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Dear Sirs: Yesterday a gentleman came by requesting that we display the publication Latitude 38. At a quick glance I could tell it was written about sailing and us being in the chandlry business and the yacht brokerage business felt that it might be a nice handout to our customers. After further examination of the magazine I found, specificly on pages 26 and 27, what I feel to be rather questionable pictures of two naked women. It was obvious there was no attempt on the part of the magazine to edit, disguise, or omitt this type of picture from the issue. I feel very strongly about handing out this type of material, I think it was a cheap shot on the part of the editor to grab peoples attention when it is not relivent to the sport of industry. I certainly do not want to insult any of our good customers and their families with this type of literature. And it is certainly not fair to display this type of sailing magazine with other fine publication of the industry such as Yacht Racing, Sail, and the Bay & Delta Yachtsman. For these reasons I have put your magazine aside and if you care to pick them up fine, but if I do not hear from you I will without hesitation throw the whole stack out. It showed very little tact and was extremely amateurish. I would certainly be interested and willing to display the magazine in the future if the editor chooses to use better judgement in his or hers subject matter. Sincerely, Paul & Christine Kaplan Owners — Gashouse Cove Marina
Jan Pehrson, the woman in the “questionable photograph ” on page 26 of our first issue had the following comments, “Why wear clothes in tropical weather during the day? Salt spray gets them wet, salt crystals absorb water at night, so when you get up for the midnight to four watch you have nothing to wear but wet clothes. Besides, clothing ruins a good suntan. ” Jan's reasons for not wearing clothing in the tropics ob¬ viously have nothing to do with whether or not the pho¬ tograph should have been published. It was my decision, I liked the photograph, I thought it was honest. A woman cleaning a fish. It is true she didn 't have any clothes on, but neither did Tom have any pants on in the full page pho¬ tograph. That's the way the crew of the Silverheels cruised. We did have a test run to check sailors' opinions, we took the layout to every advertiser we tried to sell ad space to. Since we received no negative comments we published it, leaving it in the low-impact lower left corner. I still like the photograph, but do offer my apologies to any of our readers who may have been offended. One older woman thought it was refreshing to see a woman without any clothes on who was not spread out on a bed. —Editor page 11
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Dear Latitude 38, On a recent visit to Sausalito I encountered a copy of your publication and I must say I find it a refreshing alternative to the average nautical reading fare. As I get to my home in Tiburon only every few months, I would like very much to acquire a subscription to Latitude 38. Best of luck with your new endeavor. Thank you, Joe Rineart Marina del Rey
Gentlemen: I obtained a copy of your new sailing magazine and was quite impressed with it. I enjoyed reading it and I would like to have you send a copy to me each month. Please be assured that I will mention your advertisers here in Santa Cruz to them when I visit their stores. Sincerely yours, Gail A. Magid, M.D. Santa Cruz
Fellow Sailors, I’ve just read your first copy of Latitude 38 and found it superb. I enjoyed the local articles and the local advertising as I’m never sure where to go for a par¬ ticular item. I’m sure there are lots of dealers out there I’ve never heard of. I would very much appreciate it if you could send a subscription to my home. Thank you, Paul May San Leandro YC
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I We recommend that you consider attending the 4th semi-annual Alameda Sailboat Show Afloat which runs April 16 through the 24th at Mariner Square. We especially like the show for two reasons, the first is that the show is
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SAILBOAT SHOW AFLOAT exclusively aimed at the sailor, and secondly the boats and gear are displayed outdoors in their natural environment. We could tell you that the Queen of the Show is the Robinson 51, a wooden gold plater that is being sailed up the coast just for the show. We could tell you that Bill Lee’s radical new Merlin will be there. We could also tell you that a Laser will be auctioned on the 16th, the 17th, and the 23rd, and that there will be a free drawing for a Laser on the 24th for all who have attended the show
D’Anna and Don Kohlmanri. Check the free show program for specifics. If you do own a boat now you’ll be pleased to note that you may sail to the show and moor at any one of thirty buoys that will be anchored just off the docks. A skiff will be ready to shuttle you to and from the show at all times and at no charge. Two restaurants and a sandwich shop at the show will be featuring attractive menus at special boat show prices. Both restaurants serve cocktails for those suffering from the water shortage or the
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(Imp) 1. a little devil We always wondered what kind of a man it takes to pull off a big win in a grand prix sailing event. Now we know, and we like what we see. As most readers of the national sailing magazines already know, Dave Allen of Belvedere was the consensus winner of this year’s prestigious SORC, a series in which there is no ‘official’ overall winner. Dave and his local crew sailed Imp, a Ron Holland design, to five firsts and one second in their class. When we spoke to Dave after his morning bike ride, he was soft spoken and kind, and was more predisposed to discussing the entire Imp project rather than the fact that he had finished so well in one particular series. We got the latitude 38
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impression that winning wasn’t every¬ thing to Dave, it was just something that happened if you worked hard, planned carefully, had a good crew, had some good luck, and above all enjoyed yourself. Dave’s crew had all sailed with him before and all of them were from the northern California area. Steve Taft, Tad Lacey, John Rumsey, Bil Barton, Skip Allen, Tom Wylie, and Ragnar Hawkanson who coordinated much of the effort. Most of the crew had sailed on Dave’s previous boat, the Mull designed Improbable which readers may remember as the boat that beat Windward Passage on corrected time while Passage was turning in the fastest average speed in ocean racing history. The designer of Imp, Ron Holland, had come to the States from New Zealand on Great Hope Jr., the smaller version of the Oceanic Societies unusual schooner New World. After working with Gary Mull on parts of the page 19
design of the Improbable, Holland returned to New Zealand to supervise construction of the boat. Ron came back with the boat and sailed it with Dave in this country and Europe. During the 1973 Trans-Pac, Dave and Ron had discussed how a boat similar to Improbable could be designed that would rate substantially lower, a hypothetical boat that was to become Imp. After Holland had helped Doug Peterson in the design of Peterson’s breakthrough boat Ganbare, he opened up a design office in Ireland. In 1976, Dave Allen sold Improbable and on June 28th, gave Holland the go-ahead to design Imp. As they had discussed, the boat was similar to Improbable, having the same size mast and sail plan, but a design that rated 6 feet less on the I.O.R. rating. We asked Dave if the name Imp was a 'diminutive of Improbable, in that it was to be a shorter and lighter boat. As so
often happens we were wrong, there was no connection. Dave got the name from an old boat, possibly an ‘R’ boat, that had sunk off the Sausalito waterfront after nearly 50 years of service. We spoke to Dave about the dif¬ ference between racing in Florida and California. “Totally different,” was his response. Whereas the winds here are known to be strong and consistent in direction, just the opposite is true in Florida. In the SORC the normal conditions are SE to SW trades which are frequently interrupted by sudden northerlies that blast through with little or no warning. The Gulf Stream also adds a tremendous variable that makes tactics very important. A race like the one from Tampa to Fort Lauderdale has its own mysteries, because during the race the course direction is changed by almost 180 degrees. If our meeting with Dave Allen is any indication, nice guys do finish first, whether in the variable conditions of the SORC or out west where heavier and more consistent conditions prevail. Dave expects to ship Imp from Florida to England for the Admiral’s Cup which begins July 28th, and after some sailing in Europe hopes to return to San Francisco for the Big Boat Series in the fall. Imp was built in Plant City, Florida, by Gary Carlin, Ron Holland’s brotherin-law, and owner of Kiwi Boat Works. The April issue of Yachting magazine has an interesting article on some of the technical aspects of the boat, “Inside Imp”, page 56.
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SIGHTINGS March 25th, the Blackwind, a 25’ sailboat located 55 miles west of Point Arena called to inform the Coast Guard that they had lost their rudder, and might be in danger if the weather got increasingly bad. At the time the wind was gustmg up to 45 knots and the swell was running at 15 feet. An aircraft was sent out to circle the vessel until the 143’ Cutter Comanche could take the crew on board and the Blackwind in tow. All were taken to Fort Bragg in good condition. The crew of the Blackwind seemed to have demonstrated presence of mind and good seamanship by not putting out an S.O.S. when it wasn’t necessary. | March 28, the Anne H. a 29 sailboat out of Emeryville broke her headstay off Fort Funston. The conditions were too rough to send out a 44’ Coast Guard boat, so the 82’ Pt. Chico was sent out. Before she was able to reach the Anne H., the sailboat s crew had managed to jury rig a headstay and make it to relative safety. The Pt. Chico escorted the Anne H. to the Golden Gate Bridge and then let her proceed back to her berth under her own power. An Alberg 35 sloop, owned by Alan Allen of Novato, was dismasted 70 miles off Point Conception while on her way from San Pedro to San Francisco. The vessel was struck by a large wave that put the mast and sails under water, breaking the mast. Distress calls were put out until the batteries went dead, and the Geisha was taken in tow to Santa Barbara by the Coast Guard. Repairs will be made and the boat will be trucked up North.
SAN FRANCISCO CUP FOLKBOAT ENTRIES
Finland Seppo Naukkarinen
Germany K. Eichholz M.Kuke P.Goos P. Liesegang C. Blencknet
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Denmark
Two sailors in 16’ boats were rescued Vi mile outside the Golden Gate Bridge when their vessels capsized several times and they became too tired to right them. The pilot boat Drake picked up Joe Hutchins of Santa Barbara, and a 44’ Coast Guard boat picked up Steve Dunn of San Francisco. Both sailors were wearing life jackets and wetsuits which would have helped them immensely if they had not been sighted quickly.
Poul Andersen Erik Andreasen Kund Andreasen Ole Neilsen Henrik Sorensen Jarle Thorup
We received a third hand report on an incident involving Joe Cox, the former Commodore of the Sausalito Cruising Club. Joe moved to Portland some time ago, and has been cruising in the Northwest in his Coronado 41. Heading south from Cape Flattery, Cox began having difficulty with his rudder. The Coast Guard came out to escort them to a relatively safe harbor. Near the harbor, they took a wave that knocked everyone overboard except for one crew member, a crew member who knew nothing about sailing whatsoever. All of the four who had been knocked overboard were picked up by the Coast Guard very quickly considering the conditions. The crew member left on board headed out to sea and asked the Coast Guard to take him off. Either they couldn’t or wouldn’t and told him to put out an anchor. He put out the anchor, and proceeded to jump overboard and was also quickly picked up by the Coast Guard. I Since it was dark and nothing could be done, they were all taken to shore. In the morning, Joe went to see his boat, and it wasn’t there. A day’s search found the boat still missing. He headed home to Oregon. Arriving home, he received a call informing him that his boat had washed ashore 35 miles south of where it had been anchored the night before. Miraculously, it had found its way past points and rocks and had gone aground on a beach at an Indian reservation. By the time Joe had arrived at the scene, every possible object that could have been taken from the boat was gone. The boat is now being trucked out for repairs. As we understand it, there were no injuries suffered by any of the crew. We don’t wish to scare any of our readers with these reports, but we think it is important that sailors are aware of these incidents so that they may prepare themselves and their boats for similar situations which they might possibly encounter. page 21
Sweden Lars Larsson Bengt Jarfelt Nils Johnsson Peter Sohl Leif Ahlquist Anders Olson
United States Chuck Kaiser Norm Wilson Don Kiselhorst-Jim Bliss Bill Coverdale Mike Robinson Don Koors ' Kate Funk-Dan Funk Judy Walsh-Terry Langhammer Ralf Morgan Otto Schreier Svend Svendsen
SIGHTINGS
The 1977 Light List, Volume III, Pacific Coast and Pacific Islands (C.G.-162), listing lights, fog signals, buoys, daybeacons, lightships, radiobeacons, racons, and loran stations on the Pacific Coast of the United States and certain Pacific Islands, is available for issue. The list, corrected to 1 January 1977 may be obtained from U.S. government Printing Office Sales Agents, price $3.90.
On March 28th the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee, chaired by Willie Brown of San Francisco, put Assembly Bill 130 into the suspense file. AB 130 is the bill sponsored by Dixon Arnett of Redwood City that would reduce the personal property tax rate on boats in 53 of California’s 58 counties. It would also insure that at least 70 percent of these monies collected would be spent on services and facilities for yachtsmen. AB 130 will be considered again sometime near the end of April after the socalled Property Tax Relief and Reform Bill of 1977 is acted upon. The bill is considered anti-government by most state officials, who would prefer to keep the funds coming in to finance non-yachting projects. Currently, airplane and recreational vehicle owners pay only 1.5 percent of the market value in taxes on those vehicles. Willie Brown is sponsoring AB 806 which would raise the tax rates on airplanes. It is possible that the passage of AB 130 would signal a rush of legal boat registrations on the part of thousands and thousands of boat owners in Cali¬ fornia who have their boats registered illegally out of state or who simply don’t have them registered at all because of the high tax rate. It might also alleviate the congested mooring situation at Angel Island the last night of every April. A government official who did not want her name used said that “letters were a royal pain, but very effective.” If you would like to see the taxes drop by an average of close to 50 percent you might write a letter to Willie Brown, Chairman of the Revenue and Taxation Committee, State Capitol, Sacramento, Ca 95814. Do it before the end of April.
Dredging has begun at the shoaled Santa Cruz yacht harbor. Terms of the dredging contract are believed to include a provision that the harbor entrance be cleared by April 15th. There are a number of observers who feel that this is a wildly optimistic completion date, so before you set sail for Santa Cruz, you might call the harbormaster and check on the progress being made.
Ty Knudson, owner of Westsail 43, Sundowner, has accepted the challenge issued in our last edition by Overseas 41 owner Two-And-A-Half-Fingers Max Zenobi for a race around the bay. A few days after the race, which will be held May 1, Ty will set sail for Alaska and eventually cruise down to the South Seas. The Rusty Scupper Restaurant of Oakland has generously agreed to provide free dinners for the winning captain and four of his crew. The restaurant is located on the water at Portobello and always has copies of Latitude 38 in the lobby. The loser of the race shall receive a $5 gift certificate for an afternoon feed with Ronald McDonald. The pressure will be on the howlin’ Italian Max in Lily since the salty Sausalito bookies have made him a slight favorite even before they knew Ty’s Sundowner would be loaded down with provisions for a long cruise. If you’d like to challenge someone to a race for free dinners, write CHALLENGE, P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, Ca 94965. latitude 38
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SIGHTINGS
Mexico isn’t the only place the cruising sailors are having problems with natives. Not long ago, these two boats went on a cruise and were attacked in the middle of the night by Petalumans armed with garbage bins which they rolled at the boats. After two ‘shots’ they wre out of ammo; both shots missed.
The hot new Santa 20’s just finished a 3 race series that included 9 starters. Stan Hansen took first place in Mango, A1 Chin took second in No. 131, and Lovis Kruk struggled to third place in Urban Guerrilla. The first Santana 20 Regatta on San Francisco Bay was held on March 26, the CYC Invitational. Latitutde 38 welcomes all race results and class activities.
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FOLKBOAT Northern California sailing has rocketed to its most explosive start in history. Before Opening Day, there has already been the wild singlehanded race around the Farallons, the Colin Archer Race around Point Bonita, and now the San Francisco Folkboat Association is holding one of the biggest events in years. The event is the San Francisco Cup Regatta for Nordic Folkboats, featuring 30 starters, 18 of them outstanding skippers from Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Finland. The races, held off the St. Francis Yacht Club start April 19 at 1300, with double races starting at 1130 on the 20th and 22nd, with a final race at 1300 on the 23rd. The San Francisco Cup, symbolizing the world champion¬ ship, will provide one of the finest spectator events on the bay. Flood tide conditions will prevail in 4 of the 6 races, so outstanding tacking duels are expected just off the San Francisco cityfront. It’s an excellent opportunity to follow these identical boats with binoculars and a stopwatch. A scoreboard will be set up so you may follow the fortunes of the entrants. It will be interesting to see if the foreign skippers can overcome the advantage of the bay sailor’s local knowledge. The competition will be fierce. Among the entrants are Eric Andreasen, current holder and two-time winner of the Folkboat Gold Cup. All of the foreign entries have at least one national champion in their fleets. Even the local competition for a spot on the 12-man U.S. team was tight. Bay champ from 1974, Gordon Waldear, apparently did not make the team. The Folkboat is an international and San Francisco favorite. Over 3000 wooden hulls have been built in Scandinavia where large regattas are held regularly. The full
keel and small sail area make the boat well-suited to stiff bay conditions, and Folkboats often embarass larger vessels when conditions get dusty. Svend Svendsen’s glass version of the Nordic Folkboat has received approval to compete in all Folkboat events and several will take part in the upcoming series. latitude 38
The Nordic Folkboat was the result of a design contest for a “people’s boat” held in Scandinavia over 20 years ago. No one individual is credited with the design. The San Francisco Cup will initiate the 20th season of Folkboat racing on the bay. Folkboats started the now popular evening races on the bay 17 years ago with their page 25
Wednesday night series at the Golden Gate Yacht Club, a night series which continues to draw large entries and many spectators. The San Francisco Cup Regatta is a special event you won’t want to miss. (For a list of entries, see Sightings in this issue.)
THIS MAN MADE A FOOL OUT OF ME
And 1 was not the only one. I was standing on the Golden Gate Bridge awaiting the start of the Singlehanded Race around the Faralion Islands. The race was due to begin in 30 minutes, and already the western horizon was covered with whitecaps, the wind was blowing a good 20 knots on the bridge, and the swellwas running strong. At the starting line near Alcatraz it was dead calm, and some of the entrants were putting up light air headsails. A number of tourists asked me what was going on. I explained to them that there was one individual on each boat and they were heading out to sailing around some islands 32 miles out the Gate. The tourists expressed some concern about the sanity of the participants in such a race, and asked what I thought would happen. I gave them my expert opinion, explaining that with the current conditions, there was no way that any of the boats were going to return before Monday. Nine hours later, I jumped on Merlin just after she crossed the finish line, to help Bill Lee strike the sails He had made a fool out of me Before midnight, ten more boats had proved me wrong; at 6:20 the next morning Mambo, a Santana 22 had crossed the line, the last of the 14 finishers. latitude 38
FffRfiLLONS We spoke to a tired Bill Lee at the lonely finish line in the estuary. He was exhausted from the race, particularly having been forced to stay at the helm on the run home. Beating out was easy in comparison to the quarter seas that had to be handled on the way home. He had started the day at 6:00 when there was a good breeze blowing and had to go to the lee of Angel Island to set sails. At race time it was dead calm and Bill made two tiring sail changes, finally going with a short hoist 80 and a double reefed main. Bill figured he only had so much energy to expend, particularly since he had been “out with the boys” the night before, and operated on the philosophy that this was one race that was not going to be won at the starting line. His plan worked well. He started very poorly in the near calm starting conditions, but by the time he had reached the Gate he had the appropriate sails set and was passing up the fleet rapidly. By Mile Rock he was in fourth position, and it didn’t take much longer before he was in the lead and never to be headed.Bill had Merlin on the way back from the Farallons at 2:40 and arrived at the Gate at 4:44, averaging over 12 knots for the run home. Bill had no idea that he would finish so early, neither apparently did any of his friends whom he was unable to reach right after the race. It was a stark contrast to other entries who had wives and relatives ringing the phone off the hook wondering if they were back, safe, or lost. Lee explained that if was difficult to leave the helm so few skippers were able to report their positions on a regular basis, leading to some confusion with the race committee. Merlin took the race without any problems even though the ocean was “real nasty”, one wave coming over the port side covering half the boat and getting Bill both wet and angry. It hadn’t been the hardest race he had been in, but it had been the hardest on him personally. He expected there would be a lot of busted up boats and people before it was over. One trimaran, Coral Lee, did capsize and her skipper and the boat were both taken in safely. Another entry that had started well, Sunshine, reported she was sinking until she recieved pumps from the Coast Guard and returned under her own power. Bill had not made a lot of plans for the race, he just “showed up and did it”. He said he didn’t think he would like to do it again, but that was the same sentiment expressed by most skippers until the follwing day when almost all of them decided that they would try it again. Bill finished the race at 7:05, nearly 314 hours ahead of the trimaran Harmony. Merlin will be at the Alameda Boat Show, and you ought to see her. She is beautifully simple compared to other ocean racers her size. Congratulations are due Bill for an excellent performance, and also to Survival and Safety who spent so much time and effort putting together a marvelously challenging event.
FINISHING BOAT
TIME FINISHED
BILL LEE
7:05
PAUL SILVHA
10:40
DAVID WAHLE
10:45
ELYSIUM
ROGER HALL
10:46
WILDFLOWER
SKIP ALLEN
10:53
MERLIN HARMONY DUCE II
EOS
NORTON SMITH
10:58
BLITHE SPIRIT
DICK MITCHELL
11:00
ANKLE BITER
CLIFF STAGG
11:02
VICARIOUS
DAVID JESBERG
11:16
PYRRHIC VICTORY
DON CARLSON
11:42
CHAMPAGNE
HALL PALMER
1 1:46
COURAGEOUS
JOHN ROBINSON
1:09
KILLER WHALE
MIKE MATHEASEN
3:00
PAUL KAMEN
6:20
MAMBO page 27
SKIPPER
FffRfiLLONS comments from
DON CARLSON \
Skipper of Pyrrhic Victory, an< Islander 36, 10th boat to finish, but only an hour and 2 minutes from a second place finish. “Scared &%f&less” is the way he described his feelings during the race. Don found that Roger Hall’s Columbia 36 was both pointing higher and going faster. Don felt that his sail combination of a 110 and single reefed main left the boat unbalanced and would have liked to have a different sails set. A 150 he had wouldn’t stay lashed to the deck, and dragged through the water during part of the race. Don’s wind vane became inoperative, and he had to jury rig it on the way home. Don feels that an ultra light boat would be the right choice for this race, and “hell yes” would like to do it again.
DICK MITCHELL Skipper of Blithe Spirit, a Pearson 36. Dick was 7th to finish and 3rd in his class. We saw him go out the Gate as one of the leaders, his sails set well, pointing high, and having excellent boat speed. “Hair raising, I wasn’t sure that the boat or I could take it.” Dick said he would surely do it again. Merlin caught him near the light bucket, and Dick was second around the islands. He was flying a 135% genny and a main with 2 reefs. He would of liked to have set a smaller headsail, but the conditions were too rough. He found it difficult to round the islands in what he estimated as 20 foot seas. Reportedly, Blithe Spirit hit 12 knots after jibing at the Farallons. ^ «
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DAVID WAHLE Skipper of Duce II, a Wylie Gemini 31’. Dave described the conditions as normal, that s just how it is out there ’. Dave was the 3rd boat to finish and first in his class, just five minutes behind the second place boat, the trimaran Harmony. A late start seemed to be Dave’s biggest problem, although he was in “stark terror” when he slipped at the bow while dropping his 100% jib at the channel marker. Dave wasn’t clipped on, but managed to stay on board and put up a spitfire, which he flew with a double reefed main. On the way out, Dave reports that he was hiked out, outside of the lifelines. Near the Farallons, he reported seeing the bottom of Cliff Stagg’s Santa Cruz 27 Ankle Biter. latitude 38
FffRffLLONS some of the finishers
CUFF STAGG Skipper of Ankle Biter, a Santa Cruz 27. Cliff finished 8th overall and 2nd in his class and was “pissed I didn’t win.” Both Skip Allen and Dave Wahle had a lot of praise for the way the 17 year-old Cliff handled Ankle Biter. Dave said he was “too dumb, no, too young to have the sense to quit.” It was the roughest Cliff’s been out in, and he says he always wondered how strong the ultra light boat was,and now he knows and thinks they are super. He said he kept on going because Skip did, and Skip said he kept on going because Dave did, and it seemed like a small group of boats simply kept going because the others did. Cliff found it relatively easier coming back, in fact he put up a 150% genny at the Farallons. He took it down a short while later after he kept digging the bow of his boat into the waves ahead of him. He went with a 90% jib the rest of the way.
ROGER HALL Skipper of Elysium a Columbia 36, 4th boat to finish and only six minutes behind the second place boat. Roger was the only skipper who was able to fetch the Farallons in one tack. He said the boat pointed well and handled great in the difficult conditions. He worried about being washed over, saying he was scared to death until he got used to it. He took lots of water on board and said the spray was constantly up around the spreaders. Roger flew a 150% genny about a third of the way to the islands, and then changed to a’l 10%. “It was a bitch, one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life”. As he was unhanking the 150, the wind blew the whole sail up the mast, making the sail change extremely difficult.
ALLEN Skipper of Wildflower, a custom Wylie 28’. Skip was first in his class and 5th boat to finish, just 13 minutes 6ut of second place. He reported the winds at the Farallons as 35 knots at 4:15, and 30 knots at the light bucket a while later. Although he experienced no problems, he was glad when he had rounded the islands and headed back on a broad reach. “I didn’t know if I wanted to keep going, but nobody else would quit.” Skip wasn’t about to give in easily since he had to haul his boat up from the shoaled Santa Cruz harbor on a trailer. The seas were rough and filled the cockpit of Wildflower a number of times. page 29
NIGHT RACE Loose. Laid-back. Fun. Could this be racing? “With 100+ boats on the starting line, someone might get hurt if they all took this racing seriously,” reflected Phil Seidler. This muse about Metropolitan YC’s Friday night races well applies to all summer club races. If you haven’t been sailing club races during the summer what you are missing is a lot of fun. Where else can you get 4 spinnaker sets on a 3 mile course, or have a Bounty 41 nosing up your mini-ton transom, or polish hot downwind starts? More important, these gatherings of the clan are a time to relax and experiment. Yacht clubs are most convivial. Lively dinner parties are sparked by all those great sea stories told at the bar. The balmy evening winds make it easy to race with a minimum crew plus providing light air sailing experience not often had on blustery summer Bay days. The basic format of competition is the same for all clubs. Summer races are really organized for yacht club members and invited guets are welcome. “Invited” usually means calling the respective yacht club and signing up to race — with a required $5 to $10 fee. A good idea is to get in touch with a friend who is a member of the yacht club whose summer series you want to race — his intro¬ duction will make you feel more a part of the scene. Obviously ‘homecourt’ rules are in effect. Handicaps can be based on IOR rating, Portsmith rule or PHRF per¬ formance handicap. Most clubs will give qualifying one-design boats their own start.
YACHT CLUB
DATES
Ballena Bay
Sunday
Belvedere Sailing Society
Every other Wednesday May to Sept.
Corinthian
Every Friday 20 May to Sept.
Golden Gate
Wednesday
Friday
17 15 12 17
April May June July
27 April 4, 18 May 1, 14, 22 June 3, 10, 17,24 Aug. 6, 13, 20 May 3, 10, 17,24 June 1 July
Inverness
Sunday 4th July to Labor Day
Paradise Harbor
Friday
13, 20 May 24 June 1 July 5 August
Sausalito
Tuesday
3, 1 7 May 7, 21 June
19 July 2,16 Aug. 20 Sept. Sausalito Cruising
Friday
20 May 10, 24 June 15, July 5, 19 Aug. 9, 23 Sept. 7 Oct.
San Francisco
Friday
Santa Cruz
Wednesday 3rd Sunday of 2nd & 3rd Sunday month—One Design of month Handicap Series
Twilight Association (Encinal)j Every Friday (Metropolitan) (Oakland) 1 May to Sept.
latitude 38
Start
Distance
1300
Alameda
8
1900
Belvedere Lagoon
3
1900
Racoon Straights
6
Golden Gate YC
5
Tomales Bay
6
Paradise Harbor YC
5
1800
Richardson Bay
5
1900
Richardson Bay
7
1900
Knox Buoy
4
1200
off Santa Cruz off Santa Cruz
3 7
1900
1300 1900
1830
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COURSE
Estuary Park
Spinn
NonSpinn
X
Rod Eldredge 285-6753
X
Laser
X
X
Cori25 Cal 20
Cal 20 Cor 25 Pelican
Cal 20 R19 No handic ap, Rabbit Sta rt
Art Simpson 593-8661
Ed Merrick 454-7329
X
X
Jim Jacobitz 566-4161
Cal 20 Thunderbirds Spaulding 33 Flying Scots
Membe rs only
Chuck Davis 435-2089
Steve Newland 435-4771
X 1C Knarr Folkboat
X
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BERTH CONTROL
At least it sounded good in the beginning. After persevering for over four years Warren Simmons (owner of the Tia Maria restaurants) is approaching the final hurdle in his quest to create the North Point Pier project. That final hurdle is the Environmental Impact Study Simmons expects to be approved by the Army Corps of Engineers on July 15th. Approval has already been given by the ten other necessary agencies and commissions. While the project calls for the construction of a 250 berth marina for pleasure power and sailboats, you may develop some reservations about wanting to apply for a berth. If you hold any affinity with some of the fine sailing ships and sailors atop whose bones this project will be built you may wonder about the consonance of what is being erected. The project is called a 27-acre Tourist/Marina, and the word tourist comes before marina with good reason. Besides the total of 250 berths there will be a 1,000 car garage, 24 “fine” restaurants, and as many as 100 retail shops. Some of the proposed retail shops and related activities make the project smack of Marina Del Reyism. A fortune cookie factory, a Mexican paper flower maker, a candle shop, a working pottery shop, a glass blowing shop, a deli with a ravioli maker in the window, a leaded glass shop, a bakery, a fish canning shop, a grinding mill are all proposed. Other probable shops include a rug making shop, wall hanging shop, cigar making shop, magic shop, toy shop, blacksmiths (“similar to Mexican border towns”), taxidermist, photographer, childrens clothes, Levis, cards by Hallmark, imports from 12 countries, Hickory Farms, earrings, glasses, jewelry, interior decorators, rare coins, beer memorabilia, kitchen accessories, world of coffee, body shop, herb lady, T-
shirts, perfume, psychoceramics, neck¬ lace supplies, a games shop and so forth. A marine supply store rates a 25 percent chance in the possible category. There are more than just shops that go into creating the “unequaled charm to highlight our “Turn of the Century San Francisco Decor.” There will be a ‘Childrens Area’ which will include a double deck carousel built in Vienna, a 3/4 size bumper car ride, electronic rifle range and games of chance and amusement. It is pointed out that a slightly smaller but similar Childrens Area at Knotts Berry Farm grosses $80,000 per week in the summer. There will also be “strolling old world musicians, jesters, carolers, mimes, and contests — “at all times.” The developers call the North Point Pier the “Hottest property in the nation, disclosing that the adjacent Fisherman’s Wharf trails only Disney¬ land in tourists per year. If you’re wondering why they even bothered with a modest 250 berth marina the following releases will erase any doubt. “Two new marinas (one is for fishing and charter boats) are planned to create a constant nautical atmosphere that will attract most visitors. Both marinas will be operated as a loss-leading tourist visiting attraction.”
not so as to be selective as to the berthing tenants. “Visitors to waterfront areas like to see boating activity. They want to see sails going up and down, people working on deck, ice and food being carried to the boats, washing down of boats, etc. All too often boat owners use their boats only a few times a year. v “North Point Pier tenants will only be those who sail or cruise in their boats 40 to 50 times per year, thus ensuring con¬ tinuous activity for our shopping center visitors to view. “The boaters must also agree to pro¬ motional plans, i.e. Christmas lights and decorations starting the day after Thanksgiving. “Due to the great demand for berthing space in this northern San Francisco waterfront area, it is not anticipated that there will be any problems getting berthing tenants who are willing to cooperate with the center and abide by these policies.” It’s unfortunate that sailors will have to stoop to becoming attractions in a nautical theme park to get a berth for their boats. In all fairness to Mr. Simmons and his project, we’re not entirely sure he realizes what he is asking his boating tenants to do. Then again, maybe we’re nuts and everyone will run over and try to be a part of this project. There are positive sides to the project. Construction calls for the installation of a floating breakwater, which if it works would be helpful in the development of future marinas. It does provide some badly needed berths. It is claimed that it will bring in $2 million a year in tax revenue and create 1100 permanent jobs which San Francisco surely could use. Perhaps the most positive note that
BOATERS MUST AGREE WITH PROMOTIONAL PLANS If you’d like a berth at the manna, the project seems more interested in your soul than your money. The logic is simple, supply and demand. “There is an eight year waiting list for marina berthing in the closest marina to North Point Pier. The sailing, fishing and cruising immediately adjacent to North Point Pier is the most desirable anywhere in the Bay Area. “The top rate for first class marinas in the Bay Area is $2.25 per lineal foot per month. North Point Pier could charge higher than this rate, but will
could be struck is that it may signal the beginning of the development of some new significapt facilities for sailors in a city that is synonomous with sailing throughout the world. For those of you who have always wanted a crack at being a loss leader in a theme park, the project is slated to open in 1978. For those of you who would like a berth in the City without frills, you might write Barbara Southern, P.O. Box 3730, Pier 39, San Francisco 94119, and express your opinions on the subject. latitude 38
WOMEN ONLY Why a ‘women only regatta’? There is some sentiment in the yachting world that there is no need for an all women race since theoretically women can compete any time or place they wish. There is also the reality that good sailors get much on the water time and there is no better forum for facing¬ sailing than an exciting regatta. To the women participants these races are a variation on the yachting theme that present a good time and a challenge. ‘Women Only Regattas’ have become a part of San Francisco Bay sailing. This was evidenced by the March 5th Corinthian Yacht Club third annual Ladies Invitational, followed by the March 12th Sausalito Cruising Club third annual Women’s Invitational, and emphasized by the March 20th Richmond Yacht Club second annual Women’s Invitational. During March husbands and lovers caught only brief glances of their ‘significant others’ (boats as well as women). ^ The Corinthian race was a 13.4 mile challenge — the Raccoon Straights light air start was countered by the afternoon westerly that set up rolling waves at Harding. Viewers on the Corinthian grandstand veranda held their breath as the almost sure spinnaker division winner, Jocelyn Carrick’s El Gavilan (Hawkfarm), ran aground 100 yards from the finish, leaving the field open for Donna Cardoza of Corinthian YC in Manface (Bill Patry’s Hawkfarm) to nip first place and Suzi Eldredge of Ballena Bay YC driving Suzi (Peterson 25) to take second place with El Gavilan third. The non-spinnaker division was dominated by Jytte Birnbaum of Corin¬ thian YC helming Knarrone (Knarr) who finished first. Carole Jesmore’s Rustle took second and Corinthian YC’s Joy Lanyon in Fantasy (Cal 29) was third. The Sausalito Crusing Club Lorelei regatta was so tough only 4 out of 10 boats finished and another 8 yachts didn’t even show up. These were survival conditions — with» a dis¬ masting, a broken finger, a splintered tiller, and general gear failure. Thirty knot winds gusting to 40 kept all spinnakers stowed and made this an exhausing 9 mile course. The winners (and only finishers) were: first, Richmond YC’s Jocelyn Carrick page 33
Two Hawkfarms off the starting line at Knox during the Sausalito Cruising Club’s Women’s Regatta, Manface pursues El Gavilan in 35 knots of wind.
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helming El Gavilan; second, Corinthian YC’s Donna Cardoza driving Manface; third, Sausalito Crusing Club’s Rosemary Capps skippering Roquefort (Newport 30); fourth, Sausalito Cruising Club’s Sally Lind steering Bandersnatch (Bearboat). On March 20th Richmond YC hosted a classic Olympic Circle race. Winds over the 8.8 mile course blew 5-18 knots. By now there was a feeling of camaraderie among the competitors but no less a sense of competition. The Hawkfarms, El Gavilan and Manface, sailed a fine weather leg. They led the fleet for the entire race but mishap and handicap took its toll. Saving her time, Sausalito Cruising Club’s Betty Adam was the first place spinnaker division winner in Rumrunner (Peterson 25). Diane Graves of Richmond YC took second place helming Corsair (Buccaneer) and third place honors went to Jocelyn Carrick on El Gavilan. The non-spinnaker first place skipper was Shary Irwin of Aeolian YC driving her Erickson 27, Park Bench. Berkeley YC’s Betty Ann Barnett was second in Kachina (Ranger 23), with Anne Fox of Richmond YC taking third in Fine
Thing (Folkboat). Donna Cardoza was enthusiastic when she accepted her SCC trophy saying, “The skipper gets the trophy but the crew DOES IT.” On Manface with Donna were Marilyn Patry, Karen Schneider, Mary Jane Allison, Kathy Vare, and Chris Schneider. Jytte Birnbaum’s Knarrone was crewed by Ann Drew and Ann McCormack. With Jocelyn Carrick on El Gavilan were Trish Heidersbach, Sally Robertson, Georgia Johnson, Johanna Stratton, and Connie Reardon. Betty Adam helmed Rumrunner while Nancy Kappes, Jan Pehrson, and Vicki Porter made the boat go fast. Look for more women’s invitationals in the fall — October 1 at Metropolitan YC, October 15 at Berkeley YC, and October 29 at Coyote Point YC. On September 10-11 San Francisco YC will host the Pacific Coast Women’s Laser Championships — a regatta open to all women which last year had 40 Lasers competing. Paradise Harbor YC has an all women regatta for non-spinnaker boats on June 5, June 11, July 10, and August 21 — contact Pat Zajac (5233923) if you wish to be invited.
COLIN ARCHER
What kind of race was this? No arguments, no protests, no hardfeelings; this was the first Colin Archer Memorial Race for double enders. The race started at 9:00 off Alameda and the course ran around the Point Bonita Bouy and back to Alameda. Races of this type may not be ususual in the future due to the growing popularity over the last five years for heavy displacment cruising boats. Obviously, most people can’t take the time to go on extended cruises so they cruise locally or for short periods, and as the 21 entries in this race indicates, sometimes they like to race. The committee boat reported that the start was fantastic, everyone heading for the line at full speed and no boats over early. If the start was great, if couldn’t have compared with the finish. The first three finishers, all Rafiki 37’s, were separated by only three minutes, after racing for almost six hours. The next two finishers, a Traveller 32 and an Alajuela 38 were off the pace by less than ten minutes. The remaining three finishers, all Westsail 32’s all finished within one minute of each other. A banquet was held at the Encinal Yacht Club that evening where all the skippers got together and made new friends. Trophies were handed out generously, particularly to Jack Shepard who won first to finish, his divisional trophy, the first boat to finish from Alameda trophy, and the first Rafiki to finish trophy awarded by the Yacht House. Jack is going to need his heavy displacement boat to carry all those trophies home. We could tell you that Jack also won the Perpetual Trophy, but that would be overdoing it. Rick Oliveira won a trophy from Clipperships for being the first Traveller 32 to finish, and Bill Rickman in Rollo won the trophy for the first wood boat to finish. Most boats carried crews of over five, so there were a lot of happy people racing in this first Colin Archer race. No doubt there will be a lot more entries next year, as this type of ‘casual racing’ becomes more and more popular. You don’t need a lot of expensive gear, you don’t need a great deal of experience, you just have to have a need for fun.
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He goes by the name of the ‘Toothless Tiger’ along the Oakland waterfront. If all proceeds well he will soon be going around the world, non-stop, single-handed, in a 17 year-old 25 foot Seahorse Yawl. Tiger is not making the voyage out of revenge, he is not seeking fame, nor is he trying to prove anything to himself. In fact, the sail is not one that he would particularly like to make. Why then would a man embark on such an ambitious trip? The answer is a story in itself. Tiger is classified, incorrectly as he sees it, as permanently disabled. While in the merchant marine he fell and broke discs in his back. An attempt to resume work after six years of therapy found him unable to put in a full shift each day. It was decided that he was unfit to continue serving and he was
labeled permanently disabled. He received a flat insurance settlement, modest by today’s standards, and was shuffled through a rehabilitation program. The program satisfied the government that they had given him all necessary assistance even though he was still unable to be gainfully employed. Like cheese, he had been processed. In 1973 Tiger began negotiating by mail for a 52 year-old Nicholson ketch in England. Armed with only a 3” x 5” black and white photograph and a spec, sheet, he paid just under $25,000 for her, sight unseen and without a survey. Tiger likes to believe in people. On June 1, 1973 he took possession of the Cora Ann in Antibes, France. She was 52’4” x 50’ x 12’6” x 6’ and displaced 31 tons. She had a canoe hull of pitch pine on oak,
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a 50 foot keel and a house of genuine Burmese teak. The Cora Ann belonged to another era; there were servants quarters, built in wine casks, an 11’ x 8” engine room, a polished mahogany interior and 26 portholes. She needed some work, but the Cora Ann was more than Tiger had hoped for. After going native in Antibes and making necessary repairs, Tiger and his wife set out for California where a buyer was apparently willing to pay an excellent price for her. On October 12th of 1973, the Cora Ann had gone aground on a ‘floating mud bank’ 12 miles off the coast of Amettla de Mar, Spain. Although her depthsounder amidships read 50’, she was holed forward from the keel or mast of a previous victim of the bank. Tiger calls it the ‘Voyage of the Inexperienced’. In a heavy 39
fog, he thought the Cora Ann had been 25 miles offshore and clear of the uncharted and moving mud banks — he had not allowed sufficiently for the ocean current. Aground and holed, Tiger made what he considers his second fatal mistake. Rather than kedging off, he put the Gardner diesel in reverse and succeeded only in sucking mud around more of the hull, causing the Cora Ann to be virtually glued to the bottom. Four fishing boats tried to pull her off without success. Two divers went down, and one almost drowned in the mud which was like quicksand. Had Tiger the experience to kedge off rather than put the engine in reverse, he believes he could have taken the Cora Ann to Port Voubon for repairs. A storm front came in and Tiger was forced to watch through binoculars as the Cora Ann broke up 12 miles off shore. He spent the afternoon in tears as small pieces of his dream washed ashore at his feet. The Cora Ann had been a difficult boat; she was hard to steer, tacking required a small crew, as did making and striking sail. It was no consolation. Tiger and his wife had lost everything on board, all their possessions, all their money, they had only the clothes on their backs. The behavior of the Spanish officials was paradoxical. Arriving on shore for the first time a store was opened in the middle of the night and credit was extended to provide them with clothing; accommodations were found. It was a different story when it came time to get an official report to file with the insurance company. The gears of government required grease before they would turn. “Never sink a ship in a foreign port” Tiger warns. Reluctantly Tiger made the necessary payments and returned to Antibes where he was treated like members of the family by sailing friends as he waited for his affairs to be straightened out. After several months he and his wife returned to California. Grieved by the loss of the Cora Ann and unable to work full time, Tiger grew more and more restless having to accept living off the income of his wife. Tiger purchased the Sea¬ horse yawl, built by Barney Nichols in Alameda in 1960, with the intention of sailing around the world non-stop alone, and then writing articles or a book, or perhaps giving lectures. As Tiger sees it, he is working with what tools he has, hoping to make a modest monthly income. If everything pans out, he and his wife can continue sailing, slowly, together, and going native where it suits them. As yet Tiger does not know if he will be taking his Seahorse yawl East or West, that depends on when he can complete fitting the boat out. If he can acquire the funds necesary for the remaining gear he will leave at the end of April and set out West. If he has to wait until June, he will probably go East. In a quiet, low-key manner he has been seeking out sponsorships for needed bits of equipment and freeze dried foods and so forth. So far the results have been discouraging. We’re fond of Tiger; his positive outlook, determination, and self-sufficiency are in the best traditions of the sea. Tiger is not looking for sympathy, fame or wealth. Tiger is a sailor just trying to get by. In preparation for his trip. Tiger has made a number of alterations and has added some interest¬ ing equipment to his boat. In an upcoming issue we will run a feature on Tiger’s fitting out for sea.
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SPYGLASS?? I’m toasting under the electric blanket in the forward bunks with the little lady. We both have steaming cups of hot chocolate; she’s got the National Enquirer and I have the fine new silver Spyglass Catalogue. Smooth sailing at the dock on a cold February night. After reading several pleasing articles, I came across one that reminded me of an income tax form. My pedestrian intellect drifted off toward zzz-land when one line caught my eye. I couldn’t believe I was reading it correctly: “With the possible exception of the “classic wooden boat,” owning a boat is a lousy financial investment.” Amidst 10 tons of fiber¬ glass my curiosity was aroused, I had to read that article right then. You should read ait, too. Then forget everything you read. Titled “An Economical Analysis of the Sailing Dollar,” it was written by Peter Bohr, a former Associate Editor of Road and Track magazine, who probably knows more about four wheelers than deep keelers. The purported purpose of the article is to answer two questions from an economists viewpoint. 1) Is buying a sailboat the best investment an individual can make? 2) If it is not the best investment, and an individual still wants a sailboat, which kind would represent the least lousy investment? The first question sounds both silly and rhetorical to me, but then I don’t read Sylvia Porter everyday nor do I check for sailboat futures in the financial pages. Undaunted by the fact that he eventually admits that people buy boats for pleasure not for profit, Mr. Bohr compares the results of buying a sailboat with depositing money in a savings and loan. The comparison is doomed to failure because the author uses incredibly unrealistic figures for calculating the expenses involved in owning a boat. Below are four examples: 1. The insurance expense is listed at $75 a year on a new $20,000 sailboat. $200 is much more realistic. 2. The personal property tax on the $20,000 yacht is listed at $100 per year. California may be higher than most states, but this figure is drastically low for the majority of states in which the author’s hypothetical 36 foot sailboat would be found. Even if AB 130 passed, it would still be $250.
3. Sales tax is an item “sunk” never to be returned accordingv to Bohr. Tax accountants advise me that a boat buyer is entitled to a deduction equal to the amount of sales tax paid on the boat. This deduction may represent a signifi¬ cant amount of money. 4. Mr. Bohr entirely neglects the possible expense of financing a boat, which is generally the case with individuals who purchase a $20,000 boat. Since the cost of financing could be as much as $10,000, it is a glaring omission. One should remember there are tax benefits which may be used here also. Mr. Bohr claims to be using a “rigorous analytical approach,” if airliners made approaches like that most would crash. So far Mr. Bohr’s errors are relatively innocuous since phone calls to an insurance agent, tax assessor, tax accoun¬ tant, and a loan officer would expose these simple yet basic errors ofTact. It gets worse when Mr. Bohr dives into an area where ‘facts’ are not a matter of systematic public record. The author must calculate the depreciation/appreciation of a boat to answer his questions on the quality of a sailboat investment, and the best quality sailboat investment. Unfortunately, the depreciation/appreciation schedules given have no allegience with reality. It is with the assistance of unsupported deprecia¬ tion figures that the unrealistic financial advantages of the ‘classic wooden boat’ are eventually created by Mr. Bohr. The results of these unrealistic figures are capable of leading the unknowledgeable boat buyer into a purchase he otherwise might not have made. Let’s examine the four schedules listed in the article. 1. New fiberglass boat depreciation. Mr. Bohr claims the new fiberglass yacht is the worst financial investment because they depreciate 20 percent in the first year, and after five years show a net decrease in market value of .89275 percent. In late 1970 the Kendall 32, now the Westsail 32, had a list price of $16,500 for a completed boat with sails and a diesel engine. In late 1975 they were 'selling in the high 40’s, an increase of about 290 percent or about $33,000 more than Mr. Bohr’s schedule would suggest. In 1971 the popular Islander 36 sold for $24,000, Mr. Bohr would have us believe that they were available for less than that price in 1976, or about $12,000 to $16,000 less than they were actually selling for. In 1974 one fiberglass production boat sold that had every aesthetic quality that Mr. Bohr lists as being bad for resale value — “chopped-off ends, ugly transom, high cabin trunks, and extreme freeboard.” Before commissioning had «been completed on the boat the base price had gone up from $48,000 to $64,000, and in the next six months eight more of what Mr. Bohr calls “floating abortions” were sold in northern California alone. (I may sympathize with Mr. Bohr’s disappointment with some current sailboat aesthetics, but I accept the fact that my opinion has a negligible effect on their market value.) These are cases of unusual good fortune experienced by buyers of new fiberglass boats, yet they are indicative of a general trend of appreciation experienced by owners of good quality new fiberglass boats. Mr. Bohr would find an appreciation trend prevalent in most boats made by companies like Cal, Ericson, Ranger, Santana, Islander, latitude 38
SPYGLfiSS Columbia, Pearson, Westsail, Catalina, Downeast, and many others in this same category. The reader should temper his thinking with the knowledge that the above buyers who experienced dramatic appreciations in the values of their boats were not speculating for profit, nor could they have banked on their good fortune. Yet the fact remains, the new fiberglass yacht purchase in the 1970’s is not the financial disaster Mr. Bohr’s article would lead us to believe. 2. Depreciation of low fiberglass boat. Mr. Bohr does not mention a brand name of this species, but claims it sold for $10,000 in 1964 and now has a market value of $7,000. In the course of another project, I went through the last 19 years of yachting magazines, page by page, and found no fiberglass boat that endured such financial misfortune. 3. Depreciation of the high-quality fiberglass sailboat. Mr. Bohr uses the extremely popular Triton as an example, claiming it sold for $10,000 in 1964, and is now worth $12,000. My research indicates that they sold for between $8,500 and $9,500 new, and while a number are for sale now at $13,500, two of them sold last year for over $16,000. The interesting point about boats like the Triton is that they achieved dramatic appreciation in the last five years — from $8,000 to $12,000 according to Mr. Bohr’s own figures. Boats like the Triton did experience significant depreciation when they were new in the mid-sixtires, about 20 percent as Mr. Bohr suggests. Perhaps this is where he got his depreciation schedule for current new boats, ignoring two major dif¬ ferences in the sailboat market between the sixties and the seventies. First, the major shift from power to sail in the non¬ fishing boat market. (In 1963 powerboats outnumbered sail on the main floor of the S.F. boat show by about eight to one; last year sailboats outnumbered powerboats by about 12 to one. The second major difference is that in the mid-sixties major sailboat manufacturers, the Cal line leading the way, were actually reducing their prices from previous years. Materials and labor have skyrocketed in the 70’s so new boat prices have gone up dramatically and used boats have followed in the vacuum. 4. Depreciation/appreciation of the “classic wooden boat.” Mr. Bohr suggests that a classic wooden boat that sold new for $10,000 in 1964 now sells for $20,000. (Interestingly, like the Triton, the classic wooden boat also depreciated 20 percent in the mid-sixties.) I don’t argue with this apprecia¬ tion figure, I think it’s probably accurate, for wood boats that are in good condition. The figures reflect an increase in value not unlike that of the Triton. Mr. Bohr simply does not provide any substantial accurate documentary evidence that the classic wooden boat repre¬ sents a substantially better sailboat investment than a glass boat. In fact, he minimizes two possible negative features peculiar to a wood boat — high maintenance costs and a vulnerability to deterioration. In ten years, the cost of keeping a $10,000 wood boat in bristol condition may equal the amount of the initial investment. If the upkeep is neglected it is possible that severe damage may occur and badly scandalize the investment. A Triton owner who bought his boat new in 1964 may not have spent a cent on hull main¬ tenance, yet the structural integrity is unquestioned. For a few hundred dollars he can have the hull sprayed and command an excellent price for his boat. Undoubtedly the reduction in necessary maintenance has page 41
been a big factor in the dramatic shift from wood to fiber¬ glass boats. It may also help explain why when a model of a boat is produced in a wood version and a glass version, the glass version often brings a higher resale value. The Alden 32 by Cheoy Lee and the Hinckley Pilot 35 are two of the latest examples I have observed. Mr. Bohr’s explanations of why people like wooden boats are not convincing. “The feel of the tiller”. . . “the sound while under sail”. . . “the smell”. . . “the warmth and richness of varnished wood.” I can feel the tiller on my fiber¬ glass boat too, the sound qualities between a foam-cored fiberglass boat that is well insulated and a wood boat are not that different. Many boats today are completely covered with wood on the interior thus giving a similar smell and feel to wood boats. Indeed, in the last few years the big trend in fiberglass boats is to try and give the benefits of a wood boat encased in a fiberglass hull. Mr. Bohr also brings up the craze for nostalgia as an explanation of what would be a good investment. Crazes soon come to an end, and when the demand is gone so is much of the investment. One of the most disturbing errors Mr. Bohr makes is his claim that “wooden boats are like Adam Smith’s diamonds,” valuable because they are scarce. Wooden boats are not scarce, and unfortunately they do not share the inert qualities of a diamond. It is an inappropriate analogy. The truth of the matter is that the quality of a boat invest¬ ment does not depend on the material it is made out of, it depends on a wide variety of factors, a primary one being what the asking price is, and the condition of the boat. Other factors are so variable depending on the particular situation that a simplistic chart that Mr. Bohr provides in his article is totally misleading. It’s a case of a little knowledge being a lot worse than no knowledge at all. The purpose of this article is not to recommend any type of material as being the best for investment purposes, because just as there is no best rig for a sailboat there is no best material in terms of an investment. They all have their advantages and disadvantages and depend so much on what the prospective buyer wants. Know the advantages of each material and decide how they coincide with the reasons why you want to own a boat. If you like wood boats, by all means find a good one at a reasonable price and buy it. There are a number of brokers in northern California who specialize in wood boats and know what is required to keep them in top condition and they are more than happy to help someone who shares their love for wood boats. If you’re looking for a boat that requires the least structural and cosmetic maintenance few boat brokers would recommend you go with a wood boat. Glass is probably a better buy in that situation. But when it comes down to comparing investment poten¬ tials of wood and glass boats don’t believe Mr. Bohr’s figures, and don’t believe mine either. Talk to owners, talk to brokers, get your own facts about the specific boats you are interested in, then decide yourself which is the best invest¬ ment for you. I love wood boats, and because I do, I own a production fiberglass boat that is formica covered on the inside and has no wood whatsoever on the outside. I own a production glass boat because I’m lazy and would ruin a good wood boat with neglect. It is unclear to me why Mr. Bohr owns a fiberglass production boat.
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A sailor's boat. This is one of the few professionally built Crosby Cutters . . . Port Orford cedar planking on oak frames, refastened in 1975 . . . new Sitka spruce mast & boom and all new SS standing rigging . . . 25 hp Grey engine. Asking $13,500
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44’ GARDEN SLOOP i. 65,000 Aft cabin diesel sloop, a fast, proven, ocean cruising yacht. A partial list of inventory includes: VHF, 2 station hydraulic steering, hot and cold pressure water, lightning protection system, Perkins 6-305 engine, rebuilt in 1977, completely new AC & DC wiring with Marinetec circuit breakers and trouble shooting panel.
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