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In with the Old, In with the New Michael Andrews just purchased a brand new Santana 22, hull ^811, which he aptly named Bonito. The . boat was designed by Gary Mull in 1965, two years before Michael was born, and is fondly referred to as a "Tuna". It has been a popular Bay class since it was first introduced. Last month's race to Vallejo was Bonito's second time sailing and first time racing. With her brand new Pineapple Sails she placed .first. Bonito won both races in May's mid¬ month ODCA race day as well. (Frank Lawler's Pineapple Powered Tackful placed second.) The Santana is a durable design. Pineapple Sails is a durable sailmaker. And we'll build fast, sturdy sails for your boat, old or new.

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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 digital images (preferable) or color or black and white prints with identification of all boats, situations and people therein; and 3) be legible. These days, we prefer to receive both text and photos electronically, but if you send by mail, anything you want back must be accompanied by a selfaddressed, stamped envelope. Submissions not accompanied by an SASE wiii not be returned. We also advise that you not send original photographs or negatives unless we specifically request them; copies will work just fine. Notifi¬ cation time varies with our workload, but generally runs four to six weeks. Please don't contact us before then by phone or mail. Send all electronic submissions to editorial@latitude38.com, and all snail mail submissions to Latitude 38 edito¬ rial department, 15 Locust Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941. For more specificfi information, request writers' guidelines from the above address or see www.latitude38.com/writers.htm.

As the world's leading sailboat manufacturer, Beneteau has the resources and technology to build you a better boat.

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World Leader by Design • s. Rather than using in-house designers, Beneteau hires only the top naval architects like Farr Yacht Design, Groupe Finot and Berrett/Racoupeau. The boats designed by this elite group are optimized for their intended use and exhibit performance, agility, and safety at sea.

. Top of the Line Hardware and Equipment

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As the world's largest sailboat manufacturer, over twice as large as

Beneteau has the most advanced furniture manufacturing facilities in

their nearest competitor, Beneteau has tremendous buying power.

the maritime industry, using computer-guided machinery to create

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perfectly fitting joinery. Each component is hand-sanded and in¬

equipment from Raymarine, Harken, Lewmar, Edson, Navtec,

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Sparcraft, ProFurl and others.

uniform gloss and durability.

Grid System This system spreads the load evenly, eliminating flex in a structure that is lighter and , stiffer than traditional construction. The grid is

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Hull to Deck Joint Our hull to deck] oint with wide return flange is one of the strongest in the industry. It is chemically bonded with mechanical shear fasteners - 100% reliability with no re¬ corded failure in millions of miles

Our composite rudder stock can withstand nearly thfee times the force of a stainless steel shaft.

of tough ocean conditions.

Extensive Testing For quality and consis¬

360° Bonded Bulkheads - Reinforces Struc¬ tural Strength Not just room dividers, the

tency, all yaw materials are tested before being used in the production process. To ensure

bulkheads are bonded using a two-compo¬

quality control, tests are performed such as

nent polyurethane adhesive manufactured by

burn tests, laminate schedule tests, Barcol

LORD® Corp. As a boat works and flexes in

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the Formosa yard, but priced under $100,000.

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HANSE 371

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HANSE Yachts (Judel/Vrolijk Design) don’t just persuade with their sharp appearance, both above and below deck - they sail persuasively too. And after viewing the fleet, some critics get a new insight. With pride in their work, experienced boat builders on the Baltic Sea Judel/Vrolijk Yachtdesign

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Model 3858883

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Raymarine

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2999

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Not displayed in all stores. Radpr antenna and depth transducer sold separately.

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RL70CRQ Super System

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$89,000

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$110,000

Bill Tripp's performance hull/keel design makes for a fasf boat. Excellent value for the budget-minded cruiser.

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With a fufl-skeg rudder and modified fin keel for sea-kindly sailing performance.

38' HANS CHRISTIANS from $135,000

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$115,000

34' FISHER MOTORSAILER, '77 $80,000

32' WESTSAIL

Two outstanding 38s, both in beautiful shape and both with careful, meticulous owners.

BluewatercruiserfromtOeesteemedTaShing yard - ready to sail away!

1994 Perkins diesel with iess than 300 hours and $7,000 Huii Tech bottom in 2002 with blister warranty.

Two good examples of this popuiar offshorecapabie, buliet-proof design.

31' PACIFIC SEACRAFT MARIAH, '81 $114,900. A well-appointed interior in a

31'TARTAN,'92

31'PEARSON,'87

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safe, comfortable cruiser with lots of storage and beautiful joinery.

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• June, 2003

$65,900

She has spent most of her life in fresh water. A very motivated owner wants her soid.

$44,500

This vessel is in showroom condition with a beautituiiy maintained interior and exterior.

2 (rom $47,500

$21,900

A well-maintained, solidly built pocket cruiser easily capable of Mexico and beyond.

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Beautifully rigged and outfitted. Smart and safe for offshore or bay sailing. $89,500 ^ ’

Farr 1220 (40).$149,900

One owner vessel shows very little '■®layout for living atoard couple cruising. 7+ headroom. $259,000

Golden Wave 42.$99,500

Islander 44.$19,000

Baltic 51.

Incredibly handsome, four

stateroom yacht. Newly repowered,

Nordic 44, '80.

Robert Perry design

ahead of its time in interior design. Built in

new in-boom mainsail furling. Electric Bellingham, Washington, this Northwest

Pearson 37-P.

,$49,900

winches where appropriate. $249,000

Hallberg-Rassy 312 Mkll. Built in Swe¬ den by one of Scandinavia's finest builders, Q has been maintained to very high stan¬ dards. Complete inventory, systems profes¬

Sabreline 36 Express $269,000

Hatteras 41.$79,000 Cabo Rico 34 1995 but shows like a 2003. Cutter rig, self-tending staysail, furling jib and

sionally installed, electronics folly functional.

Dutchman system on the main. Beau¬

Asking $82,500. Offers Encouraged.

tiful detail and finish. $174,900

sistersnip

$68,000

I Farallon 27

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Hunter 29.5

$49,000

Pacific Scacraft 31

Passport 40

Xhe Pacific Seacraft is an ocean-going

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out a question one of Robert Perry's

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Santa Cruz 52 (1994). Hull #7. Fast fun on an ocean racer/cruiser in top condition with great sails, electronics. Lying Richmond. Asking $459,000

Swan 112 (2002). Without a doubt this is the most spectacular yacht ever built by Swan. Dark blue hull, elegant interior, carbon rig, captive winches.

Santa Cruz 52 (1993). This beautiful fast cruiser looks like new. Stunning red topsides, carbon rig, electric main halyard, watermaker, great sails. $495,000

Swan 82RS (2001). Fast, beautifuTbreathiaking Swan 44 Mkll (1997). This beautiful dark blue interior, easy to sail, carbon rig and furling boom. I Swan 44 is in excellent condition and looks like captive winches, A/C, extraordinary boat. .-I new. Watermaker, electric winches. $479,000

DAVIDSON 53 (2001). One of the most well thought out and engineered world cruisers ever conceived. Custom built by Ian Franklin Boats in New Zealand.

Swan 57CC (1996). Wow! One of the most beautiful world cruisers afloat. Boat looks like new. Large aft stateroom, teak decks, watermaker, genset, more!

SWAN 65 (1976). Recently completed world cruise and ready to go again! Great teak decks, many upgrades on this classic Swan ketch. $490,000

Swan 44 (1974). A Sparkman & Stephens classic beauty. Recently returned from a South Pacific romp and ready to go again. Asking $149,500

Santa Cruz 50. One of the most famous (and fastest) SC50s is for sale! Incredib!e sail inventory, great equipment, excelient race record. Only $160,000

Swan 431. Totally restored with new teak decks, new engine, new sails, autopilot, upholstery, winches, a very pretty boat! Asking $189,000

Nordiund 66 in abso!ute!y perfect condition. Twin MAN 1,100hp dieseis. Mega-yacht interior. Fast, extremeiy quiet, bow and stern thrusters, 31 knots.

Andrews 72 (1998). Completed in 2000, this fast cruiser has a gorgeous interior. Very clean, easy to sail, large aft stateroom, you must see!

Cheoy Lee 53 (1986). A great ocean going motorsailer with two steering stations, genera¬ tor, watermaker, furling main and mizzen.

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New Tayana 48s available now! Two of Tayana's most popular models, the 48' Center Cockpit and 48' Deck Salon are ready for immediate delivery.

OFFSHORE S AH^ING YACHTS

58' TAYANA DECK SALOON Powerful and fast, this large cutter will accommodate up to four staterooms. Contemporary styling and panoramic views from the main saloon. Available in center cockpit. Sailaway $475,000

52' TAYANA AFT COCKPIT Robert Perry's favorite design. Sleek looking, high performance sailing yacht. Available in aft or center cockpit. Sailaway $365,000

48' TAYANA CENTER COCKPIT Designed by Robert Perry, this bluewater cutter offers over 1,300 sq. ft. of sail, long waterline and spacious interior. Two or three stateroom layouts. Available in center cockpit and deck saloon. Sailaway $330,000

2003 42' TAYANA Robert Harris designed famous Vancouver series. Rugged offshore doubleended cruising yacht. Perfect for the double-handed cruising couple. Available in Center or Aft Cockpit. $239,000

TAYANA 64 DECK SALOON Designed by Rob Ladd, this huge cutter will impress even the most discriminating yachtsman. With beautiful lines, and a beam of 18 ft., this makes the Tayana 64 the ultimate bluewater sailer! Inquire.

TAYANA 37 CUTTER World famous Robert Perry designed ocean cruising yacht. With almost 600 hull built to date, this fine passagemaker will take you anywhere. Available in cutter, ketch or pilothouse. Sailaway $189,000

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

1976 HUNTER 30 Great starter boat, owner moving up. Diesel engine. Priced right at $14,000.

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

1986 TAYANA 42 AFT COCKPIT Fully equipped. LeisureFurl boom furling, elect winch, full electronics, Bristol! Asking $169,000.

2000 TAYANA 48 CNTR CKPT CUTTER Owner moving ashore. Needs to sell. Better than new. All options. Loaded! $429,000.

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PREOWNED CATALINA YACHTS

Catalina 30

1983

26,500

Woifi 40

1985

99.000

Catalina 470

275,000

Catalina 30

1983

27 500

Passport 40

1987

175 000

C&C 32

1980

36,500

1976

19.500

Naiitcat 40

1985

179 000

Ericson 32

1988

61,500

1983

17,000

Hans Christian 38 1987

169,500

POWER BOATS

2000

Catalina 42

1992

100,000

Catalina 30

Catalina 38

2001

124.500

Catalina 27

Catalina 34 Mil

2001

112.000

PREOWNED SAILING YACHTS

Ericson 38

Catalina 320

2001

95,000

Beneteau 461

2001

249.000

1986

89.500

Catalina 320

1996

79,000

Hunter 45

1988 '125,000

P.if if'C .Sear mil Crealook 37 1983 '128.000

Catalina 30

1984

28,700

Swan 431

1978

Pearson 3.-

157 500

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Spirit of Sydney 53' Hennenjanger Ketch

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Owner says SELL! Drastically reduced due to illness. This is truly a blue water world class cruiser. Stop looking for the right boat, you just found it and it is priced to sell fast. Custom built in Holland in 1977 and designed by Adams-Miller of New Zealand. Truly the perfect family cruising boat. In the past year she has had a total refit.

$165,000US

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Men's Bay Boat Shoe

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^999^ GPSMAP176C Land & Sea Package Includes mounting bases, cartography and power cords for land and sea navigation.

A great coastal suit for

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Item 439559 Reg. ,Low 34.99

251 Hose Coil With Nozale

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CALENDAR Nonrace June 1 — Pacific Cup All-Day Seminar at Berkeley YC. Explore the possibility of racing or cruising to Hawaii! Topics covered will range from "What's it like?" to specific rig, hull and safety concerns for an ocean passage. Details and pre¬ registration, www.^acificcup.org. June 6-8 — San Jose Boat Show. NCMA, (510) 834-1000. June 7-8 — Open House at the SFIACC dock at Treasure Island, 9-5 p.m. Come touch and see the lACC fleet out of the water. Info, 289-0401 or www.iaccsf.com. June 8 — Open House at Encinal YC, 3-5 p.m. Prospec¬ tive members are invited to check out the facilities, meet members, and learn about racing, cruising and junior activi¬ ties. Info, (510) 522-3272, or www.encinal.org. June 8 — Swap Meet at Sequoia YC (Redwood City), 8-11 a.m. The flea market is free, but the optional pancake break¬ fast will set you back $5. Mike Harris, (650) 361-8538. June 12 — Corinthian YC's new lecture series kicks off with a^presentation by Dawn Riley. $10 contribution to ben¬ efit youth sailing. Details at www.cyc.org. June 12 — "Harbor Hopping the Pacific Coast," presented by Mark Bunzel, publisher of Exploring the Pacific Coast — San Diego to Seattle. West Marine Books & Charts (Sausalito), 6:30-7:30 p.m., free. Tamara, 332-1320. June 14 — Full moon on a Saturday night! June 14-15 — Flicka Sailboats Rfendezvous at Marina Vil¬ lage. Tony Simi, (925) 634-3775. Jtine 15 — Father's Day. Go sailing! June 17 — San Francisco Cceanic Crew Group monthly meeting, featuring guest speaker Wayne Zittel of J/World Sailing School. Fort Mason Center, Building C, Room 210, 7 p.m., free. Inlb, 456-0221. June 21 — Summer Sailstice, the first day of summer as well as a new holiday Just for sailors. See Sightings for de¬ tails, or check out www.summersailstice.com. June 21 — Free rides on Corsair trimarans, followed by free dinner at Marina Bay Yacht Harbor (Richmond) with the Corsair Trimaran Owners Association. RSVP, Patricia Linn, (520) 878-0626. June 21 — Ericson 27 Fleet Cruise to Angel Island. Bill, (408) 736-5940. June 29 — Master Mariners Wooden Boat Show at Corinthian YC. Teriy Klaus, 364-1656. July 4 — Fourth of July, this year on a Friday. Do some¬ thing independent with the three-day weekend! July 4 — Fireworks, wine and dessert aboard the scow schooner Gaslight, departing Sausalito at 7 p.m. Cost is $85 for nonmembers: $65 for members (proceeds benefit youth sailing). Golden Gate Tall Ships Society. Info, 331-1009. July 10 — CYC Lecture Series, featuring circumnavigator Bruce Schwab, Details, www.cyc.org. July 12-13 — Hallberg-Rassy Rendezvous. Call Mike at (707) 933-9133 to find out where this gathering will occur. July 26 — Women's Sailing Clinic at Lake Tahoe, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Beginning and intermediate classes offered by Lake Tahoe Windjammers YC, $45 fee. RSVP, Debbie, (530) 5413516 or email russdebnoorda@aol.com. Raciug May 31-Juue 1 — Star District Champs. SFYC, 789-5647. May 31-Juue 1 —J/24 Western Regional Championship and District 20 Qualifier. StFYC, 563-6363. May 31-Juue 1 — Cal Race Week in Marina del Rey. Info, www.calyachtclub.com. Jime 1-10 — Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association 2003

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CALENDAR Spring Championships in Detroit, hosted by the University of Michigan. Three events (women, team racing, coed) in 420s to determine the best college sailing teams in the country. Info, www.collegesailing.org. June 7 — CYC/SSS In the Bay Race, the third race on the shorthanded s'^iling circuit. Bill, (510) 490-1147. June 7 — Alameda Interclub Series #3. M.L. Higgins, (510) 748-0289.

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Owner Profile: Jaime and Jim Casey

CALENDAR June 22 — Mayor's Cup Regatta on Lake Merritt. Russ Klein, (510) 582-0276. June 21-22 — Sausalito Cup. the first lACC skirmish of the year. See Racing Sheet. Info, 289-0401 or www.iaccsf.com. June 21-22 —^Optimist PCCs at Treasure Island. SFYC, 789-5647. June 22-27 — Storm Trysail Club's 20th Biennial Block Island Race Week, a niust-do event for East Coasters. See www.blockislandraceweek.com.

June 25 — Great Pacific Longitude Race, aka the LongPac. Alan Hebert, (650) 724-5954. June 27 — South Tower Race, still the most grueling and challenging race on the Bay. StkSC, (209) 473-9851. June 27-29 — 19th North Sails Race Week in Long Beach, the SoCal Big Boat Series. Info, (714) 379-4884 or www.Jim & Jaime aboard their J/109

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"My wife's father had the first sailboat on Lake Tahoe," said Jim Casey, as he started describing his 27 years of sailing. Those 27 years began when he met his wife, Jaime, who started him sailing and remains the 'captain' of this sailing team.

June 28 — Boreas Race (Half Moon Bay to Moss Landing)..,HMBYC, (650) 728-2120. June 28-29 — Easom Founders Regatta, an Etchells event honoring living legend Hank Easom. SFYC, 789-5647. July 1, 4, 6 — Staggered starts of the 42nd TransPac, the biennial 2,225-mile sprint from L.A. to Honolulu. Info, www.transpaciflcyc.org..

Their first years were spent aboard a 27-ft Endeavour sloop with which Jaime wdn the Trans-Tahoe race two or three times. Then several years ago, on a trip to Santa Cruz, they picked up a roomier Catalina 27 with which they enjoyed cruising, and casual fleet racing, on the Lake. The subsequent addition of a Jeanneau 43DS in the Sunsail charter fleet augmented Jim and Jaime's sailing adventures. Charter trips to Martinique, Tahiti, Vancouver, and other Sunsail bases have demonstrated the pleasures of sailing at sea level instead of 6,000 feet above it. The Catalina 27 was finally getting too small and the lure of more performance got the Caseys looking at the J/Boat fleet. The new J/109 covered both desires. Jim found elbow room and big bunks to stretch out in, and Jaime had more performance than anything else they've sailed. "It's just fun to sail," said Jim, "and extremely

July 4 — Brothers and Sisters Race, named for the is¬ lands it uses as turning marks. TYC,789-9294. July 5-6 — Ronstan Bay Challenge, a boardsailing ex¬ travaganza. StFYC, 563-6363. ^ July 12 —Angel Island Cup. CYC, 435-4771. July 12 — Midnight Moonlight Maritime Marathon, a 35mile for-fun pursuit race from Tiburon to Vallejo and back. SFYC, 789-5647. July 12-13 — PICYA Lipton Cups at Golden Gate YC, the annual summer interclub championships. YRA, 771-9500. July 19 — 28th Silver Eagle Race, a 67-mile lap around the Bay for multihulls and PHRF boats 158 and under. A concurrent race, the Eaglet, is for slower boats and doublehanded entries. lYC; Joanne McFee, (925) 254-5384. July 19 — Plastic Classic Regatta. BVBC, 495-9500. July 26-27 — Second Half Opener, hosted by Encinal YC. YRA, 771-9500. Sept. 11-14 — 39th Big Boat Series. Plan ahead! StFYC, 563-6363.

responsive." We're mostly cruisers and have already spent the night at Angel Island on the Bay before we had her delivered to the Lake. Right after we rigged her on the Lake, we took her for an overnight by Rubicon Bay. There's a nice racing fleet on the lake too, with several other J/Boats, so we'll join them for beer can racing and other Lake events. We couldn't be happier. The J/109 has an unbeatable combination of space below, comfortable cockpit and outstanding sailing characteristics/'

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Summer Beer Can Series BAY VIEW BC — Monday Night Madness; 6/9, 6/16 (make-up). John Super, 243-0426. BENICIA YC —Thursday Race Series through 10/2. Joe Marra, (707) 745-5848. BERKELEY YC — Friday Night Races through 9/26. Paul Kamen, (510) 540-7968. CAL SC — Sunday Morning Lido 14 races, intraclub only, year round. Sunday Afternoon Bytes and Lasers, open to all, year round. Joe Matera, dzntmatera@aol.com. CORINTHIAN YC — Friday Night Series through 9/5. Michael Moradzadeh, 789-0506. COYOTE POINT YC — Wednesday Nights through 10/22. Mike Finn, (408) 866-5495. ENCINAL YC — Friday Night Twilight Series. Spring: 6/6, 6/27. Steve Rienhart, (415) 441-5960. FOLSOM LAKE YC — Wednesday Nights through 9/24. John Poimiroo, John@poimiroo.com. GOLDEN GATE YC — Friday Nights: 6/13, 6/27, 7/11, 1 lib. 8/8, etc. Winnie Kelley, 474-9246. ISLAND YC — Friday Nights on the Estuary: 6/13, 8/1, 8/15, 9/5, 9/19, 10/3. Joanne McFee, (925) 254-5384.

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J/92, Speedy Gonzales Truly a rare find on the used market, this boat is ready to race with over 20 bags of sails, and she is priced to sell. $39,500.

J/105, '01, Scaramouche Nearly new, hardly used, and very well cared for. Keel and rudder have been Waterline faired, and she has all the equipment it takes to be a Winner. Exceptional ryce record.

35' ONE DESIGN, Center of Gravity A Nelson/Marek yacht and a fine example of the best One Design 35-footer in North America. This slightly used boat is on the market with a motivated seller. $92,000.

72' Andrews, '98, Elysium".. 1,350,000

4o' Northstar 40, '75, Outlandish..139,006

34' Catalina, '89, Blue Magic".New Listing 54,000

72' Davidson, '93, Cassiopeia"..595,000

38' Morgan 382, '80, Mintaka".. 54,000

33' Synergy 1000, '99, Hull ff2".65,000

70' Santa Cruz, '87, Mongoose"..349,000

37' Express, '88, Mintaka"..New Listing 88,000

32'J/32, '01, Spirit.New Listing 169,500

53' J/T60, '98, Albacore III"..... New Listing 545,000

36' Sweden, '84, Joystick""..99,000

30' J/92, '92, Speedy Gonzales".44,000

53' J/160, '96, Bushwacker"..649,000

35' One Design 35, '00, Center of Gravity". 92,000

29' J/29, '84,Jolly J".,•.25,000

53' Santa Cruz 52, '99, Triumph".....700,000

35' J/105, '94, Xtreme""..New Listing 89,000

27' J/27, '90, Remedy"".New Listing 20,000

48'J/145#6,'01, Je/to". .619,000

35' J/105, '01, Scaramouche".. 139,900

26' J/80, '94, Hull #35.New Listing 29,500

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35' J/10^, '98, J-Hawk".. 125,000

26' J/80, '00, Gizmo""..t.45,000

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24' J/24, '79, Bubba".10,000

41' Bianca 414, '80, Sundog..Reduced to 58,500

35' J/35, '85, Fast Feather""..54,900

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Capt. Henry — Given that fact that Thierry Dubois had at the time singlehanded most of the way around the world — including through the Southern Ocean — the shot of him nearly falling on his severely heeled Solidaires at the Brazilfinish line actually shows him at one of his safer moments. But we get your point. Next time we'll run a car-commercial-style disclaimer in the corner: "Professional skipper on closed course. do noVattempt." By the way, if the French get wind of you calling Dubois a "Jackass," the Franco-American rift over Iraq is going to seem insignificant by comparison. ttllA DIFFERENT REACTION FROM LAID-BACK MAUI

What a great cover on the April issue. Action, graphic con¬ tent, interest and composition. A+ brother! Jonathan Livingston * Punk Dolphin, Wylie 39 Richmond / Lahaina, Maui ITUdeclared a total loss before she sank

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can't help but wonder how well the new deck was attached to the hull, or how the remaining laminates had stood up to the intense heat created by the fire. Knowing the history of the hull, would you have purchased this boat? .Most things eventually succumb to gravity, so it seems that this Catalina 42 perhaps gave way earlier than her time, but only because' of the fire or the way she ras rebuilt. I am' grateful to hear that the folks on board at the time of the sink¬ ing are safe, but the case should be another re¬ minder of ca¬ veat emptor.

By the way, most reputable builders keep a Burped on the Mississippi, sunk in the Carib. history of each boat they build, and Catalina has a three-inch thick file on this particular 42. Anyone contemplating purchasing a used Catalina need only pick up the phone to find out all they want to know about a specific vessel. GEury Willis Breezn, Catalina 42 Marina del Rey Garry — That's certainly eye-opening information. andHt sheds a whole new light on the sinking. We'd bet there is a 95% chance that the boat sank due to some aspect of the fire, rebuild, or the way the boat was maintained. As for "most things eventually succumbing to gravity." don't count on it happening anytime soon with decently-built fiber¬ glass boats. The earliest large fiberglass boats are now al¬ most 50 years old but showing very little sign of deterioration. In fact, one of the growing problems on the waterfront is that increasingly obsolete — but still perfectly functional — boats are taking up slips needed by newer generations of boats. thlTHE RULES ON ANCHORING IN CLIPPER COVE

What are the rules concerning anchoring in Clipper Cove at Treasure Island? I have heard everything from, "there have been boats permanently anchored there since the Navy left ' four years ago,” to "there is a seven-day limit," to "techni¬ cally, anchoring is prohibited.',' It would seem to be an ideal place to anchor out longterm, since there is a nearby bus line and a $25/month Treasure Island YC membership would permit the use of the marina facilities, including parking. And it does appear that there are a half-dozen permanerrtly moored boats, including some with their own moorings. Fred Winneke Ingram 38 San Francisco FYed — Sorry to take so long to get back to you, but your letter has been hiding in our hard drive. As best we've been able to determine, the pending turnover of the area from the Navy to San Francisco has left something of an authority vacuum, allowing people to pretty much do what they want. So if anyone wants to put down a personal mooring in the middle of one of the Bay's best anchorages, nobody seems to be stopping them. And if someone wants to semi-per manently anchor their boat — or derelict'^ in the Cove, nobody seems to be stopping that either. We're not sure how long this will be

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II^MY MISTAKE IN CLIPPER COVE , In the interest of helping others avoid a mistake — yet another in a long series of bonehead boating maneuvers fea¬ turing yours truly — I offer the following report. On April 19, I anchored in Clipper Cove with my 10-year-old daughter and her friend aboard our Ranger 26 Allons-y. After spending the night — there were about a dozen other boats on the hook — we left Saturday morning. To leave, we slowly motored out to the middle of the Cove — and got stuck. Yes, right in the middle! 1 know — now — that there had been a significantly nega¬ tive tide, but hey. I’ve been in and out of the Cove dozens of timfes. My boat only draws 3.5 feet, 8md I was in the middle only about 75 yards from the entrance to the cove. Nonethe¬ less, oops. Sorry girls, how about a lesson on tide tables, chart depths, navigation and patience? A 35-ft motor vessel also left the cove Avithout getting stuck, but she hugged the Treasure Island side of the cove. I'm won¬ dering if there is a channel there? I'd like to give a big thanks to the very nice guys in the Treasure Island YC crash boat who eventually noticed our dilemma, and towed us — actually ploughed us — through the mud after we'd spent 90 minutes rocking and messing around. Art Hartinger AUons-y, Ranger 26 South Beach Marina ttUAFTER HEARING ABOUT HIS TIME IN THE SLAMMER I’ve beer^ a dedicated reader of Latitude ever since my buddy Dave Gendell, who edits the sailing mag Spinsheet here on the Chesapeake; turned me on to your excellent publication. Your February issue was a real treat, as I discovered that an old friend whom I haven’t seen in years is still alive and living in St. Barts! A lot of us old timers who have hung out in Key West for years were wondering about the whereabouts of dave Wegman after hearing about his time in the slammer for at¬ tempted drug smug¬ gling. To find out he’s living and thriving on the second floor of Marius’ Le Select in Gustavia comes as a great relief. Back in the days when.Wegmem was liv¬ D upstairs from IT ing < X Howie’s Lounge in Key o QC West and peiinting signs UJ O for anyone in town who X needed them, the hang¬ K § out of choice was the Chart Room bar at Pier david - with a'd' - with Marius at Le Select House when Phil Clark — of A Pirate Looks at Forty fame, — and Vic Latham ran the place. Buffett occasionally played guitar in the far comer for beers, and a guy named Tom Corcoran bartended. Most of

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Ma professional explains On May 5, 'Lectronic Latitude published a Photo of the Day of a bulk carrier down-bound in San Pablo Bay that was lin¬ ing up to go east of The Brothers. The commentary implied that transiting east of The Brothers was not only reire, but could be considered unsafe due to the close proximity of shal^ low water. Let me assure you that it is a common route to follow, especially if there is a conflict with up-bound traffic or with the ongoing bridge construction. In the past, when the three oil terminals were operating between Thp Brothers and the Rlchmond-San Rafael Bridge,

Be warned that ships do occasionally pass east of The Brothers. most vessels would avoid transiting the route because of the interaction concerns with the tankers or barges at those wharves. Now that all three terminals are inactive, the limit¬ ing factors continue to be draft, air draft, and overall size of the vessel. While there is shoaling to avoid, the pilot, like any prudent mariner, knows its location and cons the vessel ac¬ cordingly. In fact, there are very few places in the Bay where shoaling is not a concern for the pilot guiding a deep draft vessel. A pilot is required to report their vessel's intended route to the Vessel Traffic System (VTS) when they check into the sys¬ tem. 1 would urge ^1 mariners to monitor VTS on VHF chan¬ nel 14 whenever they intend to transit in close proximity to the shipping channels. Captain Peter Mclsaac, President San Francisco Bar Pilots Capt. Mclsaac — Thank you for your informative profes¬ sional response. We didn't mean to suggest that ships transit¬ ing between The Brothers and the Richmond shore should be illegal — uie're not qualified to make such a Judgement — but

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Dennis — When we asked if a pilot would take a ship be¬ tween Mile Rock and the shore, pilot Eric Dohm laughed and said, "No way! The last ship that did that is stUl there. I wouldn’t even take a saUboat in there because of dll the rocks." Perhaps your eyes were playing tricks on you.

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the ship's name and the time it happened. They said they knew nothing about it. Dennis Olson Beastie Santa Rosa

1 have some advice for next year’s Sail Expo exhibitors that, if followed, would go a long way towairds meiking the boat show experience more enjoyable to those who pay money to attend and look at their products: If you need to leave your booth for some reason, and have no one to sit in for you, please leave a sign saying when you will return. 1 came across a booth which had a product I’ve long desired, but could pever find anyone there to sell it to me. If you need to leave your booth for some reason, and do have someone to sit in for you, make sure that person can at least answer basic questions about your product or. If noth¬ ing else, be able to tell us when you will return. 1 came across a booth that had a guy rocking back and forth on his stool who didn’t know cmything about anything and was only play¬ ing the role of warm body. ^ Do not let one person monopolize so much of your time that others grow impatient and leave. I ceime across a booth that had a product — a very expensive one at that — for my sailboat I’ve been unable to find amywhere else, yet the ex¬ hibitor sperit over 15 minutes tedking general chitchat about sailing with someone else. If you are unable to talk to them, at least acknowledge someone standing at your booth so we know that you know we are here. The exhibitor in the above-mentioned booth never even acknowledged my presence. Since he Just kept talking, 1 eventually gave up and left. 1 enjoyed Sail Expo and will attend next year, but it was really frustrating to attend and be ready to spend money — yet not be able to find, or get the attention of, people selling the products. ‘ Christian Asnieres Kiana-chan San Francisco Christian — On behalf of all the exhibitors, thank you for the constructive criticism. We shopped the show as a 'civilian' and know what you're talking about. On the other hand, show visitors should recognize that manning a boat show booth is a very demanding and draining experience. As such, we highly recommend that you and other serious folks try to attend on one of the weekdays, when ex¬ hibitors are more fresh and have much more time to spend with each visitor. As exhibitors at the show, we had two big complaints: 1) Everyone needed hipwaders for walking around in the tents, and 2) The poster for Sail Expo was the worst ever.

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My ex and I purchased a used 10-ft Porta-Bote in about 1976 as a dinghy for our 23-ft twin-keeled, English Westerly sloop Babe. It was an earlier double-ended model constructed of black polypropylene, so we named it Black Bart. 1 could tell many stories aboi^ having fun with it, such as rafting down one of Northern California's shallow rivers, and riding it for fun in the surf in front of the Santa Cruz boardwalk — but will tiy to stick to our using it as a dinghy. Its first years were as a tender on Babe while we explored San Francisco Bay and the Delta. It lived folded up and stowed on the cabin-top. Setting it up required lowering the lifelines on both sides of the cockpit, swinging Bart across the cockpit coamings, spreading the hull apart, and inserting first the center seat and four lock-pins, then the bow and stem seats. Since' the boat was double-ended, the only thing that defined the bow was the painter. We would then briskly slide it over the side without shipping mu.ch over the stem in the pro¬ cess. Rowing it with up to three was very easy, as it only draws a couple of inches. It rode easily over waves ■— even whitecaps — and was tough as nails against abrasion while beaching. For that matter, we became unconcerned about dragging it across any size rocks, gravel, and sand, no matter how encmsted or sharp. The polypropylene has never showed any signs of harm. We had Bart along for a summer of saiiling Puget Sound, down the coast ofWashington, and up the Columbia River. A couple of years later, we shipped it, along with Babe, to Texas v, for a 2.5-year cmise around the Gulf Coast, up the East Coast via the Intercoastal Waterway, coastal harbor-hopping to Maine, back down to Florida for the winter, and up the East Coast again for a turn at New York City, and up the New York Barge Canal system. Bmce Bingham spotted Bart, so it's men¬ tioned with a couple of photos in his The Complete Live-Aboard Book. We lived aboard, sometimes at anchor, and commuted in Bart to our Jobs ashore. Bart handled it all without fail. We did learn some shortcomings — such as getting flipped in a squall in the Florida Keys. 1 had removed the slight flota¬ tion — stjTofoam glued under the seats —^_so the seats would fit flat when stowed below, so we just hauled the flooded Bart up by the pEiinter. Towing is best left to fairly protected wa¬ ters. 1 tried a very small outboard, clamped to an aft gun¬ wale, but gave it up because of the hassle of having the out¬ board, the gasoline, the smell emd spare parts. It was far more rewarding rowing. Besides, if you're in such a hurry, why are you on a sailboat? Although 1 have reservations. I'm currently looking for a Fatty Knees fiberglass sailing dinghy, but 1 still have Black Bart.

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LETTERS Porta-Botes as tenders for cruising boats, as that's what we bought when we joined the Ha-Ha on our way home to New Zealand. We bought ours used in California, where she'd been well-used but also well-loved. We named her Jandal — we PCiwis wear 'gumboots' in the rain and jandals in the sun. For us, the Porta-Bote tutjied outdo be just the thing we were looking for, as we didn’t want to have the hassles of the whole motor and fuel thing. As such, our dinghy had to be rowable, and we also wanted minimal windage on the deck. I’d buy another Porta-Bote tomorrow for those reasons — but 1 must say the picture you had of the sailing version looked way more fun! We certainly put Jandal through some testing times. As early as La Paz we learned not to tow her when it looked like the wind would get up. If we sailed any faster than 6.5 knots, she'd fill with water and do her drogue imitation. Porta-Botes are unsinkable, you just have to bale them from the outside until there’s enough freeboard to get in. It's trickier than it sounds. We drilled holes in ours and rigged up a line so that we could use the halyard to hoist her onto the foredeck beforeMisassembling. Looking back, the biggest problem was getting her in the water. We had to get her high enough to go over the lifelines, then push her out as the halyard dropped. Wham! After 18 months of doing that, we managed to lose most of the pins holding the seats in place — but that was the only damage she showed. I think you could safely say that the Porta-Botes are indestructible, as ours barely had any scratches after be¬ ing dragged over many sharp beaches and coral reefs. Porta^' Botes are great to row, can carry a lot of weight, and as a special bonus, nobody seems to want to steed them! While in Mexico and Central America, our hard tender was the odd one out among all the inflatables. It wasn't until Panama — when therevwere boats from a number of different countries

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— that hard dinghies became more common. We can’t verify if Porta-Botes cem plane under power, be¬ cause we didn't have an outboard. As surfers, we know it would have been an advantage to have had a tender with a motor. Our solution was to use Gumboot to get to surf spots instead. We'd anchor just outside the break and leave some¬ one on board to ring the bell for the outside sets. When it got late, we'd head back to calmer spots for the night. There are safety issues about not having a motor strong enough to take a kedging anchor out into headwinds when needed, but we figured plenty of people do cope without them, and we were lucky enough to do without also. As for .the fate of our Jandal. the last time I saw her was at the top of a huge cresting wave in the middle of the Cook Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. We got caught in nasty weather on the way home, and the high confused seas resulting from a 50-knot norther becom¬ ing a 50-knot southerly in the space of five minutes. Some-

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how the sea just tore our Porta-Bo’te off the foredeck, and there was no way we had any chance of retrieving her. It's five yeeirs later now, and we still have the seat. So if anyone sees Jandal floating around out there, please send her back. Regarding the letter from Rick Berne in March about the twin-keeled boat^, I totally agree with Latitude’s response on the advantages and disadvantages of bilge-keelers. In 1980, Bob and his brother Jeff each had smaller versions of the Westerly, which was the 18-ft Alacrity. After trailering them to San Felipe, Baja, they singlehanded them down the Sea of Cortez to the main¬ land. The two singlehanded the 18footers to Puerto Escondido, the surf spot south of Acapulco. That's where I joined on with Bob for what turned out to be life. Besides the fact that she only cost $1,500, Bob had chosen Delfina for 2 ID her shallow draft. cr o She was indeed great CO O CO to take exploring up Q z rivers and running < UJ up on the beach z when we wanted to UJ clean her bottom — The 18-ft Alacrity breezin' along._ qj. even to just have a potluck op the shore without all the carting of things. We later sailed down to Costa Rica on her, and it's a good thing the trip is generally downwind, because I can clearly remem¬ ber the odd occasion when we’d be spending hours and hours trying to beat around a point, all the while dreaming of hav¬ ing another boat that could sail faster — and more impor¬ tantly point higher! She was a wonderful boat though, and we doubled Bob's money when we sold her in Costa Rica. We sure didn't want to SEiil a boat like that 3,000 miles upwind, but it was sad to leave her behind. By the way, we had a Sport-Yak for a tender then — whatever happened to those tough little ugly things? Thanks for the fantastic reading. We enjoy Latitude cover to cover each month, and often see mention of old sailing friends who are still out there. We’ll be back out again our¬ selves, we've just got to raise the kids and a few more tons of fruit from our orchard first. Jennie and Bob Crum Ex-Gumboot, CF 37 Renwick, New Zealand IT^busted for not being able to sail backwards?

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Sedling in races must be different than regular sailing. There's the skipper, who is usually in charge of the safe op¬ eration of the boat. Sometimes there's a navigator, who actuadly doesn’t sail, but schemes and plots against the other boats. Then there are the trimmers, and other specialized crew such as the foredeck guy, who only works on the for¬ ward part of the boat. Lastly, there is the rail meat, who only provide weight to keep the boat from heeling. Sometimes there are other crew who do even less. Normally during a race there is no talking except about the race. There is no eating, and quite often no drinking — except water — until the races are

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are large Latino and Asian populations in Northern California, but they don’t sail much either. Economics is one big reason, of course, but that wouldn't explain the lack of Asian participa¬ tion. Somebody should do a study on which ethnic gr oups are inclined toward sailing and why, and why other ethnic groups aren't. On the gobd news front, there are currently lots of pro¬ grams to at least expose non-white youths to sailing. When we got into sailing in the early '70s, people who took care of boats were called 'B.N.s'. Despite the fact that a lot of rich white boys proudly referred to themselves as "the B.N. on Wild Wonder" or whatever, political correctness soon put an end to that. But nobody really knew what to call them. We think it was Chuck Hawley of West Marine — who had previ¬ ously been the 'B.N.' on Swiftsure and Charley -— who came up With and promoted B.M.W. for 'boat maintenance workef. That was clever, and we used it in Latitude quite a bit, but it never really caught on. In fact, nothing has. SOME BUILDERS GOT IN AND OTHERS DIDN'T

1 read your April 18 'Lectronic Latitude review on Ferene Mate's new book. The World's Best Sailboats, Volume II. You wondered why some boats were included and others weren't. Some years ago 1 spoke with one of the builders whose boats were included in Mate's The World’s Best Sailboats, Volume I. This builder — well-known for his candor — chuckled that he got included, first, because, he does build a terrific yacht, but equally important, because he ponied up $10,000 to help with production costs! That juight explain why some builders didn't get in! P.S. We stinkpotters read your rag as well. Jay Hall M/Y Rigel \ ttONOT AMONG THE 'WORLD’S GREATEST SAILBOATS'

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it won't look great on salon tables." Your review raised three veiy valid questions, which I hope to answer. One. The likes of Huisman and A&R, obviously two of the veiy, very best in the world, were left out because — zmd I should have said so in the introduction as 1 did in Volume 1 — that I was covering only production — or at the most, semicustam — fiberglass sailboats. I am, in fact, in the depths of researching the custom builders for a new volume which will, for obvious reasons, be more technically oriented. With the new volume there will be endless discus¬ sion 1— by both de¬ signers and builders — on the merits and demerits ok cold-molded wood, aluminum and of course fiber-com¬ posites. Two. As to why 1 included PDQ as the only m u 1 t i h u 1 1 builder, the an¬ swer is that many of the m u 11 i h u 11 people 1 talked to al¬ ways in¬ cluded them in the quest for simplic¬ ity, quality and value. The other builder’s boats were simply too large and too charter-oriented for my criteria, which tries to lean — though it obviously often fails — toward family cruis¬ ing. Three. What makes me an authority on sailboat design and construction? 1 can only say that possibly the same thing that makes most critics and reviewers in any field — such as Robert Parker on wine, or in the golden days Pauleen Kael of the New Yorker on cinema — a passion for and dedication to what they write about. As you might have gathered from the other five books on sailboats I have written, I have spent a lifetime finishing out, and then sailing and researching sail¬ boats — most often by personally interviewing builders and designers. My emphasis has always been on simplicity, reli¬ ability and quality, with an unavoidable influence of my per¬ sonal aesthetics. Whilfe I clearly have not sailed all of the nearly 100 boats mentioned in this volume — a daysail in most of¬ ten undemanding vdnds 1 have always found a rather super¬ ficial exercise 1 have certainly sailed a good many, and more importantly, crawled through almost all of them in vari¬ ous phases of construction, which allows me to comment on

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LETTERS their often-invisible quality firsthand. My publicist also tells me that two of your readers wrote to you to claim that some boat manufacturers told them they could have been included in my books by pa5dng $10,000. The payment' by the builders was for 3,000 bound, covered, and laminated CB^ies of their chapters, along with boxes of copies of the book and use of the color separations — over $50,000 and counting — for their future promotions. A veiy minor portion went to offset the $30,000 in travel expenses to all the factories. Of course, I could have included other worthy builders, except some — such as Santa Cruz Yachts — were shifting to power boats. One fine southern builder — certainly of the most solid boats — did not like what 1 wrote about him, so in the last minute refused use of his photo¬ graphs, leaving us no choice but exclude his company. Sadly though, a handful of builders are simply being destroyed by this economy with little chance of survival. Again, many thanks for your comments; and please do send along the names of any builders you feel worthy for the nexf'volume: believe me 1 can always use a helping hand. Ferenc Mate Tuscany, Italy Readers —As we said in our original review, we think that many sailors will erxjoy Mate's latest book. Nonetheless, we are still bothered by the title. If someone is going to claim some¬ thing is the best in the world, we think it's incumbent upon them to carefully spell out the criteria for the selections — a^ well 0,5 any limiting conditions, such as having to pony up a big chunk of cash. After all, it's important not to confuse edito¬ rial with advertorial.

ItJiBIGGER IS BETTER WHEN IT COMES TO PIXELS Aside from the overt plug in the May issue for Latitude readers to buy Fuji digital cameras, 1 felt the rundown of the benefits of purchasing these little marvels to be good. The application of the digital format to cameras has brought about a fundamental change in how people take and share photo¬ graphs. In fact, 1 have not picked up my professional grade 35mm SLR since purchasing my Olympus C3000 more than three years ago. Bigger is better when it comes to pixels because most ama¬ teurs have a nasty habit of standing too far away from what they’re shooting at. A four- or live-megapixel camera will bet¬ ter allow users to crop into the portion of the image they want, without blowing out the image quality. It’s also a benefit to fine publications such as Latitude, as they can better modify submitted photos. Smaller is better when it comes to the F-stop. C8uneras with a low F-stop — i.e. less than 2 — tend to be equipped with glass optics, and therefore take better quality pictures than those with plastic lenses, which tend to have higher F"stops and — to my eye — produce grainy photos. You’re right that the larger the memory card, the better. However, when 1 purchase my next digital camera — prob¬ ably another Oljntnpus — it will have Compact Flash, which has far greater capacity than the limited Smeirt Media cards 1 now suffer with. The type of batteries might be nit-picky, but 1 find it a plus that 1 can go to nearly any store for a reload of fresh AA bat¬ teries. rather than be stuck with the proprietary and expen¬ sive lithium batteries which many cameras come with. Finally, we’re boaters, so our cameras risk getting wet. If you feel the risk is high, consider buying a camera that can fit into a waterproof case — one that will let you use all the

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Latitude. tIUl'M A DIESEL, START ME UP In response to the Top Ten Tips For Diesels in the April edition, I would like to add a comment, hoping to peiiaaps help some sailors in the future. I have been in the electronic Industiy for more than 50 years, ana have worked on automotive and boat electrical systems. 1 want to talk about troubleshooting bad starters and solenoids. If you have a starter motor that will not turn over, the bek test is with a voltmeter. If you measure 12 volts, the starter is bad. Most likely it will be good, and you'll see no or just a little movement on the voltage scale. (It's best not to use a digital voltmeter, although they will work all right. Be sure you find a good, solid ground connection for the nega¬ tive meter lead before measuring.) If the starter is not bad, then you have to work backwards to the starter solenoid and repeat the measurement at the input and output of the solenoid. Some starters have the so¬ lenoid mounted on the starter, and have to be opened to test. When you attempt to start the engine, you may hear the sole¬ noid 'click, which might help you'locate it. If the solenoid is bad, you can start the engine by jumping the starter with a^ jumper cable — # 6 or laiger — but there will be lots of sparks

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ItJiMULTIHULLS MAGAZINE While 1 have occasionally disagreed with Latitude's poli¬ tics, my hat is off to you for putting together a d2imn fine magazine. Your content is diverse and well-written. The cover price up here in Oregon — while not free like the wind — is still well worth the money. Your ‘Lectronic addition is con¬ cise, colorful, cmd always eagerly anticipated. This letter was prompted by your comments regarding the content of Multihulls magazine. 1 never saw the 9.5-page-dis¬ sertation on assembling the Windrider 17. That’s simply be¬ cause 1 allowed my subscription of Multihulls Magazine to lapse due to my frustration with Charles Chiodi and his lapdog editorial staff. The first issue of Multthulls that arrived at my door was a disappointment. The 'editorial' written in the Review of Sept/ Oct 2001 was an argument for the cover price increase. Ev-^ eiy issue for the next year seemed to contain at least two

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LETTERS So, the real point of my email is: How can I buy a boat in California without having to pay sales tax? 1 need to know because the Oakland boat looks cheaper — except if I have to pay sales tax. On the other hand, it looks like the Florida boat would be more simple and more believable to California tax authorities. I’ve read some of what you have written concerning 'off¬ shore deliveries' and not being liable for California sales tax. But when 1 read it. I wasn’t planning on buying a boat, and thus my memoiy of the technique is somewhat sketchy. Dick Boden Calamity, Cal T/2 Puerto Vallarta / Chula Vista Dick—As long as you do it correctly, you should be able to buy the boat in Florida, or buy the one in Oakland through 'offshore delivery', and not owe sales tax in either case. But if you do the latter, you must do it very carefully. We don't claim to be experts, but here's how the 'offshore delivery' works in California. Once outside the state's waters, you swap payment jor the boat for the title, then you head down to Mexico. As long as you actively cruise — a gray con¬ cept — in Mexico, you can return the boat to the U.S. 91 days later and not owe sales tax. This has given rise to the socalled '90-Day Yacht Club' in Ensenada. We're not as clear on another option, but if we understand correctly, you can buy the boat in California, but as long as you actively cruise it outside of the state for 51% of the next six months, you'll agatg. not be liable for sales tax. There are some key details you have to get right or you'll be liable for tax, so you should check with the State Board of Equalization — which is very helpful — or a tax specialist. As you probably know, the state of California went on an incredible spending binge during the dotcom insanity, so now its $35 billion in the hole. As you can imagine, they are now searching every where for money to get out of that hole. As a result, legislation has been introduced that would make it much harder to avoid paying sales tax. For example, anybody who lives in California who bought a boat would be assumed to owe tax on it, and things like offshore deliveries would require six months, not fust three, outside of the state.

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ttliOFFSHORE COMMUNICATIONS Every time I pick up a Southern California sailing rag, some technofile is espousing an opinion about offshore com¬ munication systems. I just returned from Operation Iraqi Free¬ dom aboard the USNS Guadalupe, and have a few thoughts on the subject based on my experience — thoughts that don't necessarily coincide with the opinions of self-proclaimed ex¬ perts. While there is no substitute for amateur (Ham) radio, SSB, and VHF, there are several ideal ways — finances permitting — for the average Joe Blow to stay well connected with friends and family. For years now, I’ve been carrying a Motorola T900 email pager. The device costs about $100, while service is $20/month from www.weblinkwireless.com. Before deploy¬ ing on the 'Persian Excursion', I gave the device to my girl¬ friend and gave her a crash course on reading and sending messages. Based on how well that system worked, my Magellan GSClOO (www.mysatmail.com], with charging brick, 12-volt charging cord, and a spare Ni-Cad battery, went into the sea. Facta, no verba — deeds, not words. Alan Spears, RET2 USN/MSC Master of Inspected Vessels lOOGT AB Unlimited Alan — Thanks for the info. But we're a little confused. According to their website, "WebLink Wireless provides the most extensive, reliable and affordable wireless messaging cover¬ age available in the market today. Our traditional paging net¬ work coverage extends from Anchorage, Alaska to Bogota, Colombia and includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cen¬ tral America, South America and The Caribbean. Our advanced messaging network is the largest 2-way, terrestrial-based wire¬ less data network of any kind. Today, the advanced messag¬ ing network covers the United States, Canada and Mexico.'^ Based on this, we can only assume that your ship in the Middle

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tttiUNHAPPY WITH THE ENSENADA RACE MANAGEMENT I aim the proud owner of Pasado Manana, Newporter 40 i hull #18 that was built in 1957. We just completed our sec¬ ond Newport to Ensenada Race, finishing sixth in class. Wan¬ derer, Newporter 40 #18, also entered and finished. 1 had two questions I put to the race committee in Ensenada after the race, but was basically told to get lost. First, 1 won¬ der what happened to the 'permanent trophy' that had been provided by Stowman Shipbuilders, the East Coast builders of the Newporter 40, to be presented to the fastest Newporter 40 in the Newport to Ensenada Race. Second, why is it that last year the overall winner for fastest corrected time was Samarang, Ernie Minney’s schooner that competed in the Ancient Mariner class, but this year the actual fastest cor¬ rected time was by a boat in the non-spinnaker cmiser class. I was told that the fastest corrected time category only ap¬ plied to PHRF classes. 1 would like to remind the NCSA race committee that: 1) If you’re going to change the rules to benefit the sponsors, try not^to do it after the race. 2) Over half of the entries in the Newport to Ensenada Race every year are in the cruiser cat¬ egories. We support the race, we support the sponsors, and we are the public that buys the goods from your sponsors. And according to my entry form I am now a member of NOSA. Wake up guys, talk to your fellow sailors with respect, and remember where the money really comes from! Rocky Shelton Pasado Mahdna, Newporter 40 Wilmington |

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could not find one that offsets a clear statement in Annex 1 pertaining to powerboats: The sidelights will be at least one meter below the masthead light (steaming light — the Rules define a masthead light as shining 225 degrees forward ver¬ sus an all-around light) meaning this would not be a legal configuration b^ause the sidelights would be above the steaming light. An excellent suggestion I picked up from a builder of elec¬ trical panels for work boats is to wire everything — including the anchor light — to a rotary switch that is intuitively la¬ beled — under power; under sail; anchored: not under com¬ mand: towing, etc. That way you can only have one option on at any given time. Peter Pisciotta SeaSkills Personal School of Seamanship ♦

DUmasthead tricolor plus steaming light? As Latitude's record for 'getting it right' is outstanding, it's kinda fun to catch you getting it wrong. A case in point is youi; answer to Eric in the May 2003 issue regarding showing a steaming light simultaneously with a masthead tricolor. You wrote, 'There's nothing wrong with having a masthead tri¬ color on at the same time as a steaming light." Ironically, the previous letter addressed having a copy of the COLREGS (Rules of the Road) onboard, and it is COLREGS that show the Latitude response to be incorrect. And, as lights indicate the right-of-way pecking order, tlie advice could possibly re¬ sult in dangerous confusion. First, look to Part C, Rule 20, paragraph (b) (both Interna¬ tional and Inland), which states in part, "such lights as can¬ not be mistaken for the lights specified in these Rules." Then look to C, 25, (b) "a sailing vessel of less than 20 meters (65,) the lights r^ay be combined in one lantern (tricolor) carried near or at the top of the mast..." There is no similar provision for "power-driven vessels." And, since once the engine and transmission are engaged, the sailboat is in fact now a "power driven vessel." So, a tricolor is not appropriate while under power. Further, when viewed from the port bow, this combination would appear as "red over white" and could be mistaken for a "vessel fishing." From the starboard bow, it would appear as "green over white," a "vessel trawling." So, there is no time that the steaming light and tricolor should be shown together. Nor should a tricolor be shown with deck level red/green side lights, as from the port bow this would show as "red over red" and could be mistaken for a "vessel not under command." Thanks for letting me vent on my pet peeve. While sailing in the 2000 Ha-Ha, I believed about half the boats were lit wrong. Now, having recently received my 50-Ton Master's li¬ cense. I'm quite sure. Otherwise, keep up the good work, I love the rag., P.S. A portable dingy-type all-around white light ducttaped to the mast would serve pretty well as backup steam¬ ing light. Mark Sciarretta Consigliare, Beneteau First 41s5 San Diego Mark — As you and Peter pointed out, we were as wrong as wrong could be. Our apologies to everyone. Our excuse? We've been victims of something akin to the 'big lie'. Having seen so many sailors showing th/eir masthead tricolor at the same time as their steaming light, over time we came to as¬ sume it was legal.

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Old dog, new tricks. I first published The Baja Boater’s Guide in 1988 after several cruises to Baja in my Cal 2-46 ketch. Back then, the Global Positioning System (GPS) was still a gleam in the eyes of the U.S. Defense Department. My navigation was by dead reckoning, enhanced in time by knowledge gained from trips to Baja by land, and an extensive collection of maps and aerial photos gathered to produce my two-volume guidebook. ' My current plan calls for my Baja guidebooks, (also in¬ cluding the land-oriented The Magnificent Peninsula) to be taken over by my daughter Barbara. But Barb convinced me that her 'old dog' father needed to learn some new tricks in pi^paring the book’s next editions. So to incorporate GPS tech¬ nology into our guides, 1 bought a Garmin GPSMAP 176C portable chartplotter, knowing full well that the damn thing would be a waste of money. The following is a report on this old dog's new tricks. Does GPS work? And does it work in Bcya? — Well, as the rest of the young dog world already knows, GPS works. If you don’t know how, check out Garrhin’s Internet site for details. In Baja we were consistently receiving signals from six to nijne of the Defense Department’s GPS network of 24 satellites (it takes only three to get an accurate reading). The degree of accuracy displayed on our chartplotter was usually 20 feet or less with a DOP (dilution of precision) of under 1.5. We took readings from the International border all the way south to the peninsula’s southern tip, in big cities and on isolated beaches. Yes, it works in Baja. But what about those obsolete charts available for Baja Waters? Navigation charts in Bcija — GPS latitude and longitude readings are of little use to the mariner if the indicated posi- ‘ tion cannot be determined on accurate charts or maps. Un¬ fortunately, it is well known that most of the U.S. govern¬ ment charts for both coasts of the Baja peninsula were made in the last decades of the 19th century and that their depic¬ tion of the coastline is inaccurate in many locations. Our read¬ ings confirm this latter conclusion. The Garmin charts which can be displayed on our instru¬ ment are apparently made from these same U.S. government charts and incorporate their inaccuracies. We made waypoints of our coastal readings that show up as a mark on the chartplotter screen. The bearing and distance from these "ac¬ tual GPS locations" and the corresponding location on the chartplotter chart can be easily determined. For example, we would stand at the base of a navigation light, take our read¬ ing, and compare its on-screen waypoint position to the loca¬ tion shown for this same light on the chartplotter charts. So how far off are they? — The largest error we recorded was 2.2 miles but 1 am convinced that there is a chartplotter mistake involved here. Most of our readings were less than one mile from the position shown by the U.S. charts. For example: (1) Along the Sea of Cortez coast from Santa Rosalia south for some 110 nautical miles, the coast is depicted from 0.3 to 1.8 miles southeast of its actual location. Thus, when you stand on the shore, your GPS waypoints consistently show well offshore on the chartplotter. (2) At the tip of the Baja peninsula a similar condition exists, and if one drives along the coastal highway the track left on a chartplotter screen shows offshore to the south. (3) The good news occurs in the

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LOOSE LIPS La Paz area. Here the chart used in the chartplotter was made to modern standards in 1984 and its depictions were within a few feet of our GPS waypoints. It was these amazing accu¬ racies that convinced me that the GPS system really works. I was dumfounded that the puny little instrument in my hands could be so ac^rate. Recommendations — It is our plan to take my ketch back to La Paz and base her there for several years in order to take hundreds more GPS readings in the Sea of Gortez. But if you will keep in mind that I have not yet used GPS navigation at sea, here are my recommendations. 1) Absolutely acquire a GPS instrument for cruising in Baja waters. We needed a portable device for our guidebook work and our instrument's price of about $750 including the chartplotter charts fit my budget. Larger instruments require more power and get nailed down inside your vessel. 2) Acquire a device that incorporates a map screen, a chartplotter. I believe our modest 2.5 x 3.0 inch screen will bq^large enough for actual navigation at sea. The navigational tricks that can be performed with the chartplotter are amaz¬ ing to this old dog. 1 have spent days at sea not knowing where I was within 50 miles. Now I will know within 50 feet. I suggest that smaller GPS instruments will not provide ad¬ equate chartplotter capability and RAM memory even though they may be sufficient to obtain accurate lat/long readings. I am recommending that it is thd GPS location reading com¬ bined with an on-screen chart capability that is the real valjae of the GPS system. Don't settle for less. In recommending a chartplotter. I’m saying that the anti¬ quated charts it depicts are extremely helpful in spite of the inaccuracies noted above. In most places, you can’t use a GPS reading and the chartplotter charts to make an exact landfall, bon’t take a lat/long reading from the chartplotter and try to travel to that location. You’ll probably end up on the rocks. But, you can readily determine your approximate location from a chartplotter and then move closer to shore with visual or radar contact. Our chartplotter has zoom-in zoom-out capability. When viewing our waypoint marks with what the chartplotter depicts at very large scales, one is dis¬ couraged at the amount of error. But upon zooming-out to smaller scales the error becomes insignificant and it becomes clear where one is located. This is not sufficient for precision bombing from a B-52, but that is not what we are about. Acquire some additional navigational guidance — Well, you knew this was coming. I admitted up front to being a guide¬ book writer. But the simple facts are these. The U.S. charts are inaccurate, and in most places are of very small scale. They do not show scores of bays, prominent points of land, sizeable communities and other cultural features. The U.S. charts fail to show many navigational lights and depict oth¬ ers in the wrong locations. Some 10 years ago I offered my services to the U.S. government to correct their charts at no cost and was rudely rebuffed. My chartplotter contains some, but not all of these same shortcomings. Gerry Cunningham has much-improved marine charts on the market for Baja. My guidebooks offer hundreds of aerial photos, large-scale charts and much other information. Fu¬ ture editions will contain the GPS locations of hundreds of places depicted in the book’s aerial photos and charts. There are also other Baja guides. If you don't like mine, acquire something else. But by all means get something other than the U.S. government charts or their chartplotter renditions before cruising to Baja. You won’t be sorry. Best regards from the old dog. ’ —Jack williams

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SIGHTINGS the baja ha-ha may prove fatal to loneliness As proof, we bring you the case of Beth Lemke, of the Bay Area, and Mike Foley of Cary, North Carolina, They met as a result of crewing together on Keith MacKenzie’s Crowther 48 What’s Up Doc? during the 2002 Ha-Ha. We always warn folks that adventure is the greatest aph¬ rodisiac, so we weren't surprised that Beth and Mike, at the very least, "fell in lust” between San Diego and Cabo San Lucas. Neither were willing to call it 'love’ because they'd been together for such a short time and because Beth was coming off a nine-year marriage. But they were comfortable enough to pose for the Ha-Ha's annual 'From Here To Eternity' kiss (below), where a couple smooches for the camera while little waves splash over their bodies — a la Burt Lancaster and Deborah continued on outside coiumn of next sightings page

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summer sailstice Summer Seulstice, the international sailing holiday for sailors held on June 21, is on the launching pad once again. Now in its third running, this 'new' holi¬ day is exploding in popularity in sailing venues all over the globe. And this year, as they say, it's going to be bigger and better than ever. The goal and purpose of Summer Sailstice is simple — get as many people out sailing as possible on the Solstice, the longest day of the year and the official be-

SIGHTINGS third time’s a charm

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ginning of summer.

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Launched in 2001, the event has en¬ joyed growing support from sailors and sailing businesses. The latter get involved by offering prizes to sailors, and dona¬ tions to worthy causes. All you have to do to take part in the Sailstice is to go sailing. Enjoy the wind, water, and whatever friends or family you invite along and, well, mission accom¬ plished. If you want to be more Involved,

It s been about seven months since that salty smooching, but Beth and Mike are stlU getting along — despite/because they live 3,000 miles apart. "We see each other about twice a month," says Beth. "I know that the relationship has some rebound elements, so were taking things sloooooow, and the dis¬ tance helps. Nonethe¬ less, I give kudos to the Ha-Ha hospitality for cre¬ ating a fun and comfort¬ able atmosphere condu¬ cive to falling head over heels in. . . whatever." Whether you're head over heels in love with ocean sailing, looking for lust, or even looking for love, here's the deal on this year's event. The 10th Armual Ha-Ha will start on October 28 from San Diego and finish about 750 miles down the coast at Cabo San Lucas — with stops at Turtle Bay and spectacuThe Beneteau First ‘Vita 6 Bella’ looking pretty lar Bahia Santa Maria. on the second leg of th^ 2002 Baja Ha-Ha.

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While the first boats will arrive in Cabo on Thursday, November 6, the beach party and awards ceremony keep things going right through the evening of Saturday, November 8. So if you're already in love with some¬ body who can't m^e the Ha-Ha, they can fly down on Thursday for a four-day tropical vacation of lust fulfillment — being separated is an¬ other exceptional aphrodisiac — love, and other Ha-Ha activities. It shouldn't be a hard program to sell to your significant other, as it's usually wonderfully warm in tropical Cabo at that time of year while it's wet and cold in California. Just so everyone is clear on the concept, the Ha-Ha is about down¬ wind ocean sailing in normally light air, having fun with new friends at the stops, and appreciating nature both-at sea and ashore. Everybody who finishes is a wirmer. The Aa-Ha has never been about white-knuckle racing or sailing in zephyrs. So, although those who stick with sailing when it gets challenging are revered, entries can use their engines any¬ time they want. The Ha-Ha is not and never has been about hard drink¬ ing and acting stupid. Getting a little wild and crazy is just fine — at Squid Roe in Cabo, where they have appropriate adult supervision. The Ha-Ha is open to boats 27 feet or longer that were designed, built, and have been maintained for offshore ocean sailing. Each boat must have at least two crew with overnight offshore sailing and navi¬ gation experience. While there may be an added (degree of safety in a group rally, participation in the Ha-Ha is limited to those skippers and crews who would have been sailing-to Cabo anyway. The Ha-Ha is not an offshore hand-holding service, although each morning the Grand Poobah will relay a professional weather report and conduct a roll call. Although everyone sailing in the Ha-Ha potentially exposes themselves to the full wrath of the Pacific Ocean, and injury or death are certainly possible, the sailing conditions have historically been relatively benign. One of the best things about the Ha-Ha is that the weather gets pro¬ gressively better and warmer. For instance, it's cool when you leave San Diego, mild at Turtle Bay, warm to hot at Bahia Santa Maria, and cookin' in Cabo. continued on outside column of next sightings page

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ha-ha — cont’d There are financial incentives to entering the Ha-Ha. First, entries get all kinds of swag — T-shirts, hats, navigator's refreshment bottle, tote bags, food and beer, and other stuff. And there are usually dis¬ counts on products and services — often including berthing on the way to the start in San Diego. And based on past experience, priority on getting a berth in the often jam-packed Cabo Isle Marina In Cabo is based on the order in which boats sign up for the Ha-Ha. So the earlier you sign up, the better. Enhy packs will be mailed on approximately June 7. Interested in what we believe is the second largest long distance cruising rally in the world? To get your entry pack, send a check for $15 made out to Baja Ha-Ha, Inc., along with a self-addressed 9x12 envelope with $3 worth of stamps on it, to Baja Ha-Ha, Inc., 21 Apollo Road, Tiburon, CA 94920. Regular mail only, please — no certified or ‘signature required’ letters. The Ha-Ha folks have no telephone, so dpn't try to call. The entiy fee for the Ha-Ha is $249, with a discount price of $199 for boats under 35 feet and owners under 35 years of age. For continued on outside column of next sightings page

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log onto the event's website at www. summersailstice.com and check out your options. If you choose to do so, each per¬ son who registers is eligible to win some nifty prizes. The site also has provisions for people to find crew, a boat to crew on, announce their individual participation, or offer to host a gathering or raft up. Prizes this year range from a Hunter Liberty sailing dinghy, to a $500 shop¬ ping spree at 'West Marine, to clothing, equipment, boat rides, fine wines and much more. The growing list of official supporters of Sailstice this year include: Hunter Ma¬ rine, Gill, West Marine, SAIL magazine. North Sails, Yachting World, Harken, Dubarry, UK Sails, DeWitt Galleries, 48

SIGHTINGS North, Titan, Galleymate Stove, Boatblender, Ronstan, Ocean Navigator, Dry Creek Winery, Sailing Magazine, ASA, US Sailing, Spin Sheet, the Chapin Company, Doyle Sails, OCSC Sailing, the Sailing Company, Good Old Boat and — oh yeah — those rascals over at Latitude 38. Also new this year. Summer Sailstice has formed an affiliation with Seacology [www.seacology.org), a global non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of island ecosystems and cultures. Seacology will receive $ 1 for every sailor who registers for Summer Sailstice, sup¬ ported by donations from West Marine, private individuals, Summer Sailstice and Seacology board members. continued middle of next sightings page

ha-ha — cont’d what it's worth, nobody has ever complained tliat it wasn't a good deal. For the seventh year in a row, Latitude's 63-ft catamaran Profligate will serve as the mothership. For the ninth year, the Wanderer will serve as the volunteer Crand Poobah. He'll be making a Ha-Ha presen¬ tation on August 14 at the Corinthian YC in Tiburon as part of their Sailing Legend series, so it will be possible to preview the event there. If anyone is interested in crewing aboard Profligate on a shared-ex¬ penses basis — there are some significant expenses — there may be a couple of spots available. Contact richard@latitude38.com. Folks interested in looking to crew or for crew should be aware of Latitude's fall Mexico-Only Crew List in the August/September (forms), and October (List) issues, and Latitude's Mexico-Only and Ha-Ha KickOff and Reunion Party at the Encinal YC in Alameda on Wednesday, October 1. But if you end up falling in love, you'll have nobody to blame but yourself. The Baja Ha-Ha was founded and run by Latitude 38 for a number of years. It's now owned and operated by a separate corporation, al¬ though most of the volunteer event managers remain the same.

Springing forward (clockwise from abpve) — cattin' about off Sausalito; ‘Blue Note’ framed by the Golden Gate; a chilly but refreshing dip in Raccoon Strait; relaxing in Ayala Cove, Angdi Island; “Can’t come home now dear, I’m (ahem) on ‘Assignment’; a vintage Pearson takes wavps over the cockpit; hard aground on Angel Island, and nobody seems to care.

LATITUDE/ROB & JR

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makela’s joy When he answered the phone in his shop. Fort Bragg wooden boat builder Howard Makela thought it was a prank call. Sure, he had many calls inquiring about building new wooden boats, but never from a 71year old grandmother from San Diego. Especially someone allergic to epoxy that wanted to build a 26-ft, hard-chine pl3rwood boat. But the caller on the other side of the line was hardly a prankster, Anne Merrill was a seasoned sailor who knew what she wanted. She had sailed numerous boats since childhood, culminating with the 40ft Kettenberg sloop Fair Lady that she owned for 25 years and sailed around Mexico. But after a lifetime of sailing with her parents and years of cruising with crew, Anne felt it was time for a smaller and more simple sailboat she could handle herself, and possibly trailer to exotic locations. About five years ago, at an age when most people start to collect Social Security, Merrill went on a search for a new boat. She spon came across a Thunderbird Class sloop, a hard chine plywood sailing sloop. It was love at first sight, easy to handle, quick at the helm, light¬ weight and best of all — affordable. Anne bought a well-used example and secured a mooring in Scin Diego for her new ‘home' on the water. Tfie Thunderbird design was first commissioned in 1957 by'the Douglas Fir Plywood Association of Tacoma. The criteria was "a racing and cruising boat with accommodations for four, capable of being built by skilled amateurs, that could outperform other boats in her class.” Seattle designer Ben Seaborn had tweaked an existing design and took it to Gig Harbor boatbuilder Ed Hoppen to build. A year and sev¬ eral design changes and developments later, Thunderbird #1 was launched. The design caught on and, to date, the International Thunderbird Association claims that 1,200 T-Birds have been built worldwide. Merrill loved her boat, but realized that five years of constant sailing and mooring out in Mission Bay was taking its toll. The boat was no youngster when she bought it, and was now deteriorating faster than she could repair it. So she decided to build a new one. Ironically enough, the hardest thing was to find a builder to take on the project. Anne contacted local San Diego boat builders, but few took her in¬ quiries seriously. After all, who would want to build a new 26-ft Thunderbird sloop, when existing boats in good condition could easily be found. "Besides," Merrill pointed out, "it was too small a job for most boat builders, but too big for a cabinetmaker.” Then an ad in Latitude 38 for a wooden boatbuiler in Fort Bragg, California, caught her eye. Howard Makela was a second generation boatbuilder, raised in his father cmd uncle’s shop on the Noyo Harbor waterfront. When he was still in high school, Makela was repairing and helping to buUd wooden fishing boats in the family shop. When he struck out on his own in the mid-1980s, Howard started by building several wooden sailboats. In the last several years, between repairing wooden boats his family built in the ‘40s and ‘50s, Howard also man¬ aged to build the beautiful 42^ft Alden Malabar Schooner Legacy, which was launched in 2000. After talking to Makela, Merril knew she had found her builder. Not only would he build her dream boat, but the cost wouldn't bankrupt her. Merrill’s Thunderbird took 25 sheets of marine ply, braced with fir deck beams and stringers. A state-of-the art wood glue helps alleviate Merrill’s allergic reactions-to epoxy. The deck will be sealed with fiber¬ glass cloth and polyester (as opposed to epoxy) resin. The spars, winches, keel and many of the deck fittings from her existing Thunderbird will be used on the new boat. In the event she might want to race, Makela is adhering closely to Thunderbird Class rules and specifications. Construction stared last Februaiy, and launching is scheduled for July. The Thunderbird Association claims that a dedicated amateur can build a boat in 2,000 hours. A skilled builder like Makela will not require as much time, especially since he doesn’t have to build new spars, or a rudder or keel. continued on outside column of next sightings page

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Local Sailstice events include: * The new Blue Chip regatta, hosted by the San Francisco Yacht Club * Daysails on Hawaiian Chieftain, with part of the fare going to support tallship

Plying his trade ‘Makela’s Joy’.

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SIGHTINGS scholarships. And an evening sail as part of OCSC’s Summer Sailstice party. * Automatic participation of anyone chartering aboard the local charter boats continued middle of next sightings page

makela — cont’d To acknowledge Makela’s patience and dedication to her project, Merrill decided to name her new Thunderbird Makela’s Joy. "From the beginning, Howard believed in me,” says Merrill, "and anyone who has enough guts to build my dream should get the credit." —John skoriak

JOHN SKORIAK

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groote beer — the legend lives on In 25 years of putting Latitude together, we’ve heard some stories. But few measure up to the ‘legend’ associated with the 52-ft gaff cutter Groote Beer. Built in Holland, the oversize hotter spent most of the 1980s in the Bay under then-owners Cliff and Ruth Fremstad. In addi¬ tion to her stunning and unmistakable profile, the interior of the boat was full of intricate carvings that look like they took years to complete. ’Years to complete.’ Funny you should bring that up. Sit right down and we’ll tell you a tale . . . The year was 1940. Germany invaded the formerly neutral Nether¬ lands in May. Soon after. Air Marshall Hermarm Goering, Hitler’s righthand man, shows up at the Dutch yard of Janus Kok and orders an expanded version of the local fishing hotter to be built as a private yacht. The way the stoiy goes, Kok knew that if and when he ever completed Grootd Beer (‘great bear’), that he and his workforce would likely end up in a German prison camp. So they strung the building process out through the whole war. Every time inquiries were nfade, Kok would explain that some critical piece had not arrived, or there was more work to do, or he was shorthanded and Goering needed to continued on outside column of next sightings page

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Yukon Jack, Rendezvous, Sea Raven and Bay Lady, * Club Nautique plans a Summer Sailstice raft up at Treasure Island. If you charter a boat from any of their three Bay Area locations to participate, 5% of the proceeds go to support Seacology. * Five East Bay restaurants — Skate’s in Berkeley, Kincaid’s at Jack London Square, Pasta Pelican in Alameda, Island

catnip cup — here. The third or fourth annueil Catnip Cup — the no-host overnight rally for cruis¬ ing catamarans and trimarans from San Francisco to the Vallejo Municipal Marina

SIGHTINGS — cont’d Lighthouse in Ballena Isle, and Horatio’s in San Leandro — are offering special dis¬ counts to sall-ln patrons (they all have docks) on any day of Summer Sailstice weekend. There's bound to be more as the day approaches, so check in regularly at the website {www.summersailstice.coni) and plan to 'make your mark.' Tell your friends. See you out there!

kitty, kitty, kitty and back — will be held on June 14 and 15. The objective is to have some fun sail¬ ing with similar type boats, meet multihull continued middle of next sightings page

groote beer — cont’d free a few more imprisoned workers. (Because the yard was on an is¬ land m the harbor of Huizen, Kok always had plenty of notice the Ger¬ mans were coming and hid most of his workers.) When the Germans left, yardworkers resumed building and fitting at a snail’s pace. Of course, the happy ending to this tale is that Groote Beer never was completed during the war, and Goering never got his boat. Jack Van Ommen of Gig Harbor, Washington, was as intrigued by this story as the next guy. Especially since Groote Beer spent much of the last decade in his neck of the woods. He is now one of a few who know the real story — which unfortunately has nothing to do with Hermann Goering or any other notable Nazi villain. He stumbled upon this information in 1982 in a most unusual way; He was visiting rela¬ tives in Holland and mentioned Groote Beer to an old uncle who had worked in the marine trades — and it turns out that the uncle had built and delivered Groote Beefs spars emd blocks! Thus began a sort of personal quest on Van Ommen’s part which continues to this day. Through various hometown contacts in Holland, he was able to visit the Kok yard, which at that time was still operating (it has since closed down) and even to interview Janus Kok himself. Today, Van Ommen may be perhaps the foremost authority on Groote Beer of anyone alive. As he found out, the real story has elements of the fable. The hotter yacht was ordered by a German in 1940. But Theodor Temmler wasn’t even m the military. He owned a pharmaceutical company. Neverthe¬ less, he was German enough that Kok did delay the building process. At the end of the war, the unfinished hotter was confiscated by the Dutch government as war booty. The hull was completed in 1945 and sold at auction to her first ‘true’ owner, a Mr. W. Greeve. He was the one who ordered the intricate carvings. The boat was finally launched in 1948. In 1953, she was sold to Charles Donnelly of Groton, Con¬ necticut. By every indication, Donnelly, a sales rep for a Dutch boatbuilding conglomerate, is the source of the Goering stoiy. It apparently began Just before Donnelly and boat captain Harold Gratton set off aboard Groote Beer for Florida in the early ‘50s. “Hitler’s prime butcher-inthe-ciir made visit after visit to Amsterdam to discuss details of his yacht’s design and plan her elaborate series of hand-carved details,’’ read part of an article about the boat in Esquire magazine. Judging from reports in East Coast newspapers that year, it seems that the farther south Groote Beer got, the better the story got. One paper recounted how the teak for the carvings had been hidden as pilings at the yard’s docks. Another detailed how Goering had sent a special Panzer unit into North Africa just to secure the oak used in the boat. Another told how, because of the copper shortage in Holland, . Goering had confiscated miles of Dutch telephone wires and had them rendered down for boat parts. Still another attributed strange symbols In the wood carvings to Cancer, Goering’s astrological sign. By the time Groote Beer tied up in Florida, the Nazis had executed half of Kok’s workers as reprisal for the delays: Donnelly and Gratton y were showing off the ‘secret compartment’ alpoard where Goering kept his pearl-handled pistols — and Donnelly himself had been ‘promoted’ from a mere representative to the owner of six Dutch shipyards! Donnelly is long gone and acquaintances of his were reluctant to talk about why he might have fabricated this tale, ^an Ommen feels it was probably to help sell the boat. Qonnelly finally found a buyer in Southern Californian Robert Johnson, who brought her through the Canal to the West Coast and even sailed her as an unofficial partici¬ pant in the ‘57 TransPac. Johnson went on to gain fame as the owner/ skipper of two legitimate sailing legends, Ticonderoga and Windward Passage. Groote Beer went on to a series of new owners and adventures, in¬ cluding being given as wedding present by one owner, and traveling extensively through the northwest, including Alaska, under two or three more. By that time, the bogus legend was so embedded that whenever continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS groote beer — cont’d reporters would show up at dockside asking for the stoiy, the usual response was, “Which version would you like, the Goering stoiy or the real story?” Suffice it to say, few asked for the real story. Groote Beer arrived in the Bay Area in the early ‘80s, where she gained a measure of local fame — due in no small part to the tall tale — and was an active member of the Master Mariners. In 1989, she headed north again, got donated, fell on hard times and was all but forgotten until 2001. That’s when Dutch businessman Jan Willem de la Porte finally found her. He was a step-grandson of Greeve, the first owner, and had been searching for the boat for some time. Two years ago, Groote Beer returned to her homeland on the deck of a cargo ship. She was delivered to the leading hotter yard in Holland, where she is undergoing a complete restoration as you read this. Van Ommen is chronicling the whole process for a lengthy article on her history — real and imagined — for both Dutch and American yachting magazines. If all goes as planned, she is due to sail again in August. “It’s a fitting and happy ending to her first half-centuiy in the New continued on outside column of next sightings page

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catnip owners, and tour the different boats. Ev¬ eryone with a multihull is invited to par¬ ticipate, it's free, and there is no organi¬ zation to Join. However, the Bay Area Multihull Association (BAMA) will be on hand if you want to learn more about their group. They may even have a few Catnip Cup T-shirts for sale. Unique to the Catnip Cup is that there isn't an exact starting line or time. Latitude's 63-ft catamaran Projligate will start at the Golden Gate Bridge at noon, while my Kronos 45 Perception will prob¬ ably start about half an hour earlier. Oth¬ ers are invited to join in whenever and from wherever they wish. If the wind dies and you feel like motoring, feel free, as this is all about fun. If communication is

SIGHTINGS — cont’d

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necessary, we’ll use channel 71. Don't forget the camera, as it's fun to trade pho¬ tos of each other's boats. In fact, check out www.bamabox.stanford.edu/Catnip. htm for photos of last year's event. Using history as ajudge, there should be about a dozen boats. If you plan to at¬ tend, it would be helpful if you emailed me, Glerm Fagerlin, at gfagerlm@qlcapital com. Once I know how many boats to ex¬ pect, rU email everyone back with infor¬ mation about the marina, tides, and other stuff. The sail home on Sunday starts at whenever you feel like it, and ends Wher¬ ever you feel like it. Hope to see you there! — glenn fagerlin

’World," observed 'Van Ommen in a draft of that piece. “We will all miss her here, but she was always the gorgeous, slightly awkward Dutch Cinderella who could never quite lose that Dutch accent among her step-sisters. Thank you, Jan "Willem de la Porte for being the prince with the right size slippers — and pockets!”

comes a chanteyman SAN FRANCISCO (1865) — The weathered merchantman rests at anchor, her sails neatly tucked into harbor furls. But the captain has one last task to demand of his tired crew. He bellows to the first mate to "Brace the yards!" Amidst the grunting and grumbling along the Vallejo Street Wharf emerges the sweet sound of a fiddle. One man sounds off vrith the beginnings of a song. And before two turns on the capstan have gone 'round, the rest of the crew are singing. It's a hearty, breathy form of singing, and the cadence is driven by the step of the foot, the early morning exhalation of tired men, and the click of the pawl. The songs are called sea chanteys, and while they derived from work songs used by sailors to make labor go easier in the Age of Sail, they remain today as classic folk songs of the sea. Chanteys were developed with a specific rhythm to such manual and repetitive work as hoisting anchor, raising and lowering yards, hauling cargo with the capstan, and, in this instance, bracing the heavy yards around. Through the years, sea chanteys have been passed down from old sailors to young. Some may sound obscure to today’s audience, while others are quite familiar — songs like Shenandoah, Leave Her Johnny, Drunken Sailor and Rio Grande. The music has not only survived, but developed a special following along the waterfronts of the world, and it is performed lustily on board tall ship replicas, at maritime museums, and in waterfront pubs by a handful of traditional sailors who treat the music like a religious icon. Many of today's chante5mien tow a common ground. Their Ijolcs are meticulous and historically accurate, but their delivery seems, shall we say, soft. Then there are those very few who take the music to levels as high as the very t'gallants and royals aboard Hyde Street Pier's Balclutha.

Skip Henderson is one of the latter. The 66-year-old ancient mari¬ ner plays the squeeze box like he wafe born with one in his hands. And he performs at a feNerish and highly-animated level that seems to get better and more dynamic wi^h each salty song (and each hit of South¬ ern Comfort, which is never too far from reach). Henderson got his introduction to the waterfront on tugboats. He worked his way through college as a deckhand on some of San Francisco's unheralded but tireless workboats. He did a tour of Vietnam in the Army, then, in his second enlist¬ ment, was sent to Watts with the National Guard. During "the great folk music scare of the !960s" (as he puts it). Skip began pla5dng coffee houses with his guitar. His ancestors were Scot¬ tish and English privateers, and he slowly developed an addictive fas¬ cination for their histories and for the music of the sea. "My good old dad used to always tell me to 'live the music,' to get out there and do what 1 was singing ab(?ut." And do it he did. Skip owned a succession of traditional boats, the most recent being a gaff ketch named TaiKuri, a 50-footer he sailed for nine years and 12.000 nautical miles. Tai Kuri met her demise in the Western Caribbean when she ran aground on a shallow reef. But not before Skip won the Gaff II Cham¬ pionships at the 1994 Master Mariners Regatta. Most of his sailing since Tai Kuri has taken place on other people's boats. I recall him performing on the 1863 British barque Star of India during one of her rare sails off San Diego in 2000. It was his 64th birthday, and once the crew of Star had set a course with her 21 mascontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS chanteyman — cont’d sive sails. Skip jumped up onto the cargo hatch, concertina in hand, and began playing Two Hornpipes with a vengeance. His playing was so incredible it seemed to fill the very sails of the ship. The crew came down from aloft and broke out their own instru¬ ments, many of them handmade. The Captain, Richard Goben, turned over the helm to his master's mate, grabbed a fiddle, and Joined the, group for a rollicking set of music on the waist of the ship, as they lumbered out to sea in a fair breeze. Could've been a century and a half ago — "Should’ve been a century and a half ago," Skip would later lament. Recently, Skip purchased another classic wooden boat. Tliis one is a pleasant, 55-ft'gaff schooner named Aida. Skip and Patty, his wife, were pouring money into her like crazy in the months before the Mas¬ ter Mariners Regatta, so she’d be ready to race. "Aida's a real plum," boasts Skip, as proudly as any new father, continued on outside column of next sightings page

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kite sailing Kite sailing is all the rage these days. In addition to kite sailors ‘taking over’ many of the former windsurfer haunts, kite sailing was even tried out by Larry Ellison’s Oracle/BMW Racing syndicate during the last America’s Cup trials. Now it may be going commercial. Kiteship Corporation of Santa Cruz and the Utah-based Adventurer Cruise Ship Acquisition Corporation recently announced a collaboration that — if ap¬ proved by shareholders — would see the installation of giant kite sails on cruise ships. The first ship to be fitted would be the Adventure Cruise’s 187-ft, 924-ton Ad-

SIGHTINGS a cruise ship venture 2. KlteShip, founded by longtime

kite sailor Dave Culp, would design, fab¬ ricate and install an approximately 8,000 square foot kite sail onto the ship, and train the crew to fly it. This will be the largest ‘traction’ kite ever built. If it works as planned, the companies are already talking about adding even larger kites to the remainder of Adventurer Cruise Ship's fleet, including their biggest: the 650-ft, 38,000-ton Big Red Boat II. You may recall that about 15 years ago, one or more shipping companies experi¬ mented with ‘auxlliaiy’ wind power. Pho¬ tos and press releases circulated showcontinued middle of next sightings page

chanteyman — cont’d "She's a Colvin design, built as a cargo schooner in Taiwan about 1962 to carry diesel fuel between the Hawaiian Islands. Then she fished in Alaska until the mid-1980s, so she's a real workboat." The boat was abandoned at a mooring in Ha-wall in 1988 and dismasted by a tropical storm. She went straight to the bottom, and stayed there for 18 months. Two brothers came to her res¬ cue. They raised her and, over a three-year period, took the boat completely apart — every plank, frame, and rib — then meticu¬ lously put her back together as a dry boat. When Skip spotted her, there was no question this little schooner was to be his next ticket. He moved heaven and earth to get her. So, how do you make money as a sea chantey performer? "You don't!" exclaims Skip. "But you live a richer life for trying." Currently, Skip Henderson performs at L.J. Quinn's Light¬ house restaurant and pub on the Oakland Embarcadero. You can find him there Thursdays from 810 p.m. He also plays numerous —^private parties, and many a boat Henderson. _ will hire him for the day. He craves musical gigs at sea. "The boaters love it because I play the squeezebox, and the vibrations make the cockroaches run for their lives. The rats may stay and fight, but the roaches head for the rail," he laughs. His recent CD, Billy Bones and Other Ditties, is selling well. Walt Disney Productions just purchased the rights to the title song, an origi¬ nal by Skip called BiUy Bones, and they plan to use it in their upcom¬ ing movie Pirates of the Caribbean. The CD is a collection of original music and original interpretation (and contains original artwork by celebrated pirate artist Richard Becker). I won't go so far as to compare Skip Henderson to such leg¬ endary and groimdbreaking chanteymen as the late Stan Hugill and .Charles Dibdln, but I will say that, of the chanteymen performing to¬ day, Skip is the most entertaining, and the most powerful, hands down. —Joe ditler

Skip Henderson can be reached at chanteyman@msn.com.

building boats — and confidence When most folks commission a boat to be built, they seek out highlyskilled craftsmen with years of on-the-job experience. But not Dan Augustine. When he decided to have an 11-ft sailing dinghy built, he recmlted a bunch of elementary school kids who'd never seen a var¬ nish brush or a pot of resin. Christened last month at the Berkeley Marina, Sweet Privilege is the end product of many long hours of hard work by Augustine's special-ed students at Harding Elementary in El Cerrito. How, you might ask, could building a hardchined wooden sailing dinghy (a kit boat Ccilled a Leif 11, ordered from a outfit in Vermont) possibly fit into an elementary school curriculum? Since all of Dan's kids have had severe learning disabilities and/or behavior issues, he gambled that by work¬ ing together to create something tangible — that was not only beauticontinued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS boatbuilding — cont’d ful to look at, but also functional — these 9 to 13-year-olds would gain an appreciation for teamwork while enhancing their own self-esteem and giving them — for once — a sense of accomplishment. The gamble paid off big-time. Not only did they learn to work together, but, in addition to the,'real world' benefits of assembling, gluing, sanding, fiberglassing, painting and varnishing Sweet Privilege, they learned to use rulers, work with fractions, add and multiply. "I swear," said Dan, "they did 95% of the work themselves." Big, burly and affable, Dan Augustine is a gentle giant who balled out of a wildly successful, albeit terminally boring, career in the insur¬ ance industry a few years ago to pursue a meaningful career in teach¬ ing — taking a whopping 88% pay cut in the process. But one look at his ear-to-ear smile as the kids described their favorite parts of the continued on outside column of next sightings page

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kite sailing tag giant steel masts vrith complex me¬ chanical ‘wings’. While this arrangement apparently worked — when it worked — it required a huge amount of money, ma¬ jor retrofits and downtime for the ships, and special equipment and crew to run , and maintain it. Corrosion took an awful toll, we’re told, and as quickly as they arrived, these ’sailing freighters’ seemed to disappear. We are currently not aware of any ships using this technology any¬ more. Kites are different. They require mini¬ mal additional gear — basically a few electro-hydraulic captive winches. No ad-

SIGHTINGS — cont’d ditlonal crew is required, and the vessel requires almost no ‘down time’. “Adventurer Cruise Ship is a great fit for us,” says Culp, who has been experi¬ menting with kites and speed sailing for 25 years. “The vessels’ owners appreciate the potential savings, and are willing to experiment with the performance-versuseconomy tradeoffs inherent with sail as¬ sist." Both companies, he adds, are acutely aware of the world's need to con¬ serve fossil fuels and the potential for near-term price spikes and unforeseen scarcities throughout the world's •seacontinued middle of next sightings page

boatbuilding — cont’d project, confirmed that he had made the right career choice. "1 liked making it smooth," said Peter. "I liked putting on the bumpers (rubrails)," said Jesse. "I liked working with my hands," said Diante. "And I liked painting it red!" said Mohamed. Now, of course, the kids are anxious to learn how to sail. Unfortu¬ nately, liability concerns prevent them from doing so during school hours, but Augustine has promised to take them out on weekends. And in the process, there will be endless opportimities to teach them about the marine environment, marine mammals, and even simple physics. Next year Augustine's goal is to repeat the project again, spend¬ ing three months building a new boat, three months teaching the kids to sail, and three months racing. Now that's what we call progressive education. For a complete look at the construction process, visit the classroom's website at: www.boatbargains.eom/room28.html#.

seayanika — down the homestretch We’re back from Pacific Sail Expo — and what fun that was! Aside from conducting semirrars, meeting other boatbuilders and visiting our vendors, we also made some much needed purchases including light¬ ing fixtures from IMTRA, a Uferaft and some cabin accessories. We even met several people who made it a point to introduce themselves to us as dedicated followers of our Latitude 38 articles, including my own personal ‘stalker.’ Hey, Sue! Now we’re back in Vista working with renewed vigor on the latest ‘final’ phase of construction on Seayanika^ our 49-foot custom sail¬ boat. Lamentably, as we pass the two-and-a-half year mark, certain work we are forced to do is already maintenance instead of progress. For example, some of the exterior teak that has been baking in the South¬ ern California sun for the past year, particularly the bulwarks, was in need of scraping, sanding and revamishing. Take it from me: It’s a little disheartening to have to spend time on upkeep when the boat isn’t even in the water yet! Not that progress isn’t continuing. Erik has installed the interior chain locker access hatches, the headliner in the forward cabin, and is now busily finishing up the transom and installing the rudder. We also made the somewhat-dreaded call to all our friends last week for an¬ other ‘boat party.’ In Erlk-speak, ‘boafcpariy’ means spending your Sat¬ urday providing free manual labor in hopes of eventually going sailing with us when Seayanika is complete. Most come willingly for the ca¬ maraderie — and, well, the beer — and their help is invaluable to us. Thanks guys! Those of you who have been following our construction may re¬ member that a couple of years ago, Seayanika was broken into and several thousand dollars’ worth of equipment was pilfered. Our best line of defense to prevent further Intrusion was to visit the pound and / procure Taurus, our ferocious (looking), 12-year-old, 100-lb guard dog. Sadly, Taurus passed away a couple of months ago. As a contin¬ ued deterrent to would-be thieves In the night, we left Taurus’ dog house and food bowls in their customary locations^ hoping that would be sufficient. Notl Two weeks ago, another break in. This time we fig¬ ured it must have been neighborhoocLkids because the only thing miss¬ ing was our $200 marine stereo and speakers. They didn’t even take our collection of CDs, passing up such great artists as The Who, Don Henley, Jimmy Buffett and the Rolling Stones. (Gotta be kids!) Although the boat had been rifled through, all of our power and hand tools were cilso dismissed as useless. We were lucky! So Erik became the new watchdog — he started sleeping on the boat. When he was explaining this to one of our friends, Erik said, “Hey, Bob, someone broke into the boat!” To which Bob replied, “You broke in the boat? Congratulations!” Obviously they were talking about continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS seayanika — cont’d two veiy different things! However, after a week or so of boat-sitting, we once again deter¬ mined that our best course of action was to visit the pound for another overlooked, older dog for On-the-Hard Marina. Enter Wylie, a 6-yearold, 107-lb Rottweiler. Although he’s as fierce looking as a dog can get, Wylie has yet to produce a single bark. He doesn’t seem to be a par¬ ticularly social dog, either, and we can’t get him to approach us even with the bribe of a cookie. We’re hoping that he’ll come aroimd. Meancontinued on outside column of next sightings page

Pit crew — spread, Erik admires the INstalled rudder. Right above, work crew admires Erik’s energy (and brewskies) as he readies the rud¬ der for lifting. Right, Katrlana cheerfully tack¬ les maintenance. Make that ‘dutifully.’

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kite sailing ports. What kind of numbers are we talking about with the kites? Reminding you that this is all veiy much in the planning stage, it’s hoped the first kite on the Adventure 2 will add “several knots” to the ship’s speed in the right conditions. Larger kites on larger ships — again, in ideal condi-

SIGHTINGS — cont’d tions — could theoretically power a ship at her normal cruising speed with no help from the engines. Wow! For more on the theory, benefits and practice of kite sailing — as well as up¬ dates on the foregoing story — check out KiteShip’s website: www.kiteship.com.

seayanika — cont’d while, mostly as an ‘inside joke’, we’ve attached a sign to the fence which reads, “WARNING: Trained attaek dog on duty. Do not enter the premises without the owner present; do not place your hands near or through the fence; do not feed the dog. The owner will not be respon¬ sible for injury to anyone not adhering to this warning.” Do you think anyone will be fooled? It all goes as plarmed, the next installment of 'Building Seayanika' will be the final construction segment, and we’ll be able to begin up¬ dates on the outfitting for our circumnavigation. 1 hope you have en¬ joyed reading our story as much as we’ve taken pleasure in sharing it with you! Keep visiting our website at www.seayanika.com for more updates and photos. — katriana voder

the remarkable twins You'd be hard pressed to find more remarkable twins than Emmanuel and Maximillien Berque, unusual sailors from the Atlantic coast of France. Longtime surfers who grew tired of waiting for waves, they were inspired by Laurent Bourgnon's crossing of the Atlantic on a Hobie 18. So five or six years ago, they designed a 15-ft Lugger with a centerboard, and immediately set sail from France to Florida — and made it. Did we mention they are minimalists? As such, they carried no raft, no distress signals, and no Instruments other than a Davis 3 sextant. Upon arrival in Florida, they simply walked away from their little boat to find jobs. If you suspect it was a once-in-a-lifetime stunt, you'd be wrong. For the two then built a 21 -ft Lugger with a centerboard and outrigger, and again sailed her across the Atlantic, arriving in Guadeloupe in late April after 27 days — meaning they averaged better than 100 miles a day. This time the two, who are now 53, were so tuned-tn to the stars, wind, clouds and currents that they decided they didn't even need a sextant, let alone a radio, watch, books, or any of that other stuff. It goes without saying they didn't have an engine. They didn’t take much irr the way of food, either. Taking the min¬ imalist thing to extreme — particularly for Frenchmen — they ate only one thing: gofio, a pre-cooked flour favored by fishermen in the Canary Islands. Apparently the stuff has everything they need. Well, except for flavor. Their one indulgeance was tabasco sauce to flavor the gofio. To prove how minimalist the two are, in 27 days the two of them drank a total of 16 gallons of water.

coast watch Between mid-March and mid-May (two months; Coast Watch did not run in last month’s Sightings because we ran out of space), Group / San Francisco Units, including Stations at Lake Tahoe, Vallejo, Rio Vista, Monterey, Bodega Bay, Golden Gate and San Francisco, re¬ sponded to approximately 202 search and rescue (SAR) cases. A few are detailed below. March 22 — In the early afternoon of March 22, Group San Fran¬ cisco received a report on VHF channel 16 from the owner/operator of a 24-foot sailing vessel that a person had fallen overboard in the Carquinez Strait. The owner/operator said he responded quickly by throwing the person a personal flotation device and “two planks of wood.” However, the owner/operator could not confirm whether the person grabbed one of the flotation devices and could not find the per¬ son. He simply stated that he heard the person yelling for a short pe¬ riod of time. Station Vallejo launched a 23-ft light utility boat and heli¬ copter, and diverted the cutter Dorado. Luckily, the person in the wa¬ ter made it to shore on his own and was spotted by the crew aboard the continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS coast watch — cont’d UTL. The owner/operator was not so lucky. While searching for his passenger, the owner/operator got disoriented and ran aground near the Glen Cove Marina. If the passenger had been wearing a PFD, as opposed to being thrown one once in the water, it is likely the owner/operator would not have lost sight of the person in the water. You never know if or when you may find yourself in a similar situation, so it is always recom¬ mended that, while underway, you wear your PFD. March 22 —At 6:49 p.m.. Station Vallejo received a cellphone call from an 18-foot motor vessel. The caller told the Station they had run out of fuel and were approximately 1 nautical mile east of the reserve fleet. In accordance with the U.S. Coast Guard Non-Distress Policy (Ed. Note — the Coast Guard does not rescue or tow vessels if there is no immediate threat to life or property), the Station issued a Marine Assistance Request Broadcast (MARB). Within minutes. Vessel Aspist, a commercial towing firm, responded to the MARB and was en route to the boat’s position. The Station also established an hourly communi¬ cations schedule with the caller. Just before the end of the first hour. Station personnel attempted, to contact the caller but only received a voicemail message. After several attempts. Station contacted Vessel Assist who reported that not only had they also lost communications rvith the boat, they could not locate it, either. It was speculated that the caller’s cellphone battery failed. Station Vallejo then launched a 23-foot UTL and headed to the last known position provided by the caller. The UTL crew located the boat shortly after midnight, approxi¬ mately 5 nautical miles east of the last row of the reserve fleet. The boat was refueled and escorted to Suisun City. While en route, the Station crew conducted a boarding. They discovered that, despite the fact there were six persons on board, there were not enough personal flotation devices for everyone. Further operation of the boat was termi¬ nated. The lessons learned here are evident. First, if you use a cellphone as the means of communications while underway, it is highly recom¬ mended that you cany at least one spare battery. Second, PFDs are required safety gear under federal and state laws. The reason they are required is because drowning is the number one cause of boating fa¬ talities. Do not get underway without them! April 19 — While conducting the daily security patrol of the Bay, a crew from Station San Francisco encountered a vessel that appeared to be operating in a suspicious manner. The Station crew, onboard a 25-foot light utility boat, approached the vessel and boarded it at Gashouse Cove. Once on board, the crew noticed the operator smelled like alcohol, and conducted a field sobriety test on the operator. This test is the same type conducted by law enforcement personnel ashore. The operator failed six out of seven of the tests. Additionally, the operator refused to take the breathalyzer test. The crew then attempted to con¬ tact the San Francisco Police Department’s Marine Unit to transfer the operator. However, the crew was unable to get a hold of that unit. There¬ fore. the operator was cited by the crew, and released to a sober driver. Boating under the influence is just as dangerous — and some¬ times moreso — as driving a car while intoxicated. ITie State of Cali¬ fornia estimates that alcohol is a factor in 39 percent of all fatal boat¬ ing accidents. Therefore, just like drinking and driving a car, if you are going to drink, don’t operate the boat. May 2 — Group San Francisco received a call from a gentleman advising that his father and brother had not yet returned from a maiden voyage on their fishing vessel. The father and son departed from Alameda and were headed for the Farallon Islands. Although they both had prior experience on commercial F/Vs, neither had been underway in five years. The Group immediately issued an UMIB and launched its 47-ft motor lifeboat (MLB) to search the waterfront. The son who reported the overdue F/V had also passed on to Group persormel that his father and brother may have stopped at the San Francisco waterfront to off¬ load fish. So Group instructed personnel from Station San Francisco continued on outside column of next sightings page

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a day on the bay "Captain, lets do another spin," 9-yearold Juanita called from the foredeck, and the entire crew agreed. Time flies when you’re having fun, even if the breeze hides behind Mount Taim. For 120 inner-city kids from the Bay Area, this year's balmy Easter Saturday was about getting out and having fun and more. A Day on the Bay, organized by Dawn Riley and her dedicated volunteers at AmericaTrue at the Jack London Square Aquatic Center in Oakland, gave these less-privileged children a chance to get a taste of our sport and learn what it takes to make a sailboat go. Some of them even fell in love with a humble Folkboat. They came from the "Y, Big Brothers and Sisters, the Battered Women and Family Shelters, and the Hawk Manhood Development Program- "Some did not even register. They simply showed up in a pickup truck," Riley said. "Yet, it was our biggest event in the Bay Area to date." Dockside at the Jack London Aquatic Center, the^oung passengers met their boats and crews. From zippy Hobie Cats to the more sedate Folkboat, every one of the 30 volunteer boats took aboard a batch of children decked out in colorful PFDs, along with snacks, water and sun¬ screen. It was a leap of faith for both sides. ’What will it be like? Will I like it? WiU they like it? What if? Our boat, the Folkboat, had room for four: Juanita and her 10-year old sister Brandi, along with Matthew, 11, and his cousin Shelby, 12, all from Oakland. Though the wind was anemic on the Es¬ tuary that day, that was no detriment to the enjoyment of the rookies on board. Seeing their hometown from the water had them busy discovering a new side of it — gargantuan container ships from China, Denmark and beyond: the towering cranes that inspired Star Wars; the piles of rusty scrap metal from shredded cars at Schnitzer Steel; the grimy barges and the huffing tugs; the sleek Gentry Eagle, the mothership of the late powerboat racer Tom Gentry; and the dapper Potomac, once President Franklin Roosevelt's yacht. And, of course the guys in uniform, not so much chasing terrorists as boarding boats for safety checks. "Coast Guard at 12 o’clock, no, 6 o'clock. They’re every¬ where!" But sailing was also about taking tricks at the helm, grinding and tailing the sheets. The fact that we weren't going anywhere in a building flood did not get lost on Matthew. "Hey, it’s like running up the down escalator," he observed. The girls, predictably, had a different agenda. Quickly they figured out that the dark sliding doors above the nav table

SIGHTINGS with america true could be used to apply lip gloss and sun¬ screen. "Captain, you need a mirror down here," Juanita advised before striking up

Folkboaters for a day (I to r) — Matthew, Brandi, Shelby, Juanita and crew Gwen Hammer. a little rap improvisation and showing us the hand signal for "Whassup,” so we could hang with the cool dudes. At the end of the sail, the classic fare¬ well at the dock: crew Gwen Hammer and 1 hugged our little friends before we posed for the camera one more time. When we headed for the barn, a mile or so down the Estuaiy, we agreed that there are no better rewards than children's smiles. And we felt blessed for having shared the Joys of sailing we take for granted. Thank you, Juanita, Brandi, Shelby and Matthew. You are the real stars. — dieter loibner Readers — Dawn Riley has managed sailing programs for children from chal¬ lenged backgrounds since 1995 — more than 70 events in all from FYesno to An¬ napolis, and Chicago to Miami. “America True is getting better at placing the kids, and the volunteers who donate their time and boats are also more comfortable be¬ cause they, too, have a good time,” she says. If you want to contribute, volunteer your boat for a youth session, or even find out what it takes to put on your own event, visit www.americatrue.org.

coast watch — cont’d and Station Golden Gate to contact the marinas in their areas for any¬ one who may have seen the F/V. After nearly two hours into these search efforts, the reporting son called the Group to notify them that he received word from his brother’s girlfriend that she had spoken with the brother. Apparently, they had decided to fish overnight, they were safe, and in no need of Coast Guard assistance. This case is a great illustration of the importance of advising those who are aware of your float plan about any changes in that plan. April 27 — Station Golden Gate received a call on VHF Channel 16 at about 3 p.m. of a sailing ves¬ sel that had capsized in Raccoon Strait near Belevedere’s Peninsula Point, and 10 people were in the water. The station immediately launched its 47ft MLB. By the time the MLB had arrived, the good samciritan vessel Booze Cruz had recovered half of the 10 people who were In the water. A few minutes later, with the assistance of another good sam ves¬ sel, Sienna, the remaining persons were recovered from the water. All survivors were then transported to the Sausalito Feny Terminal. The crew of the MLB met with the survivors at the ferry terminal to assess their medical condition, and all declined medical as¬ sistance. The capsized S/V was towed to the Sausalito Marina. The cause of the accident was thought to be a combination of overloading, too much weight on one side, and striking a large wave. The owner and his guests also admitted they had been drinking ear¬ lier in the day. No arrests were made. This was the only majo'r accident reported on Opening Day. Thanks to the quick work of the good Samaritans Booze Cruz and Sienna, the survivors were recovered in a matter of minutes, thus mini¬ mizing their exposure to the cold Bay waters.

short sightings REDWOOD CITY — An ambitous project to recreate a traditional San Francisco Bay Shrimp Junk be^an last month when the San Fran¬ cisco Maritime Pafk’s 1886 scow schooner Alma loaded a cargo of red■ wood planks at — where else? — the Port of Redwood City on Tuesday, May 27. The flat-bottomed Alma, last of the so-called ‘square-toed pack¬ ets’ that once served as the watergoing delivery trucks of the Bay, de¬ livered the lumber to China Camp State Park, where boatbuilders and volunteers will immediately begin construction of a full-size sailing rep¬ lica of the Chinese fishing Junks that graced the Bay 100 years ago. In addition to demonstrating how local Junks were built (including forg¬ ing their own headless nails by hand), the crew will offer Park visitors a series of ‘extracurricular’ boatbuilding demonstrations and exhibi¬ tions as the project progresses. Once completed, the new vessel will serve as a sailing ambassador of Chinese history; in the Bay Area as it shuttles back and forth betweerr China Camp — the last vestige of the once-thriving shrimping industry* in the Bay — and the Maritime Museum’s Hyde Street Pier. If you want to know more, including how to volunteer to help recreate this piece of Bay Area history, call 5617121, or email project director (and Maritime Museum Curator) John Muir atJohn_c_muir2nps.gov. DE MEERN. NETHERLANDS — Dutch archaeologists recently un¬ covered the oldest shipwreck ever recovered m the Netherlands, an astonishingly well-preserved Roman military transport that sank along the banks of the Rhine 18 centuries ago. The 75-ft craft was built about 180 A.D. The ship is amazingly intact, including most of the hull, part continued on outside column of next sightings page

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SIGHTINGS shorts — cont’d of the masthead, some iron nails, some interior furniture, tools and cooking pots and cups. The ship held no cargo when it wrecked, but did contain a decorated, locking chest, suggesting it might have been used by a Roman paymaster doling out monthly wages to military camps along the river. Among the more interesting finds to sailors: leather shoe soles, complete with studded bottoms for extra grip — and you thought Topsiders were new! HALFWAY TO THE BIG APPLE — As this issue went to press, the 53-ft trimaran Great American II had just passed the halfway mark on her attempted record sail from Hong Kong to New York. At this point, skipper Rich Wilson of Rockport, Massachusetts and crewman Rich du Moulin of Larchmpnt, New York, are about dead even in their race against the 154-year-old record set by the clipper Sea Witch. In 1849, with a belly full of China tea, the ‘Witch made the 15,000-mile mn in 74 days. Great American had maintained a few-day lead on the ghost of the clipper through most of the voyage, which started on March' 7. But in the area of Cape Alguhas, at the southern tip of Africa, they had continued on outside column ot next sightings page

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disappointing news In the May issue, we reported that Mexico's version of our House of Repre¬ sentatives had voted to eliminate domes¬ tic clearing in and out of Mexican ports. This would mean that foreign cruisers would only have to check in when they first arrived in the country, and check out just before they left the country. The way it is now, cruisers have to check in with officials every 10 miles or 10 minutes, whichever comes first, plus pay a lot of money and waste a lot of time. The sys¬ tem stinks and has resulted in many an¬ gry cruisers leaving Mexico much earlier than they wished. The disappointing news we heard just

SIGHTINGS out of mexico before putting this issue to bed was that Mexico's version of the Senate apparently voted down the bill, so nothing has changed. We say "apparently", because the news — and it's not firsthand — was just trick¬ ling in as we were going to press. It's be¬ lieved that the current legislature is a lame duck, and therefore the earliest there could be any change would be in Novem¬ ber of this year. We will attempt to fiiid out exactly what has happened and publish that informa¬ tion in a late May edition of 'Lectronic Latitude, which you can always find at WWW.Iatitiide38.com.

shorts — cont’d to battle a week of winds that were “too light or too strong — and always from the wrong direction,” says du Moulin. As a result, both Great American and Sea Witch rounded the infamous cape on their 37th day at sea. If Great American eventually breaks the old clipper record — as she has two others in the past 10 years — it will be icing on the cake. The main goal of the voyage is education. Some 360,000 school children across the coimtry are following Great American’s voyage via the internet and Wilson’s Sites ALfVE program. Each day, he emails a log entry, position and interesting historical or wildlife information from that particular part of the ocean. Kids learn about marine biology, naviga¬ tion, history, math and other disciplines in a creative, exciting way. For more on the program, or the voyage, log onto www.sitesAUVE.com. At last report. Great American had pulled 90 miles ahead of Sea Witch— which is basically neck-and-neck with 7,000 miles to go. THE WHOLE ENCHH^ADA — The United States has signed the Antifouling Treaty. If it’s ratified by Congress, it will ban the use of tri¬ butyl tm (TBT) in antifouling paint in this country forever. Or whatever Congress’ version of forever is. Most boaters who have been around awhile know that TBT added to bottom paint did a great job of keeping boat bottoms clean. They also know that it’s been banned for recre¬ ational use since 1990 because of its harmful, cumulative effects on the environment all the way up the food chain to seals and dolphins. So now bottom paints have mostly gone back to copper to discourage sealife from hitching a ride on our boats, although the horizon may hold the promise of paints that work by making the bottom too slick for critters to grab hold, or even ‘bio-deterrents’ based on life forms (coral and amphibians, for example) that never seem to attract growth. In the meantime, large commercial boats and smaller aluminum ones in the U.S. are still allowed to use TBT paint. In European Union coun¬ tries, TBT paint has been banned completely as of January 1, 2003. Ratification of the treaty in this country is not expected until 2004 or even 2005. TBT paint still sells well in places like the Caribbean. THE DELTA — One does not normally associate the quiet and placid Delta with international smuggling. But that appears to be the case as 12 more arrests were made last month in a ring whose roots reach all the way back to Russia. The illegal substance in this case is not drugs or guns or refugees. It’s fish eggs. Sturgeon eggs, to be exact. Not quite the famed Beluga, the Russian caviar that can sell for $1,000 a pound. But the next best thing for members of the Russlan-American community that can’t get the real deal anymore since the collapse of the Caspian sturgeon fish¬ ery in the old country. The Delta has sturgeon, though. Always has. They’re not as big as they used to be, but they’re there, they’re endangered, and they’re be¬ ing caught and killed illegally. Wildlife officials made the arrests on May 22 in an early morning sweep of the Delta. Charges were brought against 12 individuals — most of oriental descent but a few of Russian descent, as well — for y selling or possessing the Icirgest freshwater fish in North America. All were charged with misdemeanor conspiracy to catch the protected San Joaquin River White Sturgeon, mainly for its eggs. This brings the total to 20 individuals who have been arrested in the tw;p-year undercover investigation. The alleged ringleaders — a mother and son from Fsiir Oaks — were charged with felony conspiracy and could face up to three years in prison. Caviar poaching has exploded worldwide since the failure of the Russian fisheries. On the same day as the most recent arrests, the World Wildlife Fund and the World Conservation Union issued warn¬ ings that American sturgeon populations can’t sustain the increased legal and illegal pressure brought by the resulting higher prices and increased demand. Members of the Russian-American community were reportedly pa5dng $50 to $100 per pound for the locally-harvested roe. It is legal in California to catch one sturgeon a day. Commercial fishing and selling of these big fish — and their eggs — is illegal. June, 2003* UtHUcZi • Page 129

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inds gusting to 30 knots greeted starters at the Master Mariners Regatta, which began its reverse-handicap starts at noon on May 24. In decidedly un-Mariner-like fashion, roughly 20 of the 71 boats that had signed up opted not to race. Instead, many made their way over to the Encinal YC to start the raft-u^ and postÂŹ race pcirty early. The remaining fleet of true iron men and women that did complete the annual Bay tour were treated to overcast skies and a hellacious ebb. Ironically, the wind gradually dimished through the afternoon, and most of the 48 finishers sailed down the homestretch below Treasure Island in almost balmy breeze. Those finishers included first-time participant TunamU a 19-ft Acorn owned by Pam DeWitt and Bryan Delaney. The little blue sloop (whose name is "I'm a nut" spelled backwards) was designed by Jim DeWitt, senior, the father of noted Bay Area sailor/artist Jim DeWitt. Tunami, hull #4, was built in 1942. The previous owner, Luke Lukavich from Monterey, reportedly sailed Tunami twice a week for wars WTicii he [)as',cd auav, the family w.mted liiebo,d to h.ive <i aood home, so

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is indispensible when it comes to mak¬ ing the right tactical decisions. One of the best examples of this we've seen in years occurred aboard Tom McGowan's 35-ft Garden ketch Simpatico, whose

crew have long been the fashion mavens of the regatta with their color-matched foulies. And before you Tupperware sail¬ ors get too excited — sorry, this move won't be possible in most of your regat¬

tas. Simpatico and DeeDee Lozier's equally lovely 37-ft Freeman-designed cutter Stroma ofMey were both racing in Mar¬ coni II. They started at the same time, and remained pretty much dead even until McGowan pulled The Move. He positioned Simpatico so that the oncoming behemoth Hawaiian Chieftain would roll past to leeward — and Stroma was caught to leeward of them. With a windshadow the size of Angel Island, the popular 103-ft (LOA), square-rigged Chieftain blanketed Stroma like she'd never been blanketed before. Simpatico gained a hefty lead and never looked back — well, except to gloat. Pretty slick! In a surprise ending to another memo¬ rable Master Mariners Regatta, Ted Hall, owner/skipper of the 53-ft Schock cut¬ ter Bright Star, augmented the many tro¬ phies (and famous 'strutting cock' cham¬ pion banners) by handing out magnums of his Longmeadow Ranch wine to the winners of each division. Longmeadow is one of mqny Bay Area businesses that contribute yearly to make the Master Mariners Regatta the success that it is. — latitude/Jr

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he Vallejo Race has come a long way from its humble beginnings 103 years ago, when just a dozen boats sailed from Tiburon up to Vallejo. The latest edition of this classic Bay Area regatta, held on May 4-5, attracted 310 boats and as many as 2,000 sailors — up 60 boats from last year, and a fine turn¬ out considering the apocalyptic weather forecast. If anything, it turned out to be an improbably nice weekend, with gentle winds and a mild flood keeping San Pablo Bay as flat as a pool table. Saturday's 21.5-mile spinnaker parade up to Vallejo YC got

off to a weird start, with the large fleet searching for the stealth\' race committee, who eventually turned up several miles soutli of the race's traditional Southampton Shoals starting area. Aftei ' an h,our postponement, the race began in a moderate north¬ westerly. The big boats sailed upwind on port tack to the Brotfi ers, where kites w^t up for a light air run to the finish. Il wasn’t quite that easy for the rest of the fleet, which suffered as a storm cell passed through, causing the wind to drop in velocity and clock to the west.

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and 22 seconds back, respectively. The majority of the fleet came in closer to 6 p.m., after which the partying com¬ menced in earnest. Vallejo YC once again rolled out the red carpet for the racers. Scenes from Saturday's pleasant Vallejo Race. All photos: latitude/andy.

who ate, drank and gyrated to The Real Imposters until the 1 a.m. curfew. Sunday's 14.5-mlle return race saw the fleet start in reverse order, with the little boats heading off first beginning at 11:30 a.m. It was a fine upwind chess game, involving finding lanes of clear air.

WEEKEND WARRIORS staying in phase with the shifts, and dodging the increasing flood. "Why does everyone only want to sail up to Vallejo?" wondered Blue Chip owner Walt Logan. '1 think the race back is far more fun and interesting." Certainly, that was the case this year.

Xpression, a C&C 34 sailing in the SHS division (OYRA classes were invited to participate this year for a bargain $5 entry fee), was the first boat home on Sunday. They finished at 2:51 p.m., about 20 minutes before the next boat — however, they also rate 81 and started

first, so this horizon job was not unex¬ pected. Befitting of a pursuit race, there was a bit of a stack-up as the bulk of the fleet poured through the finish line around 3:30 p.m. —■ but the VYC spot¬ ters, backed up with a video cam, were eventually able to sort out the results.

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e'll let the accompanying pic¬ tures tell the rest of the story, along with our unofficial version of the weekend results. Vallejo YC scores each race separately (awarding 'brag flags' for podium finishes in each di¬ rection), and YRA doesn't score onetimers in their overall standings. We prefer to simply combine everyone's scores in the two races; and declare those people the weeker>d winners. By any standard, the Tiburon YCbased J/105 Joyride was the out¬ standing performer of the weekend, posting two bullets in the tough 15boat J/105 one design class. Kudos to skipper Bill Hoehler arid crew Susan Hoehler (wife), Harry Blake, Jeff Thorpe, Mariellen Stern, and Garry Menzel. "There wasn't a lot of drama this year," admitted race chairman Jim Mueller, almost apologetically. "But, come to think of it, maybe that's a good thing!"

— latitude/rkm HDA-G (< 99) — 1) Convergence, J/120, Jeff Winkelhake, 6 points; 2) Bodacious, Farr 40 lOR, Clauser/Tosse, 9; 3) Copernicus, Sydney 38, Michael Kennedy, 13; 4) Night Train, Beneteau 40.7, Bill Canada, 13; 5) Blue Agave, Beneteau 40.7, Thomas 'Sponholtz, 16; 6) Tout Suite, Beneteau 40.7, Tim Merrill, 19; 7) Ozone, Olson 34, Carl Bauer, 19; 8) Rocinante, Express 34, Cris Sena, 20; 9) Razzberries, Olson 34, Bruce Nesbit, 23; 10) Mintaka 4, Farr 38, Gerry Brown, 25. (32 boats) FIDA-J (101 -135) — 1) Chimera, 'Custom Little Harbor', Grant Miller, 4 points; 2) Cowabunga, Schock 34-PC, Pat Brown, 6; 3) Bay Loon, J/29, Joe Ferrie, 10; 4) Shenanigans, C&C 36-DK, Michael Maloney, 10; 5) Harp, Catalina 38, Mannix/ Farabee, 10; 6) Rum Turn Tugger, Hunter 35.5 mod.. Bob Campbell, 13; 7) Peg O' My Heart, Ericson 35-3, Steven Wert, 17; 8) Maguro, Santana 35, Jack Feller, 17. (22 boats) HDA-K — 1) Tinseltown Rebellion, J/22, Cam Lewis, 5 points; 2) Silkye, WylieCat 30, Skinner/ Seal, 9; 3) Talisman Banana, J/22, Gary Albright, 9; 4) Antares, Islander 30-2, Larry Telford, 10; 5) El

Michelle and Rich of 'Still Searching' get crazy on the dance floor Saturday night. Gavilan, Hawkfarm, Jocelyn Nash, 14; 6) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles, 14; 7) Current Asset, Is¬ lander 30-2, John Bowen, 17; 8) Wuvulu, Islander 30-2, John New, 17; 9) Encore, Wylie 30, Andy Hall, 18; 10) Noble Lady, Beneteau 305, Gary Massari, 19. (33 boats) HDA-M (189-up) — 1) Crazy Jane, Thunderbird, Doug Carroll, 6 points; 2) Latin Lass, Catalina 27, Bill Chapman, 9; 3) Silent Movee, Is¬ lander 28, Patrick Fryer, 11; 4) Kristina, Ranger 26, Brian Grainger, 12; 5) Caffeinated, Merit 22, Richard Lotspeich, 12; 6) Ex-Indigo, Cal 27-2, Louis Benainous, 14; 7) Rosanna Danna, Cal 20, Peter Hatton, 15; 8) Alliance, Cal 27-2, Conley/Foster, 15. (26 boats) SPORTBOAT — 1) Run Wild, Olson 30, bale Scoggin, 5 points; 2) Emotional Rescue, Melges 32, Greg Dorland, 5.5; 3) Family Hour, Olson 30, The Bilafers, 7; 4) Hoot, Olson 30, Andy Macfie, 9.5; 5) Magic Bus, Express 27, Eric Deeds, 10; 6) Dianne, Express 27, Hodges/Katzman, 14; 7) Mi¬ rage, Express 27, Terry Cobb, 16. (23 boats) SF 30 — 1) Jeannette, Tartan Ten, Henry King, 2 points; 2) Tortuga, Santana 30/30, Stephen Hutchison, 5; 3) Ixxis, Olson 911-S, Ed Durbin. 6; 4) Nicely Nice, Tartan Ten, Nicholas Clinton, 10. (12 boats) ANTRIM 27 — 1) E.T., Hedin/Baylis, 6 points; 2) Always Friday, John Liebenberg, 6; 3) Cascade, Laraine McKinnon, 8. (9 boats) CAL 29 — 1) Annie, Steve Zevanove, 2 points; 2) Serendipity, Thomas Bruce, 6; 3) (tie) Boog-ALoo, Nancy Rogers, and Whirled Peas, Hyndman/

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Above, Dad's home!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brad celebrates winning Class II with daughter Tate. This page, 'Tommy Hilfiger Freedom America' ghosts into the finish of Around Alone.

the latitude interview:

Brad Van Liew When we last talked wifh Brad Van Liew after the 1998-'99 Around Alone Race, the young Southern Califor¬ nian had only recently emerged from relative obscurity into the limelight of international singlehanded saaing. As you may recall. Van Liew, along with his wife and partner Meaghan, had put together Balance Bar, a sponsored Open 50 campaign, and entered the 28,000-mile Around Alone Race. Most participants in this grueling race wUl tell you that the hardest part is getting to the starting line. Brad made it there with his recycled four-year-old boat And then, through the next seven months, amazed both his competitors and the sailing world by giving two well-funded, newer boats in a real run for their money. This despite a dismasting in Leg 3 and the disadvantage of being the new guy on this race and to solo ocean racing in general Brad ended up third in Class II. A keen observer and quick learner. Van Liew took note of how the top competitors in that race ran their syndicates. He spent a lot of time picking the brains of both the sailors and their shore crews — all in prepara¬ tion for his second, more serious attempt at Around Alone. He also got ahold of what he felt — and still feels — is perhaps the best Open 50 now sailing, the Finot 50 that Britain's Mike Garside sailed to second place in '98'99 as Magellan Alpha. As a result of these efforts — and with early backing from primary sponsor Tommy HUfiger — Tommy Hilfiger FYeedom America was optimized like few boats had been before. And so was her skipper. Van Liew began Around Alone in New York last September as the only returning veteran, and clear favorite to win his class. He did not disappoint. He massacred Class II, often finishing several days ahead of the second Class n boat — and sometimes even lapping the tail-end Class 160 footers. In all, over the course of the race, he spent 21 fewer days on the water — 2/3 of a month — than second placer Tim Kent on Everest Horizontal. Some of Tommy HUfiger’s other stats: * Fastest American ever to circumnavigate the globe (148 days, 17 hours). * Average speed around globe: 8.36 knots (based on predicted race route of28,800 miles. Actual speed was higher because mileage was greater.) This mark beats the former Class II record (David Adams on True Blue in '95-'95 race) and Class I winner Philippe Jeantot in the first Around Alone, then called the BOC Round the World Race, in ‘86-'8 7. * Fastest 50-ft monohull saUor (345 miles in 24 hours, set on Leg II) Even against a srruill and Corinthian field (and only one other 50-footer; the rest of, the boats in Class II were 40 feet), this performance was remarkable. Even more amazing, it tppped the record of perhaps the best-known name in American singlehanding, Mike Plant, who won three of the four legs in Class II of the '86-'86 BOC race aboard Alrco Disributor. It is significant to note that Van Liew was part of the shore team on Plants '90-'91 effort, where he took third in Class I on the 60-ft Duracell. Van Liew readily admits that Plant (who perished when his boat capsized during a delivery in 1993) was a huge influence, inspiration and mentor in his own desires to race around the world singlehanded. We caught up with Brad by phone in New York, where he was nursing a cold and Just starting to put this all into perspective.

Let’s start with Mike Plant. Have you thought much about the fact that you have taken his place as the tap Ameri¬ can singlehander? I haven’t had the time to sort that out yet. To even be considered in the same breath as Mike is a real honor. But I would have to say at this point that I don’t put myself in Mike’s category. I consider myself part of his legacy. But un¬ til I’m able to do what he did for me — nurture somebody else’s dreams, help them understarid what it’s like and what it takes — I won’t be there. He was a special person.

Can you explain how your approach and mindset were different in this race than the last? The last race was an adventure. This was an attempt at victory. I had much more confidence. I’d been there, done

that. I’d learned a lot from other competitors the first time, and a lot about how they’d run their campaigns. I would say I molded this campaign'^ around the profes¬ sional nature of (‘98-99 Class II winner) J.P. Mouligne, and the family-orientation oft‘98-99 Class I winner) Giovanni Soldtni. So we had a very tight, cohesive family atmosphere. When I was ashore, we always had dinner together, stayed in the same place and so on. And we ran the campaign like a professioncil corporation. 1 also have to say my family of sponsors was incredible. Obviously, Tommy Hilfiger, but also Honeywell, Dry Creek, Profurl, Ra5mrarlne. . . . Raymarine sent two technicians to every stop to completely check the boat’s electronics over. I never pressed a button that didn’t work. All those kinds of things contributed. June. 2003 • LiCUUJcZS • Page 145

interview: brad van hew What about your choice of boat this time? This boat was a great boat when it was built in 1997. Mike Garside put a lot of thought into it beforehand and the boat was built already ‘turbo’d up. 1 raced against this boat in the last race. Mike Garside and 1 became very close friends and have remained that way. When we decided to go in the 50-ft class again, 1 knew this was the boat 1 wanted. Mike enabled the program back when we had no sponsorship or money. He made the boat available to me with the trust that I could pull it off. Of course, 1 later bought it from him, but without that early trust we could not have pulled it off. 1 delivered the boat to Charleston from England. I studied the breed, and 1 studied this specimen. I got this horse and 1 rode it hard before retraining it. We got to go over it with a fine toothcomb. 1 had a completely exceptionsil relationship with this boat.

What was your best day? Probably the day I finished the first leg in England. Ulti¬ mately, you never know how things are going to work out until you go out and put the pedal on the floor. There was a lot of pressure on me going into the start. 1 had an excep¬ tional boat, exceptional sponsors, an exceptional team — and exceptional expectations. As 1 was sailing out of New York, 1 was thinking, “1 hope 1 can do what 1 can do.” So 1 flogged the piss out of the boat on that leg, really overhammered. Fortu¬ nately, 1 did well. 1 not only won the leg, 1 was only 12 hours behind the third Class 1 boat. So 1 knew I had the boatspeed. And 1 determined that 1 was going to sail the boat that way the entire race. Well, the first leg was pretty short. 1 didn’t really stop to consider that the rest of the race was going to be a marathon, not a sprint. 1 picked too frantic a pace. 1 eventually had to back off and rest more. It wasn’t really until the third leg that 1 got my pacing sorted out. After that, when the opportunity to sail fast presented itself, that’s what 1 did. When it didn’t, 1 lived to fight another day.

AROUND ALONE WRAP-UP

Worst day? 1 don’t know — there were a lot of shitty ones! (laughs). 1 guess if 1 had to pick, it would be the day before 1 finished. 1 think 1 wrote in my final daily update that it was one of the worst nights at sea of my entire life. It was basically a group of squall activities that had hooked onto the Gulf Stream and been driven north. The forecast was for winds up to 40 knots, but we ended up with a barometer of 995 and 50-60 knots right on the nose. The waves were coming from every direc¬ tion. The boat was over so far that I was bracing-standing with one foot on the coach roof and one on the side of the cabin. I hadn’t slept in two days and I was worried about the boat. We had not yet had a catastrophic (allure and I didn’t want to have one then. I felt really pissed off and nasty.

I'hiili’cjj bfiars sl.jricd ibc Around Alone Race in New York Harbor on September 15. Seven and a half months later, on May 1, the first boat. 1 Jci n.xrfl Shinim h tiO ft Bob$t Group ArmorLiuc, crossed the finish line. His 115 days and IZhours at sea beat ’98-'99 Class 1 winner Giovanni Soldini's FUu by a bit more than a day. Unfortunately, that and most other comparisons of this edition of Around Alone to past ones are tenuous at best. This race had a difierent staj-ttng city, different stops and even an extra leg that previous runnings did not have. It also had very different boats with very different budgets. Predict¬ ably. the better funded efforts did the best. lake every round-tlie-world race, this one had its drama. Three boats dropped out along the way, including tlie sur-

How about best or worst legs? That's a harder one. They're all special for different rea¬ sons. For example. Leg 1 from New York to Torbay, England, was 2,900 miles. That was short compared to the other legs. Plus it was the beginning of the race and everyone was find¬ ing their rhythm. The second leg is nice because that's when you first get the Trades. Plus you're headed from north to the far south so you feel like you're going somewhere. And you play through a lot of different wind regimes, so it's tactical. Leg 3, you get into the Southern Ocean for the first time and Page 146 ♦

• June, 2003

end up in this beautiful place called New Zealand. Leg 4 is the mother of all legs. It's probably the one we dread the most. It's where the ice is, where the Horn is. And it's extraordinar¬ ily long, almost 8,000 mUes. So you're gone a long time and you get aU the temperature extremes from freezing to tropi¬ cal. Leg V is back into boat racing eind conflicting feelings about knowing it's the last leg amd wanting it to be over, but also not wanting this adventure to end. ^

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Above left, Simone Blanchetti's 'Tiscali' partially dismasted 30 miles from the end of the race and finished like this. Above, top row— 'Ocean Planet' finishes with a pilot whale (inset) escort. Center row (i to r) — Around Alone finishers Bernard Stamm, Kojiro Shiraishi. Tim Kent, Bruce Schwab, Thierry Dubois. Bottom Row, Alan Paris (cracked ribs and all) was high on becoming the first Bermudian to circumnavigate: Derek Hatfield and 'BTC Velocity' were still at sea; Emma Richards, the youngest woman ever to complete this race, takes a bow on 'Pindar.'

prise withdrawn! oi Graham Dalton alter his 60-footcr Hava yon was dismasted in Left 4. lialy's Simone Bianeheiii also dismasted, in Ijcfi 2. but aeeepted the offer from SUmm of Bobst's spare mast. W'hieh wa.s tfien delivered to .Spalrt b\' Pindar, competitor Emma Richards' team. Incredibly, Bianchettl's TiscxiU partially dismasted afjain ortly 30 miles from tlio finish line. Bianchetti jusigrirled tiis teetli'and sailed the wounded boat as-is to hold onto third place overall. As we go to press, the final competitor in Around Alone was sUll at .sea wltli 2,000 miles to go. 'Iliat is Canadian Derek Hatfield on the 40-ft S/rin'l nff'anda, who dusmasted .March 3 Tell us about your day’s run record. I thought I had gotten this on the first leg, but (race chair¬ man) Robin Knox-Johnston radioed back that I had missed it by 3/10 of a mile or something. So I knew it was possible. I looked for an opportunity to try again — but at the same time, I refused to adjust my race routing just for a record attempt. What I did was keep my eyes open for the right weather window. A day out of Cape Town, I saw a front com¬ ing, so I positioned myself in front of it. My plan was to keep

(during U;g 3) near Cape Horn, .spent five weeks fitting a new mast in ri:mole L'shuaia. and resumed the race on April 8. 'Hiere are deadlines for all legs but Otc last. So w'hen he fin¬ ishes in New York, he will take third overall in Class 2. In an emotional exchange, Derpk was hooked in sat phone to Ihe aw'apls c<Temony on May 17 and heard the roar of ap¬ plause wdien he was introduced. Bay Area C;i.iss'I participant Bruce Schwab ended his shoestnng (Jeean Planet campaign in last place in Class 1. There were limes he was so low on money we (or he) didn't think he'd make it one more leg, but he somehow pulled it together lo make every start. Plagued by breakages tn the early going. Bruce finally got to test Ocean Planet's mettle on I^g 5, and came aw’ay pleased. He held onto, second place through much of the leg. and was only passed by Tiscali and Thierry Dubois’ Soliduive.s in the final days. We ll hiive more on Bruce and Ocean Platu:t when he gef.s back in town next monUi. i'or mf)re on all the great Around /Clone stories, log onto

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racing in the right direction, but keep the hsimmer down and reef way too late. It worked out. I actually could have done a few more miles, but I jibed in the middle of it to keep going the right way. Without taking anything away from your competitors in Class H, they were a comparatively Corinthian bunch with¬ out nearly the depth of previous races, or of the boats in Class I. How do you think you might have fared with a June, 2003 •

• Page 147

interview: brad van liew

2002-2003 AROUND ALONE Skipper

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bikes. Whenever and wherever it’s re¬ motely possible to race, we will. You know, truthfully, I’m close to everybody in this race. Whether these relationships end up as longstanding ones beyond the race, time will tell.

Being the only returning veteran of Aroimd Alone, did you find yourself taking on a different role in your relationships with other racers com¬ pared to last time? Yeah. People would come and pick my brain. Bruce Schwab brought his boat to Charleston before the race so we could help each other. That’s the way this race has worked: the rookies are brought along by the veterans. I was more than willing to share my knowledge and my boat. When we’re ashore, the boats are completely open books for anyone who wants to check them out.

When are you coming back to California, and is there any

chance we're going to get to see the boat ouT here? I asked myself tJiat a lot: “Do 1 know for a fact that I’m really Yes! Beefeater Gin is sponsoring a tour up and doAvn both sailing this great of a race, or is the class falling off the pace?” coasts. Tommy Hilfiger will stay on as the presenting spon-^ I’ll say thi®-— Tim Kent on Everest Horizontal sailed a hell of sor. We're going to be out there in August or September, I a race. He was actually on a better pace than I was with Bal¬ ance Bar in the last race, and lots faster than most people think. (See official schedule below.) realize. But you know, I u»as up with the 60s at times. No 50 in What’s nejct for Brad Van Liew and Tommy Hilfiger Free¬ history has averaged what I averaged. It’s a bit hard to com¬ dom America? pare directly with previous races because the route was dif¬ Official!^, the boat is for sale. It’s too early to say much ferent this time. (Editor’s Note — the most recent Around Alone beyond that. There’s apparently an Open 50 circuit being put had five stops; all previous races have had four.) When we together in Europe, and we may do some of those events. evaluated some number for a Cruising World article, it showed Whatever happens wiU be decided by the team as a whole. that in the most comparable stretch from New Zealand to our For myself, I kind of doubt I’m going to do this race again. South America stop — Leg 3 There’s been some discussion then. Leg 4 now — '98-99 about doing a 60. About do¬ Class II winner J.P. Mouligne ing the Vendee. That would be did it in 32 days and I did it in great, although I’m starting to The Beefeater Bold SiMritTommy Hilfiger Freedom America tour starts 26. On the stretch from Cape get dangerous down in the on the 27th of this month in Stamford. Connecticut. The boat will be Town to New Zealand, I think Southern Ocean. I’m starting trucked across country to Los Angeles, arriving at the end of July. Planned he ’beat’ me by 12 hours. to think I understand it! California dates are August 16-23 at Fisherman's Viilage in Marina del But would I have beaten (laughs) You're charging Rey and August 27-31 in San Francisco (location tba). The boat will Bernard Stamm if I were in through 30 foot waves, hitting ^ then be trucked back to the East Coast for the rest of the tour, which Class I? I don’t know. He was 30 knots at times. It's some¬ ends at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show in e^y November. For more on pretty fast. thing. Whether there's one the tour or Tommy Hilfiger Freedom America, log onto www.tommy com more round the world race in freedomamerica You’ve often mentioned me is up for discussion. your ongoing friendships If we did do a 60, the only with Mike Garside and J.P. Mouligne from the last race. way I could do it now is to the high standards we set in this Did you build tmy such friendships with anyone this time? race. In an Open 60 campaign, it needs to be done that well Tim Kent. His passion for what he’s doing reminds me of to have a chance. So it would have to be a full-blown profes¬ me when I was younger and relentlessly in pursuit of what I sional campaign. wanted. We shared a lot ashore — spare parts and so on. On I'm also open to plugging into other programs and helping the water, Tim and I communicated a great deal about every¬ someone else pull off his dream. We'll just have to see. thing — everything but race routing, of course. I also want to spend more time with my daughter. There’s Emma Richards and I have talked about doing some sail¬ no doubt that I missed her more than I ever thought possible. ing together sometime. But I would say the closest friend I She was only four months old when we started this race. So made on this race was Bernard. He has a similar style as me for most of her little life, we’ve been separated. She’d see me on the water, and the funnest thing is watching him, how for a couple of weeks and then Ld be gone for a month or good he is. Later on this summer, he and I are planning to go more. So l have some catching up to do. down to Baja and spend some time in the desert riding dirt — latitude /Jr

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SHIPWRECKS, SHARKS & SAILING CANOES ^^omething peculiar loomed in the distance. It wasn't the same white sand beaches, swa3dng palm trees and crys¬ tal blue water indicative of the San Bias Islands. It was something else — a strange jagged speck on the horizon. Greg and I had been sailing our Morgan Out Island 41 Scirocco in Panama for two months, and I hadn't seen anything like it. I grabbed the binoculars.

No, this is not some computer-created Shangrila. It's Gunboat Island, one of 365 idyllic Isles In the San Bias archipelago. "It's a boatl" I screeched. "A boat? Big deal. We see boats every¬ day. Look ovei^ there! Oh my, it's the sun!" "Okay, I guess I just have to check out the shipwreck by myself," I yelled, clamoring into the dinghy. "Shipwreck?" Greg perked up. (You mention any form of destruction to a guy and you instantly have his attention. Bo¬ nus points if there is a boat, plane or train involved in the disaster.) "It looks like a sailboat hit the reef and "Did I go back in time 500 years?" wondered Cherle, after visiting this little lady in her cook¬ ing hut.

sank!" I armounced as if I was the first witness to the boat's ruins. Already in the dinghy, prepared to row in to th^ wreck, I waved an invitation for Greg to join me. As they say, "two paddlers are better than one!" "Wait! Let me see if I can get the din¬ ghy engine run¬ ning," Greg hollered. I was confused. The dinghy engine had been dead for four months. My boyfriend 8</> and I were row¬ UJ ings ever5nvhere. QC UJ I Rowing is great O exercise (some¬ times) but often just plain tiresome (most of the time). I'd had enough of "row, row, row your boat." But in four months, Greg never "found the time" to repair the en¬ gine. I didn't want to nag him about it, so I only casually mentioned fixing the dinghy engine every few days. Shock¬ ingly, when presented with the opportu¬ nity to explore the shipwreck, that out¬ board engine roared to life in less than ten minutes. "You got it started!" I was ecstatic. Just the sound of a purring engine made my biceps relax. "It was just bad fuel! It's fixed now! Let's go see the wreck!" Greg bounced into the dinghy and in a few moments we tore through the translucent water. The remains of the sail¬ boat (a little bigger than Scirocco) were already stripped bare by the native Kima Yala Indians. The wreck was l54ng in a couple feet of water. Tiny waves lapped at its hull, as if they might lick it back to life. Even the teak was pried off the decks. I was scrambling around the semisubmerged vessel when I heard Greg scream. "Some¬ thing bit me!" he shrieked. Greg hobbled fi-antically back to the dinghy and landed awkwardly in its center. He was hollering as if a shark had crunched his leg off. I waded my way back to the P dinghy and found Greg rock§ ing his foot like an infant. “ "It just finished bleeding," QC he announced. (Like twenty UJ I o seconds ago it was a much

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Shopping the old fashioned way. When a visiting boat arrives, local ladies paddie out in hopes of selling their Intricateiy-crafted molas.

more serious wound.) "Let me take a look at that." It is a rare moment when my nurturing side comes out. Like a com¬ passionate nurse, I gently examined his very normal and healthy foot. "Looks fine to me," I declared after a complete onemlnute analysis. Since I wasn't going to have to amputate Greg's Injured append¬ age, I shot more pictures of the ship¬ wreck. Greg groaned like a Halloween monster. I thought I should be a good girlfriend and look at his footie again. Good thing, because I missed something. It was so minuscule; a grain of rice would have dwarfed it. A tiny piece of flesh-col¬ ored coral had indeed bit' him. "I'm ready to go now." Greg dramati¬ cally sighed. Officially wounded, Greg was prepared to be pampered. (Even when the toughest men are injured, they turn right back into little boys.) Back at Scirocco, a pair of tweezers and a little antibiotic cream made Greg a new man. I thought we should pour alcohol on it. but Greg vetoed the idea.

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fond memories of the 369 San Bias Is¬ lands (49 of which are inhabited by Kuna Yala natives).

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have been traveling full time for over four years and Panama is my favorite place on earth. If I were to do it again. I'd spend an entire season just cruising Panama. Before we left, I noticed remnants of

I have been traveling full time for over four years and Panama is my favorite place on earth.

"How about salt in your wound?" I added sarcastically. "I feel better now! Let's go back to the Island and hang out with the natives." Greg yanked the engine cord and a few seconds later we were gliding over the shallow coral. When we Icinded on the beach, all the Kuna children came out to greet us. One little boy kept hovering around me. He then touched me and ran away. I laughed. I must have looked like an alien in my blue/black snorkeling suit. Then we took part in the traditional 'mola ritual', where the Kunas presented us with all the artwork the island's women have sewn in the last century. The touch and run' boy sat next to me. Periodically he caressed my skin Suit in amazement. I was his new best friend. He pointed to the animals on each mola and pronounced their names in Span¬ ish: pescado, mono, pqjaro (fish, mon¬ key, bird.) It was obvious what the de¬ signs were, but I let the kid explain them

to me anyway. He was trying to impress me. It was working. > , Then the Kuna women showed me a mola unlike one I had ever seen. (And I have seen a lot of molas.) "What the heck is that? I thought.” The boy was silent. There was only one thing 1 couldn't iden¬ tify and he wouldn't tell me what it was! I asked him in Spanish and he looked at me like I was a Martian. "It's a cat with wings," he finally informed me, as if it was the easiest design to figure out. If he was a kid born in the United States he would have added, "Duh!" He probably con¬ cluded that blue women with red hair are just plain dumb. So I bought the ^ winged-cat mola to add to 5 the colorful quilt I'm going J to make. Then I'll forever be 11 able to wrap myself in my ^

the shipwreck everywhere on the island. Pieces of teak deck were nailed over ca¬ noe weak-spots, halyards held Kuna clothes (drying in the breeze) and the wreck's dodger was tacked onto a hut's entrance. One person's tattered sun¬ shade is another person's hut foyer. The Kuna Yala live happily and sim¬ ply. They told Greg and me that we seem like family to them. In fact, the phrase "Sugar Daddy" is oddly appropriate since all that Greg seems to dole out is choco¬ lates. We share our food with them, and they share their water with us. Sharing our provisions was a great idea until we ran out of food. That's when we learned that a Kuna "store" is simply a "hut " selling expired canned goods. After two weeks of eating pork-and-beans and canned tuna, we decided to sail to Ckrti — the most populated island in the San Bias chain — in the ridiculous hope that they had a larger selection of gro¬ ceries. This dugout sailing canoe isn't exactly a high tech means of transport, but then no one is really in a hurry in the sleepy San Bias Islands.

SHIPWRECKS, SHARKS & SAILING CANOES "Let's try to do this quickly." Greg sug¬ gested. The plan was: paddle in, shop, and then paddle back. But it couldn't be that easy. Greg and I were informed at the "dugout canoe dock" that we had to meet the island's chief before were per¬ mitted to walk around the Carti.

Wearing the traditional Kuna face paint, as well as typical clothing, a beautiful local girl paddles out to visit 'Scirocco'. The leader's hut looked the same as eveiyone else's, except he had a framed picture of himself tacked up. (I laughed because it seemed like something I would do if I were a Kuna Yala.) What do you do when you meet a chief? Bow? Shake hands? I was at a loss for words. I had never met a chief be¬ fore. What should I say: "How about them coconuts?" The island leader turned out to be a pretty relaxed guy. In fact, during our entire visit, he never got out of his ham¬ mock. Greg and I sat in his hut and made the strange conversation you make with people with whom you have nothing in common. 'Yeah, I know what you mean we have those same drainage problems when we build our huts in the USA." With the outboard finally working, Greg motors to shore. In the background is the evidence of someone's shattered cruising dreams.

The Kuna leader gave us a couple of beers and told us how difficult it was to watch "all this technology" change his is-V land. I wanted to remind him that he was living in a thatched hut, but I thought it might be rude. I think the "technology" he was referring to was his tiny refrig¬ erator — which I was thankful for since warm beer is Just plain nasty. While we bonded with the chief, a few Kunas stopped by and brought their giddy chil¬ dren to sit on my lap. Hemline: Quick Shopping Trip Turns Into All-Day Event.

We thanked the chief for his gen¬ erosity, still dreaming thaf'Carti might have a greater selection of food in their market. "Look at all this technology!" I exclaimed sarcastically as I entered the dark store/hut (with no electricity). Even in the poor light, we could see that pork and beans lined the thatched walls like bad 70's wallpaper. Nevertheless, we headed out with a Costco-sized supply of canned goods. After we re-provisioned, we ran out of water. It is expensive to have water flown into the islands (because water weighs about 8 Ibs/gallon) so the Kunas gener¬ ously gave us over 100 gallons of water from their well. Greg and I even 'show¬ ered' at the Kuna well with all the other locals. Afterwards, they invited us to hang out and have a coconut. The Kunas thought they had so much technology, and Greg and I thought we were living like natives! Then one day I saw a Kuna slathering suds over himself in the very well that we'd been jugging our drinking water from. I had an attack of ISA (immediate sanitation anxiety.) Usually, everyone re¬ moves the water from the well with a bucket and bathes off to the side. I walked over to the Kuna and asked him if the well water was safe to drink. "Of course!" he replied in Spanish. The newly-cleaned Kuna climbed out of the hole and poured a random amount of Clorox bleach inside the well. "The wa¬ ter should be fine in a few hours," he added. Imagine my face at that moment. I could have landed the lead role in the next FYiday the 13th horror flick. "What's wrong?" Greg asked. (Can you believe he asked that?) "I am not going to drink any of that weU water." I an¬ nounced. "What? We just spent three days jerry-jugging over 100 gallons of it to Scirocco. You're overreacting. The water is fine." Greg's the type that thinks

mold makes cheese prettier. "I don't jvant to drink disinfected Krma well water. If I took a bath and then poured bleach in it, would you want to drink the water a few hours later?" 1 asked. "Okay," Greg said, "you have a point." (Greg will admit that I have "a point" much easier than he will admit that I am "right.") "Let's come back tomorrow and see how the water looks," Greg offered. "I don't care how it looks! For all we know Proud of their virtually unaltered cultural heri¬ tage, Kuna Yala women all wear similar Jewelry, clothing, and head scarves.

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those germs are going to have , an allnight sex party and triple their popula¬ tion before morning! The bleach prob¬ ably just cleans them off and makes them more attractive to each other!" I was overreaching. Absurd thoughts were swirling in my head. What if all the Kuna teenagers came to the well at midnight and urinated in it? What if 1 was drink¬ ing bleached pee?

around sailing his little dugout canoe. Eating lobster and hanging out in hammocks all day is something 1 could get used to. Nevertheless, 1 think I'll stay a sailor. Now that we had food and water, we craved a meal that didn't come from a can. "I'm going to catch us a'fish," Greg declared. Sailing tends to bring out the caveman in a guy.

finally calmed down and compro¬ mised. We bought bottled water to drink — a huge waste of $2 a gallon in Greg's opinion. Gas is cheaper than that!) We used the Kuna well water for showers and dishes. Thus, I've come to the sad realization that Greg and I wouldn't make good Kunas. First, I wouldn't want to eat co¬ conuts at every meal for the rest of my life. Second, the average Kuna family has eight kids and I can't imagine takipg my immediate family out to dinner and hav¬ ing to make a reservation for ten. Third, Greg has still never caught a fish, which is how the Kuna men "bring home the bananas." So we'd be living in the "poor hut." And fourth, I just can't see myself sewing molas all day, while Greg farts

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Greg and 1 have been cruising since October 2001, and Greg has not caught one single fish. It’s not that Greg isn't a good angler. He just hasn't tried. But recently Greg bought a stack of 'learn to fish' guidebooks and a skiff-load of fishing gear. Now we just need to catch 400 fish and win a blllfish tournament to break even. The next morning greeted us with a new sun on the horizon and an old fish¬ erman anchored about ten feet from Scirocco. An entire empty ocean and the Kuna chose to park his canoe right next to us. After a few minutes of effort, the eld¬ erly Kuna found himself sitting in a pile of freshly caught fish. He simply threw a piece of string in the water and pulled out a fish. Amazed, we watched him haul out a flapping fish every five minutes. With each catch, he held up his prize and yelled, "Feeesh!" (The only English he spoke.) Greg couldn't get over it. 1 thought my boyfriend was going to jump over the UfeItnes and strEmgle the old angler the next time he said "feeesh!" It was Greg's turn to bring home the bacon-of-the-sea. Greg's fishing rod is a contraption called a "Cuban reel." It is basically a giant spool of fine that you wind by hand. It's a small device used to catch small fish. "Fish on!" Greg yelled a few minutes after the line was out. Apparently, fish¬ ing was as easy as the Kuna made it look. As Scirocco's head photographer, I got out the camera and snapped away. This would be the first fish that Greg ever caught! It was also going to be a deliLooks like paradise to us. And that's exactly how Cherie and Greg felt about the San Bias' unique culture and geography.

SHIPWRECKS, SHARKS & SAILING CANOES cious dinner. I was anxious and excited. What was it? Tuna? Dorado? The sus¬ pense was like opening a present. "It's a shark!" I screamed. My camera kept clicking. "Will you put down that camera and help me." Greg pleaded. "Do you think you can bring the shark on the other side of the boat? The light is better over there for pictures," I asked. Snap, snap, snap. Greg gave me the squinty-eyed, catching-a-shark-is-serious-business look. "Put the camera down and get my gloves." Greg spat. "Your sailing gloves? Don't those gloves stop at your knuckles?" I asked. The shark thrashed around the bow, zig¬ zagged under the hull,' and Jerked Greg all over the deck. I don't mean* to take sides — but the shark was winning. 'You're right." (Rare moment that I was right.) "Don't you have gloves that cover your fingers?" Greg questioned. 'Yes, but they won't fit you," I replied. Then I saw the idea hatch in Greg's skull. He wanted me to jerk the lure out of the shark's jaws. Was he nuts? "No way! Don't even think it!" I stood

Some resourceful Kunas salvaged a dodger off the derelict wreck (in the background) to pro¬ vide shade for their hut. firm on the lurching bow. "I'll bring the shark on deck and you get the lure out of his mouth. Don't worry." Greg was confident. I could imag¬ ine Greg as a child saying to another kid: 'You buy the candy and I'll eat it. Deal?" "Of course it's not a problem for you. You won't be the shark attack victim. Why don't you just let the shark have

the lure?" It seemed logical to me. "That is our last lure! He's not getting it." Greg was determined. Headline: Man Exchanges Two Fingers For Five-Dollar Lure. Greg hauled the shark abocird — a giant feat and a huge mess. The shark didn't like Scirocco, so he beat the crap out of our boat. The shark would lie still for a moment (just to fake us out) and Greg would lean in to pull the lure out (with his open-fingered gloves) and then the shark would convulse like it was dy¬ ing. And, of course, it was. "Hurry up! Don't kill it!" I pleaded. I was now on a Save-the-Shark mission. My Uncle Steve taught me that if you kill something, you have to eat it. I wasn't in the mood for shark-fin soup. Then with a deft flip of his wrist, Greg pulled the lure out and nudged the shark back into the sea. "Everyone wins!" I shouted. Greg ended up with his lure, I ended up with my photos and the shark ended up with his life. Shipwrecks and sharks certainly spice up life iil the tranquil San Bias Is¬ lands.

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BAY AREA TRANSPAC ENTRIES X he TransPac is back! After a steady erosion of entries in the past decade, the upcoming 42nd TransPac has suddenly snapped back to life, fielding a remark¬ able 59 boats as of this writing. That's way, way up from the last two editions of this 2,225-mile biennial bluewater classic, when just 33 entries sailed each time. Frankly, it was a little hard to get excited about such a small race, espe¬ cially when only three Bay Area boats {Pegasus, Gone With The Wind, Warpath) competed in the '99 race and just two in '01 (Pegasus, and the chartered Cantata). This time, however, things are differ¬ ent — the Bay Area is sending nine boats into the fray! Until a few weeks ago, that number actually stood at twelve, but three early entries — Charles Breed's Elliott 46 Bravado, Howard Rafael's Beneteau 40 Tango, and Tom Camp's steel Beuhlen 49 Just Imagine— dropped out for various reasons. To see the entire entry list and/or learn more about the TransPac — which starts from Point Fermin on July 1, 4, and 6 — check out www.transpacijlcyc.org. For the lowdown on the Bay Area Nine, read on: Pegasus 77, R/P 77, Philippe Kahn — Two years ago, when Pegasus was fresh out of the box, Silicon Valley soft¬ ware guru Philippe Kahn and his pro¬ fessional crew won the Barn Door by about an hour over Pyewacket [Chance and Merlin's Reata came in several hours later). Pegasus finished after 8 days, 2 hours, and 34 niinutes (an 11.44-knot average), 15 hours short of Pyewackets '99 course record. In the process, Pe¬ gasus won Division I and came in sec¬ ond overall. Kahn, who sails Cut of Ssmta Cruz under the Waikiki YC burgee, would ob¬ viously like to win again — and, of course, breaking the course record is always in the back of everyone's mind. Toward that goad, Kahn has assembled his international posse again — naviga¬ tor Mark Rudiger, watch captains Marco Constant and Mark 'Crusty' Christensen, boat captain Zan Drejes, 13-year-old son Sam 'Shark' Kahn (who will be doing his third crossing!), Morgan Larson, Mike Mottl, Rlcheu’d Clarke, Jeff Madrigali, Sean Doogie' Couvreux, Mikey Joubert, Justin Clougher and Adam Beashel. None of these guys — well, except maybe Shark — sail for free. Pegasus sailed the 2002 Pacific Cup with many of the same crew, coming in fifth in class. The boat wintered on the hard at KKMI, and is now out practicing Page 156 •

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Horseplay — 'Pegasus'gallops down the home¬ stretch en route to winning the 2001 Barn Door Trophy. Can Kahn and company do it again?

and sail-testing for the TransPac — in¬ cluding,* apparently, some overnight training sessions. Pegasus and Pyewacket will line up against each other in their 2003 TransPac trim for the first time in Encinal YC's June 14 Coastal Cup, where they both rate -129 under PHRF. Pegasus and Pyewacket also rate the same under the TransPac's IMS-based rule, so it should be a great match race to Hawaii. Each boat is configured to hit the new upper limit of the TransPac, uti¬ lizing a box rule' which dictates a nar¬ row displacement band, draft limits and certain sail airea restrictions. "Pegasus

has the same rig and fin as she did in the last Pacific Cpp, but a different bulb," explained designer Jim Pugh. "Pye¬ wacket had to switch back from her East Coast turbo mode to get under the TransPac limit, and has had to make more changes. Both boats are substan¬ tially faster than they were two years ago — the VPPs Indicate they should be 20 hours faster to Hawaiil — so, with emy cooperation from the weather, the record is in danger." Alta Vita, Davidson TP-52, Bill Turpin — Alta Vita ('high life' in Italian) is a state-of-the art, Davidson-designed, Cookson-built TP-52, which was deliv¬ ered to owner Bill Turpin in February, 2002. With a PHRF rating of -81, she is

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much faster than the TransPac sleds of a decade ago. Turpin, a semi-retired high-tech ex¬ ecutive who was in on the groxmd floor of Netscape, enjoyed great success in his first year with Alta Vita. Podium finishes included winning the big boat class in the 2002 Pac Cup (with an inadvertent assist from J/Bird III), second in the Big Boat Series to Yassou, and, most re¬ cently, winning PHRF-1 at the Yachting Cup. Though he's done two Pac Cups (a class win with his SC 52 Ingrid in 2000, and last year on Alta Vita), several Mexi¬ can races, and every BBS since '92, Turpin has never done the TransPac. The only other TP-52 entered in the race is Karl Kwok's squeaky new Beau Geste, a Farr design managed by Gavin Brady. "They'U have a strong program," figured Turpin. "The race between us should be every bit as intense as the one between Pyewacket and Pegasus for the Barn Door." Alta Vita, already highly optimized, is being taken to an even higher level this summer. "We're focusing on sail devel¬ opment and crew now," said Turpin, a member of St. Francis YC and Santa Cruz YC. 'We've got Fuzz Foster of North Sails Hawaii sailing with us and optimiz¬ ing our inventory with an emphasis on downwind'performance. Fuzz has done similar work for Samba, Pyewacket and illbruck, with great results. The rest of the TransPac crew looks pretty sharp, too — project manager Jay Crum, who has been with Turpin about ten years, Ian Klitza and Hawaiian sailor Ty Prlne are all returning vets. They'U be augmented by three refugees from the recently-sold Andrews TP-52 J/Bird III — SoCal talents Pete Heck, Ernie Richau and Jim Slaughter. Alta Vita just did the Spinnaker Cup (see Racing Sheet) as a warm-up exer¬ cise for the TransPac. On June 14, they'U line up against Beau Geste — which should be getting readied at KKMl by now — for the first time in the Coastal Cup. "Our goal is to beat Beau Geste to Ha¬ waii and do well overall on corrected time," stated Turpin. 'We have the crew and the boat to do this, and hopefuUy the weather will cooperate. With the depth of talent we have aboard, it also promises to be a fun experience."

sis," said Kirby Coryell, a retired hightech executive who hit it big with Com¬ merce One. "1 had to have a bone mar¬ row transplant 15 months ago, and while I was recovering my friend Neil Weinberg threw out the TransPac idea as an in¬ centive to get well. I don't think he really thought 1 was going to survive, because now he has to go through with iti" Coryell, a cruiser for the past 30 years, and Weinberg, owner of Pacific Yacht Imports in Alcimeda, will sail Coryell's new luxurious Tayana 52 Beach Music doublehanded in the Aloha Division. Weinberg previously sold CoryeU a Panda and a Tayana 48, both named Island Time, and the two became friends through doing business together. Beach Music is well prepared, with Hansen rig¬ ging, new spectra/kevlar msitn and jibs from UK, and new spinnakers from Doyle ("With palm trees on our kites, how can we miss Hawaii?"). Coryell has contacted weatherguy.com for routing advice, and is attending weather, safety at sea, and Ham radio seminars to get ready. "My doctor gave me her blessing to They’re both 52 feet long, but that's about all they have In common. Top, the lean and mean 'Alta Vita'. Bottom, the luxurious 'Beach Music'.

do the race, and I feel very much alive getting ready for it," claimed Coiyell, who lives in Lafayette and, like Weinberg, is a member of Encinal YC. The duo has already done their 160-mile qualifying run, delivering Beach Music down to Ventura last month, where she'll stay until the race. "Eveiything went perfectly, despite gale force winds," reported Weinberg. "Our plan for the TransPac is to have fun, arrive without any serious break¬ age, and finish in a reasonable time (1213 days)," said Coiyell. "Two Guys on the Edge, Starbuck and Lucky Dog look like the boats to beat in the doublehanded division. If it's a light race, we'll be in trouble as we weigh 38,000 pounds and have about 10,000 pounds of gear aboard. But we'll have unlimited hot and cold water, and can watch DVDs and lis¬ ten to music while others cire roughing it!" Beach Music will spend a few weeks in Hawaii after the race before another friend, John Shaw, delivers her to the San Juan Islands, where Coiyell and his wife will go cruising. Then, it's on to Mexico via the 2003 Baja Ha-Ha, where Coryell hopes to recapture the Spirit

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Award he and his Tayana 48 crew earned in the 2000 Ha-Ha. Dasher, modified SC 50, Roger Groh — Dasher {ex-American Flag, ex-Sundowner) was built in 1986 by BtU Lee for solo sailor Hal Roth, who sailed the boat — and finished — in two BOC Around the World Races. To survive the South¬ ern Ocean, the heavily-modified Santa Cruz 50 features a thicker hull, water¬ tight compartments in the bow and stern, and a permanent hard dodger. The boat is also outfitted with a bowsprit and the option of water ballast, though the latter will not be employed this summer. Groh, the CEO of a San Francisco in¬ vestment company, purchased the boat from third owner Anna Stockel last sum¬ mer, and sent it to KKMl and Easom Rig¬ ging for a complete overhaul. "My wife Julie and 1 were getting fed up with our very wet Olson 30, Little O," explained Groh. 'We were looking for something that is fast, dry and big enough for us and our three teenaged daughters. The SC 50 seemed like a good choice — plus they're genuine downwind sleds!" Groh will be racing in the doublehanded division with his longtime ftiend Ron Young, a high-tech CEO, wellknown racer and ovmer of the beauti¬ fully restored 1937 lOD Youngster. The boat is set up well for shorthanded sail¬ ing (Stockel sailed it in the 2000 Singlehanded TransPac), and Groh "just fig¬ ured it would be more fun" than sailing fully crewed — though he jokes that "Ron is wondering if it's not too late to make the food and wine selection a little more gourmet by inviting a cook and crew." The duo will warm up for the TransPac by sailing in the Spinnaker Cup and the Coastal Cup, entering both those races Page 158* UmUc12 • June. 2003

On, 'Dasher'! — Roger Groh and Ron Young should have some good war stories after doublehanding this modified SC 50 to Hawaii. in the crewed division. Though he lives in Sausalito, Groh, who is currently the president of OYRA, sails under the burgee of the Waikiki YC (and SSS). He and Ron are looking for¬ ward to cruising to Molokai, Maui and Lanai with their wives and kids (who were schoolmates in Mill Valley) after the race, taking a month or so to explore the is¬ lands before having the boat delivered home. This will be the first big adven¬ ture for Dasher and, as Groh put it, "It should be Interesting. Following Hcil and Anna, we have some very big shoes to fill!" Illusion, Cal 40, Stan and Sally Honey — By any standard, Rlusion will be the boat to beat in the 10-boat Cal 40 group. Their boat, hull #57, is impecca¬ bly maintained, has an enviable race record, and a fantastic crew — co-skip¬ pers Sally and Stan Honey, who need no introduction to Bay Area sailors; watch captains Skip Allan and Jon Andron; and some youth in the form of Jon's two kids and/or Sally's son. "Our crew is long on experience, but alsdlong in the tooth with some disabili¬ ties," laughed Stan, who is president and CTO of Sportvision, Inc. (the company that puts the yellow first-down lines on football TV broadcasts, among other things). "We Joke that among our four grown-up crew, we've got one who can't hear, one who can't speak, a third who can't remember, and a fourth on hor¬ mones!" The men in the group all grew up sail¬ ing Cal 40s in Southern California, and

are thrilled about this rare op¬ portunity to race as a one design fleet to Hawaii. "Skip and Jon were the first guys I thought to ask, and they both said yes im¬ mediately," said Stan. "Jon was the guy who introduced me to serious ocean racing by getting me aboard Drifter in '79 (which beat Merlin for the Barn Door). We've done seven TransPacs to¬ gether, and he is one of the best m helmsmen I've ever sailed with, g Skip was already a legend when § 1 was growing up around LAYC t — he's -widely regarded as one of 3 the best seaman and helmsmen on the planet. Sally and 1 are honored that both these guys are join¬ ing us for the race." Illusion, which the Honeys have o-wned happily for 15 years, knows the way to Hawaii, having won the SSS TransPac in '94 and the Pacific Cup doublehanded and overall in '96. The crew knows a thing or two about cross¬ ing the Pacific, too — Skip has done 24 Hawaii races, Stan has navigated 18 (in¬ cluding 7 Barn Doors, 5 records, and 8 wins), Jon has 12 TransPacs on his re¬ sume, and Sally is the 'rookie' -with just 4. That's 58 races between them, and more than half involved podium finishes! The boat will fly the St. Francis YC

BOUND FOR GLORY Lessleys' rig un¬ fortunately tumb¬ led at the dock — The Lessley a long story — and boat pool' also they DNSed. This includes two year, with a new boats up in Port¬ name and some land, their Cal major upgrades, 9.2 Freewind promises to be a and the Cal 20 different stoiy. Culo Bagnato; California Girl the Santana 22 is currently at Bay Betty Boop, their Ship & Yacht get¬ round-theting a bottom job. buoys boat; and She now sports a an old wooden new Ballenger El Toro. The double-spreader Lessley clan has spar and boom, a done three Pac Schumacher rud¬ Cups (two on der, two new car¬ Freewind and bon poles (for one on their Cal double pole jibes), 40). Recently, a new engine, new Betty and Timm tanks, and new Wish they all could be 'California Girl's — The co-skippered cars. Cal Gal also Lessleys will enjoy a "family and friends" outing. Freewind in the has a new ward¬ Portland Offshore Race, a two-day trek robe — four new spirmakers from Quan¬ from Astoria, OR, to Victoria, BC, com¬ tum and Banks, two new black Quan¬ ing in first in class. tum headsails, and a new Quantum California Girts early life was spent main. Topping it all off are new instru¬ on the Great Lakes, racing with a tall rig ments, Including Sail Mail to get internet to achieve a more favorable rating under weather forecasts. "Someone — probably the lOR rule. She eame west to Portland me — is going to spend a lot of time sit¬ in '97, and has since attempted the Pac ting at the chart table," said Don. "In fact, Cup twice as Victoria!. In the slow 2000 because of that, we're contemplating race, she blew out her tired sail inven¬ adding one more 'mystery' crewmember." tory and took a DNF. Then, in 2002, the Though they won't come right out and say it, the Lessleys appeeir to be pulling out all the stops for the race. "The Cal 40 group is really impressive, and we have no idea how we'll fare," maintained Don. "Of course, we'd like to win, but more importantly, we re out to have a great time!"

burgee, and will be sporting a new kite which Sally built at her Spinnaker Shop in Palo Alto, as well as all of Stan's hightech navigation programs. "We re ^so bringing some new beanbag chairs that Skip and Jon promise that we'll love," said Stan. "However, I'm unconvinced so far." Rlusion will race in the Coastal Cup as a speedy way to get down to L.A. for their July 1 start. "We're still sorfrng out how to get the boat home from Hawaii," said Stan. "We might even sail it home ourselves, if it won't result in permanent unemployment." California Girl, Cal 40, Don and Betty Lessley — 'We're honored just to be part of this great race and share the course with people like Stan and Sally, and maybe even Dennis Conner, " claimed Don Lessley, a retired banking executive from Novato. The 'we' on Cali¬ fornia Girl, hull #94, is Don and wife Betty, a school administrator; son Timm, an international engineer based in Port¬ land; Hobie sailor Kit Wlegmam; and Olson 30 sailor Andy Macfie (Hoof). "It)s a family and friends effort," said Don. "All of us except Kit are Richmond YC mem¬ bers — and we're working on him!" Put money on Honey — The pre-race favorite in the Cal 40 class has got to be 'Illusion'. Her crew counts 58 Hawaii races between them!

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Ranger, Cal 40, Bill Partridge—This is Bill Partridge's second shot at sailing to Hawaii, and he hopes it goes better than his aborted 2000 Pac Cup effort. "Bruce Cibley and I were halfway there on the boat, then named Victoria, when we realized there was no way we'd make the cutoff. We turned back, as did all but two of our group." This time. Partridge, a marine con¬ struction superintendent who lives in San Anselmo, is sailing Ranger with a full crew — fellow Richmond YC mem¬ bers Cibley, Tom Alexander and Jerry Keefe. It's a solid group: Cibley sailed on the Cal 40 Montgomery Street when they won the TransPac overall in 1985; Alexander got second in class and fifth overall with his Lucas 48 Sam in last year's Pac Cup: and Keefe, "our desigJune, 2003 • UdXUtli • Page 159

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and, given our rookie under¬ dog status, might even sur¬ prise a few folks. Mainly, we intend to enjoy ourselves at all costs —• and if we manage to beat anyone, that's Just icing on the cake!"

nated trap-man", hails from the competi¬ tive Wabbit class. Mike 'Admiral' Duval was also part of the crew until recently pulling out for health reasons. Partridge has been sailing all his life, starting with Moons and El Toros out of Belvedere, and then crewing on big boats in his teen ye^s, including the Cal 40 Seabird. After three tours in Viet Nam on a Navy destroyer, he returned to sail¬ ing Finns, Solings and Wabbits (he traded the latter back to previous owner Bill Erkeleps in exchange for Cal 40 gear). Partridge has owned his 1966 Ranger, hull #47, for five years. "The boat has done a few TransPacs under previ¬ ous owners, though 1 couldn't tell you when or how they did," he said. Ranger is a stock Cal 40, other than an upgraded Bob Smith/Advanced Com¬ posites rudder. The boat has all the nor¬ mal TransPac sails, and the crew will be pushing hard to give Elusion a run for the money. Unlike Elusion, however, they won't have the ability to connect to the internet to download weather informa¬ tion (which is legal this time), instead rel5dng on a weatherfax. The crew tuned up in the Spinnaker Cup, and plans to deliver the boat to Alamitos Bay on the weekend of June 14-15. Partridge wiU deliver Ranger home with David and Stephanie Wells of Se¬ attle, taking 6-7 weeks of saved-up va¬ cation to do the round trip. 'We have a great crew," claimed Partridge, "and we're all really looking forward to the race!" Barking Spider, Catalina 38, David Kory— Pt. Richmond's Tradewinds Sail¬ ing Club, the oldest sailing school in the Bay Area, has entered a boat in the TransPac to fulfill a lifelong goal of its owner, David Kory, and to inspire and motivate others to achieve their sailing dreams. "We re taking an all-rookie crew Page )60 •

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Seems like old times — 'Ranger', seen at the beginning of the Spinnaker Cup, won't feel lonely with nine other Cal 40s in the TransPac. of Tradewinds members," said Kory. "Crossing am ocean is a daunting task, but if a bunch of knuckleheads like us can do it — well, you can, too!" Joining Kory on his whimsicallynamed 1984 former lOR racer will be John 'Cowboy' Burell, Chris 'The Profes¬ sor' Mellor, Lindsay 'Magic' Jones, and Carlos Lama. Kory, whose nickname is 'Captain Hardtack', owns Tradewinds and, as such, claims he doesn't \ really work. "1 Just travel around the world and go sailing all the time," he Joked. "It's under the guise of leading charter trips, re¬ searching future trips, or most any other excuse I can make up!" Barking Spider has been up¬ graded to virtually bombproof sta¬ tus, as the boat is used by Tradewinds for Catalina and Coastal Cruising trips twice a year (see last month's World of Charter¬ ing), as well as heavy weather win¬ ter training. Kory has also added gear to meet the TransPac rules, as well as replaced the standing rigging and bought some new sails. "But we're definitely on a budget," he claimed, "so our only secret weapons are attitude and beginner's luck." Kory and his Jolly crew of TransPac virgins will sail south from Brickyard Cove on June 24, and leave Los Angeles with the Aloha Division on July 1. A differ¬ ent crew of Tradewinds members will deliver the boat home starting on July 20. "This is our first ^ TransPac, so we'll be winners Just m by crossing the finish line," figured § Kory. "We hope to be competitive 8

Starbuck, Black Soo, Greg Nelsen — After finally overcoming a tough battle to j S meet the TransPac's stringent fg insurance requirements, the ; p actual race should be a walk ) ^ in the park for doublehanders Greg Nelsen and Allen Barth. Starbuck, a hard-chined 34-year old Van de Stadt (Holland) design, is a familiar boat on the West Coast shorthanded cir¬ cuit, as Nelsen has sailed her to victory in the last four SSS singlehanded crowns, as well as an overall win in the 2000 Singlehanded TransPac against a 23-boat fleet. "Starbuck is a great shorthanded boat," explained Nelsen. "She's small and light, and has a big bulb keel Underdogs — David Kory and the 'Spidermen' are all TransPac virgins. "We'll be winners just by crossing the finish line," he reckoned.

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which keeps the boat up¬ right without crew ballast. I'm hoping for more wind than we saw in 2000, which was a pretty slow race." Nelsen, who is currently the commodore of SSS, is a self-described "dropout" from the tech world. The 35year-old Piedmont resident is enjoying his time off, de¬ livering boats and doing § "consulting-type tech pro- § jects." Barth, 32, works in § San Francisco at an energy ^ management company. The S two have been sailing to¬ gether for over five years, back when Nelsen campaigned the Thunderbird Ou¬ zel. Starbuck is now in turbo mode, with a spritpole and huge asymmetrical kites. "It'U be interesting to see how this set¬ up works over a long distance, and how different it is from the last trip to Ha-

to waive the genset re¬ quirement." Nelsen and Barth will tune-up for the TransPae by sailing doublehanded in the Spinnaker Cup and crewed in the Coastal Cup. Being basically sane people, their plan is to ship the boat home from Hono¬ lulu. 'TU miss finishing in Hanalei Bay, which couldn't be much prettier," said Nelsen. "But I won't miss the slog from Kauai back to Oahu to put Starbuck on the ship!"

Full Nelsen— Theturbo'ed 'Starbuck'could be a handful even for veteran solo sailor Greg Nelsen and crew Allen Barth. waii," said Nelsen. "Preparing the boat has been a lot easier this time around — basieally we re Just adding food and more solar power. We're going strictly on solar power, as the TransPae eommittee agreed

e'U be rooting for all nine Bay Area entries to have a safe, successful and fun crossing. Tune in next month for Latitude’s traditional 'full' TransPae Preview, complete with our dartboard-derived predictions for class winners. Let the good times roll! — latitude/rfcm

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CAL 40 henever the praises of the Cal 40 are sung — and as far as we can tell, the music has barely paused for 40 years — much is made of her racing prowess. With an offshore record matched by no other production design in history, the 40 did Indeed surf her way into the record books and hearts of a gen¬ eration of sailors. But her racing resume is only part of the stoiy. Two other important factors in her phenomenal success were design and price. Design-wise, she was evolutionary more than revolution¬ ary — Herreschoff had drawn fin keelers in the 1890s — but it’s hard not to overstate the impact that the Cal 40’s long fin and separate spade rudder had on the sailing status quo in the early ‘60s. And on yacht design ever since. What today seems like a pretty conservative underbody was considered heretical by many ocean racers in those days, when most ‘new’ designs were re¬ finements of the traditional full keel and attached rudder. Com¬ bine that with the 40‘s reduced weight (20% lighter than equiva¬ lent boats of the day), canoe body and flat sections — and the doomsayers predicted all manner of structural failures and may¬ hem. They never occurred. To this day, the C^ 40 retains a reputation as one of the strongest, most controllable yachts in heavy conditions ever built. The third element in the initial appeal of the Cal 40 was its affordability. When the boat debuted in 1963, fiberglass pro¬ duction was still in its infemcy — the first production fiberglass boat, the Bounty II, had gone into production only a half-dozen years before. But the promise was there: ‘glass’ construction was much cheaper and easier than wood, took less time, was lighter, and didn’t have any of the design constraints of wood. For these reasons, the first five Cal 40s sold for only $17,000 apiece. (The later basic models — with main and jib — went for $20,000, with fully-optioned boats in the $28,000 range.) That Page 162 •

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was about a third of what the equivalent boat would have cost in wood, and cheap even in the mid-60s. It meant that offshore racing was no longer the domain of the rich. For the first time, an average guy could buy a production boat, sail it with a bunch of friends — and be competitive with the big boys. The ‘big three’ responsible for the creation of the Cal 40 were C. William Lapworth, the innovative designer who did the engi¬ neering amd drew the lines; Jack Jensen, founder of Jensen Marine in Costa Mesa, who took the chance to build the boats; and George Griffith, a Southern California engineer and long¬ time ocean racer who conceived and commissioned the design. ^ Each complemented the other — Lapworth was the fuel, Jensen was the piston and Griffith was the spark plug. Without a full commitment from each of them, the Cal 40 might never have happened. While the names of Jensen and Ldpworth are well known in Cal 40 circles, historically speaking, Griffith has been kind of a ‘silent’ partner. Yet his laehind-the-scenes contributions were

eveiy bit as crucial as those of the builder and designer. Griffith — then of Newport, now of Long Beach — has been a significant figure in the Southern California ocean racing scene for six decades. He sailed his first TransPac in 1941 aboard the 45-ft cutter Pqjara, which he co-owned with brother David. They took second in the tiny seven-boat fleet — the last TransPac for a decade because of World War II. Griffith knew Jack Jensen from when they attended Cal Tech together in the ‘40s, and he’d met Bill Lapworth when they crewed together on Dick Stewart’s Lapworth-designed Flying Scotchman in the 1950 Bermuda Race. When Griffith decided on a new boat in the early ’50s, he’d gone to Lapworth, who produced a lovely 36-footer, Cassandra, that splashed down in 1954. Griffith’s friend Bob Allan had a sistershlp built at the same time, which beceime his first Holiday. These boats — built plank-on-frame m the traditional way by Chapmans in Costa Mesa — proved popular and successftil enough in local racing that a class was established. E>ventually, some 88 Lapworth

36s were built, making it one of the most successful one-design ocean boats of the time. By the early ’60s, Griffith's family was growing and Cassandra seemed to be shrinking. It was time for a new boat. He went back to Lapworth with a few sketches for, by now, the seventh big boat he wamted to build. This or^e was distinctly different than the rest. It had a long waterline, comparatively short over¬ hangs, a long fin keel and a separate rudder. “You don’t sail a dinghy Avith a rudder attached to the centerboard, and din¬ ghies have instant control,” says Griffith, now 82. “It seemed so obvious to me to do this on a bigger boat that I couldn’t see why nobody had done it before.” Lapworth (now 83) was a kindred spirit in this thinking. Start¬ ing out on catboats off his native Detroit, and later a top Inter¬ national 14 sailor in Southern Cedlfornla, Lapworth had already made a mark on the local ocean racing scene with boats like the 32-ft Flying Scotchman, which was essentially a blown-up 1-14 with a keel and attached rudder, and a 46-ft reverse-sheer June, 2003 •

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CAL 40 speedster called Nalu II which had won the ‘59 TransPac. By the time Griffith came around in 1962, Lapworth had already been experimenting with the idea of a detached, balanced rud¬ der on an inshore design that eventually became the Cal 28 (which debuted in 1963, the same year as the Cal 40). Jensen was less enthusiastic. A longtime rumor has circu¬ lated that Jack wouldn’t commit to build the boat unless Griffith promised he’d seU the first 10 of them. “Build?” corrects Griffith. “He wouldn’t even talk to me until I agreed to that!” But Jensen’s involvement was still a Ways away at the de¬ sign stage. Lapworth eventually completed the drawings of the lithe boat with the dinghy-like underbody. Then George started shopping boatyards up and down the coast for someone to build it. The Stephens brothers in Stockton, longtime fnends since they had designed and built Pqjara 20 years before, were first on the list. “They took several hours to go over the drawings and said, ‘We can build the boat, but we don’t like the design. We don’t think you’ll like the price and we don’t think you’ll like the product. Why don’t we not build it and Just stay friends?”’ Lester Stone in Alameda was next. Same reaction. Likewise from the Kettenburgs in San Diego. Finally, he went to Jensen, who at that time was in production with the Cal 30 and “losing my shut with every boat that goes out the door.” Griffith helped streamline the production on that boat (by, among other things, getting Jack to hire away the foreman of a cabinet making shop five blocks down the street) and Jack finally agreed to build the new boat — with that 10-boat promise and two more provisos. The first was thnk testing a 2-foot model of the boat at a facility back East (the first production boat we know of that underwent this level of R&D). Reportedly, that didn’t go well. The way the story goes, Lapworth, Jensen and Griffith all sat down together afterward, and after much debate. Bill was given the final say. Lapworth sid he didn’t care what the tank tests said. He thought the boat was a winner. The model still hangs in Bill’s home in Southern California. The second proviso was length. Lapworth had originally de¬ signed the boat to be 39 feet long “and Jack thought it might be a better selling point if it was 40,” remembers Griffith. The ap¬ propriate tweaks were made to stretch the boat to 39 feet, 6 inches — and the Cal 40 was born. Willis Boyd, a friend of Griffith’s from his Navy days — and Jensen’s landlord — built the plug. (He would later build his own 40, a unique raised-cabm version named Rocking Chair, #5, that now sails the Pacific Northwest as White Squall) Jensen pulled a mold off the plug and construction began. Persephone, Cal 40 # 1, was launched in 1963. Like her namesake, the Greek goddess of spring, the boat ushered in a colorful new era for ocean racing. “She was better than even 1 expected,” says Griffith. “She had that balanced Lapworth hull, and with the separate rud¬ der, you never lost control, never rounded up.” Even in a 25 to 30-knot blow off Cabo during a Mexican race in ‘64, Persephone was under complete control. And no one could believe how well the boat went on a reach. Or how well she surfed — something no other ocean yacht could do as well or as long back then. Eyebrows along the coast went from furrowed to raised. Af¬ ter a few sails on Persephone, Jensen, an accomplished sailor in his own right, started laying up hull #2, Conquistador, for himself. Griffith’s friend Don Salisbury bought #3 and named her Psyche. Number 4 became Barney Flam’s Flambouyant. And so it went. Griffith’s promise to find 10 buyers was never tested. Local ocean racers saw the boat, liked it and were practically lining up at the door of Jensen Marine with no urging from Griffith. Which is how he planned it all along.

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X he 1965 TransPac was a seminal race for the Cal 40, and ocean racing as we know it today. As mentioned, before ‘65, most successful ocean racers were large, full-keeled, custom wooden craft — many of them ketches, yawls or even schoo¬ ners — owned by rich heads of industry or movie stars. After ‘65, ocean racing was accessible to the masses, and with Cail 40s, under the CCA rule, the masses were competitive. Seven Cal 40s participated in Class C that year. Salisbury’s Psyche — with Griffith and Jensen among the crew and Ben Mitchell navigating — took overall corrected honors in the 54boat fleet, followed by Hays McClellan’s Cal 40 Hanalei (#9) in second. A Kettenburg 50 took third, followed, in order, by the gold platers Kialoall, Ticonderoga, Audacious and Stormvogel It was an auspicious debut, to' say the least. And it hardly went unnoticed. By the ‘67 TransPac, aU but two of the 16 Class • C entries were Cal 40s, and they soon proved ‘65 was no fluke

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When life began at 40 — Above, ‘Illusion’ surfs home from the Farallones. Below, ‘Montgomery Street’at the finish of the ‘85 TransPac. Left, ‘Ranger’ making tracks at the recent Spinnaker Cup.

— one, two, three in class and one, two, four in the overall standings over 68 boats. This time. Bob Allan’s Hpliday Too . (#24) led the charge, although Bob wasn’t aboard. Sons Skip and Scott—with help from Jake Van Heekeren, Swede Johnson, Ann Mallory and John Rumsey — sailed the boat to victory with one of the youngest crews in the event. The ‘69 TransPac will always be best known for the 78-ft ketch Mifs spectacular dismasting in the Molokai Channel — and her subsequent finish sailing backwards under mlzzen only. But the Cal 40s were also back in force, 12 of them in Class C, and once again, finished first through fourth in class and over¬ all on corrected time. The winner, Mort Andron’s Santa Bar¬ bara-based Argonaut (#79) had an even younger crew than Holi¬ day Too. As with ‘67, Dad wasn’t aboard, and brothers Geoff and Jon sailed the boat with six of their buddies, two of whom were just 17. This prompted one grizzled veteran to comment, ‘This race used to be for wooden ships and iron men. Now it’s

for fiberglass boats and kids.” Unintentionally, that comment hit the boat nail squarely on the head: In the space of a few short years, ocean racing had changed from wood and iron to speed and youth. And the Cal 40 fueled that potent combination lil^ napalm on a forest fire. Here’s how Bill Robinson put it in his 1974 book The Great American Yacht Designers: “Perhaps the biggest eye-opener of all was how the design exceeded all previous conceptions of what speeds a boat that size could attain and maintain at sea. A 40-ft boat surfing along for hours on end at 14 to 16 knots with wings of water arcing out from her hull like a water skier’s wake was mind-boggling to traditionalists, emd virtually a new breed of sailors was cre¬ ated by this type of sailing. Young, athletic crews who could stand the constant tension and exhilaration of rides like this drove Cal 40s as ocean racers had never been driven before, and the TransPac was their special place to shine, with its days June, 2003 •

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CAL 40 of downwind surfing.” The Pacific was not the only place the Cal 40 star was rising. In 1964, the chartered Conquistador (with Lapworth and Jensen among the crew), won the SORC. In ‘66, the New York-based Thunderbird (#31) — also with Lapworth aboard — won the Ber¬ muda Race. By this time, the word was out and new boats were being shipped to New England, the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, and showing well in local events wherever they went. Some were going even farther. An early owners’ list shows seven boats in Mexico, three in the Caribbean, one each in Sweden, South Africa and Germany — and hulls #155 and #156 going to the “Brazilian Navy.” ■ By ‘68 - 69, Jensen, Marine was in the enviable position of not being able to build Cal 40s fast enough to meet the de¬ mand. This despite the fact that the company was rotating be¬ tween three molds (two in production, one in repair) and put¬ ting five to six 40s out the door a month. Bay Area sailors will be interested to know one of the hardworking guys on the pro¬ duction floor in the summer of ‘68 .was a young naval architec¬ ture student named Carl Schumacher.

m The shape of speed during the summer of love. This Is Bonn and Betty Lessley’s ‘California Girl’ (ex-’VictoriaV).

production boat and only one shy of the 12-race record shcired by Merlin and Ragtime. By 1985, the TransPac was handicapped by a variation of the lOR and a boat had to rate a minimum of 29 to race. The only practical way to get Montgomery Street to 29 was to ‘turbo’ the boat with a 2.5-foot longer spinnaker pole and nearly 20% larger spinnakers. The first time the new red, black and white 1.5 ounce popped open, it was so huge it blotted out the sun and was immediately named ‘Kong’. The other spinnaker becafhe ‘Godzilla’. After all the preparation, ‘Monkey Street’, as she was affec¬ tionately known, somehow ended up 45 minutes late to the start and had to call the race committee to make sure they’d It took the switch from the CCA handicap rule to lOR in the stick around. They did, and Montgomery Street officially began early ‘70s to finally shut down the Cal 40 Juggernaut —• its long, its greatest race — and one of the greatest victories in Cal 40 slender shape rsm counter to Just about everything lOR came to encourage. Some have suggested over the years that the Cal history — firmly In last place. \ 40's success actually caused the demise of CCA. While that’s Aboard were Denning, his son David (skippering), navigator an exaggeration — the original intent of lOR was to ‘standard¬ Chris Nash, Jim Carrick, Joe Guthrie and Tom Horvath. ize’ a handicap rule so Americam and European boats could Sailmaker Jocelyn Nash (mother of Chris) picks up the story... race each other — it’s not hard to imagine that a few non-Cal “Fortunately, the power of this crew was in the drivers. They owners might have supported the adoption of lOR extra enthu¬ were able to ride each wave and follow these huge sjmimetrical siastically heca,use it was the only way to ‘beat’ the Cal 40. spinnakers through every squall. The great silver-gray hull went There were attempts to make the 40 more lOR-ftlendly. One fast, under control, dead down, straight for Diamond Head in was to chop three feet off the back of the boat and reverse the light air when others had to reach up, and in heavy air when transom. A few of these ‘Cal 37s‘ (which were counted as 40s in others crashed or shortened sail. production records) were built by the factory. A few were al¬ “In ‘85, Montgomery Street didn’t have GPS. Navigation was tered by owners. A few 40s sprouted bowsprits or taller masts. by sextant. Their weatherfax never worked, so their course was based on the navigator’s previous experience in the race, his feel for weather patterns and his understanding of the fastest way to sail to Ha¬ waii from California. “Each day as the position reports came in, the boat moved up a few places. The day before the finish, position reports put them in first over¬ all. They crossed the finish line with a fairly com¬ fortable corrected time margin over the whole fleet! At the trophy banquet, Chris Nash was presented with the Navigator’s Perpetual Tro¬ phy and skipper Dave Denning was awarded a 6-foot-long model of a Hawaiian war canoe,” “For everyone involved,” she recalls, “it was an unforgettable experience.” ‘Patriot’s interior is standard Cat 40 except for the port settee, which has been changed from It revealed some unforgettable numbers, too. an upper-tower to a targe singte bunk. \ With those giant kites pulling like locomotives. and one guy even had a Cal 40 yawl made, though no one re¬ Monkey Street may have recorded the fastest surfs ever for a members exactly why. (That boat. Tsunami, #131, was long ago Cal 40. “18-knot surges were common,” recalls David Denning, switched back to a sloop and lives on today as the Bay-based “and there were numerous times the speedo needle would Patriot.) bounce violently against the stop at 25, and the bow wave would The Cal 40 took a revenge of sorts on the lOR in the ‘85 nearly reach the spinnaker pole.” TransPac. San Rafael’s Jim Denning had bought Montgomery Street (hull #55, named for the location of the Financial District bank that owned the boat when it was brought north as a dem¬ The last Cal 40, Ambler, hull #170, rolled out the door of onstrator) in 1969 with one goal: do one TransPac. But the race Jensen Marine in 1970 (possibly ‘7l) and was shipped to Cor¬ got in his blood and he returned every year (except ‘79) through pus Christi, Texas. By that time, its successor, the Cal 39, was 1991, eventually racking up 11 TransPacs, the most for any in the pipeline. The 39 was a heavier, more crulsey boat that Page 166 • IxtUuJt ?? • June, 2003

— BOAT OF THE MONTH enjoyed some racing success, as did several later Lapworth/ Club (a half-hull model of her still hangs there). The ‘1700’ sail Jensen collaborations. But the thrill ride at Jensen was over. number was a tribute to 1962 Cup winner Weatherly, the 12Jack Jensen died a few years later at the young aige of 47, and Meter (USA 17) that Mosbacher sailed to victory over Australia’s records got jumbled or lost when the company Gretel. was sold and moved to Florida in the early ‘80s. Initially, the Honeys had great cruising plans The best guess from former Jensen production for the boat. Actually, they still do. In the mean¬ manager Roger Jones is that between 155 and time, Elusion has proven a fun and formidable 160 Cal 40s actually got built (one early docu¬ racing platform. In fact, in that department, in ment lists 10 hull numbers as “boats not built”). the last decade, Stan and Sally have made Elu¬ And only three or four are known to have been sion into one of the most accomplished 40s in lost, including Conquistador, which reportedly existence. Highlights of her resume include an hit a reef and sank in the Caribbean in 1968. overall win and then-record for the fastest The rest are still out there, many still casu¬ singlehanded monohull passage to Hawaii in the ally — or not so casually — racing. Iri 2000, the 1994 Single-handed TransPac. That 11-day, 10family-crewed Cal 40 Glider won the prestigious hour passage was also the fastest that any Cal Mdlermium 600 Race in the Great Lakes, and 40 had been sailed to the Islands, an incredible just this past April, Dennis Conner topped 19 accomplishment considering that, between other Cal 40s in the Ensenada Race, notching TransPac, Pacific Cup and the Vic-Maui, Cal 40s third overall with the boat that started it all, have made upwards of 100 Hawaii crossings. George Griffith’s old Persephone. Two years later. Elusion topped even that mark. Many 40s have gone cruising. Their good Sailing together in the Doublehanded I Division maimers make them swift, comfortable passage of the ‘96 Pacific Cup, Stan and Sally slid across makers, even for shorthanders. Veteran Bay Area the finish line off Kaneohe Bay in 11 days, 5 singlehander Hans Vielhauer sailed his 40, Chap¬ hours, winning their division and correcting out arral (#135) around the world solo in the early The new Schumacher-designed rud¬ first over 66 other boats. ‘90s. Gordon and Rhonda Collins’ Uhuru (#78) der is deeper and siimmer than the Los Angeles YC member Fin Beven’s Radiant did the 1997 Baja Ha-Ha Rally, and went on to originai, but retainins the same sur¬ (#24) is another impeccably kept old warhorse. cruise the South Seas last year as Erik and Lisa face area. (Compare this to the rud¬ The former Holiday Too may also boast the most Hauge’s renamed Hoonah. Another 40, Aurora der in the photo on opposite page.) impressive early resume of the 40 fleet. In addi¬ (#85) did the Puddle Jump the year before that. tion to that TransPac win in ‘67 under Skip and A few have been eithei spectacularly kept, or spectacularly Scott Allan, this boat also won the'Congressional Cup under restored. One of the former is Seattleite Peter Schmidt’s Olym¬ Scott in ‘67, Skip in ‘68, Dick Deaver in ‘76 and Ted Turner in pian which — get this — he bought new in 1969 and still races! ‘77. She also won several class championships and countless One of the latter is Elusion (#57), which suffered almost a de¬ local races — and continues that trend as Radiant. cade of total neglect before she was found and rescued by Palo Beven is a longtime SoCal racer who was weaned on Cal 40s Alto’s Stan and SaUy Honey. and other Cal boats through the ‘60s. Ijfe continued the love “1 didn’t want a fancy ocean racer,” says Stan, who regular affair during a stint with the Air Force in Sacramento, racing readers will recognize as the world-class navigator associated various ocean series out of San Francisco aboard Aldo Alessio’s with Roy Disney’s Pyewacket program and Steve Fossett’s St. Francis YC-based Cal 40 Kumu. record-setting maxi-cat PlayStation. “1 wanted a well-mannered, He’s owned Radiant since 1980 and, like the Honeys, came all-around good racing sailboat, and the Cal 40 was it. By today’s to own her in a unique way. ‘They were having a ‘garage sale’ at standards, the displacement is quite moderate, which is nice the old TA Yacht Club, and Ken and Gary Croan — who owned for shorthanded sailing, for autopilot steering, and for pushing her at that time,,— just pulled her up to the dock and said, hard. 1 also liked the solid glass hull. You can see everything ‘She’s for sale!’ If we didn’t make the deal right then, we decided and you’re not going to discover someday that the core is full of how we’d make the deal,” says Beven. “I seem to recall that I motored her out to my mooring the next afternoon.” water.” Radiant still races out of LAYC, which has been home to a That said, even Stan had initial doubts about the Cal 40 he healthy fleet of Cal 40s since Griffith and his friends brought found at Moore’s Reef in Santa Cruz in 1988. It had a faded the first ones there. At the height of their popularity in the late black hull with two bullet holes in it. Although the boat was on ‘60s and early ‘70s, Beven recalls that as many as 10 or 12 the hard, the interior was full of water mixed with old engine were based there. (This was at the ‘old’ LA Yacht Club near the oil. A couple of homeless people had lived in it at some point canneries on Terminal Island.) Today, there are still 8 or 9 of and, says Stan, “I think they had a dog.” A can of beans had them at the ’new’ club. Beven’s favorite events are coastal and exploded months or years before in one of the cupboards. The round-the-island races where the boat still excels off the vrind. bulkhead tabbing on all the interior bulkheads had broken off. His crew of eight often'*includes his son and daughter, Dick On the plus side, the boat had obviously been set up for serious Deaver’s daughter Kerry on the bow, and an ever changing cadre racing with, among other options, big Barient winches serving of friends, wives and girlfriends. both primary and secondary duty on each side of the cockpit. But his favorite Cal 40 recollection is of the windswept ‘77 Stan saw the possibilities, put in q lowball offer emd the deal TransPac aboard Vivant (#99) which he co-owned at the time was eventually done. As Stem and Sadly — a former sailmaker with Scott Alexander and Phil Rowe. and two-time Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year — set about gut¬ “We did an accidental jibe and rounded down in the Molokai ting the boat and restoring her from practically a bare hull and Channel,” he recalls. “We were pinned down for 20 or 30 sec¬ deck, her history started to emerge. Turns out illusion was origi¬ onds and then, just at the right instant, the padeye holding the nally owned by two-time America’s Cup-wirming skipper Bus vang pulled out — taking a good chunk of the deck with it. We Mosbacher and partner Vincent Monte-Santo, and had com¬ popped back up, took off and won our class by 38 seconds on piled a pretty decent record racing out of the New York Yacht June, 2003 • UiCUJt ?? • Page 167

CAL 40 corrected time over the next boat. Of all the things that could have broken, that padeye was the only one that did — and the only one that could have helped us.” Since 1965, there have been few TransPacs that did not in¬ clude at least one Cal 40 entry. And they’re not done yet. At this writing, a fleet of ten 40s are lined up to participate in the 2003 TransPac. Their start, the first of three, is July 1. The current entries are Illusion (#57, Stan and Sally Honey), California Girl (#94, Dorm and Betty Lesley, Pt. Richmond), Celebrity (#100, Gerald Finnegan, Redondo Beach), Flying Cloud (#120, Darrell and Scott Wilson, Lorig Beach), John B (#144, Greg Boyer, New¬ port Beach), Ralphie (#39, Jack and Taylor Pillsbury/Eleanor and Davis PUlsbuiy, San Francisco), Ranger (#47, Bill Partridge, Richmond), Redhead (#17, Andrew Opple, Ketcham, Idaho), Sea Fire (#169, John Harrison, Hawaii), and Willow Wind (#28, Wendy Siegal, Seal Beach). Among the few hopefuls — Dennis Conner and Persephone. That makes this the largest one-design fleet to race in the TransPac since — weU, since the Cal 40 fleet of 1967. Willow Wind owner Wendy Siegal is the driving force behind the ‘reunion tour.’ Wendy won the Aloha (cruising) Division of TransPac in 2001, and when somebody mentioned that 2003 would mark the 40th anniversary of the Cal 40 — she thought, what better way to celebrate the milestone than another fleet race to the Islands? Enthusiasm was high among all the own¬ ers we talked to, even the ones who couldn’t go.

erhaps the final measure of the Cal 40s success is how gracefully she has aged. As mentioned, many 40s have slipped effortlessly into the cmising lifestyle. Many more pull family duty, sailing their local waters, often having been passed down from father to son, and now raising a third generation of sail¬ ors. Like Jim Denning’s old Montgomery Street. When Jim passed away in 2002, son David inherited the boat. He is currently in the midst of a major restoration, aided by wife Suzy and daugh¬ ters Natalie and Carly. Or Patriot, aboard which Tom Dougherty grew up in Hawaii and inherited when his father, Joe, passed away in 1995. “There are too many memories to ever let this boat go,” says Tom, who now sails out of Sausalito with his family. Or Steve Calhoun, who bought Psyche from Don Salisbuiy in 1988 — the same year his first daughter was bom — and says she and her two sisters “have all been part of the crew before they could walk” during sails around Southern California. “Some of our best family times have been spent on her,” he adds. Including regular visits by former owner Salisbury. “He still enjoys seeing her to this day being enjoyed by my fam¬ ily and me and still looking like she did when she finished at Diamond Head in 1965.” In all those years and miles, the boats have held up remark¬ ably well. But they do have a few age-related issues. Roger Jones, a production manager at Jensen during the late ’bOs, has sur¬ veyed more than 30 Cal 40s in the last two year§ and says there are only two potentially serious problem areas to look out for when shopping for a 40. One is the mdder, the other is the steel weldment under the mast. Despite early predictions. Cal 40s suffered no mdder fail¬ ures that we know of in their glory days. But over the years, many mdders got waterlogged, leading to sloppiness in the steer¬ ing and electrolysis in the mdder post. A few years ago. Cal 40 Association members had Carl Schumacher design a deeper, slimmer, better balanced replacement foil — but which retains the same surface area of the original. It’s currently the most popular ’add on’ for Cal 40 owners. Approximately 17 boats up and down the coast have now fit (or at least ordered) the new Page 168 • UiUtJcZS • June, 2003

mdder. Incidentally, it’s worth noting that almost all 40s have re¬ tained the original tiller steering because, as George Griffitli puts it, “Steering wheels are for tmcks.” Some wheel-steered boats (including Rlusion) have actually been converted back to tillers by new o^^ers. Another unique design ‘quirk’: almost no one admits to having slept in the 40’s two cramped ‘quarter berths’ (dubbed “torpedo tubes” by one). Instead, on ailmost all boats, their main duty is storage catch-alls. The problem with the steel weldment under the mast is cor¬ rosion. Lapworth specified stainless steel for this stmcture, which supports both the mast step and the chainplates. But as with many other things in those days, Jensen couldn’t afford stainless. So he used slightly thicker galvanized pieces. Galva¬ nized works fine as long as it doesn’t get wet, and two boats Jones surveyed had been so well kept over the years (Holiday Too and Radianfl that they showed absolutely no corrosion of this important stmctural component. Corrosion on the other 3 Cal 40s he saw varied from moderate to shocking. The trouble with properly inspecting the steel I-beam is that it’s hidden by the floor pan. “The only way you can get a good look is through the inspection port under the head — not al¬ ways a nice thought — or by removing the starboard bunk,” says Jones. If serious corrosion is found, replacement is the only fix. The good news is, ypu don’t have to remove bulkheads. The bad news is, it takes about four days to do the job. Lesser mid-life maladies include a propensity for osmotic blis¬ tering, a potentially leaky hull/deck joint, and the bulkhead tabbing being so thin that it sometimes comes loose. All are relatively easy, if not always cheap, fixes. Unless you get a re¬ ally original boat, the original-equipment Atomic Four or Gray Marine gas engines will have long ago been replaced with die¬ sels. The ikst of the production 40s came standard with Perkins diesels. Cal 40s in decent condition go for $40,000 to $50,000. Fixer uppers can still be had for aroimd $20,000 — sometimes less — while high-end boats with all the latest bells and whistles list ■ at $100,000 or more. While there are good examples back east and in the Great Lakes, the best place to find a 40 is siHl the West Coast. They are still the most numerous and active in their native Southern California, although a group of a dozen or so (creatively named The Roaring 40s’) sails regularly in Seattle. There Eire about a half-dozen known Cal 40s in the Bay Area.

It’s been exactly four decades since the first Cal 40 burst on the scene and, in a few short years, changed SEdlboat racing forever. Its legacy is evident today in every meirina and in virtu¬ ally every ocean race — fast, fun, affordable, fin-keeled boats. A few hope the Cal 40 can spark one more ‘revolution’. Though the TransPac reunion class is just for fun,^ there Eire hopes that the publicity might help shift TransPac back to its roots of en¬ couraging more ‘corinthian’ small boat efforts, rather than tilt¬ ing the table toward the big, flashy efforts. And speaking of back to its roots, with the Cal 40’s Aloha B Division being counted in the overall (PHRF-based) standings, and guys like Stan Honey and Skip Allan sailing them . . . well, let’s just say there will likely be more than a few sailors on those big, flashy efforts paying extra special attention to the dally position reports. — latitude/jr (witli special thanks to ted pike) The Cal 40 Association website — most of which is currently^ ‘under construction’ — can be found at http://home.

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GOLDEN MEMORIES JtCarlier this year a reader wrote to Latitude asking whether or not he could buy a boat and cruise for a year for $100,000. With that amount of money, it's possible to cruise for two or three years. We know, because we did it. When we wote In earlier, you guessed that we'd done our cruise around 1960. That's a pretty good guess, because we did it in '62 and '63. While our story may be dated, the principles of thrift still ap¬ ply. Marci and 1 wanted to cruise Europe and the Caribbean, but it didn't make sense for us to buy a boat in California and then sail halfway around the world to the areas where we wanted to cruise. So we purchased lots of the Englandbased Yachting World sailing magazines and looked for cheap boats. There were quite a few of them, many of which were Hillyards in the 36 to 40-ft range. These were double-enders built of wood — ma¬ hogany on oak, copper fastened — with aft cabins and diesel engines. They came in a variety of rigs, all of them pretty stubby. \ In order to get to the other side of the world inexpensively, we spent $10 to join the British/American Club — which al¬ lowed us to buy tickets to London for $150 each. When we got to London, we'd picked up a brand new VW Westfalia Camper, our first new car. We figured we'd drive aroimd looking for boats, and even if we didn't find one, we'd still have a great trip. While in England, we inspected about

Stout and seakindly, Hillyards were typical of early cruising boats. Note the full keel, canoe stern and protected prop. a jfllion boats. Most brokers looked down their noses at Hillyards, saying they thought "we wanted a sailboat." But all the Hillyard owners we spoke with said Page 170

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they loved these boats. So we decided to expand our search by taking a feny to France and driving to Cannes, then down '''• the coast to Barcelona, Spain, boat-himting and sightseeing the whole way. Later, we drove inland to Madrid, Paris, Hol¬ land, and Belgium. England proved to have the best se¬ lection of used boats, so, after lots of

'When we said no, he wished us good luck and said, "Over and out." So we stripped the boat of all windage and left our heavy staysail up. The wind was so strong at the height of the gale that the spray hurt. After we endured our first real gale, the boat was fine, but we were only so-so. The worst part of the experience was keeping away from shipping and main¬

As it turned out, we only used the radio once in four years. looking, we bought a 14-year-old Hillyard that was 40 feet long but with just 12 feet of beam — and weighed 18 tonsl Tali was a diesel-powered cutter with a walk¬ through from the salon to the aft cabin. We paid the same price for her as we had for our 33-year-old, gas-powered yawl in Los Angeles five years earlier. After ac¬ quiring the boat, we did a lot of stuff we felt was necessary for making her ready to cross the Atlantic — including the in¬ stallation of a windvane and a radio. As it turned out, we would only use the ra¬ dio once in four years. When it appeared that a good weather window had opened up, we set sail from England for Lisbon, Portugal. While be¬ tween England and France on the sec¬

ond day out, we heard gale warnings is¬ sued by the BBC. So for the first and last time, 1 used our new radio to con¬ firm the report. The English version of our Coast Guard said that yes, there were immediate gale warnings for our area. He asked if we could make port.

taining steerage. We later heard that it had blown up to Force 10!

We had another blow a few days later off Finistferre. It didn't blow as hard, but there were enormous breaking waves. Marci was sick in her bunk while 1 stayed at the helm for 14 hours, surf¬ ing down waves like mad, and then com¬ ing to a near stop upon plowing into the wave in front. My biggest concern was the 125-lb ballast blocks that we car¬ ried in the bilge. 1 had planned on se¬ curing them properly when we got some¬ place warm. But if we took a severe knockdown or were capsized, the heavy ballast blocks could smash holes through the cabin top, and we'd never make it to anywhere warm. So 1 contin¬ ued to surf, too afraid to come about to reduce sail. It was pitch black so 1 couldn't see the waves, but I could hear the roar of them as they approached. When dawn broke, 1 saw that seven of the slides holding the mainsail to the mast had ripped off. 1 got Marci up and wedged her in the helm seat, then fired up the engine and headed into the wind so 1 could drop the main. That helped. When 1 put tire drogues attached by chain over the side, we really slowed down. Using the Brookes & Gatehouse RDF that had come with the boat, 1 took bearings and discovered that we'd done 120 miles in 14 hours — not bad for a 40-footer that supposedly couldn't sail. But I didn't want to do it again! We loved Portugal and we port-hopped down the coast to Spain. Then we did the same up to Alicante, where we en¬ joyed several months. Our next stops were the Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Menorca, then on to Corsica and Italy. We made some great Italian friends who

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showed us the 'real' Rome. After continu¬ ing down the coast and around the bot¬ tom of the 'boot' to Brindisi, we headed off to the Ionian Islands of Greece. Then we sailed back to Italy and north up the Adriadic to Yugoslavia. What a terrific and Interesting area! There was great diving in clear water, and we foimd a shipwreck with lots of amphora. The people were interesting, too, ^ Our next stops were Sicily and Sardinia before we headed back to Spain for more fun. While in Gib we took on another couple as crew, which made Marci feel safer. She was always afraid that my back might give out or I'd undo my surgery in some stupid way. After a stop at Casablanca, Morocco, we headed off to the Canary Islands to prepare for our transatlantic crossing. After leaving the Canaries, we sailed south to the Cape Verdes before turning west with the trades. After 25 days of mostly light winds, we arrived at Barba¬ dos, Our crew left us there and Marci and I were happy to have our boat to our¬ selves again.

We spent a year in the Windward Islands between Martinique and Grenada before visiting some pf the is¬ lands of Vepezuela, the ABC Islands and Colombia. Panama's 300 San Bias Is¬ lands were a total of about three inches long on our chart of the Cairibbean, but we still managed to get around and through all the reefs without incident. Our next stops were historic Portobello and the Panama Canal. Our pilot screwed up in the Canal and there was damage to our boat, but the Canal Com¬ mission paid for it. We visited the islands on Panama's Pacific side — where Marci came across a pink and silver pearl — before harbor-hopping up the coast. By the time we got to Costa Rica, I insisted that Marci — who had been suf¬ fering off and on from some sort of in¬ testinal malady — fly back to Los Ange¬ les to get treatment. She'd already seen a bunch of doctors who treated her for different things, but nothing had worked. But Marci wouldn't leave until I got re¬ placement crew. Mauiy Gladsen ];ounded up three guys — only one of whom was sane, I think — who were walling to go north for room and board. What a trip! But I don't want to discuss it. It was on the way north that I had the biggest incident of the cruise. One after¬ noon we anchored at Salina Cruz,

Mexico, where I went ashore to clear into Mexico. While I was talking to the officer, a man came running in and said, "Your yacht is sinking." "Nb it isn't," I replied. "Yes it is," he insisted. So I ran outside, and was shocked that I couldn't see Tali's mast above the top of the building. 'No insurance!' was the fu st thing that ran through my mind. As it turned out, our boat wasn't sink¬ ing, but the mast was gone. A big shrimp boat with her steel outriggers extended had come into port, and one of the outriggers had hit our forestay, implod¬ ing the mast from just above the boom to the first spreaders. One of my crew who was fluent in Spanish explained that the skipper of the fishing boat was so drunk that he could barely walk. After

Who needs an Indoor shower when you can take a lovely tub bath out In the fresh air—no doubt with sea water. In this vintage photo, Marci doesn't seem to mind a bit. he rammed Tali, the other fishermen laughed and yelled, “Do it again!" The top 25 feet of our mast had fallen on the deck, wiping out some stanchions, before it dropped into the water next to ■"the boat. It was wood, so it didn't sink. I towed it to shore ■— I'm not sure why — then went back to finish clearing into Mexico. But the officials said they wouldn't al¬ low us to enter until we left! So there I was, without a mast and not even really there. When I returned to the beach, some locals were all over the mast try¬ ing to salvage parts. They scattered as soon as I got there, and I towed the mast June, 2003 •

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GOLDEN MEMORIES back to the boat. I hired an attorney to help me with my problems, and gave him a week's worth of pay before 1 learned that he was the son-in-law of the skip¬ per of the fishing boat that had hit me!

^^o around and around I went, un¬ til 1 heard about another official in town who had authority over the port captain. This fellow was a real gentleman and asked what 1 needed. 1 told him that 1 wanted a new mast. He said that 1 wouldn't be able to find the wood for one in Safina Cruz, but that there was a small city inland which might have what 1 needed. He put in writing what 1 wanted, and told me to stop by each day fo re¬ port what my accident-induced stay was costing me. He'd then give the bill to the skipper who hit my boat. When 1 asked what would happen if the guy didn't pay me, the official said he'd put a soldier on the fishing boat and prevent it from go¬ ing out. Wowie, was that music to my ears! But 1 still hkd to worry about the port official — who stiU refused to give me a

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— OF THE GOOD OL' DAYS original shrouds: Every time 1 vis¬ ited him for the next two days, he'd be working with his adz, freehanding long scarfs. They were perfect — as good as by machine. 1 had sent a request to Marci to ship down some glue, and when > it arrived, 1 took it to the z carpenter's house to explain how 2 to use it. He simply kept nodding J his head that he understood, and 2 would say "Contacto." I'd tell him 2 no', but that I'd be back the next § day and the two of us could put g the mast together. When 1 arrived the next day, the carpenter, his family, and all neighbors were proudly standing by his finished mast. 1 could see they had waited for the glue to get pretty dry, but they had a lot of large, galvanized screws holding it to¬ gether. It wasn't ideal, but it was time to head north. In any event, they were re¬ ally a nice bunch of people. I rented the same truck again to return to the boat, but the finished mast stuck up so high that it would have hit the wires over the streets. So I hired a bunch of guys — all

lage with the necessary dry wood. 1 needed 27 feet to replace the broken stuff, but the longest length they had was 10 feet. It would have to do. Sol put the wood and spare parts into a rented truck and went looking for a guy who was re¬ puted to be an excellent carpenter. We finally found him, although the only flat work space he had was in his pigpen. So we set up the original pieces as far apart as needed, and told him 1 needed the middle filled in so I could still use the

about the same height — to carry the mast to the port. The fishermen refused to let me use their hoist to step it, but the small navy yard let me use theirs. Wow, did it feel good to have a mast again! During my stay in Salina Cruz, some of the younger fishermen flipped me off as they drove by. But other locals invited me to their homes for dinner. All in all, it was a great experience. We port-hopped north, although we had to hole up in Cabo for a few days as it was really blowing down the coast. It was a grand feeling to finally enter San Diego, with all my gang there waiting. By the time I got to Redondo Beach, there were a few minor cracks in the mast, but everything else was fine. After a little paint. Tali was ready for sale.

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GOLDEN MEMORIES MODERN ESSENTIALS' THAT JM.i DID NOT HAVE always carried three weapons: a .22 rifle with birdshot, in case we got dismasted at sea and needed to shoot birds for food. A 9mm automatic pistol. And finally, an ex-militaiy rifle with spare clips and the biggest, nastiest bullets 1 could find. These were for protection cind, as a last resort, something to give us a fighting chance. 1 had these guns shipped to England at the start of our cruise along with a lot of other stuff. The two Customs men where right there when 1 openfed the case with the guns on top, but they didn't say a word. 1 had places for the guns built into the structure of the boat so they would have been all but impossible to find. In all our cruising, the only places I turned my guns over to the Authorities were Greece and Tahiti. We were glad to have the guns. For example, while in Grenada a cruising friend was boarded and robbed three times. Once, bad winds forced us into Barranquilla, Colombia — which for many years has had a reputation for being dangerous. We anchored behind one of the jetties outside the rivermouth.

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MAX EBB X^ee Helm is the last person I would expect to see behind the yacht club bar. But there she was, serving drinks to the crowd of sailors who had just come in for post-race refreshments and socializ¬ ing. “Since when do they let you behind the bar?” I said with no attempt to hide my astonishment. “Don’t tell me some¬ one finally convinced you to join the yacht club?” “No way,” she answered. “But like, 1 have certain rights as a future member.” “Oh, you think so, do you?” “Actually,” she confessed, “I’m hired help today. It’s not a bad gig. 1 ean, like, study for my exams most of the time.” She pointed to a large textbook that was propped up on one' of the dish racks, open to a page of equations. The jacket, however, said the book was the Bartender’s Guide. “Pretty complex for mixed drink reci¬ pes,” I rem£u-ked. “Yeah, 1 guess I’m not really fooling anyone. How did your race go?” “'We had fun,” I said. 1 wasn't fodling anyone, either — “’We had fun” is racers’ code for “we got clob¬ bered,” and Lee knows the code all too well. “That’s too bad,” she said S3mipathetically, slipping right into the traditional roll of bartender-therapist. “But like, the fleet you sail in is getting really competi¬ tive this year.”

“PJ XXang on..I’m not so sure we did adl that badly,” said my chief trimmer for the day, who had just come over to the bar to help Cciny all the drinks back to our table. “By my calculations, we might correct out ahead of those two boats you think beat us, which puts us into sec¬ ond place.” “No, they rate 12 seconds faster, and the course was about 9 miles,” 1 said. “So they only give us — let’s see — 108 seconds for the race, or a little under two

“We really need to start thinking in seconds per hour, not seconds per mile,” said my foredeck crew, who had come over to see what was holding up the drinks. “Do you know what the ratings work out to in speed ratios?” “Speed ratios?” 1 asked. “All 1 have on my certificate is seconds per mile.” “You know,” said the foredeck crew, “the number they use to multiply the elapsed time by, in time-on-time handi¬ capping. There’s a formula to get the speed ratio from a PHRF rating.” 'You’re talking about the TCP num¬ ber, or Time Correction Factor,” inter¬ rupted a sailor from two stools down the bar. “1 think the formula is 650 divided by 550, plus the PHRF rating.” “No it isn’t,” said another sailor on his far side. It’s 620 divided by the sum of 520, plus rating.” ‘They changed that a couple of years

”Wow, that's a big change! Does it favor the small boats or the big ones?" minutes. And they were more than two minutes ahead at the finish.” “But we’re using time-on-time this year,” said my crew, “and we had a pretty slow leg against the flood on that first beat. That extended the elapsed time of the race, so we get more time allowance on the faster boats.” Page 176 • LcUUJi I? • June, 2003

ago. It was originally 650 over 550 plus PHRF, then 620 over 520 plus, and now they’re using 800 divided by the sum of 520, plus rating.” ‘“Wow, that’s a big change!” said my trimmer. “Does it favor the small boats or the big ones? We sure needed some help in this flood tide. A flood hurts us a

lot more than it hurts the faster boats.”

“TXt doesn’t change the ratings at all,” Lee said quietly from behind the bar. “But it’s very non-lineair,” argued the sailor down the bar. "You can’t just change the formula like that.” “Sure you can,” said Lee, “as long as you only change the numerator of the fraction.” “No way!” insisted my foredeck crew. “Look, some boats get their elapsed time reduced because their TCF is less than one, and some get their times increased because their TCF is greater than one. If you change the basis of the formula like that, then you also change which boats get time added and which ones get time taken away.” “I think he’s right,” I said to Lee. ‘The formula is non-linear. The committee must have had a big adjustment in mind when they changed the number from 620 to 800. Sure hope it works in our favor.” “Nuh-uh,” said Lee, pouting her lips confidently and shaking her head. “No change at all.” “Well, think of it this way,” said the sailor down the bar. “A bigger numera¬ tor is going to make everyone’s TCF a larger number. This will hurt the fast boats more than the slow ones, by add¬ ing proportionally more to their corrected times. So yes,'it seems to be a big move to favor the slower-rated boats.” “Like, does everyone agree,” Lee ad-

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seconds she wrote one more formula on the bar menu blackboard;

dressed the group of sailors,” that if you have a rating based on 620 over sum of 520 plus PHRF, and then you change it to 800 over sum of 520 plus PHRF, that this is the same as just multiplying all the TCFs by 800 over 620?” “I’ll buy that,” I said carefully, after some thought. Others nodded their heads, although some were not convinced. Lee wanted to make sure, so she put down the glass she was polishing and used the bar towel to erase part of the blackboard, wiping out the prices for this week’s chardonnay special. She found the chalk and wrote the two formulas:

TCFnew = TCFoldx1.29

TCFold = 620/(520+PHRF) TCFnew = 800/(520+PHRF) Then a third relationship;

TCFnew = TCFold x 800/620 She started to push a button on her watch, but stopped short. “Oh, foo.” she grumbled. “Like, 1 didn’t wear mjr calcu¬ lator watch today.” “Check the third drawer from the left, under the beer tap,” suggested an older member from the other end of the bar. Lee looked where he suggested, and pulled out an ancient slide rule. “Cool!” she exclaimed, and after a few

“Everyone agree that all the new for¬ mula does is multiply the old TCFs by 1.29?” Most of the sailors nodded. “But won’t that change the race re¬ sults?” 1 asked. “Nope,” she answered. “Suppose you use the old TCFs to get corrected times. Like, once you have , a set of corrected times, will multiplying all the times by a constant change the order of corrected places? Of course not.” After a moment’s thought, 1 had to agree.

“M J.VXultipllcation is associative, she continued. “It doesn’t matter if you multiply the TCFs by 1.29 first, or use the old TCFs and then multiply the cor¬ rected times by 1.29.” She scratched more formulas on the board, getting smaller wth each line as she ran out of space:

corrected time(old) = elapsed time x TCFold corrected time(new) = elapsed time x TCFold x 1.29 corrected time(new) = corrected time(old) x 1.29

V-Tolly, she’s right,” said my trim¬ mer. “It doesn’t change a thing. The times will all be a little bigger, but the corrected time order has to stay exactly the same.” “So then, only the number in the de¬ nominator has any really meaning,” I deduced. “You got it,” confirmed Lee. “Does it have any physical signifi¬ cance?” asked my foredeck crew. “For sure,” said Lee. “520 is the num¬ ber of seconds that a PHRF zero-rater would take to sail a mile, under the as¬ sumed conditions which make the timeon-distance and time-on-time systems give identical results.” We probably didn’t look convinced. “Compare a boat that rates zero un¬ der PHRF to one that rates 5.2 under PHRF.” Lee explained. ‘The 5.2-rater will be one per cent slower than the other under both systems if — and only if — the speed of the zero-rater is 520 sec¬ onds per mile.” “How fast is that?” someone asked. "About 6.9 knots average speed,” She answered after fiddling with the slide rule some more.. “How fast'for a 150-rater? I asked.” “Let’s see. . . 3600 over 670. . . 5.4 knots." she said. “That’s not too far off what we do around the course when the wind is up,” said my trimmer. “Let me see that old slip-stick,” said another sailor down the bar, and Lee handed him the slide rule. “My boat rates 168. That means I have t6 average. . . uh. . . how do you work this thing again. . . ?” He squinted at the tiny numbers, then took out his reading glasses. “5.23 knots to sail to my rat¬ ing.” “No, you don’t have to go that fast to sail to your rating,” argued another racer sitting next to him. ‘That’s just the speed where the two systems match. The good thing about time-on-time, and why we’re using it now, is that it seems to be more accurate as the wind gets light and ev¬ erything slow^ down from those nomi¬ nal speeds.” ■» “As long as everyone slows down equally,” said my foredeck crew.” Con¬ trary tides will always favor big boats.” “But parking lots often favor small boats under time-on-time,” said the trim¬ mer, “because the clock keeps running and time allowances keep accumulating while everyone waits for the race to start again.” By now my whole crew was crowding around the bar, and the discussion had June, 2003 • UMiUt'}? • Page 177

MAX EBB

turned to the usual arguments about when time-on-distance is better and when time-on-time is better. Lee was kept

out ties between boats with different rat¬ ings,” added my trimmer! “And 1 think a real tie is still possible. A good prograrrb-

"Anyone who cares can always work backwards." busy mixing drinks. Then someone asked why the formula got changed, if it didn’t change results at all. “Round-off error,” said Lee, as she poured way too much gin out of a bottle that she had apparently assuiped was equipped with an automatic shut-off. I “No, there should never be any round¬ off error,” argued my tactician. “The calcs are all done by computer, and even a lowprecision variable is carried to way more decimal places than we need.” “It’s Just an output format problem,” Lee tried to ejqjlaln. “Everyone who has ever written a trace results program has found that each column of output for¬ mat is like, really valuable real estate. Sure, the computer knows which boat is ahead by a fraction of a second, but the printout looks better if corrected times are rounded to the nearest whole sec¬ ond.” “So what difference does the rating formula make?” asked the tactician. “Under the old formula, a lot of boats had TCFs less than one, so the elapsed times, recorded to the nearest second, would be compressed. Some of them would round out to the same number, and the printout would show ties that were not really ties. Sometimes two boats with the same rating were recorded as finishing one second apart, but the out¬ put gave them both the same corrected time after round-off. But Uke, now, with the new formula, all TCFs are greater than one, so all corrected times are big¬ ger numbers than elapsed times, and that kind of artificial tie never happens.” “But if the ratings are different,” ar¬ gued my tactician, “you can still have apparent ties on the printout that aren’t really ties. Seems like we still need the program to differentiate between these printout ties and real ties.” “How can you have a real tie, when all the finish times are being expanded by TCFs greater than one?” 1 asked. “The new scale only eliminates print¬ out ties between boats with the same rating,” Lee explained. “Okay, but you can still have print¬ Page 178 •

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should be able to tell the difference and flag the real ties, so the points can be divided up correctly.” “The other reason for changing the numerator to 800,” Lee continued, “and like, this is probably the more important one, is to avoid crossing the origin of the scale. PHRF crossed zero, and the old time-on-time ratings crossed unity. With this new formula, a boat would have to rate slower than 280 PHRF to have a TCF less than one. So like, a Cal 20, at 264, rates 1.02. It’s all uphill from there.” “Hope this is the last change.” com¬ plained the sailor from the end of the bar. “1 was just starting to get used to think¬ ing of my boat, with a PHRF of 168, as a 901-rater.” “Well, nowyou have a 1.16-rater,” said the sailor with the slide rule after aHittle work. “Actually, we can drop the one and the decimal place,” said my tactician, “because with this new scale, every boat will have a TCF larger than one. Think of the Cal 20 as a 2-rater, the J/24 as a 16-rater. This might not be so bad after all.” “Where does a PHRF of 84 fall out?” asked another racer. “Looks like about a 32.5 rater,” said the slide rule operator. “At the fast end of the scale, a boat that rates zero PHRF has a TCF of 1.54, so we can call it a 54rater.” “Okay, 1 think 1 get the idea,” re¬ marked my trimmer. “The scale now starts at zero — which is really 1.0 — with the slowest boats, and goes up as boqts get faster. No crossing into nega¬ tive numbers, and we never have to mix less-than-one correction factors with greater-than-one correction factors.” “Of course,” added the tactician, “it only works if local RCs cooperate, and if they avoid the temptation to adjust each class to a different TCF scale so that the scratch boat in each class has a TCF of 1.0. That really messes things up, espe¬ cially when you try to compeire corrected times to get an overall winner in a race with several classes all on different TCF

scales.” "For sure, but there is still one very ■ important change that the PHRF Com¬ mittee has to make,” said Lee as she squirted whipped cream into the latest batch of drinks. “The certificates still read in seconds per mile, and most of the rat¬ ings are rounded off to the nearest six second interval. Some at three-second in¬ tervals, but most are at a six second point.” “1 think 1 see where this one is going,” said my trimmer. “The time-on-time sys¬ tem will never feel right until we get our certificates with the TCF rounded to something easy to remember. You want the TCF to be printed right on the cer¬ tificate, rounded to the nearest two dig¬ its, right?” “Pretty much,” said Lee. “But then, how could we ever com¬ pare our ratings with the national data¬ base?” askedrtny foredeck crew. “Anyone who cares can always work ^ backwards to a seconds-per-mile com¬ parison,” suggested one of the sailors down the bar. “Although, 1 think one of the historic strengths of PHRF is the lo¬ cal control, so maybe the national data¬ base isn’t anything to worry about.”

i3y this time, someone had found a calculator, and we all had to know what our ratings would be under a system rounded to the nearest two digits of TCF under the new formula, rather than the nearest six seconds of time-on-distance. “Fortunately, each six seconds repre¬ sents about one per cent of speed, so the increments end up being about the same,” observed my tactician. “At least for ratings around 80.” “For slower ratings,” added Lee, “the new scale rounded to two decimal places is a slightly coarser mesh than the old ' nearest-six-seconds-per-mile. So like, there’s going to be a lot of debate over who gets rounded up and who gets rounded down. We might end up with some ratings rounded to the nearest zero zero five.” “What a can of worms this will be,” 1 remarked. “For sure,” said Lee, “but we have to do it eventually if people are ever going to feel comfortable with time-on-time.” “Sure glad I’m not on the PHRF Com¬ mittee,” 1 said. And for the first time that afternoon, everyone at the bar agreed on something.

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THE RACING

With reports this month on a bunch of Southern California re¬ gattas; good one design racing at the Elite Keel Regatta; a recordbreaking Ehisenada Race; another entertaining Ski/Sdil Nationals; a trio of local ocean races; anIACCSF update; and the usual plethora of box scores and race notes at the end.

SoCal Circuit The Southern California racing scene is in full swing now, with more regattas occurring between Santa Bafbara and San Diego than anyone can keep track of. The following regattas are some of the biggies that occurred in May, and the Bay Area was well represented in each of them. The weekend after the Ensenada Race, San Diego YC hosted the Leukemia Cup, a Friday afternoon fund-raiser, and the Yachting Cup. Racing was unfortunately canceled on Saturday due to "high winds", a decision that didn't sit too well with our Bay Area contingent — many of whom went out to practice anyway. Three races were held bn Sunday, with Samba Pa Ti

of Jay Crum, Ian Klltza, ly Pryne, Pete Heck, Ernie Rlchau, Jim Slaughter, Hogan Beatie, Bill Colombo, Jim Staniec, Kenny Manzoni, Mark Calahan and Lat Spinney. On May 17-18, a dozen Farr 40s went at it agaiin in Marina del Rey at California YC's eight-race Cal Cup. Peter Stoneberg's Shadow crushed the fleet and moved into the season lead after two (of eight) events. "John (Kosteckl) did a phenomenal job of hitting all the shifts, keeping us out of trouble, and getting 110% out of the team," claimed Stoneberg. "The Shadow boys, a bunch of Bay Area friends who are all great sailors in their own right, did their usual flawless job. Were looking for¬ ward to a great season!" Meanwhile, down in San Diego, 14 J/ 105s lined up for the 90th running of the

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Upton Cup, the annual Southern Cali¬ fornia interclub championship. South¬ western YC, a darkhorse entry headed by Geoff Longenecker, won the prestigious seven-race contest for the first time. Also for the first time, St. Francis YC sent an entry to the Upton Cup, Rich

Bergmann's and Shawn Bennett's Zuni Bear, the boat that won Key West Race Week overall last Jaiiuary. Despite a great crew and new Ullman Sails, Zuni Bear struggled to a tenth place finish. "It wasn't our best showing," admitted Bergmann. "We learned the hard way that our sails were way too flat for the light air we en¬ countered. But it was still a lot of fun, and San Diego YC put on a veiy classy event! We re looking forward to seeing a lot of the same boats on our turf for the Na¬ tionals in August." Notable regattas coming up next on the SoCal circuit include Cal Race Week (Cal YC, May 31-June 1), Long Beach Race Week (LBYC, June 20-22), and North Sails Race Week (Long Beach, June 27-29). VOLVO LEUKEMIA CUP (SDYC; May 2: 1 race): DIV. I — 1) Crocodile Rock, Farr 40, Austin Herlihy; 2) Alta Vita, Davidson TP-52, Bill Turpin; 3) Titan, ILC 46, Dennis Pennell. (9 boats) DIV. II — 1) Conundrum, J/109, Chuck Myers; 2) Zsa Zsa, 1D-35, Bill Wright; 3) Super Gnat, Schock

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Blur, B-25, Dixon Hall, 12. (13 boats) CAL CUPfCal YC: May 17-18)1) Shadow, Peter Stoneberg/John Kostecki, 22 points; 2) Barking Mad, Jim Richardson/Terry Hutchinson, 35; 3) Morning Glory, Hasso Plattner/ Dee Smith, 35; 4) Temptress, Alan Field/Scott Dickson, 38; 5) Samba PaTi, Jim Kilroy/Paul Cayard, 45; 6) Revolution, Brack Duker/Gary Weisman, 46; 7) Non Sequitur, Thayer/Watts/Paxton, 47; 8) May¬ hem, Axford/Wolfe/Clarke, 47; 9) Slingshot, Chuck Parrish/Kimo Worthington, 55; 10) Gone Too Farr, David Carrel/Kevin Hall, 61; 11) Silver Bullet, John DeLaura/Brandon Colgan, 82; 12) Astra, Mary Coleman/Sylvain Barrielle, 87. (12 Farr 40s; 8 races; no throwouts) Winning crew — Peter Stoneberg (driver), John Kostecki (tactician), Scott Easom (main), DonTeakell (jib trim), Kyle Gunderson (chute trim), Steve Fentress (pit), Chris Hackett (floater), Carl Barkow (mast), Gary Sadamori (bow).

90th UPTON CUP (San Dieao YC: May 17-15): 1) Southwestern YC, Geoff Longenecker, 23 points; 2) Balboa YC, Jack Franco, 25; 3) Coronado YC, Scott Harris, 34; 4) San Diego YC, Chris Snow, 36; 5) Bahia Corinthian YC, Mike Pinckney, 37; 6) Santa Barbara, Ken Kieding, 48; 7) Newport Har¬ bor YC, Phil Thompson, 50; 8) Long Beach YC, Scott Birnberg, 58; 9) D^na Point YC, Sonny Gibson, 60; 10) St. Francis YC, Rich Bergmann, 63; 11) King Harbor YC, Art McMillan, 65; 12) Lido Isle YC, Brian Dougherty, 74; 13) Women's Yacht Racing Fleet, Colleen Cooke, 77; 14) Pacific Singlehanded Sail¬ ing Assn., Chuck Spears, 85. (14 J/105s, 7 races; no throwouts) Winning crew (Nemesis) — Geoff Longenecker, David Bolyard (tactician), Terrence Gleeson, Mike Ford, Mary Coogan, Ian Trotter. StFYC crew (Zuni Beat) — Rich Bergmann, Shavfrn Bennett (driver), Chris Perkins (tactician), Tom Purdy, Adam Sadeg, Justin Oberbauer.

'Alta Vita', Bill Turpin's sleek TP-52, Just won major races at both ends of the state. Next up, the Coastal Cup and the TransPac. 35, Cliff Thompson. (7 boats) DIV. Ill — 1) Puka Wai, J/92, Max Rosenberg; 2) Nemesis, J/105, Geoff Longenecker; 3) Pholly, J/ 105, Phil Gausewitz. (7 boats)

YACHTING CUP (SDYC: May 3-4: 3 races): FARR 40 — 1) Samba Pa Ti, John Kilroy/Paul Cayard, 8 points; 2) Shadow, Peter Stoneberg/Ed Baird. 10; 3) Mayhem, Paul Kotes/Richard Clarke, 12... Other NorCal boats: 6) Non Sequitur, Thayer/ Watts/Paxton; 7) Gone Too Farr, David Carrel/Kevin Hall; 8) Slingshot, Chuck Parrish/Kimo Worthington. (9 boats) 1D-35 — 1) Koinonia, Doug Ament, 8 points; 2) Jacaibon, John Musa, 10; 3) Kill-A-Watt, David Riilie, 11... NorCals boat: 7) Zsa Zsa, Bill Wright; 8) Sensation, Fanger/Yovkov. (10 boats) J/120 — 1) CC Rider, Chuck Nichols, 4 points; 2) Doctor No, Jed Olenick, 6; 3) Shenanigans, Tim Hogan, 12. (8 boats) BENETEAU 40.7 —1) Wiki Wiki, Mike Honeysett, 4 points; 2) Tranquility, Max & Shirley Lynn, 8. (5 boats)

J/105 — 1) Indigo 3, Scott Birnberg, 6 points; 2) BoldTorbes, Ed Cummins, 6; 3) Wings, Dennis &' Sharon Case, 13; 4) Kealaikahiki, Dixon/Wainer, 13; 5) Legacy, B. & B. Dougherty, 16. (23 boats) SCHOCK 40 — 1) Outlier, Schmidt/Gordon, 5 points; 2) Piranha, David Voss, 10; 3) Whiplash, Ray Godwin, 12. (13 boats) PHRF-I — 1) Alta Vita, Davidson TP-52, Bill Turpin, 5,points; 2) Yassou, N/M TP-52, Jim Demetriades, 7: 3) Wasabi, Farr ILC 46, Dale Will¬ iams, 9. (6 boats) PHRF-II — 1) Virh, N/M 43, Brian & Suzanne Hull, 7 points; 2) Pendragon II, Davidson 44, David Gray, 10; 3) High 5, Farr IMS 40, Ritto/Pape, 11.(11 boats) PHRF-III — 1) Gator, NOM 39, Thomas Wheatly, 4 points; 2) Willpower, Peterson 42, Kim Ingram, 7; 3) Colt 45, Tripp 40, Bob Snyders, 8. (8 boats) PHRF-IV — 1) Defiance, B-32, Scott Taylor, 4 points; 2) Wildcat, Cheetah 30, John Staff, 5; 3) X.S., Mull 30, John Thawley, 10. (8 boats) PHRF-Va — 1) Puka Wai, J/92, Max Rosenberg, 4 points; 2) Sorcerer, NY 36. Bill McKeever, 7; 3) Joann, Santana 30/30, Steve Murphy. 12. (11 boats) PHRF-Vb— 1) Tsunami, B-25, Mark Davenport, 6 points; 2) Scrambled, Kirby 30, Geff Fisher, 12; 3)

Elite Keel Regatta Seventy-two boats in seven one design classes enjoyed perfect sailing conditions oh May 17-18 for San Francisco YC's an¬ nual Elite Keel Regatta. The 'elitists' sailed three races on Saturday (actually, the Knarrs and Folkboats called it a day after just two races) and two on Sunday. The courses were all windward/leewards on the Berkeley Circle, using multiple orange inflatables to set* a junior varsity course inside a varsity course. "'That seemed like the best solution to the problem," explained PRO Vicki Sodaro. "Everyone signed up at the last minute, which caught us by surprise. We didn't have the manpower to set the trapezoidal course or even leeward gates." Two incidents on Sunday marred an otherwise uneventful regatta — the Knarr Joe's Chardonnay (on starboard) was dis¬ masted by Narcissus (on port) in the last race, and a 'damsel in distress' had to be June. 2003 •

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removed from the lOD Never Again II dur¬ ing the first race after getting her finger sucked into a fairlead. The race commit¬ tee responded beautifully, running the victim from the Circle to Marin General in just 40 minutes — "where she prob¬ ably had to wait two hours to see a doc¬ tor," joked Sodaro. Interestingly, each class was domi¬ nated by one boat. In the Express 37 class, Mark Dowdy's Eclipse beat Brendan Page 182 •

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SFYC's Elite Keel Regatta, clockwise from upper left — Unidentified Etchells head-on; the lOD 'La Paloma'; 'Cavallino' crushed the Melges fleet; the Folkboat 'Polperro'; the last known shot of the Knarr 'Joe's Chardonnay' before her dismasting; Craig Mealy (#946) nails the Etchells start. Busch's new Bullet in eveiy race, which bodes well for San Francisco YC in the upcoming San Francisco Cup. Other note¬ worthy performances included Zarko Draganic's five-bullet streak in the Melges 24 class with Caoallino buddies Don Jesberg, Larry Swift and Mike Hovermale, and Craig Healy's triumphant retufn to

the Etchells class with his cleverly-named I Love My Wife. Healy sealed with Brodle Cobb (middle) and Dave Gruver (bow/ comic reUef). EXPRESS-37 —1) Eclipse, Mark Dowdy, 6 points; 2) Bullet, Brendan Busch, 17; 3) Golden Moon, Kame Richards, 18. (6 boats) lOD — 1) La Paloma, Jim Hennefer, 5 points; 2)

Elitists, cant'd — Melges start with 'Bones' at the boat; the J/24 'Cool Breeze' sported the Audi logo; 'Bullet' crosses ahead of 'Golden Moon'; 'Va Va Voom' at the leeward gate; Etchells at the offset mark; colorful spinnakers (use your imagination!) on the downwind leg. Photos: latitude/rob & jr. Quickstep II, Rich Pearce, 13. (4 boats) i' ETCHELLS — 1)1 Love My Wife, Craig Healy, 8 points; 2) Mahalaga, Peter Vessella, 13; 3) Mr. Natu¬ ral, Bill Barton, 14; 4) White Jacket, John Sutak, 21; 5) #600, Bill Dana, 26; 6) Scout, James Carrick, 31; 7) #820, Kers Clausen, 46. (14 boats) KNARR — 1) Benino, Terry Anderlini, 7 points; 2) Svenkist, Sean Svendsen, 10; 3) Sophia, Tom Reed, 13; 4) Penelope, Charles Griffith, 13; 5)

Huttetu, George Rygg, 25; 6) Flyer, Chris Kelly, 28; 7) Snaps III, Knud Wibroe, 30. (15 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Cavallino, Zarko Draganic, 5 points; 2) Sofa King Fast, Gripenstraw/Bassano, 14; 3) Smoke Show, 14; 4) Tropical Storm, Doug & Kerry Forster, 26; 5) #35, Team Moseley, 27; 6) Grinder, Jeff Littfin, 29; 7) #525, Bill Wright, 36, (15 boats) J/24— 1) Cool Breeze, Doug Nugent, 7 points;

2) Second Row, Ryan Cox, 11; 3) Rail to Rail, Jepsen/Henneberger, 15; 4) Fat Bastard, Curtis Press, 23; 5) #4266, Brian Goepfrieh, 26. (11 boats) FOLKBOAT — 1) Nordic Belle, Eric Kaiser, 7 points; 2) Windansea, Don Wilson, 9; 3) Frihed, Bill Madison, 15. (7 boats) Full results — www.sfyc.org.

Pyewacket Breaks Newport-Ensenada Record Improbably, tJie 56th Tommy Bahama Newport to Ensenada Race was faster June, 2003 •

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THE RACING and, we're told, even more pleasant than last year's 'once in a lifetime' sail. Taking full advantage of the conditions was Pyewacket, the Disney family's R/P 77. which broke the record set by Magnitude last year by 38 minutes. The new course record for the 125-mile race now stands at 10 hours, 44 minutes and 54 seconds, an 11.6-knot average. Roy Pat Disney was the winning skipper (Roy. Sr.. was off on a business trip), Peter Isler narigated. and Robbie Haines flogged the crew, which included Bay Area talents Scott Easom, Hogan Beabe, Rick Brent and new addi¬ tion Andy McCormick. Pyewacket had their work cut out to beat Dick and Mary Compton's teething Andrews 77 Alchemy, which was making its racing debut. Alchemy proved faster in the Code Zero drag race, and appeared to have Pyewacket tucked away going into Todos Santos Bay. Pyewacket, with few options left, jibed first on what turned out to be a perfect layllne call. Alchemy un¬ wittingly carried on for several more miles, overstanding the layline and ultimately dousing their kite to make it back up into tfie Bay. "Wehlew it," admitted crew-mem¬ ber Alan Andrews. "However, we re all very pleased with the performance of the new boat." Alchemy pulled into Ensenada 7 min¬ utes and 23 seconds after Pyewacket — a nice first outing considering it was only the third time the boat had been sailed. It

Repent, ye sinners! These guys waged their annuai uphiii battie to save the souis of the Ensenada racers. was the first and probably last time the two boats will ever sail against each other, as Pyewacket will be sold to Hong Kong after the TransPac to make way for a new canting-keeled maxZ86 and Alchemy is off to terrorize the Great Lakes. Page 184 • biMu/U J? • June, 2003

Bill Gibb's 52-foot catamar^ -A/terburner was the first competitor into Ensenada for the second year in a row, finishing in 10 hours, 21 seconds. That knocked 55 minutes off their 02 time, but still never threatened Steve Fossett's 6 hour. 46 minute multihull benchmark, set with Stars & Stripes in '98. At the opposite end of the spectrum, a 36-year old Cal 25 named Valkyrie topped the 461-boat fleet on corrected time. Owner Don Albrecht, the commodore of South Shore YC in Newport Beach, has done the race 28 times and was thrilled to finally win it overall. Valkyrie, a 222rater. posted an elapsed time of 20 hours, 34 minutes. Albrecht's crew for the win¬ ning ride was Paul Self, Marion Preest and Ken Parrish. The top Bay Area boat in the Ensenada xRace was Paul Martson and Simon Shortman's Antrim 27 Nemesis, which was fourth in the ULDB class. See www.nosa.org for the rest of the story. ULDB-A— 1) Wildcat, Cheetah 30, John Staff; 2) Cita, Schock 40, Cita Lift; 3) Viper, Viper 830, Rorick/Krause: 4) Nemesis, Antrim 27, Martson/ Shortman; 5) Iceman From Zenda, Melges 24, Tom Jenkins. (21 boats) ULDB-B — 1) Chayah. 1D-48, Oscar Krinsky: 2) Velos, Tanton 73, Kjeld Hestehave. (5 boats) ULDB-C — 1) Firebird, N/M 55, Greg Sands: 2) Horizon. SC 50. Jack Taylor; 3) Ghost ii. Farr

They're off! 'Pyewacket' starts her record run, with 'Aichemy' to leeward. 'Yassou's bow Is poked out, but they were OCS and had to return.

395, Al Berg. (8 boats) ULDB-D — 1) Magic Light, Hobie 33, Mark Francis: 2) Defiance, B-32, Scott Taylor; 3) DnA, J/ 80, Dave & Amanda Hammett. (14 boats) PHRF-A — 1) Chicken Little, SC 50, Bruce Anderson; 2) Jumpin' Jack Flash, '50-ft sloop', Bruce Tabor: 3) Terra's XL, J/N 40, Anthony Barran; 4) Stealth Chicken, Perry 56, Timothy Beatty; 5) Innocent Merriment, J/160, Myron Lyon. (20 boats) PHRF-B — 1) Matador. Aerodyne 38, Craig Harmening: 2) Caper, J/120, John Laun; 3) Ouch!, J/120, Ted Mayes. (13 boats) PHRF-C — 1) Prime Time, Olson 40, Richard Sherlock: 2) Colt 45, Tripp 40, Robert Snyders; 3) Belly Dancer, J/105, Art McMillan. (19 boats) PHRF-D — 1) Bold Forbes, J/105, Ed Cummins; 2) Cheap Sunglasses, Soverel 33, John Eldridge; 3) Whiplash, Schock 35, Ray Godwin. (14 boats) PHRF-E — 1) Puka Wai, J/92, Max Rosenberg; 2) Firelock, 'Santa Cruz', Gary Goodson; 3) Mighty Mouse. Martin 242, Michael Georgia. (13 boats) PHRF-F — 1) Windswept, Swan 57, Max & Pam Phelps: 2) Lady Bleu II, 'Dynamique', Roger Kuske; 3) Austin, Beneteau 40.7, Brian Ganz. (30 boats) PHRF-G — 1) Between the Sheets, Jeanneau 50, Ross Pearlman; 2) Gypsy, Columbia 52, Steve Washburn; 3) Freebird, NY 40, Mike & Justin Meliin, (32 boats)

PHRF-H — 1) Pioneiro, Pearson 530, Williarr Byrne; 2) Sorperer, NY 36, Rosene/McKeever; 3) Bastante, Beneteau 405. Martyn Bookwalter. (1£ boats)

PHRF-I — 1) Persephone, Cal 40, Dennis

Conner; 2) Sea Maiden, Ericson 35-3, Carolyn Sherman; 3) Starckweather, Ben. 35-S, Graham Forsyth. (25 boats) PHRF-J — 1) Golden Skye, 63-ft ketch, Richard & Lisa Mulvania; 2) Everfit, Catalina 36, Steve Jackson; 3) Campaign II, C&C 34, James Devling. (24 txjats) PHRF-K — 1) Spartan, Rhodes 29-2, Steven Ward; 2) Seadragon, Cal 34, Steve Falberg; 3) Blew By You, Cal 29, Moore/Morales. (21 boats) PHRF-L— 1) Valkyrie, Cal 25, Ron Albrecht; 2) Latitude, Ranger 29, Bill Barham; 3) Sojourn, Catalina 30, Cleve Hardaker. (8 boats) ORCA (multihuil) — 1) Lei Loe, 'Corsair', H.L. Enloe; 2) Freestyle, 41 -ft cat, Jerry Wetzler; 3) Zeke, F-28, Joseph O'Reilly. (22 boats) ANCIENT MARINERS — 1) South Pacific, 37ft, yawl, Michael Warns; 2) Rejoice, Macintosh 39, Bill Dunlap. (7 bdbts) CRUZ-SA (spinnaker) — 1) Voyager II, Norseman 447, Wayne Ratliff; 2) Lagniappe, Beneteau 51, Micheal Michel; 3) Green Dragon, Catalina 380, Gary Green. (20 boats) CRUZ-SB — 1) Day Dream, Pearson 323, Stewart Wright; 2) Faith, Islander 36, James Burbidge; 3) Gamelot IV, Islander 36, James Doherty. (21 boats) CRUZ-GA (gennaker) — 1) Incredible, Swan 53, Rick Gorman; 2) Enchanted Lady, Roberts 55 ketch, <\ndy Sibert; 3) Firelight, Catalina 470, Patrick Miokle. [18 boats) CRUZ-GB — 1) Sky, Hylas 49, Bob & Iris Strang; 2) Orion, Nantucket Island 38, Don Cole; 3) Jubel, =anda 40, Pete Schmid. (31 boats) CRUZ-NA (non-spinnaker) —1) Suveran, Datalina 421, Robert Grimm; 2) HMFWIC, 'O'Day', vlichael Fulmor; 3) Hana, Cal 40, George Elwers. (17 joats)

SHEET Championship attracted 50 versatile ath¬ letes to Lake Tahoe on May 3-4 for the tenth edition of this unique combination of two great sports. The ski racing oc¬ curred at Squaw Valley on Saturday, with the sailing following on Sunday. Placings in the two disciplines were added together to determine the overall winner in each of three classes. "The level of skiing was way up this time, better than any previous year," noted organizer Ralph Silverman, who works for title sponsor Protector Boats. "The top skiers’ times were way down in some tough course conditions." The Sciiling started out pretty tough, too — 37° air temperature, light snow flurries and a forecast of 25 knot winds. But the fleet shook off the effects of the previous night’s partying and took to the water anyway, and were soon rewarded with sunny skies and winds in the 5-15 knot range — perfect frostbiting condi¬ tions. ”The great thing about this event is that it brings together people from both sports to compete and socialize," claimed Silverman. "As the sa3dng goes, ’All sail¬ ors must ski and all skiers must sail'. 1 think everyone Left happy and looking for¬ ward to next year!" CRUZ-NB — 1) ThankfufI It, Newport 30, Ronald Keith; 2) Zuma Jay, Cal 25, Kevin Dickmann; 3) Is¬ land Time, 'Pacific Seacraft', Randy Graham. (27 boats) ULDB overall — Wild Cat, Cheetah 30, John Staff. PHRF overall — Valkyrie, Cal 25, Ron Albrecht. First to finish (ORCA) — Afterburner, 52-ft cat, Willianf Gibbs, PBYC. First to finish (ULDB) — Pyewacket, R/P 77, Roy Pat Disney. First to finish (PHRF) — Stealth Chicken, Perry 56, Timothy Beatty. Top Mexjcan boat — Not awarded. Top all-women boat — Campbell's Sloop, Catalina 34, Susan d Campbell. ^ Top doublehanded — « Defiance, B-32, Scott Taylor. k Last boat to finish — § Not Enough Time, 8 MacGregor 26, Gary Th¬ ompson, YC with most entries — Dana Point YC. VC with most trophies — Balboa YC.

Ski/Sail Nationals The 2003 Protector SklSail National

MELGES 24 — 1) Stan Erikkson, Sasha Spiegel, Blair Wallace, Ross Collins, Shane Collins, 5 points; Snow and satisfaction — The annual Skl/Sall Nationals once again offered the best of both worlds for sailors who also like to ski.

2) Alex Silverman, Carl Smit, Shane Wells, Eric Delauries, Chris Hutchesen, 5. (5 boats) VANGUARD 15 —1) Matthew Sessions/Avery Patton, 4 points; 2) Nick Adamson/Aaron Ross, 6; 3) Scott Sellers/Matt Gregory, 6; 4) Chad Grey/John Frommelt, 10. (10 boats) June, 2003 •

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THE RACING LASER — 1) Martin Hartmanis, 3 points; 2) Dan Hauserman, 5; 3) Jim Granger. (8 boats) Sponsors — Protector Boats, Patagonia Cloth¬ ing, Squaw Valley, Bolle Sunglasses and Goggles, Wigwam, Southern Spars, Corona Beer.

Three Ocean Races The first half of the OYRA season is almost over, with five races down and one to go. To recap, the Lightship Race at the end of March was an easy light-air sail, improbably under spinnaker both ways. The DuxShip Race in mid-April was an ugly gearbuster, reminding the fleet not to underestimate the Gulf of the Farallones in the spring. Things mellowed out again for the 24mile Half Moon Bay Race, which attracted 38 boats on April 26 for a pleasant sail in 10-15 knots. Chutes didn't getuhturtled until ju'st past Montara, so it wasn't a particularly fast race. Half Moon Bay YC put on a fine barbecue afterwards for the sailors who decided to stay. The new Northern Star race on May 10 was a 30-mile windward/leeward up to the northern approach buoy and back. Forty boats sailed the course in postcardperfect weather, 15-25 knots and moder¬ ate seas. "Everyone seemed to like the course, especially the ride back through the Potato Patch," claimed OYRA presi¬ dent Roger Gfoh. "It was easily the best of the ocean races to date." The sixth annual Spinnaker Cup, an 88-mile overnight race from Knox Buoy to Monterey, disappeared into the fog on Friday, May 23 at noon. A record 46-boat fleet participated (up from the 44-boat turnout last year), including 14 boats rated below zero. "The quantity and qual¬ ity of the fleet hit new highs," claimed MPYC official Donna Womble. A 20-knot westerly against a max ebb

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made for a wet and bouncy ride out the Gate, after which conditions mellowed out for a pleasant spinnaker run to Cannery Row. Dodging the parking lots to take line honors was — no surprise — Bill Turpin's hot Davidson TP-52 Alta Vita, easily the biggest boat in the fleet at a -81 rating. Alta Vita pulled into Monterey after 9 hours, 32 minutes — three hours ahead of the next boats but w«ll off the course record of 7 hours, 57 minutes and 31 sec¬ onds, set by Philippe Kahn's Andrews 70+ Pegasus in 1999. However, Turpin and his gang were pleased with the outing, which also netted them first in PHRO-1 and first overall, with 36 minutes |o spare, in fleet. The sixth and final ocean race of the first half is the upcoming Farallones Race, scheduled for June 21. Most of the OYRA classes are still up for grabs, and wlU be decided in three weeks. Check out www.yra.org for full race results, as well. as cumulative standings. OYRA/HMBYC HALF MOON BAY (4/26:24 miles): PHRO-I —1) Summer Moon, Synergy 1000, Mike DeVries/Tony Pohl; 2) Fast Forward, Aerodyne 38, Dan Benjamin; 3) Axel Heyst, Primrose 50, Jim Wallis; 4) Tinsley Light V, WylieCat 30, Hank Grandin; 5) Magic, Tripp 40, John RizziyS) Kook¬ aburra, J/105, Craig Mudge. (16 boats) PHRO-II — 1) Fast Forward, C&C 34, Michael Dungan; 2) Red Sky, Olson 34, Brian Boschma; 3) Remedy, Beneteau 42s7, Ken Pimentel. (8 boats) MORA-I — 1) Always Friday, Antrim 27, John Liebenberg. (2 boats) MORA-II — 1) Polecat, WylieCat 30, Tim Danford; 2) Endurance, Islander 28, Eric Patterson. (5 Spinny Cup start: Left, the SC 50 'Roller Coaster' took third in class despite a 4-hour pit stop to fix their rig I Right, the Antrim 27 'Nemesis'.

boats) SHS — 1) Cookie Jar, Moore 24, George McKay; 2) AFM, Hobie 33, Oliver Coolidge/Richard Burton; 3) Eyrie, Hawkfarm, Sylvia Seaberg/Synthia Petroka. (7 boats) NORTHERN STAR (SFYC: May 10:30 miles): PHRO-I — 1) Two Scoops, Express 34, Chris Longaker/Tom Goodwin; 2) Auspice, Schumacher 40, Jim Coggan; 3) Petard, Farr 36, Keith Buck; 4^ Summer Moon, Synergy 1000, Mike DeVries/Tony Pohl; 5) Axel Heyst, Primrose 50, Jim Wallis; 6) White Dove, Beneteau 40.7, Mike Garl; 7) Friday Harbor, J/35, Ryle Radke. (17 boats) PHRO-II — 1) Fast Forward, C&C 34, Michael Dungan; 2) Red Sky, Olson 34, Brian Boschma. (6 boats)

SHEET

SHS — 1) Cookie Jar, Moore 24, George McVay; 2) Sleeping Dragon, Hoble 33, Mark Halman. (6 boats) OVERALL—1) Alta Vita; 2) Outrageous; 3) Scorpio; 4) Surfer Girl; 5) Roller Coaster. (46 starters; 9 DNFs)

San Francisco Cup Class Update

The new SFCC compound on Treasure Island. Inset, Will Benedict and Rodney Hagebols (in¬ side cab) playing with their new crane. MORA-I — 1) Mirador, Antrim 27, Jody Harris/ Annie Simpson; 2) Always Friday, Antrim 27, John Liebenberg. (5 boats) MORA-II — 1) Slim, J/30, Loren & Erika Mollner. (2 boats) SHS —1) Eyrie, Hawkfarm, Sylvia Seaberg/ Synthia Petroka; 2) Starbuck, Black Soo, Greg Nelson; 3) Cookie Jar, Moore 24, George McKay. (10 boats) SPINNAKER CUP (SFYC/MPYC: May 23:88 miles): PHRO-IA—1) Alta Vita, Davidson TP-52, Bill Turpin; 2) Surfer Girl, SC 50, Mike Travis; 3) Roller Coaster, SC 50, Jack Gordon; 4) Natazak, SC 52,

Steve Williams; 5) Octavia, SC 50, Shep Kett. (15 boats) PHRO-IB —1) Outrageous, Olson 40, R. Linkmyer/M. Brown; 2) Scorpio, Wylie 42, John Siegel; 3) Sweet Jane, J/90, Trevor Baylls; 4) Athena, Beneteau 36.7, Paul Brocchinl. (12 boats) PHRO-II — 1) Ranger, Cal 40, Bill Partridge; 2) Dance Away, Santana 35, Doug Storkovich. (6 boats) MORA-I — 1) Andiamo, SC 27, Mike Warren; 2) Nemesis, Antrim 27, P. Martson/S. Shortman. (4 boats) MORA-II — 1) Pizote, Santana 30/30 GP, Mark & Matt Neumann. (2 boats) The 'A' list—Left, the crew of the Beneteau 36.7 'Athene'. Right, the Schurhacher 40 'Auspice'. They were 4th and 5th, respectively, in PHRO-II.

Wells Fargo recently announced that it will sponsor the 2003 San Francisco Cup Class (for¬ merly known as the International America's Cup Class San Francisco) sea¬ son, a four-race series beginning with this month's Sausalito Cup on June 20-22. Wells Fargo will also sponsor USA-11 (exStars & Stripes), which San Francisco Cup Class (SFCC) co-founder John Sweeney will be campaigning. Meanwhile, SFCC has moved its op¬ erations from Sausalito to the pier on Treasure Island, where Sweeney procured Willie Brown's blessing for a three-year lease with the City. Currently, four lACC boats — USA-11, NZL-14 (chartered to a San Francisco YC member for the season), David Thomson's NZL-20 and lTA-1 [II Moro, which will be sailed by Sweeney's partner Tina Kleinjan) — and Peregrine, Thomson's deactivated Farr 40, are on the pier, with more boats expected to follow. Even Mayor Brown, who we suspect doesn't know a jib from a jibe, claims to be excited about the upcoming lACC re¬ gattas. "1 can't wait," he said. 'With its strong tides, quirky currents and whip¬ pings winds, San Francisco Bay offers some of the most competitive and beauti¬ ful waters in the world. Residents and visi-

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THE RACING

Memorial Day Regatta winners — Barry Lewis topped the J/120s with 'Chance'. , -

Family values — Skipper Chris Perkins (middle of back row) with his J/105 'Good Timin'crew.

Ego trip — Don Jesberg (Melges 24, 'Ego') is looking forward to the Worlds in October.

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tors can view these races from many vis¬ tas and vantage points overlooking the Bay." The Sausalito Cup will begin at Knox Buoy on Friday, June 20, at 1 p.m., and then switch to a 10 a.m. first start for the weekend racing. Courses will take the boats close to shore (Yellow Bluff, Golden Gate YC, and even Elephant Rock) to maximize spectator enjoyment. Check out www.iaccsf.com for details about the Sausalito Qup as the event draws nearer. In other lACC news. Oracle Racing's USA-71 is now at KKMl getting ready for the upcoming battles. Lany Ellison's other

Lookin' good — Gerry Brown's custom Farr 38 'Mintaka 4' en route to winning HDA-G on May 17. See 'Box Scores'for results. boat at KKMl. USA-49, has been char¬ tered by Dawn Riley and her French KYachttng group for the two big regattas in September and October. "It's all starting to come together," claimed Sweeney, who along with Kleinjan has put his reputa¬ tion and a considerable amount of money on the line to create this venue for used lACC boats. Pagel88 •

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Anyone interested in touring the SFCC facility at T.l. is invited to their open house on June 7-8. The boats will be on display on the pier from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m each day, and Sweeney and other SFCC officials vrill be on hand to answer questions.

Box Scores Big boats to dinghies, Antigua to Clear Lake, kids to adults — we've got a little of everything in Box Scores this month! 36th ANTIGUA SAILING WEEK (4/27-5/3): RACING — 1) Lolita, Swan 56, USA, ^8 points; 2) Caccia Alla Voipe, Valicelli 44, ANT, 37; 3) Sotto Voce, J/V 66, DEN, 44. (24 boats) SPORTBOAT — 1) Huey, Melges 24, ANT, 11 points; 2) Credit Moderne, Beneteau 28, St. Maarten, 13. (3 boats) RACER/CRUISER — 1) Tazani, Swan 59, UK, 14 boats; 2) Jacana, J./46, UK, 29; 3) Celerity, Swan 48, UK. 38. (33 boats) PERFORMANCE CRUISER — 1) Hugo, Ben¬ eteau 43, ANT, 6 points; 2) L'Espernace, Beneteau 45, St. Maarten, 23; 3) Igoodia, Jeanneau 50, USA, 23. (30 boats) CRUISING — 1) Kalikobass, Frers 76,'UK, 13 points; 2) Excalibur, CNB 70, Brazil, 14; 3) Hark, Beneteau First 53, Ireland, 18. (17 boats) BAREBOAT — 1) Loften I, Beneteau 44, USA, 6 points; 2) Rosco, Dufour 50, ESP, 13; 3) Taz, Un¬ known 40, Sweden, 22. (76 boats) Full results — www.sailingwe.ek.com. KONOCTi CUP (KBSC: April 26): KONOCTI CUP — 1) Barking Dog, Olson 25, Jeffrey Kroeber; 2) Mr. McGregor, Wylie Wabbit, Kim Desenberg; 3) Bear Wabbit, Wylie Wabbit, Jim Malloy; 4) Usagi, Wylie Wabbit, Marcelin Therrien; 5) Andale, Express 27, John Freeman, (12 boats; 26 miles)

HALF CUP — 1) Pic, Catalina 25-SK, Bill Pickering; 2) Lusty, Balboa 26, Bill Profitt; 3) Ire, MacGregor 26, Mike Haberski; 4) Beats Workin', O'Day 27-2, Mark Weber; 5) Ulrika, Catalina 22, Rhys Jones. (13 boats; 13 miles)

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FUN REGATTA (SFYC: May 3-4: 11 races): 420 — 1) Mike Kuschner/Will Weprin, 14 points; ;; 2) Ben Bradley/Mark Anders, 20. (4 boats) CFJ — 1) Chris Williams/Ed Gardina, 11 points; 2) Michael Manq/Erik Glaser, 37; 3) Will Kendrick/ Aaron Dornbrand-Lo, 39; 4) Ashley Simpson/Noah Shaw, 43. (11 boats) EL TORO — 1) Max Frazer, 5 points; 2) Christo-

SHEET 2003 Coastal Cup Entries Tm NON-SPINNAKER—1) Atuna Mattata, Santana 22, Bill King; 2) Peddler, Catalina 27, Norm Rehm;3) Knotty Sweetie, C&C 32, G. Johnson. (7 boats) MULTIHULL (spin)—1) Raptor, F-27, Todd Olsen; 2) Devoras, Kantola 38, Bob Naber. (4 boats) MULTIHULL (non-spin) — 1) Mood Indigo, Gemini 105, Rich Kerbavaz. (2 boats)

Swamp dwellers — Scott Sellers, Robert Brown and Doug Robbins (Exp. 27,'Swamp Donkey'). pher Cason, 10. (5 boats) OPTI RED (13-15) — 1) Devon Lindsley, 6 points, (2 boats) OPTI BLUE (11-12) — 1) Rogan Kreidt, 8 points; 2) Ben Lezin, 1; 3) Lindsay Grove, 16; 4) Peter Jesberg, 25. (9 boats) OPTI WHITE (10 and under) — 1) Tanner Nagy, 12 points; 2) Chris Jefferies, 13. (6 boats) OPTI GREEN (novice) — 1) Daniel Thompson, 4 points; 2) Jack Barton, 13. (5 boats) RADIAL — 1) Sean Kelly, 13 points. (3 boats) ALAMEDA INTERCLUB #2 lEYC: May 10:9 miles): FLEET I (< 173) — 1) Peggy Sue, Laser 28, John Davis; 2) Double Agent, Merit 25, Robin Oliver; 3) Wind Dragon, Catalina 34, Dave Davis. (7 boats) FLEET II (Fat 30s) — 1) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles; 2) Spi/idrifter, Tartan 30, Paul Skabo. (6 boats) CATALINA 34 — 1) Mottley, Chris 0\«en; 2) Freya, George Bean; 3) Casino, Bill Eddy. (7 boats) FLEET IV (>187) — 1) Dominatrix, Santana 22, Heidi Schmidt; 2) Lone Ranger, Ranger 26, Ken Viaggi. (5 boats) More warhorses — The Farr 36 'Petard' to weather of the yellow Peterson 46 'Aleta'.

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WBRA CUMULATIVE (4 races: 0 throwouts): BIRD — 1) Humming¬ bird, Geoff Ashton, 6 points; 2) Oriole, Jock & Dan McGlean, 8; 3) Widgeon, Donald Cameron, 15. (7 boats) FOLKBOAT — 1) Polperro, Peter Jeal, 7 points; 2) Little Svendle, Mark Slichter, 13; 3) Navigator, Chris Herrmann, 14. (7 boats) lOD — 1) Never Again II, Mark Pearce, 3 points; 2) Omric Latte La Paloma, James UiIHana Hennefer, 3. (4 boats; 2 Dragon races only) mm Wild KNARR —1) Eos, Don Hotel Nazzal, 11 points; 2) Gos¬ iHmse sip, Steve Taft, 16; 3) Svenkist, Sean Svendsen, 23; 4) Sophia, Tom Reed, 25; 5) Flyer, Chris Kelly, 27; 6) Penelope, Griffith/ Devlin, 29; 7) Benino, Terry Anderlini, 36; 8) Peer¬ less, Guzzardo/Drew, 37. (21 boats) HDA #3 fSausalito YC: May 17): / DIV. G — 1) Mintaka 4, Farr 38, Gerry Brown; 2) Sensation, ID-35, Mario Yovkov; 3) Bodacious, Farr lOR 40, Clauser/Tosse. (8 boats)

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DIV. J — 1) Cowabunga, Schock 34-PC, Pat Brown; 2) Chimera, Little Harbor 47, Grant Miller; 3) Shenanigans, C&C 36, Michael Maloney; 4) Bay,Loon, J/29, Joe Ferrie; 5) Fat Bob, Catalina 38, Robert Lugliani. (15 boats) DIV. K— 1) SilKye, WylieCat 30, Skinner/Seal; 2) Encore, Wylie 30 cust., Andy Hall; 3) Lelo Too, Tartan 30, Emile Carles. (8 boats) DIV. M — 1) Star Ranger, Ranger 26, Simon James; 2) Crazy Jane, Thunderbird, Doug Carroll; 3) Silent Movee, Islander 28, Patrick Fryer. (10 boats) SPORTBOAT — 1) Run Wild, Olson 30, Dale Scoggin; 2) Family Hour, Olson 30, Bilafer Fam¬ ily. (6 boats)' SF 30s — 1) Jeannette, Tartan Ten, Henry King; 2) Ixxis, Olson 911-S, Ed Durbin. (6 boats) SPRING ONE DESIGN #2 (SCYC:5/17; 2 races): .PLSON 30 — 1) (tie) Bullet, Mike Gross, and Sirena, J. Martinelli, 5 points. (6 boats) SC 27 — 1) Racer X, Mark Schipper, 2 points; 2) Hanalei, Beat Neaf/Rob Schuyler, 4; 3) Sumo, Cassady/Livingston, 6. (7 boats) MOORE 24 — 1) Una Mas, Larry Peterson, 3 points; 2) Nobody's Girl, Syd Moore, 5; 3) Mercedes, Joel Verutti, 7. (7 boats) SANTANA 22 — 1) Tara, O. Pritschard, 2 points. (4 boats) SPRING SCORE #2 (SCYC: May 18): CROWED — 1) Scorpio, Wylie 42, John June, 2003 • UttWeJ? • Page 189

THE RACING Siegel; 2) Sweet Jane, J/90. Trevor Baylis; 3) Heart¬ beat, Wylie 46, Lou Pambianco. (9 boats) DOUBLEHANDED — 1) Wildfire, Moore 24, Howard Ruderman; 2) Nobody's Girl, Moore 24, Syd Moore. (4 boats) SOUTH BAY YRA M2 (BBYC: May 17): BIG SPIN —1) Fermanagh, O'Day 34, Frank Johnson; 2) Mist, Beneteau First 38, Robert Hu. (4 boats) LITTLE SPIN — 1) Sandpiper, SJ 24, Kevin Hartig. (3 boats) BIG NON-SPIN — 1) Far Better Thing, Ericson 30, Charles McArthur; 2) Dolphin, Cal 2-30, Robert Young. (4 boats) LITTLE NON-SPIN — 1) Slmdancer, Hunter 34, Bob Garten; 2) Sugar Magnolia, Hunter 29.5, Ward Fulcher. (4 boats) HOMECOMING REGATTA fEYC: May 18): 1) Billy Worden/Doug Baird, 13 points; 2) Don Whelan/Matthew Quint, 13; 3)'Jim & Kathy Bradley, 14; 4) Dave West/Chris Krueger, 14; 5) Rob Moore/ Steve Marsh,' 14; 6) Pax Davis/Aaron Lee, 17. (15 Mercuries; 5 races w/1 throwout) COLLEGIATE RANKINGS las of May 6): COED — 1) St. Mary's; 2) Tufts; 3) Harvard; 4) Hawaii; 5) Hobart/Wm. Smith; 6) USC; 7) Kings Point; 8) Georgetown; 9) Stanford; 10) Boston College; 11) Brown; 12) Charleston; 13) Washington College; 14) Dartmouth; 15) MIT^-16) Old Dominion; 17) Yale; 18) UC Santa Barbara; 19) Navy; 20) Minnesota.

Magoo, Steve Madeira, 10; 3) Dayenu, Don Payan/ Dennis Jermaine, 16; 4) El Ocaso, Rick Wesslund, 17. (7 boats) J/105 — 1) Good Timin', Chris & Phil Perkins/ Dave Wilson, 11 points; 2) Zuni Bear, Rich Bergmann/Shawn Bennett, 19; 3) Charade, Tom Coates/ Mark Chandler, 21; 4) Arbitrage, Bruce Slone, 22; 5) Wind Dance, Jeff Littfin/Steve Pugh, 24; 6) Streaker, Ron Anderson, 26; 7) Tiburon, Steve Stroub, 38; 8) Orion, Gary Kneeland, 46; 9) Whis¬ per, Eden Kim, 47; 10) Jabberwocky, Brent Vaughan, 48. (27 boats)

Savage bunch wins Antigua Sailing WeekI Frank Savage's Swan 56 'Lolita', seeh-above at the BVI Spring Regatta, was the big winner at ASW '03. WOMEN — 1) St. Mary's; 2) Brown; 3) Old Do¬ minion; 4) Hawaii; 5) Hobart/Wm. Smith; 6) Harvard; 7) Tufts; 8) Yale; 9) Dartmouth; 10) Charleston; 11) Boston College; 12) South Florida; 13) Navy; 14) UC Irvine; 15) Georgetown. MEMORIAL DAY REGATTA (StFYC: May 24-25): J/120 — 1) Chance, Barry Lewis, 7 points; 2) Mr.

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EXPRESS 27 — 1) Swamp Donkey, Sellers/ Brown/Robbins, 4 points; 2) Attack From Mars, Brendan Busch, 9; 3) Peaches, John Rivlin/Grant Baldwin, 12. (6 boats) MELGES 24 — 1) Ego, Don Jesberg, 6 points; 2) Pegasus 24-3, Philippe Kahn, 11; 3) Pegasus 241, Shark Kahn, 12; 4) Sofa King Fast, Gripenslraw/ Bassano, 13; 5) Smokin', Kevin Clark, 21; 6) Trainwrick, Rick Moseley, 22. (12 boats) (4 races; 0 throwouts)

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Don't go postal, go Coastal: Encjnal YC's 13th Annual Coastal Cup currently has 34 entries (see box on page 189) and hopes are high for another half dozen or so before the June 7 cutoff date. "We hope to top 40 boats," said race chairman Les Raos. "Most of the entries are bigger and faster than ever, and there's a good chance that Pyewacket or Pegasus could lower the record again." Last year, Doug Baker's Andrews 70+ Magnitude sailed the 360mile course from San Francisco to Catalina in just 32 hours, 52 minutes — a 10.9-knot average. The schedule of events for the Coastal Cup looks like this: Wed., June 11, skip-

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THE RACING SHEET last month was dismissed from Regatta Administration.' Now, some good news: After taking 2001 off, the Admiral's Cup is back in business at Cowes on July 12-23. As be¬ fore, the event will be organized by the RORC and sponsored by Champagne Mumm, Corum and Henri-Lloyd. See ivww.rorc.org for more. . . Over 60 boats are entered in the DaimlerChrysler North Atlantic Challenge, a 3,600-mile race from Newport, RI, to Hamburg, Germany with starts on June 14 and 21. Follow the action — and Bob McNeil's R/P 86 Zephyrns Vs quest for line honors — at www.dcnac.de. Major remodel: Jay Steinbeck, owner of the Marina del Rey-based Farr 50 Margaritiville (ex-Corurri) is getting dTP-52. Well, sort of. Working with Alan Andrews and DenCho, Steinbeck is putting a new TP-52 hull under his existing deck, but keeping the rig, sails and rudder — basi¬ cally what Medicine Man and the 43-ft It's OK! did earlier. The new' boat, according to Andrews, will be a "starter kit TP-52," a fast PHRF-orifented boat which, unlike the flat-out 52s, will be sailing with its

Shark attack — Sam 'Shark' Kahn took third in the tough Meiges fieet at the Memoriai Day Re¬ gatta. He"ii do his third Hawaiir^ace next month! existing fractional aluminum mast, with runners. A league of their own: Ray Lopez, owner of the Davidson 44 Ij\fraRed, is trying to put together a Warhorse Division for older 40-50 foot lOR boats in the Ditch Run, Silver Eagle, Quick Boat, NOOD and Big Boat Series. He's hustling boats like

Zamazaan. Aleta, Infinity, Confetti. Run¬ ning with Scissors. Bottom Line. Samiko and others. If you’re interest in the sales pitch, call Lopez at (209) 772-9695. . . With dozens of Farr 40s either actively or quietly for sale across the country, rumors of a possible Farr 40 B-League are start¬ ing to circulate. It's no secret that the hardball circuit has been shrinking — so why not have a lower-key, more PHRF and amateur-oriented series for non-travelling programs? The J/105s instituted a simi¬ lar concept this year, creating a subset series within YRA (e.g., the Vallejo Race) as a venue for boats looking for less cut¬ throat competition. Right Coast news: Ray Dockery's new R/P 81 Carrera {ex-Morning Glory) took line honors in the Storm Trysail Club's classic 185-mile Block Island Race on Memorial Day Weekend. Titan, Tom Hill’s brand new R/P 75, finally made her longawaited debut, crossing the line just four minutes behind Carrera. The IMS cor¬ rected time winner was the Farr 60 Har¬ rier {ex-Carrera), while the Swan 46 Galadriel topped the 52-boat PHRF fleeet. See www.stormtrysail.org for more.

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With reports this month on Book-By-the-Berth Charter Options, a Bay Area sailing club's Epic Belizian Catamaran Flotilla and miscellaneous

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If Your Buds Can't Go, Go Solo: Booking Charters by the Berth Many Latitude readers would agree that doing a sailing charter in some ex¬ otic, sunkissed destination is the best vacation option ever conceived. Unfor¬ tunately, the toughest psirt of turning your chartering dreams into reality is often getting a boatload of friends or fam¬ ily to agree on a date and a destination, then seal their commitment with a de¬ posit check. Having organized many charter trips ourselves, we can testify that the frustration level can go right off the graph. If this sounds familiar, read on. In these pages we'll present a variety of primo sumtner sailing options which simply require you to grab your seabag, jump on a plane and step aboard with virtually no hassles or headaches. For decades, the mainstream travel industry has, offered a variety of vaca¬ tion options 'for individual travelers' — and the acronym FIT has long been a common buzzword among travel agents and tour operators. In recent years, the sailing industry has wisely picked up on the FIT concept, so that today a broad spectrum of book-by-the-berth sailing options are available, both here in the U.S. and in idyllic foreign destinations. The range of options runs from ambitious offshore expeditions to laidback inter¬ island charters aboard luxurious crewed yachts. Sail-Training Voyages & Expeditions For the past 20 years, the S&S 65 'Alaska Eagle' has taken adventurers of all ages to exotic land¬ falls like Tahiti, Tasmania and Antarctica.

— If you have a hankering for some truly adventurous hands-on voyaging this summer, consider Joining a sail-training voyage aboard a proven offshore yacht or tall ship. Two of the most outstanding instruc¬ tional sailing programs we know of are run aboard the S&S 65 Alaska Eagle and the Hallberg Rassy 46 Mahini Tiare III. For 20 years now, the Eagle—which won the 1978 Whitbread Rodnd the World Race — has been the centerpiece of the OCC School of SalUng and Seamanship's offshore training programs. Each year, students of all ages can book one or more legs of a Pacific circuit, whpre they par¬ ticipate in all aspects of sailing this bul¬ letproof aluminum sloop. This year, Alaska Eagle's menu of 5- to 21 -day legs begins in July with her participation in the TransPac (as the event's official com¬ munications vessel). She then continues on to Tahiti, the Tuamotus, back to Ha¬ waii, then east to San Francisco and fi¬ nally down the coast to her Newport Beach homeport. Equally attractive to would-be passagemakers are the instructional, expeditionary trips offered by John Neal and Amanda Swan aboard Mahina Tiare III. Longtime offshore instructors with a gazillion sea miles under their belts, John and Amanda have Just begun a 1500-mile circuit of the South Pacific. Mahina Tiare will arrive in Tahiti from New Zealand this month, then a series of 10- to 21-day legs will take her to the Cooks, Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu and Noumea, before returning to Auckland in late November. Many successful cruis¬

ers have cut their teeth on bluewater voyaging aboard Mahina Tiare and/or Alaska Eagle. (See: www.mahina.com and www.occsailing.com.) Another schedule of bluewater pas¬ sages that's well worth checking out is the itinerary of Saveke Offshore Expedi¬ tions. Beginning and ending in New Zealand, the 48-ft Laurie Davidson sloop Saveke will circumnavigate westbound via the Cape of Good Hope and the Panama Canal, with space available for paying crew on each of 15 legs. (Begin¬ ning this month and ending In Novem¬ ber, 2004; see: www.sailingexpedition .com.) You can also gain valuable sailing experience — while having loads of fun — aboard a wide variety of square rig¬ gers and schooners, both in North America and on distant oceans. You probably know that for generations, na¬ val and merchant marine cadets all over the world have been learning traditional marlinspike seamanship skills by doing stints aboard majestic square-riggers and traditionally-rigged schooners. But you may not know that similar experi¬ ences are available to regular folks of all ages. Not only will you learn to identify all those lines belayed on the pinrall, but you might even learn a classic sea chan¬ tey or two. Here in the U.S., you can choose from more than a'dozen vintage coastal schoo¬ ners which ply the scenic waters of downeast' Maine. (See the Maine Wind-

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jammers Association website: www. sailmainecoastconx and the North End Shipyard Schooners site: www, rnidcoast.com/~schooner/.) The inherent camaraderie of pulling lines together with other passengers tends to forge instant friendships. In addition, the scenery is spectacular and the traditional lobster bakes are to' die for. Here on the West Coast, consider sail¬ ing aboard the beautiful, 127-ft schoo¬ ner Zodiac. Now based near Seattle, she is a former San FrEmcisco pilot schoo¬ ner which has been lovingly restored and now offers a variety of summer sailing options, including several 10-day Deso¬ lation Sound cruises. (See www. schoonerzodiac.com.) For a comprehen¬ sive overview of tall ship sailing possi¬ bilities for both kids and adults, peruse the American Sail Training Association (ASTA) website at: http:/ /tallships . sailtratning. org/. Farther afield, there are a number of other all-generations cruises and expe¬ ditions to consider. For salty, inter-is¬ land cruising in the heart of the South Pacific, for example, check out the spec¬ tacular 142-ft brigantine Soren Larsen (www.sorenlarsen.co.nz/). Finally, if you like the idea of bailing aboard a tall ship, but don't relish actu¬ ally pulling lines and standing watch, consider a luxurious cruise aboard one of the Star Clipper vessels. Their designs successfully combine the luxurious amenities of a high-end cruise ship, with

the majestic beauty of a true squarerigged sailing ship. The company's three awesome vessels offer itineraries in the Eastern Caribbean and the Far East, in addition to repositioning passages across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans — one of those would be our first choice! (See www.star-cUppers.com.) Club Charters and Flotillas — As we noted in our January edition (The NoBrainer Vacation Option), most Bay Area sailing clubs, or schools, market a vari¬ ety of bareboat flotilla trips each year to places such as Greece^ Tahiti^the Grena¬ dines, the. BVI and the Sea of Cortez. At t least a half dozen long-established in¬ ternational chartering companies also of¬ fer flotillas, primarily during the sum¬ mer months. To refresh your memory, the flotilla concept is simply that groups of boats sail ip company to¬ gether, with their crews sharing meals and shoreside activities, at least occasionally. Groups of friends some¬ times book whole boats for themselves, but C/D there is generally also at g least one lead boat, typi- & caUy run by a sailing in- d structor, where berths ^ and/or cabins are avail- “ able to individuals, ES Sailing expertise is § not required, yet eveiy- §

one is encouraged to participate in the sailing activities. As a result, such trips give you great opportunities to fine-tune your skills while working on your tan. They also provide an ideal means for in¬ dividuals (or couples) to build the confi¬ dence necessciry to skipper their own boat on a future trip. For availability of upcoming flotilla trips check with local sailing clubs/ schools — see our April edition's World of Chartering for a comprehensive list with contact info — as well as compa¬ nies like Albatross Yacht Charters, GPSC, The Moorings and SunsaU. Cabin Charters — As the name im¬ plies, cabin charters' are scheduled trips set up so that couples or individuals can book a single cabin, rather than an en¬ tire boat. Unlike flotilla trips, however, cabin charters are more high-end, as they are run aboard more luxurious yachts with the pampering attention of professional crews who will spoil you with fine cuisine and serve your favorite cocktail on demand. This is a great way to sample the addictively-decadent world of crewed yacht chartering without breaking the bank to do so. Large char¬ ter firms such as GPSC and The Moor¬ ings offer cabin charters In a number of destinations, especially during the sum¬ mer months, (The Moorings' trips are called "Sall-Away Stateroom Vacations,") One of the great Ironies of life in America today is that while we enjoy an extremely high standard of living, vfrtucilly everyone seems to be overextended and frazzled by hying to uphold a break¬ neck pace of living. Given this reality, it's no wonder that you might have trouble assembling a boatload of charterers. But now that you have this grab bag of bookby-the-berth options, there's no reason to stay home and sulk, — latitude/aet Offering fine cuisine and accommodations more iuxurious than most cruise ships, the Star dippers actuaiiy saii from port to port.

WORLD Desperately Seeking Sunshine: A Bay Area Armada Discovers Belize As the small turbo prop circled down, the details of a scarcely-developed tropi¬ cal paradise emerged, indicating that we were in the correct ZIP code. The deep blue ocean below us was dotted with white caps, and in the distance we could see golden beaches, swaying palm trees, a peaceful lagoon and a tranquil village nestled up to the water. But where the heck was our pilot gonnp land? Finally, with the nose down, a clear¬ ing in the mangroves opened. A few hops on the dirt runway, 10 seconds of taxi¬ ing, and we arrived at an airport shack bearing the sign "Welcome to Placencia." That's how Belize first appeared to 73 sailors from Berkeley's Ol3mipic Circle Sailing Club (OCSC) who came here in early February to test the local sailing and entertainment possibilities. The escapist tradition of chartering in exotic locations has taken OCSC sailors from Tonga to Turkey and almost every¬ where in between, but this yas their first time in Belize. Led by 'Old Surehand', Max Fanchei'>this was the largest OCSC group ever, made up of sailors ranging from kids to retirees. Since we'd booked virtually the entire Moorings fleet, 12 catcimarans between 38 to 47 feet, we presented k formidable test for the base which opened in Placencia just after Hurricane Iris raked southern Belize in October of 2001. All skippers were OCSC members, some of them on their first captaincy. Pottering around on the 180 square miles of protected waters inside the barrier reef was more reminiscent of lake sailing than a bumpy ocean. However, the lack of h5q)er-exact charts combined with hun¬ dreds of coral heads and patch reefs kept everyone honest. And loose ground in many anchorages put a premium on set¬ ting the hook. All this wasn't news to the skippers. After all, their bedtime literaAre we having fun yet? Oh yeah! With plenty of lounging space inside and out, it's no wonder cats are hot property In the charter trade.

ture for the previous weeks had been Freya Rauscher's Cruising Guide to Belize and Mexico's Caribbean Coast But as \ they found out, personal experience beats any book. In Placencia, proper signs of Iris were still visible. "It is 100% better than it was right after the hurricane, but it still has a long way to go," said Paul Hagopian, an American expat, who bears the scars of a fieiy plane crash that he alone sur¬ vived. He lost his dive business in the storm and now operates a taxi and shuttle bus. "The upscale resorts, such as Francis Ford Coppola's Turtle Inn Resort, and the charter bases bring more people and dollars to the area," he said. Roads here aren't paved but CNN and Internet connections are available in at least one cafe/bar. Conservation is a popular topic here. "Take pictures, leave footprints" is, the sacred motto. Everybody talks the talk, but not all are walking the walk just yet. Among those who do, nobody was hap¬ pier to meet the OCSC folks than Wil Maheia, executive director of the Toledo Institute for Development and the Envi¬ ronment (TIDE), an environmental group that protects sensitive reefs, wetlands and watersheds in southern Belize. "He explained TIDE'S mission during a pre¬ sentation for the OCSC group: "We re¬ search and monitor natural resources and plan and manage protected areas.

We also educate locals to develop respon¬ sible tourism and sustainable economic alternatives." In order to repair hurricane damage to a ranger station in the Port Honduras Marine Reserve, which guards against manatee poachers, the OCSC group donated $6,250 to TIDE. (The transaction was facilitated by Seacology, a Berkeley-based, non-governmental, non-profit organization that specializes in the preservation of threatened island environments and cultures.) Friends of Nature, another conserva¬ tion group, protects Laughing Bird Caye and Gladden Split, a spawning ground for whale sharks. Brian Young, a diveshop owner tn Placencia, wouldn't take National Geographic and the Dis¬ covery Channel there until the area was protected. But his concerns also include the impact charter boats have on the reef. "We are working with businesses and the government to deploy mooring buoys in sensitive areas," he said. "Protection starts with grass root initiatives but needs monitoring to be effective." Our comprehensive skipper's briefing was conducted by Moorings base man¬ ager Rory McDougall, a veteran bluewater sailor and circumnavigator. "Anchor with the sun still high and at your back, so you see what is under¬ neath," he admonished. "And don't dis¬ charge close to the islands." As the armada soon found out, head-

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Clockwise from upper left: Showing off thf Belize flag; Maggie on the tramp; family snorkeling lesson; the fleet awaits Its passengers. ing north early in the day was the wise thing to do. The easterly trades were of¬ ten weak or fronts turned them into northwesterlies, which did not play to the strengths of the boats — charter cata¬ marans, for all their comfort, space and practicality, are not known for their up¬ wind abilities. Crews planned their itineraries, but Fancher kept tabs on them with his daily 'morning show' and roll call on VHF Channel 6, collecting supply and repair requests, providing the weather report and playing sappy tunes. As it was, rain¬ fall kept about half a dozen boats in close proximity, which culminated in an in¬ tense rum squall at Frank's Caye with 40 party animals caged in the cockpit of Fancher's Moorings 4500. Partying aside, prudent seamanship reflects well on OCSC's education, so he provides counsel when it might be needed. "They make sound decisions but when the go¬ ing gets tough, 1 encourage them to re¬ visit certain issues for better judgement," he explained. On this trip — his sixth as a group leader — he dealt with two harmless in¬ cidents; at one point, several boats got into 'thin' water; and a crewmember suffered a badly-smashed finger, requir¬ ing her to be medevaced to Placencia

where she received professional treat¬ ment. Sailing was easy and relaxed except during a powerful squall on the second day that brought about double digits on the fun meter for a minute or so. The depth-sounder dipping below 10 feet as the boat scooted through greenish-brown water around patch reefs made the boys twitch at first, but soon they understood that even 0.8 feet on the readout left enough liquid matter under the cats' keels. Dropping two hooks was de rigeur. Often the Bruce held much better in the sand than the CQR with all the chain. Luckily, in 10 feet of water or less, a mid¬ wife with snorkel and fins could be sent down to assist. "Anchoring and naviga¬ tion are the challenges to prepare for down here," Larry Ledgerwood, an OCSC veteran and instructor pointed out. His words rang especially true one night at Ranguana Caye, as a cold fi'ont produced a spectacular lightning storm over the coast. A byproduct was a stiff northwest¬ erly that hit the open roadstead unfil¬ tered, testing the anchors close to shal¬ lows and reefs. . Nobody in the fleet clicked off the miles, simply because there were too many distractions. A local scuba opera¬ tor rendezvoused with the cats to take the scuba divers among us to several prime dive spots. Including remote Glover's Reef. One of our most avid divers was licensed instructor Greg Philips. He and several of his crew did 11 dives dur¬ ing the trip. "We brought our own gear so all we needed was getting empty tanks replaced," said Philips. He was impressed by the encountered marine life, includ¬ ing endangered hawksbill sea turtles. But snorkeling nearly matched the diving. Not far from where boats were an¬ chored, one could often find stealthy bar¬ racuda lurking for prey, majestic sting rays and eagle rays circling, schools of angel¬ fish swaying back and forth between fan coral like qua¬ drille dancers at the Vienna Op¬ era Ball, lovelorn squids following each other around, and perhaps a highly-poisonous and per¬ fectly-camou¬ flaged scorpion

fish staring out from a crevice. There was also no shortage of lobsters waving their antermae at divers from their hideouts. Pat Romani (who owns Blake's on Telegraph in Berkeley) went on multiple dives but also kept his rod and reel ready. His trolling efforts yielded a bounty of sashimi from mackerel and barracuda, and once he landed a rare Cobia. Flyfishing for bonefish on the beach was successful too, so he was compelled to call it "my best vacation ever," addjng that this assessment included apres voile entertainment. Other gratifying activities included beach combing or attempting to keep up with dolphins with the kayak. The Zongker family collected shells, sea ur¬ chin skeletons and sand dollars of re¬ markable beauty and integrity. "Finding them was not hard, but getting them home will require good packing," said Eric Zongker as he proudly displayed his treasures. Ranking the Cayes in hit parade fash¬ ion was difficult because some are un¬ touched and others are developed with resorts and restaurants. It depends on personal taste and inclination. But all of them, from the Tobacco Range in the north to Sapodilla Caye in the south, are only a day's sail away from Placencia, so getting back there to top off supplies — or to satisfy the craving for pizza, cappuccino and e-mail — was easy. As a special favor to our large group. The Moorings also ran launches out to the islands, bringing beer, ice, broccoli and, most importantly, the guy who would fix the headl ' The final word? "It was one of the bet¬ ter trips, no doubt," said Jay Aiken, a retired physician, who has been char¬ tering with OCSC for 20 years. "It wasn't Smile! These 73 OCSC sailors carried on the company's longtime tradition of adventuring under sail in far-flung destinations.

WORLD Just the sailing, but the whole experi¬ ence." And supporting Belizian conser¬ vation efforts showed how much this group really "Belized" it. — dieter loibner Readers — Belize has become one of The Moorings' 'hottest properties'. The other Belize bareboat operator there, TMM, reports similar success, so if you're considering a Belize charter we urge you to book at least six months in advance. Be aware also that former Bay Area saUor Cliff Wilson and his family now run crewed charters aboard their cat Aubisque. Check out their website at: WWW. catchartersbelize. com.

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It seems like every time we attempt to publish a 'comprehensive' list of Bay Area charter vessels, we learn shortly after¬ wards that there's been a change or two that we were unaware of. Such is the case again this year with the Bay Area charter overview that we ran in our April issue. We failed to mention Bernard Quanta's sweet-sailing, 36-ft cutter Ta

For six-passenger charters on the Bay, consider the 36-ft cutter 'Ta Mana'. Cap'n Bernard is standing by to show you the sights. Mono, which is based in S^usalito. 'While she may be new to our listings, Bernard is certainly no stranger to Bay waters. He's sailed here for many years and holds a USCG Master's Certificate. "I don’t have a specific program," ex¬ plains Bernard, "I'll accept any kind of charter (maximum 6 persons) and go wherever they want to go. I also allow guests to fish for salmon if they clean

their own." For more info, call (415) 7853700 or email quantehb@att.net. Another addendum to our almostcomprehensive overview comes from Marc Kraft of Pacific Yachting & Sail¬ ing in Santa Cruz. In our intro to crewed "six-pack" charter vessels we should have made it clear that in addition to the owner-operated boats listed, virtually all Bay Area sailing schools and/or bare¬ boat operators also offer crewed char¬ ters on any boat in their fleets. PYS, by the way, is the largest charter outfit on the Monterey Bay. (Call 800-374-2626, 831-423-SAIL or see the website at www.pacificsail. com.) In other local news, Mike Warren of Club Nautique deserves a roimd of ap¬ plause for becoming the first sailing in¬ structor in the country to earn U.S.

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CHANGES With reports this month from Gypsy Warrior not being able to find a place to anchor at Fata Hiva;from Wanderlust on good fortune looking for crew from Antigua to Panama; from Solstice on curious plastic items wash¬ ing up on South Pacific reefs; from Cabaret on cruising Mexico now versus 10 years ago; from Tai Tam U on sailing from Colombia to Belize; from Lucida on the travails of trucking a wood cruisir^ boat; reports on Loreto Fest and Island Madness; and Cruise Notes.

Gypsy Warrior — Freya 39 Rick Gio San Francisco To The Marquesas (Sebastapol)

Boryour! Our anchor has just splashed down in Hakahau Bay on the island of Ua Pou, which is the island just south of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. Now we can finally go over the events of the last two weeks: After 25 days and some odd hours at sea, in the wee hours' of May 3 \ve ap¬ proached the southernmost Marquesan island of Fatu Hiva. Deeming it not safe to make landfall in the dark, we lay un¬ der bare poles for six hours awaiting day¬ light. We finally arrived tn the Bay of Vir¬ gins at 9:30 a.m. local time, but things could have been better. There were heavy rain squalls that reduced visibility to a mere inches a^ times, and wind gusts up to 50 knots. Nineteen boats were eilready anchored — somewhat precariously — in the narrow and deep bay. We motored around looking for our special place in paradise, but the bay was almost as over¬ crowded as Avalon on a summer week¬ end. Not believing my depth sounder, 1 low¬ ered our 45-pound CQR on 120 feet of chain — and watched it hang vertically. The water was so deep it never touched bottom! Just then another squall struck with gusts of over 50 knots. The crew and 1 looked at each other and decided that Fatu Hiva was an island we would have If one anchorage In the Marquesas doesn't work out, no worries, there are others. This is the lovely village of Hakahetau on Ua-Pou.

to miss. After setting a double-reefed main, and reefing the jib to just 80%, we set our course for Hiva Oa, 45 miles to the north. Once the boat was steering her¬ self again, we looked back at an island that time had forgotten. The razor-backed ridges and craggy moimtains only needed Pterodactyl and dinosaurs to make the prehistoric scene complete. The sail up to Hiva Oa was fast but uneventful, as we had a starboard beam reach in 18 knots of wind. We spent the next six days on the hook in Tahuku Bay near the town of Atuona, drying out and getting our sea legs back. We enjoyed Atuona, complete with a fes¬ tival to celebrate Paul Gaugain’s birthday and also to celebrate French Armistice Day. The Marquesans were very friendly — quick to flash a big smile and give yachties a ride to town. Out of necessity we have started to learn French. While here, we’ve finally begun to meet many of the Puddle Jumpers that we'd been in radio contact with for the last 25 days. We've even managed to help a few with gear problems they suffered coming across the Pacific. The sense of camara¬ derie is wonderful. Hearing about a bay to the north side of Hiva Oa that is uninhabited and sel¬ dom visited, on May 9 we decided to go there to explore. Upon arrival, we dropped the hook, the only boat in the bay. After launching the dinghy, we took a swim in the clear cobalt blue water. Fantastic! Af¬ ter our swim, we took the dinghy to the white sand beach, from which we noticed an abandoned homestead nestled among a coconut grove. We waded across a fresh¬ water stream to pick wild grapeftnit, cit¬ ron, and oranges. Back to the present, tomorrow we in¬ tend to explore Hakahau Bay before con¬ tinuing on to Nuku Hiva, 25 miles north. We hope our email finds everyone as happy and healthy as we are, and that some day all of you can see what we have seen. — ricks/12/03 Wanderlust — Hunter 466 Mike Harker Finding Crew (Manhattan Beach]

As some of you might remember, Mike Harker got into sailing big time about three years ago when he did the Ha-Ha

with his Hunter 35 Wanderlust, then did the Baja Bash back home singlehanded. A little more than a year ago, he bought the first ever Hunter 466, christened her Wanderlust, and singlehanded her across the Atlantic. After spending the summer sailing around the Med with crew, he and crew sailed the boat back across the At¬ lantic to the Caribbean. At that point he'd done about 12,000 ocean miles in 10 months, which is a lot. He then sailed Wanderlusthack to the Miami Boat Show where he'd bought her — and then back to Antigua, much of the way slnglehandmg, for Sailing Week. The next thing we knew, Harker, a pro¬ fessional photographer, had sent us some photographs of a lovely young woman with veiy long red hair. We had no idea who she was, but it appeared obvious that she was crewing with him. Knowing that many of you singlehanders are interested in how to find crew — particularly lovely young female crew — we asked Harker for de¬ tails. Here's Mike's report: "1 put up a sign in Antigua stating that I was sailing to Panama after the Antigua Sailing Week and would enjoy some com¬ pany'. About six different people came by, but 1 thought that I would rather sail alone

IN LATITUDES — if not the minute. It's not at all un¬ usual for the couple who agree to crew with you to Panama to come back an hour later to explain they've taken a better of¬ fer to sail in the opposite direction. Un¬ certainty reigns supreme. And finally, 4) Being at Antigua during Sailing Week is a great place for crew to hop aboard a boat for a long passage, thus gaining them membership in the crew 'game'. Once you've done one long trip, you can net¬ work that experience literally around the globe. — latitude 38 5/9/03

Solstice — Freya 39 Jim & Eleanor Hancock Opua, New Zealand (San Francisco)

Carla Hildebrandt of Namibia, having recently signed on as crew aboard 'Wanderlust', has fun posing for the owner, a pro photographer. than have sniokers aboard. Then a nice Brazilian fellow named Fabio came by with a very nice girl. He asked if there was still space for him. After sitting together for 10 minutes, 1 said, Yes, you can come along.' "Then Carla, the young woman with him, asked if 1 needed a cook. She wanted to go to Panama, too. 1 agreed that she could come also. "The plan was that we would leave the next day. But that evening Fabio and Carla returned to say that their plans had changed. Fabio had been offered a paid position on an Italian boat heading back to the Med, so he wouldn't be Joining me. Carla asked if she could still come along with me to Panama. She would go from there to meet her mother in Quito, Ecua¬ dor, and travel to the Galapagos together. 1 said she could some along. "After five days of good downwind sail¬ ing, we arrived in Aruba. 1 ori^nally wanted to only stay two days, but we've now been here six days. We have been sta3dng in the marina that is part of the Excelsior Hotel, with a private island.

That's where we've been taking the ac¬ companying photographs. Carla had never been photographed before. She was extremely hesitant the first day, but after seeing on the computer what we'd done together, she was hooked! "Carla Hildebrandt is 25, was born and raised in Windhoek, Namibia, and is stud3dng to be a gourmet cook in South Afpica. While in South Africa, she'd met an Italian who wanted to sail his 32ft catamaran to Brazil. After five weeks of sailing alone across the southern Atlantic, they arrived tn Portalese, Brazil. She would not con¬ tinue with him alone, so they found Fabio to sail with them to Trinidad. Carla and Fabio left the Italian in Trinidad and flew to Sailing Week in Antigua, which is where 1 met them." Based on our experience, Mike's report rings true. Specifically, 1) Good adventures happen to people who are willing to get out there and take some risks, not to people who stay home hoping to be invited to join the perfect situation. 2) The first boat you join or crew you take on is rarely your last. It's normal for crews to switch boats all the time. 3) Crew plans change by the hour

Thank you for printing my December letter about the history of our boat — and the April response from Hugo and Martha Schreiner, who built her many years ago. What a thrill it was to hear from them and to learn so much about the boat that we call home! 1 have sent them an email with pictures of us and of Solstice on our recent Pacific crossing, and am looking forward to sharing some great stories with them. Speaking df our Pacific crossing, 1 have attached some pictures that I have wanted to share with Latitude readers for some time. In July of last year, when we ar¬ rived at Kauehi in the Tuamotus, we went for a walk along the windward shore of the atoll. What we found was a beach that was strewn with plastic trash! Much of the trash looked like it had probably come from fishing boats: floats, old poly nets, A're islanders really into dental hygiene — or is there some other explanation for all these tooth¬ brushes washihg ashore in the South Pacific?

CHANGES plastic oil jugs, buckets, and so forth. But as we walked along the beach, 1 started to notice that there were also a lot of tooth¬ brushes! 1 began picking them up, and in about 10 minutes had a fist full. While later at Fakarava, we also took a walk along that atoll's windward side. Once again we found the same trashstrewn beach, and once again we found an extraordinary number of toothbmshesl When I recount this story to others, they almost invariably jump todJie conelusion that a container full of toothbrushes must have fallen off of a ship and burst open, its content washing ashore on the atolls. Here's why I don't think that's time: 1) None of the toothbrushes were in their packaging; 2) The toothbrushes were of all different makes and styles; and,3) All of the toothbrushes appeared to have been used! My own hypothesis is that tooth¬ brushes are used for some non-dental industrial cleaning purpose on offshore fishing boats, and get east overboard once they are worn out. It's also possible that they were somehow used in the Tuamotan pearl industry, Wid also thrown off atolls to windward. This second hypothesis has some support from what we found in Tonga. When beachcombing on the un¬ inhabited island of Uanukuhihifu in the \ Ha'apai Group, we also found a shocking amount of plastic trash on the windward side of the island — but very few tooth¬ brushes. There were some, just not many. But what we found a lot of were worn out flip-flops! Sinee there are no nearby is¬ lands to windward of this beach, one wonAfter a long time in the relative cool, Jim and Eleanor are eager to get back into shorts and under waterfalls in the South Pacific.

ders where this stuff drifted from! Any guesses? And one final mystery. Have you notieed that there seems to be a dispropor¬ tionate number of nurses among mem¬ bers of the cruising community? I could probably name a dozen cruising nurses, both male and female, right off the top of my head. That’s far more than I knew in my land-based existence, and if you broaden the category to health-care work¬ ers so that it includes physical therapists, chiropractors and doctors, the imbalance gets even more lopsided. Other people that I have spoken to have noticed the same thing, so what's up? I have my own thoughts, but it might be interesting to hear what other readers think. Our crossing of the Pacific was a won¬ derful experience, so in a few weeks we're looking forward to sailing north to Tonga and Fiji. —Jim 5/15/03 Jim — We've noticed the same thing about the number of nurses cruising. For what it's worth, Doha de Mallorca is a reg¬ istered nurse. Here's a guessing game for our readers: In the '70s, de Mallorca was one of the nurses caring for a very famous figure in L.A., a guy who recently had a major motion picture made about him de¬ spite the fact he is still alive. And no, it

Clockwise: A bucketful of the mysterious flipflops on Uanukuhihifu. Eleanor with loving school kids In Tonga. Eleanor looking for reefs. wasn't Robert Evans.

Cabaret — Tayana Trawler John & Susie Gerber Cruising Then And Now (Seattle) We did our first eruise 10 years ago, and stayed out for a little over two years. Ever since we got back, we were getting ready to head south again — and reading mixed reports in Latitude about the cost of cruising in Mexico these days. Well, we're npw in Barra de Navidad, having been on our second cruise since last Thanksgiving, and ean report on cruis¬ ing now versus 10 years ago. Cruising is more expensive in Mexico these days — but cruisers have more ex¬ pensive tastes. For instance, we estimate that more than 50% of today’s cruisers need a marina close by, and marinas in Mexico aren't cheap. God forbid if many of today's cruisers had to anchor out for more than a week! We first got an idea of modern cruisers' need for marinas while in Mazatlan. We were going to anchor in the Old Harbor, which is free, until cruisers convinced us

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to take a slip at Marina Mazatlan. As marinas go in Mexico, Marina Mazatlan in inexpensive and the cruiser camara¬ derie is terrific. But trust us, if you're on a tight cruising budget, you'll be fine an¬ choring in the Old Harbor. Some cruisers in the Mazatlan area prefer the El Cid Marina, although it has more surge and seemed very expensive to us. But if you're one of those guys who has dreams of going cruising, and your wife and guests don’t, then resorts such as El Cid and Paradise Village in Nuevo Vallarta are the places to go. Most of us understand that one. Give these folks a marina, a five-star hotel, a pool, a hot tub, and $12 pina coladas, and they begin to fall in love with all this cruising stuff. In addition to the expense of marinas, the cost of having engine and other boat work is also much more expensive here than it was 10 years ago. It seems that a lot of American wannabe mechanics come down to Mexico claiming to already be experts. Because they are white and want to charge U.S. hourly rates for mechani¬ cal work, most cruisers feel comfortable with them and assume they are compe¬ tent. Don't be so sure. After our boat suffered a blown head gasket while in Mazatlan, we crossed

paths with an American who claimed to be an expert mechanic. We were fortunate to know our boat well enough to realize that he was full of beans. Then we were fortu¬ nate enough to run into Rick of Cape Star, and Bob of Bolinas Dream, both of whom are berthed on Dock 6 in Marina Mazatlan. These guys have established a busi¬ ness providing services to eruising boats by farming out the work to competent Mexicans. They got us a wonderful Mexican mechanic who fixed our blown head-gasket for just $800. After a great stay in Mazatlan, we de¬ cided to head south. Because of a big re¬ union tn Puerto Vallarta, we eleeted to stay at Marina Vedlarta. Having spent 20 days there — at a cost of $690 — all we can say is — ughl Heaven help you if you have a problem with your boat in Marina Vallarta, as both the Americans and the Mexicans have you by the neck. It's all about money, money, money. But it's not the Mexicans who created the American atmosphere, but rather the Americans who turned the place Into downtown Los Angeles — with a slight Mexican flare. Some Americans will pay any price to be in a different country — as long as it's just like the States. It was less expensive a few miles up the coast at Paradise Village, where you get a Five Star hotel with swimming pool and all. The problem is that it's so far — half an hour — from Puerto Vallarta, that If you go in at night you have to take a cab back. There are cruiser meetings about almost everything at Paradise — maybe even one about how many times a day one should take a poop! This obvi¬ ously wasn't one of our favorite places — but it wasn't 10 years ago, either. One positive thing we can say about Puerto Vallarta is that 'Teapot Tony', the local American mechanic, and his wife, are great people. Once we went south of Puerto Vallarta, we finally met 'real' cruisers again. There were a lot more cruis¬ ers than there were 10 years ago on the Gold Coast', but they liked to do the nor¬ mal cruising stuff — swim, dive, play volley-

To each his/her own. Some cruisers iove Para¬ dise Resort and Marina, with the beach in front and the marina in the back - plus all the amenties. ball, have a beer at a palapa, have potlucks, and hang out together. By the way, the beach palapas in even the small¬ est and out of the way places are pricey. You will spend at least $5 per person for a meal. But it's doable. We got as far down as Barra Lagoon in Bahia De Navidad, whieh had great people, good food, and fine provisioning. It was lots of fun, too. We’re now heading back north to spend our first season in the Sea of Cortez, where we're sure to meet lots more great people. We laugh when people complain about the high prices of checking tn and out — but spend every waking moment in an expensive marina. But the bottom line is that cruising is more expensive in Mexico than it was 10 years ago, but much of it is because cruisers demand more ameni¬ ties. It's up to each of us to decide how to s^end our money. — the gerbers 3/25103 Readers — We always cringe when people talk about 'real' cruising as if it were a specific activity with strict rules. We see 'cruising' as a broad activity that has to include folks who tike to spend a year in a place to fully appreciate the culture; folks Other cruisers prefer the more natural and less developed environs of the Barra Lagoon. Most like some combination of both.

CHANGES who are relentlessly on the move; com¬ muter cruisers who can only get to their boat a few weeks during the season; ur¬ ban cruisers who prefer populated areas; wilderness cruisers who only enjoy the remote areas; retired cruisers who enjoy sharing their golden years in the company of other seniors who live aboard; and so forth. The beauty of Mexico is that it has the variety to suit Just about every kind of cruiser. For those who want rugged and remote, there's both the Pacific side and Sea of Cortez side of the Baja Peninsula. For those who have to be near urban cen¬ ters and bright lights, there are places such as Marina Vallarta, Marina Cabo San Lucas, the Acapulco YC, and the marinas in Mazatlan. For those who lik^ things more upscale, there's Paradise Marina, El Cid, and Grand Island Marina in Barra. For cruisers who like to hang with other cruisers on the hook near village-like en¬ vironments, there's La Cruz, Tenacatita Bay, andZihuataneJo. For commuter cruis¬ ers, there are marinas near the airports at Ixtapa, Manzanillo, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, La Paz, and Cabo. No matter what kind of cruiser you are, Mexico has Just the place for you. We like the Gerbers' point about the cost of cruising b^ing a function of the ameni¬ ties one needs. For as we reported a few months ago, depending on where they are, even middle-class cruisers with nice 40foot boats find their cruising budgets can fluctuate anywhere from $500 to $3,500 or more, depending on where they cruise and how much they want to spend on dis¬ cretionary items such as marinas, tourist drinks and dinners, taxis and rental cars, and plane tickets home. If someone wants to cruise on the cheap, they should go to the Sea of Cortez, where they can eryoy the good life below the poverty level in the United States. But if someone prefers the luxury Ife, there's that to be had also — in big cities with marinas. But don't ex¬ By torchlight, on the beach, with a beautiful view of the Tres Marietas Islands, this whole fresh fish dinner will run you about $7.50.

pect to be able to do it on an extreme bud¬ get To give folks an idea of how much one's expenses can vary, last season the Wan¬ derer and Doha de Mallorca's favorite sth. down meals in Banderas Bay ran about $5 - $7.50 — which was for a full dinner, by torchlight, on the beach with a beauti¬ ful view, but not including alcohol. Which, we might add, we consider a hell of a bar¬ gain. We also had a celebratory lunch at the lovely Bel Aire Hotel at Careyes, where two drinks, two lunches, two glasses of wine, and one dessert came to, gulp, $85. So when one cruising couple spends $85 for lunch, and another spends $ 1 Ofor din¬ ner, you're going to get mixed reports on what it costs to cruise in Mexico. We can understand tlidt some folks would not care for the marina life at Para¬ dise Village Resort. Indeed, although we often base our boat there in the winter, when we're aboard, we quickly head out. Nonetheless, we'd like to offer some facts in the resort's defense. First, it advertises itself as a "family destination" as opposed to a "Five Star Resort" — although it's bet¬ ter built, maintained, and staffed than most Five Star resorts in Mexico, Second, the piha coladas run about $5, not $12 — and during happy hour they are two-forone delivered to the hot tub or pool, fin ad¬ dition, the most delicious chile relleno din¬ ners we've ever eaten are Just $5 in the resort's shopping center.) Finally, while berthing is not cheap at Paradise Resort, lots of cruisers obviously think it's a fair value, as despite continued marina expan¬ sion, it can be hard to get a slip during the winter. Few cruisers have any appreciation for how lucky we are to have Mexico so close, for it has Just about every type of cruising available, forJust about every type of bud¬ get. You don't find many places in the world like that.

Reservations For The Med Is This The Beginning Of The End? [Editor's Note; The following appeared in the April is¬ sue of England's Yachting Monthly magazine. which is sort of their Cruis¬ ing World.] '"Book early!' is the mes¬ sage from the r e e e n t 1 y

formed Societe de Controle d'Acces a la Mediterranee, consisting of countries whose borders lie on the Med coast. The society plans to limit the number of plea¬ sure vessels visiting the Med in an attempt to curb worrying levels of pollution and reduce levels of damage caused to the sea¬ bed by anchoring craft. "The initiative was led by the Spanish and French governments, which have been concerned with overdevelopment of their coastal regions. Despite attempts to provide an environmentally sensible bal¬ ance between available berthing and the requirements of visiting craft, demand continues to outstrip supply as more and more privately owned boats pour into the Med each year. "Having raised the matter with their EU partners and found an almost-unanimous accord, representatives from Spain, France and Italy approached Turkey, Egypt and the North African countries to agree on maritime legislation. With an almost unprecedented lack of discord between the various states, it was swiftly established that such a move would be in the best interests of all parties. "One of the great attractions of the project is the simplicity of monitoring ac-

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So now the SopletS de Contrdle d'Accds ^ la Mediterran^e thinks boats not based in the Med should have to make reservations to visit places such as Marciana Marina on Elba? Nonsense! cess to the region. There are only a few routes into the Mediterranean. The two traditional gateways, the Straits of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, are easy to police, and the countries bordering these gateways are fully supportive of the pro¬ posal. "Charter comjjanies will not be re¬ stricted by a quota in boat numbers, and may see an increase in business coupled with a decrease in competition for berth space. "People planning to cruise the area af¬ ter 2004 will need to apply to the bureau, providing boat details, proposed date of entry and outlined itinerary. For EU-registered craft, only those conform¬ ing to RCD requirements will be accepted. The licence fee, to be decided, will be based on boat size. "Avril Tromper, secretary to the bu¬ reau, suggested in an interview with our Med correspondent that the minimupi fee would be around 1,000 Euros for two years. '"This is the absolute minimum if we are to conserve our most beautiful coastal regions for the enjoyment of future gen¬

erations,' she said." — yachting world 4/05/03

Tai Tam n — Island Packet 40 Tom & Kathy Knueppel Colombia To Belize (San Francisco) ^ 'After nearly 4.5 months of enjo3dng Cartagena, we departed on April 5. Our first stop was Isla Rosario, about 20 miles away, in order to get our boat's systems up to speed again and get used to life at anchor once more. From there we sailed a rhumbline course to Isla Providencia, which Is still Colombia despite the fact that it's twice as close to the east coast of Nicaragua. Our first 24 hours underway was rather uncomfortable, as we had to deal with northeast winds running against the current. A casualty was our main belowdeck autopilot, which gave up its life after almost 9,000 miles. Things quieted down after that, and we had one of our most enjoyable sails. It was interrupted, however, about 200 miles offshore when we were hailed by a British Research ves¬ sel — which carried a contingent of the U.S. Coast Guard. They decided to board us, and perhaps out of boredom, ran us

through the whole gambit of safety inspec¬ tion, drug inspection, and what they called an 'Intelligence Review'. To make a two-hour stoiy short, we passed with fly¬ ing colors and continued on our way to¬ wards Isla Providencia. The young Coast Guard personnel were very courteous, professional — and curious about our way of life. It wasn't an enjoyable experience, but it certainly brightened up our daily passagemaking routine. We arrived at Isla Providencia on the 13th, and found the entrance to Catalina Harbor to be well buoyed. Wide open to the northwest, the anchorage would be easy to enter during day or night. We an¬ chored off the small town of Santa Isabel — there are only 3,500 people on the whole island — where there was good pro¬ tection and holding. We used Bernardo B. Bush Howard to check us in and out at a cost of 104,000 pesos — or $40 U.S. An agent must be used when clearing in or out of Colombia. The folks from Immi¬ gration and the Port Captain's office ar¬ rived at our boat within an hour of our arrival, and finished the paperwork in less than 20 minutes. Avery pleasant experi¬ ence. The folks at Santa Isabel were very friendly. The' numerous grocery stores made provisioning easy and inexpensive. It's also a good place to stock up on li¬ quor and beer at Colombian prices, for it's much more expensive In Honduras. Getting diesel or gas was a matter of hir¬ ing a taxi and taking jerry jugs to a nearby gas station. Mr. Bush can get laundry done, help with water, and is available — Tom and Kathy explore little Isla Providencia 'Easy Rider' (Lite) style. It's a great island to cir¬ cumnavigate on a motor scooter.

CHANCES with a big smile — for anything that a cruiser might need. We later rented a motor scooter — for Just $7/day — to tour the 11-mile coastal road around the is¬ land. The folks at Isla Providencia make cruisers feel genuinely welcome, and so we recommend it. After six days, we set off to the Vivorillos Cays, which are 190 miles to the northwest. This is a very pleasant reef — and several smaller islands — that of¬ fers easy anchoring and good protection against everything but Northers. The Vivorillos are just a pleasant stopover on the way to Honduras' Bay of Islands — although we also found it a great place to see the green flash at sunset. In fact, we saw it on consecutive nights. Rested up, we left for Isla Guanaja tn the Bay Islands of Honduras, where we arrived the next day after mostly motorsailing. After checking in at Immi¬ gration and the Port Captain in the small settlement — just $2 U.S. for the whole process! — we moved over to El Bight and dropped the hook. No waypoints are nec¬ essary to get around, as you just have to pay attention td the water color. We found Isla Guanaja to be quite pretty, but there's not much to do except for the good diving and snorkeling. The only Internet access we were able to find — our on-board Pactor modem is-defective —was at a Ger¬ man couple's house they were still in the process of building. (Ask for Anke on VHF 72.) No matter where we went in the Bay Islands, we found no-see-ums to be a major problem. They were nasty little fellas, as they seemed to wear leather jack¬ ets, have steel teeth, and came after us with a vengeance. So don't visit without bug repellant. We departed Guanaja on April 24 for the 35-mile trip to French Harbor, Roatan. When we arrived, we opted to anchor be'Tai Tam IT followed what might as well be called the Western Caribbean 'Milk Run'. It's an entirely different experience than the Eastern Carlb.

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hind Big French Cay, a much more pleas¬ ant anchorage than the French Harbor YC lagoon, which is more crowded and has less wind. Big French Cay gets east¬ erly trades cooling the boat and keeps th^ terrible sand flies away. Coincidentally, getting into the Big French Cay anchor¬ age is no longer quite as straightforward as it once was, and both Nigel Calder and John Raines' books are outdated. We were told that it's possible to check in and out of Honduras at both Isla Utila and Isla Guanaja. We have heard some conflicting stories about problems and mordida when checking tn to Roatan at either French Harbor or Coxen's Hole, so beware. From French Harbor we left for Isla Utila. The little town of Puerte Este is very pleasant and funky, with many tourists and a good selection of restaurants and small stores. The anchorage is open and easy to get into, and there is good hold¬ ing in 12 feet. Checking out is easy — another $2 and 20 minutes with officials at Immigration and the Port Captain is all it took. Overall, Honduras certainly knows how to treat cruisers well! We left Utila on May 1 for Lighthouse Reef, a Belize atoU — and found it to be one of the best places we've ever been for water clarity and snorkeling. It's just in¬ credible — with the added bonus of there being no other boats around and it being a safe and comfortable anchorage. From Lighthouse Reef, we planned to go to San Pedro/Ambergis Cay in order check in and out of Belize. However, the wind was blowing at 20 knots out of the east, the seas were running seven to nine feet, and according to reports the entrance to San Pedro is difficult and dangerous when there is strong wind and big seas. So we diverted to Long Cay, a reef en¬ trance further south, and slowly made our way toward Cay Caulker. This was not an easy trip, as the water depth was chal¬ lenging to say the least. For almost 10 minutes we carved grooves into the fine sand bottom before getting back to deeper water — meaning over 5.5 feet. It's ndt em experience we want to repeat. After the friendly Honduran officials, the clearing procedure at Belize left a lot to be desired. In fact, the paperwork shuffle is worse in Belize than in Mexico. First, we went to Immigration, where an unfriendly, self-important young lady — who kept singing to herself how bored she was! — said we should have checked m the day before as we had arrived 30 min utes before their office closed. Our excuse that we thought the offices might close at 1700 hours didn’t mean anything to her.

so she hit us with a $20 U.S. late cheirge in addition to the regular fee of $7.50 U.S. (The costs reflect the fact that we checked in and out at the same time.) Lots of pa¬ pers needed to be filled out, and they were then slowly shuffled and stamped. When we informed them we also wanted to check out to leave the next day, we were told we should come tn the next morn¬ ing. Only after pleading and saying that we wanted to leave at 0500 did the offi¬ cial relent and issue our exit zarpe. Then it was off to Customs, where we had to fill out a detailed inventory of our supplies and stores — meaning everything from frozen or fresh meat to vegetables, to canned goods, to liquor. This cost $17.50 U.S. Then there was Quarantine, which also wanted many lists and inven¬ tories, repeating everything we had al¬ ready prepared for Customs. Finally, there was our dog. To make a long story short, we unwillingly had to come up with an 'under the table donation' of $20 U.S. to avoid having to come up with several health certificates from Belizeem authori¬ ties — despite the fact our dog had never been on Belize soil. Although we love Belize and will cer¬ tainly return, their officials need to get

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Sometimes you have to take a break in cruising to make repairs — such as to 'Profligate's mast step. The week of hard physical labor was bad. The two weeks of subsequent body aches was worse. with it. Other cruisers speak of having the same kind of problems. Having checked in and out of every Central American country and some in South America, we feel that Belize is at the bottom in terms of the paperwork cha-cha. Once the weather improves so we can leave through the San Pedro pass, we'll head to Key West, where we will be meet¬ ing our oldest son on June 1. — tom & kathy 05/01/03

Lucida — Oceania 32 Gaffer David & Chris Dewees Trucking Tips & Troubles (Morro Bay) We had a steep learning curve having our boat trucked from Marina Seca in San Carlos, Mexico, to Florida. We hope this report will help those who truck their boats after us. The following are the documents and numbers that will be required for truck¬ ing one's boat: A Temporary lmpor£ Per¬ mit, available for free — except for your time — from the local Aduana office. A copy of the captain's passport, driver's li¬ cense, and tourist visa. Check-in paper¬

work from the Port Captain; documenta¬ tion or state registration; and the hull and engine serial numbers. The serial num¬ bers are required by some Aduana offices — La Paz is one, and they will even in¬ spect the boat to verify the numbers. Guaymas didn’t require the s'erial num¬ bers, but they did make us check-in with the Guaymas Port Captain’s office even though the boat was in Bahia San Carlos. Ah, Mexico! Jesus and his staff at Marina Seca are helpful and friendly. Their truck was new and their trailer has more than adequate suspension to smooth out the bumps in the high¬ way. The Marina Seca crew will en¬ sure that the boat is bedded down securely on the trailer, although you might want to be present to su¬ pervise the details. Alert to owners of wood boats: Due to changes in the import/export laws, our wood boat was held up at the border for two days. Make sure that things have been straightened out before your boat leaves the yard or it wiU cost you. Make sure you have insurance. Marina Seca does not insure your

boat while she is being trucked, so un¬ less your insurance company covers it, get some while in San Carlos. One com¬ pany that offers insurance is GNP, which is located within walking distance of the marina next to the Pemex station. For $160 U.S., we obtained a policy that cov¬ ered collision, fire, theft and third-party liability. The catch is that the coverage is for Mexico only, so you'll have to rely on either your own policy or good luck for the last 64 miles from the border to Tuc¬ son. The duration of the Mexican policy is flexible. We recommend you start the coverage two days before you are sched¬ uled to haul out and for at least two days after your boat's ETA at the border. One reason for this is that the scheduling at Marina Seca is fluid, which means you may be hauled earlier than the originally plarmed date. Secondly, you never know what delays there might be — such as our boat being held up at the border because she's wood. As a result, we were unin¬ sured for the last day and night our boat was in Mexico. While your boat gets trucked north, you can make the trip on a TBC bus — they are clean, Ipvely, and air-conditioned. It's $30/person U.S. to Tucson, and the trip takes seven hours. Buses leave at 2 a.m., 11 a.m., and 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. — depending on whether it's a weekday or weekend. The pleasant ticket clerk will refund your ticket for a fee of a few pesos if it becomes necessary. Marina Seca only trucks boats as far as Tucson, so you have to get a U.S. truck¬ ing company to take it from there. As you'U soon read, it's importamt to shop carefully fof a U.S. trucker to ensure your boat's continued good health. We didn't realize this. While still in San Carlos, we contracted She didn't have the smoothest trip from San Carlos, Mexico, to Florida, but 'Luclda'is almost ready to attack the East Coast.

CHANGES with A-1 Boat Hauling of Fort Lauderdale to hire a rig to take our boat from Tucson to Florida. This was largely based on the fact that Jesus has a good relationship with the company. Just before leaving San Carlos, we were presented with a contract to sign that Included a waiver of respon¬ sibility for A-1 for "all damages" to "wood hulls". We were uneasy about this, but we were ready to go, and as we said, Jesus uses that outfit frequently. Besides, we'd been told that our quote,, included $300 for "special handling" of wood boats. So we signed. After we arrived in Tucson tn April 15, we rented a car and headed east. While halfway through Texas the next day, we called A-1 owner Bill West to find out how things were going. He told us our boat was being delayed at the border. HO* seemed upset about this, and told us that we would be responsible for an additional $300 in permits caused by the delay. As it turned out, the boat arrived in Tucson a short time later, and after a quick switch of trailers, started heading east. We were still hoping for a Friday delivery in Jacksonville, Florida, but West eventually Informed us the boat wouldn't arrive until the 22nd. That meant four more nights of motels and eating out. Having been assured by Jesus that 1 was not res'ponsible for any additional permit fees, 1 tried calling West's office and cell phone to confirm there would be no problem. In spite of attempts by a very accommodating office person, neither West nor the driver could be reached. 1 had money orders made out for the origi¬ nal quoted amount. M^en our boat finally arrived eiround 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, an initial inspec¬ tion showed that the middle of three side supports on both sides had broken at least one plank on each side. Further in¬ spection revealed that the boat had rolled forward. The keel had originally been sup¬ ported in four places: forward with two

2x6s, and tn three other spots with 4x4s. A bump combined with possible braking had caused the 4x4s to roll forward. This resulted in the 2x6s being crushed, and the second 4x4 ending up off to the sidp and not supporting any weight at all. This meant that the boat ended up being pri¬ marily supported on the two center sup¬ ports under the turn of the bilge. The planking gave way at those locations. The driver claimed to know just where it happened, but didn’t think to back the pads down to put the weight back on the keel. He also claimed that |ie didn’t know what the boat weighed, and as a result had gotten an overweight ticket during the trip. Among the paperwork handed to us by the driver was a U.S. Customs cargo manifesto stating the weight as being 11,000 kilograms. We took pictures, the yard manager took digital pictures, and the boat was unloaded. We paid the driver the originally agreed upon amount, and he said we were $300 short. He called Mr. West, and between them they decided not to pursue it. We were also informed that they were in no way responsible for the damage to our boat because of the waiver we had signed. But it's our opinion — as well as that of the yard manager, his crew, and a sur¬ veyor — that a competent trucking com¬ pany could have transported our boat safely and that the damage was due to negligence. After some interior dismamtling we found that there was no damage to the frames, and that most likely only one plank on each side would need re¬ placing. It would probably cost about

$1,000.

Chris and David Dewees. Changes in import/ex¬ port iaws caused their boat to be held at the Mexican border because she is made of wood!

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When I more recently talked to West about the damage, he wasn't at all inter¬ ested, claiming that the waiver absolved him of ciU responsibility. He expressed no interest in how it had happened or how it might have been prevented. When I que¬ ried him as to what the "special handling" for wood boats we had paid $300 for, he denied knowledge of any such charge. Al¬ though we don’t have it in writing, it was definitely part of the verbal negotiations — as Jesus can verify. Had West reacted with more concern, we wouldn't feel so bad about this. Al¬ though the $1,000 damage impacts our cruising budget significantly, it's not re¬ ally enough to initiate legal proceedings. But we sure want to caution cruisers about dealing with a company that just doesn't seem to care. Otherwise we are fine and enjoying Florida. The Ortega River Boatyard folks are very competent and people are very friendly. We are looking forward to being

back in the water and on our way north. — david. & chris 5/lOf 03

Island Madness — Caleta Partida Tonya Rickman, Vice Commodore The First Year (La Paz) Despite the initial controversy, the Northers that held up the boats coming over from the mainland, and the minus tides all week, the inaugural Island Mad¬ ness Week at Caleta Partida tn the Sea of Cortez got off to a great start. Approxi¬ mately 40 boats participated, with 20+ in the anchorage on any given day. Most nights 30 to 60 people came ashore for activities. Unfortunately, the race from La Paz up to Caleta Partida was a no-go, as there was no wind. While the two races during the week tempted only the ambitious, there was some great side-by-side racing. Larry of the Catalina 36 Sabbatical won both events. Mike and Tonya of Amazing Grace were selected as Admiral and Sea Goddess for the event, and more or less reigned over the many activities. Among these were Pi¬ rates, Pimps and Prostitutes Night; Tal¬ ent Night: Shipwn-ecked at the Pirate Bar Night: Luau Night; a Scavenger Hunt, and the mandatory Chili Cook-off and Dessert competitions'. The Bikini Contest was won

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by Jeff of Moon Me, who entered when none of the women did. Selene from Para¬ dise Found took the unplanned Wet Tshirt contest, winning over a field of six other 18-65 year-old contestants. The Beer-Belly Contest winner was Bob of Kokomo, who hopes his wife doesn't find out. The overwhelming winners of the Tal¬ ent Contest were Dean and Kople of Martha Rose for their bawdy rendition of Barnacle Bill the Sailor. The morning net was run by Keith on Shangra-La W, who served up 'Life According to Keith' wis¬ doms such as: "Why should we go back to town if we aren't out of beer?" As al¬ ways, the fishermen beat the cruisers at volleyball, 2-0. The fishermen felt so sony, for us gringos that they even sent some of their players to our side to help. While the Madness was long on fun, it was short on boats. We'U be working to Increase participation next year. For those not familiar with Paradise Found YC, although it's a branch of Para¬ dise Found Bar and Restaurant in La Paz, it's not for profit, and it's for cruisers and by cruisers. One of the activities is fund¬ raising. The cruising fleet in La Paz has been raising money to help cruisers Chuck and Linda of Tumbleweed. Chuck

was stabbed in the back on the Police Dock in San Diego before the start of the 2002 Ha-Ha. He has now been in the hos¬ pital in La Paz for four months. The Para¬ dise Found YC and the people attending Island Madness collected over $ 1,300 U.S. to put towards Chuck's hospital bill. — tonga 5/15/03

Cruise Notes: The earlier Changes from Yachting Monthly about needing reseiVations for taking a boat to the Med was, as you might have guessed, an April Fool's Joke. What gave it away for us was the sugges¬ tion that the governments of aU the coun¬ tries that front the Med could agree on anything. Preposterous! World Cruising Ltd, the folks who run the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), which is the granddaddy of all cruising rallies, report that all 225 slots for this November's 2,750-mile event across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands to St. Lu¬ cia had been taken by May 9. This was the earliest it's ever happened, indicating continu¬ ing great Interest in the event. The most represented manu¬ facturer will be Oyster, with 19 boats, trailed by HallbergRassy with 17, and Beneteau with 15. Swan, which had been the leader in previous years.

The downside of missing Antigua Sailing Week is not getting to meet all the fun-loving and exhuberant folks who make up the crews. LATITUDBRICHARD

'Big O' jamming across the Atlantic in the '95' ARC. It was our longest passage — as well as among our most enjoyable and satisfying.

dropped to 13 entries. As best we eould determine there are 18 catamarans en¬ tered, 10 of them Catanas. More than half of the entry slots have been taken by Brits. The 14 Ameriean boats that signed up are: Anthem, Tom Gill's 50-ft one-off; Bellamare, Aldo Mariotti's Itster 53; Calliopy, Jon and Tanya Manning's Northwind 43; Friendship II, Bob Stewart's Amel Super Maramu 52; In¬ deed, Giorgio Cagliero’s Hallberg-Rassy 46; La Contenta, Warren & Judy McCandless' Najad 49; Persistence, Will Wendell and Diane Rousseau's Baltic 43; Red Red Wine, Paul Camp's Amel Maramu 53; Sabbatical III, Mark Pitt's Amel Maramu 53; Severance, Bob Koenig's Wauqulez 43; Unnamed, Ken Williams' Oyster 53; Third Wish, William & Camille Melbourne's Amel Maramu 53; Topaz, John and Lori Post's Valiant 42 RS; Tusen Takk, John Larsson's Hallberg-Rassy 46; and Zangezi, Savely Rosenaur's Catana 471 catamaran. The ARC doesn't provide homeports, so we don't know how many of these folks might be from the West Coast. And what's up with all the Amel Maramus? In addition to all those listed above, we know of two other Americans who have taken delivery of them. So much for the boycott of French products by Americans after the spat over the liberation/invasion of Iraq. The one Northern California-owned boat that did last year's ARC was Mark and David Bernhard's Catana 58 catama¬ ran Aurora, which they'd picked up from the factory m France earlier in the year. Their original inclination was to sail around the world, however they had so mfuch fun in the Med last summer they are sailing back across the Atlantie for more. As of May 20th, they'd already made it to the Azores and were headed for Lisbon, Portugal. Cruising plans change aU the time, of course. For example, about six weeks ago we received the following letter: "We're

CHANGES Bruce and Robin Cleveland, Northern California owners of 2001 Swan 56 Alianza. I recently retired as the senior vp of marketing for Siebel Systems to take a year or two off to enjoy a lot of the things 1 was never able to do while working — such as spending some time cruising the Caribbean and the East Coast. As a re¬ sult, we decided to take on the adventure of sailing to Jamestown, Rhode Island — via Antigua, where we plan to participate in Antigua Sailing Week. Since Robin and I are novice sailors with dnly a few years of San Francisco Bay sailing and a couple of British Virgins and Tahiti charters un¬ der our belts, we wanted to find someone who was not only willing to make the pas¬ sage with us, but also take us under their wing and teach us 'seamanship'." The Clevelands ended up hiring Warwick 'Commodore' Tompkins of Mill Valley. Having been born on the former Elbe River pilot schooner Wander Bird, having crossed the Atlantic on her some¬ thing like six times before he was fouryears-old, and having mentored a genera¬ tion of Northern California's best sailors. Commodore was the perfect choice for learning seamanship in the Old School

'Whisper' at the start of the 2002 Ha-Ha. Having decided to do the Sea of Cortez this summer, they won't start the Puddle Jump until '04. manner. Alas, the Cleveland's very ambi¬ tious itinerary proved a little too ambi¬ tious, as everyone was pretty tuckered by the time they arrived in Panama. So they wisely decided to bail on Antigua Sailing

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just in from the pier — for big healthy sandwiches at a reasonable price. For din¬ ner, we like Steve's Steakhouse, particu¬ larly for steak and fish. You'll get a top hotch meal, and Steve, his son, and the rest of the staff really care. Too bad they can't raise the low ceiling a little. For an after dinner drink and some moderately rowdy atmosphere, we go to the The Mar¬ lin Club. These three favorites of ours are

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they are more difficult to predict, and more cruisers get smacked around by them. Before we get any letters, we want to acknowledge that not all cruisers hold Don's forecasts in such high regard. Of course, no weather forecaster is going to be perfect. Oman, your automatic weapons dis¬ counter? "In the aftermath of the at¬ tempted piracy of the yacht Penyllan, we thought we'd pass along this stoiy from Thailand," write Don and Katie Radcliffe of the Santa Cruz-based Beneteau 45 Klondike. "An American yachtie is pres¬ ently serving 2.5 years in a Bangkok prison for possession of an automatic weapon — an M-16 or something like it. We won't mention his name to protect his privacy. We recently spoke with his Thai girlfriend, who told us that he had planned to make the Red Sea passage this year, and had decided to purchase a weapon for protection from pirates. After making his weapon purchase in Bangkok, he was arrested while returning to Phuket by bus. It appears that he was set-up, and that the seller fingered him to the police.

IN LATITUDES The yachtie is appealing his case, but so far a payment of money hasn't kept him out of prison. An Aussie here who recently delivered a yacht to the Red Sea told us Oman is the place to purchase automatic weapons, as they sell for just $45. Fur¬ thermore, possession of such guns is common there. Oman is close to the Red Sea, but before you approach the Gulf of Aden where piracy seems to be the most common. Generally speaking, yachties tend to feel that it is better to be weapon¬ less. Peter Blake would probably be alive if he had not had a gun. We're currently on oior boat at Rebak Marina in Langkawi, Malaysia. We are vegetating after our three-week trip to northern Thailand and Laos. Asian tour groups have disappeared with the SARS epidemic, but backpack¬ ers are still out in force. They feel they are invincible, don't they?" According to Commodore Gilles Rancourt, what was hoped to be the first International Sail-Cuba.com Regatta on May 3-9, had to be postponed. "Talks are being held wdth the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Con¬ trol," said Rancourt. "These talks involve

clarification of misinformation supplied by a disgruntled race official who was dis¬ missed last month." While there have been a number of sail¬ ing events to Cuba in the past 10 years, we doubt the Treasury Department will let Sail-Cuba get around the prohibition against 'trading with the enemy'. For al¬ though the Clinton Administration was slack about enforcing travel restrictions

Thailand is a beautiful place to cruise — but a lousy place to buy automatic weapons. They're too expensive and the sellers double-cross you. to Cuba, the Bush Administration has be¬ come hard-ass about it. We think the lat¬ ter is a major strategic mistake. Sure, the formerly over-romanticized Castro — who just executed three men for trying to es¬ cape, and gave 75 dissidents jail terms of at least six years for crimes such as own¬ ing a typewriter — is one of the worst vio¬ lators of human rights on the face of the

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Delivering cruising boats by ship is becoming Increasingly prevalent on long Snd rough pas¬ sages. In the end, it can be less expensive. a stop in California, but it does stop in Ensenada. It vrill cost $12,000 to ship my 25,000 pound boat aboard the BBC Ec¬ uador. That's less than a new suit of sails, less than a new or rebuilt engine, and

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wood Mariner 35 can be salvaged, but we're not so sure. While her rig¬ ging, masts, roller furling, sails, and winches are still attached and look in halfway decent shape, she's got a couple of tons of sand inside, and therefore could have castastrophic hidden damage. But we re not as expert as Querner, who is one of the few amateurs who has started — much less finished — three boats. The first was a Piver Lodestar 36, which his partner even¬ tually took to Gremd Cayman Island. The second was a Peter Ibold Endurance de¬ sign that he kept for 13 years before sell¬ ing her in Latitude. His current flush deck Brewer steel ketch took 5.5 years of build¬ ing at the Allemand Brothers Boafyard

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CHANGES folks with the homebullt Ibold Endurance who got lost in the fog on the way back from Hawaii and spent the last night an¬ chored on a lee shore at Rockaway Beach just north of Pacifica? A couple of months ago we gave a glow¬ ing review to Patrick Bonnette and Emmanuel Deschamps' Guide to Navi¬

gation and Tourism in French Polynesia. We think it's such an excel¬ lent guide that we're praising it again in case some folks missed our first review. The lovely volume features terrific charts, chartlets, and information from two knowledgeable guys who've been in French Pol5mesia for a long time. As for the color photos, they make you want to grab some provisions, jump onto your boat, and set sail for the South Seas. "After last year's Ha-Ha, we immedi¬ ately continued on down to the Panama Canal, which I loved," reports Keith MacKenzie of the Vancouver-based Crowther 48 catamaran What’s Up Doc? After our transit, we visited Colon — a dangerous place — on the other side of the Canal, and Colombia's Isla Providencia, a neat little island off the

For helpful aerial photos such as this, don't go to French Poiynesia without a co^y of The Guide To Navigation' by Bonnette and Deschamps. coast of Nicaragua. One of my favorite stops was Gunaja, another cool little is¬ land built atop a coral heap that has lots of pirate history. You have to walk to get around, and 1 think the island almost

floods at high tide. Roatan was nice as well, after which we continued on inside Belize's barrier reef. We stopped in Mexico at Isla Mujeres/Cancun. Mujeres is a wonderful little island and place to clear in, and there are lots of real cruisers. Af¬ ter a great lift from the Gulfstream, we stopped at Cuba, which was pretty neat — although Castro's a mess. Then the Gulfstream helped us make our way to Key West. When you get this far north, it's important to listen to the Northwest Caribbean Net, as you don't wemt to get hit by a Norther. They tend to come down about once a week. 1 used to have a rockin' offshore charter business, but due to ter¬ rorism, the war, SARS, the weak economy, and people afraid to fly, business has been poor. Alas, I've put my cat up for sale for $299,000 in Key Largo. It was a great run while it lasted." With the arrival of June, it's hurricane season in both the Eastern Pacific (Mexico) as well as the Atlantic-Caribbean. (Actually, both the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific got tropical storms early this year; Mexico on May 21, and the Atlantic m

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CHANCES key, the EMYR has contributed to the development of marinas at Antalya, Bozyazi, Girne, and Magosa in Turkey; Lattakia in 85013, Jounieh in Lebanon; Haifa, Herzliya and Ashkelon in Israel; and Port Said in Eg5rpt. Capt. Lonnie Ryan, author of the just published 90-Day Yacht Club Guide To Ensenada, reports "the spirit of my book is to encourage people to put down the TV remote, buy a boat, and enjoy time with their family in Mexico — and benefit the people of Ensenada. Furthermore, folks don't have to pay $2,000 to a dummy lawyer to take offshore delivery of a boat — and therefore not be liable for Califor¬ nia sales tax." Some Ensenada vets wUl be surprised to learn that someone was able to find enough subject matter on the first port south of San Diego to fill 100 pages for a guide that retails for $29.95. Indeed, there's more than a little filler. An¬ other thing to keep in mind is that there is legislation before the California Legis¬ lature seeking to make it much more dif¬ ficult for Californians to avoid paying sales tax by taking offshore deliveiy. The guide is available where most cruising guides

are sold. "In the April issue, you reported that the Vallarta YC on the grounds of Para¬ dise Village has 'a swimihing pool, giant hot tub, showers, locker and laundry,'^reports Bill Colgate of San Diego. "These facilities are for the use of every boat in the marina, and are not exclusive to mem¬ bers of the yacht club. They are part of the great deal when you stay in Paradise." Thanks for the correction. Seeing that we and our crew used these facilities several times during the Banderas Bay Regatta, we should have known better. Just installed an SSB radio and need some practice before heading to Hawaii or Mexico later in the year? Well try the California Marine SSB Net, which is held on Monday nights at 9 p.m^on 4149 kHz. It's run by Ha-Ha vet Ed Hoff of the Brisbane-based Sorina, who particularly welcomes beginners. "Greetings from Seui Diego from the crew of the Richmond-based Ericson 39 Maverick," writes Tony Johnson on be¬

half of himself and Terry Shrode. "We ar¬ rived back in the USA on May 22 after 798 days and 29,524 miles. I'm sorry to have to tell all you dreamers and malcon¬ tents — among whose number the Cap¬ tain maintains a proud membership — that after all the places we've been, I have to conclude that America is still the best country in the world in almost every re¬ spect — and usually by a considerable margin. I have missed it, and as a matter of fact may never leave it again. Show me another country that can produce Jerry Lee Lewis, Muhammad Ali, Maiil5m Mon¬ roe, and Little Richard without breaking a sweat, and still has someone left over who immediately answers your call on VHF 16 amd knows what they're talking about." We expect to have more from Johnson when he returns to the Bay Area. Are you a Baby Boomer? If so, our re¬ cent birthday reminds us that all our bio¬ logical cruising clocks are ticking. With the kids leaving or about to leave the nest, hopefully aJittle money set aside, and none of us getting any younger, this is the time to start living the cruising dream.

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EL TORO. Fiberglass hull, Woor spars. Beautiful mahogany trim, oars, sail. Cus¬ tom rowing seat fits in daggerboard slot. Great condition. $900/obo or trade for Ferrari. Call (510) 594-9848. 8-FT WOOD DINGHY. Surplus Sea Scout boat. New sail, sprit rig, daggerboard and rudder. Good shape. $350. Please call (209) 521-5348. INTERNATIONAL 49er, USA 88. 2 sets of blades and sails, 2 masts, dolly, board bag, brand new cover. $5,995/obo. Get ready for the US Nationals at the Gorge. Please call (831) 423-8909 or email: ejwillis@pacbell.net.

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24 FEET & UNDER GLADIATOR 24, 1964. Full keel, new cushions, up-to-date rigging. 8 hp Evinrude. Good condition. $1,500/obo. Call (510) 523-6535. PEARSON ENSIGN, 1966. Hull #1080. FuR keel, mahogany and leak cockpit. Excellent condition. Main, 2 gennys, storm and spinnaker. 3 hp outboard. Located in Ventura Harbor. $8,900. (805) 641-3560. O'DAY 19 DAYSAILER, 1980. EZ-loader trailer, 6 hp outboard. Halyards led aft. New bottom paint 2003. New battery 2002. Marine CD player. Navigation lights. Long cockpit. Excellent condition overall. Fun on Bay or lakes. $3,200. (415) 485-3298.

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BALBOA 20,1975. Good sails, trailer and outboard, $2,500. Please call Bob (408) 248-8587. CATALINA 22, #8520. Swing keel on trailer, clean, all lines aft. Upgraded stand¬ ing rigging, lifelines, 8 hp Suzuki. Main, jib, genoa, custom galley, pop-top, PortaPotti, Autohelm. Tahoe boat, ready to sail, $4,500. Call (775) 847-0568 or email: nvblm@yahoo.com.

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HUNTER 23.5,1986. Very nice boat with excellent lines and layout. Good sails, in¬ cluding spinnaker. Honda 4-stroke 7.5 hp outboard. Many extras. Includes dual-axle trailer. Great family boat tor Bay Area, Delta and lakes. $8,000. (559) 229-3378. MOORE 24, HULL #4. Moore On, the bright red one in Alameda Marina. In great shape and many extras. $10,000/obo. Please call Scott (510) 865-7196 or email: seowens3@attbi.com.

ISLANDER 24. Not a Bahama. 7.5 hp outboard, epoxy bottom, stove, sink, spa¬ cious cockpit. Main, 2 jibs, spinnaker. Seat cushions. Beautiful lines. 2 anchors, $2,400. Call (925) 933-6031. CAPRI 14.2, 1988. Gray hull with new custom matching cover, bristol condition. Stored dry and covered. Very dry, nice teak trim. Sails are like new. $3,000/obo. (650) 341 -9962 (eves) or (415) 495-5000 (wkdays). Email pictures available. SANTANA 20, #338.1977 hull, new 1997 gelcoat bottom, faired keel and rudder. Full set practice sails, full set new 2002 North sails. Lightweight aluminum trailer. Great sport boat or fun cruiser. Call Butch (209) 551-2813.

FREEDOM 21, 1983. Catboaf 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 Richmond YC, space 57. $4,995/obo. Call Mike (530) 544-4014 or email: mgrimm6@ hotmail.com.

PEARSON 23, 1983. Cat rig, unstayed mast, lazyjacks. 8 hp Nissan, all lines to cockpit, whale gusher. Porta-Potti, extra mainsail, roomy cabin, nice condition. Berthed in Vallejo. All CG gear. $2,900. (707) 252-3006.

MONTEGO 19, 1980. Catalina-like mini cruiser. Sail Bay or lakes. Fiberglass with teak brightwork. Swing keel, 14” draft with keel up. Main, jib, sink, Porta-Potti, anchor, PFDs, 5.5 outboard, galvanized trailer. Very good condition. $3,300/obo. (707) 829-7744 or email: bforster@pacbell.net.

O’DAY 18 DAYSAILER. Surplus Sea Scout boat. Great training boat. Fair sails with trailer. $600 or trade tor Laser. Call (209) 521-5348.

TWO HOBIE 16s, 1973 & 1978. One trailer. All, including sails and equipment, $900 or trade for inflatable dinghy. (510) 538-8505 or email: all4444s@yahoo.com.

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model, plastic ciassic. Boat is fast and fun to sail. Sleeps 4, tiller, compass, depthsounder, sails, marine battery. Low hours on Honda 5 hp iongshaft. Berth at San Leandro Marina. $2,200. (916) 725-7594.

MacGREGOR 26,1990. New Honda 9.9 outboard, trailer, good shape, ready to sail. Self-furling jib, VHF, lots of extras. Must sell, bought a new boat, I don't need two. $7,995/make offer. Napa. (707) 255-4599 or email: elzoro@ix.netcom.com.

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MacGREGOR 21, 1981. Recently re¬

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 hand¬ ing. Extras. Atomic 4 runs great. $10,500/ obo. (415) 924-6553.

Bowsprit and transom. Craft is modified as liveaboard, with glass-over-ply super¬ structure. Lots of stuff, but In need of love overall. Shabby but great potential. $1,000/obo. Please call for details. (650) 274-4713.

newed from stem to stern. The boat sparkles in and out. 2 hp Evinrude. Trailer with new lights. Main, 110 and 150. Bot¬ tom, keel and inside of boat freshly painted. Pictures available. $1,800. Please call (209) 852-9168 or email: weluvlife@lakedonpedro.net.

CAL 2-27, 1978. Clean, wheel, depth sounder, speed, roller furler, autopilot, radar, VHF. Strong Atomic 4, ail lines led aft, 6 winches, jiffy reefing, compass and more. Berkeley Marina. $11,500. Call Dennis (510) 339-1412.

CATALINA 27, 1975. $6,000. Roomy, stove, life vests, 2 set of sails. Autohelm, radio, fishfinder. 10 hp Yamaha outboard. Berthed in Oakland. Can get CATV. Call Dan (415) 751 -1370 or page me at (415) 809-3586.

WYLIE 24,1979. Lots Of sails. Fun boat. Hauled in 2001. 5 hp Tohatsu just ser¬ viced. Bitchin’ little boat, ready to sail. $3,500/obo. Call Bill (415) 971-3919.

CAL 20. $750/OBO, SACRIFICE. Many extras. Sadsalito. Needs very little work to start your racing or overnight adven¬ tures. Call (415) 331-5251.

CAL 2-24,1961. Take over incompleted refit of this plastic classic for $1,100. Also, Chrysler 22,1977, very good ready to use condition, nice molded fiberglass interior, basic rig, 6 hp Johnson 0/B, $750. For further details call Brad (510) 832-7616 or email: bbpetway@hotmail.com.

O’DAY 17 DAYSAILER with trailer. See CATALINA 22, #2674. My Tahoe. Most excellent condition, needs nothing. 7 bags, lines aft, 8 hp Chrysler. Trailrite trailer, new canvas cushions. Ready for sea in all re¬ spects. Reduced from $7,500 to $3,250, Must sell. Must see at Website: <http:// www.Fogcty.com/MYTAHOE.htm> Call (510) 913-3926.

J/24,1981. Fast Fleet 17 champion. Pro¬ fessionally maintained with OCSC’s fleet. Faired bottom and rudder. Just completed annual out-of-the-water sen/ice. Includes full inventory of sails and Johnson 6 hp outboard. Good condition. $7,500. Call Rich (510) 843-4200. CAL 20,1966. New North jib and main, working jib, symmetrical and asymmetri¬ cal spinnakers. Whisker pole, Ronstan tiller extension. 4 hp outboard. Rigged for racing, aluminum bridge, rocking mast step. Division winner. Estuary Midwinters 1997-1998. $1,700. Call (209) 613-2145.

photos at <http://www.catalinayachts.org/ Fleet4/Daysailor.html/> Asking $1,350. Dave (916) 933-2346 or (916) 712-3840.

SANTANA 2023C, 1995. Excellent con¬ dition, trailer, 8 hp Honda. Great in Bay and water ballasted tor easy trailering anywhere. With enclosed head and PortaPotti, VHF, stereo, Lewmar and Harken hardware, many extras. Asking $12,000. Call (510) 521-9069. CATALINA 22,1983. Swing keel, 2-stroke Iongshaft 0/B, Santa Cruz rig. Nice inte¬ rior, life lines, pop-top, slide-out galley, stove, lots of sailing gear, and trailer. See photos at <http://www.catalinayachts.org/ F!eet4/Goblin/> Asking $3,749. Call Larry (916) 689-7379.

25 TO 28 FEET PEARSON ARIEL. Classic racer/cruiser,

CATALINA 22,1987. Excellent condition. Swing keel, trailer, 7.5 hp Honda 4-stroke outboard. Pop-top with cover, VHF, head, new battery and fuel system, cockpit cush¬ ions. $7,800. See at Website: <http7/www. bradleybrooks.com/catalina.htm> or call (916) 443-7393.

25.6-ft, strongly built and rigged for Bay sailing. 6 hp Iongshaft Johnson. 110,150 and 180% jibs, 2 spinnakers, jiffy reefing. Frequent one-design and handicap win¬ ner. Strong class association. See at Website: <www.PearsonAriel.org> $2,800. Call (510) 524-3250.

SANTANA 23, 1982. Centerboard model.

WESTERLY CENTAUR 26. Rugged sea¬ going sailboat. Twin keel, flared knuckle bow for dry, comfortable sailing. Stands upright at low tide. Designed by Laurent Giles, built in England to Lloyd’s of Lon¬ don spec r. Spacious cabin, full standing headroom. Recently sailed Hawaii to SF. Volvo Penta MD2 diesel. Furling jib, all full sails. New Raytheon tiller pilot ST200. Health forces sale. $13,500/obo. Call (415) 388-5251.

SANTA CRUZ 27. Jersey Girl. Completely rebuilt 1995. Winning racing record. Well set up for singlehanded and fully crewed racing. Racing and cruising sails includ¬ ing new #3. Beautiful green colored hull. Galvanized dual-axle trailer. $13,900. Call (831) 238-0844.

CATALINA 27. Very good condition. Atomic 4, good running condition. 5 sails, head, galley, dinette, sleeps 4, extras. Berthed in Alameda. Asking $6,800. Leave message: (510) 278-8701.

CORONADO 25, 1968. For the real sail enthusiast. This boat comes with 7 sails: genoa, jib, spinnaker, main. A great work¬ ing 6 hp outboard. A transferable slip at Berkeley Marina. Asking $6,500. Shirley (415) 235-7697 or Ken (415) 203-2783.

WILLIAM ATKINS-DESIGNED pocket cruiser. Double-ended, full keel 25-tt cut¬ ter. Fiberglass hull and mahogany house. Volvo diesel inboard. Sink, stove, PortaPotti. Cutter rigged with used set of sails, stainless rigging. Bruce anchor, Lewmar winches. $15,000. (510) 206-1370.

BAYLiNER BUCCANEER 28,1976. This sailboat has a recently refurbished inte¬ rior and rebuilt galley. Comes with out¬ board, main, jib and many liveaboard amenities. Berkeley Marina. $6,500/obo. Cail Shirley (415) 235-7697 or Ken (415) 203-2783.

CATALINA 27, 1976. Dinette model. Galley, freshwater, head, shore power. 3 headsails, gennaker. Recently rebuilt Atomic 4. Too much new to list including instruments, rigging, bilge pump, battery, thru-hulls, paint. $6,500. (650) 728-7686.

FISHER 25 PILOTHOUSE KETCH, 1975. Radar, radio, lots of gear. Rig complete, needs assembly. 25 hp Volvo, needs work. Other motor available. Boat hull, deck, interior, all good. $30,000/obo. Gary (650) 207-9243. ,

MacGREGOR 26X, 1997. Extensively up¬ graded. 50 hp, autopilot, roller furling, VHF, stereo, stove, dual batteries and more. Water ballast drains at 12 knots for comfortable sailing and light trailering. Nice boat. $18,500. Will deliver in Bay Area. Call (916)952-3779.

CATALINA 250, 2000. Original owner, excellent condition. Wing keei, pedestal wheel with table. 9.9 hp outboard Honda, two batteries.110% and 150%, furling jibs, cruising spinnaker, main lazyjack. Cock¬ pit cushions, custom boat cover, additional stern winches, VHF. South Lake Tahoe. $26,500. (925) 426-0751.

North Sails including 3DL 155% genoa. Interlux epoxy barrier coat with Teflon. Outboard and trailer included. See pho¬ tos at <http://www.catalinayacbts.org/ Fleet4/Nostrain.html> Asking $7,950. Call Dave (916) 933-2346 or (916) 712-3840.

ERICSON 27, 1971. Boat has been hugged and kissed its whole life. Roller furl and newly rebuilt Atomic 4. A must see. $9,800. Call for more details. Ken (415) 203-2783.

SAN JUAN 24.2 mains and 2 jibs. Tahoe sailed only. Well maintained. Trailer in¬ cluded. $4,800/obO. Call (530) 525-4846.

24-FT RON HOLLAND DESIGN, 1975. Race ready. In excellent condition. New: mast, rudder, diesel engine. North 3DL sails. Dry stored for 6 years. $5,500. Call (415) 331-5302.

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CATALINA 25, 1986. Tall rig, traditional interior. Roller furling 150, seif-tailing winches, all lines led aft. Autopilot, 10 hp Honda, marine head, Loran, Horizon in¬ struments, swing keel. Trailrite trailer. Bristol, loaded. $10,000. (661) 823-8410.

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HUNTER 26,1995. Well equipped, trailer, everything you need. Terrible Bay boat but perfect for traveling to lakes, Baja, etc. $19,000. Please call (209) 586-4326 (eves) or (209) 532-8126 (days) or email: sierraprinting@sbcglobal.net.

CATALINA 27, 1982. $10,900. Continu¬ ally upgraded and well maintained. Rebuilt Atomic 4 engine, roller reefing jib, nice bimini, radar, electronics on swing-out arm. Vallejo Public Dock. More informa¬ tion: Betsy (707)763-1119.

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MacGREGOR 26, 1993. Great value. Sleeps four, water ballast, pop-top. 9.9 hp Evinrude, electric start. New battery, trailer with spare, 150 furling genoa. VHP radio, knot/depth, tillerpilot, Porta-Potti, 2 an¬ chors, 2 fuel tanks, 2-burner stove, swim ladder, extras. San Rafael. $8,950/obo. Call (415) 457-2647.

NEWPORT 28, 1978. Recently rebuilt Atomic 4, Autohelm 800, Harken jib reef¬ ing and furling system. New head, beauti¬ ful cabin floor. Handheld VHF, good sails, custom canvas. Berthed Antioch. $9,500/ obo. Call (530) 823-1400.

CAPE DORY 28. Full keel, perfect for Bay Area winds. New 13 hp Yanmar, roller furl¬ ing jib, lifeline, Garmin plotter, VHP. Full galley, settee, lots of storage. AC outlets. $28,000. Please call (415) 924-3739. Email for pictures: margrit@earthlink.net. NOR’SEA 27 with.trailer. Aft cabin, sprit with pulpit ^ green hull, main, 2 Jsince 1992. This boat w%^%# 3d. $40,000. Call (800) - ; . ’ '

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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 hot water shower. $23,500. Please call (707) 963-7092 or (707) 246-4321. CAL 25. Harken rigging, oversized winches, Pineapple sails, Honda 10 hp 4stroke outboard, beefed up rudder post, recent tiller. Fast boat, easy to sail. $3,000/ obo. (650) 363-1076 or (650) 468-6683.

O'DAY 27, 1974. Great Bay and week¬ end cruiser. Fin keel/skeg rudder. Roomy interior/all new upholstery. Gold edition with extra ballast and taller rig. Atomic 4 inboard, d/s, knotmeter, VHF. Lying Oy¬ ster Point. Sacrifice $4,000. Call Jeff (707) 459-1883. CORONADO 25. Fast and roomy sailboat. Electric start outboard, deep cycle battery, water tank, regular toilet and Porta-Potti. Lots of storage. $3,000. (415) 637-6984. ’ O’DAY 27. Sausalito berth. Yanmar 8 hp diesel, runs great. Nice, clean, roomy. Depthfinder, VHF, stove, sink, icebox, etc. Partnership possible, $150/month. Price negotiable, $9,500. Call (415) 331-5251. ISLANDER 28,1978. See info at <http:// www.geocities.com/panthersong/ islander.html> Surveyed August, 2002. Diesel, roller jib, all lines lead aft. 6-ft headroom. Great condition. $17,500/obo. Lo¬ cated Morro Bay. (805) 787-0538 or email: panthersong@yahoo.com.

ALBIN VEGA 27 AUXILIARY SLOOP, 1974. Beam 8'9”. Hand-laminated molded fiber¬ glass. Volvo Penta MD-2 two-cylinder die¬ sel. Encased ballast rudder. Easy singlehanding. Well maintained. Surveyed and bottom end 6/01. Berthed in SF Ma¬ rina. Slip not included. $12,000/obo. Please call (510) 368-2499 or email; rmopnchatre2@hotmail.com. CAL 27,1972. Pop-top. Great boat to sail the Bay. 8 hp Honda 0/B, new bottom 2002,4 sails, lots of new deck gear, depth and compass, VHF, inside very clean and dry, $6,500. Matt (510) 418-0208. CATALINA 25,1985. Excellent condition, swing keel, Honda 7.5. Sails: main, 130, 150. Porta-Potti, depth, VHF, CDI roller furler, AM/FM cassette, cockpit cushions. Powder-coated Trailer-Rite trailer with dual axles, surge brakes and new tires. Custom V-berth mattreses, CNG 2-burner stove with 2 tanks, custom sunshade, 2 anchors with rode, fenders, pop-top with cover, nice teak. Boat has been stored out of the water. $10,000. Call (530) 626-6636 or email: robynsnest@directcon.net.

MERIT 25. Great condition. Racing dacron main. Mylar 155/110 headsails, new dacron chute and poly chute. 7.5 hp longleg 0/B. Benicia. $5,500. Call Chris (707) 747-0970.

COLUMBIA 28,1969.5 hp inboard Baldor electric drive and generator, Evinrude 6.5 hp, hard dinghy, full set sails, Barlow winches, 6-ft headroom, outfitted Bay/ coastal, cruise outfit possible, no blister fiberglass. Hauled 3 years ago, no prob¬ lems. $5,000/obo. Or 1991 Antrim Wingdinghy, 16-ft sail-racer, $5,000/obo. Please call (510) 465-2119 or email; virgokeloin@hot.mail.com. MacGREGOR 26X, 1997. Roller furling, cruising spinnaker, GPS with data line for computer, compass, VHF, fishfinder (depth), 30 amp A/C, extra battery, large wheel, 50 hp Yamaha, trailer with spare tire, more. $18,300. Call (408) 732-8163 or email; jeffrey.r.olmstead@juno.com tor detailed equipment list.

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BALBOA 27, 1978. Lyle Hess designed fiberglass keel centerboard sloop. Inboard diesel, 3 sails, full canvas boat cover, VHF, etc. Clean and comfortable interior. Good bottom, no blisters. Sail Bay and Delta or get a trailer and take it to Mexico/Pacific Northwest, etc. $5,500. (415) 332-6501. MacGREGOR 26X, 1996. 50 hp 4-stroke Yamaha. Sport pilot, depthfinder. Tan¬ dem-axle trailer, many extras. Excellent condition. Asking $18,500. For detail/pho¬ tos call (707) 443-0226 or email: lkeasey@cox.net.

MacGREGOR 26X. 50^p hydraulic tilt. Trailer/spare. 30 gallons water. Propane stove. 40 gallons fuel. Refrigerator, auto¬ pilot, VHF, worktable with washdown, bait tank, fishfinder, bimini. 4 sails, 3 batter¬ ies, more. $14,950. Call (805) 522-9437. CAPRI 25,1982. Race/cruiser in mint con¬ dition. All North Sails plus spinnaker. Dual¬ axle trailer. New Teflon bottom paint. Much more, must see. $10,500/obo. Will con¬ sider frade plus cash for 41-ft ketch. Please call (530) 659-9277 or email: godscountry9642@yahoo.com. CATALINA 27,1973. Perfect Bay cruiser, excellent for liveaboard. Sleeps 6. Dinette layout, sink, head, 2 jibs and lots of ex¬ tras. 4-stroke Honda 10 hp outboard. Ask¬ ing $7,000. Best offer takes it. Call Michael (707) 246-5068 or (707) 748-5780 or email: michaelmunden@msn.com. CORONADO 27. Clean, new boom, 6-ft headroom, big head, sleeps 5, jiffy reef¬ ing. VHF, galley, main, working jib, storm jib, table, fin keel. Sweet sailer. Anchor, ground tackle, running lights, custom cabi¬ nets. Great boat. $3,500/obo. Please call (650)269-4012.

SOLING 27, 1968. Beautiful boat, fun to sail, ready to race or just daysail. On a trailer and stored dry in Alameda. $3,000/ obo. Call (925) 743-3785,

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FOX 25, SLOOP. New sails, displacement 6k, 2.5k ballast, 3-ft shoal draft. 7.5 hp Volvo MD5 diesel with sail drive, recent overhaul. Dual battery system, 36 amp al¬ ternator, auto and manual bilge pump, VHF, DS, pressure water, stainless steel sink, ice box, alcohol stove, Porta-Potti. 3 Lewmar winches, 7 opening screened ports, lots of teak, 3 marelon thru-hull seacocks, anchor well. Sleeps 4. Getting too old to keep up with maintenance, this boat deserves a new owner. $8,750/obo. Bruce (916) 967-6863.

OCEAN SAILING SANTANA 25.1/4 ton lOR ocean racer, with slip at Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay. (168 mo.) Like new condition, new bottom paint, wire, 8 hp Honda, VHF, buku sails, Pottie, water, depth, new deck paint, teak, tandem trailer. Fast, stiff, very weatherly, set up for singlehanding. Safe, great for salmon/ halibut fishing. $8,000. (650) 359-9005 or email: dakbaker@pacbell.net for photos. CATALINA 25,1982. Very nice condition. 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 brakes. Asking $8,600/obo. Call (530) 268-0766.

NEWPORT 28 Mk II, 1982. Diesel, H/C pressure water, full head, sleeps 5. New: sails, rigging, uphoistery, roller furling. C&C design looks good, sails great. Prac¬ tical Sailor. “Very well balanced.” Details at <www.Newport28.com> Well below market at $14,500. Call (415) 902-8439 or email: peter@seaskills.com._ MERIT 25,1985. New UK race sails. North spinnaker, barrier paint, C Cushions, new interior, late model tandem trailer with surge brakes, more. $8,000. Call (530) 624-1480.

29 TO 31 FEET BERMUDA 30 KETCH, 1961. Built by Cheoy Lee. Copper riveted teak hull. Just hauled, painted and surveyed: “Heavily built of the best woods. Construction stan¬ dards appear to have been very high.” Well maintained. Photo/survey available. Asking $19,000. Call (415) 246-3900 or email: edsangster@aol.com. ISLANDER 30,1969. Delta/Bay ready. 2burner propane stove, new head/holding, upholstery, foam, carpet. 3 sails: main, jib, genoa. Wheel steering. 2-cyl Albin diesel, 500 hours, runs great, economical. Must see, must sell. $7,900/obo. Please call Mitch (916) 208-8818 or email: madworldgroup@hotmail.com. PEARSON 30, 1972. In excellent condi¬ tion with Atomic 4, spent most of its life in freshwater. Roller furling, wheel steering, recently rigged with all lines leading aft. Engine tuned and new water pump fitted, bottom recently cleaned. 110 volt, nearly new batteries, fire extinguishers, new mainsail cover complete with PFDs ready to sail. Berthed at Sierra Point Marina, Brisbane. Asking $9,000. Please call Derek/Ryder (415) 239-1348 or email: ryderderek@aol.com.

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PEARSON 28.5, 1986. Great condition.

dodger, beautiful teak. In good condition. Located at Oyster Point Marina. $22,00Q. Please call (209) 588-0844 or email: sculleryprincess@aol.com.

New main, sail inventory. Yanmar diesel, low hours. Wheel steering, hot/cold fresh water. Great Bay boat. $20,000. Call (707) 469-9210.

CAL 29,1973. Fast, strong, comfortable

CAL 29,1973. Running Atomic 4 with full

and dry. 3 headsails, main with 2 reef points. Good ground tackle, tiller, autopi¬ lot, ladder, Martec folding prop. Alert Atomic 4. New bottom, stern pulpit and highly visible compass. Newish manual bilge pump, propane tanks. Force 10 3burner with oven. Head, spacious cabin, AC refrigerator. Repacked gland. See at N-8, San Leandro. A paltry $10,250 or so. May help finance. Serious buyer call Tom (408) 353-1665 or (831) 471-0373.

set of sails including spinnaker and pole. Includes new compass, VHF, GPS, depth, autopilot and 6 winches. Needs some TLC. Alameda berth. $7,000. (408) 777-0302 or email: captdowner@comcast.net.

PEARSON 30,1976. Well maintained, fun to sail. 30 hp Atomic 4, VHF, GPS, depth, speed. Sails: 90,150, gennaker, 2 mains with jiffy reef, all good condition. New: batteries, bottom, prop shaft, running rig¬ ging and extras. $12,000. Call Matt (510) 847-2778.

NAJA 30 SLOOP, 1990. Full canvas cover, teak decks, clear coat mahogany hull. Yanmar diesel, Martec prop. Harken furling jib, self-tailing Lewmar winches. VHF radio, knotmeter, depthsounder, au¬ topilot. Delta berth. $15,900. Call (916) 973-8797 or email: tangram@jps.net.

FfSHER 30 MOTORSAILER with dinghy. Complete refinish / refit. See Website for details: <http://www.fisherlionheart.net/> Price adjusted. Call (408) 398-4057. ISLANDER BAHAMA 30 SLOOP, 1982. Diesel inboard. Original owner. Asking $20,890. Owl Harbor, Berth H4. Sail in¬ ventory includes 90, 100 and 135 headsails plus mainsail. For information or inspection call Walt (510) 793-8794 or email: Tapnsail@aol.com.

NEWPORT 30,1974. Atomic 4 runs great. Hauled 4/03, new LPU and bottom. 22-lb Bruce anchor, 200-tt rode. VHF, depth, stereo, propane stove. 9-ft inflatable, 9 hp outboard. Needs mast. $6,400/obo. $5,700/obo boat only. Please call Rob (650) 504-5806 (cell).

CAPE GEORGE CUTTER 31, 1981.

ERICSON 30+ 1983. 7 sails, two mains, 95, 135, 150, 155 genoa, spinnaker. Harken furling, 7 Barient winches, 4 self¬ tailing. Danforth anchor. Lewmar hatches, clear companionway hatch. B&G instru¬ ments, Autohelm 3000, VHF, Loran, Ritchie compass, 2 gel batteries. True Charge gel charger, Balmar regulator, 16 hp Universal diesel, Martec prop. Wheel steering, hot and cold pressure water, Adler-Barbour refrigerator/freezer, pro¬ pane stove with broiler, propane monitor. Sleeps 6. Four years freshwater. See Website: <http://home.earthlink.net/ ~indig> $27,500. Call (925) 367-6250.

Stephens design. This is a very fast boat for a singlehander. All new: Universal 22 hp 3-cyl diesel, 3-blade prop, Edson wheel steering. Profurl main and 135 genoa, head and holding tank, ICOM radio, cock¬ pit cushions. Again, all new. Rebuilt rud¬ der, no blisters ever. Over ,$17,000 in¬ vested since we f5urchased her 3 years ago. Great shape. Asking $23,000. Must sell due to health problems. Rick Gelber (805) 215-8521.

PEARSON TRITON 28.5. Built in Sausalito, full keel, headroom, new rebuilt Atomic 4, VHF radio, full set of North rac¬ ing sails including maiiv genoa, jib and three spinnakers. $9,000. Please email: home5562000@yahoo.com or call (707)

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NANTUCKET CLIPPER, 1979. Yawl rig, full keel, FG. Volvo 14 hp diesel, just over¬ hauled. Head, stove, fridge. New top-deck, compass and knotmeter. 110 genoa, main, mizzen, storm trisail. Roller reefing main. Excellent condition. Sail the oceans/ live aboard. $22,950. Alex (415) 269-1823 or email: ja2rheda@yahoo.com.

CAL 29 AT MARINA GREEN. Best San Francisco location. Full sails, spinnaker, pole, gear, 6 winches. Lots of Svendsen’s loving care. New rigging, lifelines, hull re¬ paint, thru-hulls, head. Dockside power. Original owner. $13,500. Please email: skidoc@earthlink.net.

COLUMBIA 30 SLOOP. Sturdy, with self¬ tending jib, gas engine, recent bottom paint, depthfinder, marine radio, galley with fridge. Sleeps 6, private marine head. Berthed at Ballena Bay, Alameda. $11,900. Call Jim (209) 786-4864. ERICSON 29, 1972. Solid Bay cruiser, large cockpit with tiller. Headroom for liveaboard. Well maintained Atomic 4, many upgrades: depthfinder, electrical, engine, gas tank, grill, halyards, rigging, transmission cable, etc. Emeryville. $10,000/obo. Call Kevin (510) 593-4901.

BENETEAU FIRST 310,1993,31-ft racer/ cruiser. Clean and effective setup for Bay Area sailing, with the relaxing comfort and warmth of a cherry wood interior. Asking $44,750. Call (775) 224-4449 or email: Questare310@y.ahoo.com.

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RUSTLER 31,1968. Eight ton cutter, hull 26 in British built ‘classic plastic’ line. New Westerbeke 18, 12/110 wiring, standing rigging. Eight sails. Monitor windvane, custom radar tower. Zodiac, much more. Lying Vallejo. $22,500. (775) 849-3441 or email: jdphdassociates@cs.com.

Brand new complete sail inventory, auto¬ pilot, VHF, stereo, TV, head, paint all fresh and new. Lines led aft, this boat is mint. $5,000/firm. Call (707) 748-1652 or email: Robert_Ray@chiron.com.

PEARSON TRITON, 1962. New 2000: Yanmar^diesel, prop, shaft, mainsail, standing and running rigging, lines led aft, Andersen self-tailing winch, smart battery charger, solar ventilator. Seller has new boat, must sell. $9,000/obo. Sausalito. Call ,(415) 225-4319. Dream of cruising? Sturdy Cecil Lange design, only 21 made. New canvas and roller furling, lots of storage, refrigeration, low hours on Yanmar diesel. Beautiful multi-wood Interior. Tanbark sails. Worth $49,950. Make offer. Call Charles (925) 552-0564.

CAL 2-30, 1971. Good vintage design/ construction, easily made ready for race or cruise. Yanmar diesel, tiller steering, lots of sails. More info and pictures at <http://www.geocities.com/slyfoxnwc> Ly¬ ing RWC. $14,500. Call (650) 949-4640 or email: slyfoxnwc@ear1hlink.net.

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ERICSON 29,1971. Genoa, main, work¬ ing jib. A-4, new fuel tank. New bottom, thru hulls,' Seacocks and zincs in April 2002. Nice boat. Sausalito. $7,000/obo. Call (415) 225-4319.

RANGER 29. A solid, newly refitted cruiser/racer. 2 sets of sails, one Kevlar, self-tailing winches, all lines lead to cock¬ pit. Brand new standing rigging. Boat is clean and sails beautifully. Berth available. Asking $12,000. Call (415) 459-5184 or email: y_daishan@hotmail.com.

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JUST REDUCED. ISLANDER 30, 1974. New paint, boom, charger, batteries, starter, heat exchanger and rebuilt furling jib. Self-tailers, wheel steering, diesel, AM/ FM cassette, 8 bags sails including spin¬ naker and drifter. Excellent shape. $17,995. (415) 289-0538 or (530) 305-0434 or email: Sailsman51@yahoo.com.

CATALINA 30 Mk II, 1987. Beautiful Bay/ Delta cruiser. Heated for chilly Bay nights, air conditioned for hot Delta days. Up¬ graded Catalina, new dodger, two biminis, screened cockpit, boat cover, new triradial main, lazyjacks. Newtriradial 100 furl¬ ing jib, 150 furling jib, extra main. North Sail’s USA flag gennaker with sock. Split backstay adjuster, Garhauer rigid vang, traveler, jib sheets adjust. Universal 25XP diesel. Autohelm 3000, wind gauge, knot/ depth meter; Standard Horizon VHF ra¬ dio with new cockpit display/mike, speaker and controls. Jensen stereo with CD auto¬ changer. Cockpit cushions, stern seats. Propane oven/stove, BBQ. H/C water, AC/ DC refrigerator, microwave. Bottom painted with barrier coat 2002, surveyed 2002, documented. Marina Bay Yacht Harbor, Richmond, CA. $37,900. (916) 337-1541 (days) or (916) 536-9068 (eves).

BIRD 30,1929. Active one design racer.

CATALINA 30,1979. Owner since 1981. New 20 hp diesel, new mast, boom, rig¬ ging. 150 furler, reef main, tiller, teak inte¬ rior, LVP stove/oven, icebox, salon cush¬ ions recovered. Cockpit cushions. TV/ VCR. Stereo/tape speakers in/out. $24,500. Email: barryw@glasforms.com.

ERICSON 30 Mk II, 1978. Monitor wind¬ vane, R/F. New head and H/T. Inflatable with outboard, lots of extras. Great condi¬ tion. $16,500. Call (650) 506-2729 (days) or (650) 593-9402 (eves).

Beautifully maintained. Fresh Hood rac¬ ing sails. Teak cockpit. New standing rig¬ ging, outboard and canvas. Built at United Shipyard. Take wing in 35 knots of breeze. Sausalito slip. Fast is fun. $9,000. Call (415) 509-7164.

ISLANDER 30,1974. Great boat, lots of nice upgrades. Well appointed down be¬ low. Force 10 stove, Norcold fridge, 12v/ 110 with 1500w inverter. New rig and bot¬ tom paint 2001. Roller furling jib. Ready to sail. $23,500. For more info/photos emailf basecampinsf@yahoo.com or call (970) 349-5975.

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CATALINA 30,1983. Diesel, wheel, roller furling, hot water pressure, gas stove. Great cruiser. $20,000/obo. Call (510) 339-9242 or (415) 442-1662 or email: WRIrwin@pacbell.net.

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CATALINA 34,1989. Excellent condition, cruise ready. New bottom paint 2001. Main, asymmetrical spinnaker. 5 batter¬ ies, wiring, radar, 8.5' dinghy, 8 hp Johnson, 4-man liferaft, kayak. ST4000 AP, storm jib, more. Lies Puerto Valiarta. Call (650) 969-5248.

ALBERG 35,1963. New sails, radar, pro¬ pane stove, rebuilt diesel, dodger, 35-lb plow. Loaded with upgrades and gear. Hands down you could not find a nicer boat. Very nice looking an^saiis wonder¬ fully. Serious only please. $35,000/obo. Email: tat750@yahoo.com or call (415) 332-0780.

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motor sailer. Hans Christian predecessor. Project boat in building, must move., Perkins diesel. Cedar on oak. Heavy dis¬ placement. Call Jon (650) 728-9503.

34-FT SUNSET SLOOP. 2002 Master Mariners Association winner best main¬ tained cfSssic yacht. Launched in 1967. Designed by Jim DeWitt Sr. 1936 for SF Bay conditions. Beautifully built using best of materials. Full length fir planking, bronze fasteners, lead keel. Monel keel bolts and tanks. Teak decks and trim. Stiff, fast, with perfectly balanced helm. Strong Atomic 4. Always under full cover and in new boat condition. $28,000. Don (510) 339-0766.

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owner family, we must sell our beautiful Catalina, Walk-through transom, custom mattresses, ST4000 Autohelm, plus more. Located in San Diego. Asking $64,500. Please call (619) 405-0489 for more info. \ WESTSAIL 32,1979. Original owner, now approaching 80, wants to pass over helm to younger skipper with big cruising dreams. Vessel located in Stockton, CA. Email: jackpaden@softcom.net or call (209) 368-4368.

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CATALINA 320,1995. Outstanding con¬ dition, Perkins 30 hp, furling 150% jib, full batten main. Electric/diesel heat, charger, shore power, VHF, fridge, oven, stove. Autohelm instruments, GPS. MaxProp, PYI dripless. Bottom paint, zincs, Octo¬ ber 2002. $75,000. Call (206) 769-3707 or email: ciroehm@earthlink.com.

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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. $24,900. Please call (925) 829-5256 or email: J J Antares @ aol .com.

CHALLENGER 32, 1977. Hawaiian vet. Great liveaboard. South San Francisco. Perkins diesel, low hours, 3/4” fiberglass hull. Roller furling, new Force 10 stove, new custom mattress, new bimini and canvas. Fin keel, skeg rudder. Surveyed 2000. O.W.C. $22,000/obo. Please call (415) 305-2249.

RHODES TRAVELER 32, 1976. Fiber¬ glass double-ended cutter, 7 tons. Docu¬ mented, H/C pressure water, shower, re¬ frigeration. New propane galley stove, tab¬ ernacle mast, new rigging, cabin sole, cockpit, decks, paint, varnish. Family ill¬ ness forces sale. Located Richmond. $36,000/obo. (559) 877-3353. 34+ FOOT STEEL SLOOP. NZ build. Bluewater capable. Oversize running/ standing rigging. Stainiess winches. Yanmar 24 hp, freshwater cooled, low hours. Inverter/charger. Engine driven cold plate refrigeration. H/C water. Docu¬ mented. One owner. In Richmond. $59,000. Call (775) 749-5298 or email: steelsloop @ hotmail.com.

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HUNTER 33, 1980. Arcturas is a very comfortable, dry, reliable boat. Great for daysailing. No blisters, clean, mahogany interior, 15 hp Yanmar diesel. Many ex¬ tras. Docked in Alameda. $20,000. Please call Brad (510) 336-1173.

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ERICSON 35, 1972. Recent diesel re¬ power, low hours. AC/DC rewire, ST4000 autopilot with ST600r remote, ST30 ga. Newer main, varnished interior, propane stove, AC/DC refer. Water heater, wheel steering, GPS, TV, VCR. San Leandro. $26,000. John (209) 667-0252.

ATKINS ARCHER ERIC 32. Doubleended gaff ketch (41-32-11-5). Built 1.966 Japan. Best boat for the worst weather. Mahogany on steam-bent oak, copper fas¬ tened. Teak decks. Sitka spruce spars. Diesel. 30 year owner. $35,000. Call Skip (831)338-6739.

CORONADO 35 CENTER COCKPIT, 1972. Cruise equipped, comfortable, liveable, docked SSF. Yanmar 27 hp diesel, radar, Autohelm3000, depth, speed, new house, starter batteries, and charger. Solar pan¬ els, generator, 3-burner stove, hot water and pressure, new head. $35,000. Call (415) 609-6965.

YAMAHA 33,1978. Great shape. Dodger, autopilot. Monitor windvane, roller furlinng jib and genny, plus more. $29,000. (707) 257-9068 or email: aclittle@earthlink.net.

SANTANA 35, 3982. Volvo diesel. Docu¬ mented. 10/2000 haulout, survey and re¬ hab. LCD chart GPS/sounder combo, 2xVHF, CD/stereo. Equipped for training and weekend cruising. $24,900/offer. Fi¬ nancing available now. (408) 892-5797 or epnail: wb7ecv@arrl.net.

CAPITAL YACHTS GULF 32 pilothouse sloop. After much deliberation, the ‘Pride of the Marina' is up for sale. A beautiful vessel shows ‘as new’. She is a comfort¬ able, full keel, go anywhere craft that also makes a wonderful liveaboard. $37,000. Call (510) 757-5815. RANGER 32,1974. Atomic 4, spare, fold¬ ing prop, 12 winches, 10 sails, CNG stove, wind, speed and depth. Autohelm. Lying Vancouver. $19,500. Please call (970) 468-5296 (after 6/9/03) or email: WatsonOSP@aol.com.

NOR’WEST 33,1979. REDUCED. Chuck Burns design, high standards, superior quality. Beautifully kept, many upgrades. Hull #11, best in fleet. Don’t miss this op¬ portunity. Second owner, 14 years. $44,000/obo. Call (415) 331 -5705 or (415) 533-2992 (cell). Also 3 Wave Walkers, pedal driven watercraft, $3,150/each. CHEOY LEE ROBB 35,1964. Teak over Ipol. Beautiful Bay, Delta and coastal sail¬ ing yacht. 40 hp Isuzu diesel, 1976, 930 hours. 5 bags good Sutter sails. Pride spanker. 2 anchors, VHP, fathometer, charger. $35,000. Call (415) 332-3595 or email: spauldin@ix.netcom.com. CREALOCK 34 by Pacific Seacraft. Cut¬ ter rigged. Monitor, Autoheim 6000, watermaker, ProFurl, five sails. Tinker in¬ flatable with sun/ival option and like-new 5 hp Nissan. Lots of other equipment. Well maintained since 1988 launch. $115,000. See <www.geocities.com/mching42> or call (805) 482-0599.

CREALOCK 34 by Pacific Seacraft, $89,500. One owner. Immaculate condi¬ tion. Completely cruise equipped. All this exceptional yacht needs for its next pas¬ sage are provisions. (626) 353-4708 or email: leslieb@hawaii.edu for photos and extensive inventory. SANTANA 35. Exceptional Bay boat, race or cruise. Excellent condition, many up¬ grades, §ails, top hardware. New Quan¬ tum Kevlar main, #3, spinnaker. Buy me now, you won’t regret it. One of the nicest S35s. See at Website: <www.sfsail.com/ icenine> $32,000/obo. Please call Brendan (650) 851-0786. HUNTER 340,2000. Antal 40 batten trav¬ eler system on mainsail, full mainsail bat¬ tens, Dutchman sail flaking system and boom brake, rigid vang, vang and boom brake control lines led aft to the cockpit. Dodger with rear and side grab rails, re¬ tractable bimini, VHF radio, WAAS GPS, dual-station radar and chartplotter, backup GPS display, autopilot with remote con¬ trol, integrated laptop interface with Raytech plotting software and digital maps of West Coast. Raytheon ST60 wind, speed, and depth instruments. Galley with refrigerator, 2-burner stove with oven, mi¬ crowave, inverter/battery charger with re¬ mote control, stereo AM/FM and CD. New bottom paint. New Mercury Quicksilver dinghy with new 4-hp 4-stroke Mercury. $99,000. Please call (408) 737-3044 or (760) 375-6163 or (760) 382-7801.

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CAL 34 Mk III, 1978. Recent additions: ProFurl furler, canvas, halyards, and head. New Hood sails in 2001, used less than dozen times. 25 hp diesel, stove/oven, H/ C pressure water, KM, DS, holding tank, CD/stereo, VHF, self-tailing Lewmar winches, Bruce 33 and Fortress anchors. Interior and cushions in great shape plus updated electrical panel and Truecharge charger. Easy SF Bay sailing boat with wheel steering. Great deal at $28,000. (925) 997-0317 or email for equipment list: sfsailor40@yahoo.com.

36 TO 39 FEET

TRADEWIND 33 MOTORSAILER, 1962. All teak beauty, pilothouse, inside steer¬ ing, great visuals, bright and roomy, per¬ fect liveaboard, Perkins 4-236 diesel. Alaska and Panama Canal vet, sisterships asking double. 2-boat owner must sell. $17,000/part trade? (415) 482-8797 or email: coconutexpress@setsail.com. HUNTER 340,2000. Pristine condition. ST 60 instrument package, backup depthsounder, UXO TV antenna, TV/VCR. Autohelm, dodger, bimini, cockpit cush¬ ions, new bottom paint Feb 03. Extras. San Diego. $88,000. Call (619) 227-7507 or email: hjones1952@aol.com. THUNDERBIRD-STYLE 32-FT SLOOP. Yanmar diesel, fiberglass over wood, hard chined hull, fast new mast, standing rig¬ ging, sleeps 6. Lots of boat for the money. $3,800. Call (415) 652-3125 or email: nilso@itsa.ucsf.edu.

RANGER 33.5. Excellent condition. Gal¬ ley, refrigerator, shower. New bottom paint, nc/blisters. New plumbing equip¬ ment in head, galley and bilge. Atomic 4, runs great. Clean, attractive. Ready to daysail, cruise, race or liveaboard. Best offer under $25,000. Berthed at Oakland. Call Jim (650) 776-1002. _ APHRODITE 101, 33-FT SAILBOAT. Built in Denmark, 1977. Good looking, built to race, easily singlehanded. Good Con-, dition. Currently located in Vallejo, can be shown most weekends. $10,900/obo. For additonal details, list of equipment email: gllan@oro,net or call (530) 288-3344.

CAL 39,1978. Excellent condition, main¬ tained by Bernie Wills. One owner. Docked at San Francisco YC since pur¬ chase. Best quality hardware and rigging. Barient winches, roller furling plus 90,110, 150 jibs, windpoint, windspeed, VHF, re¬ frigerator, propane stove, Charlie Nobel fireplace, liferaft, many other features, cruise ready. $59,000. (415) 472-3811.

ERICSON 38,1982. Turnkey cruiser, ex¬ tensive upgrades. Equipped for reliable, long-range voyaging. Excellent sails, storm trisail, mast steps, roller furling, hy¬ draulic backstay, running backstays, 7 winches, whisker pole. Liferaft, lifesling, EPIRB, drogue. Three anchors, 300-ft chain, Lofrans windlass. Hi output alter¬ nator, wind and trolling generators, 5 so¬ lar panels. Link 2000 monitor and voltage regulator, 5 batteries, charger/inverter. Autopilot, Monitor windvane. GPS, radar, instruments, VHF, SSB, SGC tuner and Pactor-ll' modem, email ready. Watermaker, propane stove and BBQ, propane monitor, microwave, refrigeration, TV/ VCR, stereo. New upholstery, furnace, dodger, S/S arch, reinforced windows, outboard with hoist, diesel, folding prop. Most systems spared and documented. Hot spares: VHF, voltage regulator, depthsounder. Details at Website: <http:/ /members,cox.net/mgross6> San Diego. $69,000/offer. Call (619) 224-8926 or email: grossnicklep@yahoo.com._ BENETEAU 390, 1989. Earendil. Excel¬ lent condition, radar, autopilot, depth, speed, AM/FM/CD, TV. Two heads, sleeps 6, huge main salon. Linder char¬ ter, professionally maintained. Income $10,000-18,000/year. Just surveyed at $75,000. Please call (916) 548-6767 or emaiH stanleyce@yahoo.com for pictures and details.

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CATALINA 36,1993. Bluewater cruiser: Mexico, Tahiti, Alaska. Walk-thru transom. Standard extras plus full bimini, leecloths, SSB, EPIRB, radar, AP and spare, dual VHP, GPS, TV, stereo, VHP, solar pan¬ els. New bottom. Well maintained, great liveaboard. $84,500. Call (760) 751-4072 or email: ourjourney1@juno.com.

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CUSTOM S&S 38 ALUMINUM SLOOP. Lightnin'. Built 1971 by Minifords. Owned/

Yanmar diesel, cruising equipped, bimini, dodger,^ full cover, electric halyards and winch, windlass, refrigeration, pressure hot water, wing keel, radar chart plotter, autopilot, SS, VHP radios. $99,000. LA area. Call (310) 377-6330.

YORKTOWN 39. New boat, still in yard. Custom built, center cockpit, aft cabin. Hard dodger, Yanmar diesel, ss anchor platform, cutter. LP stove, maple sole, Epson steering. Ready to cruise. Untimeiy death forces sale. Sacrifice $77,500/obo. (714) 573-9043 (eves).

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bluewater cutter. Hull professionally built. Loaded for long distance cruising. Please, serious inquiries only. Leave address for spec sheet. $19,900. Call (310) 374-0101.

CATALINA 380,1999. Like new. Exten¬ sively outfitted for safe comfortabie bluewater cruising: Winsiow liferaft, ICOM SSB, Avon dinghy, solar panels, etc. For info see: <www.geocities.com/dboat321> $165,000/obo. No brokers please. Call (623) 322-4948.

JEANNEAU 37,1997. In excellent shape.

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raced Admirals Cup by T. Turner. Refit for cruising/liveaboard. Past, safe boat. Lo¬ cated Sauvie Island, Portland, OR. Choice slip available. Asking $54,000. Email: 0ver40pirate@aol.com or (941) 475-9689 (before 5/24) or (503) 621 -9761 (after 6/1).

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LAPWORTH 36. A perfect Bay boat, ocean cruiser or liveaboard. One owner for over 30 years and always kept as a proper yacht. Asking $18,000. More than that recently spent on Finesse. Call (415) 202-0156 or email: rkeefe669@aol.com.

INGRID 38 GAFF RIGGED KETCH. Clas¬ sic lines, glass strength with bluewater experience, ready to go again. Excellent condition. Don't miss this deal. Located in Alameda. Call (530) 477-9188 or email: muircait@earthlink.net. FAST PASSAGE 39 (PHILBROOKS). Offshore proven. Easily sailed by two people. Repainted, rerigged. For more info go to <www.fastpassage39.com> to see pictures and equipment. Call Jim Donaldson (250) 655-0017.

CATALINA 380, 2000. San Francisco area. Lots of extras, 40 hours, bimini, dodger, 10 discchqnger. Full instrumen¬ tation, autopilot. New inflatable. In fresh¬ water through 2002. Will trade. Don’t buy a 380 until you talk with me. $139,900. Call (801) 971-0791.

PALMER JOHNSON STANDFAST36,1974. Flush decked, fin keeled, skeg rudder, racer/cruiser. Airex cored hull, Baltek cored deck, European styled Thai teak interior. 8 sails, diesel, radar, 2 VHFs, SSB/Ham, 2 GPSs, 2 solar panels, Avon liferaft, Monitor windvane, watermaker, dodger. Tropic awnings, dinghy, outboard, andhor windlass, great ground tackle, fixed and foiding prop, fresh epoxy paint. Engine rebuilt 2002. Strong, safe, fast, beautiful, excellent condition. Ready to go anywhere. $47,500/obo. Located Bay Area. Please call (619) 254-7322 or email: svsara@hotmail.com.

CATALINA 36, 1989. Highly modified world cruiser awaiting new adventures. Currently in Florida. Many extras includ¬ ing GPS, Ham radio, inverter, solar pan¬ els. Website: <www.jordanyacht.com> Also, Good Old Boat, Nov/Dec, 2002, “Bluewater Catalina” by Fitzgerald. $59,000. Call (954) 849-7177. LANCER 36,1979. Extensive refit 1995. Full batten main, roller furling soling jib, cruising chute, pole. New instruments, hatches, portholes, headliner, upholstery, several layers bottom paint, Maxprop and more. Freshwater boat, little used since refit. Must sell. $35,500. Call Rob (209) 462-3202.

RAFIKI37 CUTTER. Docked in Sausalito. Touching Sky is the belle of her fleet. Well equipped with too many upgrades to list. $74,000. Call Mike (415) 203-2106.

CHRIS CRAFT 37 SLOOP. Ready to sail. Furling jib, gas engine, private marine head, marine radio, recent zincs and bot¬ tom paint. Berthed at Pier 39, SF. $19,900. Call Jim (209) 786-4864.

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CATALINA 36 Mk II, 1999. $112,000. Or limited (my portion) partnership available. Entirely negotiable. Call to discuss. This boat is essentially new. Engine under 120 hours. Dodger, cockpit table, cushions. Raytheon autopilot, depth and knot meters, custom audio, microwave, pro¬ pane BBQ. Never raced, well maintained. Located Marina Bay, Richmond, ideal upwind slip. Beautiful. (707) 823-5282 or email: lenhirs@prodigy.net.

PACIFIC 38 SLOOP, 1979. New Zealand built strong bluewater cruiser. Flush teak deck, comfortable, recent haulout with upgrades. Cruise equipped. Awesome ocean/SF Bay boat. Photos/details at: <www.lakelevel.com/rolig> $62,500. (530) 263-3009 or email: rolig@lakelevel.com.

ERICSON 38,1983. Ready to go. Dodger, all-around splash canvas. Cockpit table, new cushions. 3 roller furling headsails, double jiffy-reefed mainsail, hydraulic backstay, self-tailing winches, spinnaker/ whisker pole. Controls to cockpit. 5 hp din¬ ghy. MOB pole, attached float, new LifeSling, lifejackets, harnesses. Two Danforth anchors, large Bruce anchor. Autopilot, GPS, mounted and handheld VHF. Two private double berths. Pressure H/C water. Head, separate shower with wet gear storage system. Stove/oven, built-in microwave, fridge/freezer, vented furnace, TV/VCR, stereo radio/CD. Like new upholstery. 32 hp diesel, new packless shaft seal. Bottom painted 9/02. Emeryville, CA. $72,000/offer. Call (602) 421-9964 or (480) 330-1002 or email: laurinm@msn.com.

COLUMBIA 36, 1973. Great liveaboard. New drapes, cushions, cabin top newly painted, Volvo 3-cyl diesel. $35,000/obo. Call (415) 302-4287,

ALAJUELA 38 CUTTER. Professionally custom built, offshore cruising yacht in Seattle. See photos/specs at Website: <www.dicksyacht.com> $169,000. Call (808) 781-5573 (cell).

CATALINA 36 Mk II, 1999. Sharp. Raytheon autopilot, wind machine, •'knotmeter, depth. Extra start battery with handy Link 10 monitor and combiner. Dodger, cockpit table, cushions. Upgraded interior, stereo/CD, microwave. Low hours, professionally maintained, never raced. Alameda. $112,500. Call (209) 728-2554 or email: scubapony@aol.com.

CHEOY LEE LUDERS 36 YAWL, 1976. Excellent condition. $15,000 invested in 1999 and 2000: New mast and standing rigging, main, mizzen, ProFurl, stove, holding tank, upholstery, wheel. VHF, depthfinder, CD, 36-hp Volvo, Zodiac. Beautiful. $29,000. Call (650) 851-4160.

ISLANDER 36,1976. Excellent condition.

45-FT KETCH. $14,500. SAUSALITO

New LPU on hull and cabin. New stand¬ ing rigging and furler/headsail. 500 hours on new Yanmar diesel. New Force 10 pro¬ pane stove. New head liner. Pressure hot and cold, autopilot and electronics. Mov¬ ing, must sell. $40,000/obo. Please call (510)865-2433.

view berth. Well-laid-out fiberglass hull. Set up to live aboard. Galley, tub, head, s/s fireplace. Insulated, wood paneling. Sails, rigging, etc. inciuded for finishing. 1992 registry. Diesel and boat need work, but strong and sound. Best offer or trade. (415) 331-5251.

FREEDOM 40,1981. Cat ketch. Aft cock¬ pit, swing keel, unstayed carbon fiber masts, modified wishbone rig. Fully equipped forcruising/liveaboard. Includes: refrigeration, inverter, watermaker, AP, electric windlass, solar, radar, GPS, SSB/ Ham. Recent survey. San Francisco Bay. See Website: <www.geocities.com/ fantasysaii> $125,000. (650) 922-4345. GLOBE 38 KETCH, 1983. Garden design. 16-ton displacement bluewater pilothouse. Flush deck, bow thruster, Perkins 50 hp engine, diesel and electric heat. VHF, GPS, 130-gallons fuel and water. Electric anchor winch. Propane stove, oven. Re¬ frigeration. $82,000. Call (360) 378-4067 or email: wmar@interisland,net.

SHANNON 37 KETCH, 1987. Immacu¬ late, centerboard cruiser with furling main and jib. 40 hp Perkins, 5kw generator, A/P, SSB, CD, A/C, radar, GPS, VHF, liferaft, dinghy with 5 hp motor and more. Cruis¬ ing ready. See <www.gypsyreport.com> $165,000. Call (415) 793-7224 or email: kitcody@yahoo.com.

MORGAN OUT ISLAND 41 KETCH, 1979. Complete refit 2001. Hard bimini, Strato glass dodger. LP paint. North sails, 12v watermaker, inverter, 660 amp/hour Tro¬ jan batteries, 120amp alternator. Harken roller furling, solar panels, proper cruising equipment, many spares. Ready for Baja Ha-Ha and beyond. $94,500/obo. Email: jrbeutler@hotmail.com.__

Union 36, 1983. a classic traditional CAPE GEORGE 36 in Bristol condition. The ‘36’ is featured in Ferenc Mate’s Best Boats. 50 hp Yanmar diesel, 450 hrs. H/C pressure water, refrigeration, inverter, GPS, radar, knotmeter/depth, cabin heater, 6-disc CD changer, halogen light¬ ing, new upholstery, 2-year-old ’TDS no¬ screw’ teak decks, new Awigrip. The Olian Lee is an exceptionally well-built and fin¬ ished sailboat. Oversize Profurl on the jib and staysail make shorthanded sailing a snap. Designed by Carl Alberg, she is fast and very comfortable underway. When you step into the custom mahogany and cedar Interior (incredible storage), you will see why this yacht has become a West Coast classic. See more at Website: <www.jeffreybrown.com/olianlee.htm;. $139,500. Call (619) 227-2701.

CLASSIC CATALINA 36,1984. Tall rig, consistently well maintained and upgraded by original owner. White hull, beige rub rail, green sail covers, green interior cush¬ ions. New: traveler system, rigging, chain plates, engine, heat exchanger, electric windlass, anchor platform, bow pulpit, rud¬ der, keel bolts, more. Includes: Paloma ondemand CNG water heater, dual 12 volt smart charger, binnacle cockpit talbe, selffurling Harken 2 headsail and more. A very roomy and comfortable boat. $54,400/ obo. Call Ralf (415) 999-2438 or email: ralf@zensystems.com.

CHEOY LEE 42’8” KETCH. Designer A.E. Luders. Perkins M4-108 diesel, bluewater cruiser, considerable integrity. USCG registration. Lies in Washington State. Ready for Puget Sound. See Website: <www.stoyemilburn.com/ satori.html> $69,500. (661) 663-7229 or (760) 409-6501.

bluewater cutter with recent quality up¬ grades. Rigging, interfaced radar, autopi¬ lot and electronics, refrigeration, head plus many extras. Trailerable sailboat consid¬ ered as partial trade. $95,000/obo. Call (510)551-4852.

MORGAN 382,1979. Fully equipped and ready to go anywhere. Watermaker, be¬ low deck autopilot with full electronics, 24mile radar, large battery bank with sepa¬ rate start battery. New full batten main plus 4 other sails. Liferaft, custom interior light¬ ing and woodwork. Too much to list. Ask¬ ing $79,500. Call (510) 828-1872 or email: maluhia@lanset.com.

WORLDCRUISER PILOTHOUSE 37 by Westsail. Fast & comfortable. Hawaii, Aus¬ tralia, Thailand, Red, Med and Caribbean vet. 2nd owner. Continuously upgraded. Loaded with everything needed for global voyaging and comfortable living. Storage galore. Awesome custom interior. Radar, Profurl, DVD, microwave, 1999 Yanmar diesel, electric windlass, 3-speed winches and more. Proven seaworthy design. Ready to take on the world. Located Vir¬ gin Islands, liveaboard berth. Seriously for sale $79,000 or trade for bigger boat. Please call (340) 715-1550 or email: svpollybrooks@yahoo.com for more info.

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UNION 36, 1980 • DARK STAR • PROVEN WORLD CRUISER Double ended cutter, 18,000-lb displacement, full keel, 6'3'' headroom. 65 hp diesel, new 1999. Mast and oversize rigging, new 2000. 6 sails. Windvane, refer, windlass, solar, 100 gal fuel, 120 gal water. Afow $90,000. Call Regent Point Marina • (804) 758-4457 • www.regent-polnt.com

CATALINA 36 Mk II, 1998. Excellent con¬ dition, many upgrades, fast, reliable. Dodger, cockpit table, cushions. Auto¬ helm, inflatable dinghy, much more. Lay¬ ing Berkeley. See Website: <http:// geocities.com/brittacox/> $110,000. Call Britta (415) 516-1213 (cell) or email: brittac@britanne.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. Well below market. $129,000. Call Jack (619) 920-3310 or email: TobinFun@aol.com for photos/details.

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LANCER 40,1984. Huge center cockpit sloop. 2 large staterooms. New 59 hp Volvo Penta 1998. Liferaft, dinghy with motor, 24-mile radar with GPS interface. This Baja vet makes for an excellent liveMoard/shorthanded cruiser. $66,000/ obo. Call (415) 215-5121.

CHEOY LEE 48, 1980. Perry offshore design. Aft cockpit ketch. Needs work. Good deal. Well built boat. Injury forces sale. $55,000/obo. Call days 9-12 or weekends (425) 335-6073. •»

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GEISHA S BACK FROM PANAMA. 48fl Samson center cockpit ketch. Ferrocement, dual steering, 400 gal fuel, 300 gal water. 80 hp Lehman, large workshop. Twins force half-price sale. $35,000 or trade. Located PV, Mexico. Email: abraxas@pvnet.com.mx or call 011-52 (322) 294-1254.

STAMAS 44,1985. Center cockpit ketch. Experienced, solidly constructed blue water cruiser. Loaded with extras for ulti¬ mate liveaboard comfort. Excellent con¬ dition. Pictures, specifications at Website: <www.svariadne.com> Cruising East Coast. Call (954) 614-4672 or email: rogerbohl@compusenre.com.

LORD NELSON 41,1983. Fully equipped to cruise. Air conditioned, watermaker, GPS, HF, two VHFs, weather fax, radar. Autohelm 6000, Heart interface, Aerogen wind generator. BMW diesel, new stand¬ ing rigging and roller furlers. $145,000. Tampa Bay, FL. Call (250) 378-6787 or email: svspringmoon@yahoo.ca.

50-FT DANISH KETCH, 1932. Continu¬ ally upgraded over past 20 years. US reg¬ istered for charter or fishing. Fantastic condition, wonderful seaboat, good sailer, comfortable liveaboard. Specs at: <www.anchoralaska.com/gipsy> $150,090. Call (907) 780-3690.

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Yanmar diesel with Maxprop. Espar heater, Seafrost refrigeration., VHF and SSB radios, GPS, Loran, autopilot, elec¬ tric windlass. LectraSan, washdown, 7 sails, ST winches, roller furling. $180,000. Located Chesapeake Bay. Call (804) 462-0223 or email: enweber@crosstink.net.

CT 41,1972. Radar, radar detector, hold¬ ing plate refer. W-fax, 2X100 watt solar panels. LP hull and masts. New head/ shower, windvane, 130 gal water, 170 gal diesel in new tanks. Fresh bottom 10/02. Full SS stern pulpit and wind curtains. Extras. Call (916) 686-6065.

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PETERSON 40. The old guys will remem¬ ber her from the mid 80’s Big Boat Series, always a walk to the podium. Love Machine 5 (LM5) is for sale. Tape-Drive main, AP#1, LT#1, suit of Sobstad Genesis main, H#1, H#2 and assorted others. KVH instruments, Navtec hydraulic backstay, vang and babystays. Tenaciously strong, lots of gear, some of it new still in boxes. $38,000. Call (619) 843 9309 or email: jdeanqwest@aol.com.

FORMOSA 46 (PETERSON) CUTTER, 1978.

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OLYMPIC 47,1978. Center cockpit ketch. Dark blue fiberglass hull, 3 cabins, 2 heads, 3-burner propane stove with oven, pressurized hot/cold water, new refrigera¬ tor/freezer, roller furled headsail and main. 105 hp Volvo diesel, 4 kw generator. $120,000/obo. Call (619) 549-5179 or (619)437-6118.

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many upgrades. Bottom job 4/03. B&G instrument suite, etc. William Shaw design is arvery capable offshore cruiser. Vessel in transferable Sausalito slip, liveaboard could be accommodated. View online at: <http://www.marottayachts.com> Call t415) 332-5550.

Ready for ocean cruise. Windlass, high test chain. ProFurl jib, full batten main, 3 anchors. Aries, cockpit autopilot, diesel generator, watermaker at 20 gal/hr, radar, GPS, Ham, Freedom 25, gel cells, dodger, Avon dinghy. Extraordinary teak interior. Recently hauled. Excellent. $110,000. Call (510) 749-0720 or (209) 465-8154.

PETERSON 44. One of the best of this popular offshore cruiser. View specs at <angelfire.com/ex/garynellen/index.html> Call (904) 269-4740.

1966 PEARSON RHODES. The Seaforth is for sale. Recent beautiful restoration. If you are looking for this vintage sailboat, this is a must see. $75,000 or trade. Please call Wil (925) 439-8286 or email: wi!seaforth@aol .com.

KETTENBURG 43, SPREE, HULL #5.

50-FT STEEL KETCH. Aluminum masts,

HALLBERG-RASSY 42 KETCH, 1982.

TARTAN 40,1989. Beautiful, strong, per¬

First of only 3 aluminum K-43s. Sturdy, reliable cruiser. Perkins 4-107, large crulsIng inventory. Berkeley berth. See Website: <www.kettenburgboats.com> $60,000. Call Joe (916) 966-4228.

round bilges. New 90 hp Perkins diesel. Refer/freezer, pressure water, radar, GPS, autopilot. Center cockpit, comfortable, big, beautiful. US documentation. $70,000/ obo. Email: rgpm@hotmail.com.

Fully loaded, B&G instruments, loom SSB, VHF, GPS, Furuno radar, autopilot, genset, solar panels, AC, shorepower, DC and engine refrigeration. Force 10 4burner stove, 4 anchors, windlass, windvane. 10 sails, ProFurl roller furling, mast steps, hot/cold water pressure sys¬ tem, watermaker, large engine room. Max Prop, liferaft, Avon, Mercury 15 outboard, and more. V\/ell maintained, great condi¬ tion. $179,000. Call (510) 579-5602.

formance bluewater cruiser. Kevlor hull, Scheel keel, cutter rigged, hard dodger, refer/freezer, radar, Ham/SSB, GPS, au¬ topilot, inverter, watermaker. Complete re¬ fit 1997. SF Bay. Below market $135,000. Photos/specs: <www.geocities.com/ obsessionSV> Call (541) 746-0540 or email: SVobsession@hotmail.com.

ISLANDER 41,1979. Mexico vet, 20 gph watermaker, freezer, electric windlass, 2 autopilots, davits, solar panels, radar, VHF, GPS, Ham, depth, roller furling. Pic¬ tures at Website: <http://home.attbi.com/ ~sailmakai/makai.htm> $75,000. (562) 537-7784 or email: sallmakai(3)hotmall.com.

DUFOUR 45 KETCH, 1978. Inside steer¬

CAL 40. PRICE REDUCED. Cruising tested, ready to go again. Custom inte¬ rior. Modern electrical, 406 EPIRB, liferaft, HF email, forward scanning sonar, new Zodiac FR340, outboard. ProFurl jib reef¬ ing, extensive spares, much more. Website: <httpy/realchuck.home.attbi.com> (no ‘www’) for pics, inventory. Call (408) 356-1103 or email: goodchuck@juno.com.

SPIRITDANCER, RARE NORDIC 40 built in Bellingham, WA. Showstopper with new non-skid, new radar, tridata, repowered. All teak interior, enclosed aft stateroom, custom dodger, custom lighting. Lavac head with holding tank, dinghy with en¬ gine. $134,000. Call (949) 500-7286.

1973. Handsome bluewater ketch. Great liveaboard. Smooth hull. Professionally rebuilt cabintop and sides with fiberglass finish, non-skid. Rebuilt Perkins 4-108, new fuel, holding tanks. New sailcovers, Needs some electrical and interior refinishing. $38,000. Alameda. Call (510) 769-3414.

ing. raised deck salon. Three staterooms, large owners stateroom aft. Two heads, center cockpit, dinghy davit with dinghy, outboard. Fully equipped cruiser, excellant condition. Ready to go. Lying San Carlos. Mexico. $129,500. Call (520) 743-7833.

G. DEVRIES 50, 1935. Dutch built steel ketch. Built to Lloyd’s highest standards. Classic teak interior with master state¬ room. Recently completed South Pacific cruise, offshore equipped. Continuously maintained to high standards. Current survey available upon request. View at <http://geocities.eom/scaldis2000/> $138,000. Call (831) 373-7969._

FORMOSA 41,

VALIANT 40, 1977. Completely refit for cruising in 2000/2001. Just returned from Mexico. 43 hp Beta, 325 hours. New in 2000: Refrigeration system (R38), com¬ plete set Hogin sails, standing and run¬ ning rigging, dodger and cover, liferaft, watertanks, interior upholstery. Newfound Metal portlights, feathering prop, SSB/ Modem/Ham/InmarsatC. New bottom paint 2003. $149,000. Details at Website: <www.meridianpassage.com> Call (509) 395-2119.

COLUMBIA 43 SLOOP. Berkeley Marina. PETERSON 43 lOR, JETSTREAM. Per¬ formance cruiser or racer. Winner of Big Boat Series and SORC. Now with a cruis¬ ing interior. New engine, cushions, radio, radar, windlass, fridge, roller furling, 10 sails, aft cabin. Enjoy life. $75,000. Call (562) 260-3707. _

CAL 2-46, PROVEN WORLD CRUISER.

CLASSIC NOVA SCOTIA SCHOONER, 1962 with lanyards and deadeyes. One owner, 40 years. Designed/built by Vernon Langill, Indian Point, NS, 40’ x 11 ’6” x 6'6”. Perkins 4-108, Yanmar 2.5kw generator, autopilot, 110/12v fridge. North sails, F/G and Avon dinghies, 8 hp Johnson. Very well fitted out for cruising or liveaboard. $85,000. Call Chris (619) 226-1830 for photos and survey report._

San Diego slip available. Realize your cruis¬ ing dream. Head south from San Diego. •New paint, S/S lifelines, pulpit, etc. See specs & pics at <www.cal46.com> Partial trade considered for 34-37 foot sailboat. $95,000/negotiable. Please email John: jgs@golfcommunityrealty.com.

ISLAND PACKET 40,1994. Located Bay Area. Excellent condition. Fully cruise equipped. B&G network electronics, radar, SSB, stereo, 15 gph watermaker, A/C, wind generator and solar panels, liferaft, etc. Reduced, $219,000. Visit Website: <http://www.imperiladub.com/elixir/> or call (209) 727-5165.

ISLAND TRADER 46, 1980. $129,000. BENETEAU FIRST 40.7, 1999. Proven winner. Race or cruise. Racing sails: North 3DL main, 104% and 140% genoas, North .75 and 1.2 oz spinnakers, Doyle 600 spin¬ naker. Navtec hydraulic backstay adjuster. Cruising sails: Quantum main and roller furling genoa, .5 and .75 oz spinnakers. Harken jib furler. Electronics: Interfaced Raytheon GPS chartplotter, radar and new ST6001-H autopilot. New Raytheon ST60 wind, speed and depth instruments, re¬ peater at nav station. VHF with RAM. Pio¬ neer stereo system with six-disc CD changer and speakers cabin and cockpit. New Spectra and Vectran running rigging. Complete cruising gear: H/C pressure water, shower, fridge, propane stove, fold¬ down dodger, cockpit awning, screening for all ports and hatches. 30-hp Volvo Penta diesel with sail-drive and folding prop. $189,000. Call (415) 435-9382.

Ketch motorsailer, 120 Lehman, 1998 5 kw Northernlights generator, Lofrans wind¬ lass, 2001 LectraSan, 2002 blister guar¬ antee, beautiful teak interior, spacious aft stateroom with waJkaround queen, two full heads, abundant storage, ideal live¬ aboard. SF Bay area. (650) 598-9890.

TRINTE^tLA VICTORY 48,1977. Highest quality, Dutch built. Architect Van de Stadt. Hull by Tyler. Interior by Souters, Cowes, England. One owner yacht, continuous upgrades. Leisure furl boom, 1999 Perkins deisel. Loaded with equipment, ready to cross oceans. $129,000. (888) 841 -1155.

40-FT KETCH. Sampson design, ferro cement. Nice cruising layout. Unused sails, new running rigging. 253 Detroit die¬ sel and standing rigging need work. 10-ft dinghy in davits. Nice boat, low price, must sell. $18,500. Call (510) 237-2067 (eves).

WESTSAIL 43 CUTTER, 1977. Original owners. Newer Perkins 4-236, MaxProp, autopilot, vane, new sails, new paint, ra¬ dar, Ham, weather fax, watermaker, solar panels, hard dodger. Too much to list. Continuously maintained. Ready to go. $150,550. Call (907) 337-1239.

Great liveaboard, spacious interior, spent 3 years on her. Low maintenance and fun sail, boom jib. Teak throughout interior, new electric head. Heart AC/DC inverter, 4-cylinder diesel. $44,500. Call Dan (415) 305-7337 or email: dan@ifntech.com.

COLUMBIA 43, 1971. Perkins diesel, beautiful large interior, sails great and fre¬ quently, AC/DC Norcold fridge. Survey value $35k, must sell. $25,000/obo. Ventura. Photos available via email: kqarthur@aol.com or call (310) 383-3491.

LIBERTY 458,1983.46-ft cutter, aft cabin, den with double bunks, 2 heads, center cockpit, windshield, full enclosure, new Hood Vectran fully battened main with roller furling headsails, diesel heater, washer/dryer, liferaft, watermaker, GPS, SSB, weatherfax, radar and more. See Website: <www.emard.com> $169,900/ firm. Call (415) 383-8122. _

HUNTER PASSAGE 450, 2001. Pristine condition. In-mast furling main, roller furler, low time 76 hp Yanmar and 8 kw Kohler generator, two-zone A\C and heat. All Raytheon (ST60) WP\WS, knot, depth, repeater, RL70CRC-r color radar-GPS, 2 kw rgdome. Autohelm 7000-h. Fully inte¬ grated computer system at chart table run¬ ning Raytech Navigator 4.0 software with C-Map reader. Course can be plotted and steered from the computer. Onboard wire¬ less network and HP printer. Avon with 4 hp Merc and much more. $257,500 Must see to appreciate. Call for full details: (925) 447-6442._

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SAUSALITO

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 (Ivmsg).

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SANTA CRUZ 40, 1985. Great Bill Lee designed racer/cruiser. Beautiful condi¬ tion. Professionally maintained. Exten¬ sively upgraded, wheel, autopilot, GPS chartplotter, refrigeration, transom swimstep and much more. Set up for shorthanded sailing. $95,900. Call (323) 442-1427 (wk) or (310) 831-6590 (hm) or email: ddavies@usc.edu for details.

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ond boat purchase forces me to part with the best 41 on the coast. Complete with new stainless mast pulpits, davits, radar arch, custom nav console, full cockpit en¬ closure, standard electronics. Sparcraft mast and boom, full-batten main, eight bags of sails, roller-furling. Electric wind¬ lass, solar panel, Avon RIB, Sterling LP paint jolj, new upholstery and foam, fire¬ place, two heads with showers, two fridges, custom computer station, cruise anywhere, great liveaboard. $75,000. Please call (562) 706-4334 or email: sailfast6@juno.com.

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 complete info and pictures. Nalu IV on SF Bay. Price reduced to $99,000. Call (510) 769-6753 or email: nalufour@compuserve.com.

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maintained. New sail covers. Yanmar die¬ sel. Fully loaded: Autopilot, radar, watermaker, much more. Luxurious salon and berths. $135,000. Please call Pete McLaughlin (949) 661-2253._

SPINDRIFT 43, 1983. Delight. Serious cruiser, double-ended pilothouse cutter. Solar panels, wind generator, dodger, 2 watermakers, 2 refrigeration systems, new stove, custom shower, diesel heater, dav¬ its, mast redone. Excellent condition. Con¬ tinuously upgraded over last 15 years. $165,000. Email: dcolvin@jetlink.net or call (805) 813-0818.

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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, Cascade 36 for sale. (415) 331-7576._

51 FEET & OVER 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 anc(. 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.

JEANNEAU 47, 1992. Fully cruiser-out¬ fitted in 2001. 3 cabins, 2 heads, 75 hp Yanmar. This cruiser/racer is roomy with 15-ft beam. Will deliver. See Website for complete equipment list and photos: <www.pollingelectric.com> $220,000/obo. Call (707) 287-0270.

LeCOMTE 40,1971. Classic offshore sail¬ boat. Fast yet comfortable. 37 hp diesel, large cockpit, sleeps 8 in 3 separate ar¬ eas, galley, 70 gal pressure water, shower, B&G instruments, roller furling. $45,000. Please call (510) 917-1855 or email: Andrew.Cunningham@rapt.com for pic¬ tures and specs.

REICHEL/PUGH 70. Owners ready to accept reasonable offers or trades. Taxi Dancer is one of the finest sleds ever built. Any reasonable offer considered or lease option. See more info and pics at Website: <www.taxidancer.us> Inquiries to Rick Yabsley (805) 689-6362.

HUNTER 54. Completely refit. New ma¬

CORSAIR F24 Mk II, 1997. 6 hp motor.

MODIFIED PIVER. 32-ft long x 20-ft

30-FT PIVER NIMBLE TRIMARAN. Fac¬

hogany Interior. New LPU. Carbon fiber retractable pole. New mast, rig, line. New diesel. New epoxy bottom. All new elec¬ tronics. Autopilot. All new hardware. Wa¬ ter ballast. This is a must see. $96,000. Call (415) 385-1626.

Trailer with spare, brakes, custom lights. Mylar main, jib, screecher, spinnaker. Nexus custom instrumentation, custom interior, extra storage, boom tent, swim ladder, safety equipment, dock and anchor equipment. Many extras, excellent condi¬ tion. $44,900/obo. Call (760) 721-3341.

beam. Open wings draft 6’2” daggerboard down, 22" board up. 3 jibs, spinnaker, main. 7.5 electric start outboard. Data marine knot log. Porta-Potti. Everything works. $500. Call (925) 458-3464.

tory built by Cox Marine. New bottom in 2002. A lightweight, quick boat, in great condition. Comfortable cabin with stand¬ ing headroom. Honda 8 hp 4-stroke, new traveler and blocks. Ventura. $12,500. Call (805) 642-6680.

65-FT PILOTHOUSE SCHOONER. Built 1917 AAA Shipyard. Heavy wood con¬ struction. New 6-71 diesel engine and rig¬ ging. Junk rig. Sails and motors great; Pacific vet. Comes with rent free mooring in Sausalito. $35,000. Call (415) 331 -3612 or email; daveandrosella@msn.com.

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. Pete’s Harbor, So. San Francisco. Reduced to $25,000. Call for pictures. Laurie (650) 463-4647 or.(800) 891 -5763 (pgr) or (707) 235-2297.

BEAUTIFUL CUSTOM CRUISING CAT. 1997,55’ X 26’. One owner. Clean, ocean proven, fully equipped. Sleeps 10, 4 heads, 50 hp Yanmar diesels. 7/01 sur¬ vey at $500,000. Asking $395,000. For more info call (707) 265-6843 or email: Manta@pocketmail.com.

CLASSIC 52-FT RUDY CHOY CSK. Very FORMOSA 51 KETCH, 1981. Hauled January 2003. Black fiberglass hull, teak decks/trim, Sitka spruce spars. Roller furl¬ ing boomless main, staysail. 80 hp FordLehman diesel, much more. Beautifully maintained. Set up to singlehand. $139,500. Call (650) 326-1430 or email: captted@pacbell.net.

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 $329,000. Call (904) 501 -3063. _

luxurious, fully restored catamaran for sale. USCG certified, 28 passengers. All teak cabin, twin diesels, twin helms. Sleeps 8. Pleasure or charter. Please email: RHcharters@aol.com or call (808) 947-4997.

BEST TRI ON THE MARKET. Buy $50,000 of upgrades for 10 cents on the dollar. Equipped to go anywhere. Perfect for Mexico or the West Coast. Circumnavi¬ gate. Owner changed plans: Happily mar¬ ried and looking for a smaller boat. Gypsy Dolphin, Marples Seaclipper 41. In water in LaPaz. Reduced again to $65,000 or any reasonable offer. Call Ethan (907) 522-9157 or go to <www.bajayachts.com> for photos and specs._ VICTORY 35 CATAMARAN, 2000. Spa¬ cious, comfortable cruising cat. Never chartered. Excellent condition. Set up for singlehanded cruising. Would make ideal liveaboard. Asking $193,900. Motivated Seller. See: <www.catamaranforsale.com> for pics and equipment list. (925) 989-3033 or email; CatamaranForSale@hotmail.com.

SEARUNNER 37,1983. Equipped for liv¬

51-FT LOA UPDATED COLUMBIA 50,1987. Two private staterooms with ensuite heads. 160 gals fuel and water. 1 m range. Equipped with 8 ST winches and 11 hatches by Lewmar. Forespar mast. Harken furling, electric windlass, Taylor stove. Hawaii vet 2002. Excellent boat forcouple and family. All systems upgraded 2002-03. Ready to go. Best value at $85,000. No brokers. (760) 351-1513 or (619) 992-5666.__

ing aboard and cruising in Southeast Alaska. Alaska veteran in excellent shape. Turnkey. See the boat at Website: <www.kpunet.net/~karlyenk/ EquipmentList.html> Must sell. Asking $44,000. Call (360) 332-0992 (WA),

ADMIRAL 47, 1996/98. 47-ft Lavranos

CLASSICS HERRESHOFF 28 CLASSIC KETCH, 1962. Full boat cover. Atomic 4 engine newly rebuilt. Autohelm, roller furling, VHF ra¬ dio. Professionally maintained. Beautiful wooden classic. Price reduction to $20,000/obo. Call (510) 793-7489 (eves) or (510) 410-5688 (days).

NEVINS 40,1955. Sparkman & Stephens centerboard yawl. Sister to Finisterre. Mahogany on oak/bronze. Replanked and refastened 1993. Fast and sound. Very good condition. Come see at Master Mari¬ ners Annual Wooden Boat Show, June 29. $65,000. Email: gayec@earthlink.net.

MULTIHULLS 34-FT JIM BROWN MANTA TRIMARAN. Aft cockpit, 9.9 electric start, longshaft. Hood furling, dink, VHF, GPS. Sleeps 4. Insured with slip in Ventura, CA. Email for photos: cptglen@hotmail.com or call (661) 948-7642,

designed South African fiberglass cruis¬ ing cafamaran. 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. $299,900 delivered to SF Bay. Please email: wemard@edptlaw.com or call (415) 383-8122.

CROWTHER 42 CATAMARAN. Airex core, daggerboards, rotating aluminum mast. Berths; 2 double, 2 single. Twin re¬ tractable Yamaha 9.9s. Wonderful, fast cruising cat. Unique design, easy to oper¬ ate. Excellent condition. Marina del Rey. Asking $149,000. (310) 839-8078 or email: cat2fold@holmail.com. _

HORSTMAN CAT HULLS. Complete what 1 can't finish. 26-foot FRP hulls built of polyester and E-glass over Kellegcell foam. Purchase includes plans, near full roll of CSM and 9 sheets of foam. Best offer. For pictures and more inforpiation email: moyle@yahoo.com or call (916) 483-7352.

PIVER 25 TRIMARAN, 1967. Excellent condition. 12-ft beam. Wheel steering. Self-tending jib. Solid mahogany and glass. Sleeps 2-3. Depthsounder, GPS, VHF. 5 hp outboard. Oakland berth. Cus¬ tom trailer. Asking $10,500. Details/pic¬ tures email: sheldongregg@pacbell.net or call (408) 420-4697._ 25-FT C-CLASS CAT, $3,000. (Will sepa¬ rate hulls.) lOM^cat, $1,500. Two Torna¬ dos on A-frame trailer, $5,000. Two Ex¬ pedition P-18s on heavy duty trailer, in¬ hull storage and hard decks, $4,000. Call (909) 878-5081 or (909) 800-5237 (cell).

38-FT CROWTHER TRIMARAN. Profes¬ sionally constructed using top materials. LPU, epoxy bottom, autopilot, depth, VHF, CQR, very good condition. Hawaii vet. ' $43,500. Email: llharmen@cs.com or call (510)797-1324,

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Mexico/Hawaii vet. New mast, standing rigging 04/01. Engine rebuilt 11/02, auto¬ pilot, watermaker, solar, inverter, many recent upgrades. Great fast cruiser. First $60,000 takes her. Full information packet and photos available. Call (760) 458-5032 or email: pandjsaline@earthlink.net.

sails, good condition. 9.9 hp 4-stroke Yamaha on sled bracket. Hard top over center cockpit with cushions'and full en¬ closure. One double bunk, 2 singles. Pro¬ pane stove, VHF, fishfinder, autopilot, anchors, solar panel. $12,500. Call (925) 354-6550.

Beautiful with 1 bedroom, 1 full bath, mod¬ ern kitchen, skylights, track lighting, porch, closets, storage. Centrally located in sunny Redwood City. Park your boat in the slip next door. See at Website: <www.docktown.org/jbar.btml> $119,000. Call (775) 843-7043.

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Deep Water Dockage on the San Francisco Bay 30 ft. draft berths up to 300 ft. length available. Metered electric service includes 600 amp, 480 volt with transformers to provide any vessel service requirement.

BAYLINER 28; 1994. Bravo II 250 hp V-8 Mercruiser, 110 hours. Excellent condi¬ tion. SF Marina, Gashouse Cove slip. $32,500/negotiable. Call (650) 533-8215 or email: a_wandycz@hotmail.com. Also, new 10-ft Porta-Bote and 4-stroke 5 hp Nissan outboard.

39.9-FT BESTWAY TRAWLER, 1983. View pictures and details in Website; <geocities.com/synergybestway/ synergythebestway.html> $120,000. Call (805) 650-9029.

40-FT LIBERTY LAUNCH, 1953. Live. Work. Play. Large galley, separate shower and head. King master berth, abundant storage. Open airy salon. Mahogany hull, 671 engine runs great, 320 gal capacity. Strong, well-built vessel. Reduced to $23,000. Call (707) 793-0420.

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46-FT CHRIS AQUAHOME, 1969. Comfy Delta cruiser, fantastic liveaboard. Fiber¬ glass, flybridge, lower helm. Generator, A/ C, new range, refrigerator. Double bed aft. Twin V8-327S. Details and more info at: <www.eiderhiker.com/aquahome.htm> Asking $46,900. Cali (925) 473-9900.

SCAND BALTIC MOTOR CRUISER. Custom built Norwegian motor cruiser. 30ft. Sleeps 5. 200 hp Volvo Penta turbo. 20-1- knots, GPS, bowthrusters, 12v fridge. GPS, VHF, deisel heat, LectraSan head. Extras. Great looking, unusual design. Berthed Sausalito. $60,000. (415) 331-3320 or ennail; kandwrichards@earthlink.net.

BOSTON WHALER 17 MONTAUK. 70 hp Evinrude with custom freshwater rinse. Trailer included, permanently registered. VHF, fishfinder, dual batteries, non-skid deck, two coolers with seats, fishing rod rack, 3 fuel tanks, custom center console. Great condition. $6,800. (650) 823-0269.

TROJAN SEA VOYAGER 36,1965. Well

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36-FT RIVERQUEEN. Twin Ford straight 6 engines, I/O drive, kitchen, dinette, two bunks, bathroom, spacious interior with lots of possibilities. Good liveaboard. $8,500. Jim (209)786-4864.

kept woodie. Twin 327 Grays, GPS, turn¬ key. It this is in your range, give it a look. It may be love at first sight, it was for me. $23,500. (510) 381-8064._

26-FT DIESEL CRUISER. 500 mile range.' 2 cylinder Yanmar. Built to set world record. Cost $23,000. Garmin GPS, depth gauge, VHF, CD, Autohelm 2000, autopi¬ lot, chart table. Electric cooktop, 1 lOv re¬ fer. USCG offshore approved. Fully equipped. Mission Bay. $6,300. Call (858) 481-7507.

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diesel, Webasto heater. One opening available in 5-party group. Alameda berth, $150 per month covers all. (510) 865-5147 or email: boatncf@earthlink.net.

Mazatlan? Yes! Whisper quiet, super effi¬ cient, 12 and 24 volt systems. Built for blis¬ tering heat in Sea of Cortez and beyond. Ship to all Mexican ports. Website: <www.mexicolder.com> Mexico-based dealer/installer inquiries welcome. For more info email: mexicolder@hotmail.com.

HALF SHARE OF FREEDOM 21 catboat in the Marina Green in San Francisco. Nice boat in an excellent location. Alter¬ nate location in front of my house on Clear Lake with use of guest cottage. 1/2 share $2,500 plus $70/month. Email response: pshrive@yahoo.com.

BENETEAU B393, 2002. Downtown LITTON 41-FT TRAWLER, 1979. Second owner. F/G hull, epoxy bottom. New var¬ nish and upholstery. Twin 120 hp diesel, two helms. Full electronics. Huge aft cabin, vanity, head, tub/shower, full size salon and galley. Twin berth forward and head. In La Paz. Call (707) 887-9224.

Sausalito berth, new last June. Bay/off¬ shore cruiser with 3 cabins, sleeps 6, Full amenities, electronics loaded, fully rigged, beautiful interior. Sails like a dream and looks like one too. 1/4 or 1/5 non-equity shares available. $750 per month for 1/4; $600 per month for 1/5 plus deposit. Miriimum 12 month commitment. Greg (415) 33V4900 (ofc) or (415) 332-4401 (hm).

BECOME A PARTNER in a beautiful 44ft Beneteau and learn to sail. Moored in Sausalito. Email: Birby@ioconcepts.com or call (415)472-1992. CATALINA 30. Great Sausalito berth. 5

HERSHINE 37 AFT CABIN TRAWLER. Ganapati is 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. See more at Website; <www.triilium-inc.com/hershine> $89,000. Please call (831) 422-7608. _

minutes to Bay. Wheel, diesel. New jib, rigging and roller furling. Nice condition. $350/month for flexible timeshare for weekend or mid-week. A fun, easy boat to sail. Parking available. Call Lee (415) 332-9250 or email; LPrimus@ pacbell.net.

CLIPPER MARINE 30 PARTNERSHIP. 1/3 non-equity share, $200/month. Sausalito berth. 12-month commitment required. Well equipped, great boat. Pho¬ tos available. Sommer (415) 971-9772 or email: sommerjohnson@yahoo.com.

SAILING TIME-SHARE SOUGHT. Sausalito. Experienced, mature Bay sailor, former boat owner, looking for time-share plan on 30-foot or greater sailboat. US Sailing Association certified for Keel Boat, Basic Cruising Level and Bareboat. Call (415) 516-2874.

PARTNERSHIPS PARTNERS WANTED. No capital costs. Just share slip fee and maintenance. Pearson Triton 28 in excellent shape with new sails, brand new 18 hp Yanmar in¬ board. Location Clipper Yacht Harbor in Sausalito. Offering free lessons to begin¬ ners. Call (415) 459-7417. CRUISING SAILBOAT. Equity partner¬ ship wanted, 2-3 parties at $20K-$30K each for 32 to 42-ft boat in SF Bay. Please call David (408) 358-2154 or email: dfnveglir® redshift.com.

ERICSON 35,1971.1/4 partnership, low buy in and $250 per month. South Beach slip, partly restored, work in progross. Pro or beginner, easygoing. Call Robert (408) 269-1778.

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BENETEAU 44,1987. Located in Puerto Vallarta. Cruise equipped. Beautiful blue hull, maintained to highest standards. 3 staterooms. Race or cruise in Paradise. US documented. $129,000/obo. Email: lupedipp@cybercable.com.mx.

UNION POLARIS 36,1980. Like a Hans Christian but half the cost. Perkins 4-108, Heart charger/inverter with Link 2000, Cetrek Autohelm. ICOM 710 SSB/Ham, ICOM VHF, EPIRB, Magellan GPS 5000. Tri-color. Alternator 150, screens, canvas covers, Avon RIB with Suzuki 8 hp. ProFurl, solar panels, 24m radar. Force 10 stove/oven, hotwater heater. Muir wind¬ lass, spares and lots of cruising equip¬ ment. Documented. Lying Mexico. $74,500. Sailingman68@yahoo.com. No brokers.

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THE GREY DAWN \S STILL FOR SALE. A 50-ft LOA ferro-cement cruiser that is in very good shape, sails well and is very comfortable. Located in San Carlos, Mexico, Lots of info at Website; <http:// mexicosaiiing.com> $37,000.

FREEDOM 36 SLOOP. Gary Mull design. Great condition many upgrades. Located in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. GPS, Little Wonder watermaker, Adler-Barbour Cold Machine, Siemens solar panels. Heart in¬ verter/charger, Link 10 and Pathmaker, Balmar lOOamp alternator. 5 batteries, 1 start, 4 house. AutoNav autopilot. Maxwell windlass, MaxProp 3-blade feathering, EPIRB, Furuno 1751 radar. Standard Horizon and ICOM VHF, Datamarine depth, knot and wind. Extra fuel and wa¬ ter tanks, Achilles LS-4 with 4 hp Mercury. $80,000. Slip also available in Cabo. Call Don (510) 814-0251 or (510) 496-3330 or email: bsquared919@yahoo.com. SOUTH OF THE BORDER DELIVERIES. 100 Ton Captain and marine engineer couple. Specializing in Latin America. 125,000-h sea miles. 30-r deliveries. Alaska to Ecuador. Spanish spoken. Me¬ chanically challenged vessels considered. Please email: kg6blm@winlink.org.

AIRLINE HOOKAHS make tons of sense for cruising sailboats. No cumbersome tanks or airfills. Gas models from $2,000, electric models from $700. Please email: garthinrnulege@yahoo.com, the Mexican dealer for these units. SA/ Inclination.

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

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Scott on Whatever has perfected the 10day engine change. Motor in - Motor out. Check out Panama’s low Yanmar prices. That 150 amp alternator not putting out 150 amps? We can help, or maybe a dual alternator installation for ^00+ amps. All work done right from our boat. Many pho¬ tos and/or references. Please contact by email: sfratcher@hotmail.com or kc6pls@winlink.org.

MORGAN 41 CLASSIC, 1991. Cutter, large center cockpit. Not an Out Island 41, this boat really sails. One owner, excep¬ tionally well maintained and cruise equipped. Wind generator, solar panels, complete electronics. Good sail inventory. Lying San Carlos, Mexico. $135,000. Call (520) 743-7833.

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/ direction, knots, compass. Sleeps 6. $20,000. Please call (250) 720,-9506 or email: stephani@island.net.

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. ABOVE GROUND SWIMMING POOL. Brand new, 12’ x 24’, oval pool. Extended liner, upgraded filter, never set up. Will trade for usable sailboat. (510) 661 -9069.

ALBIN VEGA 27 AUXILIARY SLOOP, 1974. Beam 8’9”. Hand-laminated molded fiber¬ glass. Volvo Penta MD-2 two-cylinder die¬ sel. Encased ballast rudder. Easy singlehanding. Well maintained. Surveyed and bottom end 6/01. Trade for power/ houseboat. $12,000 value. (510) 368 2499 or email: rmonchatre2@hotmail.com.

SEAWORTHY FLOATING FARMHOUSE. Stoutly-built 42-ft halibut-schooner-style motorsailer with soul, needs equally soul¬ ful owner. Located on San Carlos Bay, Sonora, Mexico. $6,000. Check Website; <http://mightytoad.slickness.org> then please email: verbaJee@yahoo.com.

WANTED WANTED FOR ERICSON 35: (Cruising one way to Caribbean.) Sails, watermaker, SSB, handheld GPS, chartplotter (elec¬ tronic §nd paper charts), CQR, 5/16” chain, etc. Call (650) 771-2237,

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SAILS FOR COLUMBIA 22. Especially full jib or genoa and main with shallow camber. My wife is aghast at thousands spent on full retrofit for our $500 boat, so I need ‘em cheap. Call (707) 578-7722. LEWMAR 55 OR 54 WINCH or equiva¬ lent. The 55 can be in disrepair, that can be used for parts to possibly repair mine. Also want a used asymmetrical for 44-ft sloop with J=17 and 1=54. (707) 972-8670.

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P35 watermaker, never used, in box, $900. ICOM M700pro with ATI 20 tuner, used in 1998 Pac Cup only, still in box, $900. 70-ft 1/4” high-test chain, 250-ft 1/ 2” nylon, new, $300. John (415) 331 -6313.

ICOM 710, $1,000. ICOM VHF M-55, $50. Sony AM/FM/cassette XR-U550, $50. Avon 10-ft dinghy, $895. 6-man liferaft, $1,000. Navtec hydraulic backstay ad¬ juster, $850. Cail (916) 372-2663.

BLUE DODGER. Only one season. High¬ est quality. Gore-tex thread, Lexan win¬ dows with covers. New condition. Heavy duty s/s frame with handles. Fits any boat 30-45 feet with minor adjustment. 31 ” deep X 28” high x 54" wide. New $2,300. Sell for $950/obo. Also, 16-ft aluminum boom, completely set up, excellent condition. In¬ ternal 40/1 outhaul, 3 reef set-up with winch and two Antal rope clutches. White paint like new. Fits boat from 35-45 feet. Includes boom end of gooseneck. $450/ obo. Garrett (916) 826-5653.

‘Stickey Goo’ epoxy dispenser, 3 gal resin/ hardener, $30. 300-ft, 5/16 Sta Set, offer. Multihull Mags, #1 to present, offer. Call Bill in Redwood City (650) 369-5011.

MONITOR WINDVANE. Great condition, $1,500. Also, new Para-Tech parachute anchor, 15-ft diameter, never used, $300. Wilcox-Crittenden head, 'The Skipper', good shape, with spares, $200. Call (805) 642-6680. AUTO-SATELLITE DISTRESS BEACON 406 LO-Kata, $800. Also light 150 genoa for 45-55 foot yacht. Will trim to suit, $700. New sextant, dip-pole, Bickerton alumi¬ num bike, miscellaneous gear and sails, Alameda. Call (510) 523-9011.

used. New dip'galvanizing, $750. Elk Grove, CA. Please call (916) 686-6065 or fax (916) 686-8089.

MOVING ON. Seawatch directional TV antenna, $125.10-ft Achilles Hypalon in¬ flatable with wheels, $300. 12-ft rowing/ sailing dory with sail, $1,200. Pfaff 130 sewing machine with hand crank and ex¬ tras, $500. Aria bluegrass banjo, $350. Rockhopper mountain bikes, $125. Call (510) 865-4804.

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very good working condition along with three blades fixed, and two-blade folding feather propellers for sale. $2,950.obo. Call Stan (510) 919-6842.

Two props, 20 X 20 X 1 -3/8. Crusader 454 FWC conversion kit. Two San Juan 454 heat exchangers. Two Sendure heat ex¬ changers. Two 71C velvet drives 1:l! Please call (415) 382-1405 or email: pagarb@aol.com.

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AIR-CONDITIONER. Cruisair carry-on portable. For sail or power boats. Like neW) used only one week. Plugs into boat or shore power. Available new at West Marine for $700 or from me for $390. Call Frost (510) 547-5044.

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Constant taper, black LPU, 85-lbs. All up, very trick, all running and standing rigging included, single spreaders and jumpers. 35’6” X 4" X 2-3/4”. $350. (650) 712-8991.

9-FT GLASS LAPSTRAKE DINGHY with integral flotation tanks, $200.5 hp 2-stroke longshatt Nissan outboard, less than 20 hours since new, $300. (415) 776-3132.

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SECRETS OF WHrTE TRASH REVEALED, $50. Volvo MD-2 diesel, $1,600, MS-2 transmission, $450. 50 hp Isuzu diesel with 1.91 velvet drive, rebuilt, $2,800. Ideal 12v windlass for 1/4” chain and rode, $250. Two 9’ X 1/12” ss shafts, complete, $150/each, $250/pair. Need an 18" x 12" 3 or 4-blade propeller with big hub tor 1 -3/ 4” shaft. (415) 272-5776. NISSAN 3.5 HP 2-STROKE O/B. New in 2000. 28-lbs, barely used. Stored inside and well maintained. Perfect condition. $315. Call (415) 924-2678. 7.5 HP LONGSHAFT OUTBOARD, elec¬ tric start. Three 2-speed winches. Data marine knot log. 6 single speed winches. 3/8”turnbuckles. Lifelines and stanchions, r sail track with cars. Porta-Potti. Must take all. Includes boat. (925) 458-3464.

75-LB COR ANCHOR, $100.8-ft dinghy, $75. Used sails for 8-ft to 30-ft S/Vs at $50 to $150. Call (650) 269-4012.

PALMER P60 MARINE GAS ENGINE. Can see it running in our Islander 36 until mid-June, $500. Also available from an Islander 36: Rudder, best offer. Various racing sails, $100/each/obo. (707) 704-3762 or email: marineandhome@yahoo.com.

VOLVO PENTA MD17C 35 HP diesel with transmission. Low hours on rebuilt injec¬ tion pump and injectors, runs well and can be demonstrated, $1,900. Shipmate 3burner propane range, good shape, $350. Email Marvin: mhamon@yahoo.com or call (510)814-9561.

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

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SeaLand diaphragm pump. Whale Diver valve, 28 gal SeaLand holding tank. All pipes and fittings for a complete, top-ofthe-line head system. West Marine cata¬ log suggests $2,000 retail. Asking only $900. Call (510) 832-7616 or email: bbpetway@hotmail.com.

Looking for a few good members. Home of the NorCal Women’s Sailing Sem¬ inar; Friday night Bay and Women’s races; a volunteer club; cruising, racing, dinners, friendship, fun. Please see Website: <http://www.iyc.org> or call David Devon (925) 820-5637.

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Runs great. Well maintained. Reverse gear needs rebuild. $1,200/obo. Please call Brent (805) 698-0636 or email: brent@romoandassociates.com.

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.

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 STAINLESS HORIZONTAL AXIS/ trimtab vane. Outboards: 3HPSS, 3.5HPLS, 6HPLS. Livngston dinghy, Avon inflatable. 35H. Edson bilgepump, #26/ 2SPD, propane stove/oven, SSB/Ham, sails. Compasses: Constellation, large old boxed Ritchie. Parachute sea anchor. Magma BBQ. Dive gear. Fiberglass inflat¬ able ‘bottomsaver’. (415) 497-3731 or email: bradlow00@aol.com.

JOHNSON 6 HP SHORT SHAFT with two tanks. Used only two times. $1,000/obo. Call (510) 865-2433.

BOAT LOAD OF STUFF. 1/2 W. Marine prices: CNG tanks, exposure suits, winch handles, inflatable with 3.5 hp Nissan, anchors and rode, snatch blocks, sextant,, manual pumps, handheld radios, lots more. Call for faxed list. (415) 485-1066.

MARINER SHORT SHAFT 9.9 HP, $550. ACR EPIRB 406, $700. ICOM 810 SSB radio with ICOM antenna tuner, $900. ICOM M-120 VHF, top of the line, $150. Brand new spinnaker for Islander 36, $900. Viking 6-man cannister liferaft, just out of certification, $1,100. Cruising spin¬ naker for 40-43 foot ketch, great shape, $700. Lifesling, $50. West Marine dehu¬ midifier, $30. Spinnaker blocks, $75/pair. 50 amp - 30 amp electrical connector, $40. 250/125 amp to two 30 amp 110v Y connector, new, $150. (415) 388-4894.

located in Alameda, welcomes new mem¬ bers. Racing, cruise-ins, cruise outs, so¬ cial events and camaraderie. Active Vol¬ unteer Club. Open seven days/week. Ac¬ tivity nearly every evening. See Website: www.bbyb.org. For info packet please call (510) 523-7225.

WOMEN’S SAILING CLINIC at Lake Tahoe. Saturday, July 26, 8 am to 5 pm. Beginning and intermediate classes avail¬ able with on-the-water instruction. $45 fee. Information and required pre-registration: call Debbie (530) 541-3516 or email: russdebnoorda@aol.com.

SF ACCESS SAILING SCHOOL. Donate your boat serving our free sailing and cruising program for youths 14-20. All boats, power or sail, can support our pro¬ gram needs. Tax deductible. Please call (650) 269-4012.

PROPERTY SALE/RENT

BERTHS & SLIPS 40-FT DOCK AT PIER 39, D13. For quick sale. Call Ronald (213) 622-5033 (days) or (818) 591-0686 (eves).

FOR SALE BY ORIGINAL OWNER. 50ft slip on sheltered Eastern side of Pier 39 Marina in the heart of San Francisco. Ex¬ cellent amenities, renovated breakwater and parking pass available with slip. $45,000 with terms possible. Please call (415) 435-8854. LIVEABOARD SLIP NEEDED in South¬ ern California for 53-ft cruising sailboat, San Diego to Santa Barbara, and every¬ thing in between. Are you taking your yacht south for awhile? Let us occupy your slip while we wait to find our own. Call (949) 374-3593 or email: phil@koken.org. E44: 40 x 14-FT BEAM SLIP, PIER 39. $25,000/obo. Great mid-dock, shoreside location. Excellent marina facilities. Ter¬ rific sailing. Beautiful views. Walk to Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach restau¬ rants, downtown SF. Pac Bell Park nearby. $3/day garage parking, F-line stop adjacent. Best spot for Fleet Week, New Year, July 4th. Call (415) 902-8016 or email: pahowley@aol.com.

SAN FRANCISCO 36-FT SLIP. Pier 39. Good location, east side, C-39, A bargain at $15,000 or can be rented for $330/ month-to-month plus electrical. 33-years left on lease. Or trade for truck and cash. (415) 956-2528.

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.

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membership. Includes free: US Sailing .Certification classes, Basic. Keelboat through Offshore Passage; trainer use: refresher classes. Large, modern fleet. Bay and Southern California locations. Great instructors and sailing programs. Asking $2,600 for $3,250 membership. Email: budpal@worldnet.att.net or (650) 969-1680.

with sunset views-over Casco Bay. Avail¬ able for two weeks only, August 9-23. $1,800/wk. Built in 1910, this five bed¬ room, two bath with new kitchen offers lots of privacy in idyllic coastal setting. Tennis court available, dinghy, private waterfront and just an hour from Portland, Maine airport. For more information call (207) 833-7710. ' )

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Maker Membership. Perfect for a couple to begin sailing the right way or gain con¬ fidence in weak areas. Includes training for seven US Sailing certificate levels: Be¬ ginning Keelboat to Offshore Passage making and reduced charter rates on larg¬ est and best fleet on the West Coast. Six locations in Northern and Southern Cali¬ fornia, free trainer us^, free refresher classes, membership resale privileges. Perfect for those wanting the best instruc¬ tion and charter fleet; Normally $5,425, priced to sell at $3,995. Email: emuskin@cox.net or call (949) 246-0620.

five. On scenic Orr’s Island, Maine. Wa¬ terfront property, large yard, W/D, DW, 1-1/2 baths, tennis courts nearby. $700/ wk. Call (415) 456-9450.

BEYOND 65 CUSTOM CUTTER. World cruiser. Completed circumnavigation April 2002. Loaded. Plus her ‘dockbox’, a 2bedroom home with 40-ft deepwater dock on Napa River. Rare opportunity. $600,000, or boat alone for $225,000. Call (707) 226-5725 or (208) 351-2317 (cell).

for sale. Good location: B39. Get immedi¬ ate access to the ‘slot’ and central Bay. Asking $16,000. Call (415) 459-5184 or email: y_daishan@hotmail.com.

CREW BLUEWATER, LONG TERM, BERTH wanted. Extensive offshore and racing ex¬ perience, navigation, mechanical, main¬ tenance, cook, scuba, first aid, retired, bright, conversational, humor, ethical, con¬ tributor. Began sailing at nine in scows. From there to 50s and also power. Please email: songaday@c-zone.net.

looking for hardy crew to sail Bay and beyond aboard 40-ft custom C&C. Or daysail on Ericson 27, joining our sail clinic, (est. 1991,501 C-3 non-profit) teaching at-risk, low-income youth. Take your pick. Interested parties call Ken (415) 203-?i783.

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

Single sail, Massachuesetts Bay Hustler, sail #4. Maine built, mast, boom, sail, trailer. Needs TLC. Upper Lake, CA, $300. Email Dollie: dne@pacific.net or call (707) 275-2928.

FIRST MATE NEEDED for great boat (Downeast) and the good life (CA). SWM, 54, stable and for real, seeks active outdoprsy SWF, 40-54, also for real. Heart is mandatory, looks are a great plus. Ex¬ change information and photos by email: svnovara @ aol .com.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

IRWIN SLOOP 44,1987. $128,000. Great boat, recently sailed from Vancouver. Numerous upgrades including: Alternator, batteries, storm-sail, halyards, jib sheets, standing rigging. Also has Zeppelin with 15 hp Johnson, and tons of offshore equip¬ ment. Pictures: <http://groups.msn.com/ Keona/homepage> Call (415) 328-3242 or email: tdw@uniserve.com.

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The Gianola Family has been designing and fabricating custonn canvas and interiors since 1969. Gianola & Sons offers you the best in quality, more choices, and personal service.

Bay, the Bay Area’s top-rated sailing school and club in Berkeley, is looking for an assis¬ tant fleet manager to help fleet manager in managing a staff of ten and fleet of 42 train¬ ing and charier sailing yachts. Must have extensive knowledge of vessel systems, troubleshdoting and repair skills, experience in and talent for managing and leading em¬ ployees, general management skills includ¬ ing hiring, training staff, budgeting, great cus¬ tomer service focus. Lots of customer con¬ tact, fast paced and varied work environment with potential for growth, as well as the best sailing location on the Bay. Extensive ben¬ efits including health and dental, retirement plan and sailing privileges. Please call Simon Carey (510) 843-4200 or email resume to carey@ocscsailing.com,

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 resumes to (510) 237-2253.

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USCG LICENSED CAPTAINS with tow¬ ing endorsement, for assistance towing position in SF Bay, Delta or Ventura ar¬ eas, full or part-time, some experience desirable. Fax resume to (925) 684-2067 or call (805) 644-2762.

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UNIVERSAL DIESEL ENGINE. Model 5411.1982 engine with transmission and gauge panel. Top end completely rebuilt 2/03. New injectors. Rebuilt main injector pump. Receipts. 11 hp 2 cyl. Needs new rings. $900/obo. Call (209) 531-4024 (cell) or email: deltasailing@hotmail.com. BABA 30. Cruise ready. Too many up¬ grades to list. Like new diesel, windlass, wind generator, solar, watermaker and much more. Recently surveyed at $70,0Q0. Must sell and will sacrifice for quick sale at $50,000/firm. Hawaii (808) 941-0010. YOUNG SUN / WESTWIND 35, 1982. Bluewater cruiser, cutter rigged, heavy dis¬ placement long keel, canoe stern. Lots of storage. Aluminum spars, Yanmar, Norcold refrigeration, inverter/charger, VHF, radar, GPS, Loran, autopilot, Ken¬ wood AM/FM/CD. Main, staysail, jib, drifter, 60 fuel, 120 water, 20 holding. Monterey Marina. $70,000. (208) 699-4798 or email: twhwlc@aol.com.

WILLARD 30 TRAWLER. 1973. Fiber¬ glass, 17,000 lbs. 10’ 5” beam, 3’ 6" draft, 50 hp Perkins diesel, 8 knots max. 100 gal fuel ,100 gal water, 10 gal waste. Al¬ cohol stove. 10/21/02 surveyed, bottom painted and zincs. $35,000. Call David Lindsay (415) 468-1550 or email: david.lindsay@sbcglobal.net.

FERROCEMENT BARGE. 16’ x 36’. 7’6” belowdeck. Newly fiberglassed flat top deck. Excellent condition. See photos at Website: <http://photos.yahoo.com/ deltabarge> With or without gazebo. Best offer. Please call (925) 684-9328. WEST WIGHT POTTER 19, 2001. Very nice boat with trailer,. 4-stroke outboard, stove, Porta-Potti, running lights, one 90% and one 140% jib with whisker pole. $11,000, Call (209) 869-3254.

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into ‘income property’ doing casual, local, adventures/excursions. You are creative, flexible. Get cash flow (tax benes?) and fun. I’m a bluewater, responsible, former 50-ft ketch,owner. David (916) 331-0130 or email: wanderlust51 @hotmail.com.

version, like new. Hardtop, dinghy with motor, chartplotter, many extras. Lying San Diego. More info at manufacturer’s Website: <www.seawindcats.com> $155,000. Save over $50,000. Email: PelicanMelodee@aol.com or call (760) 500-7001,

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Anchor Marine Insurance .... 175

Bay Marine Diesel .237

Bluewater Network.241

Andersens Boat Yard.237

Bo'sun Supplies.23;?

British Marine.24

ABC Yachts.250

Bay Propeller.179

ACC Marine.97

Aqua Marine ..'..218

Bay Risk Insurance. 107

Boat City Yachts.— 246

Cabrillo Yacht Sales.246

Bay Ship & Yacht.61

Boat-Electric ft.214

Cal Maritime Acadamy.64

Ace Sailmakers.91

Axelrod, B & Company.236 Bair Island Marina.60

Bay Side Boatworks.232

Calif. Foundation Funding ... 244

Acordia Insurance.95

Boat Leather.230

Baja Ha-Ha Sponsor Page 30,31

Bay View Boat Club. 193

Boat US. 29,93,211

Cass' Marina .70

Baja Naval.210

Boat's Unbiased . 104

Cat Ballou Charters. 199

Agape Villages. 190

Beneteau.7

Ballast PointVachts.67

Beowulf Press.86

Bosun's Charters. 198

Chula Vista Marina. 169

Alameda Prop & Machine.91

Ballena Bay Yacht Brokers.8

Berkeley Boot Sales.248

City Yachts. 19

Allemand Brothers.240

Bottom Siders.94

Club Nautique.54

Ballenger Spars. 143

Boy Scouts Son Francisco .... 243

Coast Marine.93

Alpha Marine Systems. 155

Berkeley Marine Center . 149,154,219

Boy Scouts Pacific Harbors .. 247

Almar Marinas. 103

Ballena Isle Marina Coop .... 137 Bay Design & Engineering ... 174

Brisbane Marina.85

Community Mattress Co. 198

American Battery.238

Beta Marine Engines..‘..... 90 Bluewater Insurance. 102

Corinthian Yacht Club.32

Bay Island Yachts.9

Bristol Engineering.224

Americas Cup Media.33

AB Marine.89

Afterguard Sailing Assoc.92

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ADVERTISER'S INDEX - cont’d Corsair Marine.88

Discovery Yachts.92

Flying Cloud Yachts.55

H&S Yacht Sales.13

Hydrovane.240

Cover Craft.28

Doyle Sails.53

Foley Marine Engines.238

Halsey Sailmakers .94

Interlux Yacht Finishes.99

Coyote Point Marina.88

Dubarry.142

Fortman Marina. 18

Handcraft Mattress Co.117

International Yachtmaster.... 228

Crescent City Harbor .216

E Paint.155

Fowler Insurance Agency .... 224

Hansd North America.10,11

Island Yacht Club.58

Crinan Marine.238

Easom Rigging.96

Garhauer Marine.79

Hansen Rigging.108

d/World.63

Cruising Charts.241

Edensaw Woods.106

Gentry's Kona Marina .199

Harbor Boats & Supplies 245,248

Jack Rabbit Marine.238

Cruising Direct Sails. 179

EM Design.228

Gianola & Sons.236

Harken .40

Kensington Yachts.242

Cruising Specialists.56,57

Emery Cove Yacht Harbor.81

Gill.72

Hawaiian Chieftain Charters 198

Kevin's Quality Marine.

Davis Instruments.89

Emeryville Marina. 173

Glacier Bay.:.. 87

Hayn Marine. 108

Kissinger Canvas. 143

Desolation Sound Charters .. 199

Encinal Sailing Foundation .. 244

Go2marine.com.105

Haynes Sails .240

KKMI Boat Yard.46,47

Detco Marine.24

Ensenada Cruiseport Village 215

Golden Gate Canvas. 172

Helmut's Marine Service.234

Lager Yachts.244

DeWitt Studio.239

Essex Credit Corp.51

Golden State Diesel Marine . 241

Hidden Harbor Marina.218

Landing School, The.136

Diesel Fuel Filtering.155

Extend-A-Hitch.239

Grand Marina.2

Hogin Sails.105 ' Larry R. Mayne Yacht & Ship

Dimen Marine Financing.48

Farallone Yacht Sales.23

H.F. Radio.78

Ho^ Sails.75

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• June, 2003

Broker.248

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Larsen Sails/Neil Pryde Sails 100

Maritime Electronics. 107

New Era Yachts.248

Passage Yachts Brokerage ... 245

List Marine Enterprises .230

Agency..241

Peter Crane Yacht Sales.243

Richmond Boat Works.104

Little Venice Yacht Club.240

Maritime Institute. 30 'Norpac Yachts.251 North Beach Canvas.27 Marotta Yachts.249

Pasta Pelican.:. 143

Loch Lomond Marina .179

Mason Yachts.247

North Sails ■ San Francisco ... 45

Pettit. 109

Richmond Marina Bay.32

MaxSea.86

O'Neill Yacht Center.6

Pier 39 Marina.26*

Richmond Yacht Service.212

Mazatlan Marine Center/

OCSC.

Pineapple Sails.^.3

Rigworks.74

Outbound Yachts.219

Plastimo.*.28

Ronstan Marine, Inc.191

Owl Harbor.210

PocketMail.214

Rooster Sails. 169 Sail California.42,43

MacDonald Yachts.246 Makela Boatworks.241 Marina Plaza Yacht Harbor. 161

PV Yachts.26

219

McGinnis Insurance.219

Marina Village.59

Model Sailing Center. 191

Oyster Cove Marina.50

Poli Glow Products.224

Modern Sailing Academy.76

Oyster Point Marina.98

Premier Yacht Sales.243

Sail Exchange.234

Marine Engine Co.241

Monterey Bay Canvas.175

Outboard Motor Shop.20

Protech.98

Sail Warehouse, The.175

Mystic Stainless & Alum.212

Pac Cal Canvas & Upholstery 169

Quantum Pacific.37

Sailing Supply.190

Napa Valley Marina.149

R-Parts.232

Sailrite Kits.66

Mariner Boat Yard.41

Pacific Coast Canvas.87

Nellie Boots.230

Pacific Marine Foundation ... 107

Sal's Inflatable Services.172

Mariner's Choice.143

R/K Quality Canvas.237

Nelson Yachts. 68,69,71

Pacific Yacht Imports.22

San Francisco Boat Works.89

Mariner's General Insurance . 62

Raiatea Carenage Services ..213

Nelson's Marine.252

Passage Yachts.4,5,7

San Leandro Marina.8

Mariners Choice.87

Richardson Bay Marina.226

Marina Real.

Marine Lube.95 Marine Servicenter.97

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• Page 239

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(415) 459-2666 ADVERTISER'S INDEX - cont’d Scanmar International.93

Society of Accredited Marine

Schmidt, Charlotte Yt. Sales. 247

Stone Boot Yard .36

Twin Rivers Marine Insurance 34

Surveyors/SAMS.238

West Marine Books & Charts . 26

Sugar Dock.232

UK Sails.65

Westwind Precision Details .... 27

Schoonmaker Point Marina ... 91 Scully Fin .234

South Beach Harbor.35

Surface Dive, Inc.219

Vallejo Marina.28

South Beach Riggers.27

Whale Point Marine Supply ... 80

Suunto. 101

Sea Frost. 149

Vaughan, William E.226

South Beach Sailing Center.... 27

White, Chris Designs .240

Suzuki Marine.77

Sea Scouts of Marin.242

Ventura Harbor Boatyard .... 117

South Beach Yacht Club.30

Windtoys.95

Svendsen's Boot Works.49

Sea-Power Marine.20

Vessel Assist.97

Spectra Watermakers.228

Wizard Yachts, Ltd.245

Svendsen's Metal Works .24

Voyager Marine.52

Spin Tec.236

Wooden Boat. 136

Swan Yacht Sales.21

Voyager Yachts.242

Spinnaker Shop, The.232

Swedish Marine.174

Watermaker Store, The.82

Yochtfinders/Windseokers .... 18 Zurich Insurance. 192

Watski.224

Seocoost Marine Financial .... 84 Seashine. 154 Seatech.226

Stanford University .81

Swiss Tech America.216

Selden Mast, Inc. USA.44

Starbuck Canvas.81

Tartan/C&C Yachts .83

SetSail.86

Waypoint/H.F. Radio.78

Stem to Stern. 102

TMM/Tortola Marine Mgmt. 199

Weils Marine Arch .241

Sfockdole Marine & Navigation

Tradewinds Sailing Ctr.38,39

West Marine.‘26

Trident Funding . 12

West Marine - Bargain Ctr,... 32

SoCal Merchant Marine Training .234

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"Everyone Needs a Bigger Boat'

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ThSse boats are rare to the market and this new listing is in wonderful condition. Tiller with radar, furling, removable staysail, repowered in 1992. Offshore sailing at its best. $62,900.

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800-573-6832 46' AMEL MARAMU, 1979 The best of French yachts at a reasonable price. Asking $139,000

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37' PEARSON, 1990 Beautifully maintained and equipped for interstellar exploration. Monterey berth available. Reduced $89,000

33' HOBIE, 1983 Trailerable rocketship. $25,000

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36' LAPWORTH, 1959 Very sound boat. $25,000

30' LANCER Mkll, 1980 Exceptionally clean, well maintained. $18,000

LEDO RUNABOUT, '59 With 29hp Johnson outboard, trailer, Dolly. $1,000 obo.

OWENS 28 HT EXPRESS, '69 Chevrolet 350 Cl 250hp too hrs. Coastal Navigator depth sounder, VHP, Air Guide compass, Holstrand propane stove, icebox, sink. $7,500 obo.

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CAL 20s Complete with jib, mainsail(s), spinnaker pole by request only. Four to choose from. $500-$1,500 obo, depending on condition.

CAL 29, '73, inboard diesel, VHF radio, depthtinder $10,000 JENSEN CAL 28, '64, with sails, whisker pole, Yanmar diesel engine, VHF radki, head and propane stove.$8,000 CAL 24, '69, VHF radio, sails.$2,000 J/24 TRAILER.$750 CLtPPERCRAFTOREGON DORY 23', '85 Volvo engine (needs work), Vohio 270 overdrive.$2,000.

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59' CUSTOM KETCH, 1978. Built in Austraiia, she features acenter cockpit, fuli pilothouse with inside steering, spacious accommodations for eight, two separate heads, fuli electronics. Extremely well built for comfortable cruising.

40' VALIANT, 1979. Proven Perryoffshoredesign. Recentupgradesandrefitincluding hardtop dodger with stainless frame. Fabulous cruising interior plan. Needs exterior cosmetics. Great value, new to market.

43' DELTA GRAN MARINER, 1977. Affordable liveaboard in downtown Sausalito. Custom addition provides lovely views of Mt. Tam. All new mahogany construction, built in circular seating, entertainmentcenter. WON'T LAST! Call for details.

C&C 30, 1973. C&C quality and good sailing characteristics provide lots of fun for a low price. This C&C is VERY CLEAN and won't last long.

30' NEWPORT MKII, 1981. REDUCED. At $12,500, this Newport is the best buy in the Bay Area for this popular 30-ft classic. Whether daysailing, weekending or club racing, you will get a lot of fun for your money.

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30' SANTANA, 1976 Volvo diesel needs work, main, 3 jibs, 2 spinnakers. Has a lot of potential. Priced right at $8,000 obo.

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36'UNION POLARIS, 1985 Robert Perry design, radar, GPS. autopilot, wind instruments, dodger, watermaker, excellent condition. Asking $95,000.

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Super Maramu, '82 ~ $450,000

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J/24, 1976 6hp outboard, proven race winner, full sail inventory, clean. $3,000.

4 staterooms, 2 heads/showers. Prime Sausalito berth. Ready to cruise. Price reduced to $137,500. A great buy!

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J/35, 1988 Yanmar diesel, set up to race. 3 spinnakers. Reduced to $39,950.

22’ SANTANA, 1971 5hp outboard, fully equipped, including spinny. $2,000. 33' HUNTER, 1980 Diesel, low hours, Berkeley slip. $22,900 firm.

21' AQUASPORT, 2001 Only 50 hours. $22,900 firm, 293' CASINO CRUISE SHIP, 1971 Rebuilt '92. 318-passenger. $1.6 million. 50' CHRIS CRAFT. 1965 With liveaboard slip. $98,900.

Berkeley Boat Sales CATALINA 22, 1974 Ready to trail and sail. $2,000. Page 248 • UiiXtjU ?? • June, 2003

21' VENTURE, 1969 Easy to trail and rig, great family fun. $1.500.

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cell 42'CHB TRAWLER, 1986 Volvo engines, less than 500 hours, 225hp turbo, huge master stateroom. $149,000.

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65' CREAIOCK-DESIGNED SCHOONER, 1984

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Lovely cold-molded gaff-rigged top schooner, 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 soils, etc. Current Coast Guard certificate.

Some of the roomiest accommodations you're going to find on a yocht this size! Never cruised, very low hours on Perkins diesel and Westerbeke generotor, new electronics and numerous recent cosmetic upgrades ($20,000-*- spent in past year).

$995,000

Significantly reduced to $185,000, below market.

Tbe 411 won a Cruising WorWBoot of the Year award in 199B for Best Value, Full Size Cruiser. This particulor boat is the two-stateroom, deep-keel version and has the more powerful Yanmar engine (an upgrade from the stock Westerbeke) as well as the furling main. Never cruised and with less than 300 hours on the engine, she shows very nicely. $179,000

40' JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY. 2001

43'C&CUNDFAll, 1983

43' HUNTER 430, 1995

Well equipped and very cleon late model aftKocIcpit cruiser with three staterooms, dual helms, low hours on enqine. Also dodger, full electronics, roller furler headsail. Note this is one of tire few boats of this size with dual helms and is also the deep -draft version, preferable for the Bay.

Center cockpit sloop. Quality cruiser (metal vs. plastic portholes, keel vs. deck stepped mast, 65hp diesel vs. standard 50hp, massive windlass, oversized stanchions with double lifelines, etc.) in great shape, completely refurbished interior and renewed standing rigging, new dodger/swim platform/dinghy davits. Transferable Sausalito YH slip. $139,000

Designed to deliver style and comfort in a vessel that's fast, easy to soil, stable and comfortable, this yacht will be available for inspection in early June. Original owner, boat VERY competitively priced. Owner motivated.

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Reduced to $139,000

40' HUNTER LEGEND 40.5, 1996

34' HUNTER 340, 1998

37'TAYANA CUnER, 1977

This one owner vessel spent o good part of her life in fresh water, hos never been chartered end shows os new. 350 hours on Yanmar, two stateroom/two heads, tremendous omount of light below, boot looks ' like she's never been used.

Exceptionally comfortable and functional for a boat this size, both inside and out: two private staterooms, larqe head w/shower and a salon that can seat eight plus a great cockpit for sailing or entertaining. Lightly used vessel with only 260 hours on Yanmar diesel, sails look as new, low maintenance exterior. She'll make o fine Bay boat. $84,500

These Robert Perry-designed classics can be found literally all over the world. This one has always been home-ported in CA. She's only had three owners since new and shows very, very nicely with all new exterior canvas ipciuding dodger. All hrightwork shines; Per-kins 4-1 OB diesel runs like a top. Transferable Sausalito YH slip. $79,000

$129,000

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40' PEARSON P40, 1981

29' HUNTER 290, 2000

Well equipped Shaw-designed performance cruiser, many rebuilt systems including plumbing, electrical, fuel, water tanks. Vessel snows much pride of ownership, completely customized interior, mony other upgrades, this boat must be seen. TransPac vet, vessel is comfortable and fast offshore. Transferable Sausolito slip, liveaboord possible.$69,000

For a boat this size, the Hunter 290 offers on amazing amount of space both above and below decks and was one of Sail magazine's "10 Best" for 2000; this particular boat is lightly used (only 57 hours on Yanmar diesel), well equipped and shows os new.

32'BENETEAU 3255, 1991

37' ERICSON, 1974

Professionally maintained and lightly sailed, this well-equipped Phillippe Stark-designed beauty shows much newer than her actual age. Stunning inerior done in white marble and white duck against dark mahogany joinery, two cabins with double aft, interior looks like it's never been used. Transferable Sausolito YH slip. $52,000

This classic Bruce King design is, in addition to being a very good Bay boat, also very copable in the ocean. She's been well maintained with o Westerbeke diesel upgrade in 19B9, recent radar, speed log, depth meter and autopilot, new dodger, and brightwork just renewed.

TWO CUSSIC WOOD SAILBOATS 38'FARALLON CLIPPER, 1959 35'CHEOY LEE ROBB, 1964

32' HUNTER 320, 2000 The 320 is already being bailed os another hit from Hunter, perfect for Bay ar coastal. Very clean boot, deep draft version preferable for the Bay. Transferable Sausalito Yacht Harbor slip.

$79,000

$44,000

$54,900

Both boats have been local far many years, ere in nice shape and have transferable Sausolito YH slips. Each priced at $35,000

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48' MAPIEIEAF, '73 Ford Lehman 6, large center cockpit enclosed. Great price. $92,000 .

SAIL 60' Hartog.

99,000

57‘ Bermuda ketch.

79,000

35' Island Packet. .'92 139,000

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'27

52' Hershine CMY.

'85 274,500

35' Hay Scow "Sg Head" .... '25

25,900

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56,000

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87 125,000

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34,500

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33' CSK. .... '65

18,900

49’ Kha Shing. '84 179,000

.'80

49,000

try 100,000

'60

69,000 220,000

33’ Norwest.

'77

48,000

45' Chris Craft. '62

48' C&C LF. .'80

139,000

45' Freedom

.'91

244,000

32' Pearson Vanguard....

'63

29,500

43' Commercial SF cert. '85

45' Ubcrty458

.'83 197,500

32' Herreshoff.

'88

45,000

42' Ocean Alexander. '89 259,000

45' Hunter.

87 122,000

31' Mariner KT.

'75

39,000

42' Grand Banks. '67

44' Cherubini, bristol .... .'80 450,000

31' Pacific Seacraft Mariah , '80

69,750

42’ Uniflite. '80 109,000

44' Swan 441, rehirbished .. '79 179,000

31' Sea Runner trimaran

.... '78

27,500

41’ Roughwater. '75

74,900

44' Beneteau 445 . .'94 145,000

30' Hunter. ’90/'92

35,000

40' Marine Trader new eno.

80,000

44' Christian motorsailer .'67

44,000

30' Lancer MkV.

'80

25,000

38’ Mediterrean.2 from 158,000:

43’ Gulfstar. .'76

89,900

'7.9

59,900

95,000

‘75

18,000

'38

28 000

2 from

79,500

30' Catalina.(2) '77 & '85

18,900

35' Square Head. '25

25,900

169,000

42’ Custom Schooner.... .‘72

39,000

30* Newport

12^500

34'Wlite. ‘77

35,000

42' Lu-kat.

.'00 299,000

30' Cal.

42' S&S.

.'70

30' Lyle Hess/V/C£.

■97 145,000

34' Sea Ray. ■86

56,000

40' Sabre 402.

.'96 269,000

29' Ericson .

2 from

14,000

34' Silverton. '90

39' S&S Yawl,.

56 140,000

29' C&C.

'86

24,000

33' Sea Ray 330 . '96 105,000

38' CheoyLee

44,990

29' Hunter..

'00

65,000

33' American Marine. ■73

69,900

38’ Dovmeasler. 2 from

55,000

57.500

2 from

79,000

38' Morgan.

.'79

49,000

28' Herreshoff, diesel ....

'50

16,500

32' Bayliner 3270 . '86

49,000

38' Ingrid.

69,900

28' Jensen .

'60

22,000

32’ Tolly Craft. '64

26,500

37.5Hunter Legend. .'87

74,900

27' Ericson. .... '75

17,000

31 ’ Chris Craft. ■01

89,000

37' Rafiki. .'TV

75,000

37' Islander PH. .'86

65,000

POWER

36' Cheoy Lee. .'76

35,000

111'Cod Casa. '78/98

29' Silverton. •85

26,000

1.75M

28’ Penn Yan. '80

18,000

82’ Huckins MY FRP. .... '77 200,000

28' Tolly Craft. ■72

17,500

36' Islander Freeport. .'79

65,000

65' Pacemaker 2 49 + bus. . '72 499.900

27'-Grady VYhite. ■98

85,000

36' Islander. .'75

39,000

63' Burger Alum.

26' Clipper Craft. ■86

11,500

36’ Custom Schooner.... .... '72

47,000

60' Hartog ..

36’ Catalina. .... '91

85,000

36' Mariner ICT. .'79 35-51 si Beneteau 92. .... '92

66 585,000 .... '84

99,000

25’ Chris Craft Romer. ■58

59' Kha Shing.

375,000

25’ Bayliner. ■85

16,500

39,000

58’ Spindrift.

85 319,000

24’ Bayliner. '01

39,000

89.000

57‘ Burger (alum flybridge) .... '62

24' Raddon . '88

25,000

22' Grady VYhtte.

28,000

59,500

.'79

75,500

38' MORGAN, 1979 Yanmar diesel with low hours, new dodger, stall shower, lorge golley, Sausolito slip. $45,000

7,000

36’ Cape George W/C5..,. .'90 152,000

35.5Huntef. .'91

38' BENETEAU, '86/87 Cruise equipped; Monitor, solar panels, wind generator, Perkins 4-108. ,$78,500

Inquire 89,900

.'81

43' Serendipity.

345,000 39,900

19,900

40', 37', 35.5' & TWO 33.5s, 30', 29'

47' VAGABOND, 1984 Bristol, Isomat aluminum spars, Perkins 4236 with low hours, fireplace worth seeingl $199,500.

Pictured: V' LEGEND, '87. Two full cabins, Yanmar with 400 hours. $74,900 *

381 MORGAN, 1994, center cockpit, $135,900. 380 CATALINA, 1999, aft cockpit, cruise equipped.

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65' lOD CREALOCK SCHOONER, 1984 Charter her For a day or own her lor the passage around the world. $995,000.

42,000

54' Roberts (steel).

43' Spindrift PH. 2 from

46' SPINDRIFT, '83. Dark blue hull, new sails on Harken roller (uriings. Solid teak interior. Same layout as Kelly Peterson 46 center cockpit. $165,000.

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54* Roberts Steel KT.

48' Celestial. '86

36' CATALINA, '91 Model with''open tronsom/swimstep, total cruise equipped: wind generotor, solar panels, inverter, radar, AP, lots more and real clean. $85,000.

31', PACIFIC SEACAFT MARIAN Wheel steering, SSB, AP, radar, electric windlass, inverter, cruiser. $69,750.

43' BREWER CUTTER, 1980. Aft cockpit. new engine, 50 hrs, great sail inventory,SSB, AP 6000, liferaft and much more! $135,000.

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33' HANS CHRISTIAN, 1989 Yanmar low hours, beautiful interior, satin finish, radar, AP, roller furling, dinghy. Asking 114,900. 2 other 33s, from 99,000.

48'C&C LANDFALL, 1980 Rebuilt Perkins 4236,3 staterooms, 75 lew Oncm, radar, AP, GPS, raised sedoon. $139,000.

45' LIBERTY 458. Loaded with erasing equipment, Perkins 4-236, Hood Vectran sails, quality crafted teak interior. Asking $197,500.

44' CHERUBiNi, 1980 Brislolhoi been continuolly upgraded. She is the only one on the West Coast. Built in America. $450,000.

. 63'BURGER, 1966, $585,000. 57' BURGER, 1962, $345,000. Both are Bristol, aluminum and have flybridge. The 63' has 49-passenger certification. The 57' has a Sausolito slip.

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137' RAFIKI CUTTER. Double-ended, heavy fiberI glass, dsl, winch, furling, near new sails, 6'3" headroom, I shower, dsl cobin bent, dodger, Monitor vone ond more! 1 GREAT CRUISER! Asking $79,500.

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32' WESTSAIL QR. Dsl, heavy gloss full-keeled cruising yacht. Galley, eaclosed heod, snower X more. Very wel respected and popular double-eoder. Try $32,250.

I 25' GRADY-WHITE OFFSHORE PRO w/tir, hard top I caaopy,cuddycabin,walkoround,2nearnewMercuryOptimax I 1 225s,lbot's450hp!Greotshope.Reodyforfun/fish. W,000.1

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[ 31' LOA H-28 KETCH. L Francis Herresboff's legendary I lull keel cruiser. Spinnaker, l/B, AP, head, galley. Monogany I I on oak, lead ballast, full cover, BEAUTIFUL! Asking $22,000.1

43' STEEL MOTORSAIIER ketch by Alsmeer Langaraar Shipyard of Holland. 4-236 Perkins dsl, P/ H, 2 helms, fore cutaway full keel cruiser. Substontially completed refit. Needs cosmetic work. $47,750.

136' PAaFIC SEACRAFT "MARIAH" model ctr.l I Morschladt double-ender in robust glass construction. Low hr I I Yanmardsl,7sa3s,rollerfuri,winch,rndar,more.$69,750. [

66'STA'S'LSCHOCK/BOEING SCHOONER, 1934. Rebuild just completed. Some refit left. Dsl. 90,000/offer5 60' HERRESHOFF KTCH. 671 dsl, some work needed, live/cruise... Asking 37,500 55'LESTER STONE Classic Yawl, dsl, lots equip., great cruiser.Ask 44,000 51’LESTER STONETraditionoi Ketch. Just rebuilt, dsl, SUPER BOAT .Ask 97,500 49'ALDEN SCHOONER, Malabar iV design. 'ZITA ir, diesel, excellent restorotion candidote, fine lines. 6,900/ofr 48' OA, 36’ OD, Clossic. 1937 Gaff yowl, dsl, wormth & chorm.Ask 30,000 43'L0D,ALDEN SCHOONER ot Lake Tahoe, 1931, teak decks, dsl, more. Chorter business opportunity . Asking 55,000 41' BLOCK iSlANO QR, Dsl, roller furl, wheel, Dbl-ended, Beaut, interior, tough cruiser w/greof potential Ask 49,500 39'DANISH I^CH, double-ender, dsl, big and strong.Try 29,000 36' SCHOONER, classic Crocker/Lewley. Dsl. Summer proj. worth doing 6,900/ofr 35-kHISTORIC HAY SCOW Sloop, Hicks en¬ gine, much charm & great down below. Office/Home?.Asking 35,000 34' ANGEIMAN Sea Witch ketch, dsl, wheel, AP, trcditionol beauty .... Ask 24,950 33' MORGAN OUTISLAND sloop. Dsl, wheel, roller furl. spinn& more! ... $23,000 33'RHODES WINDWARD, famous design, sloop, l/B.Asking 12,000 33’SAN JUAN Performance Sloop, dsl, kevlar/mylar sails, spinnaker & more .Asking 18,500 32’RHODES QR, dsl, F/G & more. A fine boot.Ask 36,000 30' CAL 230 Sip, dsl.Asking 22,000 28'GREAT DANE SLP, dsl, F/G, strong! Euro quality.Ask 19,750 28'ELORIDGE McGINNIS SAMURAI SLP. Osl, full cover, greot potentiol. 5,900 27'ERICSONSLP, new Honda 8 .. 11,500 27'CATALINA, 1/8, spin.12,000 27' HUNTER sloop, dsl l/B plus 0/B, roller furling, more! Nice boot. Ask 12,000 26'S-2 Sip Dsl, gloss center cockpit, oft cabin, Avon & mtr & more.l7,500^sk 25'CATALINA Sip, 0/B, furling, AP, GPS, VHP, depth, 4 soils.Asking $7,500 24' ED MONK, Sr., clossic '47 sloop, dsl, nice w/much recent work. .. Asking 8,500

38’TOLLYCRAFT sedan trawler w/twin turbo diesels, FB, quality. 59,500

28'BAYLINER 2850, '87, new V8, F/B & P/H helms, more, cleon 26,900/offer

42’TR0JANAFTaBINMAl5'beom, full elect galley, 2 heads, shower, radar, Onan,V8s, cruise/live.... 49,500 ask

37' CHRIS CRAn"Connie". Newly refinished. Delta canvos, genset, one V8 new re¬ build/other due for rebuild. /LIVE/ CRUISE/OFFICE.Ask 30,000 35'CHRIS CRAFT Exp., twins, dn. 15,200 34'JEFFRIESSport,454s, NICE!.. 17,900 34' CHRIS CRAR Commonder, '63, twin gas, great boot. 26,500 34'STEPHENS Classic, 1929 ..Ask 25,000 33'CHRIS CRARsdn, '48, sharp!. 8,500 32' CHRIS CRAR 320 Amerisport Express Cruiser, twin V-8 Crusaders, golley, shower, full fiberglass, stereo/TV, ra¬ dor & more!.Asking 42,500 31'PACEMAKER SPORTFISH, beautiful con¬ dition, neor new twins.... Ask 32,000 30'AVANTI Sunbridge, '90 ... Ask 26,000 29' UNIFLITE Salty Dog HA Sports Fish w/

28'OWENS H.T.EXPR., 350 V8 8,500 ask 28'CHRIS CRAR Cavalier, nice... 12,000

138' RHODES SLP. Well built w/ss armature & full FGI I sheathing.WhI,dsl,Suttersails,cutawayforefoot,h/cpress, [ I water, depth, speed, log, nav. computer, more. $28,000.1

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I 45' BAYLINER 4550 MOTORYACHT. Twin dsis, genset, 3 stems, solon, 2 helms, full galley, super | sundetk, full canvas & electronics. Great cruiser. Alaska? I Mexico? Go where you wish! Asking $208,500. [

26'UULKINS BARTENDER, V8.... 11,000 26’BAYLINER2352TR0PHY,'00,trlr,o/d, only 10 hrs on clock!.3^500 25'BAYLINER CIERRA, '88, very nice. Full Delta canvas.Asking 39,500 25'YARD TUG, Detroit dsl, wood .. 5,500 23‘FORMUU THUNDERBIRD w/trlr, V8, GPS, VHF, depth, downriggers, chart plotter & more.Asking 12,000 22'CROWNLINE CUDDY w/trlr, 350 Cobra V8, very sharp.Asking 16,500 20'SKIPJACK, llr, Wi/o+o/h.9,500

I 27'DARTSAILER by Holland Boot Co. A remarkably I versatile cruiser with big boot features. Diesel, radar, I furling, two helms, tabernacle most and more! Serious I I moriners love this little ship! Asking $42,500. [

20'SEA SWIRL,‘96, trir, 225hp.. 23,000

REDUCED!

39' VanPEER STL. M/S CUTTER. 13' beam, rugged and well laid out and equipped So. Par and No. Pat vet. Dsl, RADAR, ham, AP, GPS, watermaker, dinghy, 2 helms and lots more. Ask $62,000.

46' GAFF TOPS'L SCHOONER designed & built by legendary Wm. Garden in '42. Escapade is cedar over oak | w/1,408 ft’ of sail. Volvo dsl, only 60 hrs reported. 6'10" headrm, great layout. Very-rare offering. Ask $59,000.

POWER 70'EUR0PA TYPE TRAWLER, Can. built, loaded & in excellent condition. Eco¬ nomical Cummins V-12 power. An out¬ standing vessel .Asking 199,000 61’ STEELTUG, recent refit, 600-i-hp Cot dsl, good condition.Try 45,000/offer 46’LAKE UNION CUSSIC, just rebuilt, radar,newfwin dsl, gen &more! 79,500 -T5'STEPHENS Classic 1929 ... Ask 90,000

36' HUNTER, 1957 Sedon Express. Twin V-8s, gleaming vornish, convertible alt deck enclosure, fully golley, swim plotform. Very clean, live/cruise. Asking $34,000.

40' MAHHEWS, '48 Sed. Cruiser. Very well kept/many upgrades. Twin V8s..33,900

geor, radar, plotter, AP, etc. Rebuilt twins, LOADED!.Ask 34,500 29'TOLLYCRAREXPRES5cruiser,twins,iust hauled, runs well, BARGAIN!... 7,900 29' WELLCRAR EXPS. Cruiser. 350s, shower, golley, down rig & more. Ultro clean and ready to go!.Asking 27,950

twin 471 diesels, GRUTBUY! 20,000

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I 26' CUSSIC LAUNCH. Dsl. She's in beoutiful condi-1 tion & reody for fun. Compact & self-contained including I I golley & wine rack. Long o S.F. Bay fovorite. $25,000. |

145' CHRIS CRAFT yocht home. F/S & lower helm, I I huge sun deck, covered cockpit, big 14' beam, 21 I stoterooms, twin 454s, gen, rador. Asking $79,500. |

43'STEPHENS CRUISER, '55 jewel! Twin 426s.She'sTOTALLYRESTORED..99,500

REDUCED'.;

68' LOA/4t' LOD PILOT CTR Traditional 1904 ocean racer/cruiser. Rebuilt with new tanbnrk sails, spars, copper | sheathing -r reported 1990. Fit to your specs. Magnificent. Virtually new build at fraction of the cost. $49,750.1

47' CRUISING SLOOP. 14'x5'6", 25,500 lbs. by Cbas. Marin, NA. Launched 1998. Yanmar diesel. Big, roomy, powerful, comfortable, heavily built, nearly new. Dacron &Mylarsails&more! PRICEDTOSELLAsking$79,000.

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Pictured: A portion of our dry stored boats for sale!

Curt Schoenfelder and Tom Ball work as a team on the travelift and numerous repair and rigging'lobs around the yard. Tom came to Nelson's Marine 16 years ago already handy in many maintenance skills. Tom took care of bottom prep and paint while applying his Other skills to a wide variety of marine repair jobs. Over the past 16 years he's handled just about everything that can go wrong with a boat-and made it right again!

Curt's contracting experience was a welcome addition four years ago when he combined his boating/fishing interests with his experience in the contracting trades to bring to Nelson's Marine a solid background in large repair projects. Today the two are usually busy simply lifting, moving, setting up and launching the many boats now residing at Nelson's Marine. Between boats drysailed from the yard, a iarge on-land brokerage area, a dry storage area and our general yard maintenance hauling, you'll almost always see a boat moving at Nelson's Marine. Curt and Tom are just the guys to do the job for you.

Decked Out and Getting Ready to Roil This Hollman 49 has just received a new deck non-skid LPU job. New shine and new grip are a perfect complement to the hull LPU coming next.

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