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Grand Marina is a grand place to be.

Happy St. Patrick's Day !

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Over 400 Concrete berths 30 to 60 feet Dockside Electrical (up to 50A - 220V) Cable TV & Telephone Service Dry Storage Heated & tiled restrooms with individual Showers Beautifully Landscaped Ample Parking Available Full service Fuel Dock and Mini Mart Sailboat & Powerboat Brokers

Directory of Grand Marina Tenants Alameda Prop & Machine.89 Bay Island Yachts.10 Diesel Fuel Filtering.103 Marine Lube.197 Mariner Boat Yard.55 Pacific Coast Canvas.91

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Simon Says. Simon James’ Ranger 26, Star Ranger, led YRA’s HDA Division M in the 2002 season. Simon says about his Pineapple Sails; “My new 125% [mylar] genoa was a major factor in our winning the ...division... It has a surprisingly wide range.” And “...my newest Pineapple chute [Dec. 2000] is a great general purpose spinnaker for the Ranger 26... It has survived the extraordinary abuse we’ve piled on it... We just never caught any fish while shrimping.” And Simon’s first place says it all. Give us a call or stop by our new loft in Alameda and, race or cruise, let’s talk about new sails for yoUr boat.

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YOUR DEALER FOR: Musto foul weather gear, Dubarry footwear and Headfoil 2 Sails in need of repair may be dropped off at West Marine in Oakland, Richmond or Alameda; BoatUS in Oakland or Svendsen's in Alameda.

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Island Packet The IP420 received the award for "The Best Full Size Cruiser" in the 2000 Boat of the Year competition cotiducted by CruisingWorld magazine. The IP420 delivers the perfect blend of seakeeping, safety, stability and speed coupled with comfort, livability and value that makes Island Packet Yachts... Island Packet 485 • 420* • 380* • 350*

*At our docks

Centurion 45s

America's Cruising Yacht Leader.

Wauquiez Who hasn't felt the sensation that makes your eyes focus on one boat among the oth¬ ers? On the water or at a dock, a yacht whose lines and elegance almost hypnotize you. This is what you will experience when you see the new Centurion 45s. Perfectly balanced, ex¬ ceptionally stiff, built with resin infusion technology and extreme pride; the Centurion legend returns.

Wauquiez Centurion 45s-48 40-43-48 Pilot Saloons

Arriving this Month!

X-Yachts X562

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1220 Brickyard Cove Rd., Pt. Richmond, CA 94801

(510) 236-2633 X-Yachts IMX 45 & 40 73-612-562-482-442-43-412-382

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Boat Show & Debut of New Beneteau 423

Beneteau First Series Barbecue Firiyt-40.i by Farr

This beautiful new yacht is Cruising World's Boat of the Year winner for the best cruiser under $250,000. She is the 4th model in the Beneteau Trans Ocean Express series designed for rapid, comfortable and safe offshore cruis¬ ing. At our docks now.

Introductory Pricing Until 3/30

Join Our 17-Boat Fleet! The Beneteau First 40.7 and 36.7, designed by Bruce Farr, are built to take the rigors of long distance ocean racing and cruising. Both are IMS world champions with beautiful in¬ teriors and outstanding deck layouts. Best value award winners! At our docks now.

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Meet 40.7 & 36.7 owners View 36.7s, 40.7s and 47.7s Sign up for crew positions Attend Seminars on sail trim, rig tuning and crew development • Check out our fleet development special pricing on 37.7s & 40.7s

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Don't miss the biggest sailboat show on the West Coast. Check out more than one hundred sailboats. See over 300 sailing exhibitors and polish your skills at daily seminars. Racers, feed your need for speed, too! Check out all the latest equipment and get advice from industry experts, on hand to help you choose the right gear! -â&#x20AC;˘ on Saturday and Sunday, children receive free lifejackets and adults who sign the Safe Boating Pledge take home a special gift while quantities last.

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CONTENTS

YACHTS C510) 81^-0400^ Fax: (510) 814-8765 2099 Grand Street • Grand Marina • Alameda, CA 94501

www.bayislaridyachts.com yachtsales@bayislandyachts.com

VACHTWRimorn INGRID 38 KETCH,'80

DOCKS Nice center cockpit version. Well equipped and ready for new adventures. $95,000.

Goff rigged, double heodsoil ketch with tonbork soils. Solid gloss hull. Proven. Bristol. $84,500.

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racing crew list Well cored for and well equipped center cockpit model. Ready for Mexico ana beyond. $159,000.

Clean performance cruiser. She has recent LPU hull paint and new roller furling. $89,500.

BEN. OCEANIS 390.'93l|

P 38' BEN. MOORINGS. '90

\Z.Z ‘ ^^mm.^ArOURDCKKS Three-stateroom version. Clean with low hours on Yanmar diesel. New dodger. $95,000.

45' PROUT, '96

Two-stateroom version. Recent upgrades include new full batten main, jib, spinnaker, radar and windlass. $89,500.

56'MARQUISES,'97

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MEZIZ: AT OUR DO^\ Well proven offshore cot. Family version with three staterooms and three heads. $299,000.

Cruise in style with 4-stateroom cat. 27' 6" beam gives you incredible moin salon for living and entertainment. $530,000.

BROKERAGE SAIL 29' 30' 31' 31' 31' 33' 34' 37' 37' 38'

FREEDOM, '84. $24 500 S-2CC,''83.$32,900 COLUMBIA 9.6. $19 900 CAL,'82.$281900 HUNTER,'86. $29 900 HUNTER 336,'96. $79 000 ERICSON34X,'78. $27 900 TAYANA,'77.$84,'500 PROUT,'86.$104 900 ENDEAVOUR CC,'85. $95 000 38’ BENETEAU MOORINGS,'90 , $89 500 38' DOWNEAST KETCH,'75. $6o'o00

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• March, 2003

INGRID GAFF-RIGGED KTCH,'80 $84,500 BENETEAU OCEANIS 390, '93 .... $95,000

38' 39' 40' 41'

NORTH AMERICAN, '78.$65,000 CT center cockpit. $49 500

41' 42' 43' 45' 45' 47'

PERRY SLOOP,'80. $89 500 TAYANACC,'82.$159000 YOUNG SUN,'82. $89 000 HARDIN CC,'82.$125^000 PROUT, '96.$299'000 VAGABOND, '86. $259 000

POWER 32' TROJAN,'78. $39 900 26' GLACIER BAY 260 DEMO.$64!950

158 162

max ebb: ifs not rocket science 166 the racing sheet

170

world of chartering

180

changes in latitudes

186

classy classifieds

208

advertisers' index

225

brokerage

229

Whafs black and white and red all over? Sui-64, Swifzerlands winning America's Cup boat. Photo by Bob Grieser Copyright 2003 Latitude 38 Publishing Co.,.Inc, Latitude 38 welcomes editorial contributions in the form of stories, anecdotes, photographs - anything but poems, please; we gotta draw the line some¬ where. Articles with the best chance at publication must 1) pertain to a West Coast or universal sailing audience, 2) be accompanied by a variety of pertinent, in-focus black and white- (preferable) or color prints with identifica¬ tion of all boats, situations and people therein: and 3) be legible. Anything you want back must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Submissions not accompanied by an SASE will not be returned. We also advise that you not send original photographs or negatives unless we specifically request them; copies will work just fine. Notification time varies with aur workload, but generally runs four to six weeks. Please don't contact us before then by phone or mail. Send all submissions to Latitude 38 editorial department, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941. For more specific information, request writers' guidelines from the above address.

Rac&r? Cruiser? We Have The Right Boat For You! Save Time & Money By Calling Our Crew! OM

’79 - IsL Trader 46*

’96 - Sabre 402*

This beautiful yacht is for the romantic at heart. Loaded w/electronics, genset, all the goodies. Great liveaboard. $ 170k.

Sleeps 7, full electronics, inverter, Yanmar diesel, dodger, loaded! Beautiful boat at a great price... offered at $269,000.

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2003 - Sabre 426* 1st One on the West Coast... Come See This Beauty!

Accommodates 7 in total luxury! Yanmar diesel, cherry wood interior, elegant blue hull, tapered mast, Vac-U-Flush system, stereo CD, 3-blade prop. Heart inverter, electric windlass. Harken roller furling. North hill-batten main. North furling genoa w/foam luff, electric halyard winch, covers, more! Call for spec sheet!

’91 - Beneteau 38’"

91-Hunter 37.5’*

38s5! This boat is in excellent condition! Hood sails, AP, radar, 43hp Volvo, custom dodger, windlass. $107,500.

Great family cruiser! Yanmar diesel, autopilot, dodger, cushions, fiillbatten main. Hood furling, more! $87,500.

CrUJSER ORl

1997 - Valiant 39*

1979 - CT 54 Ketch*

2001 - TARTAN 4100*

This is a beautiful, perfectly-maintained vessel with custom and top-notch upgrades. Too much to list! $245,000.

4 cabins. Great bluewater oat capable of traveling the world’s oceans in safety and comfort. Well equipped. $215,000.

2 strms., 56hp Yanmar, deep beavertail keel. Majestic blue hull, speed/depth/wind. Harken furling & L J., cherry interior, more!

Alameda ’80-Catalina 30*

’79 - Mariner 48*

’81-C&C 34*

New on the market... just listed! This boat is in very good condition and has lots of extras. Great starter for only $26,000.

Beautiful, bluewater cruiser! A "must see" for the serious cmiser. Well equipped and in excellent condition. $159,500.

Boat has just been updated... new bottom paint, new sails, Yanmar, lots of extras! Call for details! $38,000.

Low-Rate Financing! We Take Trades!

(510) 814-1700 1070 Marina Village Pkwy. #102 Alameda, CA 94501 fax: (510)814-i799 San Diego

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Marina Del Rey

Oxnard

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H&S also offers Navigator, Californian, Silverton & Sabreline power yachts!

'Picture(s) are for illustration purposes only: actual boat may vary significant!)^

View Hundreds of Power & Sailboats at: www.hsyacht.com March, 2003 • UtUUc 3? • Page 11

HARBORMASTER'S OFFICE

1535 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda, CA 94501

NEW OPENINGS IN SLIPS 36'-60* - Inquire Today 1^Waters • Store, Yacht Club & Yacht Brokerage on Premises fi

Clean, well maintained slips and amenities

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BRITISH MARINE

#11 Embarcadero Cove Oakland, CA 94606

(800) 400-2757

KISSINGER CANVAS

(510) 534-2757

Marine Canvas & Interiors

Conveniently located on the Oakland Estuary - 2 blocks from West Marine

STEVEN KISSINGER

Haulouts for Bottom Painting

(925) 825-6734 Covering the Entire Bay Area •

Biminis

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FULL SERVICE BOATYARD Page 12 •

• March, 2003

Aft handrail, dodger cover, sailing bimini.

FOR SALE: Self-contained, live aboard world class cruiser Unique bluewater yacht, ideal for the cruising couple. Comfort, speed and grace distinguishes MAGIC DRAGON, a Tayana 47’ wotld class cruiser for adventuring sailors. Two large staterooms with inner spring mattress beds, washer/dryer, Westerbeke 8 KW generator plus generous tankage of 198 gallons of deisel and 343 gallons of water allows for extended trips. Her exquisite light ash interior creates an inviting atmosphere. MAGIC DRAGON has cruised the Mexican waters for the past 4 years; she is well tested, fully equipped and ready to go. Nothing to add!

S/V MAGIC DRAGON 1991 Tayana 47' center cockpit cutter with 2002 install of Furlboom main sail roller furling System

Main Features: ■ Sail inventoiy: 2003 North Sails Furlboom Main, Genoa and Staysail. Also Yankee Jib, Gennaker, Storm Tri Sail and Riding Sail ■ New mast and rigging in 2003 ■ Yanmar 62 HP turbo charged diesel (2300 hrs) ■ Mast-mounted spinnaker pole ■ Village Marine 250 watermaker; 2002 upgrade ■ Separate work room for tools ■ Force 10 interior heating system; 2003 upgrade ■ Air Afarine wind generator with davit and light ■ 2002 dodger and bimini ■ Glacier Bay reefer and freezer; 2003 upgrade ■ Force 10 three burner stove and oven ■ Scandvik Electric Winch Handle - all winches ■ Tank Tender for all tanks ■ OCENS satellite weather system ■ Caribe 25 inflatable; Yamaha 8 HP outboard ■ SSB with three dynaplates ■ Shipmate interior and cockpit VHF ■ Trimble and Autohelm GPS ■ Two 6000 Autohelm Autopilots with brass gears ■ Furuno radar with cockpit repeater; 2003 upgrade ■ Wave Talk satellite phone with e-mail ■ Two in-place bow and two stern anchors ■ Pioneer stereo system; 12 changer CD player ■ Heart Freedom 20 battery charger/inverter ■ Two bdilt in TV sets, with VCR; main salon and 'master berth ■ Litton microwave oven ■ Givens 6-man life raft/ ■ Furuno weatherfax

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MAGIC DRAGON is currently berthed in Oxnard, California. Please contact Pete and Suzy Rummel at 805-985-2836 (CA) or 252-638-6875 (NC) or e-mail srummel2@aol.com for more information and to schedule an appointment. March, 2003 •

• Page 13

LEARN TO SAIL With the Most Experienced Sailing School on the Bay

at the Lowest Price! \

Tradewinds Sailing School has been serving and teaching sailor^in the Bay Area for more than 40 years. This unequaled track record of success is the result of offering superior value and unrivaled instruction.

NoHij igh^Quality Instruction Anywhere! iwin^ has graduated thousands of qualified au Tradewinds sailors with its high caliber instruction program. Certified by ASA, the Tradewinds instruction program provides the best instruction available any¬ where. Our students can be found sailing the Bay everyday and cruising exotic ports around the world.

No Lower Price! Guaranteed. For more than 40 years, Tradewinds has focused on value! We love sailing and want to share it with as many people as possible. It's this dedication and passion that gives us the commit¬ ment to do more for you for less. We're not trying to sell you the most expensive program on the Bay or a fancy clubhouse, just a simple, easy, inexpensive way to get out and enjoy failing's magic. No¬ body else offers a three-class package of Basic Keelboat, Coastal Cruis¬ ing and Bareboat - 80 hours of instruction - all for as little as $995!“^

Plenty of Classes to Choose From We teach classes all year long, seven days a week. With nearly two dozen instructors on staff, we're sure to be able to accommodate your time schedule. And, since most classes have only four students, you get plenty of time at every position and for learning every skill, along with great personal instruction and feedback. Give us a call and tell us what works best for you! %

From 22-ft to 40-ft, Tradewinds has a boat to fit your crew and your budget!

Learn the Basics plus a Whole Lot More

In addition to Basic Keelboat, Basic Coastal Cruising and Bareboat Chartering, we offer classes in: Advanced Coastal Cruising; both homestudy and instructor-led Navigation Courses; Celestial Navigation; and specialty courses like intro¬ duction to Sailing and Heavy Weather Sailing. For even moire practical experience and skill enhance¬ ment, we offer sailing trips up and down California's coast, and in exotic locations around the world.

Family Style Operation Tradewinds offers a congenial atmosphere where you'll make friends and enjoy yourself. We have sailing events on the Bay and worldwide sailing vacations. "They made me feel like one of the family," said Robert McKeague.

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SERVING AND TEACHING SAILORS SINCE 1962 • March, 2003

Sailing Vacations

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Sea of Cortez, Mexico • May 21-28

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Warm Desolate Beauty Here's another chance to enjoy a great sailing vacation. This trip is almost sold out, so call to¬ day to reserve your spot. We'll enjoy the first night in a re¬ sort hotel on the beaches of La Paz, then board our five boats, including three catamarans, in the morning. We'll see dolphin and swim with sea lions, have an¬ chorages and beaches all to ourselves, and warm clear water for fantastic snorkeling. Plus, the boats will be fully provisioned! After reluctantly returning the boats at the end of the week, we'll have another night at the resort, and a chance for shopping, more relaxing, or a taste of the night life in La Paz. Price, including airfare, hotels, transfers and fully provisioned boat is just $1595 per person. Call Todayl Check our website for details on this year's other tips to Desolation Sound, the Qulf Islands, Tahiti and more...

Enjoy unlimited sailing for less than the cost of renting a slip! Plan I Daily Rate O'Day 22 Capri 23 (3) Hunter 23 (4) Newport 24 Catalina 25

Catalina 27 (2) $140 Ericson 27 (4) $140 Newport 28 $140 O'Day 28 $150 Hunter 28.5 $150 Cal 29 $150 Lancer 30 $150

Are You Ready to Book Your Own Charter Vacation?

We are a preferred broker for both Moorings and Sunsail. Book your charter through us, and we guar¬ antee it will cost less than doing it yourself. Plus you get the benefit of our experience and great service!

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Catalina 30 (3) Newport 30 (2) Hunter 30 Dufour31 Cal 31 (2) Hunter Vision 32

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Catalina 36 Islander 36 Hunter 36 C&C40

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Complete 3-Class Package...for Just $995* (Rl-^ 'iw?' *

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Of course there are a few details and restrictions, but it's really simple. $350 initiation fee is waived for Tradewinds Sailing School students. $300 annual club membership f^ applies to both plans. Give us a call to learn mofe - we're here every day, and we're nice people, too.

full days of Instruction

Bareboat Charteting: $643 • 2 full days and overnight

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mm 1983 FORMOSA 56. Completely redone by owner. In prime condition. Very spacious. Beautiful hardwood interior. $270,000.-

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1984 ISLANDER 44. Unique opportunity to own an extremely well equipped, immaculate custom center cockpit. Must be seen! $118,000

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In the February edition there was a mistake about the elapsed-time record for the Three Bridge Fiasco. It's actually 1 hour, 51 minutes by my Howard Spruit-designed 34-ft D Class catamaran''Rocket 88 that I sailed with Jay Crum. You can confirm this by referring to the March '96 issue of Lati¬ tude.

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I just want to say, "Sail naked whenever possible!" It's not a sexual thing, an exhibitionist thing, or in any way demean¬ ing. It is completely natural, the way we all came into the woi;ld) Society certainly does develop some nonsensical con¬ cepts, do'fesn't it? And kudos to Latitude for the editorial comment, 'We think ■ at least 5% of each year’s oil production ought to be set aside for the making of condoms. After all, nothing would help the planet more than reducing the world’s population by 50%." Finally, someone else who realizes that there is an overpopu¬ lation problem in this world, andThere is only one answer to it, other than han¬ dling it the same way we handle population explo- f sions of deer and other wildlife. | Having gotten ■ that off my chest, I wanted to warn ev- 1 eryone that I have 1 replaced my bat- , tered Cal 34 Alitloff with a beautiful ■asyet-unnamed Cal 36, which was yard ^ maintained in per¬ fect shape for her ; entire life. I plan to spend the short Rhode Island sum¬ mer working as little as I can and sailing After another snowy winter It's no wonder as much as pos- , Christine prefers to sail with less clothing. sible. If anyone ' wants to go sailing this summer in the Northeast, they can contact me at alitloff2@yahoo.corn. I’ll be happy to take any- ' one who wants to go — as long as you are willing to wave your rights to an attorney should the beer not be chilled to your absolute preference — highly unlikely — or there be some other similar catastrophe. I’d also like to make my boat as 'green' as possible, and therefore would like to hear from anyone who has experience ! with alternative head systems — other than the holding tank j method. Composting, for example. I’m also looking to heat ( my water with solar energy — other than the hanging bag — i and use environmentally friendly paint. I'm also interested in f communicating with anyone who has successfully installed I an electric motor In a similar displacement boat. f I'm open to aU 'green' tips. What can I say, I need something to think about and research while waiting for the 10 |

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HlllNDICATIVE OF A MORAL DECLINE IN OUR SOCIETY As an avid reader of Latitude — great job every month, by the way — 1 feel necessary to vent concerning the Tied Up In A Cat Suit item in the February Sightings. 1 don’t pretend to

have any insight into the specifics of this lawsuit, but was irritated at what I see as the most pronounced indication of our moral decline as a society. Let me see if 1 get this straight: Peter Schlenzka and Julie Langhorne purchased a 'demo' catamaran from the Miami Boat Show in Februaiy 2000, receiving a major discount be¬ cause the boat was used in the show. The original cost was $830,000, but they paid much less because of the discount. They cruise,the boat until August 2000, or approximately six months when, because of repairable defects, they decide they want a complete refund. After much back and forth banter¬ ing between the manufacturer Fountaine-Pajot and the two sailors, a settlement offer was made by F/P. The offer was for the refund of the original cost of the boat, plus significant additional money. And the buyers declined it? And now they want $5 million? What was this, the Miami lottery, or did they really pur¬ chase the boat? Spend much less than $830,000 on a boat, cruise it for six months, want out of the whole deal, and when offered a refund of all you’ve spent, plus additional money, you say no? Can anyone say greed? Remember several years ago in California when voters had the chance to vote on an initiative which would have reduced some of the frivolous lawsuits, and this initiative was voted down? Here’s the reason: Folks like Peter and Julie, repre¬ sented by their personal shark, Ted Keech, want more, much more, than what they have coming. Unfortunately this moneygrubbing pair is not alone as this seems to be the popular trend. Sadly, the cost in this case to others connected with their unethical behavior, including your publication, is stag¬ gering. Mike Wiley Morro Bay Mike — It’s a somewhat complicated case, and we’re not privy to all the details or the exact timing of the events, so we recommend that readers suspend Judgement of everyone in¬ volved for at least the time being. To a certain extent, we can appreciate the perspectives of both-the plaintiffs and the de¬ fendant. Buyers deserve to receive a boat that’s structurally sound and looks good. On the other hand, if there are defects, manufacturers should have a reasonable amount of time to

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My husband and I sailed our Valiant 40 from San Diego to French Polynesia in 2001. Two days out of Hiva Oa in the Meirquesas, our one-year-old autopilot quit working. We spent a month in Nuka Hiva waiting for a new autopilot to be shipped. The autopilot was accidentally sent to Martinique in the Caribbean by FedEx. When we called FedEx, they said they didn't know where the Marquesas — or even French Polynesia — was located. They assumed it was in the Atlan¬ tic. So the autopilot was shipped back to Tennessee, and then to Papeete, and then on to Nuka Hiva. But we ended up being in the Marquesas for a month. After fixing the autopilot, we sailed the 20 miles to Ua Poa. The second day there, our refrigerator eompressor self-de¬ structed. We'd had a new refer box built and new refrigera¬ tion system installed in San Diego the previous year. Without the refer, we forgot about going to the Tuamotus and sailed straight to Papeete. We ordered a new compressor, which cost an arm and a leg for DHL to ship. After a few weeks, we were able to’giet the new compressor installed by a local French¬ man. However, he and his friend took days to find the leak in the system, which turned out to be a bad weld behind the stove. The Frenchmen told us that the material that was used on the weld was not silver solder, and that's what caused the whole thing to break. Who knows? The high point was that we got to stay at the Papeete YC during this ordeal. While we were in Papeete, our electrical system started failing. The problem was that our batteries — purchased new in San Diego before we left — were not charging properly. Even when we ran the engine continually, we were losing charge. We had a special big bucks electrical system put in by a company in the Bay Area, however it was no longer charg¬ ing the batteries. We considered buying all new batteries, but were told by other cruisers that they also would lose the charge. Many other cruisers were having similar electrical problems. My husband ordered a new alternator and regula¬ tor, which took a couple of weeks to arrive and eost $700 in shipping alone. But that didn't fix the problem. Finally, my husband and a fellow cruiser retraced all the Wiiiiig

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thiHEY DUDE. YOU DON'T BELONG HERE! I have to sell my little boat because of the 'you-have-tobelong-to-a-yacht-club-or-you-can't-sall-here' reality in this ^rea — and in the United States in general. If we had a true sailing community, then all the yacht clubs — including the Corinthian and St. Francisco — would have to open up at least their launch ramps and docks to anyone who wants to sail. Yacht clubs shouldn't be for people just hanging around getting drunk, and we shouldn't have to use public launch ramps with disgusting powerboats such as are found neeu" the Grapd St. launch ramp in Alameda. Further, you can't bring a new boat over here to sell because of the Vanguard/Laser monopoly and business prac¬ tices that would make Bill Gates look like a saint. Try bring¬ ing the Laser Vortex or any one of the singlehanded 'splnniskiffs' to these shores and you will have the Vanguard/Laser monopoly mafia on your butt telling you that you can't. So I thank you veiy much for what you're doing, I really do, as it will buy me a couple of surfboards. In that case, the only beatings you take are while you're learning, and nobody has the right to tell you that 'you don't belong here' — like they tend to do at yacht clubs. It's just better out in the surf where there isn't so much dollar-driven-status-symbol-egotrip-separatist bullshit. Matt 'The One And Only' Warren 'Spreading reality where there was once only fog' Oaldand Matt — We're sorry to break the news to you, but there is no sport in the world where you'll be more frequently and emphatically told that 'you don't belong' than surfir^. There aren't anywhere near enough waves to go around, swfers are more territorial than sharks, and the vibes can be extremely heavy against newcomers. Unless you're very thick-skinned, perhaps you should take up open ocean swimming, where new mas¬ ochists are always welcomed. On the other hand, if your boat doesn't sell right away, you might get a list visit the Cal Boating website — of all the launch ramps in Northern California to better familiarize yourself with all the sailing opportunities. There are tons of them Do you feel as though you should be required to let anyone who feels like it use your saUboat? Probably not So how is it that you can't understand why members of yacht clubs don't feel that they should be required to let anyone use the facilities they paid for? The truth of the matter is that ifyou'r e willing to pay a few bucks to Join a yacht club or sailing association and there are a number of very inexpensive ones — you'll be welcome to use the facilities at many of the other yacht clubs, too.

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prices have gone up in equivalent dollars also. On my most recent trip to Mazatlan — November 2002 — I decided to record prices of food items in supermarkets and compare them to food prices in U.S. supermarkets. 1 know the list isn't corhplete, but it represents common foPd items that can be purchased in both countries. All the items pur¬ chased in Mexico were Mexican brands, and all sizes were as close to equivalent as possible. I intentionally stayed away from imported items, which are usually quite expensive. What my research shows is that the average cost for food in Mexico is about 42% of that in the United States. All my purchases were made with a credit card, so I know exactly what the exchange rate was on the day of purchase. Another factor in the cost of living in Mexico is the price of dining out. When cruisers choose to eat at the Shrimp Bucket, Senor Frogs, or any of the other tourist places, they should be prepared to pay U.S. prices. But if they would walk off the ma^nidrag a couple of blocks and eat where the Mexicans eat, they woifld find that it costs a lot less and is usually very delicious. The bottom line is that if you want to stay in marinas, eat in high-class restaurants, and eat imported food, expect to pay for it — and stop whining. Below is a list of all my Mexican food purchases in dollars (converted from pesos) comparecfto prices in the U.S. 1 hope this puts things into perspective.

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Eggs, dozen Bread, multigrain, small loaf MayonnaiseTNellmann’s, 14 oz (390 g) Hot Dogs, Turkey, 8 ea Salsa, Heidez, 7 oz (128 g) Onions, white, 1 lb Lunch meat, ham, approx 1 lb Potatoes, small white, 1 lb Ground beef. Extra lean, approx 1 lb Lettuce, 1 head Bacon, approx 1 lb Broccoli, 1 head ($N9.90/kg=$0.45/Ib) Tomatoes, Roma, 1 lb Mustard, 8 oz Green pepper, 1 lb Chidcen breasts, boneless, skinless, 6 Bananas, 1 lb Tuna, lighL in water, 6 oz (170 g) Butter, 1 ib Flour tortillas, 10, Tia Rosa Italian dressing, Heilmans, 8 oz (244 g) Celery, 1 lb Milk, 2%, 1/2 gallon Avocado, 11b Total

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LETTERS three days in a row we anchored oJfPunta de Mita and surfed at La Launcha for many hours a day, coming out of the water with a major appetite. We had lunch each day at the El Dorado Restaurant — which is right on the beach with one of the nic¬ est views of Bdnderas Bay. Our meal consisted of a gigantic slab of Parmesan chicken, mixed vegetables, baked potato with sour cream, mini salad, chips and salsa, and warm garlic bread, and cost Just under $6 at the current exchange rate. The food was nicely prepared, the waiters were very pleas¬ ant, and the tables were even covered with tablecloths. At night, the same meal was available at the same price under the romantic light of tiki torches with the sound of the surf in the background. Mexico is not free, but it seems like a heck of a bargain to us. HUtug's obligation to stay clear of sailboats

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I have to take issue with the caption for the 'Looking Good' photo on page 118 of the February issue. The caption states that the captain of the tugboat Titan had the "technical right" to barge through the boats taking part in the Corinthian Mid¬ winters. Rule 18 of the COLREGS states that a power-driven vessel shall keep out of the way of (i) a vessel not under com¬ mand: (ii) a vessel restricted in her ability to maneuver: (iii) a vessel engaged in fishing: (iv) a sailing vessel. I don’t think anyone would argue that a tug is restricted in her ability to maneuver, since one of her prime jobs is to aid just such vessels in docking. Unless the tug was towing another vessel, thus falling under (ii), it was her obligation to stay clear of the sailing vessels, even though they all appear to be on port tack. Dean Dietrich Tiburon ItUCOMMERCIAL VESSELS RIGHT-OF-WAY — A MYTH?

In your Februaiy Sightings article about the Corinthian Midwinters, you commented that a tugboat captain respected and avoided the racing fleet, but that he had the right to lay on his horn and barge through. I think that the perceived rights of commercial vessels is a widespread maritime myth. If I’m missing something, please advise. The ColRegs make no provision for commercial vessels. There are special rights for vessels not under com¬ mand, restricted in ability to maneuver, engaged in fishing, or constrained by draft. 'Whether or not their activity is com¬ mercial is irrelevant. If the tugboat were towing a barge or pushing a ship, she would have rights over most other traf¬ fic. Fishing boats, not engaged in fishing, don’t have rights over sailboats. Neither do harbor ferries. Neither do boats that are towing something. I recently encountered a cabin cruiser towing a smaller powerboat through the Sausalito YC Midwinter racing fleet. He was waiving his arms and shouting, "I’m towing," but he was completely maneuverable and displayed no day shape and made no proper sound signal to indicate otherwise If vessels were given the right-of-way because they’re commer¬ cial, then specific day shapes and light signals would be required. How else could one tell if that 35-ft trawler is for hire and therefore commercial and therefore privileged? Or that big classic dinner cruiser-looking thing isn’t Larry Ellison’s latest toy and therefore private and therefore burdened? If a boat is privileged just because it’s engaged in towing, then a charter yacht dragging it’s dinghy has rights. Having said all that, as a recreational sailor and racer, I avoid right-of-way issues with boats engaged in work. In fact, outside of racing I avoid these situations altogether by antici-

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Don You'd think that right-of-way rules would he clearcut and simple, wouldn't you? Well, they’re not. As we're sure you know, under Rule 9(b): "A .. . sailing vessel shall not impede the passage of a vessel that can safely navigate only within a narrow channel or fairway." What you might not know is that the Captain of the Port of San Francisco Bay has ruled that virtually all of San Francisco Bay, and up the'Delta, is considered "a narrow channel or fairway". Fora complete list, visit: www.uscg.mil/dll/vtssf/vtssfum. htm#NavRuleEnforcement. But you'll find that memorizing the exceptions and being able to know f you're in one of them wofxld be beyond the abilities of Just about everyone. Besides, the list i^not necessarily all inclusive. So all sailors should operate on the assumption that all tugs, no matter if they are pulling a barge or not, have the right-of-way if they want it. Diana Cranston, Chief of the Wa¬ terways Management Bureau of the Marine Safety Office of the Coast Guard says this may also be true of ferries running their normal route — although it ivould be up to Coast Guard investigations to decide for sure. It's that unclear. The bottom line is that not all commercial traffic necessarily has right-ofway over sailboats on San Francisco Bay, but it's safest to assume that they do. By the way. the last paragraph of your letter couldn't more accurately describe our approach to right-of-way situations on the Bay, arid our feelings about the attitudes of the operators of commercial vessels on San Francisco Bay.

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ItUuSED BENETEAUS IN FLORIDA My wife and I have a Columbia 36 in Alameda that we plan on keeping it until we retire in six years. Actually, we'll sell the boat in four years and then buy another boat and ready it for living aboard and travel. Our plan is to purchase a sail¬ boat in Florida, as we'll use that area as a home base while frequently travelling through the Caribbean and the IntraCoastal waterways. As I look around for used boats for sale in the Florida area, I m surprised at how much less expensive they are. Particu¬ larly Beneteaus in the 50-ft range, which 1 see being offered in the $130,000 to $150,000 price range. This is definitely the size boat we're looking for. and within our budget. Tm also good when it comes to working on boats. My question is what kind of information can you give me on Beneteaus, as I've never had the opportunity to sail one — and, in fact, can't remember ever being around one. It sure seems as though there are a lot of them on the East Coast and I was wondering if it's because that's where many of the charter boats end up. Most of the boats I'm talking about have four full beds with four private heads. We don't need so many beds and heads, but I could modify that. I'm also interested in any information you might have on the Hudson Force 50. P.S. Thanks for all the years of pleasure I've gotten from reading Latitude. I look forward to reading it every month. . ^

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Jctn — Ha-Ha folks go into total hibernation at the conclu¬ sion of each Ha-Ha until May 1 of the following year. However, we can tell you that entry packets will be available on May 1, that the entry fee will be the same as last year ($249), that the Ha-Ha will start October 27 in San Diego, and that there will be a full moon for the finish in Cabo on November 8. Further, the Wanderer will again be the volunteer Grand Poobah. and Profligate will again be the event's mothership.

SEPARATE CREW LIST FOR THE HA-HA? Will there be a separate Crew List later in the year for the 2003 Baja Ha-Ha? When 1 looked at the current Crew List fornis, there were just general entries for "Mexico this fall/ wtntef'^and "other destinations." Bill Planet Earth tfUL — in me October issue we will run a "Mexico-Only Crew List" specifically for folks headed south, be it in the Ha-Ha or otherwise. But there's no reason you can't indicate that you want to sail to Mexico this fall/ winter on the current list. By the way, the Crew List obviously doesn't work for everyone, but it sure works for some folks. While in Zihua, for example, Paul Biery of the Catana 431 New Focus told us he met Wes, his crewman for the Ha-Ha and ever since, through the Crew List, mnd that they've been getting along about

Frosty the bowman. w^ll .as two ----—hetero guys can. In fact, they even agreed to put up this rather odd-looking 'an¬ chor light' when on the hook off La Ropa Beach. tfUNEED TO DO AN OFFSHORE BASH Were looking for an opportunity for one person, who has Bay experience and owns a 46-ft boat, to do an offshore trip to get some offshore experience. Do you know any deliveiy skippers who might need someone for a four-to-five day bash up or down the coast? It would need to be done between now and the middle of April. Where could we contact such people? Glenys Taylor ssssssss J311 @y ahoo.com San Francisco / Jack London Square ^ Glenys We can t think of where you'd get better exposure than in the Letters section q/" Latitude. ItJiWE LOOKED FOR YA, HARRY! 1 m astonished by Harry Heckel's account of his 142-day passage from Japan to Hawaii aboard his Tahiti ketch Idle Queen, as was published in the February issue. I want Harry to know that we also were looking for him out there' My two crewmembers and I shoved off from Yokohama

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LETTERS aboard my new Tayana 48 cutter Jolly Tar on July 28 for our crossing to San Francisco. We arrived 45 days later, on Sep¬ tember 10. We became aware of Idle Queen’s overdue status via USCG reports through Inmarsat C shortly after leaving Japan. We had sfeveral discussions onboard about what fate may have befallen Harry during his passage. We knew the old salt was singlehanding. We kept a lookout even though I fig¬ ured he was too far ahead for us to render any assistance. Because of unending inclement weather above us, we crossed between 39°N and 41°N, which was slightly lower than I had originally planned. His account of the weather was right on, as there was little to no prevailing conditions during this crossing for either of us. Judging by the route indicated in Latitude. Hany and Idle Queen were well north of us along most of their crossing. On August 24 we were at 40°N, 160°W — which is probably about the time we passed Idle Queen several hundred miles to the south. ^^uttljermore, during our passage we averaged one ship contact eVery four to five days. We — and I assume all other vessels at sea — received many USCG reports concerning Idle Queen and another sailing vessel that was also reported overdue in Washington. Despite this, not once did any ship ever attempt to contact us for identification, nor go out of their way to inform us about Idle Queen's status as missing. For the most part these ships maintained very poor watches, as was evidenced by my Channel 16 discussion with the skip¬ per of a big-boy that came to within a quarter of a mile of us in daylight before he finally acknowledged our existence. That said. I’m sure that any skipper would do his or her best to render assistance to any other mariner in distress. But God bless and good luck to those relying on their ability and pro¬ active interest in keeping a proper lookout for those reported lost at sea. Good to have you back, Harry! Arnstein Mustad Jolly Tar, Tayana 48 San Francisco Arnstein — Forty-five days at sea! Where did you keepxill the food? How long did the fruits and veggies last?

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HUTRICOLORS & DECK-LEVEL RUNNING LIGHTS Regarding the issue of why you shouldn’t use deck-level running lights and masthead tricolor lights at the same time: FJrom the port side — red over red — such a configuration might be confused with "vessels not under command, or re¬ stricted in their ability to maneuver." From the starboard side — green over green — such a configuration might be confused with "vessels engaged in mine clearance^operations" . . . but only if the 'phantom ship’s bot¬ tom set of green lights were exactly in-line with each other. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sailboat with red over green, and yet one could use them in conjunction with the decklevel lights, for redundancy. I really love Latitude. And I really respect your opinions because, 1) you don’t take sides on an issue until you hear both sides: 2) you've occasionally had to eat humble pie and have admitted it; and 3) you're rarely — if ever — polarized in your opinions. Leslie D. Waters San Jose

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Oyster Cove ^Doug — Thanks for sharing your thoughts. However, there couldn'tLje a more different situation than at Nuevo Vallarta Marina and the ones slated for the Nautical Stairway. As run¬ down and dilapidated as Nuevo Vallarta Marina might be, there is tremendous demandfor slips in Banderas Bay. If the politi¬ cal obstacles are ever eliminated, it will quickly be developed into a luxury marina filed with mostly megayachts. On the other hand, there is no demandfor the slips in the marinas proposed for the 'Nautical Stairway'. This is a huge dfference. As for the Suggestion that a marina or two on the Pacific Coast of Baja would "ruin a wonderful cruising ground," thats preposterous. The Pacific Coast of Baja is 750 miles long — or about the same as the distance from San Diego to the Oregon border, or halfway from one end of the Med to the other. Some thoughtfuhy-designed and placed marinas on that long stretch of coast would not be the end of the world. But since there's no market for them they shouldn't be built. You should also be aware that even among the Mexican environmentalists who oppose the Nautical Stairway, there is concern that some Americans are treading dangerously close to environmental and economic racism The argument goe^like this: Californians have become the wealthiest people in the world by developing — often very stupidly — their coastline. Now that they're rich, they think all development along the Bcija coast should be prohibited so that they can have a pris¬ tine playground for surfing and sailing — even if it prevents the creation of badly-needed Jobs so impoverished Mexicans can feed their families. Its a pretty powerful argument

KJIfollowing cruisers on the web In the January issue, Johnnich from Cyberspace wrote, "1 would love to be able to follow a boat on its cruise . . . can you help me find one?" Joe and Kathy Siudzinski update their KatieKat website of South Pacific cruising tales nearly daily, whenever Joe has some sort of net access, even just via a cellphone. KatieKat is a Seawind 1000 catamaran recently arrived in New Zealand from Brisbane. See www.KatieKat.net Our Adagio website is updated every few weeks, as we usu¬ ally upload a lot of high resolution photos of our latest ad¬ ventures — most recently Tasmania and the Great Barrier Reef. Perhaps of particular interest to Johnnich, the Adagio website is part of the 'Cruising Yacht SiteRing', which will link the visitor to a large number of other yachtie sites all over the world. There is a navigation bar for the SiteRing at the bottom of the Adagio homepage. Check it out at www.AdagioMarine.com.

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LOOSE LIPS Bom'ing right along. Since reintroducing the Boat of the Month series last month, we've heard from about a dozen classes requesting 'the treatment.' Some are good suggestions, such as the Cal 40, Santana 2^, Ranger 33 and Knarr, while others, such as the Melges 24 and Catalina 34, likely won't be profiled for years to come. Why? They're still in production. If we did one current design, every advertiser in the book would demand equal time — and anyway the main intent of the BOM series has always been to lend a kind of helping hand to older classes of still-great boats where interest might have waned. It also helps if the class has a local history. Speaking of BOMs, there was a grievous error in last month's Columbia 5.5 Meter story. While rattling off a list of Alameda 5.5 owners, we mistakenly identified Bill Colombo as the "purveyor of UK Saks." That was true until a few years ago, but now — as many of you hastened to point out and we knew,— Colombo heads up Doyle Sails. Bill, a mellow guy with a ^ood sense of humor, took it in stride and didn't even ask for a retraction or anything. We still feel badly, however, and felt some sort of action was needed. So, when the offend¬ ing editor ends his solitary confinement in 'the cooler,' we'll give him 100 lashes with the cat 'o ninetails and have him write "Bill works for Doyle" on the blackboard 1,000 times. That should do it. On the Job... The Tiburon Yacht Club is pleased to announce an evening with Gary Jobson, world-class sailor and EISPN commentator for the 2003 America's Cup. He will speak at our clubhouse, 400 Trinidad Drive, Tiburon, on Wednesday evening, March 12, 2003, at 8 p.m. Coming just after the completion of this year's America's Cup finals, his presentation will be very timely and of inter¬ est to all who love the sport of sailing. Seats are limited. Ad¬ mission is $10 per person, by reservation only, at www.tyc.org or by calling Allen Dekelboum, at (415) 883-7739. Gary Jobson is now covering the America's Cup 2003 for ESPN and Sailing World, and covered the 2000 Olympics in Sydney for NBC. He has been ElSPN's sailing commentator since 1985 and produces over 30 shows per year. In 1988, J obson won an Emmy for his coverage of yachting at the Olym¬ pic Games in South Korea. Gary has authored 13 sailing books and is Editor at Large of Sailing World and Cruising World magazines. His latest book is titled Fighting Finish: 2001 -2002 Volvo Ocean Race. Black tie event. The Treasure Island Sailing Center announces the first annual Sailor's Ball. The event, to be held April 26 at the Administration Building on Treasure Island, is a charity event benefiting the Treasure Island Sailing Center. The Sailor's Ball is designed to bring San Francisco Bay sailors together in support of the Sailing Center's mission to open sailing to people of all cultures, economic backgrounds, physical abilities and skill levels. The event will be open to all those interested in the Sailing Center and these goals. The evening vHll begin at 7 p.m. with a VIP cocktail party with a who's who' of the local sailing community and city, followed at 9 p.m. by food, music and dancing in the lobby of the classic art deco building. Tickets are $85. For more infor¬ mation, go to www.sailorsball.org. Offshore. No, wait, we mean onshore . . . After all these years, you'd think we'd have this straight.

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2003 rolex honorees The most prestigious honor an American sailor can receive is the Rolex Yachtsman or Yachtswoman of the Year award. Sailboat racing’s equivalent to the Pulitzer prize or ‘best actor/actress’ Oscars, the Rolex awards — and new submariner watches — have been bestowed annually since 1961 “in recognition of outstand¬ ing on-the-water achievement In the calendar year just ended.” With that preamble, we’re thrilled to an¬ nounce that the 2002 Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year are John Kostecki and Liz Baylis. It’s the first time in Rolex history that both winners hail from the Bay Area. The vot¬ ing and decisions were made on February 11; the formal presentation takes place at the New York YC on March 21.

(John Kostecki should be well-knovm to Latitude readers. Flaised m Novato, he practi¬ cally grew up in our pages, rising quickly from junior program wunderkind to sought-after helmsman or tactician all over the grand prix circuit. In 1988, he won an Oljrmpic Silver in Stars in Seoul — which led directly to his first Rolex title. Among his many other accomplish¬ ments: Soling World Champion (1986, 1988), One Ton Cup winner (1994), Mumm 36 World Champion (1996, 1997, 1998), and America’s Cup tactician (1995, Younp America and 2000, continued on outside column of next sightings page

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‘illbruck’ leads the pack into the finish in Cape Town in Leg I of the Volvo Ocean Challenge.

SIGHTINGS rolex — cont’d

Roy Disney (Los Angeles} — records in Bermuda and Mocim 'if'Ha o'* Augie Diaz {Man',} — Snipe and Laser Mas¬ ters World Champson. Star District Champion. Bill Dr iheim (Rockwall TX) — Flying Scot North. Ame-tcan Champion. J'22 World runner up. Andrew Campbell iSan Diego/ — Volvo Youth World Cheuupion, U S Youth Champion. Howie Hairlin.’Mike Manm (Long Beachi’Dana [ Point) — t8>ft Sfd8 Workl Champion. 506 North American Champio'is Chris Larson (Annapolisj — New Yoik YC Race \A/ee< Champion. Volvo Ocean Race tacti¬ cian (two 'ego on Assa AJoloy). tactician Maxi World Cup wtnf'er Alexia Harry Melges I'Zenda, Wl)—Melges 24 World Champ.o-' (over 72 boats' i- Scow In'T’r, '.aKes Champ on Steve Phiffips 'Arnold K1U, - j' 40 Wor a Chan&ion. J.''105 North American Champion. Women Safy Ba(kow{Na^ioia. Wl)—tSCA Women’s North Am^fcan Champion. Laser Radial Pan Americafrt Charr^n, 2nc at Adan j Cup WCarrSCfonm (Jamestown, RI) — Rolex Miami OCR Chairpop, 2?td at Santa Maiia Cup Carolyn Bromr Krebs (Sm (Mgo)—Women s ' Snipe WcH^ ChampicBT!, Women's Snipe North American Chairpon. PsJge Rmley (dearw^Bf, i L b jun'oi Women's ^igl^tanded Champion.

AmericaOne). The accomplishment for which John won the Rolex in 2002 was skippering the German illbruck team to overall victory in the 20012002 Volvo Ocean Race, the crewed round-the-world event that started life way back when as the Whitbread Round the World Race. Kostecki, who had successfully campaigned in several of illbrucKs various Pinta campaigns, was named skipper of the company’s Volvo boat in 2000. Among his responsibilities were crew selection, a rigorous offshore train¬ ing program and onboard strategy during the race. It paid off hand¬ somely, as illbruck won four of the nine legs in the grueling, nine-month, 32,700-mile marathon — in the process setting a new monohull speed record of 484 miles in 24 hours. When it came down to the judging, one Rolex judge compared Kostecki’s Volvo win to the not insubstantial accomplishments of the other eight nominees this way: “What illbruck did was like scaling Everest without oxygen while everyone else was hiking the Appalachian Trail.” “Winning this year is even more exciting than it was 14 years ago,” said the 38-year-old Kostecki, a bachelor who lives in Fairfax between sailing adventures. “Nowadays, the sport is more popular and there is a whole different caliber of sailors out there.” In the near future, look for John to once again become a force in Stars. In the longer run, he’ll return to the America’s Cup fray next time as skipper of dlbrucKs first-time German entry. One of the most remarkable aspects of Liz Baylis' first Rolex win is that she is not a professional sailor. She is actually a professional Pub¬ lic Health Microbiologist for the State of California who sails when she can make the time around her ‘real job’. She is nevertheless a worthy and competent competitor on the water. Growing up as part of North¬ ern California’s most remarkable sailing ‘dynasties’ — father Derek is a legendary boatbuilder/racer/inventor, and brothers Will and Trevor both hold multiple world championships — Liz lived and breathed sailcontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS rolex — cont’d

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ing from an early age»^(Upon notification that she had won the Rolex, she reminded eveiyone that Kosteckl’s Olympic crew in 1988 — and co-Silver medal winner — was her bromer, WiU.) Many of Liz’s saUmg p^ormances in 2002 were notable — a class win in the Pacific Cup on her Antrim 27 £T, a fourth in the Santa Marla Cup (J/22s) and, as crew, a second in the Belvedere Cup (Farr 40s). But the one that got her the Rolex nod was her win over #1-ranked Marie BJorling (and 14 other competitors) at the ISAF Women’s World Match Racing Championships in Spain last April aboard J/22s. From unknown ^d unranked to world champion within two years — yeah, we’d say tli&<s pretty notable. The 2001 Rolex winners were Steve Fossett and Cory Sertyl. A look at the list of past Rolex winners reads like a who’s who of sailing. Par¬ ticularly notable are three-time wiimers Buddy Melges (who was'also the first, in 1961), Dennis Conner and Ted Turner, four-time winner JJ Isler, and Jioe-time recipient Betsy (Gelenitis) Alison. Former Bay Area recipients include Dawn Riley (’99), Paul Cayard (’98) and Sally Lindsey Honey (‘73,‘74). "

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Pencils up! Time to mark your calendcirs for the next PaclQc Sail Expo. Ready? Start marking — April 23 to 27 at Jack London Square. If you need an additional reminder, scribble “Bay Area’s biggest inthe-water sail-only show.” This is the seventh year for Sail Expo, part of a small family of large sail-only shows put on by Sail America. Sail Expo is the only one of these west of the Mis¬ sissippi. It is also the premier show in Northern California — and the largest sail-only show on the whole Pacific Rim A few of the more notable attractions this year: Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year John Kostecki and Liz Baylls. Bill Teplow, the guy who sailed a West

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SIGHTINGS on the horizon Wight Potter to, and around, Hawaii. * Erik and Katriana Vader, whose con¬ struction of a bare hull into a boat we’ve been following in Sightings. * New boats — hull # 1 of the new Tar¬ tan 4400, the new Corsair 36, the new J/ 109, the new Sydney 32 and the new Tom 28, just to name a few. * Latitude 38's first Baja Ha-Ha re¬ union. All past Ha-Ha'ers are invited. The date is Friday, April 25, hours are 6-8 p.m. and the site is tallships Hawaiian Chief¬ tain and the squeaky-new I wing Johnson and the surrounding docks. That’s all for now. We’ll have a com¬ plete show guide in the next issue. Until then, you can keep up to date op the show at www.sailamerica.com.

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new records, new races Please don your flak jackets and pay attention. We have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of numbers to pummel you with in the next few pages. There aire three major record attempts by maxi-multihulls in progress as this issue closed in on deadline. Here’s a quick look at each — followed by a quick synopsis of several new events that were announced in February — the second edition of The Race, and the new The Race Tour for maxi multihulls: and the next Volvo Ocean Race and the Volvo Pacific Ocean Race, which will be sailed in a new class of high-perfor¬ mance 70-footers. Both The Race Tour and the Volvo Pacific Ocean Race will have stops in San Francisco in 2006 and 2007, so we’ll finally be able to see these magnificent men, women and machines up close.

Jules Verne Both Olivier De Kersauson’s 112-ft trimaran Geronimo and Ellen MacArthur’s chartered 1 lO-ft catamaran King¬ fisher 2 are trying to set new records in the Trophee Jules Verne. In¬ spired by Verne’s 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, this competi¬ tion began in 1993 with a handful of simple rules: depart Ushant any time you want, leave the great capes to starboard, and sail around the world faster than any of the boats before you. The current record is held by Bruno Peyron, who also set the very first Jules Verne record in ‘93 aboard the 80-ft Commodore Explorer. Last May, PejTon sailed the catamaran Orange (which is now Kingfisher 2 and was originally Innovations Explorer} to a current mark of 64 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes, 24 seconds. Peyron departed a bit late for his record run: most Jules Verne boats leave between December and March — the northern hemisphere win¬ ter — so as to transit the Southern Ocean during its summer. Fewer icebergs then, you see. Geronimo started on January 11 and has been running well ahead of Orange's sehfedule ever since. At this writing, De Kersauson and his 11-man crew had just passed Cape Horn (in a record 40 days) and were running two full days ahead of grange's time. As she gets lighter and the crew gets more com¬ fortable about how far they can push her, the big tri was reeling off huge day’s runs of 500 miles or more (her worst day was 277 miles). Unless something big breaks or they hit something, Geronimo is well on track to shave several days off the standing record, and maybe even break through the 60-day barrier. Interestingly, if De Kersauson gains this record, like Peyron he will also be regaining it — aboard the 92-ft trimaran Sport Elec, he set the Jules Verne record in 1997 that continued on outside column of next sightings page March. 2003 • IxUUA?? • Page 109

SIGHTINGS new records/races — cont’d Orange broke just last year.

first the south tower On February 13, the Coast Guaird an¬

To break Orange’s Vecord, Geronimo (named for the American In¬

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dian Chief who De Kersauson admires) kdll have to finish before 11:30

been set up around the piers of the Golden

GMT on March 16. To follo\ythis challenge more closely — De Kersauson

Gate and Bay Bridges. The new zones pro¬

is actually a marvelous writer who really evokes the spirit of the adven¬

hibit boaters from getting closer than 25

ture and the beauty of the area he’s traversing — log onto www.

yards to “all piers, abutments, fenders and

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pilings” of the two main bridges in the Bay.

Meanwhile, goddess-of-sailing Ellen MacArthur (whom England

Although no specific threats have been

would probably give an aircraft carrier if she wanted one) and a crew of

made against the two spans, the zones

13 were heading south through the Atlantic aboard Kingfisher 2.

represent an additional measure of safety

MacArthur ^;ossed the start line off Ushant (near the Lizard) the mom-

in these troubled times. The new security

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But don’t worry too much about it.

and ‘Best Western’ for their relative comfort), almost 100 miles farther

We called the Coast Guard for clarifi-

than the same boat did under Peyron last spring, but nearly 300 miles behind Geronimo, which capped their first week off with four 500+ mile days in a row and a total of.3,436 miles. K2's eighth day was so far her worst — only 139 miles as the big cat drifted through the Doldriims '‘\ and across the Equator. To break Orange’s record, K2 must recross the line off Ushant be¬ fore mid-afternoon, April 4. Depending on Geronimo’s performance, they may have to roll that due date back several days farther. To follow

Kingfisher 2’s progress, log onto their absolutely excellent website at WWW. tedmkingfisher. com. As a quick aside, we can’t remember the last time so many boats were transiting the same area of the Southern Ocean at the same time.

Geronimo rounded Cape Horn on February 20, three days before the lead boat in the Around Alone Race, Bernard Stamm’s 60-ft Bobst Group

Armor Lux. There’s a good chance K2 could round that famous head¬ land right in the middle of the rest of the 11-boat Around Alone fleet.

Route of Columbus Also in the Atlantic but going the other way is the irrepressible Steve Fossett and a crew of 12 on his mighty 125-ft catamaran PlayStation. The boat — which last fall set the incredible new West-East transAtlantic record of 4 days, 17.5 hours — departed Cadiz, Spain, at liter¬ ally the stroke of midnight on Feburaiy 15 and pointed her bows at San Salvador. Fossett’s goal: to break the 3,880-mile ’Route of Colum¬ bus’ record, which was set by co-skippers Grant Dalton and Bruno Peyron in June, 2000, during a quali^ng run for The Race aboard the 1 lO-ft Club Med, sisfership (;o Kingfisher2. Club Med’s mark: 10 days, 14 hours, 53 minutes. At the time of this writing, PlayStation had en¬ joyed a quick first four days, although they fell well short of Club Med’s blistering fourth day, when they sailed a then-record 625 miles in 24 hours. (As long as we’re spewing records like popcorn, PlayStation later broke that record, then Club Med — as Maiden 2 under Brian Thomp¬ son — broke it again. The 24-hour record, set last June, now stands at 697 miles.) On the fifth day, PlayStation was further slowed by broken battens which required the one-ton mainsail to be lowered for repairs. To break the record, PlayStation will have had to reach Sam Salva¬ dor before 3:00 GMT on Tuesday, February 25. We’ll let you know next month if they did it or not, or you can check yourself at www.

fossettchallenge. com.

the race and the race tour Now for the big race armouncements that were made last month by Volvo and the organizers of The Race. As you read these, you may get the sense that a couple of the events seem to overlap each other — this despite assurances from at least The Race organizers that “schedul¬ ing. . . has been purposely designed not to interfere with other major sailing events.” Seems that early in the planning stages. The Place chaircontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS demon, now this cation on this one, noting that

new races/records — cont’d sailors

man Bruno Peyron did talk to Volvo about putting their various events

have enjoyed passing close by the bridge

under one umbrella. But let’s just say the power lunches didn’t go veiy

piers — particularly the Golden Gate —

far or last very long.

for as long as they've been there. A Coast Guard spokesman said that they are

The Race and The Race Tour

mainly concerned about boats tying up

It isn’t often that a movie sequel truly outshines the original, but

to or loitering around the bridge piers. No

the second edition of The Race — on the calendar to start, appropri¬

guards are going to be stationed there,

ately, on ‘leap day’, February 29, 2004 — could well live up to the task.

but if the Coast Guard is out on patrol

To refresh your memory, the first The Race went off on December

and sees a boat loitering or acting

31, 2000 and saw six crewed maxi-multihulls race nonstop around

strangely around the bridges, they will go

the world. Despite howls of protest from detractors that the oceans

shoo it off. Boats passing by in the nor¬

would be littered with death and destruction, all six boats made it

mal course of sailing in or out of the Bay

around with crews intact. Club Med, under skipper Grant Dalton, led

or South Bay should rarely be bothered

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VOLVO/RICK TOMLINSON

for passing top close.

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SIGHTINGS new races/records — cont’d

fire down

Lewis on Team Aduer^ure. These 110-ft cats were all sisterships de¬

In all my years around boats, 1 have

signed by Gilles Ollier and built at the Multiplast yard in Vannes, on

never seen anything as tragic as we wit¬

the Atlantic coast of France. (AlthoughN::iub Med made this circum¬

nessed on Sunday afternoon Februaiy 2.

navigation in 62 days and change, it was not allowed as a world record

In the Port of Oakland's Central Basin, a

circumnavigation because, well, the French didn’t want it to be,)

major fire totally destroyed two boats. The

Thd Race started in Barcelona. The second The Race (we sure wish

speed at which this fire spread was some¬

they’d give it ah easier name to work with) will start and end in

thing to behold. Fortunately no one was

Marseilles, which. Like Barcelona, requires the odd ‘leg’ of sailing through

injured, although we learned later that the

Gibraltar coming and going. Already signed up are Maiden II {ex-Club

owner of the sailboat was on board and

Med) under Tracy Edwards. Kingfisher 2 {ex-Innovatton Explorer) un¬ der Ellen MsKj^hur, Geronimo, skippered by Olivier de Kersauson, a

unaware of the fire in the slip next to him. Apparently someone had the presence of

new 110-ft Ollier sistership for Polish sailor Roman Pazke (who took a

mind to alert him, with just seconds to

lengthened version of the old Commodore Explorer on the last The Race)

spare before his boat burst into flames.

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The wind was gentle and was blowing

SIGHTINGS below

new races/records — cont’d

out of the west. Had the wind been blow¬

and a ‘mystery giant’ currently under construction for an unnamed

ing from the other direction, there is no

client in Europe. Neither PlayStation (which started the first The Race

telling how many boats would have been

but had to retire with sail problems) or Team Adventure have made

lost, as it took over 12 minutes from the

decisions yet on whether they’U Join the fleet. There is also reported

time we called 911 to the time the first

interest from several other parties. By the way. The Race is not limited

fire engine arrived.

to multihulls. However, at this writing, there have been no indications

Having witnessed this makes me want

any monohulls, maxi or otherwise, will jotu in the fun.

to be sure to Inspect my boat for fire haz¬

Even bigger than the next The Race — at least for local sailors ^— is

ards in electrical systems, fuel systems

the creation of a new class of 80-ft maxi-cats and an ambitious event

and engine compartment, and to make

called The Race Tour, which debuts in 2006. Why is this big news?

sure that all fire suppression systems and

Because one of the stops in this four-leg crewed race around the World

extinguishers are mounted, functioning

is San Francisco Bay! That’s right, three years from now, we’ll get to

and properly charged.

host a fleet of these spectacular boats as they finish their second leg

— mike and Janice kranz

from Southeast Asia to here, and start the third leg to New York. The estimated 33,000-mlle event could make this the longest roimd the world race of them all, but the giant multhuUs will only need about six months to do it. The Race Tour will also feature opportunities for com¬ petitors to earn partial points, organized local events to offer various stopover ports “a great sports show” — and a new class of 80-ft maxi¬ cats. In the long term, the plan is to create an international circuit for maxi-multihulls, by which owners or syndicates could accrue points for such differently-weighted events as the Jules Verne, 24-hour record, Fastnet and of course The Race and Race Tour. Points would be com¬ piled into a ‘seed’ rankings similar to tennis. The main focus is on skippers, but even crews would ecirn partial points.

Volvo Ocean Race and Volvo Pacific Ocean Race Finally (pant, pant) the latest announcement from Volvo on Februciry 10 is for a revcimped Volvo Ocean Race featuring ‘extra credit’ events and a new boat design, and the Volvo Pacific Ocean Race, similar to the Race Tour but it circles only the Pacific Rim. The next Volvo Ocean Race (the oldest of the events mentioned so far, the Volvo started life in 1973 as the Whitbread Round the World Race) will start from an as-yet undecided Mediterranean port in, ahem, November 2005. As before, there will be stops in Cape Town, AustralAsia, Rio de Janeiro, Baltimore/Annapolis, the UK, and Goteborg, Sweden, with a finish at a Baltic Port. (The 2002 Volvo fin¬ ished in Kiel, Germany.) All that is similar to last time. Bub now for the changes. First off, new crew rules: All-male crews will be limited to nine (down one from the Volvo 60s) hut, in an effort to encourage more multi¬ gender participation, a mixed crew consisting of at least five women, can have 10. An all-female boat may carry 11 crew members. Next, extra points: On the long ocean legs, scoring ‘gates’ will be included at yarious points. Boats transiting these gates — you don’t have to if you don’t want to — will earn an additional half point for each gate. ^ Finally, In each port, the Volvo fleet will take part in round-the-buoy races, the results of which count in the overall numbers. This latter irmovation, in which additional sponsors, media or local rock stars can be aboard the boats, is designed to fire more interest among local boaters and the public — plus assure that the eventual race winners possess the full spectrum of salling»skills. The combined total of in¬ port racing and the 'gates’ will account for 20% of the overall total. The race will also be shortened from the 10 months it took last time, to 8. The boats for the new Volvo will be a class of Open 70-footers with canting keels, a choice of one or two centerboards, and one or two rudders. Beyond that, and reduction in the number of allowed sails from 38 to 20, the boats will be limited only by the imaginations of their creators. As well as being faster and “easier to sail” (their words, not ours) than the present crop of Volvo 60s, it’s hoped that the new boats will take better care of their crews, and that the limits on sails will help constrain budgets (hah!) and allow more teams to participate. Finally, there is the Volvo Pacific Ocean Race, which is sort of a continued on outside column of next sightings page /

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SIGHTINGS new races/records — cont’d

there oughta

monohull version of The Race Tour. In 2007, a Volvo 70 fleet will race

Remember Rex DeGeorge? He’s the

port-to-port around the Pacific Rim, and will include both San Fran¬

Beverly Hills lawyer who was convicted

cisco and San Diego as stops.

last year of a multimillion dollar insur¬

These events are obvlotasly still very much in the planning stages.

ance scam that involved inflating the

For The Race Tour and Volvo Pacific Ocean Race, exact ports and dates

value of— and then intentionally sinking

have^et to be announced. We’ll obviously have more on all these races

— a luxury yacht off the Italian coast 10

as the times approach, but we thought you’d want to know that San

years ago. We ran two articles on the case

Francisco will finally play a role in some pretty ambitious and poten¬

(February, 2000, and May, 2002), which

tially spectacular ocean racing events in the next few years.

also mentioned the three other yachts he

A final footnote, if we may. In a market survey Volvo did about the

lost under dubious circumstances — and

2001-200^«^cean Race, the “total viewer hours” amounted to more

for which he collected about half a mil¬

than 92 million, with a total cumulative (TV) audience of 811 million.

lion dollars — and the 32 other claims he

The highest-rating territoiy was Germany (where the race finished)

had filed with different insurance com¬

with a cumulative audience of 274 million. The UK finished a distant

panies since 1976.

second with 87 million. France was third with 86 million, while Brazil,

While DeGeorge, 66, is currently serv¬

with 85 million, brought up the fourth spot. The U.S., with two stop¬

ing a 7 1 /2-year prison term for a bevy of

overs, brought up fifth with 80 million. And wonder of wonders: The U.S. actually topped the ranks of the 3 million visitors who visited the

www.volvooceanrace.org website. Could it be — gasp! — Mr. and^Irs" \ America are finally getting interested in sailing?

frostbite series postponed Welcome to the winter of our discontent. 1 am writing from the other side of latitude 38: Annapolis. After five mild winters many of us have begun leaving our boats in the water year round — frostbite racing on weekends and stealing a few fast daysails from the season. More than 100 big boats are registered for the Annapolis YC’s Sunday Frostbite Series. Nearby, at the Severn Sailing Association, a large collection of Laser, InterClub, Soling sailors also sail on winter Sundays. A popular form of ’’wfinterizing” involves hooking a 100-watt lightbulb to the end

of an orange extension cord and carefully lowering the lit bulb into the engine compartment. This provides enough warmth to keep things happy and ready to go at all times. It turns out that the soft winters of late made us a little too comfort¬ able (“hubris” might be the proper word). The winter of 2002-03 has hit Chesapeake Country hard. It has only been above 40 degrees a few times since January 1 and we were well ahead of the "average" snow¬ fall before the President’s Day storm dropped 20 inches on Annapolis. We are all, of course, woefully unprepared for this type of snow. Our

Scenes from the ‘other’ latitude 38 — Spread, Annapolis Harbor. Above, Al and Joe shoveling docks

16-month-old doesn't have a snowsuit, our neighbors didn’t have a snow shovel, and local governments had exceeded their snow removal budgets weeks before The Big One came through. Annapolis is kind of ‘half-way’ when it comes to winters. In the epic winters of the 1970s and early 1980s, the Chesapeake and its tribu¬ taries regularly froze solid and could hold ice skaters, the occasional ice boat, and even bonfires. But this winter, as wet and chilly as it has been, is not epic enough to produce skateable or even walkable ice. So here we are. Bay frozen with soft ice; boats wdth saUs on the booms and lightbulbs belowdecks, covered with melting snow — and sailors frus¬ trated with watching other people sail in New Zealand while a "real" winter lashes at the window. We’re not even thinking about the muddy season which arrives in March. Hopefully the ice willbe gone by then. — dave gendell

capricorn cat on reef, but escapes If good things really do happen to good people, perhaps that ex¬ plains why Capricorn Cat got off the reef in the Marshall Islands. Blair Grinols of the Vallejo-based 46-ft Capricorn Cat has been one of the has been one of the most active and best liked sailors on the West Coast over the last eight or nine years. After retirement — and continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS be a law

capricorn cat — cont’d

charges surrounding the intentional sink¬

with great reluctance, thanks to the failures of two builders — he built

ing of the 76-ftPrincipecliPictoroffNaples

his own 46-ft cat, and with wife Joan has subsequently been a relent¬

in 1992, he has hardly been silent.

less cruiser between California and Mexieo as weU as to French Polynesia

Back in 1990, DeGeorge filed claims

and Hawaii, During these times, he's earned respect and admiration

with Equitable Life Assurance Society and

from fellow cruisers, both for often lending a helping hand, but also for

Paul Revere Life Insurance Co., contend¬

taking countless people on group sails or making his boat available for

ing he was totally disabled due to a heart

charity sails.

condition and brain damage caused in an

Although he's approaching 70, Grinds has more energy than most

auto accident. He thereafter received a

35-year-olds, so rather than do another Ha-Ha last fall, he sailed to

total of $8,200 a month from the two com¬

Hawaii, and continued on to the Marshall Islands for lots of diving and

panies until 1999, when they stopped

sailing. Blair was having a ball until February 20, when his beloved

pa}nments and alleged that he had faked

boat went onto a reef. Here's how he described it: "For the longest, darkest, and most traumatic half-hour of my life,

as a lawyer. They also sued him in fed¬

myself, friends Rich and Sherrel Richmond from Oregon — along with

eral court to reclaim the more than

Tabal villagers — fought a winning battle to extricate Capricorn Cat

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PHOTOS DAVE QBNDELUSPINSHEET

the claims and was continuing to work

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SIGHTINGS capricorn cat — cont’d from certain destructic^ on a large coral reef Just off the beach at Tabal, Aur. It brings tears to my eyes just trying to write about it. "At 2 a.m.. Rich woke me up becai^Sse the wind had clocked 180

oughta be a law $900,000 they had paid out. DeGeorge countersued for the unpaid benefits — and won.

degrees and we were hanging on our anchor just a few yards from a

On Friday, February 7, after a three-

coral-strewn lee shore. The wind had come up to about 20 knots and

week trial, a six-person civil jury in Los

the rain was coming down in sheets. We immediately tried to drive the

Angeles found that DeGeorge is still dis¬

boat offshore, but the anchor chain was wrapped around other coral

abled, his claims were legitimate and that

heads. By the time 1 was able to get a knife to cut the rode, the star¬

Equitable must resume paying him

board rudder was digging into the coral. After the rope was cut and

$4,700 a month for life. Paul Revere’s cov¬

before 1 could get to the throttles, one propeller struck coral, which

erage ended when DeGeorge turned 65.

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‘This is the first fair trial I’ve had in Federal Court,” DeGeorge seiid when the juiy had announced their verdict. Collecting the money won’t be so easy. As part of his sentence in the scuttling

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SIGHTINGS capricorn cat — cont’d

— cont*d case, DeGeorge was ordered to pay $2.8

hull ground onto the reef. Between the wind, waves, and the grinding

million in restitution to the government.

of the hull against the coral, the noise was deafening.

He has so far paid nothing. The U.S.

"1 jumped Into the dinghy and threw Sherrel a line to the front of the

Attorney’s office has filed a lien against

port bow while Rich put his shoes on to jump onto the coral. By tying

any awards he might receive, so the pay¬

two ropes between the rear corners of the dinghy and the 'Cats bow,

ments will probably go to them.

8md adjusting their lengths correctly, 1 was able to puU into the wind

For what it’s worth, the jurors knew

and waves. In the melee, a rope caught the fuel line to the dinghy's 15-

DeGeorge had been convicted of fraud and

hp Johnson. It took me a second to figure out why the engine died. I

peijury — and several also felt he was ‘get¬

was able to push the connection back into place and hold it with one

ting away with something’. They based

arm while steering with the other. Two of the village men heard all the

their decision on the evidence presented,

commotion and came running Into the coral, where Rich was strug¬

which boiled down to DeGeorge’s lawyer

gling to push the bow toward the sea. After about 15 minutes of run¬

picking a more believable psychologist as

ning the little engine full throttle, the 'Cat moved a little. Sherrel came

an expert witness than the insurance

running over to the port side and said Rich reported that he had taken

companies’ psychologist.

a few steps into deeper water. "Unfortunately, the starboard rudder had dug down into the coral and was really hung-up. Rich and the villagers in the water went to the stern and lifted and heaved with the waves — and after another 15 minutes or so, the boat began to extract herself from the reef. After running the outboard full throttle for so long, 1 was worried about run¬

ning out of gas. Finally, Capricorn Cat came steaming past me. She was floating! Rich had gotten to the throttles and was driving her out into deep water. The dinghy swamped completely from being pulled backwards, but it was the best bath 1 ever had! "The two villagers had climbed aboard with Rich, and we spent the rest of the night running the boat around offshore, trying to miss the other coral heads. The village men knew where they were. At dawn, they showed us a better place to anchor. But it wasn't over yet. We had hardly authored, showered the village men with praise and gifts, and taken them to shore — when the wind clocked about 100 degrees, once again putting us perilously close to shore. Before we could get the new anchor and rode in, we lost them overboard — and were just able able to drive out Into the lagoon. "We drove into the wind for a couple of hours, and when it appeared we were in for a long storm, we set sail to Majuro. We have just one anchor left and no chain, so we didn't want to spend a night in coralstrewn waters on that kind of an anchor kit. It cleared up just enough for us to see our way through the atoll pass. We will lick our wounds on a mooring in Majuro for a few days,,survey the damage, and then go back and try to retrieve our anchors and rodes when the weather sta¬ bilizes back to the northeast trades. So far, it appears the 'Cat came through the ordeal surprisingly well." Just hours before going to press, we got this update from Grinols; "1 dove on the boat this morning to survey the damage. There is about a foot of material gone off the bottom of both rudders. That loss of draft protably helped a bunch in getting her off the reef. The bot¬ toms of both daggerboards look kind of lil^e/ipside down mushrooms.

S /

And those being groxmd off also probably contributed to the boat com¬ ing off the reef. There is one 5-inch diameter gouge in the bottom of the starboard hull erasing the core and that has to be repaired soonest. 1 am talking to a fellow here who has a large crane that can lift the 'Cat with no problem, although we may have to take'''the mast down. We could be out of the water as earl^ as next week. 1 will remove the daggerboards and .get started on repairing them tomorrow. The rud¬ ders will probably wait till we are hauled. On Tuesday a couple of firiends who 1 met here, Ron on the 46-ft Beneteau Kaimana, and another guy, are going to take me back up to Aur to retrieve my anchor and chain sets. It's just 70 miles from here, so we can drive up there and dive before it gets dark." We couldn't be happier for Blair, who has been our good friend for years, and was Instrumental in both last year’s Zihua Festival and the Spinnaker Cup for Charity in Puerto Vallarta. That he got his boat off despite no longer being a kid does not surprise us. He was smart, decisive, and refused to give up. You're an inspiation, Blair — but don't do it again! March, 2003 • UtCtwk

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SIGHTINGS around alone update At this writing, in Ij^te February, the Around Alone fleet was strung out all over the Southern Ocean. Leg IV from Tauranga, New Zealand to Salvador, Brazil, had started on February 9 under beautiful, sunny skies. AU 11 competitors ha^ had productive stays, repairing their boats and catching up on rest. After the start, the pecking order sorted out as it has for every leg of this race so far. In Class I (60 footers), Switzerland’s Bernard Stamm

Above, California’s Brad ‘Cowboy’ Van Llew and his ‘Tommy Hilfiger Freedom America’ lead the Class II parade out of Tauranga. Right, ‘Ocean Planet’ at the start of Leg IV. The boat broke a boom again two weeks out. (The first boom broke on Leg I.) Above right. Around Alone’s unofficial poet and clown Simon Blanchetti on ‘Tiscali’ turned 33 a week into Leg IV. on Bobst Group Armor Lux leapt into the lead, followed closely by France’s Thieny Dubois on Solidaires. Competing for the third and fourth spots were Italy’s Simone Bianchetti on Tiscali and New Zealand’s Graham Dalton on Hexagon. The duel at the back of Class I was be¬ tween San Francisco’s Bruce Schwab on Ocean Planet and Britain’s Emma Richards on Pindar. Schwab in particular had done a lot of work on his boat in New Zealand, including giving it more bouyancy for¬ ward. For the first few days, he surprised everyone by holding tena¬ ciously onto third place before slowly fading back. In Class II (40-50-footers), Southern California’s Brad Van Liew on

Tommy Hilfiger Freedom America once again led out of the blocks and has continued to stretch out ever since. Michigan’s Tim Kent on Everest Horizontal was running second but damage (more on that in a minute) will likely drop him back. In third and moving up was Japan’s Kojiro Shiraishi on Spirit ofYukoh. Rounding out the fleet were Derek Hatfield on Spirit of Canada and Bermuda’s Alan Paris on BTC Velocity. Stamm was the first to round Cape Horn, which he did on February 23. Old Cape Stiff lived up to its reputation with 60-knot winds, and the bucking bronco ride broke the keel canting mechanism inside the ' boat. At this writing (a day later), Stamm had jury-rigged a fix. He had throttled the boat back and was in contact with his shore crew on how to affect more permanent repairs — and hoping he didn’t have to incur a 48-hour penalty for stopping to have a proper fix done. If he does, both Solidaires and Tiscali would jump ahead of Bobst Group on cu¬ mulative time. Farther back in the Southern Ocean, other boats were encounter¬ ing the conditions for which this area is infamous — 40 to 50 knot winds and seas coming from three different directions. They were srtffering accordingly. Both Hexagon and Ocean Planet broke booms dur¬ ing violent jibes. (Bruce’s boom failure also tore a “good size” hole in the deck). Dalton will rendezvous with his shore crew somewhere near the Horn to pick up a repair sleeve. Schwab may stop in the Falklands for repairs. Both boats are proceeding under headsails alone. continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS around alone — cont’d

tales from the crew list Our annual Crew List articles are 20

The third American in the fleet, Tim Kent on Everest Horizontal (a

years old &is year — or close enough that

Jim Antrim design), had probably the most amazing stoiy to tell — he

we figured it was time to mark the occa¬

lost his headstay! It all started when he heard banging and went topside

sion somehow. We decided the best way

to find that the deck end of the headstay had come loose. It and the

was to compile some of the best Crew List¬

flogging headsail were being held in place only by a light piece of line.

ing experiences into a feature article.

Tim made a temporary repair. The next morning, he came out to find

That’s where you come in.

that the top of the headstay had broken off. (It had likely been weak¬

It might sound odd, but we don’t nor¬

ened by the flogging of the previous day.) The only thing holding the

mally get a lot of feedback on any of our

mast up was the jury rig at the bottom and the genoa halyard at the

Crew Lists — the Racing list in this issue,

top. There was no way Tim could reattach the stay at the top of the

the ‘big’ Cruising/Daysailing/Co-Charter

mast; his only option was to ditch the entire thing — sail, furler and

List in the April issue, or the Mexico-Only

headstay — overboard. Among the poorest of competitors, he was sony

List in the October issue. In a normal year,

to see $10,000 worth of genoa and furler go over the side. The ‘new’

we run the lists, wish everyone well, and

headstay consists of a halyard tightened to high C with a winch.

that’s pretty much it. Out of the hundreds

For more on the race, including an archive of news stories, log onto

of people whp participate every year, we

www.aroundalone.com. For updates on Bruce, go to www.oceanplanet. org. Tim Kent’s website is www.everesthorizontal.com.

contiriLled middle of next sightings page

ALL PHOTOS WWW.MARINEPICS.COM

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March. 2003 • UmUc J? ♦ Page 119

SIGHTINGS accurate but completely misleading

tales from

How would you feel ffthe Ford Motor Company took one of their big

hear back from no more than a half dozen

Ford Expedition SUVs to Conner Sumnitt and then let it coast down¬

— total — and most of them make only

hill to Auburn in order to calculate the vehicle's fuel mileage? You would

parenthetical reference to the Crew Llst(s).

no doubt feel misled, for even if their measurements and calculations

Most of what we have found out, we’ve

had been accurate, the results would have been bogus because the

had to piy out of people after hearing some

test conditions were grossly unfair.

offhand or third party reference.

There are lots of watchdog agencies and groups who try to prevent

Of the folks who have written us spe¬

corporations from pulling these kinds of shenanigans, which is a very

cifically about Crew List experiences over

good thing. But we think there also needs to be watchdog agencies and

the years, most were motivated to do so

groups to prS^^nt so-called enAdronmentcdists and environmental agen¬

by life-changing experiences that resulted

cies from engaging in the same kind of gross deceptions.

from their participation in one of the Lists

We bring this up because of a recent Associated Press-based stoiy

— wonderful cruises to far-off places,

about pollution in Zihuatanejo Bay, a stoiy that was given prominent

quitting the rat race for good (or at least

play in the New York Times and many other U.S. papers. It read,

for years), making a living afloat, and

"Mexico's environmental protection agency sampled the water in

meeting significant others. Over the years,

Zihuatanejo's beautiful back bay in September. The results were not

we've gotten letters from probably 8 or 10

pretty: the agency said sewage from the city's wastewater plant had

folks who met through the Crew List,

tainted one of the nation's loveliest harbors."

sailed (platonically) for a while, and even¬

Victor Lichtinger, Mexico's environmental secretary, went on to say,

tually fell in love and got married.

"People and tourists have a right to know this."

Not all stories were feel-good ones,

What the deceptive weasel Lichtinger apparently doesn't think people

though. We know of two Crew List par¬

have a right to know is: 1) That the "back bay" is actually an unattrac¬

ticipants who had boats sink or go ashore.

tive and stagnant backwater a mile or more from the nearest swim¬

One was marooned with her crew for sev¬

ming area, and worse, 2) That the tests were taken during September,

eral days before being rescued. Fortu¬

which is the height of the rainy season when there aren't any tourists

nately, both lived to tell the tale.

in Zihua. In other words, based on the Mexican EPA's own words, the

Now we want to hear — well, read —

water quality tests are as misleading and meaningless as mpg figures

all your best Crew List stories, good or

from a Ford Expedition coasting downhill.

bad, funny or serious, for better or worse.

To our thinking, the Mexican EPA folks who presented the bogus results of the study deserve a jail cell next to the guys from Exxon and Enron who also deceived the public.

This report particularly pissed us off, because for the last two years we ve been in Zihua for the Zihua Fest in late January, and we've swum

coast

in that bay at least 50 times. We've always had concerns about the water quality, and we'd like to get the real facts. Specifically, we want to know what the water quality is like at La Ropa Beach from Novem¬ ber to March, when tourists actually swim tiiere. What is it, Senor Lichtinger, that prevents your agency from providing us, the consum,ing public, with this important information? And why don't you think it would be helpful to measure the possible differences between the rainy season and the dry season water quality? Later in the article, Zihua's new mayor, Amador Campos Aburto, is quoted as saying, "To our disgrace, our municipal [sewer treatment] services did not grow along with the population." It's at this point that we think Tim Weiner, the reporter for the New York Times, failed readers by not providing a little context. Would you have not found it interesting if Weiner had noted that a similar situa¬ tion exists along virtually the entire length of the California coast? That's right, if you were to measure the water quality at California's popular swimming beaches after several days of rain, it's well docu¬ mented that you'd find that the pollution exceeds federal standards — and often for a long time. And further, that this situation exists be¬ cause — like Zihua — the municipal sewage services in places such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego didn't keep up with their population growth. Had Weiner provided this context, perhaps he would have had to change the article's headline from A Mexican Resort’s Dirty

Secret to A Mexican Resort's Water Might Be As Dirty As 'That In Oranqe Cowity. You'd read the article entirely differently, wouldn't you? There is a feeling among some environmentalists that they are en¬ gaged in holy work, and therefore lying or misleading the public is a legitimate means to a noble end. To our mind, that thinking is more polluted than the suspect waters of Zihuatanejo and Santa Monica Bays after a heavy rain. Just the truth would be fine, thank you.

Editor's Note — Due to space consid¬ erations, Coast Watch did not run lAst month. In this issue, we highlight some of the significant Coast Guard Search and Rescue cases from the last two months.

December 6

— Station San Fran¬

cisco received a call from the High Street Bridge operator that a 30-ft sailing vessel had struck the bridge then continued on its voyage. The Station crew investigated and found the responsible S/V moored at Pier 29. The crew completed a board¬ ing and found, among several other safety violations, excessive amounts of water in the bilge and cabin. Based on the unsafe condition of this vessel, the Coast Guard issued an order terminating its use. Later that same day, a local boatyard contacted the Station and reported the S/V was moored in their boatyard. The Station again notified the owner not to get un¬ derway because of the termination order. Later that afternoon, the Station received another call from the boatyard that the S/V was underway in the Estuaiy. Addi¬ tionally, the Coast Guard Marine Safety Office in Alameda received a call from the Park Street Bridge tender that the S/V was moored to a piling 100 yards south

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SIGHTINGS

the crew list

AMERICA'S CUP ANALYSIS

As mentioned, we hope to compile them into a feature, maybe even a two-parter,

five things we liked

in an upcoming issue. If you write right away, maybe we can even get it into April, our biggest issue of the year. Our only guideline on this is brevity. Obviously, to get a representative crosssection of people’s Crew List adventures, we can’t deal with very long accounts. So

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Some very exciting racing for once Good TV coverage, especially computer graphics Scrappy, lovable billionaires Some actual sailing between lawsuits and arbitration. Educational Kiwi bucket-bailing demonstration

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processing equivalent. We also welcome and encourage pho¬ tos — of you, the boat, the other people, and any aspects of the sailing experience addressed ill your story. Also, please be sure to include contact information in case we need to get back to you for any reason.

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five ways to improve the next America's Cup

Please send your accounts to Managing Editor John Riise at Johnr@latitude38.

com. If you prefer snail-mail, our street address is 15 Locust Ave., Mill'Valley, CA

9494}. Near a fax? — (415) 383-5816. Please, no phone calls. We’U call you if we need to.

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Limit of five Kiwis per boat Venue with dependable wind Giselle replaces Cindy Three words: Survivor America's Cup Not enoL.g'^ years between Cups How about 2030 for the next one? —

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seayanika update

of the bridge. The Station launched its 21ft Light Utility Boat (UTL) and the Alameda police department also dispatched its boat and crew. The Station crew found the owner intoxicated, and he became bellig¬ erent toward the crew. Upon their arrival, the Alameda police arrested the owner for public intoxication. They later discovered the owner had an outstanding warrant. The Coast Guard’s decision to termi¬ nate a vessel’s voyage is not made lightly. The termination order is given for safety reason^ if the Coast Guard determines, based on the vessel’s overall condition and safety equipment, that any voyage would place the passengers at risk.

December 20

—^^The waves were

breaking at 20 to 24 feet near the surf zone of the Potato Patch and the winds were out of the southwest at 15 knots on 20 December. Despite these conditions, the owner of a 38-ft S/V decided to con¬ duct some ‘practice’ in this area. The Coast Guard Station at Golden Gate had received several reports of an S/'V tran¬ siting near these dangerous waters. The Station sent two crews out on two of their 47-ft Motor Lifeboats (MLB) to investigate, continued middle of next sightings page

The countdown continues. Erik’s favorite phrase now is “I’m 90% done with the boat — but it’s the last 10% that takes 90% of the time.” I hope he’s just joking!

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As we go through Seayanika, the 49-foot custom sailboat we are building from a bare hull, there are many things started but not fin¬ ished. This sad state of affairs is due to various reasons; rurming out of material, parts being on backorder, lack of enthusiasm, and some¬ times just plain utter confusion. We started working on Seayanika in October, 2000, and originally had hoped to launch in June, 2002, a year and eight months later. Okay, with a w^kforce of one maybe that was a little ambitious. We are now expecttrfgto launch this June, which would put our total construction time at two years and eight months. All things considered, still not too bad. One of the instant gratification jobs we’ve completed recently is the installation of the ceiling, the varnished mahogany slats that go along the insides of the hull. For those of you who have been following our project, these are the self-same slate to which I painstakingly applied six coats of varnlsfi a year ago. They look great! In fact, we liked the look so much that we decided to add them to other areas, so we are busily preparing more ceiling pieces — milling the wood, cutting, sand¬ ing, varnishing, sanding, varnishing, etc. The mahogany veneer has also been applied throughout Seayanika, with the exception of a few small locations. We are using a veneer called Sapele, which is darker than the mahogany trim pieces we’re using, but proving to be a nice contrast. We’ve trimmed out most of the door¬ ways with custom pieces Erik fabricated in his shop on past rainy days. Also, some (but not all) of the fiddles are installed — fiddles that continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS seayanika — cont’d

coast watch

Erik laminated himsei(^with 10 to 12 layers of 1/16-inch pieces of

Upon arrival, the crew asked the owner

wood. Is there no end to his talents?

of the S/V why they were transiting near

My entertaining husband just flew though the house, stopped to

the surf zone. The owner responded they

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show me his superhero pd^e, and Informed me that today 1 should

were practicing their heavy-weather skills.

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refer to him only as ‘Formica Man.’ (I’m glad he’s not expecting me to stencil a big ‘F’ on his chest and provide him with a cape, since the

, The Station crew replied that thCir pres-

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ence in this dangerous area was placing

doubting thomases in the neighborhood would no doubt think it stood

them at risk and that any Coast Guard

for fool.) The formica, by the way, will be installed in the passageway

boats crews, even those in motor lifeboats,

between the main salon and aft stateroom, and on some of the hori¬ zontal surfaces.

would also be at risk if they had to enter

the area to assist. The owner thankfully

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Aside frohvbeing amusing, Erik is very obsessive. . . 1 mean, pa¬

agreed to allow the Station MLBs to es-

tient. He has decided that my varnishing skills are not quite up to his

cort them back to the calmer waters of

standards, so he will be giving me ‘technical instruction’ this after¬

the San Francisco Bay.

noon. Although professional varnishing is not a skill 1 thought I’d eVer aspire to, I’d rather be doing this time-consuming work so he can con¬

January 18

— The owner of a 24-ft

sailing vessel left home on the 18 Janu-

centrate on the big picture — and the little details. Speaking of new skills I never aspired to. I’m going to be undertak¬ ing an entirely new one soon. I have signed up for an upholsteiy cl^s^ ^ at the local community college. ’When 1 saw the class being offered, 1 decided that doing the upholstery myself would be a good way to cut our costs, and might be useful to know in the future. So, for the next 16 weeks, 1 will be dedicating eight hours a week attempting to create magnificent and luxurious seating and cushions for Seayanika’s interior. And, as always, wondering what I’ve gotten myself into. How does one get ideas for boat upholstery? Boat shows, of course. After touring many new boats, we decided we liked the look and feel of the upholstery on the Hunter 46s best. Although the ‘Ultra Leather’, featured at the show is beyond our budget (and probably not very prac¬ tical for extended cruising), 1 located a marine-grade vinyl made by Enduratex in Fullerton, California, that is both economical and simi¬ lar to Ultra Leather. So, last month, while attending the San Diego Boat Show, I jumped aboard a Hunter, whipped out my spy camera, photographed the upholstery from every angle, poked and prodded the cushions, and snooped inside the zippers to see what mysterious material it contained. The salesman kept eyeing me suspiciously, so 1 finally just told him 1 was a spy and he laughed and left me alone. Little did he know 1 was telling the truth! We’ll also be attending Pacific Sail Expo in Oakland this April. This will be our last hurrah and an opportunity to check out and buy all our final purchases. I’m starting to feel like a boat show groupie. Many vendors know us by

name, ask about our progress and wish us

well. Others are probably sick of all of our questions. Last week, out of the blue, the local Kiwanis Club called us to ask if we would be the keynote speakers for their March membership meeting. Channel 8 continues to do periodic progress updates; our web site (www.seayanika.com) has received over 20,000 hits; and visi¬ tors are always stopping by for a tour, be they relatives, friends (with beer), inquisitive neighbors, other boat owners or boat builders, or even local Boy Scout troops. This boatbuilding business sure is interesting stuff. Who knows, maybe next the Mayor of Vista will stop by to present us with a key to the city? '

— katriana vader

short sightings ISLE OF WIGHT — During a training session for next year’s

Global

Challenge, the crew of one of the Challenge Business’s 72-ft steel sloops was alerted to a mayday incident near their position off the Isle of Wight on February 12. Skipper Jon Cravftbrd, mate Joaime Summers and their nine crew immediately diverted the yacht to the position given by the Solent Coast Guard, and about 9 p.m., approximately 20 miles south of the Needles, located a man in a liferaft with a helicopter sweeping overhead. Crawford and his crew were able to retrieve the man, continued on outside column of next sightings page

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“Steady now... ” Katriana gets varnishing Instruc¬ tions from Erik. Spread, the interior of ‘Seayanika’ takes shape.

SIGHTINGS — cont'd ary headed for the San Leandro Marina. That night, his wife ealled Station San

shorts — cont’d Martin Taylor, who is in his mid-40s. Coincidentally, the crew included two doctors and a physiotherapist (the Global Challenge pits paying

Francisco to report her husband was

crews against each other in a race around the world), so Taylor was in

overdue. The wife told the Coast Guard

good hands as he was delivered back to Southampton. Taylor and his

that her husband had recently purchased

skipper Mark McCloed had been doublehanding McCloed’s yacht

the boat and had only sailed on it on one previous occasion. Although she did know a great deal of information about the safety devices on the craft, she did not know when he was supposed to sail or even return from sailing. She was wor¬ ried that because it was dark and because he was not fcimiliar with the area he may be in some sort of trouble. When asked continued middle of next sightings page

Lycaena, when the boat hit a submerged object and sank. McCloed was pulled from the same Uferaft earlier by the helicopter.

CAPE KASAKOF, AL^KA —

A rescue ship sent by owners of the

Japanese squid boat Genei Mam No. 7 returned to port empty handed last June. The Genei Mam had caught fire in mid-Pacific on May 27. The rescue ship took the crew off and began to tow the stricken ship, but later returned to port saying the Genei Mam had sunk. Four months later, in mid-October, the ghost ship was spotted twice in the Gulf of Alaska by passing vessels. And on November 10, she came ashore at continued on outside column of next sightings page

SIGHTINGS shorts — cont’d Cape Kazakof, which is about 25 miles north of Kodiak on Afognak Island. Oops.

FLORIDA

of the Spanish treasure ship Santa M^garita — which sunk with its September, 1622 — an elementary school teacher grabbed a nice-look¬ ing conch shell to show his class. When he brought it out to show the kids, out dropped a 1.5-inch square, 40.2-carat emerald. The teacher/ diver — who preferred to remain anonymous — turned the jewel over to the salvage company, which was hired by treasure hunter Mel Fisher to work orUhe wreck. The find was significant because, for one thing, the Margartta^is in shallow water (about 30 feet) and has been worked over by both the Spanish shortly after the sinking, and numerous teams

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whether her husband carried a cellular phone, the wife responded that yes, he

Last fall, during his parCtime work excavating the wreck

more famous sistership M^estra Senora de Atocha near Key West on

coast watch

continued on outside column ot next sightings page

• March, 2003

did have one, but he could not use it when he was at the marina because he could not obtain a signal in that area. Station San Francisco contacted the San Leandro Marina and requested a search of the dock for the S/V and of the parking lot for the owner’s car. Additionally, the San Leandro police were requested to search the ma¬ rina parking lot for the owner’s car. Both the police and marina personnel reported they did not locate the car. As it turns out, at the same time the search for the

SIGHTINGS shorts — cont’d

— cont’d car was ongoing, the husband had de¬ parted the marina in his Ccir to call his wife since, as previously reported by his wife, his cellular phone did not work at the marina. The husband was safe and never even went sailing that day. Instead, he had just worked on his S/V at the dock. The lesson learned here is obvious — keep your friends and /or family advised of your sailing plans. Especially notify them if you change your plans. Although this case had a happy ending, it did cause a great deal of worry for the skipper’s fam¬ ily

San Francisco Bay in the winter is a different animal than it is in the summer. The wind is of¬ ten light, the sun angle dramatic and the vistas at times even more lovely. Plug a handsome ketch into that scenario and ‘Looking Good’ becomes an understattement!

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of modern salvors over the years, including Fisher himself before he found the fabulously rich treasure of the Atocha in the mid-80s. For another, no emeralds had been listed on the Margarita s manifest and none had been found on the wreck before now. So there s renewed interest in finding more surprises on this heavily-dived wreck. Although a dollar amount has not yet been put on the new find, a 77-carat emerald from the Atocha was valued at $ 1.2 million. A spokes¬ man for the salvage company said the teacher/ diver would “get a nice bonus for his honesty.” Plus he got to keep the conch shell. SOMEWHERE NEAR YOU — To celebrate their 35th year. West Marine is offering customers a chance to win some nifty Anniversary Sweepstakes prizes. These include a Walker 10 Dinghy, Magma Barbe¬ cues, an Antigua vacation, Garmin GPS receivers and the grand prize — a 2002 Bayliner Capri 195 bowrider. Between April 1st and April 28th, customers can automatically enter by making a purchase with their West Advantage Member card or West Marine credit card at any West Marine store, on their website (www.westmarine.com) or via their catalog. You can also enter without making a purchase by mailing in an official entry see your local store for details. Winners will be chosen by a random dravring on May 17. (For a complete list of the 2002 Anniversary Sweepstakes rules and conditions, please visit any West Marine store or www.westmarine.com) What started as a very specialized business — West Marine founder and chairman Randy Repass originally sold rope out of his garage began to blossom with the opening of the first store in Palo Alto. As more and more customers discovered the store, they asked for a wider variety of products. The staff listened and the product line grew. In 1977, West Coast Ropes took the name West Marine Products to reflect their expanding selection. As West Marine’s reputation for excellence continued to grow, so did the number of stores. By 1991, it became the first company in the industry to have stores on both coasts. In 1993, West Marine went public, listing its stock on the NASDAQ exchange. Today, West Marine is more than 240 stores strong and has plans to grow even more. In the midst of its dynamic expansion. West Marine has continued to rely on outstanding customer service, selection and quality as its anchor. THE CALIFORNIA COAST — After decades of being hunted, the otter population off California was making an amazing comeback until the mld-’90s, when it started a slow decline. The mystery of the dead and djdng otters was solved late last ^ear when UC Davis researchers found that 67% of the dead otters tested (and 42% of live ones) were infected with a parasite called toxoplasma. Cats are the only animals known to shed toxolplasma eggs — in their feces. It's therefore theo¬ rized that otters are being infected via cat poop that s washed into storm drains and makes its way to the sea. Almost arty warm-blooded animal — including humans can get toxoplasmosis. It can, but usually doesn't, harm healthy humans. (Thrs is why pregnant women are advised not to'change kitty litter.) In cats and people, once the parasite is detected, it can be eradicated. No one quite knows what to do about infected rrild otters. AUCKLAND — In what sounds like a plot from a cheap novel. New Zealand authorities admitted recently that three yeajis ago, they quashed a plan to steal the America’s Cup and hold it for ransom. Auckland detectives reportedly learned about the plan back in 1999 from snitches on the street. Behind the plot was one of New Zealand’s most notorious criminals (who was not named). Supposedly, he had arranged to break through an outer wall at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, snatch the Auld Mug from its glass case and hide it on an island until the ransom was paid. The ransom estimates vary from $100,000 to $1 million. After hearing this news, the Cup — which you might recall was beaten to a pulp with a sledge hammer in 1995 by an outraged Maori — was immediately wisked off to a bank vault. Since then, it has been displayed during the day and put into a vault at the RNYS premises at night. It has also been more heavily alarmed and had more security in place than the Arc of the Covenant in Indiana Jones. March, 2003 •

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AMERICA'S CUP XXXI Is it over yet? Imagine a baseball stadium filling up with fans eager to see game 4 of the World Series. But the game doesn't stewt on time. Two hours pass. Player^ lounge around the field. Then the announcer comes on and says the game has been cancelled because the grass is too wet, or it’s too late in the day. Now imagin^>4t hap¬ pening twice in a row. Three times. Four. Five.

Voint, does anybody really care anymore? This series has been going on since Oc¬ tober and frankly, after five months, we’ve pretty much had it with all the suits, countersuits, ac¬ cusations, subterfuge, tech wars, lawyer briefs hnd, oh yeah, occasional sailboat racing. Anyway, after three races, the out¬ Six. come of this America's This gives you some Cup is pretty obvious. So idea of the frustration let’s get it over with. No level surrounding the more heroic measures. 31st America’s Cup. Pull the plHg.^ Like a bad joke, the i| But, like we saltd, here day this was written. we were at deadline and Race 4 had just been can¬ it was not over. America s celled for the sixth time. Cup racing began on For days, tens of thou¬ February 15, and 11 sands of Kiwi supporters Passing the torch — by the time you days later, only three had thronged the docks read this, Russell Coutts will likely races had been com¬ and wheirves to cheer on be the winningest skipper in Amer¬ pleted. So Sony, we can’t Team New Zealand as the ica's Cup history. tell you who won (for boats were towed out to the race site. sure, anyway). All we can offer in this For days, upwards of 1,500 spectator issue are instant replays of the first three boats canying probably another 10,000 races and our best guess of what hap¬ fans dutifully chugged out to watch the pened after that. If the schedule n^eans racing, only to sit there for hours wait¬ anjdhing, the last day of Cup racing was ing out postponement after postpone¬ supposed to be March 6. But as we've ment, then being told the racing was canall seen repeatedly, schedules don't mean much on the Hauraki Gulf.

celled because of (circle one) 1) not enough wind: 2) enough wind but too shifty: 3) too much wind. It was so ridiculous, at some point you al¬ most had to believe they were doing it on purpose. After all. Principal Race Officer Harold Bennett — the guy who called the shots — was an hon¬ ored member of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. Perhaps more to the Page 126 •

X he end, whenever it came, should have been swift and merciful. Unless alien spaceships levitated Team New Zealand around the course, Russell Coutts and the Alinghi Challenge will probably have rolled over the Kiwis 5 races to none. We originally hoped New Zealand might have won at least one. but frankly, we don't care anymore. We just want it to be over. Assuming Alinghi did win, here's the lead we were going to run before the event went into suspended animation: Switzerland has won the America's Cup! In only his first try, billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli has done what gen¬ erations of British, French, Italian, Swed¬ ish and Spanish sailors could not do — bring the Auld Mug back to Europe for the first time since it was made there in 1851. Late last month, in sailing’s bestknown, best-of-nine match race series off Auckland, his superbly organized and sailed Alinghi Challenge defeated the

IS IT OVER YET? first time in memory — perhaps the first time in our lifetirhes — designers did not win the Cup, the sailors did. Despite very different design philosophies, Alinghi and Team New Zealand were so close in per¬ formance on all points of sail they might as well have been identical. America’s Cup XXXI should be remembered as the Cup that was won by sailors, not tech¬ nology. And say what you will about their country-hopping. Courts and company were far and away the better sailors. You could have put them on Oracle or One World or even Team New Zealand and with a few days’ practice, they still would have won.

^ere are some post-game high¬ lights of Races 1 through 3. Race 1 (Feb. 15) — Certainly the most bizarre America’s Cup race in mod¬ ern history. Race 1 got off in 20+ knots of wind compounded by heavy ebb chop flowing out of the Hauraki Gulf. In the Louis Vuitton Cup, where racing did not take place if the wind was below 7 knots or above 19, this match would never have started, but the America's Cup has no such limits. Because of the conditions, there was not a lot of foreplay before the start and both boats hit the line on starboard, at full speed and dead even. Team New Zealand, driven by former Courts pro¬ tege Dean Barker, was to windward as both boats dashed for the left side of the

Clash of the Titans — 'Alinghi' (left) and Team New Zealand' may have been the most closely matched-America's Cup boats In the last 50 years. Left, 'TNZ's really, really bad day. Dur¬ ing the first race, they loaded up with tons of water, broke their boom, blew out two headsalls — and dropped out. _ once-mighty Team New Zealand five racefe to none. ' Hope that’s right. Perhaps the saddest aspect of all this is that America's Cup XXXI could well be remembered as the event that set the America's Cup back 20 years. Or, since Bertarelli has hinted that he would like to modernize the event, perhaps (when the blood of the sailing world stops boil¬ ing) this one will be rememberefl as the last of the ‘old’ style America’s Cups. Maybe it will be recalled as just one more in a long stream of shutouts since 1987. In New Zealand, the 31st Cup will likely always be remembered as the day the hometeam was defeated by the very men — then natloneil heroes — who won

it in 1995 and successfully defended it in 2000. In that aspect, by letting Courts, tactician Brad Butterworth and most of their 2000 team be hired away by other syndicates, you could say Team New Zealand lost the America’s Cup right af¬ ter they won it three years ago.

hat should be remembered about this America’s Cup is the spec¬

course. ’ After months of endless challenger trials, weather delays and goofy, doubled-up race days, the America’s Cup was finally underway and all eyes strained to see the first thrusts and par¬ ries as the two titans of sailing took the measure of each other. WhaLno one expected was for Team New Zealand to implode like a cheap um¬ brella and drop out less than 15 min¬ utes into the first leg. The first indication that things weren't

You could say 'Team New Zealand' lost the America's Cup right after they won it three years ago. tacular racing we saw in Races 2 and 3 (and which we hope continued in the last few). Quite simply, it was some of the best and closest racing the America’s Cup has seen in decades, and what this event should mainly be about. For the

right on NZL 82 was aU the water. It kept coming aboard and coming aboard until the leeward side of the cockpit was com¬ pletely awash. A crewman came out and started balling with a bucket — never a good sign — but he might as well have

AMERICA'S CUP XXXI

ALL PHOTOS BOB GREISER For historical reference, the last time a boat forfeited a race in the America's Cup was when the British J-Class Sham¬ rock V withdrew from Race 3 of the 1930 America's Cup after breaking her main halyard.

Despite much different designs, there was al¬ most no discernable difference In performance between 'Alinghi' (top) and 'Team New Zealand.' been scooping out of Niagara Falls. Later estimates put the amount of water at somewhere between two and six tons. That's a fifth of the weight of the whole boat. For a yacht built to the edge of the International America's Cup Class (lACC) rule — NZL S2 is the newest of the new generation of lACCs — what happened next was not hard to predict. Twelve minutes into the race, the ta¬ pered aft end of the boom broke. TNZlost considerable grounci as they quickly juiy-rigged a new outhaul. Four minutes later, the genoa tack ring failed and the headsail exploded out of its track. The crew got another one up, but it zipped itself out of the damaged headfdil within seconds. A minute later — 13 minutes and 40

Race 2 (Feb. 16) — Race 1 might have been embarrassing for TNZ. But hey, this is sailing, stuff breaks, and an5way the conditions were borderline. clear skies and near-perfect conditions of 10-12 knots — for once with minimal oscilla¬ tions — blew across the Hauraki Gulf on Race Day 2, hopes were high that the Kiwi lads would bounce back at^d give Alinghi a good battle. They did, and lost emyway. In fact, they lost in the worst way possible — the race, their dignity and quite possibly their last shred of morale. It was also one of the most exciting match races we've ever seen. After an intense dial-up, both boats hit the line dead even again, although six seconds late. Team New Zealand was on port in the middle of the line, while Alinghi took off to the left on starboard. The first two times the boats met, Alinghi planted a tight lee bow on TNZ, forcing them back to port tack. The third time they met, Alinghi was able to cross clear ahead on port, and rounded the windward mark 12 seconds ahead. Some 'experts' predicted Team New Zealand would be faster off the wind, and the first run seemed to prove them right. After not falling for a couple of dummy jibes by Coutts, the Kiwis Jibed away to starboard, sailed toward the right side of the course — and came alive. The re¬ ality was that TNZ probably got a bit of a puff and Alinghi a bit of a hole, but the dramatic visual was that TNZ leaped into the lead and rounded the leewcird mark

With several tons of water aboard^ it wasn't hard to predict what was going to happen next. seconds into the first leg, to be precise — Team New Zealand notified the race committee that they were dropping out. Alinghi throttled back and sailed the course by themselves, finishing under main alone. Alinghi. 1-0. Page 128*

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34 seconds ahead of their rival. Hey, maybe this hula thing does work. Team New Zealand was able to hold off Alinghi for the next three legs, at times with a lead of nearly nine boatlengths. But Coutts and company didn't get to the America's Cup by giving up. They

chipped away at Barker's lead, throwing a series-high total of 33 tacks at the Ki¬ wis in this race. Barker and the boys in black matched eveiy one with precision. Were they, could they, would they show Coutts and Butterworth the error of their ways? Then came the heartbreaker. At the last weather mark. Team New Zealand did a bear-away set, while Alinghi did a jibe-set. TNZ were quick to gybe over to starboard but the die was cast. As the pair sailed dowmwind, Alinghi, on TNZ's port hip, got the puffs first, and Inched forward. We didn't need Gary Jobson or Peter Montgomery to tell us when TNZ started getting dirty air — you could see the corners of their kite start to sag. And there was nothing they could do about it.

IS IT OVER YET?

No more than a half-mile from the fin¬ ish, Alinghi rolled over Team New Zealand and into the lead. Barker tried to hold them off by carrying out beyond the port layline, but when they jibed, Alinghi carried over the top of NZL 82 to win by just seven seconds. Alinghi, 2-0. Race 3 (Feb. 18) — In a sailor's race, the team that makes the fewest mistakes usually wins. Barker made a huge mis¬ take right ^t the start of this one, when he apparently misunderstood his weather routers. With seven minutes to go before the start (the boats can receive The art of fine tuning — Switzeriand's SUi 64 was the first of the new generation of lACC yachts iaunched. New Zeaiand's NZL 82 was the fast. Constant tweaking made them equai.

weather advice up to the five-minute gun), both boats received word from their weather teams of a significant righthand shift. Coutts and Butterworth adjusted Alinghis pre-start maneuvers to win the right side of the line. Team New Zealand, for whatever reason, elected to stay with their go-left plan. The two boats started at opposite ends of the line in 10-12 knots, this time with TNZ trailing by a half boatlength. Alinghi was on port going right and TNZ going left on starboard. Wonder of wonders, Alinghi got the promised righthand shift — about 20 degrees of it. They tacked back .onto starboard and soared away, building an eight-boat lead only 2/3 of the way into the first leg. If it were ainy other boat in this se¬ ries, TNZ might have had a chance to

'TNZ'skipper Dean 'Mr. inspiration' Barker af¬ ter Race 3. His body ianguage over the course of the series spoke voiumes.

recover. Not with Alinghi, who were all but mistake free through Race 3. To their credit, TNZ did chip away and managed to pull within a boatlength of the Swiss on the third beat. But they had trouble jibing on the final run and Alinghi cruised to a 23-second win. Alinghi, 3-0. This win had historical significance for Coutts. It marked his 12th consecu¬ tive win in America's Cup competition (starting with the 1995 series, he's won every America's Cup race where he's skippered the boat). That beat the former record held by Charlie Barr — one of the first hired guns, by the way (he was a Scot) — who had 11. It also equalled the overall (nonconsecutive) win record of Harold- 'Mike' Vanderbilt. With 13 wins over almost 20 years, only the big man himself, Dennis Conner, had more A-Cup wink. If Coutts finished this series like he started it, Jie will be the winningest skipper in America's Cup history. » And that’s where we stood at press¬ time. No closure, no hoopla, and no end to the delays. So how did it turn out? Did TNZ man¬ age to win one ... or even two? You can find out by logging onto www.americas cup.com, or keep checking our website, www.latitude38.com for the Emnouncement.

^Speculation as to where the next

AMERICA'S CUP XXXI America's Cup will be held was running rampant at presstime. Because it must be raced on the sea — and Switzerland doesn't touch one — Bertarelli has his choice of venues. And the scrainjjle was on. Some of the sites that had been of¬ fered up so far included Cork or Cowes (yeah, that'll happen), the French ports of Lorient, Sete, Marseille, Toulon or Saint Tropez; Italy's picturesque Medi¬ terranean ports at Savona, Venezia, Livorno, Punta Elt^a, Naples, Trieste, Port Cervo and Cagliari; and the Spanish ven¬ ues of Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona and Valencia. Bertarelli — who by the way sailed as navigator on Alinghi — was said to favor a venue off the beaten track: the Atlan¬ tic port of Cascais, Portugal (near Lisbon). Why? He reportedly doesn't want to have to sail a defender series against a host-country syndicate, and Portugal has apparently promised it won't create one. Cascais is also said to have very de¬ pendable summer winds. Rumor also has it that BertareUi, who is only 37, is contemplating sweeping changes to modernize the Cup. These include no more nationality require¬

ments — anyone can race on any boat; an independent organization to run both the Challenger Series and America's Cup (Louis Vuitton now runs the challenger series and the defender's yacht club •— in this case, the Royal New Zealand Yacht' Squadron — runs the Cup races); and shortening the whole show from fourplus months to two or three. We really like that last one. If he wins, and the Cup does go to Europe, the latest estimates we heard were that as many as 16 syndicates might take part next time. As part of his streamlining process, thdy may start eUmtnation bouts as early as a year be¬ fore the official start of the challenger trials. To pull off these changes,''Bertarelli, who made his billions in the bioftech industiy, must get agreement from the yacht club that becomes the Challenger of Record for the next America's Cup. This could well be our own Golden Gate YC, which sponsored Larry Ellison's Oracle BMW Challenge S5mdicate. We'll keep you up to date on that one. BertarelU has also indicated that the next America's Cup might not occur un¬

til 2007, so as not to interfere with the 2006 World Cup (soccer) in Germany.

ow that we've vented for four and a half pages, we feel a lot better. 'And as maddening as this one was — the TV guys must have been diving out windows — we'll be laughing and joking about it by next month. As far as 2007, it'll be like every America's Cup. Our frustra¬ tions over the last (this) one will have dimmed, and our enthusiasm for #32 wUl be higher than ever. Bring on the billion¬ aires —- we'll be ready! Editor's Note — we are fully aware that the foregoing could turn out to be com¬ plete nonsense and that Team New Zealand found that of black magic and came back to trounce Alinghi 5-3 or 5-4. Hey, Australia II was down 3-1 in the 1983 America’s Cup and they came back to win. We don’t think it happened. But it could have. If that’s the case, we'll eat our hats and'This issue will be sent to the Smithsonian for display next to that newspaper that reads Dewey Defeats Truman.

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ZIHUA FEST Wa, ant to hear some veiy good news for a change? In just its seccmd year, the cruiser conceived and run Zihua Sail Fest blew the doors off all expectations by raising an astonishing $23,000 U.S. for the Netzahualcoyotl School in Zihuatanejo. This school, the only com-

Ten of the orphan children from the Netzahualcoyotl School that benefits from the Zihua Fest, perform Celito Linda in Hahuatl.

pletely free one in Zihuatanejo, educates and feeds 320 (mostly) orphan children from the indigenous Nahuatl, Amusgo, Tlapaneco, and Mexteca tribes. The event took place from January 29 through Februaiy 2 in Zihuantanejo — 110 miles north of Acapulco — and fea¬ tured almost nonstop events. The 29th featured a Southbounders Cruising Seminar in the morning, followed by a no-host Zihua Kick-Off Party that night at Rick's Bar. Jim and Sue Corenman of Heart of Gold gave a three-hour wireless email seminar on the morning of the 30th, which was followed by a gala beach party at the Los Gatos Beach Club that afternoon. The next afternoon 26 of the 90 boats in the bay participated in a sixmile 'nothing serious' Pursuit Race, which was followed by an even less seriOnce the Organizing Committee got through with their work, the Zihua Fest took off like the dinghy down the face of this wave.

o»^s dinghy-in cocktail party with as many as 145 people aboard Profligate at one time. On Februaiy 1, there was a Charity Race fund-raiser aboard three catamarans: Michael Wright's Hughes 42 Wavy, Paul Biery's Catana 43 New Focus, and Latitude’s Profli¬ gate. The event wrapped up the next day with a Sail Parade led by the port captain and at¬ tended by several local and regional Mexican officials, and finally an Award's Parfy in the evening. Whewl^- ^ When the Wanderer, from afar, tossed out the idea of a charity event to be held in Zihuatanejo in early 2002, he envi¬ sioned a casual one- or two-day event that might raise $500 or $1,000 for some un¬ known charity. But Jimmie Zinn and Jane Hanawalt of the Richmond YCbased Morgan 38 Dry Martini and Karl of Abraxas worked with Rick Carpenter of Rick's Bar to take that concept much further, resulting in $2,000 being raised. This was then matched by the Richard and Gloria Bellack Foundation of San Diego, bringing the total to a surprising $4,000. When this year's Organizing Commit¬ tee set a goal of a total of $10,000 — $5,000 raised and $5,000 to be matched by the Bellack Foundation — we thought the heat of Zihua had melted their brains. But we underestimated the skills and dedication of the Committee, which consisted of Chris and Becky of the Se¬ attle-based Crealock 40 Bonne Idee, Michael and Catharine Whitby of the Vancouver-based Contessa 38 Breila, Ed and Daisy Marill of the Marathon, Florida-based CSY 44 Siesta, Christo¬ pher Emety and Dawn Rehbock of the Kodiak-based Ingrid 38 Alaskason, Greg Rodgers and Mikki Dela Cruz of the Carmichael-based (Ocean Yacht 42 Mikelali, and Jimmy and Jane of Dry Martini. Meeting once a week, and in many cases working five hours a day for more than a month, they put together a very effective organization. Then, with the Invaluable lo¬ cal help once again of Rick Carpenter, and countless mostly-cruiser volunteers on

the numerous committees, they com¬ bined to give life to a fun event and fund¬ raising machine that stunned everyone. Zihua and Ixtapa businesses donated 90 prizes valued at more than $4,000 for the raffles and silent auction. Other money came from the 300 tickets sold for the final dinner, as well as the Pur¬ suit Race and Poker Run, the Charity Race, the WtnUnk Seminar, and severi other activities. As a result, cruisers on 80 boats, plus about 20 shore-based folks, raised $8,500. Bill Underwood — we never did find out exactly who he is — threw in $3,000 more. This total of $ 11,500 was generously matched by the Bellack Foundation, for a mind-boggling total of $23,000. You know how lots of nonprofit' organizations take a 30 to 70% cut of all money raised? Not at Sail Fest, where there were virtually no expenses. At the award's ceremony, Gloria Bellack presented a symbolic check to Marina Sanchez Hernandez, an extraor¬ dinary indigenous Indian woman who, having received an education thcinks to charity, has dedicated her life to helping others obtain a similar education. Ma¬ rina, who started out teaching non-Span¬ ish speaking Indian students under a

tree a number of years ago, then moved up to a school housed under a tin roof vhth stick walls, now has a more perma¬ nent facility. The purpose of the school is to provide Spanish language skills and a primary education to the hundreds of indigenous children, for as the traditional means of Indians earning a living are dry¬ ing up, they and their culture will per¬ ish unless they can be assimilated into Mexican society. The problem is Indian children don't speak Spanish, and un¬ less they learn Spanish, they aren’t per¬ mitted in the local schools. In addition to the day school, another 28 at-risk chil¬ dren spend four nights a week in the school's shelter. Part of the money raised will go to the construction of a 50-bed permanent dor¬ mitory for the shelter program. The rest of it will go to the building of a cement wall to keep the school from washing down the hill during the rainy season. The wall will be called Muro des Veleros — Wall of the Cruisers — and all who were part of the event -will be invited to paint their boat names on the wall. Spread: The Ranger 29 'Brisa', the Hughes 42 'Wavy', and the O'Day 40 'Pahina' battle during the Pursuit Race. Inset: The spinny finish.

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What could be bet¬ ter than doing some¬ thing really good while having sailing fun in the winter warmth of Mexico? Several of the core Organizing Com¬ mittee members prom¬ ise they'll be back next year to ensure the con¬ tinued success of the event, so if you're com¬ ing to Mexico next win¬ ter, mark January 28 through February 1 on your calendar in big black letters, for those are the dates of next year's Zihua Fest. You'll be glad that you did.

While Zihua Fest was certainly the crown jewel of the Wanderer and Dona de Mallorca's most recent adventure in Mexico, there were other fun things we saw and did during our stay in Zihua and subsequent 375-mile trip up to Puerto Vallarta. Here eire some thoughts and remembrances from the Reporter's Notebook;

With bananas and blindfolds, it was obvious that everyone was up to monkey business dur¬ ing Games Day at the Los Gatos Beach Club.

Zihuantanejo and Ixtapa are sister cities about five miles apart with oppo¬ site personalities. Twenty years ago, Zihua was a charming old fishing village with a population of about 10,000 set on a lovely one-mile by one-mile bay. It's now an active city of 90,000, so it's no longer quite as mellow or charming as it once was. Nonetheless, this genuine Mexican city is still wonderful and there¬ fore a huge favorite with cruisers, many of whom blissfully spend a month or two on the hook. One reason Zihua is pleas¬ ant is that the locals are so relaxed and happy. "From Zihua to Acapulco is known as the Costa Costenza or Con¬ tented Coast," explained one taxi driver. "We have the ocean, so we're very conteht with our lives." It shows. Zihua is also very popular with Canadian snow¬ birds, many of whom take apartments or inexpensive hotel rooms for much of the winter. Twenty years ago, txtapa was a nearly new high-rise resort developed by Fonatur, the Mexican tourism develop¬ ment agmcy that was heady with their success at Cancun. Like its counterpart in the Caribbean, Ixtapa is strictly for tourists, so it’s cleaner but has less soul and higher prices. Tourists come to Ixtapa for a week or maybe two, often on package or all-inclusive deals, to play on the beautiful beach, party at night, then fly home with sunburns. Ixtapa is also home to the 412-berth Ixtapa Marina, which is where Profligate was berthed during our absence. Person¬ able Elsa Zuniga, who recently gave birth to her second child, is the competent harbormaster. At the end of January, Ixtapa Marina had quite a few vacant slips in the small and middle sizes, but like most marinas, was short of big slips.

ZIHUA FEST For one to six days, the slip fees are .70 U.S./foot. After seven da^, the rate drops to .55/foot. These prices do not include tax. The marina docks are completely pro¬ tected from ocean swells, and we'd be confident about leaving our boat there for hurricane season. The docks are nice, but the marina gates and some of the exterior is a little funky. Security is very good. The marina>^ops and restaurants were busier than we've ever seen them. It's also possible to walk a short distance to the tourist hotels, where the price of a cocktail usually allows you the use of the pools and some of the other facilities. Ixtapa has a lovely sand beach and gets some pounding surf. If you're the active type and the surf is too big, you might try the new five-mile surfaced running path from Ixtapa to Zihua. Just remem¬ ber to bring lots of water. You don't want to try to cleain your boat bottom in Ixtapa Marina because of the cocodrillos — or crocodiles. The marina — like much of the mainland Mexican coast — is home to some big ones. Signs around the marina caution folks to stay out of the water. Few cruis¬ ers stay aboard their boats in the ma¬ rina as opposed to over in Zihua Bay. Part of it is because Ixtapa is totally tour¬ isty and isolated from the majority of the cruising community, part of it is the cost, but heat is another factor. It's warm — really warm — in this part of mainland Mexico, even during the middle of the night. But to be tucked up in the back of the marina during the blazing afternoons is much less comfortable than being on the hook in Zihua Bay where there is likely to be at least a gentle breeze.

^fe on the hook in Zihua Bay is very agreeable. You can anchor in any of about three places, all of them very nice. The most popular anchorage is of lovely La Ropa Beach, where it's an easy swim to shore If you don't anchor too far out. La Ropa is a great swimming and walk¬ ing beach, and there are several water¬ front restaurants that offer good food at reasonable prices for being on the beach. La Ropa is also the place to watch the classic Zihua sunsets — although for whatever reason we didn't see a single great one this year. There are a few jet skis and paraSciiling boats off La Ropa, but they usu¬ ally weren't too big an annoyance. How¬ ever, one of the parasailing boats lost power, allowing a parasailer to descend faster than Intended. Even though the line between him and the boat got

Clockwise from left: Marina Sanchez, founder of the Netzahualcoyotl School, is nearly overcome as she accepts a check for $23,000 from Gloria Bellack; Ixtapa Marina, home of the cocodrillos; Heike Carpenter scoops some water from 'Profligate's transom during the Charity Sail; Lee Morgenstern and Dee Anderson of the Seattle-based Liberty 458 'Seraphin'; the Gottschalk girls, Natalia, 10, Stefanie, 13, and Andrea, 12, swallowed the hook on their Cross 34 trimaran 'Scorpion' — now in San Di¬ ego — and have lived in Zihua since '98 with their parents, Craig and Rosaiba; the crews of 'Breiia' and 'Bonne idee' and other cruisers gather for a iatenight street burger; Dr. Aian and Dr. Monica of the Paine 65 'Evoiutlon' from Afaska treasure a few moments away from their four children; an aerial photo by Jim Knapp of the Tartan 41 'Kulg' captures 70 of the 145 guest on 'Profli¬ gate' for the cocktail party; the water¬ front basketball court is the center of all social activity in Zihua.

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Scott Hufford of Long Beach and Alicia Salgado of Ensenada, who hooked up in Mexico, were still all smiles during the Zihua Fest activities.

tangled in Dry Martini's mast, he landed safetly in the water, where he was kept afloat by his lifejacket. After consider¬ able observation, we've concluded that the drivers of the parasailing boats have a lot of bravado, but are generally very skilled. Nonetheless, accidents do hap¬ pen. Two years ago, we're told, a woman landed atop one of the beach restau¬ rants, breaking both her legs. La Ropa and the other two anchor¬ ages can be roily when there is a swell, but there usually isn't much of one. In fact, the greatest source of discomfort — at least to bodies just down from winter in the United States — is the heat. It must have been in the high 80s to mid 90s when we were there, with consider¬ able humidity. It was not uncommon for the Wanderer and de Mallorca to swim or shower once an hour. In the middle of the day, we'd often stay in the water — which was in the high 80s — for long Zihua Fest was even a good time for all of the cruising kids, nine of which are seen spread out on 'Profligate's trampoline.

periods just to try to lower our body temperature. Using the Sun Shower was dangerous. After fill¬ ing the plastic bag with' cool water from the bilge, it only had to be in the sun for a very short time be¬ fore it was almost hot enough to scald. Evenings were cooler, but not much. If you went ashore, you left the cool¬ ing effect bf being sur¬ rounded by water and heated right up again. Sweaters were never needed. In f^ct, ijo clothes at all were ever needed. We didn'tVemember Zihua as being quite so warm — at 2 a.m. our only chance of getting any sleep was holding a fan six inches from our face — but the locals said it was normal. Cruisers who had been there a month reported they had acclimatized. You might think that moving just 200 miles up the coast to Manzanillo or an¬ other 175 miles to Puerto Vallarta wouldn't have that much affect on the air and water temperature, but it does. When we later got up to Tenacatita Bay, the water was noticeably cooler — al¬ though still very warm — and a night¬ time sun shower was out of the ques¬ tion. Up at Banderas Bay, we actually felt tinges of cool late at night and early in the morning, and the afternoon heat was never quite as severe as in Zihua.

(✓an somebody explain the deal to us about crocs on mainland Mexico? Not only are there a number of them — one said to be 14 feet long — hanging out at Ixtapa Marina, but they are everywhere up and down the coast. For instance, at little Manzanilla on Tenacatita Bay, there are about 25 of them — some huge — in a la¬ goon at the end of the main street. There is a cyclone fence to keep them in, but the fence has holes big enough to sail a Cal 20 through. And if you think busy Marina Paradise near P.V. is free of crocs, you just haven't been looking. The oddest

place we saw crocs, however, was at the Paradise Restaurant at La Ropa Beach in Zihua. When we were there two years ago, there was an eight-footer, completely unfettered, his mouth wide open, in a little lagoon not 20 feet from the restau¬ rant tables! The last day we were there, the croc was gone, but he had left a clear trail to the bay — where Mexican mot±iers regularly play in the shallows with their babies. Curious about the threat the crocs pose, we asked several people in Zihua if they ever attacked humans. A waiter at the restaurant assured us they didn't like "came humana" — although one baby was reportedly eaten further up the coast — and preferred dogs and cats. "There used to be about 30 dogs that ran on this beach," he explained, "and now there are only four or five. Cocodrillos." There was also a huge debate over whether crocs ever go into the bay. Half of the 'experts' assured us they never do, the other half said they go into the bay every night to feed on fish. Our seemingly most authoritative source was Capt. Kevin Moss, who for 11 years has been running the biggest lunch and sunset cruise charter boats in Zihua. He told us that crocs mostly like to eat fisli, and that they certainly do swim in the bay. "There's a 15-foot croc that lives right over there under that dock," he told us while pointing toward shore. "But I don't worry about him, and

ANDZIHUA FUN

Spread: Charles and Teresa Wllsdorf's Tayana 52 'El Regale' tacking during the Pursuit Race, inset: Chutes Hying to the finish.

often swim from the moored schooner we're on to shore after dark." It's a dis¬ tance of about 100 yards.

\Slnce Zihua is an authentic Mexi¬ can town with tourists as opposed to Just a tourist town, there are plenty of good values. A gregarious taxi driver charged us — without negotiation —Just $2 U.S. for a ride from the muelle to the Com¬ mercial Mexicana shopping complex. In Cabo it would have been a $5 to $7 fcire, and the driver probably wouldn't have smiled. If we're not mistaken, the Commer¬ cial Mexicana — which is like a smaller version of Wal-Mart — is new to Zihua this year. For us, it was a shock to walk into a store in Mexico that's as clean, well-stocked, and as bnghtly-illumtnated as the best stores in the United States. They had Just about eveiything you could imagine, from all kinds of food and par¬ ticularly good fruits and veggies, to pre¬ pared meals — big rotisserie cooked chickens for about $4 U.S. — as well as liquor, drugs, clothes, appliances, wash¬ ing machines, cell phones — the works. We had mixed feelings about toe Com¬ mercial Mexicana. Sure, it's well-stocked, convenient, consistent, and has low prices — but it seemed Just like being

back in toe Plastic States of America. If you're looking for color, excitment, and a much more human shopping experi¬ ence, there's no substitute for the bus¬ tling old mercado downtown. Sure, it has much more pungent smells, bigger messes, less perfect fririts and veggies, but it's pulsing with life. You may not be able to find a California-slyle rotisserie cooked chicken at any of the 15 or so carnecerias, but they'd have no trouble filling your order for a skinned qow's head. Dining out in Zihua doesn't have to be expensive either. With the dollar bringing as much as 10.7 pesos, it was possible to get a chorizd or other omelette for about $1.85 U.S, a fish filet dinner for $4.75, and a shrimp taco dinner for Just over $3. If you eat like a local — or even a skinflint Ca¬ nadian snowbird — you cam really stretch your cruising budget even while dining out fre¬ quently. It's possible, of course, to spend a lot of money dining out. Al¬ though we didn't eat at any of them, Zihua has some expensive restau¬ rants, mainly for the tourists coming over fi-om Ixtapa. Coconuts —

with thousands of tiny lights in the roofless courtyard — is as lovely and popialar as it was 20 years ago, but their meals go for stateside prices. A less expensive favorite of ours — in part because we could tie our wheel-less dinghy up at the fuel dock instead of doing a beach landing — was Walter Wehrung and partner's Casa Bahia — also known as the Zihuatanejo YC. This open air restauramt overlooking the wa¬ ter and lights of Zihua is on toe quiet north side of the bay. The prices are medium high for Zihua, but the view, service, and food made it a fine value in our eyes. A large serving of mouth-wa¬ tering seared tuna was less than $5, and several killer sashimi platters were Just over $6. A sampling of dinner choices included a big rack of ribs for Just over $10, tuna steak — the most popular item — for Just over $12, and filet mignon for Just over $1-5. Pa5dng $15 for dinner in Zihua is splurging, but toe food was wellprepared and delicious. In fact, our filet mignons were the best steaks we've had anywhere in three years. There are countless fun and inexpen¬ sive or free things to do in Zihua. During the day, there's swimming, volleyball on the beach, surfing up at Rio Linda, snorkeling expeditions to Isla Grande, hang¬ ing out with friends, exploring the mercado and other shops in town, and more hanging out with friends. Since meals are cheap and it's often too hot to cook onboard, after the sun sets lots of cruisers go ashore for a drink, dinner, anji a stroll. Many folks gravitate to Rick's Bar, which has toe best — and most potent — margaritas in town, a TV turned to CNN, open mike nights, and tables for folks to sit around and talk boats and destinations or play Mexican if you want to spend a iot of money on dinner in Zihua, the brightiy-iliuminated Coconuts Res¬ taurant is/3he of the best pieces.

ZIHUA FEST train dominoes. Scott Hufford and Alicia^algado of the Long Beach-based Brewer 35 Pure Chance were two of the many cruisers who went to a fair that had come tb-town. "It only cost about $2," said Scott, "and they had camels and an elephant, gym¬ nasts and acrobats, fireworks, danger¬ ous-looking amusement rides, and all kinds of other stuff. In addition, you could buy commer^rative ceramic bowls for $2 that had aboilt.$3 worth of tequila in them." Hufford and Salgado aire an in¬ teresting couple. She was teaching sci¬ ence and physics in Ensenada when he sailed into port. They hooked up and sailed off together, leaving scores of Ensenada children unable to understand E=mc*; For a little more adventure, on a boys' night out some guys went to the cock¬ fights — but reportedly they had a hard time figuring out what was going on. One handler kept propping up his cock for round two, but each time he let go, it fell over on its side. Some singlehanders, pardon the pun, went to 'gentlemens' clubs' where there were dancers on stage and on laps. When it comes to sex games.

tl^re is apparently no language barrier. But when you come right down to it, what most cruisers do in Zihua is kick¬ back amd totally relax. Viewed from the deck of a cruising boat on peaceful Zihua Bay and surrounded by cruising friends and contented locals, the problems of the world seem surprisingly far away and insignificant. Although Rick's Bar often has a television tuned to CNN, and you can find day-old copies of the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Jour¬ nal in town for $4, the problems in the Middle East and the squabbling within the United States rarely came up on anybody's radar. It's Coda^Tbt^y Mel¬ low in Zihua. It was a nasty shoclc when we returned to the United States, where everyone seems overamped, anxious and ready to argue over eveiy little thing.

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The unlucklest midwinter of the year — Berkeley YC's Saturday Se¬ ries — continued, and mercifully ended, on February 8. About 120 boats endured the latest Insult which Mother Nature threw at them during this completely jinxed series — this time, there was next to no wind. There was enough breeze to start on time at 11:30 a.m., but things quickly went from bad to worse. How bad was it? The fastest elapsed time around the abbreviated course — a 3.8-mile semi-triangle using 'G' as the weather mark and 'C' as the finish line — was 1:48:24, set by one of the smaller boats. Bill Schwob's appropriatelynamed Merit 25 Half Fast. Schwob and his two crew finished with bigger boats that started 30 minutes in front of them. Indicative of the many potholes and park¬ ing lots on the race course — or that the Merit 25 PHRF rating is off by over 100 Pag© 140* LaUiJc^g • March, 2003

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seconds a mile? The slow-motion crapshoot was the final straw in this normally excellent four-race, one design-oriented series. To recap: the November race was a bust due to lousy weather and a power outage in Pt. Richmond, which stranded much of the diysailed contingent on their trail¬ ers. The December race was called off entirely due to high winds, and the Janu¬ ary race suffered from a two-hour post¬ ponement, followed by a shortened 4.8mile drifter. The February finale was equally grim, as the accompanying pictures no doubt suggest. We were quite happy, for once, to be on the photo boat rather than bob¬ bing around with eveiyone else on the Berkeley Circle. As we drifted in and out of consciousness while following the race, we wondered why the Olson 911 -S Ixxis and a few other boats sailed about a mile

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Down since it began to crawl, clockwise from upper left — The Express 27 'Elise' won the biggest and most competitive class; Guy Rittger's new Andrews 30 'Cajun Lady'; Tom Baffico ('Baffett') on the starting line; the crew of 'Max', an Antrim 27, tries to keep their feet out of the water; 'Triumph' triumphed over the WylieCat 30s; an unknown Express 27 bow woman appears to have broken a nail. All photos 'la^tude'/rob.

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further upwind than the rest of the fleet. Here's the short version of what was going on;

The 'G' buoy wandered away during the December storms, but was retrieved up by the Richmond Bridge and dragged

back on station after Christmas. It went AWOL again for the January Series, so the Berkeley YC put out a temporaiy March, 2003 • LxtiUUi’i? • Page 141

Berkeley Circle Blues — An aptly-named Olson 30; 'Tinseltown Rebellion' bounces off the temporary 'G' buoy (and promptly did their 360<‘); the 'Pizote' crew tries to stay awake; the Olson 25 'E-Ticket' returned to the race course under new management; the Beneteau 36.7 'Chances R' In bad air.

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Blues, cant'd — The Antrim 27 'Abracadabra II' lost its mojo; Scott Easom at the helm of 'Attitude Adjustment'; the Moore 24 'Spitfire'and the turbo'ed Black Soo 'Starbuck'; stand-up guys on a J/24; the 'Ypso'gang; young David Liebenberg on the bow of his family's Antrim 27 'Always Friday'.

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buoy — a near-lookalike, even embla¬ zoned with a black stlckyback-taped G' — in its place for this race. Meanwhile, the real 'G' was slowly cruising around the Bay, presumably without an anchor but dragging 100 feet of one-inch chain around. Ixxis owner Ed Drubin had spot¬ ted it a few days before the race (about a mile to the northwest of the Circle) and dutifully plotted its position with his GPS so he could find it again. "From no G's one month to two the next — what else could go wrong? Wow, am I glad this Series is finally over!" groaned race co-chair Bobbi Tosse. "It was totally cursed, probably the worst Series weather-wise we've ever had. Things can only get better next year!"

l3ecause the Series started off with so many entrants stuck on the beach, a throwout was added for the first time in recent history. With the loss of the sec¬ ond race, the Series improbably became a three-race, one-throwout regatta, which made for some strange results — 10 of the 13 classes were won with two points (i.e., double bullets), and there were way more ties than normal. Ironically, for all the hard luck and trouble that the Saturday Series en¬ dured, the smaller, lower-key Sunday Series got in all four scheduled 8.8-mile races and was blessed with really nice weather. Because of the hoist issue on the first weekend, the Sunday Series also had a throwout. Two boats, the Tahoebased Mumm 30 Racer X and the Is¬ lander 30 Mk. II Antares, ended up with a perfect score of three points. Final results of both Series follow, and results of the Berkeley Midwinter ChamPage 144 •

• March, 2003

The thrill was gone — The fleet limps down¬ wind. Days like this are why you should never, ever take midwinter racing too seriously!

pion of Champions Regatta appear in The Racing Sheet. Check out www.berkeleyyc.org for the rest of the story. — latitude/r/cm SATURDAY SERIES: '' DIV. A (0-99) — 1) Advantage 3, J/105, Pat Benedict, 2 points; 2) Summer Moon, Synergy 33, DeVries/Pohl, 4; 3) Chances R, Beneteau 36.7, Raffaele Sena, 6; 4) (tie) Racer X, Mumm 30, Gary Redelberger, and AFM, Hobie 33, Oliver Coolidge, 7. (9 boats) DIV. B (102-159) — 1) Synchronicity, Olson 25, Stephen Smith, 2 points; 2) Fast Forward, C&C 34, Michael Dungan, 5; 3) Clean Sweep, Olson 25, Tom Nemeth, 7; 4) Starbuck, Black Soo, Greg Nelson, 8. (8 boats) DIV. D (162-195) — 1) Tinseltown Rebellion, J/22, Cam Lewis, 2 points; 2) El Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Nick Nash, 3; 3) Lelo Too, Tartan Ten, Emile Carles, 5; 4) Serendipity, Cal 29, Tom Bruce, 7. (9 boats) DIV. E (198-up) — 1) Ypso, Cal 2-27, Tim Stapleton, 2 points. (3 boats) SF 30s — 1) Ixxis. Olson 911-S, Ed Durbin, 2 points; 2) Tortuga, Santana 30/30, Steve Hutchison, 4; 3) Takeoff, Laser 28, Joan Byrne, 5; 4) (tie) Jane Doe, Olson 911-SE, Bob Izmarian, and Jeannette, Tartan Ten, Henry King, 7; 6) Redux, Olson 911-S, Nick Barnhill, 10. (16 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Corsair, Don Newman, 2 points; 2) Think Fast, Helmut Zarth, 4; 3) (tie) Fam¬ ily Hour, The Bilafers, and Dragonsong, T. Knowles, 5. (8 points) WYLIECAT 30 — 1) Triumph, Cartwright/Seal, 2 points; 2) Silkye, John Skinner, 3. (5 boats) NEWPORT 30 — 1) Zeehound, Gary Boell, 2 points; 2) Harry, DickAronoff, 4. (5 boats) ANTRIM 27 — 1) Arch Angel, Bryce Griffith, 2 points; 2) Nemesis, Martson/Shortman, 3; 3) (tie) Max, Brian Wade, and Always Friday, John Liebenberg, 6. (9 boats) EXPRESS 27 — 1) Elise, Joseph Andresen/ Seadon Wijsen, 2 points; 2) Swamp Donkey, Doug Robbins, 7; 3) Wile E. Coyote, Dan Pruzan, 7; 4)

Attitude Adjustment, Soren Hoy/Scott Easom, 8; 5) Baffett, Forest Baskett/Tom Baffico, 8; 6) Ex¬ pressway, 'no entry yet', 11; 7) True Grits, Jay Montgomery, 11; 8) Exocet, Jason Crowson, 12; 9) New Wave, Buzz Blackett, 12; 10) Flying Circus, Gene Ryley/Dave Hodges, 13. (26 boats) MERIT 25 — 1) Bewitched, Laraine Salmon, 4 points; 2) Chesapeake, Jim Fair, 4; 3) (tie) Loose Lips, Phill Mai, and Half Fast, Bill Schwob, 5. (7 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) #525, Bill Wright, 4 points; 2) Carpe Cervisia, Dean Daniels, 6; 3) (tie) Smokeshow, Scott Dale, and Cavallino, Zarko Draganic, 7. (9 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Moorigami, John Siegel, 2 points; 2) Paramour, Rowan Fennell, 5; 3) (tie) Sparrow Hawk, 'no entry yet', and Czardas, Judy & Torben Bentsen, 6, (8 boats) J/24 —1) Half Blind Monkey, James Zervos, 4 points; 2) Phantom, John Gulliford, 5; 3) Crackerjack, Steve Highbarger, 6; 4) (tie) Froglips, Rich¬ ard Stockdale, and Jam Jam, Neal Ruxton, 6. (13 boats) SUNDAY SERIES: DIV. I (0-99) — 1) Racer X, Mumm 30, Gary Redelberger, 3 points; 2) Sleeping Dragon, Hobie 33, Mark Halman, 6. (7 boats) DIV II (102-165)— 1) Boogie Woogie, Ranger 33, Michael Yovino-Young, 5 points; 2) Bay Loon, J/29, Joe Ferrie, 7; 3) Clean Sweep, Olson 25, Tom Nemeth, 11; 4) E-Ticket, Olson 25, David Woodside, 13; 5) Fast Forward, C&C 34. J. Michael Dungan, 14. (13 boats) DIV. Ill (168) — 1) Half Blind Monkey, J/24, James Zervos, 5 points; 2) Twilight Zone, Merit 25, Paul Kamen, 6; 3) Casual Contact, J/24, Ed¬ ward Walker, 6. (8 boats) DIV. IV (171-up) — 1) Antares, Islander 30-2, Larry Telford, 3 points; 2) Starkite, Catalina 30, Laurie Miller, 6; 3) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman, 8; 4) Eurydice, Catalina 30, George Biery, 10. (11 boats) OLSON 30 — 1) Hoot, Andy Macfie, 5 points; 2) Family Hour, Bilafer Family, 5. (6 boats) EXPRESS 27 —1) Salty Hotel, David Rassmussen, 4 points; 2) Dianne, Katzman/ Hodges, 6; 3) Mirage, Terry Cobb, 7, (8 boats)

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ost sailors would probably agree that you'd have to be either crazy or fear¬ less to attempt constructing a 4X-ft cata¬ maran in your spare time. Perhaps Dutch-born Aijan Bok possesses a bit of both qualities, because for the past year he's done just that. All his hard work is paying off, though, as his Rotkat is fi¬ nally beglrming to look like a sailboat — and a very imprfesgive one at that. Ever since Bok built the bridgedeck and attached the two hulls together in December, the naysayers have been con¬ spicuously silent. Instead, friends fre¬ quently drop by his homemade boat shed, which is located within sight of the water, a half-mile south of Pac Bell Park, to offer encouragement and lend a hand. Born and raised in the Netherlands, where recreational boating is a favorite national pastime, the amiable Dutchman learned to sail as a kid on traditional wooden vessels "that even had wooden blocks and cleats." After moving to the Bay Area in 1980, he avidly pursued his childhood hobby, moving up through a progression ^pf boats. He even made headlines in Latitude back in the mid'90s when he earned the moniker Sul¬ tan of Suds for competing in five differ¬ ent beer can races in a single week aboard his Ericson 27 Bad Dog. The idea of building the Rotkat —

With his construction knowhow, Bok was un¬ daunted by the prospect of transiating Lidgard's drawings into a three-dimentionai catamaran.

which means "#%$@*!! cat" in Dutch — began in the fall of 2000. Bok entered his Newport 33 Tiger Beetle in the Baja Ha-Ha rally that year. But by the time he reached Cabo San Lucas he'd decided Page 146 •

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\ that he needed a bigger boat; as his fu‘ ture plans include a stint of long-term cruising. He had a chance to take a good look at Latitude's custom cat Profligate as well as several other production cats in the fleet and began to fantasize about owning one. However, as he now recalls, "Researching the price of these gave me a severe case of sticker shock!" No won¬ der, since used modern cruising cats in the 40-ft range sell for $200k and Up. "Then a light bulb came on and I decided to build one myself. I would save the la¬ bor cost and also have the-satisfaction of building my own boat." \ That's a noble goal, but how does one begin such an ambitious process? Bok threw himself into researching a wide variety of catamaran designs via the Internet, personal contacts and nauti¬ cal publications. After several months of perusing the designs of naval architects from several continents, he narrowed the options down to three designs. "I ordered 'study plans' from these designers (for about $20 each), and a few weeks later I made my final choice with my wallet by buying a full set of plans from Austra¬ lian Gary Lidgard." Bok liked the aesthetics of Lidgard's 13-meter (43-ft) performance cruising catamaran, and he was also encouraged by Lidgard's reputation among builders for timely technical support. For $7,000, he received a complete, highly-detailed set of plans in which Lidgard had made some minor adjustments at no extra charge.

^^ince Bok is a plumbing contrac¬ tor by trade who has worked on many large construction projects and built his own houseboat, he cam study a set of blueprints without breaking out into a cold sweat. So the skilled tradesman was soon ready to start ordering materials and get to work. After arranging with the Port of San Francisco to lease a piece of waterfront property just south of the Bay View Boat Club — which, conveniently, is the former Sultan of Suds' favorite wa¬ tering hole — he built a.boat shed last March out of framing lumber and plas¬ tic sheeting. Measuring roughly 60 feet long by 30 feet wide and 20 feet high, it's big enough to contain the entire construetion project. In addition to the expansive interior and exterior space that multihulls offer, Bok was drawn to the catamaran concept largely due to the speed potential of cats.

> z J S ^ § So one of his major construction challenges was to keep the Rotkat light. Her hull was formed by la5dng out pieces of 3/4-inch-thiek Core-Cell foam over 1 / 2-inch fiberboard frames, then fiberglassing, first from the outside, then later from the inside, after the frames were removed. As you hold up a 4' x 8' sheet of this space-age foam with two fingers, it's mindboggling to think that this material is appropriate for bashing through thou¬ sands of miles of ocean swells. But once

A HOMEBUILT'YACHT' tried to figure out a whole project like this all at once it would be just too over¬ whelming. You would quit. It took me al¬ most stx months to commit myself to doing this because I knew that once I started there was no turning back." That said, he was confident before he began that he had the skills and fortitude to stick it out. Rather than just diving in impulsively, before he committed he talked to several owner-builders and at least one boatyard that builds Lidgard-

It's not rocket science. You just need some basic woodworking skills, then stick to the plans."

The former Sultan of Suds hasn 't got much time for beer can racing these days. But his hard work Is paying off as the 'Rotkat' comes to life.

sandwiched between layers of triradial fiberglass matting — which has threestrands of glass woven at different angles — it will be substantially more bullet¬ proof than traditional glass-only hulls, yet appreciably lighter. One of the big¬ gest remaining challenges will be build¬ ing the decks and attaching them to the hulls. Exacerbating the inherent diffi¬ culty of the job, the outside of the hulls

are coated with epoxy while the decks (like the interior) will be glassed with Vinylester, and compatibility between the two materials is tricky: "Vinylester doesn't stick to epoxy, but epoxy will stick to Vinyl," explains Bok. Yikes! Sounds like a boatbuilder's Catch 22 to us. The average would-be cruiser would be horrified by the prospect of tackling a project like this, but Bok claims it's re¬ ally not that daunting, as long as you approach it one step at a time. "If you

designed cats. "They encouraged me, saying, 'It's not rocket science. You just need some basic woodworking skills, then stick to the plans.'" After a year of spending virtually every weekend and many evenings working on the Rotkat, Bok is still bright-eyed and enthusias¬ tic. As with most boats, Rotkat's hulls were initially laid up upside down which made fairing them much easier. Bok then devised an ingenious method of rotating each hull 180°, as if on a shishkebob skewer. Once the hulls were leveled and positioned in precisely the right relation¬ ship to each other, the bridge deck was built and attached — nothin' to it. Until the cold weather set in, making it difficult to do any glassing, the work progressed without any major problems. However, on several occasions Bok picked Lidgard's brain via email to get input on slight modifications. It is im¬ pressive to note that the designer's tech support ^as included with the price of the plans. Bok also got a wealth of good advice from multihull builder forums on the Internet. For example, after decid¬ ing to run some lines aft, inside a sup¬ port beam berieath the bridgedeck, he spught input on setting up appropriate blocks. A weeklong digital discussion fol¬ lowed: "A guy in Australia who builds proas finally came up with an inventive way to set it up that was very simple and inexpensive." During recent weeks, Bok has been making his twin daggerboards, which are laminated from solid western red cedar with carbon fiber inlays for added strength, then glassed over. Installing fixed mini-keels was an option, but us¬ ing daggerboards instead should dra¬ matically improve windward perforMarch, 2003 •

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EVOLUTION OF THE ROTKAT mance. When the weather warms up a bit, Bok will tackle one of the trickiestspieces of the puzzle, the salon top, which will curve up from the deck, similar to con¬ temporary French designs: "I'll probably

build some wooden forms, lay out the w^ole top in place over the forms, glass the outside, then flip it over and glass the inside — because glassing overhead is not much fun!" There are still some decisions left to

make regarding the interior layout. Lidgard's plans call for three cabins, but since Bok anticipates that Rotkats cruis¬ ing crew will just be his wife Debbie and himself, he may opt for building a work¬ shop and a walk-in closet In lieu of two

Clockwise from left: Bok discusses the attributes of his feather-light Core-Cell foam; sections of foam are pieced together over temporary fiberboard 'frames'; triradlal fiber¬ glass matting is then laid in place and glassed; willing helpers (including Bok's son. Jesse) assist in rotating the hulls after they have been glassed and faired; an overview of Lidgard's design. Note the sleek, swept-back house and the bow sprit which extends the area of the foretriangle. Additional drawings gave Bok all the information he needed.

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A HOMEBUILT'YACHT' guest cabins.

We can tell that Aijan Bok is the type of person whose 'little gray cells' are rarely inactive. Instead of simply install¬

ing twin diesels for auxiliary power, he's considering going with a "diesel-electric system" consisting of two 6 kW electric motors augmented by a big diesel gen¬ erator. "I'm hoping that 10 years down the line fuel cells will be viable and I can

convert, but I'm also setting things up so I can install diesels as a fallback." Rotkat's construction has already consumed three 55-gallon drums of resin, but thankfully, the end is now In sight. The tab so far is up to $70,000,

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but that Includes a lot of gear and mate¬ rials, such as blocks, winches and inte¬ rior items, that this savvy shopper has been squirreling away since day one. "I've been getting some monster deals through eBay — brand new stuff at half price." StiU, Bok would be the first to admit that his build-it-yourself method is not ex¬ actly cheap. 'As he says, though, "It's $2,000 here and $5,000 there, instead of laying out a huge sum all at once."

few decades back the same cando attitude that we see in Aijhn Bok might have led a guy like him to build a hard-chined pl3rwood kit boat in his backyard or, God-forbid, one of those once-popular ferro-cement monstrosities that you still occasionally see languish¬ ing in farm fields or service lots with no hope of ever being launched. But, we'd bet that Bok's boat will not only be launched in a timely manner — about a year from now — but it will adso be fast, light and a beauty to behold. He de¬ scribes his philosophy on the zen of boatbuilding this way: "If 1 go at it kind of sloppy and quick, I'll have a typical homemade boat, but if 1 take more time and pay a lot of attention to detail I'll have a custom-built yacht." Sometime in the not-too-dlstant fu¬ ture, when Rotkat's construction is fi¬ nally complete, her systems have all been fine-tuned and she's been sufficiently road-tested, Bok expects to follow a simple plan: "1 figure I'll go out the Gate, turn left and take it from there.” — latitude/aet

Bok and his buddies made headlines in 1996 when they won the Beer Can Challenge aboard his Ericson 27 'Bad Dog'.

Not only does he keep track of eveiy dollar he spends, but he keeps a data¬ base of every pound of weight he puts into the boat — which, to date, equals about 3,500 lbs. "The finished boat, with all her gear on board, as well as stores, fuel, water, etc. will probably displace about 50,000 lbs." -^-

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minutes and 57 seconds. That lowered the previous benchmark, set by the leg¬ endary 73-foot ketch Windward Passage in the dark ages of 1971, by 4 hours, 34 minutes. "The boat did exactly what it was de¬ signed to do." claimed McNeil, who cur renlly also holds the CapeTown-Rio and Middle Sea race records, both set with his previous steed, the R/P 75 Zephyrus [V. "We dreamed this new boat up after sailing m the Pineapple Cup two years ago on the old boat, so in a sense we've come full circle. We're all obviously thrilled to get the record — all the hard work and money seems worth it when you accomplish your goals!" Almost all of Zephyrus Vs 18-man professional crew flew home the next morning, and most were back home be-

Above, 'WmdwardPassage ', wh}eh now resides in Newport Beach, held the record for 32 years. Spread, Z-S'moments before finishing. fore the second boat. Bill Alcott’s newto-him Andrews 68+ Equation (ex-Mdcjfnitude) ajrlved 29 hours later. The rest of the 17-boat fleet dribbled in over the next few days, with the last boat, the Cal 39 Shanty Irish, arriving after almost a full week on the course. At least they were in time for Friday evening's\awards ceremony, where Z-5 collected the hon s share of accolades — first to finish, first in the one-boat water-ballast class, first overall, top navigator, and a special tro¬ phy for lowering the 32-year-old course record. Other than Z-d's relatively rare sweep — the last one occurred in 1987 — this was a fairly routine year for the Pineapple Cup. Run by the Montego Bay YC, the Lauderdale YC, the Storm Trysail Club, and the Jamaican Yachting Association — with sponsorship from the Jamaica Tourist Board and Air Jamaica — the race once again sent just imder 20 boats from Florida to Jamaica leaving four marks {Great Isaac Light, Great Stirrup Light, Eleuthera and Cuba) to starboard. In normal years, this provides a beat across the Gulf Stream, a reach through the low-lying Bahama Islands, and a

CONE WITH THE WIND

the men behind the machine, from left—John Bertrand, owner Bob McNeil, Ian Moore, Mark Sims, Gordon McGuire, and Larry Leonard. 240-mOe slelghride through the Wind¬ ward Passage from Cuba to the finish line:"-" . -. . . Passage owner Bob Johnson, now long gone, used to claim the race was like life itself — it's hard at first, eases up in the middle, and then is a coast to the finish. This year, that convenient metaphor didn't apply -- for everyone but Z-5, the final third of the race was painfulfy light and shifiy. Some boats reported slatting for hours, and no one enjoyed being stalled out within spitting distance of hot showers and cold Red Stripes.

Overall — Zephyrus V A lot of prominent boats, including _ West Coasters Pyewacket and Sayonam, have Taken aim at the Pineapple Cup recoSrd in tlie last few years. The waterballasted Z-5, however, is off the graph faster than any monohull ever sailed in the race — she rated -171 in this race, whereas the same Florida board rated PyeivacketaL a mere -126 two years ago. Entering Z-5 in the race was like using an atomic bomb to flatten a mole hill, and the reM news would have been if they didn't break the record — but it stili took decent weather .^d hard work. MclSeil.'a highly successful Silicon ^ Valley biotech venture capitalist, and

PINEAPPLE CUP'03 project manager John Bekrand staffed the boat — apparently a real beast to sail — with young and talented Volvo and America's Cup veterans. "Half tl^se guys weren't even born when Windward Pas¬ sage set the record!" noted crew boss Mark Sims, the self-described "token amateur" on board. Bertrand and Quan¬ tum Sails managing partner Larry Leonard ran one watch; McNeil and Gor¬ don McGuire he^ed up the other; and illbruck alum Ian Moore navigated. Southern Californians Dave Culver and Dave Young were also among the inter¬ national crew, which counted seven na¬ tionalities between them. Leaving nothing to chance, McNeil assembled ^is rockstars early in Fort

Lean machine—A bowman's view of 'Rosebud', which is turning heads on her East Coast tour. Next up, the SORC in early March.

'Equation' on the homestretch. "I love the Car¬ ibbean in the spring," said owner Bill Alcott of Detroit. "There's no place I'd rather be!" Lauderdale for four days of practice with their 11 -sail Cuben Fiber inventoiy. By the time the race started on Friday, Feb¬ ruary 7, they were more than ready to race the ghost of Windward Passage. In fact, Moore had Passage's entire '71 trip plotted in the computer, with a deck readout telling the crew at any time if they were ahead or behind the record pace. "In the first half of the race, we kept swapping positions with Passage," said Bertrand. "It wasn't until the reaching part that we began to open up on them, as well as the 'real' fleet. We were the only ones to make it through a transi¬ tion between two weather fronts, basi¬ cally because we can go six knots in only four knots of breeze while everyone else Page 154 •

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just wallows. It's a pretty amazing boat." At the head of the fleet, Z-5 briefly saw winds up to 24 knots and hit speeds in the low 20s — doubling everyone else's numbers. "You get spoiled," claimed Leonard. "When you're used to going over 20, you start to think 15-16 is really slow!" They flew from Cuba to Jamaica, headstay reaching with gigantic asym¬ metrical kites and a bellyful of water, pushing the mondo-maxi to the limit. "About four hours after we turned the corner at Cuba, we found the tradewinds. It wasn’t until then that I really felt we would break the record," said McNeil. 'Things looked a little grim ear¬ lier in the race — we must have lost about eight hours sitting around near Eleuthera. If we had the conditions Pas¬ sage saw in '71, we would have done the race in under two days." The Pineapple Cup was Z-5's third outing (last year, she took line honors in the Pac Cup and new Isla Navidad Race), and first record. Other records will surely follow this summer, as Z-5 takes on the TransAtlantic Race in June, then the Fastnet, Middle Sea and other races in Europe. Ironically, Z-5 will be outdated within a year when Roy Disney and Hasso Plattner's narrower, lighter, canting-keeled 86s appear. McNeil also in¬ tends to own a new canting-keel 86footer in time for the 2005 TransPac, though he hasn't picked a designer or

builder yet. PHRF-A — Ptarmigan Ptarmigan {ex-Virago), Larry Dickie's light blue, Connecticut-based N/M 47, topped PHRF-A. Dickie, the retired gen¬ eral counsel of Pepsi, also picked up tro¬ phies for second overall, first Storm Trysail boat and top IMS boat (Ptarmi¬ gan was the only IMS boat entered — a sign of the times). Dickie navigated, hit¬ ting the corners and shifts perfectly in his first Pineapple Cup. His 12-man crew included three watch captains (Scott Bradford, Britt Hughes, and sailmaker Tom Kinney) and Santa Monica sailor Drew Freides, formerly of the Nelson/ Marek design office. Second in PHRF-A, and Bob McNeil ('Zephyrus V). third overall, went to Roger Stur¬ geon's R/P TP-52 Rose¬ bud, which was fresh off their big win at Key West Race Week in January. Sturgeon, a retired soft¬ ware guruN who splits his time between

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GONE WITH THE WIND

San Francisco, Florida and Cape Cod, couldn't have been happier with his boat and crew. "We're figuring things out now," he said. "It's all coming together, and we had a really enjoyable sail to Jamaica." Rosebud's close-knit Santa Cruz-based profes¬ sional crew consisted of watch captains Jack Halterman, Kevin Miller and Steve Benjamin: Australian navi¬ gator Adrienne Cahalan (widely considered the best female navi¬ gator In the world, she helped Maiden II set the current 24-hour record of 697 miles): Gaiy Evans, Rohm Jeffers, Brent Ruhne, Malcolm Park and Pepe Parsons. The crew voted Cahalan and Halterman co-MVPs for rebuilding Rosebud's elec¬ trical system halfway through the race when their batteries stopped charging. The duo spent over an hour sweltering in the 'engine room', figuring out how to b5T3ass the faulty voltage regulator while working with 'hot' circuits. "We didn't have a clue what we were doing," claimed Jack, who nonetheless got the job done. The ID-48 Sjambok took third, while FUck Orchard's turbo'ed Corel 45 Grins [ex-Heatwave], with SoCal'sailmaker Cliff Stagg aboard, was fourth. This was the fifth Pineapple Cup in a row for Or¬ chard, each time on a different boat — an Express 37, Tripp 40, Farr 39, Andrews 68 and his present boat. "1 still can't solve this riddle," said Rick. 'We basically got our asses kicked this time, but I enjoyed every minute of it. This is still the greatest ocean race m the world!"

'Rosebud' buddies, from left — Owner Roger Sturgeon, Kevin Miller, Steve Benjamin, Robin Jeffers, Gary Evans, Jack Ha Herman, Malcolm Park, Brent Ruhne and Pepe Parsons. Grins did win one trophy, a subjective one for best logbook. Fifth went to Spirit of Minerva, one of Formula One Sailing's four pay-to-play Farr 65s roaming around the Caribbean. This mixed group of a female skipper, Denise Caffari, three other instructors and ten paying guests (at $ 1,325 a head), also practiced for three days in Fort Lau¬ derdale before the race. The fun-loving, primarily British group slept on their boat afterward (unlike most crews, who were put up at the fancy, all-inclusive Sunset Beach Resort across the street) and would have won the award for best partiers' had there been one. "They prob¬ ably had the best time of anyone in the race,"' noted race coordinator JFelix Hunter. "They were really enthusiastic, not jaded like a lot of the pro sailors." The class was rounded out by Equa¬ tion (ex-Magnitude), which Bill Alcott has only owned for two mbnths ('We're still learning how to sail it," he said. "It's not

just a step up from my SC 70, it's a whole ladder!"), race veteran Donnybrook, and the turbo SC 70 Renegade (ex-Silver Bul¬ let). The latter boat was forced to drop out in the final couple hundred miles of the race when crewmember Rob Amsler displayed heart attack symptoms. The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted Amsler off the back of the boat at night and flew him to their base at Guantanamo Bay, where he was stabilized. Last we heard, thanks to the Donnybrook crew and the Coast Guard, Amsler was expected to make a full recovery. PHRF-B — Aura 'Annapolis sailor Bill Kardash re¬ turned with a new boat, the 1973 Swan 44 Aura and his vintage crew (their av¬ erage age was in the mid-50s), for his fifth shot at the Pineapple Cup. A direct marketing company owner, Kardash pre¬ fers ocean racing over round-the-buoys, and even^oes his own deliveries home. He and'^longtime navigator Tom Schu¬ bert have experienced both ends of the Pineapple Cup ("my favorite race"), fin¬ ishing DFL in their first attempt due to a broken boom and winning it twice over¬ all in '95 and '97 with the CSY 50 Dear Ffiend. "This was the most challenging one yet," claimed Kardash. "There was a lot of stop and go, and we needed all our Chesapeake light-air experience to win. Our three new sails — a jib top, an asym¬ metrical kite, and a windseeker — also helped a lot. But the real key was a $30 cruising guide to Jamaica that my wife gave me as a present before the race. It said if the trade winds were light, hug the shore for a land breeze. We were run¬ ning boat-for-boat with Bandana, which we owed 45 minutes, the final night. We March, 2003 • UiUtUt 3? • Page 155

PINEAPPLE CUP'03 2003 Pineapple Cup - Montego Bay Race jibed away for the beach, and sure enough, the book was right!" Bandana, an Oyster 48, finished sec¬ ond, nipping the J/46 Screamin' Mimi by 10 minutes. "What makes it even worse is that Bandana is my old boat!" la¬ mented Mimi skltoer Buck Gillette. Jazz, an Express 37 from Kingston, was fourth — and took home de facto trophies as the smallest boat to finish and the first Jamaican boat (there hasn't been a lo¬ cal entry in the race since '92). The Beneteau 51 Critical Path, which won the Pineapple Cup overall in '99, .and the older Cal 39 Shanty Irish rounded out the six-boat class.

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Friends, Jake Van Beelen's Floridabased '94 Greene 35, easily topped the only other boat in this class, the Mainebased '85 Newick 36 Allegra. Both tri¬ marans carried four-man crews per the race requirements, stuffing their main cabins to the'gills with gear and food. Crewing for Van Beelen, who lives in Vail, Colorado, were friends Skeet 'The Mayor of Miami' Perry; the boat's designer and former owner, Maine-based multihull guru Walter Greene, along with his wife Joan. "We sailed three boats to Jamaica," laughed Skeet, Friends' resident wit. "To have a faster trip, we needed to get at least one of our boats out of the water."

Needless to say, Lakota's multihull record of 2 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes, set in '99, was never remotely threatened. The Greenes, accomplished racers who have crossed the Atlantic many times, enjoyed not having to struggle into foulies for every watch. "The night sail¬ ing under the moon and stars was beau¬ tiful," claimed Walter, "but I'm dismayed by the lack of sea life during the trip, as well as all the plastic floating in the Ba¬ hamas." Page 156 •

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The 'Mainiacs' aboard runner-up Allegra were Just happy to be in sunny Jamaica. "We've been racing for 2,000 miles — not just 811," claimed owner Pe¬ ter Garcia, who literally shovelled the snow out of his boat's cockpit before sail¬ ing south from Newport, RI, the first weekend of December. Interestingly, seven of the eight crewmembers on the two trimarans were over 60. "When you get a little older and don't want to spend all day grinding winches, this is the way to go," claimed

again, why this isn't the most popular distance race on the East Coast. To our way of thinking, the Pineapple Cup has it all — a challenging yet mostly down¬ wind course, new landfalls every day, warm weather, a great laid-back desti¬ nation ("no problems, mon!") and, at just four or five days long, it's over before any¬ one can get bored, homesick or start smelling bad. Whether the Pineapple Cup's best years are behind it, such as the recopd 43-boat in the lOR heyday of 1973, or

Left, multihull winner 'Friends'. Middle, cliff Jumping at Rick's Cafe In NegrII. Right, 'Spirit of Minerva' crosses the finish line.

are still ahead remains to be seen. But some year — when the economy recov¬ ers, when world peace is achieved or, per¬ haps most farfetched of aU, when there's finally a viable measurement rule to race under instead of PHRF — this worthy event will surely be 'discovered' all over again. ' ' The next Pineapple Cup will occur in early February, 2005. To learn more about this year's race, check out WWW.montegobayrace.com. — latitude/rkm

Van Beelen. "Sailing multihulls takes fi¬ nesse, not strength — it's all about go¬ ing fast and having fun!"

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FROM MAST TOP X, ime ii to go up the mast again!" Greg shouted. Mast maintenance has be¬ come my responsibility on th^ Morgan Out-Island 41 Scirocco. Dlwylng-up boat duties is like choosing which side of the bed you sleep on; once it's done, there is no going back. Usually I get the job of being hoisted up that metal stick swaying to the chaotic jolt of slapping waves. But a while ago I was beginning to feel underappreciated in my mast climb¬ ing efforts. Could that be because of Greg’s laughter as I banged into the shrouds like a toy ball at¬ In one year, Ctierle has tached to a gone from complete paddle? novice to first matel "When was the last time you went up the mast?" I inquired. "Never," Greg stated. "Never? I think it’s about time you see your boat from a different perspective." So, after three years of owning Scirocco. Greg Anally ascended his own mast while on a mooring at the Balboa YC in Panama. This meant we were about 50 yards from the shipping lane where 900-ft ships pass by every 15 minutes on their way to the Arst lock of the Ca¬ nal. I hauled Greg up the mast using a system of ropes and pulleys — which, because we were on a boat, were caUed lines and blocks. "How are you doing up there?" I yelled. The view from 'Scirocco's mooring at the Panama YC: A cruise ship steams under the Bridge Across America en route to the Canal.

"I don’t like it." Greg shouted back. He doesn’t like heights. It probably didn’t help that he was dangling above the deck swinging at the end of a line which was held by his girlfriend — who can barely lift her own luggage. Then I saw a cruise ship blazing down the channel. The ocean A'oth was spew¬ ing A-om its bow. Greg saw the ship, and

call him 'master'. So I was somewhat taken aback when a guy at the yacht club pointed to Greg and asked, "Is that your master?" I wish I could have come up with a witty reply, but my sense of hu¬ mor faded me. "Master?" I asked. "You work on that boat, right?" "Yes," I answered — although Greg

He hung there, far above the deck, like a dangling ornament bis.arms and legs flailing around helplessly while he hollered at the ship. then he saw what was more important — its wake. With a A’antic look he started yelling at the ship: "Slow down! Slow down!" He hung there, far above the deck, like a dangling ornament, his arms and legs Aailing around helplessly while he hollered at the ship. Of course, they couldn’t hear him. "Cherie, tell them to slow dowr\!'’ Greg pleaded. Now, I can project my voice, but it was quite comical to see me and Greg helplessly screaming, "Despacio! Despacio!" at the passing ship. I know the guy at the helm of the cruise ship was chuckling to himself as Greg became a tether ball in the wake of all wakes. Greg swayed back and forth like a pen¬ dulum. I imagined the cruise ship’s First Mate peering through binoculars at Scirocco and thuiklng: "What is that thing swinging around on that cute little sail¬ boat? Oh my! It’s the captain!" I do consider Greg to be the captain. First, because he owns Scirocco. Second, because he’s an amazing leader and sailor. Third, because he can Ax eveiything and anjdhing that breaks on his boat. But let’s get this straight, I don’t

might say I offer more compEmlonshlp than I do hard labor. "And so he’s the master," said the guy pointing to Greg. So if you ever hear me saying ’Yes, master" to Greg, you’re now in’ on the inside joke. For the record, I think Greg enjoys being caked master, which is what the people in Panama caU the captain of any vessel — even if she's only 41 feet long and powered by saUs. While all this conversation was going on, Greg was at the top of the mast Axing the topping lift, which had snapped during a recent storm. "I'm never doing that again," he skid once he had his two feet back on deck again. So there he was, just like a tjqjlcal master, making the gaUey slave, me, do all the work. With the topping lift Axed, we were Anally able to shake our boom and head out to Isla Contadora. We saUed between the squalls and found a beautiful an¬ chorage framed by palm trees. I like places where the population is primarily Ash. A little pufferAsh came out to greet our boat and gave us his best puff to try to scare us away. I happen to think that fat splky-Ash are cute, even at full puff, so we stayed. Contadora, where the deposed Shah of Iran spent his last days, is a haven for the rich and powerful of Latin America, and luxurious villas line the Island’s coast. They even have a golf course, with vibrant greens that were manicured at least a year or two ago. Even less main¬ tained is the^rport, which consists of one landing strip with waist-high weeds busting through the tarmac. Contadora is home to a couple of expensive resorts, but venture just a few steps away from them and you're walking on footpaths

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through a dense jungle. While on a walk, we stumbled upon statues and windmills covered in plastic to protect them from the rain. We also went to the only place you can legally go na¬ ked in Panama, Contadora's Playa Nudista. The beach was freckled with brilliant blue rocks, but there were no naked bodies. The beach might have been postcard material except that it was littered with trash. Not the kind of trash moms always tell their teenage sons to stop dat¬ ing, but disgusting plastic bottles, rusty cans, and washed-up ratty shoes. It’s terribly sad to see a beau¬ tiful beach littered with Junk washed in by the tides, but it's even worse when garbage af¬ fects the marine life. 1 saw a little fish with a green plastic milk cap stuck around its abdomen. When the fish grows, the constriction of the plastic will surely kill it. When 1 see places such as this, 1 assign my¬ self beach cleanup duty. Leaving beaches cleaner than when 1 found them is my contri¬ bution to society. A few hours and a few plastic bags later, and a pristine beach was reborn. Greg supports my beach-cleaning ef¬

forts, but he doesn’t like me bringing the trash back to Scirocco. "We don’t have room," says the guy with six tool boxes and a surfboard he's never used. But we just hang the trash bags off the transom until we find a place we can properly dis¬ pose of them. "Will you help me carry this?" Greg asked after 1 finished the beach cleanup. He was referring to a three-foot-tall fish¬ ing transponder that weighed about 65 pounds. It had fallen off a boat called Atlantis, and was probably last seen about the same time as the lost city. "Where do you want to put it?" 1 asked. 'We’ll take it back to Scirocco. We can sell it." "Let me guess, we can put it next to your surfboard?" "Seriously, we can make money on this," Greg exclaimed. "Who is going to buy that?" I asked. "A fisherman," Greg said with convic¬ tion. "A fisherman? You mean one of those scraggly guys who spearfish out of dugout canoes and sell their catch for pocket change? What are they going to do with that thing?" "1 don’t know," replied Greg. "Can you take a picture of me with it?” he asked as he hugged his big new metal toy. "I’d love to take a picture — as long as I don’t have to lug it back to the boat and smell that stipky thing until you trade it for a coconut." 1 know with cer¬ tainty that if Greg had a garage, an in¬ operable car — worth a lot of money once it was restored — would be sitting in it. "Do you ever miss anything from home?" Greg asked while walking back A local fisherman proudly displays his catch of the day. Cultural exchanges with locals add Immeasurably to the cruising experience.

FROM MAST TOP TO SEA BOTTOM to the boat. ’Yes," I admitted, "I miss my family and friends, and every once in a while 1 miss getting all dressed up and going out." "But we went to that cruiser potluck last week. We got dressed up for that!" "We got dressed for that. Not dressed up." If &eg has to wear shoes to a funcnbn, he consid¬ ers it fancy. "I'm talking about wearing a nice dress and a string of pearls." 'We’re in the Las Perlas Is¬ lands, you can get some pearls if you want to wear them." Oys¬ ter pearls are common on the islands of Las Perlas, hence the name. And since my zodiac sign is Gemini, the pearl is my btrthstone. Probably the most memo¬ rable Jewel ever pulled out of the island’s waters was a peregrina pearl weighing in at 31 carats. It was a pearl fit for a queen — and worn by one. Queen Maiy Tudor. ’We can find out about bu3dng some cheap jewelry here tomorrow," Greg said. (Note to Greg and all other guys: When talking to a woman, try to keep the words ’cheap' and 'jewelry' out of the same sen¬ tence.) What Greg didn’t know was that we’d be leaving the islands sooner than we expected, and we'd be leaving them pearl-less. It was 4:32 a.m. when we heard a rumble. The sound was the same growl that the invisible monster which hid un¬ der your bed as a child made in your nightmares. This growl wasn’t from an imaginary hideous monster, though, but from something real and more danger¬ ous — rocks. They were scraping against Scirocco's belly trying to tear her Insides out. For a sailor, such a noise is like fin¬ gernails on a chalkboard. It’s simply a sound you never want to hear. Greg and

'Scirocco' lies at anchor off Isla Contadora. An Isle of contrasts, It is home to swank resorts as well as dense jungle and neglected beaches. 1 bolted out of the bunk, knowing what the monster below was capable of. If we didn’t act quickly, those rocks could rip Scirocco open and sink her. Scirocco was now sitting 19 feet lower than when we had anchored her earlier that day, the tides of the Pacific side of Panama being that great. Greg maneu¬ vered Scirocco off the rocks with a few. powerful thrusts of the engine. Then 1 began to pull up the anchor. "No!" Greg shouted. "Every time you crank in the anchor, you pull us over the rocks again!" "What should I do?" 1 screamed from the bow of the boat. "Drop all the anchor line!" Greg yelled. So 1 did, and 300 feet of chain dropped to the rocky and shallow bottom. "Now get into the dinghy and pull up all that anchor chain by hand," Greg or¬ dered after he’d maneuvered Scirocco away from the rocks. "Yes, master!" Did 1 mention that the sun had not even risen yet? 1 scrambled into the dinghy and pulled a few feet of chain in before 1 realized Greg’s plan was a bad one. It wasn’t bad because 1 was

wet, tired, and had anchor gunk all over me — but because I physically could not pull up 300 feet of heavy chain attached to a heavier anchor. "Greg, this isn’t going to work!" 1 said. "I can’t pull up any more of the chain!" Greg gave me a theatrical sigh of disappoint¬ ment, and topped it off with an eye-roll that let me know he had years of teenage eye-rolling ex¬ perience behind him. "Do you think you can man¬ age to keep the boat off the rocks while 1 pull in the chain?" 1 found it really hard not to say "Yes, master" again. "My, you are grumpy for a guy who owns his own yacht and is about to see a spectacular sunrise over a deserted beach on a tropi¬ cal island," I offered instead. We switched places and Greg attempted to show me how easy it was to pull the anchor up. He gave the chain a hearty manly tug, but it didn’t budge. "Is there an3dhtng 1 can do to help?" 1 asked. 'Yes! Call a boat broker! And get me my mask." "Yes, master." I couldn’t resist. 1 re¬ trieved the requested snorkel equipment and Greg jumped into the water. Did I mention that it was still dark out? The chain was caught on a rock. Elven worse, the chain was tangled around the rock like a ribbon ties up a birthday presept. Greg wrestled with the rock and chain while 1 maneuvered the boat away from the rocks. An hour later he had 300 feet of chain in the dinghy, and we were off to deeper, safer waters. It was another close call, which called for beer for breakfast again. From the top of the mast to the bottom of the sea, sail¬ ing is just one crazy adventure after an¬ other. — cherie sogsti

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RACING CREW ^i^^ether or not you got^caught up in the dramatic finale of the America’s Cup last month, it was impossible not to admire the expertise on both Alinphi and Team New Zemand. To anyone who has sailed more than aboiit an hour, the skill of each crewman in those big boats — and very crowded cockpits — was a thrill to behold. We bring this up to remind you that all those guys started just like the rest of us. Sure, some started earlier than others, but when Russell Coutts or Dean Barker began sailing as kids, they certainly made a lot of the same dumb mistakes we all do. They were probabijsyelled at by older, more experienced sail¬ ors, went home pissed off more than once, and had days when nothing went right. It’s all part of ‘growing up’ as sailors. But like everyone with a passion, they came back, persevered — and raced and raced and raced — until they rose to the top of the game. The operative word here is ‘raced.’ With all due respect to the many terrific sailing schools, yacht club junior programs and community sailing programs — all of which give you a great foundation to build upon — there is simply no better or quicker way to become a better sailor than to tiy to make one sailboat go faster than another. Plus racing is fun, a great family activity, a great ‘escape’, a good character builder, an avenue to meet interesting new people — and, if you need it, a wonderful ‘play’ outlet for those Type A nut cases who have to constantly show they’re better than ev¬ eryone else both on and off the water. Whatever yopr motivation to go racing, we’ve got you cov¬ ered. Whether yoii prefer boats that are big or little, old or new, local weekend races or trans-ocean marathons, you’ll not find many better chances to find boats — or, if you’re a boat owner, to find crew — than with Latitude's annual Racing Crew List currently in your hot little hands. By now, most of you will know the drill as well as we do. Back in January and February, we ran Crew List forms. Interested boat owners or potential crew filled them out and mailed them in, and in the next few pages, you’ll And their names, boat types (in the case of owners), contact numbers, a little about the type of racing people want to do, experience, skill level — even how serious they are about winning. All the Crew List is really about is matching your wants with the desires of potential crew or skippers.

you. , ^ On the other side of the coin, if you’re looking tb crew on a race boat this coming season, you’re in even better shape. There are always a lot more people looking for boats than the other way around. But that doesn’t mean you can procrastinate. The good spots tend to go fast. By being an ‘early bird’ and making phone calls as soon as you can after this issue comes out, you’ll have the best chance of landing that perfect worm . . . uh, . . . boat. Be sure to ‘match’ your skill level (or lack thereof) to what boat owners are looking for before you start calling. Both boat owners and potential crew should write out a list of questions they intend to ask and specific ‘wants’ they have. These might have to do with specific duties aboard, how much non-racing upkeep and repair time is required, (including betjveen-race maintenance), responsibility for lunches, practice races, specialty races, how much of his/her own gear a crew should bring, and so on. If you don’t do well getting yelled at, include that subject in the questionnaire. We’ve been told the best way to cover these issues with multiple phone contacts is to leave blank spaces between each question you write out. Then run off a dozen or so copies of the question sheet(s). When you make or receive a call, pull a fresh sheet from the stack and write the person’s name and phone number on the top first thing. By scribbling down each person’s answers on one sheet, it’s much easier to remember who said what. Take it from us, if you just start interviewing people and not writing down at least key thoughts from each, by about the sixth or seventh call, they all start running together. As mentioned, if you’re serious about Crew Listing, you’ll have taken the time to send in a form and your name will appear on these pages — effectively doubling your chances of success. However, you don’t need to be listed here to use the Crew List. Anyone can make calls from the lists as long as they read and acknowledge the disclaimer in the gray box on this page. Oh, and it would help the cause if you confined Crew List cdlls to sailing. A few years ago, some guy called most of the women on the Crew List, admitted he had no interest in sailing but — “since you’re obviously the adventurous type" — asked each of them if they’d like to accompany him on a month-long backpacking trek up the Appalachian trail! We don’t think there were any takers. xXs an example, say you’re an experienced skipper with Another advantage to having your name listed here is that several seasons of semiyou get in free to the Crew List serious racing under your belt. Party. Traditionally, the IMPORTANT NOTICE/! The Latitude 38 Crew List Advertisihg Your boat needs five crew, but spring Crew Party has been a Supplement is for informational purposes only. Latitude 38 only three show up on a relatively low-key affair which does not mctke nor imply any guarantee, warranty or recom¬ regular basis. The rest of the racing Crew Listers share mendation as to the character of anyone participating in time, you use pick-up people with cruisers, daysailors, co¬ the Crew Lls^, or the conditions of their boats or equipment. or girlfriends of your regular charterers and boat-swap¬ You must judge those things for yourself. guys. The girls are nice, but pers, whose Crew List ap¬ they’re not really into sailing, pears in the April issue. much less racing. To have a chance at moving up in your fleet, For the last few years, however, the Crew Party has been a you know you need two more experienced crewmembers. It big deal, and this year’s shindig on Wednesday, April 9 at the doesn’t matter if they’re male, female or ‘miscellaneous’, so long Golden Gate YC, is continuing the trend. We re planning some as they’re as serious about winning as you and the rest of the cool demonstrations, door prizes, maybe a surprise guest or crew. With the Crew List, all you have to do is look down the two, and the usual limited munchies and no-host bar. ‘Men to Crew’, ‘Women to Crew’ and/or ‘Couples to Crew’ lists (Unfortunately, the thrilling Coast Guard helicopter rescue and of names on the next few pages. Using the codes in the gray flare demos of years past aren’t going to happen — as part of boxes, make checks with a red pen by the best-sounding crew the new Homeland Security Department, the Coasties are pretty candidates, and then just start making calls. It really is as simple busy with more important matters these days.) Suffice it to say, as that. Actually, if you sent your own ’Boat Owner Looking For if you come you’re going to have to try really hard to be Crew’ form in, it’s even simpler — potential crew will be calling disappointed. Hours for the party are 6 to 9 p.m.

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If your name appears here (or on next month’s list), you get into the party for free. If it doesn’t, you’re still welcome, but it’ll cost you $5 a head to get in. We’re not 7-Eleven, so please try to have exact change. For Crew Listers, the party performs a couple of important functions in the overall scheme of things. First, it offers a friendly Are you a Crew neutral ground — if you need it — for the first Lister? Do you have a meeting between a skipper story to telW If so, we’d and new crew. Secondly, it offers one more chance like to hear it. We want for skippers or potential to ceiebrate 20 years of crew to hook up with one another. Everyone who ‘Latitude ’ Crew Lists by comes to the party gets : compiling the best stoissued a color-coded name tag. That way everyone ■ ries from List veterans can instantly tell if the I into a feature in an upwearer is a boat owner looking for crew or crew i coming issue. For delooking for a boat

WAR STORIES

> tails^ see “Tales from the ; Crew List” in this ; /77onf/7’s Sightings.

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our greatest tips; • Make your calls during waking hours — no earlier than 8 a.m. and no later than 10 p.m. • If you’re looking to crew, be re^istic about the commitment involved. If you sign up for a whole racing season, you’re going to have to show up on time and in working order for upwards of 20 weekend days this summer. • Be honest. Don’t tiy to BS your way onto or around a boat. In sailing, if you don’t know what you’re talking abput, someone who does can recognize it instantly. As we’ve said for years, a lack of experience is not necessarily an impediment to your goal. Many skippers actually want a few crewmembers with little or no experience because they’re easier to teach the skipper’s way of doing things. Besides, if you misrepresent yourself, your first sail will likely be your last anyway. • Don’tTte an age bigot when it comes to choosing a boat or crew. There's as much to be said for the steady hand of experience as the strength and exuberance of youth. Give everybody a chance. • If you’re a man, for Pete’s sake don’t be a jerk to any of the women on the Crew List. (Many of them have chosen to list themselves by first name only in the event any jerks disregard this notice.) Don't tell them moronic things like, “Sex is required” to crew on a boat — an actual quote, we’re soriy to say. On the other side of the coin, we’ve seen soifie of you women come to the Crew Parties dressed to kill a lot more than time. So please, everybody, leave the hormone thing fot another time and place.

The ball's in your court, kids. The summer sailing season officially kicks off with the Vallejo Race on May 3 and 4. Are you going to be ready? Good luck!

CREW LOOKING FOR RACING BOA TS MEN TO CREW ON A RACING BOAT Alexander Borys, 33, (510) 524-1033, w: (510) 287-0570. .wants 3,5/preters 2/exp 4a/will 5,6. Alphons Van Adrichem, 34, Pgr: (831) 418-1151, theotherdiver@yahoo.com. wants 1,2,3,4,5/prefers 1,2,3=Olson 30/exp 3a, EMT, scuba, delivery/will 1,2,3,5,6. Amir Peer, 26, (408) 687-0750, amir_peer@hotmail.com. .:... wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/prefers 2/exp 2/wiii 1,6. Asael Degany, 37, (408) 563-5036, asaeLdegany@amatcom. . wants 1,2,3,5,6/prefers 2/exp 2c/wiii 4,5. Bernard, 45, (415) 383-7304, bknechtii@hotmaii.com. .wants 1,3,4,5/prefers 2/exp 4a/wiii 1,2,3,6. Bill & Don, 36, (925) 687-4529 .want 1/prefer 1/exp 4a (helm)/will 1,2,7. Billy Light, 58, (510) 243-0111, billys54@aol.com.. .. wants 1/prefers 2/exp 2c, good shape/works out/200#s=good baiiast/wiii 1,2,6. Bob Kasischke, 52, (415) 243-6975 .wants 3,4,5/prefers 2/exp 3b/wiii 1,2. Brian Burt, 35, (415) 308-4258, saiiing@brian-burt.com. .wants 1/prefers 2/exp 2c/wiii 1,2,3,6,7. Charles Hubbard, 32, (415) 931-9978, cshOOl ©mac.com. . wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/prefers 1,2,3=J/105,J/120,5/exp 3a, bowman/jib trim=Knarr/will 6. Chris Giovacchini, 49, (707) 938-1736, crisdino@earthlink.net. .wants 4,6/prefers 2/exp 4a,b, (50 ton iicense). Dave Allen, 42, (530) 823-3602 .wants 1/prefers 2/exp 2b/will 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Dean Teehee, 47, (707) 437-3667, dteehee@prodigy.net. .wants 1,2,3?,5?/exp 3a, many hrs on the box/wiii 1,2,3,6,7. Don Campbell, 44, H: (925) 671-7925, W: (925) 520-7852. .wants '1/prefers 1/exp 4a, 2 yrs racing Ariei/SF Bay racing/wiii 1. Don Krafft, 48, (408) 595-3070, saii@donkrafft.com. wants 1,2,3,5/prefers 2/exp 4c,extensive racing/crsg exp, active Bay racer/wiii 1,3,4,5,6. Frank Lossy, 50-i-, (510) 527-3893, ftiossy@covad.net. .wants 1/prefers 1,2,3-one design/exp 4c/wiii 3. Gary Lee, 53, (408) 732-6500, mrgwiee@msn.com. .wants 2,3,5,6/prefers 1,2/exp 3a/wiii 1. George Carvalho, 39, wave_volume@yahoo.com. .wants 1,2,3,4/prefers 2/exp 3a/will 1,2,3,6,7. Gerard Ziemski, 31, (650) 996-4091, gziemski@mac.com. .wants 1,2,3,4,5/prefers 2/exp 1/wiii 1,6. Gregory Fretz, 50, (650) 948-5612.<. .wants 1,2,3,5/prefers 1,2/exp 2, airpiane piiot/wiii 1,2,3,47,5?,6.7. Herb Taylor, 70, (928) 427-0246 Iv msg. .wants 4,fe,Baja Ha-Ha/prefers 2,3=ketch,5/exp 1/will 1,2,5,7. Jackson Rose, 27, (415) 664-9131, jrose75@mindspring.com. .wants 1/prefers 1,2,4/exp 3, raced Lightings 3 yrs/will 5(some exp),6. Jeff Sharpe, 47, (415) 710-4276, cyberkook@earthlink.net... wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/prefers 1,2,3=Express class, PHRF/exp 3,4=1601b, agile/will 1,3,5. Jeffrey Smith, 28, (415) 834-0699.wants 1,2/prefers 1,2/exp 2b/will 1,6. Joe Balderrama, 39, (510) 324-8308 .wants 1/preters 1,2/exp 3a/will 6. John Etherington, 47, (925) 285-5246, johnetherington@sprintmail.com. ' .wants 1,3,5/prefers 2/exp 4/will 3,4,6,7. John Ludeman, 53, (707) 645-1701, vlud6man@sbcglobal.net. .wants 1,3,5/prefers 2,5/exp 4/will 2,3,6,7. Jon E., 32, (415) 831 -0305. wants 1,3,4/prefers 1/exp 2c/will 1,3,6. Jon C-'sjoberg, 47, (925) 447-8165 .wants 1,3,5/prefers 1,2/exp 4a,b/will 1,5,6. Joseph Altmann, 54, (831) 726-1920 . wants 1,2,4,6/prefers 2/exp 2c/will 1,6. Justin Hersh, 38, (510) 749-6890. wants 1/exp 2b/will 3,6. Kelley Hale, 62, kelleyhale@yahoo.com..wants 4/prefers 3=Cal 40/ exp4butstill learning; prof, carpentry, cruis’gownboatinMexlast5yrs/will1,2,3,4,6,7. Ken Stuber, 53, (916) 240-2361, kstuber@cityofsacramento.org.. .wants 1/prefers 1,2/exp 4a/will 1,3,5,6. Kevin Kienast, 39, (650) 430-3863, mr,kienast@nefzero.net. .wants 1,3/prefers 1,2,3=Melges 24, Farr 40, other one design class,4b,c/will 1,3,5,6. LarsMuendermann,31, (650) 564-9178, lars@cpsc.ucalgary.ca....wants 1,5/prefers 1,2,3=Melges 24, J/105/exp 3b, Whidby Isl Race Wks & more (inquire)/will 1,2,5,6,7. Mark, 32, (408) 420-3058 .. wants 1,2,5,6/prefers 1,2,3/exp 4a,b,c/will 1,5(exp=not lots),6. Michael Bendy, 38, (415) 518-6240 . wants 1,3,5/prefers 2/exp 2c/will 1,3. Mike C. 64, Iat38list03c@mgb67.com... .wants 6/prefers 2,3=Swan/exp 4, Cabo 4x (8,000 Swan miles), will 2,4. Oliver Kay, 39, (415) 505-8610, email: okayl @pacbell.net. .wants 3,4,5/prefers 2/exp 4. Patrick Freeburger, 23, (408) 316-4343, patjfree2co2@yahoo.com. .wants 1,5,6/prefers 2,5/exp 2b/will 3,4,6. Paul Keister, 31, H: (415) 664-9131, W: (415) 645-7895 . .wants 1/prefers 2/exp 4a, \A/k/Sail @ Modern Sailing Academy/will 3,6. March, 2003 • UWwfi ??

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RACING CREW C

MEN TO CREW — cont’^

WOMEN TO CREW ON A RACING BOAT

Pete Howley, 60, (415) 902-8016 . .wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/exp 2c, owned Nordic 40, now Jeanneau 45/will 2,3,6,7. Peter Kacandes, 36, H: (650) 324-0439, C: (650) 714-2042, kadyca@yahoo.com . .wants 1,2,3,5,6/prefers 2/exp 4a,b/will 3,5,6,7, Raymond Soriano, 27, (415) 831-4776, rsoriano@hotjobs.com.exp 1/will 5,6. Rick Pelton, 55, (415) 847-7784. wants 1,2/prefers 1,2/exp 2c/will 1,2,6,7. Rob Schulman, 32, (415) 317-1353, rober1schulman@hotmail.com. .wants 3,4,5,6/prefers 1,2,5/exp 4a, USCG 100-ton master/will 3,4=some,5,6. Robert O. Soleway, 55+^(415) 381-3147, caviking@pacbell.net. .wants 1,2,3,5,6/prefers 2/exp 4c; Have done 6 Ha-Ha’s/will 1,2,3,4,6,7. Ron Lee, 55, (408) 504-9788....wants 3/preters 2/exp 4c (hasn’t raced in over 7 yrs). Russ Heblack, 57, (831) 338-9521 .... wants 2,5/prefers 1,2,5/exp 2a/will 1,2,3,6,7. Sean Ranney, 25, (510) 816-5150.wants 1,2/prefers 1,2/exp 2c/will 1,3,6. Stephen Gillespie, 38, (415) 331-4548 .wants 1/prefers 2/exp 2b/will 2,6,7.

“TO CREW” CODE I/WE WANT TO RACE 1) San Francisco Bay 2) Monterey/Santa Cruz

3) Ocean Series

4) 2003 TransPac 5) Coastal Race(s) 6) To Mexico (Nov.)

I/WE PREFER 1) Boats under 30 feet 2) Boats over 30 feet 3) Specific class or design;

4) Dinghies 5) Multihulls

my/our EXPERIENCE IS 1)None

experienceb Lm e or no racing, one or more years of gener^S3.

long 0,stance ocean races: 0) Years of Bay and ocean racing Other pertinent experience;

Ann, boomer, waves@prodigy.net.wants 1/prefers 2/exp 3b. > Anne Muendermann, 30, (650) 564-9178, can14481 ©gmx.net.wants 1,5/ prefers 1,2,3=Melges 24, J/105, match racing/exp 3b (inquire on exp.)/will 1,2,6,7. ■ Bonnie, 27, (415) 608-2282 . .wants 1,2,3,5,6/prefers 1,2,5/exp 3a/will 1,2,3,5 (some),7, | Cameron & Barbara Galley (sisters), 40/44, (650) 269-8198, i cameroncalley@yahoo.com or barbaracalley@yahoo.com. j .wants 1,2,3/prefers 2,3=Santana/Express 37s/exp 3,4=inquire/will 2,3,4,6,7. i Candy, 54, twin2cck@aol.com. .wants 1/prefers 2/exp 2b, Fri night beer can exper./will 1,2,3. Carol, 34, blondnsails@yahoo.com.wants 4,5,6/prefers 1,2/exp 3/will 1,6,7. Eri|<a Jane, 26, stardust_events@yahoo.com .. j . wants 1,3,5/prefers 1,2/exp 2c/will 1,2,3,7. j Jan, 50-I-, (510) 482-3042, jaybeesails@yahoo.com. ; .wants 3,5/prefers 1,2,3=TPac Cal 40 delivery too,5/exp 4/will 1,2,3,6,7. Jean Magistrate, 47, (415) 454-8604 .wants 1/prefers 2/exp 4a/will 1,2,6,7, Julie yiacob, 35, (972) 467-1332, juliejacobtx@yahoo.com. .. .v...wants 4,5,6/prefers 2/exp 3b,4b/will 2,4,5,6,7. Karen, 39,\aren3252@aol.com. .wants 1,3,6/prefers 2,5/exp 4a, 5 yrs beer cans + other Bay races/will 1,2,7. Kathleen Cruise, 52, (415) 999-4544, kathleencruise@msn.com. .wants 1,3,4/prefers 2/exp 3/will 2,7. Kathy, 34, cakatsails@yahoo.com. .wants 1,2/prefers 1,2/exp 2a,basic keelboat cert/will 1. Lauren, 37, (510) 627-1250, leisele34@hotmail.com. . wants 1/prefers 1,2,3,4,5/exp 4c/will 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Lore, 40, tchelet@aol.com... .wants 1,2/prefers 1/exp 2b/will 1,2,3=will learn how to!,7. Lori Beraha, 42, (831) 479-8343 . wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/exp 4/will 1,3,6,7. Lynn, 52, sfmariner2002@yahoo.com. wants 1,2,3,4,5,6/exp 2b/will 2,7. Martha, 38, martha_sail@yahoo.com .wants 1/prefers 1,2,3/exp 4a/will 1,7. Maura, 33, (415) 339-8110.wants 1/prefers 2/exp 2a/will 1,2,7. Nadine, 22, nskinner37@aol.com.wants 1,2,3/prefers 2/exp 3a/will 1. Pam C., 40s, canalesmexico@yahoo.com. .. wants 1,3,5/prefers 2,5/exp 2c/will 1,2,3,7. Patricia Lin, 40, (650) 340-1693, plin_wa@yahoo.com. ..wants 1,3,5/prefers 2,5/exp 3/will 1,3,5,6,7. Rebecca Walsh, 40+, H: (925) 829-4647, C: (925) 699-4647 . .wants 1,2,3,47,5,67/prefers 1,2/exp 3b Sharon A. Alger, 40, (415) 206-9139, salger@ataunt.com. .wants 1,3/prefers 1,2,4,5/exp 4c/will 1,3,6,7. Susan Brooks, 53, (650) 364-7651, fearlesssailor@yahoo.com.. .wants 1,3,4,5,6/prefers 2,3=Js,5/exp 4/will 1,2,5,6,7. Toni Cox, 37, (650) 579-7849, toniecox@hotmail.com. .wants 1/prefers 2,3 City side, not E.Bay/exp 3a/will 7. Vicki, 32, vickieh239@aol.com .wants 1/prefers 2/exp 2b/will 1,2,6,7.

COUPLES TO CREW ON A RACING BOAT Heidi and Marcos, 32/38, (415) 922-1416.wants 1/prefers 1/exp 2a/will 1,3,6. Maura & Chris, 35/38, (415) 339-8110...want 1/prefers 1,2,5/exp 2,3/will 1,2,3,4,5,6

I/WE WILL 1) Help with the bottom, do maintenance - anything 2) Play boat administrator, go-fer ^ ^ 3) Go to the masthead to retrieve the halyard at sea 4 Navigate, IVe got lots of experience 5 Do foredeck, IVe got lots of experience 6) Do grinding, IVe got muscle 7) Do lunches/provisioning

RACING BOA TS LOOKING FOR CREW MEN LOOKING FOR RACING CREW

Stephen Kennery, 51, (925) 829-0729, c: (925) 785-3602, stkennery@attbi.com . wants 1/prefers 2/exp 4, out of Vallejo YC, US Navy vet/will 3,5,6. Steve Klein, 53, (650) 858-2831 or snklein@pacbell.net...wants5=CoastalCuponly/ prefers 2(35’),3=Cal 40,5/exp 4a,b, skipper/co-owner J/35, catamaran exp/will 1,3,6. Tony Amable, 51, H: (510) 482-5741, cell: (510) 882-1998 . .. wants 4/prefers 3=Cal 40/exp 4='00 TPac delivery back, inquire/will 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

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Charter Kays, 50, (415) 556-0185, Bird sloop.plans 1/wants 1/races 2. Chris Gage, 40, (831) 657-0494, CentralCoastonline.net/crew.html, Express 27 .plans 1,2,a,b,c,d,f/wants 1/races 1,2. David Demarest, 51, (415) 453-2899, Vanguard 15. .plans 1,2,a,b,d/wants 1,3/races 2. Dennis Brewer, 53, (415) 435-0175, P.O. Box 160, Belvedere, CA 94920, Int’l One Design 33’.plans 1 ,b,c,8=CYCTriday night series/wants 1,2/races 2. Frank Mayo, 60, (650) 964-8901, Newport 28.plans 1 e/wants 3/races 1. Jeff Jamieson, 38, (415) 850-1212, please email: jeff@jamiesons.com, Santana 35 ■;...plans 1 ,a,c,d/wants 2/races 2. Jim Fair, (650) 967-6207, Merit 25.plans 1,b,d/wants 1/races 2.

LIST 2003 “WANT CREW” CODE //WE PLAN TO RACE 1) San Francisco Bay 2) Monterey/Santa Cruz 3) Ocean Series 4) 2003 TransPac 5) Coastal Race(s) 6) Mexico Race(s) 7) Baja Ha-Ha Cruisers’ Rally (late October) 8) Other,..

a) Handicap b) One Design c) YRA season d) Specialty events and/or occasional YRA e) Beer Cans f) Anything and Everything

//WE WANT CREW 1) Who will consistently put out 100% for the chance to get experience/and won’t complain When cold, wet or scared silly. 2) With at least one full season of racing experience 3) With more than three years experience 4) Wiliing to do occasional maintenance/repairs 5) Willing to do occasional lunches/galley duty

I/WE RACE 1) Casually. Winning is nice, but lets keep it fun 2) Pretty seriously. Why else make the effort. 3) Very seriously, l/we don’t like to lose.

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MAX EBB “Tl-/ooks like major s^gery,” I said as I stepped over engine parts and tools scattered all around the boat hoist. “It’s a full engine transpltipt,” an¬ swered the owner of the small ultralight that was under the knife. He had wheeled it over to the hoist for the operation, prob¬ ably for better access to high amperage electrical power and borrowed tools. The fact that 1 didn’t continue walking through the construction site, but slowed down to gawk, must have suggested that 1 was interested in a more detailed ex¬ planation of the project. “I’ve pulled my back out of plumb for the very last time hauling that damn outboard on and off the motor bracket,’’ he explained, probably for the hundredth time that day. “From now on, all I’ll do is push the starter button.’’ “Kind of a small boat for an inboard,” I observed. He continued with his well-practiced description of the project: “I’ve got a very small and light marine gas engine, a high pressure pump that matches the torque and RPM, a nozzle, and an inlet plenum.” “Ah. I see. <^et drive,” I said. “No pro¬ peller, no drag under sail.” “The only part that required some cus¬ tom engineering was the inlet detail,” he said as he proudly directed my attention to a little hinged flap that could cover the inlet plenum like the door on an airplane’s nose wheel well. “It’s perfectly flush with the hull when it’s closed. Operated by this push-pull cable that’s designed for steering an out¬ board motor.” He climbed up the ladder and moved an unseen lever that made the door open or snap shut. “But do you think you’ll get enough thrust out of a water jet?” I asked. ‘Thrust is just mass transfer.” he said. ‘The more water I throw backwards, the more thrust. This pump has a higher efficiency rating than the best propeller I cam buy, so I think I’ll be in good shape. Besides, the boat goes more than four knots on just two horsepower, so there’s plenty of margin.” “You could be onto something,” I shrugged. “It does weigh a little more than the outboard it replaces,” he allowed, antici¬ pating my next question. “But as I said, either that outboard had to go or my back was going to go, and I want to keep my back. And I absolutely will not sail with an ugly outboard hanging off the stern.”

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Coulda, woulda, shoulda — 'Oracle's kitesail never got much past the gee-whiz stage, al¬ though testing showed it had a lot of potential. It was Lee Helm’s voice, but when I turned around to see her I was faced with a long slender fiberglass hxill balanced on top of a woman’s shoulder, hiding her face completely. The hull must have been well over 20 feet long — adthough only a foot wide — and she was walking with it as if it was weightless. “What’s the discharge pressure of your pump?” she asked the ultralight owner as she backed away toward the

edge of the seawall, apparently to give herself enough clearance to rotate the long hull 180 degrees without hitting the hoist or an3d:hing else. “1,500 psi,” he answered. “Rule of thumb for pumps is one gallon per minute at 1,500 psi for every horsepower into the pump. With the pressure that high. I’ll get a very fast nozzle velocity, to get the most possible energy out of the water.” “Um, do you want energy or thrust?” said Lee. ‘Thrust, of course. But I have to maxi-

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mlze the energy to get the most thrust, and I do that by maximizing nozzle ve¬ locity.” “Um, you built model rockets when you were a kid, didn’t you?” “Why yes, how did you know?”

henever Lee starts a sentence with “um”, 1 know there’s going to be trouble. And I’d just heard two in a row. 1 stepped back to let the propulsion ex¬ perts duke/lt out. “Because like, a rocket carries all its propellant on board, so the way to get the most thrust is to put the most en¬ ergy into each bit of fuel burned, so rocket designers go for maximum nozzle velocity. But like, a wateijet has access to as much propellant as it needs. There¬ fore you want the most momentum for the least energy.” “Doesn’t that still mean I want to squirt the water back as fast as pos¬ sible?” said the experimenter. “I know enough about rocket propulsion to know that I don’t want to exit below the water¬ line, because 1 can squirt the water back faster if it exits in the air, for more thrust.” “For sure, that part is true,” allowed Lee. “But like, momentum is proportional to mass flow times speed. Energy is pro¬ portional to mass flow times speed squared. So the main thing to grok is that the most efficient propulsion device is the one that takes a veiy large amount of water and pushes it back just a little. What you have is a gadget that takes just a little bit of water and sends it back¬ wards very fast. Your system ab¬ sorbs maximum power and gives you minimum thrust.” “Well, I didn’t expect to be op¬ timally efficient,” he countered, his defenses obviously cracking. “Remember, I’m going for light weight and no drag when I’m sail¬ ing-” Still holding up the feather¬ weight hull on one shoulder, Lee reached around with her other hand to hit some buttons on her watch. , “Okay, 1,500 psi? That’s a ve¬ locity head of about... 3,370 feet, or . . . 466 feet per second . . . flow rate one, GPM . . . divide by 60. . .” She hit some more buttons. 'You’ll be lucky to see two pounds of thrust per horsepower. With the engine at full smoke you’ll go three knots in flat

calm, and I’ll be able to paddle circles around you in this outrigger.” “We’ll see,” he shrugged. “These sys¬ tems seem to work pretty well for jet skis.” “Okay, but garden variety outboards usually get better than 10 pounds of static thrust per HP,” she said as she walked toward the gangway carrying her boat. “And a system optimized for lowspeed thrust like a bow or stern thruster,” she called over her shoulder, “gets like 25 or 30 pounds of thrust per horsepower.”

“Who invited her?” said the ex¬ perimenter. “Jet skis do fine with wateijets. So do ferries. They wouldn’t use them on those commercial boats if they were so inefficient." Meanwhile, just for fun, 1 walked over to the stern of his boat and measured on my finger the diameter of the tiny high pressure discharge nozzle he had in¬ stalled. Then 1 leaned over the much des¬ pised outboard motor that was lying on the pavement, and stepped off the ap¬ proximate number of nozzle diameters that equaled one propeller diameter. “Let’s see,” 1 thought out loud. “1 square this to get the area ratio — so if, just for the sake of argument, the pro¬ peller diameter is about 20 times the jet discharge diameter, then the area is big¬ ger by a factor of 400. So for similar momentum, uh, well . . . .” 1 looked ciround for Lee, but she was busy adjusting the outrigger on the hull she had just launched.

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using a removabie wave-piercing propeiier. Meanwhile, an SUV towing a very fast powerboat had pulled up next to the other side of the hoist.

“Sorry to block the hoist like this,” said the sailboat owner. “Be out of your way in a minute.” “1 can get around you,” said the powerboat owner as he stepped out of his big tow vehicle. “Anyway we have some setting up to do before we launch. ‘Sposed to be at Sam’s in 45 minutes, but it only takes 10 minutes from here by water, so there’s plenty of time.” We turned our attention back to the sailboat propulsion problem. “Of course I know that for the same thrust I’ll need 20 times the flow veloc¬ ity,” said the owner of the sailboat. “But because the water is going 20 times as fast, even though the area ratio is 1:400 1 still have one twentieth as much water passing through every second. But the momentum comes out the same because the water is going 20 times faster than the water behind the outboard motor propeller. And the energy. ...” Then he stopped short and looked a little pale. ‘The energy, if it’s a V-squared rela¬ tionship,” he said slowly, “is going to be 20 times as big for the same thrust.” “That’s just what Lee would have said,” 1 thought to myself. “That girl with the outrigger could be right,” he considered. “1 might only get two pounds of thrust per horsepower.”

Vpp came by again with her paddle, a carbon fiber affair with a very large curved blade. “You agree with my numbers?” she skid when she saw the boat owner's veiy concerned expression. “Maybe,” he said. “Efficient wateijets use larger impel¬ lers and nozzles and have much slower discharge velocity for a good reason,” she explained. “No point having all that energy wasted in a fast slipstream — the ideal would be to have a very, very big propulsion device that only in¬ creased the speed of the water flowings through it by a very small increment — like this paddle.” She passed the almost weight¬ less carbon fiber paddle with the huge blade to the sailboat owner for inspection. “The outrigger has so little resistance that the blade hardly slips in the water at all, so the water in the exhaust is only acceler¬ ated a little bit and there’s very little en¬ ergy lost.” “You know, 1 considered a sculling oar for getting in and out of the harbor,” said the experimenter, “instead of that hateMarch, 2003 • UtiUM39 • Page 167

MAX EBB ful outboard. For some reason, sculling oars all seem to have narroA^lades, not a big efficient one like yours.” “For sure, for sure,” said Lee^ “On a slow boat, the blade Is going to slip back¬ wards throXigh the water a lot during each stroke, so by the end of the stroke It’s working in water that’s moving back¬ wards with the blade. Lots of wasted energy there. The whole point of a scull¬ ing oar is to work'4i;^sversely like a pro¬ peller blade, so it can act on a much wider cross-section of water than the actual blade area. Same with the ‘wing’ style kayak paddles, but those can be hard to use correctly. "But like, in general, a light, fast boat means hardly any slip, so big> blades work, as in a rowing shell or an outrigger. As you go to slower types of boats, the optimum blades get smaller because they have to slip more in the water, and need to find new water that hasn’t already been accelerated backwards at the be¬ ginning of the stroke. Long thin blades do this much better. For heavy boats, like some of those Mediterranean fish boats that traditionally use sculling oars, you want a very narrow blade that sweeps through a large cross section of undis¬ turbed water.” “And a Venetian gondola?” 1 asked. ’They have everybody beat, because they pole along the bottom, which doesn’t move backwards at all. Propulsive effi¬ ciency of one point zero.” “That doesn’t solve my problem,” said the experimenter. “With only two pounds of thrust per horsepower....” "Here’s what I’d do for a low-power in¬ board,” she said, pointing to the gleam¬ ing stainless steel surface-piercing pro¬ pellers sticking out of the back of the muscle boat that was waiting to use the hoist. “Stay with that same tiny marine gas engine you have, but instead of the wateijet, run a shaft straight out the back to a surface-piercing propeller. As long as you’re going fast enough for the water level to be stabilized by the bot¬ tom edge of the transom, it will work great. And like, you can use a much larger propeller diameter than even a conventional inboard.” “What, you’re gonna put a cleaver on that thing?” said the powerboat owner. “With only that tiny engine driving it?” “Doesn’t have to be a cleaver,” Lee re¬ sponded. “1 mean, most surface propel¬ lers are round-ear in blade planform. Remember it’s only the trailing edge that’s straight on a cleaver style propel¬ ler, and that’s only because it’s easier to draw the plans and build the blade that Page 168 •

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Unidentified floating objects — testing new kitesall technology at Area 51. v way. The water doesn’t care much whether the trailing edge is straight or curved. And the cool part is that at low power loadings, the blades could be much longer and thinner, more like an airplane propeller. See the human-pow¬ ered boat people for some good examples. Surface-piercing propellers would look like that too if the designers didn’t have to wony about the blades breaking off.” “Wish they’d wony about it more,” said the powerboater. “We threw a blade once, and the prop manufacturer s^d it was under full warrantY as long as we returned the broken blade. Hell, it musta gone right into low earth orbit. Either that or it's buried under 40 feet of mud at the bottom of the Delta.” “How would 1 retract a surface-pierc¬ ing propeller for sailing?” asked the ultralight owner. "I guess it could have a U-joint — or even a plane hinge, and tip up for sailing. But the whole idea is to not have an ugly propeller in the back of the boat when I’m sailing, and no drag when I’m racing.” “All you do is unplug the tallshaft and propeller from a socket near the bottom of the transom,” suggested Lee.

L/ee went off to go paddling, and we were left staring at the massive cleaver propellers and wondering if some vari¬ ant would work on a small sailboat. “What’s the big advantage of those things, anywa}^” I asked. “No strut drag, no shaft drag, no lower unit drag, and 1 can get any diameter 1 want,” he said. “The real problem,” said Lee, who had crossed the boat launching area one last time to get her lifejacket (but I suspected that the real reason was that she couldn’t bear to walk away from a conversation about propellers), “is that nearly all pro¬

pellers are too small and turn too fast. They have to fit under the boat without making the shaft angle too steep, or un¬ der the cav plate on an outboard or stern drive lower unit, or fit inside a rudder aperture. "But like, a surface-piercing propel¬ ler is way behind the boat, where it can be as big as it wants to be. Only the bot¬ tom half is in the water so you have to buy twice again as much propeller. And the driveline to handle the higher torque at the deeper reduction ratio is expen¬ sive. But there’s no substitute for a big, slow-turning propeller for maximum ef¬ ficiency. If fuel prices keep going up, we’ll see a lot more of them on ferries and other medium-speed commercial boats.” “What sort of efficiency could I get with a system like that?” Lee hit some more buttons on her watch. “At six knots, if you don’t mind going real deep on the reduction ratio, you’ll get a propeller efficiency above 65%, and that’s not counting the extra propulsive efficiency you get from put¬ ting the propeller right in the crest of the first stern wave, where the water is mov¬ ing along with the boat. In terms of thrust, at that speed, that’s... let’s see... 35 pounds per delivered horsepower.” “Now we’re talking,” said the ultralight owner.

J—/ee was about to leave us again when she noticed something in the air above the channel, beyond the Marina. It was a kite. We couldn’t see the water underneath, but it could only be one of those kitesailing rigs. “Looks like the wind is up, Lee,” 1 teased. “Maybe you should have brought your windsurfer today.” “No way, it’s still under 10 knots. That kltesallor is using dynamic sheeting — see how the kite loops around in a figure eight pattern? The board at the other end is going in a straight line. It’s like, the same principle as a sculling oar, actu¬ ally. The kite oscillates across the flow, and acts on a cross-section of air much larger than the kite’s sail area.” “Or like tacking downwind without making the boat sail all that extra dis¬ tance,” I added. “For sure. The kite can go much faster than the boat,-so the apparent wind on the kite is like 60 knots. And with lift proportional to V squared, you get humongous forces from a sm^l area. Good thing Oracle didn’t use their A-Cup

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class-legal version of the kite spinnaker, or we’d be bracing for three years of to¬ tal lunacy on the Bay right now.” “You mean there are kite sails that are legal on America’s Cup boats?" “Can you say ‘unintended conse¬ quences?’ EX^er since they did away with the rule that required spinnakers to be flown with spinnaker poles, high-altitude spinnakers have been legal. On a big boat, part of the advantage is getting the sail up where there’s more wind, but like, the really hig gain is dynamic sheeting, getting the sail to oscillate so that it sees much more apparent wind than anything fixed to the boat." ‘They’ll never let that stay legal,” said the ultralight owner. ‘Think of leeward marks.” “Kite buggies seem to manage okay in their races,” noted Lee. “But yeah. I’m not sure how long the Cup window will be open. "You know," she said, "ultimately there’s probably a bigger market for

drifting with the true wind,” I noted. “And various combinations of wind and water propellers can make a boat go dead down faster than windspeed, at least in theory.” But without Lee there to back me up, I couldn’t explain how this was possible. So we gave the powerboater a hand with the hoist, then watched him tinker with some, engine settings. Finally he rumbled out to the channel and blasted off across what must have seemed to him to be a very small Bay, rooster tails from the surface-piercing propeller blades streaming high in the air.

cruisers than racers: No heeling moment, no spin-outs, and 20 knots of apparent wind in the sail when the true wind at the surface is only 10, with the boat headed straight downwind at six. Just to throw out some estimates.” “1 could see it on a long sail down the coast to Mexico with light wind on the stern,” said the ultralight owner. “And you say they can make them class legal under the current rules? Where do I sign?” “Googling on ‘kiteship’ will bring it right up,” advised Lee, who clipped her lifejacket tangs and headed for the wa¬ ter once more.

To our surprise, Lee came by the hoist once more. She was carrying the outrigger hull again, but this time walk¬ ing back toward the parking lot. ‘That was quick,” I said. “Wind’s up!” she explained. “I’m swap¬ ping this for the windsurfer. I mean, like, there’s no point even thinking about en¬ gines or paddles when the wind’s blow¬ ing.” — max ebb

We debated the relative merits of racing and cruising with spinnakers fly¬ ing a hundred feet above the masthead, then tried to figure out if it would be pos¬ sible to use one to sail direcdy downwind faster than the true wind speed. “Iceboats can catch up to balloons

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THE RACING

With reports this month on the mellow Corinthian YC Midwin¬ ters; the windy Golden Gate YC Midwinters; the hardcore Rolex Miami OCR; good news about the upcoming TransPac; the South Bay YRA Midwinters; a pleasant, but lightly-attended, Puerto Vallarta Race; mi(^mter box scores of seven more races; and the usual ran¬ dom, disconnected thoughts at the end we call race notes.

Corinthian YC Midwinters "No more mysteries!" promised CYC race chairman Michael Moradzadeh after January's treasure hunt for a missing mark in the North Bay. Indeed, the sec¬ ond weekend of the CYC Midwinters went off without a hitch on February 15-16 with two pleasant races in the Central Bay. Over 100 boats enjoyed the racing, which was particularly challenging and/or frus¬ trating on Saturday. The first three classes had the worst of it, as getting to Slossom Rock, the wind¬ ward mark, proved to be an epic struggle in a light southerly and against a build¬ ing ebb. Most of the fleet took a circular route to Blossom, short-tacking up Trea¬ sure Island before making a break for

The middle-sized boats went to Fort Mason first, which was also tricky, and then to Blackaller and finisft. The\smallest boats and the non-spiimaker fleet Just rounded Ft. Mason and returned. Every¬ one was faced with a raging ebb in Rac¬ coon Strait, which shuffled the results in several classes in the final minutes. "Leav¬ ing and entering the Strait is always a wild card," noted Moradzadeh. "In our Midwin¬ ters, more than most, it's not over until it's over!" After some free beer on Saturday af¬ ternoon, the crowd was treated to another dinner/dance party in the upstairs ball¬ room — though the hardcore saflors stayed in the bar watching race two of the America's Cup. Like last year, a storm front blew through Saturday night, leav¬ ing a perfect day of sailing in its wake on Sunday. In a mnde^g||^ westerly and more

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ebb, the bigger boats were sent on a straight-line course to Blackaller, Fort Mason, and finish, while the smaller ones sailed to Blackaller and back. At the Sunday afternoon awards cer¬ emony, unique 'snow globe' trophies were awarded to the top finishers in the eleven

classes. Yachtswoman of the Year Liz Baylis, who raced with Kame and Sally Richards on their Express 37 Golden Moon, also was honored with her own 'snow globe', as well as a rousing stand¬ ing ovation. The San Francisco YC team of Naviga¬ tor, Arbitrage and Eclipse — three ex¬ tremely well-sailed boats — took the Aotea Team Trophy again, winning by a wide margin over the Sausalito YC team. The subjective award for Best Performance by a CYC member went to Ron Kell, who pi¬ loted his Express 27 Abigail Morgan to second place in PHRF-C. Kell’s crew for the series was Tom Shepperd, Angle Lackey, and Dave and Bettlna Crowe. The grand prize — well, another 'snow globe’ — went to Hank Easom's sleek 8Meter Yucca, ‘which strung together a 1,2,2,1 series against the largest fleet, the 21 -boat PHRF-B group, to earn Best Over¬ all Performance honors. Easom, a former member of CYC, sailed with his Jolly core

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3 Corinthian spirit, ciockwise from upper left — The Pineapple Sails flagship, the Express 37 'Golden Moon'; the Severe! 33 'Navigator' chases the new Sydney 32 'Sydney' down to Fort Mason; the first start on Sunday; and 'Yucca' crew (from left) Mike FIgour, Kirk Smith and Hank Easom. group of Charlie Mohn, Bill Moore and Mike Figour, all of whom are only a few years younger than the 66-year-old boat they sail. Few people know the Bay better than Easom and the Yucca gang — or have a longer waterline! — and their victoiy was a popular one. / Final results of the four-race, nothrowout series follow. Complete results are posted at wmw.cyc.org.

Pimental, 26; 5) Mist, Benetea'u First 38, Robert Hu, 28; 6) Redsky, Olson 34, Brian Boschma, 30; 7) Mintaka 4, Farr 38, Gerry Brown, 31; 8) Summer & Smoke, Beneteau 36.7, Rob Orr, 32. (21 boats) DIV. C (120-150) — 1) Silkye, WylieCat 30, Steve Seal/John Skinner, 9 points; 2) Abigail Morgan, Express 27, Ron Kell, 15; 3) Andiamo, SC 27, Mike Warren, 17; 4) Frenzy, Moore 24, Lon Woodrum, 21; 5) Shenanigans, C&C 36, Mike Maloney, 21; 6) Kelika, Hunter 33.5, Mike Weaver, 22.5. (16 boats) DIV. D (153-180) — 1) Quickstep II, lOD, Rich¬ ard Pearce, 7 points; 2) Baleineau, Olson 25, Charlie Brochard, 15; 3) Half Fast, Merit 25, Bill Schwob, 17; 4) Never Again II, lOD, Mark Pearce, 18. (9

DIV. A (< 69) — 1) Blue Chip, Farr 40, Walt Lo¬ gan, 10 points; 2) Surfer Girl, SC 50, Mike Travis, 12; 3) Team Iverson, 11 :Metre, Mark Varnes, 21; 4) Copernicus, Sydney 38, Michael Kennedy, 23; 5) Moray, 11:Metre, Mark Hecht, 29; 6) Morgana, SC 52, Rob Magoon, 30; 7) Non Sequitur, Dick Watts/

boats) DIV. V (> 183) — 1) Elaine, Santana 22, Pat Broderick, 9 points; 2) Summerwind, O'Day 27, John Arisman, 11; 3) Synergizer, Ericson 28-2, Larry

Tom Thayer, 33. (17 boats) DIV. B (72-117) —1) Yucca, 8-Meter, Hank Easom, 6 points; 2) Navigator, Soverel 33, Dick & Bill Melbostad, 10; 3) Whole Heart, Melges 24, Dave Holscher, 14; 4) Remedy, Beneteau 42?7, Ken

Weinhoff, 11. (6 boats) BENETEAU 40.7 — 1) Wired, Joel Davis, 7 points; 2) Battant, Chris Herron, 8. (4 boats) EXPRESS 37—1) Eclipse, Mark Dowdy, 5 points; 2) Golden Moon, Kame Richards, 11; 3) Elan,

Golden Gate Midwinters The fourth scheduled Golden Gate YC midwinter race, held on February 1, was unexpectedly boisterous. "It was just like a summer day on the Bay," claimed re¬ gatta chairwoman Chris Joyce. "We clocked the wind at a fairly steady 23 knots from the west, with gusts up to 27." The three 'big boat' classes — PHRF I and II, and J/105s — did the usual 9.6milfe course from the GGYC to Blackaller, Blossom, Blackaller, Ft. Mason and fin¬ ish. The rest of the 79-boat fleet sailed a 6.8-miler from GGYC to Blackaller to Ft. Mason, twice around. A building ebb against the westerly turned the waters off the Cltydront into a washing machine, soaking crewmembers and breaking boat parts. " The wettest person in the race was the bowmem on Tom Allen's lOD White Cap, who fell overboard while winging out the jib after they rounded Blackaller (Allen, like the majority of smaller boat skippers, eleffcted not to set a kite that day). To their credit, the White Cap crew circled back and picked up their soggy crewmate within two minutes, while Dan Benjamin's Aerodyne 38 Fast Forward alertly stood by to assist if necessary. Fortunately, the swimmer was wearing a lifejacket (the 'Y' flag was fl3dng, though Allen makes his crew wear lifejackets regardless) and they were able to hoist him back aboard the low-freeboard boat and continue racing — no mean feat when the entire crew was over 60 years old! March, 2003 • IxtiUJiVi • Page 171

THE RACING The headsall trimmer on Bill Mad¬ ison's Folkboat Frihed al:^ went over¬ board, though he managed to hang on to the boat. The incident occurred in mid¬ tack, when a gust laid the bo^ over on its ear. Madison and his other crew quickly let go of everything else to drag their friend, who is in his mld-50s, in over the transom. Frihed jumped right back into the race — and went on to win their class! There was als^^ fair amount of car¬ nage, including at least one broken boom {Crazy Jane, a Thunderblrd), a whole bunch of blown-up sails (including two kites on the SC 50 Oaxaca), and a colli¬ sion involving the J/105 Kookaburra and BUI Belmont's 51-year-old wooden Farallone Clipper Credit. Kookaburra was blast¬ ing downwind from BlackaUer on port, as Credit was approaching upwind on star¬ board. "At first, 1 thought Kookaburra was tiying to go between us and Chorus," ex¬ plained Belmont. "Instead, they broached and hit us midships on the low side, tak¬ ing out a window, the bulwarks (wooden rails), some stanchions and our stern pulpit. It ruined an otherwise great day for us." Belmont, however, didn't lay all the blame on the port boat. "The course se¬ lection contributed to the accident," said Belmont. "There were a lot of boats going up and down the one-mile corridor be¬ tween '6' and ' 16' to start with, and I think

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prompting GGYC to lay out a complimen¬ tary spread of dim sum and won ton soup — a nice way to end an exciting day on the Bay. The series concludes on March 1. Look for one of three still-undefeated boats — Whisper (J/105), Navigator (Soverel 33), or Uno (WylieCat 30) — to win the Sea Weed Soup Trophy for best overall per¬ formance. FLEET I (< 64) — 1) Summer Moon, Synergy 1000, Mike DeVries; 2) City Lights, SC 52, Tom Sanborn; 3) Cipango, Andrews 56, The Bartons; 4) QuiB5, J/120, John Sylvia; 5) Oaxaca, SC 50, The Cranors. (11 boats)

J/105 sailor Eden Kim ('Whisper') now has three bullets In the GGYC Midwinters. that port roundings made the situation even worse. Perhaps we should have at least rounded to starboard?" Needless to say, there were plenty of good stories in the GGYC clubhouse af¬ terward. The 'summer preview' doubled as the first day of the Chinese New Year, Page 172 •

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FLEET II (65-105) — 1) Navigator, Soverel 33, The Melbostads; 2) Yucca, 8-Meter, Hank Easom; 3) Two Scoops, Express 34, Chris Longaker; 4) Just in Time, Ben, 42s7, Frank McNear. (9 boats) FLEET III (106-156) — 1) Uno, WylieCat 30, Steve Wonner; 2) Spirit of Elvis, Santana 35, Martih Cunningham; 3) Breakout, Santana 35, Lloyd Ritchie; 4) Harp, Catalina 38, Mike Mannix. (9 boats) FLEET IV (157-197) — 1) Eyrie, Hawkfarm, Tom Condy; 2) Spindrifter, Tartan 30, Paul Skabo; 3) Chorus, Kettenburg 38, Peter English. (7 boats) FLEET V (198-up) — 1) Elaine, Santana 22, Pat Broderick; 2) YachtSea, Santana 22, Mike Spitz; 3) Auggie, Santana 22, Sally Taylor. (7 boats) J/105 — 1) Whisper, Eden Kim; 2) Orion, Gary Kneeland; 3) Good Timin', Wilson/Perkins; 4) Bald Eagles, Dave Liggett; 5) Arbitrage, Bruce Stone; 6) Larrikin, Stuart Taylor; 7) Irrational Again, Jaren Leet; 8) Cuchulainn, James Mullen; 9) Wind Dance, Steve Pugh. (21 boats) CATALINA 34 — 1) Wind Dragon, Dave Davis; 2) Mottley, Chris Owen. (6 boats)

Paul Cayard and crew Phi! Trinter grind upwind at the Miami OCR. Inset, Mark Mendelblatt 'torched' the Laser fleet. KNARR — 1) Peerless, Mike Guzzardo; 2) Adelante, Grant Settlemeir. (5 boats) FOLKBOAT— 1) Frihed, Bill Madison; 2) Little Svendle, Mark Slichter. (4 boats) » Full results - www.ggyc.org.

Miami Rolez OCR The road to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens passed through Biscayne Bay on January 29-Februaiy 1, when 526 sailors representing 34 countries com¬ peted in the 14th Annual Rolex Miami OCR (Olympic Classes Regatta). Over half of the 328 boats racing on the six circles were foreign entries, and competition in all classes (11 Olympic and two Paralympic) was keen. This is the only ISAF Grade One ranking event in the U.S., and all the serious Olympic con¬ tenders from our country were in atten¬ dance. Americans won six of the 13 classes, which could bode well for our Olympic medal chances. Longtime Florida Laser campaigner Mark Mendelblatt came from behind on the last day to defeat defend¬ ing champion Paul Goodison (GBR), thereby earftlng a new award — the Golden Torch — for best performance by a U.S. sailor. The veteran 470 team of Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham, both Olympic silver medalists, also pulled out

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Michael Miller, Hampton, VA, 25; 3) Mark Ivey/ Howard Cromwell, Huntington Beach, CA, 33. (12 boats) 470 WOMEN—1) Katie McDowell/lsabelle Kinsolving, Barrington, Rl, 41 points; 2) Erin Maxwell/ Jen Morgan, Stonington, CT, 55; 3) Amanda Clark/ Sarah Mergenthaler, Shelter Island, NY, 86. (9 boats) 49er — 1) Tim Wadlow/Peter Spaulding, Branford, CT, 19 points; 2) Andy Mack/Adam Lowry, White Salmon, WA, 23; 3) Dave Fagen/Bora Gulari, St. Petersburg, FL, 29. (17 boats) LASER — 1) Mark Mendelblatt, St. Petersburg, FL, 48 points; 2) Paul Goodison, GBR, 55; 3) An¬ drew Campbell, 59. (49 boats)

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victory on the last day. The biggest sur¬ prise of the regatta was in the Yngling class, which young Wisconsinite Sally Barkow (with erew Carrie Howe and Debbie Capozzi) won in their first appear¬ ance. The 68-boat Star class offered the big¬ gest and no doubt toughest cdmpetition at the OCR. Bermudian Peter Bromby topped the talent-heavy class, followed by Americans Andy Lovell/Eric Oetgen and Bill Hardesty/Will Stout. Rounding out the top ten, in order, were Paul Cayard, Terry Hutchinson, Howie Shiebler, Vince Brun, Philippe Presti (FRA), John Kostecki and world champion lain Percy (GBR). Besides Cayard and Kostecki, other Bay Are4 sailors who fared well in Miami Included Adam Lowry (49er crew, 2nd), Patrick Whitmarsh/Paul Allen (49er, 7th), Krysia Pohl (Europe, 5th), Mo Hart (Finn, 7th), Melissa Purdy (Yngling crew, 8th), and Matt McQueen (Laser, 14th). See www.ussailing.org/Olympics/RolexMiamiOCR/ for complete results, press releases and some nice photos. , EUROPE— 1) Lenka Smidova, CZE, 13 points; 2) Meg Gaillard, Jamestown, Rl, 16; 3) Georgia Chimona, GRE, 36. (25 boats) FINN — 1) Jonas Hoegh-Christensen, DEN, 28 points; 2) Chris Cook, CAN, 31; 3) Richard Ciarke, CAN, 44. (32 boats) 470 MEN (mixed) — 1) Paul Foerster/Kevin Burnham, Rockwall, TX, 24 points; 2) Steve Hunt/

MISTRAL MEN — 1) Nikos Kaklimanakis, GRE, 13 points; 2) Kevin Stittle, CAN, 24; 3) David Miery, MEX, 26. (22 boards)

to be showing signs of life again. In the past, the TransPac has been ac¬ cused — rightfully or wrongly — of cater¬ ing primarily to the bigger, more glamor¬ ous boats. This year, the pendulum seems to have swung back the other way. Of course, the soon-to-be-retlred Pyewacket and her newer semi-sistership Pegasus 77 will have another match race for Barn Door honors, as well as another shot at Pyewackets '99 course record of 7:11:41. But the other turbosleds have been sold [Magnitude to the East Coast, Chance to Europe), the ULDB 70 scene is long gone, and the TP-52s are not coming in force. Fortunately, the ranks are being filled by smaller boats — including, so far, four from the Bay Area — Pegasus 77, Rlusion. Beach Music and Dasher. The early entry deadline is March 7, and race organizers expect to pick up more boats before then, as well as the usual flurry around the fi¬ nal date to enter. May 23. Hopes are high for a four-boat J/160 fleet, some lD-35s, more SC 50s, and at least half a dozen

MISTRAL WOMEN — 1)AnJa Kaeser, SUI, 54.5; 2) Dominique Vallee, CAN, 71.4; 3) Swaine Gregoire, CAN, 101. (11 boards) STAR — 1) Peter Bromby/ Lee White, BER, 80 points; 2) Andy Lovell/Eric Oetgen, New Yacht Orieans, LA, 100; .3) Bill lyss DIVISION 1 (Stnis Sunday, J'Jv 6) Hardesty/Will Stout, San Diego, Pegaaua 77 a-p 7? CA, 108. (68 boats) Pyawaclwt aP75 TORNADO — 1) Roman Hagara/Hans-Peter Steinacher, ’’ DIVISION II (Starts Sunday, Juiy 6) Vickt AnrJ. 66t AUT, 35 points; 2) Santiago Medicine Man And. 61 + Lange/Carlos Espinola, ARG,

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37; 3) Xavier Revil/Laurent Guiilemette, FRA, 48. (28 boats) YNGLING — 1)Sally Barkow/Carrie Howe/Debbie Cap¬ ozzi, Nashotah, Wl, 50 points; 2) K. Giakomidou et, al., GRE, 57; 3) Carol Cronin/Liz Filter/Bridget Hallawell, James-town, Rl, 60. (24 “boats) 2.4 METRE — 1) Heiko Kroeger, GER, 14 points; 2) Hans Meyer, Pewaukee, Wl, 19; 3) Stellan Berlin, SWE, 29. (20 boats) SONAR — 1) John RossDuggan/JP Creignou/Mikey Ross, Newport Beach, CA, 14 points. (7 boats)

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TransPac Looming In just four months, a fleet of about 40 boats will take off from Los Angeles in the 42nd Transpacific Race, the biennial 2,225mile downwind sprint to Diamond Head, Almost certsilnly, the fleet will top the 33-boat turnout in both 01 and '99, which were the two smallest fleets since 1963. Considering the current ecomonlc and political uncertainties — and the paltry racing fleet in the recent PV Race — the TransPac actually seems

Cal 40s. Notable boats expected to enter soon include Dennis Conner's Cal 40 Persephone, Karl Kwok's new Farr TP-52 Beau Geste, and Bill Turpin's Davidson TP-52 Alta Vita. "We've had over 115 inquiries, with 24 sign-ups as of mid-Februairy," said TPYC March, 2003 • UtUidi 3? • Page 173

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TransPac memories, clockwise from upper left— 'Strider'('91); 'Medicine Man' In the windy '97 race; 'Grand Illusion' won overall In '99 despite a split mainsail; 'Pressure Cooker' ('95); 'Chance' swept the race in '91; and an arlel shot of 'Pyewacket' en route to setting the new record In 1999.

racers in the February 1 race were finally rewarded with a fresh breeze. According to official SBYRA Measurer and Weather Statistician, Dave Few, the February wind speed was enough to bring the average wind speed for the season to approxi¬ mately 8-10 knots per race. The wind blew steadily from the northwest at 20-32

knots for most of the race and the jour¬ ney back to the harbor. If that wasn't chal¬ lenging enough, the strong northwesterly wind in conjurrction with a big ebb tide made the Soutli Bay waters resemble fivefoot high corrugated cardboard. Our sincere thanks to Sequoia YC Race Committee, who anchored in these "chal-

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Memories, cant’d, clockwise from upper right — 'Silver Bullet' swept the fleet in '93; 'Ralphie' won overall in '97; 'Pegasus' took the Barn Door in '01; 'Antara', sailed by an all-woman crew in '93, isone of many Cal 40s to do the race; 'Glama!' (’^9) at Diamond Head. Is there a better finish line anywhere?

lenging" conditions to start our fleet and endured over two hours of hobby-horsIng at station to finish all the boats. A number of boats chose to retire from the race with torn sails or minor hardware problems before and during the race. Those who stayed and raced the 7.17-nm course had an invigorating sail, to say the

least. Many boats reported downwind speeds of over 12-13 knots sans spinna¬ ker! The only boat which sported a spin¬ naker that day was Barking Spider and she was able to pass a few boats during that downwind leg, sporting a plume of rooster tails behind her stern. We would like to express our appreciation and dis¬

appointment to the crew of Barking Spi¬ der, who managed to fly the chute with¬ out any spectacular broaches for the rest of us to enjoy. The results are posted on the website for those interested — http://sbyra.home.attbi.com. The next race on March 1 is the last one of the winter season, so please come out, race, and attend the awards ceremony after the racing at Coy¬ ote Point YC. In order to avoid a reoccurMarch, 2003 •

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THE RACING rence of too little or too much wind for the March race, we are requiting only half of you pray for wind this month. — robert hu

\ LARGE SPINNY — 1) Mist, Beneteau First 38, Robert Hu; 2) Barking Spider, Tartan Ten, Mike Kearny; 3) Windwaiker, Jeanneau 36, Jim Benson; 4) Boogiwacket, Columbia 36, John Feich. (7 boats) SMALL SPINNY —1) Summertime, Interna¬ tional Folkboat, Luther Izmirian. (3 boats) NON-SPINNY — 1) IS(o Name, Cataiina 42, Stan Phiilips. (3 boats) ^

Marina del Rey-PV Race Twenty-three boats sailed (and mo¬ tored) in Del Rey YC's 17th biennicd race to Puerto Vallarta last month. The socalled Salsa Division — which allowed motor use and stopped at Turtle Bay, Santa Maria and Cabo San Lucas — got underway on February 7. The nine rac¬ ing boats — which quickly became eight when the Fair 39 Black Knight blew out its main and retired the first afternoon — left a week later in three starts between February 12-14. The February 13 start {Sorcery and Locomotion) enjoyed the best weather win¬ dow, and 5 days,U 7 hours and 39 min¬ utes and 1,125 miles later, the three-yearold Andrews 45 Locomotion crossed the finish line first in fleet, claiming overall honors in the process. Sailing with own¬ ers Winslow and Melinda Lincoln on thensecond victorious PV Race were skipper

Kefth Kilpatrick, watch captains Doug McLean and Randy Smith, Jib Kelly, Allan Lindsay and Amer Sports Too Volvo Race veteran Bridget Suckling. Roy Disney's R/P 75 Pyewacket, with Bay Area sailors Stan Honey, Scott Easom, Rick Brent and Hogan Beatie aboard, started last — and alone, except for the ghost of Dick and Camille Daniels’ MacGregor 64 Joss, which set the course record of 4 days, 23 hours in 1985. Pyewacket, of course, has ample horse¬ power to shatter that long-standing mile¬ stone, but once again the wind gods failed to cooperate. "It was a really light-air, but wonderful, trip," reported navigator Honey. "Most of the time it blew 6-^, and the most we ever saw was 14 knots." Pyewacket parked at Cabo for five or six hours, unlike Locomotion, which only spent 15 minutes in the doldrums. Pyewackets elapsed time of 5:04:50 was about five hours off the record pace — basically, the time they spent creeping around the Cape. 'We had a delightful sail anyway," claimed Disney. "The moon would rise as the sun was setting, emd we saw dolphins, birds and all kinds of wildlife. We were just going slow." y A pair of SC 50s topped PHRF-B, with Jack Taylor's Horizon winning the match race over Richard PartreU's chartered Bay

Del Rey YC PuertoVbllarta Race 2003 QL £L Yacht Design RACING DIVISION PHRF-AA (started Friday, 2/14) 1 5 Pyewacket RP70 PHRF-A (Started Thursday, 2't3i 1 1 Locomotion Andrews 45 2 2 Sorcery Mull 32 PHRF-B (Started Vi/ednesdf^ iyi2} 1 3 Horizon SC 50 2 4 Bay Wolf SC 50 3 6 Ghost 11 Farr 395-4 7 Atalanta Tripp 74 5 8 Zamazaan FarrS2ou^,43 - - Black Knight Farr 39 ."--fr,,; SAUSA DIVISION SPifMAKER tartedFrutev. 21 Between the Sheets Jen-iceau 52.2 2 Misty CnI 39-2 3 Gold Digger N M 50 4 Broadway Babe CAC 110 5 Cheyenne Whiting 49 ^ ^ 6 Amazing Grace F,ifr 55 NON-SPINNAKER A (atarted Fnday 2-7; 1 Quamichan Ddv'oson 44 2 Quest Dav'dson 53 3 Sunseeker TayanaSS NONSPINNAKER B (Started F'dav f-7) 1 Firelight Catalina 470T' 2 SeakerU sfarr 33 3 Fly'n Bry'n Catalina 42 -- ; 4 Valerie K Columbia 43 5 Ptincipessa Newport 41S Page 176 • UKUM

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Wolf on the homestretch. Chuck Weghorn's Farr 52 Zamazaan, the lone Bay Area entry, was the last boat at sea, even¬ tually finishing in 8 days, 21 hours. Salsa Division winners were Ross Pearlman's Beneteau 52.2 Between the Sheets, Sandy Clark's Davidson 44 Quamichan, and Patrick MickleCs Catalina 470-T Firelight. For full results, as well as Rich Rob¬ erts' entertaining daily reports, check out www.dryc.org.

Midwinter Box Scores Following are results of seven more midwinter series which occurred last month. As the winter season draws to a close, we're burned out on writing about these Ught-atr, current-riddled affairs, and we're pretty sure you're tired of reading about them, too. Hence, we'll spare you our usual ramblings and cut straight \o the important stuff — the winners! Hang in there, summer is right around the corner. SAUSAUTOYCtFeb. 1): DIV. A (< 145) — 1) E.T., Antrim 27, Todd Hedin/ Liz Baylis; 2) Absolute 02, Sydney 38, Keith MacBeth; 3) Team Iverson, 11 :Metre, Mark Varnes; 4) Razzberries. Olson 34, The Nesbits. (12 boats) DIV. B (> 145) — 1) Mortal Kombat, Moore 24, Hans Bigall; 2) Dulcinea, Coronado 27, John Slivka; 3) SouLatitude, J/24, Jonathan Hagerman. (8 boats) DIV. C (non-spinnaker < 185) — 1) Q, Schu¬ macher 40, Glenn Isaacson; 2) Youngster, lOD, Ron Young; 3) Basic Instinct, Elliott 10.5, Jan Borjeson; 4) Roeboat, Catalina 30, Rod Decker. (11 boats) DiV. D (non-spinnaker > 185) — 1) Elaine, Santana 22, Pat Broderick; 2) Nordlys, Knarr, Joel Kudler; 3) Interlude, Cal 2-27, Ken Crowe; 4) Fledg¬ ling, Golden Gate, Michael Bonner. (10 boats) J/105 — 1) (tie) Whisper, Eden Kim, and Haz¬ ardous Waste, Chihak/Sack/Youngling, 3 points. (4 boats; 2 races) Full results— www.syconline.org RYC SMALL BOATS {cumulative through Feb. P)EL TORO, SR. — 1) Gordie Nash, 60.5 points; 2) Rogan Kriedt, 74.5; 3) John Amen, 87; 4) Paul Tara, 139.5; 5) Don Jesberg, 144; 6) Max Fraser, 150; 7) Chris Nash, 157.5; 8) Nick Nash, 166.5; 9)

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SHEET DIV. IV (190-up) — 1) Valkyrie, Peterson 25, Michael Tosse; 2) Madness, Brighton Sprint, John Diegoli. (5 boats) NON-SPINNAKER — 1) White Cloud, Yamaha 33, Barbara Jagiello. (3 boats) SANTA CRUZ YC (Feb. 15:2 races): CREWED — 1) Sweet Jane, J/90, Trevor Baylis, 2 points; 2) (tie) Animal, Sydney 38, Lezin/Akrop/ French, and Minor Threat, Melges 24, Peter Dalton, 5; 4) (tie) Trailblazer, Melges 24, Dave Embersom, and Wildfire, Moore 24, Tom Connerly, 10; 6) Stray Cat, Olson 30, John Roberts, 12. (13 boats) DOUBLEHANDED —1) Una Mas, Moore 24, Larry Peterson, 3 points; 2) Nobody's Girl, Moore 24, Syd Moore, 4. (4 boats) Full results — www.scyc.org

Pretty kitty — 'PyewackeV begins her assauit on the PV Race record. Where was everyone eise? Ben Lezin, 185; 10) Jim Warfield, 197; 11) Vickie Gilmour, 201; 12) Claire Dennis, 26; 13) Kit Stycket, 224; 14) Vaughn Seifers, 224.5; 15) Mike Dias, 249. (55 boats) EL TORO, JR. — 1) Will Dennis, 16 points; 2) Nathan Gartrell, 38. (6 boats) DeWITT DINGHY — 1)Jaye Preston, 11 points; 2) Bob''Quick, 12. (5 boats) OPTIMIST — 1) Cody Nagy, 64 points; 2) Peter Jesberg, 73; 3) Devon Lindsley, 79; 4) Finneuk Nilsen, 79; 5) Daphne Arena, 83; 6) Michaella McCloskey, 99; 7) Christopher Jeffries, 102; 8) Emma Jesberg, 102; 9) Tanner Nagy, 116; 10) Billy Reeves, 119. (23 boat) BYTE — 1) Trish Moratorio, 33 points; 2) Gail Yando, 40; 3) Janelle Kubinec, 55. (8 boats) FJ — 1) Michael Le\wis, 5 points. (2 boats) CFJ — 1) John Gray, 20 points; 2) Michael Lewis, 21. (5 boats) VANGUARD 15 — 1) Mikey Murisbn, 15 points; 2) Eric Wilson, 26; 3) Brian Malouf, 26. (8 boats)

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INTERNATIONAL 14—1) Greg Mitchell, 21 points; 2) Lawrence Henderson, 28; 3) Joel Truher, 31. (7 boats) INTERNATIONAL CANOE — 1) Del Olsen, 10 point's; 2) Anders Petersson, 16. (5 boats) CORONADO 15—1) Kevin Wasbaner, 20 points; 2) Charlie Quest, 22; 3) Trent Watkins, 26; 4) Steve Fishman, 26. (12 boats) THISTLE — 1) Jonathan Howell, 18 points; 2) Ron Smith, 19. (4 boats) LIGHTNING — 1) Mike Molina, 5 points; 2) Pe¬ ter Beecher, 6. (4 boats) 29er — 1) Bertrand Perroud, 14 points; 2) George Pedrick, 24; 3) Cameron McCloskey, 30. (8 boats) WYLIE WABBIT — 1) Erik Menzel, 15 points; 2) Colin Moore, 16. (5 boats) PORTSMOUTH — 1) Mark Dawson, Banshee, 26 points; 2) Curt Rodgers, Banshee, 34; 3) Bob Cronin, Sunfish, 35; 4) Roy Jordan, Sunfish, 50; 5) Byron Jonk, Sunfish, 53. (17 boats) Full results — www.richmondyc.org ALAMEDA YC (Feb. 9): DIV. I (0-138) — 1) Buzz Light Year, Capri 30,

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EYC JACK FROST {Feb. 8): DIV. I (<100) — 1) Bodacious, Farr One Ton, Clauser/Tosse. (3 boats) DIV. II (101-177) — 1) Hamburger Haus, Olson 25, Jens Jensen; 2) True Grits, Express 27, Jay Montgomery; 3) Noble Lady, Ben. 305, Gary Massari; 4) Crinan II, WylieCat 30, Bill West. (13 boats) DIV. Ill (178-up) — 1) Talisman, J/22, Gary Albright; 2) Wuvulu, Islander 30, John New. (5 boats) J/120 — 1) Mr. Magoo, Steve Madeira; 2) Qui B 5, John Sylvia; 3) Jolly Mon, Mark Bowman, (7 boats) J/35 — 1) Jarlen, Bob Bloom; 2) Kiri, Bob George. (6 boats) ANTRIM 27 — 1) Cascade. Laraine McKinnon. (3 boats) J/105 — 1) 20/20, Phil Gardner. (3 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Smokin', Kevin Clark. (1 boat) Full results — www.encinal.org. OYC BRUNCH SERIES ^cumulative through 2/9): FLEET l-A (< 152) — 1) Tortuga, Santana 30/ 30, Steve Hutchison, 3 points; 2) Wet Trash, Capri 30, Brian Flaherty, 5; 3) Spitfire, Moore 24, Brant Adornato, 9; 4) Peggy Sue, Laser 28, John Davis, 12. (10 boats) , FLEET l-B (152-173) — 1) Popeye & I, Cal 9.2,

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THE RACING points; 2) Nefertiti, John Notman, 8; 3) Cheater, Jim Graham, 11; 4) Drummer, Weaver/S^key/Sadeg, 12. (11 boats) MULTIHULL — 1) Three Sigma, F-27, Chris Harvey, 4 points; 2) Sea Bird, F-27, Rich Hdiden, 4. (5 boats) Full results — www.oaklandyachtclub.com BYC MIPS CHAMP-OF-CHAMPS (2/23:4.8 miSan): RED —1) Tinseltown Rebellion, J/22, Cam Lewis; 2) Half Blind Monkey, J/24, James Zervos; 3) Ypso, Cal 2-27, Tim Stapleton; 4) Sleeping Dragon, Hobie 33, Mari^^lalman; 5) Bay Loon, J/ 29, Joe Ferrie. (15 boats) BLUE — 1) Phantom, J/24, John Gulliford; 2) Fast Forward, C&C 34, Michael Dungan; 3) Par¬ amour, Moore 24, Rowan Fennell. (6 boats) WHITE — 1) Clean Sweep, Olson 25, Tom Nemeth; 2) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles. (4 boats)

Race Notes Sale boats of the month: Zarko Draganie recently sold his Farr 40 Cavallino to Lang Walker, an Australian who already owns two Farr 40s and a megayacht named Kokomo. Zarko will campaign his Melges 24, also named Cavallino, this year. . . Danville packag¬ ing executive Mark Jones, owner of the now-for-sale SC 52 Silver Bullet, bought

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Collegiate update: Per the February 11 Sailing World rcinkings, the top ten coed sailing teams were: 1) Harvard; 2) St. Maiy's; 3) USC; 4) Stanford; 5) Tufts; 6) Boston College; 7) Hawaii; 8) Hobart/Wm. Smith; 9) Brown; and 10) Dartmouth. Further down the list, UC Irvine was 16th and UC Santa Barbara was 18th. East Coast schools dominated the top ten women's teams, with UC Santa Barbara (12th), USC (13th) and Stanford (15th) currently In the second tier. Bluewater classic; The Swedish trimaran Nicator (ex-Lakota) took multi¬ hull line honors in January's 2003 SAP Cape to Rio Race, finishing the 3,400mile race across the South Atlantic in the record time of 12:23:47. That smashed the previous multihull record by almost six days, but missed Zephyrus IVs 2000 race record by about ten hours. Hasso Plattner's R/P 80 Morning Glory (exShockwave) took monohull line honors after a torpid 16:08:31 crossing. "It was so slow we read books," reported crew¬ member Dee Smith. Beleka, a South Af¬ rican Fast 42, topped the 32-boat fleet — of which 10 missed the finish deadline. See www.capetorio.org for more.

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Summer Sailing Charters for Teens That Make E^ei^; Parent Jealous As springtime blossoms begin to sprout all over the Bay Area and the chill of winter begins to subside, it's time for you to think seriously about summer sailing plans — especially if you have kids. Most adult sailors we know wohld love it if their kids got genuinely turned on by sailing. If you feel the same way, we encourage you to consider one of the in¬ structional sailing opportunities offered aboard charterboats, both here on the Bay and in tropical destinations over¬ seas. A child's own parents are probably the most valuable teachers he or she will ever have. Yet in our own experience with childrearing there came a time, during the teen years, when our kids became less and less interested in the sage wis¬ dom that Mom and Dad had to offer, yet they were quite happy to take advice and coaching from unrelated adults. Now that our bruised egos have healed, we realize that their resistance was simply part of the 'breaking-away' process, since all kids eventually need to prepare them¬ selves for the world beyond the nest. It is with this reality in mind that we'll introduce you to several excellent pro¬ grams for kids, designed to teach them valuable watersports skills while encour¬ aging them to grow as individuals, and become more confident and Independent. Here in the Bay Area, both the Ha-

waiian Chieftain and the Sea Training Institute offer multifaceted instructional programs during the summer months, for kids as young as seven years old. At 65 feet in length — or* 103 overall — the Hawaiian Chieftain is a familiar sight on the Bay, as she's been one of the region's most popular crewed char¬ ter vessels for over a decadp. ''Designed to resemble a European merchant ship of the late 1700s, she offers a wide vari¬ ety of sailing opportunities to the public throughout the year, from simple sun¬ set sciils to battle reenactments complete with deck canons blazing and crewmen dressed in period costumes. During the summer, though, part of the Chieftain's schedule is dedicated to two types of nautical day camps for kids. The Buccaneers & Explorers Camp is de¬ signed for kids from 9 to 12 years of age and includes a wide variety of shipboard and land-based activities. With inst^ctors dressed in swashbuckling attire, each young swab will be exposed to vari¬ ous elements of marllnspike seamanship

cal heritage. But for many little Errol Flynn wannabes, the favorite activity is the bona fide fencing in¬ struction given by Captain Mike Brad¬ ley, Director of the U.S. Fencing Asso¬ ciation. The five-day pro¬ gram Includes four half-day sails, and lunches are in¬ cluded. Three ses¬ sions are scheduled In July and August (9 to 4 daily). The Chieftain's other day Camp, called the Voyager's Longboat Camp, is aimed at slightly older kids, from 13 to 16 years of age. A single session is scheduled for midAugust which incor¬ porates many of the elements of the Buc-

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such as line han¬ dling, navigation, helmsmanship, knot tying, rowing — even the croon¬ ing of sea chan¬ ties. They'll also get a capsule edu¬ cation on the Age of Discovery and California's nautl-

one optional overnight -camping ex¬ pedition. Extensive sail training will be conducted aboard the Chieftain in addi¬ tion to activities involving the ship's beautifully-crafted 24-ft longboat — a replica of the craft ol' Cap'n Bligh made his epic 3,600-mile voyage in back in 1789, when cast,adrift by Fletcher Chris¬ tian and the Bounty bad boys. For more info or reservations on these and other Chieftain programs, call (415) 332-3214 or visit the ship's website:

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ter, the City of Oakland Parks and Rec. Dept., the Richmond YC, the Sausalito YC, the Encinal YC, the St. Francis YC and the Stockton Sailing Club. Beyond the Bay, you can find any number of hands-on sailing opportuni¬ ties for kids, but we'll highlight three op¬ tions here that we feel are particularly noteworthy. ExploraMar offers programs for 13 to 17-year-olds in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, which feature hands-on instruction in both big boat sailing and marine biol¬ ogy. Each weeklong session is conducted aboard a sleek Moorings 505 sloop by founders Bonnie and Tom Funkhouser. Their skills are ideally suited to the ExploraMar format, as she is a licensed sailing instructor and he is a longtime teacher of math, science and computers. Daily activities include sail trim, helmsmemship and navigation, in addi¬ tion to science-oriented studies of the Sea's rich marine ecosystem. Naturally, observation of marine mammals such as dolphins, rays, sea lions and fish is a highlight of each interisland trip. Two sessions are offered this summer in July. See the website for more details: exploramar.com or email setsail® exploramar.com. While ExploraMar is a small, familyrim program, both Sail Caribbean and ActionQuest are large organizations which offer a variety of instructional sailing and scuba diving programs for teens, primarily in the Caribbean, Established in 1980, Sail Caribbean is the brainchild of former high school and alt^native school teacher Mike Llese. With personal growth being one

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WWW. hawaii(mchieJtam.coTri/camp. html. T^e Sea Training Institute is a Sausallto-based nonprofit focused on sail training and environmental education for local kids. During the school year the Institute conducts educational programs aboard the 50-ft replica scow schooner Gas Light, and from mid-June through July the organization offers Adventure Sail Camps for kids 7 to 12 years of age aboard the 38-ft custom catamar&n Ap¬ parition. (Both boats are also available for 'adult' charters throughout the year.) In keeping with the Institute's mis¬ sion statement, "dedicated to preserving our maritime heritage while'fostering education and awareness of our marine environment," these day camps are fo¬ cused on both Bay ecology and handson sail training. During daily sailing trips

aboard the sleek, high performance cat, kids take turns at the helm, help raise and trim sails, and get instruction in ba¬ sic navigation. In addition, they conduct marine biology labs on board, sing chan¬ ties, and explore deUcate tide pools. Five sessions are scheduled between mid-June and the end of July. For info and reservations, call (415) 459-5910 or see the website: www.SeaTraining Institute.org. Although the intent of this article is to spotlight charter operations that work with yoimgsters, we should also note that the Bay Area offers a variety of other learn-to-sall programs for kids aboard dinghies and small keelboats at yacht clubs and sailing schools (clubs). A few examples are the annual programs of¬ fered by the Treasure Island Sailing Cen-

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of their key goals, each of Sail Caribbean's 12 summer programs give participants extensive training In big boat sailing and/or scuba. Programs of up to 18 days are organized so that simi¬ lar-aged kids are accommodated to¬ gether aboard 50-ft sloops, and are run in either the British Virgin Islands or the Leeward Antilles. By completing some programs, teens can earn US Sailing Basic Keelboat Certifications, Open Wa¬ ter Scuba Certifications and/or Red Cross Lifeguard Certifications. Did we mention that participants have the time of their lives? Call (800) 321-0994 for more info, or visit sailcaribbean.com. ActlonQuest runs liveaboard pro¬ grams for teens that are similar to those of Sail Caribbean, many of which offer certifications at various levels in either sailing (ASA or US Sailing) or scuba. BVI flotillas include as many as 12 boats sail¬ ing In tandem at least part of the time, while groups are much smaller else¬ where. While 50-ft sloops are primarily used for Caribbean voyages, in the Leeweirds, ActlonQuest also runs pro¬ grams aboard its 88-ft schooner Ocean Star. In recent years ActlonQuest has ex¬ panded its menu of learn-whtle-you-sall offerings to include the Galapagos Is¬ lands, the Tahitian Islands, Australia and the Med. For more info call (800) 317-6789 or check out the website:

WWW.actionquest.com. While any of the above-mentioned programs would undoubtedly enrich the life of your child, fill him or her with a sense of accomplishment and 3deld long-

lasting friendships, we feel it only fair to warn you that there Is a downside: you're likely to become insanely jealous! — latitude/aet

My Big Fat Greek Trip: Two Weeks in the Cyclades After arriving in Athens eafly last Sep¬ tember, we did some sightseeing, includ¬ ing a trip to the famous Parthenon. But what we were really itching to do was get on a boat and see the Gr^ek inlands. The Olympic Circle Sailing Club (OCSC) of Berkeley had arranged for 45 people to charter six boats from The Moorings. The 14-day sailing trip would take us from Athens through the Saronic and Cyclades Islands. On Saturday we did our check out', then cooled our heels until we could set sail Sunday morning. Our first sail was an all-day trip from the Kolonaki Harbor to our first stop, the island of Kithnos. Unfortunately, the weather in Athens, as well as much of Europe, was the r^^est it had been in 40 years. Every after¬ noon thunderclouds would roll in and there would be thunder and lightning fol¬ lowed by a shower. Our first crossing was no exception. The day started out nice but by 2 p.m. we felt the first drops of rain, and soon we were in the middle of the ocean with thunder and lightning all around us with some of the bolts coming down within 500 yards. Of the 45 people who came together from as far away as Oregon, Boston and New York, there were some 'Med moored' to a Greek quay, the crew of 'An¬ tonio' chill out after a long day's sail. Backing In gracefully Is always a challenge.

who had never been on a boat except one or two daysails, many who had a lot of daysailing experience, and some with charter and ocean experience. For most of us, though, we had never been in a lightning storm nor did we think we would experience one in Greece. We quickly came to the conclusion the only thing to do, at least on our boat, was to fire up the CD player and rock out to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. One of the more experienced captains slept through the storm while letting his capable all-female crew deal with the el¬ ements. We affectionately called him 'Captain Nappln'. Upon arriving in the little harbor of Louthra we were greeted by a small and wizened, yet friendly, storekeeper who gave us kisses and fresh basil sprigs. The next day we set off for the Island of Paros, which is known for its mairble production, with the idea that from there some of us could catch a high speed feny to the southern most island of Thira, commonly called Santorini, where we would spend two days. It is commonly believed that when this volcanic Island blew up in 1500 B.C., creating huge tidal waves, earthquakes, and upsetting the world's weather, that it was actually the site of the ancient civilization of Atlantis as evidenced by the archaeological dig at the Mlnoan town of Akrotiri. Santorini's picturesque tourist town

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of Oia was everything one would expect from looking at Greek travel brochures. The bay itself was created when the vol¬ cano blew its top. Perched bn a hill over¬ looking the bay are stark white build¬ ings, closely packed together with cobblestone avenues, an old windmill, and rounded blue-topped churches. The following day we ferried back to Paros. By this point in the trip, some of the boats had gone off in different directions. The four of us on Nemesis chose to stay with the itinerary of Captain Anthony Sandberg, OCSC's founder, as did the crew^of Captain Nappln’s boat named An¬ tonio. Anthony has taken groups to the Greek Islands for 20 years and he picked islands and a route that allowed for a mix of small islands with sandy beaches and larger islands with varied terrain, history, and a variety of restaurants. The islands are spread out enough so that many days we were motoring fo^ six or more hours, but once We arrived, we had more time on each island. Even though we made our way through the islands in a lar^e circle, the wind was on our nose most of the time, so we ende^ up doing a lot of motoring. Our group of three boats headed to Manganari Bay on the island of los. In this secluded bay with a white-sand

beach, there was only one small tavema and a few houses. We swam and enjoyed the sun and that evening we were treated to a saxophone serenade by Gary from Davis, CA, aboard Anthony’s 55-ft Penelope.

The next day we departed los for Folegandros. We all fell in love with Folegandros' main town, Hora, a quaint medieval village with an inner ,kastro (plaza) sitting 2.5 miles high up on a hill above the harbor. That evening, dinner in the kastro under a near full moon was magical. One of the things that Impressed us in these island towns was the children. They were free to chase each other around the streets af¬ ter dark with Vcirious adults keeping an eye on them. Even the teen¬ agers seemed happy, with no need for tattoos, pierc¬ ings and baggy pants. And they all were of an av¬ erage weight — there are no

fast food chains in the islands. We also got the impression that these islands are relatively crime free, and that we and our belongings on the boats were safe. From Folegandros we headed north to Milos and the port of Adhamas. On the way, we were caught in a short wind storm that culminated in some afternoon rain. On Milos some of us rented a car for the day. During our island tour we saw the only Christian Catacombs in Greece, not far from a Roman theater, then stopped to swim and picnic at an ocean inlet flanked by sandstone 'beaches'. That evening, after visiting several Ashing villages and resort areas, we sat high on the hilltop in Plaka and enjoyed an incredible sunset from a bar called Utopia. The next day we had a short motor to Serifos where we anchored out and swam the afternoon away. There we were joined by another boatload of our original group who were sailing aboard Ra. Someone came up with the idea of having our own Ol5mipic challenge, and the four boats soon put together teams for swimming, diving and dinghy racing competitions. There were no medals but a good time was had by all. That same night, around midnight, we all raised our anchors and headed fpr the last island of our circuit. Hydra. The picturesque harbor there is one of the busiest in Greece due to its proxim¬ ity to Athens. Upon arriving at 9 a.m., the quay was full, so we ended up tying off to other boats — we were the fourth boat out from the quay. For those of you not familiar with the Mediterranean, vir¬ tually ,p3!( of the harbors have concrete

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V rich and famous, it is unique in tlq.at no chrs of any kind are allowed. All goods are transported from the harbor up cobblestone streets by donkeys, mules or horses. The only motorized vehicle we saw was the 'ambulance', which was a golf cart containing only a stretcher, that transported a badly-injured man from the quay to the Athens ferry. After a couple of lovely days on Hydra our trip was — sadly — over and it was back to Athens. All in all, it was a won¬ derful trip which I'd love to repeat some¬ day. — teresa bright

Portland You can't help but get to know your neighbors when rafting up, quad-side, In Greece. Naturally, the evenings are often festive.

quays requiring you to 'Med moor', which simply means that you drop an anchor while delicately backing up to a concrete quay. It is common to catch other an¬ chors while mooring and upon exiting the quay. It is also common to have some¬ one tie their stem to your bow, or vice versa, when th^ harbor is busy. By 10 a.m. the boats in the back wanted out.

so we cill had to untie and disentangle anchors. An hour and a half later we were happily retied to the quay, and by the afternoon the harbor was full again. Although Hydra has a lot of expen¬ sive real estate which is owned by the

Teresa—Many thanks for that insight¬ ful look at cruising in Greece. With so many islands yet to explore, we'd be wiRing to bet that you'll make a return trip to those fabled isles before too long. In the meantime, an official Latitude 38 tank top is on its way to you as our way of saying "Thanks."

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CHANCES With reports this month from Ornaerie on the polluted coast of Spain; from Starship on aquising while a teenage girl; from Blue Banana in Australia; from Kynda on the resurreqtton of Nepenthe; from Geja on an¬ other happy summer cruising in the Meet;from Ram on FyU from Mendocino Queen on Kenya; from Chewbacca on the challenges of provisioning while south of Mexico; from Bird of Punk Dolphin in New Zealand; from Bra¬ vado on La PoLZ in winter; and the most Cruise Notes ever.

drnaerie — Rassey 31 Ivan Rusch Cleaning Oil |n Spain (Moss Landing I'm back here in California recuperat¬ ing while Ornaerie is waiting for me in Nleupoort, Belgium, and spring weather for a safe passage down to the Med. I'm recuperating from an unusual sort of cruising adventure I had in Spain last November. When the single hulled junk tanker Prestige started breaking up in a storm off Spain, her crew took a helicopter to safety. Rather then keeping the strieken tanker in shallow water where the oil could have been contained and pumped out, a Spanish minister sent the vessel 30 miles offshore — where she sank in deep water and created an ecological di¬ saster, It now looks as though her toxic cargo will pollute the shores of Spain and France for many years to come. Local tourism and fishing industries have been badly hurt or destroyed. Wanting to do something, I spent De¬ cember 20 through January 2 in the small fishing village of Camarinas as one of the many oil cleanup volunteers. I was given meal tickets, housing, and daily issues of protective clothing — including a respi¬ rator and goggles — in return for work¬ ing five hours a day scooping oil into buck¬ ets so it could be hauled away. The work¬ ing conditions weren't good, as it was cold. When it comes to living life to the fullest In their late 70s, not many people can hold a candle to Ivan Rusch of Moss Landing.

rainy, and windy — so windy, In fact, that it would knock people over. It finally became took much for this old guy. As you might remember, I didn't start sailing until I was 74, and didn't sail my boat from Moss Landing to Panama and then to Sweden until I was 76. In any event, I flew the coop to Madrid, then took a train to Barcelona to visit some old friends, then took a bus back to Belgium and my boat. A short time later, I flew back to California, where a Veterans Ad¬ ministration doctor said x-rays showed I had developed a mild case of pneumonia while doing oil eleanup in Spain. As soon as the weather permits — probably March — I'll fly back to my boat and head to Portsmouth, England, Guern¬ sey in the Channel Islands, the Atlantic Coast of France, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, and into the Med. Naturally, I plan on giving Cape Finisterre a wide berth. — ivan 2115103

Starship — 50-ft Trimaran Darci Carter Cruising While A Teenager (Santa Cruz) For the past two years of my life — I'm now 14 — I have lived aboard a 50-ft trimaran with my dad, Don, my mom, Deborah, and my dog, Daisy. Although we're currently at Pedro Miguel Boat Club inside Miraflores Lake on the Panama Canal, we've been traveling down the Pa¬ cific Coast of Latin America. Having al¬ ready been In the marina here for seven months, we're ready to resume our lifestyle by cruising on the ocean some more. I'm originally from Santa Cruz, where my mother and father raised me on this wonderful boat since I was a little girl. We took many sailing trips on Monterey Bay Emd along the California coast. People al¬ ways tell me that this educational experi¬ ence will change my life, emd it has. Not many of my friends back home have spent hours running along deserted islands, climbing coconut trees, and diving on beautiful coral reefs. I don't think life m the States will ever be the same for me. The things I like to do most with my free time are art work, play the guitar, sing, dive, surf, fish, and explore desert islands. So far my family and I have al¬ ready traveled through seven different countries, but this is only the beginning.

We plan on going to Europe, too. First, of course, we have to get through the Ca¬ nal. My favorite places we've been so fa^ are Panama and its beautiful islands, the Galapagos Islands, and Cocos Island, Costa Pdca. I love these places because of their amazing beauty, but also because while there I met other kids my age who were cruising, too. The 'kid boats' that we have met and had a wonderful time with are Scalawag, who we've been traveling with for a year now; Kela, and Lady Star Light, who we met in the Galapagos; Wild Blue, who we met in Panama; and Chew¬ bacca and Cruzing Time, who we met in Mexico. After we complete our transit of the Canal, I'll write about what it's like to be a teenager on a boat in the Caribbean. — darci 2/15103

Blue Banana — Gulfstar 50 Bill & Sam Fleetwood Australia (Monterey) Remember us? With the Crew List coming up, some readers may be interested in our story. Sam took out a Cruis¬ ing Crew List ad, emd Bill emailed me a

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Spread; Cook's Look on the Queensland coast. Inset left; Dare! of 'Starship'. Inset right; Bill and Sam Fleetwood of 'Blue Banana'._ response. We hit it off, and four months later bought the Catalina 36 Whirlwind together. Then we got married, sold Whirlwind, bought Blue Banana (exPiper/, sailed in the '97 Ha-Ha and have been out cruising ever since. We did the Puddle Jump in '99, and have never missed an issue of Latitude. We've been having a fabulous time! Since we last wrote from the Cook Is¬ lands, we have visited Niue, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. We arrived in Mooloolaba, Australia — affectionately known as Oz — Just before Christmas 2001 after a five-day motorsail from Noumea in no wind. Six months and many boat upgrades later. Blue Banana headed north to the fabled Lizard Island, our northernmost destination for the year. What an incredible season of ermsing we've had here along Australia's famous Queensland coast! When we left Mooloolaba (pronounced Mah-LOO-laba), it was June and the weather was down to the mid-40s here at latitude 26°S. Time to head north to warmth. Our first challenge was crossing the Wide Bay Bar

in the late afternoon of Day One. This much discussed and dreaded escapade turned out to be a piece of cake because it was calm — although there were break¬ ing waves on either side of us. We an¬ chored for the night between Fraser Is¬ land, the largest sand island in the world, an'd the Australian mainland. The next part of our adventure was traveling about 40 miles in water not much deeper than our keel, as we made our way up what is known as The Great Sandy Strait. Just to make things more interesting, the strong wind warn¬ ing that had been forecast filled in about noon with 40 knots — but we still had to wait two more hours until the tide was high enough for us to travel. By that time the anchor¬ age had become untenable due to the, wind and

waves, and we had to depart. There were buoys and leads to follow, but it was not easy because we had to do eight knots to maintain steering in the strong current and the water was too cloudy with silt to see the bottom. Three days and two anchorages later, we arrived in Bundaberg. We visited the famous Bundaberg Rum Factory, not because the rum was so great, but because it's just what you do. From there we sailed in day hops up to the Whitsimday Islands. The Queensland coast has islands by the himdreds to choose from for overnight anchoring. The farther north we went, the more protection we got from the Great Barrier Reef, so the water became flatter and the sailing more pleasant. The Whitsundays are a charter boat mecca, and cire famous for their beauty and their white sand beaches — especially Whitehaven Beach. They lived up to their reputation. The currents are strong in these islands, though, and the wind fre¬ quently blows in the 15-25 knot range — so there are often a lot of unhappy char¬ terers to entertain us on the radio. How¬ ever, there are excellent anchorages for all wind directions, and the views from Whitsunday Peak are well worth the hike to the top. We kept moving north 40 to 60 miles a day, leaving early in the morning, and sailing or motorsailing all day in light to moderate southeast trades. We went to Airlie Beach, a haven for the young and the restless known as backpackers', then continued past all the places named by James Cook 230 years ago: Double Bay, Gloucester Island, Cap>e Upstart, Cape The Fleetwood's Gulf star 50 'Blue Banana'. This year they'll cruise her to PNG, Darwin, Indone¬ sia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.

CHANGES Bowling Green, and then Townsville. Only five miles off of delightful and very civi¬ lized Townsville is Magnetic Islandvwhere we saw our first koalas in the wild. Continuing north, we visited Orpheus Island before crossing our second bar entrance into the Htnchinbrook Channel, another shallow winding strait. Once out of the channel and still just day hopping, we visited Dunk Islh^d, Fiztroy Island, the town of Cairns — which is very tourism oriented and where we anchored in the river — Port Douglas, Hope Islets, past Cape Bedford and finally, at 14° 39' south, we arrived at Lizard Island on August 26. We had come 1,100 miles, and it was worth eveiy one of them. We climbed to the top of the island which is called Cook's Look because back in 1770 Capt. James Cook climbed up to see if there was a way out of the Barrier Reef — which at this point starts coming closer in to the main¬ land. Sure enough, he found Cook's Pas¬ sage and headed out that way the next day so as not to risk "embayment" in the relentless southeast trades. We hiked and snorkeled and scuba'd and abseiled, and hung out on the incred¬ ible fine white sand beaches. The lagoons were full of more different kinds of sea creatures than we had seen an5where — including psychedelic-colored clams so huge you could easily climb into one! We stayed 10 days at Lizard Island until the springtime northers began, at which time we up-anchored and worked slowly all the way back down to Mooloolaba, stopping at places we had missed on the way north and revisiting a few of our favorite islands. Now back in the marina, we are readying the boat for the next phase of our trip: The further north up the Queensland coast the Fleetwoods travelled, the more wildlife there was. They photographed this koala bear in the wild.

Papua New Guinea, Darwin, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand — where we hope to be by Christmas of 2003. — bill & sam 2/15/03

Kjmda — Passport 40 Peter & Linda Young The Resurrection Of Nepenthe (Vancouver, Canada) We are currently on the Pacific Coast of Panama enjoying this great country and the friendly and helpful people. We were at Balboa for Christmas, and the hospi¬ tality of the Pedro Miguel Boat Club was terrific. We had a wonderful holiday tur¬ key dinner with great cruising friends. While here, we've learned about the interesting tale of the resurrection of the Islander 37 Nepenthe — which some read¬ ers may recall was one of two boats that was badly damaged in the Panama Canal almost two years ago. At the time of the accident, John Pearlman owned the boat. His boat and another were rafted to a tug whose stern line got loose, allowing the sailboats to be pulled broadside beneath the stern of a big ship inside one of the locks. Bengt and Anne Fries are ex-pat Ca¬ nadians who live near Playa del Coco in northern Costa Rica. Although they own a beautiful house overlooking the Pacific,

After travelling 1,100 miles up from Mooloolaba, the Fleetwoods arrived at beautiful Lizard Island, their northernmost destination._ Bengt always wanted a cruising sailboat as well. Unfortunately, the import duty for sailboats is very steep in Costa Rica. Then he heard about Nepenthe. Bengt purchased the Islander in Panama in July of '01, and while at the Pedro Miguel Boat Club spent many hours cleaning the boat up. He also had a new bow pulpit put on and the stanchions re¬ paired. Since the boat no longer had a mast, he had the engine checked out to make sure it was all right. Unfortunately, it would prove to be a poor diagnosis. Af¬ ter buying a good dinghy, he and some Costa Rican friends began taking Nepen¬ the north toward his home in Costa Rica. About 30 miles offshore of Quepos, Costa Rica, the engine quit for good. Bengt and his crew spent about five hours try¬ ing to hail passing fishing boats for as¬ sistance. That afternoon, a fishing boat — fully provisioned for a fishing expedi¬ tion — responded and towed them in to Quepos. Despite the long tow, the fishermen refused compensation except for the fuel they had burned. Nepenthe stayed in Quepos until No¬ vember for engine repairs, which unfor-

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Geja — Islander 36 Dick & Shirley Sandys Croatia, Italy, Sicily (Palo Alto)

tunately were never completed. So Bengt pulled the engine himself, and took it to Playa del Coco for a rebuild. He then ar¬ ranged for some local fishermen to tow the boat to the Costa Rica YC at Puntarenas, Costa Rica, which has good facilities and competent labor. It took 10 months to get the Volvo MD2B rebuilt, in part because getting parts was sometimes a problem. While the engine work was being done, a Selden mast, complete with both standing and running rigging, was ordered from Florida Rigging & Hydraulics. Bengt then had to modify the furling gear and fittings to get everything back in working order. He also had to have the sails repaired. On November 22, 2002, Bengt and his wife moved Nepenthe — which will soon be rechristened Pura Vida ■— to her new home on a mooring in Playa del Coco. Now they can watch the boat from tlieir home, which overlooks the water. In the future, they plan to take the boat up tp San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, to have her hauled for interior and exterior cosmetic work. By spring they hope Pura Vida will be ready for some short cruises. It was a wonderful feeling for^us to see that someone’s misfortune has become someone else’s dream, and to see new life

We returned to our boat in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in May, 2002, after spending the winter in the United States. Our boat weathered the winter in the Dubrovnik Marina without mishap, and we only had to haul her for bottom painting before continuing our cruising. The marina is getting crowded because it’s not expen¬ sive, it has a swimming pool and restau¬ rant, and is a short bus ride to the beau¬ tiful walled medieval city of Dubrovnik. While in Dubrovnik, we met our friends Rik and Lewjean of Window, and John and L3mnette of King Harold, to celebrate Shirley's birthday before sailing off in our various directions. We're not proceeding too quickly, but we continue in a west¬ erly direction. The coast and islands of Croatia were as beautiful this year as they were last. When we got tired of erijo3dng clear blue anchorages and rocky or sandy beaches, we would stop in a medieval walled city and enjoy a rack of lamb/goat dinner for $10 each. We cruised with Lars and Birgitta of Lady Albatross for a week, then hurried with King Harold up to Pula, Croatia, which houses a beautiful Roman Arhphi theater. We later crossed the Adriatic to Venice, where we tied Geja to the 'posts'. The lo¬ cation of our mooring provided us with a view of St. Mark's Piazza from our cock¬ pit. These moorings were supposed to be free, but boats that came after us were charged. Unfortunately, tfre waves from the passing ferries and gondolas made it impossible to get a good night's sleep. But the water didn't smell and we thoroughly en¬ joyed ourselves: good food, con^ certs, the Doge’s Palace, street artisans, museums and churches. We returned to Croatia and cruised the islands Losinj, Dugi Otak, Koronot, Hvar, and Lostovo. All of them offered lovely anchorages that we would like to visit again some¬ time. Our special discovery was Luka Krivica, which has beaytiful clear water, is shel-

Dick doing some work on 'Geja's masthead. An islander 36's mast doesn't seem all that tall — until you have to be the one to go to the top. tered from all winds, and has a restau¬ rant a short walk through the pine woods. We checked out from Velji Lago on Lostovo, Croatia, and made our way for the southeastern part of the boot of Italy. This part of Italy was all right, but it wasn't very green and didn't have the boating fa¬ cilities of Croatia. Nonetheless, we liked Vieste, Brindisi and Otranto along this part of the coast, and began to learn Ital¬ ian. Along the sole of the 'boot', we got stuck hying to cross the Gulfo di Squillace — or Gulf of Squalls.' We tried to cross it early one morning, but had the wind shift 180° when we got 10 miles offshore. We turned around to go back — gentlemen and la¬ dies do not go to weather — but after 100 meters got another 180° degree windshift, so we turned around again. Another 100 meters and, yep, another 180° windshift. The wind gods were determined to make us go to weather. So we headed back to our original port of Le Castella and waited Shirley enjoying one of the coolest moments in cruising — looking at St. Mark's Piazza in Venice from the deck of her own boat.

CHANCES C for a windless day so we could motor. This was a fairly typical scenario in tnfe Med, but much more dramatic then anything we'd experienced previously. One more hop got us to Sicily, where we anchored with a view of Mt. Etna. Taormina is toured from here and we met up with King HaK^d again. We looked down at turquoise/Hark blue bays from the heights of the oldest Greek settlement in Sicily. Leaving Taormina Roads, we sailed through the Messina Straits and the dreaded whirlpools at Skylla and Kharibdis. As usual, modem weather and tide forecasting made easy what used to put fear into the hearts of the ancient Greek seafarers. On the north side of Sic¬ ily is the harbor of Portorosa, an upscale protected harbor with seven restaurants and bus service to quaint towns. From here we cmised to the Aeolian Islands, Tindari, and took a train ride to Palermo. We plan to be back on Geja in June to continue westward. dick & shirley sandys 1/03

Ram — J/130 Robert & Kim Milligan Fun In Fiji For A Second Time (San Francisco) Although Ramis back in New Zealand, we had a great summer season in Fiji. We started the last cmising season with a fast seven-day passage from Opua in New Zealand's Bay of Islands to Savusavu on Fiji's big island of Vanua Levu. Savusavu was a wonderful place to check into the country, as the officials were friendly, the tovm is small and mellow, and because the Corpa Shed Marina has just about everything a cmiser needs. In addition, it meant we were able to begin cmising Fiji The highlight of Robert (left) and Kim's Fiji sea¬ son was returning to Solotavui after 10 years to see old friends and work on the plantation.

\ from the windward end. s. Our time in northeastern Fiji was char¬ acterized by great diving in clear waters and by challenging sailing. We only saw a small portion of this part of the country, but especially enjoyed Viani Bay, Makogai and Rambi. A lot of the land in this area is freehold, so the traditional village stmcture was lacking. Nonetheless, the wel¬ come was sbll warm. ^ We had family onboard for a whirlwind tour of the Yasawa Group, and found hav¬ ing kids with us opened a lot of doors in this more touristy part of Fiji The Mus¬ ket Cove Resort at Malololaiiai Ce^e made us very welcome, and as hard as it was to believe, the place has gotten even better than it was 10 years ago! We found Harris first place on the Round Malolo trophy from 1992 when we raced our J/35 — so we decided to give it another go. This is a no handicap, line honors race, and they put something in the water that made us lose — some very big and fast boats! Ram had a great crew and we sailed smart, but alas we were beaten by Rubino, a Martin 63, the 80-ft Kialoa III, and Morpheus, a new Kiwi-built Schumacher 50. Oh, well, we've surely been beaten by worse boats! Race Week was a hoot with lots of other games emd general silliness. The absolute highlight of our time in Fiji was a return visit to Solotavui, our favorite village on Kandavu Island. It was great to be greeted by name on the beach after 10 years of being away, amd getting to see our old friends again as we made our sevusevu! We jumped right back into village life, working on the plantations, playing petanque with the kids, and tell¬ ing stories around the kava bowl in the evening. Solotavui has a strong commu¬ nity spirit, and people work together on many projects. Robert helped out doing some fiberglass repairs on the mayor's boat, mostly just teaching our friends so they'll be able to do it them¬ selves in the future. Jo, the chief, has asked us to ex¬ tend an invitation to any yachties who would like to see the real Fiji to come and visit. These people will re¬ new your faith in mankind. Kandavu is often cloudy, which is why it's lush, but it's still beautiful. Even though it's not a sandy beach and palm trees kind of place, it's still one of our favorite spots, and we hope to return!

With a little bit of luck and a lot of In¬ ternet weather, we headed back to New Zealand. We had a decent enough trip, with some headwinds and some motor¬ ing required. Now we are enjoying watch¬ ing the pohutakawas bloom and the Louis Vuitton races — when the conditions per¬ mit them to be held. As we write this, we're waiting for warmer weather. P.S. Robert used to do a lot of racing on San Francisco Bay with Tom Thayer and Dick Watts, and he misses it! — robert & kim

Mendocino Queen — DownEast 38 Allen & Kate Barry Lamu, Kenya (Sausallto) We crossed the Indian Ocean in 2002, enjoying stops at Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Chagos, and the Seychelles. We spent last New Year's Day at Lamu Island, Kenya, watching — along with hundreds of lo¬ cals — 10 Arabian-style dhows race around the bay. Prior to the beach start, we could see that all of the 30-ft dhows had patched'and tired sails. It was going to be a hard race on the boats, as it was blowing 30 knots emd they would carry 10 crew rather than the normal three.

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Spread; Donkeys and dhows on the beach — this must be Africa. Inset; Allen and Kate can't believe they've been out for 10 yeafs now. with most of the seven extra acting as ballast on the moveable hiking boards. Conditions were so harsh that only six of the 10 boats finished. The dhow from Shela village won first place, so the resi¬ dents celebrated for the rest of the day. We'd been cheering for the boat from Lamu village, as Simba, one of the crew, had taken Allen sailing on her from Lamu to Shela. They got third. Lamil is a hot, sunny, sand dune is¬ land wdth a large Muslim village. The white-hot sand dunes, coral buildings, mosques, and dhows rpake it look quite exotic. The anchorage is well-protected, so it was comfortable for us to lie in the hammock under the sunshade and watch the dhows sail by. Most are fishing dhows, although some transport commodities such as sisal rope or take tourists for sails. There are only a few small hotels here, some very expensive, and some for back¬ packers. But there are no more than 100 tourists in eiII. We anchored in front of the Peponi Hotel at the smaller village of Shela. There are a total of three other cruising yachts here — one Canadian, one

French, and one German. Allen’s mom and nephew flew into Mombasa from the States, then sailed up here to Lamu with us for the holidays. Each day we take a sailing or motorized dhow Tor the two kilometer ride to the market at Lamu town. It's a colorful place where most of the women wear patterned kangas or bui buis. Some have their faces covered. The Muslim men wear the kopi or beaded cap. Some Wear the khanzu, which is the long white gown, but most wear shirts and a kickoi, which is a plaid Muslim or Christian, dhow or sloop, It doesn't make any difference, for when boatowners gather, sooner or later there will be a race.

wrap. E>eiyone is filendly and many were wishing us a Merry Christmas. A small percentage of the population is Christian, but everyone seems to tolerate differences. The national elections for president were on December 27, so there were political posters everywhere and there had been lots of political discussions taking place under mango trees and in the market square. We enjoyed the Lamu Museum, which is in an old Swahili house built of white coral stone, making it cool and airy In¬ side. Instead of interior walls, they use columns for support, which create galler¬ ies for privacy but still allows the air to circulate. The old kitchens were placed on the second floors of buildings so the charcoal smoke could blow outside rather than heat and smoke up the Interiors. The rooftops are always the coolest places with the best views. The Muslims are called to prayer many times a day. We shop in the morning when it is cooler. The men go to prayer at 12:30, so the shops close and everyone naps un¬ til about 4 p.m. Stores then open up again, but we watch from our boat, en¬ joying sundowners after the sun descends behind the sand dunes and it's no longer so bright out. After a short twilight, the night turns black until whatever moon there might be rises. Star gazing in this area is terrific. Saturn, the closest its been in 30 years, has been particularly bright. Food is not expensive here. Lamu flsherpien bring in plenty of seafood, so we've been enjoying lobster, jumbo prawns, mud crabs, kingfish, and snapper. The latter two fish are only 150 Kenya shil¬ lings per kilo — or about 85 U.S. cents a pound. The other seafood is more expen¬ sive, but it's always less than $3/person for the best. There's a variety of fruit, veggies,,,a^d rice in the markets, and it's almost free. While in Mombasa, we were able to buy South African wine by the box. This year — which will be our 10th out cruising — we are planning to sail to Tan¬ zania, the Com<^ros Islands, Madagascar, apd South Africa. The following year we plan to sail around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Atlantic, then up to the Car¬ ibbean. - alien iSi katr 1/15/03

CHANCES Chewbacca — 30-ft Crowther Cat The Winship Family Provisioning South of Mexico (Alameda) As we prepared to head south and leave Mexico, we provisioned heavily In Zlhua and Acapulco because of the great selec¬ tion of food ands^e ease of schlepping our provisions ba^ to the dinghy land¬ ing. What we didn't realize is that soon we’d be leaving a 'land of plenty' and start visiting countries where provisioning could be a real adventure. It's true that everyone has to eat and that you could find food in any small town, but in some places In Guatemala and El Salvador it was difficult to find the variety and high quality of food we had become accus¬ tomed to in Mexico. Our first stop south of Mexico was Pu¬ erto Quetzal, Guatemala. We had a won¬ derful 12-day adventure exploring the Mayan Highlands, where the most beau¬ tiful produce was available. But back at the lowlands by the port, there was only minimal provisioning from a 7-Eleven type junk food store. Luckily, we were still well stocked with Mexican provisions when we took off again for Bahia del Sol in El Sal¬ vador. The Navy base at Puerto Quetzal did top off our water tanks and had some coconuts. For the month we were at Bahia del Sol, finding food was an adventure, as we spent two or three days a week going one place for a frozen chicken and then an¬ other day hunting for veggies at a small village market up a river. In the mercado, we saw venders liberally sprajdng Raid bug spray on their vegetables to keep the flies offi We suspect the butchers did it to the meat, too. If we'd had the money to rent a car, we could have driven to San Between looking for provisions, the lovely young cruising ladles of 'Chewbacca' — Kendall and Quincy—and of 'Nyapa'—Jordan, Kendall, and Allison — had a great time playing together.

\ Salvador and loaded up at Price Mart, but it was not an option for us. When I eventually ventured into the city to try to provision, I did find some well-stocked grocery stores. Unfortu¬ nately, I could only carry as much canned food as I could get In my knapsack and stand up with for a three-hour ride on a crowded bus back to the boat. Potable water had to be purchased in five-gallon bottles — for $3 — because the anchor¬ age water was too murky to run the watermaker. We managed to survive, of course, but there wasn't muph variety in our diet. Our kids remeniber Dpi Sol as "the rice and beans" place. By then, I was certain that the national food of El Salva¬ dor was the hot dog! We then sailed down the coast 30 miles to Barillas Marina, also in El Salvador, where provisioning improved dramatically because the nearby town of Usultan has two modern groceiy stores, one with a bakery inside. There was also a fairly large local mercado where it was possible to buy everything from veggies to live chickens. We found a limited selection of cheeses and all the jelly or yogurt one would want — assuming one liked strawberry. The marina store stocked Haagen-Dazs ice cream, Sklppy peanut butter, and other familiar foods, but these were beyond our budget. But the marina did offer free po¬ table water from the hose. The food in tos part of El Salvador wasn't bad, but the variety and quality were nothing com¬ pared to Mexico. Before leaving Barillas, we set aside lots of canned goods for those weeks when we might be trapped at an isolated emchorage by high winds. It was a wise move. Our weatherfax indicated a beautiful weather window when we started out on a straight shot to Costa Rica, but halfway there we got hit by the Infamous Papagayo winds. We enjoyed two weeks at Beihia Santa Elena, living off of our canned goods while 30-knot winds whistled over¬ head. There is a small fishing village near the anchorage called Cualjinlquil that has limited pro¬ visions, and diesel and gas are available from the fishermen. With provisions again running low, we headed on to Playa del Coco. Our first visit

to a Costa RiCcin grocery store put us in heaven, as it was weU supplied. We loaded up with gouda cheeses, spaghetti sauces, pickles, and meat that didn't come in a tube. You have to understand that Costa Ricans are very well off compared to their neighbors to the north. We found all kinds of nuts, dried fruits, and gourmet i1;pms that we hadn’t seen since Mexico. Provisioning in Costa Rica has been great, as we've found well-stocked stores in even small anchorages. The quality of the meat, veggies, and fruits is very high, and the whole groceiy store experience has been very positive. We've seen no smelly meat counters or questionable sanitation practices. Another pleasure of traveling in Costa Rica is that all water is potable. We’ve found good tasting, clean water right from the hose everywhere we went. Starting in Bahia Del Coco, we found well stocked stores In Bahia Ballena — which also has a visiting organic veggie and fruit truck — Montezuma, Paquera, Puntarenas, Quepos — which also has an excellent farmers' market — and Golfito — which also has a veggie truck that stops at Land & Sea. Finding diesel and gasoline was never a problem in Central America. However, those of us with 'North American' propane tanks have had to wait from two days to a week to have our tanks filled. They use a different vadve/regulator down here and

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simply exchange the empty tanks for full ones at almost any grocery store — even in the smallest villages. Several of the cruisers have opted to switch over to the Tropi-Gas bottles to simplify their lives. As for what lies ahead, fellow'cruisers tell us that we should provision heavily for the island groups around Perida and Secas because that water is so clear and the diving and snorkeling so good that we'll want to spend several months ex¬ ploring the area. So Chewbacca is sitting heavy in the water ready to enjoy Panama. — the winship family 2/6103 Bravura — X-442 Jonathan 'Bird' Livingston, Crew Adventures In New Zealand (Richmond) The Traveling Bird is back in the north¬ ern hemisphere after a scouting trip to New Zealand's sailing playgrounds. Suzie and I were supposed to sail down to New Zealand on our Wylie 38 Punk Dolphin after the West Marine Pacific Cup ajid getting married in Lahalna last summer, but this and that happened, and suddenly it was too late in the season. So Punk Dolphin is still in Lahalna, and we did our sailing in New Zealand with Garrett Jxjube — son of the late San Francisco Efay leg¬ endary racer Irv Loube — aboard his X-

442 Bravura. Also part of the Bravura crew was Russell Long, head of the Bluewater Network to protect our waters. One day, the four of us left one of the many perfectly protected pocket anchor¬ ages on the east coast of the North Island because the wind was fair for a southerly course toward Auckland. Unlike in the Bay Area, which gets westerlies in all but the winter, the wind blows from all direc¬ tions in New Zealand. So folks here typi¬ cally leave the anchorage, see which -yay the wind is blowing, and then pick some off the wind anchorage to sail to. In other words, they like to go where the wind blows. Anyway, we noticed that the wind was moderate enough for the half-ounce kite, and that if we kept the pole just off the headstay, we could make Garrett's boat romp. So we set the chute and settled into a groove at about 7.5 knots. The course took us just where we wanted to go — Man O' War Pas¬ sage and Fitzroy Harbor on the Great Barrier Is¬ land some 60 miles off the coast of Auckland. What a great day, with the autopilot holding a perfect curl in the luff of the kite, a robust wave peeling off the bow, and everybody moving to reggae tunes. After dousing the kite

at the end of the day, we motored through a very narrow passage and inside magi¬ cal Fitzroy Harbor. It's about the size of Richardson Bay, but has deep water all around and many bays within. The neat thing is that from the outside you can't even teU there is a protected harbor, but once inside, you see all the many pro¬ tected anchorages. Scanning the shore for the most ap¬ pealing anchorage, I noticed a particularly fine looking yacht a half mile ahead fine off the port bow. Looking through the brnocs, I told Suzie that it looked like a Schumacher design — as in Carl Schumacher, the very fine Alameda na¬ val architect who died way to soon a little while ago. The dark-hulled boat had a beautiful shear, a fractional rig and wide spreaders, and a low cabin house and nice windows — sort of like the Schumacher designed Surprise. But since we were in New Zealand, I assumed she was a Kiwi boat — until I saw the American flag. Then I remembered that Jim Gregory, a good friend and Bay Area Etchells sailor, had Just had a Schumacher 50 built by Dave Norris in Christchurch, New Zealand. "Hard left, Baby, we're going over to have a closer look," I told Suzie. As we closed in on the splendid look¬ ing boat gracefully laying at anchor, I knew it had to be a Schumacher. The boat was indeed the Gregory family's 50-ft Morpheus. Her lean and low profile, smartly raked carbon rig, and lack of cruising clutter seemed to harken back to the aesthetical nautical protocol of the Herreshoff years — but in a modern way. The Gregorys — Jim, Debbie, and two sons — were aboard. Having heard that I was in the area, and seeing a sailor drool¬ ing at their boat and acting strange, they knew it had to be me. Having last seen them in lyofimond when I was dumpster The Gregory family aboard their new Schumacher 50 'Morpheus' in Fitzroy Harbor. They'll be back In the Bay Area this summer.

CHANGES diving for an Etchells jib to use for a staysail in the Pacific Cup, it was a shock to see them on their Schumaofier magic carpet, where they have been home¬ schooling'their boys in the waters of New Zealand and Fiji. 1 got the tour of the boat, and found her to be as beautiful as she is functional. The Gregorys report that Morpheus will be arriving bacKjfi the Bay Area in July of this year, and will be racing — minus the family's prodigious library — in the '04 West Marine Pacific Cup. — birdman 02f 15/03

Bravado — Elliot 46 The Breed Family La Paz In Winter (Dublin) In the real estate industry, it's said that the three most important things are loca¬ tion, location, and location. In sailing, it should be weather, weather, and weather. Our best sailing experiences seem to align with good weather, and that's exactly what we had while in La Paz, Mexico, emd more importantly, ^ while coming back up the coast from Cabo San Lucas to San Fran¬ cisco this February. Bravado joined the 2002 Baja Ha-Ha with our family of four, including Catherine, 9, and Alexandra, 7. They com¬ pletely enjoyed the trip down — as well as seeing a photo of themselves In the January Latitude^ For those who think the Ha-Ha is a two-week booze cruise for adults only, you don't have a clue. My young daughters would do the Ha-Ha ev¬ ery year if they could, and would do it over going to Disneyland. We only stayed in Cabo a short time before moving on up to La Paz, which only took a day. There we spent Thanksgiv¬ ing, Christmas, and New Years cruising the islands off La Paz. We have been do¬ ing the Baja thing for over 15 years by While diving in the Sea of Cortez, the Breed daughters — Catherine, 9, and Alexander, 7 — became very comfortable with the seallfe.

\car, so we know the peninsula well. We chose La Paz for our base because it is by far the best all-around 'base-camp''in Baja. It has excellent weather, complete marine supplies, lots of restaurants, a decent airport, and isn't too touristy. We met lots of fine people, all of whom were willing to lend a hand if someone else needed it. We decided to keep Bravado in Marina de La Paz for the holidays while we flew back and forth to the Bay Area. Mary made us feel at home, and could solve any problems that typically confront cruisers. After paying up the whazoo for one year's worth of fishing permits,' Immigration documents, and clearing In and out, we were legally set. We didn't find it to be a hassle but rather quite a waste of money — $600 to be exact. Those fishing per¬ mits and licenses, in particular, are veiy expensive. The islands off La Paz offer excellent cruising grounds for diving and hiking. Our kids swam with yoimg sea lion pups for an entire day. A most incredible thing happened: a seal pup dove down to the bottom, got a long-legged starfish, and handed it to Catherine! Not once, but twice. Good diving and hiking can be found on most of the islands. Despite all the fun we were having, tn the back of my mind I was always a little stressed about the inevitably awful trip back to San Francisco that is the price for cruising fun in Mexico. For this one thing I envied folks with trallerable boats or seats on jets. But we had no choice but to either sell the boat or motor her home. Since we still like the boat and are planning to race her in this July's TransPac, we opted to sail her back. Once our best 'Bash' asset, Rick Shema of theweatherguy.com, told us there was a window, we booked the travel and had the crew fly to Cabo. We used the same folks who brought the boat home after the Pacific Cup last year — Henning^ Cfridy, Victor and John. They did a great job, as always. Other than see¬ ing what looked to be a big drug drop off near Ensenada — huge plastic wrapped containers with sea anchors — it was an unevent¬ ful trip. We'd actually broken the trip into two parts with two crews. The first non-stop passage was from Cabo starting on February 1. The boat arrived in San Diego on Feb¬ ruary 6, which is just five days later. The second delivery crew started late that night and fin¬ ished in San Francisco on the

9th. Nine days from Cabo to San Fran^’ j cisco — that's not bad. I •! If we Mexico cruisers could always have | prior knowledge of such perfect weather" j windows, we'd be all set. Until then, we’lj j take the good luck when it comes our way.' | — Charles 2/46/03 t i I

Cruise Notes: The report was as good as it was brief. Tony Johnson's Richmond-based Ericson 39 Maverick — which had suddenly sprung a serious leak from a crack in the bottom of her hull at the end of a transAtlantic crossing — has been re¬ paired and is now back fri the water at Carriacou in the Eastern Caribbean. We'll have a more detailed report on the repairs next month. After the hull has been put to the test, Johnson and Terry Shrode will sail to Panama and back up to the Bay Area by June, completing their circum¬ navigation. It’s only a month or two until boats in Mexico start the Baja Bash from Cabo San Lucas up to San Diego. We've never heard a good explanation of what macro weather pattern would be the best for a long term weather window to head north from Cabo. For example, should Bashers be looking for a strong or weak Pacific High? A high to the east or to the west? Or some other condition. Can anybody help?

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A proud dad and his lovely daughters stand above one of the spectacular anchorages in the Sea of Cortez, with 'Bravado' In the background.

Speaking of the Baja Bash, you never want to check out of a Mexican port di¬ rectly for the United States,^ because that's an international clearance and can be more complicatjed and expensive than clearing out to another domestic port. So no rrtatter if you check out of La Paz or Puerto Vallarta, with "intermediate stops", or from Cabo San Lucas, always clear to Ensenada rather than San Diego. What do you do if you don't want to stop in Ensenada? Just don't. The folks who have just continued on to San Diego report they haven't )iad any problems. By the way, when we were in Cabo San Lucas in No¬ vember, we were told that vessels stop¬ ping in Cabo just to take on fuel did not have to clear in and oufr If you're lucky and will be heading to French Polynesia instead of up the Baja coast this spring, we strongly encourage you to acquire a copy of Guide to Navi¬ gation and Tourism in French Polynesia, a new book by Patrick Bonnette, former ship captain, sailing in¬ structor, and Harbormaster for the Port of Papeete, and Emmanuel Deschamps, a travel writer and photographer in French Polynesia for 20 years. This book covers the Marquesas, Tuamotus, Gam-

biers, Societies, and Austral Islands, and has beautiful color photographs, many of them from the air, as well as excellent charts and all the current and historical Information you'll need. Other than the fact that we can't vouch for the accuracy of the chartlets, we can't give this book high enough praise. It's beautifully done, and is printed at a place in France that's been in business since 16401 No, that's not 'a typo. Initially this guide was hard to find, but is now available at most places that sell marine books. "We plan to cruise (^irectly from San Francisco to the Marquesas — not stop¬ ping in Mexico — at the end of April aboaird our Oakland-based 46-ft ketch," say 'A & H' — who wish to remain anony¬ mous because the "huge companies" they work for don't know they are leaving yet. "We're wondering if anyone else is planning a similar cruise for about the same time so we can compare radio skeds and weather information. We can be reached at sssssssslSl l@yahoo.com." Yes, their email address starts with the letter 's' eight times in a row. It has something to do with pre¬ venting spam. W-hile in Tenacatita

Bay last month — where a huge fleet of cruising boats was having a great time, with Robert (and ’Virginia) Gleser of the Alameda-based Freeport 40 Harmony serving as 'mayor' — we bumped into HaHa and surfing friends Chris van Dyke and his wife Chris van Dyke of the Ventura-based Valiant 40 Spirit Wind. Chris — the male — told us that he started to experience some discomfort in his ear after cleaning the waterline of his boat a few months before. He assumed it was an infection. When the pain became worse, he poured some alcohol drops into his ear. That brought immediate relief— because it drove out th^ little crab that had taken up residence in his ear! Needless to say, Chris now uses drops each time he comes out of the water. On a happier note, he reports that when a south swell rolled into Tenacatita Bay, he got some nice right hand rides near the jungle ride’. Just a reminder to everyone that the cruiser-only Banderas Bay Regatta — the major cruiser sailing and social event of the year — will be held from March 2023 out of Marina Paradise just north of Puerto Vallarta. We can't recommend this event enough, as it's free, the facilities are fantastic, and the sailing conditions are terrific in a mild sort of way. Since the racing is truly mellow, we also highly rec¬ ommend that you race your own boat rather than crewing for somebody else. It doesn't matter that it's full of cruising gear or you're not really a racer, just think of it as a parade around a set of buoys. But no imatter if you race or not, you really don't want to miss this one. Visit www.banderasbayregatta.com for details. In addition. Profligate — and hope¬ fully some other boats — will be partici¬ pating in a Spinnaker Cup for Charity the day before the Banderas Bay Regatta. This event^ll start with lunch at Punta de Mita>r-^^ost people will take the bus If you're going to be entering Fatu Hiva, the aeriai photo from the new 'Guide to Navigation and Tourism in French Poiynesia' wiii be a huge heip.

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out — followed by a 12-mile spinnaker run back to Paradise Marina. Lupe Dipp of The Moon and Stars is in bharge of organizing and will have all the details. All proceeds go to the local school for developmentally challenged children. If you'd like to contribute to this great cause but won't be able to make it in person, please contact richard@latltude3kcom. Is there anyonNyith more ants in their pants for long ocean passages than John Neal and Amanda Swan-Neal of the Se¬ attle-based Halberg-Rassy 46 Mahina Tiare HI? In the last 21 years, they've sailed a collective 350,000 ocean miles — lots of them in not so mell6w places such as the Roaring Forties and the Very high latitudes. During that time, John, and later with the help of Amanda, has held 113 weekend Offshore and Coastal Cruis¬ ing Seminars, sharing his/her vast knowl¬ edge — and their 350-page Offshore Cruis¬ ing Companion — with 7,500 students. In addition, for the last 14 years, they've taken hundreds of students all over the world on their Mahina Expeditions, some¬ times to places .with sweet sailing, but also to places as rough as the Roaring For-

John and Amanda. After all these years, and af¬ ter hundreds of thousands of ocean miles, they're still loving ocean passages.

ties. Last year they had a pretty mellow season, taldng six groups on different legs from Honolulu to Auckland. Starting in May, they'll be doing their normal loop east in the Roaring Forties to the Austral

Islands, then up to Tahiti, the Cooks, Samoa, Fiji, 'Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and back to Auckland by December; "You may think we're nuts," John writes us, "but we had so much fun in Scandanavia and Europe last time that we'll be heading back across the Atlantic in 2006 and then up as high as 80°N in 2007. The high latitude stuff is a blast — especially when there is not too much ice." We love John and Amanda, and have tremendous respect and admiration for what they do, but we do think they are nuts. The only ice we want to see while on our boat is that floating in a sea of rum when the sun touches the horizon. Be that as it may, John and Amanda — along with noted sailing author Nigel Calder — will be presenting their annual Offshore Cruising Seminars in Seattle on March 15 &16, in San Francisco on March 22 & 23, and in Annapolis on March 29 & 30th. If you're interested in an intensive introduction to offshore saUing by some regular folks with an irregular amount of offshore experience, or in one of the Mahina Expeditions, visit

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www.mahina.com. And now for some unpleasant news in the Sea of Cortez. In November of 1981, the Wanderer was sitting at the Ensenada Grande anchorage at Isla Partida with his then wife Kathleen McCarthy aboard their Freya 39 Contrary to Ordinary, when he said, 'You know, there ought to be a sailing week' out here at the end of the cruising season like the one they have in Antigua." So the Wan¬ derer announced his modest plan in Lati¬ tude, and come the following spring, 64 boats showed Up for the first ever Sea of Cortez Sailing Week. Thanks to great support from cruisers in the area, the gov¬ ernment, and local businesses, the fol¬ lowing year there were over 200 boats. The early years of Sailing Week were pretty wild, with big fleets, big boats, and even some big name sailors racing three times during the week. There was also some hilarious men's bikini contests, some of¬ ten very saucy women's wet T-shirt con¬ tests, and all kinds of other activities. Af¬ ter about five years of participation, the Wanderer wearied of the political

nV Look what I've got! Some early Sea of Cortez Sail¬ ing Weeks were more like Antigua Sailing Weeks, with some wet T-shirt contestants cheating.

squabbles and people tiying to make big bucks out of the free event, so he backed away from it entirely. For the last 10 or 15 years, the Sea of Cortez Sailing Week has been run under

S the auspices of the Club Cruceros de La Paz, and has evolved into a very different event. There's been very little big boat racing, the shore activities aren't as wild and crazy, and the number of participants is a small fraction of the glory days. From what we've been told, in recent years it's mostly been a very relaxed and mellow social gathering on the beach at Caleta Partida with lots of games. Nonetheless,

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CHANGES on the years when there was an effective event chairperson and no intraclub squabbles, we've been told th^t partici¬ pants have had a great time. However, in the years 'there wasn't an effective event chair. Sailing Week apparently wasn't very good and didn't attract many boats. Here's where things get sticky. Clarke Waters and Slade Ogletree of the Para¬ dise Found YC>l^ar and Restaurant in La Paz — which has an endless number of services, activities, and deals catering specifically to cruisers — decided that they wanted to revive some of the old time Sea of Cortez Sailing Week pizzazz and num¬ bers. So they decided to host their own event called Sea of Cortez Island Mad¬ ness in early April a couple of anchor¬ ages over from the one being hosted by the Club Cruceros. We at Latitude — thinking that what the Sailing Week could really use is some of Clarke and Slade's high energy and enthusiasm — suggested they try to combine forces with the Club Cruceros for one great event. The two groups did meet, but weren't able to work anything out. 'The Club voted us out despite what 1 thought was popu-

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lar support," writes Ogletree. "So the Para¬ dise Found YC Island Madness at Ensenada Grande will happen April 7-14 as planned. End of subject." Marta Sutton of the Club Cruceros writes, "Clarke did

come to the club with a proposal for a merger, but it was unacceptable for sev¬ eral reasons: IJ His choice of the Ensenada Grande site; 2) His decision to exclude anyone from the site who wished to bring their own beverages as opposed to buying them from him; and 3J Most important of all, our club's charter pre¬ vents us from joining forces with a profit¬ making organization." Sutton says the Club Cruceros will hold Opening Day for their 20th Sea of Cortez Sailing Week on April 5th in La Paz, and their event will be held through the 14th at the traditional site of Caleta Partida. That the two events will be held nearly side by side on the same dates will, in our opinion, soon speU disaster for one of the two events. Given the fact that the Club Cruceros is rather moribund com¬ pared to its heyday, and that the ener¬ getic Waters and Ogletrees are fueled at least in part by the profit motive, we'U give you one guess as to which is likely to come out on top. Nonetheless, we wish the best of luck to both sponsoring organizations and all participants.

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12°37'17"N by 087“20'30", call the ma¬ rina on 16 for directions on coming in. The complex has already been named a port of entry for the country, and officials are there waiting to clear boats in. Know¬

ing Membrano, we suspect this hotel and marina — far, far from the bright lights of anywhere — have a stellar future. "I’m singlehanding from Puerto Rico to Miami right now," reports Mike Marker of the Manhattan Beach-based Hunter 466 Wanderlust. "Currently, I am about to enter the Old Bahama Channel off the north coast of Cuba, and will be in the shipping separation zone in about one

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CHANGES hour. I'm taking Wanderlust back to the Miami Boat Show where I bought her, as she'll be on display again this ye^. I loved last month^s cover of Latitude, which was an aerial shot of my. boat sailing out of English Harbor, AnUgua. In fact. Hunter wants to send a copy of the magazine to all their dealers around the world! Lati¬ tude was the fir^ sailing magazine I ever read, and it's youlsfault that I'm doing all this!" Here's what Harker means by "doing all this". He took up sailing shortly before the 2000 Ha-Ha, which he did with his Hunter 34 Wanderlust. The following spring he did the Baja Bash singlehanded back to Southern California. In February of last year, he bought his new Wander¬ lust at the Miami show, then singlehanded her to the Azores. With crew, he contin¬ ued on to the Med, as far east as Italy, before sailing west to the Canaries and back across the Atlantic to Antigua. That was 12,000 miles in 10 months. Harker is obviously a very quick study, and an Inspiration to those of you who want to jump into cruising with both feet. Mike Miller of the Ventura-based Van-

Mike Miller, having sold his Vanguard 33.5 to some great folks In Monterey, Is about to head to the Caribbean In search of a cruising cat. guard 33 Uhuru, who lovingly became known as the 'Lonely Guy' of Puerto Vallarta for his dating habits, reports that he's sold Uhuru to some great folks in Monterey. That means he's about to pur¬

sue his dream of going to the Caribbean to try to find a Catana 43 catamaran. He's bummed, however, because there's al¬ ready a Uhuru II in those waters. "Thanks for the ride aboard Profligate at Zihua Sail Fest, which was a great event that benefltted everyone," writes Joe Scirica and Pipsqueak the cat of the Redondo Beach-based Beneteau 40CC Music, currently anchored in Zihuatanejo. "One of the activities of Sail Fest was the creation of a Southbounders Guide on CD — with all kinds of infor¬ mation for those of us heading south. Some of the cruisers here in Zihua then asked if some of us Sea of Cortez vets could do a similar Northbounders Guide for those headed to the Sea. So a group of us got together and presented a two-hour seminar for about 30 skippers at Rick's Bar. Then deny King of Mirador spent many hours putting together a web page from the web pages of four other boats, and then made an auto-run CD. The CD contains a wealth of information, pictures, personal accounts of passages and an¬ chorages, wind histories, and net sched-

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ules. This was purely an amateur en¬ deavor so the CD is not perfect, and it was made to supplement rather than com¬ pete with the fine cruising guides that are available. Now we’re Just trying to figure out how to get them distributed. Any sug¬ gestions? By the way, my cat and 1 spent the summer on both sides of the Sea of Cortez, crossed from La Paz to Mazatlan for Thanksgiving, continued down to La Cruz for Christmas, then anchoragehopped to Zlhua by the end of January. Keep up the good work, for Latitude is currency down here." When last year’s Puddle Jump group created the massive and informative Puddle Jump Guide, they — based on the creation of the two new guides — seem to have really created something. Hope¬ fully we’ll be able to review both of them next month. As for distribution, Joe, we'd just give a few copies to boats headed to the Sea of Cortez. Since just about every¬ body has a CD burner aboard these days, copies would spread like wildfire. Speaking of the Sea of Cortez, while we were in Zlhua last month we spoke

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CHANCES there were lots of fish. We dm many dives with Terry Kennedy, who has been diving In the Sea for the last 20 year^ We did one dive at Isla Fonsa, where we swam with about 40 hammerhead sharks that were 10 to 12 feet long." "Our favorite place In the Sea was San Marie, just south of Agua Verde," adds Patrick. "It has a great reef and beach, and the diving, hil^ng, and fishing are all wonderful." If you ever meet the couple, ask them how hurricane Kenna wiped out their Mexican wedding. Other couples who loved the Sea of Cortez were Michael and Catharine Whitby of the Vancouver-based Contessa 38 Breila; Jimmie Zinn and Jfane Hanawalt of the Richmond-based Morgan 38 Dry Martini; and Chris Goode and Becky Swan of the Seattle-based Crealock 40 Bonne Id€e. The first two couples are returning to the Sea this summer. All of these folks have very nice, well-equipped cruising boats, and none of them are ul¬ tra low budget cruisers. Nonetheless, they all remarked at how inexpensive it was to cruise in the Sea — in pari because there was hardly any place to spend any money.

After Just one summer In the Sea of Cortez, Diane Ferguson and Patrick Abreu of 'Springbok' be¬ came accomplished divers. All of the four couples said they could eas¬ ily cruise on $750/month, while some said there were months where they only spent about $350. How many of you are able to live a relaxed but adventurous.

healthy, and exciting life in the States for so little money? After 30 years of the charier business and visits by an ever growing number of cruising boats, many of the island-nations of the Eastern Caribbean have awoken to the fact that sailing brings in money. Lots of it. Governments in places such as Sint Maarten, Antigua, the British Virgins, Martinique, St. Lucia, and Grenada are realizing that small boat sailing and char¬ tering brings more revenue to their islands than do cruise ships. The Moorings, for instance, is said to bring $ 100 million of revenue to the Eastern Caribbean econo¬ mies each year. As a result, several of the islands have been investing in their sail¬ ing infrastructure, and others are about to. One of the more recent examples is that Grenada, the island of spices at the bottom of the chain, is poised to approve plans for a new 360-boat harbor in St. Georges. Fdr their pari, cruisers are try¬ ing to inform governments that raising clearing and other fees is a way to drive away rather than attract sailors. When Jonathan Bird' Livingston and

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Having finally gotten the right number of strokes, 'Birdman', Long, and Loube enjoy a great sail in New Zealand waters._ absence," write A1 and Debbie Farner of the San Francisco-based Valiant 40 Dif¬ ferent Worlds. "We'd left the boat in Pt. Phaeton, which turned out to be a great experience. We'd recommend it to anyone.

but it's a small place so get your reserva¬ tions in early. We'd also like to tell this year's Puddle Jumpers that if they stop in Fatu Hiva before the other islands in the Marquesas, the officials will make you leave after a day or two to go to an official port of entry. At least this is what hap¬ pened to one of the first boats that came across this year, arriving on February 18th."

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C We emailed the Farners back for the very latest on the visa situation in French Polynesia, and this was their re^: 'We’ve heard thatyou can get only a 30-day visa here, but we've also -heard that you can get a three-month visa, so we don't know for sure. We arrived with a three-month visa we'd obtained from the French Con¬ sulate in Ix)s Angeles, and didn't have any problem. FriendsSf ours got their threemonth visa from the French Consulate in Panama, although it took them three days. To be on the safe side, we suggest getting a three-month visa in the States before coming over. Three months is still not nearly enough time for such a won¬ derful place, but we'll see how' it works out." Tired of the relatively murky waters of the Pacific Coast of Mexico? Then you might want to try the Revillagigedo Is¬ lands, where Pete Boyce of the San Fran¬ cisco-based Sabre 402 Edelweiss re¬ ports he could clearly see his anchor in 65 feet of water. The Revillaglgedos are a chain of volcanic islands roughly 250 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, which puts them out in the middle of no-

huge rays, sharks, and countless other | forms of sea life. You can't go, to the is- j lands without a permit, and in the past J getting a permit has been tricky if not | impossible. But Boyce got one in Just 90 \ days — hey, it's Mexico — through John j M. Riffe in La Paz. Here's the catch — the permit cost $600 for about 10 days! So | it's not for economy cruisers. Boyce sailed to Isla Socorro from | Puerto Vallarta with Stef and Maril}^! | Thordarson, who cruised their Tacoma- ^ based Tayana 37 Circe in Mexico for years, and Sue Strembitsky of Calgary, j Canada. It took the foursome 2.5 days, mostly under sail, to reach the islands. It was predominantly close and broad reaching in winds under 17 knots with ' gentle three to six foot seas. They hooked ] a 50-lb yeUowfln tuna 100 miles out. Fish- ; ing is not allowed at the Revillagigedo Is¬ lands, anduieither is going ashore. The ‘ friendly Mexican Navy, which maintains a base on the islands, checks in with vis- j iting boats each day. Boyce reports the snorkeling was excellent, as they saw many tropical fish, white tip sharks.

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dusky sharks, a whale with two calves, and lots of other interesting stuff. The water was pleasant, m the high 70s, but the anchorage was always a little roily. Also at the islands were Steve and Bar¬ bara Campbell of the Leadville, Coloradobased Valiant 40 Blue Chablis. Appar¬ ently they sail out to the Revillagigedos every year. If you're looking for tiendas, restaurants, hiking, and white sand beaches, the Revillagigedos are precisely the wrong place. But if you want to get away to great diving that few others get to experience;^ and you've got a pile of big bucks laying around, you might consider appljdng for a permit. Boyce says he hopes to return. The group's return sail to Puerto Vallarta was a beat followed by a close reach in -winds up to 20 knots. It took three days, about 30% of it motoring. "That was a great 'Lectronic Latitude piece on the RevUlagigedo Islands on Feb¬ ruary 7," -write Dave and Merry Wallace of the Redwood City-based Amel Maramu Air Ops. "The mention of Steve emd Barb Campbell on Blue Chablis reminded me of a conversation we overheard on a Ham

net last winter. A cruiser asked Barb if Steve was having any luck fishing. "Well, he’s catching a lot of heads," was Barb's reply. Of course, that gener¬ ated the obvious next question, for which the answer was that he was catching lots of fish, but the sharks were getting most of each fish before he could land them. Steve does most of his fishing from their din¬ ghy, and reported that another time a shark took a bite out of one of the air chambers. Fortunately, the other two chambers held enough air so that he could get back to Blue Chablis! Steve truly does know how to catch fish, and last year gave an excellent fishlng-for-cruisers pre¬

Laurie Matthews of 'Althea'holds up proof posi¬ tive that sharks steal from fishermen in the San Bias Islands as well as the Revillagigedos. sentation at Loreto Fest. 1 Imagine they -wiU be there again this year, the first week¬ end in May. Barb sells a terrific cookbook -with all the recipes being from cruisers." If you think that Revillagigedo Islands are the only place where sharks steal the majority of your fish, check out the ac-

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CHANGES companying photo of Laurie Matthews. She and her husband Mark of the Sausalito-based S&S 35 Althea Were get¬ ting ripped off by sharks at Panama's San Bias Islands. A great new cruising destination on the Pacific Coast of Mexico? David Jensen of the Mazatlan-based Hopalong reports that the Tres Marias Islands, currently a penal colony afebut 60 miles north of Banderas Bay, may become "a nature pre¬ serve open for the promotion of eco-tourism.” This according to a February 13 ar¬ ticle in Noroeste, a daily Spanish language newspaper in Mazatlan. The article said prisoners would be moved off the islands by mid-March, and that a private’ conces¬ sionaire is expected to operate the reserve. Emilio Azcarraga, president of Televisa, is said to be the principal investor in the project. Who is Emilio Azcarraga? If we're not mistaken, his father — who died young of cancer several years ago — controlled much of television in Mexico. Apparently his son does now. We've also heard that the father once gave Dennis Conner sev¬ eral million dollars at the end of an

erica's Cup campaign that was criti¬ cal in Conner hanging onto the Cup. .^n the victorious trip back to the dock, Conner held up a huge sign that read, "Thanks Emilio!" You know Larry Ellison's ultra-luxurious 235-ft motoryacht Katana that was his home base in New Zealand? It was originally owned by Azcarraga. The Tres Marias are three — duh — islands an average of seven miles in di¬ ameter, with a number of smaller islands including sizeable Isla San Juanito. The three main islands are volcanic and quite barren, but have peaks as high as 2,000 feet. They are spread out>along a stretch of water about 45 miles some 60 miles west of San Bias. They would be a spec¬ tacular addition to the cruising delights of Mexico — and surfers would be sure to attack the place in search of new breaks. However, we don't have any details on how or when the islands might be accessible, and if the permits to go there might be as expensive as those to go to the

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IN LATITUDES ■ made a huge turn for the better, and we've ‘ had some great sailing. We are really start' ing to have fun." ■ Also having fun is Blair Grinols and •friends aboard his 46-ft Capricorn Cat ? in the Marshall Islands. He’s diving and s sailing like a madman, and sending so so 1 memy dally reports that we haven't had ? time to distill them all. Maybe next month, f Flash! Oh no. not more of that non¬ sense! Thanks to the efforts of overzealI ous ecologists, on December 31a law was I passed in Mexico instituting a $2/perI son/day fee for going ashore on amy of ‘ the islands in the vSea of Cortez. If that : weren't bad enough, visitors are supposed ! to get a permit — which as in the case of ! clearing in — requires that same old silly ! business of going to an agency to apply i for a permit, going to the bank to pay for i the permit, and going back to the agency : to pick up the permit. Further, you have 1 to specify in advance what days you'll be ! going ashore. Fortunately, at this time 1 there is nobody to collect the money or ; enforce the law, but it's on the books, so I eventually you can expect it will be enI forced.

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CORONADO 27, 1972. $2,500. 2-year-

design, respected Cape Dory quality. Bow and stern pulpits with lifelines. Bruce an¬ chor mounted on bow. Near new Harken furling and set of North saiis. Force 10 heater, GPS, VHF, depth, speed, iazy jacks and a dependable 5 hp Nissan out¬ board. Boat is exceptionally clean inside and out. Nice wood in interior, great up¬ holstery. Boat in excellent condition. $9,500. Cali (925) 933-2448.

der outboard. Auto tiller, dodger, rollerfurling jib, trailer, solar panel. $2,000. Call Bill (707) 745-9349.

outboard. Sailed frequently for 4 years. Bought bigger boat. $4,500/obo. Call Rick (415) 205-5267 asap.

old bottom paint and standing rigging, 9.9 outboard. Sails great, needs TLC, Call Dorn (510) 928-6454.

MOORE 24, HULL #116. Almost new Quantum main, #3 and spinnaker. Join this active fleet. $10,000/obo. Please call (510) 527-4929 (evenings) or email; wlamprey@gmssr.com.

CATALINA CAPRI 22, 1985 with trailer

CATALINA 27, 1973. Good condition,

and motor. Fixed keel, race package. All lines led aft. Harken hardware, new stand¬ ing/running rigging. 2 mains, genoa, jib and spinnaker. CD. Loaded. Freshwater only. Fast, clean boat. $5,995/obo. Leave message (707) 337-7681 or email: snhaven @ yahoo.com.

sleeps 6, dinette layout, sink, head, stove, two jibs and many extras. 4-stroke Honda 10 hp. $7,000/neg. Please call Michael (707) 748-5780 or (707) 246-5068 or email: michaelmunden@msn.com.

RANGER 23. Complete Ranger with spin¬ naker and gear, main, working jib and 150%, outboard, head with holding, VHF, AM/FM stereo, all lines run aft to cockpit. Needs bottom paint and hull wax, but still a great buy. $2,000. Call (510) 823-6934.

J/24, 1981, US #2859. Excellent condi¬ tion, Tricked for racing, super clean. Two suits of sails: 1-year-old set of Norths, brand new spinnaker. All new sheets. Rarely used motor, double-axle trailer with storage box. Race ready. $9,900. (415) 613-3139 or email: mat.johnson@attbi.com.

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CATALINA 22, #2674. My Tahoe. Most excellent condition, needs nothing. Everything Cataiina Direct sells is onboard plus. Faired epoxy swing keel, 600 grit bottom, all lines led aft. upgraded standing rigging < 2 years old. 65%, 110%, 135%, 155%, 3 mains and spinnaker. 8 hp Chrysler, canvas covers, custom VHF setup, all cushions, Porta-Potti, anchor and rode, custom sun cover, custom main traveler system. Ready for sea in all respects, including trailer. Don't miss out. See Website: <http://www.fogcty.com/ MYTAHOE.htm> Price reduced. (510) 913-3926.

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21-FT VIPER 640,1997. If you like high performance, fast monohulls, you will have fun in this boat. Lake sailed, very little use. Original North sails with trailer and cover. Excellent gondition. $10,500. Call (530) 243-1111.

CATALINA 22, 1971. Furling jib, main, fixed keel. 1996 Johnson 6 hp. Anchor, compass, depthsounder. New Pbrta-Potti. VHF. Fun to sail. Slip available at Coyote Point Marina, San Mateo. $2,000. Call Ron (415) 407-1683.

CATALINA 22 Mk II, 1997. Pristine con¬ dition. Fresh bottom 12/02, no blisters. 2000 Mercury 15 hp O/B, knot, new depth, wind meters, VHF, stereo. Harken roller furling. North main and jib, 2nd main & jib, 2 spinnakers plus more extras. 1 year Santa Cruz North Harbor sublet available. Fin keel. Excellent Bay boat. $12,000. Call Bert (831) 423-7298 or (831) 345-0485 or email: Bertw329@aol.com.

MOORE 24, BLANCH. Hull 58, race ready. New, never used main 1, 2 and 3 by Dave Hodges, Santa Cruz Sails. New motor, tow tractor, giant inventory. Recent upgrades on. nearly everything. Dry stored at Schoonmaker’s in Sausalito. $14,000. Call (650) 355-4083.

MacGREGOR 19 POWERSAILER, 1994 with trailer. Showroom clean, loaded. 3 sails, stock and custom rudders, 50 hp O/B. 800-lbs water ballast, easy towing/launch, sleeps 4, Porta-Potti, bimini, stainless rails, ladder, VHF/depth/speed, cassette. Fits standard garage, extras, unique boat, sailready deal. Reno. $9,999. (775) 626-9399.

FREEDOM 21, 1983. Catboat with unstayed carbon mast and Hoyt gunmount spinnaker. Much new in 2002, recent sur¬ vey. Trailer, outboard, VHF, 3 sails. All lines led aft. On trailer at RYC space 57. $4,995/obo. Mike (530) 544-4014 or email: mqrimm6@hotmail.com._

CORONADO 15. One-design racer/ daysailer. Kickup centerboard, trailer with winch, inboard electric motor, feathering prop, solar charger, furling jib, pole, tra¬ peze, boat cover and straps, extras. All great shape. See at Website: <http;// home.attbi.com/~for_sale_by_owner/ coronado_15.htm> $2,350. Please call (510)386-5822.

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TANZER 22, 1973. Has all the standard gear in abundance plus VHF, depth, 5 bags sails, 2 poles, 9 hp O/B, fin bulb keel. Has fresh varnish and is clean. Sails well and is cheap to own and use. $1,400. Call (510) 206-6445.

SANTANA 22,1968. Solid. 4 hp 4-cycle Yamaha outboard, less than 20 hours. 2 mains, 3 jibs, 2 spinnakers. VHF and depthfinder. Extra mast support. Located Berkeley. $2,200/obo. (707) 479-0618 (cell).

CORONADO 25. Own and sail a Plastic Classic Winner (1993). Fast, stiff and well maintained. She’s the perfect Bay Area sailer. Dependable Evinrude 6 hp longshaft in good condition. Main, 130% jib top, 110% working jib and storm jib make up her sail inventory. Dinette inte¬ rior, sleeps four in a warm mahogany in¬ terior cabin with new cabin top. Depthsounder and knotmeter, both new. VHF radio and handheld, compass, bat¬ tery charger, Porta-Potti and lots more. $3,500. Call (415) 469-4889 or email; smartivo@worldnet.att.net._

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ERICSON 26 IN BEAUTIFUL SHAPE.

Pocket cruiser. Professionally painted hull, deck, bottom in 2000. Large cabin, sleeps cellent Bay or cruising boat. Large inside 5, newly upholstered, new running lines, cabin, separate head, bottom paint 2000. singlehand rigged. Roller furling, 4 sails, New Yanmar 12 hp diesel, wheel, autopilazyjacks, Loran,VHF, compass, shore ^lot, swing keel, VHF, compass, lines led power, AM/FM, autopilot. $9,900. Call aft, shorepower, Loran, more. Sacrifice ay (831) 578-1506. $11,200. Call (925) 439-8883.

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MacGREGOR 26X, 2000.50 hp Evinrude 4-stroke. Hardly used. Trailer with spare tire. Dual batteries, shorepower, fishfinder with speed and temp, stove, bimini, cock¬ pit fable and cushions, anchor, spare prop, and more. $21,500/obo. (928) 854-4735 or email; cnrallen@yahoo.com.

Clean, new upholstery, curtains, alcohol stove. 4 sails, various sizes. Cockpit cush¬ ions, compass, ladder, beige hull. 7.5 hp Honda motor, swing keel. Zieman trailer, great condition, new brake,,^. Asking $9,600/obo. Call (530) 268-0766.

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CATALINA 25,1982. Very nice condition. NEPTUNE 24. Built by Capitol, same manufacturer as Newport. Shoal draft, daggerboard, 7.5 hp Honda. Main, 130 genoa. Tandem-axle trailer, pop-top, depthsounder, Porta-Potti. Very good con¬ dition. $3,500/obo. Call (209) 368-4448.

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ISLANDER 28, 1979. Good condition, Volvo diesel engine with low mileage. Teak interior. Main, 2 jibs, drifter. Sleeps 7. Bottom fiberglass redone 1992. Great daysailer or cruiser to Catalina.’ Located San Diego. $14,900/obo. Must sell. Call (619) 224-3277 (cell) or (619) 865-2169.

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CAL 27, 1972 POP-TOP. Great boat to sail the Bay. 8 hp Honda 0/B, new bot¬ tom 2002, 4 sails, lots of new deck gear, depth and compass, VHP, inside very clean and dry. $6,500, Please call Matt (510)418-0208. CORONADO 25. Good condition. Sleeps 5. Self-tacking jib, Nissan 8 hp with low hours, spare Evinrude 9.9 electric start. Dual batteries and shore power. New ra¬ dio, LifeSling. Fishfinder, depth gauge, recent standing/rdnning rigging and inte¬ rior cushions. Microwave, refrigerator. $2,900/obo. Call (209) 833-9005. BRISTOL 27 CLASSIC. New: shrouds and stays. Harken roller furling, cushions, sink, head, more. $7,500.^10) 290-2667 or (209) 599-2009. ^

OLSON 25, 1988. Excellent condition. Deluxe interior, 5 hp O/B, New unused main, all class sails, spinnaker sock. Re¬ built deluxe duai-axle trailer, VHF, AM/FM/ cassette with cockpit speakers. One of the last ones built. $12,500. Call Brent (510) 558-8868.

MacGREGOR 26X, 1996. 50 hp. Trailer with spare. Pressure water, 30 gallons. Propane gimbaled stove, refrigerator, lights and fans in head and bunks, 40 gal¬ lon custom fuel, autopilot, VHF, worktable with washdown, bait tank, fishfinder, bimini, more. $19,950. (805) 522-9437.

AS-/S PEARSON 28-1,1982 with 3-axle trailer. This poor boat needs tons of work and equipment. Mast and boom in good shape, sparse interior, no engine, exte¬ rior needs fiberglass work, been drydocked for years. First $3,800 takes. Call (707) 826-9256.

PEARSON ARlfil,, 1963. Classic Alberg designed racer/cruiser. 25.6-ft, strongly built and rigged, stiff and able, ideal Bay boat. Galley, head, 4 bunks, 6 hp longshaft Johnson outboard. Full racing gear, 2 suits working sails, 150 and 180% jibs, 2 spin¬ nakers, jiffy reefing. Frequent winner in one-design and handicap racing. Hauled 11/02. Strong class association provides racing and maintenance information: <www.PearsonAriel.org> An inexpensive entry to the wonderful world of racing and cruising. $3,950. Call (510) 524-3250.

THUNDERBIRD 26. Fiberglass over ma¬ rine plywood, restored hull and mast, new standing and running rigging, electric wir¬ ing, charger, battery, and rionskid. Two mains, two jibs, 6 hp Johnson outboard, sleeps four. In Alameda. $3,800/obo. Call Brian (510) 693-4205.

ERICSON 27,1984. Good shape. Roller furling jib, tabernacle mast. 9.9 hp Yamaha outboard, low hours. VHF, depthfinder, autopilot, head, holding tank. Sleeps 6. $7,000. Call (831) 818-0332.

CORONADO 27,1972. Great liveaboard. Wheel steering. 10 hp 4-cycle outboard. Pressure water system throughout includ¬ ing heater, all new. New batteries. New charger. New cushions and upholstery. New shelving, TV/VCR, microwave. Lo¬ cated Berkeley. $5,500 Negotiable. Call (707) 479-0618. PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25 Mk II, 1978. Full keel pocket cruiser, rebuilt 8 hp Yanmar diesel inboard. Newly upholstered interior cushions, custom cockpit cushions. Head, galley, freshwater tank, teak decks, full boat cover, two complete sets of sails. $17,500. Please call (650) 444-4699. MacGREGOR 25,1985. Swing keel sail¬ boat on trailer. Four sails with all rigging. 10 hp Honda 4-stroke. Too many extras to list. $4,500, Call John J. Totten (925) 449-6370 or email: jjtotten@netzero.net for additional information. COLUMBIA 8.7,1979.28.5-ft. Clean and roomy. New main. Inboard diesel, teak interior. Shaft, propeller and bearings all recently maintained. $8,400. Call (408) 262-7013. \ CATALINA 27,1976. Excellent condition. Roller furling, new standing rigging, new 15 hp Mercury with remote, galley, head. Sails: main, jib 130, gennaker. See pho¬ tos at Website: <www.tropical-bob.com> $7,900. Please call (650) 871-8831 or email: bharriscmyk@hotmail.com. ERICSON 27, 1972. Clean, well kept beauty. Tiller, two sets of sails plus spin¬ naker. Healthy, well maintained Atomic 4. Berkeley upwind slip. Check out the de¬ tails at Website: <http://home.attbi,com/ -ericson27/> Asking $10,500. Best offer takes it. Call (510) 215-1046. MacGREGOR 26 S CLASS, 1989. 2000 Evinrude 8 hp 4TStroke. Main/jib, sails very good condition. Water ballast, trailer with surge brakes, poptop, anchor, compass, depth/fishfinder, solar powered 12 batter¬ ies, 2 fuel tanks. Enclosed Porta-Potti, stove, sink. Fort Bragg, CA. Call (707) 964-8410 or email: firedoggiel ©yahoo.com.

RANGER 26, 1971. Immaculate. Ready to go. LPU cabin, decks, topsides. Faired keel, sprayed bottom.- Internal halyards, lines led aft. Roller furling, spinnaker, 2speed winches. Honda 9, 40 hours. Sleeps four. Large V-berth. Propane stove. $8,000. Call (415) 924-4460.

MacGREGOR 26,1990 with trailer. Brand new 9.9 Honda 4-stroke XLS. Lots of ex¬ tras. Good condition. Buying new boat, must sell. Anxious to make a deal. Asking $8,500/obo. For specs call (707) 255-4599 or email: elzoro@ix.netcom.com. CATALINA 27,1982. Great singlehander, sailed every week. New standing rigging 2000, bottom paint 2002, roller furling, autotiller 2001. Atomic 4, compass, depth, speed. All lines aft to spinlocks, including two reefs in main. Avon dink, BBQ. Big¬ ger boat. $9,500. (510) 409-4148 or email: mcarnall @ sbcglobal.net. PACIFIC SEACRAFT 25,1976. Full keel pocket cruiser. Better then new. New Awigrip hull, deck, and mast. New Stand¬ ing and running rigging with new Profurl and new custom sails. Halyards led to the cockpit and new single line reefing sys¬ tem. Rebuilt 8 hp Yanmar diesel with 20 gal diesel and 20 water. Teak interior com¬ pletely retinished abd all new cushions. This was a complete restoration, and looks better then new. Move forces sale. A steal at $20,000. Call (510) 908-1835.

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NORDIC FOLKBOAT 25,1951, #56. Outstanding condition. Extensively refur¬ bished 1999, new deck, rudder, sails. Lots of gleaming mahogany. Full cover. SF Marina beTthbansfer possible. Active fleet. $8,900. (415) 271-6267. MacGREGOR 26,2000 with trailer. 50 hp outboard. Trailer has new brakes, wheels and tires. $4,000 worth of upgrades and extras, including pressure water and shower. $22,500. Call (707) 963-7092.

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CATALINA 27,1983. 5 sails, dinette lay¬ out, teak interior, head. Universal diesel. Really nice shape. At Oyster Point. Call I Blair (415) 572-5765 for appointment. 25-FT CAPE DORY 25-D, 1984. Classic Alberg design, respected Cape Dory qual¬ ity. Yanmar diesel, autopilot, depth, speed/ log, VHF, 2 Danforths. Excellent condition. Cruise ready. $19,900. Please call (619) 224-6594 or email: ajeske@ixpres.com for photos and full specs. MacGREGOR 25, 1982. Spoils of War. Good shape, trailer, SONAR, all lights, boat bumpers, head, dinette table, carpet! new 15 hp Evinrude on strongly reinforced stern. Pop-top has full plexiglass enclo¬ sure, great for winter. Main, jib and genoa $2,950. Call (831) 722-1003. CORONADO 28,1973. Cruiser, ideal for Bay. Full headroom', enclosed head, gal¬ ley. At Emeryville Marina. Potential liveaboard. 6 winches, shorepower. In¬ board needs work. Sleeps 4-6. $4,000. Please call (510) 658-3035 or emailRWEHLE@IOPENER.net.

US SAILS 25, 1982. Needs TLC, minor cosmetic work and bottom paint. No mo¬ tor or main, bag of jibs. Current registra¬ tion. Please call for details. Transferable SF Gashouse Marina berth. $4,500/obo. Jeremy (415) 346-9569. CAL 2-27. Cruise/race. Full electronics, epoxy bottom. 2 mains, jibs: 90,105,120, 150, new Kevlar 140. 3 spinnakers: .5-oz, .75-oz, 1.2-oz, All sails by North Sails. Headfoil, rigged for racing or single¬ handing. Extras, Atomic 4 runs great. $T0,500/obo. (415) 924-6553.

CORONADO 25. Modified like an offshore tank. 9.9 hp Johnson 4-stroke, 70 hours. 2-burner propane stove, 4 batteries, 4person settee. New upholstery. 7-ft fore-, castle. Doghouse. New jib, 2 Bruce anchors. Bone dry. $5,500 (415) 945-9264. ALBIN 28 CUMULUS, 1982. High qual¬ ity, modern Swedish F/G sloop. Yanmar diesel, excellent throughout and ready. Get a beautiful connoisseur’s boat at an entry-level price, $10,500. Please call (510)499-9211. ERICSON 27,1975 with transferable 30ft SF Marina slip. Volvo MD30, wheel steering with emergency tiller. Sail and boat in good condition. 6’ headroom. Enclosed head with possibility of shower. $17,000/negotiable. Call (415) 642-0260 or email: vvip@webtv,net. CATALINA CAPRI 26, 1990. 10,000-lb. custom trailer, 8 hp O/B motor. Fin keel, depthfinder, knotmeter, butane stove! marine head, sail, winch and tiller covers! custom shade awning and all the extras! Pristine condition. Must see. $19 900 Call (530) 246-7877.

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CORONADO 25. Recently painted, de¬ tailed. Good Shape, fun, dry. Wood inte¬ rior cabin with galley, sleeps 5, head, mainsail, jib, no motor. 8’ beam. 5.5’ headroom. Moss Landing, North Harbor, temp slip. $2,400/obo. (831) 768-8622 or email: sailpics @ manynamespress.com.

FREEDOM 25, 1982. Great pocket cruiser, Bay boat with legendary Freedom/ Tillotson-Pearson quality. Carbon fiber wing mast, 8,8 outboard. Comfy cockpit and cozy below. See Website <http:// 216.36.69.77/freedom.htm> for pics and details. A steal at $6,500. Please email: f reedom25 @ hotmail.com.

CORONADO 27 WITH VOLVO inboard. Great Bay boat or getaway. Sleeps 5. Transferable Sausalito berth. Can be seen at #87 Argues Marina. Good condition. $3,000. Call (415) 488-1648 or email: mpfjlm@earthlink.net.

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SANTANA 27, 1967. Schock built. 8 hp Evinrude. Spinnaker with pole, roller furl¬ ing. Roomy interior with beautiful wood finish. 2-burner propane stove, refrigera¬ tor, Porta-Potti. Great condition, fast clas¬ sic. $5,400. Call (707) 649-2579.

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ERICSON 30 Mk II, 1978. Monitor windvane, R/F. New head and H/T. Inflat¬ able with outboard, lots of extras. Great condition. $18,500. (650) 506-2729 (days) or (650) 593-9430 (eves).

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ISLANDER 29. Rigged for single sailing, self-furling jib, wheel, inboard Atomic 4 gasoline engine. See at Berkeley Marina, berth available. Good liveaboard, sleeps five, propane stove,' inflatable dinghy with motor. Must sell. $4,950. Call Paul (650) 949-4729.

> GOES TO WINDWARD AT 60KN. Unique i pilothouse ketch, 1994. 30-ft loa, 8-ft i bearn, draft 2’6” to 4’6”, sleeps four. Autoi( pilot, refrigerator, full electronics, ground ) tackle. All controls, sails/anchoring, from s below deck. Must sell, make offer. Please c contact by email: jamur00@hotmail.com.

ERICSON 30,1967. Must sell. CD, BBQ, VHF. Avon, Volvo diesel, new wiring, new bottom paint, needs hull paint. Solid boat in good condition. $10,000/obo. Call (831) 238-4126. CAL 30,1965. Located in Delta. Has been sailed to Mexico. 8 sails, Aries self-steer¬ ing, gas Atomic 4. 3 anchors including 35# CQR and smaller Bruce. $7,000. Call Bob (916) 736-2315. CATALINA 30,1982. Location Alameda. Dodger, autopilot, roller furling, GPS, depth sounder, BBQ. All lines led aft. Two anchors, H/C pressure water. Atomic 4 with halon system. Bottom painted 1/03, original owner, $16,500. (831) 438-2671 or email: thumphries@prodigy.net. LANCER 30 Mk V, 1980. Asking $19,850. Two years work, hundreds of dollars to make seaworthy. Reduced $2,000, only $17,850. New wiring, battery, bilge, auto¬ pilot, GPS, radio and more. Lots of teak wood, 6.2-tt cabin. Bottom paint, survey less than 2 years. (510) 471-3974. 31 -R GERMAN-MADE RBERGLASS SLOOP. 8 months old. Due to my job I have to re¬ locate and must sell this brand new boat. All varnished mahogany below. Self-tend-ing jib on traveler, setup to singlehand and easy for a couple to sail. Only 80 hours on brand new Volvo engine. I have added VHF, cockpit speaker for VHF, spinnaker halyard led aft, bow and stern anchors, GPS. Documented with the US Coast Guard. Sold for $108,000 in May of 2002 and I have added 4K worth of gear, $90,000/firm. Call (415) 668-0673.

li windvane, recent rigging with stalocks, 5 mainsail, 3 jibs, drifter. Barient self-tailing ii winches, rebuilt Volvo diesel. Shipmate >' propane stove. Force 10 heater, Artie Cold !i refrigeration, pressure H/C water, up¬ s' graded electrical/plumbing. Documented t vessel. $9,000. (510) 524-3594. ISLANDER 29, 1967. Atomic 4 runs excellent, new cabin windows, new bottom paint, new dripless shaftseal, new interior paint and lighting. New varnish on combings and interior.New 3-blade prop, new backstay. $9,450. Leave msg at: (209) 401-2337 or email: hankwilliams@attbi.com.

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J/29,1984. Coveted MH/OB, Completely refurbished freshwater boat. Racing and cruising sails. North 3DLs. Completly re¬ wired, new electronics. Autohelm, CD, mast repainted, new rigging, rollerfurling. All deck hardware rebedded, 8 hp 0/B, varnished interior, many extras. Race/ cruise ready. $30,000. (818) 841-3300 or email: beyondfilm@earthlink.net._

GO CRUISING IN THIS LIFETIME. And for under $10,000, Rare Sausalito built Triton 28.5’ heavy built fiberglass. Lots of gear, medical, survival, 7 sails, CQR. Charts: Mexico to Australia. In San Diego. You bring GPS and money. First $9,900 takes. Moved to Florida. (619) 277-0593.

CS 30,1986. Live/cruise/race. H/C pres¬ sure water, 18 hp Volvo diesel, 36” wheel, smart charger, propane oven, map GPS plus Nexus 3000 instruments, race-faired hull/keel. Symmetric spinnaker. Recent Harken furler. Jan 03 surveys. $31,000. Berkeley. Mark (415) 309-0160 or email: mvselst @ email.sjsu.edu. NANTUCKET CLIPPER, 1979. Builder: Offshore Yachts Int’l, Norfolk, England. LOA 32’, LOD, 29.5’. Beam 9.1’. Yawl rig, full keel, 6,500-lbs lead ballast. FG hull, inboard Volvo 14 hp diesel. Fuel 10, wa¬ ter 20. Head, stove/oven, refrig. New com¬ pass and knotmeter. Depthsounder, tiller autopilot. 110 genoa, main, mizzen, spare genoa, storm trisail. Roller reefing main. Good condition, a sound vessel structur¬ ally/mechanically, Great liveaboard, standing headroom 6-ft-H. $18,750. Alex Please call (415) 269-1823 or email: ja2rheda @ yahoo.com.

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NEWPORT 30 Mk III, 1982. Bottom 2002. Diesel, wheel. Autohelm 4000, ST winches. Harken furler, Norcold, LCD TV, hot water, Martec. North: Main, 150, 90, spinnaker. Best equipped N30 on West Coast. Marina del Rey. See Website: <photos@www.yachtsandmore.com> $23,900. Call (888) 541-7232.

BENETEAU 32s5, 1991. Excellent con¬ dition, race model with all instruments and spinnaker gear, near new North racing sails. New Autohelm 4000, new Garmin GPS. 2 cyl Volvo diesel FWC, H/C pres¬ sure water, refrigeration. Beautiful and fast racer/cruiser. $59,900. (562) 434-9131. RAFIKI 35 SLOOP, 1980. World cruiser. Teak interior and deck, recent Yanmar 3GM30 diesel/shaft/prop. Ten opening bronze ports, custom mast/boom/rigging. Autohelm autopilot with vane, 1,000-ft depth. Brisbane dock. Asking $59,000. Please call (408) 867-9202 or email: wcelhoff@att.net.

YANKEE 30, 1971. Fast Sparkman & Stephens racer/cruiser. 2GM20 Volvo die¬ sel. Roller furling jib, full batten main, dodger, windlass, autopilot, propane stove/oven, custqm cabinets and uphol¬ stery. 5’11” headroom. 3-blade folding prop, many sails. Lying Alameda. $15,000. (510) 347-2344 (voicemail).

NEWPORT 30 PHASE II. Very comfort¬ able deluxe Interior, 3-burner stove with oven. Good running, reliable Atomic 4. 3 jibs, one is a drifter. Legal head. Be sail¬ ing by summer, lets talk. $11,347, Call Jene (209) 942-4544.

KNARR 30 FIBERGLASS. Class chamfiion, ready to win again. Greatest racing and social fleet on the Bay. St. Francis, San Francisco and Corinthian Yacht Club racing, fleet racing in Norway and Den¬ mark. 4 hp Yamaha, full cover, 4 suits of sails, $19,995. Call (415) 302-9304.^

S2 9.2C, 1978. Center cockpit, Yanmar diesel, wheel steering. Aft stateroom, roller furling, dodger. New North mainsail, ex¬ cellent liveaboard, 6’ interior headroom. Lying Pier 39. First $26,000 takes it. Please call David (415) 572-6506 or email: Buckaroo500@yahoo,com.

ERICSON 29,1972. Perfect Bay cruiser, large cockpit with tiller. Good headroom for liveaboard. Well maintained Atomic 4, plus many upgrades: depthfii^er, hal¬ yards, gas tank, electrical, transmission cable, rigging, grill, etc, Emeryville. $11,000/obo. Call Kevin (510) 593-4901.

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ISLANDER 30, 1974. Excellent shape with new paint top and bottom 08/01, newly rebuilt jib and new boom 08/02. Rollerfurling, self-tailing winches, dodger, diesel, wheel steering, AM/FM cassette stereo, 8 bags sails with spinnaker. (415) 289-0538 (msg) or (530) 305-0434 (cell).

29-FT RHODES SLOOP. Stuart l/B, 6 hp Evinrude Q/B. New bottom, hull, and inte¬ rior paint, 4 sails, $2,500/obo. Also Chris Craft Bullnose 35,1954, all original, needs interiorwork. $2,500/obo. (925) 642-7970.

RAWSON 30 BLUEWATER CRUISER. Hull #48, very sound. Isuzu diesel uninstalled, Borg Warner transmission. Alcohol stove, Lectrasan, anchor, rode, new windlass. Storage galore. 12,000 dis¬ placement, 5,000 ballast. Needs work, re¬ duced for quick sale. $7,000/firm. Please call (510) 923-1383.

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BENETEAU 32s5,1989. Second owner. Hauled, bottom painted, engine serviced in 2002. Roller furling jib, refrigeration, hot water heater, leather wheel, CD stereo, VHF, depth, speed, compass, etc. Great boat for SF Bay. $55,000. (415) 433-0900. SCHOCK 35,1985. $30,000 worth of UK sails. All updated instruments, autopilot. Boat located in Annapolis, MD. Asking $39,900. Call (410) 745-0229 or email: kacsereni 11 ©hotmatCporri. C & C 33, 1975. Surveyed and bottom done Oct. 2001. New head, sink pumps, battery bank and starting battery. Newmar charger and shorepower, 110 plugs. Kevlar and dacron main and jibs, 3 spin¬ nakers. Atomic 4, wheel. $19,500. Call (707) 584-4662. CORONADO 34. Prototype built in 1968. Too much to mention. $29,300. Call (415) 258-§656 (leave message).

GARDEN 35 KETCH, 1965. Riveted wood, epoxy decks. Doyle tanbark sails, Yanmar30 hp, AC, Force 10 stove, Force 4 dinghy, 8 hp Nissan. New Lewmar winches. Strong, beautiful, updated, fully equipped. Possible liveaboard slip. Chula Vista. $34,000. George (619) 425-6984 or email: georgetheleo @ hotmail.com. CATALINA 34,1991. Walk-through tran¬ som, new Garhquer vang and traveler. Boom and mast refurbished 11/02. 4-cyl¬ inder 30 hp diesel, Autohelm 4000, high output alternator. Heart regulator. Custom mattresses in V-berth and aft cabin. A/B refer, propane stove/oven. $67,000 Call (619)405-0489. COLUMBIA SABRE 32, 1962. Classic America's Cup boat, fitted with cabin and full set of sails. Perfect for SF Bay. Foster City mooring. Lots of extras. $5,000/obo. Photos available. Please email Anton: anton@winecounsel.net.

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ERICSON 35 Mk II, 1970. Great sailer. Comfortable, liveable. Mahogany interior, teak bright work. Proven coastal cruiser. San Diego. $23,500. Come sail me. Call (760) 436-9991. 320, 2001. Excellent condi¬ tion. Loaded with extras, too much to list. Bottom painted 7/02. Furling headsails and mainsail with Dutchman. Diesel, GPS chartplotter, VHF and RAM, wind pack¬ age, microwave, refrigeration, bimini much more. $99,900. Call (209) 727-3204 or (209) 327-2021.

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PEARSON VANGUARD 32.5, 1963. Documented. Yanmar diesel engine, roller furler, Aries windvane, autopilot, dodger, VHF, GPS. All lines led to cockpit. Hauled, new bottom paint 12/02. Presently in Vava’u, Tonga, South Pacific. $26,900. Please call (925) 829-5256 or email: JJAntares@aol.com. ERICSON 35 Mk II, 1969. Original owner, new mast, rigging, lifelines, stanchions,’ professional wood interior diesel, loaded. Must see. Moving out of state. $29,700. Excellent condition. (707) 374-6364 or email: wbpaulk@rickadee.net. RANGER 33, 1976. Well maintained, Gary Mull design. Spring 2000 survey. Nicest Ranger on the Bay. New interior and custom teak storage. Wheel with lines to cockpit. North main, 110%, 170%, Pine¬ apple spinnaker and pole. New Harken traveler system with double control blocks and Spectra braid, 3/02. 25 hp Atomic 4 with new valve job and new exhaust, 10/ 02. AC/DC wiring completely updated with new panel, smart charger, 2 battery banks. Microwave, propane range, H/C pressure water, new head and tank, VHF, phone/ DSL, CD Stereo with power amp and sub. Dry, fast and comfortable. Marina Village slip. $24,500/obo. Call (415) 215-3926 or email: bergend@optonline.net. CREALOCK 34 by Pacific Seacraft. Price reduced. $89,500. Immaculate condition. . Completely cruise equipped. Provision and go. Please call (626) 447-1871 or email: leslieb@hawaii.edu.

MORGAN 321 SLOOP, 1979. 11’5". beam, Skeg hung rudder, 20 hp Yanmar freshwater cooled diesel. New Pir;eapple main. Two 90s, two 110s, new mainsail cover. Radar, Furuno GP30 GPS, Garmin 162 chartplotter, 5 batteries, 20 amp. 3stage battery charger, 3 stage regulator, pressure water, propane stove/oven, pro¬ pane detector, A/B refer. New lifelines, S/ L 2-speed manual windlass, CQR, Danforth anchors. Documented. Easily singlehanded. Asking $29,950. Call (510) 532-1629 or (510) 326-3795._ TRAVELLER 32 CUTTER, 1974. Classic double-ended offshore cruiser with character. Black fiberglass hull, bronze ports, teak deck. Westerbeke diesel engine. Pro¬ pane oven/stove. Monitor windvane, autotlller, GPS. Needs some work. Located Monterey. See picture at Website: <www.webcom.com/Misty> $29 000/pbo Call Linda (831) 622-9452 or emaih misty@webcom.com.

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ERICSON 32,1976. Very clean inside and out. Surveyed 12/01. New bottom paint 01/ 02. Yanmar diesel, 150 hours. New bat¬ teries, VHP, CD stereo system and head. Wheel steering. Lots of other extras. $23,500. Please call Mark (650) 533-2584 or email: m.buechin@attbi.com.

SPENCER 35,1968. Beautiful condition, ready to cruise. Liferaft, EPIRB, watermaker, SSB weather fax receiver, solar panel. Monitor windvane. Autohelm, dinghy, new roller furler, GPS, depth. To¬ tal re-rig including chainplates and staylocks. Bottom paint Dec. 2001. <www.blarg.net/~smithm/boat/lndex.htm> $34,900/make offer. Call (619) 888-0258. 32-FT SLOOP. Excellent condition. OSTAR racer/design, 1960. Flush deck, full keel, shoal draft, tight huli, full sailsuit. Yanmar diesel, sea kindly, tons of room, loads of gear, kept-up. Loves stiff Bay air. See Website; <http://home.attbi.com/ ~uirik7> $20,000/obo. (510) 758-3113.

NOR’WEST 33, 1979. Huii #11 (sistership). Chuck Burns design. Built locally. Sailed worldwide. Second owner. Beauti¬ fully kept, many upgrades. My plans to cruise have changed but the boat still wants to go. Must see, in Sausalito. Ask¬ ing $53,500. Cali (415) 331 -5705 or (415) 533-2992 (cell). , _ ARIES 32,1974. Sound bluewater beauty lying Santa Cmz, L)-7. Recent spars, main, s/s tanks, rigging. Bargain priced at $18,000. Consider trade for quality H.Ranch/Channel Island capable 22’-26’ trailerable cuddy powerboat. Call (831) 427-1289 (Doug) or (831) 476-0877 (Jim). WESTSAIL 32,1973. Factory finished, 36 hp, oversized rigging. Monitor, canvas, solar. Comfortable, proven vessel. In Sausalito. See at Website: <http:// www.icgrowth.com/amabie/> $39,000. Call (415) 887-2666. YORKTOWN 33,1976. Built in Martinez as Rani Laut. On the hard in Napa for two years. Perkins diesei, 3 mains. All there, needs sorting. 30 year unfinished project, but sails well. Lived aboard for 8 years. Documented. $15,000/obo. Call (209) 601-2228.

CAL 34 Mk III. Clean. New Forespar mast and boom 12/02. New Ullman main. New Profurl LC32 roller furler. All new stand¬ ing and running rigging. Shakespeare VHF antenna. Hot/coid pressure water, CNG stove. Westerbeke KL30 24 hp diesei with low hours. Recently serviced. New bottom 2002. Recent epoxy bottom. Fine boat. Avaiiable with Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip. Very nice interior. Asking $34,500. Cali (209) 304-4723 or (209) 296-5^99.

CAL 2-34, 1978. Asking just $32,500. Beautifui sailing capabiiities. Mexico vet¬ eran, Queen of Hearts II is a beioved and well-kept yacht. Recent upgrades 2003: New electrical panel/wiring, AC/DC up¬ graded. New fuel and hot water tanks, in¬ sulated and refinished interior and new uphoistery. Stanchions reinforced, standing rigging upgraded one size. Inciudes fuil sail inventory and cruising gennaker, ra¬ dar, GPS and autopiiot. Located in Aiameda. Cali Vicky (510) 814-6101. CATALINA 34,1986. Universai diesel 23 hp. Canvas, dodger, bimini, depth, knotmeter, autopilot Autohelm 3000, ra¬ dar, VHF, stereo, Loran. Inflatable, 4 hp outboard, roller furling, cockpit cushions, CNG stove, Alder-Barbour refrigerator, macerator, shower, five sails. $52,000. (415) 296-0396 or (510) 0893-6186 (eves). US 33,1980. Weii equipped, reliabie, fun and easy to sail. If your tastes run toward champagne and caviar, this boat is probabiy not for you. But if you want a roomy, solid boat to roam the Bay or Delta, you really should take a look. I want $16,000, but I'm moving east in May, so make an offer. This is a iot qf boat for the money. Details at <http://www.danstanford.net/ us33/sale.htm> or call (559) 438-0339 or (559) 213-3179. SANTANA 35. Exceptional Bay boat, race or cruise. Exceilent condition, many up¬ grades, sails, top hardware. New Quan¬ tum Kevlar main, #3, spinnaker. Proven race winner: National Champion, Ocean Series. One of the nicest S35s. See at Website; <www.santana35.com/icenine> $34,000/obo. Please call Brendan (650) 851-0786.

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ISLANDER 36, 1983. SF area. Original owner. One of the last built, added ameni¬ ties, weil cared for and maintained. Never raced. Low engine hours, 740 hours on Pathfinder diesel. New canvas covers, custom drifter with sock, 140 roller furiing jib. 8-ft dinghy on deck. 10-ft hard bottom Zodiac with 15 hp Nissan outboard. No huil blisters. Boat as-is with ali equipment. Color TV, stereo/CD, microwave. $56,000. Cail (707) 257-7750.

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CARTER OFFSHORE 39, 1974. Per¬ petual cup winner. Rebuilt Westerbeke, H/ C pressure water, shower, refer, heat, large owner's stateroom. Comfortable liveaboard for single or couple. $49,500. Please call (510) 919-1184 or email; gwynnef @ comcast.net.

CATALINA 36 Mk II, 1999. Excellent com¬ fortable boat. Dodger, cockpit cushions and table, H/C shower. Raytheon Autohelm autopilot, windspeed, knotmeter, VHF, stereo/CD, extra start battery with Link 10 battery monitor and combiner, 44-lb Bruce anchor. Numerous interior upgrades/creature comforts for sailing, cooking, overnighting. Great galley with propane range/oven. Microwave, frig. Low engine hours Universal diesel. Profession¬ ally maintained, never raced. A lovely boat, easy to sail. Located Alameda. $115,500. Call (209) 728-2554 or email: scubapony@aol.com.

TARTAN BLACKWATCH 37. This clas¬ sic, go anywhere boat is ready for cruis¬ ing. The cabin is mahogany and teak throughout. A Newport diesel heater pro¬ vides a cozy atmosphere on cool nights. Amenities: H/C water, solar, autopilot, GPS, VHF radio, 75 gal water, 55 gal fuel, 2 burner stove/oven, Westerbeke 40 hp diesel. She is the 3rd hull built by Tartan Yachts, 1966. Asking $54,900. Please email Dan: dancounts@earthlink.net or call (831) 247-8228._

WATKINS 36,1982. Center cockpit sloop. Huge cabin for liveaboard or cruising. Perkins 50 hp diesel, low hours. Great wood interior, sleeps at least 6. All cruis¬ ing amenities. Hard-to-get slip goes with boat. Monterey Marina, Slip G17. See Website: <www.dnlco.com/wildfire> $65,000. Call (925) 376-3826.

LANCER 36,1979. Extensive refit 1995. Full batten main, roller furling soling jib, cruising chute, pole. New insturments, hatches, portholes, headliner, upholstery, several layers bottom paint, Maxprop and more. Freshwater boat, little use since refit. Must sell. $37,500. Call Rob (209) 462-3202.

PALMER JOHNSON STANDFAST 36,1974. Flush decked, fin keeled, skeg rudder, racer/cruiser. Airex cored hull, Baltek cored deck, European styled Thai teak interior. Incredible inventory, strong, safe, CATALINA 380. Excellent condition. Ex¬ fast, beautiful, excellent condition. $52,500/obo. Call (619) 254-7322 or/ tensively outfitted for cruising. Located in San Diego. Asking $175,000/obo. For email: svsara@hotmail,com. " equipment list, specifications and photos see Website: <http;//geocities.com/svlilia> CREALOCK, LAUNCHED 1984, LOA 39-FT. or call (619) 840-3275 or email; Outstanding cruising cutter, top quality email;lingdispo@hotmail.com. gear and fittings throughout, excellent condition, meticulously maintained since new. A genuine bargain at $89,000. Please see details at Website: <http:// yachtemmablue,nnultimania.com> or call (520) 424-3198.

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CAL 39, 1978. Fast, clean, loaded. Perkins, wheei, taii rig. Fuil batten main, roiler furiing, hydrauiic backstay. Autopi¬ lot, color GPS, radar, TV/stereo, water maker, water heater, refrig, LP mast/huil. Liferaft, dinghy with 0/B, dodger, fuli in¬ struments. $89,000. Cali (805) 684-5602.

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CATALINA 36,1993. Bluewater cruiser: Mexico, Tahiti, Alaska. Walk-thm transom. Standard extras plus full bimini, leecloths, SSB, EPIRB, radar, AP and spare, dual VHF, GPS, TV, stereo, VHF, solar pan¬ els. New bottom. Well maintained, great liveaboard. $84,500. Cail (760) 751-4072 or email: ourjourneyl ©juno.com.

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CATALINA 36, 1985. Pristine condition. New rigging. Cruising and racing sails. Rigged for shorthanded sailing. Only two owners. Low engine hqurs. Garmin GPS. $52,500. For pictures (^1 (415) 435-4909 or email: ponokaitoo@aol.com.

ISLAND PACKET 38,1986. Mexico vet. Loaded for singlehand cruising/liveaboard. Custom galley, Cohan counters, beautiful cabinetry, halogen lights, new upholstery. Raytheon, instruments/ra'dar, hydraulic autopilot, electric windlass, furling jib/ staysail, fully battened main/Dutchman flaking, lots more. $140,000. Email; stephky le @ yahoo.com or (510) 523-8112.

CORBIN 39. Cruise ready. Windvane, autopilot, watermaker, air conditioning, heat. Dinghy. New electronics, radar, SSB, VHF, chart GPS, stereo, TV. New canvas. Hauled 10/02. Asking $108,000. Call (707) 268-8946. PACIFIC SEACRAFT Mk II. LOA 36-ft. Recently refit for bluewafer cruising with new Yanmar, sails. Monitor, SSB, radar, chartplotter, watermaker, more. $65,000. See pictures and specs at Website: <www,captainjamie.com> or call (510) 387-7956.

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ISLANDER 36. Never raced. New LPU on hull and cabin. New standing rigging and furler/headsail. 500 hours on new Yanmar diesel. New Force 10 propane stove. New head liner. Pressure hot and cold, autopi¬ lot and electronics. No blisters. $46,000. Call (510) 865-2433. JEANNEAU 37,1997. LA Area. In excel¬ lent shape. Yanmar diesel, cruising equipped, bimini, dodger, full cover, elec¬ tric halyards and winch, windlass, refrig¬ eration, pressure hot water, wing keel, radar chart plotter, autopilot. SS, VHF ra¬ dios. $105,000. Call (310) 377-6330. CATALINA 380,^000.40 hours, full can¬ vas package, dodger,, bimini. Factory safety package, 10 disc changer, wind speed and depth, autopilot, full winter cover. New inflatable with 8 hp motor. In fresh water untill Fall of 2002. $147,900 Call (801) 971-0791.' UNION 36 Mk II CUTTER, 1984. 100 gal fuel, 140 gal water, 400 gpd watermaker. New Simrad instruments and A/P. ICOM 710RT HF with Factor 11. DCS VHF with RAM. Furuno radar, GPS. Interphase chartplotter. 75w solar, wind gen, Technautics refer. Mast rewired 2000. Custom V-berth mattress. Dinghy and outboard. Roller furled headsails. Stand¬ ing/running rigging new 1999. Perkins 4108. $95,000. Call (925) 373-3950 or email: union36apophyge@aol.com. ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: RANGER 37. Sound, reinforced, bonded hull and deck. Longitudinal stringers fore to aft. Mock up interior and bonded bulkheads. New rud¬ der, new keel. Standing and running rig¬ ging, lots of gear. Too much invested, you assemble. $19,000. Call (650) 726-5425.

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37-FT STEEL VAN DE STADT. Fast bluewater cutter. Hull professionally built. Loaded for long distance cruising. Please, serious inquiries only. Leave address for spec sheet. $22,000. Out of country first half of Nov. Please call after Nov. 15. Call (310) 374-0101. LANCER 36,1981. Bill Lee designed fast sloop. Well equipped, radar, Loran, auto¬ pilot, wind, knot, etc. Rebuilt Yanmar 3 cyl., water heater, shower, propane oven/ stove, fridge. Selling everything, $20,000. Call (510) 559-8942 or prefer email: Boatbrain@aol.com. CATALINA 36, 1990. Tall rig with stepthrough transom. In excellent condition w|th only 350 original engine hours. Brand new epoxy barrier coat and bottom paint. Call for fact sheet and photos. $71,000. Please call (801) 870-8702 or email: dnkprice @ worldnet.att.net.

40 TO 50 FEET KETTENBERG 40 SLOOP, 1959. Strong and dependable, 40 hp Perkins diesel. Depthfinder, knotmeter, restitched sails, blooper, stereo, ship-to-shore, new preventer/boomvang and traveler system. Gorgeous lines. Must sell. Going to' Mexico. First $19,000 takes her. Call (530) 885-8405.

ISLAND PACKET 40, 1994. Bay Area. Excellent condition. Fully cruise equipped. Spectra watermaker, 2 A/Cs, Windbugger, 2 solar panels, ICOM SSB, Raytheon ra¬ dar on arch, B&G network, liferaft, stereo, Avon dinghy, more. $239,000. Call (209) 727-5165 or email: jbakerl 530 @aol.com.

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LANCER 40, 1984. Huge center cockpit sloop. 2 staterooms. New 59 hp Volvo Penta 1998. Liferaft, dinghy with motor, 24-mile radar with GPS interface. This Baja vet makes for an excellent liveaboard/shorthanded cruiser. Please call (415) 215-5121 for details.

HUNTER LEGEND 40.5, 1996. One owner, lightly used. Only 350 engine hours. Beautiful, responsive, comfortable. Light-filled interior has two staterooms, 2 heads, showers, leather settees. Excel¬ lent condition. $136,000. Sausalito. Call (801) 633-6774 or (415) 388-1632.

CT CUSTOM PILOTHOUSE CUTTER, 1987. 3 cabin layout, dual steering, dual refrig¬ eration. 2 baths, tub. Full furling and elec¬ tronics, radar, comnav autopilot, SSB, complete cruising inventory. Ground tackle, 1 all chain, 2 chain and rode. New interior, hvac, extras. Please call 011-52 (322) 294-7504,

KELLY-PETERSON 44, 1977. Center cockpit, two staterooms, two heads. New Yanmar, LP, fuel tanks. Robertson auto¬ pilot, solar panels. Ham, radar, dinghy, outboard. Very clean boat. Call for com¬ plete equipment list. In San Carlos, Mexico. $130,000. Call (520) 742-2727 or email: svubetcha@aol.com.

WAUQUIEZ AMPHITRITE 43,1982. For sale by owner. Elegant liveaboard. French-built center cockpit with flush deck, This is an exceptional offshore cruising ketch. San Diego. No brokers please. $129,000/firm. Call Jack (619) 920-3310 or email: TobinFun@msn.com for photos/ details._ 45-FT STEEL KETCH, 1995. Veteran cruiser, custom built, U.S. documented. Diesel motor, generator, autopilot, SSB, radar, GPS, plotter, much more. Great boat, excellent price. $85,000. Please call (360) 330-0637. Leave name, address, email and will send equipment list, pho¬ tos, appointment for inspection or email: SVTOPLESS@yahoo.com.

SC 50,1979, UNA. Ready for TransPac. New in 1999: engine. North inventory, boom, pole, dodger, Kevlar running rig¬ ging, instruments, radio SSB, autopilot, watermaker, electrical, refrigeration, bot¬ tom. some winches, GPS, emergency, tiller. T ransPac '971 st overall, '99 Coastal Cup 2nd class, 2000 Pacific Cup 2nd over¬ all, '01 SB/King Harbor 1st ULDB, '01 Ventura County 1 st overall, '02 SD/PV 3rd overall, '02 Newport/Ensenada 1st PHRF A, 2002 SD/Ensenada 3rd PHRF 1. $195,000. Call (805) 649-9348._ ISLANDER 40 KETCH. New 50 hp Isuzu diesel, 2x south seas vet. Bluewater/bulletproof. 24,000 lbs. Loaded for cruising, great cruiser/liveaboard. Full galley, 9 cu. ft. refrigerator, 120v wiring, stereo system. Hauled 12/61, full keel, watermaker, ra¬ dar, SSB/Harn/w-fax modem, VHF, GPS, depth, 2 autopilots, solar, wind gen. Furl¬ ing jib, canister liferaft, EPIR6. 150 gal diesel, 120 gal water. 3 anchors, new windlass, hot/cold pressure vCater, full shower. Documented, classic beauty, ex¬ tras, call for list. $65,000. (408) 353-3260 or email: hicrook@yahoo.com.

SABRE 402,1999. Best equipped Sabre 402 on the market. $70,000 under new boat cost. Lying San Diego. Dark blue hull, tapered spar, most factory options plus Robertson pilot, Furuno color GPS plot¬ ter, Force 10 stove/oven, Technautics holding plate refrigeration, cruising chute. VacuFlush head, big Furuno radar, B&G instruments with repeater, 5 AGM batter¬ ies. inverter. Link 2000,3-blade MaxProp, dripless shaft log, Yanmar, dodger, cock¬ pit cushions, etc. Beautiful. $329,000. Please call (858) 578-1503 or email: tbrown5@san.rr.com. HANS CHRISTIAN 43T KETCH, 1979. New 75 hp Yanmar with dual Racors, new rigging, new Harken furler/traveler, cus¬ tom hard dodger, new Lofrans windlass, Robertson AP, radar, GPS, 406 EPIRB. Great condition, San Diego. Cruise ready. Website: <www.home.mindspring.com/ -mary43t/> $179,000. (619) 222-1116.

48-FT COLD-MOLDED CRUISER. Lapworth performance design. Sleeps nine, two heads, electronics, sail inven¬ tory, ready to go. See Website: <www.jessiesontheloose.com> for com¬ plete info and pictures. Nalu /Von SF Bay. Price reduced to $99,000. (510) 769-6753 or email: nalufour@compuserve.com. 40-FT FERRO CEMENT CUTTER. Sails and mast', no chainplates. Needs work. Some interior, galley, bunks, flooring. $5,000. Call Mike (925) 766-4421 or (925) 210-3031 (Iv msg).

NAUTOR'S SWAN 41,1976. Sparkman & Stephens design. Fast, solid, and very well-maintained. North sails, Perkins die¬ sel, central heat/AC, refrigeration, custom V-berth and nav station, autopilot, elec¬ tric windlass and GPS. Located SF Bay Area. $112,000. Call (415) 377-1964.

ISLANDER 44 CUSTOM CENTER COCKPIT. Balanced and swift passagemaker. This is a true provision and go cruiser, recently returned from 2 year voyage. Constantly upgraded and very well maintained since total refit 1995-98. Integrated Nexus windnav-pilot pedestal displays, SSB, radar. 1,500 hr Perkins 4-108. Full battened main, laminate jib. Profurl, gennaker. 3 speed winches, liferaft. 6v batteries, 150a alternator, 120w solar, 1500w inverter, electric windlass, 3 anchors. Spectra 15 gph watermaker, dodger and full enclo¬ sure,, beautiful stainless rails to midships. Blister free vinylester bottom. Private aft and midship cabins, workshop fwd, 2 heads. Vast storage and 6-ft+ headroom. Dec. 2002 survey value of $118K. Must be seen to be appreciated. More info at <http://home.earthlink.net/~pcfx/> $118,000. Call (650) 323-8308.

BENETEAU 500. Blast around the Bay and beyond. Fantastic opportunity to bare¬ boat 50-ft yacht fora year. Owner looking for sailors with extensive experience op.erating 40-ft plus sailboats. 4 double state¬ rooms, 4 heads plus crews quarters. The boat is yours, bareboat, 12 weeks pe^ year. $1,250 per month based on 1 y^r agreement, flat rate, no other charges except security dep. Boat will be berthed at the following locations: 2003 spring/ summer, San Francisco, CA; 2003 fall, Ventura/Southern CA; 2003/2004 late fall/ winter, Baja, Mex. Please fax/email sail¬ ing rdsum^ listing qualificationg or ques¬ tions. Call (831) 688-4426 or fax (831) 688-4431 or email: wryan@westreg.com.

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CUSTOM 44-FT STAYSAIL SCHOONER. 1982. Fiberglass. Extensive use of tropi¬ cal hardwoods above and below decks. Major refit 1992-93. Detroit diesel 3-53, MaxProp, Yanmar genset, new batteries and electrical systems. Pressurized hot/ cold water, Adler-Barbour refrigeration. Radar, Magnavox GPS, new VHF. Ste¬ reo and television. Dinghy and new Nissan outboard. Electric windlass, new roller furl¬ ing jib. This vessel is a guaranteed headturner wherever she goes. She is a fast, beautifully balanced sailer. $75,000. Please call (831) 728-2149 or email: malderd@attglobal.net._ FORMOSA 46,1981. Center cockpit cut¬ ter.-Good condition, rebuilt 90 hp Ford die¬ sel, new dodger, A/P, vane, radar, elec¬ tric windlass. Too much gear to list. Many upgrades. $79,500/obo. Please call (510) 523-7752.

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SPIRITDANCER, RARE NORDIC 40 built in Bellingham, WA. Showstopperwith new non-skid, new radar, tridata, repowered. All teak interior, enclosed aft stateroom, custom dodger, custom lighting, Lavac head with holding tank, dinghy with engine. $138,000. Call (949) 500-7286.

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CRUISE OR LIVE ABOARD. S&S Comanche 42, 1970, like Hinckley 40. Chris Craft built semi-custom ocean cruiser/racer, f/g, bulletproof, fast, recent refit,' new rig, profurl, anchor gear, sails, interior, electrical, dodger. Strong Perkins diesel. $53,950 or partnership. Also, Cas¬ cade 36 for sale. (415) 331-7576.

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CAL 40, 1968 CLASSIC. Low-cost TransPac? Rare yawl rig originally, now a sloop, with drawings. Nice wood interior with custom cushions, removable hard dodger, 40 hp diesel, feathering prop, roller furling, strong upgraded rig, S/S Barients, aluminum toerail, S-L windlass, A/C refrig, extra gel-cells. Fast boat in good structural condition. Needs cosmetic work. $33,000/obo or non-equity partner to take over slip fees, insurance and main¬ tenance for unlimited sailing. Presently berthed Sausalito, open to suggestions. Email: cal40_classic@hotmail.com or call (415) 505-0203.

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LIBERTY 458,1983.46-ff cutter, aft cabin, den with double bunks, 2 heads, center cockpit, windshield, full enclosure, new Hood Vecfran fully battened main with roller furling headsails, diesel heater, washer/dryer, liferaft, watermaker, GPS, SSB, weatherfax, radar and more. See Website: wvw.emard.com. $179,500. Call (415) 383-8122. CAL 40. Clean. New roller furling, teak cockpit, sail cover, dodger, elliptical rud¬ der. Holding tank, diesel heater, head, stove, instruments, feathering prop. Two Harken electric self-tailing winches with AGM batteries, Dutchman. Plus oak cabin sole. Alpha 3000, Perkins 4-108, H/C water, reefer, good sails. $68,500. Call (415) 461 -1145 (hm) or (415) 302-7490 (cell). COLUMBIA 43,1971. Perkins. New head/ tank. Canvas, dodge'r. Deck LP'd, teak trim varnished summer 2001. Huge interior with more brass and teak than most sisterships. Great sailer. Norcold AC/DC fridge. Ready to outfit for cruise. Reduced to $36,000. Email: kqarthur@aol.com or call (310) 383-3491.

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45-FT LIVEABOARD KETCH. $14,500. Heavily constructed fiberglass hull. Gal¬ ley, tub. Insulated, wood paneling. Sails, rigging, etc. included for finishing. 1992 registry. Diesel needs work. Best offeror trade. (415) 331-5251.

BAVARIA 44, 2001. Gorgeous center cockpit yacht by German quality builder. Better than new at a $70,000 discount. Superb liveaboard and passagemaker. 59 hp Volvo, Furling main, 2x electric Harken winches, Raytheon 6000-h Autopilot and much more. Reduced to $215,000. An excellent value at this price. Trade-in of smaller boat considered. Lying Alameda. Free delivery on West Coast. For full specs and details call (510) 282-4451 or email: norsk_seiler@yahoo.com.

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51 FEET & OVER CREALOCK 53 PILOTHOUSE STEEL KETCH. Custom designed by WIB Crealock. This world cruiser offers safety and comfort. Amazing walk-in engine room, 3 state¬ rooms, 2 full heads and a galley you won't believe. Fully equipped for long range cruising. Asking $250,000. For more info email: edzat@hotmail.com. REICHEL/PUGH 70. Taxi Dancer is un¬ questionably one of the finest sleds ever built and cared for. Price reduced to $399,000 or lease option for TransPac or ?. See much more info and pics at Website: <wvw.taxidancer.us> Inquiries directed to Rick Yabsley (805) 689-6362. TAYANA 52 AFT COCKPIT. Lying West Coast. 1993 Robert Perry designed, su¬ perb cruising yacht in bristol condition. Fully loaded, ready for offshore. New sails, dodger, bimini and upholstery. Yanmar 110 hp turbo. Max Prop, in-mast furling, genoa furling. Monitor windvane. Auto¬ helm Sea Talk system interfaced with GPS. Electronic charting interfaced with GPS and radar. Weather fax, SSB, VHF, 20 GPH watermaker, fridge, freezer. Heart inverter, liferaft, EPIRB, etc. US$345,000. Email: tayana522002@yahoo.ca or call (604) 272-2421.

65-FT PILOTHOUSE SCHOONER, 1917. Heavy wood construction, 6-71 diesel, 150 hours SMOH, 52 tons. Pacific vet. Sausalito location. $39,000. Great boat, great price. Call (415) 331-3612.

CLASSICS ALDEN CUTTER, 1936. LOD 29-ft, LOA 36-ft. Beautiful lines, very comfy, cozy full keel sailer. Master Mariner winner. Easily singlehanded. Reliable Albin diesel. Bronze hardware, teak deck. Ready to sail in Berkeley. $15,000. Last chance before price increase. Call (415) 346-4503.

SEARUNNER 37,1983. 39x23. Yanmar 3HM35, low hours. Diesel stove and heater, KM, DS, 3 anchors, new staysail and running rigging. Autohelm 3000. See at Website: www.kpunet.netZ-^karlyenk/ EquipmentList.html. Asking $45,000. Call (907) 723-0487.

HUNTER 54. $200,000 complete refit. New mahogany interior. New LPU. Car¬ bon fiber retractable pole. New mast, rig, line. New diesel. New epoxy bottom. All new electronics. Autopilot. All new hard¬ ware. This is a must see. $96,000. Call (415) 385-1626. LaFITTE 66, MINT CONDITION. $65,000. Must sell quickly, moving to Denmark in 30 days, ^ery extra imaginable, wash/ dry, 3 heads, 4 staterooms, 2 Avons, jetski, Mia the dog, all included. Premier Pelican Harbor slip, Sausalito.'AskforRollf Manley (415) 307-1304. ,

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MULTIHULLS 36-FT TRIMARAN, GOOD CONDITION. All new rigging, new 9.9 Yamaha. Radio, Horizon depth/speed/wind indicators, bright airy cabin. Jibs, main, spinnaker. Standing headroom, sink, stove. Biue water veteran. Pete’s Harbor, So. San Francisco. $28,000. Please call Laurie (650) 463-4647 or (800) 891-5763 (pgr) or (707) 235-2297.

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CORSAIR F-27, 1991. Excellent condi¬ tion. Kevlar main and jib, genoa, spinna¬ ker, Hood roller furling. New Yamaha 8 hp 4-stroke. New bottom paint, polished topsides,' new floorboards. Make offer. Piease call Andrew (510) 326-0579 or email: andrew@globexplorer.com.

LAGOON 410 CATAMARAN, 1999. Proven cruiser from California now in Florida. Ready for new owners with all equipment needed. Original owner, never chartered. Extensive list of add-ons and extras. In excellent condition. $285,000. Email: Coastbuster@hotmail.com. HOBIE18. Galvanized trailer, cat box etc. Sail it in Baja, the Delta, a warm lake, wherever. A hoot to sail, but with racks can accomodate your family too - at a bargain price. $1,500/obo. (510) 527-4929 (eves) or email: wlamprey@gmssr.com.

28-FT MONTEREY CLIPPER. $6,000. Beautiful Bay Area classic. Clean inside and out. New cushions, new carpet; fresh paint. 2-53 Detroit diesel mns great. Call (510) 271-2681 (days) or (510) 215-2783 (eves). HERRESHOFF 28 CLASSIC KETCH, 1962. Full boat cover. Atomic 4 engine newly rebuilt. Autohelm, roller furling, VHF ra¬ dio. Professionally maintained. Beautiful wooden classic. $22,000/obo. Call (510) 793-7489 (eves) or (510) 410-1426 (days).

SUPER MARAMU AMEL, 1998. 2 auto¬ pilots, watermaker, genset, bow thruster. 3 freezers, 3 airconditoners/heaters, washer, micro, TVA/CR, 710 ICOM, 36mile radar, IIOv, 220v shorepower, in¬ verter. 8-man liferaft. Zodiac and motor. Lying San Francisco. $575,000 invested.' Must sacrifice $450,000. (775) 265-5767 or email: amel98 @ dellepro.com._

35-FT WILCAT CRUISING CATAMARAN with galley up. Just launched August 2002. Sleeps eight in four cabins with two heads. Fully equipped for cruising. Autopilot, ra¬ dar, integrated GPS, DigiEPIRB. Semi¬ rigid dinghy with 15 hp motor. 4X solar panes, inverter, 12 disk CD, laptop com¬ puter with charts of entire world, and Irridium satellite phone. 2X 20 hp Volvo diesel. 140 gals water, electric windlass, screecher sail and enough tools and spares for two years. Plus much more in¬ cluded for a great price. $160,000. Owner is moving back to family, but will deliver to anywhere in North America. Please email: sethbermand7@yahoo.com.

ADMIRAL 47, 1996/98. 47-ft Lavranos designed South African fiberglass cruis¬ ing catamaran. 28-ft beam, plenty of space/storage. Fixed keels, large water/ fuel tankage, 4 cabins/heads, forward crew cabin/head, galley up with fridge and deep freeze, ice-maker. Unique large chart table, satellite phone and weather, full electronics. Twin steering, 38 hp Yanmars with saildrives. Stout rig with fully battened main, genoa, gennaker, electric mast winch, davits with electric winch. 2 liferafts, 2 wind generators, 8kw genera¬ tor, 23 gph watermaker, washer/dryer, etc. $315,000 delivered to SF Bay. Piease email: wemard@edptlaw.com or call (415) 383-8122^ CORSAIR F-27 TRIMARAN, 1989. Aft cabin. 1995 Pacific galvanized trailer with electric winches raise/lower mast and trailer tongue, vyorking jib, fully battened main. Lewmar winches. Ritchie compass. Autohelm, depth, speed, log. Nissan 8 hp outboard. $40,900. Call (909) 825-7905. CROWTHER CAT CATENA. Bluewater /cruiser 38.5 LOA, 20-ft beam, cutter rig. Perkins 4-108 diesel drives twin 15”^ screws through Spencer hydraulic systepi./ Reinforced Airex sandwich hull construc¬ tion makes her instantly beachable. Wheel steering, radar, basic electronics, 7 sails. Engine drive compressor cools ^large freezer/refer In an expansive galley. Sleeps 6. 2 heads. Very good condition, maintained in dry storage in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. Price reffuced to $52,000.' Principals only. (520) 690-5766 or email: coaster1930@frontiernet.net.

BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM CRUISING CAT. 1997, 55’ X 26’. One owner. Clean, ocean proven, full equipment. Sleeps ten, four heads, two 50 hp Yanmar diesels. 7/01 survey $500K. Asking $395,000. (707) 265-6843 or email: manta @ pocketmail.com.

LEOPARD 3800 CATAMARAN, 2001. Better than new. $40K equipment, up¬ grades installed by Moorings. $40K owner installed upgrades, amenities. The world’s finest cruising cat with striking style, per¬ formance and seaworthiness. See her at Website: <www.boattraderonline.com/ addetail.html?31469064> Price reduced $339,000. Call (904) 501-306a_ FI 8 BY IAN FARRIER. 18’ x 14’ x 16”. Folds to 8.5’ trailer. Autopilot, VHF, com¬ pass, anchor, roll up jib and full batten main, cabin and running lights. Porta-Potti. 2-burner stove. $9,000/obo. Call (714) 545-5296 or email: hwheelerjary@attbi.com. VICTORY 35 CATAMARAN, 2000. Spa¬ cious, comfortable cruising cat. Never chartered. Excellent condition. Set up for singlehanded cmising. Would make ideal liveaboard. Asking $198,950. See <www.catamaranforsale.com> for pic¬ tures and equipment list. (925) 989-3033 or email: CatamaranForSale@hotmail.com.

65-FT MacGREGOR PILOTHOUSE CUTTER, 1990 Ready for bluewater cruising. Four staterooms, 250 hours on Yanmar. Generator, watermaker, Grunert/Technautics refrigeration. Inverter, full electronics and sail inventory. Original owner. Askina $189,000 • Sausalito Yacht • (800) 505-6651

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CORSAIR .28 TRIMARAN, 2001. Aft cabin. Sdt up forcruising. 9.9 electric start Yamaha, autopilot, GPS chartplotter, VHF. Tanbark main and jib, custom dodger, trailer. Dinghy with 2 hp 4-stroke. Summer’s coming, $77,800. Call (714) 669-5796 or email: cchesley@sbcglobal.net.

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WINDRIDER 17, 2002. Roller furling jib, heavy duty trailer, electric motor, gel bat¬ tery, gel charger, extra seat. Can handle 3 or 4 people. Much better than new. Over $10,000 invested. Selling for $8,000. Have all receipts. Call (415) 383-1985. NACRA 5.8 NA RIG. Complete with trailer, two jibs, mylar main (#1366), cat box, Calvert spinnaker and pole. $4,000/ obo. Call George (707) 747-9623.

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TRADEWINDS28 FIBERGLASS/COMPOSITE trimaran parts and molds. Parts are for one boat, and there is a second main hull and deck assembly. Package deal only. Price negotiable. Call (650) 208-8075 or email: boatgeorge@hotmail.com.

HEHSHINE 37 AFT CABIN TRAWLER. Ganapati\s a very special vessel. She has been loved and cared for. Many upgrades that make this kind vessel the right ship for the prudent buyer. She's pretty and she's clean. Single Ford-Lehman with low hours. 2 cabins, 2 heads, excellent cruiser or liveaboard. Raytheon RL70 radar with chart plotter, second radar head on upper helm via high speed bus, Raytheon auto¬ pilot, Garmin 162 GPS, Micro Logic Loran C, depthsounder, fishfinder. Horizon hailer with intercom between bridge and saloon, full canvas and many upgrades. 1998 survey $92,000. (510) 865-5835. 41-FT OFFSHORE TRAWLER. Rouhded stern, excellent condition. Detroit 371 die¬ sel, 4,500nm range. New galley, double sink, 4-burner oven. Bearclaw tub/shower, water heater, 300 gallons water, battery charger, windlass. New paint, varnish. Possible liveaboard. Reduced to sell. $65,000/obo. Call (510) 923-1383.

WINDRIDER 16 TRIMARAN, 1999. Great, fun craft. Good condition. Custom trailer, extras. $3,100. Call (805) 543-0969 or email: cdory@aol.com.

ROCKET 88, 34-FT CATAMARAN. Record holder. Complete turn-key race boat, with trailer and extras. $69,000. See at Website: <'www.surf.to/rocket88> Call Serge Pond (831) 685-3588 or email: sergeles@cruzio.com. GEMINI 105, 1997. 34-ft catamaran. Autohelm wind, speed, depth autopilot. Westerbeke 27 hp with sonic drive. Roller furling gehoa, dinghy davits, Garmin 180 GPS, battery charger, CDE, custom can¬ vas, BBQ, aft shower, low engine hours, well maintained. $120,000. Please call (831)759-9145. 32-FT PIVER TRIMARAN KETCH. Two large berths, legal head, 12 hp 1 cyl air¬ cooled diesel. $6,700/obo. (510) 409-3050 or email: petermetcalf@mailcity.com.

HUNTER SEDAN 36,1957. Classic mo¬ tor yacht. 12-ft beam, classic boat lover’s dream. Immaculate and impeccably main¬ tained, covered berth since 1962. Brightwork full restored, old growth ma¬ hogany. Original vinyl seats and sofa and headliner, all in excellent condition. Origi¬ nal galley and countertops, very clean. Pristine Twin 1973 Chris-Craft 307 Os, 200 hp, freshwater cooled, only 1,700 hours. Exceptional salon with stunning helm. Bauled annually. Requires mainte¬ nance only, not repair. San Rafael. Asking $32,500. Call Steven (415) 420-8264.

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GREAT DELTA BOAT. 1970 D.E. Har¬ ris. Liveaboard. Twin Detroit diesels. Steel hull. New bottom, upholstery, canvas, screen enclosure, davits. Recent sonic survey. Spacious, sleeps 6. Full bath, shower. Electric cooktop/oven, heat. Re¬ frigerator, microwave. AC/DC, VHFs, fishfinder. Website; <wvw.geocities.com/ tabulte2002/StormQueen.html> $37,000/ obo. (510) 536-5571.

1978 BOSTON WHALER. Revenge. Re¬ powered by 2001 Evinrude 175 hp with gauges, controls, hydraulic steering, stain¬ less prop, new paint. Great condition. One year scheduled maintenance included at SF Boat Works. $23,500. (415) 626-3275. 64-FT STEEL TRAWLER. Liveaboard. Located Berkeley Marina. $99,000 or trade. Please call (510) 204-9611 or email: garykjennings@msn.com. 50-FTNAVY LAUNCH, 1968. Work boat. 671 Detroit diesel, running. In water, not leaking. Heavy duty. Double planking, Apiton over cedar on oak frames. Cabin fiberglass, good hull, rough cosmetically. Survey, $15,000. Asking $12,000. Mike (925)766-4421 or (925) 210-3031 (Ivmsg).

51-FT SYMBOL MOTOR YACHT, 1987. 2001 haulout, beautiful condition, ideal liveaboard. Bay Area location. $228,000. Shown by appointment. Please call (415) 892-0816 or (415> 699-5555 (cell) or email: mywyskippr@ao!.com._ ALGLAS SPORTFISH. 33’ x 13’ beam, fiberglass hull. TwoT-Perkins 200 hp turbo diesels, 5.5 Westerbeke genset, Bennett trimtabs, 16000btu marine air/heat, new interior with full fridg, stove/oven, electric head and shower, wetbar, Raytheon VHF, navigator, fishfinder, outriggers. Asking $60,000/obo. For photos call (916) 371-2603 or email: vandervorste@3di.com.

GRAND BANKS 32 TRAWLER, 1970. 120 Ford-Lehman diesel. Recent survey. Martinez berth. $39,000. (707) 746-5056.

PARTNERSHIPS INEXPENSIVE SAILING. Islander 33 sloop, well equipped. Spinnaker, inflatable with motor, inflatable kayak. 2 GPSs and 2 VHF radios. Only $175 per month with practically unlimited usage. Hawaii, Marquesas and Mexico vet. Loch Lomond, San Rafael. Possible partnership. Call (415) 883-6564.

INDEPENDENCE 45 TRAWLER. Hans Christian, 1988/89. 135 Lehman, 2,700 hours. 2 gph at 7 knots. 8kw genset, bow thruster, Webasto diesel and electric heat. A/C, 2 staterooms, 2 heads. Beautifully / maintained. $350,000 or appraised value. Call (253) 225-3995 (WA).__ FERROCEMENT BARGE. 16’ x 36’ flattopped houseboat barge with new fiber¬ glass deck. Excellent condition. See pho¬ tos at Website: <http://photos.yahoo.com/ deltabarge> $21,000/obo. Gazebo room extra. Please call (925) 684-9328. 43-FT TRAWLER. Six hydraulic downriggers, 671 Detroit diesel, 100 gal fuel tank, pilothouse. Full galley with propane stove, new Bottom paint and rebuilt keel. Financing available. $6,500. Jim (209) 786-4864. GRAND BANKS 32, 1966. Wogdie with Ford diesel, autopilot, radar, radio, depthfinder, electric windlass, davits with 8-ft Avon and 8 hp Nissan. Full covers and bimini top. A36, Sausalito Yacht Harbor. $42,000. Call (415) 388-8627.

1/3 SHARE - BRISTOL 27, 1977. Well built Alberg-designed 3/4 keel classic cruiser. Berkeley slip. Reliable Atomic 4 inboard, sleeps 4, new rigging, good sails, well maintained. Great Bay boat. $3,200 buy-ln and $120/mo. Please call Robert (415) 640-2416. CAL 31. Rollerfurling, spinnaker, Perkins diesel, Webasto heater. One opening available in 5-party group. Alameda berth. $150 per month covers all. (510) 865r5147 or email: boatncf@earthlink.net. SAIL AROUND THE WORLD. Seeking partners to join 80-ft schooner in around the world sailing venture, sailing, diving and surfing on the way. For more info email: Andy@saillngbiz.com. J/130, 43-FT SLOOP, 1993. Bonkers. Offshore equipped, new carbon mast, ra¬ dar, SSB, windvane! New Quantum rac¬ ing sails. Arriving Bay Area April, looking for 2-3 partners to share expenses/main¬ tenance. Equity interest only, currently 50% financed. Location in BayTBD. Email Keith: kbsedwick@hotmail.com.

HANS CHRISTIAN 38 Mk II. Looking for responsible partner in L/VOxnard area. New nav electronics, wiring, upholstery, plumbing, autopilot, etc. Excellent all weather boat. 50 hp diesel, 10 sails, 120 gal fuel capacity, desallnization, beautiful all-teak Interior, etc. (626) 797-1262 or email; dlegoman_@hotmail.com. 30-FT WOODEN BIRD BOAT. New die¬ sel, Sausalito berth. Need help with main¬ tenance and upkeep. Put the boat in shape and sail as much as you want. Or buy half. Or we all share in the benefits and the work. Please call (415) 902-4529.

PARADISE VILLAGE CONDO. Located Banderas Bay, 5 star resort Nuevo Vallarta. 2 bedroom, 2 bath, overlooking pool and marina. Many amenities. See <www.paradisevillage.com> A relaxing tropical getaway in Mexico. Something for everyone. Call (510) 865-7580 or email: jnmoores@aol.com for details.

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PUERTO VALLARTA. One bedroom non-smoking condo for rent in Paradise Village Marina Residence. Marina view/ hotel amenities. Daily, weekly or monthly rentals available. Book through owner and save. For prices and availability call (707) 792-9774 or email; hndjohn@pacbell.net.

BANDERAS BAY REGATTA. Check out their Website <banderasbayregatta.com> for everything you need to know about this 11th annual regatta In Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, March 20-23, 2003. You can fill out a free entry online January 1 through March 7. Profligate will be there. Partici¬ pation in this event will help support and nurture the cruising life in Mexico. PUERTO VALLARTA BAREBOAT charter. Create your own holidays with the first and only charier and sailing school in Mexico. Bareboat charters, instructions, sailing vacations, long distance trips, skip¬ pered charters, sightseeing, other activi¬ ties, accommodations and other services. Please call 011-52 (322) 100-4154 or email: info@banderasbayservices.com.

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NEWPORT 41. C & C design. Happily cruised 3 years in Mexico. Health prevents my continuing. Loaded with cruising good¬ ies, including 4kw genset, microwave, two refrigerators, watermaker, electric wind¬ lass and more. Great boat at a great Mexico-only price. $55,000. Call (650) 839-1385 or email: LarryNis@aol.com. CAL 34. Good liveaboard, rebuilt Atomic 4, double reefed main, lazyjacks, roller furling, 5 sails, self-tailing winches, 2 anchors, propane stove/oven, 3-way fridge, microwave, new head, depth, wind/direc¬ tion, knots, compass. Sleeps 6. $20,000. Please call (250) 720-9506 or email: Stephan! @ island.net. CATALINA 34, 1989. Fully equipped cruiser. Lies in Puerto Vallarta. New main, spinnaker, storm sail. 5 batteries. New bottom, radar. Autohelm, dodger. Univer¬ sal diesel. Great condition. $59,000. Email: minorthreat41 @hotmail.com or call (650) 969-5248.

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GRAND BANKS 42 CLASSIC. Cruise ready in Sea of Cortez. Completely equipped including furnishings, spares, tools. Twin Ford-Lehman 120s, 1,400 hours. 7.5 Onan generator, 1,600 hours. Radar, watermaker, washer/dryer, 2 din¬ ghies with outboards, autopilot, windlass, vacuflush heads. New teak decks, new LP paint, new canvas and upholstery. Texteline window covers, 3 complete an¬ choring systems, gourmet galley. A per¬ fect 10 inside and out for only $239,000. Email: kpastorius@aol.com for inventory/ photos. There isn’t a more beautiful Grand Banks. (619) 222-8344._

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SEEKING FEMALE CREW. 35-year-old male 50 ton Master Captain seeking fe¬ male crew, 18-35 years old, for offshore experence. Cruising Western Caribbean, Isla Mujeres to Roatan and return. Parts of trip available. Spanish speaking help¬ ful. Pearson 365, great condition. Email: sailmexnow@hotmail.com.

TRADE PEARSON 30, 1973. Volvo diesel, tiller, dodger, extras. Trade for late model Toyota car/SUV or good ‘Driver 60s Muscle’ car. No projects. Market value $15,500. Call (707) 829-2494. AUTHORIZED POWER CENTER

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CRUISING GEAR. Monitor windvane with mounting brackets and extra parts kit, $1,800. Winslow valise 4-person offshore liferaft, $2,000.25-lb CQR, $250. 800 watt gas generator, $150. All in excellent con¬ dition. (707) 643-8595.

FROM BENETEAU 36. Rush Sails: #1. heavy, luff: STS", leach: 34’5’’, foot20’11”, LP: 19'4”, Kevlar, $250. #1, light, luff: 37’8”, leach: 35’1”. foot: 20’5”. LP: 19’. Kevlar, $250. #2. luff: 36’4”, leach: 34’4'’, foot: 19’2”, LP: 17’9”. Mylar, $250. #3. luff: 36’ir. leach: 33’7”, foot: 17’, LP: 15’9”. Mylar, $250. 1/2-oz Mylar spinnaker, luff: 36’r, foot: 23’, girth: 24’, $300. Headsaiis have #5 lufftape. Ulmar-Kolius Sails: Mylar/Dacron drifter, luff: 37'2", leach 33’5", foot: 14’r, LP: 13’5’’, $250. Dacron full batten mainsail, luff: 38’7’’, foot: 13’1.5’’, new condition, battens, $500. Kevlar full batten mainsail, luff 38’5’’, foot 13’4”, no battens, $350. Mainsails on bolVope. North Sails: 3/4-oz spinnaker, luff: 37’4’’, foot: 23’5". girth: 23’6”, $300. Call Phil (650) 583-2101. CHARTS/BOOKS. Over 100 charts and 10 cruising guides/pilots at less than half price. Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu. All $695 or regional sets. Email for list: yachtfirstlight@yahoo.com or leave brief message: (800) 462-7065. FURUNO RADAR 1721,16NM, $795. Garmin GPS chartplotter 132, excellent on my boat, $595. SGC2000 6SB, $695. Plow anchor, 20-kg, used on 47-footer, $175. VHS, handheld submersible, $180. Sony Cli6 PDA 612C. $165. Plus others, all at 60% less my bargain purchase. First reasonable offers carry. (916) 972-0800 or (916) 717-0133 (wkends).

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COMPLETE CHRYSLER 318-C MARINE motors with transmissions and drive trains. One pair excellent. Third: fair. Fourth: may part out. Two-to-one reductions, dashes, props, heads and anything else salvage¬ able from these well maintained cruisers including mahogany. Will (925) 778-4349.

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CNG (SAFE GAS) SEAWARD threeburner Princess oven, complete with tank, hose, regulator, $750. Jabsco electric toi¬ let, the one anyone can use, $250. Mitchell Sails spinnaker 42.8 x 26-ft, $700. All items in excellent condition in Berkeley. Call (530) 304-7351.

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Model #601. Made for high freeboard tran¬ som. Can be easily adapted for low tran¬ soms. Included is emergency rudder, also brand new. Paid $3,000. Sell for $2,500/ obo. Please call Tim (707) 939-0445 or (707) 337-8329 (cell).

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literaft, 16 months to recert, $1,750. ACR RapidFix Catll EPIRB, $550. Raytheon SL70 radar, $990. Questus mount, $500. Bruce 33-lb anchor, $149. Kyocera 40 watt solar panels with mounts, $190. More. Call (650) 867-3521.

Islands. Enjoy it all on a brand new Island Packet 38. Face value: $4,000. Please enjoy at a firesale rate of $2,500 between June 2003 and August 2003. Pick up the boat at Red Hook, St. Thomas, USVI and sail away. Must be qualified to bareboat. If interested, please call Kimberly at (415) 332-6176 for details.

QUALITY CRUISING GEAR. Cruising plans cancelled. Zodiac 310 Fastroller and cover, $1,400. Yamaha 8 hp, $1,200. Fujinon Polaris binocular 7x50 with com¬ pass, $500. Night Mariner 160, $1,400. ACR EPIRB SAT 406, $500. Freiberger drum sextant in wood box, $1,000. Aquair 100 water generator, $700. Fortress F37 storm anchor, $300, Storm trysail. North, 10.5 oz, 155 sq ft, bag, for 40-50 ft boat, $700. Storm jib. North, 10.5 oz, 174 sq ft, hanks, bag, for 40-50 ft boat, $1,000. Spare 2-blade prop, 22" x 12”, with shaft nut and key, $200. Nikonos IV-A U/W camera, 28 and 35 mm lenses. Helix Aquafish 22, $700. Two CrewFit 150N ini flatable vests, $125/each. Deck seat, blue i Sport-a-seat, $70. Call (650) 342-1169 or I email: tkabdelh@nps.navy.mil.

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SUZUK116 HP OUTBOARD MOTOR. A1 condition, runs great. Vintage ’80s, short shaft, two-stroke, recently tuned, impellar and lower unit fluid change. Includes hydrofoil stabilizer, 6-gallon gas tank with gauge, flush adapter. N.Tahoe. $750. Please call (530) 546-8541 or email: larrylong @ infostations.com.'

1997 115 HP EVINRUDE SPL. 20” longshaft. Rebuilt powerhead. Model TS Leva. $4,000. SF Boat Works. Please call (415) 626-3275.

NEW GALE RIDER, $200. New Redcrest, $800. 7 bags sails for 25-ft boat, $300. , Boating library, 6-t- boxes books, $300. Complete set charts of world, many un¬ published, manageable size, cruising guides, Charlie's Charts, $500. 7 duffle bags of hermetically sealed tropical clothes, mostly dresses, for gifts, $400. Gigantic indexed collection VHF movies, negotiable. New Baby Blake head, $300. 300-ft hard-to-find 4-twist 1” anchor rode, new, $300.3/8” shrouds, new, negotiable. 4-stroke 1 hp Honda O/B, used twice, $350.70 iiter Vitus water bladders, fittings, new, $35/each. Six new 12v silent tans, negotiable. Jib, centerboard for Laser II, like new, $350. Six 10-ft spruce cupped oars, $250. Henry Lloyd lady’s foul weather gear, small offshore vest, new, $250. Men’s, $200. (415) 945-9264.

MERCURY 9.9 4-STROKE, 2002. Longshaft, less than 5 hours running time, $1,800. Nissan 8 hp elecric start, iongshaft, great condition, $950. Raritan Crown automatic 3-bank 30 amp fixed mount battery charger, $200. Call (408) 262-5794.

i 4-107 PERKINS complete with transmisI I I r

Sion, $800. Atomic 4, light rebuilt, $1,400. Two 84” X 1-1/2” s/s shafts with props, 20 X 23 pitch, stuffing boxes, $250. Ideal anchor windlass, dual capstan with 1/4” chain gypsy, $250. (415) 272-5776 (before 9 pm).

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has, since 1959, promoted high standards of navigation and seamanship and offers members free classes ranging from Sea¬ manship to Celestial Navigation plus cruises and social events. Come join us. Call Pete (415) 382-8109.

meet female, 40s-50s, attractive, for sail¬ ing and companionship. Also possibly join me next May on leisurely coastal cruise, Seattle to SF. Divorced male, professional on extended sabbatical, attractive, 6’r, fit, 59. Let’s exchange letter/photo. Email Joe: captjoef@juno.com.

SAFE BOATING CLASSES offered to the public in the Sacramento area. The sixweek course begins on March 27, 7 pm to 9 pm, at the Century 21 Select Training Center in Citrus Heights. $35 covers all course material. Call (916) 492-5566.

CHARTS OF SOUTHEAST ALASKA, British Columbia and Puget Sound. We did the inside passage last year. 59 Alaska charts. 50 Canada charts plus two chart kits. 19 Puget Sound charts plus chart kit. Email for details, availability and pricing: searayguys @ hotmail.com.

CLUBS & MEMBERSHIPS SF BAY OCEANIC CREW GROUP. Bay Area’s most active sailing group offering monthly speakers. Bay & coastal sailing, service, socializing. New and experienced skippers and crew are welcome. Go sail¬ ing at (415) 456-0221 or see Website: <www.crewgroup.org>

BBYC - BALLENA BAY YACHT CLUB located in Alameda, welcomes new mem¬ bers. Racing, cruise-ins, cruise outs, so¬ cial events and camaraderie. Active Vol¬ unteer Club. Operi seven days/week. Ac¬ tivity nearly every evening. See Website: <wrww.bbyc.org> For info packet please call (510) 523-7225.

SINGLE SAILORS ASSOCIATION wel¬ comes all experience levels. Our members enjoy cruising, group sails, daysailing, so¬ cials and other activities year round. Monthly meetings at Ballena Bay Yacht Club in Alameda. Visit our Website at <www.ssaonline.org> Call (510) 273-9763.

I’M A FRIENDLY, 40s FEMALE, with a boat, who’s looking for a bright, mentally healthy, 40s male sailing companion, with a good sense of humor and sailing expe¬ rience. Let’s see what fair winds may bring. Jennifer (415) 706-9664.

INTRO TO NAVIGATION WITH GPS class, offered by US Coast Guard Auxil¬ iary Flotilla 17. One evening only, Tues. 4/15/03, 7:30-9:30 pm. $20 includes ma¬ terials. Pre-registration required. Also, Basic/Advanced Coastal Navigation class. Basic covers compass, nautical chart reading, dead reckoning, piloting. Ad¬ vanced covers current, tides, radio navi¬ gation, fuel, voyage planning. Both meet Mondays and Thursdays, 7:15-9:45 pm. Basic 4/14/03 - 5/5/03, Advanced 5/8/03 6/2/03. $40 Basic, $80 Basic + Advanced. Pre-registration required. (415) 399-3411 Leave name, email, fax and/or phone number. All classes meet on Yerba Buena Island.

BERTHS & SLIPS 70-FT BERTH IN OAKLAND. End tie. Available April 2003 until April 2004. Call (775) 359-7245 for more information.

SAILING PARTNER & SOULMATE wanted. Duration of voyage as long as it is fun. Requirements: love of the sea and life, good food and music. No princesses need apply. Call Joe (310) 823-6609.

GOING SOUTH IN THE SPRING. Cus¬ tom C & C 41 lOR boat, former world class racer converted to cruiser. Looking for hardy crew to prepare boat tor summer and spring passages. Experienced skipper’s done TransPac and transconti¬ nental deliviers. Call Laura (415) 533-7585 or email: lbnshiloh@aol.com. OFFSHORE SAILING ADVENTURE. Crew needed for well equipped Hans Christian. California to Costa Rica/ Panama. A 6 to 8 week quick trip down to play in beautiful water. Diving compres¬ sor onboard. Experienced captain. Learn lots. Food cost only. Leaving 4/01(03. Please call (510) 522-4941 or email: hmfic@tough.com.

SAN FRANCISCO 36-FT SLIP, PIER 39 for sale or rent. $13,500/obo or $360/ month to rent. Call (415) 225-2806 or (858) 576-1584.

SAUSALITO SIDE-TIE. 25 to 57-ft boat. Reasonable rent. Power and water. Close to parking. Special deal for boat being sold. Call (415) 331-5251. ,

NEPTUNE CALLING. Married couple seeking experienced navigator and crew members for voyage to Australia. 50-ft cutter, share expenses. Leaving August 2003. For details call Larry evenings at (510) 235-9268.

CLUB NAUTIQUE PASSAGE MAKER

E44: 40-FT x 14 BEAM SLIP AT PIER 39.

Membership for $2,250; retails at $3,250. Learn to sail with the best fleet and friendly instructors. Includes US Sailing Certifica¬ tion classes through Offshore Passage Making, free trainer use, free refresher trainings, membership resale privilege. Email: jtdevlin@pacrimco.com or call (925) 708-4358.

$25,000/obo. Gr^t mid-dock, shoreside location. Excellent Marina facilities. Ter¬ rific sailing. Beautiful views. Walk to SAIL AND LEARN on a 53-ft Amel Super Fisherman's Wharf, North Beach restau¬ Maramu. Leaving San Francisco around rants, downtown SF. Pac Bell Park June or July for the Channel islands or ? riearby. $3/day garage parking, F-line stop Looking for 1 or 2 couples to share cost. adjacent. Best spot for Fleet Week, New Year, July 4th. Call (415)' 482-3725 o^ Z' $1,000 per couple per wk, 100 ton Mas¬ ter. Email: AMEL98@dellepro.com or call email: pahowley@aol.com. (775) 265-5767. 72-FT,DEEP WATER DOCK in Tiburon, CAPTAIN AND / OR FIRST MATE, pos¬ CA, with a stunning house. Exquisite fin¬ sibly husband and wife team to crew/man¬ ishes and amenities throughout. Theatre age/maintain a new 70-ft catamaran be¬ with the latest surround sound system, ing built in New Zealand, completion Dec. pool and lots more. A true dream home 2003. Sailing back-April 2004. Cruising on the water. $1,997,000. Call Agna (415) grounds. South Pacific, West Coast of US, 339-2339. Mexico and the Caribbean. Requirements: Minimum of two years skipper of sailing PIER 39 36-FT SLIP. #C-39, east side. vessel over60-ft, strong mechanical, elec¬ $15,000 or $350/mo., month-to-month trical, communications skills, offshore until slip is sold. No liveaboards. Call (415) cmising experience, personable and drug 956-2528. free. Fax.rbsume to (925) 370-6039 or email: dei]hacengle@yahoo.com. COYOTE POINT MARINA currently has 20’ to 40’ berthing available. Inside ties EXPLORE THE SOUTH PACIFIC this from 32’ to 40’ are also available for summer. Cruising the South Seas begin¬ multihulls. Liveaboards are not allowed. ning May 2003, looking to share costs. For more information, please contact the $2,000/mo/person or $3,000/mo/couple. Marina at (650) 573-2594. Reduced rate for multiple months. (510) 376-8474 or email: boldspirit@attbi.com.

YACHT CLUB MEMBERSHIP $199/YR. Worldwide privileges. Since 1960. No monthly minimums. PICYA member. Pen¬ insula Yacht Club, Dept-IC, 1536 Maple Street, Redwood City, CA 94063. Website: <www.AquaticClub.org> Membership: James (650) 867-0259, Commodore: Dan Julian (650) 364-6508. Email: PeninsulaYC@aol.com.

CLUB NAUTIQUE PASSAGE MAKER Membership. Sailing instruction with US Sailing certified instructors, beginner through off-shore, free use of trainers and free refresher classes. Newest and larg¬ est fleet on the Bay. $3,250 retail. Asking $2,650. Email: sailorette2@hotmail.com -or call (925) 989-3033.

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SAH EXCHANGE USED SAILS Largest inventory with more tl:^an 2,000 mains, genoas and spinnakers. Pay cash for surplus sails. Visit www.sailexchange.com orcail 949-631-0193 100% Saiisia€fion GuaranteedU

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CANVASMAKER WANTED in small but expanding shop in Santa Cruz. Great Harbor location. Lots of canvas and upholsfery work for experienced marine fab¬ ricator. Flexible and fun work environment. Call or fax inquiries to Toni (831) 476-6330 or email: toni@captaincanvas.net.

BARCELONA TO CARIBBEAN. Looking for crew to cruise the Spanish Coast, Ca¬ nary Isles, then cross .jwith ARC to the Caribbean, Sept-Dec, on fast, safe, wellequipped 47-ft sloop. You pay airfare, other expenses covered, Prefer couples. Please email: garymasner@hotmail.com.

LEAD MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST. San Mateo County Harbor District. Appli¬ cations being accepted to establish certi¬ fied list for Lead Maintenance Specialist to fill an opening at Oyster Point Marina/ Park. Responsible for all repairs and main¬ tenance of marina facilities, purchasing, job pricing and layout, staff supervision. Requires one year supervision experience in building or marine maintenance trade. Salary range $24.61 - 29.63/hour. Excel¬ lent beneifits. Application packet available at District Office, One Johnson Pier, El Granada (650) 726-4723 or Oyster Point Marina, 95 Harbormaster Rd, SSF (650) 952-0808. Application deadline March 25, 2003 at 4 pm.

JOB WANTED MARINE-RELATED MANAGEMENT po¬ sition wanted. Part-time preferred with medical benefits. 100 ton license. Excel¬ lent people skills. Charter experience. Call (510) 233-7059 or (415) 860-7245 or email: guthriejoe@hotmail.com.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

"HYDROVANE gave me wonderful service aboard Endangered Species in the '98 and '02 Singlehanded TransPac Races and the return voyages home. This is a well engineered and reliable unit I would choose to use again." Guzzwell Author of Trekka Round the World Poulsbo, WA

BAY SHIP AND YACHT, PT. RICHMOND. Travel Lift Operator and Assistant: Lifting boats and coordinating haulouts. General Marine Mechanic: Propulsion and me¬ chanical systems. Finish Painter and Fi¬ berglass Specialist: Marine paints and fi¬ berglass repair. Please fax r6sum6s to (510) 237-2253.

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HEAD COUNSELOR for 10-week sum¬ mer Sail Camp at Marin Yacht Club in San Rafael. Sponsored by Sailing Education Adventures, camp includes Mini, Basic, Intermediate, and^Advanced sessions on Lasers and Bytes, ages 9-16. Responsi¬ bilities include oversight of paid counse¬ lors and volunteer junior counselors. Must be US Sailing certified. See Website <www.saiisea,org> for details of last year's program. Email letter of interest and re¬ sume to: info@sailsea.org or call (415) 775-8779. SEA, Ft. Mason Center Bldg. E, Room 235, San Francisco, CA 94123.

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Makela Boatworks Family owned since 1948 Wooden Boat Building • Repair and Restoration 19280 South Harbor Drive • Fort Bragg, CA 95437

(707)964-3963 email: howard@makelaboatworks.com • www.Makelaboatworks.com Page 222 •

LOVELY, PRETTY, GERMAN LADIES. Honesty and caring, any age, who like sailing and boating, etc. Willing to move for the right partner. Looking for friendship/ marriage. Please call 011 49 (172) 7313376 or 011 49 (721) 830-6816 or email: Joana-obert@t-online,de.

• March, 2003

SPINNAKER SAILING, SF IS HIRING. Head instructor, must have USCG license. Port Captain for Rendezvous Charters. Maintenance/Fleet Manager, experience preferred but will train. General Mainte¬ nance, will train. Catering Staff, experi¬ ence preferred but will train. Great loca¬ tion, nice work environment, fun staff, ben¬ efits. Fax resume to (415) 543-7405 orcail Timothy (415) 543-7333. SAILING INSTRUCTORS needed for OCSC’s renowned sail training program. We are looking for experienced and knowl¬ edgeable sailors who have great commu¬ nication skills and a kind and patient de¬ meanor. The work is tremendously excit¬ ing and rewarding and our schedule fits around yours. The sailing conditions are fabulous and OCSC’s curriculum structure is famous for turning out the best new sailors- in the country. Many advanced courses. Part-time and full-time seasonal hours. Weekend and weekday teaching available. Pay and benefits are great and we help you get your USCG license as well as your US SAILING instructor certi¬ fication, If you have a talent for teaching and inspiring people and love sailing then give Rich Jepsen a call at (510) 843-4200.

SALESPERSON NEEDED for growing marina hardware company. We're look¬ ing for the type of person who relates well to customers, vendors as well as the of¬ fice crew. While boating knowledge is not essential, understanding of 'the bottom line' is, or at least the ability to learn. We need someone'who understands profit, works hard and does what needs to be done. This can turn out as a great career for the right person as we continue to grow the business. If this sounds like a fit for you, fax your resume, with a cover letter describing the attributes you feel you pos¬ sess and why you would be an asset to our company, to (415) 662-1011. Office located in Petaluma.

YACHT SALES. Cruising Specialists of¬ fers the following advantages for*sales professionals with excellent boating expe¬ rience & knowledge: $3 million-r inventory of new and used sailboats and trawlers; Proven brands: Hunter, Jeanneau, Cali¬ ber, Mainship, Dufour; Excellent Alameda location on the Bay; Abundant lead gen¬ eration; Huge boat show exposure; Expe¬ rienced management support; in-house service department; Free professional training for customers; Guaranteed berths for customers; In-house financing re¬ sources; Medical and dental plans; 401 (k) & profit sharing Average commissions: $100,000-H. Please email resumb includ¬ ing sales and boating experience to; ddurant@cruisingspecialists.com.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES 64-FT STEEL WORKBOAT. Available for charter, sail or trade. Berthed Berkeley. Please call (510) 204-9611 or email; garykjennings@msn.com. SOCAL RETAIL MARINE SUPPLY Busi¬ ness. Long established and prime location^near California's Channel Islands. Owners retiring. Price includes inventory, fixtures, leasehold improvements. Agent: (805) 218-0946 or Office; (805) 648-1346.

IS YOUR BOAT IN SOUTH BEACH HARBOR? Put your boat to $work$. Spinnaker Sail¬ ing in SF is looking for 30-50 foot boats to join our charter fleet. Let your boat pay for itself. For more info call (415) 543-7333. SEEKING MULTIHULL FOR day snorkel and sunset charter service in beautiful resort location. Partnership, lease or pur¬ chase. All permits, applications and pa¬ perwork in place. Interesting business cir¬ cumstances. For more information, please call Ken (541) 338-8237 or email: kenpatbin@hotmail.com.

FREEDOM 40,1976. Center cockpit. Lots of extras. Cruised Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska. Excellent shorthander. Swing keel, radar, GPS, watermaker, Perkins 4154. Refit in progress. $69,000 once com¬ plete. Email: abthomas@pugetsound.net or call (360) 856-0100.

Maritime Attorney & Consultants 17 Embarcadero Cote, Oakland, CA 94606

(510) 532-1786 Fax (510) 532-3461 evstarmr@ix.netcom.com

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY RANGER 26. Quick and responsive, a well thought-out fin keel sloop by re¬ nowned shipwright Gary Mull. Panstakingly refinished exterior teak, beautiful custom weatherboards. Strong rigging, 3 good jibs,, mainsail, 8 hp Johnson, Autohelm. Test sails, free les¬ sons available, $5,500. (510) 658-2344.

CATALINA 27,1984. Excellent condition. Second owner. Universal 11 hp diesel, recent tune-up, new exhaust, chemically stripped 2 years ago. Roller furling, 120% genoa, 110% jib, reefable main, whisker pole. Beautiful teak interior. Sleeps 5, di¬ nette layout, new head with holding tank, alcohol stove, sink, cooler, freshwater holding, tank. VHF, depthsounder, knotmeter, compass. Two new batteries and bilge pump, shorepower, charger. $15,950/obo. Call (925) 829-1839.

Wm. E. Vaughan

Avoid Rocks, Shoals, Unreasonable Costs and Taxes. We can help you plan any Maritime Transaction. Serving The Maritime Community since 1960. Bay/Delta, Off-Shore, Racer/Cruiser since 1945. Affiliate Member, Society of Accredited Marine Surveyors.

MERIT 25, ILLUSIONS. Race ready, clean, #1/#3 Mylar headsails. Dacron main, new poly and Dacron chutes. Black on white. $6,000. 7.5 hp long stem 0/B. Chris in Benicia (707) 747-0970.

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The Witicher 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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^ A to Z Marine Services.98 AB Marine.87 I ABC Yachts.234 i ACC Marine.130 Ace Sailmakers.87 Acordia Insurance. 165 Agape Villages.24 Alameda Prop & Machine .. 89 i Albatross Yacht Charters.. 185 [ Allemand Brothers.223 Almar Marinas.67 Alpha Marine Systems.214 Andersons Boat Yard.49

Aquapro Inflatables.212 Axelrod, B & Company .... 216 Bair Island Marina.98 Baja Naval.198 Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers . 26,225 Ballena Isle Marina Coop ...71 Ballenger Spars.89 Bay Island Yachts. 10 Bay Marine Diesel .212 Bay Risk Insurance.26 Bay Ship & Yacht.59 Bay Side Boahvorks.214

Beowulf Press.81 Berkeley Boat Sales.229 Berkeley Marina. 105 Berkeley Marine Center . 101,227 Beta Marine Engines.207 Betts 26 Sierra.227 Bluewafer Insurance.90 Bo'sun Supplies.228 Boat US.29,139 Bosun's Charters. 185 Bottom Siders.94 Boy Scouts Pacific Harbors 232

Boy Scouts Son Francisco . 229 Brisbane Marina.85 British Marine.12 Brunos Island Resort.79 Bulwagga Anchor.218 C Cushions.207 Cal Maritime Acadamy.82 Cass'Marina. 101 CDI. 157 Chula Vista Marina.201 City Yachts. 17 Club Nautique.66 Coast Marine. 103

Coastal Cup.79 Cover Craft.99 Coyote Point Marina. 139 Crinan Marine.220 Cruising Charts...216 Cruising Direct Sails. 138 Cruising Specialists.68,69 Davis Instruments.91 Desolation Sound Charters 185 Detco Marine. 139 DeWitt Studio.228 Diesel Fuel Filtering. 103 Discovery Yachts.83

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Honolulu Sailing Co. 185 Hood Sails.97 Horizon Yacht Charters.... 185 Hydrovane. 222 Industrial Hardware.216 Interlux Yacht Finishes.57 J/World.51 Jack Rabbit Marine.216 Jonsson, Arne, Boatbuilder 224 Kensington Yachts.23,0 Kevin's Quality Marine.220 Kissinger Canvas. 12 KKMI Boat Yard.25 KKMI Store. 150,225

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Salmon Harbor Marina ... 88 San Francisco Boat Works 198 San Juan Sailing., 185 San Leandro Marina.... 32 Sconmor International. 24 Schmidt, Charlotte Yacht Sales., 230 Schoonmaker Point Marino.... 87 Sea Frost.. 101 Sea-Power Marine.... 18 Seocoost Marine Finance ... 54 Seocoost Yacht Sales. , 229 Seashine. . 214 Seatech. . 227 Selden Mast, Inc. USA. ... 44

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47' VAGABOND KETCH William Garden design, stout offshore cruiser, 85hp Ford Lehman, genset, radar, GPS, SSB, dinghy & davits, compiete can¬ vas, Bristol condition. Asking $249,000.

CAL 39 SLOOP, 1978 Tall rig. Perkins diesel, watermaker, many new upgrades 2002. Excellent sailer! Call for appointment. Asking $89,000

36' UNION POLARIS, 1985 Roqert'Perry design, radar, GPS, autopilot, \A^d insftu(nents, dodger, watermaker, excellent condition. Asking $95,000.

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33' NAUTICAT MOTORSAILER, 1983 Ford diesel 80hp, dual steering, aft cabin GPS, dinghy, furling main, great island boatl At our docks. Asking $89,900.

46' MORGAN CC, 1981 Perkins diesel, autopilot, GPS, radar, inverter, Onan genset,excellent condition!!! Asking $129,900.

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23' Columbia, trailer.$3,000 22' Catalina, trailer.$3000 13' Force 5, dolly.$2,500 13' Escape.$1,100 Lasers.from $1,000 El Toro (2) package ..$5,500

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BENETEAU311, '00 So, San Francisco ~ $76,900 42' LA COSTE, 1985. ORIGINAL OWNER. This vessel features a clean contemporary interior. 2 S/ R's, 2 heads, exquisite teak joinery work. Superior sailing performance in an elegant, comfortable cruiser.

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41' JEANNEAU SUN LEGENDE, 1986. Bruce Farr design, features spacious interior with 2 separate S/Rs, 2 heads. Large teak cockpit, roller furiing, full sail inventory. Fast, comfortable cruiser. New to market, (sistership)

59' CUSTOM KETCH, 1978. Built in Australia, she features a center cockpit, full pilothouse with inside steering, spacious accommodations for eight, two separate heads, full electronics. Extremely well built for comfortable cruising.

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33' HUNTER 336, 1995 SLOOP $79,000

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65' CREALOCK-DESIGNED SCHOONER, 1984 Lovely cold-molded gaff-riggedtopschooner, designed by William Crealock as a luxury long-distance cruiser, maintained with open checkbook, shows Bristol. Recent work includes engine rebuild, new genset, hull LPU'd, decks refinished, rewired, recent new sails, etc. Current Const Guard certificate. $995,000

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47’ TAYANA CENTER COCKPIT CUHER, 1991 Well-equipped Robert Perry-designed tenter cockpit cutter, large fin keel, skeg-hung rudder, deck-stepoed mast. Very nice inside & out with renewed brightworlc and teak decks, full electronics, rebuilt winches. Spacious inte¬ rior, recently renewed upholstery, flawless teak joinery. $265,000

52’ IRWIN, 1984 Some of the roomiest accommodations you're goino to find on a yacht this size! Never cruised, very low hours on Perlcins diesel one! Westerbeke generator, new electronics and numerous recent cosmetic upgrades ($20,000+ spent in pest year), Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip. Significontly reduced to $185,000

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40' JEANNEAU sun odyssey, 2001 Well equipped and very clean late model aft-cockpit cruiser with three staterooms, dual helms, low hours on engine. Also dodger, full electronics, toller furler headsoil. Note this is one of the few boats of this size with dual helms and is also the deep -draft version, preferable for the Bay. Now $164,500

43' HUNTER 430, 1995 Designed to deliver style and comfort in a vessel that's fast, easy to soil, stable and comfortable, this yocht will be available for inspection in early June. Originol owner, boot VERY competitively priced. Owner motivated. Now $149,000

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42' GRAND BANKS CLASSIC TRAWLER, 1979 One of the nicest 42s currently available, Ladyhmk has always been maintained to the hiahest standards and shows YEARS newer tnon actual age. Twin Ford Lehman 120s, full electronics, Onan genset, recent varnish, recent exte¬ rior canvas&cushions,perfectteak decks, more. Aperfect example of why Grand Banks are often chosen by soilors switching to power. $ 189,90()

34' HUNTER 340, 1998 Exceptionally comfortable and functional for a boat this size, both inside and out: two private staterooms, larae head w/shower and a salon thot con sent eignt plus a great cockpit tor sailing or entertaining. Lightly used vessel witn only 260 hours on Yanmar diesel, sails look as new, low maintenance exterior. She'll make a fine Bay boat. $87,500

4T' CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE KETCH, 1979 Restored clossic cruising ketch. Pride of ownership throughout, see to appreciate. 2001 survey notes, This is an immaculate anci nicely refurbislied vessel which has an excellent construction loyup by one of the world's best builders." Less than 300 hours on repowered diesel. Transferoble Sousalito Yacht Harbor slip.$79,900

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The 320 is already being hailed os another hit from Hunter, perfect for Bdy or coastal. Very clean boat, deep draft version preferable for the Bay. Transferable Sausalito Yocht Harbor slip. $79,000

32' HUNTER 320, 2000

29' HUNTER 290, 2000 For a boot this size, the Hunter 290 offers on amazing amount of space both above and below decks and was one of Sail magozine's "10 Best" for 2000; this particular boat is lightly used (only 57 hours on Yanmar diesel), well equipped ond shows as new. $62,500

42' SPARKMAN & STEPHENS DESIGNED SLOOP Lovely ti.S.-built fibergloss classic from the renowned Sparkman & Stephens! In outstanding shape, with many significant upgrodes including new LPU paint, refInished interior, rewired, replumbed, updated electronics, new batteries and charger, new standing rigging ond recently installed diesel engine. $54,000

This well-found racer/truiser is immaculate, shows more like a boat from thq 1990s than actual agel Much updated equipment, new interior, new electronics (includina radar), new running rigging, repowered with Yanmar diesel in '96. Fixed keel, roller furler, dodger, wheel steering. Further reduded to $44,000

38’STEPHENS FARALLON CLIPPtR, i9j9 This classic has been extensively renewed and updated, including a reported $100,000 of custom interior work in 1962-1964. Recent work includes replankinm rewiring, replumbing, new upholstery, new electronics, renewed brightworlc ond paint, new rigaing and sails (including ProFurl roller furling). Must be seen by anyone who oppreociates these rare beauties. $35,000

31'HUNTER, 1985 Built in the final year of production, this vessel is very clean, with the interior in particular showing Bristol. Roller furler, new jib and main soils, new canvas, new lifelines. Wheel steering, diesel engine. Transferable Sausalito YH slip. $33,000

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SAIL 57' Bermuda ketch. .... '75 79,000 54' Roberts {steel). .... '83 260.000 51' Beneteau. ..„ '87 125,000 112,000 48' C&C LF .... '80 139,000 .... '91 244,000 45' Liberty 458 . .... '83 198,000 45' Hunter 2 from 122,000 44' Swan 441, refurbished ., '79 179,000 .... ‘67 44,000 .... '81 90.000 43' Guifstar. .... '76 89,900 43' Spindrift PH. 2 from 95,000 43‘ Serendipity. ... '81 66,500 .... '81 175,000 42' Custom Schooner.... .... '72 39,000 42' Lu-kat. .... '00 299,000 42' S&S. .... '70 57,500 41' CT72e73. 49,500 .... '83 149,000 38' Cheoy Lee. '78 52,000 55,000 38' Morgan. . .. '79 49,000 38' Morgan 381. *93 129,500 37,5Hunter Legend. ..„ '87 74,900 37' Rafiki .... 'V7 75,000 37' Islander PH. .'86 65,000 .'80 49,000 37' O'Day 36' Cape George A//Cf.... .'90 152,000 36' Islander Freeport. .'79 65,000 .75 39,000 36' Custom Schooner.... .'72 39,000 36‘ Catalina. .'92 84.000 35.51st. Beneteau 92. .'92 89.000 .'91 59,500 35' Cheoy Lee NICE. .'79 64,500 .'79 32,000 .'92 139,000 54 88,000 35' Tradewinds. 73 22,900 35' Coronado. 35' Rafiki 30 59,000

. 57’ BERGER, ’62 Aluminium, completely refurbished inside & out. Flybridge. Slip in Sausalito. Very motivoted. $345,000

46’SPINDRIFT,’83 Center cockpit cutter, 1983,90 hp. Ford Lehman, 1000 hrs. Updated sail inventory, solid teak interior. Similar to Kelly Peterson 461 Reduced to $165,000.

34' 34' 33' 33' 32' 32' 31' 31'

30' 30' 30' 30’ 30'

29' 29' 29' 28' 28' 28' 27' 20'

47’ VAGABOND, 1984. Bristol, Isomot alum, spars, Perkins 4236 w/low

fikCAPt NORTH, '80. Center cockpit. $135,000.

17 IRWIN MkV, 80. Completely cruise equipped, roomy center cockpit, liveable. Ready to go south. $54,900.

TWO CT 41s, '73. Ah Cockpit, Izuzi Diesel, rodor, great soil inventory, fiberglass. Garden ketch, outstanding volue,Bristol! $67,600.

Catalina. .... '86 Cal Mklll. .... '76 Hans Christian. 3 from CSK. '65 (2) 77 Islander. 78 ., '63 Hereshoff. .... '88 Pacific Seacraft Mariah. '80 Sea Rijnner trimaran .... '78 . '85 47 Hunter... 90/'92 Lancer Mk V. 80 Tartan.... 75 .. '75 Catalina.(2)'77 &‘85 Cal 9,2R. .... '83 .... '80 „.. '69 '97 Ericson. 74 73 C&C. 86 Hunter. 00 herresnon, aiesei .... .... '50 Tradewinds. .'67 60 Hunter, trailer. 96 Newport Cape Cod. .'85

POWER 82' HuckInsMYFRP. .'77 65' Pacemaker cert. 49 + bus.'72 .'84 58' Spindrift. .'85 .... '62 57' Chris Craft...1 56' Fellows & Stewart,.,, .'27 55' Stephens MY. .'58 52' Hershlne CMY. .'85

Llbertyship. '60 Chris Craft. '60 Steel commercial vessel KHAShing(2) '84 &'82 from '75 45' Gulf Star MY. •79 ■62 44' Bestway C.P.M.Y. '84 43' Commercial SF cert. '85 42' Ocean Alexander. '89 '67 42' Unffllte. '80 40' Marine Trader new eng, 79 40' Owens. '64 38' Chris Craft SF. new dsis •65 '39 38'Nl/l0dlterrean.2 from '94 '68 '38

110,000 69,000 220,000 179,000 195,000 198.000 59,900 130,000 Inquire 259,000 69,900 109.000 84,900 26,000 49,900 59.950 158,000: 179.900 50,000 28,000

‘87 ■77 ■92 ‘86 '90 '73 '5? '86 '64 ■01 '85 '85 '80 '98 '86 '58 '85 ■01 ■81 '88 '74

49,500 35,000 34,500 56,000 79,000 69,900 39,000 49,000 26,500 89,000 29,750 26,000 18.000 85,000 11,500 29,750 16500 39,000 38,000 28,000 8,750

56,000 34,500 99,000 18,900 55,000 39.900 29.500 45,000 80,000 27,500 29,000 42,000 35,000 25,000 24.000 19,500 18,900 24,000 17,600 15,000

52' 50' 49' 49'

14,000 18,000 24,000 65,000 16,500 24,500 22,000 39,500 12,000 7,000

34' 34' 34' 34' 34' 33'

200,000 499,900 99,000 319,000 235,000 55,000 179,500 274,500

Bay Liner Avaniti. Uniflite. Chaparral. Sea Ray. Sllverton. American Marine.

32' Bayliner 3270 . 32' Tolly Craft. 31' Chris Craft. 29' Sllverton 28' PennYan 27' Grady White.

23' Blackman. 22' Grady White. 21' Sportfisher.

48’ CELESTIAL, ’86 Center cockpit, repowered Yanmor, herd dodger, $159,000.

38’ DOWNEAST CUHER, '78. Newer Yanmar diesel, 1100 hrs., main, working pb, yankee, staysail, genniker, non skid decks, electric anchor, windloss, AP., SSB/Ham, radar. From $64,500

BENETEAUS • 51,40,35s5

51:1987, great buy for $125,000. 3S$5:1992, Great sailer & layout. $89,500

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MARINER KETCHS 36 & 31 36:79, F/G decks, US hull, ah cabin, Harken RF $55k. 31: 75, Asking $39,000 BRISTOL Both have Perkins diesels. Both are exceptionally nice.

38’ MORGAN, ’79. Yanmar diesel with low hours, new dodger, stall shower, large galley, Sausalito slip. $49,000 A/so; 38' '93 @$129,500 SISTtRSHlP

40’ SABRE 402, ’96. Like new. Loaded with gear. Fabulous golley. Sails like a dream. Top Quality. $269,000.

33'HANS CHRISTIAN,'89 Yanmar low hours, beoutilul interior, satin finish, radar, A.P., roller furling, dinghy. Asking 114,900. 2af6ef33s, from 99,000.

Oceonis 400:1994,2 sirms w/Pullman berth, newsails, enclosed dodger, super clean. 137,500.

45'UBERTY4S8 Loaded with . erasing equipment,Perkins 4-236, Hood Vectron Ij sails, quolity crahed teak interior. Asking $197,500. ,,

44’ CHERUBINI, '80. Bristol has been continually upgraded. She is the only one on the West Const. Built in America. $450,000.

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45' STEPHENS CLASSIC RAISED DECK CRUISER. Beautful condition! Twin 120 HP Chvy. Crowns. 11' beam, p.o, cedar, bronze. She's on extra nice & well¬ loved Qossic YochtS 0 crowd-pleoser. Asking $90,000.

26' CLASSICMOTOR LAUNCH. C/ierokeeisawell-known, much loved member of the SF Boy Classic Reel Dsl engine, tons of chorm, beautifully decorated. Asking $27,250.

26' OSPREY '95 Wolkoround Sport/Rsh. Neor new 230hpdsl, 35 kts, RADAR, electronics, h/c press water, shwr, heater, 2-axle golv. tir, galley, 4 berths, head, downriggers, more. $S9,S00

66'STA'S'L SCHOCK/BOEING SCHOONER, 1934. Rebuild just completed. Some refit left. Ds!. 150,000/offers 55'LESTER STONE Clossic Yawl, dsl, lots equip., great cruiser. Ask 44,000 51' LESTER STONE Troditional Ketch. Just rehuih, dsl, SUPER BOAT . Ask 97,500

30' CATALINA SLOOP. Diesel, wheel, double lifelines & pulpits. Sharp example of one of the most popular designs ofloot. Comfortoble 8. fun! Asking $27,200.

49'ALDEN SCHOONER, Molobor IV design. 'IIU It', diesel, excellent restoration candidate, line lines.Asking 7,500

40' CAL SLOOP. Dsl wheel, dodger, great rig 12

huge sun deck, covered cockpit, big 14' beam, 2 staterooms, twin 454s, gen, radar. Asking $79,500.

sails, spinn, self-tnd jio, H&C press H20, new dark green LPU, lots new! Very clean. $34,000/ofFer.

61 ‘ STtElTUG, recent refit, 600-rhp Cat dsl, gcH)d condition.Try 45,000/offer

29' TOLIYCRARBRIDGE DECK cruiset, twins, just hauled, runs well, BARGAIN! 7,900

50' STEPHENS AET CABIN, flush deck moror yacht, '65, f/B, PH, twin 671 diesels, IBKgenset. 98,500/offers

29'WELLCRAR 2900 EXPRESS CRUISER. Twin 350s, swim pltitform, trim tabs, downriggers, galley, shower & more. In exceptional candition . Asking 27,950

46'LAKE UNION CU5SIC, jusl rebuilt, radar,new twin dsl, gen&morel 79,500 44'MARINE TRADER TRAWLER, tri-cubin, dsl, rudor, ploHer, 2 helms, much more! Very desirable hour... Asking 70,000

48' OA, 36' OD, Classic. 1937 Gaff yawl, dsl, warmth & chorm.Ask 30,000

42' CHRIS CRAFT AR UBIN MOTORYACHT, Iwin diesels, GREAT BUY!. 20,000

43' DUTCH STEEL MOTORSAILER KTCH, dsl, 2 wheels, great potentiol! Ask 59,000

42' TROiAN AFT CABIN MA, 15' beom, full elect galley, 2 heads, shower, radar,

43' LOD, ALDEN SCHOONER at Lake Tahoe. 1931, teak decks, dsl, more. Charter business opportunity . Asking 55,000

Onon, VBs, cruise/live .... 49,500 osk

41 BLOCK ISUND OR. Dsl, roller furl, wheel, Dbl-ended, Beaut, interior, tough cruiser w/great potential Ask 49,500

31' LOA H-28 KETCH. L. Fronds Herreshoff's legendory full keel cruiser. Spinnaker, l/B, AP, head, golley. Monogany on oak, lead ballast, full cover, BEAUTIFULI Asking $22,000.

4S' CHRIS CRAFT yacht home. F/B & lower helm,

39'DANISH KTCH, double-ender, dsl, big and strong.Try 29,000

42' OLYMPIC 1929 CLASSIC Twin diesels, Iri-cobin.Asking 65,000 BB'TOLLYCRAR sedon Iruwler w/twin lurbo diesels, FB, quulily. 59,500 35'CHRIS CRAFT Exp., Iwins,cin. 15,200 34'CHRIS CRAFT Commonder, '63, Iwin gas, great boat. 26,500

36'FRIENDSHIP Sip, F/G, beauty 26,000 36' SCHOONER, closskCrocker/Lewley. Dsl. Spring proj. worth doing... 6,900/ofr 36' PACIFIC SEACRAR CTR, strong, loaded, dbl-ended cruiser.Ask 80,000

33' CHRIS CRAR sdn, '48, sharp!. 8,500 31' PACEMAKER SPORTFISH, beoutiful canditlon, near new twins .... Ask 32,000

28'BAYUHER 2850, '87, new V8, f/B & P/H helms, more, clean 26,900/offer 28'OWENS H.T.EXPR., 350 Y8 8,500 ask 28' BAYLINER Sunbridge, '80. Try 15,000 28'CARVER, nice/roamy, 0/0 ... 12,950

45' BAYLINER 4550 MOTORYACHT. Twin dsls, genset, 3 strms, solon, 2 helms, full galley, super sundedc, full canvas & electronics. Great cruiser. Alaska? Mexico? Go where you wish! Asking $208,500

28'CLASSIC DEWEY EWERS sedan cruiser, V-8, show winner. 75,000 28' CHRIS CHAR Cavelier,

n'Ke ... 12,000

26' BAYLINER 2352TR0PHY, '00, trir, o/d, only 10 hrs on clock!. 38,500 25'BAYLINER CIERRA, '88, very nice. Foil Delto canvos.Asking 39,500 25'YARD TUG, Detroit dsl, wood .. 8,000 23'FORMUU THUNOERBIRD w/lrir, V8, GPS, VHF, depth, downriggers, chart plotter & more.Asking 12,000 22' CROWNLINE CUDDY w/trk, 350 Cobro V8, very sharp.Asking 16,500

27' DARTSAILER by Holland Boot Co. A remarkably versotile cruiser with Dig boot features. Diesel, radar, furling, two helms, tabernacle most and morel Serious mariners love this little ship! Asking $42,500.

20'SEASWIRL, '96, trIr, 225bp.. 23,000

35+HISTORIC HAY SCOW Sloop, Hicks en¬ gine, much charm & great down below. Office/Home?.Asking 35,000 34' ANGEIMAN Sen Witch ketch, dsl, wheel, AP, traditional beauty .... Ask 24,950

32' CORONADO CENTER COCKPIT sloop,,diesel "

imy Wm. Tripp design, saris, shower & more, Inusbify clean Swell mointoinrled. Asking $18,500.

33'RHODES WINDWARD, famous design, sloop, l/B.Asking 12,000 32'WESTSAIL CTR, F/G, dsl, more 37,950 30'HUNTER 5lp, dsl, F/G, spinn . 13,500 30' lANCER Sip, dsl, F/G, spinn .. 13,500 30'ISUNDER, dsl, spinn.13,500 30'8IRD doss sip, clossic, well-found, GREAT condition, w/fresh 0/8.9,600 30'CAL 230 Sip, dsl.Asking 22,000 30'MORGAN 30-2 performance cruising sloop, l/8,veryclean. 22,000

47' CRUISING SLOOP. 14'x5'6", 25,500 lbs. by Chos.

46' GAFF TOPS'L SCHOONER designed & built by

Marin, NA. Lounched 1998. Yanmar diesel. Big, roomy, poweiTuI, comfoRoble, heavily built, nearly new. Dacron & Mylar sails& more! PRICED TO SELL Asking $79,000.

legend^ Wm. Garden in '42. Escapade is cedor over oak w/T,408 ft^ of sail. Volvo dsl, only 60 his reported. 6'10' hearirm, greot layout. Very rare offering. Ask $79,000.

30' CHEOYLEE Bermuda sloop, riveted teak, much recent work, 0/8 .Asking9,500

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29' PHIL RHODES sip proj. boat Ask 6,000

43' STEPHENS SEDAN CRUISER, 1955. Fleelwoodl is in extra fine condition. Twins, looks better than new inside & out. Must see, wonderful! Asking $115,000.

28'ELDRIDGE McGINNIS SAMURAI SLP. Dsl, full cover, great potential . 6,900 27'CATALINA, l/B, spin.12,000 27' HUNTER sloop, dsl l/B plus 0/8, toller furling, more! Nice boat. Ask 12,000 26'S-2 Sip Dsl, gloss center cockpit, oft cobin, Avon 4 mtr 4 tnore.l7,500/osk 25'UTALINA Sip, 0/8, furling, AP, GPS, VHf, depth, 4 saib.Asking $7,500 24' ED MONK, 5r., clossk '47 sloop, dsl, nice w/much recent work. .. Asking 8,500

POWER 49'OASSKYAOIT byH.B.fish Yard, 1930. Roisedded(,TnCobln Express Cruiser w/bard canopy, aft deck. Beautiful ntojcr reslorotion, lute 1980s, leak dedcs, twins just retudl, more! Asking $45,000.

70'EUROPA TYPE TRAWLER, Con. built, loaded 4 in excellent condition. Eco¬ nomical Cummins V-12 power. An out¬ standing vessel.Asking 199,000

68' LOA/4r LOD PILOT CTR Traditional 1904 ocean

41' COLUMBIA CENTER COCKPIT SLOOP. Full

racer/cruiser. Rebuilt with new tanbark soils, spars, copper sheathing + reported 1990. Fit to your specs. Magnificent. Virtually new build at fraction of the cost. $69,500.

dodger, wheel steering, diesel, heater, radar, AP, furling, king aft stateroom, LOADED, ready to cruise/live aboard.

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Asking $59,500.

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