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LOVE MAKER The Nonsuch 30 Maryanne loves it,
Ed & Doty love it, Kathleen and What’s-his-name love it, Clair & Carter love it, Ev & Jack love it, Woody & Gladys love it, Bill lived in it & loves it, Anthony loves it and so does Louise, and Jean & John, so does George, Glen, Rick, Jim & Letah, Don & Nancy, Bill & Gladys. And on and on and on!
I LOVE IT — it makes sailing so unabashedly easy, manuevering so professional-appearing, and me so confi¬ dent and so loveable as a skipper.
Good-bye
barks, bites, sheets, tails (as in “tail! tail!”) halyards, jibs, spinnakers, primaries, secondaries, guys, lifts, poles, struts!
Hello
fun, relaxation, conversation, speed, simplicity (one minute to get going, one minute to turn off).
RACING?
Sure.
Would you believe — racing while serving snacks! Wine from the cockpit cocktail table. An eight-person group discussion in an uncrowded cockpit, with our very own musician serenading the race fleet (we picked up two boats at the Weather mark ... gamesmanship!)
L.O.A. 30’4” L.W.L.28’9” Beam. II’IO” Draft. 5’0” Sail Area....._v... .540 sq. ft. Displacement.10,400 lbs.
Singlehanded Sailing at its Finest!
Hoist, reef, trim, lower, secure while never leaving the cockpit. Leave the wheel if you like, almost as long as you like, and Nonsuch sails herself.
Want an Affair?
Be prepared to fall in love with what is very likely to be your last yacht. And, like lots of versatile, well-built, loveable women, she’s not cheap. Be ready to spend around $60,000 — but you’ll not need to spend another dime, ever. But understand this: You will be sailing a 30-foot yacht that thinks she’s a 35-footer. Call for Demo-Appointment. We’re easy. 1815 Clement Avenue Alameda, CA 94501 (415) 521-7200
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SWEET OKOLE FIRST IN KAUAI RACE PHOTO BY DIANE BEESTON
Dean Treadway is a conservative business man, and he dresses in a three piece suit. But there is some incon¬ sistency. Dean brought Sweet Okole to San Francisco from Hawaii and that just isn’t a conservative thing to do. Sweet Okole created quite some dock side talk when she first appeared on the scene. She is a striking boat through the ingenuity of her design as well as her ap¬ pearance, not to mention her phenomenal speed. Although Dean regularly participates in the local races his heart is in the long ocean haul and he set out to prepare Sweet Okole for the Kauai Race.
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Dean trained his crew well. After Svendsen’s yard took the hull down to bare wood (Sweet Okole looks absolutely beautiful) he got his crew to work over her bottom (and Sweet Okole now has quite a slick okole), prepare the menu (test the freeze dried food), see her through the race inspections (you’d never get me trained to do that), and go on the practice races (beating your brains out on the Waterhouse and the Buckner, although it has little in com¬ mon with the tropical side of the Islands, builds con¬ fidence in the crew for the return delivery). Dean’s preparation bore results. Sweet Okole won her lOR class in the Kauai race and she did so convincingly. We congratulate Dean Treadway and look forward to the future accomplishments of his well organized efforts. It is a pleasure to be the sailmaker in a project such as Sweet Okole — one which is done seriously, with style and with results.
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choice of a Crealock 37 was a good icing against larger boats, intention’s able performance was proven when lished second. Logging 2,482 miles, averaged 6.76 knots for 15 days jht! urtfier proof of the boat’s'versatility, 'id and the owner, Jim Marco, beat back to the mainland in 19 days, logging 2,850 miles at an average speed of 6.2 knots. This remarkable, all-out cruising yacht is now being built exclusively by Pacific Seacraft, dedicated to building the finest cruising boats for the most discriminating cruising sailors.
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HOOD CRUISING SAILS INNOVATION AND EXPERIENCE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE All sailmakers make cruising sails. But only Hood has invested the time and energy to improve cruising sails. Hood has been designing and „ building innovative products for both cruisers and racers for 26 years. We don’t deny our strong racing program. Many of Hood’s innovations in racing have ■become industry standards, like Gemini grooved headstays and the Hood pressed-in comer ring. Some of the racing technology has rubbed off, but the difference between good racing sails and good cruising sails is like night and day. Hood understands cruising. And, while we’ve been winning races, we have put equal emphasis on cruising and our cruising products.
Why are Hood sails the best? A sail is made of dozens of components. Hood doesn’t skimp on the quality of any of them. Our cruising products are tested to the limit on boats like FLYER, winner of the Round-the-WorldRace. The innovations you see in your Hood sails are proven long before you get them. A sail is only as good as the cloth from which it is made. Ted and his father, “Prof.” knew that when they designed the first soft cloth more than 24 years ago because no commercial cloth met their tough standards. Today, our cloth engineers still design the sailcloth for the specific applica¬ tions.’And they control the design from fiber to finish. Other sailmakers must pick what's commercially avail¬ able, attempting to match the cloth to the applica¬ tion. No commercial cloth can match Hood’s soft nonresinated sailcloth for longevity, shapeholding.
Hood Cruising Sails are standard on mans of the world's finest yachts like this Hinckley 64'.
What is a good cruising sail? Oddly enough some rather time-worn words like “durabil¬ ity” and “performance” still ring true. Performance in a cruising sail is optimizing the potential of your boat with a minimum of adjustments and fuss. No off- the-shelf-out-ofthe-bag cruising sail can give you that. But Hood can, because we build your sails for the way you cruise.
handling and stowability. Hood’s exclusive tight weave has 13,500* “crossovers” per square inch compared with 8-9 thousand in normal commercial sailcloths. Because there are more yarns per square inch Hood sailcloth has a higher strength to weight ratio and greater dimen¬ sional stability.
*Hood 5.1 oz Cruising Genoa Cloth.
The Sun is sailcloth’s worst enemy. The sun's ultraviolet rays break down the fabric and shorten sail life. Hood Eclipse Cruising Sail¬ cloth was designed specifically, for cruisers to solve this problem. Virtually immune to uv rays, Eclipse is so durable many char¬ ter boats fleets have made it standard.
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ranty program.Our world¬ wide network of service facilities will give you the personal attention you want and the care your sails need. Hood puts more into your sails so you can get more out of them.
"Utsesmore than half of original strength in 2nd year.
Hood has improved the way sails are made. Next to the sun, chafe is a sail’s biggest enemy. Duroseam is Hood’s chafe preventer. When applied to a seam, it will hold panels together even when the stitching is badly worn away.
Hood puts id years oTexpernttce sails for the way you cruise.
Hood Cruising Sails cost less. In many cases Hood cruising sails are actually priced below other sailmakers’! They are 20% below Hood’s racing sails. Yet, Hood gives you value no other sailmaker can offer. Performance with durability... that’s Hood. We’ve put our efforts and Cloth Seam Cloth technology into making your 6-7 Stitches per inch Hood sails an investment in cruis¬ Hood scams have 6-7 stitches per ing pleasure at a price you can inch... a full 50% stronger than the afford. standard 4-5 per inch most sail¬ makers use. Our special dark brown thread protects seam stitch¬ Tell me more. I need information about: ing against ultraviolet breakdown. Hood Cruising Sails □ Hood Hood sails have taped leeches Eclipse Cruising Sails □ Duro¬ which protect the ends of the seam □ Sea Furl Headsails □ against chafe from both Stoway mainsails □ Hood’s while adding strength from MPS □ I need a quote □ i to clew. The patented Hood ring, often copied, but never matched, is many times stronger My yacht is.a_ than a sewn in ring. The unique I_J_P_E_ batten and comer construction we Name ____ use is designed to last. Innova¬ Address_._■ ; tions like Sea Furl reefing and furling systems and the Stoway City mainsail system have revolution¬ ized the way cruisers sail. As the list goes on, it becomes clear... if you want the best in cruising you want Hood. Hood Service is personal atten¬ tion and people you can rely on. Our commitment doesn’t end at the loft door. We have a reputa¬ tion for quality and a strong war-
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THE SERENDIPITY 43 Designed by Doug Peterson First 1980 First First
Overall — 1980 SORC Lipton Cup Winner Overall — 1980 Lake Erie Race Series Class A — 1980 Pt. Huron Mackinac Race
Webster defines serendipity as “an apparent knack for making fortunate discoveries.” Winning the SORC against the toughest one-off competition in the world with a production boat from a mold was exactly what Acadia’s skipper and crew expected to do. However, finding this race-proven hull available with a hand crafted teak interior, private owners stateroom, main salon with 6’6” headroom and 13’ beam and full cruising amenities, including refrigeration and shower, is certainly a fortunate discovery. The Serendipity 43 is an internationally acclaimed, superbly byilt, and impeccably detailed racing or cruising yacht at a sensible price. Offered in three configurations — the Grand Prix, the IOR Racer, and the Racer/Cruiser (pictured), the 43.can and will fulfill the specific needs of any serious sailor. Eighteen discriminating yachtsmen will accept delivery of the 43 this year. Can you afford not to be one of them? You owe it to yourself to discover Serendipity.
Serendipity: The Winning System
Serendipity 43 ★ Peterson 34 ★ Aphrodite 414 ★ Aphrodite 101 ★ Peterson 43 (kit version Of “Acadia”)
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BUILDER: Bayliner Marine Corp. Seattle, Washington DESIGN INFORMATION Length, overall.27’ Length, waterline.23’3" Beam.9’6" Draft.5’ Freeboard, stem.3'3” Freeboard, stern.3' Mast Height.38’10" Fresh Water Capacity.29 gal. Displacement.5,830 lbs. Ballast.2,024 lbs. Displacement/Length Ratio.207 Ballast/Displacement Ration....0.35 Sail Area/Displacement Ratio. 15.5 Theoretical Hull Speed.6.5 knots Price per pound. $4.36 PROPULSION INFORMATION Engine: Volvo MD-7A two-cylinder diesel 13 hp at 2,600 rpm
A surprisingly affordable alter¬ native to anyone else’s 27, the trailerable US25 has a galley, head, berths for 5. Ready to sail w/rigging, winches, sails, lifelines — all standard.
SAIL INFORMATION Type of rig: Masthead sloop I = 32’9” J = 10’9” P = 28' E = 9'9” Sail Area: Total 313 sq. ft. 100% foretriangle 176 Main 137
Portable self-contained water closet Two opening portllghts Gimballed alcohol stove Top-loading ice chest Galley fresh water foot pump Double lifelines with three gates Bow and stern pulpits Painted aluminum spars Mainsheet traveler Four winches Mainsail and working jib Laminated wood tiller Anchor well Antl-fouling paint
STANDARD EQUIPMENT Includes: 13-hp Volvo diesel engine Battery with master switch Fused electrical system International running lights Seacocks on underwater through-hull Manual bilge pump
FACTORY OPTIONS Stainless steel transom ladder 110V AC shorepower with cord Water closet with holding tank Pedestal steering Shower Sea water strainer for engine Shoal draft keel
Gearbox: Volvo MS-B 1.91:1 reduction Propeller: Martec 2-blade fixed 12-in. diameter by 14-in. pitch Fuel capacity: 18 gallons
The looks, performance & long list of standard equip, (incl’g. dsl. pwr.) w/catch your atten¬ tion, but the unique & luxurious interior w/convince you that this is the 30' boat to buy.
The 33's airy spaciousness & luxurious appointments make this boat a natural for on-board living & entertaining. Its racebred championship heritage makes it a joy to sail. Dsl. aux¬ iliary is standard.
This pilot house cruiser offers an exciting blend of spacious¬ ness, privacy, comfort & perfor¬ mance. Features incl. 2 steer¬ ing stations, enormous salon, dinette, 2 staterooms & stan¬ dard dsl. pwr.
This cruiser Is top-of-the-llne, & looks the part. Its roomy cabin offers 2 private staterooms, full galley, head, navigator's sta¬ tion & storage. Inside & outside steering stations allow cruis¬ ing — rain or shine.
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Now Available in Fiberglass The Farr 44 is Bruce Farr’s latest offering from C&B Marine. It’s a very fast cruiser with all the performance features that make Bruce’s designs among the most suc¬ cessful in the world. A yacht that is spacious, comfortable, easily handled without a large crew and designed to be fast and powerful. In short, a yacht that can be family enjoyed and do very well under any handicapping rules. The Farr 44 is a light displacement yacht with powerful sections, wide stern, fine bow entry and stiff enough for excellent windward performance and a real thrill off the wind. The interior plan has it all, including the beautiful finish and detail work C&B has become famous for, now with either cold mold or fiberglass construction. Teak decks are standard. A Pathfinder marine diesel provides plenty of power when needed and excellent taste has been used in selecting all standard hardware, fixtures and accessories. C&B Marine also builds the Farr 34, Farr 38, Farr 55 or your custom design.
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Tom Harney James Richmond Gerald Knecht Stuart Sail Robert Moeller
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AVON EMERGENCY LIFE RAFTS It is the law to carry life jackets aboard before leaving the dock. . .it's prudent to fit a life raft before leaving the coastline. Life jackets are intended to sustain life for hours, depending on ocean temperatures, life rafts for days. (Avon record 118 days). Avon life rafts mount on deck in fiberglass canisters, can be launched and boarded in 30/60 seconds. Equipped with (flares, one pint of drinking water per person, first aid kit, lights, fishing kit and other recommended equipment, your chances of survival are greatly enhanced in case of fire, explosion, or foundering. Avons have inflatable floors with self erecting canopy for comfort and warmth, are well ballasted and seakindly. *JL
A life saving plan for your crew for $352 per year. (Based on cost of 4 man raft prorated 10 years, including current average annual servicing charge of $125.)
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Total Sail Control Smooth, Easy Operation With Greater Headsail Efficiency Reef And Furl From The Cockpit Choice Of The Charter Fleets
Distributed by Paul Buttrose Enterprises (415) 781-2260 Installed & Serviced by Bay Yacht Service (415) 332-4949 dealers for: • Edson Steering Systems • Hood Sea Furl • Navtec Hydraulics
LETTERS □VALLEJO, A TRUE OASIS In this Catch 22 world it was delightful to read your salute to the Vallejo Yacht Club in your June issue. Several times last year I enjoyed kind and most needed help from everyone there. A true oasis for us Flatlanders passing by. Hip, hip, hooray. tarl Nyberg Stockton Sailing Club
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□ LOOKS LIKE A GIANT ORANGE BALLOON I’ve just been perusing your pages (June) and finding the contents refreshing. You see I’m from southern California, or rather living there currently happily aboard an old (can fiber¬ glass be ‘old’ yet?) Columbia 24 although I was born and rais¬ ed in the bay area. The residence address is: somewhere off Steam’s Wharf, Santa Barbara. So if you’re cruising down stop by for some Cancer products, you can’t miss the boat, it’s the one with the sea-sick sea-lion reclining on it. Actually what I wanted to toss out was something I ran into in a local Army surplus store: exposure suits, intended for Air Force pilots who have to jump out into cold water. They are made of what is apparently rubberized nylon and they have tight rubber seals for the neck and wrists (feet are included) and waterproof zippers. They come complete with inflatable hood and mittens and at $17.00 I took two, if they don’t work work I can always cut ‘em up for curtains. But I think I may have stumbled onto something. I tried one out, out in open water and it works great. All the air inside fills the upper chest and arms when in the water making the \yearer look like a page 23
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□ COST ROD PARK ABOUT 50 MILES . . . Attached is $10.00 for an annual subscription to your superbly written sailing magazine. I can honestly say I have never had such pleasure in reading your magazine (and re¬ reading and rereading) as during the Singlehanded Race to Kauai. For, you see, your excellent magazine was the only palatable reading material I had aboard Crusader and I have to admit I enjoyed each word and/or article many times over. I have to admit to you, in a tongue in cheek comment, in regards to your article about the Singlehanded TransPac you are a lousy forecaster (picking Panache to finish first) and cost Mr. Rod Park about 50 miles. At 20:00 hours, and very dark, I decided to set a spinnaker on Crusader which was approx¬ imately 15 hours sooner than 1 expected to do so . . . all in response to your article . . . and the thought that maybe you knew more than I did at that moment!! Have attached some material that I have made up on the Race and how “lucky” Merlin and Crusader were to avoid the high. But luck is where “preparation meets opportunity” and you would have to be “blind” not to catch the weather reports and hear the forecast for the high pressure movement. Michael Kane Skipper — Crusader Newport Beach Mike — When we picked Rod Park for first to finish, we thought we’d made it clear that we were excluding multihulls. But rereading the article we find we made no such exclusion, so I suppose we figured no multihulls would actually hit the line. Although Merlin does hold the TransPac record, were pretty willing to concede that multihulls have an edge over monohulls in speed — and danger. Were really curious if you believe multihulls like yours are really safe, and are wondering because of the following: In this year’s OSTAR the top finishers were all multihulls, lead by Phil Weld in Moxie — Weld being the guy who almost bought the farm when his trimaran flipped on the way to the ‘16 OSTAR. He eventually had to cut through one hull to escape. While many multihulls did well, the Frenchmen Loizeau and Riguidel both had damaged boats, Jeans Fosters 0
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□FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN SKIP¬ PER AND CREW A question that some potential crew members might be curious about. Knowing that there are possibly many variables to consider, but given a crew member who has five years experience sail¬ ing 27’ to 32’ sloops and cutters on San Francisco bay, knows DR Nav proficiently, has a good working knowledge of boat and diesel -engine mechanics maintainence, what might be the most expected financial arrangement between the skipper and the only crewmember for a trip from S.F. to Panama aboard a 37’ cutter? R. Jones Los Gatos Mr. Jones — Crewmembers are only very rarely paid money, and food is all you might expect. Had you a good working knowledge of celestial navigation gained from longer ocean passages, you might also expect a plane ticket. A good delivery captain who assumes command of the boat, is of course something else. Skilled and experienced, they get up to $2.00 a mile, air fare, food, and miscellaneous expenses. Frequently there is a handsome surcharge if the owner is to remain aboard. In the past, money and food have always flowed from the owner to the crew, but since sailing has become an increas- ' ingly middle-class activity, the flow often goes in the opposite direction. More than ever, you’ll find crew chipping in not on¬ ly for food, but for general expenses to keep a cruise financ¬ ed. There are just general guidelines, however, there are no fixed rules and you never know what the market will bear.
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□ THE DEVIL RESIDES ON CEDROS Our last stop in Santa Cruz, on our way home from Mex¬ ico, was timely to pick up the June issue of Latitude 38, and note that Larry Blake in “Bashing up Baja” hit the nail square¬ ly on the head. San Diego and the Boll Weevil never looked so good to us, and to fellow bashers with broken boats, and missing parts as we exchanged stories, gorged ourselves on elbow-dripping page 27
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LETTERS cruise. Again: Your advice to aspiring cruisers is right on the money, outside the Gate is where the relevent training is to be found, but anyone who thinks they ought to go cruising should first spend 48 consecutive hours at sea and spend a few nights in less than a protected anchorage. The whole world ain t Angel Island and I can think of lots of places where the wind machine doesn’t shut down when the sun sets. Thanks again for some realistic cruz-talk. Hal Yard Channel Islands P.S. — It’s just my opinion but perhaps bay sailors are somewhat smug and not as hot as they think — there is more to life than 25K winds and two foot chop.
□ FRUSTRATING TO THE MARINER Your magazine’s coverage of the San Francisco — Kauai TransPac was not only expedient, but extremely well written. In a coastal state it is often frustrating to the mariner to search for informative articles concerning yacht racing. The race story left us looking forward to next month’s issue. It is for that reason that I write. I would like to have the free distribution copies sent to our yacht club, the Bahia Corin¬ thian in Corona del J^lar. In addition, I would like to have a copy of the picture of Huckleberry Apple that appears on pages 94 and 95 of Volume 37. Thank you again for good reporting. Carol (Mrs. Joseph) Hoffman Fullerton Carol — We’ll have the photograph — and a small bill — coming to you shortly. Back issues are very, very tough to come by, but we’ll see if we can’t dig up a couple of Volume 37. We’ve had so many requests lately for distribution that we’ve had to set up a waiting list (don’t that let that keep anyone else from requesting distribution) — but don’t worry, we’ll starting sending them to the Bahia Corinthian as soon as we can. Thank you.
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□ I ACQUIRED ONE SUCH VDS Found your approach and comments to the Coast Guard’s Visual Distress Signal regulations most refreshing. No-one likes any regulations, especially while seeking the freedom by “sailing away from it all”. However, it appears to me that if in only one single emergency situation any device may bring assistance, it’s worth it. Perhaps it should be treated as an in¬ surance payment, and considering that the C.G.’s rescue ser¬ vice is free of charge, this is probably one of the best deals in the boating business. Also, the claim made by Mr. Kunich that the device was “neither designed nor manufactured” was incorrect since I ac¬ quired one such VDS, the automatic SOS flashlight type de¬ vice, which proved to be very satisfactory. In one successful assistance or rescue this device will surely more than pay for itself. One successful rescue may justify ayfew phone calls to page 31
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LETTERS fcfr the dealers. Finally, the comments regarding the use of the in¬ itials by the C.G. were quite unfair considering the fact that we have to live with the IRS, EPA, FDA, FBI, BART etc and our own MORA, YRA, DR, EPIRB, LOA, ULB, etc. Continue the great job, and maybe you could consider adding a calendar of up-coming events. K. L. Morgan San Carlos ■pH ■
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Some of us folks in San Mateo County have just been hit with reassessed Property Tax bills on our boats. For example my bill increased 62% instead of the 2% I expected under Prop. 13. I remember some articles about the Counties that didn’t adher on the first bills after Prop. 13 passed but I can’t recall how the bills were handled or what the outcome was. Our bills are due by August 31 so we’d appreciate any replies be prompt. Can any of your readers shed any light on this sub¬ ject?
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□KEEP IT UP Here it is — another “Never thought I’d pay ...” letter but we want to continue receiving Latitude 38. We’ve moved overseas to Guam for two years but have kept our Newport 265, Panacea. It is being chartered through Wayne D’Anna’s Sailing School & Charters and we want to keep up with the sailing news from the San Francisco bay and delta area. , Gary & Linda Hoffman FPO San Francisco
□THE RIGHT TO MOVE BOATS For your readers information and to possibly prevent the same thing from happening to a fellow sailor, I would like to pass on the following story. I berth my boat at the Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx in Xxxxxxx. This marina is leased by the X.X. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx who is now in the process of replacing the docks and refurbishing the marina. In our lease agreement we, the berthers, give the marina the right to move our boats for maintenance, etc. My boat is secured to the slip with four mooring lines tied page 35
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with bowlines and one spring line. During the replacement of the docks the workers moved my boat. After completion of the work the boat was returned to the slip and secured with four mooring lines each tied with two half hitches and no spr¬ ing lino. The half hitches later slipped causing my boat to ram into the dock and to sustain considerable hull damage,, ap¬ proximately $100. The marina claims that half hitches are just fine for securing a boat to the dock and that they couldn’t have caused the damage. So due to their negligence and be¬ cause the amount of damage is below my insurance deducti¬ ble, guess who gets stuck with the repair bill — me! So'fellow sailors, take my advice and if at all possible don’t ever let anyone but yourself or your crew move your boat.
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Caught between the boat and the dock San Jose ‘Between the boat and the dock’ — You’ve got our sym¬ pathies, but frankly we think you’ve just hit one of life’s little chuckholes and ought to go sailing and forget about it. Of course, if you knew the marina operator was negligent, and you couldn’t work out a gentleman’s agreement, you could — god spare us for even making the suggestion — go to Small Claims Court. But just remember, nobody has ever left a government building in better shape or spirits than when they went in, so weigh that against $100. For the record, Chapman suggests that both bowlines and half-hitches are acceptable for tying up a boat. Temporarily. If you really care about your boat you’ll use eye splices with thimbles, a rig which won’t chafe through like bowlines and half-hitches. And while you’re experience was unfortunate, it makes all the sense in the world that marinas have the right to move boats. We can think of any number of safety reasons, and legitimate reasons of convenience — so that they can install new docks is just one. By the way, the first rule of complaints is that you can’t name your adversary without giving your own name — thus the ‘x-ing’ out we did to your letter.
□ SANTA ANA WINDS Your article by Mike Pyzel on the Channel Islands was in¬ teresting and informative. He mentioned the Santa Ana winds which I can say first hand are as strong and sudden as described. For it was me who was the skipper of my fathers Moore 24 on that windy Thanksgiving evening back in ‘76. I had not two but three people aboard: myself, RusseJ Barnet and David Shoemaker. That was very likely the roughest weather any Moore 24 has yet to encounter, I might add she performed very well. We sailed back with a storm jib alone, and made the 25 mile trip in just over 3 hours on a close reach! Who ever said ULDB’s won’t go to weather in a blow? Enclosed is the original article by Mike Pyzel on our trip. I am sure local Moore 24 owners would like to read it, as well /
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The following is Mike Pyzel’s column from Friday, December 3, 1976 in the Santa Barbara News-Press. There is a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking concerning the great marine disaster that struck ' down the two score boats at the islands this past weekend. But there is one saga which, to date, re¬ mains untold, and is one which epitomizes an outstanding exercise of good judgement and sea¬ manship. The 24-ft. sloop Quicksilver is a super light racer, built to go fast and win races. She’s not a heavy weather vessel, but at the skillful hands of skipper Nick Gibbens she returned to Santa Barbara during the height of the storm. The sloop lay. anchored in Pelican Bay in the hours preceding the devastating easterly. By 8 p.m. dinner was over and Nick and his two friends bed¬ ded down for the night. They were awakened shortly before midnight by the” violent movements the boat had assumed in the building seas which ac¬ companied a moderate northeastely breeze. How¬ ever, Nick noted that the seas were way out of pro¬ portion to the wind, and this discrepancy indicated that a gale force northeaster was imminent. By midnight Nick had decided to unanchor and head for Santa Barb'ara to avoid being caught off the rocky shores of the island by the strong wind. But even by this time the seas in the normally calm Pelican Bay were cresting to eight feet, most of them breaking in the freshened wind. The boat was rolling enough to take water into the cockpit and to make unanchoring an almost impossible task. It was a majof effort to just stay aboard the boat. Quicksilver is not equipped with an engine and so relies on her superb sailing characteristics to maneuver. Underway with reefed main and storm jib, the sloop raced out of Pelican Bay in excess of hull speed, leaving the frothing shores astern. Other boats were already beginning to drag anchor. By now the seas were 8 td 10 feet and every wave was breaking. The foaming crests were blown into stinging'spume, but Nick and his companions had sealed the hatch of the boat and bitten the bullet for the 3 hour run to safety. A further increase in wind forced them to take down the mainsail and run under a diminutive storm jib in order to keep control of the boat, yet page 39
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EPISODE — The Ericson/30 + they were still able to stay on course for the safety of Santa Barbara. But further increases in wind forced Nick into a vital decision. Keeping the storm jib up would place the boat under severe strain, yet taking it down and riding it out would have them blown downwind on¬ to the shores of the island. So Nick was forced to carry on, heading a little further off the wind but still trying for Santa Bar¬ bara. His good judgement was rewarded by a marked drop in wind strength as they approached the offshore wells. But the ordeal was not over yet. The seas were still running dangerously high as Quicksilver worked toward the harbor where, in the words of the racer, it went flat. All but the seas, that is, and those were breaking across the harbor en¬ trance. Without the wind, the boat could not be sailed to safety and the breaking seas threatened to carry the boat onto the sand bar if they tried to enter the harbor. Fortunately, in the welcomed light of dawn, the harbor patrol appeared and brought them in under tow.
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□ DOUBLE REEF IS NOT ENOUGH Great magazine — informative, down to earth, and ex¬ cellent stories and interviews about interesting people. I have been sailing for about 5 years, rental boats on the bay, and a Hobie 16 in the valley area. Would appreciate ar¬ ticles on how to sail in really heavy weather on the bay, when a double reef in the main is not enough for control. Is there any way to load a boat, shift weight, etc., in a strong breeze so that it’s lack of balance will simulate a boat’s behavior in a gale in order to practice? Those of us who commute to Sausalito from Sacramento can’t easily pick days when it will be really windy. Ask Turner or Connor to write an article? Jim Marshall Sacramento Jim — Both Turner and Conner have social obligations this month, so they’ll have to pass on doing articles. The solution to heavy wind problems on the bay where there are no com¬ plications from the seas is pretty simple: Reduce sail. If two reefs isn't enough, put in a third or take the whole main down. As always, when the wind pipes up you want to get the sails as flat as possible.
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STOCKDALE MARINE □ FOR THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE Thought you might like to see this envelope in which I received an ad for the Time-Life Library of Boating. Note all the pretty pictures on the back with stirring captions like “Fix page 41
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major equipment” (that’s the one where they’re working on a bilge pump), and “Handle emergency situations”. I particular¬ ly liked that one. The three people shown are apparently win¬ ching in the genoa after a tack in moderate winds. 1 guess to some people every tack is an emergency. Perhaps they’re just being subtle and the real emergency is about to happen when the turning block lets go. The tailer,
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□ RULE NUMBER SIX 1 am writing you in regards to the letter in your July issue from Ted Fallas about Practical Sailor’s or Practical Jokers. I quickly started digging through all my contest receipts (in hopes of winning enough to sail away some day) and there it was — the certificate number was indeed the same as Mr. Fal¬ las’ 24591WA!!! Does this mean that we are all winners?? or all loosers?? According to the Official Sweepstakes Rule Number 6: “For a list of major prize winners, send a separate stamped, self-addressed envelope to: The Sailor’s Delight Sweepstakes 1111 East Putnam Avenue Riverside, CT 06878” This address is also the return address for the publication Practical Sailor which seems to be, so far, a very good and useful publication. , page 43
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□PRACTICAL JOKE IN VALLEJO Read with interest the “Letter” from Ted Fallas titled “Prac¬ tical Sailors or Practical Jokers”. It just so happens we have a similiar story. My husband entered his name on the West Marine mailing sheet, then, a month or so later our son signed his name on the mailing sheet. Like Ted, we received two entry forms from Practical Sailor — the joke is, is that our numbers are the same as his — 24591WA — It’ll be interesting to see what these “numbers” represent. Enjoy your mag. Anna Rubinato Vallejo
□PRACTICAL JOKE IN SAN DIEGO I noted with great interest that Ted Fallas/Callas and I were both awarded the same certificate number 24591WA in the Practical Sailor’s “Sailors Delight Sweepstakes.” Sounds like those money grabbing bastards are guilty of mail fraud. Were the 1,099 “Sea-Faring Prizes” awarded? I’ll put them on my list for keel hauling. Carl Busse San Diego Whoa! Whoa! We started getting more letters like this than you can believe, the same numbers turning up in Walnut Creek, Montara, Colorado, and who knows where all. For¬ tunately, we received a reply to our ‘are you guys crooks?’ let¬ ter we sent to the folks who put on this extravaganza. Here’s what Donn E. Smith, Vice President of Marketing for Belvois Publications had to say about the numbers game: No, we are not crooks, nor even practical jokers . . . just practical. Keeping a magazine afloat is probably even tougher than keeping your boat afloat these days. Let me try to resolve your/eaders’ confusion. The rules state: “Winners will be selected in random drawings from among all entries received.” As you can see from the sample piece, the sweepstake is a random draw; it is not based on any pre-selected winning numbers. The certificate numbers have no bearing on prize selection. The number indicates only the particular list used. page 45
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were reading Herb Caen’s column the other day, the one in which he had the item about four guys getting charged for ‘harrassment’ in Grant’s Pass, Oregon. The deal was that just as a Rogue River tour boat motored by, they dropped their drawers and ‘mooned’ the tourists. Naughty, naughty. What this did was remind us of a complaint that one wo¬ man racer voiced about the start of races. She observed that 5 minutes before the starting gun, all the gentlemen on all the boats work their way to the lee side, pull out their firehoses and take a little relief before the action gets hot. This woman, who is not particularly a prude, says she wouldn’t mind if you guys used the head, instead of waving your wands around. What are her chances of getting any of you guys to cooper¬ ate? From South California, home of the water thieves, Linda Carlson sends us a copy of the premier issue of The Singlehanded Sailor. We don’t know how you get a copy, but it comes from P.O. Box 731 in Venice, Italy 90291. Try call¬ ing (213) 391-8466. ' Linda writes to report she is a member of the newly formed Pacific Singlehanded Sailing Association and just sailed her Ranger 23 in their Singlehanded Race to Santa Barbara Is¬ land and back. There is a photo of Dan Byrne, who sailed his Valiant 40 Fantasy to 5th in Class and 12th Overall in the TransPac, and the caption indicates that he is the group’s in¬ terim Commodore. It appears singlehanding is picking up below the belt of California. The Singlehanded Sailor had one quote we really liked, this from Phil Weld who won the OSTAR on the trimaran Moxie. The magazine reports that Weld found that his service as a platoon leader in Burma helped him maintain his perspective during storms at sea. He said, “While it can be scary at times out there, the experience is never as mouth¬ drying as being shot at by the Japs.” We suppose that’s a terri¬ ble thing to say, but it certainly is a compelling description. And while we’re on the subject of quotes, here’s one from the sailing world’s best, Teddy Turner. After he lost his 12 Meter’s mast — (to say nothing of many races to Dennis Con¬ nor) — Turner said, “It could be a lot worse, we could be held hostage in Tehran.” Who would you guess has the best ocean racing fleet in the world, talking about the top 3 or 4 boats. And here we’re just talking about boats, not crews. England? The United States? Ireland? According to Doug Peterson,'it’s Mexico. That’s right, Mexico! We can only think of two Mexican boats that were ever heard of, one being Sayula, a Swan 65 which won the first Around the World Race, and the other was a sistership to Imp. Obviously there’s got to be something down there that we don’t know about. “Sailing is like sex, when you haven’t done it in a while, it’s page 49
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Like always we’ve run out of space, and haven’t been able to run all the stories we wanted this month. Keep your fingers crossed for next month, when we hope to have the complete story on the MORA Long Distance Race, Marilyn Yolles’ on Bill Lee, Bob Smith’s design review of five 40-ftr production racers, the Hobie Inland TransPac, some personal diaries of the Singlehanded TransPac, and 7 cruising articles. Plus An¬ drew, Sue, Max, and all the rest. We know it won’t all fit, but we’ll try and cram it.
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CHANGES IN LATITUDES Hey! Remember our old friends Larry Rodamer and Betty Ann Moore? They’re the couple who worked at IBM and bought Robin Graham’s old Dove, and have headed off for a year’s cruise in the South Pacific. When they left, we weren’t convinced they were completely prepared for such a trip, and judging from Larry’s article, “Innocents Aboard” in our last issue, we may not have been too far off the mark. We’re expecting another article from them soon, but just this morning we got an interim report from Betty Ann’s mother. After arriving in Cabo San Lucas and spending some time in Mexico, Larry and Betty Ann set off for the Marque¬ sas. A couple of days offshore, they ran into doldrums for three days and didn’t move. This is right about the time they discovered that hurricane Celia was looking for them. Rather than try and power past it, they headed back to Cabo San Lucas, where they decided to abandon plans of the South Pacific, and spend their cruising time in Mexico. But Betty Ann, who was craving excitement, has not come up short. While in Cabo they met a terrific woman who lived on her boat with her parrot while her husband was in Saudi Arabia. Her boat was getting pretty ratty, and someone re¬ commended it be taken to La Paz and be hauled out. Having become the woman’s friend and seeing that she needed assis¬ tance, our friends from IBM decided they’d sail on her boat to La Paz and help with the haulout. Heading up Baja’s east coast the woman’s boat began to take on water — a lot of it, in fact — so much that it sank. Presumably this gave Betty Ann a twinge of the excitement she’d sought. Fortunately they were close to shore, lived, and were able to salvage some gear from the boat. We’re expecting a full report from Larry on all these adven¬ tures, as this information was passed on to us second hand from Betty Ann’s mother — who laughingly told us she had just shipped them the VHF radio they thought they’d never want. While talking on the telephone, Betty’s mother, Betty La Brie, got a little wistful. “I wish I was 20 years younger,”, she said. “I watch what these kids are doing and think it’s so great.” Betty La Brie grew up in a small town in Indiana and says, “We didn’t know what life was all about.” She’s proud to have moved to California so her daughter “could have the benefits of an excellent education and the ‘West Coast Ex¬ perience’, which gives people the freedom and independence to follow their dreams.” Amen! It’s no secret that getting good drinking water is one of the most important concerns in the life of a cruiser. Bad water is bad news. So what do you do if you pull into a place and you’re certain the water is going to kill you — Rio, for exam¬ ple. You might want to do — if you’re well-heeled — what David Cowper, new owner of the singlehanded circumnavi¬ gation record, did. He filled his tanks with Perrier water. It may not be the cheapest way of doing things, but one has personal standards that must be upheld, doesn’t one? Places you don’t want to sail. A few months ago we page 55
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reprinted a list of places that Peer Tangvald, whose wife had recently been killed by pirates, suggested sailors don’t go. Basically the areas were that of the Red Sea and Southeast Asia. It appears he knows what he is talking about. Just last month an Australian, a Canadian, a Frenchman, and a Swiss, all from the same 45-ft. boat, were released after hav¬ ing been held captive by the Vietnamese for over two mon¬ ths. The four had been sailing from Hong Kong to Singapore when they were blown off course by a storm and captured by patrol boats. Were they treated well by their captors? Of course not. They were constantly threatened, and held in filthy jail cells, and “were treated with not one ounce of compassion, not one ounce of humanity.” After signing confessions of spying, they were released. They found their 45-ft. boat had been looted, right down to the lightbulbs. Eventually they reached the Thai coast. Another boat, Gypsy Moth V, sailed up from Australia, through Bali, Borneo, the Phillipines, and on to Taiwan. They were only shot at once, and even so were never quite sure if those taking aim were government patrols, or pirates, as they often look the same. The fear of pirates was a con¬ stant source of anxiety aboard the boat. Makes Catalina sound better all the time, doesn’t it? First time cruisers are invariably confused when confronting different cultural habits for the first time. What is accepted behavior in the U.S. of A. may not be so in other areas of the world. For example, in the states, thin women are generally more highly prized than thick. But this is certainly not true, say in Truk, an increasingly popular island destination in Micronesia, 2,000 miles west of Hawaii. In the the U.S., women love to hear you say: “you look like you’re starving to death.” You’ll score no points by saying that in Truk, where “your legs are as fat as tuna fish” is as glorious a compliment as a woman can get. Different strokes for different cultures. For you dirty old goats, “pechan angarap” is how you say it. Bummer headed north? There’s a lot of great moments in cruising, and some that aren’t so great. In the South Pacific the not so great moments often have to do with the no-seeem’s and with ciguatera. Ciguatera is a disease you get from eating fish that carry a tricky chemical toxin. The toxin originates in one-celled algae that hang around coral reefs; the algae is eaten by small fish, which are eaten by big fish, which are eaten by you. The fish don’t get sick from the toxin, but you sure as heck do. It’s awful to get, and while people seldom if ever die from it, sometimes they wish they could. There’s fever, intestinal pro¬ blems, terrible aches, rashes, and all kinds of troubles. There is no cure — only pain pills. According to figures somebody made up, grouper are the
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blasphemy The road to winning the America’s . . . zzzzz . . . Cup is the longest and most boring in all of sports. That’s the way we see it. The torturously sleep-inducing vmuch-ado-about-nothing begins in humiliation when otherwise normal sailors are obligated to don blazers — to say nothing of shoes AND socks! — while going hither and yon requesting financial backing from wealthy patrons. After collecting 17 billion dollars to finance the building and tearing apart of a floating dinosaur, the only real fun begins. The crew gets to work and practice together, creating a fine-tuned machine and a well-oiled crew. But it’s downhill from there. Depending on who is running the show, this practicing can last for over a year, or just a few months. No matter, all 12 Meter bows must eventually point toward Newport . . . yaaaaaawwwwWwnnnnn . . . Rhode . . . zzzzzzzz . . . Island for the July Trials which are the pre¬ preliminaries. These pre-prelims aren’t supposed to mean anything or count in the selection process, but are nevertheless closely moni¬ tored by a humorless group of stiffs from the New York . . . double snore . . . Yacht Club. After the pre-prelims are the prelims. They don’t count either, but the same mob of old plums keeps inspecting each and every move because they are told to. After all that baloney is concluded they supposedly hold the Selec¬ tion Trials for a Defender and a Challenger, and then finally sail for
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distance race We’ll have a big feature on the race next issue, but meanwhile we’ll tell you that veteran Jay Shuman on his Santa Cruz 27 Sorcerer’s Apprentice, battled it ,out all the way with Chris Corlett on Sporting Green, one of the new San¬ tana 23 daggerboarders. Corlett headed in toward San Diego before Schuman, and as usually happens, this course pro¬ ved to have less wind. Franz Klitza on Bloody Mary was third. (F.S. If any of you MORA folks have pictures of the race, we’d like to maybe use a few to illustrate the story).
more movies These films will be shown at 2000 hours, and the donation is $1.50. But a guy’s got to eat, right? Right! So bring yourself at 1830 and $3.50, arfd ya get some spaghetti, some french bread, salad and dessert. Reservations are required for dinner, and are appreciated for the movie. Chris Kafitz is the one you want to call, and the number is 524-9655. page 65
the stupid cup. But don’t you believe it. What really happens is that after the preliminary trials everyone involved is so damn bored of the same boats, the same crews, the same courses, the same cocktail parties, and the same location that they are all ready to go nuts. So all these chuckless old buzzards gather in a big oak paneled room and smoke cigars and drink brandy. After a few reels of stag movies they sit down and draw straws and pick the winner of the America’s Cup. Greatly relieved it’s all over, they shake the guy’s hand, who then goes on to become famous in Sail and Yachting, wears Rolex watches, drinks Bacardi Rum, looks through Fuji binoculars, and flies Pan Am or Quantas. He becomes just another curiosity in the human zoo of the Northeast shakers. Well, maybe this isn’t the way it really happens, but we just can’t help suspecting that it really is. We guess iA/hat grieves us most about this boring event is that it’s a contributor to fat-buttism. The ridiculous disproportinate amount of attention it gets from the media — Women’s Wear Daily just ran a whole front cover on America’s Cup fashions — implies that it is the pinnacle of sailing. Furthermore, it suggests that you can’t participate in this, the best sailing has to offer, unless you are either connected like Russel Long or are willing to devote your life and soul to sailing 12 Meters. Of course this is rub¬ bish, but not everyone realizes it. We figure the ZZZZZZZmerica’s Zup only gets the attention it does because it attracts the idle rich, those who clamor to be on the same horizon with people who are talented because they aren’t. No folks, the truth is that anyone who has ever sailed an El Toro on Lake Mer¬ ritt for more than 30 seconds has gotten more from that experience than the America’s Cup can ever hope to give them. ZZ2.ZZZ2.ZZZZ . . . hey! Whoa! snort . . . snert ... oh pardon us, we’d fallen asleep, victims of the America’s Yawn excitement. The ZZZZZmerica’s Zup billow of hot air has become so large and so thick that otherwise intelligent people don’t seem to be able to see through it. In July we had two great TransPacs leave San Francisco, with literally hundreds of northern Californians setting out far into the Pacific. Daily we’d search the local papers for the littlest scraps of in¬ formation, and so often — almost always in the case of the Ezzzzzzzaminer — we’d come up dry. Instead we’d invariably find some miserable little AP or UPI filler on what Ted or Dennis or young Russel were doing in some practice to a practice to a preliminary. What an insult! We’ve got a lot of respect and admiration for Ted and Dennis, but we say screw ‘em, because their practices back east don’t rate squat in comparison to our natives adventuring on the Pacific. The irony of the whole thing is that the America’s Cup ended months ago, and they are only playing out a foregone conclusion. Four months ago we proclaimed Connor the winner with Freedom. He is the best helmsman, he’s got the best crew, and he and the crew practice the most. That’s it. Ted’s in television, Russel’s out of his league, and the New York Yacht Club won’t let a foreign entry win. Actually we hope England wins it, they’d probably give the Cup to the Queen and we’d never be pestered with the silly thing again. Stay tuned for more America’s Cup coverage coming right up — in 1984.-
SIGHTINGS get it from the horse’s mouth September 5th to th^ 14th are the dates of the San Francisco InThe-Water Boat Show at Mariner Square in Alameda. One of the nice innovations of the show is that arrangements are being made for several designers to be on their boats. Ron Holland, for example, is expected to be on the new Ericson 36, Lyle Hess will be on the Falmouth 22, his fiberglass version of the Pardey’s Serrafyn, and Robert Perry will be jumping around to all his different designs. There will be a number of boats making their debut at the show, but we’ll have more on that next month.
notice of interest The following notice of interest is for cruisers who read Bob Perry’s interview two issues ago. Remember when he recommended that cruising sailors do beer can races to learn a few of the subtleties about sail trim, halyard tension, sheet leads, etc.? Well, here’s your chance. The Twilight Association’s Friday evening summer series has recently been announced. Co-sponsored by the Oakland and Encinal YC’s, the race dates are August 15, August 29, September 12, and September 26. The entry fee is $10 and you can write the Twilight Association or call either yacht club for further details.
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clipper series What’s been going on in Hawaii from August 1st to August 15th is an event that probably has the brightest future in all of ocean racing. That would be the Pan American Clipper Series, a five race ocean racing extravaganza based in Honolulu. The Clipper Series actually started in 1972 with the Royal Hawaiian Around the State Race, a 775 mile course that left Hawaii’s 8 islands to port. After six years this single race began to flounder, and in 1977 it was decided to expand the race into an in¬ ternational series, similiar in concept to the Admiral’s Cup. This will be the second running of the Clipper Series, and some 60 boats are going to be hitting the starting line, paced by maxis Wind¬ ward Passage, Helsal and Siska from Australia, and Mistress Quickly from Bermuda. Bay area. boats entered include Bob Cole’s Zamazaam, Dean Treadway’s Sweet Okole, and James Richmond’s Rolling Stone, which is actually a pretty poor showing. The Series is made up of 5 races. The first is the Around Oahu Race, followed by three 30-mile Olympic triangles off Honolulu, and finally the big Around the State Race. What makes the future of this event so promising is that the weather is a big factor; unlike the Admiral’s Cup where the sailing conditions are perverse, Hawaii regularly provides healthy trades and wonderful, wonderful warm water and air. Hawaii is also closer for innovative and coippetitive sailing countries like New Zealand and Australia, and up and comers like Japan, Hong Kong, and Canada. The race will also draw the boats from the west coast who have competed in either the Kauai TransPacs or the Victoria to Maui Races.
photo contest We’ve never done a December issue of Latitude 38 before, but we’re going to do one this year. It’s going to be dif¬ ferent, too, virtually all pictures and captions. Hopefully we’ll get most of the pic¬ tures from you, and to encourage you to contribute, we’re going to have a sailor’s photo contest. This means you get money for your pictures. We don’t know how much, because we don’t know how many we’ll need, but hopefully an absolute minimum of $5 to a maximum of maybe $100 or more. We want you to understand that the pictures don’t have to be the classic shot of two boats tacking. No, this is Latitude 38 and we go for almost anything, such as the photo above of a Pinto driving off the marina breakwater near the Golden Gate YC. People pictures are always big hits with us: people laughing, crying, even spinnaker flying. People naked, people dressed, people having fun and
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Some of your readers may be interested to know that rules and en¬ try forms for the next Mini Transat — the third in the series — are now available. The race will be much the same as before, along the same route and with the same host clubs. Start will be from Penzance on Satur¬ day 26th September 1981. This time the race will be separated in two classes, one a prototype and development class, the other for production craft. We have defined the extent to which production craft can be modified, in the hope that this will keep the cost dowri, while the development class will still encourage radical thinking. We have introduced a brake in some tendencies which could become dangerous, notably over-long spinnaker poles and too high a ratio of moveable ballast. Following the success of Norton Smith and Amy Boyer (outright winner and first ladies award) there seems to be renewed interest in the race from America, some 30 of the first 100 enquiries having been received from the California area alone. If you or your readers require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Beryl Salmon (Mrs.) Race Secretary 112, Mewstone Avenue Wembury, Plymouth, England
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people in a mess. Good pictures are supposed to tell the whole story in and of themselves. But we don’t buy that theory. So if you have a seemingly boring photo that has a great story that belongs with it — well, just attach a lengthy caption. As we say, we aren’t picky, have few taboos, and are looking forward to a real sailors freefor-all. So please folks, send in your black and white prints or negatives, your color prints, your color slides, we’ll gladly take whatever you’ve got. And please don’t let us down — we don’t want to have 70 or 80 blank pages in that December issue. The time to mail in your photos is right away, because it’s going to take time to figure out. There’s one artd only one rule to remember though: You’ve got to include a self-address stamped envelope that we can return your material in. Click, click. page 67
Before any of you seriously consider entering this race, we’d en¬ courage you to reread the transcripts of Amy and Norton’s tapes that have been published in Latitude 38. The highlights of the ‘Rules and Conditions’ of the Mini Transat are as follows: Starts Penzanance, England on Saturday, September 26, 1981. Second leg starts from Tenerife on Saturday, October 24, 1981. The total distance from Penzance to the Antigua finish line is approximately 4,000 miles. Entries have to be in by July 27th, 1981, and you had better hurry because the fleet will be restricted to 60 en¬ tries. You must complete a qualifying sail of 500 miles, the entry fee is 100 English pounds, the boats can be no longer than 6.50 meters. If you want to enter the production division, there must have been 12 sisterships built. You can use oars for rowing or sculling, but your self-steering must be either wind or electronic powered — but not both, and that is a change from last time. On the last page of the ‘Rules and Conditions’ book in the lower corner it lists the “Previous Winners”. In 1977 there was Daniel Gilard of France in Petit Dauphin, and in 1979 Norton Smith (allright!!) of the U.S. of A. in American Express. It makes for nice reading, that last entry does.
attention ladies the Berkeley Yacht Club’s famous and Annual Women’s Cup In¬ vitational will be held on October 25, 1980. All — that means each and every one of you — are invited to enter. Applications are available at local yacht clubs or by writing Bonnie Harding, c/o the Berkeley YC, 1 Seawall Drive., Berkeley, CA 94710.
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SIGHTINGS biggest big boat series ever That’s how it looks to Jim Taylor at the St. Francis YC. Some 28 boats are already signed up, with,30 or more expected to sign up before the deadline. There will be four races during the week of September 15 to 20, so mark your calendars and plan to call in sick. As was the case last year, there will be five separate bigrboat divisions, and in between days there will be competition for Etchells 22s. Biggest division of all is the St. Francis Perpetual. So far only the 84-ft. Christine is signed up, but Windward Passage is expected, as is the Australian maxi Mistress Quickly, and the ultra-lights Merlin, Ragtime, and Drifter. Roily Tasker’s 77-ft. globe girdling maxi with the world’s biggest transom is reportedly on her way to Hawaii and is likely to make an appearance. Condor of Bermuda, first boat to finish in last year’s Fastnet Race, was to compete, but put herself on a' reef near Tahiti and is now being repaired. The City of San Francisco Trophy will feature last year’s foes, the runner-up Swiftsure, a big Frers, and the winner, Hawkeye, design^ ed by Bruce King. There’ll be lots of competition though: Bob Cole’s big Farr-designed Zamazaam will be making her bay area debut; Dennis Choate is expected to show with his TransPac winner, Ar¬ riba', and A1 Cassel’s Chance-designed SORC competitor is also ex¬ pected to show. The Atlantic Trophy will feature Dave Fenix’s Pegasus, now blue and lighter than ever; last year’s four bullet performer, Ghost', the new but already TransPac and Clipper Cup veteran, Timber Wolf; plus Zig Zag, Illusion, and Aleta which is a sistership to last year’s winner, Ghost. Old Roler the oldest ex-High Roler, so you never know, there may even be a current High Roler. The Keefe-Kilbourn, for boats right around Two Ton, is going to be a brawl. There’s quality and variety throughout the fleet. There are 4 sisterships to the Serendipity 43 that won the SORC, Dick'Ettinger’s Lipton Cup winner Free Enterprise; Richard Mann’s new America; Lee Otterson’s TransPacer Sioc; and Roger Hall’s W/ngs. There are also 3 sisterships to Forte, the fractional rigged Peterson design which took 3rd in the SORC. They’ll be Forte, Barney Flam’s Flambouyant, and Bill Clute’s High Noon, which seens to have final¬ ly gotten on track. Into that group you can throw a couple of Lauri Davidson 44’s, Moonshadow and Quamichan, a good Imp derivative from down south, Tomahawk, as well as local boats Scaramouche and Monique. Stir well, ad in Stan Reisch and Bruce Munro’s long time winner Leading Lady, and you’ve got a real bat¬ tle. The Richard Rheem Series will feature Les Harlander’s frequent winner, Mirage, Antagonist from down south, Chuck Hope and Dennis Connor’s Dust ‘Em, a whole bunch of Swans, and the new lower rating Cadezna of San Diego’s Carl Eichenlaub. An undeter¬ mined number of Islander Peterson 40’s are expected, Dick Deaver should bring his from down south, one from Sacramento is entered, and perhaps several of the other local boats. We’ll have to wait and see. What do you do if you want to get on a boat? Well, we’re not sure, but we've talked to Jim Taylor at the St. Francis, and he thinks with this amount of people it might be wise for the club to post a crew list.
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sixteen tons (8fe This is a line drawing of the new Lancer 16-Ton, which they dub ‘the Multi Purpose Fishing Vessel for the ‘80’s.” Why it’s called at 16-Ton is something of a mystery, since it displaces 22,000 lbs. Normally we don’t feature new boats in ‘Sightings’, but as- you can see, this boat is a little different. Lancer’s owners. Dick Valdez and Maury Threinen (who together started Columbia Yachts 15 years ago). think this is the boat to bring sail power back to the fishing/crabbing/lobstering industry. With both sail and power capability, they figure fishermen will be able to choose the form of energy which will give them their best value. The hull is basically the same as the innovative Lancer 44 Motorsailer. a boat which drew a large number of double-takes at the last San Francisco In-The-Water Boat Show. It is claimed
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SIGHTINGS more big boat series So what you should do is clearly write your name and phone number, and your experience on a card — and write clearly — and send it to: BIG BOAT CREW LIST, c/o: Jim Taylor, St. Francis Yacht Club, On the Marina, San Francisco, CA 94123. Do not call the club! We’ll say it one more time: don’t call the club! A final note. In year’s past the series has always ended with the Cal Coastal Race sponsored by the St. Francis and the Newport Harbor YC’s. There was some talk of dropping the race, and the California YC of Marina del Rey has taken over co-sponsorship, so the Cal Coastal Race is still on. The race will start on Thursday, October 2, with final ceremonies in Marina del Rey on Sunday, October 5th.
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what’dya get? that one beat 350 boats in the infamous Newport to Ensenada Race, and under power has done the measured miles at 15 knots. Like the Motorsailer, all the sail controls like halyards, sheets, and furling lines lead inside the cabin to one large self-tailing winch, and are secured by line-stoppers. The 16-Ton will also have an outside steering station, and is designed to accomodate a lengthy swordfish plank off the bow. We figure a lot of traditional sailors and fishermen will take one look at this and want to heave. Lacking the appro¬ priate experience, we don t quite know what the heck to think of it. But you know, we bet it will sell. With*a couple of bunks, a galley and a head, we can just see guys doing a little sailing and liv¬ ing aboard at the same time. It’s your turn, what do you folks think of it? page 71
With so many people and products trying to make a name for themselves, sailing stunts are becoming increasingly extreme — or perhaps perposterous — to get attention. Take the competitive boardsailing market just as an example. Dufour, a French manufac¬ turer of traditional sized sailboats has come out with their own brand of boardsailer, the Dufour Wing. To get publicity and to generate some tasty advertising copy, they got Frederic Beauchene, a 25-year old Frenchman to sail one around Cape Horn on a 300-mile trip “amid ice floes and gale force winds in December of 1979”. The point they are trying to make, we presume, is that the boards that can take old Cape Horn will have no problems on tranquil Lake Comanche. Dufour uses this ammo in a full page ad. The head in big, black, bold letters reads: FIRST AROUND THE HORN! The lead para¬ graph copy picks up right from there: “In the wake of the clipper ships, the famous ‘loners’, and the big ocean racers come, astoundingly, the Dufour Wing.’’ Lov6 it, don’t you?
hey, let’s boogie on the great south bay September 27th is the day of the Annual Great South Bay Race, sponsored by Coyote Point, Oyster Point, Palo Alto, Peninsula, San Jose, San Leandro, and Sequoia Yacht Clubs — but open to all members of PICYA clubs. In the past this has been a two-day race, now shortened to one. The race starts off Coyote Point, heads up the bay to Alameda, and finishes off the San Leandro YC. A big dinner follows at the Spin¬ naker YC. The cost is a mere $5, and you can race in one of 3 PHRF classes, two of which allow spinnakers, one of which prohibits them. For race information and entry forms, call Bob Hills at (408) 727-2360. Al’s Marine Store of Redwood City is again providing the trophies.
SIGHTINGS rules big talk, big bucks In the July issue of Sail magazine, Garry Hoyt of Freedom Yachts took out a two-page ad proclaiming the Freedom 33 to be “the swiftest cruising yacht in the Carribbean.” Hoyt supports this claim in part by saying “There were three of the vaunted Valiant 40’s at An¬ tigua and we beat all of them, boat for boat, in every race.” As a result of believing he has the fastest cruising boat on the Carribbean, Hoyt has offered the “Freedom Challenge”. Ten thousand dollars says the Freedom 33 will beat any similar sized stock cruising boat. The test for speed is to be the best 3 out of 5 races over a 15 mile Olympic course in the Virgin Islands. Where the trade winds blow true and there are no flukes or navigational crap shoots. The test for simplicity is that the racing crew must be just one person. “If the boat, can’t be singlehanded, how can it be simple? So c’mon you big talkers, let’s see you put some money where your advertising claims are — in any case, put up or shut up.” We love talk like that, and hope Hoyt gets lots of takers. Anyway,' it was that letter advertisement that prompted Bruce Hedrick, a Seat¬ tle yacht designer who was on one of the Valiant 40’s to send the following “open letter” to Latitude 38. Mr. Gary Hoyt, I read your advertisement in the July issue of Sail with great interest and felt compelled to respond to a couple of points. You mention three Valiant 40’s at Antigua Race Week. Since only two, Shadowfax and La Seraphine, had pro¬ per ratings, and since Reprieve didn’t show up, the third one you mention must have been us in Papillon. As it turned out, we sailed from Los Angeles to Antigua only to arrive a day late to be measured, so we could only race informally. My girlfriend and I did, however, race the third race from St. Johns back to English Harbor serious¬ ly. We started after thev fleet by 5 seconds and sailed around all the buoys we were supposed to. You had an excellent lead at the first mark and then tacked in immed¬ iately upon rounding. Excellent move, and we followed giving us both a very nice inside lift over everyone but Circe. We caught you on that beat and held that lead to finish 6 minutes and 36 seconds ahead of you. We also finished ahead of Circe and therefore were, I think, first to finish in our class. There is no doubt that for a 33’ boat that is a very credible performance. We did, however, manage to nip you boat for boat. I should also mention that we raced with full cruising equipment including scuba gear, full water and fuel ' tanks, provisions for four, books, tools, spares, and left our windvane in place. We slept and ate aboard, used our engine, refrigeration and had a great time anchored out in Falmouth Harbor. We did not tie an engineless, stripped out boat at a dock that night and stay ashore. We enjoyed our one race in the racer/cruiser class well within the spirit of the rule.
If you’re thinking about racing your boat casually, but are thrown by the complexity of the rules, here’s something for you. The USYRU, a.k.a. the United States Yacht Racing Union, has come up with a ‘Rules-in-Brief card. This 4x10 sheet lists the 10 basic rule concepts you need to understand to stay out of trouble. As a super bonus if you act now, you’ll get the common race signals and starting procedures us¬ ed by race committees printed — in col¬ or — on the back of your card. Rush $1.00 today to USYRU, Box 209, Dept RB, Rhode Island, 02840. Sorry, no VISA or MASTERCARD. Rules-in Brief is not available in any store! Those of you who know the rules backwards and forwards may want these cards in quantity — 60C each for orders of 50 or more. They make wonderful handouts for those com¬ petitors you think have done you wrong.
the irish viking We’ve all heard of Ron Holland, designer of Imp, Pegasus, Regardless, the new Kiqloa, and others. The New Zealander, who now works out of County Cork, was recently in southern California to sign an agreement with Ericson Yachts to design offshore racers between 30 and 36-ft. Holland is al¬ ready under contract with Swan for the 37 to 50-ft. range. The first Holland design for Ericson is a 36-footer due out late this summer. Bruce King, who for years was Ericson’s sole designer, will now concen¬ trate on performance cruisers for the company. Some 10 or 15 years ago, production boats like Cals, Ericsons, Tartans, and Rangers were regularly found at the top of the racing heap. Then the custom boats came in and simply wiped out that species. It’s highly unlikely that any produc¬ tion yacht can again regain the racing stature they once held, but there are a
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SIGHTINGS number of big companies who feel they can offer a pretty darn competitive pro¬ duction lOR machine at much less than custom costs. And their number is growing. Serendipity has a very successful Peterson designed 43 that Burt Keenan used to win the SORC; Islander hired Doug Peterson to virtually duplicate two of his best 40 footers; and now Holland is in cahoots with Ericson which may lead to further developments of the same nature. All these designers have learned from the experience of Bob
big talk, big bucks cont’d. In the case of put up or shut up, I assume that since you make such a point of comparing the 33 with the Valiant 40 that it must fall into the category of similar siz¬ ed stock cruising boat. Does this also mean similarly equipped? That is, will the 33 have an engine, and in¬ terior, fuel tanks, water tanks, berths, and all the other general cruising accomodations? If so, you’re on. Now, I’m not a big advertiser and can’t afford to fly down from Seattle for a day race; however, this winter my family has chartered a Valiant 40 and if the offer is still good we’ll have a go at it. Also, if you decide to tweek rules and not include the Valiant 40 can I bring my OLSON 30? Let me know, this should be fun. Bruce Hedrick Seattle, WA
quarter ton north americans The Sausalito Yacht Club invites all eligible yachts to participate in the 1980 USYRU North American Quarter Ton Championships. The event will be staged September 2-7 with five varied races on Olympic and distance courses, designed to separate the men (and women) from the boys (and girls) . Entries must be in by August 15, and are available from regatta chairman Frank Mora at (415) 362-7700 (bus.) or 454-6776 (home).
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Perry, who has proven there is gold in the production boat royalties. Incidentally, next month we’ll be starting a design section in which local designers will review families of boats or sometimes single features dike masts, rudders, keels, and so forth. Bob Smith will start it off with reviews of the family that includes boats like the C&C 40, the Pearson 40, the Islander 40, the Ericson 38, and other members of that size per¬ formance production family. We hope you’ll join us. page 73
We’re driving down the road by our office and there’s this guy shuffling down the street looking like maybe he needs a ride. We pull over and low and behold it’s Vito Bialla, Race Committee Chairman for the Australian 18’s, Etchells Pacific Coast Champ, Laser threat, Singlehander, Ericson 27 Champ, crew on High Noon, etc. ad in¬ finitum. “Say Vito, how’s the 18’s going?” “Great, in fact, we bought Mr. Juicy, sistership to the champs, Color 7.” “You did?” “Yeah, me and Paul Buttrose, and Mike Turner. Wilderness Yachts is going to build one in Santa Cruz. Bill Lee is doing one. Redwood Bank wants to sponsor a boat.” “Sounds good!” “Looks like we’re going to have a Worlds here again next year, they had a good time, and our summer is their winter, so why shouldn’t they come up?” “Why not, indeed? Say Vito, what boat you gonna sail on the Big Boat Series?” “Mr. Juicy. Yeah, we’re gonna showcase 18’s during the Series, offer $1000 to any boat that can beat us.” Good copy Vito, real good copy.
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One of my favorite lunch-hour haunts is a small store specializing in navigation instruments, charts, and nautical books and publications. Since they moved over to Battery Street, I’m there at least a few times a week to browse through their books or read an article in a magazine without having to buy it (a privilege of regular customers). Just the other day I was down there hunting through a catalog of Hydrographic Office publications in search of some obscure bargains. I was half listening to one of the salespeople give her comprehensive lecture entitled “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Hand-Bearing Com¬ passes” to a slightly confused customer, when another overheard conversation caught my attention. “Hi,” said a voice from the next aisle. “Imagine running into you here.” “Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!” said a second voice. “What brings you here?” “Just picking up some new charts for a trip down, the coast,” answered the first voice. “How about you?” “One of my steering compasses has gotten cloudy, and I’m looking for the right kind of oil to refill it with. I don’t get into the City very often, so I’m glad I finally remembered what I needed here.” “My compass could use a refill too, come to think of it. By the way, how are you doing in the Bay Series this season?” “Oh, not too badly — you know, win a few, lose a few. But I haven’t seen you out there since the first race — we didn’t scare you away, I hope!” “No, I’ve been having crew problems again. Seems that whenever 1 get a good crew trained, they move on to big¬ ger and better boats. I could understand it if we were always way back in the fleet — but last year we were competitive, and even took a first in one race.” “Gee, you don’t yell and scream at page 75
I had absolutely no idea what I sounded like during a race until I heard the tape — thank god she had the decency to mail it to me instead of playing it back at the club
them, do you?” “Oh, no, I was cured of that problem two years ago. One of my crew brought a tape recorder aboard surreptitiously for a light air winter race. She turned it on five minutes before the start and left it in the quarter berth — it picked up everything! I had absolutely no idea what I sounded like during a race until I heard that tape. (Thank god she had the decency to mail it to me instead of playing it back at the yacht club.) It was quite an awakening — and she said the tape ran out before the really good part!” “Was that the time you wrapped your
spinnaker around the backstay of the boat in front?” “No, that was the season before. How did you find out about that?” “Word gets around.” “Anyway, it was hard but I really do have the yelling under control now. Even my wife races with me again.” “That’s good. What do you feed your on crewr “Oh, you know, the usual — sand¬ wiches and potato chips, beer and soda. Nothing elaborate — the cost of that stuff can really add up.” “Are there usually leftover sand¬ wiches?” “No, almost never.” “What about homebaked cookies or muffins?” “No, but ...” “Champagne after a good race?” “We don’t . . .” “What about dinners at Santa Cruz or Vallejo? Or the awards banquet at the end of the year?” “You know how expensive those din¬ ners are. I just can’t afford to treat my crew like royalty. Why, I just paid over a thousand for a new spinnaker!” “I know racing’s expensive, but I’ll bet that a dollar spent on the crew makes the boat go faster than a dollar spent on the boat.” “You really think it’s that important?” “I think so. Our boat’s run on a relatively low budget, so we go in for a lot of good home prepared stuff and in¬ vite the whole crew over for dinner once in a while. If you can’t afford the time, then go to the expensive bakery and the fancy deli. However you do it, the food on board has to be worth bragging about — and there has to be lots of it! If there are no leftover sandwiches, it means you didn’t bring enough!” “I guess you have a good point. My old spinnaker with a good trimmer is faster than my new one tied in a knot. When you consider the amount of time and money that I put into the boat
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already, it should take only a little bit more to go first class all the way on food. If the food will really keep the good crew on board, I’ll try it.” “Another good way to keep them in¬ terested is to let them skipper a race once in a while. I know one owner who enters the Golden Gate and M.Y.C.O. Midwinters each year, and lets each of his regulars skipper one or two races. (Of course, they bring the food on those days.)” “That’s an interesting idea — as long as they don’t do better than me! Mean¬ while, I need to find some new crew if I’m going to finish the series. Like I said, most of my old crew have gone on to bigger and better boats. This time I’m going to be realistic and look for people without much experience who will stick with me for a while as they learn. Any suggestions?”
“Sounds like just what I need — some college students with limited ex¬ perience, but lots of enthusiasm and steep learning curves.” N “And sometimes college kids tend to be a little bit hungry, if you know what I mean. They really appreciate the free food!” “I’ll try it! See you on the starting line next Sunday!” “Good luck! Oh, and one more thing — be nice to us out there, okay?” “Ha! Look who’s talking!” Just then about nineteen ship’s clocks all struck two bells, and it was time for me to head back to the office. Is it true that a dollar spent on feeding the crew makes the boat go faster than a dollar spent on the boat? Is a good crew worth treating like royalty? It sure is nice to sail with a skipper that thinks so! — max ebb
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OUT OF MY MIND
The roar of the wind awakened me brutally. The fury of ocean kicked me out from my cozy berth, and urged me on the deck. In total darkless I ran through the open hatch dragging oil¬ skins and boots. It was a night squall, one of the most common enemies of a lonely sailor. They are startling, violent, unyielding . . . Genoa down! But keep the halyard. Jib up! But clear the sheets . . . Working hard, I was enjoying the pleasure of a fight with reveling wind. I stood on the pulpit rail keeping jibstay in one hand and the furious cloth in another. Suddenly a shabby billow pun¬ ched me hard, knocking me off from the pulpit, as a hand would swat a nag¬ ging gnat. Now, lighter by one boot which had disappeared in the ocean, I lifted myself back to the dancing deck
and continued the battle with the wind. Wearing a harness, as always, I was not afraid for even one second to make such acrobatic tricks, even more, I en¬ joyed them as part of singlehanding Ngame, as part hand-to-hand combat with the ocean. Several minutes later, wet and tired, but happy as hell, I sat in the cockpit contemplating my boot’s lonely voyage to the bottom of Pacific (if traveling with approximate speed of one foot per se¬ cond it had a good chance to arrive at its last harbour 10 thousand feet under the surface, in 2.78 hours). One more look at the sails, one more yawn and I returned to my berth. While going down through the, companionway something roped my legs. One fee! of my hand and my skin became wet again. But this time it wasn’t a moisture of warm ocean water. It was something cold, the “cold sweat” — well known from spy thrillers. What was lying under my feet was my monkey line and my harness. I was absolutely unable to ex¬ plain what happened, why I hadn’t put it on as I always did when leaving the cabin. Always regardlesss, day or night, in good or bad weather. The episode presented above is my own small contribution to the world wide discussion about safety harnesses. Whatever one will say and how one will judge my case, the conclusion is simple: a harness can be dangerous and it pro¬ bably is better not to use it (and remember that it isn’t used) than use it the wrong way, as I did. A sailor working on the deck even in most difficult condition without a harness has two advantages. First is the knowledge that only his grips (maybe also handrails, pulpits, etc.) can protect him from being washed overboard, from losing contact with his boat, sometimes only for minutes, sometimes forever. Alain Gerbault — famous French singlehander and third man around the world alone, in his popular book “In Quest of the Sun”, writes: “Recently one of the singlehanders disappeared. His yacht was found drifting. The last 0
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note in the logbook reads: ‘1 must go on bowsprit to change sails. Risky game. Will I return . . .?’” . After reading such tragic stories we should be ready to decide to use a life¬ line (nicer name than monkey line) always and without excuses . . . But then, too much is probably too much. In 1967 I observed in Copenha¬ gen’s King’s Yacht Harbor a sailboat entering the harbor with the whole crew on the deck. They looked unique and funny because all eight of them were on lifelines. It was one of most comic shows I saw in my life. Eight people roped, tangled, twisted and connected together, “macrame” style. Basically there are two kinds of life¬ lines: Short — let’s say, 5-10 feet rope with a, caribiner on the end. If a sailor would want to protect himself in a par¬ ticular place (for example, the bowsprit) or at a particular job (like reefing the main during violent blow at night) he could rope himself like climbers do, what is called “belay”. It is simple, secure and the short rope does not in¬ terfere (at least not as much as a long life-line) with other sailors. Much longer, basically permanently connected, life-line is recommended for singlehanders. The lonely sailor who uses it is permanently protected, or at least when he carries harness on his body.
Certainly there are also lots of hair raising stories about people being drag¬ ged by their fast running, self-steering boats. Obviously such situations can happen and it is difficult to return on the deck “climbing” on rope when boat is going, let’s say, 3 knots (what about 7, eh? To keep from being dragged behind the boat like a giant size bait for sharks, the life-line must be connected to bow of boat, not aft!! The line must be as short as possible, but still be long enough to do everything necessary on deck. From my own experiences 1 propose a life-line of length 70% of boat’s LOA and connected to mast by simple loop or ring. Because of boom traveller — the only one obstacle, the life-line must be located on windward side of the boat. There is only one comment: if working the bow, you must always return same way to cockpit. Thickness — V4 - V2 inch, bright color, or better — fluorescent! Claus Hehner, Rollo Gebhard, Kenichi Horie, Chris Baranowski when
asked about their opinion answered me: ‘Yes, use life-line in all difficult situations or (if possible) all the time.’ And, from my experience, I agree, wear all the time. After what happened to me I decided never to disconnect my harness, and it was not too difficult. I slept in the harness, 1 ate in the harness, I typed and washed myself wearing the harness. Certainly a harness must be comfor¬ table. My last was made from seat belts with a quick release latch. Simple ad¬ justment system made it possible to use it on a nude chest as well as when wear¬ ing two sweaters. It took me one hour to stitch this important part of single¬ hander’s equipment but the result was great. Without question, to “live in harness” days and nights have some disadvan¬ tages. Somtimes you can fall on deck roped by your life-line. You can loose your tooth or break an arm. But even such extreme cases aren’t too bad in confrontation with other extreme situa¬ tion: To see the transom of your boat disappear on the horizon. In the next issue of Latitude 38 we shall tell about “man overboard” stories (only for peo¬ ple with strong or rather extra-strong nerves!!!). Proposing a life-line as a permanent protection for singlehanders I don’t think I am overprotective. Recent
tragedies — the deaths of our local yachtsmen Grover Nibouar sailing his Moore 24, Douglas Olson sailing his Bristol 32, Jon Strickland sailing his Cal 24 and others are once more and ab¬ solutely needless examples that the
OUT OF MY MIND OCEAN IS ALWAYS STRONGER. But to stay, or worse to live, on a leash like a dog? Many of us may prefer comfort and freedom over safety. Well ... all of us, sailors and non-sailors, are living all the time on strings. From the point of physics — on a gravity string. From the point of biochemistry on a str¬ ing of an oxygen necessity. We are liv¬ ing on many ropes. Their opposite ends
riage, like a credit card (sometimes even free coffee) in the bank. If all these benefits aren’t convincing enough, if you still feel bad wearing a life-line, which reminds you of a chain or a dog leash, think positive. As we know everything is relative and each situation has at least two aspects: Kenichi Horie (his brave Mermaid is still exhibited in S.F. Maritime Museum)
are held firmly by banks, credit unions, employers, spouses. Although regardless, all these ropes we are living, consuming, dreaming and are rather happy than upset. The nature of a harness is that it gives some discomfort, but simultaneously it gives us also many benefits, like a good salary in the com¬ pany, like love and pleasure in mar¬
said in his wonderful book “Kodoku” (“Loneliness”): “At night and in bad weather 1 always connected my little boat to myself, using a rope, just to be sure that she will stay with me even in the worse situation ...” Right! Yes! Eureka! We are on her str¬ ing, the boat is on our leash! Ho, ho, ho! — andrew urbanczyk
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1980 CREWED TRANSPAC From the time the notion was con¬ ceived in February, 1979, the San Fran¬ cisco to Kauai Race was scoffed at by many as purely a pipe dream. A 150-member neighborhood yacht club trying to stage a TransPac race? Im¬ possible. They surely couldn’t have the organization and manpower available to
succeed in such a colossal effort. Besides, there was so much else go¬ ing on. The L.A. to Tahiti Race, the Victoria to Maui Race, the Singlehand¬ ed TransPac, and YRA season was in full swing; people rolled their eyes when the Kauai Race was even mentioned. But then something dramatic began
to happen. Details began to merge. A fantastic logo was designed by Wolf¬ gang Heinritz and posters popped up everywhere. Tee-shirts were ordered and the scramble for publicity began. Entries began to trickle in with checks attached, seventy boats expressing a preliminary interest in the race. There
Merlin crosses the Nawiliwili line under spinnaker (left). Foreplay's Steve Baumhof pops off (above).
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were hot ocean racers like Sioc and Sweet Okole. There were sparfking new boats like Timber Wolf and Isis, and a 1914 vintage 12 meter named Corsair. There were even heavy cruising boats with dodgers and self-furling sails. Final¬ ly the TransPac biggie Merlin was entered and people began to suspect
that it was indeed a serious race. And when the gun was fired for the start on Father’s Day, June 15th, off Baker Beach, forty yachts of all descrip¬ tions crossed the line in search of Nawiliwili Bay. By then the Ballena Bay Yacht Club had seemingly attended to every detail. They had arranged for briefings on weather and safety. There were three pre-race social events to build camaraderie and enthusiasm. They had1 installed a highly efficient radio antenna and a command post for relaying the latest positions and race information. There were two boats traveling with the fleet as communications vessels. They had attended to publicity, safety inspec¬ tions, insurance, and financing. There were committees handling the crew pool, the trophies, the handicaps, and the hospitality. Decisions had been made regarding when and where to
start and finish, who would transmit weather maps, and where to acquire various vital equipment. Volunteers had been rounded up for committee boats, headquarters staffing, and manning communications equipment 24 hours a day. The list was endless. Things were also happening at the other end of the course. Three Berkeley women were living in a camper on windswept Ninini Pt., keeping a 24-hour watch on the expensive trans¬ mission equipment that had been in¬ stalled at the desolate finish line. A Mercedes bus housed the finishing com¬ mittee station, soon to be abuzz with volunteers and radio chatter. A refriger¬ ator hummed beside the bus, with cold refreshment for duH-y watchkeepers. The route to Ninini Pt. is down a rutted, red mud road through a sunar cane field, not an easy trip, especially in the pre-dawn hours, and especially when it
KAUAI rains. Two of the committee’s rented vehicles, a jeep and a camper, expired prematurely as a result of excursions through that cane field and it is rumored that there could be more than one volunteer still lost somewhere out on the “haul cane road”. Arrangements were made with the Kauai Surf Hotel to use their mezannine as race headquarters, and their toll-free line for daily relaying of race informa¬ tion from Ballena Bay. When the starting gun was fired in San Francisco, it was obvious that BBYC had its act together. The scoffing ceased and the excitment began. Merlin’s victory surprised nobody, but the speed of her descent on the sleepy community of Lihue, an hour ahead of her ETA, surprised everybody. The chartered sportfishing boats full of welcomers couldn’t keep up with Merlin as she screamed across the finish line at 15 knots. Her finish, 10 days, 4 hours, 5 minutes, and 52 seconds was not a mainland to Hawaii record, but she was almost 4 days and 700 miles ahead of the second boat in, the Santa Cruz 50, Secret Love from Marina del Rey. I Merlin received an incredible Hawaiian welcome with bikinied wahines in an outrigger canoe, flowers dropped from a helicopter, and the traditional leis, champagne, and bedr at the dock. The crew of Merlin exhibited exceptional sportsmanship by going right out the next two days to take race
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singlehanders. The excitement around race head¬ quarters began to pick up again on the 14th day with the arrival of several boats, the first being Andiamo, a Swan 55 skippered by Tom Harney of Sausalito Yacht Club. Andiamo is near the other end of the design spectrum from the Lee boats, a heavy 55,000 pounder rigged for cruising. Their last major race was the ‘79 TransPac in which they finished about 17th in division. Nobody was more astonished at their second place corrected victory than Hal Nelson, the skipper of Axel Heyst, who had in¬ itiated at $1000 side bet with Harney on a boat for boat -basis. Andiamo was the first of the fleet to arrive at night under a full tropical moon, looming as a mysterious shadow
CREWED TPAN5PAC the fleet, not bad for a shakedown cruise. Even more impressive was the fact that the boat had no ‘hot-shots’.
The next boat to arrive near the end of the 14th day was the little 36-ft. veteran TransPacer, Sweet Okole (af-
William Hall's 1914 entry, Corsair, ends in grief off the mouth of the Santa Maria River.
Owner Harvey lured his young crew from the softball field and they’ve become proficient from scratch. Timber Wolf will remain in Hawaii to participate in the Clipper Series, and return to San Francisco for the Big Boat Series. on the horizon. A brilliant airplane headlight defined the finish line, il¬ luminating the spinnaker as they cross¬ ed; a spectacular sight for the family and friends waiting to welcome them with 5 gallons of Mai Tais and smoked marlin. (Also referred to as smoked Merlin.) The Andiamo crew reported finding a new use for chapstick: to free zippers stiff from salt, and dreamed of Suzie Chapstick commercials. 90 minutes behind Andiamo came Timber Wolf, the new Farr 38-ft. cruis¬ ing boat built by C&B Marine' Bruce Farr was scheduled to arrive a few days later. “We’ve learned to sail her down¬ wind, now he’s going to teach us how to take her to weather!” Larry Harvey ex¬ plained. Her 14 day finish earned Tim¬ ber Wolf first place in Div. Ill and third in
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fectionately nicknamed ‘Sweet Asshole’ by her competitors.) “I’m sure we beat to weather more than anyone,’’ said Ron Boehm. “I think we were the far¬ thest boat north and sailed closest to the rhumb line.” They existed solely on
KAUAI freeze dried food, “we even had freeze dried beer,” and their worst problem was “running out of toilet paper”. Sweek O/co/e, fifth to finish, captured first in Div. II and fifth in fleet. O/co/e was a well-integrated boat, with regular Okolettes Alexis Monson and Joan Duffield proving that women — given the right size boat — can make first-rate crew. The fifteenth day brought in a whole covey of boats, eleven in all, including the winner in Div. IV and second over all, Kotick II. (Also known as ‘Cold Dick’ or ‘Kotex II’). The 48-ft. full-keel steel yawl is a Holstein design, built in Ger¬ many and launched in 1949, and was the oldest boat to finish the race. The 35,000 pound Kotick was the last over the starting line but led on corrected time for most of the race. The “lead sled’s” navigator, Jim Leach, offered some insight into the winning strategy of this race. “The first two days we were close reaching in 20-35 knot winds and 6-8
the worst were the ones that went north, saw that the boats down south were doing well, and tried to dive south. You had to have made your decision before you ever left the harbor. Sweet O/co/e decided they would sail the rhumb line no matter what the wind conditions. On a modern light boat like that, they just toughed it through the light air and they had the advantage of sailing probably ,700-800 miles less than we did. The boats that sailed north then tried to dip south had both light wind and a long course, they didn’t really have a game plan. “The weather in this race was fairly typical of Hawaii races. If you look at the pilot charts with the wind roses and the arrow directions for conditions en¬ countered in June and July, the years when the boats surf at 20 knots and break records with a constant 20-30 knots of wind are few and far between/ Most of the time it’s light out there, blowing 8-10. You better take your }/i oz. and 3A oz. sails. The four times I’ve
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foot quartering seas. I had been plotting the high for weeks before the race and we could see that it was moving south. We sailed 210° for days. All the boats that did well, Merlin, Timber Wolf, Sangvind, Kotick, we all went south. It was no coincidence. The boats that.did
been on the TransPac it’s been light and I’ve gotten blisters on my butt. The high was further south this time, but it’s not that atypical. Where we were, dbwn around 1019 to 1022 millibars, normal¬ ly there should have been a little more wind, but not a lot more. Maybe five
knots more. “Jibe angles are really important in the race, too. The boats that found themselves far to the north were also in the wrong jibe angle for coming into the islands. We made our landfall at the north end of Oahu so we could jibe and lay the finish line. It’s a big ocean, but you have to remember what your objec¬ tive is.”
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Tom Harney with a $1000 smile.
boat, since their onboard cook has been responsible for opening every Hilton Hotel kitchen on the west coast. They dined oh such delicacies as peach flambe, eggs benedict, and sashimi. They also had a bicycle powered generator onboard, capable of produc¬ ing 5 amp. per hour when pedaled at a rate of 12-14 m.p.h. But Geronimo is most joked about as the boat with the worst radio. Transmission was so garbl¬ ed that for a time they had to resort to tapping out their latitude and longitude on the microphone for the daily roll call.
Merlin’s Carl Sepath, Norton Smith, and Ro¬ land Mays celebrate their sweep.
Geronimo is a 1974 custom Miller design built in Greece and rigged in Australia, a former class winner in the Sydney-Hobart race. This was partially a family operation, including skipper Len Teasley’s wife and two daughters among the 8 crew, sailing their last race before converting Geronimo for cruis¬ ing. Geronimo, out of Oyster Point, may have been the best provisioned page 87
The crew of Sioc (affectionately known as ‘Sad Socks’) sailed to a divi¬ sion third place despite the fact that she was over early and that her skipper, Lee Otterson, sat out the race in a mainland hospital. Otterson became ill a week before the start of the race and was replaced at the 11th hour by Eric Moe, 18-year old son of crewman Bob Moe. Both Sioc and Andiamo had an eerie mid-pacific experience when a huge military helicopter descended upon them with glaring searchlights, hovered momentarily, then hurtled off into the
Born to hula, CassieStagg and David Hodges at the awards dinner.
black Pacific skies. Bill Siegel had Gary Mull design him a brand new 30-footer named Isis for the Singlehanded TransPac. Unfortun¬ ately the boat wasn’t ready until May 30th, far too late to prepare for his first singlehanded crossing, so he decided to sail it over with a crew. “We got bug¬ gered up in that high and it killed us,” was Bill’s lament, “but we had one 300 mile day.” After hearing that claim, Bill’s competitors on Goldrush compos¬ ed and performed a song in his honor — to a familiar old tune — entitled “You tell me your BULLSHIT, I’ll tell you mine.” Isis, they insisted, was ‘sissy’ spelled backwards. Axel Heyst (a.k.a. ‘Axel Grease’) was the favorite son in the race, skippered by Hal Nelson who originated the idea of the Kauai Race. Axel Heyst is a custom 50-foot sloop originally con¬ structed for the OSTAR in ‘68, but not completed in time. Her jovial crew started the race with Hawaiian shirts over their foul weather gear, and 15 cases of beer which they finished off 10 days out. At the halfway point in the race, they celebrated by having a Mex¬ ican extravaganza, complete with guitar music, and when the wind died in midPacific, they doused the sails and went swimming. They came in 4th in a fleet
of 5 finishers, but they sure had a good time!
I3y about the end of the 15th day, about half the fleet had arrived. Condi¬ tions in the Channels nearing the finish line were sloppy, with squalls bringing 30 knot winds and lumpy seas. A glow¬ ing cloud mass hovered over the island, obscuring the land until the finishing yachts were almost upon it. Boats con¬ tinued to trickle in every few hours, br¬ inging varied tales about their crossings. Rolling, Stone’s crew had occupied some of its time making little sailboats out of their garbage with aluminum piepan hulls, “a lightweight pan design,” they called it. The trouble was their gar¬ bage sailed faster than they did! Further comments from Rolling Stone: “Don’t eat yellow freeze dried food — everything else tastes fine, but yellow freeze dried anything is terrible,” They had a vegetarian aboard who ate only plants, and a plant that ate only meat. Red Rover was a cutter-rigged Hans Christian 34 on her first TransPacific race, and an interesting race it was for her crew. Destruction-wise, they deci¬ mated their 3A oz. spinnaker in a squall, lost their man overboard equipment and emergency water in a broach, and
their Loran and VHF shorted out when they were pooped. They also managed to loose somehow, somewhere — 7 floating cushions. Distraction-wise, they were ordered by the Coast Guard to stop racing and search for the source of a flare, a fourhour fruitless side trip. Later they pre¬ pared to pick up a “Japanese ball” and it turned out to be a mine. Red Rover
KAUAI CREWED TRANSPAC of the nearby Santana 35, Friendship. In radio traffic with the ship, Tysell men¬ tioned that Soufriere was out of ice. Lo and behold, up cruised the 150-foot warship and deposited a big bag of ice aboard Soufriere. Buried in the bottom was a nice cold bottle of New Zealand Reisling.
finished in just over 18 days, good enough to rank third in Division V. John Tysell, skipper of the Cal 3-30, Soufriere, reported that an albatross flew up and landed on his shoulder, staying aboard the boat 24 hours and bringing with it the tradewinds. Another encounter of the friendly kind came from the New Zealand destroyer Ortega which had picked up the ailing skipper
Axel-Heyst at the start.
Len King, skipper of the Cal 36, Debutante, had problems of a different nature. It was alleged that Len had in¬ vited a girlfriend to come meet him in Kauai after the race. She said she couldn’t, so he invited another girlfriend, who said yes. Meanwhile, the first woman changed her mind and decided to surprise dear Lenny. It seems the two women met at the race headquarters in Kauai Surf and com¬ pared notes. When Debutante crossed the finish line, they were both waiting. Sanguind finished 2nd in its division and 4th in the fleet, but Jerald Jensen was moaning that, after 2000 miles, they had missed first by only 16 minutes. They had a comparitively uneventful race, chit chatting with the Lurline, barbecueing steaks off a sternmounted grill, and socializing with singlehander Don Keenan who surfed alongside in his Olson 30. Sanguind was a “dry” boat, the crew comsuming almost 200 cans of soda pop and fruit i juice. “I’ve been in a lot harder races,” Jensen said. “We had four good knockdowns but nothing worse.” He added, “One less knockdown and we might have won.” Boundless was the last boat to finish, in 19 days, 5 hours. The Independence 31 is an Ericson-built cruiser with a selffurling jib and a self-steering mechanism which was used 50% of the time. The first day out their water supply was foul¬ ed by a big wave and they had to subsist for the entire crossing on 10 gallons of emergency water and a small supply of juices. I asked owner Stan Mentzer earlier why someone with very little sail¬ ing experience was racing to Hawaii and he said, “because I’m 51 and next year I’ll be 52.”
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Thank
You Heirs,
a new Robert
Perry-designed Cheoy Lee 35, accom¬ panied the fleet as a communications vessel, a far greater responsibility than anybody ever imagined. First the prima¬ ry communications vessel, Mystique, had a failure of some kind in its transmission equipment, earning it the nickname ‘Mistake.’ Thank You Heirs assumed the duty of taking roll call everyday, and with it came the respon¬
Everyone's welcome on Merlin.
sibility of tracking down boats not re¬ porting, relaying countless distress messages, responding to singlehanders, assisting in non-race related mid-Pacific relays, and passing on personal mess¬ ages to wives and lovers at home and abroad. For their vigilance, they were awarded the nickname “Thankless Heirs”. Responsibility did not dampen their spirits, however, and one day Thank You Heirs announced that they were throwing a First of Summer party, fully 'catered, singlehanders were invited to
the singles bar, and there would be lots of women. Foreplay indicated they would come, and although they could bring no women, they did have one young boy. Merlin was told they had the furthest to come for the party. While most of the fleet was merry¬ making at the luau, word reached the committee that Thank You Heirs was approaching the finish line. When they pulled up to the dock around midnight, a crowd of welcomers were there to greet them bearing doggie bags from the luau and the crew of Cadence serenad¬ ed the throng with the story of the Kauai Race set to music.
TRADE WINDS, TRADE WINDS The Ballad of the Kauai Race written by the Crew of the CADENCE first performed by the SINGLE-SIDE BAND At the dock after the Luau, 0200, July 4, 1980
three days. The Santana 35 Raccoon Straits beIt may sound as if it was all fun and games out there on the blue Pacific, but that was not the case. In the words of Russ Irwin of Finesse, “for such a light air race, there was an incredible amount of carnage.” Eight of the forty boats that started dropped out of the race for rea¬ sons varying from minor to disastrous. That’s 20% of the fleet, folks! Islander dealer Don Wilson, skipper¬ ing the Islander/Peterson 40 ^Dealer’s Choice, lost his steering mechanism, then reportedly broke his boom on a fly¬ ing jibe and withdrew from the race after
One of the yachts was called Kotick, Expected to sail like a turd. But when she was first in division. She proved that her rating’s absurd! And then there’s the big Andiamo, A floating hotel down below. But they have just one minor problem:
(Sung to the tune of “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean”)
That boat is incredibly slow. You’ve heard of the Messy Finessey,
Chorus:
They’ve raced in these waters before.
Trade winds, trade winds,
But if they expect to be winners,
Where are the trade winds they say blow here?
They’ll have to come down here once more.
Trade winds, trade winds, Where are the trade winds this year?
Merlin was first boat to finish, V
Alternate Chorus: Trade winds, trade winds.
First boat to sail through the line. But most of her crew didn’t do much with Norton on watch all the time.
Trade wind please don't go away, away, Phu-Bai-Lai-Ang,
Boats like Wouoka and Airborne,
Oh what’s your position today?
They roll and they yaw and they pitch, And when the wind gets above twenty They steer like a son-of-a-bitch!
We sailed in the race to Hawaii,
Secret Love went for the record,
A long downhill slide, so they say.
But found the winds fickle and faint.
But the whole fleet got stuck in the high-y. And drifted for day after day.
They realized ‘a Merlin she ain't'.
And when they were clear of the coastline.
Some of us sailed singlehanded.
There were three thirty-five footers,
Some of us sailed with a crew.
The model I shall not relate.
But when the wind left us for elsewhere.
They ran into structural problems —
Was nothin’ nobody could do!
I'd rudder not tell you their fate!
Rolling Stone was a sure winner.
The crew of the Foreplay was eager '
There was a radio vessel.
With Weatherfax it’s guaranteed.
To sample the world’s biggest high.
They say Thank You Heirs was her name.
But there is one other requirement —
But when they got out on the ocean,
With so much hot air o’er the ocean
The crew must be able to read.
They found just a high in the sky.
The trade winds went hiding in shame!
Wovoka was doing quite nicely;
Friendship had numerous problems.
Wild Hair used all the right tactics.
Turned in an incredible run —
Their skipper regretted the trip.
Way south to the trade winds they went.
Until they caught their navigator
They started the race in a sailboat —
When asked about why did they do it:
Confusing the moon with the sun.
Returned on the deck of a ship!
“Couldn’t help it, our rudder was bent!"
CREWED TRANSPAC gan to take on water at the rate of 5-10 gallons per minute when the rear rudder
bearing post cracked and then worked completely loose. “We abandoned the
race and got down to a jib only on a reach, got a heading and a location, and notified the Coast Guard. They dispatched a patrol plane which found us about 3V2 hours later. The C-130 dropped us a pump, and they com¬ mandeered Accent to abandon the race and to escort us back to land,” reported skipper Mai Weaver. The crew built a “bathtub” around the leak with rags and Splashzone putty, and jammed the rud¬ der post back down with floorboards. “That didn’t keep the rudder from col¬ liding with the hull off each wave, but it did help keep the volume of water down.” Steering became increasingly
Soufriere tried to cross the big ocean — A long race for such a small yacht. What ever gave them the notion That their Cal 3-3(5 was hot? One of the yachts was called Goldrush With that name you'd think they’d be fast, But as they were nearing the finish. An old covered wagon went past! The Debutante's skipper was fearless. He faced the squalls with a brave stance. But when he saw both his girlfriends He practically shit in his pants! The Restless was missing the luau — They put up a terrible fuss. And while we are eating and drinking They sit on the ocean and cuss! Now. Restless had quite a hard voyage — Ran out of compressed natpral gas! And when they arrived at the dockside. The owner fell with a splash! One yacht was called Huckleberry. Commanded by brave Captain Huck. When told he was blocking the channel. He answered "I don t give a fuck! ” Lets not forget about Boundless. A slow cruising type, so I hear. Someone should sing them this ditty When they finish sometime next year. Geronimo's crew had a problem: Now Dealer's Choice couldn’t be beaten>
With radios they had no luck.
A Columbia 50 went missing —
With their expert “all customer crew."
Each time they attempted to transmit.
Her radio uv.
They had an unfortunate breakdown —
BBZJZZS BSHZZ BSHZ BSHZ ZZBSHZJJZZ BZZ
But they showed up in San Diego.
It’s back to the showroom for.you!
BSHZ BZZSJZUCK!
You guessed it — the Ph
with a bang! BaiLaiAng!
The yacht that is named Sweet Okole
Then there’s the fast yacht Pro Tanto,
Cadence made quite a good showing.
Doesn’t show very much class.
The smallest boat entered this year.
Though the race was protracted and in;
To people who know some Hawaiian,
But when they are charging their batteries.
They may not have won any trophies.
It means that they have a fat ass!
They leave their propeller in gear.
But they certainly had the best song!
page 91
KAUAI
Geronimo’s Len Teasely
difficult, but they were able to contain the leak adequately and brought the boat safely in at Marina del Rey.
Wilbert, tropical cowboy.
Accent had problems of its own. A wave had previously upset a kettle of boiling water, scalding the cook. Then as they changed course to assist Rac¬ coon Straits, they were deluged by another wave which knocked out their VHF. After landfall, Mai Weaver gra¬ ciously paid the Accent crew’s airfare to Kauai, where Accent'received a sport¬ smanship award, and good-naturedly chided, “In the next race, don’t call us, we’ll call you!” The Columbia 50., Phu-Bai-Lai-Ang began having radio problemskthe first night out and was unable to communi¬ cate with anyone. Then they discovered the filler cap on their fresh w$ter tank was cracked and their water was foul. The steering vane bent, they had no lights, and they couldn’t go downwind very well, making a mere two knots under main and winged out jib. So they abandoned the race and sailed into San Diego. “We were mainly concerned about the people back home, we knew they’d be worried since we couldn’t communicate,” explained spokesman Walter Bajor. Another Santana 35, Friendship, had multiple problems. After responding to an EPIRB, the Coast Guard reported that the skipper “began hallucinating, tried to jump overboard, and threaten¬ ed the crew”. The problem appeared to be a medical one and medication was dropped on the boat. Then the New Zealand destroyer,* Ortega, was diverted to the scene and the skipper was removed. Friendship continued in the race. The crew , has steadfastlydeclined any comment on that aspect of the race. . Friendship’s troubles were far from over. Crewman Steve Zenanove report¬ ed that on the 12th day, they began to hear a bumping noise in the steering and the collar of the rudder began to seep water. They kept the spinnaker up but started “nursing” the boat to try to keep the rudder from knocking. “At midnight on the 13th day, the rudder broke free from the shaft and we watch¬ ed it float away.” They rigged their emergency rudder setup, a spinnaker
Pretty teen-age girl checks out the fleet status board.
pole and bunk boards, but it wasn’t very satisfactory. They couldn’t hold a course within 40 to 50 degrees, Steve said, and they were concerned about possibly encountering heavier weather ahead. They spotted a Navy convoy and were offered a lift to San Diego. After a crew conference, they decided it would be wise to accept the ride, so a naval amphibious craft lifted the crew off, pulled the rig out of the boat, and hoisted the boat aboard with a net. They had a nice 5 day cruise to San Diego, but after a rescue that must have cost the navy thousands of dollars, “they only asked us for $3 per person,
CREWED TRAN5PAC that day and thought we knew where we were, but we ran aground in the fog on the bank that runs out from the San¬ ta Maria River. We thought we could still save the boat because we were out so far . . . we got a salvage boat out, but the seas came up very big and freaky and kept knocking the boat over. Finally we were washed about Ws of a mile in¬ to shore. The Coast Guard was monitoring the whole thing and we weren’t in any personal danger, but the boat was a total loss. Fifteen feet of the starboard side was stove in, all the maor beams were either cracked or
Josephine M started with the fleet, returned to retrieve kerosene which was forgotten, and restarted the next day. Then they reported that they were dropping out of the race. Tyche announced on June 19 that they were going to drop out and go vacationing in the Channel Islands. Not all of the boats with problems were forced to abandon the race. Ori Gooch was sailing his Santana 35, Wild Hair, on the second day out when the rudder bent. “But by that time it was downhill to Hawaii and uphill to come back, so we decided to keep go¬
per day, for the food we ate in the of¬ ficer’s mess.” Meanwhile, disaster had befallen the beautiful 1914 vintage 12 Meter Cor¬ sair. According to her skipper, William Hall, “the keel separated from the garboard seam and we began to take on too much water. We were literally sink¬ ing. For eight hours I tried to caulk her with reduced sail. We headed for Santa Barbara to try to pull the boat out, and 6 of the 8 crew were rather ill, so two of us were trying to run the boat. After 2 days, I collapsed and went to sleep, leaving instructions to be awakened if anything happened. 1 had taken a sight Secret Love through the palms. Sioc and Andiamo at the airboat dock.
broken, and the deck separated from the hull. It just simply was destroyed. I sold her on the beach and the guy wanted to repair, her, bring a craftsman over from Europe, but you’re looking at a half a million dollars.’’ Hall had owned the boat for eight years and was nearing the end of a meticulous restoration pro¬ cess. He estimated that 900,000 man hours had been put into the 63-foot* boat. He is looking for another 12 Meter, but has purchased a K38 for the interim. “I flew to England and found another boat, it’s another 12 Meter, built in 1937. Structurally she looks good but cosmetically she’s in terrible shape ... so, we start all over again tf
Not much is known about the other two boats that did not finish the race.
ing downhill." Two days from Kauai it bent back. “We were on a spinnaker reach, getting some pretty good gusts, and off of one wave we hit about 18 3A knots. Right after that the rudder seem¬ ed to behave better. We were a little shaken with the thought that it might have partially bent back into position and that would be a wear point, ready to crack or something." They were very concerned, but not enough to put the spare rudder on, and they crossed the finish line on the 16th day, bent rudder and all. Huckleberry Apple is a custom S&S 49, the former Bay Bea, originally built for the president of Texas Instruments, and the holder of an impressive ocean racing record. Unfortunately, Huckleberry Apple ran into con-
KAUAI CREWED
Secret lovers in Kauai.
siderable trouble on the crossing, radio¬ ing a distress message when the weld on the rudder shaft broke. They jury rigged it with hose clamps and altered course to Honolulu for repairs. Eventually they changed their minds and decided to cross the finish line. After Huckleberry Apple limped into port, the crew reveal¬ ed that every instrument was inoperable but the radio, that their engine had quit, requiring four days to repair, and that they had been out of food and water for a couple of days. A flashlight was taped to the compass until somebody on the helm said, “How come this compass always reads 330°?” The metal flashlight had polarized the compass. Somebody also noticed that a lot of their winches seemed inoperable. Owner Joe Hoffman was under¬ standably dejected, worrying that he wouldn’t be able to get the boat repaired in time for the Pan Am Series. “I wish some Navy boat had come along and taken US to San Diego,” he grumbled, referring to his boat at ‘Rotten Apple'. Blue Streak is a Cal 39 with lots of TransPac experience including two divi¬ sion firsts. Their radio went kaput about halfway through the race and at the time they were really flying, so the perennial question was “Where’s Blue Streak?” Everybody expected them to sneak across the finish line unannounc¬ ed. The arrived on the 15th day, and related a tale of distress, set to the tune
of The Twelve Days of Christmas. The songs says it all: On the Eighth day to Kauai Old Blue Streak brought to me: Blooper is split Batteries are gone Engine won’t start The radio’s kaput No running lights No reefer food A 34-mile day Broken alternator that won’t put out ' No compass lights Knotmeter gave up the ghost Port compass out A broken wind indicator And a helmsman sailing by the lee
This was the first time a mainland sailboat race had finished in Nawiliwili, but from the reactions of the participants and the locals, it will not be the last. Nawiliwili lies on the southeast corner of Kauai and is not itself a town, but near¬ by is bustling Lihue, the county seat. Nawiliwili is picturesque, with brilliantly colored Hobie-cats darting about. Adjacent to the bay is the commerical harbor where enormous sugar barges dock on a regular basis, and a tourist-jammed cruise ship berths twice a week. Beyond the commerical har¬
bor, nestled behind a palm dotted breakwater at the foot of a majestic mountain range, lies a tiny, newly-built small craft harbor which does not ever appear on charts of the area. There are doerths as well as anchorage and modern restroom facilities. Provisioning is not difficult and compact cars can be rented nearby for as little as $10 a day. Finishers in the Kauai race anchored out in the commericial basin amid the small and friendly sportfishing fleet. These fishing boats joined in the excite¬ ment, carrying welcoming parties out past the Ninini Point lighthouse to greet the finishing yachts, and then guiding or towing them into the harbor. The Kauai Surf Hotel sits on a cres¬ cent shaped beach in Nawiliwili Bay, and their beautiful grounds, pool and beach are open to everyone, hotel guests or not. The view from the open air Outrigger Bar was spectacular, even though there was hot debate over whether the drinks were made with li¬ quor.1 Aside from the Kauai Surf, most peo-
jump!
TRANSPAC One of the more interesting locals who became involved in the race was a fellow named Bob. I noticed that he was welcoming almost every boat and I ask¬ ed him which boat he was waiting for. He muttered something spacy and then someone whispered to me that Bob lives in the men’s room at the airboat dock. Bob was no dummy, he caught on right away that when each boat came in, everybody passed out lots of beer and food. He’d wave and give people a hand up on the dock and then climb aboard the boat for several beers. Later we saw Bob at the luau where he was exchanging funnly little cigarettes for cans of Michelob. Someone sug¬ gested that Bob might be a farmer. The Nawiliwili Yacht Club put on a great luau for the racers, complete with belly dancers and a country western band —- (obviously not your everyday, ordinary luau). But some sailors are not content without really unique forms of entertainment. ‘Hodge-Podge’ Hodges of Foreplay told us his favorite sport was pushing over the cows near Hanalei Bay. “Cattle sleep standing up,” he ex¬ plained, “so about 5 of you sneak up on
. . . and Sugar Frosted Flakes for dinner.
pie involved in the race stayed at nearby Banyon Harbor Condos or in I Pali Kai cottages hanging on a cliff overlooking the bay. At Banyon Harbor, the living was easy except for a nearby rooster which crowed at 4 A.M. each morning. That rooster has been the subject of numerous murder schemes, and one of the locals claimed a $1500 collection was taken to buy the damn thing. The owner wouldn’t sell. One morning I woke up without the rooster, afraid some yachtie had done him in. 1 saw the bird later though, and surmised that roosters don’t crow in the rain. page 95
Since Nawiliwili commerical harbor does not ordinarily cater to small craft, a temporary floating dock was hastily constructed at the former airboat land¬ ing. It was plywood, about a yard wide, 30 feet long and even without a boat tied up, was in a constant process of self destruction. Every other day crews were out there trying to nail the thing back together and asking how many more boats were expected. Finally, on July 4, the dock broke completely loose and floated out to mid-harbor. It was pro¬ bably the one weak link in the entire Kauai operation. -L .
KAUAI 1980 BALLENA BAY CREWED S.F. TO KAUAI TRANSPAC Div. Standing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DNF DNF 1 2 ' 3 4 5 DNF DNF DNF DNF ★ ★
Fleet Standing
Boat Name
Skipper
Model
Elapsed Time
DIVISION 1 10:04:51:52 Norton Smith 14:12:25:30 Thomas Harney 15:00:51:21 L. A. Otterson 15:13:52:24 Len Teasley ^15:14:13:58 Dean Stiles 13:23:25:19 Bradley Herman 16: 2:34:25 Joseph Hoffman DIVISION II 14:21:34:45 Dean Treadway Farr One Ton Sweet Okole 5 15:19:40:19 Charles McCuskey Peterson 34 Wovoka 9 15:13:05:12 Hans Christian Ycht. Wilderness 30SX Foreplay 8 '16:08:13:48 James Tyler Peterson 34 Airbourne 16 15:20:26:09 Russell Kubiak Cal. Corinthian 39 Namu II 18 16:16:41:29 James Richmond Burns 36 Rolling Stone 21 DIVISION III 14:13:49:04 Larry Harvey Farr 38 Timber Wolf 3 15:01:06:35 Jerald Jensen Cal 39 4 Sangvind' 15:09:43:31 Sam Whiteside Cal 39 Blue Streak 10 15:04:19:03 Harold Nelson Custom 50 Axel Heyst 13 16:16:14:01 Santana 35 Orison Gooch Wild Hair 25 Anker-Jensen 63’ ywl William Hall Corsair Islander 40 Don Wilson Dealers Choice Santana 35 William Hecht Friendship Columbia 50 Eddie Adams Phu-Bai-Lai-Ang Santana 35 Mai Weaver Raccoon Straights DIVISION IV 15:08:38:19 Tom Tyler Holstein 48 Kotick II 2 15:22:56:04 William Siegel Mull 32 Isis 11 16:07:'04:36 David Jesberg Cal 33 Vicarious 12 16:07:29:26 Alan Morton C&C 35 Goldrush 14 16:09:55:40 Gerald Knecht Fast Passage 39 Cadence 19 17:13:12:54 Leonard King Cal 36 Debutante 28 17:17:12:09 Joseph Weathers Islander 36 Cannibal 29 17:13:35:41 Ben Travis Explorer 45 30 Serenity 18:09:55:14 v Robert Lewis Hans Christian 42 Restless 32 Al Holbert Warrior 35 Josephine M Ted Perkowski Ericson 41 Tyche \ DIVISION V 17:05:12:11 Bob Stange Ranger 29 Pro Tan to 6 17:09:03:15 John Tysell, Jr. Cal 3-30 20 Soufriere 18:03:16:41 y Stuart Sail Hans Christian 34 24 Red Rover 17:16:19:48 Robert Moeller Ranger 33 26 Schuss Bunny 19:05:11:45 Stanley Mentzer Independence 31 31 Boundless Alan Leggett Islander 3011 Accent J. Grissinger S2 9.2A Stormy Petrel Jimi Murieto Ericson 35 Windsong Jerry Hanser Mira Ranger 33 Hours adjusted for going to the assistance of another boat 1 7 15 22 23 17 27
Merlin Andiamo Sioc Geronimo Finesse Secret Love Huckleberry Apple
one, push real hard, then run like hell!” One outstanding characteristic about Kauai was the diversity bordering on contradiction. To inquire about areas to snorkel, we stopped at the Surf and Bi¬ ble Shop, which is near the Music and Rug Store. To buy leis you might go the the Florist/Fish Market. The house speciality at Rosita’s Mexican Restaur¬ ant was fried chicken and corn on the cob.
Lee 67 Swan 55 Serendipity 43 Custom 48 C&C 43 Santa Cruz 50 Palmer Johnson 49
On your dinner plate you were likely to get delectable fried Ahi served with inedible canned -veggies and tasteless gummy rice. Most of the Kauai Surf food was extravagantly expensive and mediocre, but the teriyaki steak sand¬ wich for $2.25 at Keoki’s beachside shack was quite tasty. The Sebastiani wine we bought was vitually undrink¬ able, probably from sitting on the wharf in the heat too long. The house wine at t \
PHRF Corrected 244.86 285.43 297.86 307.87 308.23 299.42 320.57 282.58 286.67 286.09 299.23 299.44 307.69
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IOR Corrected 244.86 277.10 283.06 300.50 301.90 306.30 313.54 271.74 277.32 279.28 290.03 297.82 302.00
276.84* ★ 277.11 288,73 290.90* * 313.23
269.64 289.93 292.08 292.49 300.93 325.22 326.20 328.59 348.92
284.20 305.83 309.02* * 319.33 335.20
the Kauai Surf was Gallo and a Michelob cost $2.25. We couldn’t find Hawaiian style potato chips anywhere and the pa¬ payas, bananas, and sugar — which grow everywhere on the island — were more expensive than they are in Marin. But Kauai is considered the most beautiful island, and there were plenty of splendid sights: huge caves, a magni¬ ficent mini-Grand Canyon, breathtaking
CREWED TRANSPAC waterfalls, secluded beaches, exquisite flowers and birds. It was an ideal sport for a tropical vacation following an ar¬ duous ocean voyage, and somebody in
Ballena Bay Yacht Club knew it. Plans are already in motion to restage the race in 1982, and the crew of Merlin has donated their magnificent sculp¬
tured crystal trophy as a perpetual. The sentiment expressed again and again among the fleet: Ballena Bay Yacht Club did a hell of a job.
RACING I quit racing sailboats four years ago. I quit because.! was getting pretty good; and the breaches of seamanship that are required in order to win consistently rub me, and my wallet, the wrong way. . But when Stan assured me he just wanted to go along for the ride and get there in one piece, I agreed to skipper his boat, Boundless, an Independence 31, in the San Francisco to Kauai Race . We finished last. We finished with the boat pretty much intact, the crew in good shape (and still good friends) and with food and water to spare — even
after nineteen days at sea. Our elapsed time was two days longer than the division average. The Monitor self-steering gear, affectionately named “Merlen’ , was on duty more than 50% of the time. We flew our Qenniker (a 150% headsail) about 25% of the time — and only once did . we keep it up thru the night. While I am a fairly experienced sailor, the three others in the crew share a total of just a . few years of occasional sailing ex¬ perience. Our sail inventory totaled four also: a mailsail with two reef points, a
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small staysail, a 120% Yankee, and the previously mentioned Genniker. Other boats in the race carried as many as seven spinnakers, and one boat blew out four. (He didn’t win either). Aside from the money we didn’t spend breaking gear and sails, the other advantage to being last is the notariety. Merlin was the best known boat in the fleet, but everybody also knew who Boundless was. We finished last, and it was a great party. — John lowry
SMILE Why is this man smiling? He’s Ori Gooch, owner of Santana 35, Wild Hair. Two days out of San Francisco her rudder bent, leaving the crew to face more than 1600 miles of downwind sailing with a critical piece of i equipment impaired. Then two days out of Kauai, during an 18 knot plus burst, the rudder bent back straight — an even more ominous event. But Ori and the crew reached Nawiliwili safety, although they almost lost it in the-last few hundred yards. It must have been 4 in the morning when they drop¬ ped her sails in the middle of the harbor entrance, an area buffeted by gusty trades and rocking with the swells > backwashing of the breakwaters. When they should have turned left they turned right, nearly putting themselves in the surf line directly in front of the Kauai Surf Hotel. Spectators ran to their cars and began flashing lights and honking horns, fearful that after coming all this way they’d lose her on the beach. Cliff Stagg, who had been anxiously await¬ ing his sister Cassie on Wild Hair had
had his fill of uncertainty. “The hell with the boat,” he hollered from atop the breakwater, “run that sucker up on the beach.” Fortunately they didn't, got turned around, and arrived safely at the airboat dock just a few minutes later, where a small but jubilant crowd greeted them. As soon as the boat touched the dock, there was a collective sigh of relief not unlike a hurricane. A couple of the crew immediately abandoned ship for solid land as though they’d been dream¬ ing of it for days and days. Everybody yelled for Ori to get off the boat, too;' figuring he’d be dying for a taste of dry land. But you could see he was in no particular rush, as he was smiling broadly and seemingly savoring the moment. Not only had he just com¬ pleted his first TransPac, but he and his crew had held together and kept their cool during days and days of nerveracking tension. When a guy and his crew get put to the test and rise to the occasion, well then a man’s got a right to smile.
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The following are my semi-cohereqt remembrances of having one of my more ambitious fantasies come true — attending the 1980 Antigua Race Week in the British West Indies. It was a fan¬ tasy fueled by an article last year in Latitude 38 about the 1979 event, and a fantasy that grew more intense during the cold, wet winter months. I just couldn’t get those wonderful images out of my mind: the hot sun, the white, san¬ dy beaches, the 8 to 1 ratio of males to females, the rum punches — but not necessarily in that order. Some miracles come true, and all of a sudden, I was there, lucky to have a berth on a beautiful 67’ cruising yacht whose owners had gathered various and sundry friends and acquaintances, mainly for the purpose of pleasure. Br¬ inging together 15 or so folks who generally don’t know one another was, of course, a gamble. But our hosts gambled well, and strangers became
family in short order. We all got our share of the pleasures and excitement of Antigua Race Week. And what a week! How can you cap¬ ture the madness of a sleepy country transformed into high-energy craziness by over a 100 boats —■ from Wind¬ surfers to the “America”? And then there are the thousands of people who come from all over the world, people ranging from serious ocean racers to out-of-control loonies. The days were a composite of colors. Hot bright sun, soothing cool water, yachts rocking at anchor, folks im¬ mobile, sleeping off excesses on the beach ... all week long the cold ten¬ sions were continually melting down to be replaced by experiences to warm the soul. Through a woman’s eyes the scenery was magnificient, providing more visual stimulation than the eyeballs could han¬ dle. There were men everywhere. Ac-
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PACE WEEK
life.
They actually do race during Antigua Race Week.
The shortage of dinghys to the excess of people was the only problem of sorts. Wanting to get ashore you could: 1) Jump overboard and swim — not too practical while carrying drink tickets and wearing your last clean pair of shorts; 2) Hail a passing dinghy; or 3) Wait pa¬ tiently and hope someone would be returning to your boat soon. The trick when trying to get back to the boat was either: 1). a ride, or 2). “Borrowing” anything handy (frowned upon, but widely used). Protocol demanded that each dinghy carry at least double its safe load of passengers. The only cause for taking no more passengers was downright sinking, but since you were frequently sitting on the bottom, it was difficult to tell when the dinghys were overloaded. Gallantry — or more accurately — hor¬ niness, was in full bloom. If the hit-
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tually, there were many lovely ladies, too, and the ratio of tne sexes was slum¬ ping to about 3 men for every woman. As for the racing, my fantasy didn’t include keeping score, but races there were, with winners and losers and those that crashed. In the thrills, spills, and disaster departments, this year’s crowd must rank near the top. It was, afterall, the 13th Annual Race Week. There was a wrecked Boston Whaler with some wrecked crew, a broken leg, an escape from the Antigua hospital, and a hospital worth escaping from. No one was hurt racing. The music was incredible as it wafted through the anchorage. Steel drums, reggae, good old rock ‘n roll — they were all as much a part of the night as the moon, appropriately full. Even Jim¬ my Buffet was supposedly somewhere around, and scenes from his “Banana Republics” played everywhere in real
RACE WEEK Goose, goose.
chhiker was female, there was always room for one more. Personally speaking, 1 didn’t waste any time, but fell in love/like/lust (one, X any, or all of the above — I’m not cer¬ tain myself) at least every hour. I met a kindred soul the first night I arrived, with whom 1 shared all the moonlight and special times, and who really did sail away into the sunset at the end of the week. A few tips for 1981 in Antigua: Wear your “I survived Antigua Race Week” T-shirt the first day you arrive. Don’t try romantic liasions ashore — the natives have us all figured out and have staked out all the good secluded areas with observations points. Never say ‘no’ to a rum punch. Be ready for fantasies to come true. Changes in latitudes, indeed! — rita gardner
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BAREBOATING MICRONESIA As you explore the mysterious ancient ci¬ ty of Nan Modol by dinghy a sense of mysticism comes over you. Not far from your anchored charter boat but light years from the bustle of the cities and suburbs, this prehistoric Venice is only one stop on your cruising schedule. Tomorrow, a short walk from your next anchorage, you will be swimming in a natural pool at the base of a tropical waterfall. Next day run'downwind to the uninhabited atoll named Andema where Manta Rays glide gracefully through crystalclear lagoon waters. This cruising paradise is 2,000 miles west from Hawaii and 7 degrees above the Equator. The climate is tropical, cooled year-round by steady Northeast trades. Div¬ ing in 100 foot plus visibility surrounded by reef fish and countless varieties of coral or fishing for Mahi-Mahi while underway await the bareboat sailor. Those who have been here before consider the islanders among their most exciting discoveries. The smiles are real and the warmth genuine. Hard to believe a jet touches down on a coral-base runway and comes to a stop in Paradise! More specifically, the island of Ponape. Located in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Ponape is the new capitol of the “Federated States of Micronesia". Using American currency, be¬ ing in American waters, (our postal system?), with no passports or shots re¬ quired; makes everything easier for the bareboater. The islanders speak their own language as well as English. Continental * Airlines flys to Ponape from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Their 727 lands directly on Ponape so no inter-island transfers are ne¬ cessary as in other charter destinations. Often a bareboat charter can be less than / ideal due to the type of boats in the fleet. In Ponape, Peterson 44’s offer a true sailing experience. These fast-sailing, comfortable, yet capable offshore boats are ideal. As an emerging nation closely affiliated with the United States, this country is anx¬ ious to share the beauty of their islands with Amerfcbn sailors. In the United States contact Micronesian Sailing Charters for . further information at (707) 762-5311, or come by and see us at Port Sondfna Yacht Sales, 262 Sears Point Rd., Petaluma, CA 94952.
Beautiful lagoon on the island of Ponape
West Coast sailors will be able to, charter bareboats in Micronesia starting September, 1980. Both Truk Lagoon and the Island- of Ponape will be the destina¬ tion via direct air service for those of you looking for a new sailing experience.
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Thundering out of the nor¬ thwest corner of this dazzling John Hutton photograph are four members of the local J-24 fleet. But by no means is this all of them. There are probably 10 or 15 times that many in nor¬ thern California, and probably 750 times that many sailing around the world. J Boats is an amazing success story, made all the more amaz¬ ing by the fact that thd boat wasn’t originally intended to be a commercial suc¬ cess. Rod John¬ stone of Conneticut designed and built the prototype for himself and his family, not real¬ ly caring if anyone else ever wanted one. In fact, halfway through his first suc¬ cessful racing season. Rod didn’t really care for having anyone else lay a hand on the tiller. Or so Bob Johnstone, Rod’s brother, ‘old us one chil¬ ly night during the depths of last winter. While brother
Rod came up with the design, people in the in¬ dustry generally attribute the widespread suc¬ cess of the boat to brother Bob. Bob is one hell of a marketing man. How good is he? Well, back a• few years he was the brand manager for some big cor¬ porations who would entrust him with as much as $5 million for a campaign to convince you citizens to pur¬ chase just one of their pro¬ ducts. In the beginning of these campaigns even Bob didn’t believe they could recoup their marketing investment, but in time his ex¬ perience show¬ ed him that marketing was a science, a mat¬ ter of correctly interpreting the research data. Actually, Bob’s marketing of the J-24 is probably only his second greatest achieve¬ ment. His big¬ gest was a few years back when he rocked the dog food world by coming up with the concept of cheese flavored burgers
for dogs. Studies have shown that peo¬ ple like to feed their pets what they themselves like to eat, and Bob was willing to run with that research. The Kennel Ration Cheese flavored burgers gave his company a 6
month headstart over the com¬ petition in the cheese flavored dog food market. And the dog food business is big, big business. Later, while working for AMF in their boat division, marketing
research reveal¬ ed that the country was ready to em¬ brace a boat just like the one that his brother,had designed. When AMF wasn’t ready to go with it, Bob took the leap of faith, and founded J Boats with his l
brother Rod. There is one fundamental dif¬ ference between J Boats and almost all other x. other big boat companies: J Boats doesn’t build boats — they have licensees that do that dirty work. The concept is
to let everyone do what they do best; Rod designs, the licensees build, and Bob markets. J Boats started out with a great licensee, Emmett Pear¬ son, who had a world of great experience start-
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design as possi¬ ble. And that has created some produc¬ tion problems. They are built in such large numbers that at various times production had to be shut down because Kenyon ran out of spars, Perko out of locker hinges, and Ritchie out of compasses. Such are the tribulations of success. When Bob first came into marketing, he decided that most boat manufacturers aren’t really sure what in the hell they are doing; they don’t really
know why they are introducing a new boat, they don’t know where they stand in the in¬ dustry, and they don’t know where they hope to be in the next five years. Bob, on the other hand, always .wants to do something for a reason, never by caprice. Take the sites of the J-24 Worlds, for example. Each time a J-24 pro¬ duction facility is opened in a new part of the world, that area gets the next available Worlds. This stimulates local
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demand for the boats and helps get the class off to a running start. Sure it’s just a little thing, but the success of J Boats is based on doing all the little things for a good reason. Bob is a believer in the value of keeping the lines of communication open between J Boats and the dealers, the owners, and the press. So, like Carter, Ken¬ nedy, Reagan, and Anderson, he goes on the stump. That’s how local class members met him, how local
dealers met him, how the J Boat article got in the Chronicle last winter, and the reason this article is being written. It’s just another one of those little things. The meeting itself was facinating, very much like a cor¬ poration presi¬ dent giving the
stockholders the annual report. It makes sense, too: By owning a J Boat, each owner has an investment, an interest in hav¬ ing the boat stay at the top. So they are happy to see the 140 color slides Bob brought of races, happy to see the new plants opening
hround the world, happy to hear their boat has been chosen for this cham¬ pionship and that, happy to be a part of the greater glory of J Boats. Pressing the flesh isn’t par¬ ticularly fun, but it very effective¬ ly says, “We care about you.” Owners
like that, and it is something that other boat companies might do well to imitate. — latitude 38 For those boat historians, the J-24 was not really a uni¬ que design breakthrough. In sailing characteristics it is quite similar
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HORS D’OEUVRES Crabby Annie Sea Conditions: Choppy, stiff breeze Cook’s Mood: Only fair In this case, the recipe is not named after the mood pf the cook but after the ingredients. Also, it presumes you have some cheese left. Grate any cheese and some onion, use dried if that’s all you have. Mix with one can crabmeat and some mayon¬ naise. You can serve this cold on crackers or melted ' on bread and
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Sushi Sea Conditions: Anything up to a gale Cook’s Mood: Don’t hassle me This is a very special snack looking as though you slaved all day. The only dif¬
ficulty with this recipe is that you have to remember to make it at least two hours ahead of time so they can cool. Cook rice. Take a seaweed sheet — they are called nori and are available at Japenese and health food stores and are 7”x8” squares — and spread the hot cooked rice about V2” thick leaving one edge bare for sealing. Add either cann¬ ed shrimp or dried vegetable flakes that you have soaked, distributing evenly all through the rice. Roll this into a tube and seal closed with water. Let it cool, then slice with a really sharp knife or you will tear the seaweed. Now you have bitesize sushi.
PART II
SOUPS Hot Day Instant Gazpacho Sea Conditions: Warm, pleasant and sunny
Cook’s Mood: Warm, pleasant and sun¬ ny Use whatever tomato base item is left: tomato juice, or Snapee Tom or canned tomatoes cut up in little pieces with the juice. Soak some dried vegetable flakes and add. Add any of the following you may have: chopped onions, green pep¬ per, cucumber (unlikely, 1 know . . .),
GOOD THINGS Sort of Pizza/Sort of Quiche Roll out a package of pie crust mix or a packaged pizza crust and cook over low heat in frying pan until crisp. Beat two eggs and add any of the following, or anything else that looks good: the pizza sauce, Spam or ham, cheese, can¬ ned tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach or chiles, then cover and cook very slowly. More eggs will make it more like a quiche. A modification is to use no eggs and put grated Spam and cheese on raw pie crust dough, cook and break in¬ to little crispy bites. You can also do this with bread instead of dough as the base' in the pan, then it is more like a souffle,
soup, using half the can of soup un¬ diluted. Spice to taste and heat this mix¬ ture. If you want to add a crunchy tex¬ ture to this, use canned chow mein vegetables or diced water chestnuts. Fill the crepes with the mixture, roll them, and keep them warm. Dilute the other half of the soup with a little water and pour over the crepes as a sauce, or, with a little more trouble and another pan, you can mix up a packet of hollandaise sauce and top with this instead of the soup. For an even fancier touch, tenderly lay two stalks of canned asparagus alongside.
ON BREAD Crepes ala Moment Sea Conditions: Ideal Cook’s Mood: Excellent and innovative and lemon juice. Top with croutons, either packaged or some that you made by cubing and garlic-frying your homemade bread. A dash of vinegar, garlic salt and pepper, and serve cold.
Leftover Fish Chowder
Get out your “complete” pancake mix, as it only requires water. Make thin crepes, put them aside. Mix up either tinned chicken with cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup, or tinned seafood with cream of shrimp
When you catch a big fish and there is some left over, the next day’s lunch can be fish chowder. The soup bdse is cream of potato soup, canned kernel corn, canned tomatoes and onions if you have them. Use canned milk to dilute the soup. Add chunks of fish (boned!!) and season to taste, including bay leaves, taragon, and real-lemon.
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Nothing smells so good or tastes so great as bread just out of the oven, all brown and crusty and light and fluffy . . . well, this takes a very special skill which I sorely lacked at the beginn¬ ing of our voyage. Now, if you have had success with bread, and it always rises, and maybe even twice, ignore the following. If you haven’t had this ex-
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perience, and want to bake at sea, don’t earnestly read cookbooks and try to do everything right like I did. They will tell you to mix the yeast with water that’s just so hot, and let the yeast work-, and then to mix your ingredients just so, and to knead it just so, and then to re-knead it after the first rising ... it just didn’t work! 1 created one batch of dough that sort of rose once, then I re-kneaded it and got a nice pile of clay. The next batch never rose at all, but I baked it anyway hoping the oven’s heat would make it rise. Cement war clubs were the result. The third batch went over the side after it had lain sullenly in a small lump in the bottom of the bowl for four hours. 1 concluded that I had bought a batch of bad yeast. The secret is to treat the yeast with
put my mixture in a bowl and covered it with a lid. In thirty minutes it had poofed out of the bowl, sticking in the lid’s every ungreased nook and cranny. Then we rolled the dough out, cut out circles with the coffee pot top and cook¬ ed them in a black frying pan over an open fire. Light, flaky English muffins! These are called Johnny Muffins after the manager of the Palmyra Plantation who taught me to disrespect yeast. After you know how to rf^ake the dough you can make all manner of breads. Small things like the muffins will cook in the frying pan or you can make big loaves if you want to start the oven. You can make a sweet bread for breakfast or little hard rolls. When it gets stale you can make croutons with bacon grease and garlic, or bake buttered cubes and put Old English cheese on them for the last few minutes. If the bread never does work, you can make very good things with Bisquick. Mix the dough as directed and make bisquits or a coffee cake with sugar, cin¬ namon and raisins, or drop dumplings into a casserole. It’s not as good as real bread, but its way ahead of nothing.
Neptune’s Delight — Add cream of shrimp soup and crab or shrimp Sea Conditions: Really fine Clam Linguini — Add clams, mushrooms, tomatoes, garlic, onions Boil up some rice and make any of the above, but two extra things can be done with rice.
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Slop Glop and Its Modifications Boil noodles in a large pan and drain. If it is even too awful to do this, use Ramen noodles which will be ready three minutes after you pour hot water over them. P.S. — I found I was writing the word canned every time I turned around in these recipes, which is a bore, so please note that all ingredients are canned. Sea Conditions: Gale, black Goulash — Add tomato soup or Homestead meat sauce. Sea Conditions: Storm, clouds Cheaters’ Cacciatore — Add mushroom or chicken soup and chicken
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PART II corn and tomatoes Sea Conditions: Wonderful Cheater’s Paella — Cook rice with boullion, add clams with juice and chunks of chicken or ham. Special: the pepperoni in the sauce from a pepperoni pizza.
Mexican Madness You have to feel like fussing for this
one, and the day has to rate “A” on the scale. Dig out the packaged taco shells and pray that they have not crashed in¬ to little bits. If they haven’t prepare a chicken and chicken soup mixture, stuff the tacos and warm them in the oven. On serving, add alfalfa sprouts and cut up canned tomatoes. Heat a can of re¬ fried beans and add any kind of cheese on top, even Old English will at least look good. Roll Ortega whole chiles in a thick Bisquick batter and fry fast in hot oil. Some nice but not necessary touches: thicken the tomato’s juice and pour over the chile rellenos, or have a little bit of jack cheese squirreled away to put inside them before frying. Be sure to serve with sauces like salsa verde or hot taco sauce. Si Si!!
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In the firmament of the sailing world they were a bunch of nobodys. A bunch of nobodys with nothing boats. But hat’s what made this year’s Singlehanded TransPac so attractive to us, it was a plain and simple ‘people’s’ race. Take a gander down the list of 38 en¬ tries who crossed the starting line in San Francisco on June 15th and who’ve you got? There’s a legitimate celebrity in Transatlantic Amy Boyer, and there’s Hal Holbrook, but he’s a star on the screen, not the ocean. Let’s see . . . there’s first race veterans Carson, Keenan, Harting, Vielhauer, Vahey, and Upham, and those who follow crewed TransPacs probably find the name Rod Park familiar. But that’s about it, everyone else is best known to their mothers and wives — except of course Amy and Linda. And what a fleet of boats! Why there was hardly a custom design in the whole bunch — only 5 out of 38 — and not a single one built especially for this race. The OSTAR folks would hoot them right off the Atlantic. Imagine, a fleet of entries with the likes of a Cal 29, Islander 28’s, Pearson 36’s, Irwin 34’s, Catalina 30’s, Ericson 35’s — heck, fa : these are tKe exact same boats we see and sail everyday on the bay. Yes, and that’s exactly what we liked! Ordinary people in ordinary boats, each entrant taking the big leap of faith in the boat he or she owns, and striving for the ex¬ traordinary persona! achievement. Bravo! Oh shit! We forgot all about Michael Kane again, and his 55-ft trimaran, Crusader. Poor Michael had wanted to sail in the OSTAR but ran out of money. He ended up entering in the TransPac, which for all intents and pur¬ poses, is a monohull race. His J*f disassociation was magnified when he ^ started out with 24-hour runs of 310, 326, and 280 miles, effectively sailing away from the fleet and right out of the race. Made for the OSTAR, that’s where Crusader belonged, among a fleet of sisters designed as vehicles to fame and fortune for French and English national heroes-to-be.
Overall winner Bob Counts with singlehanding veteran Peggy Slater.
Kane was racing by himself — in more ways than one — and it’s a bit of a shame because he did darn well. In fact his 326-mile day was within just 4 miles of Alain Colas 24-hour trimaran record run. Kane finished in 10 days, 19 hours, two and a half days ahead of Norton Smith’s Santa Cruz 27 record of 1978. But because this is not yet an ex¬ otic or multihull race, Kane’s record, like Roger Maris’ 61 home runs, will for now be the oddity rather than the stan¬ dard to shoot for.
The winner of the race, not only only on overall corrected time, but in following the spirit of the fleet, was Bob Counts. He sailed Sanderling, a 24-ft. Golden Gate, built in the 50’s, having been designed for the bay in the early 30’s by George Wayland. Still a onedesign class on the bay — Bob has won the championship the last two years — the Golden Gate has the scaled down hull of the more famous Bird, with a more modern — for the 30’s — rig. In all probability, Sanderling was the least expensive boat in the fleet, carried the fewest sails, and close to the least equip¬ ment. She was, however, sailed by a knowledgeable skipper who wanted to win. Bob Counts is a no-nonsense sort of fellow who runs a sailing school and small boat rental fleet in Sausalito. In last month’s issue he went on record saying that his Golden Gate was right for the race because her full-keel and small rig would allow one man to sail her very close to her full potential. The other boats, he figured, could not sail up to their ratings without bigger crews. Owning a heavier full-keel boat our¬ selves, we appreciated his sentiments, but figured he wouldn’t be able to withs¬ tand the onslaught of lighter boatsv But he certainly did, taking fleet honors by nearly five hours over a Moore 24, a boat the same length as the Golden Gate, but one which displaces one-third as much. As far as Bob was concerned, the weather played right into his hands. “I
SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC
1980 wanted a light air race,” he said, and basically, that’s what he got. There were 25 to 30 knot winds the first 3 days, and he drove Sanderling well south of the rhumb line, not in response to the re¬ ported position of the Pacific high, but simply playing the wind percentages of the Pacific. Prior to leaving he plotted his intended course on the wall of his sailing school office, and in actuality he never varied more than 8 hours or 100 miles from it. Playing the percentages
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required him to sail a longer course, but gave him good winds and left him with a low day of 91 miles, well above the fleet avbrage. (One 40-footer had a 10-mile day, one of the Moores had a 29-mile day). First across the starting line in his divi¬ sion, Counts fought nil the way for his victory. In such a long race he realized that those early few seconds gained on the fleet were not nearly as important as the pyschological lift it gave him. He’d
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After 3 early days of strong winds, he flew his big chute for 7 or 8 days straight in lighter winds, often letting the TillerMaster steer, a device he chose over a vane because it left nothing to drag in the water. During the last 6 days the following seas picked up with the' trades, and the autopilot could no longer steer effectively. Counts drove by hand for long, long hours, and didn’t sleep at all during the last 48 hours. After considering the victory of his dated design, Counts pronounced “They’ve learned a lot aboilf yacht de¬ sign in the last 30 years — but they’ve forgotten a lot, too!”
Hans Vielhauer went way south and then back north, "I really screwed up," he acknowledged.
always figured Amy Boyer in her Wilderness 21 to be tough competition, and wasn’t surprised to look back and see her a close second across the start¬ ing line. A small boat has its drawbacks^ and Bob’s “butt was wet from the time I passed Mile Rock until the time I got to the race committee house in Hanalei.”
\A/e arrived in Hanalei 15 days into the race. After leaving the July issue with the printer at noon, we hopped one plane to Honolulu, another to Kauai, rented a car in Lihue and drove to Nawiliwili, then around the island to Hanalei. Still daylight, the first person we saw was Norton Smith who told us to hurry up, that they’re taking Merlin out to meet Don Keenan. Pounding in¬ to the dusky Pacific we learn that Rod Park blazed across the finish line earlier in the day, Panache’s big chute leading the way. Suddenly Keenan’s Olson 30, Hanalei Flyer, emerges from the blackness, and Don is weary but glad to have finished and correct out ahead of Park. With apologies to Michael Kane,
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Keenan and Park figured to have the big battle for first to finish. Park’s aging Lee 40 had the advantage on the waterline length and was sure to move if the winds blew. And she did when they did. The crew on Sweet Okole testified that
Another lousy day in a place called Hanelei.
Don Keenan with 100 yards to finish.
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Dick Mitchell interviews sweet San Diego Sally for the trip back. She sailed to Samoa with her mother.
Panache whistled right past them off Oahu, carrying her big chute. Keenan’s Olson 30, on the other hand, would be expected to have the edge in lighter air, being a lighter boat. Park estimates that all his elapsed time margin was gained during the last few days in the brisk trades. A veteran of many TransPacs, Park sailed hard all the way and loved it. He was as exuburent about hitting 18 knots running down the coast of California as as he was trying to solve predicaments such as having two poles on the chute
doubt. Even though the wind dropped to 15 knots in the following 2 days, he flew only a main until drawing alongside Sangvind, whose crew revived his dor¬ mant competitive spirits. Keenan’s lead in the race committee house was short-lived. John Carson rumbled in with his Cal 40 Argonaut just ten hours later, and temporarily claimed the corrected time lead. John said he’d
with the vane unable to steer. He figures it was his best learning experience sail¬ ing and was last seen gathering a group of singlehanders for the next year’s crewed TransPac. Keenan’s dedication and preparation for the race have been tremendous, but his zeal for victory may have done him in. In the early going he was carrying too much sail, when the combination of a nasty wave and simultaneous gust put Hanalei Flyers spreader in the water. The hatch was open, inundating the cabin with water and his psyche with
One spreader on John Hill's Columbia 29 went right through the mast and pushed the other spreader out. Ho, ho, ho.
always known how to make boats go fast, but he’d always had heavy boats that lacked the potential. A broker in Seattle, Carson allowed to being im¬ pressed by the classic Cal and planned to recommend them as cruising boats in the future. •" Eight hours later, on a brilliant Hanalei afternoon, Doug Fryer arrived on Night Runner, but his rating of 54 put him well off the pace. Hot on his heels was Bob Boyes in Saltshaker, the first of the three bright yellow Moore 24s. Boyes had sailed a clever race, having stayed north, and grabbed the corrected time lead until Bob Counts wrestled it away two days later, dropp¬ ing him to second.
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I3oyes is a rigger from Ventura, and easily had the most interesting en¬ tourage of the race. They included his vivacious mother, his shiny-domed bigmustached affable father, and his dazzl¬ ing American Beauty of a sweetheart who said, “Spell it C-A-R-I, I hate to have it misspelled.” In an island full of tiny Toyota Tercel’s, they somehow came up with a big Lincoln or something to rumble around the island in — what a sight! What a bunch of fun people! But they were all played a part in his effort. When Bob was 15 his parents got a Cal 24 in an attempt to keep him from continuing to race motorcycles — they lost one son in a vehicle accident — and to this day they support his sailing efforts. And more recently, a month before the race, he was ready to chuck the TransPac project when ‘C^A-R-I’ urged and inspired him to continue. “She did it all,” he says. Boyes has been racing quite a while, in fact he so devastated the competition
in Channel Islands that they outlawed boats under 30-ft. specifically to keep Bob and his Moore 24 off the course. He ‘didn’t meet the spirit of the rule’ in their view. Besides his own and his families various boats — Cal 24, Moore 24, Yankee 38, Santa Cruz 27 — Bob has sailed on some of the better California hotrods. Among them are Merlin, Drifter, and Ragtime, and it’s interesting to note that he feels that Ragtime has the greatest speed potential of the three. Boyes did last year’s TransPac on the 55-ft. Mull-designed Kristin, and the ex¬ perience was of great value in this race. Boyes stayed north near the shorter rhumb line course for most of the race, and then when two highs formed — just as they did last year — he went even farther north to position himself be¬ tween the two. They created the 35 to 40 knot winds that shot him toward Hanalei like a squeezed watermelon seed. It’s similar to the tactic that Ragtime used successfully last year. When Bob arrived the group was waiting for him. After a while they asked \
THE IAN KIERNAN SAMPLER. A singlehandeder returns to the ho-hum drudgery of shoreside life: 'torching', kissing, eating, more kissing.
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him what he’d like most, and he said some time alone on his boat with his sweetheart Cari. So they swam out to the boat. But a mother’s love is a strong thing, and it wasn’t long before she swam out and was knocking on the hull — boy was Cari sore! Or so the story goes. Bob and Cari are very close though, and during the race were often able to “feel” the presence of one another. They’d send transcendental vibes and often felt together. Cari, who had com¬ plete faith'in Bob’s abilities, said she was often “hit with a rush of him”. Their feeling the presence of each other was certainly not uncommon. One night Greg Booth “felt spirits” on
Greg Booth, baby Kelsey, and wife Patti Meadows on the beach.
the whole time,” not scared enough to freeze up, but enough to keep him on his toes.
Sam Vahey at the message board at race committee headquarters.
his Cal 40 Wave Length and went below had a drink, turned up the stereo, and threw a party for everyone. Frank Dinsmore — and we’ll have more on, this next month — felt the companion¬ ship of a number of friends, living and dead, who proved helpful with all kinds of advice. Legs, Lester Robinson’s Moore 24 finished late on the 16th day, and pretty much signalled the beginning of the onslaught of boats. He had been over¬ whelmed a bit by the vastness of the ocean and lack of familiarity with such an open expanse. “I kept looking for a highway to lead me there,” he said. “I didn’t think I’d ever get there.” He also was never able to relax, “I was scared
Following Lester was Michael Harting in Challenge, with an excellent time and good tune-up for the upcoming singlehanded around-the-world race he plans to enter. In short order he was followed by Chuck Hawley in Slim, the last of the ultra-lights; Greg Booth in the Cal 40 Waue Length; Dick Mitchell in the Pear¬ son 36 Blithe Spirit — he’d diverted 24 hours to try and assist Friendship, and later got credit for that time — and Dan Byrne in Valiant 40 hull No. 1, Fantasy. \ The next two boats were the 13th and 14th of the eventual 33 to finish. They were the aforementioned Bob Counts, and Amy Boyer in her Wilderness 21, Little Rascal.
Amy arrived in Hanalei tanned, 21, voluptuous, and with a firm grip on 2nd in class and 3rd in the fleet! And pretty darn unhappy. She had lost her radio, had to climb the mast for a
halyard, and smashed her head with the boom, but none of those were the pro¬ blem. Unlike the Mini-Transat, she had not had the opportunity to really meet the other competitors — something ter¬ rifically important to her — and she found a lifeless trophy to be sorry com¬ pensation. Later in Honolulu she got to meet many of her competitors, and it did cheer her up, but at age 21 Amy Boyer has turned philosophical. She talks about her near phobia of sailing to weather after the first leg of the MiniTransat; she talks about how having lost her father made her grow up fast, and how she doesn’t want that to happen to her kids; she talks about her need for at¬ tention but being blown away at the number of people who want to touch or kiss or say hello to her; she talks about settling down but how quickly she gets bored. Life in the fast lane for adventurous Amy Boyer,, it’s not always as fun as it might appear to be. For now she says, “I’m at the crossroads of my life . .
way north or have simply taken their own sweet time. Damage throughout the race is about what you might have expected. One bad rudder, two bad masts — all in the early going. A couple of skippers drop¬ ped out early because this wasn’t what they’d had in mind; in addition Kathy Senelly fell victim to her broken wrist; and Don Eldridge had to divert to Hilo because of illness in the family. There were a whole host of folks who
Dan Byrne of Fantasy.
The next two days saw 14 more boats between 28 and 40-ft arrived at Hanalei. That left 4 more boats unac¬ counted for as the Awards Dinner neared, and on the flight home a num¬ ber of the competitors were alarmed that some of their buddies weren’t going to make it. For by this time it had been 21 days, the number of days for which they had been required to carry water. To everyone’s relief they finally did ar¬ rive safe and sound, having either been Chuck Hawley snapped this shot of Amy in the mid-Pacific, she'd picked up the autopilot he dropped.
sailed with some injury or another. One of the more common was getting the head smashed. Don Byrne was thrown from one side of his Valiant to the other, gashing his head on a port. Badly shaken up, he intended to drop out and consider the pleasures of a mountain cabin, but recovered and continued. Amy Boyer took a blow to the brains, requiring a patch over a badly swollen eye. Harold Upham cut his brow on his pulpit while anchoring, although he may have just been getting a battle scar for race photos (ho, ho Harold). Everyone had their share of bruises, with Linda Weber-Rettie looking as though she’d gone the distance with Roberto Duran. There were 578 scraped knuckles, innumerable sore muscles, and the usual bouts of mal de mer. Nobody, however, was more debilita¬ ted than Sam Crabtree on the Cal 39, Catch the Wind. Sam had been apply¬ ing zinc oxide to a heat rash when his boat pitched. His slippery hands couldn’t grasp a handhold and he land-
Luau sommelier Gene Haynes entreats you to drink doublehanded.
ed heavily on his ribs. It was either then or a short while later when he sneezed that he cracked a rib. Those hurt like hell, and he was in severe pain, virtually unable to tend his boat as it cruised along in the trades. However he was able to tape himself up with good old duct tape and carry on, much to the delight of his two daughters who said, “we knew he’d make it all along.” Gear failures were about average. A number of spinnaker poles, many torn chutes, a few ripped headsails, conked out RDF’s, inaccurate or non¬ functioning speedos and logs, bad radios, one broken boom, a cracked rudder sleeve, and other items of mayhem the sea affords owners of boats. Of utmost interest to singlehanders are self-steering devices. When there
Hot, slick seas mean slow sailing.
Sam Crabtree, his duct-taped ribs, and daugh¬ ters Robin and Mickey.
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was enough wind, the wind vanes did a reasonably good job. In some instances there were problems with a wavering course off the wind, but frequently this
was due to lack of familiarity with the equipment. Some vanes worked su¬ perbly, David Briggs of Gandalf had one. “If my Navik had titties, I’d have
married it,” is the way he put it. put it. Many entries had one of the inexpen¬ sive models of autopilots. Most worked in the beginning, but the consensus we got was that the smaller and less expen¬ sive units just didn’t have what it took to stand up to prolonged use, nor were they capable of steering a reasonable course downwind in a breeze. Almost everyone agreed that having both a vane and an autopilot was the only way to go, the autopilot for light airs and the vane for the breezes.
1980 SINGLEHANDED TRANSPAC RESULTS MULTIHULL Skipper Michel Kane
Boat Name Crusader
Bob Boyes Lester Robertson Don Keenan Rod Park Chuck Hawley Judson Zenzic
Saltshaker Legs Hanalei Flyer Panache Slim Catch 22
John Carson Dick Mitchell Mike Harting Ian Kiernan Dan Byrne Hans Vielhauer Greg Booth Doug Fryer David Briggs Sam Vahey Linda Weber-Rettie Sam Crabtree Mike Herz Jerry Cotter John Waite Hal Holbrook Ted Holland
Argonaut Blithe Spirit Challenge Maris Fantasy Mach Schnell Wave Length Night Runner Gandalf Odysseus Rough & Rettie Catch the Wind Kunu Errant Prince Stormalong II Yankee Tar Solaris
Bob Counts Amy Boyer Gene Haynes Buz Sanders Harold Upham John Hill Leland Flint Frank Dinsmore Don Eldridge Thurman Smithey Kathy Senelly Michael Olson Philip Good Frank Shiriey
Sanderling Little Rascal Whither Thou Red Boat Joshua H. Ariel Luana Ikii Carina Skol Venture Erasmus Hale Makai Catspaw Osiris
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Rating
ULDB 150 Moore 24 150 Moore 24 96 Olson 30 72 Bill Lee 40 150 Moore 24 198 Custom 20 PHRF DIVISION 1 114 Cal 40 138 Pearson 36 144 Custom 37 162 Tasman 38 132 Valiant 40 174 Scampi 30 114 Cal 40 54 Custom 42 156 Irwin 34 120 Ranger 37 144 Yamaha 33 114 Cal 39 150 Ericson 35 132 Custom 40 150 Ericson 35 138 Gulf 40 168 Columbia 36 PHRF DIVISION II 234 Golden Gate 216 Wilderness 21 192 Nor’West 33 174 Cal 29 192 Columbia 8. 198 Columbia 29 V198 Farallone 30 192 Islander 28 174 Valiant 32 264 Rawson 30 222 Cal 25 198 Chrysler 26 180 Catalina 30 222 Willard 36
Elapsed Time 10:19:19
Corrected Time
Division 1
Fie
14:02:58 16:11:34 14:10:58 16:19:33 15:16:17 14:15:51 14:18:51 15:05:28 15:04:13 17:12:48 DNF — broken rudder
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2 4 7 8 9
14:14:57 16:02:19 14;15:33 17:19:44 15:05:51 17:10:54 16:02:12 18:17:51 16:02:17 18:00:16 16:04:35 19:03:19 16:06:38 17:18:00 10:10:57 16:10:57, 16:13:59 19:02:06 16:20:21 18:11:15 17:00:55 19:05:58 18:01:54 19:13:16 18:03:13 20:11:48 autopilot failure DNF — , dismasted DNF — i finished after deadline finished after deadline
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5 6 10 14 15 17 18 19 20 22 24 25 26
13:21:19 18:07:25 14:08:19 18:07:48 15:13:42 18:23:02 15:23:01 18:21:45 15:23:25 19:08:45 16:03:05 19:15:38 16:15:14 20:04:07 16:21:00 20:06:20 DNF — diverted to Hilo DNF — dismasted DNF — broken wrist finished after deadline finished after deadline DNF — diverted to Ventura
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1 he biggest single problem and fear afflicting the fleet concerned navigation. There were a few who had no problems or anxieties. Others felt like they knew what they were doing and^where they were, but experienced the normal doubts. But others . . . lordy, more than a couple of people were constantly confused and without the aid of other racers and ships might well have made landfall in Sri Lanka. Noon shots do get tricky as you approach Kauai, but that’s something that has to be contended with. This is one area where race of¬ ficials might do well to require some sort of demonstration of proficiency before accepting an entry. Amy arrives at the crossroads.
problem with great discretion. If a guy wasn’t in danger of piling his boat up on the reef like Ian Kiernan, they simply kept their silence and let them find their own way. If it looked like a guy was go¬ ing to destroy his boat, they’d help orient him. It was a fine and conscientious race committee which remained on duty seemingly forever. Their one big pro¬ blem was the lack of a good finish line boat and of another good boat to ferry
John Carson throws his garbage in bins, not the bay.
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Neqring the island minds were slip¬ pery with fatigue and exertion. Tricks were played. More than one skipper had the island well in sight only to have his mind take him down the wrong side. And whether they finished during the day or evening, there were many pro¬ blems finding the buoy that marked the finish. Even Hans Vielhauer who had sailed the course last time had trouble, he saw all the new buildings in the sur¬ rounding hills and figured he’d sailed in¬ to the wrong bay. But the race commit¬ tee, head by Mike Rettie, handled this
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locals at Hanalei, it appeared there was no problem. Whatever became of the planned portable heads and garbage
bins is a mystery to us, but in any event there didn’t appear to be a need for them. The racers were fastidious about their trash and sewage, and were ideal, guests. But is that bay ever growing! Not only were there an incredible amount of boats in the bay, but the entire area is ---—--;-1
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racers to and from the beach. The boats that had been arranged were not as advertised, and engines conked out (one dumped offshore with a crew of six), and they were a continual headache. The Singlehanded Sailing Society would do well to insure that there are two good and reliable boats available for the next race. In the psycho department there seemed to be two ‘feelings’ that almost everyone in the fleet shared. Shock is one. Many remarked they felt in a mild state of shock the first two or three days due to the combination of the unexpect¬ edly stiff weather and the sudden con¬
frontation with being alone. Hardly anyone could remember anything about those days. Another big mind game had to do with feeling left behind. Everyone, and we mean almost every single per¬ son we talked to, expressed the fear that they and they alone, were caught in the light airs and that the fleet had left them behind. It was a terrible feeling combin¬ ed with the horror of horrors, that they might actually miss the luau or Awards Dinner. This may sound silly, but those events developed a tremendous signifi¬ cance to those sailing the race. After some concern about the wel¬ come they would be afforded by the
ONE HAND TRANSPAC rapidly developing. What used to be Club Med is being torn down for half a million dollar condos, Marriott has plans for a big hotel on the point, and the hills of Princeville are alive with the sound of hammers and saws. The basin itself is crawling with sailors, surfers, catamaraners, windsurfers,, fishermen, swim¬ mers, bodysurfers, health addicts, and suntanners. Hanalei — for better or worse — is no longer a sleepy little bay, and won’t ever be again. There was one unpleasant incident we heard of, but it’s hard to tell if it was directed at singlehanders, or just tourists in general. On the night of July the 4th some folks celebrated by smashing in the windshields and slashing the tires of ten or so rental cars. So there’s still pro¬ blems in paradise. Our general impression of the whole thing? Sounds like it might be fun.
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Doug Fryer attacks dinner at the luau.
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FOLDBOAT NO. 80, 1961 25’ wood sloop, 3 sets sails plus spinnaker, outboard, full cover. Beautiful, well-maintained, ready to race or cruise. Re¬ cent survey. Temporary Berkeley berth available. $7,000. Call Mitchel Stark, (415) 486-6709 (d) or (415) 528-2740 (e)
CORONADO 25 Wesco built, Chrysler sailor 6, 3 sails, stove, anchor, excellent condition. $7900 (415)339-9407
CATALINA 27 (1971) Tal rig, inboard (new), jib & main,vknotlog meter, depthsounder, VHF, compass, AM radio, galley, head w/holding tank, electric & manual bilge pumps, whisker pole, cockpit cushions, dodger, f.g. dinghy, Berkeley berth — $17,900/offer. (415) 837-9365
LET’S GET TOGETHER AND SAIL! 1 need a lady companion to help me learn to sail my Farallone 30 on the Bay & Ocean. If you’re interested, write Owen Lurio, Box 2953, Redwood City, CA 94064
Jane Silva — 200 Gate 5 Rd.. no. 111. Sausalito. (415) 332-9593
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FORMOSA 41’, 1980 DEMO All f.g. w/beautiful teak decks & trim. 50 hp Perkins, 3 cabins, 7 berths, pressure hot & cold water, shower, holding tank, stove w/oven, sounder, log, VHF, dinghy, all safety equipment. Re¬ duced to $69,500. (415) 593-1212 eves.
Curtains, tiller & wheel covers, bow sprint netting, lifelines, and more. For Free Estimate Contact: RON CHERRIER P.O. Box 454, Pt. Arena, CA (707) 882-2437
AHOY CAL 39 (ALAMEDA BERTHED) On the Fourth of July crew members aboard your vessel snap¬ ped pictures of my Newport 27S. 1 would like very much to see the the results. Please contact me at (408) 923-3272. P.S. — To the young lady on boat who asked — 1 am single.
26’ ARIEL Excellent condition, new motor. Boat is unusually well equip¬ ped and has cruised to Mexico and returned. Mooring in Sausalito included. $14,000. John Hauser (415) 388-8130
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TEAK LUMBER/PLYWOOD Top quality, dried, comprehensive stock. B. AXELROD & COM¬ PANY, 201 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. By ap¬ pointment only. (415)626-4949
SHARE A BOAT Rent your choice of two fast 27-ft. sailboats. Compare our prices. Flexible, convenient scheduling. Call (415) 532-7888 or (415) 537-8471 for more details. ^
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CORONADO 15 Complete w/trailer and Pineapple sails. An excellent boat to learn to sail with, or to race with the bay area’s active fleet. Good condition, very reasonable price. Call Mark (415) 642-5424, 843-3276.
ERICSON 35 10 sails, Volvo dsl., oversize wheel, complete Signet elec¬ tronics, Barient winches, double head rig, complete spinnaker gear, balsa core hull, sharp autopilot, Coyote Pt. berth, not rac¬ ed, new interior. (415)948-1919
Frank E. Bilek PEARSON ELECTRA One-design racing class. LOA: 221/2’; beam: 7’; draft: 3’. Design¬ ed by Carl Alberg forS.F. bay. Well equipped. Berth included — $5,500. 827-3711 evenings
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TRADEWIND 28 PRODUCTION FIBERGLASS TRI Teak trim, 7 sails, Barient 22’s, 12 hp Wankel inboard w/feathering prop. Full instrumentation incl. 50 ch. VHF, LCD 360 fathometer, speedo, log, etc. $19,500. (415)948-6516
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MULL 27 RACING/CRUISING SLOOP (V* TON) Rates 18.5 IOR, 192 PHRF. Complete in all details: VHF/FM, AW, WS, KM, log, depth, 4 jibs, 2 spin., blooper, main, 8 s/s Barients, Harkens, 2B stove, sink, ice, head, Westerbeke in¬ board. Built 1977. Will finance, low price. Roger Eldridge (415) 479-2992 eves (415) 894-2578 days >
' DOOESBURG FJ 14’ racing sloop. All varnished wood w/open transom — self¬ bailing! Sails: 4 jibs, 4 spinnakers, 3 mains. Goodies: Needle spar (internal halyards), trailer, compass, extra rudder, extra centerboard, $2,500 or best offer. Call Jim Bowman (415) 233-8220 ext. 234 (d) — (707) 938-2912(e)
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HANS CHRISTIAN 38 The ultimate cruising cutter. Barients, VHF, sounder, Signet wind instruments, windlass, “over-kill” spars & rigging, Lectasan head, deluxe propane stove, custom upholestry, all teak in¬ terior, documented,' many other extras, in mint condition. $97,500 (209) 439-4409 weeknights
NEPTUNE 24’ - BERKELEY BERTH Great bay boat, large cockpit, oversize rigging, tandem axle trailer, 4 sails, Johnson o/b, head, complete galley, compass, knotmeter, Lewmar winches, sleeps 6, beautiful interior, standup headroom, new Dec.‘79. (415)781-1439 (415)939-9464
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MOORING handle to 40’ boat easily. Located Alameda Estuary, asking $475 for mooring, monthly fee to marina involved. Or sell as Danforth anchors & chain instead of mo.oring. 865-5007 eves. P.O. Box 2384, Alameda, CA 94501 \
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CORONADO 25 1969. Good condition, great S.F. bay boat, 5 sails, new Evinrude 6 h.p., 2 gas tanks, shore power, possible Sausalito berth. Must sell — $8,400/best offer. Call evenings/weekends (415) 731-5337 “NAUTIGAL” $25,000. Financing available, 1938 38-ft. wood ocean going sloop, teak decks & trim, sleeps 6, for cruising or racing. Corin¬ thian Yacht Club berth B-3. Joe Koopman, 434-3838 days, 456-6909 night N
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LASER Fast, fun, simple. Comes complete including all new lines. As good as new at half the price. A deal at $775. Call Paul daytime at 396-7208, nights at 771-5791
x. .1 STEEL CRUISING CUTTER, ‘79 35’6” Wittholz design “Departure 35”, a quality cruising yacht; just completed 8,000 mile voyage, fully equipped, in excellent condition. Asking $46,500. 388-6889 eves 388-3924
MARINE SURVEYOR SANTANA 35 - PARTNERS WANTED 1980 Santana 35 berthed in Santa Cruz. Will race winter in San Francisco bay. No down payment, $300 per month includes loan, insurance, berthing & administrative fees. Steve Poletti (408) 475-5288.
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MAYA CLASS SLOOP 24’ cedar over oak, % rig, fast and seaworthy. Custom canvas covers. $3,900/best offer. (415) 456-7383 (415) 454-4660
GARAGED DRY STORAGE Boats & RV’s. Security, $38 month including ramp to River. Several deep water berths available. Novato, Heart of Petaluma River Delta. MIRA MONTE MARINA (415) 897-9785
TANZER 22 In good condition, used regularly only two out of the last four years. 6 hp outboard, head, galley, sleeps four. A good solid bay sailboat or coastwise cruiser. $8000 (415) 726-2897 eves/weekends
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COLUMBIA 26 MKI Excellent condition, recently refurbished, brand new jib, main had very little use. Depthsounder, knotmeter, 5 hp outboard, electric bilge pump, head, anchor and rode, 2 burner alcohol stove, lifejackets, plus 6 foot headroom! $10,500. • ' (415)261-0149 CAL 25 Excellent condition, cruise/race ready. New North main, 120%, % oz. tri-radial plus extra main & 100%. 4 winches, new Harken and Schaeffer hardware, knotmeter, Ritche compass, new head, sink, full spinnaker gear. $10,900 (415) 493-2200 no. 281 eves (415) 948-2706
COLUMBIA 29 Traditional S&S Design full Veel sloop, fiberglass with beautiful teak and mahogany trim. Well equipped and in like new condition. $21,000 — 12% financing available. Chris Wagner (415) 237-9054 days (415) 388-3044 evenings
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TRITON 29 Seaworthy, heavy displacement sloop in excellent condition for cruising/racing. VHF, fatho, knotmeter, Atomic 4 inboard, Sausalito berth, owner can finance to qualified buyer. $15,750/offer. 922-3015 days/evenings
DO YOU LIKE TO SAIL? But don't want the expense of owning your own sailboat? Then try a time-share lease of our beautiful new Islander 28. You pay only for the time you use the boat. Call Bill at (415) 254-6026 or Dennis at (707) 745-5814.
WANTED: TLC FOR 41’ SAILBOAT Professional couple would like assoc, w/same to maintain vessel in bristol cond. in exchange for sailing weekends. Prefer exp’d. sailors 8k woodwork, varnishing;paint, etc. Please write Sail, P.O. Box 60276, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Vessel berthed in east bay.
FOR SALE — The very fast and beautiful TOPAZ A Chuck Burns design built by C&B Marine, ‘77. 36’, 12,500 lbs., cold molded of spruce & Port Orford cedar using West sys., teak decks, f.g. cockpit, Westerbeke, Hood sails, Barients, B&G inst., Loran C, Highseas htr. & much more. Documented. As new $120,000. (No rig rattlers please) 237-9607
LOW PROFILE CHARTERS IN THE FLORIDA KEYS ... Bahamas, Virgin Islands aboard a captained Gulfstar 47. You can really kick back on this trip because we take only four peo¬ ple at a time & do what you want to do . . . sail, scuba (air com¬ pressor on board), party, paddle, swim, sleep, you name it. Our schedule fits yours. For further details write: Thursday’s Child Chartering, Ltd., Box 5549, Walnut Creek, CA 94596.
“STORES” BY JANE DAVIES A comprehensive, compact guide to buying, selecting, prepar¬ ing, and storing provisions for an Ocean Voyage. First Mates, Captains, Racing Cooks, & Singlehanders: send $4.95 (plus $1.00 postage/handling) to: Jane Davies, c/o: Commonwealth Marine, P.O. Box 3502, Salinas, CA 93912.
18’ SILHOUTTE SLOOP Trailer, o.b., prop, stove, sleeps 2, running lights, nice lines and good cond., great for bay or Tahoe. Designed for English Chan¬ nel. Must sell, best offer. (707) 552-2325
FOR SALE Famet furling, adapted for twin jibs. 135% Genny in good con¬ dition. Used on Islander 36 standard rig. Can be adapted to other boats. Approximately 2,800 value for 1,500. Call (408) 252-7295
EXPERIENCE DELTA CRUISING IN LUXURY Bareboat charter “The Duchess”, a Nauta-Line 43’, twin in¬ board engines, flying bridge, generator, air conditioners, freezer, ice maker, stereo, 8 adult accomodations. LUXURY HOUSEBOAT CHARTERS 257 Cleveland Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941 (415) 388-8303
FOR SALE 12’4” O’Day “Widgion” sailboat with trailer and extras. In new condition. Easily trailered by small compact car. Asking $1800 or best offer. (408) 779-5747
CATALINA 27’ 1978, inboard (Atomic 4), dodger, weather curtain, electric bilge pump, like new, Sausalito berth, $17,500. 897-7303 eves
WANTED Full Time Position Available — Sharp, Experienced, Ambitious Yacht Salesperson. Top of the line new sailboats. Great Sausalito location. Send resume to: ADVT. NO. 2 c/o: Latitude 38, P.O. Box 1678, Sausalito, CA 94965
25’ GOLDEN GATE WOOD SLOOP Buy this year’s class champ and one just like the one that won the Singlehanded TransPac. Priced to sell fast at $3,500 — no joke — need the cash to complete new boat. Larry (w) 871-4300 (h) 456-7381
GARAGED DRY STORAGE — BOATS & RV’s Security. $38 a month including ramp to River. Several deep water berths available. Novato, Heart of Petaluma River Delta.
Mira Monte Marina (415) 897-9785
BLAZIN’ BLUE LASER Brand-spanking-new, never been sailed (or even rigged)! Owner has new job, bigger boat, no time to sail both. Priced right at $1350, you save $! (408) 259-4963 (eves)
ACHILLES INFLATABLES, DINGHIES & TENDERS Standard equipment: Motor mount, floorboards, spray dodger, carrying bag, wooden seat & inflatable thwart (ST series), 2 wooden seats (OT series), oars, foot bellows, repair kit. READY OUTBOARD SHOP SAUSALITO (415) 332-5233
WANTED — Cruising sailboat over 36-ft. Prefer aft cabin. Will consider trade for my 3 bedroom house in Fairfax. (415) 453-7165
34’ MANTA TRI, BROWN-DESIGN Cutter rig, fully equipped, excellent shape, berthed in Emeryville. $25,000 — can finance. Nolan (415) 843-6700 eves.
CAL-24 SLOOP FOR SALE ‘60 Lapworth designed, heavy built f.g., shoal draft % keel - C.B. & attached rudder, 5 sails (incl. spinnaker & genny), 5.5 h.p. Evinrude outboard, sleeps 4 comfortably, Berkeley berth. $6,000 or best offer. (415)549-2030
ERICSON 27 “Orange Sunshine”, YRA champ. 1979. jnboard engine, com¬ plete spinnaker gear'5 winches, 90 - 120 - 150 jibs, triradial, many extras. $24,500 or offer. Call Glen (415) 351-5469 (415) 522-5417
SEEK CREW POSITION, WEST OR SOUTH Experienced sailor/businessman on sabbatical looking for 6 month to 12 month cruise, preferably west. Ready to depart in November. Cal! (415) 981-1296 after 6 p.m.
WANTED 50’ berth, can be shoal, sublet for winter months or longer. Prefer Sausalito or near vicinity. Call (415)924-3458
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FOR SALE Impact Boats, Inc. is offering for sale the tooling and all inven¬ tory of their 18' one-design racing dinghy. Please contact Don Harris, Pres., (714) 536-0700, 208 12th St., No. F, Huntington Beach, CA 92648. or Erik Andresen, (213) 451-2654
Liferaft Sales & Rentals, Used AVONs & Zodiacs for Sale, Cer¬ tified Liferaft Inspection Station & AVON Boat Repair. Specialist in Life Support Equipment. BILL HUBER, U.S.C.G., Ret. (415) 365-6374 629 Bair Island Road, Redwood City
1978 TAYANA 37 Fiberglass full-keel cutter by Robert Perry. Documented, Perkins 4-108 dsl., many factory options, customized teak in¬ terior. This seaworthy vessel is equipped with the best and upgraded to better-than-new condition. For sale at $76,000. (408) 244.-6994 weekdays
LEARN SOLO SAILING ... W/Singlehanded TransPac skipper Mike Pyzel aboard his custom Cal-28 “Caballo Blanco”. 3 & 5 day instructional cruises in the offshore conditions of the Channel Islands. Brochure. PYZEL SCHOOL OF NAVIGATION, 86 Olive Mill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 969-4195. ' N,(
37’ SEABIRD CENTER-COCKPIT KETCH This Hardin-built boat is a fully equipped & proven cruiser/liveaboard. Lots of teak & equipment, new Perkins, a must see boat! Berth available. Will consider trade down, partnership or any reasonable offer. (415) 232-3124
OLYMPIC CIRCLE SAILING CLUB
17’ O’DAY SAILOR II In very good shape, with galvenized trailer and safety equip¬ ment. Sails are in good condition. For sale only, reasonable of¬ fer. (415)822-1470 1
You can get your classy classified started by sending your check for $10 ($20 for businesses) along with your 40 wonderful words to: latitude 38, p.o. box 1678, sausalito, ca. 94965. The deadline is the 22nd of the month and we cannot bill vou — it just wouldn't be classy if we did. And remember to include your phone's area code to ensure full classy coverage.
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FRENCH SAILING SWEATERS Private individual (sailor) going on a buying trip to France end of August to purchase large quantity genuine, 100% virgin wool sailing sweaters. Available in navy, off-white, and red, washable & made to last a lifetime. Special price of $34.95 (plus 6.5% sales tax for CA residents) if ordered before Aug. 25. Dealer inquires welcome'. Call (408) 244-6994 for more details or send check or money order to HTE Management Resources, Box 60276, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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RANGER 23 78 tall rig, a small boat big in design & performance. 3 sails, halyards led aft, 6 hp Johnson, Viking anchor, horseshoe w/ss rack, safety net, compass & add. items. See to appreciate at Pier 39. $12,500. Ph: (415)665-1199
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CAL 2-29, 1976 Excellent condition, dsl., VHF, fathometer, stereo, approved head, shower, shore power, pressurized water, spinnaker, an¬ chor, Alameda berth available. (415)893-0328 339-9696 eves
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\ BAHAMA 30 Hull no. 1 is a fresh water boat, very clean, custom cabinets and storage, 3 North sails, main 130 - 150 w/cover, ped. steer¬ ing, VHF, AM/FM casette stereo, dsl. heater, Data marine depth., 2 spd. Lewmar 40 plus much more. Wally (916) 541-0725
METZELER “JUCA” INFLATABLE RAFT Row, power or sail — this one does them all! Great for Whitewater, too! 12’-10”x4’9”, 1100 lbs. capacity takes up to 10 hp outboard. New list $1200 — less than 1 yr. old — $800/b.o. (415) 232-3124
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FIRST FRIDAY FLICKS Presented by the Berkeley Yacht Club AUGUST 1, “Searoom!”, featuring the Woodies Series on SF bay & 18-footers racing on Sidney Harbour. SEPTEMBER 5, “Kingston Olympiad”. OCTOBER 3, “The Whitbread Around
CLASSIC 34’ SUNSET SLOOP "Aeolus”, ‘61, exc. condition, past YRA champion, fir over laminated & bent oak frames, teak deck, bronze fastened, Berkeley berth G-4. $28,000 Ask for Fred at (415) 234-4334 wkdys.
the World Race” (again, by popular demand). NOVEMBER 7, “America’s Cup”. Film at 2000 hrs., Donation: $1.50. Spaghetti Dinner starting at 1830: Cost, $3.50. Reservations required for dinner and appreciated for the movie. 'CHRIS KAFITZ AT 524-9655
CREW WANTED 35’ sloop planning a 6-month pleasure cruise to Florida via Panama Canal. Need congenial, hard-working crew to share work, watches & adventure. Write for details to: Dick Anderson, General Delivery, Sausalito, CA 94965
TRADE SAUSALITO BERTH Would like to trade 29’x10’ Sausalito berth for a similar one in Richmond, Berkeley, Estuary or Emeryville. Full time, part time, temporary or permanent. (415) 937-8510
LEARN COASTAL SAILING 45’ sailing ketch “Adventure”, wants 6 sincere beginners or ad¬ vanced sailors to spend 2 intensive learning days & nights practicing offshore skills, ship handling, piloting, etc. Septem¬ ber/October reservations offered for a unforgettable cruising weekend. (415)421-8389 (415)332-4879
READY TO FLY — MOORE 24 Used very little, summers only, fresh water, under covers in winter. New sails, new L.P.U. paint, new standing, running & mast, new trailer, all covers, safety gear, 11 bags sail. Mint con¬ dition. Offers (916)583-9386
1978 O’DAY 27 Desparate to sell this fun to sail family cruiser. It’s fully equip¬ ped, ready to go and in top condition. SSF berth. $19,700 (408) 629-0293
SANTANA 22 Lease or rent, part time only. S.F. City marina. Mornings: 864-2663
O’DAY MARINER 2 + 2 19’ fiberglass sloop, 7 hp outboard, trailer, sink, porta-pottie, new battery, and more. In good condition, asking $4,000/offer. (415) 447-5076 eves
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FOR SALE — BRIDGE CRANE H - 18’, W -18’, L - 40’ (infinitely extendable). 120 volt traveling beam, 1 ton chain fall, easily dismantled. $2,000/best offer. Steve Goodhue, P.O. Box 6293, Oakland, CA 94614 (415) 652-4401 ext. 659
TRADEWIND 28 PRODUCTION FIBERGLASS TRI Teak trim, 7 sails, Barient 22’s, 12 h.p. Wankel inboard w/feathering prop. Full instrumentation incl. 50 ch VHF, LCD 360 fathometer, speedo, log, etc. $19,500. (415) 948-6516
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WANT TO BUILD YOUR OWN BOAT? Before you do you had better get some straight poop from me. 1 will save you! Send $2.50 and a self addressed, stamped en¬ velope to P.O. Box 6, Stratham, NH 03885 X
FOR SALE Sea Ray 1978 30’ Sedanbridge sleeps 6; twin 250H Chrysler engines; 3 kw generator; air cond.; microwave; marine radio; plus much more. Call for appointment on ans. service — (415) 332-5373. Ask for callback from Carole. Berthed in Sausalito.
INTERNATIONAL 470 1974 Roga, excellent condition. Elvstrom spars, North sails, heavy duty trailer, new boat cover. Competitive — $1,500. (415) 387-7826 (on vacation Aug. 7-15)
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SHIP’S WHEEL Teakwood, imported from Taiwan. Solid brass hub, big ones and little ones. Price them first then call me at (415) 673-9011 almost anytime. Limited supply.
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26’ SLIP IN BERKELEY Slip available with this 22’ Venture sailboat. 5 sails, 15 hp Johnson outboard, all for $4500. Please call us.at (209) 521-1650 evenings. *
LADIES Handsome rake, 40s, desires sailorly, libidinous paramour, in¬ decorous in behavior, fond of riotous merriment, pretty and amatory. Liveaboard and/or loveaboard. Your yacht or mine. Write Skipper, 4240 Irving St., San Francisco, CA 94122 • ’ -- '
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BOB PERRY 47’ KETCH FOR SALE BY OWNER Excellent condition & well equipped. Owner will consider bay area real estate exchange or $135,000. A fast and seaworthy cruising yacht. Call Richard ^Wade (d) 557-2789 (e) 548-0722
BLUE BAHIA BOATWORKS 530 W. CUTTING BLVD. (415) 233-0804 Pt. RICHMOND; CALIFORNIA
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NEW TRAVEL LIFT ★ Haulout Capacity: up to 20’ beam ★ ★ To 70 Tons ★ Diesel Mechanics on duty ★ ★ Radio & Electronics Repair ★ DEEP DRAFT/ LOCATION ★ Construction of Steel Fishing Boats to 120’ ★ ★ Painters ★ Fiberglass Repair ★ Riggers ★ ★ Electricians ★ Woodshop ★ CHANDLERY
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Custom 22’ (J.L.D.B. Complete Offshore M.O.R.A. And Singlehanded Equipment, Pineapple Sails.
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SAILS RACERS: Stop hoard¬ ing your old sails — we’ll sell them for you. CRUISERS: We have a large inventory of beautiful cruising sails — Stop by (or phone) and take a look, you’ll save lots of $.
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This beautiful yacht is fully equipped for ocean cruising. For brochure, write to 1885 Mountain View Drive; Tiburon, CA 94920, or phone (415) 433-5580 or (415) 435-1885 evenings and weekends
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SAM BROOKS YACHT SALES Ucated at Brickyard Cow 1120 Brickyard Cow lid. Point Richmond, CA (415) 235-9880 OFFERS THESE FINE BROKERAGE LISTINGS SAIL 20’ Cal. 5,000 23’ Ranger.2 from 12,500 J'24 .2 from 15,500 25’ Bahama. 9 795 27’ 27’ 27’ 27’ 28’ 30’
Soling 415. 4^00 O'Day.21,950 Sun.... 24,495 Ericson. 31 995 Buccaneer..... 16 500 Pearson. 29 500
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c&c. 45,900 Farallone, race/cruise. . 38 995 Cal 3-34.'.55,000 True North cutter. 75 000 Down Easter. 69 950 Carib, showcase cond. 64,995 Offshore Ketch...150,000 Coronado. 86,500 Ferro.•..110,000 Steel.139,000 50’ Challenger (Partnership).8,000 POWER
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Kona. .$ 5,100 Starfire. 9,499 Starcraft. 9,950 Trawler. 74,900 Owens Tahitian.52,000 Hunter... 46,500 Gran Mariner (new).. base price 89,995 Pacemaker Motor Yacht. 99,495 Sedan Cruiser...99,950 Chris Commander. 139,500 Alaskan.189,500 Grand Banks, ‘78, cruise ready. 190,000 Chris Motor Yacht. 165,000
28i9BRIDqEUWf,SUlTE 20i,SPUS9UTO.CH. 94965 SELECTED LISTINGS 30’ Tahiti ketch, 1938, 4 cyl. dsl., excellent “Little Bit”.$25,000 30’ Steel sailing fishing boat, dsl., hyd. gurdies, ready. 24,500 30’ Atkin diesel schooner, 70, good sailing character. 25,000 30’ Berumda diesel ketch, ‘62, teak hull, clean. _. 30,000 32’ English “Rustler” sloop, ‘68, F/G, 14,0000 lbs. of full keel. .. 41,500 32’ English “Contessa” sloop, 76, extensive inventory. 47,000 32’ Pearson Vanguard, ‘66, Aries vane, 15,000 miles last year. . . 34,900 34’ True North dsl. cutter, 77, Alaska veteran. 75,000 37’ Garden ketch, 1965, lots of gear, owner will carry. 55,000 37’ Fisher ketch, 76, Flawaii veteran, lots of gear.120,000 40’ Double-ended ketch, Kauri, year’s supply of food. 65,000 41’ Custom Danish gaff cutter, 76, salty tradition. .165,000 43’ Parker/Moody custom cruising sloop, ‘54, low price. 50,000 44’ Cheoy Lee aft cabin m.s., 74, loaded....159,950 45’ Hood Little Harbor steel yawl, ‘62, excellent.110,000 46’ Rhodes C/B sloop, ‘57, good sailer, good condition. 82,500 46’ Campos ketch, beamy, heavy, safe & comfortable.•.. . . 65,000 47’ Cheoy Lee Offshore, (2) yawl/ketch, finish & gear great. from 125,000 47’ Brandlmayr steel ketch, 73, aft cabin, very able.139,000 49’ Robert Clark English cutter, ‘64, very beautiful.100,000 SPECIALIZING IN OFFSHORE CRUISING BOATS - Over 100 listings
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(415) 386-5870 SAIL 37’ SEABIRD KETCH, excellent liveaboard w/berth.$67,50000 36’ ISLANDER, 79, Westerbeke, dsl. extras.. 76,000°° 36’ ISLANDER, very clean, Perkins, cruise equipped.,. 60,000°° 35’ PEARSON SLOOP, dsl., strong cruising boat. 55,000°° 33’ C&C, Barients, 3 genoas & spinnaker, clean. 45,000°° 33’ VANGUARD, full keel, good gear. 33,500°“ 32’ ATKIN THISTLE, Sabb dsl., veteran. 28,000“° 30’ ALBERG DESIGN SLOOP, strong, well equipped. 34,950°° 30’ DUFOUR ARPEGE, Volvo, dodger, VHF, etc. 34,950°° 30’ NORTHSTAR 1000, Sparkman & Stephens. 25,500°° 30’ RAWSON, spinnaker gear & berth. 25,000°° 29’ BALTIC CRUISER, Danish built, pocket cruiser. 16,000°" 25’ ERICSON 25+ , heavily equipped. 22,950°° 25’ FRISCO FLYER, Sausalito berth. 13,500“° 25’ O’DAY, Honda & Sausalito berth. 13,500°° 25’ RHODES SLOOP, 6 sails, So. San Francisco berth.12,000°° 24’ MOORE, full race plus trailer. 18,000"° POWER 34’ FLYING BRIDGE SPORTFISHER, gd. shape, owner w/finance. offer 30’ WILLARD VEGA TRAWLER, Perkins djl. 37,500“°
If you own any well-built boat in good condition and want an honest and capable person to represent you dur¬ ing the problems of negotiation, financing, sea trial, survey, title transfer, insurance, and property tax prora¬ tion, please give me a call and list your boat.
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Peter Jones (415) 386-5870
cove YacHT satis] 2020 Glen Cove Road Vallejo, CA 94590
Dealer for the Eldredge McGinnis EASTWARD HO 24' & 3V, U.S. built, full keel, offshore boats. Stages from $10,000 to $49,9*15 FOB. By special order only — Brochure on request. 20' 23' 23' 23' 24' 26' 26' 26' 26' 27' 28'
CAL.3 from $ 3,200 RANGER ..11,000 CORONADO. 7.500 SAN JUAN w/trailer. 12,100 DEL REY, well equipped.'.. 9,100 CHRYSLER,(.14,500 BALBOA. ..11.500 DAWSON, aft cabin.!..17,500 COLUMBIA.11,000 TARTAN, new engine.19,500 COMPETITION 1000, dsl., fast & strong.25,900
32' 34' 36' 37' 37' 38' 39' 43' 44' 45' 45' 50'
BRISTOL, diesel../. 37,500 CAL MARK III, dsl., loaded with gear.53,400 PEARSON, diesel, excellent.56,000 SEABIRD KETCH, dsl., aft cabin.67,500 CT, factory custom.85,000 DOWNEASTER.70,000 ATKINS INGRID, ultimate custom glass.145,000 COLUMBIA, better than new.72,500 ISLANDER, excellent. 79,500 EXPLORER KETCH, aft cabin.94,000 STEEL KETCH, no nonsense cruiser.55,000 CUSTOM SLOOP, excellent speculation opportunity.220.000
50' STONE YAWL.68,500
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WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST INVENTORIES IN THE BAY AREA Select Brokerage Listings 61’ 60’ 53’ 52’ 50’ 48'
COLIN ARCHER KETCH.$ 95,000 BURGER CENTERBOARD YAWI_250,000 SKOOKUM KETCH.100,000 CHINESE JUNK.89,500 PEREGRINE...220,000 MAPLE LEAF AUX. CRUISING CUTTER.175,000 46’ FRANZ MAAS LITTLE HARBOR YAWL110.000 45' COLUMBIA.82,250 44’ HARDIN BOUNTY KETCH.110,000 43' WESTSAIL. .2 from 120,000 41' CORONADO.57,500 41' PIVER TRIMARAN.41,000 41’ BENNETT KETCH.47,500 41' CT., . 75,000 40' STAYSAIL SCHOONER.53,000 40' CHALLENGER.89,000 40' HANG NEYH KETCH.27,500 39' COLUMBIA-CUTTER RIGGED SLOOP.59,995 38’ ALAJUELA.90,000 38' FARELLON CLIPPER.,..36,000 37’ RAFIKI. 78,500 37’ O'DAY.,. . . 60,500 37' IRWIN MARK II KETCH.,.55,000 37' FAR EAST GARDEN.52,000 36' CHEOY LEE CLIPPER.67,500 35' CHEOY LEE LION.35,000 34' TRUE NORTH - Hilux.75,000 33' PEARSON.37,000 33' MORGAN O/l.45,000 32' PEARSON VANGUARD.36,500 32' PEARSON. 59,500, 32' CHEOY LEE. 39,500 32' ISLANDER. 27,500 32' STEEL SLOOP, aft cabin.35,900 32' HERITAGE MARINE.33,000 31’ BOMBAY.42,500 30’ PEARSON.29,500 30' CORONADO.22,500 30' CLIPPER MARINE.15,000 30' HURRICANE. 12,000 30' RAWSON.4 from 25,000 30' FAREAST H-30 KETCH.25,000 30' ERICSON. 22,500 30' ALBERG. 25,950 29' COLUMBIA MK II.1^,500 29' COLUMBIA MARK I.21,750 29' ISLANDER.2 from 19,750 28' KINGS CRUISER.2 from 7,500 28' COLUMBIA.13,500 28’7" COLUMBIA, 8.7....44,000 27' SANTANA.14,500 27' ALBIN VEGA.27,500 27' BRISTOL.14,000 27' HANNA GULFWEED.6,000 26' REINELL.8,300 26' INT'L. FOLKBOAT.15,500 26' NORDIC FOLKBOAT.2 from 6,800 26' COLUMBIA MARK 1.10,500 25'5" ERICSON . .:. 22,950
25' CHEOY LEE.. . .9,000 25’ CORONADO.9,500 25’ PACIFIC SEA CRAFT.15,990 25’ B. SEA HORSE YAWL.11,900 25’ PETERSON 2-25.20,000 25’ TRIMARAN.6,400 25' STEPHENS GOLDEN GATE.5,500 25’ CAPE DORY.14,700 24’ COLUMBIA CHALLENGER.8,000 24' J-24 . 14,500 24’ TANZER 7.5. 12,500 24’ SAN JUAN.2 from 15,500 24' BRISTOL.2 from 13,500 24’ ISLANDER BAHAMA.2frorr\5,700 24’COLUMBIA CONT.4,000 24' FARR 727. 16,500 23’ SANTANA.6,800 23’ RANGER. 10,800 23’ BEAR.2 from 4,400 23’ COLUMBIA..'6,950 23' S2 7.3..14,900 23’ COASTER.7,700 23’ MAYA.8,500 J 23’ ISLANDER.5,500 23’ KELLS COASTER.7,700 23' NEWPORT VENTURE.2 from 5,900 23’ BEAR.2 from 4,400 22’6” PEARSON ELECTRA.5,500 22’ CHRYSLER.8,500 22’ AMERICAN.9,000 22’ RANGER. 10,900 22’ BRISTOL. 7,400 22’ COLUMBIA.2 from 5,000 20’ BAY LADY.2 LADY!.2 from 3,450 20’ GAFF RIGGED CUTTER.2,500 20' PETERSON MERMAID.4,000
NEW 35’ FORMOSA KETCH — Volvo Dsl., Shower, Lots of Teak & Brass AT OUR SALES DOCK. .$52,000
NEW 34’ AFT CABIN FORMOSA SLOOP — Volvo dsl., Walk-through to aft cabin!*Lots of teak. AT OUR SALES DOCK.
52’ CHINESE JUNK — Elegant Liveaboard, Cat. 225 Dsl., New Sails, Berth.$89,500
61’ COLIN ARCHER STEEL KETCH — GM 6-71 Dsl., Caribbean & Central American Cruising Vet, Recent Survey..$95,000
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1535 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda
1415) 522-6500
No. 12 Marina Blvd., Pittsburg
(415) 432-8722
35’ ERICSON — Swift, luxurious perfor¬ mance cruiser/racer in beautiful condi¬ tion. Inquire.
CHEOY LEE OFFSHORE 27 - Traditional looks w/the ease of fiberglass maintenance. Beautiful cond., recent survey, i.b., S.F. berth included. Asking $23,900.
ERICSON 29 — Loaded with gear including autopilot, very clean, self tacking jib, spin¬ naker, etc. Asking $26,500
33’ VANGUARD — Exc. cond., well equip’! class champion. Attractive finance package avail. Seller motivated.
Paul Kaplan, Christine Kaplan Mary Jo Foote page 135
SAIL - SELECTED LISTINGS 20’ CAL.4 from 4,200* 22’ COLUMBIA.2 from 5,000 23’ KELS COASTER.7,700 23’ BEAR.4 from 6,495* 24’ COL. CHALLENGER.6,500 24’ NORTHSTAR.2 from 17,000* 24’ SAN JUAN.2 from 16,500 24’ NIGHINGALE.12,900 24’ CAL T/4.11,900 24’ PACIFIC DOLPHIN.15,750 25’ PETERSON.2 from 16,000 25’ KILLER WHALE.14,000 25’ CORONADO . ..8,400 25’ MERIDIAN.12,500 25’ JR. CLIPPER.offer 26’ S-2.25,000 26’ EXCALIBUR.9,700 26’ COLUMBIA.12,500* 27’ SANTANA.14,000 27’ BRISTOL.13,000 27’ SANTA CRUZ..'.2 from 18,900 27’ CHEOY LEE O.F.23,900* 27’ CAL.18,000* 28’ TAI PAN (CHEOY).26,000 28’ WYLIE.27,000 29’ CAL.29,000* 29’ ERICSON. 26,500 29’ RHODES RANGER.18,500 30’ BIRD.2 from 15,000 30’ PETERSON.39,000 30’ BURNS Vi TON.39,500 30’ HURRICANE.17,000 30’ CAL 3-30.41,800 30’ KNARR.3 from 11,000 30’ DRAGON. 6,000* 30’ PACIFIC.2 from 12,500 30’ HERRESHOFF KT.27,500 31’ WYLIE ‘Legacy’.29,500 32’ HOLMAN SLOOP.39,900 32’ MOTORSAILER. 39,500 32’ 5.5 METER BOAT.7,250 33’ MOTORSAILER. 59,000 33’ CAL.42,500 33’ VANGUARD..-.33,000 35’ ERICSON. 55,000 35’ PEARSON.59,000 35’ ALBERG.37,500 35’ GARDEN KETCH.45,000* 36’ L-36^ ..30,000 36’ FARR ONE TON.80,000 37’ SEABIRD KT.67,500 37’ RANGER. . 59,900 37’ RAFIKI CUTTER.78,500 38’ ALAJUELA.94,000 38’ FARALLONE CLIPPER.42,000* 38’ FARALLONE CLIPPER.45,000 40’ CHEOY LEE O.S.67,500 40’ STAYSAIL SCHOONER.40,000 41’ CORONADO.87,500 41’ TARTAN ‘Regardless’.89,000 41’ MORGAN. 105,000 43’ METER (sistership Yucca).29,500 43’ SWAN. 139,000 44’ PETERSON.110,000 44’ BOUNTY.110,000 45’ STEEL YAWL.110,000 47’ STEEL KETCH.95,000 50’ OFFSHORE SLOOP.220,000 55’ STEWART KETCH.170,000 57’ SEA LION #1.150,000 65‘ MOTORSAILER. 149,000 * Boat Includes San Francisco Berth
FOOT OF LAGUNA ST. SAN FRANCISCO (415) 567-3695
RANGER 37 — Extremely well-equipped, in im¬ peccable condition, very successful racer. Asking $59,900.
SANTA CRUZ 27 - Race ready, Bill Lee design, exc. condition. 2 available from $18,900.
35’ GARDEN KETCH - Warm mahogany in¬ terior with all the comforts; diesel, dinghy, SlF. berth included. Asking $45,000.
32’ ENGLISH BUILT lull keel fiberglass cruis¬ ing boat. Well outfitted, extensive cruising history, S.F. berth Included. $39,600.
Hank Easom, Eric Leiske & Rollo D. Dog
meissner winches Durability: Don’t take it for granted. v
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With winches, durability is almost always taken for granted, but it shouldn’t be. That’s because when a winch wears out, it wears out gradually. Rarely will you see it break or feel it stop working; it just becomes harder and harder to bring in the same sail, and it happens so gradually you might not notice it for quite awhile. But on grueling long-distance races like the South Atlantic Race (from Capetown to Punta del Este, Uruguay), the durability of the winches is very important. That’s why Bobby Bongers discarded all the old win¬ ches and replaced them with Meissners on his fast one-tonner Assegai (named Weet-Bix for the race), before winning the 4,619-mile race in 1979. The conditions were obviously rugged, because she averaged 7.1 knots, only 0.1 knot below her theoretical hull speed. t So if your crew is grinding in the jib or tightening the halyard slower than you’d like, it’s time to take a good look at your old winches, and consider replacing them with Meissners.
You can take the durability of Meissner winches for granted.
Assegai (then Weet-Bix), winner of the 1979 South Atlantic Race
To find out more reasons why Meissner winches are best for you, con¬ tact us, and we’ll send you a complete brochure and the location of your nearest dealer. U.S. Distributor:
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