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ThbSea/ Dmumds th& Best This new Bruce Farr designed 47.7 is elegantly appointed and superbly built to provide her owners with exceptional sailing performance along with the highest level of comfort and value. The high worldwide demand for the 47.7 has resulted in a yearlong waiting list. We have a beautiful blue-hulled Bruce Farr designed First 47.7 arriving this month which is avail¬ able for immediate delivery, so why wait?
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This Bruce Farr design has won several of the world's most prestigious racing events from Keil Race Week to the 2000 Kenwood Cup. After sailing a 40.7 in the Pacific Cup and the Kenwood Cup, we absolutely love this boat. The classy and comfortable interior is an unex¬ pected bonus in a boat that sails this well. When you hit 19 knots with bread baking in the oven you are on to some¬ thing. Call now to join the one design fleet now forming.
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Sail-cruising cats give you super benefits compared to monohulls:
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✓ No Heeling While monohulls typically heel at 15° to 25°, our cats barely heel at 4° to 5°.
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displacement-style cat can easily give you 16 to 25 knots.
Whether you're sailing or motoring all our sailing cats have twin diesels, our cats will get you as far in 3 days as it takes a monohull 4-5 days to cover! (at 8-14 knots under sail, and, depending on which engine package you choose, 8-14 knots under power!)
✓ Half the Fuel Consumption
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cats give you a 50 to 60% fuel consumption improvement (2-3 miles per gallon!)
Say bye-bye to "rockin & rolling" at anchor or underway. Our cats' twin hulls smooth out your onboard experience - all day, all the time! PLUS our huge salons are on the same level as the cockpit,- and they offer wonderful 360° visibility, whether you're seated at the settee, or working in the bright and airy galley.
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At.6 to 10 knots, cats give you a 10 to 20% improvement. At 15 to 25 knots,
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GEMIN1105 (34x14x18") All new for 2001. Includes more standard equipt of any cat we represent. Just add fuel and water and go! Mairjsait, roller-furl genny, 27 hp dsl. Fridge/freezer, stove-oven, microwave. Hardtop bimini (now 6 4'' high), fenders/lines/anchor, etc. Under$145k, deliv¬ ered Pacific Coast. LAGOON 380 (38x21 x3'8") The fastest selling cruising cat in history (nearly 90 models sold since debut 12 mos. ago) 3 or 4 cabins, 2 to 4 heads. Twin dsls, great sailing rig, huge lockers, elegant owner's suite. What else to say? Oh, Yeah, only 2 left for 2001. $231 k, delivered West Coast - East is $8k less. Also sizes: 41', 57', 67’.
New for June 2001 - PACIFIC 39 US-Built (Pacific coast) • Unique Aspects of this Special Cruisng Cat Show Here:
GREENLAND 34 Twin dsls: 75 or 100 hp. cruise 15 kts, max 20 kts. 2 strms, 2 hds, 1,000-mile range. $235,000, West Coast. Next available 2/20/01. Thanks to the weak Euro dollar, save $23,500 if ordered by Dec. 20, 2000-Only$211,500. MARYLAND 37 Twin dsls: 75 to 140 hp, cruise 15 kts. 3 strms, 2 heads, 1,300-mile range at 7 knots, 600 miles at 15 knots. $320,000, West Coast. Available NOW, our Seattle office. Save $32,500 if ordered by Dec. 20, 2000 - Only $288,000. LAGOON 43 Twin dsls: 150 hp to 250 hp. Includes flybridge and 2 helm stations. Huge owner's suite (20 x10 ) plus 2 double cabins, 2 heads. $875,000. Only 2 avail, in 2001. (East Coast delivery $8k less than West Coast delivery). No private sales east of Ohio R. or in AZ, NM or SoCal.
1. Full height, 2-door fridge/ 8. Third sleeping cabin or freezer optional office or walk-in 2. Dishwasher under counter closet 3. Raised half-shelf hides 9. Locker for 4kw genset galley clutter from diners 10. Electric anchor windlass 4. 2-burner stove w/micro11. Owner's suite includes wave/convection oven entire starboard hull w/ 5. Nav station w/built-in TV/ privacy door at the top VCR overhead of the steps 6. Built-in TV/VCR in owner's suite 12. Large shower - optional 7. Clothes washer/dryer bathtub available $274k at the US factory. But (!) the first 4 owners get escalating discounts AND Free optl equipt. valued up to $33,000! (Hull #1 already sold, so don't put oft calling!)
A. Full width safety glass windshield B. Rigid bimini/targa top (full closeable w/canvas zip-ins) C. Radar arch w/traveler D. Full width transom cat-walk w/same level entry to cockpit E. Built-in gas grill w/sink and storage F. Single or double-seat helm, ducted for heat and/or AC G. Salon two feet longer than any other cat up to 40' H. 39'x22'6"x3‘9"
NEWZEALAND37 (37'X14'6"X3) Rugged NZ powercat. 2 cabins/2 heads, plus office/desk cabin (or3rd dbl berth), washer/dryer. Twin 250 hp dsls. (30 mph max, 24 mph cruising). Includes flybridge w/hardtop and enclosure, gorgeous galley, fridge/freezer, stove/ oven, built-in BBQ/sink (or live-bait container). $279,000, U.S.westCoast. Hurry for summer '01 delivery. KIWI EXPRESS 44 Sail OR motor at up to 16 knots. Twin 125 hp dsls. Cruise at 11 knots, max 16 knots. 3 cabins, 2 heads, 2 standup engine rooms. $399,900. Owner's version, galley up, inside and outside helms. $15k less w/twin 75 hp dsls.
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Home Page: www.yachtworld.com/bayisland Great Bay cruiser or Friday night racer. Ten bags & spinnaker. $29,900.
3 stateroom center cockpit performance cruiser in top condition, equipped to cruise anywhere. At our sales dock. $239,500.
Brokerage 25' FISHER, 75. .... $35,000
36’ MARINER, 79. .. $59,900
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28' DUFOUR, Mezzo. .... $26,500
37 FOUNTAIN PAJOT CAT,'93 .. $177,500
29' C&C, 79..... $24,950
38' REINKESlOalum,'95.. .. $69,900
29' ELITE, '84..... $29,900
39' CAL, 70. .. $79,500
30' YAMAHA, 79..... $24,900 30' SANTANA, 79..... $19,500
39' BENETEAU OCEANIS 390 '93. $10^,500
30’ NONSUCH, '85..... $89,500
41’ FORMOSA, 72. .. $69,900
31' CHEOY LEE ketch, 72 ,.$24,000
44' NAUTICAT, '80.... Now $149,500
33' ENDEAVOUR, '84..... $44,900
47' STEVENS,'82. $239,000
34' VANDERSTADT, '87 .. ... $38,000
51' PASSPORT,'85. $275,000
35’ MAINSHIP, '99. . $234,500
65' MACGREGOR,'86 price reduced to. $114,950
39' Beneteau Oceanis 390, '93. 3 stateroom model $109,500.
Loaded with great gear and Passport quality. Lying Australia. $275,000.
Quality U.S. built coastal cruiser. Yanmar diesel, furling, autopilot. $59,500.
Go anywhere in comfort and safety. Just finished three-year Alaskan cruise. Great Northwest cruiser! Now $149,500.
Great Cruising Yachts in the Caribbean 53' BENETEAU 53f5, '95
A luxury, one-owner cruiser/racer that is loaded with equipment. $389,000.
This 1985 Nonsuch 30.Ultro has just been put on the market due to the owner's change of plans. She is in excellent condition as she has been professionally maintained. $89,500. 300hp cat diesel and Vetus bow thruster. 1999 model only $234,500.
Simpson Bay • St Maarten Now with an office in Tortola, we have the largest selection in the Caribbean. Call for a complete list. Stop by and see us in Grand Marina, Alameda
Why buy in the Caribbean? Ask us!
She is in sailaway condition in a great spot to begin your cruise. $170,000.
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Holiday Special: Buy a Sabre yacht in December and get a FREE autopilot & dodger! At Our Docks! The Sabre 452 offers: 2 luxurious state¬ rooms - owner’s with head and stall shower; a large, open and airy salon with Ultraleather seating, convertible dinette and opposing settee; a fully-equipped galley with ample storage and countertop space; a Nav station with plenty of room for electronics and storage; and a spacious, deep cockpit de¬ signed for maximum comfort, se¬ curity, and ease of handling. The 452 is loaded ... a partial list of equipment includes: 76hp Yanmar diesel engine, Corian countertops, microwave, electric windlass, hall vang, leather covered wheel, leather spreader boots, ped¬ estal & winch covers, teak treads on transom, dark hull, Harken MKII furling, refrigerator super cold, cockpit shower, stereo CD, macerator, performance keel, knot/depth, main sail cover, anchor package, inverter, much more!
Also Available: Sabre 402... Arriving in December!
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max ebb: getting into the 'spirit 164 winners, part II
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'Everyone Needs a Bigger Boat'
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MARTIN EDEN 50' NUNES BROS. KETCH 1956 Asking $190,000. Recently refitted, professionally maintained classic. Truly bristol throughout. A+. Listing Agent Rick. 38' HOOD By Wauquiez, 1983. Strong offshore cruiser, keel centerboard design, excellent con¬ dition. Listing agent Jill. Asking $99,500.
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46' SEA STAR Pilothouse Cutter, 1982 Good condition, well equipped. Cruising in comfort. $135,000.
61' WAUQUIEZ, 1994 This Centurion 61S is truly a fast luxury yacht to enjoy cruising & racing in comfort. Asking $625,000. Listing agent Jill.
34’TOPSAIL KETCH,'73 35' RAFIKI, 1977
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32' SABRE, 1985 Very clean racer/cruiser, new main. Listing agent Rick. Asking $55,000.
49' CENTURION, 1991 Superb cruiser. Excellent condition. Asking $250,000. Listing agent Jill.
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46' ERICSON, 1973 Excellent performance cruiser. Great liveaboard, many upgrades. Asking $84,000.
36' CENTURION (S DES1L.INJ, Newest version of the famous Pretorian Asking $125,000. Listing agent Jill, (sister ship)
38' FT SEDAN TRAWLER ..-.....$112,000 51' TOLLYCRAFT FBMY, '67 Asking $95,000
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48' TAYANA CUTTERS 48' CENTER COCKPIT AND 48' DECK SALOON The Tayana Center Cockpit Cutter, designed by Robert Perry, is targeted for today's bluewater cruising couple! With a long water line and sail area in excess of 1,300 square feet, this offshore yacht keeps up with the best of them, when handled by two people. For cruising or living aboard this 48' Tayana is the right size for two people, and at an attractive price, too!!!! Don't forget - customization available, as always. 48' TAYANA CENTER COCKPIT CUTTER
The Tayana Deck Saloon Cutter is a new model of the popular 48' Tayana center cockpit cutter and has been newly introduced. In the past, Tayana has been building just the 58' and 65' deck saloon cutters. The new 48' deck saloon model has a raised house in the saloon area with large ports around its perimeter. This creates substantial light below, in the main saloon! Too, you will enjoy the new aesthetic exterior profile. Multiple layouts to choose from and customization, as always! 48’ TAYANA DECK SALOON CUTTER
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35' YOUNG SUN CUTTER, 1980 Robert Perry designed offshore full keel double ender w/Yanmar 30 hp diesel. Good liveaboard. Includes AP & GPS. Make Offer!
NEW 32' TAYANA PILOTHOUSE CUTTER, 2000 Robert Harris designed offshore cruiser. Two stations w/great visibility. Head w/shower, 3 cyl. Yanmar. Fast and stiff! Nothing else like it! See for yourself! Asking $129,000
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CALENDAR Nonrace Dec. 1 — Annual Lighted Boat Contest at Ballena Isle Ma¬ rina. Info, (510) 523-5528. Dec. 2 — Sail-A-Small-Boat Day at Richmond Yacht Club, 11 a.m to 4 p.m., co-sponsored by SBRA and RYC. Come expe¬ rience some fast and fun dinghy sailing — absolutely free! Rep¬ resentatives from 15 or more classes will be on hand to get you out sailing Lasers, JY-15s, International 14s, Bytes, Finns, Thistles and a lot more. Bring a lifejacket and spare clothes. Gail Yando, (510) 232-6310. Dec. 2 — Lighted Boat Parade in Santa Cruz. Deck the hulls! SCYC, (831) 425-0690. Dec. 2 — 24th Annual Lighted Yacht Parade on the Oak¬ land Estuary, hosted by the Port of Oakland and EYC. Over 100 boats usually participate. Jack London Square events hotline, (510) 814-6000. Dec. 2 — Vallejo Lighted Boat Parade. Vallejo Marina, (707) 648-4370. Dec. 7, 1990 — Ten Years After, from a Sightings piece en¬ titled 'Heads Up!': It was like something out of a John Candy movie: A guy towing a boat with its mast up blithely drives under some high tension lines. BOOM! ZAP! POW! The headstay and a couple of shrouds fry apart and fall uselessly to the ground, arcing into the asphalt. Halves of the parted powerlines fall on parked cars. One by one, transformer boxes on the telephone poles explode in sequential order down the line. All the power to two marinas, a shopping center and the Broadway tube goes out. Smoke starts curling out of the boat where the electricity has started a small fire. . . Unfortunately, this was no gag. All the above really hap¬ pened on December 7 at Mariner Square in Alameda (the other marina to lose power was Marina Village and its new shopping center). Fortunately no one was injured, the parked cars were unoccupied, and damage to the boat, a J/24, turned out to be relatively minimal. As the person responsible feels bad enough already, we ll spare him the additional embarrassment of iden¬ tification and get on with the bigger message of this incident, which is the extreme danger of driving a rigged boat under high tension wires. We have a friend who quit his job with a power company after seeing what high-voltage electrocution did to a fellow worker. The picture he painted of "tiying to hold him together" wasn't one suitable for conversation around the dinner table. Several years later, a casual acquaintance of our Hobie Catting days was also killed instantly when the mast of his trailered boat hit overhead wires. The problem became acute enough back in the '70s that Hobie and other manufacturers started attaching stickers to masts, as well as sending them to current owners, that warned of the danget. (We understand that all manufacturers of trailer boats are now required to do the same.) But it's a hard habit to get into. Less than a month after hearing about the Hobie guy, we set up our 16’s mast — and pulled it right through an over¬ head line without even knowing it. Fortunately, that one car¬ ried only telephone wires. . . Dec. 9 — 12th Annual Sausalito Lighted Boat Parade, 6 p.m. Sausalito YC, 332-7400. Dec. 9 — Holiday Lighted Boat Parade in the Petaluma River Turning Basin, 6:30 p.m. Petaluma YC; Ken Warren, (707) 7656750. Dec. 9-10 — Open Boat Weekend at Ballena Isle Marina (510523-5528) and Marina Village (510-521-0905). Check it out! Dec. 10 — Full moon. Fourteen shopping days left. Dec. 10 — "Brighten the Harbor," a lighted boat parade off Monterey. MPYC, (831) 645-1980.
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J/46 Owner Profile OWNER: § Dr. Kenneth
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Gazing out the window from fhe 10th floor of Mass General Hospital during a slow morning as an intern many years ago, Dr. Kenneth Ott Photos: Dr. Ott spied some small boats sailing on the Charles River. During lunch break he wandered down to check it,out and shortly thereafter was learning to sail dinghies on the Charles. Now thousands of sailing miles and several boats later he is the happy owner of a new J/46.
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Boat ownership started with a C&C 24 Stormuogel, After moving to San Diego as a neurosurgeon he found a C&C 33 in New York and had her shipped West. Later, with the addition of two boys to the family, they moved up to a Swan 44 with which they enjoyed daysailing, racing and cruising for many years. With the Swan needing some upgrades it was time to look around. Ease of sailing, an elegant, comfortable interior and superior sailing performance attracted him to the J/46. The boat sailed beautifully, as delivered, on her first sail up to the Channel Islands. On her first long downwind sail to Ensenada the boat was sailing at 9-12 knots with a main and poled out genniker. Dr. Ott couldn't be more pleased with the boat's performance and the ideal balance J/ Boats has found between sailing performance and her comfortable cruising interior. The future calls for more daysailing, cruising and maybe a few Mexican races. Whatever the plans, the J/46 has the combination of features to make it all possible.
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dark. Info, (510) 523-4388. Dec. 16 — Lighted Boat Parade in San Leandro, 6 p.m. Info, San Leandro Marina, (800) 559-SAIL. Dec. 17. 1980 — It was Twenty Years Ago Today, from a Sightings piece called 'Quiz Time Again’: Speaking of the Metro YC seminars, we attended the jampacked second of the series on December 17th. Warwick 'Com¬ modore' Tompkins was the featured guest and showed a movie of his father's German pilot schooner, Wanderbird, rounding the Horn more than 40 years ago. It's a great movie you ought to see if you get a chance, and features Commodore and his sisters at ages three and five. They slip up and down the mast, the stays, out on the pulpit, and in general play in such a way that would terrify the modem parent. The topic of the evening was supposed to be Tuning', and after the movie words were spoken to that effect. Those of us who had come to the seminar expecting easy answers to sailing success were sorely disappointed. The Commodore's basic mes¬ sage .was: 'You have to learn the principals and experiment. You have to work hard with your muscles. You have to work hard with your head. And, you have to work hard at your office to pay for all of it." He cited the campaign of Bob Cole’s 52-foot Farr design, Zamazaan, as an example. Not only did the crew constantly experiment to become familiar with the boat and get it sailing well, but they continued to experiment even after they were winning, continually tiying to improve their performance. Dec. 18 — Dave Hodges is 40! Dec. 20 — Jim Antrim is 50! Dec. 25 — Merry Christmas. Racing Nov. 30-Dec. 4 — U.S. Admiral's Cup Trials begin for the Farr 40 slot, hosted by the Storm Trysail Club in Miami. Cavallino. Morning Glory, Wahoo, Peregrine and Pegasus will repre¬ sent the Bay Area. With Samba Pa Ti recently pulling out due
to business problems, it's suddenly anybody's race. Farr Inter¬ national, (410) 268-1001. Dec. 2 — Perry Cup #3 for Mercuries, hosted by MPYC. Dick Clark, (408) 624-6482 (days). Dec. 7-10 — The inaugural Crystal Cup, a big boat regatta at the plush Atlantis resort on Paradise Island, Bahamas. See www.crgstalcupatatlantis.com for all the pleasurable details. Jan. 1 — Master Mariners New Year's Day Race and Chili Potluck at Fdchmond YC. DeeDee Lozier, (510) 653-8820. Jan. 15-19 — 14th Annual Key West Race Week: five days of buoy racing in Florida for offshore one designs, IMS and PHRF classes. Last year, 261 boats representing 12 nations and 30 different states sailed in this outstanding event. Peter Craig, (781) 639-9545 or www.premiere-racing.com. Feb. 2 — 25th Pineapple Cup, aka the 'Mo Bay Race'. Pyewacket, Magnitude, Zephyrus, Grins and other big sticks will vie for line honors in this classic 811-mile ocean race from Ft. Lauderdale, through the Windward Passage to Montego Bay, Jamaica. Ken Batzer, (954) 946-3467. Feb. 9-10 & 14-17 — Del Rey YC's 16th Biennial Puerto Vallarta Race. Starts for this 1,125-mile downwind race are stag¬ gered over six different days. MEXORC starts on Sunday, Feb. 25. DRYC, (310) 823-4664. Feb. 28-Mar. 4 — 60th Acura SORC in Miami, featuring a "series of major changes and improvements." Check out www.aCurasorc.com for details. Midwinter Race Series ALAMEDA YC — Estuary Midwinters: 12/10, 1/14, 2/11,
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2000 Year In Review The J/Boats line found increased growth and tremendous success across it's growing one-design fleets, J/Fest events, and its cruising boats. J/105 and the J/120 top the West Coast Offshore one-design circuit. The J/105, the original sprit pole sport boat, had fleets growing substantially in both Northern and Southern California. Northern Califor¬ nia showed the strongest growth with over 60 boats expected in 2001. Many, but not all, of these boats are actively raced with 33 boats showing up for a competitive Big Boat Series. Many others are enjoyed by families cruising and daysailing the Bay. Southern California has recently added many boats to its fleet and the fleet continues to grow as fast as J/Boats can build them. The J/120 has grown first in Southern Cali¬ fornia with upwards of S.F. Bay J/105 fleet tight on the mark at J/Fest. 40 of these boats sail¬ ing the South. The Northern California fleet has recently started to grow quickly with 12 of the 120s expected on the Bay in 2001. Off the race course several J/120 owners have used her cruising amenities to head to Mexico or beyond.
J/Fest Two very successful J/Fest events were held in 2000. J/Fest Northern California was attended by 58 J/Boats in mid-April. Hundreds of sailors enjoyed parties, one-design starts for J/29s, J/105s, J/24s, a PHRF fleet and a fantastic weekend of camaraderie and racing. J/Fest Southern California was held in mid-October and attracted 65 boats with onedesign starts for J/120s,J/105s, J/80s, J/24s and a PHRF fleet. Many other West Coast sailors found the |V attraction of the new • J/Cruising boats with i several new J/32s, J/
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CALENDAR BENICIA YC — Fall Series: 12/2, 12/16. Jerry Martin, (707) 745-3731. BERKELEY YC — Chowder Races: Every Sunday except during BYC/MYCO midwinters. Paul Kamen, (510) 540-7968. BERKELEY/MYCO — Berkeley Circle: 12/9-10, 1/13-14, 2/10-11. BobbiTosse, (925) 939-9885. CORINTHIAN YC — Midwinters 2001: 1/19-20; 2/16-17. CYC, 435-4771. ENCINAL YC —'3-2-1' Midwinter Series: 1/20, 2/17. Mark Brunelle, 291-6111 (days). ENCINAL YC — Centerboard Series: 11/25, 1/27, 2/24, 3/31. EYC, (510) 522-3272. GOLDEN GATE YC — Seaweed Soup Series: 12/2, 1/6, 2/3, 3/3. GGYC, 346-BOAT. LAKE MERRITT SC — Robinson Memorial Midwinters: 2/9, 1/14, 2/10, 3/10. Duncan Carter, (925) 945-6223. OAKLAND YC — Brunch Series: 1/7, 1/21,2/4, 2/18,3/4. Bob Donovan, (925) 934-7848. RICHMOND YC — Small Boat Midwinters: 12/3, 1/7, 2/4, 3/4. RYC, (510) 237-2821. SANTA CRUZ YC — Midwinters: 12/16, 1/20, 2/17, 3/17. SCYC, (831) 425-0690. SAUSALITO YC — Midwinters: 12/3, 1/7, 2/4, 3/4. Andy Eggler, 332-1267. SHORELINE LASER SERIES — 12/17, 1/28, 2/25, 3/25. Tracy Usher, (650) 926-3253. SOUTH BAY YRA— Winter Series: 12/16, 1/6, 2/10, 3/10. Bob Carlen, (831) 336-2672. ST. FRANCIS YC — Winter Dinghy Races/Clinics: 12/16, 1/13, 1/27, 2/24, 3/10. StFYC, 563-6363. Please send your calendar items by the 10th of the month to Latitude 38 (Attn: Calendar), 15 Locust Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941. Better yet, fax them to us at (415) 383-5816 or email them to us at editorial@latitude38.com. But please, no phoneins! Calendar listings are for marine-related events that are ei¬ ther free or don’t cost much to attend. The Calendar is not meant to support commercial enterprises. Unless otherwise noted, all phone numbers listed in the Calendar are in the 415 area code..
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29' J/29, '84, J-Spot.New Listing 21,000
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LETTERS
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flllNO REGRETS ABOUT THE HA-HA
Our family wanted to thank the Poobah-Wanderer and his team for the great time we had in fleeing south as part of the Baja Ha-Ha. Thanks to the wonderful organization and terrific sportsmanship from the Poobah, his crew, the other boats, and the communities we invaded, it was a fabulous event. Organiz¬ ing 112 boats and the more than 400 people on them for an
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J/160 #21 Year 2000 Stark Raving Mad has a dark blue hull, all cherry interior complete B&G .electronics, a. North 3DL racing inventory and a Spectra cruising inventory. She has been outfitted to the highest standards! J/Boats and TPI combined to create a truly 'investmentgrade' sailing yacht to bring you a greater sense of joy and satisfaction after a day's sail than is possible in any other sailing yacht. Stark Raving Mad features the advanced composite construction and easily-driven hull shape for which the J/Boat line is famous. The J/160 was designed primarily for comfortable and fast shorthanded ocean cruising. She is unique among yachts over 50 feet in providing exceptional upwind and downwind sailing performance, with ease of handling normally associ¬ ated with yachts under 45 feet. Unique also is the combina¬ tion of a luxurious interior, sturdy construction, safety and utmost stability. The whole design interacts to achieve the speed, balance and sailing comfort that knowledgeable offshore sailors expect. Below decks Stark Raving .... Mad is beautifully ap¬ pointed and features three comfortable staterooms, two head/shower compart¬ ments, a spacious main sa¬ lon and a dedicated sail storage locker. On deck the large, secure cockpit placed w well aft makes for dry sail,, . , . inq and an easy motion. J/160s enormous, comfortable interior
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extensive journey is not an easy task, and we commend the job that was done. For those who will be heading south to Mexico next year and are leery of being part of a big crowd, we recommend the HaHa. It was not only a lot of fun, but a great opportunity to meet fellow cruisers that we'll see again for the rest of the season and beyond. We had eyed the Ha-Ha from a distance for a long time. Now that we've actually done it, we have absolutely no regrets! , Kelly and Keith Mackenzie, with Kyle and Kris Scallywag
Canada Kelly & Keith — On behalf of the Poobah, Banjo Andy and Doha de Mallorca, thanks for the kind words — and being part, of a really terrific fleet. We're always flabbergasted that so many people think of the Ha-Ha as some kind of floating flat party — when, as you know, nothing could be further from the truth. We appreciate your efforts to help correct this misconception.
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We arrived in Matanchen Bay near San Bias, Mexico, early on the morning of November 13. When we awoke the next morn¬ ing, we encountered a very disturbing situation. Capt. Norm, the longtime friend of cruisers and fishermen, couldn't be raised on VHF! After several unanswered radio calls and a brief trip to the beach, we called the telephone number we'd been given for him. Norm answered, and said he'd heard our calls but hadn't been able to answer them. The problem was a new and very strict Port Captain. Norm told us to be sure to check in the following day. We caught the bus into San Bias on Tuesday morning, and went to the Port Captain’s office to check in. There we met Steve of Poet’s Place, who had already been there more than an hour trying to check in. As near as he could understand, they had sent for someone who spoke English. When Suzan and I pre¬ sented our papers to the employee at the window, we were also told to wait. After about 30 minutes, a man arrived on a bicycle and we were told to go with him. My wife and I and Steve followed the man to a small office — where we discovered that he was a ship's agent! He asked for our despacho, ship's papers, pass¬ ports, and so forth, and eventually added both entry and exit
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LETTERS notations to our despachos. Then he got back on his bike and rode back to the Port Captain's office, where he got the appro¬ priate stamps and signatures. The whole process — including time at the Port Captain's office — took us about 2.5 hours, and an hour longer for Steve! Then the agent charged both of us 200 pesos — a little more than $20 each — for the service. Steve's wife Sharon had a conniption fit when she showed up and found out we'd been required to use Em agent for some¬ thing as simple as checking in and out of San Bias! After we paid the agent and got our papers, we went to visit Jan Goldie. Norm had gone to Puerto Vallarta for the day. As. the cruisers who know Jan will tell you, she's an absolute prin¬ cess, and she and Norm have nothing but cruisers' interests in mind. But Jan explained that the new Port Captain had been told that she and Norm had been charging cruisers for assis¬ tance! Based on this misinformation, he had prohibited Norm from talking on the radio. Which is why Norm hadn't been able to respond to our calls the previous day. Jan also told us about an incident where a vessel was in serious distress near Isla Isabella, and Norm had been alerted to the fact by telephone. This is the kind of situation where he's helped countless mari¬ ners before, but the Port Captain's edict made it almost impos¬ sible for Norm to assist. Norm and Jan have been helping cruisers and fishermen around San Bias for 30 years, and they've never taken any pay¬ ment for the help they've given. The Port Captain had been given bad information. When we told Jan that the Port Captain had required us to use an agent to check in and out, she said it was the first time she'd heard of it. She immediately swung into action and took us and Steve’s wife to the local District Attorney. The District Attorney vowed to help us straighten out the situation, as he was unaware of any law requiring that mariners use an agent. We'll see how it all works out. Jan was confident that Norm had almost worked through the problem of not being able to talk on the marine radio, but had not yet received the permission. Bill and Suzan Harris S/V Sanctuary Matanchen Bay
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Msneaker waves In the October issue, you asked for stories about 'sneaker waves' and/or Tomales Bay. Here's the story of an experience I hope to never repeat. Periodically, my friend Lyn Reynolds and I get together for a week-long sail, either in the San Francisco area, where he keeps his boat, or down here in Southern Cali¬ fornia where I live. We both have Fair Weather Mariners, which are 39 feet long and have a draft of six feet. During autumn four years ago, we took his April Dancer to Drakes Bay and Bodega Bay. On the way back, we decided to cruise Tomales Bay. While visiting Bodega, we talked with local fishermen and a local sailor, and their consensus was that it was all right to enter Tomales Bay — as long as it was at the right tide and the skipper kept close to the rocks on the west side of the entrance. We departed Bodega early enough to arrive at Tomales Bay at half tide on a rise. The weather was calm, with no wind, flat seas, and practically no swell. Nonetheless, we approached the entrance cautiously, our attention divided between the depthsounder — which was showing less than three feet under the keel — the rocks, just a couple of boat lengths away, and the channel buoys. Every sailor will appreciate the concentration needed and tension in such circumstances. Suddenly I was surprised to see the bar through the clear water — and there didn't seem to be much water above it. Lyn asked if we should continue, and I told him I wouldn't try it with my boat. Just then he turned around to see a wall of water about an eighth of a mile behind us headed in our direction. It had. a smooth, vertical surface so high that we couldn't see the headland behind it. Lyn swung the wheel hard over and shoved the throttle to maximum. "Oh my God," I thought, the air sucked out of my lungs in anticipation of what was going to happen. April Dancer re¬ sponded with barely a second to spare. . She hit the wave so hard that her bow seemed to rise to nearly vertical. She seemed to sit on her transom while she decided to either fall on her mast and kill us or land on her keel and give us a fighting chance. It seemed like a lifetime, as loose gear, dishes, pots and pans crashed about the salon. Up, up, up and up we went, until we topped the crest and plunged down the back side of the wave at dizzying speed. We hit the bottom of the trough and fortunately had enough time for the boat to recover before the next big
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swell arrived. This one was a long, slow swell, and not nearly as high or steep as the first one. After passing over this second swell, we were outside of the entrance buoy again and back into flat water. Had Lyn not turned her to face the wave, we would certainly have been smashed on the rocks. I doubt either of us would have survived. "Well, Lyn," I said, "I wouldn't take my Lady K in there, but if you want to have another go, I'm with you." "We're out of here," he responded dryly. What made Lyn look behind him at the last possible mo¬ ment? He reckons it's because each of us is fundamentally a singlehander — and we singlehanders get to sail 'with one hand in God's pocket'. But it makes you think, doesn't it? Our sail back to Drake's Bay, and eventually Brisbane Ma¬ rina, was pleasant and uneventful. , Pieter Kokelaar, Lady K, Marina del Rey Lyn Reynolds, April Dancer, Coyote Point Pieter & Lyn — We don't understand the cause of ’sneaker waves', and we're not sure that anybody else does either. But we'spent a chunk of our youth surfing, and know for sure that they exist, and seem to be a feature of winter as opposed to any other time of year. So be careful out there. And remember that the first thing the Hawaiians teach their kids is not to tur n their backs on the ocean. ft JIbodega bay Cruising destinations north of San Francisco are few and far between — as was noted in many good letters in Latitude re¬ cently. But for those of us who are trailer sailors, there's a fre¬ quently overlooked comfortable cruising ground only a day away — Bodega Bay. There are two good launching facilities: Doran Beach and Westside Park on the other side of the Bay. If one chooses to stay in the campground available at either site, they can enjoy the beauty of the Bay Area’s most quaint but active fishing port, as trailerable boats do make fairly decent camp trailers. There are also several resturaunts in Bodega Bay that serve everything from pizza to elegant sit-down dinners. And the Doran Beach campground is great for walks in the moon¬ light after dinner. When morning comes, you can slip your boat into the har¬ bor and motor past the stone jetty and into the bay proper. With a little wind, it's usually an easy reach into Tomales Bay for some spirited sailing. As has been mentioned several times, never attempt to cross the bar into Tomales Bay during a strong ebb and a heavy north swell. Another option, if the seas are calm, would be to sail west past Bodega Head into the open ocean. However, beware of the channel between the Head and the small island, as many fishing boats have been capsized by sneaker waves in this area. If you plan to anchor out in Tomales Bay for the night, you can leave your car and trailer at either campground for the cost of a campsite. So with a little luck in weather and tide, Bodega Bay can be a comfortable place to cruise something like a West Wight Pot¬ ter 19 — which is what I own — or a Cal 20 over a weekend. And it doesn't break the bank. Furthermore, we trailer sailors get to head back home at 55 mph, Eli Thomas Tateta, West Wight Potter 19 Bay Area
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I would like to respond to your comment that "singlehanded sailing for more than a day is, by definition, illegal because no individual can maintain the continuous watch required by law for such a long period of time." Having sailed over 30,000 ocean miles, more than 12,000 of them singlehanded, I feel I’m in a position to comment. Recently I read Lyn Pardey’s account of 'standing watch'. It consisted of reading a book below at night and getting up every 15 minutes or so to have a look around. This isn't nearly as good a lookout as I maintained, because if she was reading a book I doubt she was using a red light, so her night vision was shot. As a result, her look around wouldn't be very effective. In fact, I doubt that she would have seen a hazard to navigation or even a ship that was not lighted. Yes, there are unlighted ves¬ sels. When I was in the U.S. Navy, we steamed around at about 27 knots — and without running lights or radar. We did, how¬ ever, have lookouts. Now if I am going three knots and they are going 27,1 haven't a chance of avoiding them. Sort of-like trying to outrun a gale. But I can maintain a 15 minute lookaround, with my eyes night adapted, forever. I used to set an egg-timer and take catnaps in the cockpit. After a while — especially if I started well before becoming exhausted — it became routine. It's true that I have slept all through the night sometimes, but only after not seeing any other vessels for three days. I take the risk and the respon¬ sibility. While off Mexico once, I saw a U.S. destroyer at night that was running without radar or lights. They were shocked when I called them on the radio and asked if I could be of assistance. They must have thought they were invisible. They probably would have been to most watchstanders on sailing boats. In any event, the destroyer switched on its running lights and took off. We sailors all have to keep well away from Navy ships — as well as fishing boats and powerboaters on autopilot. Most mer¬ chant vessels cannot see us before it is too late for them to turn, so we have to see them first and get out of their way.
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LETTERS Tricolor lights help as they can be seen a lot farther than the mickey mouse lights such as came stock on my Freedom 28. The lights weren't even legal. I contend that I can keep as good a lookout while single¬ handing as most cruising boats cam with two people. In truth, most cruisers don't keep a good lookout — neither do most fishing boats and merchant ships — particularly if they are de¬ pending on radar. Most sailboats don't show up very well on ship radars. So I shall continue to singlehand my boat and maintain a decent — if not continuous — lookout. A1 MacDiarmid Broad Reacher, Freedom 28 cat ketch #4 Al — If you're willing to take the risk — and responsibility for the consequences — we've got no problem with singlehanding.
1UISEACRETSPOT The Seacretspot is safely back in the Bay. Three months ago my best friend and I cast off for the South Pacific to find perfect surf — and almost just as important, warm water. The two of us1' had no sailing experience, but we did have a big ferro ce¬ ment boat at our disposal. Well, we didn't make it, but the ferro boat did pretty well and we now know how to sail. In addition, we learned a lot about people — particularly sailors — and life during the adventure. In the course of three months, we visited Monterey, Morro Bay, Catalina and L.A. In the process, we blew two transmis¬ sions. As a result, we blew through our small cruising kitty almost overnight — although not before a great night of karaoke in Avalon. Our trip back up the coast was all about learning, as we had to sail all the way. It was stressful, beautiful, rough, calm, dark, light — and many other things. Now for the important stuff. Thank you, everyone at Minney's in Costa Mesa — you guys are so helpful and fun. Eric, you're a rare breed, as the trip wouldn't have been possible without you. The lady who runs the guest docks at Marina del Rey won’t be forgotten, either. Thanks for putting up with us. We also salute all those sailors along the way who worried about us, but never discouraged us from going. Loch Lomond Marina, you guys rock! Thanks also to our families and Amber. As for Latitude, you're the magazine for crazy dreamers — bless your crazy souls. No¬ body can make something like sailing better than you guys! Bill and Todd Seacretspot Bill & Todd — On behalf of everyone, thanks for the kind words. As for your trip, anyone with life experience will assure you that you learn many times more from your failures' than your successes.
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him it was wood. "Oh, that’s a problem," he said. "Problem?" Yes, he said, because if the boat was wood he needed proof of insurance. Fortunately, I had it with me. He took it and pho¬ tocopied it. I asked why wood was a problem, and he replied that it was "a fire hazard". I pointed out that fiberglass burns just as well, and once started is harder to put out. It didn't matter to him. My shipmate had been in Ventura Harbor about a month before and had encountered none of this. So he asked what was going on. Apparently Ventura County has taken over the harbor. They have declared it to be a totally commercial harbor and intend to discourage recreational boating. Towards that end there were a bunch of new rules in place: — No boats under 35 feet. — Wood boats are permitted for now with proof of insur¬ ance, but will soon be prohibited completely. — Nobody may sleep on their boat. When I asked about tran¬ sient boaters, I was told that an exception would be made for one or two nights. As if all that wasn’t bad enough, we were informed that the docks, which are patrolled by armed guards, are closed to ev¬ eryone between midnight and 0700. I didn't ask what would happen if we stepped off our boat to go to the bathrooms. I was afraid of the answer. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t have been surprised by this kind of BS in some Third World dictatorship, but I was shocked to be treated that way in California. Perhaps somebody can shed some light on what the heck is happening there. No matter, as I'll definitely bypass Ventura my next time down the coast. I'd rather give my money to a community that values cruisers and treats them like real people. Fair warning. As a creepy coincidence to this experience, we were in Chetco River, Oregon, about a week later. I was woken up around mid¬ night by activity at the USCG station across the channel. There was a fire in the marina. It had started on a fiberglass boat and spread to two other fiberglass boats before it could be contained. All of them burned to the waterline. So much for the hazard of a wood boat in a marina.
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Jim — It seems you were mostly the victim of a bad circum¬ stance. There are actually three marinas at Ventura: Ventura Isle Marina, Ventura West, and the Ventura Port District-run com¬ mercial harbor that only has slips for about 10 pleasure boats. When a pleasure vessel skipper asks the harbor patrol for infor¬ mation on a transient slip, he/she will almost always be di¬ rected to either Ventura Isle Marina or Ventura West, both of which usually have available transient slips. Even if it’s after hours, the harbor patrol will try to contact one of the private marina harbormasters by cell phone. But apparently they weren't able to reach anyone in your case, so by default they put you in the port's commerical space. As for the business about wood boats being a greater fire hazard than fiberglass boats, that's rubbish. We used to keep our Freya 39 in Ventura Harbor, and its a great place. Not only is it a little out of the way from the masses, but it's got a great beach for swimming and surfing, and it's also just a few miles from the Channel Islands. And we salute the Ventura Port District for not sticking their noses into liveaboard situations, allowing the private marinas to decide how many are appropriate. Ventura Isle set their limit at 10%, while Ventura West, which was built as a liveaboard marina, has 40 to 50% liveaboards. If anybody is headed for Ventura and will arrive
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Rich & Gina — The greatest concentrations of cruising boats tire in San Carlos /Guay mas. La Paz, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. It's easy — although it takes time — to get from one place to the other via public transportation. La Paz, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta make a pretty easy triangle, but Guaymas — where hundreds of cruising boats are on the hard — is a little( out of the way.
till CATS IN THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY STORM As one who has made ocean passages on both a monohul! and a catamaran, I've been pleased and generally in agreement with Latitude's balanced opinions on the issue of cruising cata-; marans versus cruising monohulls. And I think your response! to the folks on Zeeotter in the November issue continued in than vein — with one exception. At one point you state, "Some of the most powerful evidence for the ability of smallish cats to survive atrocious weather comes from Ramtha and Heart Light, two cats of less than 40 feet than survived the Queen's Birthday Storm with little or no help from their crews." You go on to mention four monohulls that wferej abandoned or sunk. Leaving it at that might lead someone not familiar with the Queen’s Birthday Storm to conclude that there were six boats: caught in it and that the two that survived intact were catama¬ rans. The truth is both Ramtha and Heart Light were aban¬ doned by their crews. Ramtha was later recovered and towed tc< Tonga. And in the August '94 issue of Latitude you reportec that after Heart Light's crew were rescued by a fishing boat : "the catamaran flipped and broke apart." Like Ramtha, one o the Westsail 32s that was abandoned during the storm was: also later recovered intact after having anchored herself in 290 feet of waten Perhaps you confused Heart Light, a 42-foot cat t with Vivace, a 50-foot cat that did weather the storm without being lost or abandoned. If the Queen's Birthday Storm is to be used as evidence fo» the fitness of cats or monos for bluewater cruising, it would b« more helpful to answer the question: What proportion of the catamarans in the storm area were abandoned or lost, and wha proportion of the monohulls in the same area were abandonee or lost? In the September '94 issue of Latitude, you reportec that two out of three catamarans in the storm survived, those being the three mentioned above. I realize that the intent of your statement was to support the concept of cruising catamarans and not to imply that cats make better cruising boats than monos, but the way it was said — and taken out of context — it could lead some to that conclu sion.
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LETTERS In '94 you reported that 150 yachts were in the waters be¬ tween New Zealand and Fiji at the time, and that as many as 40 were in the area traversed by the storm. It's a pity that the vast majority of what was written — not just by Latitude — about the storm focused on the boats that were abandoned or lost. What might we have learned if equal time had been taken to interview all the boats that survived? Latitude's reports from Heart of Gold, Vivace, and a couple of others were helpful. Steve Van Slyke Gig Harbor, WA Steve — Thanks for the warning. Kim Taylor wrote a book called The 1994 Pacific Storm Survey about the Queen's Birth¬ day Storm. It has lots of holes in the the boat reports and the author seems to draw a few odd conclusions, but it’s packed with tons of information. The book also pointed out — as did Latitude — that the catamaran Heart Light wasn't flipped or sunk by the storm. On the contrary, her owners only agreed to be rescued by a 180-foot fishing boat on the condition that the shipper agree to ram Heart Light until she sank. This was so the cat could serve as a lighthouse of sorts for the forces of good in the seventh dimension trying to find their way into the fabric of our world in order to promote harmony and world peace. Some¬ thing like that. In any event, the only point we were trying to make is that although we personally aren't yet up to sailing across open oceans in cats under 40 feet, lots of sailors are — and some such small cats have even survived very serious storms without the help of their crews. Above all, we'd like everyone to be clear on two points: 1) Different boats caught in the Queen's Birthday Storm faced very different conditions, so one has to be very cautious when trying to draw conclusions; and 2) We don’t think that cats are more seaworthy than monohulls or vice versa — it's just not that simple.
Mdon t just sit there I just received my first issue of Latitude today. What a joy! I I’ve been reading this fine magazine since '83. I don’t usually write letters to the editor, but after reading the Nobody Was On Deck letter from the September 2000, I had to voice my feel¬ ings. To paraphrase the author, Mr. Pursell: "I was becalmed aboard my Mariner 31." Dead in the water . . . "Two children were below, asleep." He is a protector. . . "There is a 14-ton steel vessel bearing down on me." All systems on alert for action. . . "I decided that the approaching vessel was swinging by to say 'Hello'." Closed minded decision . . . "I watched this boat maintain a collision course for one half; hour." Oh, really? "I became more and more concerned." Yes, and... "I noticed that no one was on the helm." Cause for more concern? "I seemed to think I should jump up and down and yell 'ahoy'." This is getting thin . . . "At a particular point, I should have started the motor." We’re thinking here, albeit, a little late. . . "I was frozen, like a deer caught in the headlights." Jeeezshh! Mr. Purcell is either trying tbjput one over on the reader, or his claims to have 50,000 miles under his keel are a bit far fetched. I’ll refrain from commenting on certain points — such
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LETTERS as seamanship, personal responsibility and, I hate to say it, child endangerment. My children would have been roused from their slumber and into lifevests. And the diesel would have been roaring — as we got the hell out of the way! P.S. I love Latitude. J. Craig Uhrhan N Washington
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J. Craig — Thanks for the kind words. We agree that if some¬ one is rammed by a boat they've watched slowly approach for half an hour, it seems as if they might have been able to do something. On the other hand, there could have been all kinds of mitigating circumstances — geographical and otherwise. With¬ out knowing them, it’s probably best to withhold Judgement.
till WHEN ABANDONING SHIP Having to abandon a boat at sea must be frightening and extremely dangerous. I can't report on it firsthand, thank good¬ ness, but I have come through some rough situations — such as the Queen's Birthday Storm — and my heart goes out to all those who've had to abandon their boats at sea. But it raises an: important issue. What is the proper thing to do when you leave your disabled boat to board a rescue vessel or get into a liferaft?' Should you sink her by cutting a seawater inlet hose, such as;the crew on Pilot did, or get off and let the boat drift and hope toi be able to recover her later, as the couple from Ramtha did? I read reports of boats being abandoned each year, and usu¬ ally hear that they were left afloat rather than sunk. Usually III get concerned about this when I'm sailing at hull speed on a: dark night with little visibility. I keep wondering if some un¬ manned, abandoned vessel might be out of sight just over thet horizon, posing a threat to the safety of my boat and my own: life. The fate of one’s boat may be the last thing considered in the midst of disaster and emergency. Therefore, I think it would be: prudent for each of us to know our own minds about this issuer — as well as the moral and legal liabilities incurred by the deci¬ sion to leave such a boat afloat — in case we're ever faced with, such an unfortunate situation. I’d like to hear what you and! your readers think. P.S. Our compliments on a fine publication. Chuck Houlihan and Linda Edeiken Jacaranda, Allied 39 San Diego i
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Chuck & Linda — The last thing anybody should do in most situations is leave their boat until it virtually sinks beneath them — which would take care of the problem right there. But there’ are unusual circumstances — a ship standing by in the middle of the ocean that can't wait forever for you to decide to stick with, or abandon your vessel — when you wouldn't have time to think: about making such a decision. To be honest, we're unsure of the’ moral and legal responsibilities, but we think our decision would depend a great deal on the circumstances: how badly the boat was damaged, the likelihood of her being recovered, whether she was in heavily trafficked waters, and so forth. At the very least, we'd illuminate the boat. If circumstances permitted, we'di leave a transmitting EPIRB aboard. And if we did abandon a still floating vessel, we'd take some comfort in the fact that in numerical terms, it would be a relatively miniscule problem com¬ pared to that of all the half-submerged containers bobbing around in the oceans of the world. By the way, the folks who abandoned Ramtha assumed theyi would never see her again. They were shocked to be informed, that their cat had been found in quite good shape near Tongat about two weeks later. They reclaimed her and eventually sailed!
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lUlLIFERAFT IN FOR INSPECTION Wayne and I sold our Crealock 37 in January of this year. We'd used the boat in the '97 Ha-Ha and for cruising Mexico until we did the bash back up to San Diego in '99. Our bash back was in order to buy a bigger boat. After traveling from San Diego to Bellingham, we finally found our new boat — a 1979 Fuji 45 ketch — in our old stomping grounds of Alameda! As part of our preparation to take the boat south, we took our liferaft to Sal of Sal's Liferafts in Oakland. And boy, are we glad we did! It seems that the previous inspection had been lame at best. Sal insisted we be there for the inspection. When we tried to inflate the raft, there wasn't enough air in the cannister to do the job, so the tubes only partially filled. We also learned that ev¬ erything was eight years out of date. Further¬ more, the pump to inflate the tubes no longer worked. If you don't have first¬ hand knowledge of the condition of your raft, take it into somebody with a good reputation. By the way, the person who last inspected the raft is no longer in business. What a surpriseNYou hope you never have to use your liferaft, but if you do, you want to be able to count on it. Cherry and Wayne Knapp Temptress. Fuji 45 Cherry & Wayne — That's good advice. Lots of mariners don't seem to understand that liferafts will deteriorate badly if ex¬ posed to water and heat for several years. If they're inspected each year as they should be. they'll last much, much longer. Just before the start of the Ha-Ha we borrowed a friend's liferaft intending to take it along on the trip. We took it in for inspection — and it failed with flying colors. We now have a new eight-person raft we intend to take very good care of.
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I just bought an old O’Day 20 real cheap — $1,500 — and, yes, she floats. I want to learn how to sail, but only have a budget of about $500 for that purpose. Do you have any sug¬ gestions on a school to teach me the basics? Do you think it: would be too dangerous for me to take the boat to a lake and learn myself? I bought a book on sailing fundamentals and have already learned quite a bit from that. Finally, is there going to be a Baja Ha-Ha again next year? Daniel Blake O'Day 20 Owner Daniel — There are a number of commerical sailing schools around the Bay that offer a wide variety of excellent classes at all levels. But if you're on a tight budget, there are other options. The classic way to learn to sail is by going out with a friend/ mentor, either on their boat or your own boat. If you do it this way, you can save your $500 to fix up and equip your boat — although your training might not be as professional. Many other
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Greetings from the Isle of Youth, which is south of mainland Cuba. We started to write over a year ago, but got caught up in fun stuff and time just flew past. You know how it is when you're spending time on and in the water. It seems as though we're about the only cruising boat in Cuba, at least on the south side. The few other cruising boats that came down here left about a month before we arrived, so we're hanging on our own. We’re also searching out resources, because we have a problem. We discovered that our cruising guides are on the edge of being outdated, and therefore don’t agree with each other on details — such as underwater ob¬ structions. After all, they were written five years ago, and much has changed since then. Furthermore, our set of Cuban charts lacks detail — probably because there are still some places the Cuban government doesn’t want cruisers to go. This is a long way of getting around to saying that we found a coral reef a few days ago, one that didn't appear on the charts. As a result, our Manta 40 catamaran now has a hole in her port keel and a chewed up starboard rudder. We now need to consider all the options for getting the boat repaired. Our only means of communication is email and oc¬ casionally, when the propagation is good, SSB cruisers’ nets. We have no phone, no Internet access, and there are no re¬ sources available in Cuba — such as parts, publications or anything normally associated with a First or even Second World cruising area. SailMail is our lifeline to friends, family and the rest of the world. By the way, thanks for recommending it! So far we’ve contacted friends via email, and have used their suS?^stions to contact Caribbean charter companies who main¬ tain fleets in this part of the world. We’ve had a suggestion to tiy the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, although a straight shot to the Yucatan Peninsula and Isla Mujeres or Cancun would be better for us. Do you have any information in your archives about the possibility of hauling out a 40-foot cat in the Yucatan area? How about Belize? Our 40-foot cat has a beam of 21 feet. Gene Ferris and Marcia Mason Manta 40, Pangaea Gene & Marcia Sorry, we weren't able to answer your ques¬ tion in a timely manner because we were out of town. But given your location to the south of the Cuban mainland, we suspect you soon learned that you had a variety of options. For example.
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it's only 180 miles south to the Cayman Islands and a similar distance west to Cozumel. Both places have tourist catamarans which means they have places to haul them out. When we cruised our boat to Veradero, Cuba, we visited several large Cuba-based cats, so you can haul out there, too. But if you're going that far, you might as well continue on to Key West, where there are many large cats. At least you can count your blessings: a hole in your cat isn't going to prevent you from traveling around the Carib¬ bean to find the best place to have the boat repaired. No other cruising boats in Cuba? Maybe not on the south side of the island, but surely there are a bunch on the north coast near Hemingway Marina.
Moil and tar Last month my son and I joined some friends in bringing their newly acquired Fisher 37 from Santa Barbara to Sausalito. It was a great trip, with stops along the way at such places as Cojo anchorage, Morro Bay (with the world-class nice folks at t the MBYC), San Simeon, Aho Nuevo Island, and on to The City. We left Santa Barbara in the fog, which soon lifted to reveal a clear and calm morning. We motored along and enjoyed bowwave visits from dolphins. After a while, though, the dolphins split and we found ourselves motoring into a seemingly endless slick of crude oil. It was a thin film, but there was enough oil to foul the air — as a paving machine does on a highway. It also turned our white wake an unsavory brown. It wasn't until we passed an oil rig that we got out of the smelly, disgusting oil. I grew up in the Bay Area and never had much exposure to oil rigs, so maybe I’m a little uninformed as to what is winked at 1 by the EPA regarding Big Oil. But this was bad. Does it happen on a routine basis? Is the non-boating public aware of it? I would think they would be, what with the gooey gobs of oil along the beaches at Santa Barbara. Who’s supposed to be watching those guys? V" John Boye Fisksatra 25, Tom Thumb ; Brookings, OR John — It's indeed normal for there to be large sheens of oil, big globs of tar, and a dreadful petroleum stench, in the Santa Barbara Channel — particularly a mile or two offshore about halfway between Santa Barbara and Point Conception. Many people assume that it has something to do with the oil rigs, but it's all natural — sort of like the La Brea tar pits in L.A. In fact, the tar globs and oil have been oozing out of the bottom of the Santa Barbara Channel for ages. The Chumash Indians used the stuff to waterproof the seams in their canoes when they wanted to row across to the Channel Islands for some uncrowded ! surfing. Big Oil is guilty of many sins — and so are we consum¬ ers for becoming so dependent on it — but this isn't one of them. Incidentally, steer well clear of the stuff as during warm weather the big blobs of tar will stick to fiberglass hulls. Its very difficult to remove.
IT-U-BOAT WAKES I had the chance to visit Jack London Square on the Oak¬ land Estuary, during the NCMA's fall boat show. While on the docks, I was appalled to witness the flagrant and wanton disre¬ gard of the basic boating speed law that regulates boat speed on the waters of this state. I watched boat after boat perform¬ ing 'fly-bys’ at well over 5 mph and not more than 50 feet from the docks. While the wakes entertained some folks, this cer¬ tainly wasn t the case with those whose boats were in danger of being damaged. I was amazed that the skippers of the fastmoving boats just didn't seem to care. The most surprising thing is that most of the offending boats were not runabounts oper-
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HU TIDEWATER My daughter, who grew up sailing my Pearson both on the Bay and here in the Delta, just bought a 1966 Tidewater 24 sailboat. We have tried to find out some information on Tidewa¬ ter boats, but without success. I know from past experience that your readers are the best informed sailors in the world, so maybe they could help. s William J. Grummel Midnattsolen Bethel Island William — We're not familiar with the boat. Lots of boat com¬ panies formed in the mid-’60s with the advent of fiber glass boats — and quickly folded. But perhaps one of our readers can help.
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After temporarily returning from the Caribbean, I'm catch¬ ing up on my reading — and would like to make some com¬ ments on issues that have been discussed. Medical insurance. My cruising partner has done a bit of re¬ search, apd is homing in on Blue Shield’s $2,000 deductible policy that has a monthly premium of around $200/month. This is consistent with the conclusion of Sandy Ullstrup of Little Bit, who has been sailing on a budget for several years. It’s essentially a 'major medical' policy — a good choice when cruis¬ ing in areas where medical service not covered by insurance is inexpensive. In Bermuda, for example, I paid $216 for a visit to the hospital emergency room to care for a major 'boat bite'. In St. Lucia, I paid $30 for a doctor’s visit and $48 for an ultra¬ sound. Email from Mexico. CompuServe members have — or at least had — access to a toll-free Mexican access number: 800-9266000. Given that, all you needed was access to an ordinary jack, which most marinas provided free or at very low cost. My attempts to work through public phones utilizing acoustic cou¬ plers was totally unsuccessful — except when using the Sharp TM-20 and Pocketmail. The ham radio code test I was permitted to use a laptop computer and word processing software for both practice soft¬ ware and — after I showed that I didn’t have some test-beating software in place — to transcribe the actual test. As a result, I was able to pass the five and 13 word-per-minute tests on the respective first attempts. Not only is typing a letter faster than stroking one, but it's much more readable and saves a lot of paper while practicing. By now I'm quite sure that most exam¬ iners are aware that transcribing with a laptop is permitted by authorizing organizations such as the Amateur Radio Relay League. Jack Martin. You're certainly aware, most cruisers’ last names seem to be boat names. For example, to most people I'm prob¬ ably known as ’Roger of Ariadne ir[. So until I read the letter from Catherine of Sojurn in the April issue, I did not connect the Jack who was killed in the New Zealand car wreck with
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LETTERS Linda — his wife — whom we met in Chacala while helping build Habitat for Humanity-type housing back in 1996. Let me add my sincere condolences to Linda and her son John. We’ve traveled both coasts and the Caribbean, and have found Latitude to be far and away the most informative magazine for cruisers. Among other things, a Classy Classified listing sold my Cal 39 to a resident of Fort Lauderdale. In second place would be the little Caribbean Compass, a monthly in newspa¬ per format that's produced in the Caribbean. It provides timely local information, letters that are very useful to cruisers and racers, and content similar to Latitude. I suspect it's what Lati¬ tude might have looked like in the early years. Roger Bohl Ariadne II, Starnas 44 Roger — Like you, we enjoy the Caribbean Compass, which used to bill itself as the 'Marine Monthly of the Southern Carib¬ bean'. Now they cover all the way up the chain to the Virgin Islands. Although we’ve only met our counterparts over the phone, they're great folks, and they produce a publication far superior to what ours was like in the early years. For subscription infor¬ mation, visit their website at www.caribbeancompass.com. Al¬ though their editorial isn't quite as strong or plentiful, we also enjoy All At Sea, which is published out of St. Martin and distrib¬ uted from Puerto Rico to Trinidad.
TUI WHO KNOWS ABOUT DIANA? I've owned my boat — a Diana 38 — for three years, but have never seen or even heard of a sistership. She’s 38 feet long, 34 feet on the waterline, and has a beam of 11 feet. She's cutter rigged, and has a canoe stern and a cutaway keel. G.H. Stadel III did the design, her mold was made at the Ta Shing Boatworks, but she was built by Tung Hwa Industrial Co. in Taiwan. If anyone owns or has information on this design, I wish they'd contact me at eveningtide@hotmail.com Don Smith Garden Grove
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My opinion on Latitude's Crew List is that it's a great idea — but also sad. San Francisco is supposed to be the center of the world for liberated, independent, intelligent women, and so you would think they all would like the adventure of a sailing trip to Mexico and/or the South Pacific and/or around the world. I figure there are probably 20,000 single women in the San Fran¬ cisco Bay Area available for the adventure of their lives. But how many of these women are under the age of 45 and put their names on the Crew List for Mexico? A total of just 16. I’m leaving on my big adventure in approximately five months, but will delay it until I find the right lady for the trip. Since I am working in Paris two to three weeks a month, it's veiy difficult to follow through on such a quest. So I'll continue to go through the normal 20 minute phone call and 30 minute lunch to find a lady for my/our trip. I know she is out there someplace. By the way, the following are some of my experiences look¬ ing for female crew, not just from Latitude’s Crew List, but also from contacts with other sailing friends: — One nice lady I had lunch with asked if there was a chance we could get married before we left. — One asked if I wouldn't mind paying for college for her two daughter^ and making the $3,500/month mortgage payment on her home. — One lady asked if she could bring her four kids and dog along. — The last one told me she wouldn't cook, and wouldn't sail any leg longer than five days, but would fly there to meet me at the next port. Nor did she want to help to get the boat ready. Along these lines, severed women have told me that my call was the only one they received and/or I was the only one to meet them face to face at lunch. Some women told me they only got one or two calls off the Crew List. My good friend Rob Walter, a doctor from Seattle, left on his big adventure. He got as far as Bora Bora, at which time his girlfriend, also a doctor, told him it was too boring and flew home. Now my friend has spent the last four weeks in Tahiti tiying to find someone else so he can continue his adventure. It's not that easy, but my search goes on. Great magazine. Clayton Bowman Paris/Newport Beach Clayton — If you think that 'all the independent, intelligent and liberated women in the San Francisco area' want to make a long cruise on a sailboat, you need to study up on the Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus book. While there are many exceptions, the primary interests of the majority of women are things like motherhood, relationships, a home, security and com- I fort. "All" of them don’t want to go cruising; heck, hardly any of them do! And many of the ones that do go only start because they want to maintain a relationship with a husband or boy¬ friend. You're obviously interested in developing a relationship with a woman. Nothing wrong with that. But most of the women who sign up for or respond to the Crew List are primarily interested in
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LETTERS sailing — at least in the beginning. When it comes to speed, dealing with women is like dealing with Mexican officials: slow is fast. Also understand that many women prefer to call poten¬ tial skippers as opposed to having their name on the list. If you don't understand why, ask a couple of women. We're not very interested in dispensing relationship advice, but delaying your trip until you find a woman is both trying too hard and getting everything backwards. After all, most relation¬ ships happen when people aren't trying. Take it from 'Lonesome Roy’ Wessbecher of Breta, the all-time female crew magnet. When Roy took off to sail around the world on his humble Columbia 34, he assumed he'd have to do it alone because he wasn't a good enough sailor to take crew. In other words, he was a mod¬ est guy with a vision. Women just love modest guys with vi¬ sions. Small wonder that 17 of the 18 crew Roy ultimately signed on were women — some of whom were raging babes. Roy had so many women crew he ended up turning off the spigot. So follow your dream and let the relationships fall into place. Trust us, you have no idea how many relationships — and mar¬ riages — have been spawned by the Crew Lists and the HaHa's. After all, everyone knows that there’s no better environ¬ ment for relationships than an adventure. Besides, when you're moving, you're always meeting new people. Finally, like food, there are women all over the world. What's to stop you from meeting someone in Costa Rica or Panama? Or New Zealand or Australia. Frank Robben of Kialoa II met his wife in Sri Lanka. If-0-A WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR A CREW POSITION A few months ago, I put an ad in Latitude's Crew List to seek a first mate or crew position on a boat. A few women sailors contacted me to ask how my search was progressing. After spending this summer sailing in San Francisco, San Diego, the Caribbean, and the San Juans, I offer the following progress report: First of all, I would like to thank the many skippers who 'showed me the ropes' and were gentlemen by respecting my request to be 'friends first'. This request helped to keep expec¬ tations down. It also helped to separate out the skippers who were only looking for a bed partner instead of someone who wanted to be a crewmember, too. After initial contact was made, I would begin by communi¬ cating by email and phone. In my emails, I would ask questions about their geographical and physical preferences. I welcomed questions from them, too. If our answers matched well, we'd then progress to phone conversations. The next veiy critical step was to meet one another. I paid for all of my transporta¬ tion, and I took turns paying expenses to keep monetary obli¬ gations at bay. Guys who came on too fast and hot lost major points. As gentlemen know, this is not the way to compliment a lady! Most of my experiences were positive — until I flew to Puerto Vallarta to check out the sailing scene. I met a powerboat skipper whom I had been in contact with. This deviated from my sailing goal, but I want to learn everything about all boats. The quality of the skipper's boat is another vital factor for me, along with the skipper's integrity and experience. It was disappointing to discover that the fellow's powerboat was poorly maintained — a major red light for me. I also found out that the skipper had outright lied to me. He hadn't been divorced twice as he had claimed, but six times! When I told him that his in¬ terrupting and yelling weren't appropriate, he demanded that I pack up and get off of his boat — or he would throw me into the Paradise Marina. He claimed that this was his right under Mexi¬ can maritime law! He made this threat twice as I quickly packed. Although it was almost midnight, a hospitable lady boater nearby welcomed me and my belongings aboard — as the skip¬ per of the powerboat tried to get security to throw me out. Since
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which is a bad thing. If this happens, the boat may not right itself quickly. This situation is extremely rare, but you should be aware of it. 7) One final note on performance. In heavy wind, which is the condition in which we often sailed the boat, we would move the main traveler all the way to windward and then ease the main sheet oubwith the vang off. Doing this created a large arc in the leech, dumping the excess wind out of the sail — and seemed to give us the most speed. It's kind of unique to Clipper 21s. I'm not sure why this worked, but perhaps it had some¬ thing to do with the keel in the slightly raised position. One final thing. You folks at Latitude mentioned there is a guy who does a good job of sailing a blue on blue Clipper Ma¬ rine 30 out of Sausalito. I’m that guy. My Clipper 30 does 7+ knots all day long when on a reach in The Slot — and looks darn good doing it! For the record, I have refitted the keel and the rig has all new hardware. But I'll match my lady with any¬ body else’s anytime. P.S. Just outside of the Clipper Yacht Harbor Office in Sausalito — which was named after the Clipper line of boats — sits one of the first boats built by Crealock. Brad Alvis Stepping Stone, CM-30 Brad — You put a nice reef in your main and obviously enjoy your Clipper 30, both of which are great. But we're still skeptical of whether the Clipper Marine boats were designed and built for rough weather sailing. But we'll leave the final decision up to buyers and their surveyors. And we're surely skeptical of any 21 foot displacement sailboat ever hitting 10 knots. What we know for sure is that you're confused about a rela¬ tionship between Clipper Yacht Harbor and Clipper Marine fiber¬ glass sailboats. Cliff Andersen, owner of Clipper Yacht Harbor, started building the Myron Spaulding-designed 17-foot Clippers in 1937 behind the Marin Theatre on Caledonia Street. Hull #1 of that design indeed sits in front of the marina offices. In 1948, Cliff and Shirley Morgan bought what was to become Basin #i from the War Assets Administration, and acquired the land for the additional basins over the next few years. Clipper Marine wasn't started until the '60s in Southern California, so the ma¬ rina couldn't have been named after it. Indeed, there is no rela¬ tion between Clipper Yacht Harbor and Clipper Marine fiberglass boats. fUlSETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT [Editor's note: We received this letter two months ago, but it temporarily got lost on the hard drive.]
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Lookin'good — Alcyone' at the start of the 2000 Pacific Cup.
The on-watch crew called below for assistance. They didn’t have to wake me up, as I was sleeping in the quarter berth and the violent heel had brought my eyes wide open. We quickly assessed the situation and broke out the emergency rudder and mounted it on the transom. We exercised the emergency rud¬ der to insure that it could steer the boat, and then turned our attention to the damage. The crew of Alcyone was made up of seasoned sailors and racers, and included a licensed merchant marine captain. We quickly determined that we could stop the slewing of the rud¬ der post by rigging lines up through the lazarette to the port and starboard sheet winches, thereby stabilizing the movement. We then used the main halyard to connect — through the ac¬ cess hole — onto a jury-rigged loop on top of the rudder post. We were therefore able to pull the rudder and bearing housing back up and against its original anchor point. This allowed us to steer, albeit gently, with the main rudder. The next step was to more securely attach the bearing hous¬ ing back to the boat. This was done by using bolts and nuts that were in our various onboard kits, and borrowing^ others from padeyes and cleats that would not be needed in the short term. We drilled six holes up through the bearing housing and on up through the helmsman's seat and reattached the hous¬ ing to the boat. With the main halyard now being used to con¬ tinue to support our fix, we deployed the storm trysail on the main mast, using a spare halyard, and rigged a block and tackle to control the leech and foot of the sail. When the rudder dropped down, it damaged the stuffing box at the lower bearing. After our repairs were completed, we in¬ spected and found that the stuffing box was leaking, and we: were taking on water. We repaired the stuffing box as best we: could, which slowed down the water incursion, but did not stop: the flow. So we deployed the belowdecks hand bilge pump, and! made the abovedecks hand bilge pump ready for immediate: deployment. The electric bilge pump was keeping up with the:; incoming water, but we wanted to be ready for any further wa¬ ter problems. While this was going on, we also initiated contact with the Coast Guard at Com Sta Kodiak, Alaska. Why not Coast Guardi Hawaii? Well, we could not raise anyone on the designated emer¬ gency channel, and were not able to raise Coast Guard Hawaii on their working channels. Com Sta Kodiak was very respon¬ sive and, after giving all the initial details of the situation and other particulars that they asked for, we began an hourly radid schedule. So far so good. By the way, we did not need to use the
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LETTERS emergency rudder other than to insure that it was installed and working, and that we could use it to steer the boat if necessaiy. Next, we had to address the weather situation. Some folks may recall that hurricane Daniel was at that time projected to either hit the northern sides of the islands or pass close to the north. We laid out our track with our new steering and speed capability, and then projected Daniel’s track. This showed us a CPA of zero. So, being a prudent mariner, I made the judgment that a boat taking on water with a damaged main rudder wasn't in the proper condition to ride out a hurricane. That’s when I called for the tow. We were able to motor sail and meet the tug about 150 miles out. This allowed us to get into Waikiki and get the boat hauled before Daniel passed north of Oahu. We had a new upper bearing housing built by Ala Wai Marine in Waikiki, and Dave Becker and his crew did a great job. We then sailed Alcyone back to Santa Cruz. I recall meeting someone from Latitude while in the yard, but he didn't ask any questions, saying only that the publisher had asked him to take a photo of the emergency rudder. So it seems that at least two editors of Latitude had more than ample opportunity to get the facts correct. Why didn't it happen? Jack McGuire, John Wurster, Bariy Hopkins, John McGuire, Chris McGuire and Peter Dalton The crew of Alcyone
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Alcyone Crew — Thanks for straightening us out on what really happened to Alcyone. We apologize for our earlier error. Here's the clarification of how we got your story wrong. First, understand that Latitude has a tiny editorial staff of just four full time people and one regular contributor. This means that there is never more than one person to cover an event — even if it's a Pacific Cup where there are more than 70 boats and 400 people. And where most of the boats and people — as you pr obably know — arrive in the middle of the night, then drift off to other parts of the island. Some immediately fly home and some only sporadically reappear, so it can be nearly impossible to track down stories. It's an enormous undertaking for one person. Yes, there were three Latitude people in Hawaii after the Pa¬ cific Cup. Rob Moore arrived well after it was over, but he was there exclusively to cover the Kenwood Cup. The Wanderer was also there. But having written the last bunch of Pacific Cup sto¬ ries, he was theoretically on the island only as part of a family vacation. Covering the event was left up to Paul Kamen, a regu¬ lar contributor. This was perhaps bad planning, as we neglected to realize that Paul — who would win the best navigator award — understandably arrived exhausted and not in the best condi¬ tion to take on such a big research and writing assignment. As to the specifics of how we muffed the Alcyone story, the Wanderer happened to be at the Kaneohe YC when he bumped into Bruce, who was slated to deliver Alcyone back to Calfiornia. Bruce told the Wanderer that he was looking for a new delivery job because you'd lost your rudder, the emergency rudder ap¬ parently wasn't working well, and that you had to be towed in. The Wanderer passed this information along to Kamen, and in the jumble of the following days, it ended up being self-corrobo¬ rating. If we’d have seen you and known it was you, we’d have certainly asked you about it. But since we assumed we already had the basic story, didn't see the need — or more importantly, have the time — to check it further. That's the downside of a free and understaffed publication. iliilT MAKES IT HARD TO WANT TO DO THE RIGHT THING I was immediately sickened — although not surprised — to hear about the ensuing legal battle regarding the rescue aboard! Kokopelli2.1 have been on the helping end of a rescue situation,,
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and can report that the internal euphoria and satisfaction of successfully helping someone is instantly converted to anger if you have to mortgage your house to defend yourself. Admit¬ tedly, I know only what I’ve read in Latitude, but it makes it really hard to want to ’do the right thing' and help. I hope the issue of negligence is limited to the incident and not the rescue — assuming there was any. As we know, some¬ times stuff just happens. Joby Easton
Joby — Perhaps we didn't express ourselves clearly, but we know of no legal action being initiated against any of the rescu¬ ers. We apologize if we gave anyone that impression.
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I'm responding to the September issue letter from Fred Beach of Quintana Roo about the so-called 'Cape Cod Dining Society' at the Pedro Miguel Boat Club in Panama. I am taken aback by the ’cold shoulder' you were given by the East Coast Cape Cod Dining Society' . . . terribly poor manners on their part. How¬ ever, one of the freedoms allowed members of the Pedro Miguel Boat Club is to pursue individual or group functions in peace. That is one of the reasons many folks cruise, to get away from the conformity of landlocked society. The freedom to associate or not, as one desires, is fundamental to the existence of a true sailor’s soul. And we at the Pedro Miguel Boat Club concur. Incidentally, we looked through our club's files and were unable to find any record of a visit to the club by you or a boat, named Quintana Roo. The Panama Canal has no record either. I cannot understand why one would use anonymity or deceit i when publicly disparaging an individual or group. If you,are still trying to get invited to dine 'Cape Cod' style, which you appear desperate to do, there are better ways. Is it possible that you were traumatized when visiting New England as a youth and are having flashbacks of being excluded from a clam bake? While I would agree that most New Englanders area bit 'reserved', I have never heard a New Englander whine about being excluded from the West Coaster’s sundowner club. I canonly assume that they are confident and content to be part of the Cape Cod Dining Society. In any event, let me know the next time you'll be visiting the club, and I ll tiy to arrange initiation into the society for you. In the meantime, practice saying good things about people or noth ing at all, as one of the prerequisites for entry into the Cape Cod Dining Society is to sit quietly for a day without whining. Craig Owingg Commodore, Pedro Miguel Boat Club
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Volume 1, Number 1. We are happy to welcome a new magazine to the marine fold. The October/Fall issue of Metal Boat Quarterly arrived recently on our desks and we must say we’re pretty impressed. Articles in the premier issue include ones on goal setting, Steel Masts — Round or Square” and “Pre-Cutting a Metal Boat.” (Thank¬ fully, they didn’t take a cue from Latitude and put a naked woman in their first issue. We’re still hearing about that one.) It’s well done, full of information and doubtless welcome to the ‘metalheads’ among us. Subs are $30 per year and can be had by contacting the Metal Boat Society (also includes member¬ ship in the MBS), P.O. Box 61856, Vancouver, WA 98666. Or call (360) 695-4861, email lydi4861@aol.com or log onto www.metalboatsociety.com.
What kind of crap is this? On the way home from British Columbia to San Franciscc this summer, Tom and Mary Hendrian pulled their 42-ft Grand Banks trawler Simpatica into Roche Harbor on Washington’s San Juan Island. That’s where they spotted the harbor’s pump out boat whose sign reads, “MV Phecal Phreak — We take crap from anyone.”
Oaring around. According to an article in the Marin Independent Journal Katharina Imberi was taken into custody in mid-November foi clobbering another Sausalito resident with an oar. Imberi, who has the unusual habit of releasing full-volume tirades at men she encounters around the Sausalito waterfront (whether shi knows them or not), is alleged to have stalled shouting ob; scenities and accusations of rape at a man who was going to the public boat ramp. She poked him in the stomach with ai oar, then clubbed him six times with it. Imberi, an unemployed houseboat resident, was arraignet on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with a rare gen der-based hate-crimes enhancement. If convicted, she couf face up to seven years in prison.
Lips quiz of the month. Inflatables, open motorboats, ‘cabin’ motorboats, canoes, sail boats, kayaks, personal watercraft (jet skis), rowboats — gj ahead, take a wild guess which group(s) have the highest fatal ity rates. Answer at the end of Loose Lips.
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SIGHTINGS weighty issues In order to be certified for passengers, all potential charter vessels must pass a battery of tests administered by the Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Office. One of the biggies is the ‘simplified stability test’, which is what you see taking place here. The boat is Billy Martinelli s scow schooner Gaslight, the date is November 17 and the ‘movable ballast’ is what made this test so unusual — and memorable. “Usually we do it with weights, like sandbags or 55 gallon drums of
He ain’t heavy, he’s my... stability crew — Above left, each volunteer had to be weighed and recorded. Right, Coast Guard Marine Safety Officers made sure ev¬ erything was on the level. Spread, Billy and the ‘Gaslight’ gang. Pizza time! water,” said Chief Warrant Officer Doug Damman of MSO San Fran¬ cisco. “But the way the figures are calcuiated, it’s actually better to do it with people.” Martinelli is well known and liked on the Sausalito waterfront, so it, didn’t seem like too daunting a task to hustle up 40 or 50 bodies for an hour or so. When the word went out that there would be pizza and soft drinks, he ended up with many more. Damman, who performed the test with Lieutenant Commander John Caplis, explained that the test simulated the boat under sail with a full charter complement of 49. The weight they needed aboard was 7,840 pounds (49 times an average weight of 160 pounds per person). The actual weight on board (before pizza) was 8,051 pounds spread over 47 folks. One woman even arrived with several ankle weights on each leg. Initially, they were divided equally amidships. Then, two by two, people were shuffled over to one side until all 47 were lining the rail. A bit more than 25 inches of heel was allowed; the buxom Gaslight only went down about 16 inches. Test passed! For Martinelli, who built the boat on the waterfront and got it sail¬ ing just this year, it was one step further toward certification. Once there, the steel schooner will go on ‘active duty’ as part of the National Maritime Museum Association’s ‘Age of Sail’ program. As you’ll note from a separate article in this month’s Sightings, this program has 4th, 5th and 6th grade students learning the ropes aboard the C.A. Thayer, although that historic ship pever leaves the dock. Gaslight is therefore slated to be sort of a combination final exam and reward — the kids will put what they have learned into practice to sail Gaslight around the Bay for a day.
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zero ‘Extreme’ sportsman Mike Horn com¬ pleted his ambitious Latitude 0° expedi¬ tion in late October — a 24,800-mile, nonmotorized trip around the world, all within 25 miles of the Equator. Horn, who was raised in South Africa but now lives in Switzerland with his wife and two daughters, departed the West Coast of Africa on June 2, 1999. For the ocean legs of the trip, VS Mike used a slightly modified (re¬ inforcement in the floats and crossbeams) Corsair F-28 trima¬ ran. For the overland treks, the 34year-old travelled either by mountain bike, canoe or on foot. The dangers of crossing the At¬ lantic, Pacific and Indian oceans
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paled in comparison to his land routes, which included such obstacles as volca¬ nos, dense jungle (one section in Brazil required the use of two machetes to make progress), swamps, civil wars, blood¬ thirsty insects, poisonous snakes and the Andes mountains. Not to mention some¬ times having to hunt and prepare his own food. Which is not to say the ocean cross¬ ings were easy. The 9,100-mile Pacific passage from Ecuador to Borneo, for ex¬ ample, took 77 days and included every¬ thing from storms to frustrating calms. We particularly liked his description of an Indian Ocean storm, which he spent hunkered down in the cabin while the
The sum total of my boating experience was a couple of rides from Seattle to Whidbey Island on a ferry. Ron, however, had been sailing for nearly 38 years. We had her surveyed, did a short sea trial, and before you could say "bank transfer," she was ours. We found a little marina just up the Willamette river in Scapoose, and Ron spent a cold, rainy, lonely winter in Oregon, while I stayed in Idaho Falls. My winter was also cold, lonely, and snowy instead of rainy, but in June of this year, we got married, finished cleaning out my rental house, and headed to Oregon to finish up work on the boat and get ready to head south. Our now-beautiful sailboat — renamed Dragon -— had been totally rewired, rerigged, reupholstered, recarpeted, bottom-painted, and reeverything elsed (to the tune of about $30,000 beyond the original purchase price), and was ready to head for warmer weather. We were fully provisioned, had a brand new liferaft, a medical kit adequate for any emergency short of a nuclear war, and a new, registered 406 EPIRB. Even my mother wouldn't worry.
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We left our marina In Scapoose just after 6 a.m. on July 31 with three crewmembers aboard. Dennis was a fairly experienced sailor who had spent many years enjoying Puget Sound and the San Juan Is¬ lands. John and Vaughn had about as much sailing experience as I did. We also took our two kitties, Harley, our 18-pound tabby-some¬ thing, and Pansie, a purebred Persian. We enjoyed a beautiful but uneventful motor down the Columbia River to Astoria. The next morning, we left Astoria to cross THE CO¬ LUMBIA BAR. (Imagine Vincent Price saying that in his scariest voice.) The Columbia Bar has been called the graveyard of the Pacific because over 2,000 ships have gone down there. We crossed the Bar with no problems whatsoever, headed west about 22 miles offshore and turned south. We put up the sails, shut off the engine, and promptly ran into our first storm.
boat was hove to: “Now I know how a pina colada feels when it’s inside the blender!” As part of the years-long preparation for Latitude 0°, Horn immersed himself at the highest levels of sailing. He spent a season racing aboard the 60-ft French trimaran Primagaz with Laurent Bourgnon, and was part of the crew aboard the maxi-ketch Mari-Cha III when she broke the trans-Atlantic record in 1998. He also trained exclusively with Steve Ravussin, multihull Class III winner of the ‘98 Route de Rhum. The first time Mike ever sailed solo, however, was when he pushed off
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Spread, Mike Horn celebrates the end of the Atlantic leg of Latitude 0° in Brazil. Inset, Mike hugs wife Cathy at journey’s end in Africa.
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The ’scope' patches helped out with the seasick problem, but every¬ one on the boat got sick at least once, even the kitties. Almost everyone got over it quickly, except for me. It took about three days. Our first problem oc- — curred when we had an accidental gibe. The boom swung across the pilot¬ house, sheared off fittings, turned a handrail into splinters and ripped the traveller car right off. We dropped the main and proceeded under jib alone while Ron made emer¬ gency repairs. Running under jib alone proved so comfortable that we used the same technique dur¬ ing the rest of the storms we encountered. Our wind meter went from 25 to 35 to 65, and then quit. It hasn't worked since. At that point, we de¬ cided to run off for New¬ port. As we made our way slowly toward the coast, stuff fell out of cupboards, out of drawers, and off of shelves. It finally got to the point we just left it on the floor, figuring it couldn't fall any farther. After sail¬ ing all day and all night, we ran into another little difficulty when our carto¬ Baptism by storm: Nadine and Ron Crum. graphic GPS had Newport Bay mislabeled. So I got on the radio and called the Coast Guard. They were extremely helpful. They checked on us every 30 minutes, sent out a rescue boat, called and got us a dock, and helped us tie up. And, of course, they boarded and inspected us. All I wanted was the lat/long of the entry buoy. We passed the safety inspection, but it was really embarrassing to have a bunch of Coast Guard guys walking around in the salon when everything was such a mess, especially since one of the drawers that fell out was full of my 'unmentionables'. We spent two days in Newport, recuperating and waiting for the small craft warnings to be lifted. On August 4th, we left Newport and sailed south again. On August 6, we sailed around Cape Mendocino and ran into our second storm. This time the winds weren't too bad, but the waves were awful. We felt like a cork in a washing machine. During the night, Ron was thrown hard into a shelf, and cracked his head. He started show¬ ing signs of a concussion: one eye was slightly dilated, he began throwing up, and kept falling asleep. The cut jon the ba,ck of his head needed stitches, but the storm made it too rough to try. My wonderful medical kit wasn't much use any other way, either, since there isn't anything you can do for a concussion. The best I could do was to keep making sure Ron would wake up occasionally, and stand by the bed to hold him in place so he wouldn't slide around too much in the storm. The best investment I had was a book called Your Offshore Doctor which, in addition to my EMD training, was the only medical treat¬ ment he got that night. Dennis had to stay at the wheel all night long, because neither John nor Vaughn had the experience needed to keep the boat on course, and our self-steering couldn t handle the kind of
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SIGHTINGS dragon— cont’d seas we were in. Nine hours on the wheel without even a bathroom break, in the dark, in the middle of a storm. With the wind and the waves behind us, being on the wheel was very physically demanding, as we were surfing at nearly 11 knots. Dennis did an awesome job. We continued to fight the seas all the next day. Ron was able to take some four-hour shifts at the wheel, but eveiyone was extremely tired, so we headed for shore again, pulling into Bodega Bay at about 3 a.m. The next morning, John and Vaughn decided they had had enough fun. They left for home. We pulled out of Bodega Bay on the 9th, and had a beautiful sail all the way to Monterey. We saw whales, seals, and dolphins. We went through a whole family of whales, and could see and hear them breathing all around the boat. We spent a beautiful day in Monterey and headed out the next morning about 7 a.m. We left Monterey in fog. Nasty stuff — you couldn’t see p&st the front of the boat. GPS and radar did a good job of keeping us away from other boats and land. We were expecting another nice day, since NOAA weather ’experts' lifted all the small craft warnings. We quickly found out NOAA is all wet. s Less than three hours later, we hit storm #3. We don’t know how high the winds were because our wind meter wasn't working. But the waves looked like they were about 100 feet, which means they were at least 15-20 feet. At one point, the sheets came loose from the clew of the jib. Ron went on deck with the boat hook to grab the sail and try to reattach them. The wind jerked it out of his hands like it had been shot out of a gun. continued on outside column of next sightings page
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zero hour into the Atlantic from Gabon province in northwest Africa. In all, he covered more than 16,000 miles of the trip on the F-28. For the record, Latitude 0° crossed three oceans, nine countries on three con¬ tinents, the full range of equatorial cli¬ mates from dense rainforest to desert, and 24 time zones. Mike’s backpack during the land portion of the trek averaged 85 pounds. Latitude 0° was sponsored by Sector Sport Watches and No Limits Sports Wear. The expedition included a lot of behind-
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We’re probably not going to see many great sailing days like the one being en¬ joyed by Solturd. late last summer. Well, at least not as many consistent ones. As local sailors all know, barring the occa- i sional storm, winter is the time of mostly light-air sailing here in the Bay.
SIGHTINGS — con’t the-scenes help from a support team, who among other duties transported the trailerable F-28 overland and readied it for Mike’s ocean legs. After a brief rest and doubtless a few new dates on his slideshow/motivational speaking calendar, Mike will return to a ‘normal’ life as a rafting/canyoning guide in Switzerland in the summer, and ski instructor during the winter. You can read all about Mike Horn and the Latitude 0° adventure at www.mike horn.com.
good We decided to run this older photo as the final ‘lookin’ good’ boat of 2000 for a number of reasons. First, we liked it. Sec¬ ond, it marvelously illustrates the great adaptability of a split rig. And third, hey, they were looking really good that day. Have a great holiday, everybody!
dragon — cont. With our other crew gone, Dennis and Ron had to double-team drop¬ ping the roller furling jib to reattach the sheets. That left me to take the wheel. After 35 seconds of sailing instruction, I did my best to keep the Dragon turned into the waves and wind. It was no picnic, but being on the bow with the waves crashing over your head wasn't exactly a ride at Disneyland, either. Ron was soaked to the bone, and Dennis took a nasty fall and banged his knee. Both of them wore their harnesses and were snapped into the jacklines, so it wasn’t quite as dangerous as it looked. With the sheets refastened and the jib (with a small tear) reset, we did just fine. About two minutes after he got back into the cockpit, Dennis no¬ ticed that he had a fish on his line. In the middle of the storm, he snapped back onto the jack line, and started fighting this monster fish. No one ever saw it, but it eventually snapped the 40-pound test fishline like it was sewing thread- Dennis was pulling so hard on the pole that when the line snapped, the pole came back and whacked him in the forehead. It looked like a bad injury, but he said he's been hit by girls harder than that. Because of the (renewed) small craft advisory, we pulled into San Luis Obispo, and spent the day on a mooring buoy. We had a nice nap and watched the pelicans dive for fish. Our next leg of the trip was going around Point Conception (aka ’The Cape Horn of the Pacific, and supposedly as scary as the Colum¬ bia Bar). Figuring we were going to get our butts kicked again, I made up a bunch of sandwiches rather than tiy to cook in high seas. However, like the Columbia Bar, Point Conception was no big deal. In fact, the rest of the sail south to San Diego was gorgeous and thank¬ fully uneventful. We sailed past Catalina Island with a group of dol¬ phins playing in front of the boat, and on into San Diego. But the adventure was not quite over. We had been on a waiting list since January, and had been told they had a slip for us starting Au¬ gust 15. Our 'confirmed reservation’ at the marina on Shelter Island turned out to have disappeared. We ran into a very unpleasant lady there, who turned out to be the only person in San Diego that was rude. The harbor police happened to be fueling up and gave us direc¬ tions to a temporary dock where we could rest while we tried to find another place to stay. We had heard horror stories about the harbor police in San Diego, but they turned out to be unfounded. The harbor police were wonder¬ ful to us, even though we looked scruffy and, after 36 hours with no sleep, were more than a tad grouchy. Efen the dispatchers in the har¬ bor patrol office were helpful beyond belief. After two very frustrating days, we talked to the office manager at Harbor Island West Marina. I lost her name, but she ought to be knighted, or sainted, or whatever it is they do when someone is extra wonderful. She called their sister marina in Ventura, and checked on availability of a slip. Many mari¬ nas in San Diego have a year waiting list for liveaboards, and several do not want kids or animals. We hardly planned to throw our kitties or our 14-year-old overboard. We rented a car and drove to Ventura to check out the new marina. Our new place has many more features than anywhere we looked in San Diego. The management and staff here are awesome. The biggest asset is it is QUIET. Our son Ryan flew from Idaho Falls to San Diego to join us, and the three of us sailed to Ventura by way of Catalina. We had a quiet threeday motorsail up the coast with only one small oddity. Ron was asleep, and I was on the night watch. We were sailing through some photoactive plankton that glows when disturbed. I had to use the head, and didn t want to wake Ron or ruin my night vision with a light. Imagine my surprise and shock, when the flush water in the toilet was glowing in the dark! , . __ , e For now our adventures are over. We will stay here in Ventura for the school year, explore the area, make repairs to Dragon, and install some new equipment. As for our next adventure, so long as Cape Mendocino isn't on the chart, I'm ready to go anywhere. — nadine crom
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age of sail “Your morning coffee, sir." I awakened abruptly from a light sleep on a cold, hard wooden deck. It was 5 a.m. I should have been upset but I was excited and proud. These were the voices of two shipmates waking the captain with morning coffee and reporting on the ship’s condition. Just 16 hours before, these two self-confident ‘sailors’ were timid, inexperienced fifth-grade students. I had watched them change from 10-year-old landlubbers at Manor Elementary School in Fairfax into apprenticed seamen. They were using correct maritime terminology and relying on each other to perform real tasks such as mousing a '\
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Way-hey, blow the kid down (clockwise from above left): Age-of-Sailors haul a hawser; rigger gets hoisted aloft by willing hands; seaman Mitchell rings the ship’s bell and an¬ nounces the change of watch; (inset) built to haul lumber, the ‘C.A. Thayer’ now ‘sails’ young apprentices from turn-of-the-century San Francisco; Russell helps prepare a meal — galley duty was mandatory for all apprentices; learning the ropes from ‘Thayer’ cap¬ tain Moore.
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or the better. In fact, it is so changed since he last time we were there that we kept :hecking our bearings thinking we’d nded up in the wrong place! The facelift began in late 1996 when he new owners decided to do a $4.5 milon makeover. This included dredging, istalling all new docks, modernizing the _iel dock facilities, repaving the parking ats, rebuilding the levee — and even plac
shackle, rigging blocks through a heaving line, and staying up with other crewmembers on a night watch. As a guest of the captain on this ‘voyage,’ 1 felt privileged to observe the transformation of 40 green hands (two fifth-grade classes) into au¬ thentic 19th century schooner crew. Upon boarding the ship, I was no longer their teacher with all the answers. In fact, my students and I could no longer speak to each other. I could only watch as the kids transferred their need to ask adults questions about everything, to asking each other or relying on their own problem solving skills. I came away feeling that the experience of becoming sailors was the most im continued on outside column of next sightings page
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SIGHTINGS age of sail — cont’d portant one I offered them all year. This special program was designed by the National Maritime Mu¬ seum Association and takes place aboard the authentic 1895 lumber schooner C.A. Thayer which, along with the rest of the museum’s his¬ toric fleet, is berthed at Hyde Street Pier. The program takes the kids back in time to 1906. The ‘regular crew’ has gone ashore to help with the earthquake disaster and the ship’s captain needs green hands to sail to the north coast. These ‘landlubbers’ have to learn all they can in six hours in order to set sail (the sails fly, but the ship stays docked). The ship’s staff, who are each a superb combination of actor and teacher, offer up experienced guidance to motivate the students. Under the continued on outside column of next sightings page
loch lomond ing a lovely promenade on top of it, com¬ plete with park benches and landscap¬ ing. They even took the overhead wires down and put all utilities underground. A shift in power at the BCDC threw a wrench in the gears, and work had to be halted for a year while the marina filed for all sorts of new permits. Now that the proper hoops have been jumped through. Loch Lomond General Manager Pat Smyth hopes the project can go through to completion by next summer.
SIGHTINGS — cont’d The new look has changed more than just the appearance of Loch Lomond (named by the first owner, a Scot, and originally planned to include a little Scot¬ tish village ashore). The marina hosted in-the-water boat shows in 1998 and 1999 that attracted large crowds and a lot of interest. Since then, occupancy for the 517 continued
age of sail — cont’d watchful eyes of the ship’s officers, crews receive their orders and are expected to cany them out independently. The lads (and lasses) have to listen carefully and utilize their resources to solve problems such as throwing a heaving line, rigging a bosun’s chair or cooking for the en¬ tire crew on a wood-burning stove. On board a total of 18 hours, they also each experience what it’s like to stand a night watch. The goals of the program are not only to teach maritime skills and the history of schoo¬ ners, but to encourage students to develop selfconfidence and self-reliance, which will in turn foster a sense of responsibility for themselves, their shipmates, and their community. Participation in this adventure offers valu¬ able lessons not easily learned on land. In today’s society, much of a child’s ‘life experience’ comes from non-physical outlets such as through tele¬ vision, video games and movies. However, aboard ship, students quickly learn that they must move carefully and pay attention; that they must be dependent on others to achieve goals, and that others are dependent on them. While they are supervised for safety, they are offerred opportu¬ nities to take risks. They learn, through hard work and relying upon their own ingenuity and that of their crewmates, that fear is an impor¬ tant part of the learning experience — and that it can be overcome. Ultimately, they become part of an interdependent system of the workings of the ship. “I would tell a real sailor that I am an ap¬ prenticed seaman, not a helpless child,” said one of my more experienced students after the pro¬ gram. “I have experience as a bosun and a rig¬ ger. I can tie a reef knot, a bosun’s knot and a larkshead knot. I can sweat a line properly, coil a rope, haul a hawser, and stay up for night watch. I can cast a rope with a monkey’s fist to the dock and pull up a bosun’s chair. Just give me a chance, you’ll see.” ' Each year that I have participated in this program, I am reminded of how little credit we give to children for already having skills to con¬ tribute to the world. — tori sattinger More information on the Age of Sail and related programs can be had by phoning (415) 292-6664.
alcyone — a family affair Most families think of home as a house in the suburbs, surrounded by lawns and well laid-out streets. But for John ‘Sugar’ Flanagan, his wife Leslie and their daughters Alyce and Darby, ‘home’ is a 65-ft schoo¬ ner and the neighborhood might be Port Townsend, Washington, New
Spread and above — spiffy new docks and ■ promenade at Loch Lomond Marina are a far cry from the, urn, ‘lots of character’ old look.
Zealand, Mexico or Tahiti. The Flanagans are hardly your average family, and Sugar and Leslie are hardly your average sailors. Although both are in their early 40s, they have decades of sailing experience behind them, mostly on tradi¬ tional sailing vessels, and both hold Coast Guard Masters licenses. Sugar caught the sailing bug as a kid on the East Coast, working himself up through the ranks until he became mate on the ill-fated Pride of Baltimore, a replica schooner that foundered and sank in a white squall in the Atlantic in May, 1986. Despite the tragic sinking, the one silver lining for Sugar was meeting his future wife on board, an continued on outside column of next sightings page
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alcyone — cont’d able and capable bosun named Leslie McNish. By then, Leslie was also an avid and experienced professional sailor who was literally raised on family boats in the Oxnard, California, area. Not long after surviving the^ sinking of the Pride, Sugar and Leslie decided to tie the knot, and the couple soon found themselves posi¬ tions as skipper and mate of California’s flagship, the Californian. At the same time, Sugar and Leslie began searching for a suitable boat to establish their own charter service. It wasn’t long before they heard about a schooner for sale in the Northwest through the traditional boat grapevine. Alcyone Was everything that Sugar and Leslie might have dreamed about. The traditionally built gaff rigged topmast schooner had been launched in 1965 by Seattle master boatbuilder Frank Prothero. Alcy¬ one, which Prothero had built for his personal use, took six careful and dedicated years to complete. They purchased the boat in 1987 and, after their two-year commitment aboard Californian was over, moved north to start San Juan Charters. Their aim was to offer-charters emphasizing youth training and family sailing. Based out of Port Townsend, Washington, they offered trips to the San Juans as well as extended trips to British Columbia, often calling at Desolation Sound on the Mainland Coast and Barkley Sound, on Vancouver Island’s wild West Shore. As the charter business grew, so did the Flanagan family. Their first daughter, Alyce, was bom in 1991. Afterward, the Flanagans took Al¬ cyone south to Mexico, Hawaii and then a great circle back to Port Townsend. In 1994 daughter Darby joined the family. Leslie gave birth in Ox¬ nard, then flew to Acapulco to join the voyage-in-progress to New Zealand and back, exploring many South Pacific locales. It wasn’t long before Darby became a ‘shellback’ — crossing the Equator at only 4 months old. The Flanagans’ latest voyage, which began last September, will take V Alcyone and many of their friends and guests on an extended two-year cruise to Ireland and back. In addition to the Flanagans themselves, experienced tallship sailors Chris Fleming and Bridget Arbour will help round out the crew. Bridget, a Philadelphia school teacher, will serve double duty, making sure that the young Flanagan girls keep up with their homework, as well as their on-board chores. The itinerary for the voyage includes stops in Mexico, Panama, the Caribbean, Baltimore, Maine, Nova Scotia, Ireland, England, Portugal, Madeira, Canary Islands, Barbados, Grenada, Panama, Galapagos, Marquesas, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Rarotonga, Palmerston and Hawaii. They plan to be back in Port Townsend in time for the Wooden Boat Festival in September, 2002. Bunks on Alcyone’s ocean passages are $75 a day, including meals and a chance to sail on a beautiful and well-found traditional sailing schooner. Although many spots are eagerly sought after by Alcyone aficionados, a limited number are still available for parts of the voyage. (For more information, email dcmcnish@gte.net or call 805-985-3540.) Voyaging to far horizons aboard a beautiful schooner may seem as far from the picket fence and career as one can get. But for Alcyone's extended family, it’s all in a day’s work. —john d. skoriak
troubled waters at SCC Due to my campaign for office as a Council member in Sausalito, many of the words in this article come to me from Diane Chute. She is Commodore of the Sausalito Cruising Club, an institution that has historical, cultural and social value for this once-seafaring town. This article is her story, and that of her much-loved Cruising Club. On September 12, Sausalito’s City Council held a public hearing to air all pertinent issues and controversies currently surrounding the continued on outside column of next sightings page
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slips has jumped from 48% to 88%, de¬ spite a slight increase in price — $6.50/ ft for uncovered slips and $8.50/ft for slips in the huge covered dock. (If you're in slip-shopping mode, Loch Lomond has a few 40-46 foot slips left, as well as a few 20-24 foot side ties. Call (415) 454-7228
soling out At an emotionally-charged Interna¬ tional Sailing Federation meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, last month, the line-up for the 2004 Olympic Games in
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Cruising Club, which has been housed aboard a WW II ammunition barge adjacent to Dunphy Park since 1960. Its berth location is now under attack, due to inferences that some read into a 1970 City of Sausalito bond measure. SCC has always been an all-volunteer yacht club. It is especially attractive to new sailors, senior citizens on a fixed income and those who cannot afford to belong to other more expensive Bay yacht clubs. The initiation fee is an incredibly low $150. Annual dues are $200. The barge has been an ideal meeting place for many organizaions. Groups as diverse as Alcoholics Anonymous, Sausalito Tallships’ Society, Mill Valley Lions’ Club, and The Ro¬ tary Club have enjoyed the use of the facilities for their meetings. As it straddles the seaward end of Dunphy Park, with a gorgeous view of Richardson Bay and Belvedere, it seems se¬ renely above the current furor surrounding it.
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see — cont’d Only the patches of plywood marking out areas where it sustained wind damage indicate a frailty almost human. People have married inside its walls. There have been birthday par¬ ties, graduation celebrations and wakes. Since 1948, this barge has seen a city's happiest and saddest moments. To many people, it is almost a second home. And to them, it seems a slap in the face that the Cruising Club should be threatened with a ride out of town (or worse, perhaps, a ride out to sea). Here’s the rub: in 1970 a City of Sausalito bond measure was writ¬ ten. Those framing this document were attempting to achieve what they saw as being nigh close to impossible: getting the citizens to incur a $560,000 bond issue to acquire the land that is now Dunphy Park “for a library, city hall and waterfront park consisting of open land and open water.” Now, the document's chief framer admits that the word¬ ing was basically quite contrived. The land in question was at that time rather unsightly and sometimes used as a dump. Sausalito’s land values were still those of a rural community, and no one at that point in time knew how valuable the Dunphy Park site would be even a single decade later. So in authoring those words, concepts were floated that may or may not have meant that much to those hoping for the park. They didn’t really care whether the Cruising Club rested within the Park perim¬ eters (were there to be a park). They were simply trying to entice the voters into having enough imagination and vision that they would ac¬ cept paying off the steep price of a bond in exchange for having a park. However, in the familiar way that rash promises have of popping up eras later, it came to pass that in the year 2000 two things happened affecting the Cruising Club’s location status: the City of Sausalito be¬ gan the process of reviewing leases as a matter of determining proper continued on outside column of next sightings page
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soling out match racing, possibly in J/22s, but in¬ stead got fleet racing in an obscure (well, in the U.S.) design called a Yngling. The Soling was thrown out to make room for the new class, as there's a 400-athlete cap on how many sailors the Olympics can accommodate. Other developments, such as the Tornado getting twin trapezes and a spinnaker, were less controversial. "I love Solings, so of course I'm disap¬ pointed," claimed reigning Soling world champ Jeff Madrigali, also a two-time Olympic Soling rep (and bronze medalist in ’96). "My first thought was, 'Who will buy my boat now?’ But seriously, I think they made a bad decision. The Soling filled a niche for a lot of talented older sailors with Olympic aspirations, who now have nowhere to really go. It's Stars or noth¬ ing, and Mark Reynolds owns that class!" Some observers felt the Olympics would be better served to lose a 'redun¬ dant' dinghy class like the Finn (and keep
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SIGHTINGS see — cont’d valuation. Additionally, the City of Sausalito also looked into the past history of the Cruising Club, where lo and behold, it found this 1970 bond issue’s written statement. City attorneys often take such written statements in a literal manner, and thus SCC’s position inside Dunphy Park became an issue. Furthermore, the Cruising Club holds no ac¬ tual lease with the City; it rents month to month. Also the Club pays less than $4,000 each year in rent. Things were not looking up. Adding further insult to injury, the Cruising Club had sustained serious storm damage during the 1999-’00 winter. A building inspec¬ tor did a walk-through in January 2000 and determined that the Club was out of compliance with the American Disabilities Act, perhaps lack¬ ing in safe accessibility, as well as posing concerns of fire safety, etc. All this caused the City to red-tag the structure. At this point it was no longer possible for the Cruising Club to hold those functions that had helped in paying its rent. And as I type this, money has never before been so important to the Cruising Club. Although there are insurance funds for the repairs and the building code updates, and for the loss of income, there is also a most serious ‘Catch 22’: the Club must replace two ‘dolphins,’ whose repair requires BCDC approval as well as a signed application by the legal landlord — i.e., the City of Sausalito. The Club must also secure building permits in order to pro¬ ceed with the repairs. This cannot happen as long as eviction notices are pending. The Cruising Club has secured the services of Sausalito architect Michael Rex, and has selected a general contractor and structural en¬ gineering firm, RPB Construction. The Club is also relying on a finan¬ cial and time commitment from its membership (currently 38 active members). Without this wonderful barge, the port of Sausalito will lose some of its few remaining ties to the seafaring community at large. Over the past decades, SCC has hosted the Pride of Baltimore, Pilgrim and the Californian, all youth training ships that have entered our port. The crew/students used the Club’s showers and restroom facilities, and enjoyed the ‘get acquainted’ parties that were thrown in their honor. At the time of the Soviet Union’s demise, Russian sailors who were stranded in California ended up staying at the Club until funding arrived for them to return to Russia. Of less historical importance, but again with connections to the seafarers of the world, the Cruising Club has always provided a place where incoming boats may come and dock. People attending the Sep¬ tember 12 meeting spoke of how, when they sail to ports of call thou¬ sands of miles from the Bay Area, they will mention the Cruising Club, and foreigners will pipe in with a remembered experience of their own. Thus the Club is a goodwill ambassador to the world. It is one of the few remaining links between what Sausalito once was, and what it is becoming today, a City of mansions and office parks. People determined to help the Club can send donations to The Sau¬ salito Cruising Club, P.O. Box 155, Sausalito, CA 94966. Telephone messages can be left at (415) 332-9349 or you can call directly at (415) 332-9922. Also, new memberships are greatly encouraged (and appre¬ ciated) at this critical time. ,4 — carol sterritt
— cont’d the Laser), or the men's 470 (and keep the 49ers). Some felt that it was time for the Mistrals to go. But in the end, the vote came down to losing a keelboat — i.e., the Soling or the Star — and the Star pre¬ vailed by a vote of 20-17. "It's obviously quite political, and ev¬ ery countiy votes for the classes they're strongest in," said Madro. "If they had stepped back and looked at what was good for the Olympics instead of what medals they might win, I don't think the Soling would have gotten the boot." For the record, a Yngling is a 21-foot keelboat designed by Jan Linge, who also gave us the Soling. Created in 1967 with his son in mind (Yngling means young¬ ster'), the 1,390-pound 'baby Soling' is meant to be sailed by three crew whose optimal weight is 400-500 pounds. Build¬ ers in four countries (Norway, Switzer¬ land, Australia and the U.S.) have pro¬ duced about 4,000 Ynglings.
(Reprinted with permission from the November 1, 2000, Coastal Post.)
the science of sailing Imagine what school would be like if sailors ran the world. The City of Oakland’s new Marine Sports Education Program is doing just that in a pilot program called Sailing into Science. Created to provide a point of entry into the world of sailing for Oakland Public School chil¬ dren _ and kids from other schools as well — 1,000 fifth-graders will have an opportunity to come to a one-week day camp at Lake Merritt
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Boating Center this spring. In the morning, they’ll learn physics, math, life science, earth science and social science. In the afternoon, they’ll follow up with practical applications of what they’ve learned in a pedal boat, whale boat, canoe and two afternoons in a sailboat. As any sailor knows, sailing provides a great venue for teaching science. Force and resistance, the physics of simple machines like
Staffer Liz Fung and teacher Jennifer Brown help with last minute adjustments prior to the Home Built Sail Boat regatta. Kids design and built their own boats. pulleys and winches, aerodynamics — all are easily demonstrated in a sailing environment. Lake Merritt is creating a physics lab out of old sailboats and parts, as well as a life science lab with tanks of sea life from the Estuary lake, and even a navigation center, which will in¬ clude a large chart of the lake and bay painted onto the pavement. The focus of the whole program is hands-on learning based on the environ¬ ment in which we live and interact daily. Classroom presentations are short and simple, followed by activities, drills and projects all leading to the afternoon boating. For example, in the math class, kids learn how to use a compass, how to calculate distance, speed and time and how to plot a course. They then practice on the pavement chart. After lunch, they get into a pedal boat and pedal a course using their new compass and chart reading skills. If only school had been like this when we were kids! Sailing into Science is part of a strategy created by the Marine Sports Education Program of the City of Oakland to introduce sailing to in¬ ner-city kids. Easy points of introduction to boating and sailing through school programs and summer camp or recreation programs are the first step. If kids are interested in continuing, the MSEP provides con¬ tinuing accessible programs through the Oakland Junior Sailing Team and the new High School Sailing Teams that started this year with Oakland’s first team from Far West High School. Providing this kind of programming is not without its challenges. With four old El Toros and five new Lasers, the Oakland Junior Sailing Team was launched in July of 1999. Team members, who were re¬ cruited from Oakland’s summer camp program, came from all over the East Bay. After a couple of months of training, these 10 to 12-year-old youngsters sailed in their first race at Richmond Yacht Club. Few on the outside recognized how much courage it took to compete in old continued on outside column of next sightings page
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quickie Christmas Not that many new sailing books were released this year. Of those that were, very few were narratives. Most of 2000’s new titles that we are aware of are either large, picture-driven books or reprints of older titles. Here are a few we wouldn’t mind seeing under our tree. Song of the Sirens (Ernest Gann, $16.50) — We admit a big bias here. The original Song of the Sirens (published in 1968) is not only our favorite Gann book, in at least one editor’s opinion here, it’s the best sailing book ever. Now in a new printing, it comes highly recommened. Build Ships! (Wayne Bonnett, $45) — This title echos the cry that went up dur¬ ing the World War II when German sub¬ marines sank 281 American ships in just the first seven months of 1942. (Allied losses were even greater!) This excellent book focuses on the Bay Area’s signifi¬ cant contribution to replacing those ves¬ sels, which included the first cement(!) ships that helped save on steel. The Golden Age of Sailing (Beken of Cowes, $25) — Beken of Cowes is a Brit¬ ish marine photography dynasty that traces its roots, through four generations, back to 1885. This lovely (but too-small) book chronicles those generations in de¬ cade-long chapters from Beken’s exten¬ sive archive of more than 75,000 glass plates. The result is a remarkable collec¬ tion of images — all cleverly explained in a special ‘proof sheet’ page for each de¬ cade — that will warm the cockles of any sailor’s heart.
A Hundred Years of Sail (Beken of Cowes, $60) — Big boats deserve big books and they get it in this reprint of the popular 1981 book. There are some re¬ peats of the photos in the book mentioned above, but the large format gives them much more impact here. Of particular interest to us was a photo of two women singlehanders, dressed in fashionable hats and puffy sleaves, tearing across the water in hot competition. The Christmas Ship (Dean Morrissey, $17) — Parents of young kids will appre¬ ciate this nautical Christmas tale of a New England toymaker assigned by Father Christmas to help deliver toys. His stuffed animals come alive to help and his little ship flies jauntily over the town to accom¬ plish the task. We can’t wait to curl up with our little munchkins to read them this one. Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan (Rockwell Kent, $17) — Long before we read Moby Dick, we were fascinated' by the graphics in the book, particularly the one of the white whale breeching through a star-filled sky. Those renderings — just like the ones in Voiyaq-
SIGHTINGS book reviews ing — were done by Kent, who was one of America’s most famous graphic artists. This book, which was also written by him, is. filled with images both figurative and literal. It is a reprint of a 1924 book de¬ tailing his voyage to Tierra del Fuego in Kathleen, which was little more than a glo¬ rified ship’s boat. “If you’re not back in four months,” says the ship’s captain, “We’ll send a cruiser to find you.”
boats with trainer sails. We knew we wouldn’t be competitive (the trainer boats have only 35 square feet of sail compared to the standard 49). Nonetheless, Max Paulus, Claire Blakey, Gabriel Viera, and Kyle Gee went forth to gain some racing ex¬ perience. Ayo Shangoshola braved the Laser class. • Now, victory comes in many ways. For one kid, who was blown back across the start line never to cross again that race, victoiy came in the third race when he com¬ pleted the course to cheers from his teammates. Tears of frustra¬ tion were replaced by the slowly growing grin that crept across his face as he drew closer to the fin¬ ish. For the other three, victory came when they ended the day fin¬ ishing ahead of one or two other kids. A year has passed since that first race, and the team has grown and matured. Along with them, the Oakland program has grown to ex- Brian Posey at the wheel of ‘Hawaiian Chieftend sailing opportunities to more *a'n- Brian ‘connected’ with sailing early in the children class. He hopes to sail more in the future.
The Story of the America's Cup, 1851-2000 (Ranulf Rayner, paintings by Tim Thompson, $50) — You think women on America’s Cup boats is new? William Henn’s British challenger in 1886 had not only his wife (they lived aboard), but a veritable zoo aboard, including several dogs, a lemur and a monkey named Peggy that wore a crew uniform! That’s just one of the nuggets that make this book a must-have for the serious Cupophile. What really sets it apart from others of the genre is the illustrations, which are all carefully researched and beautifully executed paintings by Tim Thompson. The Last of the Wind Ships (Alan Villiers, $55) —• Villers wrote so well and voluminously about life aboard the great steel square riggers in the Golden Age of sail that the only way to get a more accu¬ rate account is to live it yourself. Villiers departed this veil of tears years ago, but his work lives on, and nowhere more fa¬ mously than this big book chock full of photos of ‘the life’ — including such sur¬ prises as women apprentices on board. Villiers, speaking of those days and the young people who went to sea on the great ships, is responsible for one of our favor¬ ite quotes: “It was character they were after. Any fool could have some knowl¬ edge.” Legendary Yachts (Gilles MartinRaget, $55) — We’ll admit it, we’re suck¬ ers for books like this, especially those that pass 'the test’: any book with the name ‘legendary’ in the title must include Ticonderoga, Dorade or any J-Class yacht. Only big Ti is missing from this other¬ wise splendid compilation. But that’s more than made up for in some of the most fabulous sailing shots we’ve seen anywhere.
Far West High School has become the first Oakland Public High School to join the new program. To facilitate access to the program, coach Bryan Clay has been providing transportation to the program as well as coaching the new team. Transportation, perception of the sport as elitist and a lack of qualified swimmers are the three biggest barri¬ ers to inner-city young people being able to participate in the opportu¬ nities that sailing provides. Many good-hearted people approach youth programming with a wellknown movie adage in mind: if you build it, they will come. When the intended audience does not flock to the graciously provided opportu¬ nity — or worse, when the kids come and are less than grateful — the result is not to open the doors of opportunity, but instead to reinforce the idea that inner-city kids are unworthy, and that those providing the opportunity are elitist. Secondarily, small programs often don’t have the resources to continue with a young person whose interest is piqued by a one-time opportunity. Oakland has therefore structured its-approach to sailing opportunities with the goal of providing easy access to sailing at all levels, so kids who are turned on to the sport through one of the entry programs can continue in the Junior Sailing or High School Sailing Program. Oakland also approaches the Marine Education Program with the philosophy that everyone deserves to have reasonable access to our local resources, rather than that sailing is a gift from a stranger, to whom a debt of gratitude is owed. Any child is welcome to participate in the Oakland program. Begin¬ ners are welcome to try sailing any Saturday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Lake Merritt. Junior team members sail at Estuary Park from noon to 4 p.m. any Saturday. High School teams sail from after school till dusk on a M-W or T-TH schedule. If you know someone who is interested in participating, please call Colleen Clay*at (510) 444-3807 or email her at colleen@oaklandsports.org. — colleen clay
An America’s Cup Treasury — The Lost Levick Photographs, 1893-1937 (Gary Jobson, $45) — At first, the notion of‘lost photographs’ of the America’s Cup is about as believable as finding out there was a fifth Beatle. But that’s exactly the case for Edwin Levick, an English immi¬ grant who rose to stardom as a sports — and particularly marine — photographer. Though he died in 1929, his huge collec¬ tion of negatives was not ‘discovered’ un¬
short sightings PANAMA — Records reveal that the Panama Canal is slightly safer now than before it was handed over from U.S. to Panamanian control last year. During the first 9 months of 2000, there were 16 vessel acci¬ dents during a total of 9,762 transits. This compares with 19 from continued on outside column of next sightings page
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9,471 transits in same period last year, and 18 from 9,676 during 1998. The ACP noted that the drop came despite the ever-increasing amount of panamax traffic, now representing 34% of all daily transits.
til 1955. The Mariner’s Museum in New York completed the purchase of this col¬ lection — some 43,000 images — in 1986. This book contains the cream of that crop, and as such is mandatory for a serious Cup historian. The Water In Between (Kevin Patterson, $24) — This lovely tale almost singlehandedly makes up for the dearth of personal account-type stories this year. In a now predictable set of circumstances, Patterson is jilted by a lover and heads to sea — with absolutely no prior sailing experience — in a 37-ft ferrocement ketch. Fortunately, his style and sense of hu¬ mor raises this story several notches above the norm for this genre. Two thumbs up for this great read. Using PCs On Board (Rob Buttress and Tim Thornton, $20) —This isn’t exactly a ‘For Dummies’ guide, but it’s about as close as you can come to that excellent series of books for the technologically challenged. In other words, we actually understood most of what we read here, and the book seems to cover pretty much everything you need to know, from the size inverter you should buy to the various navigation, boat management and com¬ munications tasks you can do with a com¬ puter on board. The book even includes a CD to help you along.
BRANTAS RIVER, INDONESIA — In 1942, an entire squadron of Dutch naval warplanes were scuttled by retreating allied troops. Now there’s an amibitous plan to recover the 13 Fokker-built float planes, the only surviving examples of two types of aircraft (a twin-engine tor¬ pedo bomber and reconnaisance biplanes) left in the world. The story goes that, after the battle of the Java Sea, when the allies retreated to Australia, all'planes that did not have the range to make the trip were ordered destroyed. Lacking demolition charges and frantic to escape, Dutch airman at the Brantas base, 500 miles east of Djakarta, simply punched holes in the Fokkers' floats and wings. The 13 aircraft sank into the river intact, settling in upright positions on the bottom. A scan of the riverbed reveals the aircraft are in remarkably good condition with silt from a newly built dam protecting their aluminum skin. Vil¬ lagers remember that bejfore the dam was constructed they were able to glimpse the ghostly warplanes — their machine guns still aimed at the sky — whenever dry seasons caused water levels to drop. SAKHALIN ISLAND, RUSSIA — Oil from the sunken Japanese tanker M/T Takeo Maru started lapping against a port on Russia's Sakhalin Island in the Pacific earlier this summer. Response was slowed by a dispute between Russia and Japan over who should pay for the cleanup. By the way, the Takeo Maru. sank in 1979. Divers have sev¬ eral times attempted to weld shut small holes in the ship’s tanks, but like they say, rust never sleeps. NORTH PACIFIC — A Miami-based outfit called Odyssey Marine Exploration recently completed a sonar search for a sunken treasure ship they have code named Republic. They won’t release the real name, \ the year it sank, the ship it hit. . . well, maybe it’s easier just to tell you what they have released. The sidewheeler steamship “Republic" was headed to San Francisco, carrying miners back from the Canadian Gold Rush sometime after the Civil War, when she collided with a sail¬ ing ship and sank in the North Pacific with the loss of all but two of the estimated 275 people aboard. Also aboard were 48,000 troy ounces of gold, which is worth about $13 million by weight alone. Some was privately minted coins and bars which would increase its value. Some of the raw gold was bound for the U.S. Mint. At any rate, Odyssey Marine spent the entire month of September scanning an area of 120 square miles of Pacific Northwest ocean with sophisticated sonar. They are now back in Florida where they’ll study the information and decide on likely wreck sites. Sometime in the spring, they 11 return with unmanned robotic vehicles to check out those sites, some of which lie as deep as 3,000 feet. CAMELOT — Patrick Kennedy, son of Teddy and Republican Rep¬ resentative of the State of Rhode Island, was threatened with a lawsuit in mid-October. The suit, brought by the owner of a charter company, alleged that Kennedy had “trashed” a 42-ft Cheoy Lee sloop he had chartered for a week in July. Among the reported damage: two broken halyards, twisting the rigging into a shambles, ruining the engine, hav¬ ing to be towed into port twice and abandoning the boat at Martha’s Vineyard, about 50 miles from where the charter company was located in Mystic, Connecticut. The owner of the company was seeking $28,000 in damages, which included the installation of a new engine. Kennedy who predictably started the voyage with one girlfriend and ended it with another (he is a Kennedy) — volleyed back that the boat was a “lemon” and that the broken halyards were not his fault. A spokesman accused the charter company owner of “extortionist tac¬ tics” and vowed that Kennedy would countersue rather than get “rolled over” for a quick $28,000. Page 114 • UKiwk?? • December 2000
illbruck announces german cup campaign The latest syndicate to file a challenge with the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squad¬ ron for the next America’s Cup is the Illbruck Challenge — led by none other than Bay Area prodigal son John Kostecki. Partnered with the Dusseldorf YC, the Illbruck Challenge will be the first ever German Cup campaign. However, unlike the megabucks cam¬ paigns run by the ‘B’s (Dennis Conner’s slang for the handful of billionaires now heading syndicates around the world), Illbruck will build only one boat this time around. Their aim is to test the waters in 2003 for a serious challenge in 2006. Those who follow racing will already know that Illbruck has supported worldclass racing for more than 20 years. Their major focus at the moment is a four-year campaign aimed at winning the 2001 -’02 Volvo (formerly Whitbread) Round the World Race. Kostecki, a veteran of both the America’s Cup and Whitbread, also helms that project. Among the few crew slots filled at this writing are Ross Halcrow, Dirk de Ridder and Ray Davies, all A-Cup vets.
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he seventh annual 750-mile Baja Ha-Ha cruisers' rally from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, with stops at Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria, turned out al¬ most exactly as an optimist might have outlined it on paper. When there's a rally in which 112 boats cumulatively sail the equivalent of 3.5 times around the world, major problems have to be expected. But, knock on wood, 1111 ■ & Ha-Ha was once again a trouble free and mostly mellow ; ^ experience. To top % . things off, the sailing > 11 conditions were ( sweet, with moderate .wf and reliable winds * . fllx over most of the course — and some /• periods of exhilarating iM sailing as well. 4 On the last Sunday , in October of each , year, the Ha-Ha kicks into gear , with the West Ma- ( rine Halloween Costume and KickOff Party at the beautiful Cabrillo Isle Marina parking lot in San Diego. The charmed nature of the seventh Ha-Ha was evident from the beginning, as there were blue skies and sunshine rather than the rain that had been forecast. As such, the hun¬ dreds of folks in attendance were able to express their whimsy and alter egos through weird costumes in pleasant con¬ ditions. The Monday between the kickoff party and the start is always a layday. It’s a good thing, too, because some of the fleet
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make a few more repairs or installations. Thankfully the list on Profligate, the mothership for the fourth year in a row, was short: Replace the broken engine mounts, install new zincs, get the SSB working, figure out how to send text over the Globalstar satellite system, fine tune the water tanks and toilets, pick up a re¬ BUI placement genset, and provi¬ sion for a crew of 10. Thanks to the help of the crew and several volunteers — most notably Gary Jensen, who did the Ha-Ha aboard his Hans Christian 38 I Spiritress last year, and who solved our $SB problems — \ we were pretty much done Jj*l| by midnight. A few other crews were still preparing the morning of the start. As the years have passed, Ha-Ha par¬ ticipants seem to better understood that a sail down to the Cape is no mere pleasure cruise for a shorthanded crew. As such, only 23% of the fleet sailed doublehanded this year, and just 24% had three aboard. Almost twice as many boats sailed with four to six crew, bringing the person per boat average up to nearly four. A total of four boats had eight crew. Although Projligate wasn't the largest boat, she had the largest crew — 10, with six men and four women. We have no figures on gender, but the Poobah estimates that 35 to 40% of the Ha-Ha participants were female. We all know that's a good thing. It’s typical for the Ha-Ha and other cruising rallies to have lots of nonstart¬ ers, so nobody knew how many of the 138 paid entries . would actually hit the start¬ ing line Tuesday morning. As it turned out, there were 112 boats — or 80% of those who had signed up. That's 14 less than last year, but a monster fleet nonetheless. This year's starters ranged from Allen Bowker's Cat¬ alina 27 Wind Dancer, which he bought for less than $5,000, to William Hogarty's splendid multimillion dollar N/M Able 94, Marishiten. In addition, there were eight multihulls, from the Winship family's 33-ft catamaran Chewbacca, to Dave Crowe's 70-foot
Choy-Morrelli catamaran Humu-Humu — which has a 'footprint' of nearly 2,400 square feet. There were also two trawl¬ ers. The sailing fleet was pretty evenly di¬ vided between racer/cruisers and more 'cruisy' boats with longer keels and per¬ haps split rigs. Some of the more notable speedsters included Gene and Suzi Osier's Serendipity 43 Peregrine, Tom Innerarity's J/44 Wild Type-, Michael Ganahl and Leslie Hardy's three-njasted modern 60foot Brewer schooner Millennium Falcon, Chuck and Pam Cook's Andrews 50 Outta Bounds, Bob and Bonnie Fraik's Santa Cruz 52 Impulse; the Ahbel family's Swan 57 Concerto, Tom and Lynn Petty's Wylie 60 Roxanne, Jan and Signe Twardowski's Sundeer 64 Raven, and John and Marilyn Folvig's Andrews/Peny 72 Elysium.
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"We'd rather do the Ha-Ha than schoolwork," laugh Quincy and Kendall of 'Chewbacca' — al¬ though we still do some."
A was the case last year, the HaHa fleet got another surprisingly swift start from San Diego, with an 11:00 a.m. breeze of about seven knots that built to as much as 14 knots by the afternoon.
The enough-wind-to-fill-thesails breeze was good news for three time Ha-Ha vet Tom Lyon of Dallas, who rents a helicop¬ ter each year to take aerial shots of as many of the boats as he can. When the fleet finished in Cabo, skippers were able to buy two 8x1 Os and two 4x6s of their boat for $50 — with all the prof¬ its going to the orphanage in La Paz. Thanks to the breeze and clear skies, this year's photos were better than most. The race committee wasted no time in awarding the first two prizes — Diveboards, Tim Tunk's latest tow-behind-a-dinghy-underwater snorkeling sled — to the boats showing the best starting line spirit. Part
The biggest cat in the fleet, had one of the most spirited crews. The 70-ft 'Humu-Humu' was de¬ signed by Rudy Choy and Gino Morrelli.
The Ha-Ha was all about big laughs (left insert), great sailing (spread), and wonderful weather.
BAJA HA-HA VII of the reason is that the Poobah didn't want to have to cany the bulky Mark I versions all the way to the cape. In any event, the winners were Arjan Bok's New¬ port 33 Tiger Beetle, because for some reason crew Kathy Wheatley decided to do foredeck dressed in, as she describes it, "My red cowgirl boots with the fringe, cowgirl hat, corset, and Devil Woman mask. I wanted to look delicious.” The second Diveboard was awarded to Kirby and Pamela Coryell's Tayana 48 Island Time, for exuding the wild & crazy — and responsible — spirit that is supposed to be the hallmark of Ha-Ha. They were decked out in MASH outfits, had made up special Ha-Ha CDs, and appeared de¬ termined to have fun.* It was a white sail close reach in gentle seas most of the way to the Mexican bor¬ der. Gennikers and spinnakers blossomed all over the horizon just before the Coronado Islands, making for a lovely sight on a late autumn afternoon. As al¬ ways, however, there were a few stragglers that had trouble getting away. John Day and Debbie Hewett of the Young 43 Captain Musick were motoring to the start when their refrigerator com¬ pressor froze, wrecking the clutch and causing smoke to billow out the engine
John and Sharon Warren of 'Warren Peace' didn't realize what a great fish they had caught — and threw it back! compartment. As they headed back to their slip at the Marriott Marina, they called Fleming Marine for help. The folks at Fleming dropped everything, grabbed a compressor off the shelf, and stopped by a parts house to pick up a clutch. Meanwhile, Jon began disassembling the defective parts of the refrigeration system.
"I figured we were going to be knocked two days behind schedule," he said, "but thanks to Fleming we were on our way again in just three hours!" Gary and Diana Cook had a more fluid problem with their Beneteau 46 Naviga¬ tor. "Our water tank burst as soon as we left the dock," remembers Gary. "I told my wife Diana that I didn't care about the watertank, we were going to do the HaHa anyway." But what made them a little tardy to the start was kelp on the rudder — it was a very kelpy year, even offshore. But all and all, this year's fleet seemed to be the most punctual ever. It was abeam of the Coronado Islands that the skippers faced their first tactical decision. Commander's Weather, the offi¬ cial weather service of the Ha-Ha, had called for 15 to 18 knots of wind offshore, with lighter breezes inshore. Thus every¬ one had chose whether they wanted to sail a longer distance in stronger winds or down the rhumbline a lighter breeze. "We started behind the 94-foot Marshiten," said John Folvig of the Andrews/Perry 72 Elysium, "but caught them an hour or so after the start. When we got to the Coronado Islands, we headed
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offshore, and before long were walking away from them because we'd found 20 knots of wind. Unfortunately, I was the only hardcore sailor on the boat, so be¬ fore long our chute was wrapped around the headstay. There was nothing we could but leave it up, so we were sailing at up to 11.5 knots with the spinnaker hourglassed." Rick Gio of the Freya 39 Gypsy War¬ rior, who was fresh from singlehanding his boat home from Hawaii in 21 days, was another skipper who opted to go offshore. "We got up to 30 knots of wind out there." Profligate and the more rhumbline boats had about 10 knots of wind until about 3:00 a.m., at which time it died completely. With mains flogging in the light swell and unacclimatized crews be¬ coming grumpy, some of the less commit¬ ted sailors fired up the iron donks. A few tried flying nylon sails alone. We on Prof¬ ligate dropped all sail and closed up shop for the night. Thanks to the two hulls, it was as calm as being back at the dock. Normally, the breeze off northern Baja doesn’t come up until mid-morning, but this was a lucky Ha-Ha, so Profligate's chute and those of boats around us were
Rick and Maureen Gio of the Freya 39 'Gypsy Warrior' were first in their class, having sailed all the way.
The judges from 'Island Time' gave Nets Toberson of 'Bronco' the top score for his wild dinghy ride through the surf. up and drawing shortly after a lovely sun¬ rise. One of the fun things about the HaHa is that there are so many boats sail¬ ing basically the same course. So when dawn broke, just about everybody had at least a half dozen boats in sight. And as the day went on, the cast of boats would slowly change. Therefore one of the most popular pastimes became trying to iden¬ tify boats in the distance. The second day proved to be an ideal one for getting further acclimatized to being at sea. The wind never got much over 12 knots and there was only a slight swell. The sunny and mellow day gave way to a clear and starry second night, with a nice presentation of the Milky Way. While the outside boats such as Elysium, Gy spy Warrior, and Tom Innerarity's J/44 Wild Type were frolicking in 25 to 30 knots of wind — and not carrying chutes because of it — the inshore boats were having to again make do with just 10 to 15 knots. Despite the mostly easy conditions, there were some boat problems. M.J. Haste on the Perry/Antrim 52 catamaran Little Wing groused that three of his spin¬ naker halyards had chaffed through — to say nothing of having engine and gen¬ erator problems. "Even though I bought the boat used, she's never been properly shaken down." Many other boats experienced wraps and/or other spinnaker problems. Tom Dameron on the Hunter Passage 45 West of the Moon reported that after lots of mis¬ haps and practice "we were able to get our jibes down to just 90 minutes." Aboard Profligate, we managed to termi¬
nally wrap our best maxi sled kite around the headstay. Thanks to the mishap, dawn found us properly flying a .75 chute chute — with the half-ounce remnants double-bubbled' around the headstay. It was not a pretty sight. We'd nonetheless made good time, and were already sailing between Isla Cedros Island and Islas Benitos. During a brief light spell, Michelle Slade, the crew's fit¬ ness buff, called for a swim. So after we dropped the chute and luffed into the wind, she made a lovely dive off the star¬ board bow and swam between the hulls to the backsteps. "It's really warm," she lied, "probably 75 degrees." It was more Some girls just gotta work out. Michelle of 'Prof¬ ligate' goes for a swim off Cedros Island during the first leg.
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quality was superb. This is a dramatic improvement over the defunct Iridiqm system. About a dozen other Ha-Ha boats had the same Qualcomm-Globalstar system, and other than the one with a defective bat¬ tery, they reported similar satisfaction. Upon entering Turtle Bay, we were a little surprised to And about 14 boats already on the hook. As it turned out, all Susan and Keith of 'C'est La Vie', on the far ends, but Tom Innerarity's J/44 Wild Type had were delighted to share their catch with the rest motored some of the time. Wild Type, hav¬ of the fleet. ing gone somewhat outside the rhumb like 68 — which isn't that bad. line, had benefited from as much as 25 One of the most unique and dramatic knots the first night and had hit a top features of the Baja coast is the speed and speed of 14.5 knots. "It got to be a little frequency with which the sky conditions much," said crew Bob Bloom, "so we took change. Before long the morning's slight the chute down about 3:00 a.m." In any cloud cover had disappeared, so by the event, Tom and his hard-sailing crew of time we were south of Cedros it was bright three had done a fine job, averaging al¬ and sunny once again. The last 50 miles most 7.5 knots despite also having some or so to Turtle Bay — including a 'sail by' lengthy periods of relatively light breezes of Isla Natividad — was about as pleas¬ from well aft. ant a time as anyone could have on a boat. Only a few more boats finished before With the apparent wind no more than a dark, so it was quiet when we headed into couple of knots, it was town. The Ha-Ha'is a There were many colorful spinnakers, warm, the seas were big event in the small but 'Island Time's palm tree was one of flat, and a garden party village’s year, so the the most distinctive. ambience broke out in welcome mat was the cat's spacious cock¬ clearly out. In fact, in pit. Folks were sipping what constituted a ma¬ beers, preparing a big jor civic project for the lunch, swapping life village of 4,000, a stories, and — thanks young worker named to our satellite phone — Armando was welding chatting with folks back a new set of stairs at home. the end of the pier so Qualcomm and Ha-Ha folks could as¬ Globalstar satellite sys¬ cend more easily and tems.— the official com¬ safely. We say 'welding', munication system of because even though the Ha-Ha — had given darkness had fallen us a phone and told us several hours before, to give it a thorough test Armando was still hard in Mexican waters. at work. "Calientel" With a crew of 10 want¬ somebody warned. In¬ ing to gloat about the deed, the handrails pleasant sailing to loved were still warm from ones and coworkers, the heat of the torch. the phone and system After we climbed up the were given an intensive __ steps and were greeted workout. And the verdict was clear: the by a swarm of familiar young faces, Qualcomm phone and Globalstar satel¬ Amando resumed his labors. As walked lite system were reliable, and the sound shoreward on the pier, we also noticed a Page 120
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big poster inviting cruisers to the Friday and Saturday night dances at the disco. There's not a tremendous interaction be¬ tween Ha-Ha folks and the locals, but the vibe has always been good. With its dusty streets, ramshackle houses, and humble businesses, nobody is going to mistake Turtle Bay for one of the world’s gardeh spots. And as five-yearold Daphne Cottrell of the Kennex 445 See Life noted, "Everything looks broken." Nonetheless, the people are friendly and the desert-by-the-sea setting is spectacu¬ lar. The Poobah has developed a soft spot in his heart for Turtle Bay.
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AXs the night wore on, more sets of running lights appeared from behind the headland and then swung into the bay. Some of the folks who had hoped to sail the whole way later reported being sty¬ mied by a nighttime calm that had fallen over the last 10 miles of the course. "Af¬ ter covering less than a mile in three hours," said Grace of the Mystery Cove 38 Crocodile Rock, "we broke down and motored in." For the boats still north of Cedros, however, the wind held steady at 10 to 15 knots through the night, with stronger gusts in the Cedros Channel. And a few boats on the outside reported getting nailed by one or more Caribbean style squalls — with rain! By dawn on the third day of the Ha-
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Ha, there were some 40 boats in the smooth waters of the bay, and a steady stream poured in the rest of the day. Although a few boats would spend most or all of a third night at sea, the overwhelming majority had made Turtle Bay in time for the tra¬ ditional party at Francisco Javier s Vera Cruz Restaurant at the top of the hill. As you might expect, sea stories flew thick and heavy. Many of them had to do with fishing. "Sharon and I had never fished On the ocean before," said John Warren of Warren Peace, "but we spent $80 on lures anyway. During the morning roll call we got simultaneous hits on the yellow and blue feather and the really ugly squid thing. We reeled in the smaller fish and threw it back. The much bigger fish was a blue and yellow, and had what we thought was an ugly flat head. Not knowing what it was, we threw' it back, too. After consulting our guidebook, we realized that we'd thrown back the world's luckiest dorado! Fortu¬ nately, we later landed a yellowtail and were thus able to enjoy delicious sushi and barbecued fish." Gary and Diana Cook of the Beneteau 41 Navigator also landed two yellowtail simultaneously. "We released the big one, and enjoyed ceviche and a fish dinner with the other.” As they drifted across the fin¬ ish of leg one, they were also greeted by a
One of the smaller Beneteaus struggles to keep her chute full during a light air stretch on the first leg. huge school of dolphin. "Diana went nuts," said Gary, "because they led us all the way into the bay." On the Catalina 47 C’est La Vie, owner Keith and crewman Richard battled an hour before they were able to land a 50pound yellowtail. "It was hard because we had to lift the big fish all the way over our Monitor windvane with just one gaff," said Keith. 'Then our crewman Gary mistak¬ enly poured gin down its throat. Not there, Gary! My wife Susan took over, pouring the gin into the fish's gills. Then it took us two hours to fillet the fish." "Thank god we had an anchor washdown," said Susan, "or the boat
would have looked like a slaughter¬ house. But it was great to have caught such a big fish, because it was the first time we'd ever used that rod and reel." Making the biggest catch of Leg One, however, were Gary and Lynda Van Arsdale on the motor-yacht So¬ journer. "A mile from the finish line we hooked a seal! He'd been follow¬ ing our zooker lure for about half a mile, and finally struck with a ven¬ geance. He stopped our heavy Krogen motoryacht dead in the wa¬ ter — and it wasn't easy freeing him." Just about everybody who tried to catch fish was successful. The few who didn't felt there had been ad¬ equate compensation in the form of pleas¬ ant sailing conditions. "We fished all the way, but were shut out," confessed Bill and Nancy Hardesty of the Beneteau 510 Nan Sea May. "But we and our large crew had a great sail, sometimes hitting six and even eight knots under main alone. We had particu¬ larly good wind in the Cedros Channel." "Our top speed was 8.5 knots — and we never motored," said Nels Torberson of Bronco, a Morgan Out-Island 41, a de¬ sign seldom noted for speed. "We had two Beneteau 37s, which are faster boats, on our port side the whole time. Their crews didn't know how to sail as well, so we beat them both in. Oh yeah! We also saw two whales at the north end of Cedros and
Spread; The beautiful anchorage at Turtle Bay. Inset far left; One of many cloud funnels behind the Turtle Bay beach party site. Inset near left; the Sundeer 64 'Raven'.
BAJA HA-HA VII lots of dolphins, so it was an exciting leg." "We had no wind from Seattle to San Diego," said Cathy Siegismund of the Toshiba 31 Felicity, "except for 50 knots off Cape Mendocino. "So from San Diego to here has been the most sailing fun we've had so far." Richard Brooker and Grace Spencer on Crocodile Rock sailed perhaps the longest distance to reach Turtle Bay, but didn't regret it. "It was fabulous out there," the couple said. "We took one long jibe out, and before we knew it we were almost to Hawaii — well, actually Guadeloupe Is¬ land. Then we came back in on one long jibe. We never saw more than 17 knots of true wind, but we sailed as fast as 12 knots and had a wonderful time. Since it was just the two of us, we hajid-steered for the first five hours, then let the auto¬ pilot take over." "I'd never been sailing overnight or down the coast before," said Jennifer of Elysium," but I can see how it can become addicting. We saw so man})' shooting stars after the moon went down, and we had about a dozen squid jump up on deck. One flew right through a port and into our cabin!" One of the boats that had the wind shut down near the finish was Arjan Bok’s Newport 33 Tiger Beetle. "We'd had con-
After a couple of scares, Marilyn and Glen of 'Kinship ‘ learned that what didn 't kill you seemed to make you more sexy. sistent moderate winds of eight to 12 knots, with a maximum of 15, until just five miles to the finish. Then it shut down almost completely. But we stuck it out and sailed the whole way."
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to Cabo. "I’ve sailed in the Pacific North¬ west for eight years and done charters in the BVI," says Marilyn of the Cartwright 44 Kinship, "but this was my first over¬ night. So I was worried about getting sick and being afraid. I didn't really get sick, but I did get scared when a problem with our snuffer meant we couldn't drop our asymmetrical chute. The problem only lasted about 15 minutes, but it seemed like five hours to me — and it also seemed as though it were blowing 80 knots. Any¬ way, we had to get our four-year-old belowdecks because he'd picked up the fear in our voices. I also got scared when we entered the Cedros Channel at night, so I wanted the radar on. That's when we discovered that my husband had drilled through the radar cable when trying to install the solar panels! But we made it." Marilyn also observed that there can be a silver lining to the cloud of fear. "You know how you need to celebrate after you've been through a tense and fright¬ ening situation? I don't know how to put this delicately, but when it was over my husband and I had really interesting sex in the cockpit and at the nav station. Don't laugh, when you have a four-year-old and another couple on your boat, you don't ............
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get many chances. Gee, I hope my grown daughters don't read this!" By far the most distasteful accident took place on fun-loving Kirby and Pamela Coryell's Tayana 48 Island Time. "I didn't have a cabin, so I slept in the middle of the boat," explained crewman Jerry Andrews. "I was sleeping there when skip¬ per Kirby was walking by carrying a hot cup of noodles in each hand. The boat took a little roll, and Kirby lost his bal¬ ance. Unable to steady himself, he ended up falling backwards and sitting on my face — and was unable to get up right away! With three girls and just two guys on the boat, I figured that the odds were in my favor. But I got Kirby!" "He didn't tell you the best part," added Bev, another Island Time crewmember, who was barely able to contain her mer¬ riment. "Kirby was naked from the waist down!" "It wasn't our only mishap," laughs Kirby. "Before leaving we'd put 20 pounds of dry ice in the cooler to chill the beer and sodas. When we opened the cooler 24 hours later, all the Cokes had exploded and the beers had frozen. We never drink alcohol while underway, tut when we got to Turtle Bay we were forced to celebrate
Spread: 'Elysium' tries to work away from the second starting line. Inset left; A dramatic view of the hills of the island in front of Mag Bay. Inset above; Folks dinghying ashore at Turtle Bay.
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our finish with straight rum. As you can well imag¬ ine, these are but a small fraction of the leg one stories that were shared at Javier’s during the party. There was one common theme: nobody had been bored. Mean¬ while, recording artist Philo Hayward of the Cal 36 Cherokee Spirit played guitar with Banjo Andy from Profligate. Javier and his overwhelmed small staff did a better job than ever of serving margaritas and cervezas, and the greatly limited menu helped feed the masses more quickly than in previous years. It was a fine gathering, with everyone enjoying themselves while acting responsibly. While most folks called it a night by about 10:00 p.m., a few stayed on or stopped by the disco. Bruce Stutt of the Wauquiez 33 Bonaroba was one of the lat¬ ter. The problem with staying out late and having a few drinks was finding your boat back in the anchorage — which, because of all the anchor lights, looked like the Manhattan skyline at night. Stutt cruised the anchorage for 90 minutes looking for Bonaroba, but couldn't find her. Fearing he was going to run out of gas, he re¬ turned to town to try to get more. The only ones still awake were a couple of cops, who helped Stutt siphon some gas out of a truck. You've got to love Mexico. Things were looking up for Stutt, but only tem¬ porarily. There's a big difference in safety stan¬ dards. between the United States and Mexico. So while the city fathers of Hun¬ tington Beach or Newport Beach wouldn’t dream of having a pier without railings, such a safety feature would be consid¬ ered an extravagance in little Turtle Bay. As you’ve surely guessed, Stutt somehow managed to fall 15 feet off the pier into the water below. Fortunately, he wasn't hurt and hadn't been holding the gas jug. Although now completely awake, it still took him another 2.5 hours to locate Bonaroba. November 4 was the no-host beach party at the abandoned trailer park about a mile east of town. It was a little less organized than normal because the Poobah — who had only taken the cast off his broken ankle the day before — was too gimpy to orchestrate. But there was still plenty of entertainment, as
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Susan of 'C'est La Vie' was a big hit with the Turtle Bay toddlers when she made ninja swords and animals out of her special balloons. always, provided by folks attempting din¬ ghy landings through the surf. Despite the small surf, many dinghies were knocked sideways, and several were rolled, with outboards getting drenched in the pro¬ cess. A lot of people fell out of dinghies and went sprawling in the water, so it's lucky — given the destructive potential of outboard props — that nobody was seri¬ ously hurt. The Island Time crew patrolled the beach holding up scores — just like in the Olympics — for each landing. The highest score went to Tors of Bronco. He and his crew had a spectacular saltwater mishap coming in, and were then battered twice when gallantly attempting to charge out through the surf. But they looked good doing it. When the party started to break up about sundown, the dinghy en¬ tertainment began anew. Lots of folks re¬ turned to their boats with soaking clothes, bodies and backpacks, because it s even har'der to go out through the surf than it is to come in. The crew of Profligate can hardly talk, however. Unbeknownst to anyone, the keel of our hard-bottom dinghy had filled with water. So when it started down a One of the local kids in Turtle Bay welcomes us from his perch high on a crane high above the city pier.
BAJA HA-HA VII small wave, all the water in the keel — and the momentum — uncontrollably rushed forward. Everyone got drenched, Banjo Andy's instrument was sloshed, and a Nikon camera with a long zoom lens seemed to think it was an underwater camera. Here's the one paragraph guide to din¬ ghy handling in surf: 1) Be patient. Wait¬ ing 10 minutes for a lull can mean the difference between success and expensive failure. 2) Don't — as is far too common — risk running the surf with an over¬ loaded or underpowered dinghy. 3) Always be ready to kill your outboard and/or have the automatic kill system in working or¬ der. Runaway outboards maim or kill sev¬ eral sailors each year. 4) Never let your dinghy get sideways to the surf. 5) Don't dawdle when getting in or out of your din¬ ghy — particularly when heading out — because every single second counts! 6) Never be a sitting duck. No matter if you're going to be nailed by whitewater or a breaking wave, make sure that you have some forward momentum directly into the whitewater or wave. When in doubt, take a panga to shore. Julio from the fuel dock was nice enough to come around to the abandoned trailer park party site to sell beer and play music, and Bear from Profligate set up the volleyball court. Many Ha-Ha fishermen brought their catch ashore to share, ei¬ ther as sushi or cooked fish, with the other members of the fleet. Other folks took the opportunity to stretch their legs by jog¬ ging on the beach or hiking up nearby peaks for spectacular views of the bay and desert. And after such a fine first leg, there was no shortage of sea stories to share. It was a bounteous sea this year, as just about every boat seemed to haul in tuna and dorado — with the occasional marlin.
While most of the 'Humu-Humu' crew wore swim¬ ming suits, Hillary wore a letter V from one of Dennis Conner's old America's Cup spinnakers. But then it was suddenly freak-out time, as four-year-old Jared of Kinship was an¬ nounced as missing. After about 10 ten¬ sion-filled minutes, he was discovered in the crumbly, badland-style hills above the party site — far further than his parents thought he was capable of climbing. In other kids' affairs, Shari Cottrell of the Kennex 445 See Life took it upon her¬ self to be the organizer of activities for the Ha-Ha kids. Depending on what age you consider a kid to be, there were some¬ where between 12 and 18 kids in the fleet. Shari not only planned kids' activities at Turtle Bay, but also had lots for them to do at San Diego, Bahia Santa Maria, and Cabo San Lucas. If the kids liked her, the mothers adored her. Of course, not ev¬ eryone was satisfied. "Where are all the 16-year old girls?" complained one highschool-aged boy. While at the beach, Susan of C'est La Vie set such a standard of elegance for serving sushi and setting up crew picnic site, that she was quickly acquired the nickname, 'the Martha Stewart of boat¬ ing'. And it's not a title she scorns. "I don't drive the boat," she explained, "I just fix the drinks and food, and entertain. And I love it! Keith and I sold the ranch, retired, and we're now headed around the world." For all of her style, Susan was inter¬ acting with the locals as much as any¬ one. In fact, she got right down on the sand with a group of local kids — some of them hilariously covered in dirt and sand — and entertained them with clever bal¬ loon tricks. A big favorite was the balloon swords she passed out, which naturally led to balloon swordfights. Before long, however, Susan and Robert of Profligate
had channeled the youthful exuberance into collecting trash. Someone coined the term "ninja basuras," and from then on every time a kid found a piece of trash, he'd shout "Ninja basuras" — and they'd all go crazy. Before long they'd stuffed one garbage bag so full that the bottom fell out. For what it's worth, almost all the trash was local stuff, as Mexicans still aren't clear on the anti-litter concept. While all this was going on, a bunch of locals watched from the sidelines, amused by the crazy gringo behavior. Susan was touched, however, when one of the local mothers came over and thanked her for playing with the local kids. They don't have Webvan in Turtle Bay yet, but the panga drivers serve almost the same function. They offered rides to or from shore at $1/person, took in bags of garbage for a couple of bucks, and were happy to arrange for the pick up and de¬ livery of such things as water, ice, diesel and gasoline. It was all done in good spirit — except for panga man Ernesto. Thanks to the free beers given to him by custom¬ ers, he’d become drunk and surly by the end of the second day. All in all, Turtle Bay was a pleasant and restful stop after the longest leg of the Ha-Ha. After the Poobah departed, he
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was forwarded a message saying the mayor wanted to help make it a better event next year. Bueno!
If there's one way in which the Ha-Ha differs from other sail¬ ing events, it's in its flexible structure. The Wanderer sees the function of the Poobah not as making up rules and telling people what to do, but rather fa¬ cilitating everyone's fun. As such, if somebody wants to start a day early, leave a few hours late, or go somewhere else, that’s fine. All that's requested is that everyone check in and behave responsibly. The flexibility came in handy for the start of the 240-mile sec¬ ond leg which, as usual, started on a bright and sunny day. With very little wind at the starting line near the entrance to the bay, it was easy to see that the fleet would soon become impa¬ tient to make some miles south. Indeed, some of the boats motored right past the starting line before the gun. So in the in¬ terest of fleet unity — and fun — the Poobah got on the radio and granted ev¬ eryone dispensation to motor up to five
A bunch of the Prof ligate’crew gather with Fran¬ cisco, on the left, to give him clothes and toys for the kids at the orphanage. miles offshore on a course of 220° in or¬ der to find wind. A few seconds later, about 60,000 diesel horsepower roared to life, and it looked like an Oklahoma land rush on a course of 220°. This was the first time the Poobah had
done this in 20 Ha-Ha starts, and it worked like a charm. For as soon as the fleet got a little more than two miles offshore, they found eight to 10 knots of breeze and smooth seas. Skippers im¬ mediately shut down their en¬ gines, set chutes, and started sailing down the rhumbline in lovely conditions. About half an hour after the start, we on Profli¬ gate hoisted our sails and began jibing through the fleet to take photographs. It was a beautiful sight, and got better, as the wind continued to build to a steady 12 to 14 knots. The Wanderer has enjoyed some wonderful sails in the past 30 years, and the 240-mile leg two would have to rank near the top. It was cat weather par ex¬ cellence, as the boat speed brought the apparent wind al¬ most on the beam, allowing the cat to of¬ ten sail at or in excess of the windspeed. So as the day wore on, we reeled in boat after boat, overtaking the last one, the well-sailed Andrews 50 Outta Bounds, just after sundown. By then the wind was blowing at about 14 knots. The light monohull seemed to be doing about 10 knots, while Profligate was doing about
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the same — but with lots of bursts of 12 to 16 knots. Then it got better. A nearly full moon arose almost straight down the rhumbline, illuminating the sea ahead. Periodically, the light bounced off the still small waves in such a way that they ap¬ peared to be flames. Because the appar¬ ent wind was still only just a couple of knots, it remained T-shirts and shorts weather until almost midnight. Best of all,
body on the spinnaker sheet, and most of the time there wasn't even anyone else on deck. It was just the Wanderer, the cat, the waves, and the moon. The Wanderer is ashamed to admit it, but he became a complete helm hog, and ultimately the crew had to resort to vice grips to get his fingers off the wheel. By then he'd hit a couple of 19s and was somewhat content. The Wanderer was grumpily awoken at 4 :00 a.m. by the sound of a wrapped spin¬ naker. Shit! But things would get much better again. Thanks to several jibes and about 10 minutes of great crew work, the chute unwrapped. When it filled, the cat took off surfing toward Bahia Santa Maria once again. By then the swells were up to about four feet, and it was easy to catch waves. You'd spot a hole in the ocean up ahead, heat the boat up for acceleration, then drop in. It was just like the old days with a board at Pleasure Point — except this board’ weighed 1,000 times as much, had spacious accommodations for 12, and got longer rides than from Sewer Mouth to The Hook. Cowabunga! A short time later there was a sunrise in the east that
A fish and lobster dinner for 10 bucks? Count us in. Once again, Kojak pulled off an amazing fiesta on the unspoiled beach at Santa Maria. the big cat was jamming! In 15 or so knots of wind, the boat rarely fell under 10 knots, and often hit 13s to 17s. With a couple of feet of sea having built up, it became possible to drop into waves, surf down them, and perhaps the next few in front of them. The beauty of it all was that it was so effortless. There was never any¬
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With so many spinnaker problems in the fleet, a lot of folks had to go aloft to retrieve or rerun halyards. been some of the easiest, sweetest, fast¬ est sailing miles of our lives, and in spec¬ tacularly beautiful conditions. We'll fondly remember it a long time. When we rounded the point into the harbor at Ba¬ hia Santa Maria, there were no other HaHa boats on the hook — and wouldn’t be
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for several more hours. Further back up the course, the wind seemed to be blowing a little harder, per¬ haps 18 to 22 knots, and the seas were perhaps a little bigger and sloppier. For experienced crews, it was great sailing. For less experienced crews, it was more challenging. There were surprisingly few reports of damage, but there was some. C'est La Vie's carbon fiber spinnaker pole had broken in only 18 knots of wind, for example. The crew would amputate two feet in Bahia Santa Maria and use it suc¬ cessfully again in the third leg. The second leg could have become a scene of tragedy, as for the first time in a Ha-Ha, somebody went overboard. Steve Newby of the 70-foot catamaran HumuHumu explained. "It was blowing about 20 knots at 0500, and we were doing about 13 knots when the asymmetrical chute got tangled in a leeward shroud. I was standing in a bad spot between the winch and the clew of the sail, when it suddenly filled. The huge forces ripped the bowsprit off the boat and stretched the sheet behind me taut. In so doing, the sheet caught me behind my knees and butt and threw me 15 feet off the boat
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water pouring through a poorly sealed chain hawse. On Windancer, it was a matter of the previous owner having run cockpit drains below the waterline — with¬ out a proper thruhull or sealant.
into the water. I landed on my .back." "He looked like a hooked tuna bounc¬ ing on the top of the water," said crewmate Alan Weaver, who is always able to see the humor in things. Weaver was himself sporting a "black eye as a result of getting hit by a shackle. "Fortunately, I was wearing a brand new pair of Harken Black Magic sailing gloves and was still holding on to the sheet, "continued Newby. "Hanging on to the sheet, I was dragging alongside the boat, at which point I tried to grab the lifelines. But they were too high. So I eased myself back to one of the long transom scoops, and the boat's wake flopped me right on top of it. It all happened in about 10 seconds. I never thought I was going to die or anything, and I was giddy when I got back on the boat. But I'll never stand between the sail and the winch again." Had Newby not been able to work himStudly Steve of 'Humu-Humu' reenacts his manoverboard maneuver on the beach at Cabo. His self-rescue was an amazing feat.
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The time-tested Cal 40 'Sayula' lived up to her namesake — the winner of the first Whitbread — by taking top honors in her division._ self back to the scoop, it's uncertain if he'd be with us today. Humu-Humu is a big cat that was sailing with a relatively small crew, and Alan Weaver thinks it might have taken them a mile or more to stop and turn around — at which point it would have been difficult to find Newby among the whitecaps. It's also fortunate that Newby is a rock climber with a strong grip — who was wearing sailing gloves at the time. He'll need new gloves, however, as the forces pulled the leather tight out of them. * By the afternoon, several boats started coming in. Among the bigger boats again was Wild Type, the J/44. Given the ex¬ cellent winds, lots of boats — including more than half in the two smaller divi¬ sions — sailed the entire second leg. For many of them, it had been easy and con¬ sistent. "We put the pole out on one side," said one of the Catalina 38 Melarky crew, "and left it there 240 miles to the finish." Once again the fishing had been good. "Six miles from the finish we caught a 70pound striped marlin," said Jerry Schutten of Chere. "We hand-lined him in before releasing him. Then right at the finish we caught about a 130-pounder. He's the one that broke the pole!" Many other boats' caught tuna and dorado. It was a great fishing year for the Ha-Ha. The second leg was also the 'leaking leg', as the Beneteau First 41 Consigilare, the Bristol 29.9 Lansa, and the Catalina 27 Windancer all discovered their cabin soles covered in water. "We're weren't afraid we were sinking or anything," said Mark Sciarretta of Consigliare, "but we had to periodically pump during the night because the electric pump didn't work. In the morning we discovered that we didn't have a leak in the hull, but one in the holding tank!” Larisa's problem was
-t3ahia Santa Maria is one of those places that, depending on your point of view, either has everything or nothing. If you're looking for streets, stores, restau¬ rants or nightclubs, it's got none of those. But if you're looking for unspoiled nature, with a terrific surf break, great peaks to climb, an endless shell-strewn beach to stroll, and mangroves to putt around in, it's got plenty. Even though there is 'noth¬ ing' at Bahia Santa Maria, when the HaHa was over and everyone was asked where they would have liked to spend an extra day, the sentiment was overwhelm¬ ingly for Bahia Santa Maria. By sundown, quite a few boats had come in, and more were arriving all the time. Since many friendships had been made, dinghies ran between boats so new friends could enjoy conversation, kisses, drinks and dinners. This also happened to be election night, so the Qualcomm phone and Globalstar satellite system got another workout. The boats that had to spend a second day and night at sea reported less con¬ sistent conditions. The wind backed off leaving a sloppy sea, then filled in again
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with more gusts. And once again there had been Caribbean style squalls. Even at Bahia Santa Maria, we had a light sprinkle between the sunshine and clear skies. The Ha-Ha valor award goes to Fran¬ cisco Juarez Araiza — and he wasn’t even on a boat. A reporter for both the Sudcalifornia.no newspaper and radio sta¬ tion XEVSD, he'd been assigned to cover the Ha-Ha arrival — who knew we were coming? — in Bahia Santa Maria. Fran¬ cisco lives way up in Ciudad Constitucion, and had intended to ride down on his mo¬ torcycle. Unfortunately, his brother bor¬ rowed it. Not wanting to miss the story, he walked 12 hours through the desert night to cover 71 kilometers! At times he was trailed by coyotes, which he kept at bay using the flash on his camera. Dr. Scholls should have seen the blisters on his feet! Francisco is a great guy, and fortu¬ nately was able to arrange a ride back to Constitucion with the fish and lobster truck. Since he now had the ability to carry some cargo, various members of the fleet loaded him down with bags of clothes and toys to take to the orphanage in Con¬ stitucion. As we were gathering bags of donated stuff, it crossed our mind that we might be able to raise a bunch of money for Norm Goldie to distribute to the poor in the hills behind San Bias over on the mainland. It might just take a 90-
The Ha-Ha party police sometimes had to per¬ form spot checks on revelers at Bahia Santa Maria. These two passed without spilling a drop. minute fund-raiser sail on Profligate the next day. Sure enough, within a few min¬ utes of making the announcement on the radio, we had 21 takers from the Ha-Ha fleet at $20 each. So Norm Goldie, there's 420 Ha-Ha dollars headed your way to buy what those poor kids can use the most. For some Ha-Ha participants, the beach party at Bahia Santa Maria was one of the highlights of the event. You have to picture a 4-mile by 8-mile bay in the middle of nowhere, fronted by a desert.
with the only residents being the panga fishermen who live in crates and tents. Yet for the second year in a row, 'Kojak' of La Paz drove 150 miles or so to show up with a big tent, a five-piece rock 'n roll band and their sound equipment, scores of cases of beer, and enough grills and staff to serve 400 fish and lobster dinners. People had a fine time, as they ate, danced, swapped lies, played volleyball, sat in with the band, and generally en¬ joyed themselves in yet another magnifi¬ cent natural Baja setting. "It was the best beach party I’ve ever been to," said Mike of Nereid. "Earlier this year we tried to sail to Hawaii, but had to turn back. The HaHa is way more fun, because you sail for a while, then you stop to shower and party." The party was held between the man¬ grove lagoon and the beach, and since it wasn't possible to land on the beach, the only way in was over the shallow bar. De¬ pending on the state of the tide, this was either easy or impossible. So most folks were delighted that the panga guys — who were great — were willing to run a taxi service. Some folks stayed at the party long after dark — and unfortunately, af¬ ter the tide had gone out. "There were about 20 of us stuck on the beach at 1:30 a.m.," said John Thompson of Radio Flyer, "so finally the three of us decided to jump into my West Marine inflatable with a 15 hp outboard and try to make it out. Some¬ how we managed to hit a rock while try¬ ing to go over the bar, and all three of us
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You might think it odd to build a 3-master 60footer, but 'Millennium Falcon'out-sailed most of the fleet — including light displacement yachts. were thrown out of the dinghy —. which kept going about 200 yards to’the right before getting hung up on a rock with the engine running. That engine is now toast. It took us another hour to row out to Melarky." But even one of those who'd taken a panga back earlier had had a little prob¬ lem. Joyce of Neried did the splits between the panga and her boat and went for a swim. "The water was lovely," she said.
JLiteg three began at what seemed like the ungodly hour of 0700, but it actually wasn't so bad. For one thing, the fleet had sailed so far east that it was really 8:00 a.m. Further¬ more, the Poobah had learned from ex¬ perience that no matter h6w much people love Bahia Santa Maria, there's a part of them itching for the bright lights and hot showers of Cabo San Lucas. So if the start had been at 9:00, Profligate would have been about the only boat left in the an¬ chorage. Indeed, as in years past, a small number of boats had left the night before. This year four of the boats — No Problem, Nina del Mar, Kachina and Moondance — stayed behind an extra day to catch up on surfing and sleeping. They called them¬ selves the Baja Giggle-Giggle, and re¬ mained in radio contact.
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helm, and hit our high of 13.5 knots. It was awesome — partly because I got to drive at the start and the finish, and because we were the first boat to sail all the way to the finish. By the way, I did a lot of racing on the Bay, during which time I was usually relegated to rail meat or pulling the strings at the mast. Then I took up with the Byte fleet, which are little dinghies, and became the captain of my own little ship. I was a pathetic skipper at first, but my mistakes didn't hurt anything. Ultimately, it gave me the confidence to drive our 52, and occasionally sail well enough to kick some ass. I love big boats because of that small boat training in Bytes." Just because it was the last leg didn't mean people stopped fishing. After fish had eaten all of Windancer's lures, the crew tried some fresh water hooks. The
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and the place had been packed with Ha-Ha and Some Like It Hot shirts. A few, such as Ken of Felicity, stayed much later because it was his birthday. With no more water taxis running, he gallantly decided he'd swim out to their boat and get the dinghy to pick up his wife, Cathy. About halfway out, he got winded, so he pulled him¬ self up on Raven's scoop to take a rest. He later continued on.
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bonded after sailing to the cape together. The party fea¬ tured the usual stuff: great stories, live and recorded mu¬ sic, delicious food, discounted drinks, and great views of the cape. The fact that a full moon arose over the bobbing fleet anchoring in front of everyone didn't hurt. Saturday night's award's ceremony was the final event of the Ha-Ha. In keeping with the concept that everyone who _ finishes the event is a winner, the simple trophies — painted fish with ribbons — only differed in color. These 'trophies' actually make better nav sta¬ tion mementos of the event than do en¬ graved pickle dishes. In addition, every¬ one got the latest copy of Latitude and Philo's latest CD. There were special awards for oldest, youngest, biggest fish, most motoring, chataholic and so forth. Our favorite was the most explosive cook¬ ing trophy — a can of beans and spatula — that was awarded to Kachina for hav¬ ing an explosion while cooking beans in a pressure cooker. "We heard they were eat’■'P~
Just a few miles from the finish line at Cabo Falso, George Conger go whacked on the head by 'Chanticleer’s spinnaker pole. leased and Jake had lost his wallet. "Then the cop drove me back to Squid Roe.” said Jacobs. "So, I offered him $10 — and he took it." You gotta love Mexico. Unfortu¬ nately, Jacob's night took a turn for the worse when he misjudged how far down it was from a marina wall to the dock, and either sprained or broke his ankle. The following day was the beach party at Juancho's that lasted long after dark. It was a noisy crowd of 400 folks who'd
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It has been a splendid Ha-Ha, with fine weather — and unusually good sail¬ ing conditions. Last year, for instance, only two boats sailed the whole way. This year, even two boats in the smallest divi¬ sion — the Challenger 32 Luna Sea II and Wylie 31 Velella — sailed the whole way, despite some light spots. On Profligate, all three legs were the fastest that we'd ever sailed them. It's hard to be entirely objective when the Wanderer and Poobah and the author of this article are one and the same, but since the Poobah, Banjo Andy and Dona de Mallorca received a standing ovation
After rounding the Cape everyone on the 'Profli¬ gate'crew had one thing in mind — and it wasn't a margarita. Ooooowww that water felt good. at the conclusion of the award's cer¬ emony, there's evidence a bunch of people had a good time. The Poobah was most
thrilled with the skeptics who feared the Ha-Ha was going to be a drunken bash and were delighted to learn that it wasn't anything of the sort. The Poobah was also pleased to learn that many of the skip¬ pers plan to do the event again next year — and that Brian of Impulse is going to recommend that it become part of the SC 50-52 schedule. If anyone is looking for a one line sum¬ mary of the attraction of the Ha-Ha, we think Chuck Cook of Outta Bounds said it best: "Three starts are better than one in Mexico, and my wife loves the stops at Turtle Bay and Bahia Santa Maria." Obviously we can't guarantee that next year's Ha-Ha will be as fast, mellow or fun as the lucky seventh was, but it might be. What we can tell you for sure is that number eight is scheduled to start from San Diego on October 30, and end with the awards ceremony in Cabo on Novem¬ ber 10. In response to popular demand, the Poobah has arranged for there to be a full moon on November 1, the middle of the long first leg. We hope you’ll be sail¬ ing under it with us.
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COUNTDOWN TO THE RACE
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December 12. (To qualify, a boat must complete a trans-ocean crossing within 125% of the record time.)
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is and isn't going to be on the starting line of The Race is, at this writ¬ ing, about as certain as which county in Florida will want a ballot recount next. As with 'Indecision 2000', we won't really know for sure until we actually get there. (For those of you just joining the pro¬ gram, The Race is a nonstop, crewed, 'un¬ limited' round-the-world race that starts in Barcelona on December 31.) But there is plenty to speculate about. At least five of the seven prospective en¬ tries (of 40 teams that originally expressed interest) are now in the water, either sail¬ ing or about to. The sixth will have gone back in at the end of November. And the seventh? Well, frankly, we have no idea. Here’s a quick look at who's who. PlayStation (USA, skipper: Steve Fossett, 125 feet, qualified) — As men¬ tioned last month, PlayStation was the first of the new breed of maxi-catamarans built. She is also now the largest. Twenty feet were added onto the original 105-ft Gino Morrelli design in October and No¬ vember. She was due to go back in the water for further sea trials at the end of November. Team Philips (GBR, skipper: Pete Goss, 120 feet, not qualified) — The radi¬ cal Team Philips went back in the water in mid-November after her second pit stop'. The first occurred when 45 feet of her port hull snapped off in March, put¬ ting her out of action for several months. The second breakdown occurred when the bottom of one of her twin carbon 'wind¬ surfer' masts came off its base back in September. Now back sailing, Goss is con¬ fident the boat can qualify by the Decem¬ ber deadline and be on hand for the pre¬ race festivities, which start in Monaco on Page 136 • U&lcUt 3? • December, 2000
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their families, and many observers. Goss countered with a brilliant com¬ mentary which effectively put out the fire. "I have always maintained that knowledge dispels fear, and that is where Mike and I differ," he wrote. "Now he is destined to watch while we carry on. . . Whatever the outcome, we can hand-on-heart say to ourselves that we truly did our best." Club Med (NZ, skipper: Grant Dalton, 110 feet, qualified) — Looking bigger, stronger and faster than ever, Club Med was undergoing sail testing and final crew selection off the Portuguese coast as this issue went to press. Next to PlayStation, this is the team with the most miles — and records — under their belts. (Club Med set the day's run record of 625 miles last spring.) Relaunched in September af¬ ter some repair work and reconfiguration of her bow sections (for more bouyancy), she appears ready to take on the world. Code One (FRA, skipper: Loick Peyron, 110 feet, not qualified) — Quite a bit has happened in the Code One camp since October. The second Gilles Ollier design to come out of the Multiplast yard (Club Med was the first), Code One was launched in early November and imme¬ diately began an intense training regimen out of Brittany. In late November, the boat was scheduled to do a 2,500-mile quali¬ fying run from La Trinite to Marseilles via the Azores. Team Adventure (USA, skipper: Cam Lewis, 110 feet, not qualified) —The dark horse of the big four, Lewis' Team Adven¬ ture was launched on November 13 in Cherbourg, France. The third and final boat out of the Club Med molds (and Page 138 • b&UM. 3? • December, 2000
Above, Team Adventure's crew worked 24/7 for months to get the boat ready. Below, the 'new' PlayStation' features more bouyancy forward.
makes it to the start. Team Legato is a lengthened, strengthened version of the 1982 Nigel Irons boat best known as ENZA New Zealand. Aloft, thanks to the miracle of carbon fiber, the 106-ft wing mast will also be stronger, but weigh 40% less, than its 96-ft predecessor. Bullimore is hoping the arrangement will add 10% to the boat’s speed, which will make him com¬ petitive with the new superboats. Polypharma-Warta (Poland, skipper: Roman Pazke, 90 feet, qualified) — An¬ other lengthened veteran, this boat was originally built as the 75-ft Jet Services V, but is perhaps best known as the 85-ft Explorer, the boat on which Bruno Peyron set the first Jules Vernes record in 1993. Pazke qualified the boat before she went under the knife. Little else has been re¬ leased about this effort in the past month. With no website or stateside contacts, we're not even sure if the boat is in or out of the water.
known for a while as Code Two), Team Adventure was rigged within days and should be sailing by the time you read this. In fact, with a bit more than a month before the start, part of her sea trials may include a long-distance qualifying ride across the North Atlantic into the Med. Though still scraping fot funding, it's hard to imagine Lewis and his hard-working team will not make it to Barcelona. Team Legato (GBR, skipper: Tony Bullimore, 100 feet, not qualified) — Known only a month ago as Millennium Challenge, Bullimore secured last-minute sponsorship that will help insure he
Here's the schedule leading up to The Race: 12/12: Arrival of first boats in Monaco. 12/15: Speed test runs; gala dinner with HRH Prince Albert. 12/17: Rape to Barcelona 12/22: Inauguration of Race Village 12/29: Grand parade of challengers around Barcelona Harbor. 12/31: 1400 hours, start of The Race 3/77/01: Winner of The Race sails into Marseilles —• and history. For regular updates, log onto www. therace.org. Otherwise, stay tuned- We’ll have a full preview in the next issue.
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. he school's growth certainly didn’t happen overnight, though. Its slow evo¬ lution resulted from a near perfect com¬ bination of key economic factors, vision¬ ary managers, and a large dose of luck. The community college itself was founded in 1948 on the grounds of the decommissioned Santa Ana Army Air Base, in the then-sleepy town of Costa Mesa. The site lies just five miles inland from Newport Harbor. Although the New¬ port Peninsula anck, Balboa Island were considered to be prime real estate even back in the '50s, waterfront property didn't command the gazillion-dollars-peracre that it does today. So it was that the college's phys. ed. department got permis¬ sion from Orange County administrators to establish a rowing base on a- barren, 300-foot strip of beachfront at the back of the Harbor, right along Pacific Coast Highway. The rent was one dollar a year. "We just had some old rowing shells
left over from the 1932 Olympics that must have weighed 500 pounds apiece and three old Lehman 10 sailing din¬ ghies," recalls Dave Grant, a history in¬ structor who was shanghaied into coach¬ ing the rowing team in '63, despite the fact that he knew virtually nothing about the sport. "In those days we just had the two sheds, one water spigot, and a 'locker room' with no roof op it. 1 remember it was a big deal when we got an electric
light in our tiny office. But it wasn't all bad. There were some wonderful people rowing and sailing at that time, manjr of whom are still involved with our programs
same time, instructional dinghy sailing classes (using Lido 14s) first appeared on the college's phys. ed. roster. Then, in 1975, local yachtsman Ernie
"We just had some old rowing shells left over from the apiece and three old Lehman 10 sailing dinghies." here." (For the record, renowned sailmaker and '96 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Dave Ullman raced for OCC in the 1950s.) v Grant stayed on at Orange Coast — eventually becoming the college's presi¬ dent — and in 1970 the program ex-~ panded to include keelboats when Cornelius Shields Jr. donated a dozen
Kanzler donated his 10-meter Sally to the program for use in classes. Unbeknownst to Grant, that altruistic gesture was a har¬ binger of the many more generous gifts that the school would receive. The follow¬ ing year Bill Pascoe donated his 47-ft sloop Saudade as well as an endowment to maintain her. Designed by S&S and built of aluminum at the Royal Huisman Shipyard in Holland, she had won the Admiral's Cup three years earlier. A year
Then and now. Left: The Quonset huts and office' in '63. Right: The facility today. of his now-legendaiy Shields one-design sloops. He made similar donations else¬ where to fuel interest in the design, and Orange Coast students traveled to distant campuses to compete in intercollegiate Shields regattas with prestigious fouryear colleges and universities. About the
later, Pascoe donated his next boat. Scan¬ dalous , adding another big IOR stallion to the school's stable. The fact that such boats would be put to good use to pro¬ mote interest in sailing, rather than sim¬ ply being sold and resold, undoubtedly gave Pascoe, and the many other patrons
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X hroughout the 50s, '60s and '70s, classes were exclusively for OCC students, and were given only on weekdays. There was no on-site management staff. Then, in 1979, when Prop 13 passed, threaten¬ ing radical cuts in funding for sports and the arts, Grant and his staff realized they would soon have to make some dramatic changes in order to survive. They thought about offering weekend classes to the gen¬ eral public, but had no idea if anyone would be interested. By 1984 the pressure to innovate was intense. So after some coaxing from friends, Grant decided to alter the role of one of his part-time sailing instructors, Brad Aveiy, by hiring him through the College’s Community Education Program as the school’s (part-time) sailing coordi¬ nator. The idea was to see if the young sailing jock could keep the school alive by opening classes to the whole commu¬ nity. The gamble quickly paid off. It's probably because Grant has boundless admiration for Aveiy’s accom¬ plishments and vision — and the fact that the two men are close friends who've sailed thousands of ocean miles together — that the ex-president felt comfortable sharing this anecdote with us: "When Brad first started with us in '79, we knew he was an excellent teacher, but he never got his paperwork in on time and it was getting to be such a problem with the ad¬ ministration that 1 almost fired him. It Below: We're often told, "It changed my life," regarding 'Alaska Eagle' voyages, whether through sunny tropical climes or frosty south¬ ern latitudes. (All photos SS&S archives.)
would have been the biggest mistake of my life. Brad was clearly the right guy to really make it go. Putting him in charge was the best possible thing we could have done." Personable, articulate and easygoing, Avery accepted the challenge, greatly ex¬ panding the menu of classes and reach¬ ing out to the community to take full ad¬ vantage of the sailing center's resources — and, yes, he learned to get his paper¬ work in on time and to work in sync with the existing College bureaucracy. (He be¬ came the school's director in 1991.) In ad¬ dition to dinghy and keelboat sailing classes, the mix of offerings grew to in¬ clude many practical classes of interest to would-be cruisers in the areas of navi¬ gation, weather, communications and maintenance. The expanded curriculum steadily built momentum, and eventually the number of community residents tak¬ ing classes outnumbered OCC students. Over the years that trend has continued; today community members make up 80% of the overall enrollment at the School of Sailing and Seamanship. Orange County administrators appar¬ ently couldn't be happier. Over the de¬ cades that one-dollar-rent deal has con-
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Shields sloops are one of the most enduring designs for teaching and racing. Thousands of students have honed their skills aboard them. tinued with little debate, and has obvi¬ ously been a fundamental element in the school’s success. "The proviso was, 'We'll give you the land but you have to create a program that provides maximum access to the public in terms of boating educa¬ tion, and you have to continually upgrade the facility,'" says Avery. It’s been a clas¬ sic win-win for both entities. Another element of the school’s suc¬ cessful formula that would be tough to replicate elsewhere is that the college pro¬ vides all the basic infrastructure, but lets the school reinvest its profits. "The money we generate does not go into the college’s general fund," Avery explains, "and that has been a key to our success. Through a succession of five presidents since I've been here, each has said, 'You get to keep your money. Develop your program and be entrepreneurial.'" All sailing school staffers draw their paychecks and ben¬ efits from the college, and when building repairs arise, college maintenance folks are called in at no cost. Like a bookstore or cafeteria, the school's status is that of an "independent auxiliary."
HARD ACT TO FOLLOW L/ike Grant, Avery grew up In the Newport area, and learned to sail as a kid aboard his dad's six-meter. (In addition to doing a lot of offshore sailing, he cur¬ rently crews aboard the Farr 40 Revolution.) The fact that both men have intimate ties to the community and many long-es¬ tablished relationships within the local boating community has helped them to garner a continual trickle of boat donations and cash for the school without ever having to advertise — and, no, they do not earn commissions. The pair's greatest coup, however, was the acquisition of the 65-ft Alaska Eagle. After winning the '77-'78 Whitbread, then called Flyer (see sidebar), this qne-off alu¬ minum ketch had been sold to Alaska business magnate Neil Bergt. He too had visions of Whitbread glory, but by the time the '81-'82 event came around, she was no longer competitive. Avery and Grant heard through a couple of OCC alums who were crewing aboard Eagle that as soon as the race was over Bergt planned to donate her, perhaps to the Naval Acad¬ emy. On cue, Grant sprang into action. His letter reached watch captain Mike Farley during their Cape Town layover: "How about donating her to your alma mater?" he queried. Grant also wrote to Bergt in Anchorage, making a pitch that the school could do a great ocean sailing program with Alaska Eagle. Three or four months went by and he never heard a word back. Then one day he got a call from Bergt's secretary. He still vividly remem¬ bers the conversation: "David, Neil is sorry he couldn't call you himself, but he's out of the country today. He’d like to meet you in London the day after tomorrow and
Alaska Eagle has completed 14 South Pacific circuits, taking her to both well-known and seldom-visited landfalls. make the boat transfer then." Grant was completely blown away: "At first I thought it was a prank. I didn't know whether to believe this was serious or not. The secretary said, 'The boat's finishing today in Portsmouth,' and she gave me the name of a hotel. So two days later I was in London and Neil handed this in¬ credible boat over to me." The school had already done instruc¬ tional offshore programs to Catalina aboard Saudade, but Alaska Eagle was a yacht of a completely different nature Page 144 • UvWt?? • December, 2000
which opened up a world of new opportu¬ nities. Not only did she have comfortable overnight accommodations, but her bul¬ letproof construction at the Huisman yard — meant to withstand the toughest con¬ ditions the Southern Ocean could throw at her — gave Avery and Grant an added measure of confidence. As sturdy and seaworthy as she was, however, her size gave Avery some deep concerns. "I remember thinking, ’Can we really do this? Are we going to hurt people?' As a public entity we have such a huge responsibility for people's safety." The school had never put students on a yacht of this size, with enormous winches, running backs and the tremen¬ dous loads generated by her sailplan (at that point she had been re-rigged as a sloop). The more they used her for cruises to Catalina and other Channel Islands, though, the more they appreciated how perfect she was for exhilarating, yet rea¬ sonably safe, offshore sailing programs. Then in '83 they received an enticing proposition from Dick Steele who, along with his wife Betty, has been the school's greatest benefactor. Steele was then com¬ modore of the TransPac YC, and sug¬ gested that Alaska Eagle be used as the TransPac's communications boat. The YC would pay all the expenses in exchange for putting two of their guys aboard to run the communications net, but the rest of the crew could be made up of the school's instructors and students. "It was a per¬ fect opportunity to try an ocean passage, and it went great," recalls Avery. After that first TransPac, the steady expansion of Eagle's offshore program took her further and further afield, first to Alaska, then to Tahiti and points west. Tpday, she is Coast Guard certified as a sail training vessel (as opposed to a pas¬ senger vessel), with an "Unlimited Ocean" license. At this writing, Alaska Eagle has com¬ pleted 14 South Pacific circuits, taking her to both well-known and seldom-visited landfalls, including remote islands of the South Pacific. Each trip is broken up into passage legs of a week or longer. With her calendar comprising some 20 legs each year, roughly 2,000 sailors from diverse
backgrounds have had the plea¬ sure of crewing aboard her since the mid-'80s. Many are wouldbe cruisers eager for a taste of ocean voyaging in a challenging, yet structured environment. Avery has done so many great voyages aboard Eagle that it’s hard to pick a favorite. "I guess some of my fondest memories are from sailing offshore in big weather, yet still being so comfortable and confident in the boat; like one night when we were sailing across the Southern Ocean from New Zealand to re¬ mote McQuarie Island. It was blowing over 30 knots, seas were rough and nightfall was coming on, but you just knew the boat was going to get you through it." Grant, too, has plenty of fond memo¬ ries. He describes a tranquil scene at his house one winter afternoon when he and Avery got together to discuss their upcom¬ ing trip to Australia, where they would join Alaska Eagle for the Sydney-Hobart Race: A light rain was falling outside, but they were cozy and comfortable, warmed by a crackling fire, with Grant's dog lying at their feet. Several weeks later aboard Eagle, Grant was driving toward Tasma¬ nia through crashing seas and torrents of icy spray. Avery poked his head out the companionway and said something like,
REMEMBERING FLYER
hen Dutch businessman 'Conny' van Rietsehoten entered the second Whitbread Round the World Race he was virtually unknown in the racing circles of the day. He hadn't sailed competitively for 13 years, but his fascination with the Whitbread as the ultimate blue-water yacht race led him to commission S&S to design him a yacht capable of safely com¬ pleting — and winning — the ’77-'78 event. The S&S design of Sayula had won the original ’73-’74 circumnavigation. Sparing no expense. Flyer was built of aluminum at Holland's renowned Huisman Shipyard to the highest stan¬ dards. It was the end of an era when race boats actually had relatively comfortable accommodations and interior amenities, and on deck her innovations included a separate cockpit for sail trimmers. Flyer’s original ketch rig made it pos¬ sible to carry a varied combination of sails including (see right) main, mizzen, mizzen spinnaker, tall boy (staysail), spinnaker and blooper — all at the same time. With, 24.6 tons displacement, she rated 48,4
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discussion of Alaska Eagle and the school's longtime success would be complete without mentioning a few other key figures. San Francisco native Karen Prioleau has just 'retired' from the orga¬ nization after a ten-year stint as Sailing Program Coordinator, where she was Avery’s right-hand teammate. She helped expand the program in a variety of ways, including implementing women’s sailing classes, and skippering Alaska Eagle on three women-only passages between Ha¬ waii and the West Coast. "The people you meet on those trips are incredible," she says. "One of the most rewarding things for me has been to see their excitement; to see them develop a real passion for off¬ shore sailing." Over the years, the backbone of the offshore programs has been a dynamic duo, co-captains Rich and Sheri Crowe. Rich started teaching classes in '77 and met Sheri, then a student, a few years later. During the past two decades they've racked up more blue-water sailing miles than anyone can count on the school's boats as well as their own. An upbeat and thoroughly competent couple, they cir¬
Big-time excitement at the start of the SydneyHobart Race last year in Australia. cumnavigated South America in '89 aboard their Farr 44 Confetti (which they built from scratch), then later spent a sea¬ son exploring Antarctica and Southern Patagonia in their own purpose-built alu¬ minum sloop. Polar Mist "We've had 18 years of adventure aboard Alaska Eagle, and ultimately the best part of it has been the people we've met," says Rich. Next winter he and Sheri will co-skipper Alaska Eagle on sailing expeditions through Patagonia and across the icy southern latitudes to the Antarctic peninsula. Need¬ less to say, berths on those voyages are hot coinmodities which both Eagle veter¬ ans and first-timers are vying for. The ol’ war horse will depart Newport Beach in late June bound for Hawaii, then will
make landfalls at Tahiti, the Tuamotus and Easter Island before arriving in Southern Patagonia.
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JL±.laska Eagle's programs are prob¬ ably the school's most exciting offerings — especially for Latitude's northern Cali¬ fornia readers. With the high cost of mov¬ ing her all over the Pacific Rim, however, she is certainly not a big money-maker. "We’ve got to be careful not to let the big boat program wag the dog," says Grant, who is now officially retired, but still keeps a watchful eye on the school and contin¬ ues to coach rowing. "The bread and but¬ ter of the operation is in the small boats: teaching people how to sail well, sail safely, and have a good time." Every year roughly 5,000 students.
— BUILT TO BEAT THE BEST under IOR. By todays' standards, racing offshore in the late '70s was in the 'dark ages' technologically. Positions were fixed by dead reckoning and celestial naviga¬ tion (when possible), while communica¬ tions to shore bases was done via radio telex. Until the middle the first leg. Flyer was a dark horse, but by the time Leg One ended at Cape Town, she'd caught the attention of the fleet — and the world. Overall honors were hotly contested until the final hours of Leg Four, but Flyer emerged victorious. Von Rietschoten’s book Flyer: The Quest to Win the Round the World Race is an amazing chronicle of the event, as the following exerpts illus¬ trate. Leg Three, Southern Ocean: Within hours the winds were blowing up to 70 knots —- hurricane force. We hur¬ riedly took the mizzen down, but no sooner had that been furled than the 2.6 ozflanker blew out. Minutes later, the foot tape tare off the blast reacher
and everyone held on for dear life, lifelines clipped to the stoutest parts of the boat We put two slab reefs into the mainsail and set the large Jib poled out on the op¬ posite side with the spinnaker pole... Flyer leapt ahead, quivering from stem to stern
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dance of her own. Within minutes she was joined by 200 or more equally merry guests, who weaved a swerving path astonished hierarchy of Rio. straight into thejrool. The manager . . . rushed to stop the band, but the party continued just the same, others tapping out that infectious beat with whatever was near to hand un¬ til all the officials, guests of honour and onlookers had been dragged in to the pool to enjoy the fun. We only wish we could have been there to join in the revelry.
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HARD ACT TO FOLLOW from teenagers to retirees, take classes in a wide range of topics. A look at the current class list reveals such disparate course titles as Heavy Weather Passage-Making, Introduc¬ tion to Cruising, Radar for Yachts¬ men, Jury Rigging & Sail Repair, Leadership & Safety Underway, Ma¬ rine Diesel Maintenance & Trouble¬ shooting, Varnishing Made Easy, Cooking Afloat, Medicine for Mari¬ ners and Life in the (Very) Fast Lane, presented by none other than Playstation's designer (and crew member) Gino Morrelli. With the donation of the 70-ft luxuiy motoryacht Wide Waters in '97 (by the Steeles), a series of poweiyacht operation and maintenance classes were developed — and if ever there was a region with a burning need for such courses, Southern California is it. Another new twist came in '99 when the school was approved by the U.S. Coast Guard for licensing in¬ struction and testing. In keeping with Orange County's man¬ date to give maximum access to commu¬ nity members, most classes are very rea¬ sonably priced. Beginning sailing, for ex¬
on an expansive new nautical library and bookstore that is open to the entire community. "And it's all paid for!" says Avery with a smile.
The S&S-designed 65-footer 'Alaska Eagle'. ample, costs $90 for a five weekend class. Avery is obviously proud of the courses' good value: "People will come up and say, 'You mean for $400 bucks I can sign up to be trained for two .days by John Jourdane, then go out and do the 14-Mile Bank Race on Mike Campbell's turbosled Victoria? Where do I sign up?'" As the menu of classes has expanded, so have the facilities. From those rickety old Quonset huts, the site has now evolved to include top notch docks, a boat¬ house, modern offices and classrooms. Last month the finishing touches were put
The evolution of OCC's School of Sailing and Seamanship is both amazing and inspirational. And while its free rent and community financial support might be hard to duplicate elsewhere, the program's longtime steward emeritus, Dave Grant, insists it has taken a lot more than good luck to reach the current level of success: "It's made all the difference to have the right people in the right places at the right time. It was just one of those wonderful coincidences of fate and time that we were all able to come together and make it happen the way it did."
— latitud e/aet Ed. note — For inquiries about avail¬ ability on Alaska Eagle, contact Adventure Sailing Coordinator Catherine Ellis at (949) 645-9412 or visit the Orange Coast Col¬ lege School of Sailing and Seamanship website at www.occsailing.com.
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VENDEE GLOBE 2000 If you are a fan of serious adventure, you are probably aware of the Vendee Globe Challenge. I admit I'm probably more acutely aware than most. Along with friends and supporters Adrien Fournier and Tim Danford, I went to France last month on a fact finding' mission for my own Open 60 campaign. When the next Vendee Globe gets underway in 2004, I plan to be among the starters. But that's then. In the here and now, the eyes of much of the sailing world are focused on the 24 boats — largest ever fleet since the first Vendee started in 1989/'90 — that started from Les Sable d’Olonne on November 9 and are pres¬ ently heading down to the Southern Ocean. Here's a bit of what we saw and heard in the days leading up to the start of this most difficult of races in more or less chronological order. Tuesday, October 31 Much to my amazement, I stepped off the train in Les Sables d’Olonne and was greeted by several friendly French people waving a sign with my name! They knew I originally intended to enter this race, and were excited to meet a potential future American skipper. Well, that and they rented us the house where we stayed. . . Everywhere in this good-sized city are signs, posters and handouts about the race, which is this region’s signature event. I was also told that on the main national French TV station, advertising time during the Vendee reports are the most expensive slots available. More than soccer — and the race hadn’t even started yet! Early this morning I went to Vendee Globe race office where I met the hardworking staff of Philippe Jeantot. Jeantot is the two-time BOC winner and head of the entire Vendee organization. He was very friendly and it was good to talk to him. From the window of his office we watched the huge crowds lining up to get to the docks. They only let 1,000 people at a time on the pontoons to view the boats. Somehow they keep track with counting devices and radios but it doesn’t look easy. The whole show is very orga¬ nized and professional, which is good since there are supposed to be 300,000 people in town to see the start! Yow. I picked up Adrien and Tim in the af¬ ternoon at the train station. After getting them settled we went and hit the hospi¬ tality tents. And I thought the docks were crazy. I did get a chance to talk to Ellen MacArthur at the Kingfisher booth. I don’t know if she will be able to grind a winch after signing so many autographs. There was quite a line. Page 152 • IxMwtc Z2 • December, 2000
Thursday, November 2 The modern version of this race {ias been held only 3 times. In 1989/'90 the . winner was Titouan Lamazou, in 1992/ '93 it was Alain Gautier, and in 1996/'97 it was Christophe Auguin. Each of these skippers is a legend for his victory, but in this race there are many legends and he¬ roes. One of my personal sailing heroes is Jean Luc Van Den Heede, affectionately known to singlehanded fans as 'VDH.' I met VDH for the first time last night. He had been doing a lot of interviews for French TV as a ‘color commentator’ at the Vendee Village. Adrien,\Tim, and I had downed quite a few beers and we were heading out of the Village looking forward to another great French meal. I spotted the famous VDH beard and approached him in the dark rain outside the pande¬ monium of the huge Vendee Village tent. I introduced myself and gave him the quick pitch on my program and our Wylie Wocket. At first he didn’t recognize Tom Wylie but when I told him about Tom’s boat design in the 1979 Mini Transat his eyebrows raised when he remembered Norton Smith’s victory in American Ex¬ press. “Ah yes! Very fast!” he smiled. When he found out that our Wocket is a mod¬ ernized 'skinny' Open 60, his eyes lit up again and he exclaimed “Do you have drawing?!” We went back inside the Vendee Village club house, grabbed a table, ignored the crowd and got down to discussing boat design and long distance singlehanded racing. I was of course de¬ lighted to show him the material I had brought along. We had a good time talk¬ ing about design philosophy and the tra¬ vails of fund raising. He got a kick out of the fact that I, an American, had memo¬ rized much of his racing history! His record is an example of the caliber of the sailors hanging out here right now: He was third in the '89/'90 Vendee, sec¬ ond in '93/'94, and third in the '94/'95 BOC. VDH is definitely one of the most respected skippers in the world. He has sailed consistently and safely (for the most part) around the world so many times it’s hard to keep track. To me he is one of the sailors who demonstrated the desire to both win and finish safely. All of his races since 1990 were aboard his famous slen¬ der yawl Vendee Enterprises; an incred¬ ible boat that is no longer really competi¬ tive but is still racing. In fact, it is racing yet again this year under charter to Frenchman Joe Seeten.
VDH has long been a proponent of a light, narrow, and safe boat as opposed to the wider more powerful (and some¬ times dangerous) designs. Both he and his boat have repeatedly shown how hard they are to stop. Even after falling asleep from exhaustion and running up on an Australian beach in leg 2 of the '94/'95 BOC, the indomitable boat and sailor were towed off through the surf — and went on to finish 3rd in Class 1! Last year he made an attempt on the west-east 'wrong way' around-the-world record. After get¬ ting a huge lead on the former record his trusty yawl finally suffered some delami¬ nations while pounding to weather in the southern ocean. VDH abandoned the at¬ tempt, but is building a new 100-ft sloop to go for it again! When we shook hands and said goodnight, he had a big smile on his face, and I knew I just had one of my best experiences of the week. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else in the world right now. Three days to the start! Friday, November 3 Writing at 1:30 a.m. Les Sables time. Long but exciting day meeting several
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Above, Ellen MacArthur(inset) and 'Kingfisher.' At 24, she is the youngest competitor ever to start the Vendee. Right, the start. skippers and gathering information. We never get tired of checking out the boats. At race headquarters, Marina (that’s her name, really) interviewed me for in¬ formation about our future program for the Vendee. They think it is a good story that we are here learning what we can do to make the next Vendee. It will be inter¬ esting to see what she writes. We then had a very productive meeting with Vendee Globe creator and race director Philippe Jeantot. He has been very help¬ ful answering questions about the future of the race and finding us a French con¬ nection on the PR side. In the afternoon there was a very im¬ pressive press conference (in French) by the Kingfisher program. The PR effort by Kingfisher is incredibly professional. Three execs from different companies under the Kingfisher umbrella spoke about what Ellen MacArthur and the pro¬ gram are doing for them. There was a re¬ ally impressive promo film and then Ellen gave a talk and Q & A session in perfect
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VENDEE GLOBE 2000 pool), and Yves Parlier (Aquitane Innova¬ tions), are laying low right now unless they are doing a TV interview. They will have enough to worry about after Sunday.
Saturday, November 4 Well the weather is a bit less violent, but another front is on the way. Postpone¬ ment is still a possibility. If they can get the boats off of the pontoons I think they will go for it. Another reason for not want¬ ing to start in excessive weather is con¬ cern about the spectator fleet. The last thing they need is a huge rescue opera¬ tion going on during the start! I haven’t said much yet about the skip¬ pers in this year’s landmark Vendee race. These are the major rockstars of Euro sailing but probably in the U.$. many of you don’t know a lot about them. This year there are a record 24 skippers. The most before was 16 in '96/'97. Here are my picks as the top ones to watch. I’ll list them in roughly my order of likelihood of a top placing, but I change my mind ev¬ ery day. Hope I don’t jinx anyone! Mike Golding, Team Group 4 (GBR) — This is the culmination of a multi-year coordinated campaign to win the Vendee for Mike. Golding is the consummate pro¬ fessional skipper. He has won the BT Glo¬ bal Challenge and was leading the last Around Alone before he hit an uncharted sandbar. This team’s organization is in¬ credible. Most of the other boats are scrambling in preparation but there is never anyone on Mike’s boat. It's all ready and I swear there isn’t one speck of dirt on this immaculate machine. As long he doesn’t knock off a daggerboard or rud¬ der, Golding is my pick for this year. (So much for my first pick, hours into the race Mike lost his rig. He will restart with little chance of winning, but will go for a new record instead.) Mark Thiercelin, Active Wear (FRA) — Thiercelin has been at this for a while now and was second in the last Vendee (offi¬ cially that is — Isabelle Autissier actually crossed the line in second but was dis¬ qualified for stopping to replace a rudder). He was leading the last Around Alone (af¬ ter Golding crashed out and Isabelle flipped over) before losing his rig and handing over the lead to Giovanni Soldini. Perpetually second or third, it may be Thiercelin’s time to break through. He cer¬ tainly has the experience. Michel Desjoyeaux, PRB (FRA) — PRB wasted no time in replacing Isabelle Autissier after she decided she’d had enough capsizes. They went straight to the Euro ‘farm leagues' and picked proven winner Desjoyeaux. This fellow has won the Figaro (a brutally competitive onePage 154 • U&UM12 • December, 2000
design singlehanded series), and a couple of transatlantic races. PRB is the newest open 60 and very radical. He has a v-eiy unusual type of rotating mast and also kick up transom rudders (coincidentally very similar to what Larry Tuttle has de¬ signed for our boat, which he did long before we knew PRB had them). Also, there is a really cool around-the-boat trav¬ eler vang system. This would be my pick to win if things weren’t so new and if he hadn’t already broken his mast and boom.... Ellen MacArthur, Kingfisher (GBR) — Ok, so maybe I’m a little enthralled with this one. But who isn’t? She has fantas¬ tic team support, a stellaf design and con¬ struction team, years of planning, and a seemingly uncanny talent. Her victory in her very first Open 60 race, this years “IMan Star” caused an explosive media frenzy. Ellen is possibly the biggest hero in Europe right now. No kidding. The whole Kingfisher program has raised the bar on many levels. There is a definite spirit that is aptly summed up by a team
motto, A donf\ which means, “go for it!” or “full on!” What's funny is that the phrase apparently came from a mispro¬ nunciation by Ellen of the original French pronounciation: A Fond! But the new word by Ellen stuck like glue, and to say “Ellen, A donf." is the cheerful rallying call of the team and its fans. The big thing for Ellen I think is to not succumb to the pressure and push too hard. The Vendee is the ul¬ timate exercise in pacing. Also, Kingfisher is way fast upwind, but is yet unproven off the breeze. But this Cinderella story may come true. Catherine Chabaud, Whirlpool (FRA) — Actually the race within a race between Ellen and Catherine may overshadow the men in media attention. Catherine is near to Ellen in publicity exposure and has filled the shoes of Isabelle Autissier as the Great Frenchwoman Adventurer. Whirl¬ pool is a really fast offwind boat. Catherine was leading last years Transat Jacques Sailing Mecca — Despite dreadful weather, the docks at Les Sables d'Olonne were constantly crowded with the faithful.
THEY'RE OFF! Sure beats watching Power Rangers.
Vabre (doublehanded to Columbia) before she fell into a hole at the finish and wound up second. She is the only woman to have officially finished the Vendee. (She came in last in the 96/'97 race, but hey, she made it!) Other possible top contenders: French¬ men Thomas Coville on Sodebo and Roland Jourdain on Sill Another Skipper of interest here is Fedor Konyoukhov, the Russian skipper of Modern University for the Humanities. This guy has climbed seven of the world’s highest peaks — five solo — including Everest, has been to the north pole three times and the south pole once. Oh, and he’s sailed solo around the world three times, too. Holy guacamole! He’s not in this to win but will be fun to watch. Sunday, November 5 By now the world knows that the Vendee start has been postponed. The new start has been rescheduled for Tues¬ day, the 7th. This is a good thing too, since it is absolutely howling outside, along with
beaucoup de pluie (lots and lots of rain). Adrien, Tim, and I had lunch in a cafe near the beach so we could watch the
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psychotic windsurfers get pounded. They were crazy to go out and came back soon after eating it repeatedly in the confused breakers. We also watched a couple of fishing boats almost getting rolled while heading back into the harbor. We shot some hilarious video of each other get¬ ting blown around the sidewalks. Philippe Jeantot and the skippers ob¬ viously made the right decision. Trying to start the race now would be insane. The spectator fleet would be decimated, the TV helicopters couldn’t fly, and any boat with a problem would end up on shore immediately. Basically the right thing to do today is exactly what we are doing, staying inside, eating cheese and testing du vin (wine). We have been watching the Vendee Globe Junior channel on TV. This is a stand-alone channel with news, stories, and interviews by and for teens and kids about the Vendee Globe. It is very com¬ prehensive, with older teens interviewing skippers and their wives and responsibly leading younger kids to see the boats.
for me but it is a good decision. It is way nasty outside. Even the fishing boats who know the harbor well can’t go out. There aren’t even any psycho windsurfers to¬ day! The people here are so friendly. Frangoise, the proprietor of our maison, rented us her personal house since her hotel was full. Then, after the start was postponed, she insisted that the extra days were free. Her neighbor Marcel, who is a part-time photographer and film¬ maker, will be taking pictures of the start for me since I have to leave tomorrow. A few days ago, I met Lucas Brotz, a welltraveled young Canadian who had come to town to watch the start. We toured the docks and he was instantly hooked. It was fun to talk about the boats and he is re¬ ally into learning more, after recently crewing on a tall ship across the Atlantic to start his European travels. Since he was staying, I asked Lucas to write a bit about the start for us. He sure made me wish I was still there. . . — bruce schwab December, 2000 • LrttWe?? • Page 155
VENDEE GLOBE 2000 Thursday, November 9 — start day After days of seemingly endless rain and unrelenting wind, the sun was shin¬ ing and there was a slight breeze out of the northwest. But as bad weather seems to be the theme of this year's Vendee Globe, the sun was soon covered with dark clouds. Literally just minutes before the boats began their exit of the harbor, the rain fell once more. However, it didn’t deter the legions of steadfast fans and spectators who lined the canal to cheer on their favorite skippers and wish them all “Bon Voyage!” First out was a smiling and waving Catherine Chabaud in Whirlpool, followed soon by Joe Seeten in Nord Pas du Cal¬ ais/ Chocolats du Monde. One by one the skippers and their teams putted out of the harbor, and one by one they were met with cheers and whistles from the crowds. The rain even let up now and then, allow¬ ing the masses to grab their cameras and capture their memories on film. The sheer multitude of watercraft in the bay was staggering. Spectator boats, private yachts and a plethora of zodiacs zipped this way and that. As the skippers
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and their teams tacked and gybed, it seemed that, rather than jockeying for po¬ sition, they were simply trying to find an open speck of water. The swells created by such a flurry of activity led to the cov¬ eting of a spot near the rail on the spec¬ tator boats. Not for its good vantage point, but for its proximity to the water which witnessed many 'lost lunches' today. Those of us who had thankfully found our sea legs just sat back and tried to take it all in. The colorful boats painted a bright pic¬ ture on the bleak and dismal canvas of grey sky. Whether it was the vivid sails of Josh Hall’s EPB-Gartmore or the simple design of Bernard Stamm’s Super Bigou, the boats appeared as though they were actually happy to finally be on their way. As the last select team members were transferred off each boat, the skippers said goodbye to all companionship for more than 100 days. Seemingly on cue, a rainbow revealed itself to wish all the boats well. From the bright, clean lines of the 24-year-old phenom Ellen MacArthur’s Kingfisher, to the somewhat faded appearance of the Javier Sanso’s Old Spice, it was truly a
sight to behold. As the sun began to set on this won¬ derful November 9th, spectators, fans, support teams, security, reporters, jour¬ nalists, and helicopter pilots all turned and headed for home. All except for 24 intrepid adventurers, who over the next few months will be tested in matters of skill and determination, will and desire, heart and courage. All the rest of us can j do now is wait with bated breath for the race reports, and pray that they all re¬ turn home safely. — lucas brotz Update — At presstime on November 20, Michel Desjoyeaux's PRB led was lead¬ ing the fleetjust past the Canaries. He was followed only a few hours later by Yves Parlier and Ellen MacArthur. Mike Golding installed a new rig and restarted on No¬ vember 17. He has no chance of winning but hopes to set a new record. Patrick de Radigues knocked himself out and woke up on the beach covered with blood. He has withdrawn. To follow the race online, log onto www.quokkasports.com, or the very quirky (to our computers) www.vendeeglobe.com.
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BYC/MYCO MIDWINTERS
The 2000-2001 Berkeley/Metropolitan Midwinters got off to a glorious start on November 11, the day these photo¬ graphs were taken. One hundred and thirteen boats — down a tad from prior years — enjoyed the fine late autumn sail¬ ing conditions, even if the breeze was a little uncooperative. "The wind started from the north, so we postponed until it behaved itself and came in from the riorthwest, like it was supposed to," said race chairwoman-forlife Bobbi Tosse. 'We sent them up to 'G' anticipating some further shifting west, but noooo! It swung back to the north, and the last few legs became parades." Dave Hodges and his Flying Circus crew came roaring back after a, poor first leg to win the biggest class, the 23-boat Express 27s. Other notable winners were Gary Albright's J/22 Talisman Banana, which topped the biggest PHRF group, a 15-boat 'combo plate' in Class C. Alan McNab sailed Woof to victory in the third largest group, the unexpectedly strong 14boat J/24 class. This series, the premiere local midwin¬ ter for one design racing, continues to function as a barometer of the health of the various classes. Whereas there are no longer starts for Newport 30s, J/29s, Ol¬ son 25s, or even Melges 24s, there is now a start for Merit 25s, which are ubiqui¬ tous on the Estuary and in Berkelely Marina, and for the SF 30-Footers. The Olson 30s, formerly a BYC/MYCO Mid¬ winter stalwart, also appear to be wan¬ ing, fielding only six boats. "Classes come and go," shrugged Tosse. 'We just keep shooting off the guns." Sunday's racing, traditionally lowerkey than the previous day's 'varsity' battle, attracted 38 boats — still more than most local midwinters. After a wind postpone¬ ment, a light southerwestly teased the Race Committee into getting the race un¬ derway. When it took the first boat an hour to crawl to the weather mark, 'D', the RC raised anchor and proceeded to shorten the course. Naturally, the wind then filled in and shifted 90 degrees, turn¬ ing the rest of the day into — what else? — another reachathon. "Hey, at least it didn't rain!" figured Tosse. Top finishers appear on page 162; full results can be found at www.yra.org. Clockwise from upper left — Sockeye' skipper Dave Holscher stands up for his rights at the leeward mark; dueling Soverel 33s; 'No Strings'; the Merit 25 'Bewitched'; the custom Dog Patch 26 'Moonshine'; a pair of foredeck ghosts; and 'Nixon Was Cool' — still one of the funniest boat names ever — at the windward mark. All photos latitude/rob. Page 158 • U&XntU ?? • December, 2000
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Clockwise from upper left: Charge of the light brigade; the crew of the J/ 35 'Rapture' appear to be playing hide and seek; big boat winner Racer X', a Mumm 30 down from Lake Tahoe; a pair of ‘Hooters' sail upwind next to sistership Run Wild'; cockpit concentration on 'Mintaka 4‘.
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BYC/MYCO MIDWINTERS SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11: DIV. A (0-99) — 1) Racer X, Mumm 30, Gary Redelberger; 2) Mischief, Soverel 33, Jeff McCord; 3) Sleeping Dragon, Hobie 33, Mark Halman; 4) Smokin', Melges 24, Kevin Clark; 5) Mintaka 4, Farr 38, Gerry Brown. (11 boats) DIV. B (102-150) — 1) Moon¬ shine, Dogpatch 26, Robert Ward; 2) CAyankee, Santana 35, Jeffrey Jamieson; 3) Zilla, B-25, Brent Draney. (6 boats) DIV. C(153-195)—1)Talisman Banana, J/22, Gary Albright; 2) Travieso, J/22, Jack Allen; 3) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Nick Nash; 4) Topgallant, New¬ port 30, Frank Hinman; 5) Argonaut, Cal 29, Jim Garvine. (15 boats) DIV. D (198-210) — 1) Ypso, Cal 2-27, Tim Stapleton; 2) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman; 3) Freyja, Catalina 27, Frank Van Kirk. (6 boats) DIV. E (213-up) — 1) Dominatrix, Santana 22, Heidi Schmidt. (2 boats) SF 30-FOOTERS — 1) Redux, Olson 911 -S, Nick Barnhill; 2) Ixxis, Olson 911 -S, Ed Durbin; 3) Tortuga, Santana 30/30, Stephen Hutchinson; 4) Jane Doe,’ Olson 911-SE, Bob Izmirian. (10 boats) ANTRIM 27 — 1) E.T., Baylis/Hedin; 2) Arch Angel, Bryce Griffith; 3) Always Friday, John Liebenberg. (6 boats)
Holscher; 3) Nixon Was Cool David Wiard; 4) Froglips, Richarc Stockdale; 5) Crackerjack, Steve Highbarger; 6) Half Blind Mon¬ key, Jim Zervos. (14 boats) MERIT 25 —1) Twilight Zone, Paul Kamen; 2) Loose Lips, P. Mai/D. Chew. (5 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Hot Soup.t Team Soup; 2) Twolrrational, Tony Chargin; 3) Free Flight, Pati Mitchell. (8 boats)
Mixed company — The Olson 911-S 'Redux' sails downwind in an Express 27 sandwich. All photos latitude/rob. OLSON 30 — 1) Run Wild^ Dale Irving; 2) Fam¬ ily Hour, Bilafer Family; 3) Hoot, Andy Macfie. (6 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Flying Circus, Dave Hodges; 2) Expressway, Ross Groelz; 3) Wile E. Coyote, Dan Pruzan; 4) Meeta, Stephanie Wondolleck; 5) Swamp Donkey, Doug Robbins; 6) Baffett, Tom Baffico; 7) Motorcycle Irene, Will Paxton; 8) El Raton, Ray Lotto; 9) Strange Attractor, Vlad Georgevich; 10) Bobs, Mike Hearn. (23 boats) J/24— 1) Woof, Alan McNab; 2) Sockeye, Dave
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER IP: DIV. I (0-96) — 1) Always Fri¬ day, Antrim 27, Ellen Liebenberg; 2) Racer X, Mumm 30, Gary Redelberger; 3) Run Wild, Olson 30, Dale Irving. (8 boats) DIV. II (99-165) — 1) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Nick Nash; 2) Zilla, B-25, Brent Draney; 3) Free Flight, Moore 24, Pat Mitchell. (8 boats) DIV. Ill (168-raters) — 1) Half Blind Monkey, J/ 24, Jim Zervos; 2) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair; 3) Twilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen. (9 boats) DIV. IV (171-up) — 1) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman; 2) Antares, Islander 30 Mk. II, Larryj Telford. (5 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Bobs, Mike Hearn; 2)f Strange Attractor, Vlad Georgevich; 3) Diane, Steve; Hodges. (8 boats)
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his year I finally decided to do it the smart way — all my holiday shopping would be done weeks ahead of time, from the convenience of my own computer screen. As long as the internet and the delivery services do their things, I could take care of a long list of sailors without a single tack or jibe in crazed downtown traffic. Late one night in early December I started my virtual shopping spree. But first, check the email. As usual I deleted a couple of get-riclyquick scams, stock tips, and pornography links. Wait, there was one email from Lee Helm: Sorry, race,
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GETTING INTO THE SPIRIT after checking out the Stentec website for myself. I cut and pasted the URL into my browser's address win¬ dow, and in a few seconds I was at the Stentec website, somewhere in The Nether¬ lands. A few clicks later I was looking at product descrip¬ tions for their line of simula¬ tors. I recognized the tiller controller from the photo, but version 2.1 was long gone. Version three was available, but it looked like 4.0 was about to be released. No shipping dates offered, however. I emailed back to Lee: Looks good. The only problem is that they can't seem to guarantee that they'll ship in time to get the thing under the tree. So I think I' 11 stay with something that's already on the shelves. What about those simulators I see for sale at the chan¬ dlery? Any improvement since the last time we played with them? Lee's reply:
Above, the animation in Virtual Skipper is spec¬ tacular. Inset left, the newest version of the Stentec simulator uses a miniature 'tiller' to steer. I hit the delete key, but still no reply from Lee. So I surfed off to go shopping for digital camera accessories. "Lee's right, this stuff is expensive," I thought to myself as I looked at the prices for the 128 meg CompactFlash memory card. "I'll shop around a little first." I was on my way to the next virtual mall when the incoming mail signal flashed again. More from Lee: Check out this website: www.sten¬ tec. cam. The last Stentec Sail Simu¬ lator I played with was from five years ago — version 2.1, I think it was. But it blew the socks off everything else on the market. Now they've got a new version in the works. Like, I don't know if it
wibl be ready for Xmas, is the one I'd buy.
but this
I replied: Is this anything like the one that came with it's own little tiller unit that replaces the joy¬ stick? That was pretty realistic, as I recall. Think it would be a good training tool for my new crew? Her answer: That's the one! And like they say that their new tiller control¬ ler is going to support force feed¬ back even, so you'll feel the weather helm. Email being the asynchronous medium that it is, I elected to answer her later,
The Posey Yacht De¬ sign simulators are the ones you're thinking of. Posey is probably the biggest name in sailing simulators on this side of the pond, and they're offering a full round of recent upgrades too. There's a good range of titles: Sailing Dy¬ namics Instructor, Advanced Rac¬ ing Simulator, Sailing Tactics Simulator, and Coastal Cruising Simulator. "But the Posey simulators are like ancient technology. They still don't do 3-D^ modeling very well, despite the fact that like every¬ one has a hardware graphics accel¬ erator in their box by now. Even the low-end machines handle 3-D rendering in real time so easily. I mean like in the Posey simula¬ tors, when you turn, all the whitecaps turn with the boat! And the features on the horizon are just painted on, you can never actually get there. And you have to figure December, 2000 • UfcWe?? • Page 165
MAX EBB out your own speed setting. I could go
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of
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the effects of sail trim controls
Although Posey's graphics are nothing to get ex¬ cited about, the simulators come in a wide range of titles. and wind
I emailed that I'd go give it a tiy. The Posey website came right up, and I chose "Advanced Racing" from the demo menu. It was only a half a megabyte, and I had it downloaded and unzipped in just a couple of minutes.
job
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• December, 2000
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Best of all, the controls were simple and easy to master. Posey might be more technically rigorous, but this was much more fun. My first maneuver, somewhat to my own surprise, was to deliberately T-bone the nicely rendered 3-D committee boat
She replied:
If you wanna see what can be done I see what you mean,
website appeared to be somewhere in France. It was a bit fancier, and not at all easy to follow. I needed my reading glasses, because it, like so many sites designed by genXers, had fixed the font size at minuscule. At my age, I like to keep the size of the text set to giant, and good website design, in my humble opinion, al¬ ways leaves the font size up to the user. Eventually I found the free demo down¬ load instructions, filled out the forms, gave them my email and demographic data, remembered to uncheck the "do you want us to inundate you with spam?" box, and, after jumping back to my email win¬ dow to get my newly assigned Virtual Skipper user password, I had the down¬ load going. It was 4.5 megabytes, so I had some time to go back and work with the Posey demo again while I waited. It was fun, but still reminded me of a 1985 flight simulator. Finally the Virtual Skipper download was complete. It warned me that I'd need to have "DirectX 7" installed, and since I had no idea what that meant, I went ahead and fired up the program anyway. A few seconds later I was looking across the stern of an America's Cup class boat and a starting line. This time, the anima¬ tion was seamlessly smooth and the simple sailing controls were much easier to use. It really gave the illusion of sail¬ ing, complete with great stereo sound ef¬ fects as spectator boats and airplanes buzzed by, and little crew running around the boat with each tack or spinnaker set. But the illusion of sailing came from the smooth motion, not from the graphical details.
So I was off to tiy another demo. This
at 11 knots. There was a loud thunk and my boat stopped and bounced a few times, but no, I didn't cut the RC boat in half. Oh well, it relieved some hostility just the same. Then I experimented with shallow water. Yes, the boat stops when it runs aground near the island. Next was the "sailing backwards in irons" test. I could hold the boat head to wind indefinitely.
GETTING INTO THE SPIRIT
but the speed would not go below 0.4 knots forward. This could be important when I get the full version and start to match race against live competitors. I sailed around some more, admiring the details of the sailing area. Then I remembered that Lee was prob¬ ably waiting to hear from me, so I logged back on and typed:
GIFT TIPS Stentec Sail Simulator ($60 including control unit): www.stentec.com
Virtual Skipper ($38): www.virtualskipper. com
CompactFlash memory card for digital camera (128 meg cards are down to $230) and LED flashlights ($30): www.realgoods, com)
Now that's more like it! At $38,
Kevlar shower curtain ($240 with sail
I'm going to order a couple of CDs
numbers and class insignia): www. sailmaker.com
for my new crew. But
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goes 17-hours on three double-A's,
this
year.
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SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART II
"No matter how you look at it, the most important thing in the boat is the nut at the end of the tiller. You can't 'one design' brains." — from Successful Yacht Racing by C. Stanley Ogilvy (1951}
elcome back to the second install¬ ment of Latitude's annual three-part sa¬ lute to the 2000 season winners. This month, we're profiling 21 skippers —those "nuts at the end of the tiller" — who rose above their peer groups in the most mean¬ ingful racing format of all — one design. With due respect to anyone who competes under PHRF, IMS, Portsmouth or 'open classes', the truest measure of racing skill is found in one designs — where every¬ Page 168
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thing is theoretically equal except cranial prowess. Hence, we hold the following winners in particularly high regard. As always, it's an eclectic bunch — some winners are institutions in these pages (such as Tri¬ ton winner Ely Gilliam, making his sixth appearance), while some are newbies. Some ran big and presumably expensive campaigns (such as Tom Dinkel’s threeboat 11:Metre program), while others won on a relative shoestring. Some won by miles (i.e., Hans Bigall), others eked it out on the last day. Each campaign was unique, but all ended up in the same place — the head of their class. Bravo for them! What's new in the One Design Class Association (ODCA) this year? Not much, which is basically good news. According
to the YRA office, 138 boats were entered in 15 ODCA classes this summer, with 94 qualifying (i.e., sailing in at least half the races). That's about the same as last year, when 135 boats signed up and 99 qualified. Additionally, a total of 38 boats entered on a one-time basis (i.e. Vallejo or EYC Second Half Opener). 'We're happy with those numbers," said ODCA presi¬ dent Pat Benedict. "In general, we had a better year than '99, mainly because of significantly better race management." Some of ODCA's 15 classes, however, are getting a little thin. One, the J/29s, basically evaporated this summer and will be banished to HDA from now on. "We're sorry to lose them after 15 years," said Benedict, a former J/29 campaigner. "But we're excited to pick up one of the hottest
ONE DESIGN
The J/105 fleet— seen above at the 2000 J/Fest continues to be the fastest-growing one de¬ sign group on the Bay. Photo by latitude/jr. —
classes on the Bay, the Antrim 27s, in their place." Four other classes — Hawkfarms, Newport 30s, Olson 25s and Olson 30s — also failed to field the requi¬ site five qualifiers, and will be on proba¬ tion next year. Five other classes (Ariels, Catalina 30s, 198-Raters, Santana 35s, Tritons) were on the fence, qualifying the minimum five boats. The five remaining classes are relatively healthy, particularly the huge J/105 contingent (33 entered/ 18 qualified), the Tuna 22s (14 entered/ 10 qualified) and the Express 37s (8 en¬ tered/8 qualified). The six 'stand-alone' classes — Ex¬ press 27s, Etchells, ILMetres, Melges
24s, J/24s, and Moore 24s — are all do¬ ing fine. In fact, most of them are doing way better than their ODCA counterparts. Each of these six hotter one designs ex¬ ists outside the umbrella of ODCA, pre¬ ferring to schedule and administer (us¬ ing website/email technology) their affairs independently. One group, the Etchells, even runs their own races! The biggest success story among these 'renegade' groups is the Moore 24s, which saw 46 boats compete in at least one of the eight events on their Roadmaster Series. Eleven different yacht clubs are rep¬ resented among the 21 winners this year. St. Francis YC accounted for five winning programs, San Francisco YC four, and Richmond YC and Santa Cruz YC each weighed in with two. Nine of the winners
are 'repeat customers' from 1999, and most of the mug shots on the following pages should be familiar to regular readers.
If anyone wants to learn more about local keelboat one design racing, call Lynda at the YRA office^ (415) 771-9500, and/or third ("and last!") year ODCA boss Pat Benedict at (925) 837-0780. Another re¬ source worth checking out is the YRA website (www.yra.org), which has links to any local class with a website. Okay, enough 'commercials'. Let's dim the lights and raise the curtain on this year's crop of "nuts" — the 2000 big boat one design winners. Congratulations to everyone! — latitude/ rkm December, 2000 •
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SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART II
Ariel — Pathfinder Ed Ekers, SCYC
Cal 29 — Champagne Charlie Barthrop, LMSC/CSC
Catalina 30 — Tres Shay John Jacobs, IYC
CREW: Dr. Debbie Sellmeyer (jib) and wife Lisa Ekers (main/everything else). COMMENTS: Ekers, a retired fire chief from Santa Cruz, won the Ariel, title for the fourth time. Against all odds, the Ariel class continues to grow. QUOTE: "Our whole season was really smooth. I just stayed focused on driving, while the ladies did their thing to get us the speed we needed."
CREW: Donald Jones, Holland Hodges, Tom Bolger and Peggy Darnall. COMMENTS: Barthrop, an officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine, crewed on Champagne prior to purchasing her two years ago. He came in second in '99, and won his first season title this year. QUOTE: ’The Cal 29 fleet is getting increasingly competitive. Good crew work was the key to victory."
CREW: Deb Agarwal, Dale Carlson, Chip Fussell, Bob Gibbs, Dick Gilmore and Karen McVey. COMMENTS: Jacobs, a retired execu¬ tive, won for the sixth time! He previously won big in Challengers and Catalina 27s. QUOTE: "My crew is so loyal and has worked together for so many years that about the only order I have to give any¬ more is, 'Let's get away from the dock'."
2) Jubilee, Don Morrison, RYC; 3) Lickety Split, Joseph Antos, AYC. (9 entered; 5 qualified)
2) Serendipity, Tom Bruce, RYC; 3) Boog-A-Loo, Nancy Rogers, SFYC. (8 entered; 6 qualified)
2) Goose, Michael Kastrop, SBYC; 3) Starkite, Laurie Miller, HMBYC. (5 entered; 5 qualified)
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ONE DESIGN
llrMetre — JambaJuice Varnes (left)/Dinkel, StFYC
Etchells — Mr. Natural Barton (left)/Parsons, SFYC
Express 27 — El Raton Ray & Janet Lotto, StFYC
CREW: Tom Dinkel (owner), Mark fames (driver), a "core of six or so regu¬ ars", and guest appearances by Carisa iarris-Adamson, Pete McCormack, Peter itoneberg, John Callahan and others. COMMENTS: Dinkel, who works at a oftware start-up company, runs a 3-boat 1:Metre program and also came in third! QUOTE: "We've got momentum and ontrol of the black-box scoring system!"
CREW: John Harrop, Marci Porter, Randy Smith, Gary Grande and others. COMMENTS: Bill Barton, a psycho¬ therapist, and Tim Parsons, a sailmakerturned-importer, split the driving. They won the 40-race season with and without the 8 throwouts. A1 Ramadan lent them his boat while theirs was in San Diego. QUOTE: "Fleet 12 is active, growing, and boasts many of the top local sailors."
CREW: Amelia Stephan, George Mann, Steve Carroll, Steve MacCarthy, Andy Manzi and Tom Strutt man. COMMENTS: This was the Lottos' first Express 27 title. El Raton is named after a WW-II era diesel sub that Ray served on! Ray, a real estate developer, and Janet also own the beautiful Farr 53 Atalanta. QUOTE: "We race 'The Rat' strictly to have fun. It was a great season!"
2) Piper Jaffray, Mike Ratiani, StFYC; 3) SPN, Team Dinkel, StFYC. (9 active boats)
2) #1169, Morss/Fischer, SFYC; 3) #1168, Pe¬ ter Vessella, StFYC. (26 entered)
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SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART II
Express 37 — Re-guest Glenn Isaacson, SFYC
Hawkfarm — Predator Wheeler (left) & Siefers, RYC
Islander 36 — Blue Streak Don Schumacher, SFYC
CREW: Lance Vaughn, Joss Wilson, Todd Hedin, Carl Friberg, Joe Runyan, Steve Sidell, Bob Daniels, Liz Baylis and Kame Richards ("the brains in the back") and Gaby Isaacson ("best shore support!"). COMMENTS: Re-Quest went out a win¬ ner after 15 seasons. Isaacson's new cus¬ tom Schumacher 40 will be here in April. QUOTE: "We'll miss the Express 37 fleet, but look forward to the new boat."
CREW: Chris Evenoff, Sean Young, Les Durfee, Michaela Siefers, Rowan Fennel, Dave Albright and Nick Nash. COMMENTS: Co-owners Vaughn Seifers (helmsman) and Jim Wheeler won for the fourth time in a row. They list their occupation as CEOs of the 'Dumb Amer¬ ica Syndicate’. QUOTE: The 'DAS' motto — "Tempo¬ rary solutions to permanent problems."
CREW: Don Lewis, Russ Cooper, Brian Crawford, Markus Gutschke, Dan MacEachron, Mike Vogel, Shannon Phillips. COMMENTS: Schumacher, a retired Bechtel exec, won his first 1-36 title. He has raced and cruised 'Streak since '83, and often charters boats in warm places. QUOTE: 'This is a fun fleet, and a per¬ fect racer/cruiser for the Bay. Where else can you win no matter how you place?"
2) Eclipse, Mark Dowdy, SFYC; 3) Expeditious, Bartz Schneider, SFYC. (8 entered; 8 qualified)
2) Eyrie, Tom Condy, SCYC; 3) Eclipse, Fred Hoffman, EYC. (4 entered; 3 qualified)
2) Pilot, Jim Robinson, SFYC; 3) Tenacious, Milligan/Terzian, SYC. (6 entered; 6 qualified)
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ONE DESIGN
J/24 — Air regory (above)/McLaughlin, StFYC
J/29 — 5150 Hans Bigall, Tiburon YC
J/105 — Good Timin' Perkins/Wilson, StFYC
CREW: Susie Gregory (owner), Reid cLaughlin (driver), Dave Wiard, Kermit chickel, Jonathan Carta and Marcella ijsen (alternate). COMMENTS: Reid, a URI All-Ameriji, and Gregory won for the second time. QUOTE: "We're excited about sailing the J/24 Nationals on the Bay next Auist! Hopefully this will bring more boats the line all next summer."
CREW: Mike Andersen, Josh Stultz, Mac Eysenbach, Dave Mai, Rusty Canada. COMMENTS: Bigall, a sales manager, crushed this class for the third year in a row. 5150 finished first in every race ex¬ cept the Vallejo return, when they ran aground. However, the J/29 fleet has fallen apart and 5150 is now for sale. QUOTE: "Turn out the lights, the par¬ ty's over!"
CREW: Owners Chris (middle) and Phil Perkins (left) and Dave Wilson (right) sailed with crew John Collins ("our MVP"), Dave Wilson, Sr., Scot Glover, Dar¬ ren Ward, Alan McNab and Peter Vessella. COMMENTS: The former Major Dam¬ age gang clobbered the biggest YRA class in their first attempt. Chris also had a kid (Charlie) and Dave got married (to Julie). QUOTE: "You left off the 'g'!"
2) Cool Breeze, Doug Nugent, StFYC; 3) Down«n Uproar, Wayne Clough, EYC. (20 boats)
2) Wave Dancer, Richard Leevey, CaISC; 3) Aqua Boogie, The Hollands, CaISC. (6 ent.; 3 qual.)
2) Sails Call, Ian Charles, StFYC; 3) Blackhawk, Dean Dietrich, StFYC. (33 entered; 21 qualified)
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SEASON CHAMPIONS, PART II
198 Raters — MyToy Dave Adams, Presidio YC
Melges 24 — High Octane Tim Duffy, StFYC
CREW: Wife Barbara Adams, Ward Burns, Jim Breitlow, Ben Casteneda, John Harrison, Roger Anderson, Tom Deuel, Leslie Iacopi and Bob Gardiner. COMMENTS: Adams, a retired Army engineer, has sailed his Ranger 26 to 10 titles in 20 years. The 198-raters include I-28s, T-Birds, Cat 27s and Cal 2-27s. QUOTE: "MyToy thrives on strong winds — and we had plenty of it this year!"
CREW: Equity partner James Glockner (who owns six boats!), Tom Glockner, Pe¬ ter Winter, and ’Johnny A.' COMMENTS: Duffy, sa Laser and J/24 (Air) vet who sells anti-hacker security software, took an older boat (#35) and won in his first season. He plans to race the 2001 Worlds in Miami next November. QUOTE: "Melges are a blast! They're easy and fun to sail — just plug and play!"
CREW: Chris Watts (primary driver) Mario Golsch, Matthew Coale and others COMMENTS: Longtime friends Dav Josselyn, a carpenter, and Hank Niles, ay attorney, won the eight-event Roadmaste: Series for the second time in a row. It cam! down to the wire, with Ngellew Fey fin) ishing just two points back. Check ou www.moore24.org for all the gory details QUOTE: "Weil get back to you."
2) Freyja, Cat. 27, Nelson/Van Kirk, RYC; 3) Star Ranger, Ran.26, Simon James, SSS. (11/5)
2) Dynamo Hum, Jeff Littfin, StFYC; 3) Tropi¬ cal Storm, The Forsters, SFYC. (10 active boats)
2) Ngellew Fejj, Shana Rosenfeld, SCYC; 3 Wet Spot, Mike O'Callaghan, RYC. (46 entries)
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ONE DESIGN
Newport 30 — Mariner Bruce Darby, SFYC
Olson 25 — Baleineau Charlie Brochard, CYC
Olson 30 — Hoot Andy & Annette Macfie, RYC
CREW: Mark Malachowski, Paul lataras, Jeremy Miller, Peter Winder, Bill deling and Ray Kuhn. COMMENTS: Darby is a retired finanal executive who now coaches sailing, e has sailed 26 straight YRA seasons, iinning nine titles in four different fleets. QUOTE: "Many thanks to my hard! orking crew! As always, they are the key i winning a season championship."
CREW: Robert Hurliman, Jeff Nelson, Suzanne Walsh and Kaiming Ho. COMMENTS: Brochard, who works for a biotech firm, won both the YRA title and the Nationals for the second year in a row. He was also named CYC Sailor of the Year. QUOTE: 'Winning was tough this year, as Three Ring Circus never gave us any margin for error. Crew work was the key to our success."
CREW: Geoff Martin, Rick Russel, Chris Tzortzis, Chris Boudreau, Jeanette Durush, Conrad Holbrook, Jan CrosbieTaylor, Kim Dincel and "many others." COMMENTS: Andy, a vintage aircraft mechanic, and Annette, a hairstylist, won for the second year in a row. QUOTE: "Next year's crown is up in the air — eventually somebody's gonna figure out how fun and cheap these things are!"
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SEASON CHAMPIONS,, PART II
Santana 22 — Soliton Mark Lowry, RYC
Santana 35 — Bluefin Mark Sloane, EYC
Triton — Bolero Ely Gilliam, BVBC
CREW: Jim Bonlie, Brad Clerk and wife Deb Lowiy — "longtime, faithful crew." COMMENTS: Lowry, who toils for a start-up in the optical networking field, won for the fourth time. The big news in this fleet is that Schock is planning to build new Santana 22s again! QUOTE: 'This fleet just keeps on keep¬ ing on. . . I guess we managed to scare off that Mikey guy again — maybe next year?"
CREW: Suzanne Sloane (wife), Bill Co¬ lombo (tactician), Art Puett, Mike Buch¬ anan, Tony Shaffer, Kevin Clark, Chuck Wetteroth and Dominick Marshal. COMMENTS: Sloane* an EMC sales rep, successfully defended both his YRA and National titles this year. The Tuna 35 fleet is staging a comeback, with four new owners in the last few months. QUOTE: "We're looking forward to '01.”
CREW: Judy Yamaguchi (above with: Ely), Jason Scott, Adolfo 'Big Bear' Mar¬ tinez, Abby Baxley and Sissela Danielson, COMMENTS: Gilliam, a general con¬ tractor, won for the sixth time. He also won the round-robin Nationals and the Champ of Champions in DeWitt Dinghies.; QUOTE: "I credit our success to my crew's tactical contributions, such as: 'This stinks, but it feels good'."
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THE RACING
With reports this month on the ISAF World Sailors of the Year; the StFYC Fall Dinghy/Olympic Classes Regatta; the California Match Race Challenge; the Great Pumpkin Regatta; Zepyhrus IV breaks the Middle Sea Race record; the SailNet.com Pro-Am Regatta at the Bitter End YC; the Colorcraft Gold Cup in Bermuda; a whole bunch of midwinter races; and the random leftovers and gossip at the end that we call 'race notes'.
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Reynolds and Magnus Liljedahl. "We sort of came from behind here, just as we did in the Olympics," said the jovial Liljedahl, referencing the fact that they hadn’t been included in ISAF's initial list of nine nomi¬ nees due to an oversight. Reynolds, a modest and low-key guy, was admittedly less relaxed on the podium than his crew. "I'm a lot more nervous now than I was during the last race of the Olympics," he claimed. Now that he's had some practice with coronation ceremonies, Reynolds should be a little calmer when he accepts the 2000 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year award at the New York YC this coming Febru¬ ary. The actual voting hasn't taken place yet, but it is a foregone conclusion that Reynolds — and fellow San Diego YC member JJ Isler — will be sporting ex¬ pensive new watches soon. Hopefully, their crews will be, too.
Taking a break from one of the most contentious ISAF conferences ever (in which the Soling was eventually voted out of the next Olympics), the ISAF/Sperry World Sailor of the Year awards were pre¬ sented at a gala dinner party in the Edinburg, Scotland, Sheraton Grand Ball¬ room. King Harald of Norway opened the envelopes and presented the awards. First, Britain's Shirley Robertson was honored as the Woman Sailor of the Year, topping a short list of live other female nominees. The 32-year-old Europe Din¬ ghy Olympic gold medalist, who also is a top-ranked match racer, reminded the au¬ dience that she is actually Scottish, and left home a decade ago to pursue her
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St. Francis YC hosted their annual Fall Dinghy/Olympic Classes Regatta on the Cityfront on October 28-29. Sixty-one mostly local dinghies competed in ten classes during the schizophrenic week¬ end, which featured blowout conditions on Saturday followed by a beautiful day on Sunday. A ripping southerly kept the dinghies in the parking lot on Saturday, though the juniors in the Opti fleet did manage to get in three quick races in the protec¬ tion of the StFYC turning basin. For alsmost eveiyone else, the regatta was lim¬ ited to three windward/leeward races on Sunday, held in a perfect 10-15 knot west¬ erly. One fleet, the Vanguard 15s, snuck in five quick collegiate-style races. "We probably had too many starts," conceded race manager John Craig. "Next year, we'll have to limit the number of classes invited or double up some of the smaller classes on the starting line. There's also a chance that this regatta will become a three-day, US Sailing-approved
event for ranking purposes, which would elevate it to a whole new level." VANGUARD 15 — 1) Rosalind Jacobsen/John A. Meade, 8 points; 2) Scott & Jill Sellers, 15; 3) Kara Forman/David Byron, 15. (7 boats) 505 — 1) Doug Hagan/Stuart Park, 4 points; 2) Nick Adamson/Alan Norman, 6. (4 boats) 1-14— 1) Kirk TwardowskiA/Valter Hey m, 4 points; 2) Lawrence Henderson/Kurt Schmidt, 9; 3) Greg Mitchell/Sanjai Kohli, 11. (6 boats) 49er — 1) Andy Mack/Adam Lowry, 3 points; 2) Sean & Brendan Couvreux, 6. (5 boats) 29er — 1) Jonathon Goldsberry/Nick Rittenhouse, 3 points. (2 boats) LASER — 1) Bruce Martinson, 7 points; 2) Tom Burden, 9; 3) Gustavo Tenrreiro, 9; 4) Trevor Baylis, 11. (8 boats) LASER RADIAL — 1) Mallory McCollum, 5 points. (3 boats) EUROPE — 1) Krysia Pohl, 7 points; 2) Molly Carapiet, 9; 3) Robbie Dean, 9; 4) Jaime Mack, 12; 5) Christin Feldman, 17. (12 boats) FINN — 1) Henry Sprague, 3 points; 2) David Branch, 7; 3) Austin Sperry, 8. (6 boats) OPTIMIST — 1) Morgan Gutenkunst, 4 points; 2) Myles Gutenkunst, 6; 3) A. Kuzina, 11. (8 boats)
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Tony Stuart evened the score (Golden Gate YC, Knarrs). "I'm glad it's a close series," said PICYA staff com¬ modore Tom Allen, one of a handful of PIYCA brass who made the road trip with the sailing team. "It's meant to be a fun weekend, one which promotes camarade¬ rie and friendship between the two re¬ gions."
Sausalito YC Midwinters "It's either feast or famine this time of year," claimed Sausalito YC race chair¬ man Andy Eggler. "And November 5, the day of our first midwinters, was a feast from beginning to end. It was one of those rare warm late autumn days with plenty of wind." Twenty-three boats enjoyed the ideal Indian summer sailing conditions, with the first three classes zipping around a 6.9-mile course that took them from the starting area at Little Harding, up to an inflatable at the still-missing Yellow Bluff mark, down to #8, and back. The little guys stayed in the Hard-Knox triangle, sailing a 4.5-miler. "In hindsight, we probably could have sent everyone on even longer courses," said Eggler. "I wish every midwinter race was this nice!" Cal Match Race action — Olson 30s duking it out inside Long Beach harbor. Inset, the winning team, from left: Chris Perkins, Phil Perkins, PICYA rep Daphne Owen, Steve Marsh, and Jon Perkins.
Cal Match Race Challenge The 'good guys' won the fifth annual California Match Race Challenge, held on November 4-5 out of Cabrillo Beach YC. Led by talented skipper Chris Perkins, our Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Racing Associa¬ tion (PICYA) representatives defeated their Southern California counterparts 5-4 in two days of Olson 30 match racing. Sail¬ ing with Chris were his brothers Phil and Jon, who flew out from New York, and "honorary Perkins brother" Steve Marsh. The Perkins gang basically led throughout the weekend, going 5-2 in the scheduled best-of-11 series on Saturday against Yacht Racing Union of Southern California (YRUSC) skipper Tony Stuart, who had Scott Dickson calling tactics. Sunday's light-air racing was limited to two races, both won by the YRUSC crew, before the regatta was called off at the mandatoiy 3 p.m. cutoff time. Some "in¬
teresting" calls by the umpires apparently made the score look closer than our PICYA squad felt they deserved, but, as Phil noted, "The final outcome was all that really mattered." The regatta was originally meant to be sailed in B-25s, hence just four-man crews. At the last minute, Olson 30s were substituted. "They were a bit of a handful for just four people, but that actually was part of the fun," claimed Marsh. "I think we handled our boat better than they did, and that was reflected in the outcome." This latest intrastate skirmish brings the overall score to 3-2 in favor of North¬ ern California. Previously, Dave Ullman won the inaugural event in '96 (Long Beach, Catalina 37s) for the South. The following two years went to the North: Melissa Purdy won in '97 (St. Francis YC, J/24s) and Jeff Madrigali won in '98 (Cabrillo Beach, B-32s). Last year, in '99.
BIG SPINNAKER — 1) My Rubber Ducky, Hobie 33, Lee Garami; 2) Igor, 11:Metre, Mark Varnes; 3) Joker, J/35, Gordon Smith. (6 boats) LITTLE SPINNAKER —1) Soulatitude, J/24, Dan Thatcher; 2) Duct Tape, Ranger 23, Terry Smith; 3) Gammon, Tartan Ten, Jeff Hutter. (8 boats) BIG NON-SPINNAKER— 1) Amanda, Newport 30, Pat Broderick; 2) Tenacious, Islander 36, Pat Milligan. (4 boats) LITTLE NON-SPINNAKER — 1) Fledgling, Golden Gate, Michael Bonner; 2) Inshallah, Santana 22, Shirley Bates; 3) Roeboat, Catalina 30, Rod Decker. (5 boats)
Great Pumpkin Regatta " 4. whopping 159 boats signed up for Richmond YC's annual Great Pumpkin Regatta on October 28-29. However, only 69 diehards braved the elements to race in Saturday's three buoy races. The weather was wet, rainy and windy —nasty enough that two concurrent regattas, TYC's Red Rock Race and a dinghy event at StFYC, were abandoned that day. The storm front had cleared out by Sunday's Pursuit Race, leaving a beautiDecember, 2000 •
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ful day in its wake. Somewhere over 100 boats (no one seemed to be counting) sailed in the reverse-handicap race around Angel Island and Alcatraz, with the majority of the boats — including the overall winner. Cam Lewis' tiny Montereybased J/22 Tinseltown Rebellion — go¬ ing clockwise. The first counterclockwise boat to finish was Dave Carrel's Farr 40 Page 180 •
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Gone Too Farr, which came in seventh. After the first dozen or so boats, the rest of the 100+ entries finished seemingly in the space of five minutes — a real work¬ out for Eric Arens and his race commit¬ tee. As usual, it was a festive sight to see so many colorful chutes converging on the finish line at the end of the breakwater — the accompanying black and white pho¬
tographs don’t really do it justice. Weekend race results follow (sorry, points for the buoy racing were not avail¬ able). EXPRESS 37 — 1) Expeditious, Bartz Schneid¬ er. (1 boat) * -> J/35— 1) Kiri, Bob George. (2 boats) J/105— 1) Orion, Gary Kneeland; 2) Juxtapose,
pj ~inish of the Pumpkin Pursuit Race, clockwise from upper left— Three kites; 'Bullseye'; overlapped i> zxpress 37s; overall winner ‘Tinseltown Rebellion'; 'Gone Too Farr' on the edge; 'Run Wild' sends in he clowns; 'Jane Doe'; heavy traffic; and 'Orion's father/son afterguard. All photos latitude/rob. Tom Thayer/Dick Watts; 3) Whisper, Eden Kim; 4) tjCapricorn, Bill Booth, (10 boats) ! 99-RATERS — 1) Rocinante, Express 34, Rob irMagoon; 2) Two Scoops, Express 34, Longaker/ :?Goodwin; 3) Ozone, Olson 34, Carl Bauer. (8 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Run Wild, Dale Irving; 2) Fam¬
ily Hour, Bilafer Family. (4 boats) SF-30s — 1) Jane Doe, Olson 911-SE, Bob Izmarian; 2) Redux, Olson 911 -S, Nick Barnhill. (4 boats) HAWKFARM — 1) El Gavilan, Jocelyn Nash; 2) Eyrie, Tom Condy. (5 boats)
ANTRIM 27 — 1) Czechmate, Barry Barrett/ Cathie Sharp; 2) Abracadabra II, Dennis Surtees; 3) Vigilance, Conrad Arnold. (7 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) El Raton, Ray Lotto; 2) Salty Hotel, David Rasmussen; 3) Shenanigans, Bill Moore. (8 boats) OLSON 25 — 1) Blood Money, Josh Grass. (2 boats) MERIT 25 — 1) Twilight Zone, Paul Kamen. (1 boat) December, 2000 •
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THE RACING WABBIT — 1) Furrari, Pete & Angie Rowland. (2 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Gruntled, Bart Hackworth; 2) Moorgasm, Niles/Josselyn/Watts; 3) Wet Spot, Mike O'Callaghan; 4) Free Fall, Fred Cox. (10 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Orca, Jim Schafer. (1 boat) PURSUIT RACE (top ten) — 1) Tinseltown Re¬ bellion, J/22, Cam Lewis; 2) Talisman Banana, J/ 22, Gary Albright; 3) Twilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen; 4) Toucan, J/22, Donna Womble; 5) Gruntled, Moore 24, Bart Hackworth; 6) Redhawk, Hawkfarm, Dan Newland; 7) Gone Too Farr, Farr 40, Dave Carrel; 8) Bullseye, N/M 50, Bob Garvie; 9) Blue Chip, Farr 40, Walt Logan; 10) Three Ring Circus, Olson 25, Dave McMurtry.
Golden Gate YC Midwinters Sixty-five boats sailed in the first Golden Gate YC Midwinter race on the gray afternoon of Saturday, November 4. Fortunately, the rain held off and a mod¬ erate, but chilly, westerly pushed the fleet around the Bay in good order. The course — the standard 9.6-mile double wind¬ ward/leeward using Blackaller, Blossom, Blackaller, and Fort Mason as marks — was, for once, perfectly suited to the wind and current conditions. "It was one of the best Golden Gate midwinters I can ever remember," claimed Hank Easom, who has campaigned his beautiful 8 Meter Yucca in this series for decades. "It was pretty shifty at Crissy Field, which made it interesting." Hank
ning two-minute horizon job in this highly competitive group. Even more remarkable is the fact the Alexis is just 15 years old and was driving in her first J/105 one design race! "It was pretty exciting,” she claimed modestly. For complete results, see www.yra.org. PHRF-I — 1) Bullseye, N/M 50, Bob Garvie; 2) Mr. Magoo, J/120, Steve Madeira; 3) Raven, CM 1200, Mark Thomas. (5 boats) PHRF-II — 1) Yucca, 8-Meter, Hank Easom; 2) Re-Quest, Express 37, Glenn Isaacson; 3) Expedi¬ tious, Express 37, Bartz Schneider; 4) Mindspring, 11 :Metre, James Glockner; 5) ESPN, 11 :Metre, Mark Varnes. (14 boats) J/105 — 1) Aquavit, Alexis Steiner; 2) Jitterbug, Chuck Eaton; 3) Jose Cuervo>Sam Hock; 4) Orion, Sean Kneeland; 5) Blackhawk, Dean Dietrich. (12 boats) PHRF-II I — 1) Breakout, Santana 35, Lloyd Ritchie; 2) Harp, Catalina 38, Mike Mannix; 3) Red Sky, Olson 34-E, Brian Boschma. (7 boats) WYLIECAT 30 —1) Silkye, John Skinner; 2) Uno, Steve Wonner. (4 boats) PHRF-IV —1) Allegro, Herreshoff 33, David Bertsen; 2) Sorcerer, C&C Half Ton, Greg Cody; 3) Trey Shay, Catalina 30, John Jacobs; 5) Strait Jacket, Mull 22, Ben Haket. (9 boats) PHRF-V — 1) MyToy, Ranger 26, David Adams; 2) Yachtsea, Santana 22, Joe Schmidt. (4 boats) KNARR — 1) Benino, Terry Anderlini; 2) Hus¬ tler, Larry Flynt. (4 boats)
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Great Pumpkin Pursuit Race winners, from left: Cam 'Not That One' Lewis, Karen Loutzenheiser, and Matt Seidenzahl. BEAR/FOLKBOAT — 1) Freja, Folkboat, Ed Welch; 2) Smokey, Bear, Steve Robertson. (5 boats)
Middle Sea Race The Middle Sea race has been around for over thirty years. While largely over¬ looked by those beyond the country of Malta and Italian offshore sailors, it of¬
fers a truly fantastic race course with some of the most spectacular scenery to be found anywhere. The course, shaped like a large box, stretches 650 nm starting in Valletta, Malta, which rises from the Mediterra¬ nean like a medieval stone fortress, up through the Straits of Messina, then around the active volcano on the island of Stromboli. There the course bends West for 150 nm to another island chain off to the north of Sicily. Then it skirts the west coast of Sicily and the fantastic cliffs around Palermo. Finally the course rounds the island of Lampedusa off the Tunisian coast, then on to the finish back in Malta. In all the course consisted of nine separate legs which kept navigator Bill Biewenga quite busy. Two weeks of gale force winds kept the normal turnout num¬ bers down as some of the Italian boats were pinned in their harbors. The previ¬ ous record holder, a hybrid water ballasted Open 60, Riviera Di Rimini, at¬ tempted twice to beat its way south, only to be turned back. Zephyrus IV, our R/P 75, was only just able to reach Malta, barely 24 hours before the start. Our afterguard was anchored by owner Bob McNeil, project manager John Ber¬ trand, and well-known Italian sailor Lorenzo Bortollotti. The usual cast of in¬ ternational characters rounded out the crew with Keith Kilpatrick as a principal driver, Whitbread champion Curt Oetking as crew boss, and Lat Spiney as boat man¬ ager. With the exception of some very light winds experienced in the straits of Messina,, the breeze was rather ordinary. The boat never really saw its optimum conditions. The start saw the boat charg-
SHEET FLEET B (spinnaker, 161-189) — 1) Quickie, Capri 25, Will Matievich; 2) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles; 3) Champagne, Cal 29, Charlie Barthrop. (6 boats) FLEET C (Columbia 5.5) — 1) Drummer, War¬ ren Sankey/Adam Sadeg; 2) Wings, Mike Jackson; 3) Maverik, Doyle Sails. (5 boats) FLEET D (spinnaker > 190) — 1) Pip Squeak, Santana 20, Liam O'Flaherty. (3 boats) FLEET E (non-spinnaker) — 1) Wave Rider, Hunter 31, Mark Rommell. (3 boats)
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Mr. Magoo' nails the start at the GQYC Mids, followed by 'Raven', 'Bullseye', 'Sundowner' and 'Sceptre'. Where were all the other big boats? ing out of Valetta with her huge 450 sq. meter 'A-sail' straining as she showed her heels to the fleet. Even a number of power¬ boats filled with well wishers and photog¬ raphers had to put their throttles to the stops as Zephyrus sped along at 16 knots. Only an hour and a half into the race we hardened up around a turning mark f to a headsail reach across the Med to Sic¬ ily. From then on, we were on our own as we sank the fleet over the horizon in a few hours time. We did not see the 'Asails' for another 24 hours until we made our dash from the top of Sicily to Stromboli. For the next day it was pleas¬ ant shorts and T-shirt sailing, rounding obscure multi-syllable-named islands as we worked our way around the course. In spite of not having our optimal conditions, the consistent breeze played an impor¬ tant part in breaking the record. While comfortably ahead of the record pace, all was not assured. We endured a rather punishing 14-hour stint spent under a deep second reef and storm jib as the boat pounded to weather in 35+ knots of breeze down to the last major turning mark, the island of Lampedusa. It was at this point we experienced a very real fright as Keith Kilpatrick, while coming off the rail to adjust the mainsheet, was nearly lost overboard when a massive wave caught him unawares. In the extremely windy and pitch-dark con¬ ditions, Keith was thrown three meters through the air upside down and only barely fetched up on the upper lifeline, still clinging to the mainsheet. Despite an injured leg and neck contusions he was able to carry on after just one off watch.
Zephyrus went on to smash the old record set by Riviera Di Rimini by over eight hours, lowering the new mark to 64 hours. The globe-trotting program Ber¬ trand has devised sees the boat headed for the Jamaica race in February, plus possibly a little surprise along the way. The mission statement for the boat is "to visit new horizons". So far, so good as Zephyrus has touched four different con¬ tinents in the last year, earning Bob McNeil two long distant records that could stand for some time. — mark sims
AYC Estuary Midwinters Twenty-two of the 'Estuary regulars' answered the starting guns at the first Alameda YC midwinter race on Sunday, November 12. After a brief postponement, a light westerly filled in and the small fleet was off on a two-lap jaunt up and down the Estuary. Course lengths were 4.7 miles and 3.6 miles, depending on boat size. For the first time, the big spinnaker class had enough boats to necessitate breaking it into two divisions — a good step toward fairer racing. Once again, the club gave out embroi¬ dered 'AYC Midwinters' hats as daily tro¬ phies to all first, second and third place finishers — which was almost everyone in the fleet that sunny afternoon. "We're off to a pretty good start," men¬ tioned race chairwoman M.L. Higgins, "but we could always use a few more boats. This is a five-race, one-throwout series, so it's not to late to join us next month!" FLEET A (spinnaker < 160) — 1) Don Miguel, Melges 24, Mike Rettie; 2) True Grits, Express 27, Jay Montgomery; 3) Mirage, Black Soo, Ben Mewes. (5 boats)
There was a new twist for this year's SailNet.com Pro-Am Regatta at the Bitter End Yacht Club. In the 13 previous edi¬ tions, the event spotlighted some of sail¬ ing's biggest rocks tars. And when the pros were off making the big bucks at the America's Cup, the Bitter End YC shifted gears and invited some sailing legends to their Virgin Gordon resort in the British Virgin Islands. For this year's regatta they did both. This year's rockstars included two-time America's Cup winner (and Olympic gold medalist) Russell Coutts; America's Cup veterans Paul Cayard, Peter Isler and Pe¬ ter Holmberg, plus two-time Olympic medalist and two time Yachtswoman of the Year (soon to be three) J.J. Isler, Peter's wife. The sailing legends were Lowell North, Rod Johnstone, Keith Musto and your correspondent, Tom Leweck — whose cre¬ dentials pale when compared to the oth¬ ers in this distinguished group. The format for the Pro-Am was the Paul Elvstrom-invented Triple Racing, using Freedom 30 cruising boats. Triple racing is very much like a match race, but rather tharn a timed start, it uses a rabbit start. And there are three — not two — com¬ petitors on the race course. It's sort of a mini fleet race, but only the winning boat gets a point. The second and third place boats get nothing. As a result, you learn quickly to hit comers when you're behind. The legends never raced against the contemporary rockstars in this regatta. Instead, junior/senior teams were arbi¬ trarily formed and their combined scores determined the standings. Cayard and North were one team, as was Musto and the fclers, Johnstone and Holmberg, and Leweck and Coutts. All of the boats raced with pick-up crews from the resort — most of whom had booked their vacation specifically to be a part of the Pro-Am Regatta. Sailing experience was never a consideration as the BEYC staff made crew assignments. The resort guests simply had to sign up ahead of time to be a trimmer or a bowperson on any of the boats. December, 2000 • f+Ww&J? • Page 183
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J.J. Isler has been a regular at the event for the last decade, and she had no trouble succinctly explaining regatta pri¬ orities. "This event is not about winning," she said. "This is a chance to do some¬ thing for the sport by making sure the Bitter End guests have a good time.” However, that didn't mean there wasn't some maneuvering to find someone to help with tactics. The night before the regatta Lowell North met Olympic gold medalist Ben Ainslie from the UK, who was vacationing in the Caribbean. North quickly recruited him as his tactician, and Ben did the same job for North's team¬ mate, Paul Cayard. Peter Isler did tactics in both divisions. He helped out his wife when the juniors raced and called tactics for his teammate Keith Musto in the senior fleet. Also, team¬ mates Peter Holmberg and Rod Johnstone sailed together in both divisions — swap¬ ping positions. Russell Coutts had brought along his America's Cup teammate Warwick Fluery to help out with tactics. And with the Category Three (pro sailors) pool pretty well dried up, I recruited a big, delightful resort guest from Annapolis named Don Zinn Jr., who did both tactics and main trim on our boat. In the junior division, the four rockstars all wound up with three points — an unbreakable tie! That left it to the se¬
real winners were the guests at the Bitter End YC who got to sail with, eat with and hang out with the talented and friendly skippers entered in the event. At the enthusiastic awards dinner that concluded the event, the biggest trophy was presented jointly to Linda Coleman and Mark Fineberg. Who are they? Well, year after year Linda and Mark have been coming from Missouri specifically to sail in this regatta. This year they picked up the big prize — the Spirit and Enthusi¬ asm Award — which is really what the Pro-Am Regatta is all about. — tom leweck
Top of the world — Russell Coutts is back on the match racing circuit, recently winning the Gold Cup in Bermuda... for the sixth time!
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Three More Midwinters A trio of 'regional' midwinter races oc¬ curred on the crisp, clear weekend of No¬ vember 18-19. Unfortunately, we were slaving away on an early deadline, so we didn't have time to delve into any particu¬ lars. We did notice, however, that the J/ 35 class was given their own start at the Encinal YC midwinter series, and were pleased to hear they are reorganizing as an independent one design class next sea¬ son. The important stuff— i.e., tf\e podium finishers — follows. Full results can be found at the yacht clubs' respective web-
Parks. (5 boats) CLASS B — 1) Don Miguel, Melges 24, Mike Rettie; 2) Mr. Magoo, J/120, Steve Madeira; 3) Frog in French, Express 27, Kame Richards; 4) Chi Mo, Express 27, Mr. Pannington; 5) Wile E. Coyote, Ex¬ press 27, Dan Pruzan. (12 boats) CLASS C — 1) Chesapeake, Merit 25, Jim Fair; 2) Lelo Too, Tartan Ten, Emile Carles; 3) Cham¬ pagne, Cal 29, Charlie Barthrop. (5 boats) CLASS D —1) Dulcinea, Killerwhale, Mike Mathiasen; 2) Jubilee, Ariel, Don Morrison; 3) Shazam!, Santana 22, Bud Sandkulla. (6 boats) CLASS E-1 — 1) Mottley, Catalina 34, Chris Owen. (3 boats) CLASS E-2 (Hunter 310s) — 1) Gute Fahrt, Mr. Lynch. (3 boats) SANTA CRUZ YC MIDWINTERS (11/18:2 races): PHRF-A— 1) Flyer, Farr 40, Shep Kett, 2 points; 2) Absolute 88, Wylie 37, Keith MacBeth, 4. (4 boats) PHRF-B — 1) Hanalei Express, SC 27, Rob Schuyler, 3 points; 2) Animal House, Olson 30, Matt Lezln, 6; 3) Wildfire, Moore 24, Tom Conerly, 7; 4) Ms. Quickly, SC 27, Larry Weaver, 13; 5) Spirit, Olson 30, L. Rota, 14; 6) Gandalf, Santana 35, Rick Diola, 14; 7) Gorgeous, Moore 24, B. Bosinger, 16; 8) Details, Andrews 30, John Pancallo, 16; 9) Ca¬ denza, Moore 24, Bruce Donald, 18; 10) Variety Show, SC 27, Barry Whittall, 18. (10 boats) DOUBLEHANDED — 1) Ngellew Fejj, Moore 24, Shana Rosenfeld, 2 points; 2) Viva Mas, Moore 24, Larry Peterson, 5; 3) Mooregasm, Moore 24, Josselyn/Moore, 6. (5 boats) cc x o ° |
niors to determine which team would go home with the top prize. Rod Johnstone proved up to the task, and won his divi¬ sion with a race to spare. So it was the junior/senior team of Rod Johnstone and Peter Holmberg that took home the top prize at the 2000 SailNet.com Pro-Am Regatta. However, the Pagel84 •
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Tough duty! Tom The Curmudgeon' Leweck on vacation at the BEYC's Pro-Am Regatta. sites — www.encinal.org,www.scyc.org, and www.sfyc.org. ENCINAL YC MIDWINTERS (11/18: 1 race): CLASS A (J/35s) — 1) Rapture, Jim Hoey; 2) Kiri, Bob George; 3) Stray Cat Blues, Bill 'National'
SAN FRANCISCO YC MIPS (11/18-19: 4 races): CLASS A (98 and below) — 1) Shadow, Farr 40, Peter Stoneberg, 4 points; 2) JambaJuice, 11 :Metre, Tom Dinkel/Mark Varnes, 10; 3) Sundog, Bianca 414, Bill Wright, 11. (6 boats) CLASS B (99 and up) — 1) Ozone, Olson 34, Carl Bauer, 8 points; 2) Geronimo, Express 27, Steve Carroll, 9; 3) Mischief, Soverel 33, Jeff McCord, 9; 4) Grenadier, Contessa 32, Paul Osborn, 18. (10 boats) HOBIE 18—1) #16720, Dean Schumacher, 6 points. (3 boats)
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Russell Coutts defeated his old arch-ri¬ val Chns Dickson 3-0 to win the Colorcraft Gold Cup match racing event in Hamilton, Bermuda, for the sixth time. The presti¬ gious event, sailed in IODs, was also the final event on this year's inaugural Swed¬ ish Match Grand Prix Sailing Tour. Coutts and his Kiwi stalwarts — Simon Daubney, Brad Butterworth and Warwick Fleury — were in top form, losing only two of their 14 matches all week. Dickson, who is returning to the match racing wars after a six-year hiatus, also looked sharp. "We were happy to go as far as we did," he claimed. Some were even hyping the CouttsDickson match-up as a preview of the 2003 America's Cup, and there may be something to that. Each of the Kiwi rockstars has signed on with a billionaire (Coutts with Ernesto Bertarelli's Swiss Challenge and Dickson with Larry El¬ lison’s Oracle Racing), and each program appears to have the resources to make it all the way. COLORCRAFT GOLD CUP — 1) Russell Coutts, SUI ($20,000); 2) Chris Dickscn, USA ($12,000); 3) Ed Baird, USA ($7,000); 4) James Spithill, AUS ($5,800); 5) Peter Gilmour, AUS ($4,500); 6) Murray Jones, SUI ($4,100); 7) (tie) Magnus Holmberg, SWE ($3,475) and Peter Holmberg, USVI ($3,475). SWEDISH MATCH TOUR (final scores) — 1) Bertrand Pace, FRA, 118 points ($50,000); 2) Dean Barker, NZL, 103 ($35,000); 3) Magnus Holmberg, SWE, 77 ($20,000); 4) Peter Gilmour, AUS, 77 ($15,000); 5) Sten Mohr, DEN, 62 ($11,000); 6) Pe¬ ter Holmberg, USVI, 42 ($8,000); 7) Luc Pillot, FRA, 40 ($6,000); 8) Ed Baird, USA, 36 ($5,000).
Race Notes Miami vice: Notwithstanding all the 'electile dysfunction’ jokes, Florida is where you want to be in the next few months! The Mumm 30 Worlds just wrapped up, to be followed by the U.S. Admiral's Cup Trials for Farr 40s on November 30-December 4. With John Kilroy unexpectedly pulling out his widely-favored Samba Pa Ti due to "busi¬ ness problems", the field now appears wide open — look for Philippe Kahn’s Pe¬ gasus, Barking Mad and Raging Bull to be among the top contenders. The Rolex 2000ISAF Women's World Match Racing Championship has -been underway since November 26 in St. Pe¬ tersburg. Twenty-four elite women match racing teams will compete in the roundrobin Sonar series, with Betsy Alison (Newport, RI), Dru Slattery (Marblehead) and Hannah Swett (Jamestown, RI) rep¬
resenting the United States. What does Alison — who won the inaugural event in Dubai in 1998, as well as five Rolex Yachtwoman of the Year awards — do with all those watches? See www.spyc.org to find out who won. On December 4, a feeder race from Fort Lauderdale over to Nassau — a reprisal of the classic SORC race — gets the inau¬ gural Crystal Cup underway. That new event, a big boat invitational regatta on December 7-10, will be held out of the huge and relatively new Atlantis resort on Paradise Island, Bahamas. Surf to www.crystalcupatatlantic.com for the whole stoiy . . The big regatta looming on the horizon is, of course, Yachting Key West Race Week, set for January 15-19. Last year, a record 271 boats competed, with one designs accounting for 57% of the fleet. Organizers expect both those num¬ bers to go even higher this time. Visit www.premiere-racing.com to see the cur¬ rent entry list. Gaining momentum: The One Design 35 class continues to grow on the West Coast, with several used East Coast boats finding good homes out here. Extreme, the 2000 national champion, is now the first ID-35 in Seattle, having recently been purchased by former Olson 30 sailor Mike Goldfarb. He'll campaign Extreme on the national circuit with a talented crew in¬ cluding Brian Ledbetter and Mark Brink. . . However, most of the ID-35 action is concentrated in San Diego: John Wylie sold his Tabasco to David Rillie, who is moving up from a C&C 121. Wylie has ordered another ID-35, which he hopes will be ready for the SORC. Another cur¬ rent owner, Kara Zylstra of Wild Thing, also just ordered a new ID-35 — the first of thfe breed to have wheel steering. Wild Thing, which won its class in last year's PV Race, is currently for sale. Meanwhile, Neil Senturia of San Diego just took delivery of Northern Bear (hull #22), formerly of Wisconsin. John Musa of Colorado Springs now keeps Jacibon (ex-Picante) in San Diego when it's not on the circuit. (Jacibon, we're told, stands for "Just Another Crazy Idea Based on Noth¬ ing"). "We're up to eight boats in San Di¬ ego, and still growing," claims ID-35 bro¬ ker Chris Busch. "We should have seven West Coast lD-35s at Key West, too." Zsa Zsa, Bill Wright's occasionally Bay Areabased ID-35, will be among them. Collegiate circuit: Two of the Bay Area's former junior stars sailed in the ICSA/ Vanguard North American Singlehanded Championship at University of Washing¬ ton in early November. Kimbal Hall (Tufts, ’02) and Dana Jones (UCSB, ’02) finished
12th and 13th, respectively, in the 16-race Laser series. Bruce Mahoney (Texas) won the Men's, while Margaret Gill (Harvard) took the Women's. . . In the November Sailing World college rankings, Queen's rocketed from 14th up to first, followed by Harvard, perennial powerhouse Tufts, Dartmouth, and Hobart/William Smith. In the Women's rankings, St. Mary's leads Dartmouth and Harvard. The top Califor¬ nia sailing team, Stanford, is currently ranked 15th in coed competition and 7th in Women's. To learn all about collegiate racing — such as the accompanying list of past 'Sailors of the Year' — check out www.icya.org and www.collegesailing.org. Southern exposure: Class winners of the 7-race, 2-throwout South Bay YRA summer series were: Div. A (big spinna¬ ker) — Sundancer (Hunter 34, Bob & Pam
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THE RACING Mumm's the word: Vincenzo Onorato's Mascalone Latino was crowned the new Mnmm 30 World Champion after a ninerace series off Miami on November 8-11. Winds were fickle throughout the Storm Trysail Club-hosted series, resulting in numerous lead changes in the 40-boat fleet. Onorato, a veteran Farr 40 cam¬ paigner, was sailing in his first major Mumm 30 regatta, as was another Farr 40 sailor, Philippe Kahn. The latter sailed his Pegasus to a highly respectable sixth along with tactician Morgan Larson, John Hayes, Mike Evans, 'Gundy' and 'Doogie'. "It was one of the hardest regattas I've ever sailed," reported billboard magnate John Sweeney, who came in 11th with Team Sailing Billboards on Tim McCarron's Mirage. StFYC member Terre Layton, with tactician Kevin Hall, sailmaker Jeff Thorpe, John Stewart and Aimee Hess among her crew, finished 12th with her chartered Hops. Conve¬ niently for Onorato, next year's Mumm 30 Worlds will be held in early October in Sardinia. See www.stormtrysail.org for full results and some great pictures. Sale boats of the month: Steve Fossett has reluctantly sold his 60-foot trimaran
John Sweeney at the helm of 'Mirage in last month's Mumm 30 Worlds oft Miami. Lakota to the Atlant Group in Sweden. Since he bought Lakota [ex-Pierre ler) from Florence Arthaud in 1993, Fossett set ten official world records and six race records with the boat. "All of our atten¬ tion is now focused on PlayStation, so it
was time to sell Lakota," claimed Fossett, "but we think she deserves a place in yachting history." . . . Steve Saperstein, who also owns the Express 37 Expresso, bought an Antrim 27 this fall, which he named Kind of Blue. He'll be taking it to Key West Race Week with a talented crew, including Kame and Sally Richards, Kim Desenberg and Steve Nurse (Soldini). . .
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(Two more J/105s were recently deliv:red to the Bay: Anna Laura (#382), co)wned by David Kaiser and Paul GrossTian, and Hew Russell's curiously-named Four Spacious Guys (#385). Another Farr 40 will arrive on the Bay n early December, this one for Silicon galley tycooness Mary Coleman. Scott iasom is the project manager for the new Istro. (hull #79), which will be actively campaigned next summer. . . Bucking the arr 40 trend, Morro Bay sailor Howard Gordon, who raced his Swan 43 Destiny i the Big Boat Series, bought the vetran BOC 50 True Blue. KKMI totally relabbed the water-ballasted boat, relamed Etranger, including changing the ull from blue to white. Gordon is looklg forward to racing it in February's PV ace against Philippe Kahn's Open 50 Peasus (ex-Balance Bar). Meanwhile, on the 'toy boat' circuit, ae local ODOM ('One Design One leter'j fleet continues to pick up new rwners, including Farr 40 sailors Steve larsh, Howard Bentley, Scott Easom and
Zarko Draganic, who ordered two. Zarko, who berths a Farr 40 (Cavallino) and a Melges 24 at SFYC, also just or¬ dered a brand new Melges 24 for East Coast regattas. With Cavallino apparently chartered to Russell Coutts and the Swiss A-Cup team for Key West, Zarko will race his new Melges with Don Jesberg, Larry Swift and lan Charles (Sails Call). A bunch of other Bay Area boats are also bound for Key West Race Week. Tiburon YC member Rob Weed will be taking his still-teething Beneteau 40.7 Wired to the fray, sailing with tactician Pete McCormack, Andrew Whittome and Kevin Currier, among others. Currier, who works for local Beneteau dealer Passage Yachts, says that two more Beneteau 40.7s have just been sold to the Bay, bringing the total number of local 'beach balls' up to five. . . Two local J/105 pro¬ grams will also be at Key West: Doug Berman and his Out of Options gang (sail¬ ing a charter boat) and Tom Coates' Mas¬ querade. The latter is Coates' East Coastbased 105 (he also owns the local J/105
Charade). The New New Thing: According to Jim Andersen at Carroll Marine, their Rhode Island boatbuilding company is busier than ever. "We’ve got 15 Farr 40 orders, a half dozen lD-35s, and 25 orders for the new Farr 395!" The first Farr 395 — a sweet-looking racer/cruiser that already sports its own website (www.farr395.org) — is about to be delivered to Paul Hewitt of Mystic, CT. Two of the 25 orders for 395s are for California owners. Random race results: Dave West won the Perry Cup opener (for Mercuries) go¬ ing away, posting three bullets and three deuces. The racing was hosted by Monterey Peninsula YC on November 45, and attracted 11 boats. See www.mercury-sail.com for full results and class info. . . The top ten (of 26) finishers in the San Francisco Bay Etchells fleet this sea¬ son were: 1) Bill Barton/Tim Parsons, 49 points; 2) Doug Morss/Hemy Fischer! 70; 3) Peter Vessella, 113; 4) Hank Easom, 147; 5) Jim Gregory, 154; 6) Bob Park, 156; 7) Kers Clausen, 157; 8) John Sutak, 163; 9) Tom Oiler, 167; 10) S. Fulweiler/ Jeff Hager.
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THE RACING SHEET the 41st TransPac should be posted on the event's website (www.transpacificyc.org) any day now. The 2,225-mile downwind binge will start over four days next summer: June 25 (cruisers), June 30 (under 50-ft.), July 1 (over 50-ft.) and July 4 (multihulls). Inspired by seeing five Whitbread/Volvo 60s entered in Decem¬ ber 26's Sydney-Hobart Race, the TransPac board has put out the welcome mat for these 64-foot water-ballasted boats to join their upcoming run to Dia¬ mond Head. "They rate right at the top of our rating limit," said TPYC Commodore Sandy Martin. "If a few of them enter, they could have their own class. It would add a new dimension to the race." The envelopes, please: Cruising World and Sailing World will, for the first time, announce the winners of theie P6th an¬ nual Boat of the Year awards in a live webcast hosted by www.boats.com/ sail¬ ing at 6 p.m. on December 7. A panel of judges, including Costa Mesa boat builder Lynn Bowser, has inspected 41 racing and cruising boats this year — and 13 of them will win a coveted BOTY award next week. More race results: Bruce Golison’s new
The mighty 'Lakota' — gone, but not forgotten. She was recently sold to Sweden, where many other jumbo multihulls are finding a new life. Santana 20 Mini-Me won San Diego's first race (of three) in the 2000 Hot Rum Se¬ ries on November 5. A huge and very com¬
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With a special report this month on A Two-Family Charter to Baja California, plus miscellaneous Charter Notes.
Bareboating the Sea of Cortez: Worlds Away, Yet Close to Home Face it, sailors from California have some big hurdles to cross if they’re look¬ ing for an easily-accessible warm-weather sailing escape. While East Coast sailors can access the turquoise waters of the Caribbean in a few hours, we West Coast¬ ers have to face a full day of a'ir travel, on several different planes to reach those palm-lined beaches, and the same holds true for key South Pacific charter desti¬ nations. We’ve just returned from the close-tohome alternative to the Caribbean, the Sea of Cortez. The Moorings maintains an excellent charter base at La Paz, which gives sailors quick and easy access to the offshore islands. As usual, time was short when we found a ’window’ in which to squeeze a charter between our October issue dead¬ line and the Annapolis Boat Show. Our time crunch immediately highlighted one of the huge benefits of sailing in Mexico: You fly there in a few hours, and a few hours after that you cam be anchored in a secluded cove — all in less time than it would take just to reach the Caribbean or South Pacific by air. If you have 10 days or two weeks of vacation time, traveling
to a more far-flung destination wouldn't be a problem, but with only a week to spare — as we had — actual travel time would take a major chunk out of our re¬ laxation time. Seven of us made up the crew of Buena Vida, the new Moorings 3800 catamaran which joined the La Paz fleet this sum¬ mer: my wife and two daughters, Sarah , 8, and Hannah, 5, plus some longtime friends and their almost-three-year-old son Colby. Another reason we decided on Mexico rather than, say, the BVI (the most popu¬ lar chartering destination in the world) was the reputation Mexico holds among circumnavigators. If you’re a regular reader of Latitude, you may have noticed that many people who have circled the The Moorings' new 3800 catamaran, is a suc¬ cessful blend of sailing performance, stability and interior creature comforts. v
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globe by sailboat remember Mexico as their favorite cruising grounds — not just for its warm waters and breezes, but also for its sealife and dramatic scenery, as well as the camaraderie of other cruisers
and the friendly nature of the Mexican people. Another big plus was the desire to get away from the typical tourist ‘beat’. The Mexican coastline is still one of the most unspoiled sailing grounds in the world de¬ spite the short flying time from the U.S. While the city of La Paz has most modem conveniences, once you pass the last channel marker, most traces of civiliza¬ tion disappear — quickly. Credit cards, cash, clothes and other basics needed for social and commercial interaction are su¬ perfluous. There’s nothing out there that requires any of them. We were there at the end of the shoul¬ der season — heading towards high sea¬ son. The official end of hurricane season in Mexico is November 1 and our trip was September 26 to October 4, which meant there was a possibility of experiencing a hurricane or at least some of the season's low pressure systems which can bring wind and rain. Fortunately we didn’t see
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the many pups there at that time of year, but that the rushes are harmless scare tactics. Our faith in Sergio’s council was quickly tested as we did get rushed by some big, aggressive moms, and while harmless it could be unnerving! The pups would swim within a couple of feet of our fins and then a mom would come roaring at you blowing air out of her nose, finally pulling up a few feet from your mask. Most of the time, however, the pups and others were content to play with each other, frolic or sneak a look from below you, staring up like some furry, shorebound canine. The kids were the least nervous of all, practically swimming right in amongst the sea lions. The water was so clear and warm you could literally stay in for hours — testing the patience of the boat driver. On our ‘lay day’ in Isla San Francisco we put our snorkeling gear in a couple of bags, brought some water and snacks and hiked across the salt flats to the other side of the thin island neck. There we found some great diving amongst huge boulders and lots of great sea life. While the diving doesn’t include beautiful coral like you'd find in the Caribbean or South Pacific, the fish are colorful and varied. Afterwards, Lying on the trampoline in the shade of the jib, Sarah found the perfect spot to re-read her fa¬ vorite Harry Potter novel. i A few hours of flying time and a few more hours
of sailing will put you in this picture! El Candelero j Bay is one of many pristine anchorages. | a sign of either and had only perfect, hot, ( sunny sailing weather. Choosing the ( shoulder season means you may poten¬ tially have some bad weather, but the rpayoff is uncrowded anchorages and i lower charter rates. Since La Paz rarely gets hit by hurricanes and gets only 6" of ' rain a year, the risks seemed minimal. Sealife was another plus. While we adults enjoyed the sailing, there was lots more needed to keep kids engaged and having fun beyond full sails and a good breeze. The Sea of Cortez is a sportfishing imecca, and is known for a huge array of i sealife. In six short days we were treated to plenty. We saw whales, dolphins, manta rays and sea lions while sailing. At one point the sea went perfectly flat and we came upon about 20 fins sticking above the glassy calm. Slowing and coasting through them we discovered they were the
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wingtips of manta rays. Both adults and kids quickly grabbed their masks and snorkels and leapt into the water where the rays continued to glide by in their ee¬ rie, other-worldly style. Most were bigger than our daughters, but seemed unper¬ turbed by our presence. They didn’t stay as long as we would have liked, yet long enough to get our hearts racing while rev¬ eling in the moment. Swimming with the mantas was a fright for five-year-old Hannah, but later, upon reflection, it was also one of her favorite parts of the trip. Next we headed over to Los Islotes, a rocky outcropping that is a Mexican Na¬ tional Marine preserve, and is famous for its colony of sea lions. Anchoring there is only allowed by licensed dive boat opera¬ tors, but interlopers like us can hang out by motoring around and jumping off for a look around. We took turns leaving someone at the helm to motor the boat while others swam to the vertical walls of Los Islotes. We’d been warned by Sergio, the Moorings base manager, that we might be rushed by sea lion mothers protecting :
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a quick hike up the hill on the southwest tip of the anchorage provided a spectacu¬ lar view of the harbor, a view to the south towards Isla Partida and the broad ex¬ panse of the Sea of Cortez. Hiking along the whole ridge towards the east was a mild challenge along the dramatic cliffs that fall several hundred feet to the shore below. It was hot and barren but beauti¬ ful. Another great opportunity on this charter was the chance to try out the first catamaran in The Moorings' La Paz fleet. Over the past decade the company has been am industry leader in augmenting their monohull fleets with charter cats. The Moorings 3800 is one they’ve pro¬ duced in collaboration with a builder and designer specifically for the charter trade. It features three double staterooms and two heads — plenty of space for two couples and three young children. The dinette table in the ‘galley-up’ bridge deck also folds down to sleep another twosome. They also have one of their new 4500 cats joining the fleet later this season. While not completely comfortable with the ways of catamarans it was easy to find the features that are making them so popular. Heading out of the base with gear only partially stowed was not a worry since we knew we wouldn’t be heeling and nothing would go flying. With two fami¬ lies the two hulls allowed each their own space, in addition to large expanses where we could all mix and mingle. The trampolines between the bows were also good alternative sleeping sites, although we usually ended up retreating
to the bunks before morning as night time breezes picked up. The kids could play where they wanted and we were less wor¬ ried about them sliding overboard with every wave or gust than we normally are on monohulls. On long passages the kids could color, read, or use Play Dough on the dinette table without all the toys crashing to leeward. This allowed parents
Clockwise from upper left: The level-sailing cat allowed the kids to do arts and crafts underway; Hannah zeros in on the pups; story time; spa lions frolic in the shallows at Los Islotes. and kids the ability to relax more and enjoy the longer sails. Sailing a catamaran is a mixed bless¬ ing, however — at least to my monohull mindset. The ease and convenience of flat; }
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to fly back up from Mexico to retrieve her and the children,
Leaving a day in advance of the family edly found out the federal government has created some laws intended to make it cJif■ : alone with children (safeguards relating
before my departure. A friend called to dren at an international ticket counter in LAX years earlier, and being told she couldn’t take her kids out of the country without a notarized note giving her husband’s permission. Since her husband
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the note and hope that my wife could find a notary to stamp it in my absence. That proved impossible and my wife ended up at the airport with her note from me and another one I had faxed to her with wit¬ nesses signatures from Mexico. As we understand it, U.S. law requires an airline to have a notarized document country to kidnap her kids. As it was, nei¬ ther of our two documents worked. How¬ ever. after all the frantic last-minute ef¬ forts, the solution turned out. to be rela¬ tively easy and seemingly pointless. After refusing our documents, the ticket agent pointed out the counter where my wife
could find the airport notary. There, my wife was simply asked to write on an offi¬ cial-looking piece of paper that she took full custody of the kids. This was then of¬ ficially stamped and handed to her for a $20 fee! Upon retuning to the ticket counter, the ticket agent looked at the ceremoni¬ ously fancy document, approved it and handed it back. Presumably the law is written with the best of intentions but ei¬ ther we don’t understand It or those that are supposed to operate under it don’t. In either case, if you are ever planning to travel out of the county with your kids, but without your spouse, it would be wise to have a document notarized well in ad¬ vance of traveling.
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L< sailing lacks the feel of guiding a monohull through wind and sea. Also, when the ‘wind is light there is no ‘favorable’ heal to help sail shape — a cat sits up straight i and the sails hang down straight. A cruising cat is designed first for comi fort but with enough sailing performance to enjoy many quiet, engineless hours. We : did most of our sailing in the good momiing breezes (12-18 kts), then tried to be /anchored and swimming or lounging un::der the bimini during the hot, still aftermoons. That worked out perfectly for great .morning sails and great snorkeling later rwhen the sun was high and the water /clear. Being neophyte multihull sailors we (probably didn't get the cat moving to her (full potential, but we had plenty of breeze and time to enjoy great sails, nonetheless. Our six-day itinerary took us straight to Caleta El Candelero on Espiritu Santo /the first night, and Isla Partida the sec¬ ond night (with a day stop at Los Islotes). Our third day took us on a long, breezy downwind sail to Isla San Francisco, vhere we hung out for a day. Then, on Jay five we took a long, breezy upwind sail back to Isla Partida (including our swim with the mantas and a second stop
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at Los Islotes). We had a morning dinghy adventure on the sixth day, then a nice sail to Ensenada Grande for the night. A long upwind sail/motor sail took us back to the La Paz base where we spent the night aboard. This sailing vacation was a perfect combination of relaxation and adventure. Plenty of good anchorages, reasonable sailing distances and eyeball navigation kept the sailing challenges limited. The protected cruising grounds of the Sea of Cortez are far from ‘rounding the horn’, but uncrowded waters and deserted is¬ lands provide plenty of adventures for ex¬ plorers. The biggest challenges for the trip were anchoring, making sure we provisioned correctly since there are no stores out there where you can correct your miscal¬ culations, and making sure our itinerary wasn’t too ambitious. In the end, all of these worked out fine — plenty of food (we provisioned using The Moorings stores and guidelines), anchoring was a cinch with the ‘self-launching’ plow on a wind¬ lass, and our six-day itinerary had a good balance of sailing, exploring and relaxing. One tip we'd like to pass on is that it helps if you have someone along who likes to cook, or at least devise a good way of sharing the responsibilities. Fortunately, crew-member John Marsh was always quick to pick up the knife and cutting board and get some early sauce started for our nighttime grilling sessions. It was "Ah. . . Que tranquilo!" Could the hustle and bustle <pf L.A. and San Francisco really only be a few hours away?
hot below so we barbecued every evening. Since time was of the essence for us, as it may be for you, the following may also be of interest. Since we were extracting our kids from school, the plan was for me (dad) to head down a day early to al¬ low the kids an extra school day while I provisioned, visited some of the La Paz waterfront and did the boat check out. This worked well except for one minor glitch (see sidebar). We flew out of Oak¬ land to LAX and then jumped aboard an Aero California flight to La Paz. Aero Cali¬ fornia has a daily schedule of flights to La Paz well timed to get you out of the ‘rat race’ and into cruising pace as smoothly as possible. The Moorings base is an easy $25 cab ride from the airport. Before the kids arrived, we stayed at Hotel El More, on the waterfront a mile from The Moor¬ ings base at Marina Palmira and a mile from town. Quiet, clean and inexpensive, it was a great place to unwind from the plane ride and get the lay of the land. The early morning Aero California return flight to LAX connected us with our Oaklandbound commuter hop in time to get us back home for our daughter's afternoon soccer practice — a frightening juxtapo¬ sition, but it was another thing that made the quick getaway that much easier to consider. On the whole, the Sea of Cortez was a great introduction to cruising for our 3-, 5- and 8-year-old kids. The swimming and sea life were entertaining, and the ease of travelling there made the trip much more palatable for the whole family. Packing was easy too: Bring sneakers for hiking, sandals and reefwalkers; a bathing suit; shorts; T-shirts and maybe your own snorkel and mask (although The Moorings provides them). Add a good book or two and that’s about all that’s you really need. Looking back, it was a trip that gave us lots of fond memories that we'll not soon forget. jt
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Charter Notes Is it just us, or is everybody out there living at an absolutely frantic pace? Geez, it seems like people on the West Coast barely slow down enough from their workaday routines to eat and sleep. Where December, 2000 • UKUJtZV • Page 193
WORLD OF CHARTERING Sure, statistically, the odds are tha you will live to some ridiculously old age; but even so, wouldn't you rather do a that incredibly active stuff like snorkel ing in the Bora Bora lagoon, climbing vol canoes in Vanuatu and windsurfing it Antigua when you're younger, rather thai older (i.e. in your 30s, 40s and 50s, rathe than in your 60s, 70s and 80s)? In any case, as the holidays roll arount you'll hopefully have plenty of leisure tim to think about exactly where you'd like t get away to later this winter or spring. An while the cost of chartering may seem ou of reach, if you do the math you’ll fin that booking a modest crewed yacht c bareboat with a gang of friends is ofte cheaper per person than staying at a wa terside hotel and dining out. One excellent way to help your chan tering dreams become reality is to ask fc nothing else for Christmas! If you’re sen ous about wanting to take an idyllic sail ing adventure this year, make it clear ti your family and friends that all you wan for Christmas is donations to your chan tering fund. Who knows, maybe Santa wfc kick in enough for the deposit.
Yeah. . . that's the kind of place I'd "rather be sailing" in. The famous Bora Bora lagoon is one of the highlights of any Tahitian charter._
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CHANGES With reports this month from Softwind on a reverse 'Milk Run’; from First Light on a rally over the top of Oz; from Anonymous on the dirty laundry blues; from Cking Truth on a long family cruise in the Caribbean; from Grimsby on a struggle in Colon; from Rhapsodie on Vanuatu and New Caledonia: from Radiance on lessons learned in Costa Rica; and Cruise Notes.
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Softwind — Cheoy Lee Lion Don Mollett Milk Run In Reverse (Santa Barbara)
I'm currently in Uo Pou, Marquesas. I left Auckland, New Zealand, on July 23 bound for Mexico — in other words, a Milk Run in reverse! It's not a trip I would rec¬ ommend to anyone. It's 5,555 nautical miles from Auckland to Cabo, so I've made a couple of stops along the way for re¬ pairs and to reprovision. My first stop was at Niue after 12 days of heavy seas, dur¬ ing which time I carried a double-reefed main and occasionally a storm jib. Niue is a very beautiful and friendly place. I later stopped at Rarotonga, the Cook Is¬ lands, Bora Bora, Raiatea, Huahine, Rangiroa and now Uo Pou. I'll make one more stop at Nuku Hiva before the long last leg to Cabo. I was a member of the class of '85 that left Mexico on the Milk Run across the Pacific. It just took me longer than the others to find all the islands in the South Pacific. After 15 years down here, it's time for me to cross the equator again. It took me 23 days to sail the 2,300 downwind miles to here from Cabo. I'm not sure how long it's going to take me to sail back as it’s uphill. Besides, this time I'll be doing it without an engine, the GPS that packed it in back at the Cooks, or any other form
Don is sailing from the palm-lined beaches of the South Pacific for the cactus-lined shores of Cabo San Lucas — the hard way.
of electronics. No worries, as I've always put my absolute faith in my sextant, Walker log and Aries windvane. By the way, my Lion class 36-foot sloop was de¬ signed by Arthur Robb and built of wood by the Cheoy Lee shipyard in '62. I’m writing because I want my name in the hat for the drawing of who came the farthest and hardest for the Baja HaHa party. If all goes well, I should arrive sometime in late December. Sony I didn't send any photographs, but I'm just catch¬ ing on to the Internet — great stuff! There are only foreign yachts in the harbor here; two French and one English. The last North American yacht I saw was Tilly Whim in Rarotonga, with Tom and Maureen of Santa Clara aboard. They were headed to Papeete. I look forward to seeing everyone in the land of tequila sun¬ rises. — don 10/15/2000
First Light — J/44 Andy & Jill Rothman Over The Top Of Oz (Tiburon) "Get moving," our friend instructed over the mobile phone. "I just put both of our boats on the waiting list for the Over The Top Rally, and we have to be in Gove by June 26." Gove? Over The Top? It all sounded pretty distant to us. And it was. Our J/ 44 First Light — which we'd been cruis¬ ing out of Sausalito for more than three years — was still on the hard in Sydney Harbor. We’d spent the past five months based in Sydney while we explored the city, toured southeast Australia, and vis¬ ited back to the States. Now we were com¬ mitting ourselves to be someplace called Gove at the other end of a very big coun¬ try, and in just over two months. Well, -maybe. We headed north, staying within five miles of the coast to avoid the infamous East Australian Current, and after six days pulled in the pleasant Gold Coast city of Southport. While there, we crammed four month s worth of boat work into a four-week stay, then set qff on a marathon sail up the coast. The winds in northeast Australia at that time of year were supposed to be strong out of the southeast. We weren't disappointed. It
blew over 30 knots pretty much 24 hours a day, which was all right with us since we were headed northwest. First Light fairly flew up the coast, averaging over eight knots. We d had visions of leisurely cruising places such as the Whitsunday Islands, where we'd once chartered years before, but it wasn't to be. It was just as well, because when we passed through the Whitsundays it was overcast and cold enough for the charter boats to return to their bases in search of more blankets! Sailing up the Queensland coast — be¬ hind the Great Barrier Reef and with strong winds from aft — has to be one of life's more exhilarating experiences. With the seas relatively flat and our course nearly dead downwind, we skimmed along, jibing to stay in the zig-zagging ship channel. Given all of the big ships and trawlers that wanted to use the same nar¬ row piece of water as us, there wasn't much time to get bored. The channel that runs between the dozens of reefs and is¬ lands is reasonably well marked, but once you get outside of it you're likely to find yourself in spots the charts identify as "unsurveyed". From then on, you're on
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Inset; Andy and Jill in Sydney. Spread; Andy tries to 'push start' one of the big trucks that works the bauxite mines at Gove. your own. What did the old time guys do before GPS? In tropical north Queensland, we ren¬ dezvoused with our friends on Scoots at the tourist-oriented city of Cairns. With only two weeks to cover the remaining 900 miles to Gove, we didn't tarry long before resuming our northward migration. A combination of overnights and long — as in 90-miles — daysails finally brought us to Cape York and the northeast tip of the Australian sub-continent. We’d made it some 2,000 miles from Sydney. We rounded the Cape with feelings of both relief and accomplishment, crossed the Gulf of Carpenteria, and two days later dropped the hook in Gove Harbor. Gove advertises itself as being at the top of Australia, but let us tell you, it’s in the middle of nowhere! The tiny town was created 20 years ago to service the giant bauxite mine and smelter then being built. Surrounded by hundreds of miles of ab¬ original reserve, it's accessible in the dry season by four-wheel drive, but only by
air during the wet season. At 11° south, it's closer to the equator than such tropi¬ cal places as Fiji and Vanuatu. Given the isolation and the fact that most of the population was non-western — including a fair number of Pacific Islanders there to grow kava — we had the overwhelming feeling that we were back at the islands in the South Pacific. For sailors, the saving grace of Gove is the smallish Gove YC. What they may lack in’ polish, however, they make up for in enthusiasm and Aussie hospitality. They're also the organizers of the Over The Top 'Cruise In Company' event that takes the fleet on a 12-day, 500-mile cruise to Darwin — with stops at remote aborigi¬ nal lands that are off-limits without spe¬ cial permits. After a champagne breakfast at the club on a sparkling Sunday afternoon, our 27-boat — the maximum allowed — fleet set off. Naturally there was a big contin¬ gent from Australia, with representatives from New Zealand, Australia, France, Switzerland, Holland, Canada — and a remarkable eight from the United States. These included West Coast boats Shaktt and Max Grody II from Los Angeles, Pe¬ gasus from Sparks, and Kiana from Or¬
egon. Soon the wind lightened up, the sailing became easy, and we coasted along from one remote anchorage to another — with two overnight passages thrown in. Three days into the cruise we paused for a layday at Refuge Bay, Elcho Island. If Gove had made us think that maybe we weren't in Australia anymore, Elcho Island made us sure of it! When we as¬ sembled on the beach for a barbecue that evening, we were joined by 20 or 30 people from the nearby aboriginal settlement. They gathered in family groups around a half dozen small campfires along the beach, while we yachties built a larger BBQ to accommodate the two grills pro¬ vided by the club. The local ladies cooked 'damper', a flat bread baked in sand heated by fire — which they shared with us. We shared the fish we’d caught. One of the men played the didgeridoo, so some of the young bucks took turns dancing in the firelight — occasionally joined by an enthusiastic yachtie. Not to be outdone, the Kiwis staged a Maori hakka dance. For a finale, some of the Aussies had thoughtfully brought fireworks to help us Yanks celebrate the Fourth of July. The display brought plenty of oohs and aahhs from yachties and locals alike. Earlier that day, a foraging party had been dispatched in search of mud crabs. We loaded 17 people and two dogs onto a 32-foot catamaran that towed six dinghies to a small river several miles away. After taking eveiyone ashore, the dinghies were anchored off the beach near the bottom of a 15-foot spring tide. Our group then hiked a half mile or so over the sand flats Jill, left, and crew Deby, right, enjoy riding the rail on a perfect sailing day during the Gove YC's Over The Top rally.
CHANGES to the river and mangrove forest. Our leader was Monkey Bill', a Gove-ite and our unofficial tour guide. Bill is a true Northern Territory origi¬ nal. Standing 5’ 10" with a bushy mus¬ tache, he's been knocking around the top end of Australia most of his life. "Me fa¬ ther was a crocodile hunter," he explained, "but he'd never take me out into the bush with him. So when I turned 15, I started roaming around out there by meself. I've gotten to know hundreds of aborigines, and my son speaks the local language flu¬ ently." Monkey Bill's three children also speak fluent Indonesian as a result of many sailing trips to those islands. On one memorable occasion, Bill managed to sail a near derelict bpat from Indonesia to Darwin — with a crew that included two monkeys. "They wouldn't let the mon¬ keys into Australia, so I set up me own quarantine station in Darwin Harbor," he said. "I lived there with the monkeys for two years while I worked on the boat, and that's how I got me name." As we waded waist-deep across the crocodile-infested river, Bill looked back at his motley crew and smiled. "No wor¬ ries, mates," he said. "After all, this is what adventures are made of." Our foray net¬ ted five large mud crabs, which duly found their way onto the BBQ pit that night. Andy also found a perfect 10-inch bailer shell for Jill’s collection. The days passed easily as we sailed among the low, dry islands and peninsu¬ las of Arnhem Land. There was lots of boat-to-boat picture taking, and the swap¬ ping of fish stories and crocodile sightings. "He was bigger than my dinghy, mate", said one. The big social event of the cruise was These two Papermate pens' were the winning costumes at the rally costume party. For once, the pirates and prostitutes lost out.
P-Night, which we celebrated at the Port Essington anchorage on the night before the overnighter to our final destination of Darwin. A tradition of the rally, the rules for P-Night require that everyone wear costumes on a theme starting with the letter P'. As you might expect, there were lots of pirates and prostitutes. Andy made for a tolerable physician, while Jill was a plausible patient. Our friend Debby, who had flown in to do the cruise with us, passed herself off as a pussycat. Monkey Bill was, of course, a pirate. He was a very convincing one at that, as he did some serious damage to a very large bottle of rum. The winning entry — not announced until Presentation Night in Darwin — was an Aussie couple dressed as Papermate pens. Not everyone was impressed. "If all these people have enough extra gear aboard to create all these costumes, then they've got too much stuff!" exclaimed Gary, an Aussie bush pilot taking his new trimaran home to Darwin. Ha! Just give him a few years of cruising. The final overnight run into Darwin was with pleasantly light wind, and most of the fleet managed to get on the right side of the current caused by Darwin's 25-foot tides. A few days later everyone
Spread; The anchored fleet at South Goldwin Island. Insets; The assembled cruisers at PNight', and one of the 'abo' locals. got together for a casual Presentation Night at one of the sailing clubs, and swapped pictures and stories. For First Light's crew, the icing on the cake came when Jill and Debby won the Saga of the Over The Top contest with their aptly titled entry, a Dreamtime Fantasea. — andy and jilt 10/15/2000
Airing My Dirty Laundry Anonymous In Mexico (Southern California) I have cruised the Sea of Cortez and the Gold Coast of Mexico for the past four years, and have been to every major city and anchorage along the way at least once. There are many things I have learned from both the locals and other cruisers, and now it's my turn to try to pass along some cruising wisdom. My topic shall be the dirty subject of laun¬ dry. It's the rare cruiser who is fortunate enough to have an onboard washer and/ or dryer. In fact, most of us consider our-
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selves to be lucky If the town we're visit¬ ing has a washing machine. I've found that I can always trade for the privilege of using the town’s washing machine — be¬ cause my boat carries a good stock of little items that the locals need. Always stop at the 99-cent store before leaving the States for Mexico, as they've got great stuff for minor trading. Many of the great anchorages in Mexico are near remote villages — San Evaristo, north of La Paz, is a good example — where there is no electricity to power an electric gashing machine. In places such as this, I find my laundry piles up to the point where I'm ultimately forced to be¬ come creative in order to get the job done. In such situations. I've found there's noth¬ ing like an old-fashioned wringer, as it cuts both the washing and drying time in half. There's nothing more time-consum¬ ing and hard on the fingers than doing, the 'spin cycle' by hand. Wringers aren't expensive if you buy one used from a lo¬ cal car wash — which uses them to squeeze the water from their rags and tow¬ els. A wringer can be clamped to the out¬ board motor mount for use, then stowed away when done.
Some cruisers tell me that they soak their clothes in soapy saltwater, then drag them in a netted bag for an hour or so behind their boat. To eliminate the salt deposits that would make the clothes stiff, they then resoak the clothes in freshwa¬ ter with a capful of Downy, and finally hang them from the boom, rigging and lifelines to dry when they get to the next anchorage. You could wash the clothes in this manner while on the hook, but soaping up the anchorage doesn't make one s neighbors in the anchorage very happy. The common and preferred method of washing dirty laundiy is at one of the lavanderias found in the larger cities. Al¬ most all of these self-service laundromats have women who will clean, fold and bag your clothes the day after they are dropped off — or even the same day. Un¬ fortunately, the only place where I've had a good experience with this — meaning I got everything back in good condition and at a reasonable price — was at Puerto Escondido. Without mentioning specific places, many of the laundromats I've used have either lost my clothes or replaced some of them with someone else's items. You can sometimes prevent this from happening by including a detailed list of what you are dropping off. When you pick your laundiy up, you then have to go through it item by item to make sure the items match the list. Yes, it's a hassle, but many cruisers tell me it's the only way they've been able to prevent losing stuff. None¬ theless, many of us still don't count the clothes when we pick them up. We just take them back to our boat and stuff them in a drawer- A week or so later we start to wonder what happened to our favorite shirt or our best pair of jeans. Most marinas from San Carlos to Acapulco work with a laundry service. If
not, one can be located through the local cruisers' net. It's always best to ask the locals for recommended lavandrias and what kind of prices to expect. Cruisers also have the option of wash¬ ing their own clothes at lavanderias. But you must be there during the process if you wish to secure a dryer. Or to make sure your machine gets turned back on if the power or water goes off. And it hap¬ pens. If you're not there when something malfunctions — as has been the case with me several times — you end up paying twice. As much as I like to avoid saying nega¬ tive stuff, I think there is one lavanderia that should be avoided — Rosalita’s Lavanderia in Paradise Village just north of Puerto Vallarta. The accompanying photograph should give some idea of the confusion the poor woman who operates the place has to deal with each day. I’m sure she does her best to keep everything straight, but she's obviously over¬ whelmed. During the two weeks I was in the area, I spoke with no less than eight cruising couples who had experienced problems of missing clothes or getting the wrong clothes. When one cruiser asked what would be done to rectify the situa¬ tion, the woman just shrugged as though it wasn't her problem. Paradise Village oversees the woman's enterprise, yet com¬ plaints to the management have gone unanswered. This is something of a sur¬ prise, as Paradise Resort and Marina has the most modern facility I've seen in Mexico, it's located in a very modem shop¬ ping center, and the resort has an other¬ wise excellent reputation. Perhaps the woman will get some help this season, because she sure needs it! The price of getting laundiy done varies in Mexico. Even though there's not Help! The poor woman at Rosalita's Lavanderia seems to be drowning in a sea of dirty laundry and misplaced socks.
CHANGES much water in Santa Rosalia on Baja, you can get a load washed for as little as $1 U.S. However, there is no dryer. In up¬ scale Puerto Vallarta, where water is plen¬ tiful, it's as expensive as $5 a load. De¬ pending on where you are, the laundry women might charge by the kilo or by the load. Rarely is there an estimate about the cost, you're just presented with a bill when it's time to pick it up. The service usually includes detergent, but you can provide your own. Separating whites from colors is a waste of time as everything is washed together in a warm/cold cycle. Bleach is used if you provide it, but re¬ member to separate each load with a note in Spanish pinned to the outside of the laundry bag. The best solution to the laundry prob¬ lem is to avoid it as much as ydu can. In other words, cruise naked when the cli¬ mate and your inhibitions don’t prevent it. If you're going to do your own laundry onboard, pick wash 'n wear fabrics or clothing made of rayon. These wash and dry in less time. If you're going to do your own laundry, try to share the cost of a cab getting to the lavanderia, then bring a book and sit it out. Hiring a professional to do it is another option, but one that requires diligence and supervision — if you ever want to see your clothes again. But if you're like me and prefer to be selfsufficient, there is no excuse for not hav¬ ing a wringer and doing it while under¬ way. No matter what you do, remember to bring plastic clothes pins with aluminum springs from the States or buy them in big cities. Avoid wooden pins because they have steel springs that leave rust marks The logic is unassailable. The less clothes you wear, the less clothes you have to wash. Mickey could have washed this outfit in a thimble.
on light-colored fabrics. If anybody has better solutions, I'd-love to hear about them. — anonymous 8/15/2000
Cking Truth — Sun Yachts 50 The Glenny Family Of Seven Family Charter/Cruise (Las Vegas, Nevada) I, Janet, found my favorite T-shirt at a dive shop at Soper’s Hole, Tortola, Brit¬ ish Virgin Islands. On the back is a pic¬ ture of a diver underwater, and the cap¬ tion reads, "You could run out of air and die; You could get eaten by a shark and die; You could fall off the couch and die." The type on the front pocket reads, "Get off the couch, dive Tortola!" Our Las Vegas-based Glenny family consists of Clint, a non-denominational minister who pastors a local church and travels extensively in Asia doing mission¬ ary work; Janet, who has taught elemen¬ tary school and is an ambulance EMT; Rachael (18), Joel (16), Colin (14), Alicia (11) and Abigail (8). When we told people that we were go¬ ing to charter a 50-foot sailboat in the Caribbean for a year's cruise, we got a mixture of reactions. Some were awed by the idea, while others conjured up vivid images of mutiny and other troubles. During the first several weeks, of our ad¬ venture, I thought the latter was the most accurate perspective — but I still wasn’t willing to bail back to Vegas so soon. I took a quick personal inventory: I got stressed over one thing or another eveiy day at our large house on a big lot in the desert — where it was often 115°, we were surrounded by more than a million people, and the light pollution' makes it impossible to see the stars. I concluded that I'd rather be stressed on a sailboat in the Caribbean, where it's always a com¬ fortable 82°, there is tons of fresh air, there are no boundaries, and the stars shine like diamonds. So we kept cruising. Our original vision was idealistic. We wanted to make memories, bond, estab¬ lish family unity, get away from the rat race, experience new cultures together, and to appreciate all our blessings. In preparation, my husband and I bareboated for six years in the Caribbean to hone our sailing skills and scope out the area. None of our kids had sailing ex¬ perience beyond Hobie Cats and a couple of daysails on small sloops. Our family did, however, have a long history of camp¬ ing, backpacking and various recreational activities. So we had some survival skills. After putting the three oldest kids through scuba certification, off we went.
We ended up arranging a seven-month charter with Sun Yachts, a company that we'd worked with before. They’d never done such a long charter, but offered a discount that pleased us. Before the start of our charter, they hauled the boat and made sure everything was in good shape. Since then they have responded to all our needs. It’s been a wonderful convenience that they have bases all up and down the Caribbean chain with maintenance crews ready to fix any problem. Our two oldest boys — 16 and 14 — quickly learned how to manage the sails, navigate, anchor., operate onboard equip¬ ment, and deal with the tender. The youngest girls — 11 and 8 — were in¬ structed in basic safety at sea, such as staying in the cockpit with lifejackets on while underway, staying away from the winches and lines, and how to use the head so it doesn’t get blocked — a very important thing! Our oldest daughter, 18, was given lots of space to adapt, as she had to leave her vibrant social life behind and would be subjected to younger sib¬ lings 24/7. N
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Spread; An aerial view of North Gordo Sound and the Bitter End YC. Inset; Alicia fools with a fishing net during the family sailing adventure. None of us has had any problems with seasickness other than a few bouts of queasiness on long, rough passages, which can be expected of even the most seasoned sailors. But we have gotten great satisfaction through sharing many 'firsts' with our kids. Seeing our son’s eyes bulge when he saw his first barracuda was fan¬ tastic, for instance. Or the shouts of tri¬ umph when the trolling rod bent and the reels screamed. Then everyone contrib¬ uting to landing the fish, gutting and fil¬ leting, and finally the delight of grilling and eating the fresh fish. And every day has yielded a wealth of new experiences too great to mention. I registered the kids for home schooling before we left, and brought along all the materials we needed. About three hours each morning covers all the subjects — not including the tremendous knowledge gained through all the extracurricular activities. All of us have read more books in these months than the last several
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years at home. I read aloud after dinner each night. While anchored off Norman Island in the British Virgins, it seemed fitting to read Stevenson’s Treasure Is¬ land, as that is said to be the setting for the story. A 12-volt television with a builtin VCR and.a Sony Playstation proved to be valuable when a change of pace was needed. Other very important items have been the boys’ boogie boards for trips to the windward side of the islands where there is surf, and for riding behind the dinghy when in bays. The little girls brought a few toys, lots of coloring books and similar materials. My husband, old¬ est daughter, and I all brought our laptops for various projects. When quarters get a little too close, we make an easy adjustment by sending the kids off in the dinghy. Or, my husband ajid 1 take off to explore the waterfront shops, restaurants, nightlife, or just have a quiet time on the beach. We also have the option of locking ourselves in our cab¬ ins. Getting up early has also yielded some great personal time and space. Back home, we'd always be consistent about eating our meals together, but life onboard involves constant menu plan-
ning. It took a lot of organization to stock the proper dry provisions and still be able to add in the fresh and frozen foods. It’s not cheap feeding our large family here in the islands because food is quite ex¬ pensive. Even when we buy just the mini¬ mal groceries, the bill comes to about $800 a month. With occasional treats, it's more like $ 1,000 a month. We rarely dine out, ordering the occasional pizza. The fact that we brought lots of pancake mix, oats, flour, sugar, rice, beans, dried veggies, pasta and sauce mixes has re¬ ally helped with our food budget. It's great when we catch a fish for dinner, but it’s not realistic to expect to be able to do it every night. With about four months left in our adventure, we can honestly say that it's gotten better almost every day. As we've gone along, we've gotten a better idea of the family priorities. Right now, for ex¬ ample, we are purchasing a small dive compressor because it will soon pay for itself by our not having to pay $7 to $10 to get a tank filled. As for clothes and shoes, most of them can be left at home. Our normal outfits consist of cotton or nylon swimsuits or board shorts, plus tank tops. Nobody wears tops on the French Islands, so we saved on storage space when there. Back home we did laundry every day, but down here — where you don't wear many clothes — we only do it every two to three weeks. Most ports have laundry services that wash, dry, and fold your clothes for you — at about $8 to $10 a load. We save a lot of money by hand-washing our clothes and hanging them out to dry. Our itinerary has been dictated by the weather patterns. First, we headed south Having stuck with the adventure after early diffi¬ culties, the Glenny family is now enjoying their cruising of the Caribbean.
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CHANGES because it was hurricane season, and on the way back we hit the spots that have become our favorites. New Years at Foxy's on Jost van Dyke is a must! Our advice?'Do a trip like this with your family while you can, as everything else will still be there when you get home. If you wait until the kids are grown, you'll miss the great times and be too old to enjoy such an experience. Finances are always a concern, so why not rack up the costs doing something that will give you a lifetime of joy! — the glenny family 9/15/2000
Grimsby — Cal 39 Greg & Val Gillen Tug-Of-War In Colon, Panama (Los Altos) Our Changes might seem odt of date, as we finished our 10 years of cruising when we sailed back beneath the Gate 2.5 years ago. But we couldn't write about a cautionary good news/bad news tale from Colon, Panama, until the statute of limi¬ tations had run out on my mother’s wor¬ rying. Before I get to the tale, here’s a fast update on our travels. We started by tak¬ ing nine years to sail from San Francisco to Maine via the Panama Canal. We then left Annapolis at the end of hurricane sea¬ son in '96, and sailed back to California in nine months. We had an excellent trip coming home, stopping at all of our fa¬ vorite places — and a few new ones along the way. Our old favorites included Isla Providencia, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua; Portobello, Chichime, and Isla Parida in Panama; Bahia Drake, Manuel Antonio, and Bahia Ballena in Costa Rica; and Zihuatanejo and Tenecatita Bay in Colon may have the second largest duty free zone in the world after Hong Kong, but the streets are still dangerous.
Mexico. Our new favorites became Isla Mujeres near Cancun, and Bahia Santa Maria and Turtle Bay on the Pacific Coast of Baja. We still have Grimsby, and we still think San Francisco Bay is one of the greatest places in the world to sail — al¬ though it's a little cold! We spent a couple of weeks in the Delta last fall and did the same this fall. It still has its unique charm. Last fall we introduced some new cruisers anchored in Potato Slough to the concept of the dinghy raft-up for cocktails, and we can tell they will carry the tradi¬ tion south with them. Anyway, here's our Colon story. We were preparing for our Caribbean to Pa¬ cific transit with friends who had flown down to line-handle fo^ us: Ray and Marianne Lokay from the Eastern Shore in Maryland, and Tom Freed, a fellow sailor from Los Altos. While two of the group had gone to find tires to use for fenders — a great idea — the three others went to provision in Colon. I led the provisioning team of Ray, who speaks excellent Spanish, Marianne, and myself, Val. We had hired a cab to take us to the open-air market, which some¬ times has better produce than the El Rey supermarket. When we got out of the cab, my wallet was in a small fanny pack which I was holding close to my body — although the strap was dangling down. I was ex¬ amining the produce when I felt a sharp jerk on the fanny pack strap. My instinct — probably not the safest in the world — was to hold on, which I did. So the thief and I had a tug-of-war over the fanny pack. In the blur of the action, I could see both of his hands on the strap, so I knew he couldn’t use a knife or other weapon. There were lots of people around shop¬ ping, and my friends were just a step be¬ hind me. Ray, my Spanish-speaking friend, tackled the thief. As the thief released his grip on the strap, our tug-of-war ended, and I fell down in the opposite direction. While Ray and the' thief were on the ground, another man jumped out of the crowd to appear to help Ray subdue the thief — when a gun fell out of his pocket! As I yelled to Ray about the gun, the owner was telling Ray not to worry because he was an undercover policemen — albeit one who was careless with his weapon. As we got back on our feet, uniformed police arrived and took control of the thief. The locals in the crowd were very con¬ cerned that I might have been hurt, which I wasn't, except for scraped knees and elbows. The undercover cop then asked us to press charges, explaining that they
were trying to make the open-air market a safer place and that convictions would help set an example. So an hour later we were all in front of a magistrate. Justice • was swift that day in Colon, as the thief was sentenced to a year in jail. When we finished our shopping at the El Rey later that afternoon, several local people who had been in the market rec¬ ognized us and thanked us for pressing charges. So the good news is that efforts are being made to make the situation safer in Colon. The moral of the story is to do not what I did, but what I usually did — kept my money in my shoe or in a little pocket that tied around my waist and slipped inside my shorts or skirt. But I'd been in a hurry that day to move our ex¬ pedition on to the El Rey, which is safe inside, so I'd let my guard down. So that’s our news. It was great to be gone for 10 years, and it's great to be home again. One of the nice things about being (rome is that we see a lot of our old cruis¬ ing friends, either at their homes or when they visit the Bay Area. The cliche is ab¬ solutely true, as the best part of cruising is the people that you meet. — val 8/15/2000
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Friend Natasha, Dana and Rachael doing home¬ work aboard 'Rhapsodie'. The kids do three to four hours of schooling a day, six days a week, using the Calvert system. Greg & Val — Craig Ownings, long time commodore of the Pedro Miguel Boat Club, had this to say: "Colon has been a rela¬ tively dangerous place since the end of the Panama Canal Zone in 1979, which brought on the rampant unemployment that continues today. It has led to larceny and strong arm robbery. Most, yachties don't help, as they might as well be wear¬ ing signs around their necks that say, 'Rob me!' There is now a cruise ship port facil¬ ity in Colon, so it will be interesting to see if there is any improvement in security. But frankly, I don't have much hope."
Rhapsodie — Marquesas 56 Cat Sam & Caren Edwards & Kids Vanuatu And New Caledonia (Portola Valley) We're anchored in lovely Moselle Bay, which is off Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia. Our daughter Rachael is off to the beach with friends, Dana and Caren are shopping in town, and Mike is work¬ ing on the genset's starter motor. The
harbor is jammed with sailboats from all over the world, who are here — as are we — for the 8th quadrennial Festival Des Arts du Pacifique. Delegations from 27 countries are assembling for the opening ceremonies tomorrow evening, followed by 10 days of dancing, singing, arts and crafts, and lots of partying. The countries include all the big names such as Tonga, Fiji,' and Samoa, but also smaller ones such as the Solomons, Kiribati, Niue, Pitcairn, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Tokelau, and Nauru to name just a few. We've only been at New Caledonia for a week, but on the surface it seems to combine the best of France and the South Pacific. The beaches are powdery white, the weather is warm but not hot, the lan¬ guage French, and the people are ex¬ tremely friendly. Noumea is a big city — for the South Pacific — of over 200,000. It can boast of fine restaurants and ca¬ fes, luxury shopping, and a terrific mar¬ ket that is cleaner, cheaper, and more friendly than the one in Papeete. There's also enough local Kanak color to make it exotic. The French deserve a lot of credit for the cleanliness, efficiency, and beauty of the capital city. They deserve a lot less credit for the way they have treated the
Kanaks — especially over the past 50 years. They have managed to take all the good land and total political control, sabo¬ taging the Kanak's efforts at indepen¬ dence. Remember the Rainbow Warrior incident of 1985, when the French Secret Service bombed and sunk the Greenpeace flagship in Auckland? The same Secret Service elements are believed to have been responsible for similar attacks in New Caledonia, including the 1985 assassina¬ tions of several Kanak politicians. France is determined to keep New Caledonia for its mineral riches — it ranks third in world nickel production — and it's highly un¬ likely that the French government will ever allow true self-determination for the Kanak people. Before we got to New Caledonia, we spent about a month in Vanuatu. The is¬ lands were discovered by Captain Cook in 1774, who named them the New Hebrides after the Scottish Islands. Vanuatu has to be the most interesting country we have visited thus far. Port Vila, the modern capital city, contrasts sharply with unchanging, traditional villages on the adjacent islands. Vanuatu has more than 80 islands divided into three groups, two of which we were able to visit. The islands form part of a chain of volcanic activity stretching from New Zealand up through Vanuatu and the Solomons to the islands off New Guinea. We climbed two active volcanoes during our visit: Mt. Vetlam, on the island of Ambrym, and Mt. Yasur, on Tanna Island. The former was a difficult nine-hour round-trip trek, starting in a tropical forest, then along a sinuous lava flow from 1913 that is bor¬ dered by palms and huge tree ferns, and A Fijian man uses hibiscus fibers to filter kava, while the men in the background cut up roots they will later pound and soak in water.
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CHANCES finally over and around the boulders in a dry creekbed. At the summit, we stood on the lip of the crater, with sulfur smoke swirling past and a, lake of boiling lava just below us. We were the last party to climb Mt. Vetlam this year, since the lo¬ cals believe that the yam gods get mad if anyone climbs their sacred mountain af¬ ter October 1. Ascending Mt. Yasur was much easier. A Toyota Land-Cruiser drove us across big black dunes of volcanic ash to within 100 yards of the summit. Once on top, we listened to the 'heavy breathing' of the volcano, punctuated irregularly by loud explosions which hurled huge lava boul¬ ders high into the air! The Cargo cultists of Tanna Island believe that Jon Frum — as in John from America'— lives beneath the fires of Yasur, where he commands an army of 5,000 souls. These followers believe that ships like the World War II ones that came to the New Hebrides in 1942 will return laden with cargo, es¬ corted by Jon Frum. The movement de¬ clares that money must be thrown away, pigs killed, and gardens left uncared for, since all material wealth will be provided in the end by Jon Frum. In the Jon Frum village we visited, the children are not even sent to school. The members of another village, Yaohnanen, believe that Prince Phillip, who visited in 1974, will return to rule over them. At Epi Island we anchored in Lamen Bay, which is famous for its turtles and its dugong. The turtles — and there are dozens of them — are so tame that you can grab on to the back of their shells and get pulled through the water. The dugong — which looks like a manatee with a fish tail — spends its time grazing off the grasses on the bottom of the bay. The one we saw didn't seem to mind us swim¬ ming down to stare at him or stroke his sides. We also had the opportunity to visit a traditional village on Tanna. The women wore grass skirts and nothing else. The men only wear nambas, which are penis sheaths. National Geographic, eat your heart out. I was served kava, tradition¬ ally prepared by young women chewing and spitting out the roots of the kava plant. After one cupful, I was stoned for the afternoon. Vanuatu makes the stron¬ gest kava in the South Pacific. Caren, my wife, wasn't allowed any — taboo. None of us caught malaria, although some of the other yachties did. On the culinary front, I had a delicious meal at a French restaurant in Port Vila — flying fox prepared in red wine. The little crit¬ ter, with beady eyes and tiny ears, looked so pitiful that it spoiled Caren's mead of Page208 •
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fresh water prawns. Before New Caledonia and Vanuatu, we were in Fiji for about 10 months. Yet we only saw a small part of it. We were in Fiji for the coup d'etat and for the hurricane season — and loved having it to ourselves. We liked Fiji so much that we're thinking of buying land and building a little winter vacation retreat there. Unfortunately, we haven't found the perfect spot yet. Our kids, Dana and Ra'chael, are thriv¬ ing. Mike, our crew, is still with us. In fact, we celebrate his 35th birthday to¬ day with roast lamb and potatoes, car¬ rots, beans, pumpkin, onions, cream of tomato soup, and homemade chocolate cake! Mika, a schoolteacher from Austra¬ lia, joined us in Vanuatu. Now the kids work twice as hard on schooling and en¬ joy it twice as much. We will be in New Caledonia another two weeks or so, then off to New Zealand for the hurricane season. The journey continues. — sam 10/15/2000
Sundancer — Catalina 42 Bob & Tori Dorman Bad Breeze Near Guaymas (Escondido) We left San Carlos to spend four or five days exploring the coves within 15 miles of Guaymas, and then planned to head across the Sea of Cortez to Santa Rosalia. After a stop at Bahia Lalo, we ventured another 10 miles to Bahia San Pedro, one of the nicest anchorages in the area. The
Spread; Local transportation in Kadavu, Fiji. The kids had made two canoes; one a dugout, the other of sheet metal. Inset; The folks from ‘SOCT help 'Sundancer' make it back to their slip. crescent-shaped anchorage is surrounded by a pebble beach and protected to the north by a 520-foot rocky peak. But as we would soon learn, it provided false se¬ curity. After a day of travel, snorkeling and a nice meal, we were treated to a spec- ' tacular heat lightning show over the desert. The bolts were about one second apart, and kept the sky as bright as day¬ light for nearly three hours! We stern anchored the boat on Friday afternoon to limit the roll caused by the swell wrapping around the north en¬ trance. Then shortly after dark, we were sitting in the cockpit watching a weather system develop out in the Sea when I sud¬ denly recalled a bit of recent advise from Morris of SOCI. He said they’d been in the same situation when they were suddenly hit by a 60-knot chubasco, which unfor¬ tunately put their boat on the beach. So I quickly cleaned up the deck and dinghy just in case. It was a good thing, too, be¬ cause within 10 minutes it was blowing over 30 knots. Still hanging to a mere 22-lb Danforth stern anchor, we watched as the wind built to a steady 45 knots with higher gusts. By now it was too late to dump the stern anchor, so we did our best to keep the dodger- and bimini attached to the
IN LATITUDES few times it ended up under the stern of the boat, and finally it got landed on so hard that a hole was punched in the tube. I put on my PFD and harness so I could hang over the swim-step to try to recover the contents and save the outboard. It was a battle, but I recovered everything but our sandals.
boat. When the rain came, it dumped about an inch eveiy 30 minutes — most of it horizontal. The wind blew water through the companionway of our 42footer all the way forward to the head! Osprey, Themroc and Kuilima — our com¬ panions in the anchorage, held on the best they could. Osprey eventually dragged about 300 yards, but stayed clear of all obstructions and came out all right. We were pleasantly surprised that our little Danforth stem anchor — with just 10feet of chain and 100-feet of line — held fast through the entire blow. On Saturday, we survivors of the an¬ chorage all commented how lucky we’d been that the storm had come off the beach, and therefore there hadn't been much fetch. Had it come from the south, we'd have caught hell. Unfortunately, Mother Nature seemed to be listening in and resented our comments. So about 11 p.m. that night, we got a 25-knot south¬ erly with higher gusts! Before long, there were four foot seas with breaking tops pouring unimpeded into the anchorage and right at us. This storm, unlike the relatively short chubasco, lasted until morning, stopped for two hours, then blew for another eight hours. I stayed up in the cockpit all night steering the boat through the wild condi¬ tions. Our dinghy was on a short painter and kept riding on the back of waves and would then slingshot back to the boat. A
During the morning lull, we got the din¬ ghy and motor back aboard, raised the stern^anchor, and prepared to run. The wind was already back to 25 knots plus when we tried to raise the primary an¬ chor, a 35-lb CQR. When I pulled it up short., it stuck and pulled the chain off the gypsy, bending the bow roller! The anchor broke free on the next try, but came aboard looking like a pretzel at the end of an anchor shank. Evidently, our great holding power — we'd been hang¬ ing on this bow anchor during this latest blow — was due to having hooked a large rock, which held even though it twisted the anchor to destruction. Better it than our boat, Our trip back to Marina San Carlos and safety was slow because we couldn't motor at more than two or three knots into the 30+ knots of wind and eight-foot square seas. I've sailed Northern and Southern California for 30 years, but I have to say these were the worst condi¬ tions I've ever been in. Fortunately, the wind died at the marina entrance, and thanks to the help of fellow Ha-Ha '99 par¬ ticipants Neener3 and Akahuelo, we made a smooth landing. They immediately sup¬ plied strong margaritas all around, at which time the marina was hit by a 25knot squall with rain and lightning. Our Catalina 42 performed flawlessly throughout .both blows and the pound¬ ing trip back to the marina, and we were never in per¬ sonal danger. It was uncom¬ fortable, however. We hope to leave for Santa Rosalia at the end of the week. — bob & tori 11/10/2000
Cruise Notes: "This is a plea to help Don and Sally Branch of the Westsail 43 Dharma, who are fellow cruisers and good friends," write Ted and Shari Alcorn of Mystique, a Stockton-based Alden Off¬ shore 50 currently in La Paz. "We received an email from Sally this morning say¬ ing that she and Don were in New Zealand because Don had fallen seriously ill
while in Tonga. Tests conducted in New Zealand indicate that Don is suffering from advanced lung cancer, with compli¬ cations of the spleen, and a brain tumor. He recently lost most of his sight, and has been told that he only has a few months to live. Don and Sally have settled into a small apartment while he begins treat¬ ment to help ease the pain and suffering they will both go through in the coming months. Sally told us that they plan to have Dharma delivered to New Zealand to be sold in order to help with the ex¬ penses. Anybody who has had the plea¬ sure of knowing Don and Sal were always left with the feeling that they had truly touched your hearts with their knowledge, friendship and love. Now they need help. A gift of $20 — equal to $50 Kiwi — can be sent to them at 40 Inverness Rd., Brown's Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. The donations will help offset the current cost of treatment and let them stay where they can receive help. Thank you." 'Derrick' of the Seattle Westsail Asso¬ ciation reports that he is rallying Westsail owners to contribute funds to the Branches. He can be reached at (206) 4431480. He also had a friend at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron who is go¬ ing to tiy and help in Auckland. Don and Sally were featured in a July 2000 Changes and had their photo in the Au¬ gust 2000 issue. In the middle of October, Malcolm and Jackie Holt of the Victoria-based Aeolus organized a southbounders party at Ma¬ rina Paradise in Puerto Vallarta for boats headed south. Here's a list of the boats, crew, hailing ports and destinations: Soilthbound cruisers already in Mexico gathered at Marina Paradise before heading further south or west on their cruisers.
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IN LATITUDES well. In her letter of resignation, she cited "vast differences in philosophy and goals, disrespect towards me, and negative be¬ havior by certain members of the Board . . ."as her reasons for taking the paddles with her when she bailed. We long time cruisers look at this as just another epi¬ sode of the As the Anchor Drags soap op¬ era. There have always been solid people doing volunteer work for the club, and from time to time someone comes by who wants to redo eveiything in their own image. When it doesn't work out, they leave in a huff, laying all the blame on the others. Nonetheless, life and the char¬ ity work go on. Look for the. www.clubcruceros.org website to be up again soon." "In the October Changes, Joe Larive of the Hunter 40 La Rive asked about ma¬ rinas or other places to change crews in the Belize-Cancun-Cozumel-Rio Dulce area," Ted Buehler of the Chula Vistabased Peterson 44 Dos Equis reminds us. "There are a number of good places, al¬ though some have draft restrictions. Our Peterson draws seven feet, and Mario's
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CHANGES both marinas when the murder took place. Neither Mango’s or Mario's was in¬ volved in any manner. In fact, both these marinas — plus all the others on the Rio Dulce — have been doing a great job of providing safety and security for cruisers. Mario's, for example, provides waterborne security at night. It's primarily for the boats in their marina, but as a courtesy they also check on boats anchored nearby. We are comfortable leaving our boat in the marina for inland trips, and recommend most of Guatemala as being a really great place to visit. Just like ev¬ erywhere, there have been a few problems on the Rio Dulce, but most of all the ma¬ jor ones have affected cruisers who have chosen to park their boats in relatively out-of-the-way places. This is unfortu¬ nate, because there are so many isolated places that are inviting, but maybe things will be different this season." "What a treat to come across the names Ernie and Pauline Copp of the Long Beach-based Cheoy Lee 50 Orient Star while reading the Ha-Ha profiles from the November issue," write John and Debby Dye of Lovely Reta. "We first met Pauline
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in 1982 — 18 years ago — while taking our ham exams at the F.C.C. office in Long Beach prior to heading out to Mexico. What a classy lady! Since we both passed our tests, we communicated by ham
throughout Mexico and our passages to the Marquesas. When we arrived after a 27-day passage on our 29-foot sloop, Ernie and Pauline were there to show us the way in. And even before we had the anchor down they'd come over to invite us for cold drinks and poo-poos. That was the first — and nearly the last — time we had ice for our drinks in the South Pa¬ cific, and it's a reception we still talk about. One of our favorite Copp stories is the time Ernie caught a big fish — and while filleting it discovered a whole smaller fish inside! They had two fish for dinner that night. We re delighted and jealous to see that Ernie and Pauline are heading out again, and know they will be a great addition to the Ha-Ha. We re in the pro¬ cess of getting our Islander 40 Lovely Reta ready for a cruise in the next few years, so we hope that Ernie and Pauline will keep in touch as they continue south." We had a wonderful conversation with Ernie and Pauline on the beach at Turtle Bay. We'd never met them before, but thanks to Ernie's many clear and intelli¬ gent letters, we felt as though we already
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IN LATITUDES knew them. Now in his mid-70s, Ernie explained that he and Pauline — they are doublehanding — would be dropping out of the Ha-Ha at Turtle Bay to enjoy a slower cruising pace. But we did make plans to meet up again in Puerto Vallarta. There was a report in the November Changes from John and Karen O’Connor of the Pier 39-based Windsong on Ma¬ rina Carenero in the Bocas del Toro, Panama," writes Thomas Caufield of the Cascade 42 Kuani. "I'd like to add my own comments. We left Kuani in the marina there for two months in ’98 so .we could return to the U.S., and then left her there again for four months in '99. We chose Marina Carenero over Colon and the Pedro Miguel Boat Club in Panama, and over Cartagena, Columbia, on the basis of safety and economy. We did not con¬ sider Columbia's San Andreas Island a good place to leave a boat as the harbor lacks protection in heavy weather and we're not certain about the security. Any¬ way, we’re happy to hear that Mack and Maty Robertson are doing fine, as we were very pleased with the way they took care
If you look very carefully, you may be able to see Ernie and Pauline in this photo, taken at the HaHa beach party in Turtle Bay. of Kuani, regularly airing her out, run¬ ning the engine, and even oiling the wood¬ work below. The Bocas del Toro — which means "mouth of the bull" — is actually on a large island. Like the rest of Panama and Columbia, it's southwest of the hur¬ ricane track. The cruising around Bahia Almirante and Laguna de Chiriqui is re¬ portedly terrific. Fuel and adequate pro¬
visioning are available in Bocas, but ma¬ rine supplies and services are very lim¬ ited. Marina Carenero has water and power for each slip, there are shower and laundry facilities at the pier, and it's all isolated from the sometimes rowdy town of Bocas. A second marina — the Bocas YC — is still under construction and doesn't yet have power or water. It's also near the noisy diesel power plant. There is regular air service from Bocas to Panama City and to San Jose, Costa Rica. Since Mack and Mary took such good care of us, we're happy to recommend Marina
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'careening', and we are located on Cayo Carenero — 'Careening Cay' — 200 yards across from the town of Bocas. The is¬ land was named by Columbus, who ca¬ reened his caravels here in 1502 on his last voyage of discovery. We can be reached at www.marcar@cwp.net.pa."s. Funny coincidence: Mac and Mary Shroyer developed one of the first mari¬ nas in Mexico, and Mack and Mary Robertson are developing what we believe will be one of the first of several marinas in Panama. A last word on Marina Careno from Mike and Sue Ulrich of the Leucadiabased Vagabond 47 Alsvid: We just re¬ turned from a boat maintenance trip to Marina Carenero. We love Bocas and want Latitude readers to know what a thriving place it is for cruisers. We have been at Marina Carenero since April 2000. The Bocas YC and Marina has just completed construction of new floating docks for 65 large boats and 35 smaller ones. At this time there is no power or electricity, but there will be soon. On a brief stop over in *
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(11), Andrea (10) and Natalia (8) of the Cross 34 trimaran Scorpion. "Undoubt¬ edly, it's the the new Comercial Mexicana, located only 15 minutes by foot from the sewage spewing canal at the east end of Playa Principal. Comercial Mexicana's massive air conditioners and fully-stocked aisles finally make shopping a pleasure — instead of just another colorful but odiferous cultural experience as had been the case at the mercado. Actually, the old mercado is not so bad now that the crowds have thinned out. Speaking of Rick, he's on the prowl for a new location as his greedy landlord didn't share his vision of cheap beer and unbridled fun. Those of us who live here year 'round are enjoying the calm before the storm — the storm of tourists, that is. As semi-retired cruisers with our trimaran safely tucked away in Mission Bay, the travelers we love to meet are those who arrive on their own bot¬ toms. From the bayside terrace of our humble home, nestled among trees and bushes above Playa La Madera, we scan the open sea anxiously awaiting the bil¬ lowing sails — or at least sunshade and sail cover — of the first cruisers of the season."
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CHANGES "We've been cruising the coast of Mexico for the last eight years," report George and Beverly Mason of the Long Beach-based Catalina 30 Sea Lark. This year we are headed south again to spend a couple of months in Z-town, then head back up to our favorite spots from Manzanillo to Vallarta." Based on what we heard during the Ha-Ha, a number of other boats plan to be in Z-town for the Christmas holidays. 'We built our 35-foot Woods catama¬ ran in Saskachewan, then trucked her — 19.5 beam — to Washington," report Xen and Shelaine Zambas of the Sidney, B.C.based Inetora. 'We then worked in B.C. for two years, sailed down to Puerto Vallarta in the fall of '99, then raced in the MEXORC and Banderas Bay Regat¬ tas. We left the boat in P.V. to return to B.C. so I could work as the skipper and mate on an 80-foot powerboat, which we're now deliverying down to P.V. We'll be jumping back aboard Inetora — the name means 'now is the time' — at the end of November to cruise to Manzanillo and then back to P.V. for the Banderas Bay Regatta. We'll then provision for the
When it comes to value, there's no beating the March 22-25 Banderas Bay Regatta — there is no entry fee! Puddle Jump to the Marquesas, and next winter I'll take a job as a production man¬ ager for a boatbulder in New Zealand. So far we 've had a fantastic time cruising our little cat and love her — but I'd love to build another cat to try out some new ideas." "We left Australia in '95 and arrived in Mexico via Japan, Alaska, and the West
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25 TO 28 FEET FLEUR BLEUE. 26-ft. classic Japanese H wood racing sloop. Teak and mahogany. :: Full set of sails. New standard rigging. New cushions. Outboard. Radio. In fine condi;i tion. $3,800/obo. Call (510) 845-5241. t CORONADO 26, 1969. Good condition. I New 9 hp o/b. Berthed at Berkeley Marina. < $1,850/obo. Please call (510) 486-1622. :
CHEOY LEE 27, 1969. Overhauled Volvo MD 1. New main sail. All sail inventory. New mast. Real cruising boat. Must see. Real i beauty. Located San Diego. $13,500. Call r Tim at (619) 667-0371.
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COLUMBIA 26 MK I11969.1996 Yahama 8 hp long shaft. Force-10 heater. Sink with fresh water. Head. Holding tank. Stove. 3 anchors. VHF. DeWitt sails with covers. Autotillerand more. Bottom paint4/99. Coyote Point Marina. $4,950. Call Rob at (650) 349-2648. C & C 25. Reliable Honda 4-cycle outboard. Legal head. 12-voltshorepower. Great safe Bay boat from famous builder with good slip at Brisbane Marina. Comes with full gear. Will include some sailing lessons. $6,500. Please call Frank (831) 659-8877 or email: fkoucky@ix.netcom.com.
i CATALINA 27, 1977. Exquisite racer/ i cruiser. 3 jibs. 2 mains. Spinnaker with 2 : halyards. New Tuff Luff. Dinette. Head. . Autohelm. Retrofitted mast and chain plates, a New bottom paint. Evinrude 8 hp outboard. < Located in Monterey. $9,500. Please email: : paulnel @ carmelabodes.com for pictures or i call Paul (831) 624-1414. i CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27, 1970. New ' oversized standing rigging. New decks. All S lines led aft. Propane. New battery bank. ‘ Very solid sweet sailing boat. $12,500/obo. 5 Call (415) 595-8716. ALBIN VEGA 27, 1975. Very good condi¬ tion. Repowered with Volvo MD6B and trans¬ mission. Replaced standing rigging, 2 sets of sails, spinnaker, 150 and 95. Lines led ) aft. V-berth and all cushions replaced. $11,500/obo. Call (510) 865-4238 (days I and msgs eves).
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. LUGER 26. Swing keel. Trailerable. Good boat for Delta. 9.9 hp Johnson, electric start. Pulpits and lifelines. Sleeps four. Shore power. 3 sails and spinnaker. Microwave. VHF. Stereo. Battery charger. New battery. : Compass. Electric head and holding tank, i Electric sink and bilge pump. New bottom t paint. Anchor, line and bow roller. At Loch Lomond. T railer available. Was $4,250. Now $3,850. Call (415) 606-4034 (days) or (415) 897-4034 (eves).
CATALINA 27,1979. New Ballenger mast, boom, standing, running rigging. All lines are led aft. Reef from cockpit. Good sails. Atomic 4. New since 1997: GPS, VHF, autopilot, stereo, dual batteries, main, inter rior cushions, traveler, whisker pole, toilet and holding tank. Other equipment: depthsounder, knotmeter, compass, stern lad¬ der, anchor, manual and automatic bilge pumps, 6 winches, 2 triple rope clutches, gimballed oil lamp, clock, barometer, inte¬ rior handrails, full galley, safety gear, bot¬ tom barrier coat. Hauled/painted late 1999. Pete's Harbor berth. Owner moved up to Catalina 36. See pictures at http:// cybercruise.microtech.com/invictus.html. $7,000. Call (650) 851-7135. LASER 28, 1982. Great sailing boat. 3 North mains. 2 genoas. 2 jibs. Spinnaker gear, no spinnaker. Shorepower. Battery charger. VHF/Loran. Volvo saildrive 8 hp. New bottom paint. $8,900/obo. Call (925) 831-8229.
MacGREGOR 26X, 2000. Ready to go. Furling. Cushions. Ladder. Head. Mast raiser. Trailer with brakes. I tow it behind a mini-van. Freshwater use only. SLC, UT. Possible delivery. $14,750. Please call Paul (801) 209-0293. CONTESSA26. Ocean pocket cruiser. Baja and beyond. Near new Yanmar 10 hp die¬ sel. New oversized rigging. Boom. Main¬ sail. Cushions. Paint. Prop. Bottom job. Etc. Excellent condition. $14,700/obo. Possible trailer and additional items. Espar furnace. Dickinson stove and heater. Please call (415) 331-7576. CATALINA 27,1979. Excellent condition. Outboard 9.9 motor. Main. 2 jibs. .100%. 150%. Linesto cockpit. Depth. Speed. Com¬ pass. VHS radio, Stereo. Alcohol stove. Sink. Head. Battery charger. Very clean. Great Bay cruiser. Please call Gerry (415) 990-4024. OLSON 25. This great little fast cruiser has Harken furling. 2000 Doyle main. #1. #3. Spinnaker. Tiller pilot. 4 hp outboard and trailer. $13,5000. Call (916) 933-6146.
BAYLINER BUCCANEER 27,1980. Great Nissan o/b. Teak interior. Dinette. Stove. Pump water. VHF. New battery and charger. Sails in good condition. Lifelines. Enclosed potty. Excellentthroughout. Moved: Inspect by appt. Allowance for bottom paint. No trailer. $4,400 Please call (661) 873-7729 or email: kentlittle@yahoo.com.
NOR1 SEA 27, 1979. In great condition. Roller furling. Aft cockpit. Dodger. Auto¬ helm. Trailer. Yanmar engine, low hours. Hot/cold pressurized water. Force 10 stove/ oven. Completely remodeled interior. Loran. VH F. Good storage. $34,000. Call (707) 935-6292 or (707) 794-4457(work).
MacGREGOR 26X, 1999. Excellent condi¬ tion. Evinrude 50 hp F.l. 4-stroke. Every imaginable option. Must sell. Leaving coun¬ try. $22,500/obo. Call (707) 546-2293. CAL 28,1967. Fin keel. Tiller steering. Fullbatten main. 3 jibs. 1 Windfinder. Rebuilt BMW 12 hp diesel (03/00). New bottom paint (06/00). Flush teak deck. Head with tank. Sink. Shorepower. Anchor. $8,000/ obo. Call (415) 989-5025 or email: jjrothe@yahoo.com. EXCALIBUR 26. Lower Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor berth for next 90 days. Good condi¬ tion inside and out. Jib, main and spinnaker. Nissan o/b. Radio. Depthsounder. Knotme¬ ter. Compass. $6,500/obo. Please call (408) 353-6686. MERIT 25, 1982. Early '83 model. Nine sails. Fresh Pineapple main and 95% blade. Includes trailer and lifting cable. 3-year-old Horizon speedlog and’depth. Ne& Nissan 5 hp outboard. $8,500/obo. Call Terry (408) 371-0354 or email: tery269@aol.com. ERICSON 27 SLOOP, 1977. New within 2 years: standing rigging, Atomic 4 rebuild, prop shaft, fuel tank, exhaust system, wind gen., hatches, CD. Great shape. Roller furling genoa and main. Headroom. Wheel steering. Baby on the way. $12,000/obo. Please call (805) 772-6128 or email: alexiscj2@aol.com.
COLUMBIA 28.4,1987. Bulletproof week¬ ender or coastal cruiser. 150 genny. Main. Working jib. Like new interior. Enclosed head. New VHF. New running rigging. Yamaha 9.9,4-stroke outboard. Move forces sale. It's a steal at $10,000. Please call evenings (650) 712-0828 or email: benjamine@usa.net. ISLANDER 28,1977. Pretty, smooth-sail¬ ing Robert Perry design. Could use some spit and polish. 7 bags of older sails. Atomic 4. New cushions. BBQ. Heater. Lipes led aft. Bottom job 12/99. Coyote Point berth. $11,500/obo. Call Paul (415) 258-8227 or email: paulha@sonic.net. ALBIN VEGA 27. Good condition. 110/12v electrical system. Solar panel. Inverter. Tiller pilot. VHF. 3 bags of sails. In Half Moon Bay. $6,800. Make an offer. Call Josh (650) 533-5881.
29-31 FEET CAL 30,1966. Partially refurbished/modi¬ fied. Yanmar 2gm20 diesel. 27 gal. fuel. 14 gal. water. Removable inner stay. Five sails. Many extras. Excellent pocket cruiser. $16,000. Call Michael (415) 721-2240 (days) or (510) 525-0069 (eves). HUNTER 30, 1990. Top condition. Roller furling. Yanmar diesel. Autohelm. New dodger. Inflatable Zodiac with engine. Extra sails, all in excellent condition. Lots of other equipment and gear. Berthed in Vallejo. $42,000. Call (775) 841-1569.
CHEOY LEE BERMUDA 30,1966. Ketch. Great condition. Wonderful cruising boat. Classic beauty. Full keel. Volvo diesel. For details call Clay Prescott (415) 332-7245. NEWPORT 30, 1977. Yanmar diesel. Wheel. GPS. Radar. Navico autopilot. Fleming vane. Solar panels. Propane stove/ oven. Roller furling etc. Just returned from a 7-month, 5,000-mile voyage. 2-time Mexico vet. Fully cruise equipped. Very clean. Located in San Diego. $17,800. Call (619) 807-2173. COLUMBIA 29, 1966. Hull #155. Spark¬ man and Stevens design. No blisters. Main. 3 headsails. VHF. Depthsounder. Bruce and Danforth anchors. Atomic-4, not work¬ ing. 2 quarter berths. Dinette. Galley. Head. $4,900. Call (360) 202-3160. OLSON 30. Hull #48. Double spreader. Autohelm 4000. Very clean. Full sail inven¬ tory. Two spinnakers. 2 hp Honda. Single¬ hand or Club. $12,000. Call (916) 375-1500 ext. 222 (days) or (530) 666-3943 (eves) or email: relkins@recommercial.com.
COLUMBIA 8.7, 1976. 29-foot pocket cruiser. Unusually roomy below. Recent standing rigging, head, custom mattress, some new through-hulls. Yanmar 2GM4 diesel. A dry, fine-sailing, comfortable Bay boat or compact liveaboard. $13,500. Call (510) 795-6800. OLSON 29. Cisco. Great condition. Numer¬ ous sails. Outboard. Instruments. Trailer. Race-ready. Located Brickyard Cove. Call Gary (530) 583-9132.
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J/105. First 105 to Hawaii in Pac Cup. Winner of Kenwood Cup. This boat is in great shape and ready to race. Great sail inventory. $115,000. Please call day or night (650) 969-2642. HUNTER 340, 1998. Great shape. Bright interior. Incredible space. Roller furling jib. GPS. 27 hp Yanmar diesel with low hours. Microwave. Built-in refrigerator. Water heater. Stereo. 2-burner propane oven. Pressure water and shower, Currently at liveaboard berth. $98,000. Call Calvin at (925) 367-4777.
CREALOCK 34,1987. Thirteen years TLC by only owner. Completely cruise equipped. New rigging qnd chainplates. Lying Hono¬ lulu. Provision and go. Photos and inven¬ tory: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/nisku. $125,000. Please call (808) 947-1612 or email: nisku@hawaii.rr.com. PEARSON VANGUARD, 1967. Hull #399. Modified dinette interior with double for¬ ward and navigation table. Storage rather than port quarterberth. Teak cockpit wheel. 500 lb. electric windlass. Atomic 4 engine. 9 sails. Wind, depth, speed instruments. Autopilot. CQR and Danforth etc. Located in Alameda at Ballena Isle Marina (SF Bay Area). $15,000. Please call (510) 7-63-9118 (messages checked all day) or email: kfullin@bart.gov.
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PEARSON VANGUARD 32, 1965. New Yanmar diesel. Teak salon. Windvane. Au¬ tohelm. Solar panel. Watermaker. All cruis¬ ing sails. Force-10 propane stove. New Lewmar portlights. Stainless mast step. More. Located San Diego. $25,400/obo. Please call (760) 375-8634 or email: dburnett@hotmail.com.
34-FT ROBERTS, 1991. Steel. Custom built Water Line Yachts. Major refit 1999/ 2000. Currently cruising South Pacific. Will ship or deliver worldwide. Has all the ameni¬ ties. Too much to list. $85,000. Email for specs, and pictures: sloutitt@yahoo.com. Call (250) 635-4855.
CATALINA 34, 1989. Andromeda. Great shape Universal diesel. Martec folding prop. 3 jibs. 2 spinnakers. Harken furling. Full batten main with dutchman furling. WD. WS. DS. KT. VHF. Autohelm 3000. CD player. Microwave. Battery charger. Bruce anchor. CSC bottom. $65,000. Call (415) 665-6204.
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J/35,1988. Pristine. Owner motivated. New FWC Yanmar. 9 sails, all very good to excellent. Full cruising interior with enclosed head. Huge V-berth and large dinette table. Teak Ceilings. Wheel steering. H/C pres¬ sure water. Force 10 propane. Northsfar GPS/Loran. KVH integrated electronics with SailComp maxi. Harken furler. Templated foils. Re-awlgripped mast. This is not a beater boat. Check it out. You aren't likely to find a nicer J/35. $72,000. Can email pho¬ tos. Call Tom (425) 337-0304 or email: bblosten @ seanet.com.
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HERRESHOFF MEADOWLARK. 33' x 8' x 15". Fast. Shoal-draft leeboard sharpie ketch. Stock model. Yellowpine, cedar, oak. Construction overseen by L. Francis Herreshoff in Mainel 960.3-axle trailer and mooring in Marshall. $7,000. Call Chris (707) 964-0487. APHRODITE 101, 1978. Blue Max. Very, very clean. Go anywhere alone. Will only sell to right party. New working sails. Very nice boat. $17,500. Call (510) 769-8591. PACIFIC SEACRAFT34. Keel laid in 1988, delivered in 1989. Beautiful. Ready to go anywhere. $125,000. Call (760) 723-5329 or email: wallyworld@tfb.com. CATALINA 34, 1995. Popular walk-thru transom with pulpit seats. Knot. Depth. Windspeed-point. Radar. Chartplotter. Au¬ topilot. Stereo. Propane stove/oven. Re¬ frigeration. Hot and cold pressure water with shower. Diesel. Mainsail. 110% furling jib. 150% furling genoa. Spinnaker. Dodger and more. $76,000. Call (510) 595-8683
PETERSON 33. Fast, strong coastal/club racer with upgraded custom rigging. 5 headsails including spinnaker. Beautiful teak interior with galley and CNG stove. Berths for 7. Yanmar diesel. Oversized Barient winches. New: prop, VHF, Autohelm Tridata. $26,000. Call (408) 776-4675. CATALINA .320, 2000. Diesel. Upgraded equipment. Double reef main. Roller furl genoa. All halyards/reef lines led aft. Over¬ sized bow/stern ground tackle. Speed. Depth. GPS. VHF. AM/FM. BBQ. Walk-thru transom. $82,000. Call (805) 570-9821 or see www.iycharter.com/boats4sale. TARTAN 10. New boom vang. .$10,000 invested. Newsheetstoppers. New running rigging. Great cockpit. Superb performance. 8 hp outboard. Lots of boat at 33 feet. $9,50G/obo. Call (415) 331-6200 or (415) 388-4894 (eves). CLASSIC CRUISER. Designed by Lapworth. Built by Easom. An unbeatable combination. 32-ft. sloop. Wood strip planked. Beautifully built. Present owners have lived aboard for many years. Job forced move. An excellent buy at $12,500. Call (888) 587-0002 or (703) 391-7913.
ERICSON 32, 1987. Autopilot. Universal 21 hp diesel. Refrigeration. Full canvas. GPS. Loran. 2 mains. Roller furling. Depth/ speed indicator. Self-tailing winches. Whis¬ ker pole. Pressure water. Shower. Head. Stove. AM/FM/Cassette stereo. VHF. Cock¬ pit cushions. Very clean. $50,000. Please call (510) 658-5519.
36 TO 39 FEET ***1910*** 37-ft. Stone Yawl. Exceptional classic. Solid throughout. New transmis¬ sion. Monitor vane. V-drive. Dodger. 480-ft. mainsail. 40 hp diesel. 120 gal. fuel. 100 gal. water. Radar. GPS. Sonar. Loran. Many sails. Newport Beach. Offers over $40,000. Please call (949) 722-0456. 36-FT CAPE GEORGE CUTTER. Com¬ pletely refurbished 1998. Fully battened main. Dual roller furling jibs. Monitor windvane/autopilot. 36 hp Volvo. Radar. SSB. GPS. Refer. Ready for cruising. $80,000 or trade for power boat of equal value. Prefer trawler-type but will entertain other options. Please call (360) 683-7818 or email: dndmorris@olympus.net. CASCADE 36,1982. Experienced builder. Seldom sailed. Original diesel, 350 hours. Hard dodger. Aft cabin. Radar arch with davits. Interior refinished 2000. Extensive inventory. New rigging, radar, autopilot, etc. $62,500. For complete- listing please call (510) 521-1966. 39-FT STEEL PILOTHOUSE CUTTER. Kochab. Well equipped. Just completed 9year Pacific cruise. Perfect liveaboard. Moored Ft. Bragg, CA. $62,000. Please call (707) 964-4488. ISLANDER 36. Cruise ready and waiting for you in Puerto Vallarta. New LP paint. New bottom paint (the good stuff). Extra water tanks. Solar panels. Electric wind¬ lass. Autopilot. GPS. Gennaker. Spinna¬ ker. SSB. $39,000 or will trade for motor home. Call (800) 218-7731.
COLUMBIA36,1968. Spacious liveaboard/ daysailer. Cruise potential. >50 hrs. double reef main and 110% furled jib. Gennaker. Rigid boom vang. Stove/frig. New batteries, electrical. 22 hp diesel. New cushions. Very clean. Documented. Lying San Diego. Worth $25,000. Rather trade for 27-ft. Catalina (or similar trailerable sailboat) + ca$h. Please email:ecopacker@earthlink.netorcall(619) 253-4754. ALAJUELA 38. Classic, swift, well-main¬ tained Bay Area yacht for sale in Sitka, Alaska. Enjoy cruising her home down the Inside Passage. Loaded with gear and ex¬ tras. Complete 1999 refit. New Yanmar diesel with 550 hours. $125,000. Please contact Kent (510) 531-8400 or email: romanoff@pacbell.net. CAL 36, 1965. Low-hours diesel. Radar. Electric windlass. All chain rode. Roller furling jib. Autopilot. Dodger. 2-speed self¬ tailing primaries. $32,500. Please call Don (707) 642-1534 or (707) 643-1254 (Vallejo Yacht Club). CATALINA 38,1980. S&S fiberglass hull. New diesel engine. Harken roller furling. New canvas and dodger. New interior. 12volt refrigeration. Hot water heater. Shower. S/S stove/oven. A head-turning, "like new" boat. Must see. $65,000/obo. Please call (510) 749-4137 (day) or (510) 385-3253 (eves).
MORGAN 38,1993. New design. Spacious and airy. Center cockpit cruising boat. Show¬ room condition. Fully outfitted. Just returned from Caribbean cruise and ready to go again. Berthed St. Petersburg, FL. Island queen berth in large aft cabin with walk-thru head and shower. V-berth with head. Walkthru galley with stove. Frig/freezer. Microwave. Watermaker. Full cruising instruments with autopilot. Radar. GPS. EPIRB. Wing keel. Dodger/bimini. Liferaft. Solar panels. Wind generators. Portable air conditioner. Stereo/CD. TV/VCR. Dinghy. $149,000. For detailed list, questions, pictures please call (415) 948-8822 or (727) 454-0687 or emaikbobwrigley® aol.com.
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UNION 36,1978. By Hans Christian. Isuzu diesel. Harken furling. Espar heater. CNG stove. Needs some work. Recent bottom paint. $36,000. Call (650) 244-9619.,
BEST CRUISING DESIGN FROM EUROPE. Reinke S10, 38-ft., 1995. Extremely rare in the USA. Solid and indestructible aluminum construction. Perfect layout for incredibly comfortable accommodation. Center cock¬ pit and high freeboard for comfortable sail¬ ing. Two bunks in aft cabin. All control lines led back to cockpit. Very clean foredeck. Mercedes Benz diesel, 1800 hrs. Easily cruised with two adults and two children from Switzerland to San Francisco. For more info go to: www.metro.net/ulmern. Price drastically reduced to $55,900. Call (510) 814-0771. CREALOCK 37,1993. This classic design is cruise-ready. Extensively outfitted for long distance sailing. Impeccably maintained and in Britol condition. Located in San Diego. $189,000. Full specs available upon re¬ quest. Please call (619) 758-9125 or email: YACHTFORSAIL@aol.com.
CATALINA 38,1980. Racer/cruiser. 2 year diesel 23 hp. New bottom. Roller furling. Radar. Loran. Beautiful boat. New dinghy with outboard. $47,000/obo. See website: www.cogneo.com/sailing. Please call Collin (650) 347-0797 (day) or (650) 551-0777 (eves) or email:collin@cogneo.com.
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40 TO 50 FEET CHEOYLEE OFFSHORE 40,1968. Harken roller furling. Hard dinghy with Seagull. New bottom, chain plates, stem piece, propeller in 1999. Big Lewmar winches. Lying Ha¬ waii. $49,500. Ala Wai Yacht Brokerage. Call (808) 943-2628.
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SWAN 47, 1976. Classic Sparkman and Stephens design. Renowned for seaworthi¬ ness, comfort and sailing ability. This yacht continually upgraded and maintained in top condition. Lying Turkey. US$225,000. Will co-operate with brokers. Visit www.sail.to/ vera. Call 90 532 743 4952 or email: verasail@aol.com.
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MORGAN 41 CLASSIC, 1987. Shoal draft fin keel sloop. 700 hrs. on Yanmar 50 hp. Wind. Depth. Speed. Radar. GPS. VHF. Diesel heat. Auxiliary diesel tank. Watermaker. Inverterwith 650 AH batteries. 150A alternator. 250-ft. chain <^n electric wind¬ lass. Three anchors. Epoxy bottom. 150% genoa on furler. Triple reef main. Rigid Vang. Whisker pole. 15 hp Avon RIB on davits. 3-burner propane stove. Spares. USCG documented. Much more. Photos: http://www.sv-eridani.com. Offered at $114,900. Call Tim (360) 574-5989 or email: tim@sv-eridani.com. KELLY PETERSON 44,1980. Center cock¬ pit cutter. Perkins diesel 4154, 52 hp. Auto¬ pilot. Wlndvane. Radar. GPS. HAM radio. Liferaft. I nflatable with 8 hp Yamaha. Forceair furnace. Currently in Mexico. $125,000. Email: johnluttrell@hotmail.com.
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CAL 40,1966. New epoxy bottom. LP hull. New standing rigging and furling. Diesel engine with recent upgrades. Much other work done. New inflatable. Located San Pedro. $42,000. Call (415) 479-5634. FORMOSA 41 KETCH, 1980. William Gar¬ den design. Beautiful condition. Perkins 4108, less than 800 hours. New interior and holding tank. Below BUC retail. Second owner. No brokers. Located San Diego. $66,000/obo. Call (858) 581-1572.
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44-FTSTEEL KETCH, 1978. Custom built. Dry stored since 1988. Great cruising boat. Fully equipped. 165 hp diesel engine needs TLC. Located FL. $15,000. Check out www.majordevelopments.com/ninette.htm for more information. Call (978) 741-3341.
IRWIN 42,1975. Center cockpit. One owner. Originalglossygelcoat. Hardtop. Perkins 4236. Generator. Radar. SSB/HAM. AP. Holding plates. Full cruise gear. 2 heads. Large aft stateroom. So. Florida. $66,900. Please call (561) 627-0420 or email: GMKRAUS@aol.com.
STEVENS CUSTOM 47,1982. Kite. Proven ocean cruiser. Headsail furling. 6 sails. 65 hp Ford Lehman engine. 2 solar panels. Wind generator. Windvane. Autopilot. Ex¬ tensive electronics. Dinghy and outboard. Watermaker. Liferaft. 3 anchors. Electric refrigeration. All teak paneling-. Located Wilmington, NC. $239,000. Please call (406) 837-2882.
y ' WESTSAIL43,1976. Factory built. Hull #3. Aft cockpit. Cutter. Perkins 4-236. Loaded. Everything stays. Too many extras to list. Located Baja. May deliver. May consider trade. $119,900. For full specs email: KF6EFJ@winlink.org.
FREEDOM 40, 1976. Cat ketch. Swing keel. Center cockpit. Easy singlehander. 1992 refit. Cruised Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska. GPS. Refrigeration. Radar. Autopilot. In¬ verter. Watermaker. Reduced to $72,000, $5,000 under low BUC. Please call (360) 856-0100.
CATALINA 42, 1997. 2 cabins. Excellent condition. SSB. Watermaker. GPS. Radar. Autoprop. EPIRB. Liferaft. Hard dodger. Bimini. Dinghy. Two outboards. Solar panel. Plus spares. Too much to list. Located Mexico. No sales tax. $182,000. Email for more info: sashay42@hotmail.com.
SANTA CRUZ 40. Red Hawk. The fastest SC40. Custom bulb keel. Rudder/titanium post. Three spreader mast. Lightweight boom. 3DL main and head sails. .6, .5, .75, 1.5 running and 1.5 reaching spinnakers. All Spectra halyards and Vectran runners. Yanmar 3GM. All offshore gear. Red Hawk has been continually upgraded and is in prime condition. Her race record is impres¬ sive. 1st in class TransPac. 1st Catalina. 1 st Santa Barabara. 1 st Plaza Cup. Race or cruise fast and fun. $125,000. Call Lou (408) 981-7829 or email: lpsail@aol.com.
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40-FT CENTER COCKPIT KETCH. Cus¬ tom. 50-ft. LOA. Cruise-ready to go. 3-year veteran bluewater cruiser in excellent con¬ dition. Cold-molded/fiberglass. 85 hp Ford Lehman. Yanmargenerator. Inverter. SSB/ HAM. VHF. GPS. EPIRB. New rollerfurling. Full complement sails. Cockpit washdown. Spacious decks. Davits. Fully eguipped galley. Shipmate propane stove. 12v refrig. Head with shower. New upholstery. Beau¬ tiful interior with koa, mahogany, rosewood, teak, holly, marble, stained glass. Tremen¬ dous storage. Much more. Sleeps six com¬ fortably. $75,000. Call (619) 440-0064 or (619) 338-0820.
CONTEST48,1984. Ketch-rigged. Aft cock¬ pit. Built by Lloyds in Holland with remark¬ able craftsmanship, materials and attention to detail. Just completed a major refit in preperation for a circumnavigation. 3 state¬ rooms. 2 heads plus large workshop. 6cylinder Volvo and Westerbekegenset. New North sails. New autoprop. All new decks and hardware. New galley and upholstery. Huge inventory of spares. I must be nuts to sell her. $280,000. Call (619) 222-6691 or rutea@k-online.com. 45-FT LOD, 58-FT LOA. Steel split fore¬ triangle documented pilothouse full keel ketch. Shorthanded rig. Heavy displace¬ ment. Seasoned cruiser. 100 hp Nissan/ Chrysler diesel engine. 700 gal. fuel. 150 gal. water. Full electronics. $89,500. Please call Chuck (360) 730-2375 or email: leavitt@whidbey.com.
MAPLE LEAF 48, 1974. Fabulous liveaboard with wood-burning stove. Beam 14'8". Isuzu 120. 500 gal. diesel. 300 gal. water. Radar. Autopilot. Hauled and sur¬ veyed 8/00. $ 119,000. Call (831) 375-2295. CSY44,1977. Sailing cutter. Perkins 62 hp. Hard dodger. 8 sails. Watermaker. New galley. New batteries. Autohelm windyane. Autopilot. Sailing dinghy and 3.4 Avon. Elec¬ tric windlass. 4 anchors. HAM/email mo¬ dem. Cabin heater. Roomy layout. $123,000. Call (949) 723-1953 or email: Nashira_sail @ hotmail.com.
i AMEL SHARKI 41, 1987. One of the ij world's finest offshore sailboats. Safe, solid, practical, easy to sail. Three watertight coli lision bulkheads. Hard dodger, weather pro: tected helm station. One-piece (no hull to i deck joint) fiberglass construction. Two > staterooms. Extremely efficient freezer/ fridge. Isolated engine room. Perkins 4108, recenttotal rebuild. Unsurpassed stor¬ age. Rich African mahogany. Recent up¬ holstery. Serious ground tackle. Diesel-fired forced-air heating. Fully equipped for cruis¬ ing. Wind generator. Windlass. BBQ. Din¬ ghy. Outboard. SSB. Radar. Autopilot. GPS. B&G instruments. Stereo. Liferaft. Galley supplies. Bring personal stuff, food and move aboard. This quality boat is loaded. Excellent condition. Ready to go cruising now. Priced to sell. Only $159,000. Serious buyers call (510) 928-0243 or email: Questerfm@aol.com.
STEVENS 47, BLUE J. Awesome bluewa¬ ter cutter. Nicest Stevens on market and only one with centerline queen aft. Never chartered. Extensive refit in 1998. Partial list includes new mast, rigging and sails, inboom full batten main, windlass, huge electric winches for pushbutton sailing. Newer Perkins 4-236. New awlgrip 2000. Bright interior. Hard dodger. SSB/email. Windgen/solar. 25gph watermaker. Exten¬ sive systems and equipment too numerous to list. Pedigreed design and structure gives 180+ miles/day. Serious buyers only. $260,000. Call (206) 232-4345 or email: jesfeld@home.com. 45-FT PHIL RHODES DESIGN. World cruiser. Steel built by Dutch Shipyard Westerdyke in Australia. This vessel is a must see for the serious bluewater cruiser. Must sell. Shown by appointment Yachts Southwest. $139,900. Or try $125,000. Please call (310) 463-4013 or email: onstott@earthlink.net. CT 48 KETCH, 1978. Offshore cruiser. Fiberglass. Teak interior. Teak decks. $50,000 in upgrades since 1996 for crewed charter. $10,000 electrical system. Three staterooms. Captain-owned and main¬ tained. Low price. Quigk sell. Moving to 80foot yacht. See at website: www.boats.com. $119,000. Call (650) 575-2621.
CATALINA 42,1999.3 staterooms. Excel¬ lent condition. Raytheon speed. Depth. GPS. 24 mi. radar. Jensen CD/AM/FM player. 2 reef main with dutchman. 300-ft. chain on bow with electric windlass. Over¬ sized stern ground tackle. BBQ. See at www.iycharter.com/boats4sale. $179,000. Please call (805) 570-9821.
CAL II 46, CLASSY KETCH. All sails furl¬ ing. Rigged for singlehanding. 85 hp Per¬ kins. 7.5 kw Onan. 250 fuel. 300 water. 1,500 mile range. 24 radar. HAM/SSB. Computer. 24"-16 3-blade feathering prop. 8+ knots. Heart attack forces sale. $127,500. Please call (727) 344-0347 or email: carlosdavis22@hotmail.com.
PEARSON 424 KETCH, 1982. Ready to cruise. Perfect liveaboard. Epoxy bottom. Max prop. Engine refit 1999. Radar. GPS. Fridge. Autopilot. Davits. Solar. Dodger. Heater. Full galley. Windlass. $110,000. Please call (510) 654-1577 or email: kbatchelr@ pacbell.net.
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GAFF-RIGGED PINKY SCHOONER. Attu. LOA 68-ft, 54-ft LOD. Professionally built 1985 and totally refit 1996 through 1998. New wiring, ample power electric system, 800-amp hour gel-cell batteries, 1500 watt inverter. 6 cyl Isuzu engine and Hurth trans¬ mission. New sails, square yard and stand¬ ing rigging. Robertson autopilot, Kobelt hydraulic steering. New windlass and ground tackle. Force 10 oven. 200 gallons each water and diesel. Furuno radar. Six-man liferaft. 406 EPIRB. Vessel lying New Zealand and ready to sail. View on website: www.edensaw.com/attu.htm. Please call (360) 385-7878.
ORION 50 KETCH, 1984. Perforpiance cruiser by Gary Mull. Low center cockpit with flush foredeck. New full batten main with batt cars, Reckmann furler. Nice- 3 stateroom, 2 head layout. Watermaker, new Achilles. Very well equipped. Captain main¬ tained. $289,000. Offers encouraged. Call (949) 642-5258 or Radsmoots@aol.com.
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CHRIS CRAFT 42, 1970. S&S designed ocean cruiser/racer sloop. Fiberglass bul¬ letproof construction. Fast. Classic lines. Many upgrades. Mast and rigging newly replaced. New Profurl. Recent jib and main. Upgraded cruising anchor gear. New dodger, interior, wiring, plumbing, topside paint, exhaust, batteries. Reliable Perkins 4-107. $64,500/obo. Call (415) 331-7576.
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60-FT STEEL HULL KETCH, 1965. 80 hp Perkins diesel. 350 fuel. 100 water. Great liveaboard. Washer/dryer. On-demand wa¬ ter heater. Tile shower. 3-burner stove with oven. Microwave. Separate head with 20 gal. holding tank. $85,000. Call Larry (559) 348-1648.
SABBATICAL IS FOR SALE. 40-ft. Swift ketch. Hull #1. Ready for cruising today and completely outfitted with 6-month-old cus¬ tom Pineapple sails. All new rigging in¬ stalled by Glen Hansen in Oct. New dodger. Custom steel rails and ladder. Raytheon radar. Siemens solar panels. 40 hp Pisces diesel. 3 water tanks. St. Croix davits and lots of storage. 3-cabin layout with 2 heads. Shower in both. $95,000. Please call (916) 278-7896 or (916) 705-8092.
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CROCKER 36,1939. Sea Dawn gaff ketch. Mahogany planking on oak frames. Excep¬ tional classic continually'-upgraded. Cus¬ tom dog house. Stern davit with lapstrake dinghy and more. Eight sails including top¬ sail. $39,500. Golden West Yachts Int'l. Call (310) 823-3838.
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MARPLES CC 35 TRIMARAN. Good shape. Ready to go cruising. Roller furling genoa plus four smaller head sails. Storm jib. Asymmetrical spinnaker with sock. Full batten main. Harken cars. Isuzu 15 hp diesel. Max prop. Gel batteries. Solar panel. WA. $39,000. Call (360) 479-2354 or email: llowrybk@home.com. HARRIS 27 CATAMARAN. Fast, sexy cruiser. Custom foam-sandwich fiberglass hulls, daggerboards, rudders. Extruded alu¬ minum mast. Two I-beams. Fully battened main. Full set sails. Nissan 9.9. VHF. Ice¬ box. Alcohol stove. Details at www.sirius.com/~ganymede/boat/ index.htm. (Tilde not dash.) $7,500/obo. Please call (510) 339-8236 or email: Ganymede@sirius.com. 28-FT WHARRAM TANE CATAMARAN.
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FG over ply hulls in good condition. 16 hp Suzuki o/b. Aluminum mast. 3 sails. En¬ larged cabins. Full cockpit. Berthed in Brisbane. $1,500/obo. Call (707) 537-0961 (msg).
FARRIER F9A/CORSAIR F31. Center cockpit. Full galley. Head with tank. Navico electronics. Yamaha 9.9 hp 4-stroke. Fully equipped. All equipment, spares, cutlery, Coast Guard, equipment, etc. Galvanized tandem axle trailer. Also available 1989 Mitsubishi Montero tow vehicle. Please call (949) 548-0978. TRADEWINDS 28. Custom built sloop. Molded form-sandwich fiberglass trimaran. 3-ft. draft. 16-ft. beam. New Yamaha 9.9 hp o/b. Many sails and cruising accessories. $8,500/obo. Call (7Q7) 792-7936 or email: alwaysal2@yahoo.com.
BROWN TRI. 25' x 17'. 6 hp L7S motor. Full, set sails. New Hood roller furling system. 2 booms. ‘2-speed Barient winches. Sink. Stove. Trailer. Lots of equipment. $3,000. Hobie Cat and trailer. $800. 28-ft. heavyduty tandem-axle trailer. $800. 35-ft. Piver Lodestar. $7,000. Call (415) 893-0351.
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STEEL BARGE/DOCK/HOUSE FLOAT 40-ft.L * 3-1/2'ft H * 8-ft.W Built in positive displacement styrofoam floatation. Tie up bits, custom painted, zinks. $20,000/each. Slightly more for light equipment barge and bolt together house floats.
LAGOON 37,1993. US built. Never char¬ tered. Cruise ready. $30,000+ in new equip¬ ment: sails, windlass, net, autopilot, uphol¬ stery, rigging. Also: Liferaft. Dinghy with outboard. Spinnaker. Bimini/dodger. Re¬ frigerator/freezer. 3 showers. Much more. $229,000. Call (415) 946-2202 or email: peterlange@wwc.com for detailed spec sheet.
39-FT SALTY WORKHORSE. With Cat 3160. Looking for new owner who likes things tough and rugged and safe. Made with fiberglass. Full electronics plus hy¬ draulics. 2 stoves and a fridgei At Em¬ eryville. $39,000/obo. Call (510) 206-0505.
POWER & HOUSEBOATS 36-FT CONVERTED LIFEBOAT. Liveaboard. 3 rooms. Cute. Homey. Rustic. Stained glass windows. Shower. Hot wa¬ ter. Stove/oven. Refrigerator. Woodstove. Loft bed. Own your own home. Ideal for Delta. Dry stored in Pittsburg, CA. Steel hull. Some rust. Unsinkable. $3,500. Please call (707) 781-3887.
33 FT WORKBOAT. Ex-Navy. Set up as tow boat. Also fish or six-pack. Heavy fiber¬ glass. DetroitT-671. Hydraulicbow-thruster. Windlass. All electronics. Inverter. Over¬ night facilities. Ready to work or play. $42,500/obo. Call (707) 288-9438 (pgr) or (707) 486-7699 (msg) or (707) 554-8725 (eves).'
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45-FT. MONK-SR MOTORSAILER. 11 bags. 100 hp, 350g diesel. 1,500 mile range. 15 hp Yanmar. Genset. 6.5vv/110 amp DC/ alternator. Altra 3-step regulator. 100 amp DC/alternator. 6 solar panels. 1200 amp/hr batteries. 2.5kw Heart inverter. 120 gal. water. 20 gph watermaker. 2 refrigeration systems. Swimstep. Dinghy davits. Too much to list. Custom made, one-of-a-kind world cruiser. $69,000. Call (619) 253-2474 or (619) 384-6655. 44-FT FERRO. 15 hrs. on rebuilt 471. Steel pilothouse. Recent bottom paint. Great liveaboard. Inside is unfinished. Current tags. $7,500 or trade. Can be seen at Bradford Island, CA. Call (775) 577-4071.
53-FT BAGLIETTO, 1971. Mediterranean style motoryacht. V-871s. Generator. Cus¬ tom features. Outstanding condition. Inte¬ rior quality Euro-modern style. Tiger ma¬ hogany, other rare woods. Strong/sound. Washer/dryer. Fast, stylish, economical, classic yacht. Seriously for sale. $111,000. Trade considered. Call Roger Perry (415) 331-2422.
S-2 30. Center cockpit. Aft cabin. 11-ft. beam. Sleeps 4. Shoal keel. 15 hp Yanmar diesel. Good daysailer, coastal cruising. Berthed Alameda Marina near Svendsen's. Non-equity partners sought. $350/month, all-inclusive. Unlimited use. Must have demonstrable ability to handle. Call (925) 463-0750. FORMING NEW PARTNERSHIP. For 2730 foot sailboat. One-third or one-half pro¬ prietary share at $3,000 to $5,000. Ex¬ ample: 30-ft. Hunter 1 /3 share or Cal 2-271/ 2 share at $4,000. Cheoy Lee 27 Offshore 1/2 share at $4,500. Berth location open. Please call Scott (707) 446-1484 or (510) 912-1996. 42 FT SAILBOAT. Perfect for racing or fun cruising. Newly refinished and retrofitted. Great berth in SF. Will train and check out if needed. Max of 3 partners. Fixed monthly fee of $395 with up-front $2,000. Call (415) 359-0414. INT'L FOLKBOAT. Seaworthy. Kindly. Fun. Good sail inventory. Free use in exchange for help with berth fees. Prime SF location. Good breezes, rare fog. Be sailing in 10 minutes from downtown. Lessons available from accredited instructor. Email: Michael @a'cumen-ih. com.
TRADE POWERBOAT TOWARDS SAILBOAT. Have32-ft. 1968TollycraftSedan Explorer. Fiberglass/wood. Twin engine. H/C water. Refrigeration. Stove. Head. Etc. Comfort¬ ably sleeps 6. Clean. Lots more. Priced at $11,000 or trade towards a 35-45 ft. motorsailer/pilothouse. Please call (510) 757-5815.
LASER WANTED. Good to excellent con¬ dition. No junkers please. Must have stiff hull. Fiberglass centerboard/rudder. Decent sail. No trailer. Can't afford new but don't want too old. Call (415) 472-7042 (msg) or email: dthal56@aol.com. HAM RADIO AND ANTENNA TUNER. Sixfoot inflatable dinghy. Pactor II. Water gen¬ erator. Charts and pilots of Falklands, Capetown and Southern Australia. And a crazy woman in her fifties to sail away with. Please call Ron at (510) 352-9281 or email: seagypsydancer@aol.com.
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38 FT BROWN OFF SOUNDING TRIMARAN. 1998 haulout. New paint. Updating. Sur¬ vey. Aft cabin lots of room. Yanmar diesel. Edison wheel and controls. Very clean. Go to Mexico or liveaboard. $ 19,500. Part trade for large motorhome or 5th wheel. Owner may finance with down payment. Call (650) 583-0139.
WANTED 38 MORGAN 383 or 384. 1982-1984. In good condition. With good bottom. Good engine. Good rigging and recent survey. Please call (415) 458-1665 or fax (415) 459-4782. USED WINDVANE WANTED. Prefer a Navic however a Monitor is fine. Windvane must be in good condition. Please call '(925) 634-3775 (msg). 36-FT HERRESHOFF KETCH. "Didiakai" design. Hull must be sound, but neglected condition acceptable at the right price. Please call (805) 658-2204 or email: Steve.marshall @ gte.net. CANCER PATIENT with a lot of heart wants to refit a wooden ketch and sail off to Tahiti. Looking for benefactors, patrons, foundations, vendors and partners-in-crime to help make dreams come true. Can email/ fax prospectus: goldrest@ifn.net. LARGE LIVEABOARD. In San Francisco/ Bay Area. For short-term rental or housesitting by licensed sailing instructor. Please call Craig at (310) 466-0284 or email: cmiott@mediaone.net. EL TORO WANTED. Fiberglass preferred. Trailer preferred. But will consider any de¬ cent boat that's ready to sail. Call Jay (415) 407-5468 or email: sailnut@cosmiccow.com.
MASTS FOR SALE. One wood, box, 40-ft. $500. One aluminum, tapered, 36-ft. Fits Peterson 25. $750. One aluminum 39-ft. Fits Gulf 32. $750. Edson pedestal steering system. $500. Cummins diesel. 6-cylinder. 200 hp. 3:1 gear box. $2,500. Call (415) 456-1600. BOATSTUFF-USED. Icom. SSB/HAM with. tuners. Spider antenna. Powersurvivor 35 watermaker. 8/15 hp SS outboards. Avon Redstart. Stainless stove/broiler and cabinheater. Manual windlass. Survival suits. Bangsticks. Parachutes. Seaanchors/ drogues. Hatches. 486/DX2laptop/Kam98. Email/wefax modem. Bottompaint. Lots more. Please go to website: www.boatstuffused.com. Call (415) 331 -0330 (phone/fax). AERO-GEN WIND GENERATOR. $475. Call (619) 239-6054. SANTA CRUZ70 RUDDER. Designed and built by Bill Lee. Call (734) 994-5050 or email: fmc@firstmartin.com. 3 SPREADER ALUMINUM SPAR. MWT 1025 lbs. P 64.75-ft. Two aluminum booms. E 25.29-ft. E 23.50-ft. Call (734) 994-5050 or email: fmc@firstmartin.com. NAVICO WP5000 AUTOPILOT. Works good. $250. Steering components. Pedes¬ tal with 2-lever engine control. $10. Bronze offshore idler. $100. Bronze turning blocks. 2 at $30/ea or $50/pr. New SS steering chain with new cables. $100. Bronze quad¬ rant. $100. Call (510) 522-2643. CRUISING GEAR. Monitor vane. $1695. Paratech sea anchor/rode. $895. Charts W. Coast US-N Z. Maptech BSB CD charts. Cruising guides and books. Call re: $. Aban¬ don ship bag kit. $ 100.5 h/d trucking straps with ratchets. $30/ea. Berlitz Spanish tapes. $15. Windscoop. $20. Website: http:// home.earthlink.net/~tamacn/. Call (360) 588-9691 or email: tamacn@earthlink.net.
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MAIN SAIL. Foot 9‘9". Luff 30'. Slides for ext. track. Zipper in foot. Old but good condition. $150. Ideal electric anchor wind¬ lass. Horizontal. New motor. 400 lb. pull. Capstan and chain gypsy. $450. Call Dave (805) 570-9883.
VOLVO MD-7A, 1980. Engine and trans¬ mission. Parting out. Rebuilt head. New valves, springs and guides. Injection pump and transmission, exhaust in good condi¬ tion. All or part. Best offer. Please call (510) 912-1838.
ARIES WINDVANE. With 2 paddles, spare parts and wheel drum. $1,100.00/obo. Email: cwbyslr@prodigy.net for a picture. Call (650) 366-4427.
TWO JIBS FOR A 44-FT SWAN. Great condition. One drifter. One heavy. Vacating storage. $100/each. For more info. Call (415) 255-1431.
SPINNAKER FOR OLSON 25. North triradial 1.5 oz. (heavy air). Measures 30-ft. 6in. by 15-ft. 8-in. Excellent condition. Deep blue color. First $600 takes it. Call (925) 735-5065 (msg).
ATOMIC 4. Runs great. Two for sale. 2 British Seagulls. One long leg. One short leg. $325/each. Feathering propellor. 25" x 17". $1,650. Call (415) 457-8616.
HILLERANGE PROPANE STOVE. With two burners. In good condition and nice looking with gimballed frame. Dimensions: 20.5“w, 13"d, 20"h. With gimbals: 21.5"w, 14”d, 22"h. Asking $350/obo. Call (916) 638-2910 or email: g_ogihara@yahoo.com. COLUMBIA 43 ONLY $5,000. Interior de¬ stroyed in propane explosion. Includes mast, boom, 'hull, winches, rudder, keel, stan¬ chions, pulpits, and lots more. Engine and steering not included. As is. Portland, OR. See pictures at http://hometown.aol.com/ patsyfish/index.html. Call (503) 735-3706.
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TRAILERS CAULKINSTANDEM-AXLEsailboattrailer. Fully adjustable to fit any fin keel 24-28 footer to 10,000 lbs. Fresh paint. Surge brakes. Good tires. Excellent condition. $2,600/obo. Call (805) 227-6483.
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WESTERBEKE 50 DIESEL. Great shape. Trans. Panel. Starter. Alternator, 4-108 substitute. $2,300. Balmar high output al¬ ternator. $200. Yamaha 40 hp o/b. Manual start. Short shaft. Remote throttle. Wheel. For large Zodiac'-inflatable. Just serviced. $850. Call Frank at (831) 659-8877 or email: fkoucky@ix.netcom.com. OUTBOARD MOTORS FOR SALE. Mer¬ cury 6.0 hp. $700. Nissan 5.0 hp. $500. Nissan 3.5 hp. $400. Honda 2.0 hp. $300. Evinrude 6.0 hp. $500. Call Rich at (650) 363-1390. J/24 SAILS. 100%. $100. 150%. $200. Good condition. Main. $100. Call Rich (650) 363-1390. TWO ENGINES. Left behind after Ha-Ha. Volvo 2003 28 hp. Freshwater-cooled with gauges and harness. Runs great. $1,300. Volvo 2003 turbo 43 hp. With new heat exchange, starter and turbo. Includes gauges and harness. $1,500. Please call (619) 422- 8863.
NEW V&M BOAT TRAILER. 23-ft. tan¬ dem. 5,500 GVW. Surge brakes. Winch. Chrome wheels. Tongue jack. Bearing bud¬ dies. Set up for powerboat but easily con¬ verted to shoal draft sailboat to 25-ft. $2,450. Call (559) 322-5420. SINGLE AXLE, SURGE BRAKES. Trailer for fixed keel boat. Was used for Merit 25. Great condition. $2,000/obo. Please call Rich (650) 363-1390.
MISCELLANEOUS MOVING BACK TO LAND? Need furni¬ ture? Full size bed, soft, $75. Lots of bed¬ ding for sale too, including synthetic feath¬ erbed. Easy chair and ottoman with cream brocade covers, $70/set. Small redwood burl coffee table, $65. You pick up in Tiburon. Chris (415) 383-8200 x 103. *
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10-FT AVON REDSEAL. $450. Spinna¬ kers: 42'X25', $550; 46'X25', $625. Johnson o/b 1990, 15 hp, SS, $1,100. Dahon Mari¬ ner 26" bike, $250.40" leather Edson wheel $450. Lewmar 43CST, $900; 40CST, $55o! 9-ft. Tayana dinghy, $450. E2 Loader tan¬ dem trailer, $1,000. Please call Jack (916) 487-1481. ' HYDROHOIST 3000LE BOAT LIFT. Three years old. 3000 lbs. lifting capacity. Excel¬ lent condition. Includes hull pads and all mounting hardware. Strong, quiet, non¬ flooding motor. Lightly used. Maintained clean. $2,400 installed. Call Christopher at (650) 723-1221 (work) or email: csundberg@stanford.edu. BOAT BUILDING MATERIALS. Okoume and Doug Fir marine ply; 3/8 and 5/8. West epoxy; 50 gal. drum and hardener. Timber; mahogany and fir. Fiberglass; 6 oz. cloth and assorted other. In town of Sonoma Please call (707) 939-1301 or email: ray@vom.com. 10 HP HONDA. Short shaft. $500. 18 hp Nissan. Short shaft. Little use. 6-gal. tank. $1,000. GPS. $125. Call (510) 384-3506.
CLUBS/MEMBERSHIPS AMERICAN SAILING ASSOCIATION www.american-sailing.com or please call (800) 470-SAIL. SINGLE SAILORS ASSOCIATION is grow¬ ing & fun. All experience levels are wel¬ comed. Our members enjoy cruising, group sails, daysailing, socials & other activities year round. Monthly meeting at Oakland Yacht Club in Alameda. For more informa¬ tion, call (510) 273-9763. CLUB NAUTIQUE. Passagemaker mem¬ bership. Includes complete sail training re¬ quired for certification through Offshore 3assage Making. Many additional dis¬ counts. 20% off retail price. For sale at 52,500. Transfer fees covered. Call Michael at (650) 962-1935. SKIPPERS AND CREW. The SF Bay Oce¬ anic Crpw Group is one of the Bay Area’s nost active sailing groups. Monthly speak¬ ers. 20+ Bay and coastal sails in 2000. Skippers find crew and crew (new and ixperienced) go sailing! Please call (415) 179-4866 and visit website: http:// iternet.ggu.edu/~sad/sfbocg.html. !LUB NAUTIQUE MEMBERSHIP. With all privileges. Regularly $3,150. Discounted 5 $2,300. An $850 savings. I pay transfer ae. Call Terry Hird at (415) 515-0030.
CLUB NAUTIQUE. Passagemaker couple. Let CN help you launch your dream with confidence. Includes all lessons, beginner through bareboat, plus refresher training. Charter discounts. Yacht club membership. Plus more. Our price to you: $4,000/obo. Please call (650) 903-9857 or email: mary@malindi.com.
NON-PROFIT IRS TAX DEDUCTION. We heed your help! By donating your boat in any condition you will help homeless children and their fami¬ lies. Get full book value running or not. Call now for more info. (800) 414-HAUL (4285). SAIL & POWERBOATS FOR SALE. All makes and models. Priced to sell. Call now (510) 464-4617.
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DREAMS COME TRUE when you believe. Vivien is a beauty inside and out. 32. 6-ft. Slim. Dark long hair, blue eyes. Educated, honest, caring. Loves sailing, the ocean, outdoors, sports, nature. Her dream is to start a family with a sweet American, be¬ cause they are much nicer. If you are mar¬ riage-minded and special, then please con¬ tact me for free information. There are more attractive ladies of all ages who know that American men are nicer. They wait for you. Joana Obert, Moltkestr. 83, 76185 Karlsruhe, Germany. Or please call 01149-172-731-3376 or email: Joana-obert@tonline.de. CHRISTMAS IN THE USA with someone special. This is the dream of Diana. 44. 5'11". 63 kg. Blond long hair and blue eyes. Very attractive with a natural smile. Inde¬ pendent. Easy going with class and style and a lovely attitude. Loves California and has fun in boating, travel, cooking and fam¬ ily life. Fora personal meeting contact Joana Obert, Moltkestr. 83, 76185 Karlsruhe, Germany. Or call 011-49-172-731-3376 or email: Joana-obert@t-online.de.
SEWARD ALASKA. 2 br, 1 ba house with basement. 1900 sq. ft. shop. 3.5 lots right in town. Partial Resurrection Bay view. Great Mt. Marathon view. Zoned office/ residen¬ tial. Boat in trade. Owner financing. $225,000 (907) 346-3330 or email: cms@gci.net. AVAILABLEAT ANTIOCH MARINA. New/ used boat sales facility consisting of berths , and office space overlooking berths. The facility was previously leased by Marine Center for their Yacht Division. This is an excellent opportunity for getting on-thewater presence in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta for a new boat dealer or a yacht brokerage. Antioch Marina is 12 years old with concrete docks and pilings, deep water throughout, a fuel dock with gas, diesel and pump out, a bait shop and a major restaurant. The Mqrina is located one mile from Hwy 4 in Antioch at the foot of L Street. Parking is free. For more info, con¬ tact Antioch Marina Harbor Master John Cruger-Hansen. (925) 779-6957. PUERTO VALLARTA. One bedroom condo for rent in Paradise Village Marina. Fivestar resort complex. Marina view. Many amenities. Daily, weekly or monthly rental available. Book through owner and save. For prices and availability please call (408) 258-7795 or email: jnjfleming@aol.com.
CREW ADVENTURESS WANTED. Healthy. Fit. Positive. No drugs or smoke. Lots of laugh¬ ter and music. Leave Puerto Vallarta Jan 10 for Panama, Rio Dulce, Guatemala. Four months. Possibly more. Experienced li¬ censed Captain. Retired with a great "ocean safe" sloop. Write Hans Backer, Nitefighter, Box 1511, Kingston, WA 98346 or email: hobcapt@yahoo.com.
OCEAN PASSAGE LEARNING EXPERIENCE: www.mahina.com Gain unique and valuable passagemaking and seamanship skills on an organized training program aboard Mahina Tiare,a Hallberg-Rassy 46. Benefit from John Neal and Amanda Swan-Neal's 317,000 miles and 50 years of experience. Mahina Expeditions, PO Box 1596, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 • (360) 378-6131 Satellite updates available on: www.mahina.com
PUERTO VALLARTA NORTH to San Francisco. 1982 Morgan 383. Departing early March. Arriving late April. All or part of trip. Crew pays for own shoreside expenses and a share of onboard consumables. See website: www.kaulalani.com. Please email resume to: Grkillam@aol.com or call (916) 324-3483.'
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SAILING INSTRUCTORS. We are looking for qualified sailing instructors who would like to teach in the best all round teaching atmosphere in the Bay. We are the oldest sailing school in California and are located in Pt. Richmond, right next to the Richmond Yacht Club, where no foul weather gear is needed for sailing. We offer top pay for teaching, very liberal boat usage program and tropical sailing for our instructors. If you love sailing, have good teaching skills and would like to teach sailing either full or part time in the best sailing area in the Bay, call Kirk at (510) 232-8251. SAILING INSTRUCTORS. Men and women sailors, join our team of profession¬ als at OCSC! It’s exciting work with moti¬ vated students and a great team atmo¬ sphere. We offer top pay, a flexible sched¬ ule and liberal boat use privileges. If you have great communication skills, a passion for teaching,, and excellent sailing and sea¬ manship skills we would like to talk to you. We will help with both Coast Guard licens¬ ing and USSAILING instructor certification. Call Rich at (800) 223-2984, or check out http //www. ocsc-sfbay.com.
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Studies. 211
Bay Risk Insurance. 177
Boye Knives. 174
ABC Yachts.. 242
Andersons Boat Yard. 77
Bay Ship & Yacht. 73
British Marine. 75
Coast Marine. 176
Acordia Insurance . 175
Antioch Marina ..•. 60
Beckwith, Craig Yacht Sales ... 26
Brookes & Gatehouse. 157
Conch Charters . 196
Club Nautique.58,59
Agape Villages. 177
Armchair Sailor. 88
Beowulf Publishing. 47
C Cushions. 186
Cover Craft. 171
Airforce Sails . 66
Autoprop. 85
Berkeley Marine Center. 188
California Cruising Yachts. 15
Coyote Point Marina., 170
Alameda Point Yacht Sales ... 236
Bair Island Marina .. 146
Bluewater Insurance. 90
Caribbean Yacht Sales. 240
Crisis at Home Intervention
Albatross Yacht Charters. 196
Baja Ha-Ha Sponsors. 22,23
Bo'sun Supplies. 220
Cass' Marina . 84
Center. 167
AlgaeX .
Baja Naval. 130
BoatSearch. 239
Celestaire. 217
Cruising Cats USA. 6
Allemand Brothers . 235
Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers. 24
Bottom Siders. 91
Channel Islands Yacht Sales . 240
Cruising Direct Sails. 167
Almar Marinas. 41
Ballena Isle Marina Coop. 63
Bower & Kling Yachts. 83
Chapman School of Seamanship
Cruising Specialists. 55,57
147
Alpha Systems. 157
Bay Island Yachts. 7
Boy Scouts of America . 240.
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1 American Battery. 220
Bay Keeper & Delta Keeper.. 234
Boy Scouts Pacific Harbors ... 239
Chula Vista Marina. 215
Detco Marine. 163
Bay Propeller. 147
Boy Scouts Pacific Skyline. 189
City Yachts. 17
DeWitt Studio. 172
American Institute of Marine
Desolation Sound Charters ... 196
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Foley Industrial Engines. .. 233
Hansen Rigging. . 226
Jack Rabbit Marine. . 224
Loch Lomond Marina . 162
Doyle Sails. .. 11 Dudley Transportation. 235
Forespar . .. 133
Harbor Boats and Supplies . . 236
Johnson Marine, C. Sherman 157
Marin Yacht Sales. . 96
Fortman Marina . .... 12
Harken . . 163
Kappas Marina . . 174
Marina El Cid. 132
Edensaw Woods . .. 22
Fowler Insurance Agency .. .. 226
Haynes Sails . . 232
Kensington Yachts. . 13
Marina Ixtapa . . 18
Edgewater Yacht Sales. 239
Ganis Credit Corporation .. .... 46
Helms Yacht & Ship Brokers ... 19
Kevin's Quality Marine .. 228
Marina Mazatlan . 135
134
Garhauer Marine. .... 53
Helmut's Marine Service.
222
Kilian Propeller. . 224
Marina Real.,. 211
Emery Cove Yacht Harbor... .. 85
Gentryis Kona Marina . .. 232
Hewett Marine. .. 232
Kissinger Canvas. . 93
Marina Vallarta. .. 87
Emeryville Marina. .. 79
Gianola & Sons. .. 210
HMS Marine Supply . .. 224
Kolius Sailing School... . 83
Marina Village. .. 67
Essex Credit Corp. .. 86
Gill. .... 77
Hogin Sails . .... 62
KKMI. . 25,49
Marine Engine Co. 222
Euro Marine. .. 90
Glacier Bay. ... 212
Honolulu Sailing Company .. 198
Lager Yachts.
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Mariner Boat Yard. .. 61
Farallone Yacht Sales. .. 20
Go Cats. ... 197
Hood Sails .. 35,39
Lake Merritt Sailboat House .... 89
Marineris General Insurance .. 38
Fifth Avenue Marina . 232
Golden State Diesel Marine .. 235
In Harbor Electric. .. 224
Larsen Sails/Neil Pryde Sails .. 92
Maritime Electronics. .. 83
132
Grand Marina. . 2
Integre Marine. .. 238
Latitude 38. . 189,199
Maritime Institute.
First New England Financial .. 74
H.F. Radio. . 56
J.P. Boatworks. .. 188
Lee Sails. . 226
Marotta Yachts. 237
Fleming Self Steering . 210
H & S Yacht Sales. 8,9,75
J.T. VanSickle. .. 228
Legendary Yachts . . 93
Martin, Jack & Associates.... 222
173
Halsey Sailmakers . ... 186
J/World. .... 16
List Marine Enterprises .? 82
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The Wine her The wincher changes your regular winch into a self-tailing one. Four sizes are available. It is a product that, by means of one, singlehand movement, renders your conventional winch self-sheeting and self-locking. The Wincher is made of a specially designed rubber body that fits down on top of the winch. As the sheet is being winched home and is put under increasing load, the coils "climb" up the winch drum and fasten against the ribs in the underside of the rubber body.
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Ocean Equipment. 216
Passage Yachts.. 4,5,236
Rooster Sails. 131
San Leandro Marina. 71
1* McGinnis Insurance. 139
OCSC. 65
Penmar Marine. 196
Ryan's Marine. 231
Scanmar International.. 78,85,89
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Orange Coast College. 40
Petro Clean . 133
Sail California. 30,32,33^ Schoonmaker Point Marina .. 195
bModern Sailing Academy.. 76,93
Outboard Motor Shop, The .. 170
Pineapple Sails. 3
Sail California/Matt Jones. 34
Scullion, Jack D. Yacht Svc. 79
!« Musto. 163
Outbound 44. 81
Premier Yacht Sales. 238
Sail Exchange .».-231
Sea-Power Marine. 75
ci Napa Valley Marina. 89
Owl Harbor . 176
Quantum Pacific. 37
Sail Warehouse, The. 220
Seaclan. 217
jl.Nelson's Marine. 244
Oyster Cove Marina . 72
Queensland Yacht Charters .. 197
Sailing Supply. 187
Seashine. 68
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Oyster Point Marina. 82
R/E Source Realty. 234
Sailnet, Inc.:... 51
Shaft Lok, Inc. 226
| NJ Enterprises . 232
Pacific Coast Canvas. 91
R/K Quality Canvas. 231
Sailomat USA. 130
Side By Side Charters . 198
Norpac Yachts . 243
Society of Accredited Marine
Pacific Marine Foundation .... 214
Raiatea Carenage Services... 217
Sailrite Kits. 50
Beach Canvas. 31
Pacific Sail Expo. 233
Richmond Boat Works. 44
Sal's Inflatable Services. 131
Surveyors/SAMS. 231
Ip-North Sails - San Francisco .... 43
Pacific Yacht Imports. 14
Richmond Yacht Service. 162
San Francisco Boat Works.... 189
Solano and Yolo County. 139
San Francisco Sports and Boat
Solar Electric, Inc. 232
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Paradise Village. 213
Romaine Marine Electronics.... 81
i Oakland Yacht Club . 79
Passage Maker Yachts . 238
Ronstan Marine, Inc. 171'
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South Beach Harbor. 29
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Ullman Sails. 139
West Marine. 27,40
South Beach Riggers. 31
Training. 231
Tap Plastics. 70
Vaughan, William E. 231
Westwind Precision Details. 31
Spectra Watermakers . 134
Stormy Seas Clothing Co. 97
Tim's Zodiac Marine. 26
Voyager Marine. 64
Whale Point Marine Supply.... 52
Spinnaker Sailing of R.C. 54
Sunsail Charters .194
Tinker Marine. 228
VPM Charters. 198
Windward Sailing Solutions .. 214
Spinnaker Sailing of S.F. 31
Superior Yachts West. 81
TMM/Tortola Marine Mgmt.. 195
Watermaker Store, The. 212
Wizard Yachts, Ltd. 241
Spinnaker Shop, The. 228
Sutter Sails. 97
Tradewinds Sailing Ctr.... 28,235
Watski. 233
Wyliecat.' 91
Stanford University . 175
Suunto. 156
Trident Funding. 42
Waypoint. 56
Yacht Racing Assoc. 229,230
Starbuck Canvas. 81
Svendsen's Boat Works. 21
Twins Rivers Marine Insurance 36
West Coast Performance Yts . 187
Yacht Sales West. 95
Steiner Binoculars. 94
Swedish Marine. 147
UK Sails. 48
West Coast Yachts. 97
Yachtfinders/Windseekers. 80
South Beach Sailing Center .... 31
Stone Merchant Marine
Stockdale Marine & Navigation Center. 45
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46' ERICSON, 1973 Bruce King designed racer/cruiser with much updated equipment. Rebuilt Perkins diesel. New ProFurl roller furler, all sails in very good shape. Bottom recently painted. New Heart Interface. New heads. New teak and holly soles. Fast and fun with deep, comfortable cockpit and oversized deck gear. Two staterooms, two heads. REDUCED TO $84,000
36'NONSUCH CAT RIG, 1987 This stiff, sea kindly vessel is a breeze to sail shorthanded, and is at home in SF Bay conditions. With new full-batten sail, new running rigging, new bottom paint, new cockpit cushions and meticulous mainte¬ nance, Fast Lucy is Bristol and is presently the only one for sail on the West Coast. Lying in Sausalito Yacht Harbor, slip can transfer with vessel. Reduced fo $122,000.
46' SPINDRIFT, ctr. cockpit cutter 1983 Bristol example of this lovely cruising yacht. Dark blue hull, teak decks, full keel with cutaway forefoot, skeg hung rudder. Two staterooms, two full heads, 6'4" headroom, 90 hp Ford Lehman diesel with low time. Harken roller furling headsail and staysail, full batten main with BAT car, drifter, sails practically new as is the running rigging. Prime Sausalito Y.H. slip can transfer. Just reduced to $262,000
$7' ALDEN YAWL,. (931 This restored classic was iqnedbyJohn designed by John Alden and built of double-planked mahogany in Connecticut. Owners includedChester Bowles, former Connecticut governor, and Hastings Harcourtof the publishing company Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Locally, Cock Robin won her division in the '96 & '97 Master Mariners regattas. She has always had loving care and shows Bristol. Diesel engine rebuilt '95. Fiberglassed cabin deck, rebuilt galley, heads, spars & standing rig, updated elec¬ tronics & sails (T2 bags, roller furler, etc.) Must see to appreciate. Recent survey available. $189,000
43' HANS CHRISTIAN CUTTER, 1987 Hans Christian 43 Traditional cutter with custom Mark II interior (Pullman berth & two heads) Kohler generator, watermaker, radar, SSB radio, plumbed & wired for washer/dryer, numerous sails, redundant heavy-duty ground tackle, etc.. .The HC 43T is consistently ranked among the world's finest cruising sailboats and you'll not find a finer example afloat. Reduced to $214,000
.... CATALINA 270 LE. 1993 This boat shows AS NEW, but for many thousands less! Full batten main with Dutch¬ man flaking, 130 jib with Hood roller furler, H/C pressure water, propane stove/oven. One-piece molded head/shower. Perkins 18hp diesel with 260 hours, all maintenance records. This is the luxury edition of this model, which includes all covers, cockpit cushions, deluxe fabric, custom curtains, etc. Reduced to $35,500 See ol yachfv/orld.com/marottayachls
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37' TAYANA, 1979 Robert Perry-designed double-ender is in fine shape and lying in transferable Sau¬ salito YH slip. Very spacious down below, 6'5" headroom. All amenities including die¬ sel heat, 50 hp Perkins diesel. Full keel, 22k displacement. All lines lead aft, running rigging, standing rigging and canvas re¬ placed. Solid cruising boat at an attractive price. Reduced to $74,000
THREE PLASTIC CLASSICS 29' COLUMBIA, 1978 29' RANGER, 1974 All are in very shape, have Atomic 4 engines, and transferable Sausalito slips. Columbia priced at $ 15,900. Ranger priced at $16,000.
CATALINA 27, 1990 Very clean example of this popular Bay sailer. This particular vessel has been extensively updated over the last year: n«w head sail, new main sail, new roller furler, new isinglass in dodger, new head, new Dutchman system for main. Universal diesel with low hours. Sausalito slip can transfer. $26,000
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outstanding example of this proven world cruising
71' OCEAN. 1972. Built by Southern Ocean Shipyards. USCG CERTIFIED for 46, this refit
motorsailer. Extensive, recent refits and upgrades.
yacht is available with an established charter
Most comprehensive of her type available.
operation on San Francisco Bay. Call for details.
61‘ C&C CUSTOM KETCH. 1972. This unique
50'
quality vessel is just completing a refit and updates.
make this an ideal liveaboard/office. 2 salons,
A performance, center cockpit yacht with spacious
inside steering, master aft. Solidly built w/low
interior. Trans-atlantic vet can be easily sailed
maintenance fiberglass hull and deck. Lovely
shorthanded.
teak interior. Will consider trades.
78' CHEOY LEE MY. 1989. Quixote is an
54' HUNTER. 1981. This Hunter 54 has just
51'
FORCE 50. 1973. Huge accommodations
sistership
BENETEAU. 1986. Second Souffle has 2
completed a refit including a new engine, interior,
staterooms and plenty of space. Upgraded and
refinished joinery, new upholstery, standing
well cared for, she is perfect for long range
rigging, hatches and electronics. A great value.
cruising or as a very comfortable liveaboard.
52' Stellar Lo-Profile Pilothouse 1998 Completely equipped, luxuriously appointed performance cruiser. Diesel, 8kw Onan gen. set, 3 staterooms, radar, roller furling main and genoa, and on and on. Must see!.$579,000 By Appointment
60' Waterline | Tough & beautiful steel hull-
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1115 N. Northlake Way, Suite 300 Seattle, Washington 98103
(206) 675-9975 • Fax: (206) 675-9392 48‘ JON MERI. 1989. This performance cruising
SWAN 441. Hull #43 of successful Holland design.
yacht offers an attractive pilothouse with full dual
Built in 1980, commissioned in 1981, she has
station. 3 staterooms, electric roller furling. Built
been consistently upgraded, incl. top end current
to highest standards in Finland. Lying Sausalito.
elects. New sails & furling. Major price reduction.
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49’ WAUQUIEZ CENTURION. 1991. Spacious
C&C 39. Shillelagh is a famous SF Bay boat
salon with light interior. 3 staterooms, cruise
having been sailed to many wins in various
equipped, currently lying Caribbean. Quality
regattas. Lovingly cared for by her present owner,
performance cruiser priced far under market.
she shows like new. Sleeps 6 comfortably,
(KEEL) • Fax (415) 495-5375 FULL PHOTO WALK-THRU AT WWW.SFYACHTS.COM (415) 495-5335
35' RAFIKI, '80. Beautiful full keel cruiser yacht in top
enclosed head w/shower. Priced to sell.
condition. New full batten main by North. Roller furling, new dodger, spinnaker, AP, GPS, heater. $59,500.
BENETEAU 32S5,1990. Immaculate yacht kept in fresh HUNTER 35.5. 1990. This sparkling gem has
37' J/BOAT. Built in 1987 this proven performance
been lovingly cared for by her owner. New epoxy
cruiser offers 2 cabin layout, full galley and nav
bottom, recent engine overhaul, new canvas and
station. All controls led aft to cockpit. Meticulously
much more. Lots of room at an affordable price.
maintained, better than new condition.
water with wheel steering, spinnaker, full batten main, roller furling, autopilot, Dutchman system. $57,500.
Don't miss outl In Sausalito.
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U55 Embarcadero • Oakland, CA 94606
Tel: 510-465-6060 • Fax: 510-465-6078 Net 33' CONTESSA. 1985. Built by J. Rodgers and
31' PEARSON. Built in 1990, this is one of the last
designed by Robert Humphreys, this exceptionally
31s built. She has a modern, open layout and 6'5"
fast Contessa 33 is ready to race. Full interior ash
headroom. Sleeps 6. Well maintained. Perfect
& teak joinery, every electronic, 11 bags of sails.
Bay or coastal cruiser.
integremarine@surfree.com
Fast & fun.
SAUSALITO 400 Harbor Drive, Suite B
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32’ENDEAVOUR, 79 Great Bay and Delta cruiser in good condition. New bottom 8/00, Yanmar 2 cylinder diesel, main and furling jib, propane stove, 20-gallon fuel, 65-gallon water, dinghy with outboard.
PRICE REDUCED!
47’ PERRY '92. The last edition of this fine cruising yacht by Robert Perry. Exterior has minimum teak trim and maximum provisions for short-handed cruising. FULL FURLING. Below decks is OVERKILL-from the 155hp Volvo diesel aux, 8kw genset, reverse cycle air/heat pump, cole) plate refer/freezer, water maker, propane stove/oven to the full array of electronics. MUST SEE! $254,5001
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SALES DOCK BERTHS AVAILABLE • BOATS SELL AT OUR DOCKS
specs'^ visilour'wE^BsiTE edgewateryadits.com 46’ SPINDRIFT Center cockpitcutter rig w/Harken roller on both genoa and staysail. Full batten main, excellent main¬ tenance. Ready for your cruise in comfort.
Asking $260,000
46' ERICSON
44' LAFITTE
36' UNION POLARIS Perry design cutter, roller furling, dodger. Loaded w/upgraded gear. At our docks. Only one left at $68,000
32' ATKINS ERIKA Wm. Atkins design, all Burma teak, stainless fasteners, only 50 hours on diesel main. Forced air heat, dodger, Monitor vane, more. $45,000
Performance cruiser w/many upgrades. Rebuilt Perkins, new roller furling, teak & holly soles, 2 S/Rs& 2 full heads. Asking $84,000
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WStik *_! 35'SPENCERExcellentcondition,only 75 hours on Perkins aux,, radar, Ham, SSB, Aries vane, a must see.
Asking $39,900/offers
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32’ ARIES A go anywhere offshore cruiser, refurbished from stem to stem, mint condition. Custom gooseneck triple axle trailer included. Asking $46,000
• Donors can eliminate berthing fees, insurance coifs, commissions, and the hassle of selling a used boat while receiving the most generous values allowed by low. • Vessel transfers are speedy and efficient. We arrange all the necessary documents with DMV or Coast Guard.
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For a no obligation information package, please contact Larry Abbott
Cruise loaded. Monitor vane, radar, GPS, watermaker, Ham, SSB.
PACIFIC HARBORS COUNCIL
Asking $239,000/offers
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38' CHRIS CRAFT Fiberglass rglass w/ twin 300 hp mains, ffyl ffybridqe, roomy interior, Sausalito berth.
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*35'BABA, 1981 CRUISER Capable off¬ shore cruiser with diesel auxiliary, new custom dodger, newcanvas, freshly painted mast, new running rigging, new knotmeter, depth, and the list continues. AH varnish has been profession¬ ally refinished. Beautifully maintained, Drifter has been brought to yacht standards and shows pride of ownership. $95,000.
38' HANS CHRISTIAN, 1978 Diesel auxiliary, dodger, furling, radar, GPS/plotter, autopilot and much more. Beautiful teak interior and quality craftsmanship throughout.
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BUILDER
MODEL
NAME
Hunter Hunter Hunter Hunter Beneteau Beneteau Wauquqiez Wauquqiez Jeanneau Hunter Hunter Catalina Beneteau Jeonneau Gibert Beneteau Beneteau Beneteau Wauquqiez CMN Sundeer
295 295 336 336 Oceanis 351 Oceanis 351 Centurion 36 Centurion 36 Sun Odyssey 37.1 40.5 40.5 42 Mark II Oceanis 440 Sun Odyssey 45.1 Gib Sea 472 Oceanis 500 Oceanis 510 Oceanis 510 Centurion 61 CMN 142 Sundeer 60
Girls Day Off Mandylou Johnny Cake Augusta Mariposa Michele Magnum Blanche Belle Moonsilver Prelude Bacchus II Island Time Star Appeal Mamma Bobs Peacok Star Slip Anchor Marion Seagull Le Laloi Mea Culpa Friday Star Sundeer
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Caribbean Caribbean Annapolis - Caribbean Caribbean Annapolis Caribbean Caribbean Turkey Caribbean Caribbean Caribbean Caribbean Caribbean Caribbean Turkey Turkey S. France Caribbean S. France Ft Lauderdale
$119,000
YEAR
PRICE US$
1995 1995 1995 1995 1994 1995 1994 1994 1995 1995 1996 1996 1991 1996 1994 1990 1993 1992 1994 1994 1995
$39,600 $39,600 $55,900 $49,000 $53,500 $79,000 $120,000 $135,000 $73,500 $94,000 $117,000 $135,000 $85,300 $220,000 $85,300 $98,500 $169,000 $161,700 $660,000 $3,552,500 $635,000
40' TARTAN, 1989 Factyry built for the BOC but never raced. Present owner has equipped her at a cost in excess of $80,000 to be the best cruising boat in her class. Pages of equipment and inventory.
$159,900
39' ERICSON, 1979 Custom teak interior and extended pulpit in this version of their classic cruising 36'.' Call for details and inventory.
$59,900
GIVE YOUR BOAT A HOME WITH THE SCOUTS
CATAMARANS Sagitepas Dimitile
Caribbean Caribbean
1995 1996
$287,000 $128,700
Please Note: These prices do not include any applicable sales/impod taxes. Inventory includes bask domestic, safely and navigational items. Additional inventory may be available. Please ask for specifications for your preferred models.
CARIBBEAN ‘ V)cuJvtSALES • Exclusive dealers of retiring charter yachts from Sunsail and Stardust yacht charter fleets. • Yachts lying in the Caribbean, Med, France and USA. • We can help package your documentation, registration, importation and delivery needs.
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tional boats are always needed! If you live in the Northern California area and would like to give your sail or power boat a new home, contact:
Jason Stein • 1-800-231-7963 xl49 San Francisco Bay Area Council • Boy Scouts of America ~
Donations Are Tax Deductible-
GO FASTER 831.476.9639 Ph. 831.476.0141 Fax http://www.fastisfun.com 345 Lake Ave, Suite E Santa Cruz, CA 95062
uctt'ts Ask for Bill Lee, Dan O’Brien or Tom Carter
Santa Cruz 50. Excellent condition and maintenance. Recent Yanmar diesel. Lots of sails. GO fast and have fun too. ...$189,000.
C&C 30. Excellent little ship. Recent Yanmar overhaul, recent rigging replacement, stiff and strong.$19,500.
Young Sun Cruising Cutter. Extensive upgrades and equipment, hard dodger, new paint.$100,000.
Wylie 70. Carbon mast, west system - cedar over foam core. Diesel, set records or go short handed cruising.$399,000.
Freedom 39 1992. Cat ketch with unstayed masts. Excellent single hander, no headsails. Diesel, aft cockpit, dodger. $109,000.
Chris White 40 Footer. Excellent New Zealand design and build. Modern racer/ cruiser. Best buy with exchange rate.$79,000.
50' Catamaran. Shuttleworth world class cruising catamaran, rotating mast. Beautiful. Sleeps 10, complete w/shop space. $450,000.
Sydney 41 1998. Excellent modern racer with full interior. Sailed Pacific Cup and Kenwood Cup this year. $285,000.
55’ Eva Hollman. Fast cruiser, 3 stateroom, 2 head, aft cockpit, slightly raised salon. .Reduced $249,000.
Lidgard 45. GRP with lots of pretty wood. 3 staterooms. Excellent racer/cruiser. Open transom. Fractional with masthead spinnakers.
Santa Cruz 52 (NEW). Bill Lee design. #28 available for July 2001. The best racer/cruiser and custom finished to your specs.
Storebro J34 1999. Essentially new. Twin Yanmars with Hamilton waterjets. 36 knots. Even power boats can be fun.$229,000.
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More Selected Sail 70' Andrews, get there first!.$795,000 60' Open BOC, new upgrades+paint.. $239,000 56' Andrews, cruising interior.$449,000 51' Santa Cruz type, 3 stateroom.$239,000 50' BOC by Concordia, fast cruise.$179,000
50' Gulf star. Two stateroom, two head, center cockpit. Excellent cruising equipment. ......$159,900.
40' Olson 40, surf to Hawaii.$85,000 40' Santa Cruz, more surf.2 from $75,000 32' B32, Leif Beiley racer.$55,000
Santa Cruz 33. Recent engine overhaul, custom deck and interior. Needs tender loving care.$17,000.
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#1 Gate 5 Road Sausalito, CA 94965 (415) 33-f (415) 332-7245 Fax 332-4580
44' PETERSON, 1981 Onon Genset. Hard Dodger. In Most Furling Main. Great condition. Fantastic bluewater cruiser.
New SAN DIEGO OFFICE! 1318 Scott St. (619) 222-1000
$124,000. Clay
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Teresa
Prescott
47' PUVIEUX, '80. Aft cabin ketch. Turnkey cruiser/ liveaboard. Sylvester Stallone's old beat. Great accommodations. Ford Lehman Diesel. $169,000.
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30' CAPE DORY, '83.
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Albetg Design. Bristol
condition. Profurl Roller Furling. Nice soil inventory. New dodger. $43,000.
IMM8PM
IKBI .* 46' PAN OCEANIC, '86.
Profurl Roller Furling. Newer soils. New dinghy and outboard. Brand new engine in 1998. $47,000.
43' SPINDRIFT, '81.
40'
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'77
365 PEARSON.'77
47,000
’84 195,000
36' ISLANDER F/PORT '79
40,000
'71 159,000
36' ISLANDER.'73
37,500
POWER
‘86 139,900
36' COLUMBIA.'70
25,900
51' BAGLIETTO
'86 215,000
35' TRADEWINDS.'84
88,000
50' STEPHENS.'65 135,000
'81 139,000
35' ROBB !.'63
45,000
48' CHRIS CRAFT.'50
'80 159,000
35' ENDURANCE*.'77
59,900
47 FANTAIL.(12)
25,000
'79 169,000
35' SPENCER.'65
39,900
46' CHRIS CRAFT.'63
69,500
'78 145,000
35' CHRIS CRAFT.'65
39,950
42' KHA SHING FB.'84
99,900
'76
35' FUJI.,.'74
55,000
41' CHRIS CRAFT.'84 124,900
'83 262,000
34' OPUS MKII..
'83
55,000
41' KHA SHING.'81 139,000
73
85,000
34' TRUE NORTH. 78
45,000
38' PT. 79
97,000
'86 169,000
33' CHEOYLEE. 75
39,500
38' CHRIS CRAFT.'69
37,900
'81 124,000
32' WESTSAIL. 79
60;000
38' MATTHEWS.'25
24,900
'81 150,000
32' ARIES.78
19,900
35' FISHERMAN. 72
25,000
rom 119,500
31' HUNTER.'85
35,000
34' CHB.'77
54,900
66,000
30'CAPE DORY.'83
43,000
33' CARVER....... 76
42,000
'85 179,000
30' SANTANA. 79
19,750
32'TOLLY CRAFT.'64
26,500
'81
99,000
30' CHEOYLEE.'66
26,000
32' GRAND BANKS.'67
65,000
79
79,000
30’ ANGELMAN.'62
32,000
32' BAYLINER.'89
61,000
'66
99,000
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PASSPORT, '86. ProFurl RF, Sobstad sails, full
custom cabinets, SSB. Half Moon Bay slip. $164,500.
113.000 59,500
93,000
30' HUNTER.'91
46,900
29' OWENS....,.'59
12,500
'86 164,500
29' GULF MS.
28,000
28' WELLCRAFTExp... '85
29,750
'90
75,000
29' C&C.
'86
28,000
28' PENN YAN.'80
34,000
'80
47,000
28' ISLANDER. 78
24,500
29' OWENS.'59
12,500
'85
89,500
28' TRADEWINDS.'67
24,500
27 MOTOR LAUNCH .. 74
10,500
. '95
95,000
28' BENETEAU.'88 . 34,000
20' CORRECT CRAFT . 77
13,500
.78
67,500
25' CATALINA w/slip.... '99
30,000
34' TRUE NORTH, 78.
Stan Huntingford design.
Great liveaboord/cruisr. Self steering, radar. $49,999.
48' C&C LANDFALL, '80. Three cabin layout. Engine completely rebuilt. Radar, GPS, outopilol, Onon genset. Vessel hails out of San Diego.
$159,000.
MMVIMP
'Locat'd in San Diego
43' SLOCUM CUTTER, '85.
Excellent condition.
Loaded. Wonderful fast cruising boat.
$179,000.
$149,000. Also '81 $119,500. 47' GULFSTAR SAILMASTER, 79. Shows excep¬
51' FORMOSA, '81. Wonderful cruising boat
tionally well. 135hp Perkins diesel. Great liveoboord.
at a great price. Excellent liveoboord. Black hull. Must see. $139,000.
Centerline queen aft. Galley down.
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Howe
93,900
'23 249,000
Pilothouse. 3 stoterooms. Ex¬
44' LAFITTE, '81 Perkins 4-108 with 600 hours. Mast and boom repainted. New stonding and running rigging. Fully battened main. Oversized winches. Perry design. $150,000.
Phil
batten main, spinnaker, Heart inverter, washer/dryer,
tremely well maintained vessel. Many recent upgrades. Turnkey vessel.
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'88
38' CATALINA, '80. Hauled last month. No blister.
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Ted Brewer Seastar. True
world cruiser. Rebuilt engine, inside steering, com\pletely loaded. Asking $169,000.
37 FISHER
79' THORNYCROFT, '23. Canoe stern ketch Great passagemoker. $249,01
Michael Campbell
Claire Jones
42' GOLDEN WAVE, '82.
$169,000.
Perkins 4-108 w/500
hours. Perry design. Fin keel with skeg rudder. Great cruiser. $99,000.
MORGAN 38, 78. Fin keel, skeg rudder, Yanmar diesel, great daysailer/cruiser. $55,000.
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46' SPINDRIFT, 1983 Bristol yacht. Center cockpit. Dark blue hull. Full batten main. Ford Lehman diesel w/1,000 hours. $262,000.
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197' BUGINESE PINISI SCHOONER Ketch rig, '97l lironwood const., 8 guest cabins plus crow, air, genset,I Icumminsdsl, con be charter operation. Asking $285,000.|
^VAGABONDKETCH^ctrcockpit w/aft cabin, wheel, dsl, genset & more! Very popular Wm Garden design loaded w/gear & needing TLC. Asking $85,000.
I 35' lod CLASSIC YAWL by Winthrop Warner & I WILBO, 1939,43' loa, mahog on oak, bronce, dsl, much | recent work. Great Master Mariner. Asking $23,500. SAIL 60' FIFE cutter, iron, new dsl 195,000 60'LOD P/H schooner, dsl.... 250,000 56' HERESHOFF Marco Polo schooner: exquisite!. 500,000 55' LESTER STONE Classic Yowl, 1910, dsl, lots of equipment, great cruiser.Asking 44,000 54'SCHOONER, classic, 79 by Perkins Teok S copper. 375,000 48'CUTTER, Germany 1928.... 65,000 48'KETCH, Goff, roomy, F/C,. 87,500 46' CAL 2-46 ketch. Center cockpit, dsl, extra clean, roller furl, great cruiser.Asking 119,000 43'DUTCH, steel ketch, P/H ... 79,000 42'SCHOONER, Winslow/Blanchard. Very nice, rebuilt '94. 142,000 42'WALSTED sip. One of the world's finest wood builders. 133,000 41' CORONADO, cent, cockpit, dsl, roller furl, roomy cruiser in v. nice shape, cruise/live. 49,500. 41' MORGAN Out island ketch, dsl, wheel, center cockpit, oft cabin.... 52,500 49' ALDEN KETCH 40' LOO. Clossic beauty. Dsl. 56,500 36'STAYSAILSCHNR, ATKIN, designed, diesel, FG over cold-mold over strip plonk. VERY STRONG!.45,000 36'COLUMBIA/CREALOCK sip. 21,500 36' CHEOY LEE sip, teak, dsl, v. nice ONE OWNER.49,500 35'Alumuminum SCHOONER, gaff, dsl. 36,500 34'NICHOLS cruising sip, l/B. 17,500 33'RHODES WINDWARD, sip., i/b.Asking 12,000 32'MOTOR SAILER CLASSIC'32.. 24,000 32’ LAPWORTH DASHER"by Easom. Clossic ocean racer, iA, basic performance cruiser by o great builder & designer...Asking 12,500 30’ ISLANDER MKII.Offer 15,000 30' CAL 230, sip, dsl.. Asking 22,000 29' PEARSON TRITON, dsl.10,900 28'LANCER MkV sloop, '84 ....13,400 27' ERICSON sip, l/B, roller furl, lines led oft for short hand or rough weather, full galley, VHF, depth, clean.16,000 27'NEWPORT sloop, l/B.8,000 26' F0LKB0AT, Int'l, all glass, nice!.8,500 POWER 100' STEEL TUG, YTB, exc. cond 175,000 63' LIVEAB0ARD PROJEaboat. AVR con¬ version, twin diesel.... 25,000/ofr 63'AVR YACHT CONVERSION, orig builder Stephens, twin 671s, F/B, H&C H20 S more! .Asking 40,000/ofrs 62'xl 9.5' Converted inland ferry, much fine recent work, 671 diesel. Greet potentiol 8 very solid... b/o 49,000 60'CUSTOM F/C, (iveoboord cruiser in
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40'SPORT FISH Charterboot w/certif. (14+2), dsis, ready to go! 82,000 38'TOLLYCRAFT sedan trawler w/twin turbo diesels, FB, very nice 59,500 38' HUNTER of Canada, FB sdn, twin V8s, dean, roomy '59 cruiser, with comfort 26 900 36' STEPHENS, '39, classic, twins, ' oft enclosure, more. 24,000 34'CHRIS CRAFTCommonder, '63, twin gas, great boat.. 26,500 33'RICHARDSON, custom high speed trowler, V8,25 mph, F/B, super cieon.15,000 32' TROJAN Express, Twins.12,500 32' LUHRS FLYBRIDGE sdn, heavy glass planning hull, twin 225 hp V8s, dual station hydr. steering. Great for fun/ fish/fomily!.Asking 18,000 29' T0LLYCRAFT, Twins, nice!. 13,000 28' TOLLYCRAFT, F/G sedon... 12,500 28’CARVER, nice/roomy, 0/D 12,950 22' CROWN-LINE, '94, TLK, V8 1/0, lots of gear.Asking 29,500 22' REINELL, Cuddy Cobra V81/0, full enclosure, very dean .Asking 10,500 20' SEA SWIRL, '96, tlr, 225hp.. 23,000
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66' on deck THORNYCROFT KETCH Ossie 23 English yocht. Copper riveted mahog. on oak, dsl, lead, stunning tradrtionalEnglishdecorbelow.Mustsee! Asking $249,000.
121' FREEPORT OFFSHORE Walk-around Cuddy cabin, 0MC V4 sea drive, always in fresh water. Very clean, 2 I capt.'s choirs, 2 axle trl. & more. Asking $11,500 [
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70' CANADIAN-BUILT TRAWLER YACHT by McKay & McCormick Ship¬ yard. V-l 2 Cummins dsl., 2 gensets, radar, etc. Flv bridge, whaler-type dingy & much more! Sleeps 10 in 3 staterooms, 2 heads w/showers, canister raft, all elect., full galley & more! She's an economical seaboat built much more IIUWICI J, ALERT nLLIX I L7 Tv I is IO lmore l l v/i V/I vz small jimviii ship strongly than the typical pleasure3 trawlers; BAY of^a Asking a very reasonable $255,000. than simply a largeboat.
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