from the Caribbear making it all the more fun. The main Monte Carlo marina is horn to numerous huge yachts, but none large than Lady Moura, a 344-foot private yach reputed to have cost $85 million. Depend ing on who you believe, she's either ownei by Nasser Al-Rashid of Saudi Arabia o his ex-wife. Mega yachts are great equal izers, and few things in life are more sat isfying than watching a guy with a flaw less 150-foot poweiyacht — who is accus tomed to being the 'big man' — be com pletely emasculated by a woman whi pulls in with a boat twice the size of hi unit. It would be natural to assume tha Monte Carlo is the private reserve of thi filthy rich. Some parts of it surely are, bu

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not the marina. When we stopped in the Monte Carlo Marina a few years ago, the marina fees were less than $l/foot per night — which is less than half the price in many places on the East Coast. Monte Carlo's main marina, incidentally, is be¬ ing expanded out into the Med.

ur favorite marina in the South of France is Port Vauban in Antibes. Here's why: 1) It has a tremendous selection of great boats — including the world's most magnificent row of mega power yachts. 2) Everyone has free access to all the boats, right up to the boarding ladders. What a boat show — and what a great place to stroll or jog! 3.) There are plenty of lively restaurants and bars — as well as ma¬ rine stores — in the walled fortress next to the marina. 4) It's a whimsically clas¬ sical marina as opposed to a highly effi¬ cient 'bottom liner'. From our perspective, Portofino is too much for posing, St. Tropez is for the in¬

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until the French government absolves race committees of liability — something he doesn't expect to happen in his life¬ time. Meanwhile, a group made up of members of the 110-year old St. Tropez YC are going to hold a similar regatta this year. Whether it recaptures the magic of the original event remains to be seen. During July and August, it's impos¬ sible to get a Med-tie in St. Tropez, as the rich and those pretending to be rich will do just about anything to get a spot in the harbor. Once they do, they relentlessly flaunt their wealth. For example, every night on the transom of nearly every boat there’s either a 'wild' party or an 'intimate' candlelight dinner — primarily for the purpose of making the strolling crowds, just 15 feet away, green with envy. If you can appreciate this brand'of human com¬ edy, St. Tropez is a fun place. Actually, St. Tropez is a terrific place anyway — particularly the back streets late at night. Caution: St. Tropez in Au¬ gust is no place to pretend that you're a high roller. For example, we were told by

a reliable source that a table at Byblos the most popular disco, runs $5,000 night — and people fight to pay for it. Th disco is only open two months a year probably because it takes the owners th other 10 months to count their money. All in all, if you're offended by display of wretched excess by the sea, it's best t avoid most of the Riviera — and Portofinc Monte Carlo, and St. Tropez in particu lar.

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HARD LESSONS When an armchair sailor finally de¬ cides to buy a bluewater sailboat, it's only a matter of time before his sailing fanta¬ sies start luring him south to Mexico. But sailing fantasies aren’t; reality, of course — as anyone who has experienced a ripped sail, blown motor and beached boat on the same voyage can tell you. With so many cruisers headed south this winter, perhaps our story can save others from the same problems and fate.

the guide really was. Its advice on the depth of the approach and the distance a boat must stay from the point to arrive at our sheltered anchorage was spot on. The next morning, the clear blue sky and water were so inviting that we decided to stay an extra day. In late afternoon, after a day of fishing and just being lazy

Everything seemed fine until I went below and found a foot of water above the floorboards. After six years of sailing from Marina del Rey to Catalina and other Southern California islands, my search for new ad¬ ventures had me looking in the direction of Baja. Specifically Bahia San Quintin, about 200 miles south of San Diego. I'd once read in a magazine that the long, empty beach there "stretched to where the earth meets the sky."

The big adventure began on Novem¬ ber 11, when my lady friend and I de¬ parted Marina del Rey in winds gusting to 30 knots. Our plan was to sail offshore where the wind was likely to be more con¬ sistent, so our intended waypoints in¬ cluded Avalon, Pyramid Cove on San Celemente Island, and — by the fourth day — Ensenada. A few minor crises and adventures later, we made it in fine shape. After three days of relaxing, reprovi¬ sioning, ferrying fuel out Ux the boat in jerry cans (How can a harbor as large as Ensenada not have a fuel dock?) and en¬ joying the best French dinner outside of Paris, we embarked for Punta Santo To¬ mas, our inaugural anchorage for the Baja. We sailed into the cove below the point and dropped anchor in the still-high winds. The next day we were up at the crack of dawn and bound for Punta Colnett in a heavy haze with less then five miles of vis¬ ibility. We passed a local abalone fisher¬ man about the time that my fishing line — along with the propeller and rudder — started picking up kelp, a good indica¬ tion without radar that we were getting too close to shore. We tacked out 20 miles and caught another bonita for dinner. The daystar was setting as we headed around Punta Colnett. Relying on coordi¬ nates from the cruising guide, and on full instruments, we dropped the hook blind. It was not until the haze cleared the next morning that we realized just how good

in the sun, our first visitors stared to ar¬ rive. By nightfall, 11 boats were seeking refuge for the onset of the weather to come. We started to swing and roll with the waves. One of the warnings about our anchorage was powerful swell refraction from around Punta Colnett. Now we knew why we had so many new and sudden visi¬ tors. We wished we’d headed out instead of spending an extra day. After a somewhat sleepless night, we woke to see the armada of boats heading out. We were pulling up our own anchor when a swell caused the bow to dip and rise, pulling the chain off the bow roller and breaking off the stainless steel roller. We'll, what's a sailing vacation without a few things to fix when you get home. A righteous breeze and some agreeable swells brought us to Isla San Martin. The guide gave us a choice of two places to anchor — and we weren't really wild about

either one of them. We opted for the spot on the leeward side of the island. Thanks to the swells that wrapped around the island, we had a nearly sleepless night. The next day, a bit bleaiy-eyed, we headed out for Bahia San Quintin.

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a splash, the hook dropped in three fathoms at our little Valhalla. For the next three days we felt like a version of Robinson Crusoe as we ventured to the beach every day to forage for snails, mus¬ sels and clams. We enjoyed long private walks at sunset on the secluded beaches that really did seem to stretch all the way to the sky. In every way, it was the expe¬ rience everyone daydreams about when they buy a cruising boat. Flagging down a local panga fisher¬ man, on the third day we hitched a ride up to the old mill. The trip took us through the sandbars and nine miles up the river to the only dock in the area. On Channel 06, we'd met a man known only as 'Tiburon' ('shark'). It was easy to spot him as he strutted toward us with a shark tooth hanging around his neck like a re¬ ligious amulet. You didn "t need to look into Tiburon's dark, hungry eyes to un¬ derstand what this man was all about. If you wanted anything, he was the man who got the job done. But once he set his price, there was no room for negotiation. The author's Columbia 34 on the beach at Isla San Martin. Complacency and a dragging anchor combined to put her there.

What we needed was a ride up the road to the town of San Quintin to get fuel and provisions. In addition to not having enough room to carry all the fuel we needed, there wasn't enough space for all the pro¬ visions we needed, either. This is when Chino, a local fisherman who was (o prove himself a true friend, came into our lives. He drove us to San Quintin, let us shop, and later gave us a ride — loaded with our provisions — back to our boat. Being a large farm town (the biggest employers are the local tomato growers), San Quintin offered the freshest of produce at great prices.

O n the morning of December 11, we started for home. Thanks to a strong off¬ shore breeze, our first leg north whisked us back toward Isla San Martin. By af¬ ternoon, however, the wind had changed to an overpowering Northerly. We dropped the sails in favor of the iron jenny and pounded the rest of the way to the island. On our previous visit, we'd seen other boats anchored in an area not mentioned by the cruising guide. We liked the looks of it and had tentatively planned to stay there for the night. But the guide had been so good that we decided to do what it sug¬ gested, planting the hook in 18 feet of wa¬ ter in the recommended area off the

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Luckily, the boat landed on soft sand rather than nearby rocks. The main damage was to the rud¬ der, which was tweaked 90 degrees. beach. After anchoring, we traded with a lo¬ cal fisherman: one beer for three langoustas. As the sun set, we enjoyed the grilled lobster dinner. Shortly afterwards, we turned in for the night. Unfortunately, it was here that our trusty cruising guide and reality parted paths, and some words my father used to tell me came back to mind: "Believe half of that you read and none of what you hear." To be fair, conditions can change between the time a guide is published and the time a person uses it. But in the af¬ termath of what happened, we came to believe that the guide was based more on what the authors had heard than what they'd experienced.

We were awakened at 2200 by a jarring thud. We raced on deck to discover the nightmare that every sailor hopes to avoid: the anchor had dragged in the middle of the night and the boat was in the surf! Our first reaction was to use the en¬ gine in concert with the top of a rising swell to get free. But even with the mo¬ tored gunned, we were losing ground — or more accurately, gaining ground to¬ ward the surf and shore. Soon the waves were breaking on top of the boat and us. I realized then that my boat was so far aground that the only way we were going to get her off was with a lot of help. With wind and seas both building, the situation seemed to be getting worse with every minute. All we were sure of was that the boat was bouncing toward a shore that was mostly beach — but also a shore with many rocks. Since it was pitch black out, we couldn't tell how far off the beach we were, or if there were any rocks or other obstacles in our path. I got on the VHF and issued a Mayday. To my astonishment, it was imme¬ diately answered by the United States

Coast Guard. (My astonish¬ ment was because our VHF radio couldn't pick up NOAA B ■ weather reports from San * Diego.) While advising the s jijfclj Coast Guard of our location yAi,;jS|jand situation, we heard a ' loud crack. Convinced that * mmWm our boat was breaking up, I ifekliU ordered the First Mate to abandon the boat and swim l Sfc ashore. Her response was, ■SU *■ "What should I wear?" No matter how serious a situation may be¬ come, it’s always good to keep cool and maintain a sense of humor. "A lifejacket," I said. When I informed the Coast Guard that we were abandoning the boat, I was again amazed by their response: "We ll have a helicopter at your position within an hour." Since they requested more infor¬ mation, I stayed at the mike, using a flash¬ light to watch the First Mate make her way through the surf toward shore. The next 20 minutes seemed to last for hours, as the Coast Guard kept me on the radio. In the process, I lost sight of the First Mate. Soon my mind speculated the worst: had she been lost at sea? With the ocean booming all around me, I wor¬ ried that the mast might come crashing down. Since the Coast Guard had all the information they needed and there was nothing more I could do for the boat at the time, I jumped from the bouncing boat into the cold, dark surf. As soon as I made it to shore, the moon came out from be¬ hind the clouds and I saw that the First Mate was safe, silhouetted in the moon¬ light. When I kissed her, I noticed that she had goosebumps, so I returned to the boat to get her some warm clothes. When I boarded the boat, I saw that the batteries were submerged, so the radio was now out of commission. There was quite a bit of water down below, and just about ev¬ erything we owned was soaking wet. Even though the boat was now all the way over on her side, I was able to find some dry clothes in one of the forward lockers. Crawling through our floating worldly goocls on the bottom of the boat was ex¬ tremely difficult. As I was crossing the boat to the hatch, the boat heaved and I fell, cutting my leg open. Once on the tilted deck, it seemed that there were lines and gear everywhere. It wasn't easy getting back into the ocean. When I reunited with the First Mate back on shore, she said that while I was gone, she'd knocked on each of the fish¬ ing shacks on the beach to see if anyone September, 1999 • U&Udt 38 * Page 193

HARD LESSONS could help. There had been no response. Soon we heard the sound of a distant helicopter, and turned our heads sky¬ ward. As soon as the helicopter was in sight, we fired one -of the flares we'd brought ashore. They didn’t see it on their first pass, so we learned to save our flares until they started to close in on our grid and their searchlight was pointed in our direction. Finally, the searchlight found us— and we weren't alone. The helicopter had awo¬ ken some of the local lobster fishermen. Even as the helicop¬ ter was making its approach to pick us up, the fishermen of¬ fered us a place to stay — and helped us try to save our boat.

than rocks. And the cracking sound we’d heard the night before proved to be the rudder getting bent to a 90° angle, not

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Mercury descending from Mt. Olympus, Coast Guard seaman Morse was lowered down to us. He said they were prepared to evacuate us back to San Diego. I declined, ex¬ plaining that I wanted to stay and try to get our boat off the beach. 1 did try to get the First Mate to take advan¬ tage of this opportunity for a quick trip home, but she also refused. She told me she wasn't going to leave me and the boat in Mexico — besides, she was afraid of heights and wasn't about to be lifted up into a helicoper. Seaman Morse consulted with his su¬ periors. They agreed to leave us, wished us luck, and bid us farewell. In a matter of minutes, the helicopter faded into the night. The lobstermen, our new friends, lit¬ erally gave us the shirts off their backs. It was a good thing, too, because I was still soaking wet and on the verge of hypoth¬ ermia. Eight of these veiy friendly guys took us to one of their 20 by 20-foot tarpaper-lined shacks, where they gave us some warm clothes and a warm liba¬ tion. They doubled up in their bunks just so we'd have a place to sleep for the night!

he First Mate and I were awakened by the rustle of clothing the next morn¬ ing, as the fishermen prepared for their workday at sea. We were invited to break¬ fast following their return from checking the fish traps. Breakfast turned out to be a treat: langousta and fried potatoes scrambled together. The sight of my boat wasn't quite as welcome, although it could have been worse. She had beached on sand rather Page 194 • UtiUMZ9 • September, 1999

slaughtered? Well, a bloody scene very much like it is repeated with hundreds of sharks each day. We made a deal with them to watch the boat. Given the shelter of Bahia San Quintin and the security provided by the Sharkmen, we felt we could drop the rudder without any worries. The next day the bent rudder was on its way to a shipyard in Ensenada — thanks to some Good Sa¬ maritan Americans we became friends with. It was the begin¬ ning of what we called the Mexican Hat Dance, Part One.

Awaiting help the day after the grounding. For¬ tunately, the wave action had subsided and the boat wasn't being pounded. Still, everything be¬ low was soaked. the hull cracking. Our next step was to call Chino, our panga-man friend, to ask for help. He ar¬ rived at noon on a speedboat — accom¬ panied by a large fishing trawler. After breaking three towlines trying to pull our boat off the sand, the fourth held as the trawler gunned its engines and our boat slid back into deep water. The trawler captain agreed to tow us back to Ensenada, but said he had to go back to San Quintin first. But the trawler went too fast for my rudderless sailboat, pulling the bow cleat out of the boat. So I hailed Chino who towed us stern-first with the speedboat. At the, end of the day we found ourselves back on the hook in Ba¬ hia San Quintin. Since the boat was still vulnerable, we arranged to have her towed over the sandbar and to a mooring in the lagoon at San Quintin, which proved to be a well-sheltered area. Thanks to my friends and new neighbors, the Sharkmen, security was not a problem. The Sharkmen' are Mexican fisherman who risk life and limb in their quest for sharks. They leave shore each day at about 1600 and take their open boats 60 miles offshore. There they spend the night with their hooks in the ocean. The next day they return to begin a grisly ritual ashore. Remember the scene from Apoca¬ lypse Now when the water buffalo is

time went on, the guy with the trawler kept rais¬ ing the price for a tow to Ensenada. The final quote was US $4,000. But even if we ac¬ cepted this quote, the boatyard in Ensenada said they were working at maxi¬ mum capacity and wouldn't be able to get to the rudder for another month. And when they did, it would cost $2,400 for the repair. Faced with these unpleasant pros¬ pects, the First Mate returned home to coordinate the repair efforts. We gave our¬ selves a three-day deadline to either get the boat towed to Ensenada or have the rudder fixed and shipped back down to San Quintin on the bus. On the day of our self-imposed dead¬ line, the still of the morning was broken by someone bellowing out, "Mr. Livingstone", which is my middle name. When I looked out a porthole, I saw the Sharkmen rowing a man over to my boat. I know it sounds a little funny, but I was left with the mental image of George Washington crossing the Delaware — in search of Dr. Livingston! When the man reached my boat, he introduced himself as Senor Tomas Guerrero Martinez, head of the region’s tourist bureau. As I pre¬ pared some coffee for him, he announced that he was there to help me get my boat fixed and underway again! As we were to soon learn, the Mexican government had sent a true angel in the form of Senor Guerrero. That evening he drove me to Ensenada, and the next morning, he helped make arrangements with a machine shop and a fiberglass spe¬ cialist to repair the rudder immediately. The machine shop did an excellent job. I opted to return to the boat and have the

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rudder shipped back down to San Quintin by bus.

X hree weeks passed. The First Mate was still gone, the rudder had not arrived and I was getting anxious. One day, as I dinked ashore and started to walk across the sand dunes to the little hotel, I saw Tomas' car pull up and stop -— with our rudder hanging out of the trunk! With the help of Paco, Chino and Tomas, we put the rudder back in the boat the next day and I finally headed out over the sandbar toward the open Pacific. The depth sounder went off at nine feet, but on the next swell we'd cleared the bar into deep water. Underway again — and with¬ out that much expense. The total for fix¬ ing the rudder, including transportation, extra meals and hotels, came to under $600. Suddenly the wheel spun out of my grip, the boat began a tight circle and a chunk of familiar-looking fiberglass floated by. Chino towed me back into the anchorage. We pulled the rudder again the next day and discovered that the fi¬ berglass had been overbuilt at the top of the rudder — and as a result had broken off against the hull. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After a quick repair, now I was really ready! I bid my final farewell to Chino, Paco and Tomas, and began the next leg of the homeward trip singlehanded — I'd pick up the First Mate again when I got to Todos Santos. Rounding Cabo San Martin, my boat was attacked by a 30-knot northerly that, combined with waves and adverse cur¬ rent, made progress very difficult. A pass¬ ing ketch informed me things weren't go¬ ing to get any better for a couple more days. I pushed on for Punta Colnett. The next few days were basically a sleepless purgatory of fighting headwinds — and then no winds. There were times that first night when the speed function on my GPS read 0.0 — even with the throttle wide open. By the time I dropped the hook in Bahia Colnett, both the boat and I were out of gas. I collapsed into the bunk for the first time in 48 hours. The next day, good old KNIX radio alerted me to my next problem: a large swell from the south, from which Colnett offered no protection. With the beginnings of it coming into the anchorage, I raised the anchor and the main. When I finally rounded the point and headed seaward, I looked back to see huge waves breaking where I had been anchored just a short

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JNJow the problem was no wind — and no fuel. I had used so much gas the night before that I felt I could only use the engine for entering port. The tiny zeph¬ yrs of breeze weren't enough to overcome the current pushing me back toward the rocky cliffs of Punta Colnett. So I lowered my anchor, hoping it would act as a sea anchor. I asked a passing luxury stinkpot for a little fuel. They ignored me. I called a local vessel-assist company who in¬ formed me that they’d bring me 12 gal¬ lons of fuel for $ 1,000 and could be there in five hours. I declined, figuring I’d be on the rocks in less than three. In a growing state of rage, I pulled up the anchor and steered in the direction of any pocket of wind. I was almost able to hold my own. Then, as the sun set, the sky transformed into a yellow gold — and I found myself encircled by at least 10 whales. I knew I was supposed to be care¬ ful not to get between the cow and the calf, but I couldn't tell which was which and didn't have steerage to do anything about it anyway. Almost instantly, my anger and fear were replaced with strong spiritual, al¬ most mystical feelings. There were fire¬ works — in the form of lightning — right after dark. There wasn't a cloud in the sky at the time. Suddenly the wind came up and the boat took off. Before long, I was riding a 45-knot Santa Ana and a wicked southerly swell. It was white-knuckle time as the GPS read 8.9 knots and every significant part of the vessel screeched in torment.

Xkgain aching with fatigue, I guided the boat into Todos Santos the next day on another Santa Ana. I started the en¬ gine, but just as I approached the shelter of Coral Marine in Ensenada, the motor died. After making three attempts at sail¬ ing into the marina against the wind and current, I called the marina. Two chival¬ rous Frenchmen came to my aid and towed me to the fuel dock. Thus began the Mexican Hat Dance, Part Two. Even with a full tank of fuel, the en¬ gine wouldn’t start again. The American mechanic I found first diagnosed the prob¬ lem as a carburetor that needed a tuneup. Then it was a carburetor rebuild, fol¬ lowed by an entirely new carburetor. You can imagine the time spent getting parts and making these repairs.

When none of that worked, he finally advised me that the whole engine needed rebuilding. Three weeks of time and money had been wasted! At least the First Mate had returned by then. We said the hell with the engine and decided we would sail home to Ma¬ rina del Rey. Our plan was to sail 60 to 100 miles offshore and pray for wind. The New Year started right with a Santa Ana wind blowing. The Harbormaster was reluctant to tow us out of the tight ma¬ rina during such high winds, but we ex¬ plained they were exactly the kind of winds we needed to return home. About 20 of our newfound friends from the '90Day Yacht Club’ were on hand to help tend lines and bid us farewell. Once outside the breakwater, we hoisted the main — only to drop it imme¬ diately. The reef points were tearing out! The First Mate, who was behind the wheel, gave me a look kind of like the one on the beach when the helicopter was overhead. It said there was no way we were going to go back to the marina. So we threw up the jib and were cut loose again. Leaving a shaken Harbormaster behind, we headed out the bay at 7.6 knots. The wind ran out about the time that we had cleared Islas Todos Santos, giv¬ ing us plenty of time to mend the main. The tear was about three feet across and a foot high. We sewed in a patch and ap¬ plied tape to both sides of the tear — a process much easier said than done.

ilbout midway through the repair process, we looked to the south and saw the biggest wave either of us had ever seen — and it was heading right toward us. To this day we don't know if it was from an earthquake at sea, two currents colliding, or what. In any event, when we looked through the binoculars, the wave — still five miles away — looked to be about 30 feet tall and still building. How could this be happening? What were we to do, as we'd certainly be cap¬ sized if it hit us? All we could think to do was break out the life preservers and start tying ourselves to the boat. Then, as sud¬ denly as this monster wave appeared, it broke far enough away from us so there were no residual effects. With a sigh of relief, we resumed our repairs on the main. An hour later, a similar wave — only closer and bigger — appeared out of the west. The wave started to break in our direction. But again the wave broke be¬ fore it got to us without any residual ef¬ fects. Thankfully, it was the last of the rogue waves we were to see. Under a re September, 1999

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paired main, a lovely Santa Ana and a full moon, we made Point Loma in 12 hours. Then the wind all but died for three days. We finally accepted a tow into Avalon and recuperated from our 'vacation' in unseasonably warm weather. Then —finally — it was time to bring this tale to an end. We were towed out to the windline and cast off. We thought this last few miles could be done in our sleep. But about a mile off Palos Verdes the wind died a sudden death and once again the swells were pushing the boat toward rocks. We were able to hail another tow — actually getting pretty good at it by now. Everything seemed fine until I went be¬ low and found a foot of water above the floorboards. Where was that coming from? Some¬ how, the tow had apparently caused the hose to my cockpit scuppers to pull off and the thruhull was flooding the boat. An old pair of Levis jammed in the hole stopped the leak. The towboat called the

harbor patrol and they arrived almost in¬ stantaneously with a pump. With the boat pumped out, we resumed the tow, finally making it back into our slip — exactly two months from when we had started.

F'riends and relatives ask us if we would ever do it again. Most are incredu¬ lous when I reply, "In a New York minute." Of course, there are some things that I would certainly do differently. In retrospect, I attribhte most of the problems I had to a limited budget, my eager anticipation of the adventure, and wanting to leave on time. These factors caused me to overlook sonje necessary re¬ pairs on my boat, and to not purchase some essential boat gear. For example, I had fully planned to buy extra anchor chain. And I was going to buy a plow an¬ chor as soon as I came across a super deal. I really did plan to put some addi¬ tional reefs in the main. Unfortunately, I relegated them all to the ’can be done

enroute as needed’ status. I also learned the importance of con¬ stant vigilance. Having anchored more than a dozen times without dragging sc much as a meter, the First Mate and 1 had become too complacent, and it almost cost us the boat. In conclusion, we would like to thank the brave men of the US Coast Guard who put their lives on the line every time they go out on a mission. Their response and professionalism was there to save our lives if the incident had deteriorated to that level. I also would like to thank the De¬ partment de Asistencia al Turista, with special credit to our friend Tomas Guer¬ rero Martinez — and indeed to every per¬ son or group mentioned in this article. Thank you all very much. — pierre lorillard Editor's Note — Because the author was good enough to share this sometimes embarassirtg experience with us, we honored his request not to use the name of his boat or First Mate.

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MAX EBB T had my rulebook, my appeals book, and my collection of rule addenda and errata. I had my favorite book of rule ex¬ planations and interpretations. I had my little boat models. I was even wearing my US Sailing golf shirt. “So like, where are they?” complained Lee Helm, the college sailor who had bi¬ cycled all the way down to the yacht club to sit on the protest committee with me. ‘They’re over a half hour late,” noted the third member of my committee, an accomplished dinghy racer, as he glanced at his watch. “All I can say is, they better have a good case.” “I’ll check the office answering machine for messages," said the Race Committee chair. “Maybe they’re held up in traffic.” “It’s just this one case tonight, right?” asked Lee. ‘That’s it,” I confirmed. “We were even luckier last year when we ran this same event, with no protests at all.” “You know, this is quite a change from years past,” said the dinghy racer. "Re¬ member when you had them stacked up three deep waiting for their turn in the room?” “At least we got a nice dinner out of this deal,” added Lee. “I’ll do this again any time.”

ur club’s Race Committee has a policy of treating the Protest Committee to dinner at a very nice waterfront res¬ taurant before the hearing. As a result, we usually have no trouble assembling some real talent to hear protests, espe¬ cially young sailors with sharp minds who know the rules inside out. (I was there just to add some gray hair for balance, as far as I could tell.) But this time it ap¬ peared that it would all be wasted effort, as the protestor so far was nowhere in sight. “Protest activity does seem to be down in the last few years,” noted the RC chair, back from the office with no other news to report. “I think it’s a good sign. It may be that the new rules are actually doing

I said, “but I think it’s more a matter of demographics. Racers are older, on aver¬ age, and less aggressive on the'^race course. Maybe age and judgment makes us more likely to accept a penalty and avoid the protest process.” ‘This is the trend in small boats too,” said the dinghy racer. “And I see two rea¬ sons for it. First, the rules are new and different and folks spend more time con¬ centrating on them so they now know them better. And second, the 720 is now the default condition, and it’s finally ac¬ cepted as cheap insurance against a DSQ. So as Max says, the alternative penalty is becoming much more widely used.” “I see a more important reason for the decline in protests,” said the RC chair. ‘The new rules intentionally eliminated many of the places a sailor could use the rules offensively, to actually force smother boat to break a rule. So it’s much less clear that a boat will win a protest. The old rules had places where one boat could sort of ’checkmate’ another. But under the new rules, most situations are now judg¬ ment calls, where the likelihood of win¬ ning is closer to 51% instead of 99% — not worth the risk of a DSQ.” “For sure,” said Lee. “It’s the increased uncertainty of the outcome of the protest process that’s keeping people away from The Room in droves. And this is like, not a good thing.” “You don’t think it’s good that protests are down?” I asked. “And that people are sailing less aggressively?” “No way! It’s not a question of less of¬ fensive use of the rules, at least it isn’t at the YRA level. It’s the fact that protest committees are not able to make these newly-required judgment calls correctly and consistently. Even when they can determine the facts correctly, which they can’t always do, the new rules have too many gray areas. These judgments work fine when there’s an on-the-water ref to make the call, but they’re hard to apply

"You could hit somebody intentionally, cause damage to your boat and his and it was his fault. their job, discouraging collisions and pro¬ tests. I know it hasn’t seemed like the rules were simplified very much, from what’s been written about them. But they might actually be easier to understand now than they were before." “I agree that protests are less frequent," Page 198 •

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when the competitors are also the judges, as is the case when you and I go racing. So like, I still see the new rules as a big concession to televised sailing with topend judges, at the expense of the rank and file who race at the club or YRA level." “Uh-oh,” I said to my other colleagues

on the committee. “Lee’s off on anoti conspiracy theory.”

4trp X hrow in ISAF’s blanket app priation of all media rights to all ra sailed under ISAF rules — and their r rule that takes all control of advertis restriction away from the event organi — and like, you don’t have to be mucl a conspiracy theorist to smell a pernicii trend." “It’s prertty obvious,” said the dinj racer, “that the International Sail Foundation (ISAF) and US Sailing dc want to orient the sport toward the c racer.” “I’m not sure this is entirely accura said the RC chair. “Some of the thii ISAF does are aimed squarely at the c racer. Things like rules and cases av able for free on the ISAF website, and making it easier to sail at the bott rungs." “But like, they had no choice ab putting the rules and appeals on the w< argued Lee. “Both ISAF and US Sail resisted electronic publication for yei and caved only when it was obvious t the rules were going to be online anywi “ISAF has a large constituency,” co tered the RC chair, “and I think it trie

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ntact is still contact, no matter how slight, iments after this encounter at the recent J/105 is, the boat at left spun a 720.

rve all elements.” “No way. They serve the hands that :d them. Look how much of their budt comes from the Olympics, and from ijor event sponsorship." “So you’re saying that ISAF isn’t reonsive to sailors because sailors’ dues n’t support it?” I asked. ‘The average recreational racer does t pay the bills for ISAF — except, like, lirectly when we buy the products and vices advertised by sponsors. You do : math.” ‘Their stated policy is to make it easier get into the sport, to sail and race at : bottom rungs. . ." ‘That’s what they say they want to do, t most of the policy changes have been led at the opposite end of the sport, low the money. ISAF has been a lot rse than US Sailing in this respect, but h organizations have sold out to a large ent. Even the extra A in ISAF — which all rights should be just ISF — had to stuck in because the International mpic Committee thought people would fuse it with the International Softball leration or something. Sheeesh. And c at US Sailing having to pad their gov¬

erning board with Olympic sailors to meet the IOC requirement. And that’s all being driven by Olympic TV money, if you trace it back. US Sailing either needs to spin the Olympic thrash off to another organi¬ zation specially created to dance to that tune, or give up on the recreational sailor and let a new user group form that would really represent us. ISAF needs to drop all pretext of being anything but an ad¬ ministrative support service for corporate sponsorship of professional sailing.”

“A X ire you making that same old ar¬ gument for the separation of pro and ama¬ teur racers?" asked the RC chair. “No, restricting who can steer or sail in local events on the basis of some twisted definition of ‘professional status’ was totally brain-dead. We all want to race against the big names when they’re in town. The way to keep the sport from be¬ ing taken over by the professionals, and keep the events from being run accord¬ ing to what the sponsors want instead of what the racers want, is to use the natu¬ ral control we’ve had for 100 years: no advertising. But like, this is exactly the method of control that ISAF is taking way from us, with nothing resembling a demo¬ cratic decision process."

"But there might still be a few positive reasons,” the dinghy racer speculated, “why the new rules may have been delib¬ erately designed to make the outcomes less certain. One is to encourage good sportsmanship and doing 720s. Another is to reduce aggressiveness on the course, which seemed to be a major discourage¬ ment to new racers.” “Like the quick-and-dirty luff under the old rules,” said the RC chair. “You could let a boat start passing to windward of you then you could turn quickly and smack into him and cause significant damage and it was his fault. What a great idea! You could hit somebody else inten¬ tionally, cause damage to your boat and his and it was his fault and he theoreti¬ cally had to pay for the damage to his boat and yours. Not my idea of the best way to write rules. It was this type of‘checkmate, you lose’ activity that was the primary reason for the new rules. Someone said 'there is too darn much damage being al¬ lowed (and maybe even encouraged) and that isn’t good for the sport.’ Personally, I agree. In any event, the ‘new rules’ were intended to discourage that type of game playing and I think have gone a long way toward doing so." “But like, why,” asked Lee, “doyou use the term 'significant damage' instead of 'serious damage'? The rules never allowed the leeward boat with luffing rights to cause serious damage. I mean, you could find examples of 'significant' damage that is not 'serious', but this was never a wide¬ spread problem. If it were, the rules could have like, lowered the threshold for the kind of damage that was not permissible.” “f confess I miss the rather one-sided ‘full luffing rights’ under the old rules,” I added. “Yes, I was in some scrapes, but at least it was always pretty clear who would win the protest.” “And luffing after starting isn’t the only area where certainty of outcome has been compromised,” continued Lee. “There used to be an onus of proof on the boat that tacked, on the boat that claimed to have established an overlap, and on the boat that claimed to have broken an over¬ lap. There was a binding 'mast abeam' hail. The value of these elements of the rul6s was that in a ‘their word against mine’ situation, it was usually easy to tell who would win the protest. So on the course, even at the club level, the rules could be applied with confidence.” “I’ve seen those ‘burdens of proof pro¬ visions abused pretty badly,” said the RC chair. “For sure. An unscrupulous racer could take advantage of the ‘onus’ rules, but it didn’t happen often and they could September. 1999 •

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MAX EBB like, hardly ever do it twice without seri¬ ous social consequences.” “Of course that was in those dark ages of sailing,” noted the dinghy racer, “when even the big names were just racing for bragging rights and pickle dishes, and ‘so¬

protest a short-tacking situation these days. You never know, they might find that my last-second alteration of course

"Even when they can determine the facts correctly the new rules have too many gray areas." cial consequences’ had some power.” “Makes you wonder why they even bothered, don’t it?” quipped Lee. “Come on, Lee,” said the RC chair. “I don’t think the prime movers behind the new rules — and I know most of them personally from the annual meetings I go to — ever considered the spectator na¬ ture of our sport. Many are active racers, all are active in racing activities and I doubt if any of them think sailing has much potential as a TV or other specta¬ tor sport. In any event, their primary fo¬ cus is making rules that are clear enough that you don’t need to buy the Appeals or Cases to figure out what they mean. Be¬ cause of the nature of our sport they may not always succeed in the perfect rule for every situation. Overall, however, I think they did a pretty good job.” ‘The new rules probably did start out with the best intentions,” said Lee. “In their early evolution they attempted to make all contact be an infraction for both boats. It might have been a worthwhile goal, but early experience proved that it was unworkable and vulnerable to exploi¬ tation. So they backed off, and we’re left with a somewhat subtle, if not ambigu¬ ous set of guidelines for determining when the right-of-way boat is at fault for caus¬ ing a collision and when it isn’t. I mean, just try to follow the logic of Rule 14: The rule says you have to avoid contact. But you don’t have to avoid contact unless it’s clear that the other boat isn’t avoiding contact. But you can’t be penalized for infringing this rule if there’s no damage. So when can you hit them and when can’t you hit them? I don't know, at least not with enough certainty to trust a volun¬ teer once-a-year Protest Committee to in¬ terpret it the same way I do.” “Figuring out when ‘it is clear that the other boat is not keeping clear' is the hard part,” I said. “I liked it better when one boat had right of way over the other. And the old language, simply requiring me to try to avoid contact that results in seri¬ ous damage, was a lot easier to read.” “Max, you're living in the past,” said the dinghy racer. “I’m even reluctant to Pag© 200 •

• September, 1999

to avoid contact was just the exact wrong thing to do, and somehow prevented the boat that tacked from ke'eping clear if I had held my course. Without the onus, I just don’t trust the process.” “I hear you,” agreed Lee. “Getting in¬ volved in these issues withjhe typical club protest committee scares the bejeezus out of most local racers, at least the ones who know what the rules say and have seen the typical club protest committee in ac¬ tion. That’s why protests are down, and it’s not good."

they didn’t,” said Lee. "When the rules were revised there was an opportunity tc change this. Here’s rule 6.2 from the 199E Experimental Rules, which does what w< want." Lee produced a worn printout from £ file folder marked 'Experimental Rules' and read from the first page: “Rule 6.2: When two overlapped boats on the same tack are within two of the longer boat’s hull lengths of each othei and an imaginary line abeam from the leeward boat’s mainmast is behind the windward boat’s mainmast, the leewarc boat shall not sail above her proper course unless she tacks.” “So the right to luff above proper course is determined essentially by which boal is ahead of the other at the moment?” 1 asked. “Simplicity itself,” said Lee, “and I wish that was the version that had stuck.

“D xYctually, the biggest complaint about the new rules,” asserted the RC chair, “has been about hunting.” “The biggest complaint,” Lee coun¬ tered, "is that protest committees make incorrect decisions. I blame this largely on the reduced clarity of the rules, mak¬ ing it harder for both the competitors on the water and the Protest Committee in the hearing room to sort out who is right and who is wrong. If there’s a judge on the water calling the plays, then the new rules work fine. We can all scream at our television sets while we watch sailing on TV." “I’ll add another complaint that I hear a lot, ’’ said another RC member, evidently a much less experienced racer, who was there as a witness. “In our beer can races, we have a lot of mixed fleets on a com¬ mon reaching leg. Nobody knows what the dickens to do as we approach the wing mark. Too much seems to depend on who overtook who, rather than where we are in relationship to each other as we ap¬ proach the mark. I’m sure this is clear in a match racing, or a one design fleet with judges on the water, but it’s a total muddle to the average casual racer out on the course. Under the older rules you could often just go, ‘He’s there. I’m here, the wind’s from there, I know who’s got rights over who.’ Nowit’s ‘Well, let's see, the his¬ tory of the legs is. . .’” “Overlaps had a memory under the old rules, too,” said the dinghy racer. “But I agree that it would be better if

Uut all these right-of-way rules is¬ sues are being submerged in the furor that’s been raised by ISAF and the new advertising rules,” said the RC Chair. “As you know, they want to reserve the right to make any race a Category C event, meaning no restrictions on advertising. Then they want to have exclusive author¬ ity to collect an advertising license fee." “Yes, but realistically,” I asked, “isn’t this only going to apply to the high-pro¬ file events that already have sponsors and ads? Is it really something we need to worry about?" “Race organizers are left entirely out of the loop,” said Lee. “Like, they’ve al¬ ready designated TransPac and Vic-Maui as Cat C events. Can Pacific Cup be far behind? You think the volunteers will con¬ tinue to happily donate their time and energy for the greater glory of a company that makes champagne or SUVs?” “I like the way ISAF tried to justify the move by comparing sailboat racing to stock car racing,” said the dinghy racer with heavy sarcasm. “As if that’s a model we should be following.” “Stock car racing was once a sport that amateurs could have a lot of fun with,” said the RC Chair. ‘That went straight down the tubes.” “So like, if the ISAF and the big spon¬ sors have their way, we’ll all be spending our weekends watching sailing on TV and drinking the beer that’s advertised on the boats' sails,'” predicted Lee. “Just like car racing. Kewel.” “At last we’re all in violent agreement

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A m going to go check my home umber,” said the RC chair, looking at his atch again. “Who knows, maybe they left message there.” “A few possibilities for like, subversive ction, come to mind,” said Lee. “First of 11, we don’t have to use the ISAF rules.” “What else is out there?” I asked. “And ow can you possibly go against such a niversal standard?” “Simple. Race instructions say ‘these ices will be sailed under the XYZ Sailing lub Right- of-Way Racing Rules, which re identical to the ISAF Racing Rules of ailing as adopted by US Sailing, with the illowing exceptions’. This allows us to lange what we want to change, irrespecve of ISAF provisions about stuff that ice organizers aren’t supposed to lange. I mean, like, they don’t have po¬

lice power over the water or anything. And they don’t own the committee boat or the marks.” “Might work,” allowed the dinghy racer. “Another thing we can do,” Lee contin¬ ued, “is to charge our own license fee for boats with ads. I don’t know the exact wording of the new ISAF proposal, but presumably they’re not claiming exclusive right to collect fees for regatta entries along with everything else. So, we just have a ‘special’ entry fee for boats with ads. Heck, if some deep pocket wants to paint their logo on a boat and have us volunteer all that time and expertise to put on an event to show it off, then they should be willing to pay some appropri¬ ate percentage of the capitalization value of the sponsoring corporation, right?” “Wait a minute,” said the dinghy racer. “I have a much better idea. Let’s not fight 'em, let's join 'em! We’ll start a multilevel ad distribution and finance scheme. I know someone who can produce an infomercial, Lee can spam the net, and

Max can bring in a bunch of old-timers to endorse it. Here’s how it will work. . ." “Protest withdrawn,” announced the RC chair, throwing his hands up into the air as he came back into the committee room. ‘They left the message on my home number just before the scheduled start¬ ing time of the hearing.”

V_xan they do that?” I asked. “Isn’t there a rule that says that once a protest is filed in writing, it can’t be with¬ drawn?” said the dinghy racer. ‘That was the old Rule 68.8,” said Lee, after flipping though another old rulebook. “Can’t withdraw a protest unless fault is acknowledged for the incident. But like, it was widely ignored because the YRA scoring system provided for with¬ drawing before the hearing anyway, with a scoring incentive. In the new rules, 63.2 says that you can withdraw a protest if the Protest Committee approves. Um, did we approve this withdrawal?” “Yes, we did,” I said. “Enough rules for one night. Let’s go home." — max ebb

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a name like Tor, the real world was out of the question. So he chose the sailing life. He liked the fact that not only was it the road less traveled, it was the road unseen. There were no highways to guide you across mother ocean. And as you glided over her, your wake simply dis¬ appeared, as though you had never been there. This suited Tor just fine. Because anyone named after the Viking god of thunder and lightning was more inter¬ ested in making tracks than in leaving tracks. All he wished was to wander the world's waters in search of adventure, romance, excitement, romance, mystery and romance. This yearning stemmed not only from his name, but from his deepest DNA. On his Dad's side, he was the son of an incurable risk-aholic. His father, Roy, chose the path less taken — or more accurately, the path hacked through the jungle with a machete. He did so because the Sky Bosun had shown him at a very early age how brief and fleeting life can be. This occurred when Roy was just 17 years old. While walking down the street, he was frantically summoned to the nearby Turkish baths, where his dad had taken ill and collapsed. He arrived just in time to have his father die in his arms. Though just in his mid-teens, Tor’s dad was wise enough to use this tragedy as an inspiration for his own future. He vowed to live with abandon and passion, since our allotted time Is so indiscernible. His first great adventure was to answer an ad in a New York newspaper seeking a photographer for an expedition to the unexplored headwaters of the Amazon. On the way to the interview he bought a camera at a pawn shop. Not only had he never used one before — he had never even held one before. But the pawn shop owner, when hearing of the boldness of his charade, was kind enough to teach him the basics. Roy got the job. The expedition was more than just a success, it was a tri¬ umph. In those days photos were not downloaded via laptop and modem. In¬ stead, they were transported by cannibal conga line and dugout canoes. For months he never knew whether the images even came out. Not only did they turn out black and white, they turned out golden, since they were circulated in newspapers all over the country. When he returned to New York, he had better than fame and fortune — he had fame and future. In fact, he parlayed that expedition into Page 202 •

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Tor and Thumper, circa 1975.

a lifetime of photojournalism that would include dozens of books, hundreds of articles, innumerable magazine covers and many prestigious photo and film awards. And to this day he still travels and treks with camera and laptop. His most recent journey was to the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu. On his Mom's side, Tor was the son of

a daughter of a sailor. His grandfather Arnt’s bio reads like it was written by Joseph Conrad. The son of a Norwegian boat builder, he shipped out of Oslo as a cabin boy in his second teen year aboard one of the planet's last working tall ships. Like many a Conrad character, he worked his way up to bosun and mate and finally master. When still just a cabin boy, he was aboard the three-masted barque Sagitta

TOR LOVES THUMPER

on her last voyage in the winter of 1916. Even though she was an unarmed merchant ship, she was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. As the survivors took to the lifeboats in the deadly frigid waters, the sub offered no assistance and stood off nearby, seeming to relish the agony of the doomed sailors. Arnt was one of the four sailors in his open boat that survived. Fifteen did not. About half of them died by freezing. They were the lucky ones. The others, driven to madness by hunger, thirst and cold, either threw themselves overboard or slit their own throats. After five days of arctic cold, the lifeboat drifted onto the shore of a small fjord in Norway. A lone newsboy, on his early morning paper route, decided to take a shortcut that ran along the beach. It was a fortunate detour, because there he discovered the boat full of frozen, bloody bodies. Even though he presumed that they were all dead, he ran for help. When the townspeople arrived they discovered that four of the nineteen sailors were still clinging to life — barely. They were the four youngest. Apparently, they had just a little more life force coursing through their veins than did the others. Or maybe they had been the only ones who hadn't eaten the ship's dog, when it had been butchered and devoured raw in the desperate deathboat.

-l^ven though Tor was a few generations late for tall ships, his timing was perfect for small ships. When fiber¬ glass boat building proved successful, the cruising life became viable not just for wealthy ’yachtsmen' but for regular working people — and also for irregular non-working hippies. Tor was practically a charter member of the Coconut Grove 'cruising without moving’ fleet. But whereas most of his neighbors chose their free anchorage for the cheap housing and constant parties, he was actually preparing for his seafaring life. A quarter of a century later as the Millennium approaches, (either like the flagship of a New Era or the ghost ship of Armageddon, depending on one s point of view) Tor's sailing credits make a pretty impressive resume. By 1978 he earned his USCG Master's license. He then delivered boats from Florida to the Caribbean charter fleets. For years he was a captain in the Virgin Islands.

He then began to mix selling boats with cruising them. He introduced the Cabo Rico line to the U.S. He was Pacific Seacraft's first dealer in Fort Lauderdale. And today he is the exclusive New England broker for Valiant Yachts. Over the years, 100,000 blue water miles slid beneath his keel as he explored dozens of countries aboard the seven boats that he had owned. He also sold numerous articles to sailing magazines in four different countries. But it all began with a humble boat and a humbling voyage.

Her name was Thumper. Although he hadn't asked the previous owner where the name came from, he presumed it was simply a description of the inescapable sound made by her ancient one-cylinder gasoline engine. Actually, he really didn’t get to share a meaningful dialogue' with the man who was selling him the boat, since he seemed to be in a huny. Appar¬ ently, he was in a slightly guilty hurry. Because after the money was exchanged and the papers were signed and he was driving away, he stopped his car and handed Tor a paper bag. It contained a can of underwater epoxy and several dozen nails. As soon as the travel lift returned Thumper to the water, the mystery of the strange gift was solved. Little geysers of water erupted at several spots and started to fill the bilge — with considerable speed and enthusiasm. You see, Tor's new love was a converted lifeboat from a World War II Liberty ship. And she was made of steel, which was held together with rivets — a rapidly decreasing number of rivets. When the travel-lift operator asked for an exorbitant price to lift the soggy little boat back onto land, Tor opted for the paper bag solution. It would not be the last time that he slavered underwater epoxy putty around a flathead nail, dove into the water, and pushed it into the hole that a rivet had recently abandoned. Aside from the hull's propensity to occasionally transform itself into a collander, Thumper was a sweet and stout little boat. She had a mast that was thick enough to qualify as a telephone pole. Indeed, it was so sturdy that he could have carved "Tor loves Thumper" into it without jeopardizing its strength. Her mainsail was gaff-rigged, and her jib was so patched that it looked like it had been attacked with a gaff.

The forward part of the hull had been covered with plywood to create a little cuddy cabin. The rest of the ex lifeboat was mostly open. Even the original benches along the inside of the hull still remained. In the middle sat the beast that gave Thumper her name. Describing it as loud was polite understatement. In fact, some people, upon first hearing it, were con¬ vinced that Tor was merrily manufac¬ turing tractor parts in some sort of miniature, floating factory. Her upwind sailing performance left a bit to be desired. It probably had something to do with a hull shape that looked like it was modeled after a watermelon. Her beam was carried so far forward and so far afL, that it seemed like the naval architect had been trying to design a floating parallelogram. But these lifeboats were not designed to be propelled; they were designed to be rescued! Despite these minor deficiencies, there was no denying the fact that this little ship had character. Whether bobbing at anchor or promenading downwind, she exuded saltiness and blue water bravado. And she was Tor's first love. So lie took her on a honeymoon cruise. He singlehanded her down the Florida Keys. Because of her shallow draft, he was able to anchor in many little spots that even nowadays are usually uncrowded. Twenty-five years ago they were so empty they were downright Darwinian. After having studied all the proper books, this was his first actual experience at’ coastal piloting. As every pre-GPS navigator knows, it is a wondrous thrill finding your position on the planet by crossing lines of position, figuring set and drift and monitoring a taffrail log. Tor delighted in learning that he was damned good at coastal and pretty good at celestial. Key West was his first real port, and his top priority was no different from that of generations of sailors before him. However, his luck was far better than the great majority .of his predecessors. You see. Tor didn't even have to go ashore to giit fortunate! Just after he got Thumper's anchor down near the little Simonton Street beach, he spotted the lovely Norma walking toward the water's edge in a most alluring bikini. He waved and smiled and she waved and smiled. He swam ashore and she swam back out to the boat with him. He left to continue his cruise a few days later and she left with him. Now at this point it might be helpful to September, 1999 •

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interject a bit more information about Tor's mother. Not only was Thumper's skipper blessed with high-octane 'adventure genes,' his tank was also full of'handsome genes.' His mom, Doris, had been a very successful New York model. In fact, she was the gal that graced a million billboards and magazine ads in the Borden's campaign that also featured Elsie the Cow. So Tor could have also been named for the God of Hunks! Thumper’s next stop was the beautiful Marquesas Keys about 30 miles from Key West. There, Norma and the captain of her heart frolicked in 'lagoon all to ourselves' mode. This reverie was ended by the arrival of two boats that were stopping briefly before continuing to the Dry Tortugas. Their rum-revved descriptions of the strange, gigantic, isolated Fort Jefferson proved irresistible; and the three boats headed there the next day. Norma's long weekend was about to get longer — much longer.

-Lhe Dry Tortugas are a cluster of a half-dozen little islands that sit at the western end of the Florida Keys. Only one of these tiny sand spits is inhabited, and it is certainly no habitat for humanity. But it definitely qualifies as a habitat for humor. Because taking up 95% of the land on Garden Key is Fort Jefferson — BIG Fort Jefferson — GIGANTIC Fort Jefferson! How big? Well, for about a hun¬ dred years it was merely the largest brick structure in the Western Hemisphere. Some brilliant naval strategist theorized that since this is the 'corner' where shipping turns north, up to Gulf Coast ports like Galveston and New Orleans, a fort positioned there could control the shipping lanes. However, in those middle of the 19th century days, a cannon only had a range of about three miles. So any ship wanting to circumvent this Gibraltar of the Americas only had to sail an extra mile off its rhumbline course to be safe. If it was ridiculous from a strategic point of view, it was even more ludicrous from an engineering perspective. First, imagine transporting 16 million bricks, hundreds of cannons and thousands of tons of other stuff to this reef-strewn, hurricane-strafed wasteland — all by sailing ship. Once you get all of the equipment there, then the fun really begins. They didn't name these islands the DRY Tortugas because the turtles that nested there were teetotalers. They did so because there was no drinking water. To Page 204 • UtilvJiZ? • September, 1999

solve this problem, the engineers built hundreds of cisterns under the fort. These concrete canteens could hold a million gallons of rainwater. Unfortunately, the coral beneath the fort could not hold up 16 million bricks. So the fort sank a few feet, thus cracking and ruining the cisterns. This was but one of a multitude of design blunders, which made one wonder if the project was handled by the Corps of Engineers or a Corps of Shriners. Even though Fort Jefferson is bizarre, it is beautiful. In the entire cruising world there is no other landfall quite like it. Nowhere else does such bold, rectangular redness rise from the waters to welcome a weary sea gypsy. For Tor and Norma it wa& a particularly memorable first sighting. They arrived late at night under a big moon, guided into the anchorage by the two boats that knew the channel. Veiled in the silver lunar lighting, the fort looked huge and mysterious. When they arose in the morning, it looked huge and RED! The rays of the sunrise, ricocheting off 16 million bricks, will do that.

T^iey spent their first day exploring the fort, fishing for their food, swimming, lazing under the coconut palms, snorkeling, reading and visiting with the other sailors. They passed their second and third days in similar 'relax to the max’ fashion. On the fourth day they headed back to Key West. But before they could make many miles, the wind went from mild to malicious. So they headed back to Fort Shelter. That evening it turned into a fullforce norther. This was quite unusual, since it was only mid-October, and such furious winds normally don't batter the Tortugas until late-November. Since it was so out of character, all of the sailors who were now pinned down in the anchorage were confident that it would blow itself out in a day or two. By about the seventh day their confidence was as feeble as the wind was fierce. Every day more boats arrived with tales of high winds, high waves and high worries. The lucky ones made it in on thenown. The less-fortunate were towed in by the Coast Guard with broken masts and battered crews. Even the very seaworthy 100-foot schooner Sea Star had to hide behind the bricks. Their food and water supplies were also low. So they sought assistance from the rangers. In those days the fort was a National Monument, administered by the

U.S. Park Service. It had a large supply of both emergency water and military style C-rations. But it also had a head ranger whose middle name was apparently By the Book.' He was determined to release his emergency supplies only if he absolutely had to. When the crisis reached the twoweek mark, he finally relented. Some sailors thought it was the sight of the Coast Guard helicopter airlifting an injured sailor out of the anchorage that softened his position. But Tor thought it was the Halloween party. Even though the sailors were weaiy of their situation, they made the best of it with a costume party on the beach. They sang and danced and laughed and even made up joke prizes for the best costumes. The top award was a Head Ranger Voodoo Doll with an ample supply of pins. Observing people having fun was apparently too much for him. He arrived unexpectedly in the middle of the party and announced that, he would distribute food and water the next morning, but ONLY if every vessel agreed to leave as soon as possible. Norma suspected that he was in the last stages of 'brick-ophobia.' Two days later the wind eased enough for the bigger boats to attempt an escape. By sundown, none had returned, which meant that the conditions had moderated enough for them to continue. A major exodus took place the next day and Thumper left at dawn on the day after that. It had been three weeks since they first dropped anchor beside the fort that rose from the sea. The return sail was nerve-wracking due to Thumper’s rivet-spitting frenzy. The anxiety was heightened by the fact that this was the first time that Tor had been out of sight of land with no buddy boats nearby. But skipper, mate and vessel all made it back to Key West safely. And happily as well — for these were just the first of many miles that the three of them would share together.

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THE RACING

With reports this month on the record-breaking Santa Barbara to King Harbor Race; the new Queen of the Cans: a messy Second Season Opener: the Admiral's Cup in England: a bunch of national championships: news from the midwest ULDB 70s; SFYC's Summer Keelboat Regatta; a pair of SSS ocean races: tons of box scores; and the usual ramblings at the end known as race notes.

Santa Babs/King Harbor Race The 28th running of the annual 81 mile Santa Barbara to King Harbor Race may have been the best one ever. With the marine layer burning off and the wind filling in from the west by the 11:50 a.m. warning, the racers were confident they were in for a good ride. The nine racing classes and one cruising class got off to clean starts and had spinnakers flying in short order. The wind built steadily as the fleet tight-reached offshore to Anacapa Island, with Doug Baker's turbo Andrews 70 Mag¬ nitude leading the 91 -hoat fleet at a record pace. Sailing down the backside of Anacapa is usually a test of strategy and nerves, but this year the wind remained steady with some puffs that had the lighter boats planing in the protected flat

easy on the gear and sails — the only ex¬ ception being Phil Friedman's recently acquired Farr 39 Black Knight, which lost its rig a few miles off Point Dume. As a couple of other racing boats stood by. Black Knight's crew cleared the rig away and made it safely back to Marina del Rey. Meanwhile, with several sleds and the F-31 trimaran Delta Vee in hot pursuit. Magnitude crossed the finish line at 6:54 p.m. to set a new elapsed time record of 6 hours, 54 minutes, 55 seconds. Magni¬ tude held the record for a little more than eight minutes, as Delta Vee — which started 15 minutes later — crossed the line to lower the absolute record to 6 hours, 48 minutes, 23 seconds. The breeze held well into the night, enabling almost the entire fleet to reach King Har¬ bor before the bars closed. When the corrected times were com¬ puted, the small boats took the overall silver. Fritz Dawson’s Cal 36 Crossfire

winners and served up their famous allyou-can-eat shrimp feed. — chris collins trailblazer, melges 24

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corrected out first overall in PHRF, while Thomas Bollay's ll:Metre Cuidado took top ULDB honors. Seawings, Eric Jones' 41-foot trimaran, was the ORCA winner. Topping off a great weekend, King Har¬ bor YC handed out the hardware to the

ULDB-A — 1) Evolution, SC 70, Brack Duker; 2) Alchemy, Andrews 68, Dick Compton; 3) Taxi Dancer, R/P 70, Don Hughes/RP Richards. (7 boats) ULDB-B — 1) Impact. Andrews 43, Ron Melville; 2) Lina, SC 50, Walter Pressel; 3) Bay Wolf, SC 50, Kirk Wilson; 4) Raven, N/M 39, Mark Thomas. (9 boats) ULDB-C — 1) B-32 Again, B-32, Ron LaMorte; 2) Defiance, B-32, Scott Taylor; 3) Trailblazer, Melges 24, Chris Collins. (11 boats) ULDB-D — 1) Cuidado, 11 :Metre, Thomas Bollay; 2) Kiwi Sanctuary, Hobie 33, Graham Dawson; 3) XS, Mull 30, J. Thawley/C. Queen. (9 boats) PHRF-A — 1) Pendragon, Davidson 44, David Gray; 2) Arana, DenCho 51, John Carroll; 3) Roller, Andrews 42, Robert Grant. (8 boats) PHRF-B —1) Nitro, J/33, John Messenger; 2) Boat, Swan 44, Phil Krevon; 3) Gator, NOM 38, Tom

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9ueen of the Cans We have a winner! The only person brave (or crazy) enough to sail in five con¬ secutive beer can races this summer is

gregarious Richmond resident Lucie Van Breen, who shall hereafter be addressed by all as Queen Lucie'. A member of Ber¬ keley YC and former co-owner of the Santana 35 Wide Load, Van Breen claims she tackled the Latitude 38 Beer Can Challenge as part of her semi-centennial year celebration, as well as to keep busy after her recent divorce. A computer per¬ son at a San Francisco investment man¬ agement company by day, Lucie snuck out of the office a bit early every day dur¬ ing the last week of July to go suds-racing. She kicked the week off at Bay View Boat Club's low-key Monday Night Mad¬ ness with Aijan Bok on his new-to-him Newport 33 Mk. II Tiger Beetle. Bok could

appreciate Lucie's mission, as he and his buddies achieved '15 minutes of fame' sev¬ eral years back for being the only crew ever to complete the Beer Can Challenge in the same boat — five consecutive races in his Ericson 27 Bad Dog, a feat still un¬ matched in the annals of beerdom. "The week got off to a great start, round-down and all!" reported Lucie. Tuesday found Lucie at the Sausalito YC's Sunset Series, where she was one of three pick-up crew aboard Dan Thatcher’s active J/ 24 souLatitude. After a long Knox course under a rising moon, souLatitude "almost took the gun." Dan generously gave Lucie the cocktail glass they won as a souvenir of the pleasant evening. Faced with multiple choices of Wednes¬ day night venues, Lucie opted for Oak¬ land YC's Sweet Sixteen Series and the "Ladies Beer-Drinking Crew" boat, Laraine Salmon's Merit 25 Bewitched. "I do the Jack Frost Midwinter Series with Laraine," explained Lucie. "We always do well!" Their streak continued Wednesday night, with Bewitched taking the gun. Thursday night it was the long haul up to Benicia YC, where Lucie hopped aboard fellow PICYA delegate Bob DuBois' Catalina 30 Speilzueg. There were ten people on board, which turned out to be just fine in the steady breezes of Carquinez Straits. "We had non-sailors, sea¬ soned racers, cruisers — a great mix for a beer can race," she reported. "It was also the first time all week I finished before sunset." ,The Challenge ended with the Corin¬ thian YC Friday nighter, which she sailed on the 'party boat', Bob Bloom's J/35 Jarlen. Bloom, a veteran racer, has pur¬ posely dropped into the non-spinnaker class this summer, routinely staffing his boat with a large coed crew and copious amounts of adult beverages. "It was a per¬ fect way to end the week," she claimed. "Jarlen was a blast, and Corinthian’s beer can series was easily the biggest and best of the week." After her long week, the newly-crowned Suds Queen rightfully considered sleep¬ ing in on Saturday morning. However, Lucie must genuinely love to sail, because she instead opted to race in the Second Season Opener in the SF 30-Footer fleet, aboard the Tartan 30 Jeannette on Sat¬ urday and the Olson 911-S Ixxis on Sun¬ day. "My friends hear about what I did and mostly roll their eyes and say. All that just for a T-shirt'?" laughed Lucie. "But it was a really enjoyable experience. I got to sail on lots of new boats, made some new September. 1999 •

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RACING SHEET friends, and ate a full range of cuisine from junk food to gourmet!" It's late in the season, but there's still time for the rest of you couch potatoes to rise to the Beer Can Challenge. And don't forget the upcoming Labor Day Weekend Iron Woman Challenge, named after Justine Faulkenburg, the first human to ever race the Windjammers, Jazz Cup and NOOD all in one weekend. Who will be the next to be immortalized in these pages? Second Season Opener After a one month hiatus, the HDA/ ODCA summer season resumed with the Encinal YC-hosted Second Season Opener on July 31. It was a glorious day to go sailing, as the accompanying pic¬ tures hopefully show, but the event was marred from the git-go by problems with the starting sequence. "Yes, there were mistakes made," admitted HDA president and EYC staff commodore Joseph Melino, who raced his Antrim 27 Owlslarah that day. "We expect to get lots of requests for redress." Due to confusion surrounding a flawed general recall in the second start, many of the fleet — including two thirds of the largest class, the 17-boat J/105 fleet — started incorrectly. The 105s, and possi¬ bly some other classes, may throw the race out entirely: "That's their perogative," noted Melino. Suffice it to say the Race Committee had a pretty tough day, tak¬ ing hits from Petard and a mystery boat which contributed to the downward spi¬ ral. One lady on the RC even suffered an apparent minor heart attack later in the day, but that's another story. The flood tide ensured long beats up to three different weather marks (ocean, long Bay and short Bay), followed by an adrenalin-pumping run to the Estuary finish line in winds that briefly touched 30 knots. Preliminary results follow, with updates to be posted on www.yra.org when the mess is sorted out. HDA-F — i) Pegasus, F-27, Andrew Pitcairn. (1 boat) HDA-G — 1) Builseye, N/M 50, Bob Garvie; 2) Rigel, ID-35, Don Payan. (4 boats) HDA-H — 1) Family Hour, Olson 30, Bilafer Fam¬ ily; 2) Bodacious, Farr One Ton, John Clauser; 3) Jabiru, J/35, Bill West/Brain Dunn; 4) Jarlen, J/35, Bob Bloom; 5) Petard, Farr 36, Keith Buck. (14 boats) HDA-J — 1) Harp, Catalina 38, Mike Mannix; 2) Mintaka, C&C 36, Gerry Brown. (6 boats) HDA-K — 1) Ziila, B-25, Brent Draney. (3 boats) HDA-L— 1) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair; 2) Dulcinea, Killerwhale, Mathiesen/Pritchard; 3) Mis¬ sion Impossible, Merit 25, unknown. (8 boats) HDA-NS (non-spinnaker) —1) Wind Dragon, Catalina 34, Dave Davis. (2 boats) Page 208 •

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HDA-SF 30 — 1) Enigma, Cap 30 mod., Bob Hultman; 2) Ixxis, Olson 911 -S, Ed Durbin. (6 boats) HDA-SB (sportboat) — 1) Abracadabra II, Antrim 27, Dennis Surtees. (3 boats) CAL 29 — 1) Serendipity, Tom Bruce; 2) Cham¬ pagne, Charles Barthrop. (6 boats) CATALINA 30 — 1) Eurydice, Ken O'Donnell. (1 boat) EXPRESS 37 —1) Expeditious, Bartz Schneider. (2 boats) HAWKFARM — 1) Predator, Vaughn Siefers. (3 boats)

ISLANDER 36— 1) Tenacious, Milligan Jerzian. (1 boat) J/105 — 1) Blackhawk, Dean Dietrich; 2) Soldini, Steve Nurse. (5 boats) J/29 — 1) 5150, Hans Bigall: 2) Anime, unknown. (6 boats) NEWPORT 30 — 1) Hot Chocolate, Don Oliver. (3 boats) OLSON 25 —1) Baleineau, Charles Brouchard; 2) Three Ring Circus, Dave McMurtry. (5 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Run Wild, Dale Irving. (2 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Shazam!, Bud Sandkulla. (1

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# Admiral's Cup It's old news now, but the tiny country of The Netherlands won the 22nd bien¬ nial Champagne Mumm Admiral's Cup in England on July 23. Indicative of the high caliber of competition, any of six teams (out of eight) could have won the 8-race,

10-day series going into the heavilyweighted finale, the 364-mile Wolf Rock Race. Hopes were high for the U.S. team of Idler (N/M 50, George David/Ken Read/Jim Brady), Blue Yankee Pride (Sydney 40, Bob Towse/Steve Benjamin/ Peter Isler) and Ciao Baby (Mumm 36, Matt Whitaker/Chris Larson/Ed Adams)

to defend their '97 title, but when the smoke cleared our team ended up a dis¬ appointing fifth. Still the world series of international offshore racing', the Admiral’s Cup con¬ sists of six buoy races, a 255-mile middle distance race, and the Wolf Rock Race. Three-boat teams from eight nations — down from nine, when the French with¬ drew over rating issues with the innova¬ tive freestanding mast on their big boat, September, 1999 • Uutidi 3? • Page 209

THE RACING Krazy K-Yote Two — competed in three

different classes (big boat IMS, Sydney 40 and Mumm 36). There were numerous collisions, locked rigs, protests, ground¬ ings (Idler apparently "tried to move En¬ gland" in a boat-shattering encounter with a rock) and other mayhem. Idler, which the crew nicknamed Pincushion, was also T-boned by Lawrie Smith's British entry Venture 99. "I haven’t seen a boat get so beaten up since I was sailing dinghies in college," lamented Read. Sailing consistently and rising above the pack was the tenacious Dutch team, which won the Admiral's Cup for the first time after competing in every Cup since 1959. Their winning team consisted of Innovision (J/V 50, Roy Heiner), Trust Computer Projects (Sydney 40, Jochem Visser), and Mean Machine (Mumm 36, Bouwe Bekking). All three Dutch boats finished second in their peer groups, good enough to win the Cup by a comfortable margin — especially after the favored Brit¬ ish team, and Chris Law's Sydney 40 Nautica in particular, melted down on the home stretch. Hired gun Dee Smith, who helped co¬ ordinate the Dutch effort and sailed on Innovision, was naturally thrilled with the outcome. "We worked hard for this, and I feel great for these guys," said Dee, who noted that unlike most teams, half the Dutch squad were amateurs.

OVERALL — 1) Netherlands, 124 points; 2) Eu¬ rope, 133.5; 3) Great Britain, 141.5; 4) Germany, 147; 5) USA, 155.5; 6) Italy, 163; 7) Australia, 213.5; 8) Commonwealth, 258.5. IMS — 1) Brava Q8, Europe, Farr 49,27.5 points; 2) Innovision 7, Netherlands, JAt 50, 44.5; 3) Idler, USA.N/M 50, 47.5; 4) Venture 99, UK, Farr 50, 51; 5) Breeze 3, IMS 49, Italy, 56. SYDNEY 40 — 1) Merit Cup, Europe, 40 points; 2) Trust Computer, Netherlands, 45; 3) MK Cafe, Germany, 45; 4) Blue Yankee Pride, USA, 56.6; 5) Nautica Arbitrator, UK, 65. MUMM 36 — 1) Barlo Plastics, UK, 25.5 points; 2) Mean Machine, Netherlands, 34.5; 3) Jeantex, Germany, 41; 4) Ciao Baby, USA, 47.5; 5) Breeze I, Italy, 50.5.

CAL 20 NAs (Alamitos Bay YC; 6 races) — 1) Mark Folkman (skipper)/Jeff Johnson/Kurt Mayol, 13 points; 2) Mark Golison/Chris Snow/Ruth Pauling, 15; 3) Doug McClean/Randy Smith/Jib Kelly, 19; 4) Chuck Clay/Geordy Hershman/Chris Messano, 24; 5) Hank Schofield/Vahan Skendarian/Steve Bloemeke, 25; 6) Ron Wood/Vann Wilson, 27; 7) Walter Johnson/Terry Anctil, 29; 8) Bruce Golison/Robin Durn, 30; 9) Mike Burch/Kenny Dair, 44; 10) Bill Schoff/Mike Pentacost, 48. (46 boats)

Nationals Round-Up

EUROPE Nationals (Cascade Lock,OR; 5 races) — 1) Lynn Olinger, 4 points; 2) Jaime Mack, 9; 3) Susannah Carr, 11; 4) Leslie Osmera,16. (7 boats)

A whole heap of national sailing cham¬ pionships occurred up and down the West Coast last month, including four at the always-busy Alamitos Bay YC. Here are results of some that we heard about: J/120 NAs (Alamitos Bay YC; 7 races) — 1) CC Rider, Chick Pyle/Chuck Nichols (Keith Lorance), San Diego, 23 points; 2) Zip A Dee Doo Dah, Larry Harvey (Dave Ullman), Long Beach, 25.5; 3) Indigo, Scott & Elliot Birnberg (Randy Smith), Logn Beach, 26.5; 4)

Hot Tamale, Doug & Tom Jorgensen (Bill Menninger), L.A. Harbor, 30; 5) J-Bird, David Janes (Bob Little), Newport Beach, 44; 6) Simply Red, Kelly Vince (Tom Leweck), L.A. Harbor, 50. (17 boats) Page 210 • l&MJ.s3? • September, 1999

TASAR NAs (Cascade Locks, OR; 5 races) — 1) Jonathan & Libby McKee, 8 points; 2) Carol & Carl Buchan, 12; 3) Lisa & Jay Renehan, 16; 4) Paul Beavis/Todd Adrian, 16; 5) Charlie & Becky McKee, 19. (35 boats)

PRINDLE 19 Nationals (Alamitos Bay YC; 15 races) — 1) Randy & Paula Smyth, Walton Beach, FL, 15 points; 2) Paul Richter/Lisa Lang, San Diego, 35; 3) John Main/Damon La Caslla, Chatsworth, CA, 41. (12 boats) NACRA 5.8 NAs (Alamitos Bay YC; 15 races) — 1) Scott Klodowski/Georgette Haverluk, Long Beach, 30 points; 2) Ed & Shirley Cutshall, Long Beach, 41; 3) Tom Peters/Jim Korkosz, Malibu, 53. (10 boats) HOLDER 20 Nationals (Anacapa YC; 7 races) — 1) Spaghetti Factory, Keith Sternal/AI Poindexter,

Blondie' is alive and well and living on the Great Lakes. Above, 'Evo', 'Blondie' and 'Mongoose' at the 1989 Big Boat Series. Mission Bay YC, 5.75 points; 2) White Trash, Darren & Greg Hamm, Nevada YC, 14.75; 3) Quagmire, Frank & Linda Mendes, Anacapa YC, 14.75. (8 boats) SCHOCK 35 Nationals (Cal YC; 7 races) — 1)

Wings, Sharon & Dennis Case, 27 points; 2) Rico¬ chet, Alex Benson, 27; 3) Mischief, Carolyn Hardy/ Mike Pickney, 35; 4) Outlier, Dick Schmidt/Gwen Gordon, 36; 5) Piranha, Dave Voss, 41. (19 boats) ULDB 70 Revival

A Midwest reader. Bob Nepstad, was kind enough to fill us in on the thriving ULDB 70 scene going on back in the Great Lakes. Eleven sleds — 10 SC 70s and one N/M 68, the former Saga from New Or¬ leans — just completed their summer rac¬ ing season, with Dick Jennings' venerable Pied Piper dominating the standings. Their championship consisted of the Chicago NOOD in June, the Chicago-Mac (July 1012), the Port Huron-Mac (July 17-19), the Bay Harbor SC 70 Regatta (July 21-22) and the recent Verve Cup (August 13-15). Jennings! victory must have been a popular one, as Pied Piper is the original Great Lakes SC 70. Jennings, who has owned Piper since 1986, has also been a key player in organizing the local 70 cir-

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cuit. "They really cranked it into high gear this summer,” wrote Nepstad. He also noted that last year's winner, Equation (exOrient Express) hit some rocks en route to the NOOD, losing several weeks of sailing during repairs, and has been "off the pace" ever since. Finishing second in the series was Terry Kohler’s Cynosure [ex-Drumbeat). Kohler, whose family's holdings include North Sails and Omohundru, staged a noteworthy comeback during the season after losing his carbon rig on July 17 (see www. waitercooper photo, com for this classic 'kodak moment'). Five days later and 330 miles away. Cynosure was racing again in the Bay Harbor Regatta with their back-up alu¬ minum rig. Third went to Blondie, hull # 1 of the SC 70s, under charter to Paul Sammann. Blondie is owned by Dick Jennings, who bought her three years ago for the Carib¬ bean circuit. Also known as (not) Pied Piper, the remodeled boat is currently for sale for $400,000. "She's looking good, and still maintains some of the Blondie magic de¬ spite handed-down sails and gear off the 'other' Pied Piper," writes Nepstad, who crews on Blondie. "She turned a few heads this summer by coming in third!"

By next summer, even more ULDB 70s should be sailing on the Lakes. Mon¬ goose will probably truck out for another summer vacation, and we've heard per¬ sistent rumors that Evolution could be the next California sled to go perma¬ nently. The gossip on the Lakes is that the turboed SC 70 Luna Barba may also be about to join the party. While the 70 fleet currently handicaps itself using IMS ratings (with an upper limit to prevent turboing), we figure it's just a matter of time before someone gets bored and feels the 'need for speed', pops in a turbo-rig and starts gunning for course records. History, after all, has a way of repeating itself. Writes Nepstad, "While Mackinaw Is¬ land is a great place to end a sailboat race, it's just not quite the same as Ha¬ waii or Cabo (or Bermuda or Montego

US Admiral's Cup team member 'Ciao Baby', a Mumm 36, at the start of the Wolf Rock Race.

Bay, which are a little more familiar to us non-Californians). However, the 70s have found good homes and you never

know — some may at least visit California again. There is always lots of interest in expe¬ riencing firsthand the Pacific sleigh rides that most of us have only just read about!" Final results of the Great Lakes 70s Sailing Association '99 Championship follow. Check their website (www. greatlakes70.com) for more information. OVERALL— 1) Pied Piper, Dick Jennings, Chi¬ cago, 22.75 points; 2) Cynosure (ex-Drumbeat), Terry Kohler, Sheboygan, Wl, 43.75; 3) Blondie, Paul Sammann, Michigan City, IN, 53; 4) Windancer (exSaga), John Nedeau, Muskegon, Ml, 55; 5) Thirsty Tiger (ex-87666), Bert D'Ottavio, Chicago, 58.5; 6) Mirage, Mirage Syndicate, Chicago, 67.33; 7) Holua, Peter Thorton, Chicago, 72; 8) Chance, Mike Brotz, Sheboygan, Wl, 82; 9) Equation (ex-Orient Express), Bill Alcott, Detroit; 10) Stripes, Bill Martin, Ann Arbor, Ml, 84; 11) Colt 45 (ex-Kathmandu), Allan Fletcher,

110. Summer Keelboat Regatta

Forty-one boats attended San Fran¬ cisco YC’s Summer Keelboat Regatta on August 14-15. The four-race series was held on the western fringes of the Berke¬ ley Circle, using short courses that kept the bigger boats out of the shallow water of the inner Circle. "We gave them lots of

mark roundings," noted race chairman Bob Christensen. "It was a good tune-up for all the upcoming regattas." Two boats went undefeated for the weekend — Jim Kilroy's L.A.-based Farr 40 Samba Pa Ti, and Will Paxton and Jay September, 1999 • LxKUM22 • Page 211

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Lambiotte's Express 27 Motorcycle Irene. The victory bodes well for Samba Pa Ti, widely regarded as the best of the Cali¬ fornia Farr 40s. "We'll be quite competi¬ tive at the Worlds, especially with the ad¬ dition of John Kostecki in the afterguard,” predicted Samba crew Matt Ciesicki. Motorcycle Irene has already won the Express 27 Nationals, and has now pulled up into a tie with Bajjett in the summer Page 212 • UtUoA-19 • September, 1999

One last look at this summer's TransPac, clockwise from upper left — Mark, Lori and Zale Rudiger; 'Glama!' shows some emotion at the finish; Tara and Keith Kilpatrick; Howard Raphael and Hugo Schmitt ( Tango ); the five NorCal Pyewacket' crew. All photos 'latitude'/rob.

standings. Mark Dowdy's Express 37 Eclipse, with Bill Melbostad calling the shots, put together a 2,1,3,1 record to win the six-boat Express 37 class. Mike Grisham's Bliss reappeared after taking the first half of the season off, shaking

off the cobwebs and rust with a 3,2 the first day, but then dropping out on the next day when a crewmember injured his ankle. The main show, the Express 37 Nationals, will be held next month in con¬ junction with the Big Boat Series.

More TransPac memories — ‘Philippe Kahn ('Pegasus'); Cliff Stagg puts the moves on Dale Nordin; overall winner James McDowell ('Grand Illusion') and friend; Ty Pryne shows the ropes to daughter Tina and Fizz Foster; day sailing off Honolulu on 'Gone With the Wind'; boom art on 'Mongoose'.

Two whimsically named boats. Not the and Nixon Was Cool, took the Melges 24 and J/24 classes respec¬ tively. The Melges fleet was tuning up for their upcoming Worlds, scheduled for October 1 10 in Long Beach, while the J/

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FARR 40 — 1) Samba Pa Ti, John Kilroy, 4 points; 2) Endurance, Mike Condon, 10; 3) Blue Chip, Walt Logan, 10. (3 boats) EXPRESS 37 — 1) Eclipse, Mark Dowdy, 7 points; 2) Re-Quest, Glenn Isaacson, 11; 3) Expedi¬

tious, Bartz Schneider, 14. (6 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Motorcycle Irene, Will Paxton/Jay Lambiotte, 4 points; 2) Dianne, Steve Hodges et. at, 10; 3) Baffett, Forest Baskett/Tom Baffico, 11. (7 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Not the Family Buick, Shawn Bennett/Mike Stone, 7 points; 2) Sea Monster, John Oldham, 11; 3) Dynamo Hum, Jeff Littfin, 16; 4) Tropi¬ cal Storm, Doug Forster, 19; 5) Agent 99, Dimitrelis/ Barranco, 22; 6) Casey Jones, Don Jesberg, 33. (14 boats) September, 1999 •

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THE RACING J/24 — 1) Nixon Was Cool, Doug Nugent/Julie Wiard, 6 points; 2) Air, R. McLaughlin/S. Gregory, 11; 3) Tiburon Soccer Mom, Vicki Sodaro, 12; 4) Down¬ town Uproar, Wayne Clough, 13; 5) Rail To Rail, Rich Jepsen, 17. (11 boats) '

Two SSS Races Despite a recent 3 seconds per mile hit to the WylieCat 30 base rating, Bren Meyer sailed his borrowed WylieCat 30 Uno to the top of the singlehanded pack in the Singlehanded Sailing Society's 24.5-mile Half Moon Bay Race. Conditions for the mellow race on Saturday, July 24, were perfect — light winds for the 10 a.m. start, flat seas and 10 knots of breeze for the reach to Montara, where the wind backed enough for kites to come out of their turtles for the final hour of the race. The race finished at Pillar Point Entrance Marker #3, with contestants taking their own times. Lee Garami and crew Anna Stockel were first in with Lee's Hobie 33 Rubber Ducky, finishing in 4 hours, 13 minutes. Topping the doublehanders was Doug Graham's 24-foot Pacific Dolphin Big Dot, which had former SSS stalwart Paul Miller

wind on Chesapeake Bay blows about 5-15 knots, and there are too many motor boats around!" Next up on the SSS circuit was the 400-mile Great Pa¬ cific Longitude Race, the traditional quali¬ fier for next summer's SSS Transpac. Fif¬ teen intrepid boats started the race, which some claim is harder than the actual TransPac, on August 18. This year's LongPac — 200 miles out to a waypoint and return — was won by Ben Mewes' Van De Stadt custom 40 Georgia. Mewes com¬ pleted the lap in two days,v eleven hours. Thomas Hoynes' Coronado 34 Sabrina was runner-up, correcting out a scant 10 minutes behind Georgia. Five boats dropped out, two on the way out due to brisk breeze and three on the way home due to no breeze. According to SSS Com¬ modore Pat Broderick, "About half of the LongPac'ers have indicated they will at-

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Owner Eric Simenson Terry Cobb Michel Bergh Don Blood Dean Briggs Ted Morgan Stephen & Ann Lewis Todd Wlllsie Alan Trimble Duane Yoslov Bill Riess Charles Roskosz Jason Khoury Doug Grant Warwick Tompkins Jonathan Livingston RickGio Timm & Victoria Lessfey Chris Gilbert Bill Myers Nick & Dan Barran Bill Coona Mac Lingo Myron Lyon Rob Macfarlane Jeffrey Haire Bill Elmer Diana & Jim Freeland

Homeport Vancouver, WA Pt. Richmond Half Moon Bay Alameda Alameda Seattle, WA San Francisco Seattle, WA Seattle, WA Sausalito San Francisco Santa Cruz San Diego San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Richmond Portland, OR Commencement Bay, WA Wilmington, DE Portland, OR Puget island, WA San Francisco San Diego San Francisco Long Beach Seattle, WA Portland, CA

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(of Honalee fame) aboard for the day. Miller, who moved to Annapolis earlier this year, reports that "the East Coast is too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer, but at least the price of gas is 35 cents cheaper and I can walk to work. The Page 214*

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tempt the Singlehanded TransPac next summer. The rest were just doing the LongPac for the fun of it." HALFMOON BAY (JulvP4. P4 R mil(,q).

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Altman. (3 boats) SH-III (120-168) — 1) Uno, WylieCat 30, Bren Meyer; 2) Starbuck, Black Soo, Greg Nelson; 3) Chief, SC 27, Dwight Odom. (6 boats) SH-IV (169-up) — 1) Dream Chaser, Catalina 22 Mk. II, Randy Garrett; 2) Sabrina, Coronado 34, Tom Hoynes. (5 boats) SH-V (non-spinnaker) — 1) Berserker, Ericson 38, Mark Deppe; 2) Brown Eyed Girl, Catalina 28 TM, Bill Strettiner. (4 boats) SH (SINGLEHANDED) OVERALL — 1) Uno; 2) Dream Chaser; 3) Starbuck. (18 boats) DH-II (<129) — 1) My Rubber Ducky, Hobie 33, Lee Garami/Anna Stockel. (3 boats) DH-III (120-168) — 1) Borderline, Olson 911 -S, Bill & Jane Charron; 2) Sail A Vie, Ericson 35, Phil MacFarlane/Joan Reed. (5 boats) DH-IV (169-up) — 1) Amanda, Newport 30 Mk. II, Pat Broderick/Boyd Sprehn; 2) Cohiba, Catalina 27, Todd Regenold/Susan Griffin. (4 boats) DH-V (non-spinnaker) — 1) Big Dot, Pacific Dol¬ phin, Doug Graham/Paul Miller. (2 boats) DH (DOUBLEHANDED) OVERALL — 1) Big Dot; 2) My Rubber Ducky; 3) Borderline. (14 boats)

LONGPAC (Aua. 18: 400 miles): SINGLEHANDED-I (under 100) — 1) Georgia, Custom 40, Ben Mewes; 2) X-Dream, X-119, Steen Moller; 3) Space Cowboy, Hobie 33, David Bennett; 5) Coyote, Beneteau One Ton, Peter Cullum. (5 start¬ ers; one DNF) SINGLEHANDED-I I (100 and over) — 1) Sabrina, Coronado 34, Thomas Hoynes; 2) Sail A Vie, Ericson 35, Phil MacFarlane; 3) Berserker, Ericson 38,Mark Deppe. (6 starters; 3 DNFs) DOUBLEHANDED — 1) Avalon, WC-49, Fred Hess/Jean Novotny; 2) Foxx Fyre, Yamaha 33, Mike Jefferson/Leischen Hartman; 3) Bravo, Pretorian 35, Bob Gay/Synthia fetroka. (4 starters; 1 DNF)

Box Scores The summer racing season hit its peak

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Alfreds, 11. (6 boats) DIV. D — 1) Nortel Networks, Martin 243, Todd Pierce, 17; 2) Jazz, Martin 243, G. McGlashan, 22; 3) Ariel, Martin 243, Mark Allison, 23. (8 boats) DIV. E — 1) Valhalla, Frers 36, Don McLean, 9 points; 2) Pangea, Baltic 39, Mac Madenwald, 17; 3) Breezy, Hunter 34, Rudy Hessells, 24. (11 boats) DIV. F — 1) Jinx, J/29, M. Dreissche, 11 points; 2) Xcentric, Hot Foot 31, Schutt.Stuntz, 18; 3) Bergen Viking, J/29, Svein Ellingsen, 20. (14 boats) DIV. G (Martin 242) — 1) Treachery, Alex Foley, 15 points; 2) Spindly Killer Fish, Dan Mozel, 20; 3) Trephine, D. Backhouse, 22. (7 boats) DIV. H — 1) Magic, Laser 28, Alan Bock, 15 points; 2) (tie) Plane Crazy, J/24, Robert Arney, and Nautinymph, Wavlength 24, Nic Lenn, 23; 4) Jungle Love, J/24, Peter Sauer, 34. (18 boats) DIV. I — 1) Spar Trek, Islander 30, Jeff Sanders, 7 points; 2) Imagine, Catalina 27, Mr. Moorehouse, 11; 3) Sharkey, Ranger 29, Mike Spear, 21. (12 boats) OLSON 30 (Nationals) — 1) Barnstormer, Charles Queen, 22 points; 2) War Canoe, M. Goldfarb, 23; 3) Road Runner, John Hoag, 33; 4) Aliens Ate My Buick, John Rahn, 35; 5) M.O.F., Treveor Howard, 44; 6) Lunch Box, Kristen/Skewes, 45; 7) Splash Tango, Wilson/Morris, 52. (18 boats)

PAN AM GAMES (Winnipeg. Manitoba: 7/23-8/6): 'Georgia' heads out on the LongPac. Just kid¬ ding — it's a file shot from the '97 Upton Cup. Inset, winning LongPac skipper Ben Mewes.

last month, and we're buried under an avalanche of race results. Here are the bare-bones reports on some of the regat¬ tas we unfortunately weren't able to cover in more detail: PICYA CHAMPIONSHIPS (SYC: July 24: 3 races): CHISPA (Laser) — 1) Pat Stahnke, StFYC, 3 points; 2) Derek Meyer, RYC, 7; 3) Matt Madrigali, SFYC, 11; 4) Cameron McLoskey, CYC, 12. (7 boats) FJ — 1) Molly Carapiet, SFYC, 7 points; 2) Tristan Ruhmand, StFYC, 7; 3) Ash Dyer, SFYC, 9; 4) Nick Leik, SFYC, 13. (7 boats) EL TORO 'A' (11-13 years old) — 1) George Granelli, RYC, 4 points. (2 boats) ELTORO B' (14-16 years old) — 1) Brendan Daly, SCYC, 3 points. (1 boat)

SUMMER REGATTA tSFYC: July 24-25: 7 races): LASER — 1) Charles Meade, 6 points; 2) Zach Conrad, 18; 3) Peter Phelan, 21; 4) Tracy Usher, 21; 5) Peter Vessella , 24. (13 boats) EUROPE — 1) Susannah Carr, 8 points; 2) Leslie Osmera, 12. (4 boats)

SILVER EAGLE (iYC: July 24: 67 miles): DIV. I (99 and under) — 1) Rocinante, Express 34, Rob Magoon; 2) Ozone, Olson 34, Carl Bauer; 3) SUV, Melges 24, David Wadbook; 4) Family Hour, Olson 30, Bilafer Family; 5) Bottom Line, Chopte 40, John Walker. (11 boats) DIV. II (100-159) — 1) Jane Doe, Olson 911SE, Bob Izmarian; 2) Redux, Olson 911S, Nick Barnhill; 3) Scoop, Wylie 34, Michael Clarke; 4) Red Sky, Olson 34, Brian Boschma. (10 boats) DIV. Ill (160-up) — 1) Spirit, Custom S&S 33, Steve Lewis; 2) Dulcinea, Killer Whale, Mathiasen/ Pritchard. (5 boats)

DIV. IV (mulithull) — 1) Ja Mon, F-25c, John Kocol; 2) Wingit, F-27, Ray Wells; 3) Pegasus, F27, Andrew Pitcairn. (7 boats) OVERALL — 1) Rocinante, Express 34. (26 monohulls)

NORTH BAY SERIES # 1 (Martinez YC: July 31): CLASS-A (< 190) — 1) Wolfe, J/24, Chris Kim, VYC; 2) Illusions, Merit 25, Chris Tringali, BenYC. (6 boats) CLASS-B (>190) — 1) Degage, Ranger 23, Jeff Ruszler, VYC; 2) Faraway, O'Day 27, Jim Mueller, VYC. (6 boats) CLASS-C (non-spinnaker) —1) Shoji, Cal 36, Russ Taft, VYC; 2) Enterprise, C&C 35-3, Paul Hollkamp, MYC. (5 boats)

SIMPSON/SPORTBOAT (StFYC: 7/31-8/1: 6 races): ETCHELLS — 1) I Love My Wife, Craig Healy, 6 points; 2) Whitejacket, John Sutak, 25.5; 3) Secret Weapon, S. Fulweiler, 30; 4) Ice 3, Jansheski/ McCor¬ mick, 37; 5) Air Tuna, Jim Gregory, 40. (11 boats) J/24 — 1) Nixon Was Cool, Doug Nugent/Julie Wiard, 12 points; 2) Downtown Uproar, Wayne Clough, 13; 3) Phatt Air, Reid McLaughlin, 33; 4) Decorum, J.C. Raby, 34. (8 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Tropical Storm, D. & K. For¬ ster, 13 points; 2) Casey Jones, Don Jesberg, 19; 3) Not The Family Buick, Shawn Bennett/Mike Stone, 29; 4) Alien, P. Wagner, 30; 5) Sea Monster, John Oldham, 32. (11 boats)

WHIDBEY ISLAND RACE WEEK (Oak Harbor. WA: July 18-23: 7 races): DIV. A — 1) Dauntless, X-Yacht, Gerard Ball, 12 points; 2) White Cloud, Cookson 12-M, Johnson/ Lynch, 16; 3) Bullitt, CY 9.5, Clint Curry, 21. (13 boats) DIV. B — 1) Impetuous, J/36, John Gerity, 9 points; 2) Harwar, J/36, Hossack Wong, 20; 3) Havoc, C&C SR-33, Paul Rossmo, 21. (12 boats) DIV. C (multihull) —1) Brouch 3, F-24, Sigi Stiemer, 8 points; 2) Cheekee Monkee, F-31, Kim

EUROPE— 1) SerenaAmato, ARG,12 points; 2) Fernanda Pinto, BRA, 17; 3) Tania Elias Calles, MEX, 26; 4) Lynn Olinger, USA, 29. (5 boats) FINN — 1) Richard Clarke, CAN, 10 points; 2) Russ Silvestri, USA, 16; 3) Bruno Prada, BRA, 25. (6 boats) HOBIE 16 — 1) Enrique Figueroa Suarez, PUR,11 points; 2) Claudio Cardoso, BRA, 21; 3) David Sweeney/Kevin Smith, CAN, 26. (8 boats) LASER — 1) Robert Scheidt, BRA, 9 points; 2) Mark Mendelblatt, USA, 17; 3) Diego Romero, ARG, 29. (15 boats) LASER RADIAL — 1) Kelly Hand, CAN, 12 points; 2) Sara Wright, BER, 19; 3) Isabela Maracucci, BRA, 24. (9 boats) i LIGHTNING — 1) Andy Horton/Bill Fastiggi/ Heather Rowe, USA, 14 points; 2) Claudio Biekarck/ Marcelo Silva/Gunnar Ficker, BRA, 23; 3) Larry MacDonald/Trevor Bom, 28. (8 boats) MISTRAL MEN'S — 1) Marcos Galvan, ARG, 15 points; 2) Ricardos Santos, BRA, 15; 3) Mike Gebhardt, USA, 25. (9 boats) MISTRAL WOMEN'S—1) Lanee Butler, USA,12 points; 2) Caroll-Ann Alie, CAN, 15; 3) Christina Forte, BRA, 26. (5 boats) SNIPE — 1) Nelido Monzo Lopez, CUB, 14 points; 2) Alexandre Paradeda/ Flavio Fernandes, BRA, 17; 3) Luis Soubie/ Cecilia Granucci, ARG, 26. (8 boats) SUNFISH — 1) Oskar Johansson, CAN, 14 points; 2) Malcolm Smith, BER, 19; 3) David Van Cleef, USA, 27. (9 boats) r,

WBRA REGATTA (StFYC: Aua. 14: 2 races): KNARR -— 1) Sophia, Tom Reed, 3 points; 2) Snaps III, Knud Wibroe, 4; 3) Flyer, Chris Kelly, 5; 4) Lykken, Robert Fisher, 10; 5) Gossip, Adams/Taft/ Wingate, 12. (15 boats) BIRD — 1) Widgeon, unknown, 4 points; 2) Polly, Jim Van Dyke, 5. (5 boats) FOLKBOAT— 1) Galante, Otto Schreier, 2 points; 2) Freya, Ed Welch, 6; 3) (tie) Windansea, unknown, and Jalina, David Thomson, 7. (9 boats) BEAR — 1) Smokey, Steve Robertson, 2 points; 2) Chance, Glenn Treser, 4. (4 boats) September. 1999 •

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THE RACING INTERCLUB #5 (OYC: Aua. 14: 6.4 miles): DIV. A(< 169) — 1) Half Fast, Merit 25, R, Con¬ ger; 2) Peg O' My Heart, Ericson 35, S. Werk. (4

J/29— 1) 5150, Hans Bigall. (3 boats) LEVEL 198 — 1) Freyja, Catalina 27, Larry Nelson; 2) Challenge, Islander 28, Peter Schoen. (6

boats) DIV. B (>170) — 1) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles; 2) Zarpa, Newport 30-2, George Gurrola; 3) Snow Goose, Santana 30, Ted Mattson. (8 boats) NON-SPINNAKER —1) MeMe, Newport 30-2, Norm Guest; 2) Sandman, Beneteau 305, Chris Noe. (6 boats) MULTIHULL (spinnaker) — 1) Ja Mon, F-25c, John Kocol. (3 boats) MULTIHULL (rion-spinnaker) — 1) Three Sigma, F-27, Chris Harvey; 2) Sea Bird, F-27, Richard Holden. (4 boats)

boats) OLSON 25— 1) Balineau, Charles Brochard; 2) Barking Dog, Jeffrey Kroeber. (6 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) White Knuckles, Dan Benjamin; 2) Hoot, Andy Macfie; 3) Speedy Gonzales, David Carrel. (7 boats)

OYRA/ODCA GATECRASHERS (GGYC: Aua 7): PHRO-IA — 1) Tiger Beetle, N/M 45, Rob Macfarlane. (2 boats) PHRO-IB — 1) Stop Making Sense, Soverel 33, Dean Briggs. (3 boats) PHRO-IIA — 1) Petard, Farr 36, Keith Buck; 2) Enchante, Beneteau 42-IK, David Jacoby. (6 boats) PHRO-IIB — No starters. MORA-I — No finishers. (1 boat) MORA-II — 1) Starbuck, Black Soo, Greg Nelson. (2 boats) MULTIHULL — 1) Ja Mon, F-25c, John Kocol. (1 boat) SHS — 1) Saltshaker, Peterson 39, Steve Hanson. (3 boats) SANTANA 35 — No finishers. (1 boat)

HDA ISLANDS TOUR (SYC: Aua. 14: 17 miles): DIV. F — No starters. DIV. G — 1) Rigel, ID-35. (1 boat) DIV. H — 1) Bodacious, Farr One Ton; 2) China Cloud, J/40; 3) Jabiru, J/35; 4) My Rubber Ducky, Hobie 33; 5) Sky High, J/35. (12 boats) DIV. J — 1) Harp, Catalina 3fi; 2) Mintaka, C&C 36. (4 boats) DIV. K — 1) Zilla, B-25. (3 boats) DIV. L— 1) Dulcinea, Killer Whale; 2) Latin Lass, Catalina 27. (5 boats) NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Wind Dragon, Catalina 34. (3 boats) SF-30 FOOTERS — 1) Ixxis, Olson 911-S; 2) Enigma, Capo 30 mod. (4 boats) SPORTBOAT — 1) Abracadabra II, Antrim 27. (3 boats)

GRACIE & GEORGE (EYC: Aua. 21: 12.4 miles): DIV. A— 1) Wet Bunns, Wabbit, Sue Pfuecke/

Bill Gardner; 2) 24 Carrot, Wabbit, Shannon McKown/ Greg Bryne; 3) Furrari, Wabbit, Angie & Pete Rowland. (5 boats) DIV. B — 1) Melange, Express 37, Petra & Jim Reed; 2) Surprise, Schumacher 46, Susan & Steve Chamberlin. (4 boats) DIV. C — 1) Frog In French, Express 27, Sally & Kame Richards; 2) New Moon, Express 27, Marilyn & Carl Schumacher; 3) Uno, WylieCat 30, Susan Fernandez/Steve Seal. (9 boats) DIV. D — 1) Tailchaser, Moore 24, Emily & Bob Hogin; 2) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Elizabeth MacDonald/Jim Fair; 3) Quickie, Capri 25, Lisa LeFaive/ WillMatievich. (5 boats) DIV. E — 1) Lickety-Split, Pearson Ariel, Aimee Gabbert/Stephen Hutchinson; 2) Spridle, Catalina 22, Karen & Mike Faber; 3) Fast Company, Santana 24, Gillian Loza/John Foy. (7 boats) OVERALL — 1) Lickety-Split. (30 boats)

MELGES 24 PCCs (StFYC: Aua. 21-22): 1) USA 3, Dave Ullman, 7 points; 2) Casey Jones, Don Jesberg, 12; 3) Trailblazer, Chris Collins/ M. Wooten, 15; 4) Sea Monster, John Oldham, 17; 5) Monsoon, Bruce Ayres, 22; 6) Not the Family Buick, Shawn Bennett/M. Stone, 31; 7) Typhoon, Tony Wattson, 34; 8) Hard Core, Steve maseda, 35; 9) Dynamo Hum, Jeff Littfin, 44; 10) #37, R. Tennant/ N. Adamson, 45. (19 boats)

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out his new Pendragon, a custom Davidson 52 which we're told looks like i bigger ID-48, at the upcoming Big Boat Series. . . Long Beach ocean racer Mike Campbell has ordered a new cantingheeled Schock 40, obviously feeling the need for speed after a year of stinkpotting nstead of sailing. Campbell previously :ampaigned the Andrews 70+ Victoria, vhich compiled the best Mexican race ■ecord of any boat in recent years. . . Jim ind Elin Graham just bought Mike Nettie's 5.5-Meter Demi-Onze. Veteran 3 oat collector Rettie has moved on to a lew Melges 24. . Another SC 52 rolled 3ut of the Chicken Coop recently. The jwner of hull #21, named Triumph, is rad Dietrich of San Diego. Hull #22 is mder construction, and two more 52s ire back-ordered. "We hope to have as nany as ten 52s sailing in the Big Boat Series," claimed spokesman Kevin Reeds. Standing room only: Last year's 20th jitemational Masters Invitational Re¬ gatta, hosted by StFYC and organized iy Don Trask, was such a runaway suc-

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What, I won? Jester world champ Joe Francis, looking slightly frazzled after Just finishing the TransPac on the SC 52 'Warpath'.

cess that the upcoming one — scheduled for October 1-3 — has 'been sold out’ for months. Dick Deaver will return to de¬ fend his title, which won’t be easy given the quality of the 18-boat field. Holding tickets to this year’s festivities, in alpha¬

betical order, are Bill Buchan, Malin Burnham, Roy Dickson, Hank Easom, Larry Harvey, John Jennings, Bob John¬ stone, Peter Kingston, Bruce Kirby, Tom Leweck, John Messenger, Bruce Munro, Lowell North, John Scarborough, Den¬ nis Surtees, Don Trask, Monroe Wingate and Dave Wyman. As before, the event will be sailed in J/105s by skippers over 55 years old and crew over 45. 'This will be the best one yet!" promises Trask. Kid stuff: Hot King Harbor YC junior Colin Campbell won the 1999 Sears Cup, sailed in Santana 20s out of host Balboa YC (Newport, CA). The oldest of the three U.S. Junior Sailing Championships (ages 13-18), the Sears Cup dates back to 1921. Earlier this summer, Campbell won the Governor's Cup Junior Match Racing Championship, also at Balboa YC in Tuna 20s. For the first time, the other two U.S. Junior sailing events — the Bemis (doublehanded) and Smythe (singlehanded) — were held at a different venue than the Sears Cup. This year, the B-S competition was held at Kaneohe YC, Hawaii, with hometown lad Andrew Lewis taking the Smythe and the Area K (midwest) team of Evan Thompson/Pat

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Hitchins winning the Bemis. Our top scoring Area G reps in the SB-S competition were Andy Schmidt and Katie Clausen, who sailed to a fourth in the Bemis. Rusty Canada, Andy Goodman and Ian Rogers took fifth in the Sears Cup, while Rob Horne ended up 15th in the Smythe. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Pt. Richmond junior Katie Clausen turned in another impressive performance last month, com¬ ing in second in the '99 U.S. Junior Women's Singlehanded Championship (aka Leiter Trophy) on Lake St. Clair, MI. Hosted by Bayview YC and sailed in La¬ ser Radials, the event attracted 43 girls from 15 states. Corrie Clements of Lousiana won by seven points over Claus¬ en, who earlier in the summer teamed up with Abby Swann to win the Ida Lewis Trophy (due to brainfade, we labelled them incorrectly in last month’s Racing Sheet photo). Check www.ussailing.org for more info on the Leiter Trophy and the S-B-S series. Olympic countdown: The 14 sailors representing the U.S. did well at the re¬ cent Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, CA,

Top of the world — the real Katie Clausen, who recently added a silver at the Leiter Cup to her gold at the Ida Lewis.

scoring two gold (Andy Horton in Light¬ nings, Lanee Butler in Women’s Mistrals), two silvers (Russ Silvestri in Finns, Mark Mendelblatt in Lasers) and two bronze (David van Cleef in Sunfish, Mike Gebhardt in Men's Mistrals). The Games

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SHEET too young —just 60 years old — but he went out with style, sailing his boat in a Friday night race surrounded by his wife Sherry and friends. Coming attractions: GMC Yukon Yachting Key West Race Week, the pre¬ mier regatta in the United States, will hold its 13th edition on January 17-21, 2000. Last year, a record 273 boats represent¬ ing 33 states and 17 countries competed at Key West. . . Now that the TransPac is over, the West Marine Pacific Cup is gearing up for their 2000 race, which will leave the Golden Gate on July 10-14. As usual, the race is limited to around 70 boats (host Kaneohe YC can't handle any more). Last time, the event was sold out by November 1— so get those entries in early! The best source of up-to-date info on the Pacific Cup is their website, www.pacificcup. org.

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THE RACING SHEET Yachtswoman of the Year awards? Betsy Alison (Newport, RI) turned her attention to coaching last year, mostly working with the U.S. Disabled Sailing Team. Her ef¬ forts were rewarded, as-she was recently recognized as Coach of the Year by U.S. Sailing. Adam Werblow, head coach at St. Mary's College, was named 'Developmen¬ tal Coach of the Year,' whatever that means. . . Alison apparently doesn't feel the need for a sixth Rolex, as she is skip¬ ping the upcoming Rolex Women's Keelboat Championship, the biennial J/ 24 regatta in Newport, RI, that usually determines the Yachtswoman of the Year. The only NorCal boat heading back to that smaller-than-usual regatta this year is Vicki Sodaro, who will sail her Tiburon Soccer Mom with her usual sidekicks, Karina Vogen and Stephanie Wondolleck, as well as Shana Rosenfeld, Judy Yamaguchi and Molly McCloud. Road trips: Bay Area sailors swept the Newport Harbor YC-hosted Baxter Bowl, the Star District Championship, in midJuly. Howie Schiebler and Rick Peters topped the 25-boat fleet, followed by Will Baylis/Andy Vare and Peter Vessella/Mike

Dorgan. Both Vince Brun and Eric Doyle sailed out of podium finishes with OCSs. . . . Graham Smith, sailmaker Brian Huse and a Seattle-based Seattle crew sailed their Swan 48 Vellamo to victory in the big boat division at Swan American Rkce Week, held last month in Newport, RI. Earlier this year, as some readers may recall, Vellamo won the Racer/Cruiser division at Antigua Sailing Week. Wenden, a Swan 44 Mk. II from Riverside, Con¬ necticut, won the small boat division and overall. Forty-two elegant Swans took part in the seven-race series. . . San Francisco Bay sailors Henry Fischer and Doug Morss dominated the 21-boat Etchells PCCs, sailed on August 20-22 at Alamitos Bay YC. Second was Craig Fletcher, sail¬ ing former It's OK! owner I^ew Beery's new Etchells in his first major regatta. Take it to the bank: Danish national hero Jesper Bank won the Cottonfleld ISAF World Match Race Championship in his home waters of Copenhagen on Au¬ gust 12-22. Bank defeated Frenchman Bertrand Pace in the light-air finals, with

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With reports^ this month on little-known Italian Charter Options, a catamaran charter from Guadeloupe to Dominica and back, and miscellaneous Charter Notes.

The Word is out: Italy's Offshore Charter Venues We have to admit, the islands off the coast of Italy have never been high on our charter wish list — especially since we knew virtually nothing about them. But after 'debriefing' GPSC's Cynthia Orr on her recent trip there and doing a bit of research of our own, we're thoroughly in¬ trigued. From north to south, the Mediterra¬ nean waters off Italy's west coast are pep¬ pered with islands where villages date back centuries and traditions are carried on from generation to generation. Despite their mild climate and picturesque set¬ tings, however, only a few are what you'd call touristy. GPSC, an American company that has been running charters in Greece and Tur¬ key for many years, has been expanding its offerings recently. The latest additions on their charter menu are three Italian charter venues: The Tuscan Islands, the Naples Bay Islands, and the Aeolian Is¬ lands. Before we get into the specifics of each area, let's talk about a few generalities. "Chartering has only been going on for about 10 yeajs in these areas," says Cynthia. "So there aren't a lot of big maTalk about historic real estate, this'Castle on the isle of Ischia has been guarding the port for cen¬ turies.

rinas or other yachting infrastructure." In other words, the area is relatively un¬ spoiled compared to hot spots like the French Riviera. It's important to note, therefore, that harbors are relatively smay, and only one row of med-tied (stem-to) boats is allowed to berth along the quays — no ’double parking' like you see in Greece and Tur¬ key. Consequently, you'll want to nab your spot fairly early in the aftdrnoon. Berthing constraints also affect the size of boats in the charter fleets. For obvious reasons, there are no catamarans and boats longer than about 42 feet are a rar¬ ity (most are in the 38-42 foot range). Like the rest of Europe, of course, the summer months see the best weather in these islands, but Cynthia warns, "About 75% of all Europeans take their vacations in August, so early or late summer are generally the best times to enjoy Italy." Assuming you'll want to do some touring on the Italian mainland in conjunction with your charter — how could you resist — waiting until after Labor Day, when all the kids have gone back to school, would be our recommendation. (Early Septem¬ ber is also a fine time to visit Greece, Tur¬ key and other destinations around the Aegean, Adriatic and Med.) Wind conditions are likely to be vari¬ able, and tend toward the lighter side — especially from a Bay sailor's perspective.

g o h s g § 5 ~ But you are bound to get in some good sailing between the islands, and the land¬ falls will be like something out of a storybook. The Tuscan Islands are the northern¬ most of the three island groups, lying off the coast of — you guessed it — Tuscany. The "Seven Sisters" which make up the group lie within the 10-mile channel be¬ tween the mainland and the French Is¬ land of Corsica. Three of them, however, are off limits to .tourism. If you've studied European history, you’ll probably remember the name Elba, the largest of the Tuscan Islands. It's prob¬ ably most famous as Napoleon's place of exile in 1814. From all accounts, he chose well. While Elba is the largest of all the coastal islands, and the most visited by land tourists (being only six miles off¬ shore), it has much of interest including the ruins of ancient Roman villas. Besides natural beauty and cultural antiquities, however, we must mention that a major argument for vacationing here or elsewhere within the island ar¬ chipelagos, is simply to eat and drink in the inimitable Italian style. Whether you choose moderately-priced trattorias or

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curative mineral baths of Ischia for cen¬ turies — some exclusive hotels have on¬ site mud baths and hot springs. Uninhab¬ ited Vivara, by contrast, is famous for the nearly 200 varieties of migratoiy birds which have been observed. It’s crescent shape belies its origin as a volcanic cra¬ ter. Capri, however, is the most popular isle in the Naples region. Today, as in centu¬ ries past, it is a mecca for artists, schol¬ ars and romantics. Today, as in decades past, you might catch a glimpse of an in¬ ternational film star, musician or head of state while lingering on the age-old Piazzetta (square). When you visit by boat, you will, there¬ fore have to ' ' share the island with adoring land tourists. But its many his¬ toric, culinary and cultural at¬ tractions make it worthwhile, re¬ gardless. For an expanded trip, the Pontini group of islands lies off the northern end t

of Naples Bay. The third group of islands accessible by bareboat is the Aeolian group, which lies off the north coast of Sicily, above the toe' of the ’boot’. (Sun Yacht Charters/ Stardust Marine also runs charters there from their Palermo, Sicily base.) Man’s interest in these seven volcanic islands dates back some 5,000 years, when the principle draw was obsidian rock, then used for making sharp tools and weapons. Today the attractions are more varied. While their volcanic origin gives these isles dramatic formations, they are noted for their lack of mainstream tourism and oldworld charm. During the summer months, Alicudi is blanketed by pink heather, while Filicudi has large tracts covered in ferns. Lipari is the largest of the group. In addition to its high, craggy promontories, it is also renowned for fine beaches — and again, mouthwateringly delicious cuisine. Clearly, there is a lot to see and do among Italy's coastal islands. Someday, they too, might become as overcrowded and modernized as other Mediterranean sailing venues. But these days, they re¬ main a well-kept secret — at least to most Americans. So we suggest visiting them sooner, rather than later. For more info, call GPSC at (800) 7326786; Sun Yacht Charters/Stardust Ma¬ rine (800) 772-3500; and the Italian Gov¬ ernment Tourist Office at (310) 820-0098. — latitude/aet A Multicultural Mix: Guadeloupe to Dominica by Cat We wanted someplace a little off the beaten path, but not so far off that com¬ fort was at risk — someplace foreign so

One look at this port scene on Lipari — the 'busy' island of the group — and you know the Aeolians are pretty far off the beaten track.

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we'd know we were on vacation, yet where we'd still be able to communicate. So we decided on Guadeloupe, a big French is¬ land in the Eastern Caribbean that fea¬ tures lots of sun, beaches, diving, quaint towns and good sailing. The boat we hap¬ pened to pick was fantastic! A 47-ft Nautitect catamaran. She had six cabins, four heads and was fast. Our first night out was spent at Gozier Island, only 4 miles from the harbor at Bas du Fort and an easy break-in for a nervous crew. Just as we were starting to relax, we were invaded by a dinner boat with a huge searchlight and massive speakers. Our crew was up for a fight, so we lashed back with flashlights and our own stereo. Turns out they were serving dinner and were just looking for a calm spot. But it was great fun 'moon dancing' in their light beam — I don’t think they noticed. Next on the itinerary was Marie Galante. We thought that it must have been a national emergency, as the town of St. Louis was deserted. "No, it's just a sleepy place," was the explanation, "and everyone leaves for the weekend." One restaurant on the beach, Henri’s, was open — luckily it was quite good. After cooling out at sleepy Marie Galante, we decided to look for more of a lively tour¬ ist-like place. After a great run at perhaps 13 knots, a visit to Les Saintes were just what the doctor ordered — charming'red roofed homes with shiny tile floors, shuttered doors and windows and goats eveiywhere. Two highlights were a house designed to Rick, "the captain," and Claudia, "the admiral," have shared a lot of sailing adventures together over the years.

resemble a ship that comes right out of the cliff at Grand Bourg (on Terre d'en Haut), and the excellent snorkeling on the southeastern coast of Terre De Bas. We saw it all. Fort Napoleon was a great bit of histoiy, where we learned about the fight for supremacy between the British and the French. The Saintes are not big Islands and after two days we had seen most of them. Since we had saved a day by not lingering in Marie Galante, a deci¬ sion was reached to head south for Dominica. We asked about clearing out of Guadeloupe (which is French) and were told just to go. After a short 2 1/2-hour sail later when we checked into Dominica, they just laughed and said "Oh, you know the French." We were also concerned about being bothered by 'boat boys' but found only one. He told us how to get to the Coconut Beach Hotel, which we'd heard about, then he just shadowed us in and helped us pick up a mooring. He then left, saying to remember his name if we needed anything, or wanted to go on the Indian River tour. Chris and Elizabeth at the hotel were

fabulous. They handled everything, in¬ cluding a ride to Customs, reprovisioning, tours, showers and advice. They really rolled out the red carpet. The dinners and happy hour on the patio were great too. We decided on a fairly long hike to Boil¬ ing Lake. It is listed as an eight-hour trip, but since our crew was all in relatively good shape, we'thought we could do it at least three hours faster than the average tourist. Wrong. We managed to shorten it up by only a half hour. But what a hike it was. It started with a climb through the rain forest, across some small clear streams, then got tougher, taking us up a steep ridge where our local guide, Calvin, pointed out spots where people had fallen to their deaths. We began to smell sulfur, and knew that volcanic action was near. On the back side of the ridge down the island, the trail turned steep — I mean really steep. Loose rock, hissing fissures, bubbling springs of black, white, yellow and red were crossed. Most were boiling hot and smelled strongly of sulfur. Up. down, up down — the trail went on and on. One of our group mutinied, but Calvin talked her

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to a waterfall with cool, fresh water. Beers were waiting at the little shack right next to the pool. What a day! Turns out they are going to build a tramway to the Boiling Lake. Calvin was upset that it will change this place from the primitive experience it has always been and turn it into a Disneyland ride. My legs said, "Great,” but my heart was sad. The next morning we pulled up anchor and headed back north to Guadeloupe. On our way out, another boater called out that he had encountered 35-knot winds on the way down the day before. We thought how lucky we were not to have to face such winds. Half the group put on harnesses and headed for the trampolines on the bow to stay cool. The rest of us stayed back, tuned the sails and prepared for a nice calm sail. Then, you guessed it, the further north we went, the more wind we got. The GPS was a busy place as new speed records just kept coming, 13, 14, 15 then a great jump to 17 knots! The bows were beginning to bury themselves in the oncoming waves. At this point the last of the bow riders crabwalked back to the cockpit and we continued on to Guadeloupe. We were almost immediately becalmed as soon as we went behind the island. After about 40 min¬ utes of chasing puffs, it was decided to heave to and take a swim. About the fourth person in came back up and yelled, "Fin!” A warning guaranteed to make your blood run cold. It turned out to be dol¬ phins, though. They hung around for It's so huge! Before setting sail, the crew checks out their Nautitech 475 at Guadeloupe's Bas du Fort marina.

about a half hour while we watched them underwater with our snorkeling gear. We could hear their clicks and sounds as each species checked each other out. A magi¬ cal moment! After the dolphins left, we cranked up the diesels and motored over to Pigeon Is¬ land to check out the Cousteau diving pre¬ serve. It was all we expected and more. Turtles, eels, squid fleets, fish of every color and lobster as big as small children. It rained all day and we hardly noticed as we were under water already. Our hands were all pruned' when we finally crawled back out and took a shower on the beach. We had a great 'last supper' with the full crew. The rest of the cruise was un¬ eventful but fulfilling, a long sail back to Bas Du Fort Marina. I can't say enough about Cap Sud, the charter company, and would recommend them to anyone. You have to go through Tradewinds Charter as their U.S. agent and they're good too. I'd also point out that in the heavier winds the catamaran had a big advantage over monohulls. When we talked with a group of monohull charterers at the airport, they complained about the heeling, the water cascading over the bows and the cramped interior. At the same time, in the same area, we had the sail of our lives. Our only com¬ plaint was that some of the lobster was frozen in the off season. And that’s not much of a complaint. — rick and claudia franz noncents, richmond

Charter Notes If the mere mention of the phrase "Mil¬ lennium New Year's" makes you want to hide under the covers, we apologize. We're

WORLD OF CHARTERING sick of all the hype too. But. . . be¬ cause we've heard rumors that a good number of Bay Area sailors are planning to whoop it up in the Car¬ ibbean for the big event, we thought it our duty to share some insights. No doubt revelers on every island in the Windwards and Leewards will be in full party mode, but for boat¬ ers the biggest shindigs we know of will be in the Virgin Islands at The Bitter End Yacht Club on Virgin Gorda and Foxy's on Jost Van Dyke. Bitter End's manager, Mary Jo Ryan, expects a big crowd, as every room will be booked and the an¬ chorage will be filled with yachts. "But it will be managable," she says. We will only serve a finite number of meals in our restaurants, so we don't expect a total mob scene." They will, how¬ ever, have live bands and. . . Did she say fireworks? If you do have intentions of joining their celebration, though, plan to arrive early, and make dinner reservations well in advance. Ryan reminds potential visitors, how¬

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The New Years fete at Foxy's is sure to be a blow¬ out. In calmer days, he and his long-suffering Aussie wife, Tess, are spearheading an effort to revive the tradition of building Island Sloops. ever, that New Years isn't the only 'happenin' time at BEYC. The resort will also stage a varied menu of special events during the coming months associated

with the theme: Legends of Sailing. (The annual Pro-Am Regatta runs October 30 to November 5 and Women's Sailing Week runs Decem¬ ber 4-10.) If a 'mob scene' is what you're after, however. Foxy'sTamarind Bar (and Restaurant) on Jost Van Dyke is the place. Thanks to a 20-year tradition of hosting wild New Years parties, locals and visitors alike will be arriving via ferries, speedboats, and charter yachts. "We expect maybe 8,000 people," says Foxy's wife Tess. § She and Foxy figure the only way § they can Fit all the boats into Great § Harbor is to raft them up in lines from the beach to the outer harbor. Yeah, it's gonna be nuts. But it's going to be an epic party: A special 'sta¬ dium' is being built in the 'outback' for the Calypso show featuring the legend¬ ary Mighty Sparrow and Imaginations Brass, long St. Thomas' finest group. It will surely be a memorable night — assuming you can remember anything af¬ ter an all-night Caribbean rum-fest.

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CHANGES With reports this month from

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Capricorn Cat — Custom Cat Blair & Joan Grinoles South Pacific To S.F. (Vallejo) After a season in the South Pacific, we're headed back to San Francisco. But only for a few months, before we head off to Mexico and the South Pacific again. Here's a recap of what we've been up to since leaving Mexico: We left Puerto Vallarta, stopped for a sleep at San Benedicto and Clarion is¬ lands, then continued on to Hiva Oa in the Marquesas. It was a good 16-day crossing, which featured the normal amount of light and strong winds. We didn't spend much time in the Marquesas, as we prefer sandy beaches and clear water for great diving. We did, however, visit Ua Poa, Tahuata, and Fatu Hiva. On the other hand, we thought the Tuamotus were fantastic! The notion that these atolls are so dangerous to sail through is, to me, a myth. All the atolls and reefs we got close to were clear, and we always saw them from five miles away on radar. We had some neat cultural ex¬ periences atTaenga and Katiu, where the little kids were literally jumping up and down with glee as we came through the pass. We had at least a dozen, of them aboard, and did they have fun! They’d After three trips to Mexico, one to Hawaii, and one to the South Pacific, popular Capricorn Cat' is headed back to San Francisco — for two months before taking off for Mexico and the South Pacific again.

climb the back steps, run forward to jump off the bow, then let the current sweep them under the bridge deck to the rear ladder — where they would start all over again. The passes into the lagoons at both Taenga and Katiu were very swift and iffy, so we were glad that our Capricorn Cat has the power and maneuverability she does. After six weeks in the Tuamotus, we sailed to Papeete to renew our visas. Papeete was a pit! The water was filthy, the air smokey, and the whole area over¬ crowded — but boy did we see some great Tahitian dancing during Bastille Day cel¬ ebrations. Actually, we spent most of our time in Moorea, which has spectacular in scenery as well as terrific diving near the reef. Unfortunately, we hit a coral head with a daggerboard and severely damaged it — and the case. I was able to repair the board up on the trampoline, but didn't feel comfortable with the haulout and re¬ pair facilities in French Polynesia. As a result, we're headed home to fix things and make some other modifications to the boat. It will be easier to make repairs and such, because I've got all the tools, and we’re also going to add a washing ma¬ chine. To our minds, the addition of a washing machine is a 'must', as there are no reasonable laundiy facilities in French Polynesia. As I e-mail this, we re 1,000 miles north of Papeete and should arrive in Hawaii soon. After we hit Costco, we ll head back

to San Francisco. We left Tahiti on Au¬ gust 7, and hope to be in San Francisco on about September 10. We plan to leave for Mexico again in November, then head to the South Pacific a little earlier than last year, about mid-February. We want to do Tonga next season. We'll be looking forward to seeing all of our old friends at the Ha-Ha and Mexico Kick-Off Party in Alameda on October 5. By the way, I read about all the dinghy thefts up in La Paz. We lost ours in Papeete two hours after we hit the beach to enjoy a dinner ashore! — blair &joan 8/13/99

Miki G — Gemini 34 Cat Michael Beattie & Layne Goldman The Forgotten Middle (Santa Cruz) When we were in southern Mexico, we had a hard time getting up-to-date infor¬ mation about our next destination, the so-called Forgotten Middle', which refers to the 500-miles of Pacific Coast that be¬ long to Guatemala, El Salvador, Hondu¬ ras and Nicaragua.

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Far left; cruisers flock to 'Capricorn Cat' in Z-town like flies to honey. Blair and Joan run a hospitable boat. Top; The town square at Amapala, Honduras. Things are pretty quiet along the 'forgotten middle'. Top; The main street in La Union, El Salvador, which is a large city for the region. In 1995, Roy and Carol Roberts pub¬ lished The Forgotten Middle, a Cruising Guide, that covered the ports and anchor¬ ages between Puerto Madero, Mexico, and Playa de Cocos, Costa Rica. While this cruising guide is useful, it was apparently based on just one visit and is lacking in detail. Further, much of the information is out of date. Many cruisers perceive the countries of the ’Forgotten Middle' to be war torn and dangerous. This is far from the truth. It used to be that civil war and politics interfered with travel along this stretch of Central American coast, but nowadays there's no reason not to break up the pas¬ sage between Mexico and Costa Rica into smaller chunks. Puerto Madero, the last stop in Mexico, is a reasonably secure anchorage moni¬ tored by a Navy patrol boat. It is also homeport to a shrimp fleet and a huge dredge. The channel between the break¬ waters is easy to negotiate during the day.

Several boats have managed to go aground at night, however, as the chan¬ nel buoys are not illuminated and the range lights currently guide boats right onto the sandbar! Fran and Dave, vets of the '88 Ha-Ha, spent three hours on the sandbar one night — despite help from the Mexican Navy, which set a kedging anchor for them. Obviously, we can't rec¬ ommend that anyone enter the harbor at night. Puerto Madero is not the worst place to stop for reprovisioning, because it's only a half-hour bus ride to the city of Tapachula. The city has an air-condi¬ tioned mall complete with a modern su¬ permarket and a multi-screen theatre. Just make sure that your movie ends be¬ fore 9 p.m., as that's when the last bus leaves for Puerto Madero. Tapachula also has an international airport, so it's pos¬ sible for crew to fly in or out. For what it’s worth, Irwin aboard Speck reported a weird incident in Tapachula. He says that a Mexican a family kid¬ napped his little dog Peewee when his

back was turned. Then they disguised her by dyeing her hair with red paint and dressing her in clothes! It took him three days and an $80 dollar ransom' to get her back. Nobody, however, had the nerve to tiy kidnapping our 95-pound Lab or our 75-pound husky! The next stop south is Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala’s only major port on the Pa¬ cific Coast. We were making such excel¬ lent progress in fine weather, however, that we didn't stop. Many other cruisers have advised us that Puerto Quetzal is a modern port that offers a secure place to leave a boat while traveling inland to en¬ joy such popular destinations as Antigua and Chichicastanango. The security is a result of the fact that the anchorage is located in a navy base well away from the commercial dock. Nobody is allowed to enter or leave the base without passing an armed guard at the gate. There is a $100 fee for the first five days at Puerto Quetzal, plus $ 10/person for Immigra¬ tion. This may seem like a lot, but it gives you a chance to leave your boat as safely as if she were in a marina. The next possible stop is Acajutla, El Salvador, which is dismissed as "fully ex¬ posed" and "not recommended" in the Royce's cruising guide. But Sid Kerley, the adventurous spirit singlehanding Ivy Rose, pulled in and took a mooring any¬ way. He described the anchorage as be¬ ing behind the breakwater and being smooth and quiet — whereas the Royces' chart indicates an open roadstead. Kerley was charged $10 for the use of the moor¬ ing, but said the locals were very helpful. He was, for instance, given a ride to Sonsonate to do some shopping and buy The one constant of cruising: washing clothes. Layne attacks the dirt on her Hot Rally shirt with a Wash-Wizz.

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Salvadoran colons at the bank. We personally didn't stop at Acajutla, as we were still charging along on a wave of good weather, and didn't want to stop until we reached the Gulf of Fonseca. Unfortunately, most of our charging was under power. The Gulf of Fonseca — which is about 20 by 30 miles and has more than 30 is¬ lands — is an interesting place. For one thing, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nica¬ ragua lay claim to various parts of its 80mile long coastline. The gulf itself seems as though it might resemble what the San Francisco Bay Area looked like prior to 1849. The hills are burnt brown with sparse green vegetation, and the waters are a khaki color as they are muddied by the mangrove-lined rivers feeding into it. The gulf is a hot and dry place in March — which locals say is the hottest month of the year. Day after blue sky day, we recorded temperatures in excess of 110° in our cockpit. We first dropped the hook off Isla Conchaguita, as recommended in The Forgotten Middle cfuising guide, and were assaulted with a barrage of silence. It was perfect! As it turned out, this was the only pleasant swimming spot we would find in the gulf. Everywhere else, the water was even murkier. You can't swim off the large towns anyway, as you have to figure that the local sewage pours right into the gulf. We had zarpe'd from Puerto Madero to La Union, El Salvador, so we only stopped off at Conchaguita for a couple of days, and flew the Q flag in case a patrol boat came by. No patrol boats bothered us, however, so we enjoyed swimming in the green waters and walking round the tiny village — which was as dirty as it was pic¬ turesque. La Union, on the other hand, is a bus¬ tling town of 35,000, with extensive street markets, four banks — no ATMs or Visa advances, however — and a gas station. It is home to the main base of the Salva¬ doran Navy, and a dozen patrol boats are stationed at the military dock. After an¬ choring off the base, we were visited by an officer from a patrol boat. Smiling all the while, he took our zarpe and asked us to drop by his office on the waterfront before we left. Immigration charges $10 for arrivals without a Salvadoran visa, but we'd gotten ours from the consulate in San Francisco, and were therefore free to wander the streets. There's not much for the tourist in La Union, as it’s primiarly a fishing center. We did, however, take a short bus ride to the town of Conchagua, which is located on the side of a volcano of the same name. Page 232 •

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where we enjoyed some delicious papusas at an outdoor restaurant. The national food of El Salvador, papusas are thick tor¬ tillas with meat or cheese fillings, and cov¬ ered with homemade coleslaw. The dinghy landing at La Union is tricky at low tide, because when the tide is out the maximum of 10 feet, there's a large area of mud in front of the panga harbor. Fortunately, the mud is less than ankle deep. Nonetheless, you can t walk barefoot as the bottom is covered with typical Central American debris. Fortu¬ nately, there is a working faucet just up the footpath at the Immigration office. At high tide, there is a convenient ramp where we could pull our dinghies up be¬ fore leaving them in a parking lot. Nobody messed with them. The only way to get fuel is to go into town at high tide and hire — for $4 — a guy pulling a cart to take our jugs to the Shell station five miles away. The Honduran Island of El Tigre is the other main attraction in the Gulf of Fonesca. In fact, cruisers not needing supplies often skip La Union entirely and go directly to Amapala, the main village on El Tigre. Because Ampala was de¬ scribed in such idyllic terms in The For¬ gotten Middle, we were set up for disap-

Inset; Emma, 'Miki G's' lab, confronts an unseen pig at Isla Conchaguita. Spread; Sipping Cokes at San Lorenzo, Honduras. pointment. As it turned out, Scott and Sonia of Calypso and Kerley of Ivy Rose, enjoyed Amapala much more than we. I, in particular, found the locals to be boor¬ ish and grasping, and the town to have little to recommend it to visitors. In fact, I got so grumpy that I didn't even bother to pursue our original goal of taking a hike up the volcano. Ampala's harbor is flushed by tides that were strong enough to remind us of La Paz, Baja, and the infamous 'waltz'. Ampala is also afflicted with the wake of incessant pangas and ferry traffic to and from the mainland. Barnacle, a Westsail 32 with John and Fran aboard, reported lots of problems with dragging anchor when they were there. Anyway, after the quick 12-mile trip from La Union, we stayed in Amapala for three days. Actually, we used one of those days to take a panga ferry to the main¬ land, and then a bus to San Lorenzo, a visit recommended in The Forgotten Middle. San Lorenzo, Honduras's only port on the Pacific, is up a mangrove es¬ tuary and is, to say the least, a worn out town. In the midst of the dust and the

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Elenoa — Custom 36-ft Steel Sloop Paul & Susan Mitchell Chagos Islands, Indian Ocean (San Diego)

eye-popping poverty, we saw houses with stick walls and roofs of black plastic tarps — in 1109 heat. But we also found an ul¬ tra-modern, air-conditioned supermar¬ ket, and the nearby Miramar Hotel had an air-conditioned dining room. But that was about it. A word about navigation. Early in the cruising season — meaning December through February — papagayo winds can blow strongly in this area. By the time we arrived, the wind was mostly light, and out of the east in the morning and out of the west in the evening. The direction of the tide, as Scott on Calypso noted wea¬ rily, was always the opposite. So when travelling around the gulf, we had to choose between going with the tide or the breeze. The southern part of the Gulf of Fonseca appears to be pretty regular, with the backwaters shoaling to less than three feet at low tide. Between the islands of Conchaguita and Meanguera, we found 50 feet at low tide. Between Conchaguita and the Salvadoran mainland, we found no less than 10 feet. The gulf approaches to Amapala were as shallow as eight feet outside the channel at low tide, but 60 feet inside the channel close to the west¬ ern shore ol El Tigre Island. Charts of the

We're traveling eastward in the Indian Ocean on the southwest monsoon, hav¬ ing just spent the last three months in the Chagos Archipelago. Situated just 300 miles south of the equator and halfway between Kenya and Thailand, the Chagos remains a cross¬ roads for yachties. While we were there, boats arrived from Thailand and Malay¬ sia, either direct or via Sri Lanka and/or the Maldives. Others came from South Africa by way of Madagascar, the Seychelles or Kenya. Despite being out in the middle of the Indian Ocean, there were as many as 40 yachts at a time in the three main anchorages. Most of them hailed from England. New Zealand. South Africa, the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland and Denmark. Peros Banhos and Salomon are the two most useful atolls for visiting yachties. Peros is fine while the westerlies are blow¬ ing. so we spent the first three weeks there. When the wind shifted to out of the east, we traveled 20 miles to Salomon for better protection. The Chagos is administered by folks from the British Indian Ocean Territories — and they couldn’t be nicer. The British Marines come by about every three weeks to collect a $55 anchoring fee from new arrivals, pick up and deliver mail — in¬ cluding the Latitude 38 sitting in front of us now — collect all the cans and bottles from trash bins ashore, and render any medical help needed. The official rules in the Chagos are simple: 1) Don’t move ashore; 2) Burn all burnable trash; and 3) Don’t anchor in coral. When at Peros Banhos, boats are only permitted to anchor in the western half of the lagoon. In addition, there are two local yachtie rules: 1) Nothing is owned privately, and 2) Use it but don't take it. Most cruisers gather on the beach at about 4 p.m. for sundowners and volley¬ ball on the beach. The volleyball net is made from a fishing net that drifted ashore. Over the years, yachties have brought chairs and kerosene lamps to make things comfy. In fact, several

'camps' are scattered around, where cruisers cook ashore to save the precious propane on their boats. As always, when one or two crews cook ashore, a potluck invariably breaks out. The basics are easy to come by in the Chagos. Reasonably good water can be had from several wells on the island, and catching a three kilo snapper requires nothing more than dropping a line over the side for five minutes. For the more adventurous, trolling outside the lagoon usually results in a catch of yellowtail tuna, wahoo or mahi mahi. In addition, the island's palms provide coconuts and the main ingredient in heart-of-palm salad. Unfortunately, there are only a few fruit trees left on the island, and they don’t bear much fruit any longer. We did, how¬ ever, get two lemons! Scuba diving and spear-fishing are not allowed, and cruisers are asked not to take crab or lobster. There are enough sharks outside the lagoon to keep the more timid divers out of the water — and a lot of the braver swimmers give it up soon, too. There wasn't any problem with sharks inside the lagoon, where the snorkeling is great. The buildings left from when the local population was moved out at the request of the U.S. Navy — which was then build¬ ing a base at Diego Garcia — are decay¬ ing rapidly. The yacht club' is still pretty much intact, however, and the boat names painted on the wall over the years make for fascinating reading. We loved our time in the Chagos, which The fishing is good at the Chagos. Derek Scott of Ginseng' and Paul Mitchell of 'Elenoa' caught two yellowfin and a four-foot wahoo in 20 min¬ utes of trolling outside the reef.

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is one of the few truly isolated free an¬ chorages left for the yachts. The occa¬ sional visit by the Brits was welcomed, and so far they have no plans to change the way things are being run — although there is talk of closing Peros Banhos com¬ pletely and leaving only Salomon for the yachties. There are those that would like to keep yachties out completely, but the authorities don’t think that will happen. We are now on our way back to Malay¬ sia for the next season. Plans after that are still up in the air, but we’d like to re¬ turn and spend more time in paradise'. As for the Latitude reader who wrote in asking about the schooner White Cloud, we indeed left San Diego aboard her back in '82. Unfortunately, we lost her in the Coral Sea in '88. If the person wants to contact us, we can be reached at: n6hfc@bkk. win-net. org. For those who want to know how our new and smaller steel sloop compares to the big schooner we used to own, we say this: We love Elenoa, as she's handy, big enough for two, and nice to look at. And being steel, she gives us a lot of confi¬ dence. On the other hand, no other boat can have the magic of our 59-foot — on deck — White Cloud. She was a good size for sailing, but a little much for just the two of us to cruise. Add to that the fact that she was 60 years old and hadn't al¬ ways had the best of care, and she was a handful. The bottom line is that Elenoa is a 'point and shoot' boat and we couldn’t be happier — except when it comes time to party. Oops! We just landed a four-foot wa¬ the late afternoon, cruisers gather on the beaches and in the warm waters of the Chagos. Invariably, a potluck soon breaks out. in

hoo and I have to run. We’ve got plenty of fish for the next week, so I better take the rest of the lines in. Life is good! At the rate we're going, we won’t be back to Cali¬ fornia very soon, so our best to everyone. — paul & susan 8/10/99 Paul & Susan — We first heard about the Chagos in '87 from Emmanuela. who later became a cook on Big O. She told about sailing across the Indian Ocean and arriving at this group of jungle islands with nice houses, complete with all the furnish¬ ings — and even dishes anfi silverware set at the tables. In addition, there were churches, orchards, machine shops, wa¬ ter wells, chickens — and even a fire truck. Everything was in perfect order — except for the fact that there weren't any people. Emmanuela and her friends made them¬ selves at home for three weeks "wearing nothing but sea boots". One day in the middle of the jungle, Emmanuela got the shock of her life when she bumped into Jamie, a Tunisian guy who had recently arrived on another boat. Jamie later spoke as

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came accepted practise for the women to have extramarital affairs when their Iulsbands were out fishing! By this time, the Chagos were also known as the Oil Islands because their coconut oil was used to light the lamps of Port Louis, Mauritius. Everything changed in 1965 when the Brits offered Mauritius its independence

— and $5 million — if they'd give up the Chagos. They did. The reason for all this is that the United States wanted a mili¬ tary base in the middle of the Indian Ocean. They got it in 1970: a 50-year lease on Diego Garcia. Six years later, the U.S. had settled in on the tiny atoll, complete with American trappings such as a Ken¬ tucky Fried Chicken palace. The base has since been used to launch B-52s for at¬ tacks on Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo. From the very beginning, however, the U.S. militaiy 'irtsisted that nobody be al-

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Inset; With plenty of free time, dinghy sailing is popular in the Chagos. Spread; 'Tahirih', an¬ chored off the tropical jungle of Costa Rica. lowed to live near the base — not even 50 miles away at Salomon or Per os Banhos.

As a result, the 2,000 residents of the Chagos were given a small amount of money and taken from the islands, leav¬ ing virtually all their possessions behind.

Tahirih — Hardin 44 Gerrie & Chris Blomfield-Brown Costa Rica Is No Safe Haven (Bainbridge Island, WA) It was a great Friday afternoon in Golfito, Costa Rica. After all, we'd just completed a 10-day project that had been prompted by the heavy summer rain: rebedding 14 stanchions to make them waterproof. This outdoor project had been a strategic struggle because of the high humidity and because we had to complete each day's work prior to the daily 1:00 pm. downpour. In any event, the project was completed, and we were eagerly look¬ ing forward to travelling overland to Gua¬ temala. In the early evening — between , 5:30 pm. and 8:00 pm. — our plans were

shattered while we were a few hundred yards away watching a movie on a friend's boat. When we later returned to our Tahirih, I told my husband that I didn’t remember the davit line hanging so low. He jokingly added that I should check to see if our outboard — with us on the dinghy — was still on the rail. Guided by an odd feeling, I went ahead and checked the decks — when 1 stopped in disbelief: A cover had been removed and one storm shutter al¬ most completely unbolted. Almost imme¬ diately Chris let out a angiy shout as he looked down through an open hatch into the cockpit. Not only had we been robbed, but the thieves had gained entry by piying open the starboard hatch with a screwdriver and a boathook. In addition to causing great damage, they broke the boathook. All in all it wasn't a big deal, because the inside of our boat — which is also our home — looked as though it had been rolled over. More than one thief — per¬ haps as many as four — had searched our boat by breaking, tearing and cutting everything they could — without drawing the attention of any of the four boats an¬ chored nearby.

We'd been robbed of all our essential navigation and communication gear: both VHF radios, both GPS units, the laptop, printer, binoculars, handheld compass, depth/fish finder, camera, stereo, all the CDs, hand and electrical tools, outdoor equipment and much more. In addition, they took irreplacable items such as my jewelry. And last but not least, they took the solar panel that had been mounted and locked on the rail! Shocked, we struggled to channel our anger. Chris should start a list of stolen items, while I — fluent in Spanish — ar¬ ranged for the police to come over so we could file a crime report. The Policia Ru¬ ral, as we had anticipated, wasn't much help at all. They did come to the boat, but despite calling them every morning after, I was unable to get a copy of their official report. The following morning, a knowledge¬ able local travel agent advised me that the detectives from OIJ, which is the federal police, in the nearby town of Neuilly would be most likely to help after I filed a report with them. While I was doing just that, 1 got the feeling I was being set up to ac¬ cept one of two lousy choices: Negotiate with the thieves or spend years trying to have them prosecuted. We decided to negotiate, and to do so effectively meant we had to act fast. For¬ tunately, Golfito is relatively isolated, so there was a good chance most of our gear was still local. After putting out the word for a reward, as we had been advised, we could only keep our fingers crossed and Chris and Gerrie. They weren 't smiling after they discovered their boat had been broken into in looted. And that they had to pay ransom.

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wait. In the meantime, we decided to take some pressure off our shoulders by mov¬ ing from the anchorage to the hopefully safer but expensive — $ 1.2/ft/month — Banana Bay Marina. Before long, as the rumors had spread and we'd learned more about the town, we strangely felt almost as if we were ac¬ quainted with thieves. We even learned their nicknames: 'Pig of the Mount’; a guy named 'Twenty-One' for having just 11 toes; and 'Mata Gatos', which means 'cat killer'. It soon became clear to us that the thieves would live happily and peacefully no matter what happened, as the most severe punishment they faced was being arrested long enough to have breakfast in jail before being let go. With no desire to remain in Costa Rica for a long time to obtain justice, we had to accept the services of a Banana Bay Marina employee — who also happened to be a local politico — for negotiations with the thieves. When we received the first batch of equipment back, it wasn't in the best of shape. The laptop was bro¬ ken, so we couldn't tell about the printer. The VHF radios were all right, but one GPS had taken a beating. What neither of us expected was how badly having to buy our damaged gear back would affect us emotionally. We felt so violated and vul¬ nerable that we knew only time, new sur¬ roundings, and positive thinking would allow us to be ourselves again. As I write this, our boat is still in Costa Rica, and Chris is still aboard. He's await¬ ing my return — as a newly sworn U.S. citizen! Soon we'll be ready to leave the area and hopefully this unresolved night¬ mare. It’s true that our boat could have been robbed almost anywhere on earth, but to live in constant paranoia makes it too exhausting to enjoy staying in Costa Rica. One thing that really makes us angry is that we know someone on shore had to have been watching us leave the boat in order to attempt such a bold and calcu¬ lated burglary, followed by an even greater act of cowardice. Realizing how important it is to keep everyone posted on condi¬ tions in various cruising areas, it's my duty to recommend cruising Costa Rica with the greatest hesitation. — gerrie & chris 6/13/99 Gerrie & Chris — We empathize com¬ pletely with your feelings of anger and vulnerability. Enjoying cruising involves lots of trust, and it takes some effort to carry on happily after ifs been violated. For the record, Costa Rica has a world¬ wide reputation as being a warm and Page 236 • UliUdt 3? • September, 1999

fuzzy center of ecology. What's not as well known is that it's also a hotbed of theft — on both land and water. When ashore, you have to be careful of pickpockets, pursesnatchers and credit cardfraud. And you also have to keep a close eye on your boat. In the past, the Costa Ricans have blamed the problem on Colombians. We're not sure that's valid, and even if it were, it wouldn't make any difference. The only postive thing we can say about crime in Costa Rica is that it’s rarely violent. Coming next month: A reportfrom some folks who loved Costa Rica.

Moonshadow — Deerfoot 62 George Backhus & Paula Society Islands (Sausalito) After dropping off our Auckland-to-Tahiti crew of Phyllis, Steve and Dale — who had made it such a fun and safe passage — Paula and I reprovisioned and checked out of Papeete as soon as we could in or¬ der to see the 'real' Tahiti. Eighty percent of the 180,000 people who live in French Polynesia reside on Tahiti, and most of them in Papeete.

Scenes from the Society Islands with George, Paula and Maitai the cat. The burger in the up¬ per right hand corner cost $13 U.S. Tahiti is a high' island: high moun¬ tains, high prices, high noise, high popu¬ lation, and a high rate of crime. About the only thing low is customer service. One restaurant, for example, insisted they only accepted French Polynesian VISA cards. And dive shops would only fill tanks that had a French stamp on them. We found things like this to be bogus! The best part of Papeete was reuniting with old cruising friends from Mexico on boats such as Capricorn Cat, Imagine and Toujours.

We also enjoyed cruising down the coast of Tahiti Nui, where we stopped at some lovely and deserted anchorages. Pointe Maraa, for instance, had some very cool fern grottos in the side of the moun¬ tain just across the road from the lagoon. While at Port d’Ataiti, we took in the Gauguin Museum, and at Port du Pha¬ eton we enjoyed a real as opposed to tour¬ ist Tahitian town, and walked across the

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isthmus that separates Tahiti Nui and Ta¬ hiti Iti. Tranquil Moorea, with a population of 9,000, is a leisurely 12-mile sail across the Sea of the Moon from Papeete, and the approach from the sea is spectacular. We pulled into Baie de Opanohu, which is right next to Cook’s Bay on the north side of the island. We felt Opanohu is qui¬ eter — no restaurants or resorts and only a few other anchored boats — but it shares the same to-die-for view as Cook’s Bay of the impressive volcanic mountain peaks jutting out of the middle of the is¬

land. While at Moorea, we dove in the indigo waters just inside the pass through the reef. We also exercised our land legs’ and saw all of the island by making a 40-mile bike circumnavigation with Vicky and Tom of Sunstone. Later, we moved Moonshadow a few miles west up a nar¬ row channel to just offshore the Club Med, where we enjoyed a few meals out, shows and social evenings. It was a good time to do it, as there were hyper trades with

gusts up to 38 knots. Huahine was an easy 90-mile, over¬ night sail from Moorea. This is a beauti¬ ful and relatively undeveloped island with a population of just 4,500. The main vil¬ lage of Fare on the waterfront is what Lahaina must have looked like 50 years ago. A one street town with no new devel¬ opment, it bustles by day with the arrival of ships and ferries, but is very quiet at night. If Bora Bora and Moorea are where the tourists go, Huahine is where the trav¬ elers and backpackers come to enjoy French Polynesia. Huahine was once a very important re¬ ligious and cultural center, and there are many archeological sites — some restored — and ancient fish traps to be seen. We made our way around the island by bike, and then did some cruising inside the barrier reef to some of the well-protected bays on the west side of the island. We found the well secluded Te Tiare Resort to be friendly, and by Polynesian stan¬ dards, their dinners were reasonable. After a few days, we made the quick 20-mile jump west to Raiatea and Tahaa, which share the same barrier reef. Raiatea? Fohgeddabouddit! It has a small boatyard, a grubby village, unimpressive scenery, noisy and deep anchorages, a Moorings charter base, and an airport. The next day we went a mile north to Tahaa, a beautiful, quiet little island shaped like the hibiscus flower. We hung off a little resort in Baie Apu, where we enjoyed a great meal on shore in the ca¬ sual little resort. The anchorage was pleasantly calm. The next day, we made a leisurely circumnavigation of Tahaa in¬ side its barrier reef, and then exited the pass for a quick afternoon passage over to Bora Bora in fresh trade winds. Often described as "the most beauti¬ ful island in the world . . . from the air". Bora Bora is best appreciated from afar. Its volcanic peaks are spectacular by sea from any angle, and its brilliantly colored waters are particularly stunning from the air. But when you step ashore, the over¬ development, poor planning and general untidiness give a different impression. Unless you are whisked from the tiny air¬ port to one of the well-manicured, se¬ cluded resorts, the Bora Bora experience can be disappointing. The east shore is still pretty nice, but the west shore is tacky. I circled the island by both bike and dinghy to get both perspectives. The hues of the water are just amazing, but the reef inside is mostly dead and lacking in any

significant sea life. We spent time on a mooring at the Bora Bora YC and on the hook off the towns of Waitape and lie Toopua, the latter being the prettiest and quietest. There were lots of cruisers in for Fete — the Tahitian celebration of its au¬ tonomy from France — and Bastille Day. The Polynesian music and dancing com¬ petitions in Waitape for Fete were spec¬ tacular. At a cruiser’s sunset happy hour on Motu Tapu, we met a lot of new faces and made plans for diving. According to the local gendarmes, Motu Tapu is a pub¬ lic island, nonetheless, some rude French hotel people attempted to eject us from their private' island. We got in a couple of dives just outside the pass through the barrier reef in 50 to 100 feet of very clear — 100-foot visibility — water. Since the local dive operations go here and feed the fish for the paying customers, the sea life abounds. As you would expect, there were schools of col¬ orful reef fish — but there was also an abundance of sharks: blacktip reef, lemon and some 10+ foot gray reefs complete with hitchhiking remora. There were many moray eels in the cracks in the reef, and quite a few beautiful — but danger¬ ous — lionlish under the overhangs. It was a bit intimidating, but none of the fish seemed to pay much attention to us, as we weren’t serving up lunch, and didn’t appear the least bit tasty clad in all of our rubber and steel dive gear. A week in Bora Bora was all we needed before moving on to the Cook Islands. So after taking on a load of fuel and a few provisions, we headed out for Rarotonga. Reflecting on our time in French Polyne¬ sia, here are some of the things we'll miss: Excellent fresh baked baguettes for 40Papeete, Tahiti; you either love it or hate it. Some can appreciate its roguish charm. George Backhus and the crew of 'Moonshadow' didn't.

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resulted in her sailing better than ever. For example, our average speed from Auckland to Raivavae was 8.1 knots. The 'N folks at Salthouse in New Zealand did an excellent job and all systems are go. Sure there are minor glitches, but nothing that can’t wait until we return to Auckland. While in New Zealand, I had some cabi¬ net work done, the whole interior var¬ nished, as well as new leather upholstery and headlining installed. The quality of work was excellent and the price is half of what it would have cost in the States. — george, paula and maitai 9/15/99

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Ayora (Academy Bay), Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. Upon arrival, cruisers are now granted an automatic 20-day visa — and longer visas are available. A buddyboat of ours from Norway actually received a 60-day, unlimited cruising permit to all the is¬ lands. For this they paid $40 during their check-in at Puerto Basquerizo Moreno, San Cristobal Island — which is the ad¬ ministrative center: On the negative side, in June the Ec¬ uadorian government instituted a require¬ ment that all vessels show a fumigation certificate. Even though the directive from Quito clearly specified that such certifi¬ cates were only required for incoming ves¬ sels, the Port Captains in the Galapagos said it was required of both arriving and departing vessels! Fortunately, we got our clearance/zarpe from the Port Captain lit¬ erally minutes before this directive was received, so we weren't forced to wade through additional bureaucratic prob¬ lems. For now, arriving vessels will have to use the services of the local pest exter¬ minator — who just happens to be the same guy who certifies Zodiac liferafts. During our time in the Galapagos, we realized that all the guide books and

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participate in any of the organized com¬ mercial tours. As for port fees, we paid $20 for Immigration, and the port cap¬ tain/customs charges at departure — meaning the zarpe, harbor fees and such — were less than $65. Unfortunately, all this development is stressing the environment. As more en¬ trepreneurs and job seekers rush to take advantage of opportunities, the govern¬ ment cannot be expected to safeguard the ecology. Increased garbage, diesel and oil spills, intensive offshore fishing for sharks, sea cucumbers, deep water fish, are having a noticeable effect on the uniqueness of this land and ocean. It is advisable to visit soon because a new form of evolution has beset the Galapagos, and the future of its pristine, Darwinian quali¬ ties clearly is being challenged. — roy & chris 7/27/99

Cruise Notes: A Caribbean milestone of epic propor¬ tions, the 50th anniversary of Le Select — "the most famous, most fist-banged, wildest, most notorious and least under¬ stood rum shop’ in the entire Lesser

Antilles" according to Fatty Goodlander — will be celebrated November 5 through 14 at St. Barth, French West Indies. Cap’n Fatty explains why it’s such a big deal: "This tiny little bar, during the late 70s and early '80s, took on almost mythical proportions among Caribbean sea gyp¬ sies, especially when young Fast Eddie' was spilling the drinks, spinning the tunes, and smiling his utterly beatific Ihave-the-answer-to-the-universe-andeveiything smile." In those days, the quiet streets of little Gustavia were filled with an even higher percentage of rock stars, models, actors, and drug smugglers than today. It was also second home to Jimmy Buffet, who wrote Cheeseburgers in Para¬ dise about the little burger stand that shares the same patio as Le Select. While it hasn't been finalized. Buffet has told some Bartian friends that he and his band will show up for the last night of the cel¬ ebration. The amazing thing about Marius Stakelborough’s bar is that it remains the nexus of St. Barts, which in 25 years has gone from an ignored backwater to most chic island in the Caribbean. And not a moment too soon! Ed Vegara, formerly of Marina Palmira in La Paz, Baja Sur, reports that he is now in charge of Marina Santa Cruz Bay, a 300-berth fa¬ cility being developed in the heart of the downtown La Paz waterfront. "We've got all the environmental and building per¬ mits, the dredging has been done to 14 feet, and we've rented space to start fab¬ ricating the concrete docks," Vegara says. The marina will have slips to accomodate 'boats from 32 to 130 feet, and all the fa¬ cilities a cruiser could want — including a luxurious clubhouse and a second story sundeck and pool. While it's unlikely that many — if any — berths will be ready in Michael and one of the other friendly bartenders at Le Select, where the mind-numbing 'ti Punch is the speciality of the house.

CHANGES time for the November start of the cruis¬ ing season, Vegara hopes to be able to accomodate at least some boats during construction. We also hear that Marina de La Paz, the original marina on the Baja pensinsula, has added another 30 berths to bring their total to 108 slips. In addi¬ tion, Marina Paradise, just north of Puerto Vallarta, has recently added 38 more slips. With all the Americans sail¬ ing to Mexico and staying there — or at least leaving their boats — every one of these slips will be needed before long. The two biggest cruiser events during the winter season in Mexico are the Banderas Bay Regatta and the Sea of Cortez Sailing Week. The former, an upscale four-day event based out of Ma¬ rina Paradise four miles north of Puerto Vallarta, will be held March 23-26. Mark your calendars. The latter, more of a weeklong beach party, starts in La Paz but mostly takes place 20 miles to the north at spectacular Isla Partida. Boone Camp reports that the Club Cruceros hasn't set a firm date yet, but unless the tides are wrong, it will probably be in mid-April.

The last of the open space in the I finer Harbor at Cabo San Lucas is being taken away to install a 150 foot pier for small cruise ships and the like. Speaking of La Paz, Camp seems to think there are more cruisers than ever enjoying a summer in the Sea of Cortez. "They come in to La Paz for a cool trip to the CCC [the big supermarket] and a cold

brewski, and then head back out again." Otherwise, Camp says it's been pretty quiet in La Paz — although the fishing has been good and it's been so warm that lots of cruising boats are now sporting air conditioners. "The only thing that gets people moving fast down here is when someone brings down a fresh batch of Latitudes," says Camp. 'Then everyone jumps into their dinghies, zooms over to the clubhouse, and they're gone in an hour." So if you're headed to La Paz, bring down a bundle and you won't have to buy a beer for a week. Down in Cabo San Lucas, Tim and Linda Leathers of the Sausalito-based Ericson 36 Rooster Cogburn report that, "It's been much cooler than normal this summer. It's maybe 81° in the morning and hasn't been getting much higher than the 90s. The humidity hasn’t been bad either. We keep waiting for it to get ugly, but it hasn't yet. As for the marina, it's 85% occupied — and we're in the middle of hurricane season. In addition, there have been lots of cruisers passing through." What is kind of ugly in Cabo is that

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suggestion. "We just stumbled over the Latitude website," writes Kim Cole, who did the in¬ augural Ha-Ha in '94 with husband John aboard their Irvine-based S2-36 Skywater. "John and are I still in New Zealand after our leisurely cruise through through the Marquesas, Societies, Cooks and Tonga. We arrived in November of '95 — and now I'm selling advertising for ra¬ dio stations in Auckland! You never know what you'll end up doing while on a cruis¬ ing holiday. When we arrived in New Zealand, it was to catch our breath and rebuild the kitty. Things were going just fine until John ran into this once-in-alifetime opportunity, so it's not always too small a Idtty that stops one from cruis¬ ing. But blast the rat race, as it just seems to keep sucking us in. What do they say? The problem with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still a rat! "We've been in New Zealand so long that they've made us citizens," Kim con¬ tinues. "The only yacht left here from that first Baja Ha-Ha are Mark and Deborah Menagh's Passport 51 Eagle's Quest. Remember how the towing of their boat

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Underwear power! Deborah Managh of ‘Eagle’s Quest' holds up the panties that made cruising history after Ha-Ha I. Med. We haven’t gotten the details yet, but an insurance broker tells us that a Farr 46 hit an uncharted rock in Banderas Bay, Mexico, last month and sank. We "

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To successfully cruise in Mexico, you have to prepare your mind as well as your boat. This cruiser-to-be sharpens his relaxation skills. this winter". Minney says, "We'll have a beautiful catered lunch, roast a couple of pigs, sing sea chanties, give out free prizes and all that. It's our way of saying thanks to all the cruisers." Minney suggests that

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11-FT 6-INCH, 1998, ROTORY MOLDED, Laser

13-FT BANSHEE. Good condition, fast, fun, easy

SANTANA 22,1967, HULL #333. Good shape,

Pico+, with a Caulkins trailers full boat cover. This

to sail, trailer & boat with current registration tags

bottom paint & standing rigging replaced '97 1/2,

is a fun, easy boat to sail S rig. It has been well

are in my garage. I need a boat that can hold more

main, 2 jibs, lines led aft, mostly original. Alameda

beer & wine. $500 obo. Mitch, (925) 866-2995.

slip. Outboard available. Must sell. $2,500. Please

SNIPE #21507. Two sets of sails, trailer. Ready to sail. $600. (415) 459-8174.

maintained S would be an excellent 1 st choice for a boat. Ready to sail now. Asking $2,200. If interested please call: daytime pager (415) 784-

11’6" PELICAN with 15 hp Evinrude motor &

3293 or weekend phone (707) 766-9731, ask for David.

DINGHIES, LIFERAFTS AND ROWBOATS

call (510) 459-6065. AVON 8-MAN LIFERAFT. Certified '98. Offshore w/canister. Unused. $2,000 obo. (415) 370-5174.

24-FT ALLEGRA CUTTER. Pocket cruiser. Big¬ ger Flicka. New standing rigging. New Yanmar.

SEVYLOR 11-FT INFLATABLE. Has 4 piece

Selftailing winches. Bronze windlass & ports. Teak

hard floor with aluminum stringers & inflatable

(707) 745-1898 orknorrsoup@aol.com

AVON 3.11 ROVER with 3HP Yamaha. $1,800. (408) 353-5712.

decks. 6 ft headroom. It needs some cosmetic work and a few things finished off. Motivated to

O’DAY DAYSAILER. Safe 16' 9" family dinghy,

GIVENS LIFERAFT. 8-person, single tube, rigid

Can be seen in Emeryville. (530) 268-2043.

(415) 331-0910.

completely equipped with main, jib, spinnaker,

cannister, located San Diego. Never used! $2,000

seat pads, wood cabin hatch, self-bailing cockpit,

obo. Also Delta 35# anchor, $190. Bruce 11#,

16.5-FT INT. 505 TRAPEZE DINGHY. US 7988

NEW SAN FRANCISCO PELICAN, Smith

boat cover, trailerwith new tires, hubs & bearings.

$70. KamPlus TNC for HAM radio, $200. Please

Australian kir wood hull, Proctor D spars, Water

Boatworks built, Washington. Best hardware, all

$1,900. Call (916) panuli@msn.com

call (858) 451-1420 fortemobile @ rocketmail.com

Ratz fins, chute launcher, Otto spinn pole system,

mahogany, epoxy non-slip finish, flotation, laza-

galvanized trailer. All in mint condition. Boat is Whaler clone. $4,200 obo. Benicia. Please call

684-8377

or email:

email:

WANTED: El Toro for recreational use. I want to

16-FT O'DAY DAYSAILER II, mini-cruiser. 16 ft

teach my niece to sail the way I learned. Will pay up to $2k for well cared for fiberglass hull and rig. Contact Virginia @ (650) 323-7136.

505 fast racer, 14 ft Laser or 21 ft ocean rowing shell. Each is $1,400 firm. (510) 464-6811. 10' 3“ WEST MARINE INFLATABLE. Seats,

keel. Also a canopy, foot pump, oars & a 5 hp motor with external tank. Both like new, $1,200.

sell. I’ll consider offers in the low$20’s. Pleasecall

trailer & cover, many extras. $5,000 (US) takes it.

rette doors, rope rail, roller reefing, center sheet¬

Ray, (209) 772-9695. Available now. At Stockton Sailing Club.

ing, outboard bracket, galvanized large wheel trailer, covers, oars, more. Sacrifice $4,100. Alan, (415) 485-5764. Motor available.

ZODIAC 11 ’2" (3.4M), inflatable floor, bijdnitop, spares, wheels, Suzuki 15HP 300hrs. $3,000 obo. Phone (510) 233-8647.

MELGES 24, 1994, #70 “Racer X". Excellent condition. All equipment including trailer, outboard,

12-FT KOLIBRI SLOOP, good cond., trailer, like FJ. $1,100. (408) 847-4982, email pic avail.

oars, cover, pump & bag in very good condition. $650 obo. Call Al, evenings or weekends Please call (707) 792-7936, weekdays (510) 987-2033 or

CORONADO 15 WITH TRAILER. Hull in good

jib), and full boat cover. $24,000. (650) 967-9787

shape; sails exit, used 6 times. Complete, ready to

or email gdm@americancentury.com

TWO LASERS W/TRAILER. Includes 3 sails and

email: alwaysal2@yahoo.com

sail, registered. EZ Loader trailer in exit condition,

all gear. $2,000. (415)512-7131.

TackTick, many sails (including nearly new North

new lights. $1,450 obo. Andy, (415) 383-8200, ext CORONAD015. Complete with trailer, boatcover,

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24-FT ISLANDER BAHAMA, 1965. Full keel, 2 mainsails, 2 jibs, 1 storm jib, outboard motor.

LIDO 14, 1970 with tilt trailer, custom cover,

trapeze & 2 sets of sails. $1,000. Boat is located

garaged, white hull w/ blue deck, original finish is

in Vallejo; can arrange delivery. Call Jim at (916)

making-me sell. Sleeps 4. Porta-Potti. Berthed in

in excellent condition due to garage storage. One of the nicer Lidos out there. $1,200 OBO. Call

564-3681 days or (916) 442-2518 eves.

Vallejo. $500. Call Mark, eves (707) 447-4122.

(925)963-7600 days, (925) 846-5262 eves.

AVON 10-FT INFLATABLE WITH MOTOR. Rover

12-FT ACHILLES SPORT BOAT. 18 hp Nissan

315 with roll-up floorboards. Nissan 8 hp out¬ board. Extra seat. Bow storage bag. Pump. Oars.

w/electric start, bimini top, full boat cover & trailer. Excellent condition. $2,000. Please call Walt at (925) 820-4014.

MARINE SURVEYOR Jack Mackinnon,

24 FEET & UNDER

Storage bag. Super condition. $1,400/obo for both. Located Woodside (on Peninsula). Please call (650) 851-2834.

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Yacht Delivery & Charter Capt. Paul McDonald • Power & Sail 25 yrs. experience • Reliable • References USCG Licensed MASTER #801932 • (209) 473-1614 Page 246 • tMTeuJj. 3? • September, 1999

Needs some work - mostly clean-up. Wife is

ISLANDER BAHAMA 24' 6", '65. Brand new: Sails, standing and running rigging, bottom paint, RANGER 22 R/C CHARTER YACHT. Owner

8hp outboard, battery, anchor rode, etc. IB is an

moving up. 100’s have sailed him, all fall in love, now you can own a turn-key charter boat. Cheap

SF Bay legend. $4500/motivated seller. Please call (408)482-0919.

mooring available. $4,000. www.saber.net/ -smoothsail

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EAST BAY SAIL CLEANING (510) 523-9011

22-FT CATALINA, 1972. 2 mains, 2 genoas,

CLASSIC CATBOAT. Gaff rigged, 14.5feet, hard

FREEDOM 21 SAILBOAT, 1985. Trailer included.

storm jib. New mast and rigging, sleeps 4, 2 winches, fast, excellent racer or cruiser, $3,850.

chine, steel centerboard. Wood with gel coat. New bottom paint. Custom trailer, Nissan 3.5 engine,

Shoal draft. Free standing carbon fiber mast. Main, staysail & spinnaker. Patented spinnaker

20- FT SEACRAFT, 1987. Center console, T-top & electronics: VHF, Loran, fishfinder, 150 hp Mer¬ cury outboard - oil injected, SS prop, very low

(530) 677-3550. 8 ft El Toro, all wood, varnished

many extras. Needs flooring & mast base re¬

deployment system. All controls from cockpit. 8 hp

hours. Galvanized Shoreline trailer: new wiring,

mahogany, 2 sails, Tight seams, wonderful boat. $625 OBO. (530)677-3550.

paired. $2,500. Call Alice at (415) 457-8997.

Nissan outboard. $3,500 obo. Please call Wayne at (925) 274-1323.

lights, polyeurathane rollers. $9,500. Call Paul at (415) 380-9969.

CAL 20. Great and fun boat for Bay sailing. At Pt.

autopilot, teak cockpit grate, Suzuki 6 hp long

19-FT MacGREGOR POWERSAILER, 1995.

Richmond Yacht Club. 4 h.p. Johnson motor (clean), transom, 2 jibs, good main, new rigging,

shaft, 110%, 130%, 155%, near new main, spin¬

Excellent condition. Marin dry storage next to

21- FT MACGREGOR, 1968. Sleeps 4, new rig¬ ging, retractable keel. Clean, in dry storage.

naker gear & dinghy with o/b. $4,500 obo. Please

dealer where bought new. Has swing keel & can

Needs motor. Great beginner boat! Trailer in¬

needs bottom paint but ready to sail! $1,400. Call Alyce, (415) 441-8447.

call (310) 548-4237.

handle any waterway. One person can handle all the sails. Water ballast for self-righting stability.

cluded (with new winch and bow wheel). $1200. (925) 372-8427.

24-FT YANKEE DOLPHIN, 1973. Sparkman &

Electric start. 40 hp Tohatsu, can tow water-skier. Includes cover, trailer, fits in garage. Fully

RANGER 23. Tall rig, pocket cruiser. Dodger,

MOORE 24, #12. New non-skid deck, self-releas¬ ing traveler w/bamey post. New Nissan outboard,

Stevens full keel, compact cruiser, singlehander, 8 hp Tohatsu '95, VHF, Loran, knot, DS, autopilot,

main & specialty sails. Autohelm, trailer, too many

12v, 1 lOv, solar, main, 110 % jib, 150% genoa, spinnaker, full head, dodger, anchors, more. $8,800. (530) 878-9078, leave message.

equipped, 3 sails, VHF radio/antenna, compass, cushions, queen & V-berth sleeps 4, enclosed Porta-Potti, solar vent. Owner now into golf. Ask¬ ing $8,900 obo. (415) 459-4800.

extras to mention. Ready to race boat, top condi¬ tion. In Santa Cruz. $12,000. (541) 317-1608 or astro@teleport.com

FLYING SCOT 19-FT one-design racing sailboat with trailer. (1992). Asking $4,500. Please call (818) 222-1727. FALMOUTH CUTTER, new gear includes, sails, 2GM diesel, Ballmar alternator, standing, running

J/24,1980.6 hp o/b, main, 100%, 150%, 3/4 oz

24-FT PACIFIC DOLPHIN, 1977. S&S design.

rigging, vane, autopilot, radar, water maker, solar

FUN, FAST MERIT 22,1984. Three sails, trailer,

spinnaker, pole, all safety gear. Ready to sail.

Merc 6 hp o/b, centerboard. $5,500 obo. Please call (510) 630-7326.

$4,500. Call Rich at (650) 363-1390.

Main, 100%, 110%, 150%, cruising chute. Charger, shorepower, knot/depth. Danforth, Bruce, 7.5

panel, and more. A10+, beautiful factoryfinished boat. $57K. (206) 784-7807.

Evinrude. Marine head. Teak hatches, canvas. 23-FT MacGREGOR VENTURE, 1983. Swing

You too may win the Pacific Cup. $7,200. Ray, (650) 369-8482.

ERICSON 23,1968.2 Mains, 150%, 130%, Work¬

J/24,1978, SWEET LIPS. Tillotsen/Pearson built.

keel, pop-top, main, jib & staysail, Porta-Potti,

Trailerw/surge brakes, 6 hp Evinrude, old sails, 2 spinnakers & fresh Sobstad Genesis main & genoa.

trailer. $2,400. (415) 759-6923 or (650) 355-5937.

Great condition, ready to go racing. $5,500. Please call (209) 369-1714.

CAL 20. Sailed & kept in the Delta. Now at

yacht. Owner has invested over $23,000 in near

ment, & Porta-Potti. $3,000. Please contact Frank (707) 996-6364. frank@vom.com

Berkeley Marina (B-6) until October for easy view¬ ing. Sails great in the Bay. $998 obo. Elizabeth,

SANTANA 22,1967, HULL #333. Good shape,

(209) 948-2920.

complete refit. Non-marine trades of equal value may be considered. Call for complete equipment list. Priced for immediate sale & firm. $5,400.

tion, only sailed two years. Galvanized trailer, two

bottom paint & standing rigging replaced 97 1/2, main, 2 jibs, lines led aft, mostly original. Alameda

O’DAY 22 WITH TRAILER, 1976.15 hp motor.

slip. Outboard avail. Must sell. $2500. Please call

Looks new. Fixed 600 lb shoal keel. Sleeps 4.

(510) 459-6065. SANTANA 20,1997. Dealer demo professionally

Easy to trailer & launch. 4 sails. New paint, new cushions. All lines lead aft. Auto tiller control, knotmeter, VHF radio, depthfinder, compass,

maintained. Looks new, custom trailer, very clean,

stove, sink, heater, 12v water pump, water tank,

sails available. New or used. $12,000. Please call (916) 635-5424.

private bathroom. Emeryville berth available.

RANGER 23,1976. Gary Mull's classic pocket

ing, 85% & Spinnaker. Lines lead aft, Suzuki 8 hp with battery charging unit, compass, safety equip¬

18-FT JOHNSON, 1996, #178. Excellent condi¬

Evenings (925) 939-4689.

sets of sails(one set bought last year), deck cover, jib sock. If not familiar with this fast sport boat

JY15,1995. Boat & sails are in superb condition; has been used less than 10 times. Includes

checkout. Asking $9700. (760) 633-1618x6311 (D) or (760) 721-6958(E) or http://www.jayi.com/

Caulkins galvanized trailer with mast crutch & jack, cover, lifting bridle, Davis Windex, extras.

johnson18

$4,500. Call Peter at (415) 472-7000 home or (415) 658-3886 work.

$4,995. (408) 737-2353.

25 TO 28 FEET

CATALINA 22. Swing keel with trailer. New long

SANTANA 22. Excellent condition. 1-1/2 year new Yamaha outboard engine. Prime berth at

shaft Johnson 6 hp Sailmaster outboard. Excep¬

Santa Cruz South Harbor available 1 year. $4,500

tional condition. Completely upgraded to sail the Bay with H/D rigging, 2 sets of sails, bottom paint.

obo. Call (831) 438-0266.

keel, new haul & bottom paint, stove, VHF, com¬ pass, sink, head, anchor, 150 genoa, 110jib, main

Very light use. Complete & ready to sail. $4,800.

J/24,1978. Great condition. Melges aluminum

good condition roller furling, 5 hp o/b. Trailrite trailer, new brake system. Must sell. $4,500 boat

(925) 689-0148.

trailer, 12 sails, Porta-Potti, ground tackle, 5 hp outboardS other accessories. $4,500 obo. Please

21- FT OSLOJOLLE. Norwegian built fiberglass daysailer, centerboard sloop. Built to Lloyd’s stan¬ dards; very good condition. Sails include: main, 2

call (916) 455-7665.

jibs, spinnaker. Comes with yard trailer & hoist sling. $950. Call (707) 538-7249. YAMAHA 24,1980. Fast, responsive, fun to sail w/comfortable cockpit & a roomy cabin. Great sail inventory: new Sobstad Genesis main & #3 jib, also 3 more jibs & 3 spinnakers. PHRF186. New: Seagel battery, Contest compass. Porta-Potti, 4 hp o/b, anchor, rode & safety equipment. Re¬ duced for quick sale. $5,500.40# Danforth, $75. Robert (415) 307-3416. CATALINA 22,1983. Good condition. Swing keel, pop-top, Porta-Potti, stove. 2 jibs, spinnaker, main. At Brickyard Cove Marina. Ready to sail. Asking $3,000. Call Mike, (650) 591-9304.

24-FT COLUMBIA. New bottom paint, rigging & spreader lights in March 1999. West Marine VHF & 8 hp Johnson LS. Three sails, new upholstery. Nice! $6,000 obo. Please call (408) 691-2224 or (800) 544-4660 ext 4474. May be seen at Clipper Yacht Harbor Sausalito. Slip 700B. ENSENADA 21 WITH TRAILER. Swing keel, pop-top, sleeps 4, galley with sink, Evinrude, flush deck, Lyle Hess design, nice looks. Trailer fair, boat good. Reduced to $1,950. (415)671-4988. SANTANA 22,1974. New standing rigging, new North mainsail & new Nissan 8 hp outboard. Excellent Bay boat. $5,000. (408) 736-2836. SANTANA 22, LIMESTONE COWBOY, hull #58, 1996. Priced to sell - fast boat, past season champ, many sails including almost new Pine¬ apple class jib, 155%, storm jib, 3 spinnakers, all

22- FT SANTANA. Good condition. All lines led aft, 9 hp Mercury outboard, one North jib, one main. Currently in Santa Cruz on trailer, will de¬ liver to San Francisco Bay Area. Trailer not in¬ cluded. $2,000. Brett, (831) 462-9120.

spin gear, professionally faired keel, epoxy bot¬ tom paint, Autohelm, 6 hp Evinrude, trailer, dry sailed, many extras. A very nice boat & a lot of boat & gear for only $3,800. Jeff, (510) 865-3539 hm or (925) 686-9164 wk.

18-FT MERCURY #528. Tahoe boat. Completely re-outfitted ’99 (all new Harken gear), North main, jib, new North 120%. Full cover, new custom trailer. $2,200. Located Sacramento. Please call

or $6,000 boat & trailer Lake Tahoe. Please call (775) 849-7888. EXCALIBER 26 with Marina Green 30 ft berth. Fast Crealock design. $4,900 obo. Please call (650) 941-6809 or (408) 495-6183. ERICSON 27. Original owner. Great condition.

(916) 933-4653.

Soliloquy at Coyote Point Marina near San Fran¬ cisco. Appointments for cooking, dining, sleeping

CAL 20. New rigging S LPU on mast in ’97. Good

for 5 & storage. Comfortable & competitive design by Bruce King. Inboard Atomic 4 engine. $12,000

main, one mylar S one dacron jib, 3/4 bz spinna¬ ker. Well equipped bosun’s box, lifejackets S throw cushion included. Ready to sail. $1,200.

obo. Frances, (650) 579-2800.

Call Jeff at (510)215-2485.

MacGREGOR 26D, 1988. Trailerable, trailer, 7.5

1980 MacGREGOR VENTURE 23.6 hp Evinrude

stove, sail cover, standard safety equipment.

outboard with gas-oil tank, 4 sails, trailer, hull, rigging, all gear, speed-depthfinder, lifevests. Great

Currently at Coyote Point. $6,900. Please call (408) 738-0122.

hp Honda 4 cycle, VHF, AM/FM, porta-potti, Orico

condition. Registration current (boat S trailer) Toilet message. San Mateo, private party.

MERIT 25,1984. Great for Bay cruising, racing. Low hours 8 hp Honda outboard - under warranty. Bottom paint & survey, Summer '97. Sail inven¬

CATALINA 22, COL MUSTARD. Denizen of the

tory includes full set of racing & cruising sails with

Estuary. Swing keel, trailer, motor. Great boat, good condition. Park at home, trailer to lakes, go

2 spinnakers, heavy weather jib. $9,200. Please

good condition. $4,800obo. (650) 554-1100, leave

call (707) 425-9626.

to S from Delta at 55 mph. See at Alameda Marina dry storage #690. $2,700 obo. (510) 527-4688.

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25-FT CATALINA, 1978. Excellent condition, fixed

Builder Yachts Repaired Interiors Decks Hulls

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CATALINA 28 MKII, commissioned by dealer

COLUMBIA 26,1969. Motivated seller, 4 sails (2

COLUMBIA 28,1969. Fresh water boat at Tahoe

March '98. Little used by 80 year old owner. Roller

Winter, 2 Summer). In good condition with some

135% jib, autopilot, depth, VHF radio, less than

extras, new shore power, battery charger. Has

since new. Main, jib, 170% genoa, 160 % drifter, spinnaker, 5 winches, stainless boom vang, wheel

100 hrs on motor. Full cockpit cushions. $47,500.

enclosed head, very strong boat, roomy cabin,

steering, Atomic 4 inboard. 6 ft headroom, hang¬

(541) 459-3224.

sleeps 4, ideal Bay boat. Needs motor. Also

ing locker, enclosed head with sink, full galley.

available, brand new 5 hp o/b= $800. Boat at

$11,000. (775) 588-2965.

CAL 25. Excellent Bay sailer, sleeps 4 comfort¬

South Beach Marina, slip F66. Asking $3,000 for

ably, one set of good sails. Sink and all plumbing

boat or package deal of 3,200 with motor. Leave

CATALINA 27,1985. Located SSF, transplanted

PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25. Bristol condition. Ex¬

for head. Pop-Up top, fun boat located in Monterey

message at (510) 724-8823 or pager number

NE boat. Great condition, 450 hrs. Universal die¬

Harbor. $1,500.00

(818) 236-5830.

sel inboard, roller furling, self-tailing winches, all

cellent starter boat. Comfortable & easy to singlehand. Female/child friendly. Teak interior.

lines lead aft, dodger, wheel autopilot, speed,

Very clean. New: halyards, mainsheet, all inside&

depth, CD stereo, bottom painted 6/99. Asking

outside cushions. Yanmar diesel. Owners pur¬

RANGER 26,1973. All lines lead aft, lots of sails,

$19,900. (650) 573-7565 or http://www.saber.net/

chasing larger boat. $15,000. (530) 756-6686.

8hp Mercury outboard, depthsounder, knotmeter, clean. Great condition, lots of extras. $6,500 Call

-rader

Dan days (707) 527-4775, eves (707) 823-3935.

CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27,1972. Fiberglass

CATALINA 27,1981. Atomic 4 in excellent condi¬ tion, was started every weekend, Harken roller

SANTA CRUZ 27, HULL #118. This boat has

hull, teak decks. Upgraded 18 hp Volvo MD2001 diesel. Custom electrical upgrades including in¬

totally refurbished and is in beautiful condition. No

strumentation, electrical panel, solar charger.

over wood trim, traditional interior, original owner.

Excellent sail inventory. New legal head. Much

$9,000. Call for Alameda location. Please call

more. Well built, proven offshore design. Out¬ standing condition. $11,000. (707) 833-2827.

(707) 542-5817.

obo (831) 657-0494 or

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expense or effort has been spared to prepare this boat for double handed Pacific Cup or Singlehanded Transpac. One day of effort brings her back to round the buoys trim again. Excellent sails. Near new road trailer. Price of boat would

NEW ROBERTS 27 DESIGNED, custom built, beautiful mahogany interior, beautiful exterior. Offshore design, sails beautifully. $32,600 obo. (916) 783-8062.

furling jib, new halyards & jib sheet, canvas cover

COLUMBIA 28, HULL #126, 1968. Recently hauled, repowered with Volvo Penta gas inboard.

depend on what amount of equipment the pur¬

25-FT CATALINA, 1978. Excellent Condition,

Knotmeter, VHF, enclosed legal head, headroom,

chaser desired but would be realistic. Would con¬

fixed Keel, new haul and bottom paint, stove, VHF, compass, sink, head, anchor,150

nice liveaboard or Bay sailer. $7,000 obo. Clif,

sider trade possibility with Cal 27/29 or Ericson 27/ 29 or similar. For details phone (250) 721-5479. 1975 DUFOUR SLOOP 27, with 6 sails, VHF Sleeps 6. Proven cruiser. Must sell or will trade for? $4,000. Call (813) 651-5477 (Tampa, FI) or email eppysmom@aol.com

(510) 387-2304.

genoa.l lOjib, main good cond. rollerfurling, 5hp OB, Trailrite trailer new brake system. Must sell

PEARSON 28, 1977. Atomic 4, newer Harken

$4,500 boat or $6,000 boat & trailer Lake Tahoe. (775) 849-7888.

furler with 135% genoa, lines lead aft, alcohol

THUNDERBIRD - 2 years old.

Nice interior,

complete rig. $900. Call (925) 518-0005.

stove, propane BBQ, knotmeter, depthfinder, com¬ 26-FT COLUMBIA MKII, 1969. One main & one

pass, VHF. Could stand some TLC. At Tahoe.

jib, Mercury 9.9 hp outboard, enclosed head, very

Asking $7,500. Call (775) 831-0896.

clean inside & out. Asking price $3,300. Please call (415) 305-8314.

ISLANDER 28,1977. New interior cushions, new

CATALINA 25. Swing keel, EZ trailer, new o/b. VHF, DF, stereo, batteries/solar. Dinette, galley,

28.5 HUNTER, 1985. Shoal draft, 16 hp diesel,

head/vanity, shorepower. Good sails & spinna¬

sleep six, wheel steering, roller furling, genoa,

27-FT CAL T-2,1972. Good condition, sleeps 5,

ker, 2 anchors, BBQ. Cockpit cushions, sunshade, swim ladder. Great Bay-Delta boat. Very clean.

extra jib, gennaker, new bottom paint, depth, knotmeter, stereo, CB& VHF, private head/shower,

Evinrude 6 hp longshaft outboard, Porta-Potti. Needs keelbolt replaced. Main, 3 jibs, spinnaker,

Many extras. $7,650. (925) 513-3366.

ice box, alcohol stove. Extras. Asking $19,950.

full headroom in cabin. Richmond Marina Bay.

Perfect Delta-Bay boat. (925) 684-3005.

$4,995. (510) 231-5811, noon - 3pm.

ERICSON 27,1974. Rollerfurling, dodger, wheel, $10,000 new bottom, new interior. AM/FM stereo,

O’DAY 28,1980. 2 cyl Atomic diesel, Pineapple

cockpit cushions. Too much to list. Like new condition. Recent survey. $14,500. Please call

full batten main (self-flaking) and Pineapple club jib on forestay-mount club boom. Set for

TWO BOATS. CAL 25, hull, rig & sails in good condition. Very nice interior. Great basic Bay

coastal sailing. Very good condition. Shorepower/ battery charger, VHF, KM, DS, 3 sails, 9.8 Mer¬

cruiser, $2,500. Located Emeryville. Rhodes 19,

cury outboard, stove. Ready to go. Move forces

(925) 228-2852.

singlehanded sailing from cockpit. Alcohol stove

in niceshape. Good sails, $1,250. Located Berke¬

sale. $6,800 obo. In Santa Cruz. (831) 425-2832.

& heater, VHF, stereo, extras. $10,500. Please

ley. (510) 653-1724.

25-FT CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER. The Flyer is a Folkboat with a longer cabin. Solid teak hull, copper riveted. Mahogany cabin. New wood mast & heavy traditional rig by Nelsons. Seagull out¬ board but can take an inboard. Engine bed & shaft are in place. All the heavy work is done. $4,500. (510)864-4181.

batteries, many sails/spinnaker. Lines led aft. Selftailing winches. Atomic 4, stove, Force 10 cabin heater, head with holding tank. Teak/oak interior. Sleeps 5. Great Bay fun! $11,500 obo. (510) 477-9538 hm or (650) 949-2752 wk. CATALINA 27,1976. Clean, well equipped for

ERICSON 27 SAILBOAT, 1972. Good condition,

call (209) 477-0853. ERICSON 27,1973. Berthed in Berkeley. All lines 28-FT SOUTH BAY CUTTER. Built 1985 for bluewater cruising. Excellent condition, flush decks, skeg hung rudder, 3 bladed MaxiProp, 10

led aft for singlehanding. Sails: one storm jib, spinnaker, new mainsail & new jib. Interior in¬ cludes: 6' 2" headroom, enclosed head, galley

hp Yanmar, windlass, ground tackle, 2 speed

sink & alcohol stove, shorepower with 1 lOv out¬

winches, dodger. Secure, protected cockpit, etc. Sacrifice $18,500 obo. (949) 425-8900.

lets. $8,250. (707) 575-9255.

25-FT CATALINA, 1982. Very good condition.

Monterey mooring. 3 sails, main, 90%, 110%. 9.9 Johnson less than 5 hrs, Loran, VHF, sink, en¬ closed head, 2 marine batteries with solar panel. $3,000. (831) 624-3339 or fax (831) 624-3453. FOLKBOAT. Bristol condition, 7 sails most new, 5 hp Nissan, dodger, cockpit cover, Tahoe, trailer, sailed little, head, Ditzer hull paint, pulpits, new

Autohelm, custom canvas/dodger, depth, VHF,

ISLANDER 26,1978. Excellent condition, OMC

CATALINA 27, 1974. Located Alameda. Very clean, new bottom 4/99, Reliable 6 hp ’96 Johnson

CD/radio, compass, grill, 2 batteries/recharger,

Saildrive, VHF, stereo, depth, compass, roller

o/b, lines led aft, new depthmeter, new Porta-

cushions, toilet. Many extras. 8 hp Johnson. $7,900 obo. (925) 634-9719.

furling, Autohelm, full boat cover, cockpit cush¬ ions, alcohol stove, sink, chemical toilet, 3 jibs,

Potti, stove, sink, new standing rigging, new rac¬ ings cruising sails, cockpit cushions, shorepower,

26-FT PEARSON ARIEL SLOOP, hull #191.

anchor, will sleep 4. Located in Antioch. $9,500.

VHF. $7,000. Mitch, (925) 866-2995.

epoxy barrier, deck hardware, stainless rudder

Classy deadline is a-l-w-a-y-s the

18th.

N I

Complete refit 1997: standing & running rigging, shaft/shoe. New main/jib '98, genoa, spinnaker.

Please call (925) 625-0375.

Remember..

batt, vests. $11,500 obo. (775) 783-9826.

ERICSON 27,1976 SLOOP. This is the one! 5

Depth/speed. Nissan 8 hp o/b. '98 season cham¬

BARG AIN! I C&C 27,1971. VHF, Autohelm, GPS,

sails, Volvo diesel, brightwork & upholstery beau¬

pion. Located in Berkeley. $6,200. Please call

standing rigging, running rigging, 2 deep cycle batteries all new 1997. Main 2 reefs, 2 jibs, 2

tiful, Autohelm, microwave, AC refrig, TVA/CR. Lots of extras, beautiful inside & out. Ready to go. Call for info: (925)676-7647.

(510) 412-3366 days.

26-FT CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER. 1968 fiber¬

ditioned, upgraded, Neil Pryde sails, aluminum spars, internal halyards, jiffy reefing, custom inte¬

anchors, 2 solar panels. BBQ. Atomic 4 very low hrs, new gas tank. Cruise, race or liveaboard. $7,500 obo. (510)649-0668.

glass hull, teak decks. Recently installed: Volvo

CHEOY LEE FRISCO FLYER 26, 1967. One piece molded fiberglass with teak overlay. Recon¬

CAPE DORY 25,1974. Good sail inventory, new mainsail & Evinrude outboard, fresh water tank,

2002 18 hp diesel engine, Dutchman sail flaking, Furlex jib furling, autopilot, Pioneer CD with

rior, 6 ft headroom. New cushions & covers,

depth gauge, knotmeter. Willing to haul out for

Kenwood amplifier, many extras. $9,500. Call (707) 747-5390.

stern pulpit. $16,000. (415) 332-2430 or force7@earthlink.net

serious buyer. $6,900 obo/trade. (510) 537-9292.

portlights, Volvo MD1, monel shaft, epoxy bottom,

WANTED: MERIT 25's OR CAL 24 MK IV

BLUEWATER DELIVERY

Spinnaker Sailing in Redwood City is looking to add Merit 25's & Cal 24's into the club program. If you have one you'd like to sell or are

Sail or Power 30 years Experience • References • USCG Skipper Captain Lee: (888) 372-9165 or (415) 722-7695 Email: bluwater@ns.net

interested in making money with your boat by placing it in charter, contact Rich at (650) 363-1390.

Repair, Restoration & New Construction

Fred Andersen Boat & Woodworks Page 248 • UiIXiUc'iS • September, 1999

(510)522-2705

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

CAL 27,1972. Strong recently cleaned hull, pop-

ETCHELLS USA 425. This boat is ready to race

top, mast & rig 5 years old, Pineapple main & jib,

1978 S2 9.2C N CENTER COCKPIT, separate aft

& needs nothing. Double axle trailer. Located in

OLSON 30, BIG MON. SSS Transpac veteran.

VHF, Northsail gennaker, spinnaker pole, Evinrude

Point Richmond. Motivated seller. Call Brian at

outboard, 2 anchors, depthfinder, sleeps 5, ice¬

stateroom, Yanmar diesel, roller furling, dodger, new upholstery, new North mainsail, newsailcover,

Excellent condition. Convertible from shorthanded ocean to class racing. Includes furler, dodger,

(415) 559-2707 or brian.berger@woridnet.att.net

box. Sails great, upwind Berkeley berth, new survey. Reduced! $2,500 obo. (415) 663-1615.

solar, full battened main, double spreader, Alpha

YANKEE30,1972, PEREGRINE. Handsome S&S

bathtub/shower, new Lifesling. Great coastal cruiser. Too much to list. First $26,000 takes it. Call (530) 345-2335, Richard.

design. Bluewateror Bay racer/cruiser. Excellent

HUNTER 25, 1975. Clean boat, 8 hp Johnson long shaft, 4 sails, VHF, Loran, Autohelm, 2 an¬

sail inventory, well equipped. Epoxy bottom, vane, AP, etc. Very good condition. $16,000. Please call

chors. Also available with new Honda 4-stroke, hauled 4/99. $3,800. (707) 584-4824.

weekdays: (209) 838-0289 or contact weekends: (510)669-1673.

BALBOA 26. Pocket cruiser by Lyle Hess, full

CATALINA 30,1976. Furling jib, Yanmar diesel,

keel, 4 sails including new spinnaer, trailerable, ideal liveaboard, microwave, refrig, dinette. En¬

ERICSON 29, 1976. Dependable Atomic 4 in¬ board, “T” cockpit, wheel. Interior in excellent

autopilot, new outboard, custom galvanized trailer, hydraulic backstay, elliptical rudder& much more! Price reduced to $18,000. Please contact Bruce (510) 638-3278 evenings or email: rumbleseat@earthlink.net

condition, exterior needs work. Depth and knot meters, 6'+ headroom, stove. Excellent Bay boat, Berkeley berth. Ken (209) 786-3443.

RAWSON 30. Great liveaboard, Bay boat. Bullet¬ proof cruising hull. Dinette layout w/refrig, 6' 3‘

wheel helm, VHF, autopilot, 3 burner stove with

ERICSON 29, 1971. Very clean, family boat.

closed head with 2nd sink, 9.9 Evinrude with

oven. Great family boat. $14,500. Please call (805) 937-8295.

Harken roller furling, all lines aft, depthfinder, knotmeter, compass, VHF, stereo, rebuilt Atomic

remote controls & electric start, used 3 hours since overhaul. Sausalito berth. $5,500. Please call (415) 332-1001.

DRAGON 1950 RACING SLOOP, 29’ 6’ LOA.

4 which runs well, shorepower, pressure water, etc. Coyote Point. $9,700 obo. (650) 594-0297 or email: ssccaus@aol.com

approved head. Well maintained Palmer gas en¬ gine. Sail inventory serviceable, ground tackle in good shape. Nice boat for $12,500. Please call (415)945-1563.

26- FT LUDERS 16. Fiberglass hull, mahogany

sails (2 mains, 1 jib, 1 spinnaker), rigging with mast & trailer. Out of the water 2 years. $1,750/ offer. (650) 493-0664, Ken.

Douglas Fir on oak frames. Complete including

cockpit, Hood main. Performs well in SF Bay. Great daysailer. Specs: LOA 26 ft, LWL 16’ 4\

headroom throughout & plenty of storage. USCG

CATALINA30,1983. Diesel21 hp., rollerfurling, wheel steering, selftailing winches, autopilot, new dodger and cushions, cockpit cushions, VHF, CD

beam 5' 9", draft 4 ft, keel 1,600 lbs lead, total

TURN-KEY CRUISER. Very nice 1972 Columbia

displacement 2,950 lbs. $2,900. Please call Mark, (415) 383-7154.

30. Traditional lines with modified long fin keel & skeg hung rudder. All new rigging & sails 1994.

27- FT ERICSON SAILBOAT, 1977. Classic .wheel

Equipped with hard dodger, Monitor windvane, Furuno 16 mile radar, PUR 35 gal/day watermaker,

, atomic 4, refurbed interior, exc condition, Oak¬

stereo, and more. Very clean. $26,500. Please call (925)-945-0698 eves or (415) 982-1850 ext 132 days..

refrig, rollerfurling w/4 headsails, storm sail, cruis¬ ing spinnaker, etc. Hard sailing dinghy & 10 ft

land Embarcadaro CoveC-4 location. $9,750 priced to sell!! (209) 869-1301.

Rare & beautiful. $148,000. For photos & specs:

Avon, 2 outboards, 3 autopilots, 2 depthsounders,

rebuilt yanmar. New rigging. New rudder. VHF.

2 GPS’s, 3 anchors, approx 350' chain, electric anchor windlass, folding prop, Force 10 cabin heater, VHF, RDF, 12v/110 power inverter, solar

100 ft. 3/8" chain. 100 ft. 3/4’ nylon anchor line. GPS, anchor, new compass, depth finder, etc.

panels, wind generator, sun awning, Shipmate stove w/oven, propane BBQ, 12 v TV, microwave.

$9800 firm. Heavy duty trailer available. Call Al, (530) 836-1389 evenings best.

Mexico, Caribbean, So. Pacific charts, plus many

25-FT PACIFIC SEACRAFT, 1979. lOOhrs. on

extras & spares. Hauled, surveyed, bottom paint 5/99. First $24,500 steals it. Ph: (805) 676-5607.

ERICSON 27, 1976, wheel and tiller steering, diesel with low hours, 6 winches, 8 bags sails,

30-FT PACIFIC SAILBOAT. Classy lines, fiber¬

race rigged, head/foil, fresh water boat, bottom

glass with teak trim. 15 hp outboard & all basic

painted 6/99, speed, depth, must sell: $10,000 obo. (916)721-0133.

equipment. $4,500obo. Call (209) 339-1274, eves

COLUMBIA 26 MKII. Inboard, all instruments,

C&C 31,1976, hull, engine (Volvo Penta) & 13

new cushions, enclosed legal head, 3 jibs, 2

sails all in excellent condition, recent su rvey, racer not cruiser, but with weekend amenities (cush¬

www.sailsandiego.com or call (888) 855-5823.

IF YOU LIKE WOODEN BOATS, you’ll love this AZZURA 310,1997. Ultra light, all carbon/epoxy sportboat with articulating carbon bowsprit & car¬ bon mast. Asymmetrical spinnaker, 18 hp Yanmar Saildrive with folding prop. Winner 1998 Doublehanded Pacific Cup. Fast, easy & fun sail¬ ing. PHRF 60. Overall winner '99 Coastal Cup, winner ’98 Doublehanded Pacific Cup. $55,000 obo. (510) 769-0602 or 522-5838.

ioned berths, water tank, head and Porta-Potti,

Capable. Call Erik: AM (510) 237-2099 or PM (510) 223-8310.

LPG cartridge stove, removable table, etc.), VHF, cell phone plug, big boat feel under sail, sistership

SAILBOAT WANTED. Since 1988 the Bay Area

Alameda. No brokers please. Please contact (510) 527 8900 day (OK to leave message, for

to “Sorcerer”, PHRF 168. $ 15,000 obo, located Assoc of Disabled Sailors (BAADS) has offered free outings, classes, cruises & races for people with disabilities, from South Beach Harbor, SF.

Dee) or boat@translate-best.com.

Now we are looking for the right boat to extend our

29- FT ATKINS-DESIGNED CUTTER. Double-

activities to Berkeley. If you have a good 25-30 ft

ender with classic lines. Ferrocement hull, but

sailboat in need of a loving home & a truly worth¬ while purpose in life, could you offer her as a tax

you’d never know. Built professionally in WA in late 70’s. Volvo diesel, VHF, propane stove/oven.

deductible donation to BAADS? (415) 281-0212,

New bottom paint. Ready-to-go Bay boat. $8,000.

arfowle@ski.org

Call Erik @ 415-824-4206.

30- FT BENETEAU 305,1986. Excellent condi¬

29 TO 31 FEET

tion, fully equipped, two suits of sails, Lewmar selftailing winches, rollerfurling, wind/depth/speed

i0-FT CUSTOM SPORT BOAT. Schumacher/

fixed head, galley, H/C pressure water, shorepower. $36,500. (650) 960-1965 (e).

instruments, autopilot, 18hp Volvo diesel engine, Olson design. Exceptionally well constructed. Excellent condition. Super fast, top quality sails, 2 axle trailer, LPU paint, outboard, carbon fiber

30-FT ULDB, MAGIC, 1968, built by Bill Lee.

spar, fractional rig, dry sailed. The ultimate in go

Race rigged, wind/speed, direction, knot-log. 4hp

ast racing at a much lower cost. Please call Bill at

yachtwin. Mylar main, Kevlar #1, 3 spinnakers.

408) 734 2027.

Double axle trailer. $5,000 OBO. (562) 592-1087.

\yooDRUM Marine Specializing in custom interior cabinetry, tables, cabinets, countertops, cabinsoles. For power or sail.

one. 30 ft stout Brazilian built cutter. Excellent Volvo diesel & spare engine. Ready to sail or liveaboard. Nothing fancy - no varnish. Brightly painted, solid, hardworking boat. Sausalito berth. $6,500. (415) 460-8771, message.

RAWSON 30. Strong bluewater full keel cruiser. Awlgrip paint (topsides too), bronze thru-holes, Palmer gas engine, Monitor windvane, propane 2 burner stove/oven. Spacious 6' 3' headroom.

& weekends.

mains, spinnaker. Lines led aft. Big interior, stove sink. Great bay boat. Well cared for. Dry and

30-FT LYLE HESS CUTTER. Like the Bristol Channel cutter but larger. Sistership to Pardey’s Talesein. Professionally built modem wooden boat ’97. Boat show winner twice. Equip for cruising.

CS-30,1985. Fast, comfortable, strong boat set¬ up for shorthanded cruising/racing. 3 jibs, Harken furler, spinnaker, autopilot, Loran, hydraulic backstay, rack & pinion steering. Volvo diesel, great engine access. Located Marina Village. $28,000. Call Don at (925) 862-0824.

COLUMBIA 29 MKII. Great project boat. It's all there: mast, sails, rebuilt Atomic 4, winches, etc. Assembly & new rigging required. $1,500. Con¬ tact Steve (650) 369-0150 days.

OLSON 29. Lake sailed. New spinnaker & main, 14 bags, trailer, o/b, VHF, all the go fast. $25,000 obo. Ph: (559) 226-7611, fax: (559) 226-7191 or email: teamskal @ aol.com

30-FT CUSTOM KETCH. Fiberglass over ply¬ wood. Very strong. 10 hp Sabb diesel. 8 ft fiber¬ glass dinghy. 7 tons displacement. Heavy full keel cruising boat. Lots of sails, ground tackle. Every¬ thing good condition. $15,000. In Sausalito. Call

Sails & rigging good. Expensive yard work com¬ pleted. $10,500. (831) 644-9078.

1986 BENETEAU 305. Excellent condition, fully equipped, Lewmar S/T winches, roller furling genoa, 2 sets of sails, electronic wind, depth & speed. VHF, 18 hp Volvo engine, complete galley, fixed head, h/c pressured water, shorepower. $35,500. Call Mike (650) 960-1965.

30-FT DAVIDSON CUSTOM MAXI-MORC,

Stardancer.

Built 1984. Epoxy/kevlar with wood

core. Built by John Rae in Auckland. Sparcraft mast. Discontinuous rigging, North sails. $40,000. Also has Americap cert. Call (818) 995-0855 or (818) 501-3925.

30-FT KN ARR, Norwegian built in 1953. Hull #74. All for $8,000 including Gas House Cove berth rights or possible partnerships. Please call Whitt, (415) 451-1411 wk or (415) 383-8430 eves.

(707) 528-9323.

CATALINA 30,1980. Siuya is now for sale! Cus¬ tom interior, h/c water, shower, macerator, fire¬

BABA 30,1979. Very nice, Volvo diesel, 7 sails,

place, sleeps (comfortably) 7, refrig. Diesel en¬ gine, wheel steering, extensive instrumentation,

autopilot, windvane, depthsounder, VHF, radar. Has everything. Ready to go boat in Mexico. A real cruiser. Asking $60,000 obo. Call (805) 434-2401, leave message for Scott.

excellent sail inventory, dodger, new sail covers a new heavy-duty custom full boat cover. Com¬ petitively priced at $24,000. Please phone Tom at (510) 290-5263.

CARPENTRY

YACHT DELIVERY

Mobile cabinet shop

- Power & SailExperienced • Licensed • References Bill Carber*(415) 332-7609

Call Lon Woodrum at: ^

(15-332-5970

USED SAILS-SAVE $$$ Sail Exchange (949) 631-0193 www.sailexchange.com

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J.T. Van Sickle Co., since 1976 Jan Van Sickle, ALM, Member: SAMS, SA, SNAME & ABYC www.jtvs.com Phone/fax: (707) 939-9131 Email: jtvs@juno.com ^ P.O. Box 51, Vineburg, CA. 95487 September, 1999 •

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WILLARD 30, fiberglass sailboat/trawler - two boats in one. All brand new 3/99: Pineapple sails, Lewmar ST winches, standing & running rigging,

PEARSON 35,1978 SLOOP. Shallow draft full keel liveaboard cruiser, w/centerboard, excellent

Ready for racing, cruising or singlehanding. Very

condition, recently hauled, surveyed & bottom

well equipped with 8 bags sails. Scandinavian

asymmetrical gennaker. 24 hp Yanmar diesel,

painted. 35 hp Westerbeke diesel auxiliary, auto¬

classic. Must be sold to raise fund for RYC Foun¬

lazy jacks, mooring for season, inflatable, CQR

pilot, Loran, depthsounder, swim ladder, dodger

dation. Price reduced to $12,500. Please call Tim,

with 300 feet total scope (chain & rope), AM/FM/

with cockpit cover, Force 10 BBQ, like new sail

(510) 232-8420.

cassette/CD, rebuilt head, alcohol stove, full head/

covers, self-tacking jib, 3 deep cycle batts. Galley

shower, lifejackets, sail cover, dock bumpers & lines. Fresh bottom paint, no blisters. Overall

has 3 burner kerosene stove & Adler Barbour Cold

CAL 35,1983. Just back from Mexico & ready to

Machine. Lived comfortably on this vessel for 7-1/

go again. All the cruising goodies: radar, SSB,

condition is very good. Asking $48,500. Talktrades

2 years. Call (408) 997-0876.

HAM, VHF, GPS, weatherfax, stainless steel arch,

READY FOR HA-HA & BEYOND. Hans Christian

lifting davit, Monitor windvane, autopilot, new dodger & canvas, new refrig, liferaft (’98 recertifi¬

maybe? Call (775) 352-9591.

Profurler, tiller, bottom paint. Mexico veteran. 50 hp upgraded Perkins, 2 helms, autopilot, GPS,

TARTAN 33,1979. Sloop. Well equipped cruiser.

Muir windlass. $44,500 obo. (510) 658-7695.

33-FT APHRODITE 101. Diesel. Clean & neat.

HUNTER 35.5 LEGEND, 1987. Never left Lake Tahoe. New North sails, 1997; includes 140% genoa on Harken roller furfer, full batten main,

Fast& easy to sail. Nowin Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. Free slip until December 1999. Perhaps longer.

33, fully equipped, ready to go. Equipment in¬ cludes: radar, SSB, GPS plotter, VHF, sailing

cation), Maxprop, 4 gel batteries, 3 solar panels,

instrumentation, 2 autopilots', Monitor vane, wind

Heart regulator, Link battery monitor, North main, Profurl, removable inner forestay, storm staysail,

HOLIDAY 30,1959. Wonderful Bay boat. African

$38,500. Universal diesel. Autopilot, RF, GPS,

generator, solar panels, Heartlink, CARD system,

cruising spinnaker, electric windlass, selftailing

mahogany on oak, built in Holland by Van de Graf,

refrig. Ph: (760) 720-5240 or fax: (760) 720-5247.

Profurlers, new sails, dodger, refer/freezer, Force 10 stove, ESPAR, Yanmar with 1400 hrs & much

winches, 300 ft chain, 2 Bruce, 1 Danforth, new bottom paint. $62,000. (650) 728-1402 or altairsf@yahoo.com

ICOM 25, depthsounder, Palmer 22 hp, boat & engine well maintained. Main & 4 jibs. Recently

WESTSAIL 32. Ready for cruising/liveaboard.

more. Best lay-out in any boat under 40 ft with

painted. $6,150 obo. (415) 868-1783.

Factory plan, immaculate. Beautiful interior, elec¬

double pullman forward, double quarter berth aft

tric head, shower, h/c pressure. Much more!

& stall shower. 6’ 3" headroom thru-out. Lying San

RANGER 33,1974. New rigging, thru-hulls, roller

LANCER 30, 1980. Fiberglass, white, built in

$49,900. (510) 331-7145. All details, photos,

Juan Islands. $117,500. Call (714) 273-1529.

furling jib, new instruments, inc windspeed &

Santa Anna. Dodger, good condition. Roller furl¬

Westsail history at www.moonbase.com/ccc/ wings/

RANGER 33. Great condition with upgrades.

months, in Ballena Bay. Clean boat, great value. $21,000/offer. (510) 628-4105 or (510) 301-2865.

32-FT FLUSH DECK SLOOP. Excellent condi¬ tion. Beefy English 1960 pocket cruiser, full keel

ing jib, wheel steering, Yanmar diesel model #20M15 15 hp, LOA 29' 8\ beam 10', draft 5' 2",

point. Atomic 4 in good condition. Survey 18

disp 8200#, anchorweil foredeck. $14,000. Please

ISLANDER 34,1967. Clean & beautiful. Brightwork

contact (510) 232-9515 jedocktor@yahoo.com

just completed. Atomic 4, CNG stove, teak inte¬

Outfitted for cruising. Roller furling, 2 anchors, 4 burner propane stove, new cushions, weather cloths. Atomic 4 with Halon system. Asking

rior. Good liveaboard. Must sell because I’m mov¬

$26,000. Please call (510) 655-0908.

email:

ing East. First $14,000 takes her. (650) 740-5174.

shoal draft, suit of sails, Yanmardiesel. Seakindly, lots of room below, simple reliable systems. Atlan¬

35-FT CHEOY LEE LION, sloop/cutter, 1965.

tic, Hawaii, Mexico veteran. It’s someone else’s turn. (510)758-3113.

CAPE DORY 30 CUTTER, 1981. Volvo diesel, Edson wheel steering. Datamarine log/speed, depth, wind, Autohelm pilot, VHF, roller furling jib, self-tending staysail, main, drifter, teak interior, holding tank, 1 lOv charger. Clean,

Fiberglass/teak beauty. New epoxy sides & bot¬ tom paint May '99. Atomic 4. Spinnaker, dodger, winter covers, propane pressure hot/cold water,

PETERSON 34 CUSTOM, 1978. Hawaii veteran.

solid cruiser - $30,000. (707) 874-3026.

fireplace, Loran, auto battery charger. Located

Marine surveyor’s personal yacht. Structurally stiffened, performance ocean cruiser, custom

Rio Vista. Asking $29,500. (209) 334-6153 (Lodi) or (559) 437-0974 (Fresno), leave message.

RANGER 33. Perfect for family, sleeps six, new electronics, clean. $24,000 obo. Please contact (925) 827-3787 or mkelsey@earthlink.net. Pic¬ tures of trip to Farallon Islands at http:// home.earthlink.net/~mkelsey/

RANGER 29,1976, VOYAGER. Race/cruise, full

CAL 34, 1975. Awesome Bay sailing, coastal

race set-up, proven winner, great sails, hardware & bottom. All lines led aft, new standing & running

cruiser. Blister-free fiberglass, 25 hp Westerbeke diesel (1992), 2 fuel tanks, 3 batteries (1999),

rigging, many recent upgrades, well maintained.

electronics (1995), aft wheel, Hood roller furling 120% jib (1992), spare sails/spinnaker, 2 an¬

Predominantly lake sailed. $14,000. Call Dan, (408) 985-5213 hm or (650) 968-9457 x226 wk

chors, cushions, tolls, goodies. Hauled, surveyed & bottom painted 1998. Liveaboard? Big comfort¬ able cabins, sleeps 6, icebox/frig, BBQ, microwave, pressure water, shower, phone/fax ready.

32 TO 35 FEET

Needs top paint, varnish, cosmetic work. Dinghy with outboard included. Priced to sell at $19,900/

CUSTOM 35 CUTTER. For insurance purposes this is a Yorktown 35, but not aesthetically chal¬ lenged like most Yorkies. Personal boat of Cap¬ tain Jim Elfers (see March Latitude), marine chanderiy manager & author of “The Baja Bash”. Unbelievable value with new Imran LP, Harken furling, Westerbeke diesel, Furuno radar, Furuno GPS, electric windlass w/cockpit remote, sailing bimini, 2 autopilots, new roll-up dinghy, 8 hp Yamaha, all lines led aft, downwind pole, staysail.. Strongly built, can carry 2 kayaks without looking stupid, sails well. Lying at desirable marina in La Paz, at the Sea of Cortez doorstep. Plane ticket deducted from final cost, or wait until November when I return her stateside & price goes up. Coast Guard documented, has 20 year Mexico permit. $25,000.

Please

contact

Jim

restless@earthling.net or (011) 52-114-31706.

offer. (415) 931-6663 or hphawk@earthlink.net

WESTSAIL 32. Pacific Cup Vet. Epoxy bottom

WESTSAIL 32. Custom built, teak interior. Aries

’99, standing/running rigging, lifelines new ’94. Volvo MD17C, propane stove, insulated backstay, spinnaker, dinette layout. Monitor windvane. Teak decks. Very clean & seaworthy. $49,000. Call (510) 208-5530, Daniel.

MARINER 32 KETCH, 1972. Comfortable full

vane, all lead keel, shower, dodger, hard dinghy,

keel fiberglass cruiser. Mexico vet. Perkins 4-107. 6 bags sails, tanbark main, mizzen & 150%. Full

Yanmar diesel, 44 hp. $48,000. (510) 783-6404, pager (408) 581-1356.

liveaboard/cruising interior. Convertible back to racing trim. Double headsail rig with full suit of sails, running rigging led aft, Yanmar diesel (re¬ built), windvane, custom anchoring gear bow & stern, 3 anchors, dodger, cockpit canvas, spare parts, etc. Clean. Easy maintenance. After cus¬ tomizing, she’s been our pride & joy. We’ll provide continued technical support. $57,500. Doug/ Dolores Shotton. (510) dshot1on@surfree.com

235-6679

WANTTO BUY32-FTT042-FT, clean liveaboard sailboat. Bay/coastal cruising, structurally sound. Some fix-up OK, need 6' 4" headroom. Pay to $30,000 cash. Glen, (916) 393-6847 or email: gbigelow@pacbell.net

ERICSON 32, 1972. Sloop. Clean & attractive. Light green hull, white cabin & deck. Teak trim outside, mahogany inside. 3 sails, jib, main & cover, 120% jenny. Atomic 4 engine. Sleeps 6. Original owner. Asking price: $13,000. Please call (510) 337-0454 or (925) 254-4168.

electronics. Haul/survey 11/98. Clean, well cared for. $29,000 obo or consider trade for 35' - 40' cutter. (510) 729-3875.

34-FT MORGAN, 1979. Customized & cruise

WINDJAMMER 34,1978 KETCH. Original owner. 20 hp diesel, flush teak deck, hard dodger, full

equipped with the latest. Hard dodger, radar arch,

cruising sails, electric windlass, 1.5 kw generator,

etc. Located at Marina De La Paz, Mexico. $45,000.

stove/oven, CQR & Danforth anchors on rollers.

See email: http://osmx.com/timber1ake.htm for

Liveaboard or cruise. $40,000 obo. Please call Tom, (650) 368-8476.

details or write: Tone Bernard, 326 T St, #105, Eureka, CA 95501.

YACHT DELIVERIES Power • Sail Professional • Reliable • Reasonable USCG Master • 25 Years Experience 1-800-497-5644 - Cap't Jim Prejean - Email: JPrejean@yahoo.com

SEAL'S SPARS & RIGGING Since 1970, specializing in quality Aluminum Masts and Booms for 20 to 30 ft "Plastic Classics”. We have the experience and the parts to build you a superior spar. STEVE SEAL (Rigger at Cal Boats 1964-1969) Call (510) 521-7730

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We scrub above & below deck • Metal polishing • Maintain wood interior« • Wash & wax hulls • Bottom cleaning • Ocean safe products (415) 713-2824

IRWIN 32 SLOOP, SEA DEN. Atomic 4, club footed jib, dodger, extras sails, sleeps 5. Owner took up golf. A great boat priced for quick sale at $12,500. (650) 877-7429.

32-FT CLIPPER MARINE KETCH, 1976. Fiber¬ glass, Yanmar diesel, LP paint hull & deck '95,

TAYANA 37 MKII, 1986. World cruiser in pristine

ISLANDER 36,1981. Great coastal cruiser, Bay

condition. Aft stateroom. Perkins 4-108 low hrs. Radar, Monitor windvane, Autohelm 3000, Avon

& Delta boat! Spacious, beautiful interior. New: bottom paint - no blisters, Force 10 three burner

with o/b, CQR, Adler-Barbour refrig, separate

stove, Jensen CD/AM/FM player, rebuilt plumb¬

shower, 400 a/hr gel, generator, 100 fuel, 100

ing, completely updated electrical system, 2 bat¬ teries, wired for solar panel, Delta awning, hatch

water, new dodger/canvas. $103,000. Please call (415) 485-0597.

rigging/lifelines replaced '95, new bottom paint 4/

screens, carpet. Comes with: VHF, depth, speed & distance, wind, dodger, Pathfinder 50 w/lowhrs,

98, non-skid '96, hot/cold pressure water, pres¬

ERICSON 38,1981. Well maintained, roller furl¬

sure alcohol stove, depthsounder, v-berth bed

refrig, h/cpressure water, lead keel, BBQ. Second

ing 110% & 140%, new dodger & sail cover,

'97, salon settee '96. $13,000. 1-888-691-7396

owner. Price reduced to $34,900. Please call

Autohelm 4000, E-meter, 32 hp Universal, hot/ cold pressure water, separate shower, new bot¬

(510) 526-9524 or email: bassmantml@aol.com

keel, skeg hung rudder. In San Diego, will deliver

ISLANDER 36,1975. Perkins 4-108. Beige with

West Coast if purchased before 9/15/99. $94,900 (858) 273-4607.

(voicemail), eves (408) 778-7670 or email: johnd2m@aol.com

tom, no blisters. Ready for fun. $61,500. Please call (510) 638-7638 or (925) 737-5329.

TARTAN 34, 1974. S&S design. Keel/center¬

yellow trim. Recent upgrade of standing rigging with Harken furling jib. Five Barient winches. New knotmeter & depthsounder, dodger, sail, wheel &

board, 5,000 lb ballast, skeg mounted rudder,

36-FT CATALINA, 1986. Roller furling, dodger,

sails beautifully, anchor windlass, Autohelm, Moni¬ tor. Little use. $24,000 obo. (650) 244-9619.

hydraulic backstay, lazyjacks, autopilot, VHF, ste¬ reo cassette, windspeed/direction, depth/ knotmeters, macerator, inverter, microwave, BBQ,

ERICSON 35-3, 1983, one owner,

many up¬ grades f97. Harken furler, UK sails, dacron main,

h/c pressure water, stove/oven, chart table, self¬ tailing winches, cockpit cushions, clean. Now

chine refrig. Hot/cold pressurized water. Teak & holly sole. Three new batteries & a Newmar bat¬ tery charger. New FM radio with 4 speakers. VHF

tape drive 125%, dacron 95%, Hood cruising

$62,000. (707)422-0411 orCGJSAIL@AOL.COM

& Loran. New cabin lighting with upgraded wiring.

spinnaker, standing rigging, Force 10 stove, refrig, autopilot, Balmar alternator, E-meter, SSB/ham.

36-FT PINKY. Tom Colvin design “Ying Yang”

Recent survey, no blisters. $37,500. Please call (707) 552-3368 or (541) 476-2090.

New epoxy barrier bottom and paint. 3 stage

bare hull, tacked up, owner/ builder deceased,

battery charger. Bruce 33 and Danforth 12H an¬ chors, pressure water, 85 gal water, 40 gal diesel,. VHF, GPS, depth, speed, wind, self-tailing winches,

family MUST SELL, stored indoors, immaculate workmanship, located Paso Robles, CA. $4,000. Zeke (360) 385-6080, Olivia (805) 927-4117.

Mahogany on oak frames. Recent new interior. Graymarine engine in working order. Recent bot¬

lines led aft, hard dodger. $49,900. Please call (650) 591-9584 or www.a27class.org/E35

ERICSON 39. Beautiful 1971 documented ves¬

tom job & new rigging. Two burner Force 10 propane stove, galley, sink with teak draining

sel: diesel, roller-furling, Sitex depth & speed, new paint, new stove, new head, dinghy with motor.

board. $9,500 obo. (415) 331-6930.

CAL 34,1969. Solid hand laid glass hull. Clean

Liveaboard or cruise anywhere! Signet instru¬ ments, recent survey. $47,000. (310) 514-3414, for more info.

ALAJUELA 38. Traditional ocean cruiser, new

inside and out, no blisters, new interior. Knotmeter, depthsounder, Loran, VHF. Atomic 4. Complete sails, including spinnaker. Oversized winches. Berthed Pillar Point, (Half Moon Bay). Mooring available. $19,500. (415) 640-8053, Joe.

winch covers. Two anchors, 35 lb CQR & a 15 lb Danforth. New propane stove & oven, cold ma¬

39-FT FREEDOM EXPRESS. Cat/ketch, carbon fiber masts, full batten sails, Perkins M-104, fin

FARR 38. Solid S-glass hull, no blisters. Built 1983. Teak cruising interior. 3spinnakers, 2 mains, additional headsails, Harken fuller, autopilot, GPS, depth, speed. Clean boat. $58,000. Please call (510) 232-8722.

CATALINA 38,1986. Roller furling, dodger, Uni¬ versal diesel, VHF, Loran, autopilot, CNG stove/ oven, A/B refrig, hot/cold pressure water, inflat¬ able dinghy. Excellent condition. $44,000. Please call (925) 260-0052.

KETTENBERG 38, 1952 CLASSIC SLOOP. FISHER 37, with new Yanmar diesel, cruising equipped, aft cabin, watermaker, inverter, solar panels, furling, extra fuel, large battery banks, liferaft, dinghy w/9.9 outboard. Extras. $103,000. (916)761-5838.

paint on hull & house, teak interior, decks & cockpit, rigid dodger, new electronics, many cus¬ tom upgrades by owner of 18 years. $125,000.

36-FT EXPLORER, 1979. Turn-key cruiser ready

Michael

to go. Volvo diesel 300 hrs, sailing dinghy, 2.5 Merc o/b, radar, GPS, VHF, SSB, depthsounder,

www.homesteadorcas.com/sailboat

Whitlock steering, windvane, autopilot, roller furl¬

38-FT REINKE S10,1995. Strong German de¬

ing, Lectrasan. Located Ensenada, Mex. Asking

sign. Built in Switzerland. Aluminum hull sloop

CATALINA 38, 1983. Burgundy topsides, new

Windwalker. (011)52-61-74-00-28.

rigged with Mercedes engine. In excellent condi¬ tion & fully equipped for long range/offshore cruis¬

engine, new rigging, black anodized mast, 42" wheel, autopilot, GPS, spinnaker, upgraded

cently equipped for offshore. Renovated interior with new cushions, U-shaped salon seating & lots

CAL 39. Be in Mexico this November on a turn¬

ing. Asking $95,000 obo. Call (415) 663-8292.

winches, 3 headsails, microwave & refrig, plus

key cruising boat with everything including 6

Details & pictures on www.metro.net/ulmem

more storage. New in '98: repainted mast, stand¬ ing & running rigging, inner forestay, storm jib &

months of food, ready to leave now. Save yourself

premier slip at Schoonmakers in Sausalito. Fast & fun. $50,000. (707) 481-0603.

5 years of preparation, $44,000 of gear, in the best

1969 COLUMBIA 36. New diesel/trans/prop. Full

trysail, Edson cable steering, dodger & bimini,

equipped fastest performance cruiser under $100,000. (562) 260-3707.

batten jib on Harken traveler. Full batten main with

36 TO 39 FEET

$45,000. Fax

MORGAN 382, 1978. Comfortable cruiser re¬

Monitor windvane with autopilot, Switlik 6 person liferaft. Maxwell 800 electric windlass, 3 anchors, Harken selftailing winches, Furuno 821 radar,

Skott,

(360)

376-5284

lazy jacks. Dodger, cockpit cushions, cruising spinnaker with chute. Much more. Possible owner finance. $28,500 obo. (707) 399-8137.

Garmin 128 GPS, ICON M710 HAM/SSB, VHF, CD player, high amp alternator, Link 20, Force 10 propane stove & oven w/thermostat, PUR 40 watermaker, macerator. Hawaii veteran & ready

SANTANA 37,1970. This strong, fast cruiser is

to return. $65,900. Call (360) 531-0569.

Caribbean. Well maintained & fully equipped.

38-FT HANS CHRISTIAN MKII, 1979. Heavy

Includes Volvo MD-11 diesel, Force, 10 stove/ oven, Adler-Barbour refrig, Harken roller furling

duty offshore cruiser. Excellent condition. Cutter, 6 sails, 45 diesel. Includes VHF, HAM, Loran, autopilot, windvane, liferaft, inflatable and/or hard dinghy, outboard, solar panels, great ground tackle, much more. $110,000. (509) 997-2266 or

1980 TRISMUS. 37 ft veteran circumnavigator. Volvo 44hp diesel. Two aft-cabins. Five headsails, spinnaker, new main. Top quality gear, CQR, chain, windlass. Radar depth, speed, auto-pilot, windvane. Readytogo. $35,000. Please cailTom (415) 298-9921.

ready for extended winter cruising in Florida or the

38-FT GLOBE, 1978. Garden design, full keel, flush deck cutter. Heavy layup ocean cruiser. VHF, autopilot, knot depth, refrig, 120 fuel, 120 water, heavy ground tackle. Beautiful, well-main¬ tained vessel, stunning teak interior. A truly out¬ standing cruiser. $89,900. (425) 258-4384.

steba@methow.com

HANS CHRISTIAN 38T, 1978. Quoted, “Best conditioned HC of this vintage”. Well equipped with low engine hours. Owner took delivery of new boat and must sell!! Call Craig (562) 594-9716.

with 3 jibs, newer North main, spinnaker w/ATN sock, Norseman/Navtec rigging, 3 anchors, Nilson

fast racer/cruiser. Several headsails including new roller furling on Profurf system. Two mains. Re¬

double bow roller, Furuno arch mounted radar,

cently hauled & painted. Survey value $95,000,

GPS, Autohelm autopilot, depthsounders, VHF, 150 amp alternator, Blaupunkt AM/FM cassette,

will sacrifice for $66,500. (562) 425-1779.

110 gal water, 40 gal fuel, wind generator, por¬ table air conditioner, TV/VCR & dodger. 8/98

50-FT SCHOONER, 1929. 14.5' beam, 55hp

survey available. Located Ft. Lauderdale. $24,900

excellent condition. $55,000 or best offer. Please call (713) 805-7715.

obo. (510) 338-0661.

Yanmar Diesel, cruised 15,000 miles last 3 years,

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44-FT ALUMINUM IOR, Doug Peterson design,

electric windlass with 300 ft 3/8" BBB chain,

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43-FT CHEOY LEE PILOTHOUSE CUTTER,

BEAUTIFUL 47-FT STAYSAIL CUTTER. Pilot¬

43-FT STEEL, PRIZE WINNING boat of the month,

house. Great shape, nicely equipped, low engine

National Fisherman. Pilothouse hard chine ketch.

1983. Perry designed long range motorsailer,

hours. 2 staterooms, 2 heads, sleeps 9. Great

Designer Charles Wittholz. Documented fishing

turn-key equipped. 2 queen, 1 single stateroom, 2

cruiser or liveaboard. Easily singlehanded. Com¬

boat, liveaboard/yacht, 11 x 14 cargo hold, 4x8

heads with shower. 600 fuel, 300 water, 2,600

plete details at: www.wenet.net/users/mikepatg. Price reduced to $124,900, negotiable. Please

hatch. Sails well on all headings. Range 1,800 miles. Still improving. $80,000. (916) 974-1886.

mile range. 5 ft draft. 6 cyl Lehman, roller furling main & jib, drifter, hard dinghy on davits, Avon

call (541) 947-3330 for appt.

42-FT LOA, 13' 6" BEAM, mahogany on oak

N AUTICAT 44 KETCH. One owner, superior con¬

MASTER MARINERS DREAM, 49 ft cutter rigged

Willard center cockpit ketch. Master Mariners

dition, 1st factory custom in West, cruise ready,

yawl. Proven world sailer with 2-3/4 circumnavi¬

dream. Ready to cruise, fully equipped, excellent

dual steering, forced air heating, center queen aft

gations completed. Right now, ready for another

cabin, 2 heads - separate shower, 4 page equip¬

world trip or sail back to California. USCG docu¬

condition. Located San Carlos, Mexico. $45,000 obo. For more info call (Oil) 52-62-26-1570 or

mented vessel. Builder: Cantieri Sanqermani,

email: antidi@hotmail.com

www.robertpard@aol.com

ment list. Reduced $179,900. (805) 501-4059 or

ISLANDER ACAPULCO 40. Back from 2 years

easy to shorthand sail. Price: $89,000. Located

South Pacific cruising. Add provisions & go. Fiber¬

Hawaii. Single owner since 1974. Please contact

glass, cutter rigged ketch, Isuzu 50 hp, 160 fuel,

phone:

(808)

328-2277

120 water, 3 anchors, 330ft chain, frig, SSB/HAM,

OLDHAWCOF@webtv.net

GPS, radar, Benmar autopilot. $20,000 upgrades

HANS CHRISTIAN CHRISTINA 40, SIDONIA,

in 1997, spares. Documented. $78,000. Please call (916) 388-9210 or cetacea97@yahoo.com

NEW ROBERTS MAURITIUS 43. Fiberglass hull

1987. 66 hp Yanmar 1500 hrs. Extensive inven¬ tory for extended comfortable cruising including

liferaft, cockpit enclosure, dinghy/OB, upgraded

cruising sailboat or enclosed wheelhouse motorsailer. Ketch or cutter. Comes with custom

48-FT C&C LANDFALL. World cruiser, low pro¬

cradle. Needs to be finished. Ideal for owner

furling jibs, furling main & staysail. Loaded w/ electronics, radar, SSB, GPS w/charts, solarpanel, wind generator, 8 kw generator, 8-man liferaft.

builder. $6,500 obo. (503) 283-5200.

windlass, full batten main, genoa/Profurl,

file pilothouse with inside/outside steering. Dual

gennaker, staysail. Extensive interior upgrade: cabinets, Italian marble galley/head. Much more.

44-FT GULFSTAR. Double headsail sloop 81/90.

Wife has bad hip & must sell this lovely boat in

The complete cruiser/liveaboard. 2 bdr, 2 ba,

Trinidad. Will deliver & pay R/T airfare for buyer.

fireplace, A/C, gen, heavy weather rig. Bristol. Original owner. Been there, ready to go back

48-FT C&C LANDFALL, 1980. Autopilot, radar,

$150,000. Please call (831) 661-0126 or contact s/vsidonia@aol.com

again. Lying Maine. $132,000. (207) 348-6127.

Paul (619) 689-0746.

CAL40. Profuri, 130%jib, custom mainsail, 300 ft

46-FT CLASSIC OCEAN RACER/CRUISER,

NORSEMAN 447 CENTER COCKPIT. Cruise

$143,000. Call Dale at (408) 253-9008 or www.siliconstars.com

GPS, bimini, loaded with extras. $159,000. Call

chain, (all new 1999), radar, 2 GPS, VHF, HAM, refrig, wind generator, 2 solar panels, inverter, 4

First Cal 32, 1937. Good condition &

ready, immaculately maintained, new SSB,

beautiful. Well worth restoring. Recently refas¬

watermaker, dodger in 1998. Diesel heater, en¬

anchors, Monitor windvane, 2 autopilots, 8 gph

tened hull, new rigging, good decks, no dry rot.

gine driven, 110 refrig/freezer. Sailing/rowing hard

watermaker. Located Guam. Email Walter at cruisingsail@hotmail.com

Needs motor & sails. Price negotiable. Call Rod

dinghy (Trinka) w/outboard, self-tending jib op¬

Clifton, (281) 339-0300.

tion, gennaker (sock), current survey. $240,000.

Cholita.

hull. Fair, well-built with Airexcore. Lead ballast in. Ready for deck, cabin & interior. Located in Hay¬

including Zodiac w/15 hp o/b, dive compressor. Sun/eyed S.F. 1998. Custom interior. More info:

project, excellent opportunity. $7,500 obo. Must sell. (510) 889-8958.

44-FT TANTON 1984. Jambo is our liveaboard cutter rigged sloop who gave us three marvelous

KELLEY PETERSON 44,1981. Ready for Baja

years cruising in Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska. She

Ha-Ha & beyond! She is a proven bluewater

is now ready for her next adventure with you.

cruising yacht. She features a low profile center

Check

cockpit that remains pleasing to the eye & keeps weight low physically as well as visually. This

(707)

265-9403

furling main & jib, Racor fuel filter, 80 hp turbo Yanmar/125 hrs. Canvas, full instrumentation, radar, inverter. Everything for liveaboard comfort, refrig/freezer, microwave, TVA/CR, radio/CD. T wo heads, separate tub/shower. Easy, fast doublehanded sailing. Berthed in Alameda. Of¬ fered

$244,900.

(510)

749-0665

www.gwbaldwin.com/jambo

performance cruiser has many recent upgrades

1964 47-FT MONK MCQUEEN (TRI-CABIN).

including: RL 72 radar, Standard communications

Twin Detroit V-6 diesels. Project boat. Engines

VHF with RAM mic, the new state of the art Spectra watermaker & much more. Her cruising

excellent. I have almost $200,000 invested. The lawsuits against the bogus repairmen and the

inventory is complete including autopilots, inverter,

insurance claims have just been settled. $25,000/ Offer (cash only). (831) 457-8076.

cold-plate frig, SSB, solar panel, spares & back¬

HARDIN 45 PLUS, 1981. Hull #100 built for the

features unique factory upgrades. Cruise ready

owner of Hardin International has many features unavailable on other Hardins including lead keel,

for $132,000. Contact Fred at (805) 654-1001 or

ups (too numerous to list all). Hull #286 makes this Kelley Peterson the newest model available &

email: merrydolphin3@yahoo.com

TARTAN 41,1972. S & S design, Tartan quality. Ocean racer/cruiser. Fast, beautiful, bullet-proof. Loaded: Yanmar, Autohelm, Monitor, ICOM 700 Pro SSB, bimini, awning, new dodger, Avon 8man canister liferaft, many sails. $59,500 obo. (916)791-2371.

KETTENBURG K40,1961. Mahogany on Oak, sound race beauty, varnished spruce spars, teak cockpit sole, bronze hardware and fittings through¬ out, Perkins 4-107 approx 900hrs, hauled 8/16/99 newbottom and topside paint, hull sound. $22,000. Call (415) 505-8882.

HANS CHRISTIAN 48,1987 CC CUTTER. Excel¬

email: KH8AE@akl.win-net.org (plain text) pre¬ ferred. Or Chuck, c/o Mike Snyder, 2075 San

lent cosmetic/mechanical condition. Ready for

Miguel Dr, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 or please call

interiors w/two staterooms, 2 heads w/stall show¬

(925) 937-1367.

ers, huge AC/DC/eng frig/freezer. Major refit/up¬

serious offshore voyaging. Luxurious teak & brass

grades 1996-1998. Maxprop, storm sails, spinna¬

HANS CHRISTIAN CHRISTINA 40,1987. Showboat 2 years, still worthy. Yanmar 66 hp 1800 hrs. Loaded: dinghy, o/b, radar arch/davits, radar, solar panels, SSB/HAM, watermaker, VHF, Gla¬

ker, awnings, Avon six person offshore liferaft, SSB, WFax, two VHF, Loran. New: blister job, engine/trans (700 hrs), wiring, hoses, thru-hulls, fuel system, sails, standing rigging, Profuri, Car-

cier Bay refrig, GPS x 2, EPIRB, alarm, liferaft,

ibe RIB, two outboards, 1500 amp hrs, inverter,

675 Ah gels, autopilot, windvane, forward depthsounder, Maxprop, oversized winches (9),

two solar, windvane, autopilots, radar, two GPS,

electric windlass, Profuri. Interior: lovely rare Ital¬

equipmentwithcurrentsurvey available. $299,000.

ian Vendite marble galley/head, extensive cabi¬

(949) 733-9008.

net upgrade, Soffit lighting. Fin keel, partial skeg, fast. Lying Trinidad. Will pay R/T to buyer. $150,000 firm. (831)661-0126.

Refit 1998 included aluminum spars, engine hy¬ draulics, deck caulking, dive compressor, GPS,

41-FT YORKTOWN, 1985,45-FT LOA. Custom

windvane, GPS, radar, hi-output alternator, Heart

teak interior, 50 hp diesel, custom rigging, new

inverter, new upholstery, custom mattress & more.

Smart charger. This solid, fast ocean cruiser is

bottom paint, newspeedlog, ’98 autopilot, 2 heads, CNG 3 bumer/oven, Norcold refer, genset. Great

Owner moving, must sell. Reduced to $129,700.

loaded with 3 furling, genset, freezer, fridge, hy¬ draulic A/P, washer, microwave, solar panels etc.

liveaboard, lots of storage, 93 gal fuel, 90 gal

$142,500 obo. Please contact (250) 743-9967 or bloosailer @ aol.com

water. Sleeps 6. $69,950/no brokers. Call Richard

(808) 742-9755. www.seabrooks.com

CD/stereo, 406 EPIRB, more. Details & list of

41-FT FORMOSA KETCH, 1977. Totally refitted 1997. Blue water cruiser. SSB, GPS, auto pilot,

HANS CHRISTIAN 43T KETCH, 1978. Excep¬ tional cruiser/comfortable liveaboard, great con¬ dition. Includes asymmetrical; chute, drifter, 135%,

heavy layup, tall rig and custom interior details.

Photos

info

wind vane, frig, 1992 Isuzu 60, new sail inventory, major upgrades thru-out. Beautifully maintained and

cruise

ready.

$73,900.

Email:

headinnorth@earthlink or (650)697-4080.

at:

eves (562) 431-3217 or days (310) 532-1355.

s$\or

CUSTOM DESIGN & FABRICA TION 650 875 - 3626 -

unvw.supertormartnecanvas.com

Canvas

MEDICINE AT SEA Dr. Dickie Hill Seminars in field medicine consisting of lectures & labs designed for people who travel where there is no other medical care. 131 First Street, Benicia, CA. 94510 (707) 745-3785 Fax: (707) 746-1770

In Harbor Electric

MARINE DIESEL ENGINE SEMINAR

Installation, Services of Boating Equipment Batteries, Charging Systems, Custom Design (510) 236-5419 Alt. Phone (925) 684-2965

Learn how to operate, maintain, and repair your diesel engine. Get hands-on experience adjusting valves, timing an engine, bleeding the fuel system, diagnosing problems and making repairs. Programs held on Saturdays. For more information, phone Technical Education Institute, (415) 332-7544

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CAL 40. Start your cruise in Fiji! Cruise equipped

ward in covered, safe, low-rent workspace. Big

HUNTER 450,1998. Center cockpit, 6’ 8" head-

(760) 839-0859 or (209) 523-1100.

BRUCE ROBERTS MAURITIUS 43 fiberglass

out

call (925) 934-1580. dwheeler@neWista.net

only, no deck or ballast. Can be made into a

solar panels, vane, autopilot, SSB/HAM, refrig, TVA/CR, CD/FM, watermaker, 2 chargers/inverter,

more. Just back from Mexico. $135,000. Please

chartered, immaculately maintained. Selden rig,

sailer. Well equipped. Famous Italian racer, fast &

SSB/HAM, radar, microwave, heat & air & much

room in staterooms & salon. Lightly used, never

Lavagna, Italy of real woods, oak, teak, hull of black African mahogany. Real beauty & great

Misha

liferaft, sea anchor, windlass, 300 ft chain, 3 anchors, EPIRB, GPS, Cap'n software, ICOM 710

16 HOLLAND ALUMINUM CUSTOM, 1979

IMAGINE, 55-FT LOA, 49-FT LWL, 14 ft beam.

34-FT SUNSET SAILBOAT, 1937. DeWitt de¬

Palmer Johnson built. This is 'ARIES' of Fastnet racing fame. Major refit with emphasis on cruis-

Club racer/liveaboard. Located in Kauai. Drasti¬ cally reduced $85,000. Good investment opportu¬

signed (Oakland) for racing. Mahogany over oak,

FORMULA 40, “Running with Scissors” (ex-Biscuits Cantreau II). See cover of Jan/Feb Multihulls

ng. Seakindly. Easily shorthanded. Excellent

nity. Reconditioned and sail away for $140,000. Earl, (808) 246-4828.

close-planked. Sails(twosets.onecanvas). Atomic 4. Serious only please. $5,000. Call Sarah (831)

Mag. Van Petegham/Prevost design. 40'x33'x4000lbs. Completely restored to “as new"

471-2724 until Sept. 18, (831) 502-2982 after.

condition and absolutely beautiful. Carbon-fiber construction with asymmetric lifting foils and out

olue water boat. Extensive updated equippment list. Fast. Powerful. Doug Weber (949) 673-4527 $89,000.

68-FT LOA, 54-FT LOD GAFF RIGGED Pinky Schooner,

board rudders. New paint, chute, Harken furling,

Attu. Professionally built 1985 & totally

MULTIHULLS

15hp Honda and spectra nets. Full sail inventory including Screacher. The finest F-40 ever built.

1500 watt inverter, 6 cylinder Isuzu engine & Hurth

45-FT WHARRAM ARIKI CLASS CAT. Good

Containerable. Contact (360) 321-2329 or Harrison @ Whidbey.com.

refit 1996 thru 1998. New wiring, ample power

51 FEET & OVER

electric system, 800 amp hr gel cell batteries,

Race ready. US$169K. Lying Seattle, WA.

transmission, new sails, square yard & standing

condition, no motor, one hull partly unfinished

TAYANA 52, 1988. CC, Gioit hatches, Hood

rigging, Robertson autopilot, Kobelthydraulicsteer-

inside. Lying at anchor near Sacramento. $11,000.

ports, Grunert refrigeration, Robertson autopilot,

Ing, new windlass & ground tackle, Force 10 oven.

radar, SSB, VHF, weatherfax, GPS, Chart Viewer,

200 gallons water & fuel. Furuno radar, 6-man liferaft, 406 EPIRB. Vessel lying South Pacific &

Dick at (916) 363-8383 days or (530) 753-8864 eves or Dick@davis.com

stereo, A/C, dodger, bimini, S/T winches, wind¬ lass, CQR, Bruce, Max-prop, Perkins 4-236,800 hrs, Westerbeke 8 kw, 1400 hrs. Excellent condi¬ tion. (310)821-9629.

ready to sail. Phone: (360) 385-7878 or email: attu@edensaw.com

55-FT CAMPER NICHOLSON YAWL (Nicholson 53-FT SAILBOAT HULL. Bruce Roberts design. Made of C-Flexfiberglass. The hull is ready to turn over. The male mold is inside the hull. A set of Bruce Roberts design plans & some building materials included. $3,500. (530) 876-9326.

55). Strong, fast, transoceanic cruiser. Bullet¬ proof F/G hull, aluminum spars, s/s rigging, over¬ sized hardware, Harken headstay, new decks,

trimaran, 1987. Very good condition, ready to sail,

1979 TROJAN MY. Bristol condition, all Furuno

includes trailer. Full batten main, reacher drifter, 2

electronics, full A/C, 440 Chryslers - 900 hrs, 10kw gen. Great liveaboard, lying in Sea of Cortez. Cruise the Baja & West coast of Mexico. Please call (011) 52-33-342-394 or email:

genoa's, working jib, storm jib & spinnaker. Bimini for shade, extra anchor, life jackets, all shrouds 2 yrs old. Knotmeter, windspeed & direction, Autohelm, radio, 9 hp outboard. New: 2 six volt batteries in series for strong 12 volt system with solar panel & regulator, new tramps. Petite ape 50

1965 TROJAN 38 EXPRESS CRUISER. Twin

call (707) 864-3487.

bottom paint in good condition, plus another gal¬

220hp Graymarines, 4k gen, refrigeration, hot water, shower, galley, 10Ogal fresh water, 200 gal

lon for repaint. In dry storage in San Carlos, Professionally finished ketch. 136 hp detroit die¬

Mexico. $22,500. For details please call Pete at (800) 687-2679 or email: tlandc@zianet.com

sel. 800 gallons fuel. 500 gallons water. Please call (907) 225-6065 or send email to

27-FT STILETTO, 1982. Excellent condition,

rons@city.ketchikan.ak.usforphotosand survey.

COCK ROBIN, 57-FT, 1962 ALDEN YAWL.

OWENS 40-FT TAHITIAN. Twin engine, double cabin, open flying bridge with full canvas enclo¬ sure, Mansfield sanitation system, customized interior. Great liveaboard. Sausalito berth. $39,000.

CROSS TRIMARAN, 39 ft cold molded, 20 hp Yanmar diesel, stainless rigging, Dacron sails, radar, VHF, log, depth, Force 10 stove, heater,

(415)332-9135.

AFTER ELEVEN ATLANTIC CROSSINGS,

small aft cabin, large cockpit, epoxy, E-cloth, refinished inside & out. Aukai. $53,500/offer. Please call (775) 827-3117.

PACEMAKER 34-FT ALL WOOD motoryacht. Aft cabin bedroom with bathroom includes shower, 12 x 9 ft main salon, big v-berth with own bath¬

SEARUNNER 37 TRI. West System epoxy boat.

room. Makes great liveaboard. New bottom & hull paint. $9,000 obo/trade ortrade for sailboat 30-32

Radar, refrig, major refit '98 including rigging,

ft. (510) 535-0457.

seven Fastnets, eight Antigua Regattas & the past ten years cruising the Caribbean, this 63 ft Cup

53-FT SKOOKUM. Professional finished ketch.

Challenger, built in 1937 by Camper Nicholson as

500 gallons water. 800 gallons diesel. Located in

their last wooden twelve meter is awaiting your

<etchikan, Alaska. 135 hp detroit diesel. For sale >y owner. Asking $250,000. (907) 225-6065.

turn to enjoy. She is a powerful performer that looks like every sailboat wants to look. Cost mil¬

ons@city.ketchikan.ak.us

lions to replace, but yours for $250,000. Don, (775) 831-3383 ortravlake@aol.com

:ORMOSA 51-FT KETCH, 1981. A real eye-

water, batteries, electric panel, fuel tank, stern castle, interior & more. Awesome. Boat in Florida.

BEAUTIFUL 47-FT GRANDY FANTAIL

$69,500.

motoryacht. Fir/cedar, extensive rebuild 1982.

(360)

579-1201

johnamatic @ hotmail.com

Well maintained, strong Cummins 165, pressure

CLOUD. Hollywood history, classiccruising racer,

SEARUNNER 32 CATAMARAN, 1997. Cold-

beautiful lines, fir on oak, lead keel, teak house & trim. New deck, beams, ribs. Great hull. Needs

molded, all epoxy construction. Open deck, rotat¬

water, shower, large custom galley, mahogany salon, pilothouse, antique wood stove, enclosed fantail. Great liveaboard/cruiser. Sausalito.

ratcher & great cruiser. Lying Santa Cruz. Black

1926 45-FT E.B. SCHOCK YAWL, FLYING

iberglass hull, teak decks & trim, Sitka spruce ipars, stainless steel crow’s nest. Roller furling nain (boomless) & staysail. New sail covers &

trailer, 15 hp o/b, many new items. In water in Tiburon. $12,000. (415) 897-4034.

fuel, sleeps six. Nice boat, potential, needs work, nothing to be scared of. Covered last 10 years! $10K OBO. Pat (415) 461-5073.

CLASSICS

Ready to sail the Bay or cruise the seas. Sleeps 7. =ull galley. Light & airy down below. Wood panel 3ruce for more info or brochure, (510) 523-3535.

fred@bay.net.mx

Perkins 4-236 (20 hrs), center cockpit / aft cabin. Book value over 200K, must see 125K obo. Please

SKOOKUM 53. S/V White Bear. Built in 1977.

salon. Detroit diesel 353. Full sail inventory. Call

POWER & HOUSEBOATS

32-FT JOHN MARPLES CONSTANT CAMBER

ing mast, FB main, roller jib, 9.9 hp 4-stroke outboard, VHF, dinghy, 5' 5" headroom, 100 sf

$26,000 cash firm. (415) 420-8935.

nterior curtains. Benmar autopilot, 80 hp Ford .ehman diesel, Dickinson diesel heater, propane itovew/oven.Paloma propane waterheater.cold-

completeinterior&substantial restoration. $7,500. Serious only - no hull kickers. (408) 873-8970.

ilate freezer/refrig. 220 gal fuel/220 gal water. 3 itaterooms, 2 heads. Set up to singlehand.

MASTER MARINER WINNER 30-FT, Westerly,

26-FT HUGHES TRIMARAN. Fast easy sailing.

1939. Mahogany on oak, teak decks (covered).

1139,000.

ERICSON 38, SAUSALITO BERTH, in excellent

:aptt ed-@pacbeli.net

New main, thru-hulls, recent refit of electrical system. Atomic 4, two batteries, head, V-berth,

Race, daysail or weekend. Furler, rotating mast, lazy jacks, VHF, KM, like new Honda 7.5, Delta & Danforth anchors, newer tramps, Dutch'man sail

condition, professionally maintained. Equity 1/3

icebox, table, stove, standing headroom. Ill health

slides. Launched 1987. Demountable, but diffi¬

'AYANA 52,1985. Luxury performance cruiser,

forces sale. $8,000. (415) 472-7653.

cult. Trailer. $12,000. (206) 784-2179.

interest of $11,000 plus $350 per month covers slip, insurance, mortgage, maintenance, etc. Call

ift cockpit, 3 double staterooms, beautiful & spaious interior. New autopilot & GPS, Kevlar main,

1929 STEPHENS CRUISER, 34' Port Orford ce¬

SUPERCAT20. Ultra high performancetelescop-

eves.

’rofurf, refer, boiler heat, dodger/bimini. Exten-

dar hull, teak from deck up. Pisces Isuzu diesel,

ing beach cat. Boat, rig, sails good. Trailer ad¬

ive upgrades & refits. Datamarine instruments,

zero hours after rebuild. Documented. Boat ready

equate. $2,400. (510) 499-9211.

lore. Fully outfitted. $245,000. Please contact 541) 388-8223 or davis@coinet.com

for restoration in San Rafael. Not for hacks. Seri¬ ous offers from restorers, only. (360) 752-9627.

SEARUNNER 40 TRIMARAN. Excellent condi¬

(650)

326-1430

email:

PARTNERSHIPS

Mike at (415) 332-9500 days or (415) 332-7779

INIQUEOPPORTUNITYTO ACQUIRE this 1986

1948 CLASSIC HIGGINS FURY 17-FT. Collec¬

leneteau 51, a proven cruising yacht & luxurious

tors boat. Very good condition, beautiful wooden boat with lots of charm. Complete rebuilt marine

veaboard vessel. Cutter rigged with roller furling

cockpit. $24,000. (619) 291-0641.

WANTED: PARTNER FOR CAL 34. 1975/76, excellent shape, many enhancements. Three other

tion, comfortable world cruiser, completely outfit¬

relaxed partners, no racers. Annual share of ex¬ penses, about $2,000. Each partner has boat one

ted. Located Baja, Mexico (save sales tax). 8 sails, Yanmar diesel, electric windlass, 3 doubles, hot shower, refer/freezer. Fresh paint inside/out.

weekend day every two weeks, unlimited other days. Harmonious four partner history for many years. Clipper berth 1005. 1/4 interest: $5,000. we’ll call back.

ails, Perkins 85 hp, 50 amp electrical system,

Chrysler engine. All original: instruments & trailer.

entral heating, electronics, electric & windvane

This boat won't last long. Serious only please.

Solar, Autopilot, full electronics. Extensive inven¬ tory. $79,000. (530) 888-7897 or www.homes-

utopilots, dodger & bimini. Recent haulout. Ask-

$9,600. Call (415) 332-8551.

pages.com/galadriel/

Call (415) 788-0781, leave message & number &

ig $205,000. For info & appt call (415) 435-4000.

tpz

/ -lit Jil SWWSW.

(415)485-7111 or 279-1305

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USED SAILS

CFM Craft Finishes & Maintenance Diving Service Refinishing Varnish & Paint • Towing Boats with Trailers

/tVA

FOR CHARTER: 42-FT CATANA CATAMARAN

30 ft - 50 ft Race or Cruise www.sfsailing.com/leech rudiger/ ^

CANVAS REPAIR, CUSTOM CUSHIONS, BRIGHTWORK Canvas repair and restitching (Goretex thread) of sail, boat, bimini covers;

New to Bay. “ast, bristol, room for 12 on day charters, 8 overnight, 4 double berths, 4 private heads. Perfect for corporate charters, groups, weekends. Call (916) 483-0349.

tents, tontos, replacing of zippers. Make them last another season. Interior & exterior cushions. Dependable, quality work. Ref. ^

(415)456-7312 September, 1999 • l*VX**J*.Z2 • Page 253

RANGER 29, BUILT IN 1972. Berthed in Alameda.

TRADE 40 ACRES OF PRIME Denver property,

YANMAR SAIL DRIVE, brand new, still in crate.

ALUMINUM MAST (black anod) @ 39' w/match-

1/2 share for $3,500. Monthly maintenance $130.

very close to Denver International Airport, cur¬

Asking $3,650, obo for engine & gear alone, or

ing boom @ 10' complete with jib & main sail all

Includes hauling, insurance, berthing, etc. New

rently in annual wheat with positive cash flow, for

$5,100, obo for complete sail drive kit. Please

rigging and hardware new.

upholstery, running & standing rigging. Strong

bluewater sailboat. Major commercial develop¬

contact Lance at (831) 475-9627.

Pole? $1,850 obo. Quick deal. Please call Jim at

Atomic 4. Excellent condition. Perfect Bay boat. (415) 515-3353 cell or (415) 285-9709 msg.

ment now underway less than 3 miles from prop¬ exposure suits with storage bag. Near new condi¬

TWO SAILBOARD RIGS. 5.0 North sail, 2 piece

BENETEAU F305. New partnerships available!

SHASTA PROPERTY. Lot in beautiful Shasta

tion, international orange, neoprene hood & inflat¬

mast, boom, $450. 7.6 Aeroforce sail, 2 piece

Sausalito YH, loaded with equip, 4 sails, chute,

County development. Views of Mt Lassen &

able air bladder. Perfect for Bay Area water tem¬

mast, boom, $550. Above Aeroforce rig, if sold

diesel, great condition, recently hauled. Turn-key,

Shasta. 4.7 acres near Whiskey Town recreation

perature. Catalog price $245 each. Asking $200

separate: sail $450, mast $100, boom $75. In

non-equity 1/4share $250/month, 1/2 share $450/

area. Valued to $60,000. Will trade for 30 ft or

each. Call John (925) 625-4746.

Sausalito. (415) 332-8246.

mo. We daysail, Bay cruise & dub race. Call Greg

largercruising sailboat in quality condition. Please

at (wk) (415) 289-8680 or (hm) (415) 332-4401.

call (408) 489-7511 or eddieb93@aol.com

FARYMANN DIESEL R30M 24 hp with Hurth

SEALANDTRAVELER HEAD SYS, $150. Cock¬

HBW-102:1 reduction in excellent condition. Origi¬

erty. Daniel, (303) 674-8628.

$8-12,000?! Flag

(415) 455-9191.

STEARNS EXPOSURE SUITS. 2 large flotation/

YANKEE 30, NON-EQUITY PARTNER. San

SECLUDED EEL RIVER RETREAT. $95K buys

nal owner. $1,275. SStl Hi^tvSeas diesel heater.

pit cushions for Westsail 39/FWM 39, $50.35# SS plow, $200.25# Danforth type, $100. Please call

Rafael berth. Beauty, sails great. Seeking a part¬

partnership. $195K buys sole ownership of large

$85. Chain 3/8* x 150’. $100. Please call Norm

(415) 706-9403.

ner who could provide labor in some repairs in

(408) 727-1600 ext 1512.

return for sailing it most anytime. Must be excel¬

creative home plus acreage and shared use of private sandy river beach. Unique opportunity two

lent sailor & skilled at boat work. Female owner. (415) 289-7954.

hours from SF Bay. 40 miles to Mendocino Coast. Roger Perry, owner. (415)331-2422. Will take

SAILS FOR 56-FT RIG: Full batten main, big#1 's.

$1,900. Evinrude 8 hp plus fuel tank, $800. '98

roomy power or sail in trade. 35 ft -100 ft. Terms

See description at www.saillinks.com. Call days (408) 864-7829, or evenings (408) 379-4885 or

satellite406 EPIRB Cat 11. Class 1 plus mounting bracket, $750. '98 Simrad CP32tftgps GPS map

negotiable.

anna@saillinks.com

1998 plus 2 charts, $2,000. '98 Dockbox Diver. In

5HP NISSAN OUTBOARD with external tank, 2

Pelican case plus accessories, $500. '98 Pineapplestorm jib, $650. New Pineapple storm trysail,

cycle, only used twice, like new, $750. Please call

$700. Spinnaker 2.2 oz, 54.6 luff, 23.3 foot, 29

WANTED

1998 9-FT 3-INCH AVON 281 RIB with cover,

(831) 728-2915. or klansin@ibm.net

leach with sock& hoist, $900. Spinnaker similarto above, no gear, 1/2 oz, $600. CQR anchor 45 lb,

37-FT O’DAY CENTER COCKPIT with gennaker. Large bed & 2nd head in aft cabin. Just hauled, surveyed & engine repaired. Berthed at Emery Cove east of Bay Bridge. Will train & checkout if

SAILOMAT 601 SI OR S2 WINDVANE. Call

LEWMAR SELF-TAILING WINCHES (black alu¬

$350.(415) 454-0951.

(831) 429-9500.

minum), bought new, never installed. Two #30 ST/A - $450 ea. One #16 ST/A - $295. Danforth T-

23 HP DIESEL ALBIN 2 CYLINDER with trans &

CHEAP SAILING BOAT FROM 29-FT.

1800 w/IOOft rode - $65. (415) 681-8284.

dashboard, runs great, $1,500. 25 hp Universal diesel, 3 cylinder with transmission, great condi¬

Dismasted, minorhull damage, abandoned, ferro,

needed. Accepting max of 3 equity partners at a

multihull, unfinished project, cold-molded, metal,

SAILS FOR O’DAY 23! Main (5.5oz, 1 reef,

tion, $2,800. 371 Detriot & trans core, $750.

fixed monthly fee of only $350 with up front $3,950.

plastic, clipper bow - OK. Cash paid. Leave mes¬ sage, (773) 405-7780.

flattner & Cunningham) Luff 22’5, Foot 8’4*; Jib

Perkins 108 & trans, $800 core. Please contact (510) 325-3249.

ATOMIC 4 WANTED. Running, rebuilt or

Leech 22’ 1T. $200 obo each. Please call Maurice

CRUISERS: QUALITY SSB/HAM outfit (ICOM/

rebuildable. (650) 236-3620.

(415) 657-4040 or Pgr 708-4839.

Kenwood/SGC/Furuno) installation-operating help included! Pristine Avon Redcrest. Unused Survi¬

1997 SUZUKI 6 HP, standard shaft outboard. Like

vor 35 (hand). Garret Seahunter underwater metal

new, 25 hrs on engine. With remote tank, toll kit & manual. Used only in fresh water. Back injury

detector. Weatherfax modem/software. Wind gen¬

forces sale. $550. Lv message: (408) 779-4268.

erator. AC/DC/propane toploading refrig.

This price includes fee simple slip ownership. Looking for cruising-relaxed individuals. A 60 day mutual “buy-back” option to be included. Dream maker sailing limited partnership. Call Joe for a package. Toll free number: 1-888-554-1000 or (916) 686-4222.

USED GEAR

(5.5oz) Luff 26’10" Foot 10', Leech 23’9" and Ciusing Spinnaker (.75oz): Luff 25'4\ Foot 12'9*

MONITOR WINDVANE with spares, $1,500. Don,

TRADE

(775) 831-3383 or travlake@aol.com

Headsails. (415) 331-0330 (9am - 6:30 pm).

GENOA DACRON, 8 oz, luff 50/44/24, $450.8-1/ 2 ft rowing dinghy, Airex foam/fiberglass, $450.

BACK FROM CRUISING? I’m ready to go. Will trade profitable Mayflower Moving Co. in NW boat. Valued $200,000. Make $50,000/year. Some terms. Ken, (406) 257-5533 or Yaak@digisys.net

Transmission Borg Warner 2.57:1, $550. Used

gon $600. Bronze props, 12 x 7LH & 15 x 10RH,

21CC0Z63, 120/240 at 3 phase & 120/240 at 1

roller furlers, Profurl 28 ft, $780. Custom Harken 48 ft, $475. Phone/fax: (707) 265-6854.

$100/ea. Hobie 16 mast w/shrouds, $250.8 ft FG

ICOM M-600 SINGLE SIDE BAND RADIO, $800.

$25. Fram 2 stage diesel filter $75,1 stage $30.

Two pieces of 50 ft 5/16 HT chain, $50 each. Air marine wind generator, $200. (707) 529-4585 or differentworlds@yahoo.com

Manual horizontal windlass $100. (510) 232-0071.

TWO BARIENT WINCHES #26 two speed, $200

YOUR CHOICE OF FOUR EXCELLENT, im¬

each. Martec feathering prop, 3-blade, 14* LH,

proved building lots in Shelter Cove (Humboldt

$750. 2-blade prop, 16 x 10 RH, $50. Both 1“

County). Golf course & ocean views. Up to 1/2

shaft. Page # (530) 494-4202.

acre. Valued at $20,000 - $60,000. Trade one or more for free & clear 30 ft or larger cruising sailboat. (530) 795-3579.

WOULD LIKE TO TRADE YOUR SAILBOAT Sun Valley, Idaho, any season. Interested in a 1 2 week cruise in the San Juan Islands, Caribbean, Baja or any tropic playground. Contact John Marsh at (208) 788-0025 for more info & pictures oremail me at damonwells@aol.com. Cabin can be seen at www.svliving.com/marsh

dink, $250. 10 ft inflatable w/leaks & repair kit rated for 15 hp, $200. Salisbury hydro-lift muffler,

CRUISING GEAR. Almost new Zodiac fastroller 380 & 25/30 hp Tohatsu outboard motor, new

VICTORIA’S SECRET IS THAT her toyboy has

fenders, 12v fans, #60 CQR plow anchor, new

an Atomic 4 that vibrates at 3100 RPM. He also

HEART FREEDOM 10 INVERTER with remote

has a 10 hp diesel that runs as well. Both cheap.

Rule auto bilge pump & much more. Please call Tim, (415) 461-1180 days.

control, neverused, $400. Eastern Marine “Carryon” portable 6500 BTU air conditioning & heating

(415) 457-8616. He also has 12 ft long white oak 4/4 for framing & other uses.

20 HP ALBIN DIESEL, $1,750.20 hp Bukh diesel,

system, $500. Apelco Mod VXL7100 VHF-FM

(preferably) for our small, but buffed log cabin in

PALMER 26 HP GAS ENGINE 800 hrs w/Para-

NEW KOHLER GENERATOR, still in crate, model phase, 12v starter & harness, 21 kw at 87.5 amps. No panel or manual. Asking $8,000. Please call (415) 507-1798, ask for Jock.

Montana (near Glacier National Park) for cruising

erator. Kyocera solar panel. Honda EX-800 gen¬

$1,500.188 hp Mercruiser, $700. (408) 353-8686

radio telephone, $75. Sears Gamefisher 5 hp

SELF-STEERING HYDROVANE, British made.

outboard motor with gas tank, $400. All items in

No paddle or rudder but parts available, $475. Par

excellent condition &will accept offers. Pleasecall Tom at (916) 482-1394 or (916) 481-0512 after 5 pm.

head, just rebuilt, $50. LectraSan head & treat¬

55-FT ALUMINUM MAST, 9-1/2x 5,2 sets alumi¬

ment device & all controls & wiring like new. Scarcely sat on, $450. (510) 653-1724.

num spreaders. Good condition, no corrosion.

RAFIKI 37. Complete sails, main 42' x 15' (foot shortened to reduce weather helm), Yankee (jib)

TWIN DISC TRANSMISSION MODEL 506L, mates to a #2 Bell housing. 1.97/1 ratio, rated 380

SAIL/OUTBOARD. Excellent Cal 20 main, $200. Johnson 6 hp short shaft with long shaft conver¬

44' x 19', staysail 28' x IT (club). Some repairs

hp at 2300 rpm, 460 hp at 2800 rpm, $1,000.

sion - less than 50 hrs on the motor. Includes

required. $175 takes all three. (415) 435-9544 or 0423.

Please call (650) 299-0102.

owner’s manual, original short shaft kit, oil, lubri¬ cants & fuel tank. $650. Jeff, (510) 215-2485.

or email: smithhenault@hotmail.com

Some tumbuckles. $2,500 obo. (707) 252-2425.

VOLVO MD3B, 36 hp (not running) w/trans & accessories. Make offer. (831) 464-9858.

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Barient 28 SS winches. 23 ft Oregon dory with trailer, glass over ply, 70 hp Evinrude set fwd 4 ft

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SSB Sea 106 Stevens & Sea 1060WTuner, $375^

in engine well. 3/4 house. (415) 332-5461, call 911 am or after 9pm.

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ADVENTUROUS, MULTI-TALENTED sailoress

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lite 406 EPIRB, one year old, still in the box, $450. CJ Henry 10 person liferaft with hard valise, in¬ spection current. $1,500. Call (415) 388-3829.

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as I find you. I have 42' sloop. You’re an eclectic, slender, active woman. If not an experienced

CLUB NAUTIQUE SINGLE UNLIMITED Mem¬ training through offshore classes, 25% discount

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both. Let’s cruise while we’re young and many of

brand new, never used. $1900 o. b. o. Phone(250) 721-5479.

training boats, vacation discounts, yacht club privi¬ leges. Call John at (925) 674-8312.

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SINGLE SAILORS ASSOCIATION is growing &

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ARIES WINDVANE. Some spares, includes Mi¬

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cludes free sailing instruction from US Sailing,

guy, 53, financially secure, young at heart, seeks fit, fun, good-looking female for cruising SF Bay,

basic keelboat through coastal passagemaking.

or trade for large sails or large sailboat gear. Make

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tivities year round. Monthly meeting at Oakland Yacht Club in Alameda. For more information, call

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competent skipper Screw, Fall ’99. Skills: French, Spanish, diver, EMT, steer, crew, cook, navigate. (510) 524-9631 orleisele34@hotmail.com

sive cruising. My interests are scuba, walking, hiking, adventure, reading & romance. I am seek¬

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ing a gentleman with a sense of humor, who is

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enthusiastic about life in general. Respond to (213) 486-4474.

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couple 31 searching for voluptuous, adventurous female to join us for Caribbean cruising. threesomesail@hotmail.com

PILOT & YACHT CAPTAIN WITH 65 ft beautiful

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steel schooner needs beautiful California fox to

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help steer it & travel with serious relationship in mind. Jim Stonecypher, 4751 Shannon Place, Pensacola, FL 32504. (850) 435-7547.

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term. Roger Perry, (415) 331-5251.

pense sharing & crew duties. Have done trips to

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per & boat. Jerry Ward, (916) 485-4101 or email: jbward59@aol.com

ng on & maintaining boat in Bay Area. Please call

iffer. Michael, (360) 3764056.

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ADVENTUROUS GAL NEEDS CAPTAIN with seaworthy boat for sailing Delta, Bay, warm water Cruising. I’m 5 ft, 110 lbs with a big, happy smile. If you’re looking for a joyful, attractive, intelligent woman to love & laugh with, please call me today. (510) 869-4666.

SAILING & SCUBA PARTNER WANTED for Mexico & beyond. Skipper, 40’s, 5' 10", fit, fun, experienced, relaxed. Exceptional 38 ft ketch al¬ ready in San Carlos. Looking for female, 35-55, NS, adventurous, fit, attractive, energetic, open to LTR. (415) 331-7736 ‘til November, marksea@jps.net

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licensed (average tenure of 5+ years). Come join

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CG licenses for the Modern Sailing Academy in

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Small boatyard on Orcas Island for sale. Good repeat business & summer tourists. Winter stor¬

or call (510) 523-9500, ask for David.

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Club Alameda. EYC seeks four instructors for theirFall/Spring Youth Sailing programs. Classes

age. Residence in building above marine store. Wood shop & mechanical shop. Call for particu¬

age programs. Must be able to cook onboard for

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one or two experienced instructors with 100 ton

For more information, please call Doug Shotton, Surveyor,

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experienced woodworker, Travel Lift & crane op¬

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bilities include maintaining our fleet of sailing yachts and can include crewing. Excellent wages/

vember, March and April. Instructors will be responsible for the safety of the students, devel¬ oping strong sailing skills and making the program

I CAN TURN YOUR 47-FT SAILBOAT into “in¬

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MARINE MECHANIC WANTED. Outdrive/Gas &

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34^Hunter, Monterey Slip

$ 42,500

50' BOC, Finot design

$350,000

30' Capo 30 - Schumacker design $ 39,500

50' Santa Cruz, really fast

$149,000

30' Adhara 30, M0RC winner

$ 34,995

30' Olson/Schumacker, fast

$ 28,500

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43'Swan 431-nice

$155,000

$ 89,000

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55' TAYANA CUTTER, 1985 Center cockpit. One of the best designed and built cruisers, only one on the West Coast at present. Spacious interior (aft stateroom com¬ parable in space and storage to a 70' sail¬ boat), classic teak joinery, rugged construc¬ tion, excellent performance, full electronics. 135hp Perkins diesel with stand-up workshop. Three cabins, in-line galley. $279,000.

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32' ARIES, 1976 One owner boat. New mast, Harken roller 65' MACGREGOR, 1986 This performance sailer is loaded and competitively priced. Appointed for cruising including full electronics and custom galley; can easily be handled by two people. Hard dodger, central forcedair heating, numerous other upgrades all very well installed. 85hp Pathfinder diesel. Below BUC at $149,000.

furler and all running/standing rigging. Westerbeke diesel with less than 700 original hours. Varnish redone in 1998. Prime downtown Sausalito slip. $29,500.

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41’ ISLANDER, 1973 Fine example of a rare 41' Islander sloop. Boat shows nicely; same owner 22 years. Almost 7' headroom in main salon, twin cabin w/very commodious quarterberth. Propane stove/oven, hot/cold pressure water, cold plate reefer. Large selection of sails, most by North. 40hp Perkins diesel. Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip can transfer. Significantly reduced to $61,000.

27' PEARSON, 1988 This late model Pearson is well equipped, with diesel engine, wheel steering, roller furling headsail, and dodger. Hot/cold pressure water, full sized head. Easy boat to singlehand, ideal starter boat. $29,900.

52' SPENCER, 1982 Cold-molded sloop, built in New Zealand and sailed over from Hawaii. Twin cabin, one head, large main salon, all amenities for living aboard. Generous headroom, beautiful cowerie and teak joinery along with brass accents below look classically elegaht. 33hp Yanmar diesel. Realistically priced at $89,000.

33' TARGA CENTER COCKPIT, 1982 A 'baby' center cockpit boat in good shape. Aft cabin sleeps two, two more comfortably in large forward v-berth. Propane oven/stove, pressure water. Modified full keel, teak decks. Volvo Penta diesel. Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip can transfer. $38,000.

30' CATALINA, 1980 & 1975 Dollar for dollar, it's hard to beat these popular boats. Teak and holly sole, cushions show likdhew, large quarter berth aft. Hot/cold pressure water, Adler-Barbour reefer. Updated sails in good shape. Dodger. 11 hp Universal diesel engine. Tiller steer¬ ing. Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip can transfer. Two from $16,700.

40' CHE0Y LEE YAWL, 1967 Beautiful example of this fiberglass classic. Vessel has had substantial upgrades, including teak decks, teak cabin overhead and roller furling headsail. Approx. $15,000 spent over last year alone. Exquisite teak joinery below. 36hp Perkins with low hours. Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip can transfer with vessel. Owner motivated. $68,000.

34' ISLANDER, 1970 This well-found Islander has new running rigging, new standing rigging, new roller furler, bottom was just painted and a custom tonguein-groove hatch cover installed. Sails in good shape, wheel steering, 20hp Palmer gas engine. $23,500.

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r^nchorage r SO' DEFEVER M0T0RSAILER, 79 Art DeFever's only sailboat. Tracks beautifully. Bullet proof construction. This boat will take yau anywhere in comfort and style.

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35' CHEOY LEE 79. Aluminum spars. Brand new

36' $2, '86. Immaculate condition, looks like new.

32' MARINER, 1981

42' GOLDEN WAVE, 1981. Nice sail inventory.

main. Profurl. ST winches. Electric windlass. Great shape.

You won't find a cleaner S2 on the morket.

Full keel. Greot construction. Perkins diesel

Exceptionally clean. Enlarged fuel capacity. Teak decks

Asking $69,500.

with low hours. Immaculate. $32,900.

great shape. Shortly to be a 2 boat owner. $ 116,500.

$53,500.

44' KELLY PETERSON, 77. Immaculate condi lion. B&G Instruments. Fine bluewater cruiser. Re built Perkins. In mast RF main.

$108,000.

TAYANA.'85 279,000 BENETEAU.'86 215,000 BENETEAU.'93 279,000 FORCE WOODIE ..'69 80,000 DEFEVER MS.'79 220,000 MAPLELEAF.'79 139,500 PERRY.'81 125,000 CUSTOM SLOOP.. '98 119,000 OLYMPIC. 78 145,000 CUSTOM SLOOP.. '98 108,000 BOMBAY EXPLORER.78 70,000 KELLY PETERSON '77 118,000 STEEL PH.'88 85,000 GOLDEN WAVE ....'81 116,500 GARDEN.'67 75,000 MORGAN 01.'81 79,500

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40' VALIANT, 77. Mox equip. Cruise ready. Never o blister problem. Poss. SF slip otMorino Green. Extremely

30'CATALINAS. Two available. 1984 asking $27,995 and 1978 asking $ 18,500. Huge interiors. Both with diesel engines.

well cored for. $145,000. Also 78 asking $135,000. BENETEAU 35.5, '89. Exceptionally clean & well

33' TARTAN, '80. Sparkmon & Stephens design.

equipped, including a great sail inventory. Looking for new owner. $79,000.

Universal diesel, Horken roller furling, spinnaker, Force 10 propane stove.

$35,000

35' HUNTER 35.5, '90. Immoculole condition.

30' WILLARD, 77. Creolock design, greot cruiser.

55' TAYANA, '85.

New dodger and convos. $68,500. Two 29.5s from

Three stateroom model. Never been in charier.

$47,000. Greot Bay boats.

Perkins 4-108 w/200 hrs. Greot soil inventory. Owner wants to move up. $29,995

TWO BENETEAU 51s '86.. .Asking $215,000 and '93.. .Asking $259,000

Recent houloul & survey. Searching for her new owner.

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$40,000.

C&C 41. Fantastic soil inventory. Robertson A/P, Raytheon rador. Boat shows like new. 2 boat owner.

$44,000.

Reduced to $279,000.

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32' FUJI, 78. Beautiful construction. Greot condition.

36' ISLANDER, 1979. The cleanest one around. Motivated sellers ore two boat owners. Westerbeke dsl. R/F jib. Spinnaker. Full boat cover.

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All glass CRUISING CUTTER designed by Ted Brewer. Modified full keel, lead ballast, dsl, dodger, dink, AP, VHF, depth, heater, more. Strong, stiff cruiser. Ask $34,000^

1 57' CHRIS CRAFT CONSTELLATIONS MOTOR YACHT. Twin Detroit 8V71N dsls, AP, depth (2), VHF, CB, Loron, GPS, rodar, more. Very clean. $ 149,950. SAIL 60'STEELsip, strong cruiser.. 165,000 57' MTR SAIL ketch, certified hr 45 passengers, dsl, FG. 125,000 56'HERESHOFF Marco Polo schooner: exquisite!.500,000 53' CHAS. MOWER YWL, classicol beau¬ ty in exc. cond. 60' 10A ... 42,000 50'LOD SCHOONER, Schock/Boeing.. classic, dsl, some work needed,... orig. 8, complete.Try 39,500 47' LOD Wm. GARDEN goff schooner, ferro, dsl, lots of geor... 35,000/offer 43'DOUBLE-END klch, C.C/P.. 68,000 43'WITTHOLZ steel PH sip, strong, excellent cond., dsl. 85,000 40' PH custom cutter, dsl, '91.75,000 40'TANC00K schooner, nice!.. 30,000 40' LOD Wm Garden Schooner, New! Dsl,

62’ JOHN ALDEN YAWL This fine '31 classic sailing yacht has teak decks, low hrs dsl, mahog over oak w/ bronze, lead. Must be seen. Asking $180,000.

36'CHEOY LEE ROBB sip, dsl... 49,500 36’ CHE0Y LEE LION, teak, dsl 25,000 36'CAPE GEORGE cutler, well equip! cruiser, located in Hawaii.. 75,000 36'MAGELLAN ktch, dsl, F/G.. 42,000 35'JASON/BREWER, FG, dsl, doubleender, greot boat!.. 37,500 34'COLUMBIA Mkll, dsl.21,000 34'ISLANDER, dsl, AP, GPS. 29,500 33'NOR'WEST, FG, dsl, fixer ..15,000 32.5 GLASLAM 5.5M racing sip 12,800 32’ROYAL Cruiser, l/B, classic.. 6,500 32'SCHOONER, Winslow/Blanchard .. Very nice, rblt '94.142,000 31 ’CHEOY LEE, Luders, dsl, sip 48,000 30' LOD ATKIN Bristol Channel Cutter, goff, cedar/oak/bronze, dsl... 27,600 30' BIRD sip, rebuilt clossic race 8,500 30' BALTIC masthead sip, 0/B.. 5,000 30'PACIFIC, Soildrive.5,500 30'SCAMPI 1/2 ton sloop, FG, diesel, race/cruise.11,500 30'HUNTER sip, dsl, deon.15,000 30’WALSH BO mtrsoil, dsl.9,000 28 VERTUE by Giles, dsl, more 22,000 28'LANCER MkVsIp,'84 . 13,400 28' FELLOWS & STEWART ktch. 20,000 27'NEWPORT sip, l/B.8,000 27’CHEOYLEE LUDDERSsIp... 18,000 27’CAMPER/NICHOLSON by CS diesel, FG, neat boat.14,900 26LUGER sip, f/g.5,500 26 EXCALIBUR sip, 0/B, nice ... 4,500 26' PEARSON Commonder, O/B 4,500 26'CHEOY LEE Codet, l/B, FG... 5,500 26' F0LKB0AT, F/G, dsl.12,900 25'ALBIN M/S, dsl, strong.15,000 25'CHEOY LEE PAC. CLIPPER.7,250 25' HILLYARD 5-tonner, dsl ....18,250 24'KIWI, 0/B, FG.5,200 24’DOLPHIN/YANKEE by S&S 10,500 POWER

20' CLASSIC ENGLISH SLOOP. Built 1991, diesel. An exquisite iewelbox of a boat in show condition. Hos full cover ana more. Must see! Asking $19,900.

36' MAGELLAN ketch by Angleman. All gloss w/teok decks over & beautiful teak trim in & out. Dsl, wheel, dsl heater, rodar, more. Very nice, well-kept cruiser.$46,000.

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36' STEPHENS classic sedan cruiser. Twins, new wir¬ ing and many recent upgrades. Shows pride of ownership. Great boat, great builder. Try $29,000.

34' LOD ANGELMAN SEASPRITE. Ketch. Mahog. 1 over oak w/copper rivets. Lead ballast, dsl, whl, counter stern, settee, frig, F-10 stove, shower, more. $24,950.

65'WHEELER CLASSIC MY, GM dsls, re¬ fit/ restoration in progress.... 112,000 65’ Nunes. Ferry conv. lo cruising house¬ boat. You finish job. lots of chorm & potential. Dsl.Try 62,500 50'STEPHENS, '65 MY, twndsl, oft cabin, F/B, genset & more. 135,000 46'LAKE UNION, '30 classic, twin dsl, boat was JUST REBUILT ...100,000 46' SEA RAY EXPRESS, twin T-dsI, looded with extras.. 199,000 45' CHRIS CONST, very low hrs on V8s, genset, more.59,500 43'MATTHEWS FB. 55,000/offer 42'MATTHEWS, '52 Clossic Cruiser twins, FB, great liveoboord/cruiser.35,000 42' CUST. TRWL, Cot. 6 dsl. 24,500 40'SPORT FISH Chorterboot w/certif. (14+2), dsls, ready logo! 82,000 38'CHRIS CRAFT Cmd. 60,000 38'TOELYCRAFT cobin trowler w/twin turbo diesels, F/B, very nice... 59,500 38' CHRIS CRAFT SEA SKIFF SF, fresh engines, just houled.... Try 16,500 36'REGAL EXPRESS, looded.... 69,000

34 CHRIS CRAFT Commander, ’63, twin gas, greot boot. 26,500 33’ DONZIZ-33, twn 454s, ++ 64,500 30 STEPHENS, ’37 classic, nice 18,500 30 CHRIS CAVALIER, exc cond 12,750 28’ 8AYLINER, f/g, F/B.15,300 28 CARVER, F/B cruiser.18,500 27'REGAL Ambassador, '93, w/trailer, deon w/very little use. 30,000 27'CHRIS Sed Skiff, VS, nice ..12,500 26'TOLLYCRAFT, FG, clean.19,000 25'ALBIN trawler, diesel. 24,750 24'BAYLINER CIERA, trlr, nice 13,000 24' SEA RAY HT Express w/trlr.. 8,500 24'MARIAH CUDDY, 1996, i/o 28,500 24'SEARAY, SRV 240, v. clean 10,500 22' FORMULA 3LS, i/o.15,000 21'INVADER, center console, trailer,. 200hp Suzuki 0/B.10,000 20'SKIPJACK, trailer, full conv. 7,500 20' BOSTON WHALER, 0/B, tlr 11,450 17' CHRIS CRAFT mahog runabout, V8, trailer.12,500

57' LOD HERRESHOFF KETCH, '81 WORLD CRUISER, ready for sea. Outstanding C-Flex F/G construction & all the rightgear/elect. Don't let her sail awoy—Act now! $239,000.

46' CAl 2-46 ketch, diesel, center cockpit, dual steer¬ ing stations, genset, autopilot, heat, roller furling, greot cruiser, equipped right, exceptional condition. 119,000.

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36' REGAL EXPRESS 360, '88 Low hrs twn 454s, 6.5 kw genset, heat & A/C, full galley & freezer, wet bar, H&C shower, full Delto canvas & more $79,000.

Very stoutly built, 2" African mahog. planks, bronze fastened, lead ballast, 12 1/2 kw Kohler genset, cat dsl, dual steering stations, A/P, VHF, radar, dinghy and much more.

A HIGH ENDURANCE, LONG RANGE CRUISER;..$225,000

43' STEPHENS. Clossic cruiser. Very nice. P.G. cedor over oak, bronze fastened. Twins, H&C press w/shower. Dsl heater, fireplace, full boot cover & More. 74,900.

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